Nathaniel Ealy shut down his construction business after years of struggle. Then one call changed everything: his mother-in-law's terminal cancer had returned. He walks through what happened next and how it shifted his entire life.
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On May 1, we have two guys in our pipeline and not one. But both these guys absolutely bomb out of the, out of the process on the same day. Just like hard fails, they're gone. And so I've turned to my wife and I'm like well that was a clear no, we got nothing. And so we were actually going to wind our construction company down. We are going to let this thing go to bed. At the same time we had been buying some foreclosure properties and turning them, flipping them, keeping some as rentals, but I have been doing that outside of my company and just employing subcontractors to do most of the work so we could run both simultaneously. So I thought I'll do more of that, do some real estate, but we'll figure it out. What I didn't know is that my mother in law's cancer would return. And as I'm winding things down in the company and I'm letting the last employees go because we got a clear no, she calls and said my cancer is back, it's terminal, I only have a few weeks to live.