Don McGuire

I have this project.

Do you want to come work for me?

And I literally said, first, I need two weeks to just decompress and get my mind right from this experience I just ejected myself from or pulled myself out of.

And then I will re-engage.

And I think there's people that, you know, we all go through this in times in our life.

And it's good to take a pause before jumping into stuff.

So I took a pause and then I decided, you know what?

For now, I have all these offers to come and do project X, project Y. There's a lot of people that needed my help.

So I said, great, I will help.

And I started a consulting business.

I figured it out on my own.

I asked some people that I knew had done it before, hey, how do you set up an LLC and how do you work this out?

And I just decided, you know what, for where my family is and I don't want to leave San Diego and I can go help people and I can make a living.

And so I started consulting.

And that actually fed my family and sustained my growth for about six, seven and a half, seven years.

And then I ended up forming a partnership and then bringing another partner in.

And so we kind of built ourselves a little practice and covering different sectors.

And it was a lot of fun.

I got to experience a lot of different clients.

I got to learn again how to get into sales mode again and sort of sing for your supper and sell the value of me as a