Dan Bastian: We would take more personal time if building BOOMCHICKAPOP again
Dan Bastian · Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP · Apr 2, 2026 · at 3:20
Dan Bastian, co-founder of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP, reflects on the severe physical and emotional toll of working 20-hour days while scaling the business.
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“And I think both Ange and I probably would have tried to spend more time with each other, taking a step back. For us, it really did damage to us in, in the sense of just Physically, you know, our bodies, and emotionally, and all of that, and I think, you know, it's taken a long time for us to kind of get healthy again in every aspect of our lives, and so that's probably the biggest thing that we would have done differently.”
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