Paul Alex

I love that.

And the fact that your wife was very supportive about it, that's huge, dude.

I think one of the biggest needle movers for any entrepreneur, if you guys are listening to this right now, and you guys are thinking of creating a side hustle, just like Nick did, just like I did, it is very important to find your people that are going to support you through that journey, right?

Because it's not easy, dude.

It's something new.

You may not be good at it, but you start getting good at it, just like the reps, just like Academy, just like field training officer, right?

So, Nick, let's talk about the transition now with ATM.

So you're able to do four to five K a month, which is still great, dude, because the way I look at it, you know, if you were to do four to five K and devote that time in overtime, which I call blood money, dude, you know, brother, you're working 30, an additional 40 hours a week to make the same amount of money you would from those machines, which only take a couple of hours to fill, correct?

Yeah.

Exactly.

Passive income.

So what led you to transition to merchant services, which is credit card machines?

No, I love that.

I love that.

So talk about like the merchant services road now.

Were you able to scale that at least to, you know, a good number where you were like, dude, this is something that, you know, I could go ahead and actually grow.

Or did you just do it as a, did you keep it as a side hustle as well?

I love that.

And then that's what allowed you to actually go ahead and have financial freedom in order to leave law enforcement.

From the time that you started with ATMs and merchant services, how long did it take to build that financial freedom for yourself?