Chris Naugle

while running the shop.

It was epic, dude, just purely epic.

Until the day that that whole dream kind of came crashing down, and it was when the planes hit the towers, what we all know as 9-11.

Well, what most people don't know in today's world, because you have to live through it, was that was a recessionary period too, a long one, a three-year recession.

Well, when you're an entrepreneur owning shops,

Through a recession, your business tanks.

And it did, it dropped like 30%.

And it was so bad that I didn't have the money to carry through, so I needed to get a job.

The one thing I had sworn off earlier in my life that I'd never do, I needed a job.

So I put my resume out, and the only companies that responded back were Wall Street firms.

I'm a punk snowboard kid that wears a beanie and a hoodie every day.

And now I got to go interview to a financial firm where I got to put a black, gray, or navy blue suit on every day.

And that was my reality.

That was my destiny, right?

So I took the job.

I was really, really good at it.

And it forced one of the most important things.

You're an entrepreneur, and you told me your story a little bit about where you went from the podcast, the freedom, to now this corporate world.

I had to do that.

It was a mind, it destroyed my mind.