Blake's Journey: Earning Success from Adversity

from from their trash and they're trying to pass that on to you. Uh if that makes sense. But that's well said, dude. I I've I mean it's been years, man. of of people just it's all been, you know, about daddy this, daddy did this for you or or your parents this, you still live at home. You're a young kid. How could you possibly run an actual business being a 19-year-old kid, you know? Constant stuff like that. And the thing that really sucks is I'm sitting there with uh like my accountant trying to figure out taxes and trying to figure out the laws and how to do all this stuff and actually spending a lot of money learning and and paying all the actual taxes and workman's comp insurance and then I get on YouTube and people are actually like, "Oh, you don't actually do that." So, something people don't know about Blake is his family came from like less than nothing. Um Blake's never really told this story because he's never felt confident enough to tell the story. But when Blake's dad was 14 years old, his dad passed away and left him nothing. Then he got moved into a new family. And when he was 17, that dad kicked him out. So this family is successful, but it wasn't always successful. We don't come from generations of uh uh rich and and whatever, but come from hard workers. My