sure. Um, my story started when I was a kid. I was born with dyslexia, other learning disabilities. I have a patch over my good. I'd lazy I when I was a kid, so I was bullied a lot. Um, and this made a lot of problems for me when school, uh, growing up in and whatnot. So I was told actually by one of my teachers when I was in elementary school, I should drop out of school and just go get a job because I was too stupid to learn anything. I did graduate, end up going to college, getting three degrees, starting my own businesses. But I I brought that up because I think there's something in all of us where, um you never know how how far somebody can go unless you help them. And if we just judge people is not being worthy or have their abilities, we never know how far they could go. So where the reason I got here today was because I did have somebody believe me, that was my mom and obviously my family. I had one good teacher that worked with me and kind allowed Meteo to get here um I So I also just to talk about that a little more. I started the business when I was in elementary school, selling these little cards to people that I bought off the ice cream truck and the principal shut that down because I was taking all the kids lunch money. I started the business when I was in college, dealing cars to all the Naval Academy, our Army Academy. And that was shut down because Detroit didn't like what I was doing, and it was taking business away from all their people. Um, I've started businesses throughout my life, so just kind of been that part of my entrepreneurial spirit since I was a kid. And I think one of motivations was, you know, just the ability that you could make money e mean, that you could literally do something yourself and go out there and make money at It was kind of intriguing to me, and my dad was also a business person, too, So hopefully that answered that question

sure. Uh, when I first started as a consultant, I was doing kind of S e o online marketing, trying to help people build teams in their companies, understand what was happening with the Internet. And when I first went in there, uh, it was like a pay to play once type of deal, and I realized they need ongoing hope. So help. So it changed over time in that it became an ongoing service program. Um, but it's also I want to say that when you consult with somebody, there's not one size fits all. That was one of things I did learn in the beginning, you need to have a really good questionnaire that kind of touches on a lot of different areas, so you can understand what the problem is and then go in and follow up with them. Whoever you're dealing with, like the hiring managers but also follow up with the employees and the people that actually doing the work to see what their take on this is because I found 90% of the time that the employees and the management were not on the same problem page, you know, I mean, they the employees thought there was some other problems in the management thought there was something else in what you put them all together. You can really start to solve the problems.

sure my advice on that is to, especially if you're doing business and you're trying to figure stuff out, stays mainstream. It's possible and try to use stuff that's been out there for a long time. Um, I got caught up in the wave of new inventions and new techniques and new software, and then that will disappear. And then you're left hanging. You got to start all over. Um, also, when they upgrade certain things, especially if they're new, they might not work the same or the product it sold. So for me, I I been in Microsoft my whole life. So my main programs, as far as my work goes, will evolve around that. And then I kind of built onto that so far as languages. Same thing with coating. Um, gosh, I built so much with people over the years with software, you want to stay with something that is very mainstream. Um, you know, it's like building websites with using WordPress versus ruby on rails or something. You know what I mean? It's like the people. There's so many more people that know WordPress than no ruby on rails. So if you're trying Thio build something you need to hire people. Your you know, your ability to find people to do the work you need are much greater if you pick the more adaptable software and the one that is more used. So just try toe, try to stay as mainstream it's possible, and use something that's been supported over many years by a lot of people. Otherwise, you're gonna walk yourself into a corner. You're gonna pay a lot more money than you would have, uh