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Intro

Well men, I'm kind of an impatient person. So I'm gonna kick this off and open up and lay it out there. I have a home inspection company that I started in 2007. I grew it to be one of the largest inspection companies in Utah. between June and Oct of 2023, for a variety of reasons, all my employees quit and I started 2024 with just me and a Filipino VA. 2024 had lots of long hours and I ended 2024 adding 3 new inspectors and 2 admins and a clear path to success (I thought). My daughter's friend committed suicide early 2024 and that sent her through major challenges, often talking suicide and self harming. I blame it on the stress of me working long hours and my daughter's state that by the end of 2024 my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. We went thru that in 2018. I wasn't ready to go thru that again. I was absolutely broken as I contemplated facing 2025. I'd seen

@Jared Johnson

post about a men's group he was doing and I'd recently met him at some realestate events, so mid January 2025, I stopped in his office and that led to many transformative experiences.

This year, 2025, has ended amazingly...all things considered. My wife is pretty much thru treatments and prognosis is good. My daughter (now 17) is more emotionally aware than most adults I know. My business will end 2025 35% better than any year prior. Yet I'm broke, financially having reinvested every cent into rebuilding a company I don't enjoy any more. I can run what appears to be a successful business, but the financial side where that translates to providing for my family to give them what they want, I'm failing. And I'm stuck.

I've been working a lot on me this year and I'm very pleased with the progress, but like I started with in this post, I'm an impatient person. I'm not the person I was a year ago, but now I'm stuck keeping the machine going to provide for my family, but now I've been shown the man I can become. There's so much more I want to do with my life and for my family, but you can't pay medical bills and mortgages with hopes and dreams. My daughter will be off to college in a year. I'm not connected to my son (14) as I'd like and I feel myself repeating many of the dynamics from my childhood and I want to break those generational patterns. A big contributor to my wife's cancer is her emotional well being and I want the time to help her heal, especially with all I've learned this year. Where am I not enuf? Being able to meet my family's financial needs.

I just completed day 1 and I am aware of the many broken systems I have and that they need to be replaced, I'm just not sure what to replace them with, and how. And for the many systems that I know the solutions. I just can't implement them fast enough or my hands are tied because I haven't found the right people to delegate to. That's why I'm here. I need the guidance for those Actions and the Accountability, otherwise when life gets hard it's too easy to just fall back to doing what I know best, even though that means spinning my wheels.

I've been the Builder for too long and I'm meant to be the Architect.

Thanks for hearing me out. Looking forward to being a part of this.

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