Best in Business Awards
| Tonight we won the Best in Business Award from the Nashville Business Journal.
It is late and I am about to pass out from exhaustion, but I want to express how humbling it can be sometimes to be recognized. Throughout the night all I could keep thinking about was 2 years ago, working from home, struggling and scratching. I don’t ever want to forget those days. |
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As fun as it is sometimes to reach your dreams (and we are nowhere close) it can be ten times more fun to almost think it is impossible to reach them, but try like hell every day.
Walt Disney said that “it is kind of fun to do the impossible.” He could not be more right. I think we are pretty close to pulling that off.
We have been 10 times luckier and more blessed that I could have ever hoped for. We have worked awfully hard, but we have been so fortunate to have surrounded ourselves with amazing people who care about their jobs and each other. Having our employees there tonight was just awesome!
Our affiliates have made us much of who we are as well. I cannot count the number of affiliates that have stuck with us through the hard times. Times when we could not pay as much as someone else, times when we had problems with this and that. They stuck with us and helped us grow and learn and get better at what we do.
You are more than business partners…you are family to all of us in every sense of the word.
I believe that sometimes the world can be overly cynical to think that a business can rely solely on loyalty to a cause, to a vision, and to each other. But honestly, at times, that is all we had. The ability to believe in each other and ourselves and to bring people on board who felt the same way.
In simple words I can only sum up my feelings by saying:
THANK YOU!