Chris Naugle

But it forced something that I think was the greatest thing.

I used to work in my store.

I want to be clear about that.

Most business owners work in their business and they are the best at what they do in their business.

But it's almost like you trap yourself.

You create almost a slavery, if you will, because you're a slave to what you created.

And I was there.

But now I'm working, you know, the mornings all the way up till five o'clock at this financial firm

doing investment advice and stocks and everything else.

So now I can't work in the store.

Now I gotta work on the store, on the business.

And that was that transition.

I realized that was what was happening.

I was working on the business.

My retail stores exploded.

I had other people running them.

And now I'm working on events, I'm working on skate and snowboard teams and making videos and cool stuff that I would have never done working in the store.

So you can see sometimes one door closes and another door opens and that really sums up everything that's happened in my life.

So I'm doing the shops, I'm in Wall Street, I'm a pro snowboarder, I'm doing all these simultaneously.

And then I get this idea because of one of my clients to get into real estate because he was my wealthiest client, but he gave me very little money to invest for him.