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Knock Knock
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What does a pawn shop employee, a property manager, a proprietor of a tile business, and a proud papa have in common? If you're Chase Knock, at some point in your life you were all of these. It's often funny how one option leads to another in life. And although it's one thing to be curious about what's behind the next door, it's a whole different thing to jump off the bridge and pursue the opportunities that lie in the mystery, which sometimes start at a pawn shop.
This week we're talking to Chase Knock, owner of Knock Knock Tile, about his road to entrepreneurship. We'll also talk about family, the importance of a supportive spouse, keeping family first, and the revelations that come when we embrace our struggles, including mental and emotional ones.
You can find more from Chase on Instagram @knockknocktile
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Transcript
What does it mean to live an uncommon life?
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Everyone dreams about living an uncommon life, but how we define that dream is very different for each of us. And for most, it's a lifelong pursuit.
Introducing The Uncommon Life Project
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Welcome to the Uncommon Life Project podcast. We're going to introduce you to people who are living that life or enjoying the journey to get there. We're going to also give you some tools, tricks, and tips for starting or accelerating your own efforts to live an uncommon life.
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A life worth celebrating and savoring.
Meet the Hosts: Brian Dewhurst and Philip Ramsey
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Please welcome your hosts, Brian Dewhurst and Philip Ramsey.
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Hello and welcome everybody to another episode of the Uncommon Life Project, where I'm your host, Phillip
Empowering Individuals: The Best Asset
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Ramsey. And the Aaron Kramer. I gotta love it. Thanks for tuning in. We've got another guest for you today. We've been shooting a lot of these and I absolutely love it. If it's the first time you're tuning in, we're financial advisors who really think that you're your best asset. We want to help you pursue your passion with your money, which is kind of a different way to invest. So I would say we're the advisors to the unadvisable
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The entrepreneurs seem to love us. We hope you do too.
Guest Introduction: Chase Canock's Journey
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All right. Here's the person we have on the show. It's actually Aaron's guy. Yeah. But I will, I'll introduce what I know. His name's Chase Canock and he owns Knock Knock Tile. It's based out of Cedar Falls, Iowa. He's an entrepreneur. You can see why we have him on the show.
Chase's Personal and Professional Life
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Yeah. 29 married to the love of his life. Have two children dominating in his business. Welcome to show, Chase. Let's go. Come on, Chase. Thanks for having me.
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Man, you sound good over there. That's exciting. Love it. Dude, first, where do we start? Was that the best bio you've ever heard in your life or what? Yeah, you make me sound way better than I probably am, but let's go. Give you a little bit more. Nice.
Chase's Childhood Aspirations
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All right, full disclosure, this is your first podcast. I like to say this because you don't sound like this is your first podcast. You're going to sound like a frickin' rockstar. Yeah, we're like 45 seconds in, guys.
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Even better. Dude, how do we, where do we start? Let's start with your, like when you were young, what did you think that you would do? Like when you started, like, what do you want to do when you grow up? How did you answer that question when you were younger? Um, that's, that is a good question. Um, so I originally wanted to be a firefighter.
Influences and Athletic Motivation
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My grandfather was a firefighter and, um, all through high school, I was motivated to do athletics and pretty much anything I could be involved in. But
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Because you're a wrestler, you wrestled. Aaron, you were a main reason why I wrestled in high school. What? Really? This is exciting. It's an honor. Aaron's dad and my dad were good friends in high school and I always remember my dad saying, yeah, Matt's got kids at wrestle. Do you want to give it a shot? I'd be like, hell yeah, let's try it. Hey, you are good too.
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Uh, I was not nearly as good as you still are freaking nature. He really is. He really is. Do you have cauliflower air? Just quickly? Uh, no, I don't. I was blessed with a week here. So maybe I didn't try hard enough. I don't know.
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Funny story there, I tried to give myself cauliflower here with an axe bottle and realized you got to hit yourself pretty hard. You're never going to hit myself that hard. The editing team is just editing. I'm totally kidding. Totally kidding.
Career Plans: Firefighting and Family Influence
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All right. So you wanted to be a firefighter. Yes. And did you say you had somebody in your life that was a firefighter? That's why you kind of wanted to go that way.
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Yeah, my grandpa was. And actually, I wanted to join the military right out of high school, if you would ask me most of the way through high school what I wanted to do. I wanted to join the military, but I then fell in love my junior year of high school. And I was really just wanting to join the military because I didn't know what else I wanted to do.
Chase's Educational and Early Career Path
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A lot of people's stories. Yeah, the other people in my life, my mom and my wife, my current wife, well, my only wife, but she was also my girlfriend in high school. You guys met your junior in high school, right? Yes. What was your name?
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What is her name is Abby. Welcome to the show, Abby, even though you're not on, you are a big part of the show. So, okay. So you met Abby and your whole life changed. We're not doing military anymore. No. So the closer we got to graduation, she, her and my mom both were.
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like, Hey, you might want to choose something that you want to do. And so, um, firefighting was a similar concept, uh, kind of that military, um, structure, if you will. Yeah. Um, so I went to Kirkwood community college in Cedar Rapids and, um, did their night program. All their classes were at night and I worked full time and, um,
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Are you just getting your gen eds at that point? Like you don't have like a certificate of like firemen. Do you? During that program, you get your firefighter one, your EMT and you become certified as a firefighter. So you, that's sweet. After the program's over, you can apply to most, um,
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most jurisdictions, most firefighting cities, most cities that have fire departments, so. Okay. What did Abby do? Because we got to talk about her now because she's the picture. Yeah. What she did after high school. So she went to Iowa state, uh, go Hawks. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I like that. Um, so she went to Iowa state and she went there
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I can't remember what she originally wanted to do, but she got her psychology degree. And then after Iowa State, she wanted to become an occupational therapist. So we, I don't know if I'm getting ahead of myself. No, you're doing good.
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She got accepted into Creighton on Omaha and the Harvard of the Midwest, as they say. Yeah, well, you pay for it.
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Um, so anyways, uh, we both moved out to Omaha right after we got married and, uh, she went to Creighton and I started working out there. So as a firefighter fighter? No, no. Come on, Chase. What'd you do? Uh, so this is where it gets fun. Um, we get married.
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We get married and we're going to move out to Omaha. I didn't know two people out there, but somebody that I was close to knew of two people. One of them ran a pawn shop out in
Career Transition and Real Estate Experience
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Fremont, Nebraska. I was like, I don't have a job. I have
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few skills and I like to work hard so what do you got for me and I was I was selling guns out of a pawn shop for about oh that was probably a month and then
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As I was doing that, the other guy that I had originally contacted, and when I was working at the pawn shop, I was getting paid like $1,125, $1,150 an hour, which was okay, but... Sounds about right out of college. Yeah, not married. Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. I like it. We did. That's exactly right. So this other guy called me and it was for a real estate investment company. They had a bunch of rental properties throughout Omaha, Nebraska.
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And he said, well, you can pick up trash and you can help fix things around the rental houses. And I was like, yeah, that sounds fun. Like I like to do construction stuff. I didn't have a ton of skills, but I thought I would learn and I like to work hard. So that work hard kind of continues throughout my process. There's a theme there. There's a theme there with Chase. Okay. That's good.
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So he said, well, we can offer you like 12 bucks an hour. I was like, yeah, let's do it. So Hank from the pawn shop, listen, I'm done. Hank, I'm going to go
Pandemic Reflections and Career Change
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to real estate or like, so you quit the pawn shop. I'm assuming. Yes, I did. Okay. Got a better offer. Exactly right. Yeah. And it wasn't like at that point in time, I was like, maybe it's better. Maybe it's not. I mean, it's 50 cents more an hour, but
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I really don't know. It seems more fun than sitting out a pawn shop all day. Okay. Yeah. And your wife is all aboard as long as she's in, in Omaha, going to Creighton. She's fine. Yeah. Do what you got to do over there. All right. Yeah. So, um,
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I started doing that and she's going to school and I enjoyed working for that company. And I became a full-time maintenance technician after just being hired to pick up trash. Eventually I worked for them for a year and a half and continued working for them. But about a year and a half in, we told them that we were going to move back to Iowa and they offered me an opportunity to be a production manager out in central Iowa to manage all the flip houses that they buy.
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Wow. Um, pretty big organization over there. They're running. Yeah. Yeah. They did a lot of work. It was a great company. Really good people, um, supported a lot of the things that, that we support as well. Um, so, um, and
Founding Knock Tile: Passion Over Salary
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as we were getting ready to move back home. I said, of course, yes, sounds great. Let's do it. And so we moved back home. That was 20, 2016 that we moved back to central Iowa. Wait, so Abby, at this point, has a degree? She did. She graduated. No, not yet. She had one year left at Creighton, but it was all field work.
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Okay. Gotcha. Yes. And how long have you been married at this point? Year and a half, two years, maybe a year now. All right. Good. I'm right here, man. I'm right here with your chase. Okay. So you go to Iowa back to Cedar fall or Cedar Rapids. Cedar falls. Yep. Oh, Cedar falls even. Okay. Yeah. We bought a house in Cedar falls and it was a fixer upper. And at that point in time, I had many more skills than, uh, than I did a year and a half previously. So, um,
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we started fixing up the house and I was working as a production manager for that company and it was really good. I was making good money and continued getting raises and bonuses and that was great. So that was going really well. And then we go ahead. Oh, I was just saying.
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Does this lead into like you like starting knock knock? It does. Okay. It's better. It better. Cause it's your story here. It's cause if it's not, I'm excited to see where it's taking us. Um, so then in, I've been working for that company out here, same company for, uh, I think it was like six and a half years. And there were a lot of changes as far as my manager, my manager had changed.
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three times within like a year and a half or two years, which was a lot. And so I was training new managers as they came on. Does it feel great? Doesn't feel great. Well, when I, when I eventually quit that job, I was the longest
Mental Health and Fatherhood Challenges
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tenured employee for that company. So that's something. Yeah. Yeah. So when I,
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Well, now we're in the middle of the pandemic. Oh, we're 2020 here folks. 2020 moving quickly. Um, so middle of the pandemic, my wife quit her job. She got a new job.
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We were both struggling with raising a child. Whoa, we didn't talk about the baby. Yeah, we passed right over that. Yeah, we did. When was the first one back there? Pull back there. Yeah. So she got a degree from Creighton Harvard of the Midwest. I have to say that because my business partner that's not on the podcast, Brian Dewhurst graduated from Creighton. And every time somebody says Creighton, he's like, Oh, the hard for from the Midwest. I feel like I have to say that for the record. Okay. So she graduates.
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Then she gets a job in the Cedar Falls area. Uh, yeah, at that time she was working in the Cedar Falls area. Yup. Okay. So when, when does she get pregnant and have the first one?
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So she got pregnant in the fall of 2018. And then we had our first child, April 29th, 2019. Okay. Okay. And then, and then, then the pandemic hit. Correct. 2020. You have one child. Correct. And then your wife is still gainfully employed. She is. Okay. All right. All right. I think we caught up. Got to cover a basis, Chase, you know, we're a girl. Oh boy. His name is. Okay.
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Mateo. There you go. Good name. Yep. So she was working for a healthcare company and during the pandemic, um, healthcare workers didn't have the best work environment. So, um, she was kind of struggling and well, I was doing what I was doing and it was, it was fine. It was paying the bills, but it wasn't fulfilling me like I wished it would have.
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So she quit her job and I was still working and then she got a new job working from home and around that same time I said this isn't this isn't what I want to do I want to
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want to start my own business and I think I can do it. So conversation go. Yeah. She was probably all for it. Like, let's go chase. Let's go. Yeah. We're 27 years old. Why not try it? Exactly. 28 or whatever you are at that time. No, you're, you're right. Right there at 27. Yep.
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You're young. I will say this, like it does seem really interesting that as we help, like traditional advisors help people, they always talk about risk tolerance and they're talking about your money. And everybody in their advice will tell you, well, the younger you are, the more risk you should put on your, like you should put on, right?
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Yet, when they give you or you ask them for advice about starting a business, they never take that advice. Like, oh no, don't do it. It's too scary. And you should be like, well, I'm young. I'm supposed to take a lot of risk here. Not a lot of people do that. It's very interesting. Not like, it sounds like you did it anyway, but I just think it's a really interesting kind of caveat and pivot.
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Just to tell people like, Hey, when you're young, this might be the time to try something like starting your own business or this, that, or the other, because you have time to then reset if it doesn't go according to plan. Yes. Okay. Sorry to Kaybo that,
Entrepreneurship: Financials and Personal Growth
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but no, you're good. And it's scary. Like at that time, it was, it was scary. The one thing that I did have going for me, and I kind of passed over this, but, um, two years previously, I was doing tile work. I really loved tile work. When I was doing maintenance work, I had a guide.
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tell me that tile work was something that a lot of contractors don't know how to do and don't want to do. Shit, this is fun. Let's give it a shot. And I like doing things that other people don't enjoy doing. And I also learned that tile setters can make good money if they're halfway decent at what they do.
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At what point were you working for that company out in Omaha or Nebraska and started realizing how much money you were actually making them? Did you ever have that thought or were just like, listen, I think I can do this and I think I can make a living out of this? Right away.
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Okay. Right away. I moved out to Iowa. Yes. Because you're gaining skills at a rapid pace. Yeah, I was managing a few million dollars in real estate, along with a team that I had in Omaha, but I was boots on the ground, saw all the numbers, helped buy all the properties, helped put budgets together, hired the contractors. So yeah, I saw all that happening. And
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I mean, we did pretty good. Yeah. Knock, knock, tile. And that's where, that's when knock, knock, tile was born, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. And honestly guys, when I, when I started knock knock tile, I was making still am I'm making less money than, than I was at that other company, but it really wasn't a money decision. It was more or less doing something that I really wanted to do. I always wanted to be a business owner and I feel fulfilled at the end of the day. I'm exhausted because I have two children and
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You know, children suck the energy right out of you. Suck it right out of you. But I feel good about what I did in a day's time. Although this is what I love. I love to ask our business owner clients, which have a lot, like how much you make a year? And they're always like, man, cause it's like, how much do you actually make? Cause you have a business that pays for your, I don't know, your internet and your car and stuff like that. And so it's really kind of hard as an entrepreneur to really dial in how much you get paid.
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Yeah, I hear what you're saying. You're probably taking in less income-wise to your personal family, but the benefits that you have outside yourself and the companies taking on, that is a benefit as well. Absolutely. Again, at the end of the day, who cares about the money? You're actually feeling fulfilled and you're passionate and you get to help people.
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and do what you love to do. Like, yeah, amazing. Like keep doing that. Our listeners here, like to help them jump off the edge, if that's what they're thinking they're going to do. Chase, if you feel comfortable, like you're two years in, I mean, what are you making? Like if you're okay sharing that? Yeah, no, you're good. So what the company is making and what Chase is making is different. Right. So let's talk about company. Yeah. So we're set up as an LLC, but, um, structured as an S corporate tax, as an S corporate.
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Um, so the company brings in last year, I did have an employee and we brought in or sold around $120,000 in projects. Um, and we netted around a hundred thousand or just over a hundred thousand. That's great, man. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. But me, myself, I pay myself about, I think it's like 42, $43,000
Business Management Insights
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a year. So, um,
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Right. I try to reinvest in the business. Right. And it does help to have your wife working as well. Right. There's a buffer there and I'm sure that you'd probably take benefits from her. So like, this is something I think probably to go into a little bit when people like start going down uncommon path, one, it's kind of scary.
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Like when you were first thinking about starting up your business, the unknown that you had no idea about were overwhelming at times. But if you take it one step at a time, all of a sudden you have this business. For example, that little pivot that you said, I have an LLC, but I'm taxed as an S Corp. That sounds super complicated for somebody who's not been in the business.
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What that means is you have an lawyer drop your LLC paperwork, and then you sign your name in one document, and now your tax is an S-Corp. Ta-da! All done. So it isn't that complicated, although the unknown when you first jump in is super scary. But then, now that you're in it, having the insight and having the flexibility that your wife works,
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helps insulate you in the cashflow of your business because we know that businesses always fail or normally fail because of cashflow issues. So you have that insulated, right? But you also have the thing of benefits. And I think that's another thing working with a lot of entrepreneurs at the beginning of this whole journey. That's a big hang up, brother. I don't know what to do about benefits. So you already had that answered.
Impact of Fatherhood on Business Decisions
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So I love it.
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Yeah. Dominating at Knock Knock Tile. And you have one employee, which is a big deal. Did you employ them or did you like 1099 them? How did that work? I did employ them. Yep. And that was more expensive than I originally planned on it being. It really is. I don't have an employee right now. He left me earlier this year, which is fine. It was right around the same time that gas was like over $4 a gallon and he was traveling to and from work every day, about an hour each way. So,
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it turned out to be too much for him. Right. Right. But it is as business owners trying to employ somebody, it always gets more expensive than you think. It is. Yeah. That is true. That is true. Okay. I wanted to hit on something. Yeah. Oh, when I first started my business, I talked to lots of people
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about like what it took to start an LLC, like accounting and all that stuff. I don't know any of that stuff and I don't want to. So what I found was helpful when I was starting my business was be good at what you want to be good at. Be good at setting tile, selling jobs, talking to customers, like be really great at that and crush that and pay somebody $2 a month to do your books. Yes.
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If it's $2, normally it's a little bit more than $2 a month. Did I say $2? I meant $200. Yeah. Even if it's more than $200, I think there's wisdom in that. Like just focus on what you're good at, focus on what you like to do.
The Role of Vulnerability in Growth
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And if you have the flexibility and cashflow to pay somebody, do it and do it earlier than later so you don't get burnt out. I love that advice. That's exactly right. Such good advice. So like I know we were talking on the phone and you had mentioned that your boy, having your boy made a big impact on you wanting to start. It did.
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Yeah. So, um, really wanted to be a father. So ready to be a father. Um, or at least I thought so. Parenthood's been the toughest thing that I've ever done in my whole life. Yeah. 50 times harder than. Appreciate that honesty. Appreciate that honesty. Yeah. I know Aaron has a child. I'm not sure about you, Phillip. I have three babies. You know it then. My wife knows it more than I do probably. Um,
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But yeah, when my son was first born, I had a really hard time with connecting with him. I was looking for this like magical moment in this connection with him. And I never really felt that. And I knew that he was my son and I loved him to death, still love him to death. But I really struggled with that mentally for a little while in not being able to,
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I don't know what I was looking for guys. I really don't. Um, but I thought that I didn't feel it and that created a lot of angst and somewhat anger and shame inside of me. And that was hard to deal with. Yeah. So how did you deal with that? How'd you process through that? Like tell me about how Abby played a part of that. Eventually a pandemic hit it boiled over. I had anxiety attacks and
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They went through a huge depression. So it went downhill before it ever went up. Usually does. But so that was right in the middle of the pandemic. And I was staying home with him and working and doing my best. That's when I was with my old company, but doing my best to take care of him. And I remember being like, I don't enjoy this. This isn't fun.
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it's this, this is really hard. And again, that was right in the midst of a pandemic. And I'm talking about being a father, like that was really hard, emotionally and mentally. So I was struggling with a thing that my counselor called intrusive thoughts. And they were thoughts that came in and I would react to them and they would either give me panic attacks or
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I would just shut down or I would just cry. It was a really tough thing for me to deal with. But anyways, my wife saw that I was going through that and she was extremely supportive. And the best thing from the outside and getting through a lot of this is
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keeping it in was making it worse. So the more I talked about it, the more, the more honesty, the more you open up to other people. Yes. Yeah. Keep going. I love it. Like it's such a simple concept, but it's really hard to do, especially when you feel a lot of that stuff.
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You know, what's interesting, what I find is when I get vulnerable and transparent with people one, I'm super scared to do it by the way. And my biggest thing I think is they're not going to accept me for who I am once I say it, but it's funny. It's the exact opposite that actually happens. It absolutely is. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. Like the more close people feel more honest that they know that you will be with them.
Support and Influence of Chase's Wife
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And then the more like accepting they are and they become, and I find that they get more transparent and vulnerable after.
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Yes. Fascinating. So in the midst of all this, I was going to counseling once a week and I did that for about five months and I thought it was getting a little bit better, but I was still struggling. And then I found a new counselor and this was 2021, found a new counselor and I asked her,
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course explained what I was going through, I asked her to challenge me, like really challenge me was what I was dealing with. And she did. And about a year and a half later, I ended counseling. And of course, I still struggle with a lot of the things that I was dealing with when it was hard. But
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I now have the tools to get through it on my own and I can still go through my daily life and not be afraid of what might come up in my mind. That's awesome. That's so cool, Chase. Thanks for sharing. How old was your kid when you were having a lot of those feelings?
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Yes, like 16 months, 17 months, 18 months. I can kind of relate a little bit like just as a dad, you know, you get this dadhood thing. I didn't have it to the extent to you, so I don't want to like say that, but it's just, when you're an infant, you feel so like useless as a dad. Yeah.
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You're like, what am I supposed to do? My wife's breastfeeding, taking care of her. They do everything, man. I just feel useless. I'm like, what am I supposed to be doing? I know I threw myself into work, but I totally feel you, man. That's a hard thing to feel, especially as a dad because you do feel all this responsibility.
00:26:23
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And we don't know how to express that relationship, but has that gotten a lot better than with your son? It has. Absolutely. And it had nothing to do with my son. It was everything to do with me internally. And I know that's not how you meant that, but it was everything to do with me internally.
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And of course I worked on myself and guess what's improved since I started going to therapy and working on all that. I bet your marriage, your marriage is the best it's ever been. Yeah.
Balancing Family and Business
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Right. Why do you, why do you say that? Because we're honest with each other. Right.
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And it has allowed me to find a part of myself that I didn't know I had. And now I'm able to show it to her and be honest with her. Right. Let me ask you this because every time in the show we always give
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our guests kind of a time, a platform, just to talk about their wife specifically and how much they've meant to you in your business, in your life. And obviously you mentioned it a couple of times, but my number one, the goal is just to get you laid after she listened to this. Totally kidding. But like what sacrifices and what things has Abby had to do and where would you be without her today? I mean, she holds our house together.
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And she would tell you that that's not a secret. Everybody in our family knows that she holds a lot of things together. She's an incredible human being. But when when I I'm extremely detailed, I'm an extremely detailed person. And that is hard for me to make decisions. So when I have something in front of me, I'll just bounce back and forth and never make a decision. My wife will just snap her fingers and be like, do that.
00:28:14
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And it gives me all the confidence in the world to, to do it once she somewhat gives me that approval, but more or less that I just have her in my corner. I'm sure you guys know how that feels when you have the person that you love in your corner backing you a hundred percent. Dude, let's conquer the world. That's how I feel. Let's do it. Right. Yeah, that's awesome. So how's business today?
00:28:38
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Oh, that's really good. I'm working specifically on my own. I'm kind of in a groove where I know how long projects are going to take. I know what to bid them out at. I have a lot of work. Work keeps continuously coming in. Good. So yeah, it's good. Where do you think the business, like Knock Knock Tiles is going to go?
00:29:00
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That's a good question. So like we talked about earlier, having and owning your own business, especially with a small family, allows me the opportunity to take care of my children and manage all of that. My business comes second to my family for sure.
00:29:17
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Um, but like today I worked for four hours and I had to come home and take care of my kids because they were sick and do a podcast baby. Yeah, exactly. So as far as like growing the company and adding a bunch of employees and adding a shop or whatever that might look like, I don't see that coming right now. That's not really where I want to be.
00:29:40
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uh, with a small family, um, definitely down the line. I could see something like that coming. I respect that a lot. Cause like so many guys like just forget about their family and you know, they build a business. They look back and they're like, Oh, yeah, my kids are graduating. And why won't my kids talk to me? It's easy to do. Yeah, it really is. That's awesome. Like you're like way ahead of the game on that. So how do our listeners find more about you and knock, knock tile and get ahold of you if they wanted to?
00:30:10
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So Facebook, knock, knock, tile, construction, LLC, and then I'm on Instagram and knock, knock, tile. Love it. Go look at his work. It's beautiful. I know I was telling my, so I told chase this, but I did tile in my bathroom. Oh, yeah. And I'm never doing it again.
00:30:30
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Uh, yeah. And my wife's like, we should do the other bathroom. Now you know how to do this. Like, Nope. She's like, well, can we hire? I was like, when were the money? Yep. I was like, I know a guy. Yeah. I was like, got a guy going to pay him to come down here.
00:30:44
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I appreciate that. Chase, dude, I can't thank you enough for being on our show. And I appreciate just your vulnerability. Like this whole mental health thing, I think is so prevalent right now. And I think what you said of just, you've got to talk about it. You've got to have a community just to open up and be honest and transparent with people.
00:31:05
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is life-giving. And so I can't thank you enough for just being open with us and kind of telling us where you're at. And I'm super grateful your business is off to a great start. I'm excited to get you back on the show in five years and you're going to be like, I have 45 people working for us. You're the guy.
00:31:21
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And it all started from a pawn shop in Nebraska. You know, that's what I'm saying. Exactly. But thank you so much just for your time and expertise. And yeah, definitely if this kind of intrigues you, definitely I would encourage everybody to reach out and just kind of give him a word to say thanks and encourage him along the way. But you've been listening to the UncomiLife project. I've been your host, Philip Ramsey. The Aaron Kramer. Thanks for tuning in. Until next time, go be uncommon and go jump off the bridge for your UncomiCov. Let's go.
00:31:49
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