Choose Your Hard: Chris Piper on Business, Elk, and Building the Forever Ranch

You know, what do we go from here? And then kind of started the process

over again.

What was the biggest lesson you took from your 20s that you still hold today?

You know, I might have to edit this part out, but besides like pull out, don't trust that she's on birth control.

Honestly, I mean, that would be the biggest.

Honestly, man, as tough as that situation was, not to be too cliche, like.

Having a kid early on teaches you a lot.

Yeah.

You grow up fast.

Yeah, you grow up really fast.

You learn what's important.

You stop putting up with bullshit.

And then, I mean, you're really just focused on how do I make her life unlike my life? You know, her being my daughter at this point.

And that becomes the focus.

So everything kind of gets...

All those decisions get made through that lens.

But...

I'm really happy with the decisions I made to sacrifice everything possible to get the thing I wanted, which was to be a good dad.

Part of me, I'm 40 now, just turned 40, and so part of me kind of still misses That decade most people have in their 20s where they got to screw around, they got to travel, they got to invent themselves and see really what they were into.

I didn't get that.

I chose not to have that opportunity because I chose to focus on my daughter.

But because of that, I got to get... a ton more experience get way ahead of just about everyone i know in my career learn a lot which made my 30s this much easier and my 40s and like i'm super grateful i

would also like i mean i what i see in your in who you are today kind of as a consultant and an entrepreneur one of the things i'll tell 20 year old kids is like don't focus so much on making as much money as you can focus on a skill get really really really good at a skill And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think in some ways, you spent your 20s grinding, becoming a great marketer, and then you gather that skill.

Then in your 30s, you can start to apply that skill more.

And I think I see so many people, and this is me, when you're in your early 20s, right out of college, you're like, how could I make the most amount of money? Because you're like, that's the thing.