Well, you know, it's funny you said that because I actually had someone really close to me say to me, Mark, when is enough enough? You've you've you own this.

You got this.

You have a business.

So when is it? And I actually took it like they were criticizing me.

And I pondered that I went to bed and I was thinking about it and I woke up and all of a sudden I went, you know what? enough is enough is when there's no more poverty, there is no more cancer, there is no more.

And so it really drove me to say, I realized a couple of things.

That's

great.

... during the business?

It was... You know, there definitely were times it was a different stress. There were times when, you know, my wife, Cindy, when we got married, she said, "I really would like to be at home when the kids are at that early age and raise them." And I'm like, "Hey, honey, I wanna support you in that." I mean, it's awesome. You know, you don't want other people raising your kids. And, and yet, when I looked at our bills end of the month, I'm like, "This isn't easy." (laughs) And, um, we both were committed to it, and she was doing some daycare so she could earn money at the same time. I was doing extra jobs, and so that was hard. But, you know, there was no quit. You're just trying to survive. Later, there were things that would happen, um, you know, the lawsuit was not a fun one. When I first moved us to Florida, there were 25 families, so they're finding doctors, churches, schools, and I'm like, "What did I do? All these people are counting on me." Um, but it's, that's a different... And looking back, it was almost fun. We all did things together. You know, we were buying boats to go fishing. We were buying quads to be at the ranch. We were, (inhales deeply) uh, the golf course. We would work hard, and if we were doing great, we'd close the company down, like, at noon and play golf.

Hmm.

I, I've, um... You know, when you say about the dreams, I know, um, going through the cancer thing, all of a sudden you realize, life does end. Uh, y- we think it goes forever, but it doesn't. It does end at some point. And I'll, I'll never forget, I had this girl, her name was Crystal, single mom, three kids, and she had joined It Works. And, um, you know, we talk about how to be debt-free, we talk about dreaming. And she had earned, um... It was a gathering at my house, she had earned to come over, and afterwards, Crystal had come up, she'd come up to me and she had, like, tears coming down. And she gave me a hug and she said, "Mark, I wanna tell you, you know, I'm a single mom, three kids." She goes, "I'm working two or three jobs. I'm just trying to make ends meet. I join your company," and then she goes, "For one, you give us hope. You show us how to make extra money and how to be debt-free and be smart." But she said...What I've really learned, you challenged me to dream. You challenged me to write my dreams down." And she goes, "What I didn't realize, I quit dreaming. My life was so tough, I don't have time to dream."