Mm.

Um, and the g- the guys I work with, he, he made it seem like, "Oh, this attorney, he's here to make sure the deal gets done." So I made the mistake of just going at it by myself.

So I was on these calls, you know, uh, just one man versus like 10 mandem.

[laughs] But somehow I got through.

Uh, a- and I remember there was, uh, this one incident where th- they did their DD and they found something, and they wanted to knock down the valuation by, by 200K.

And then I, and, and, and I'm sat there with my boy who, who was like one and a half at the time, and I've got my mouth over his, um, uh, my hand over his mouth trying to shut him up because he, he, he's all squeaking and shit.

And I'm trying to negotiate the deal.

Mm.

Working hard, son.

[laughs] And you've got, you know, you've got the hustle culture of Gary Vee and Alex Hormozi who say, "You know what? You, you have to miss these graduations and these football games, and these blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, because, you know, this is what the business needs of you at the moment." And that's true.

But when you...

When I w- when I think about my kids, I'm like, now they're growing so fast, and they're only young once.

And, and there will come a point where they'll, they'll, they'll leave the house, and they wouldn't ha- have had that presence of a, of a f- of a father during their most critical formative years.

'Cause my dad, I barely saw him.

He was a minicab driver in London, and he was a good dad by, you know, by, by most definitions, but he wasn't there constantly.

On a daily basis, how do you balance your kind of different goals or, like, things that you're focused on?