Just tell us about yourself and some of the benefits that you've seen over time from the grind that you've put into this over the last however many years.

Yeah.

you know when i got into this if you will into investing it it was really sparked by my mom she had she actually passed away early on she was 45 years old i was 17 years old and you know at when you're 17 you're thinking okay i'm gonna go to school i'm gonna go to college then university work for an employer get a pension and retire at 65.

That was kind of the message we all had, right? And then you buy a house, you pay it off, and then you'll be fine, right? And so I thought, well, okay, she passed away at 45.

I'm supposed to go to 65, then I get to retire, then I get to enjoy this lifestyle that you talk about, right? And I thought, great, I'll figure that out when I'm 65.

I'll see what that's all about when I don't have to work anymore, right? So I thought, well, what if I don't make 45? Because it was cancer.

And I thought, oh, that's genetic.

So I'm curious from your perspective, what are you thinking?