How water destroyed my business 😢

Excuse me. Hi Vic, I wanted to ask you a question.

Um, what's with the camera?

Are you a business owner?

Yeah, you know me, of course.

We decided as a team to record your founder story, so I wanted to know if you'll be down for that. Let's go. All right, let's go.

My name is Vic, I'm the owner of Brand Crumbs Media, and this is my founder story. So I started my company in November 2019. But it was me. I was working till 3, 4, 5 in the morning every day. I loved it though. It was great. And then in mid-2021, I got really, really sick and I was in the hospital. Couldn't do any work. I lost clients. I couldn't fulfill. I was just losing money left and right because it was just me. And there was one shoot that I just couldn't let miss. It was actually with the mayor of Orlando, Buddy Dyer. But I was stuck in the hospital. I called in some friends to help me actually make that shoot. They picked it up. They executed it perfectly. The video came out amazing. 2022 was our best year. The profit was incredible. The clients were stacked. Then my phone rang and it was my partner at the time saying, hey, we gotta evacuate the building. There's a flood. The pipes burst and there's water everywhere. The studio was gone. The office was gone. And the business, we had no income, no studio, no plan. Thankfully we had some savings. I learned a lot in those few years and we're just now getting out of it. It's been a long, long journey, a rollercoaster of mistakes, and successes and failures and learnings. But I've had the privilege of serving a lot of people, help them go from one restaurant, one office, to 3, to 5, to 6, help them scale, help them see their dream. And it's just a privilege of being able to be part of that. And I look forward to being part of yours.