Q Everybody does. Yeah, I'm probably not the only one. Um, so, so, and, and what's, what's your question for us today?
A Um, so I started this business and brought in some partners, um, to help me just kind of financially get it going. My background is pretty deep in, um, the surf and skate world. I've worked for a lot of brands. I've been a sales rep and been into a lot of surf doors up and down the East Coast. That's what I did for work. For quite a number of years. So I understand what that looks like, but I financially just, you know, I grew up pretty poor and kind of just grind it to make what I had. So when I opened the shop, we did pretty well, but my partners always seem to leave, um, just because they have other interests that they're involved in and they're not committed to the grind. So my last partner left and I had to buy him out and get it done, but it put me into a spot where I unfortunately had to close the shop. Um, I'm in the process now of reopening. We were lucky enough to secure a partnership with Paragon Sports in New York City in Union Square to do a pop-up. Like, they liked what we were doing. They heard the story, and they were like, hey, we'd love to give you a home until you figure it out. Um, but this was a pretty important space for me, and for the community, and, and, and for all the organizations that we supported, and it's gone, and it hit me very hard, and I have the, the drive to kind of get it going again, but I'm just starting over, you know, like, financially …
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