A short YouTube video (Revelation Part 5) featuring Steve D Valentine in conversation with another speaker about setting personal and business boundaries after family hardship. Steve recounts experiences with exploitative investors who abandoned his family after his father's death and describes a principled boundary: he will partner with investors but refuses to be treated as an employee or exploited. The tone is personal, angry, and resolute.
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There's this boundary that I had to set after my.
Dad died that I.
Will work with you as an investor, but I will not work for you. And there's a huge difference. Because the difference is, is we're going to go down the road together and we're both making money. But this one sided, short sided of, hey, go find me a deal at 50 cents on the dollar so I can pay you two grand to do it. I'm going to buy a lot of these. That doesn't equate for me. For you go to make 100 grand while I make 2. So I'm like, well, fuck this. I'm going to go find the money and I'm gonna buy the house and you don't get any of it. And I'm just gonna do it for myself. And that's what I started doing. So my dad's greedy investors, they gave my mom and I two middle fingers and they left. Thank God. One of them, though, the biggest one, the biggest tyrant. I should just say his name and do it. Freaking dickhead from Canada. I ran into him at freaking Barrett.
Jackson, dude.
And I like.
Felt like all the.
Anger and all.
The stuff, like just well up and I had to walk the other way.