Eric Cline

In 2019, after having it for about seven-ish years, we were getting ready to go through a pretty sizable exit, over $100 million, and ended up...

losing it all like literally overnight.

Yeah.

I mean, that's from going from the halfway house to that.

Obviously there's a lot to the story we can talk about, but it's like, I made the decision, me and my wife, uh, in 2000, the end of 2011, going into 2012, no, the end of 2011, we made the decision.

We were, we were going to be an entrepreneur and everyone in our family, at least a good portion of them thought we were nuts, uh,

My wife was eight months pregnant.

I had our daughter, which was nine.

We had maybe 10, 11,000, 12,000 bucks in the bank, renting a home in a fourth bedroom in a basement.

We were like, you know what, let's go give this thing a shot.

Like a lot of us go through the self-doubt, the people close to us just trying to protect us.

And we ended up saying, yeah.

And dude, it has been a hell of a run.

Like when I say it's been amazing, just building a life by design.

By design.

Not a lot of people can bet on themselves the way some of us do.

And build a life where...

You get to do what you want with who you want, when you want.

And it's just, man, I'm 44, and it keeps getting better.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.