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... um, accepting that, I, it was a, it required a lot of parts work, um, and a few ketamine trips.

And eventually I got to a place of realizing, like, I don't have to please my boss.

He's not actually my dad, and I can step back and work part-time instead of full-time.

And so once I was able to kind of reclaim some of my energy so that my weekends weren't just recovery from the work week, um, I just found a lot of energy and expansiveness.

And what I realized is that I'm really passionate about passing on that knowledge and those skills that I learned in, in therapy and coaching onto other people that are in my situation, basically.

Oh, no

... gotten something done.

So let's get an overview of the business first of all, okay? What do you guys take on at Archwood Carpentry?

So at the minute, we kind of take on everything, 'cause obviously we're just starting out.

So we have to kind of, like, win the work that is coming in.

So we'll take on, like, a, a wide range of things.

Like, maybe in the future we'll think of sort of going more niche and, um, doing, doing that.

But at the minute, we just kind of do, like, the full spectrum of carpentry, like first fix, second fix-

I wanna ask you, um, how did you rate your experiences, you know, your training, first architecture, and then coming into carpentry and construction like you did? How, how did you rate your experience overall?

Um, so I'd say the first thing I noticed, like after leaving architecture and then going into the trades, is this, the disconnect between the two subjects.