The Freedom I Thought I Wanted

When I started my first plumbing company in Los Angeles, I thought I knew exactly what I was working toward.Like many entrepreneurs, I used the word freedom all the time. Freedom was the reason I wanted to own a business. Freedom was the reason I worked long hours, took risks, and kept building. The interesting part is that I never really stopped to define what freedom meant. I simply assumed I would recognize it when I got there.In this episode of Business Coaches Corner, I'm taking you back to those early days—running a plumbing company from a home office on a half-acre property filled with trucks, equipment, employees, and endless activity. Looking back from where I am today, I can see that the version of success I was chasing then looks very different from the life I've built now.This isn't a conversation about business strategy. It's a conversation about the stories we tell ourselves while we're building something, the assumptions we make about what success will feel like, and how life has a way of quietly changing the destination while we're focused on the journey.Join me as I reflect on the early chapters of my entrepreneurial journey, the businesses that shaped me, and the version of freedom I thought I wanted before I discovered what it would eventually mean to me.And this is only the beginning of the story.In the next episode, we'll pick up where this one leaves off and follow the road from Los Angeles to Colorado, Tahoe, coaching, and eventually a life I never could have imagined from that home office all those years ago.