Corey Gladwell started three businesses by his mid-twenties: a vodka brand, a restaurant, and a nightclub. He was forced to sell the vodka company, closed the restaurant, and burned out running the nightclub. By 26, he'd had what he calls a midlife crisis, emotionally drained but clear on what he doesn't want next.
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Approximately ages 22–26.
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They said, well, you can sell your liquor at your restaurant, in your nightclub. And so that's a monopoly. And I'm like, I don't think Grey Goose is worried about the sales I'm making from. You know what I mean? Like, knowing kettle, one isn't concerned about, you know, my little vodka brand. But anyways, I had to get rid of the vodka brand. I had to sell that, which was. Which was fine. Got rid of the restaurant, and then I had this nightclub. And so for two years, again, my job was to party, having music artists out and all kinds of things. And so I always joke that I had my midlife crisis from, like, you know, 22, 23 until I was, like, 25, 26. Because it's like I. This full, you know, experience out learned a lot about failure. I learned a lot about what I don't want. I ended that with that. That kind of run there, feeling bankrupt emotionally, spiritually, you know, mentally. I was just drained and wiped out. And so, yeah, so I took a lot of. A lot of lessons from that and. And shift.