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So if you're turned off by that, then maybe you're not ready.

So I had a response for things, and I really was anchored in my, even though I probably didn't know it, but I was really anchored in my way.

So I was able to somewhat avoid some of these bad advice that I was getting.

Well, they were giving you good business advice.

Yes, on how to mainstream and scale.

Yeah.

So luckily, I was able to kind of stay steady and say no to a lot of those kind of bad suggestions.

I think it really is, Rick, is that all I wanted was to do something that I believed in that I knew was going to resonate with others.

And I didn't really have in my mind, like,

a threshold or a milestone of like, I need to reach a million people or I need to sell a million bottles.

It was just like, I want to make one great batch that's going to affect one person or more.

It was like, I had this low bar.

And I think by being so young and being so curious, but also like unaffected by the material world,

it allowed me to lead with such purity.

Well, it's the reason it worked.

Yeah.

And I try to bring myself there more often than not these days, because this world can change you, especially right now.

And, you know, I'm 48 now.

I have three kids and, you know, my life is crystallizing more as like a human, but I'm trying not to forget like this origin story, so to speak, that I was born from.

How did you make the labels in the beginning?