Welcome to our live show!

But welcome to, uh, Drink Up. Also, if I could call out our sponsors today, uh, Bev Assets actually, and then Alias Advising from Adam Smith. And then I have to share this, Adam. You know what I'm gonna share?

Hmm.

Our friend, uh, Jay Williams sent me like 4 cases of Freebird. That's awesome. So I need to call out, obviously, Jay. Jay, thank you so much if you're out there. Thanks for the water. I'll be enjoying this today on the podcast. And then Adam, welcome back. And Chris, as always, I know you're helping us get organized in our effort here at Drink Up. So Matt, welcome to Drink Up. How did we find each other, by the way? Remind me. How that came to be.

Uh, probably be my, uh, assistant, uh, through PodMatch. Yeah, yep. So there's a podcasting where we can kind of link up with the different people that, uh, have similar interests.

That's right, you have a whole team behind you obviously and what you do. And then your, um, background is— we were talking about this— from concrete to e-commerce. Is that the journey?

Yeah, I, uh, I was a I've owned a commercial concrete business and had grown it to the point where we were pouring flatwork for Menards, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's. And, uh, so I was traveling, I was on the road about 200 days a year. And I went to a Tony Robbins event and he was selling a program called Money Masters, which was like a monthly DVD and a booklet. And each month he would, uh, focus on someone that was selling online. Yeah. And for me, that was this big epiphany. All I had ever used my computer was for emails and sending proposals and things like that, signing contracts, but never to sell stuff online. And so I, I started diving into that thinking that I could figure that out and not have to travel around the country to make a living.

So I'm gonna, I'm gonna pause and stop and we'll come back and I'll explain why in a second. So I want to make sure we're