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[00:00:00] Tim Swindle: [00:00:00] Hey, you know, do we think that there's other people like us that would enjoy this and then, you know, there is some element of like going around and can you share the idea before you start spending a lot of money? You know, you can go kind of just test your thesis. And so you share the idea with people and you can just tell, like, is it clicking?

[00:00:19] Do they like it? Are they laughing? Are they like stupid? This is dumb. You know? So everybody just was like, that sounds like a really funny, except for a game. And. It convinced us to keep going. And then as you keep going, and as you build momentum, you just start to feel more confident and the confidence builds and you're willing to take more risks, et cetera.

[00:00:42]but you don't have to start out, you know, you don't have to go all in out of the gate. Like you can take baby steps to start. 

[00:00:50] Bob wierema: [00:00:50] All right. Today on the climb, we had a good friend of mine joined Michael and myself that, Share some of the success that he's had as an entrepreneur talks about how he makes a shift from call it corporate America and entrepreneurship in a number of different venues and really how his whole focus is on his lifestyle and the quality light that he's going to live with him and his family.

[00:01:16] And it's just a great conversation. Thrilled to have Tim swindle join Michael and myself today.

[00:01:31] Tim. Welcome to the climb podcast. Thanks for joining us today. 

[00:01:36] Tim Swindle: [00:01:36] Thanks for having me. 

[00:01:38] Bob wierema: [00:01:38] Absolutely. Well, I think to get started for the benefit of all the listeners. Can you give us a little background on, on who Tim is and you know, where you started and kind of where you sit today?

[00:01:50]Tim Swindle: [00:01:50] Sure. Tim swindle, I live on the North side of Chicago.

[00:01:55] I'm married with a 10 month old as of today and a dog. I went to [00:02:00] university of Illinois and I've started a couple of businesses and recently exited a few of them and Mon to a new ventures as we speak, 

[00:02:10] Bob wierema: [00:02:10] maybe start with, I think your story where you came, you know, in school, I know you had an awesome time doing some travel abroad and then kind of bring us up to speed of where are you, where are you?

[00:02:21] Took that from what you learned from that?

[00:02:24]Tim Swindle: [00:02:24]  Sure. So, my junior year at university was able to fortunate enough to be able to go over to Sylvia Spain for my second semester of junior year. And, it was, I think looking back on it even today, was probably the best three months stretch of my life. I've I peaked when I was 21 years old.

[00:02:50]so we did it a little different, you know, a lot of folks that study abroad, they, they would kind of go on this journey, this solo journey and meet new friends and things like that. And ours was a little different where we just uprooted like eight to 10 of our best friends and just moved us over to, to Spain for a semester.

[00:03:10] And, it was, it was just an incredible experience to kind of be, you know, off on our own truly, you know, no parents that could drive down and show up at our dorm or anything like that. you know, we obviously were going to school, but it was, it was designed to. To get out and see Spain too, you know, your Monday to Thursday classes.

[00:03:28] And then we would go visit different spots in Spain on the weekends and things like that. So lived with a Spanish family, which was also a really cool experience and, no new new Avalon spaniel. So that was

[00:03:42] not really knowing a lick of Spanish. I know a few phrases. 

[00:03:50] Michael Moore: [00:03:50] you know,That gets you through like two or three months in Spain, right there called me a few other things and you're all right. Yeah cause Tim, if, [00:04:00] if you would've told me that, that you were fluent in Spanish, I would have been answering some tough questions at home with my fiancé to why my Spanish is not as good as it should be after six and a half years, 

[00:04:13] Tim Swindle: [00:04:13] you need to, you need to get on that.

[00:04:17] Bob wierema: [00:04:17] And so I think go into like, How you found a job after that and all that. I think that story is really interesting. Cause you know, as we were talking the other day, how that's even shaped you to kind of where you are today and there's some, some of those, as we talked about the crossroads to find moments in, in those experiences, 

[00:04:36] Tim Swindle: [00:04:36] So as I was studying abroad in Spain, I was having a really good time and I happened to talk to my dad and just mentioned to them, listen, like I'm having a really good time over here.

[00:04:48] I would prefer not to come back to the States for summer. This is summer going into senior year. And she was like, all right, let me, let me see what I can do. And he happened to right after I got off the call with him, ran into our neighbor at the time who was a partner at a trading firm. they're based in Chicago, but they had an office in London and he mentioned to him how he just, you know, talked to Tim and Tim in Spain and was looking for an internship.

[00:05:11] Do you guys have anything? So he put a call. This is all without me, knowing this puts a call on to partner over in London. And so a couple of hours later, I got a call from this guy in London. That's like, Hey, I'm Dave with Marquette partners. You know, we're going to fly you over here for an interview to London and think about, you know, have you moved here for the summer?

[00:05:29] And I'm just like, who's this I've been drunk for the past three months. Yeah. and so it worked out that I did fly over there and interviewed with the firm and. I ended up just going straight from, Spain over to London for the summer. And then that worked out well and they ended up hiring me basically right out of that program.

[00:05:53]so it was nice to kind of go into senior year, being stressed about, you know, finding a job. And I had one lined up for the [00:06:00] backend and ended up going, you know, moving back to London after graduation. 

[00:06:04] Michael Moore: [00:06:04] That's awesome. 

[00:06:05] Bob wierema: [00:06:05] And you, 

[00:06:06] you loved London.

[00:06:08]Tim Swindle: [00:06:08] I do. I did. I do. I  hope to go back there to spend some time, some significant time with my family.

[00:06:16]that's definitely a goal of mine. I just think there's just so ...