Ben Owen

And by 2011, I had a 7,500 square foot warehouse and a dozen employees. Wow. It grew quick, man. I had my first website built. I got on Shopify in 2010 or maybe 2009. They had like 34 employees and were renting space from somebody else. They didn't have their own office back then. You know, Shopify is massive now. And so... I stayed sober that whole time.

And by 2011, I had a 7,500 square foot warehouse and a dozen employees. Wow. It grew quick, man. I had my first website built. I got on Shopify in 2010 or maybe 2009. They had like 34 employees and were renting space from somebody else. They didn't have their own office back then. You know, Shopify is massive now. And so... I stayed sober that whole time.

And by 2011, I had a 7,500 square foot warehouse and a dozen employees. Wow. It grew quick, man. I had my first website built. I got on Shopify in 2010 or maybe 2009. They had like 34 employees and were renting space from somebody else. They didn't have their own office back then. You know, Shopify is massive now. And so... I stayed sober that whole time.

I didn't even start smoking cigarettes again. I'm off all the mental health meds and I've realized there's nothing wrong with my brain. I'm just a high stress person that does have ADHD and high anxiety sometimes. But everything was going really good. My dad, well, let me back up. We had Lily. Aaron wanted to try again for a girl. And so we got her, Lily.

I didn't even start smoking cigarettes again. I'm off all the mental health meds and I've realized there's nothing wrong with my brain. I'm just a high stress person that does have ADHD and high anxiety sometimes. But everything was going really good. My dad, well, let me back up. We had Lily. Aaron wanted to try again for a girl. And so we got her, Lily.

I didn't even start smoking cigarettes again. I'm off all the mental health meds and I've realized there's nothing wrong with my brain. I'm just a high stress person that does have ADHD and high anxiety sometimes. But everything was going really good. My dad, well, let me back up. We had Lily. Aaron wanted to try again for a girl. And so we got her, Lily.

And Aaron is not great at taking medication on schedule. So birth control being one of those. A year after Lily was born, we had twin boys. So three kids in a year. But I don't care. I mean, I'm making good money. Everything's going good. I'm excited. My dad ended up getting cut from Pfizer a couple years before that. And he'd gone into business with one of his old buddies.

And Aaron is not great at taking medication on schedule. So birth control being one of those. A year after Lily was born, we had twin boys. So three kids in a year. But I don't care. I mean, I'm making good money. Everything's going good. I'm excited. My dad ended up getting cut from Pfizer a couple years before that. And he'd gone into business with one of his old buddies.

And Aaron is not great at taking medication on schedule. So birth control being one of those. A year after Lily was born, we had twin boys. So three kids in a year. But I don't care. I mean, I'm making good money. Everything's going good. I'm excited. My dad ended up getting cut from Pfizer a couple years before that. And he'd gone into business with one of his old buddies.

And I guess they were having some financial problems. They moved into the house next door to us. My dad actually worked for me briefly. And I don't remember exactly when it was in 2011, but some stuff happened between my parents, and I don't want to get into it, but the whole holding my parents on a pedestal thing It kind of got ripped away. But you don't want to go into it.

And I guess they were having some financial problems. They moved into the house next door to us. My dad actually worked for me briefly. And I don't remember exactly when it was in 2011, but some stuff happened between my parents, and I don't want to get into it, but the whole holding my parents on a pedestal thing It kind of got ripped away. But you don't want to go into it.

And I guess they were having some financial problems. They moved into the house next door to us. My dad actually worked for me briefly. And I don't remember exactly when it was in 2011, but some stuff happened between my parents, and I don't want to get into it, but the whole holding my parents on a pedestal thing It kind of got ripped away. But you don't want to go into it.

And the really bad part about that is that nothing bad happened. It went okay. And so me and Erin decided that, you know, maybe I wasn't an alcoholic after all because she'd missed drinking. You know, Erin's not an alcoholic. Like, she was a social drinker, and she missed it.

And the really bad part about that is that nothing bad happened. It went okay. And so me and Erin decided that, you know, maybe I wasn't an alcoholic after all because she'd missed drinking. You know, Erin's not an alcoholic. Like, she was a social drinker, and she missed it.

And the really bad part about that is that nothing bad happened. It went okay. And so me and Erin decided that, you know, maybe I wasn't an alcoholic after all because she'd missed drinking. You know, Erin's not an alcoholic. Like, she was a social drinker, and she missed it.

The next six months, you know, I'm enjoying my single malt scotch and smoking cigars and making crazy money at this TV parts business. You know, I'm on top of the world, dude. And then, I want to say it was like November, December of 2011, a leg starts acting up. The one that I got the plate in. And it swells up and it's like just nasty, gnarly looking.

The next six months, you know, I'm enjoying my single malt scotch and smoking cigars and making crazy money at this TV parts business. You know, I'm on top of the world, dude. And then, I want to say it was like November, December of 2011, a leg starts acting up. The one that I got the plate in. And it swells up and it's like just nasty, gnarly looking.

The next six months, you know, I'm enjoying my single malt scotch and smoking cigars and making crazy money at this TV parts business. You know, I'm on top of the world, dude. And then, I want to say it was like November, December of 2011, a leg starts acting up. The one that I got the plate in. And it swells up and it's like just nasty, gnarly looking.

I ended up having a methicillin-resistant staph infection that had recurred. Now this had happened before. It came back and it was really, really bad. Like they were talking about potentially I was gonna be an above-knee amputee if it moved anymore and I'm freaking the fuck out. They got me on a lot of pain medication. And I'm drinking again, you know, and that's not a good combination.

I ended up having a methicillin-resistant staph infection that had recurred. Now this had happened before. It came back and it was really, really bad. Like they were talking about potentially I was gonna be an above-knee amputee if it moved anymore and I'm freaking the fuck out. They got me on a lot of pain medication. And I'm drinking again, you know, and that's not a good combination.