Cody McLean

And that's especially true, especially when you're bootstrapping because you're putting so much of your time, heart and soul into this thing that you can't take a break.

And we often forget that we have the business.

The business should serve us, not the other way around.

I discovered that there's certainly more to life in entrepreneurship.

You are defined more than by just your business.

By getting outside my comfort zone and finding passions and purpose outside of business, that entailed me to set a core foundation to invest in myself because we often neglect our own health and our own well-being at the expense of just trying to have more money and more success with the business.

But

often we neglect that.

So that's an important consideration that I took time out of my life to make sure that I'm serving myself from this element as well.

So a bit about the startup timeline.

Back in 2004, I was just 14, had my first business, and I found a business partner that was up in British Columbia.

We merged that into a company called Aptost, but we were both very naive, and I was maybe 18, 19 at the time, and so I let him do the business legal registration stuff, and then we found this guy who was a penny stock investor,

And that was my first real experience with meeting somebody who was just kind of a bad person.

And long story short, noted in my book, he stole the business from us.

And there I had less than 100K in my bank account.

And so I was having to start all over.

And I was able to start over again.

I built another company called Pacific Coast.

Thank you.

I built another company called Pacific Coast.