Behind Every Great Searcher: A Wife's Journey with Search

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Cliff & Christine Nelson navigated him buying a big but remote business while she was pregnant, then a first-time mom.

Topics in Cliff and Christine’s interview:

• Highs and lows of the 2-year search
• Cliff quitting his job right before Covid
• Becoming parents and closing on a business the same week
• What Cliff liked about the traditional search model
• Acquiring a business with 100 employees
• Being alone in an unfamiliar city as a new mom
• Christine getting very sick during the move
• Feeling like a bad father and a bad CEO at the same time
• Experiencing the J curve
• “I wouldn’t live through it again, but I’m glad we did it.”

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Edited by Anton Rohozov
Produced by Pam Cameron