Eric Cline

Two years.

Yeah.

I was a year and a half out of treatment, went into treatment at 28 years old.

So I was 30, I'm 44.

So I've been writing my own check for 14 years.

I love that, dude.

And I've been through it, man.

In the 14 years, I've had some really high highs, and I've gotten kicked in the nuts hard.

With 2019, the very first company I ever started,

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.