May 14, 2025
Chances Have Consequences: Business Growing Pains
What happens when your business is growing 92% but you're still struggling with doubt, guilt, and anxiety? Welcome to the entrepreneur's paradox.
Ever feel like you're being pulled in multiple directions at once? In this revealing solo episode, I dive into the complex emotions that come with balancing new fatherhood, business expansion, and pursuing the American dream on my own terms. After sharing some heartfelt appreciation for my wife's recent vulnerability on the podcast, I explore how our first "official" Mother's Day with baby Paisley outside the womb created one of those perspective-shifting moments that makes everything feel different.
As the busy season approaches with back-to-back events at Ledgeway Farm, Bonnie Eagle Car Show, and Memorial Weekend at Bentley Saloon, I confront the overwhelming guilt that comes when pursuing your passion means disrupting everyone else's routine. My mom takes time off work, friends step in for childcare, and my wife adjusts her schedule—all so I can bet on myself. The weight of these dependencies creates a pressure unlike anything I've felt before.
I share the raw truth about taking chances and their consequences. Our Florida venture didn't deliver the breakthrough we'd hoped for, forcing us to pivot strategies and postpone bigger dreams. Yet despite these challenges, our business is up 92% in net sales—proving that sometimes success doesn't feel like success when you're in the trenches.
The episode culminates with exciting news after years of persistence: we've finally secured a triple-wide booth at the Freiburg Fair! While this expansion requires substantial investment, it represents the growth we've been pushing toward. Remember: anything unattempted remains impossible. If there's one message to take from this journey, it's simply never give up. The regret of not trying far outweighs the difficulty of waiting for success.
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00:00 - Welcome Back to a Solo Episode
01:47 - Gratitude for Wife's Vulnerability
06:28 - First Mother's Day Reflections
14:40 - Upcoming Business Events
21:30 - Family Responsibilities vs Business Commitments
31:26 - Taking Chances and Their Consequences
44:41 - 92% Growth and Exciting News
51:54 - Never Give Up: Final Thoughts
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Episode 253 of Share the Circle podcast and, unfortunately for you, it's back to just you and me.
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Episode 253 is a solo show for me.
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No wifey this week, so I can promise y'all no tears this week.
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This week we get back to business, and when I say back to business, I mean time to talk business.
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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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If you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be Back on time, leading a bad world the whole day gone, falling behind Too fast, and I'm waiting to pass what it do, what it ha do-do-do-do.
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Good Lord, almighty, am I so excited to be back with you?
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Oh, it's true, it is damn true.
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I miss you.
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Boo Time for our little weekly reunion, episode 253.
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And this week it's just you and me.
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Before we proceed, I feel the internal need to say thank you, thank you, thank you to my lovely, to my beautiful, to my amazing, bold, transparent, truth-telling wife.
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I appreciate you, babe.
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It's been a long journey.
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It's been certainly a struggle for the wife to come on here and open up her heart, be transparent with her emotions, share everything with you raw and in real time, as it happens.
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That has been the vow and commitment that I made when I started this show that whatever I go through, whatever I grow through, I shall be bold enough to share it with y'all as it happens, regardless of people's emotions, regardless of people's opinions, regardless of whether I hurt some feelings along the way.
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What I didn't realize is, when I took that vow, when I made that commitment, sometime some way along the way, everybody that's part of the show made the same commitment and my wife, being one of the biggest parts of the show, certainly made that commitment and I'm honored to have had her on here over the past month sharing that commitment, sharing that story.
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Some extremely powerful episodes over the past month.
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We've had some great conversations off air from people because of those episodes.
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I'm excited of some of the things that could come from those episodes, but, more importantly, I'm excited for all the things I've seen in my wife.
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I'm excited for all the things I've seen in my wife, the number one, having the ability and the confidence to come on here and bear everything, unafraid, unashamed, to share her story, her raw, real life story, uncovering and undusting things for people that they never knew about her and her family.
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But having the courageousness to do so, which is a word that we've talked about this year, our guiding word for the year.
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My wife, coming on here and sharing those things and then committing to them has made a major difference.
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I've seen her shed negativity.
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I've seen her take that ability to press on and to move on and to move forward and to cut ties with negativity.
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I've seen it ramp up.
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She's really used this time as an opportunity to recommit to herself and to her values and to her dreams, and there's going to be an episode in the next couple of weeks where she's going to come on here and give you, I would say, some additional insight but possibly some tremendous updates.
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That all comes from the ability to cut negativity.
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It all comes from the ability to put the past, in the past, the fact my wife's been able to do that all while going through what she's just gone through, or shall I say, growing through what she's growing through right now.
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I'm telling you, right now, my wife's a badass, and when she comes on here and shares some of the changes that she's made, even in some of the darkest of times, it's absolutely incredible.
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So, baby, it's been a little while since I've done one of these, but if you stick with me, please, I'd like to give this week's winning Wednesday weekly shout out to my lovely, to my beautiful bride coming off her first mother's day, y'all well, I mean, we celebrated mother's day last year, but little baby paisley was still in the belly.
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This is the first mother's day with the little princess strutting around.
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You know what I mean.
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So it hits different, it feels different.
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What an incredible time, man, I'm telling you, life is crazy to see and to experience and to feel all the changes, what we've been going through, growing through, what we've been shedding ourselves from.
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Man, life comes at you fast, dude.
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Spending the weekend with it being Mother's Day weekend.
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Like the first time, I went arts and crafts.
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Okay, let me just give you all a confession I went arts and crafts and I made cards for my wife and for my mima, right, or my baby's mima, my mama, my mama, okay.
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So I made some cards because, to be honest, y'all, sometimes that just means more.
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And I wanted to start the trend of Baby Paisley making those gifts, right, so I get her little hand-drawn images in there, we trace the hands, that whole type of deal.
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But you write a nice message and, listen, I kind of have a little bit of a background in designing flyers and such now, so I can design a pretty sweet-looking Mother's Day card and then we can personalize it and then add a little baby touch and say here's a start to a long line of homemade gifts.
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But I got to tell you, writing cards for your wife and for your mother for Mother's Day, when you're 42 years old and there was a lot of your life where you didn't expect this to be your life, that shit hits different y'all.
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I'm going to tell you right now, man, I personally think that Mother's Day might feel more different to me than Father's Day, because I don't like taking credit for things.
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Giving credit is more my style and Mother's Day just the overall feel of it was was wild to me, man, to think that my wife is a mother.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I don't know.
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I don't know, dude, I don't know.
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It's.
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It's weird.
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Y'all might be hearing this being like no shit, dipshit.
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Uh, your wife was pregnant for nine months.
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Then you had a child.
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She's, uh, eight months.
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That makes her a mama, and none of this is new to y'all.
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But sometimes it's those little milestone moments that make shit seem real.
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It kind of certifies the election.
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You know what I'm saying.
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And making Mother's Day cards and saying, here it is.
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It certified some stuff for me.
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You know, literally I'm not going to share all the details of the cards, but the whole message to my wife being like you know, 10 years ago it was hard to imagine this, but now I wouldn't want it any other way.
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This is the way it's supposed to be, getting to the point in life where there was probably no feeling or hopes of me producing a grandkid.
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And if y'all haven't been listening the entire time here, if you're not a day one, if you haven't been here since episode one, get your ones up.
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We're my certified OGs, my day ones.
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Get your ones up in the air.
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I acknowledge you, I appreciate you.
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My day ones, get your ones up in the air.
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I acknowledge you.
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I appreciate you, my loyal ones there's some of you out there right now that are new ones that I see you going back and picking up on all the episodes you have missed, because when I get, like, a stat update and it shows random episodes and then that stays kind of consistent in an order, I see you, I see you and I love you.
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I appreciate you, man, I encourage each and every one of you.
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This is day one for you, or you know, day two or 21.
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Then I'm telling you we got 253 damn weeks of the show.
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Man, go back, there's some gems out there.
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You know, even though the timeline might be wonky, there's fruits of our labor.
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Okay, success leaves clues.
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Baby booze, they're out there.
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You can find all things podcast related at sharethesparklepodcastcom or on all major platforms, but you already know that.
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What am I talking about?
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You already know that, okay, but my mama, she has always been Nana to all the grandkids and for me there's only one Nana and that is my Nana.
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Ok, don't be confused.
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I didn't say banana, but I really wanted to say banana, right there.
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I don't know, I'm weird, ok, but y'all already know that Listening this long, you know I'm a weirdo.
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Ok, you know I'm a little silly.
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Y'all already know that.
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You've been listening this long.
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You know he's I'm a weirdo.
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Okay, you know I'm a little silly.
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I'm silly like that.
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You already know that.
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You know what I mean.
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It is what it is.
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Anyways, we made the commitment, um, that my mama would not be a nana, because my nana is no longer here, and, um, I can't call anybody else Nana.
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And also there's something about me that just feels like I was born in the South and raised in the North, even though that's not the truth.
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I'm a maniac chewing through, born and raised right here, how do you do?
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But something about me screams the South, and we've always had this conversation that there's not enough memas in the North.
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That's a South thing, right.
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Memaw, mamaw, that stuff's more in the South.
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I like mamaw a little better than memaw, but my mom is too young to feel mamaw, unless Paisley makes her.
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So my mom selected memaw.
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It all started with I think it was a Morgan Wallen song and a car ride drive-thru line, a Dunkin' Donuts talking about how there's no more, there's no Meemaws, there's no Mamaws in the North and we were talking about how the Nannas and the Papas have passed on a lot of them in the Memes and the Pepes.
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And you know a lot of them in the memes and the pepes and you know a lot of those names are they're?
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They're vintage, right?
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And people these days are like I don't want to be, no, I'm not, I'm not, no, I'm too young for this.
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I'm not.
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You ain't calling me meme.
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Oh no, I'm gonna be me, me.
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I'm gonna be gg, I'm gonna be tt, tata, who ya, who I?
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I don't know man, but y'all come up with some funky ass names.
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People don't want to go back to memaws and mamaws and papaws and all that good stuff.
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But I said to my mama there's not enough memaws, there's not enough mamaws, it needs to happen.
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And my mom said you ever give me a grandkid, I'll be memaw, I'll be mamaw, I'll be whatever.
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Fast forward to a month or two later.
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Surprise, my mama is now a Meemaw.
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I made the joke back then and you probably already heard it, but I'm going to tell it again that my mom would be Mamaw or Meemaw, my dad would be Pawpaw and if I'm ever a granddad, I'm going to be Hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw.
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I'll tell you what I'm going to be Hee-haw, what's up.
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Hee-haw, that's going to be me, my honky old ass.
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Or should I say honky old ass?
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That's going to be me Writing a card to me Ma, something about it just hits a little bit different, y'all.
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Everything just feels a little bit different.
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The reality of the situation that I am a dad, the reality of the situation that my wife is a mama, my mama is a me-mom.
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It feels different because I've heard the grandkids call my mom Nana forever.
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So everything about this is different.
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Everything about this has that new car scent and I just want to say and shower the women in my life, the ladies in my life, my baby, my mama, my baby mama and my mama.
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Okay, that could be too much mama drama with all y'all, but I want to celebrate them, cherish them, tell them I love them and also say happy Mother's Day, happy late Mother's Day to all the beautiful mamas out there, all the beautiful, loud, proud American mamas out there.
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I love y'all, I appreciate you.
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Happy Mother's Day.
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I hope it was all you wanted it to be.
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Now, I told all y'all at the start of this episode that today's show was going to be a business show and I told you there'd be no tears on today's show.
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Okay, I'm going to make a commitment to try not to cry today.
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So if everybody students in the class, if you would grab your Cabela's catalog and place your hand on the Cabela's catalog and your beady little eyes to the sky, I'm going to confess some truth from this guy Thou shall not cry today.
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No, there will be no tears today.
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Today is business day and some of you are asking right now what the hell are you talking about, boy Business?
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You've been over here fussing and confessing on about your wife and your mom and would you get yourself in some trouble over there?
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You sweet-talking no, watch your mouth when you talk to me like that you heard.
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Okay, this is what happens when I'm given the microphone and I'm asked to host the show on my own, when I don't have guests, when I don't have a co-host, I tend to pretend there's more people in the room, and then I end up arguing with myself and then some of y'all sons of bitches call in a wellness check and the next thing you know, I'm getting evaluated.
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Okay, I'll take enough of that.
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I'm going to confess enough of that.
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All right, there he goes again, talking to himself, like there's a room full of people.
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That boy, he man, he, that boy, he need help.
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Sad, sad, sad situation.
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I can't believe they let him reproduce.
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Lord, it's sad what's happening to this world.
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Anyways, I digress.
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It all blends together because on today's story of business, as we discuss business, there's a major family element to business and a lot of it stems from the fact that I'm finally a dad and I'm raising a child, okay, and the responsibility that falls upon my mother and my wife.
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It all goes together in this life and this subject is today's subject because we are on the cusp of all things opening.
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We are on the cusp of the flood gates opening.
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Lord, have mercy.
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We know I need it, but I ain't prepared for it.
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You better believe it.
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This weekend starts the trend, it starts the run of our season.
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You guys already know we've been to Florida, we've done Daytona Bike Week, we've checked that off the old bucket list.
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But as far as our season goes, this weekend kind of signifies the start to our season.
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We start hitting the road this weekend because when this weekend gets here, it starts to knock down a trend of me not being home anymore on the weekend, I think.
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My next three weekends, I'm committed to something.
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I want to say, four of the next five weekends I'm committed to something, maybe even seven of the next eight, something like that.
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Right, where you're on the road, you're moving and things are happening.
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With that said, if any of you are Mainers that are listening, if you're maniacs and you're looking for something to do because not all the fun has started to begin in your state, then I got some dates.
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So please don't wait.
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Saturday you can catch me with the fam at ledge way farm.
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Head on over to ledgeway farm, home of the greatest goat soap you could imagine.
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The liberty family washes exclusively on goat soap from ledgeway farm.
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You can head over to ledgeway farm out in pitston, maine.
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Check them.
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The flyer and event information is on my Facebook page if you're looking to find them.
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If you don't already like and follow Ledgeway Farm on Facebook, you can find a great easy avenue and way to do that.
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Go on ahead and do that today.
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Track them down, give them a follow.
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Join us this Saturday at Ledgeway Farm at 10 am, pittston, maine.
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It's going to be a great time.
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Man, we're doing everything right at the farm.
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You can kind of see the process, how things work.
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There's going to be a bunch of vendors there.
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Walson Woodcraft's going to be there I do know that which is some more friends and fam here, so they're going to be there represented, selling their woodworking merchandise.
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But it's a great time.
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Plenty of vendors, there's food, there's free entertainment, there's pony rides for kids, guided barn tours, possibly some goat snuggling.
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There's a lot of good things that are going to happen.
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So we did this event last year.
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It was a really, really successful event for us.
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Number one we would do this event and sign up to do this event, even if, um, we weren't selling anything.
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It's just the right thing to do and, um, you know their family.
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They've done a bunch for us.
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It's something that we feel is necessary to do, to be there and, uh, no matter what the numbers are, we would be there.
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That's just kind of how it's supposed to go.
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But surprisingly, we were rewarded with a really damn good day of business last year.
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So hopefully that happens again this year.
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I'm not saying we're dependent on it, but hello, and I would love it.
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And then it's a double dip weekend because we will leave there and start our setup process for the next morning being the Bonnie Eagle Car Show.
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I don't remember what number of car show this is like 45 years or 50 years, something like that.
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It's a long time they've been doing the Bonnie Eagle Car Show.
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We did this event last year.
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It was a little sprinkly, but we did pretty decent last year.
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It was certainly worth doing and yeah, so I'm excited.
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It's a back-to-back doubleheader weekend, two separate events.
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We're going to load up the bus again this week, hit the road, ledgeway Farm on Saturday, starting at 10 am, and then the Bonnie Eagle Car Show on Sunday.
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I believe it starts at 8 or 9 am.
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So it's a double feature weekend.
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Y'all that's coming up hard and fast.
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And then, believe it or not, memorial weekend is the next weekend.
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So, um, ledgeway farm on Saturday, bonnie Eagle on Sunday, and then on Thursday I'll be rolling into Bentley saloon setting up and getting everything ready to rock and roll over there, and, um, that's going to be me setting up on Thursday and then being open for business Friday, saturday, sunday, monday.
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So, um, you got a four-day opportunity to catch me at the saloon selling some merchandise, and then that's going to end on Monday.
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I'll pull out of there Monday night and then on Friday night I'll be right back at the saloon and this time around I won't be selling anything, I'll actually be DJing.
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It is our first DJ event of the season, another themed event, and I believe we've flipped the schedule around.
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So I think this one is going to be 90s night, which is one of the best nights.
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To be honest, like the music, the 90s doesn't get enough love.
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Man, let me tell you this the 90s doesn't get enough love.
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Musically, it was, I want to say, the best years of hip-hop.
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Grunge rock was was coming in hard and fast.
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It was making a making a break for it.
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All that alternative stuff, some some, you know, traditional classic rock was still damn good ac, dc.
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Think about some of this stuff.
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Y'all um, I could start pulling out some damn albums, but 90s country as well was full of freaking bangers.
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Man, 90s country was great.
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So 90s is an extremely underrated decade when it comes to music.
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So get on your 90s duds, whatever it is y'all want to wear.
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Meet me out there, bentley Saloon, 7 to 11.
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We're going to get after it.
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It's going to be a great time.
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I say all these things to also point out the fact that I start to connect the dot with the family and their responsibility.
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Part of it is a great, overwhelming sense of guilt and I've talked about this before when I mentioned making the commitment to head to Florida and be on the road for nearly two weeks and being away from my little baby girl.
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I'm going to tell you some of y'all have made fun of me for this.
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But this is difficult, man, it ain't easy.
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When you're um, I don't want to say I'm a stay at home dad because you know I I am working and I'm on the road and such but my schedule during this time of the year I'm working from home most of the time.
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So, man, you feel like a stay-at-home dad and you have a lot of those stay-at-home dad responsibilities during the week and you kind of just try to make business fit in where you can get it in.
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And that's been a whole other um, you know, challenge and stressful element to the whole scenario.
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But I got to say being with my baby every single day when you have to think about not, it uh hits a little different y'all, some of the excitement.
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You have to remove responsibility, throw caution to the wind, dick off and get after it.
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You lose some of that desire.
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You know what I mean.
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And if you heard me talking a little while ago about my wife making these decisions to cut off negativity and to really just focus on her dreams and reprioritize things, we've all made these commitments right.
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As a family, as a household, we're all leaning into the responsibilities.
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