Not All Rainbows and Unicorns: The Reality of Business and Flexibility

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today's guest is Chris Pappin and he's founder of Pappin Law. Chris, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to a fun conversation today. Oh, as am I. And for everybody that's watching this live, obviously it's a, the day after Christmas, I'm feeling good feeling like we're, we're ready to get this started and and really end the new year with a bang it's going to be, it's been a great year for us at mission matters and for our guests as well, many of our guests as well. So Chris, just to get us kicked off, we'll start this episode the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So Chris, at Mission Matters, our aim and our goal is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's our mission. Chris, what mission matters to you? So for us, we're focused on kind of a value statement of respect, integrity, and accountability. And this is in representing our clients. This is for my team. This is for the firm as a whole. But I found over the years that if we will align ourselves with others to achieve their goals, it puts us in a place to be successful as well. So we do that. You know, everybody has to have respect. Everybody has to be accountable to the different tasks, but everybody's going to have some integrity. If you can't tell the truth to your professional advisors, who are you going to tell it to? It's great, Chris. Well, great having you on the show. Love bringing mission based individuals on to share, you know, why they do So we can all learn and grow together. So again, great having Jan and I got to start with this title. Like not all rainbows and unicorns. Like when you propose this title, I'm like, come on, man. Really? What, what's the inspiration? Tell me why this is part of you. So the piece of it is, is it kind of feels a little click baity, right? You know, in business rainbows and unicorns are not a thing, but I think the reality for a lot of folks is. Especially with social media, we tend to focus on successes, but success is the result of being knocked in the dirt and getting back up and getting knocked in the dirt and getting back up. And if you think all of those different sports analogies and, you know, pick whoever your favorite is, but I like to run with the, with the Tom Brady Superbowl when they're down to the Falcons. He didn't change who he was, he didn't change what he did. And we're not going to do that as business owners and business advisors. And sometimes it gets mucked up and messy. And that's where the, it's not all rainbows and unicorns comes from, you've got to be willing to put in that hard, difficult, nasty stuff to overcome obstacles, to achieve real successes in life. When did you get into business? Like, how did all that start for you? So for me, I grew up in it. Mom and dad are both entrepreneurs. They happen to teach in their different professions at the local university. But I really don't know any other way. So having two small business owners, mom's kind of in, in mental health, education and counseling, dad was in automotive repair and fast forward, I go to business school, I'm working through my accounting education and there's kind of this distinct moment where I go to the professor and I keep asking, Why do we skip these pieces of the chapters? And he's like, Oh, that's legal work. That's what the attorneys are going to do. So I'm like, this is dumb. Why are we going to two different places to do this? So kind of took those values that mom and dad instilled about taking care of other folks, wove them into kind of my business elements. Got to give my brother some credit in here too. He was a finance and accounting guy. So kind of influenced that value proposition for me. But at the end of the day. We solve problems for small businesses and small business owners. We have lived the transition. My father passed when we were young. We had to implement estate planning tools. We've had to live through that succession plan that is forced upon you when someone passes. When my brother stepped in and took Took over the family business. So in a lot of instances, a lot of the things that I preach, I've lived in a, you know, you, you've heard the different businesses. I've got a law firm. I've got a CPA firm. There's some other things that we do along the way, but kind of that serial entrepreneur has some truth to it. I am a small business owner. I operate in this world all the time, but I also represent folks that do it. So we pull on the experiences. I may do something a hundred times whereas a client may only do it one or two during their lifetime So why not partner together and kind of relate together because we're all living the same journey What was one of

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