Episode 024 - Introducing the Valentine Boys, Christian & Chase

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a special Thinking OTB this week! We have with us two guests who are very close to Steve’s heart: Chase and Christian, his two teenage sons! They’re here to answer some questions about what it was like growing up with two entrepreneur parents, how they think about money management and hard work, and some advice they have for parents from a teenager’s perspective.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>“What’s your Favorite thing about your Dad?”</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the sons of two successful entrepreneurs, it’s very clear that these boys grew up with a very real sense of money management. They both talk about what it’s like to have jobs now as teenagers and what it means to have a strong work ethic instilled in them from their Dad. In Christian’s case, working at a warehouse and putting those lessons to the test brought it all together for him. “That's where my work ethic finally clicked like, hey, if I put my mind to something, I can do it.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making their time mean something is very important to the boys and comes from Steve’s philosophy of problem solving by thinking outside the box. Chase talks about how important it is to him that his time means something. “I also feel like he taught us that the quality of your time is more important than the quantity. I'd rather I'd rather spend one night with my friends and all hang out and have the money to enjoy that and spend all the other days in that two-week period working and making that money rather than only work three days a week and have all this time to spend with my friends, but all we do is sit around and play Xbox.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of this comes around to the relationship between these boys and their father: not a moment is wasted between them, and even among al