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May 25, 2025
Sergeant to CEO: Marine Michael Johnson Buys a Sign Shop with an SBA Loan
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Jed MorrisHOST
Well, we're going to get more into that, but leaving food service, you kind of got into stock trading a little bit, right?
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14:16Michael JohnsonGUEST
My stepdad ran a metal fabrication, or I'm sorry, my stepdad-in-law ran a metal fabrication business.
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14:24Michael JohnsonGUEST
When I was dating his stepdaughter, he was like, hey, he generally, we got along well.
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14:31Michael JohnsonGUEST
He knew I had an entrepreneurial itch in the back and said you know hey i'm i need some help at the shop you don't have to know anything just come in and work hard um and so i did i came in and worked hard and like they started 6 a.m too and it was like my first my first job there was cleaning up the welds they had these big aluminum paddles they were just massive maybe 12 foot wide and the welders would come along and they'd weld them and probably take them two hours to weld them and then i'd come behind with this big circular brush and just clean them for it would probably take me three four hours a piece if i was I don't know, for some reason I could do two a day.
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15:02Michael JohnsonGUEST
There was one guy there that was like three times my age, never seemed to move fast and somehow did three a day.
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Jed MorrisHOST
What kind of advice do you have to people who are interested in the space, but they're smart enough to know that they want to do it right?