Finding a space is not easy especially when moving out. It's not snapping your fingers. You need to time to find the next location and it has to be a good fit. Hopefully sharing my experience helps!

This is short on Specifics but maybe my story will help somewhat understand what all you need to do to start lining up financing for a larger project. Basically.   1. Get a business credit card day one.  2. Get a business checking account.  3. Register for DNB. (Dun and bradstreet) 4. And hope you make big money.

Every business plan is different but maybe it's useful to think of it like some college paper. You want to state how thing are, why they are and how you can improve with all points leading towards your conclusion of getting that sweet sweet money with a bucket load of interest on the other side. I mostly go over how I approached it all and then turned it over to the bank for them to laugh at in the office.

This may come as a shocker but Data collection over time will help you adapt and grow your business. Minimize wasting time on the perfection of things and focus on how things should be vs how maybe you think the industry/others think.

Slowing down the podcast a little amid the chaos surrounding being in business I think is a good call. The ability to be able to be calm and focus is essential to functioning especially in extreme circumstances as well as the ability to pivot. A bit of a self help episode, maybe for me more so than you but good stuff all around. See you in Jan with music!

Bacccccccck. Time to go through what's been in the works and motivations on kicking this thing alive again. Just don't ask about creme brule coffee.

Because of the rona I've decided to put a pause on this whole thing. It seems like bad judgement to talk about building a business when so many are shuttered and probably closing within the next 6 months along with the massive unemployment our industry has. Just a longish update on where we are and what we're doing along with some notes for the future for those that are curious I guess.

That new mic thoughhh! Season three was something I really wasn't sure I wanted to do but during a fairly awful day (or week?) with landlords, pets dying, loans and never ending creme brûlée kcup suggestions I said enough is enough I'll just make an entire season out of this experience.

At a certain point you arrive, but are you finished? There's a whole lot next every single day for someone starting out. However next may be shutting down or if you're lucky next may be expanding. Next may just be something different. Regardless of that constantly having to answer that question can be daunting. It could also even drive you. But for me it's been an internal question and that is not without its struggles. RIP biggie.

Lets me real Direct Trade is a thing and we use it to help sell bags to get across why anyone should buy it. But people can buy it without visiting origin. And sometimes just visiting origin makes you realize how little of an effect you have and why it's important to not overstate or oversell.