A man describes his first month with Family First Life in January 2014, when he and his partner Steph were broke, living paycheck to paycheck while raising five children. He was questioning the business and feeling terrible about the financial strain and the emotional weight of it all.
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I would say the first time that I definitely questioned this business as a whole was our first month in business, you know, the first full month, January 2014. Question the business or are you in for Family First Life? I had been in the business for a year and a half. Got it. At this point, I was still struggling greatly. I was still broke. I had 5 kids at that time. The youngest was like, Maddox was 2. Yeah, John had his first kid at like 9. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, my oldest is 28 now. And, uh, you know, we were still broke, man, paycheck to paycheck. Steph was cutting coupons every Sunday to try to figure this thing out. She had a job, thank God, because she was helping pay like child support. And, uh, you know, she was helping pay your child support. She was helping pay my child support because the 4 of the kids aren't hers. Yeah. So I brought baggage to Steph. I lived in her house. Can I ask you something? Like, how do you ask anything? How'd that feel? It felt like crap, dude. You would never know that looking at you all now. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, so yeah, give him a hand. Hey, thanks for sharing. Hey, thanks for sharing it. Thanks. And thank you for sharing. I appreciate it.