Dave Evans

which came with predictability and stability.

It looks like stasis and it's not very creative and it's not very exciting and it's not very scary either.

So she got exactly what she wanted.

There's no surprise here whatsoever.

And so what you sort of forgot to accept, Allison, is that that stability is not the same as a high learning curve.

And that small business is not going to make you rich because you're operating on a cash basis.

You're not, you know,

working 80 hours a week to try to get founder stock in some venture capital based firm.

So these things are exactly what you wanted all along.

They just come with consequences.

So can we accept the fact that you got exactly what you wanted?

And now how do you make the most of what that is?

So very often we simply aren't telling ourselves enough truth.

Yeah, well, we'll call him George.

And he was working at Hitech and he was doing well, you know, but he was also a caring guy and he was involved in his local church and in his community and came along the idea of fair trade and working with organizations, particularly in West Africa, where we're putting villagers to work and trying to help them engage in the capitalistic world by going through fair trade companies.

And he got this notion that

that what he needed to do was start a fair trade company that would create these craft companies in West Africa.

And he not only decided that that was something that he thought was really interesting, but that was really what God wanted him to do, that that was gonna make the world a better place.

He was gonna lift people out of poverty and he was gonna do this noble thing.

And off he went and he left his home country in Europe and flew to the, moved his family, went through all this incredible effort, which was a very noble idea,