Mark Spray built a seven-figure business out of a weighted blanket he sewed at his kitchen table to help his son. Then a competitor moved in, the cash dried up, and what started as a small fire turned into, in Mark's words, a wildfire that nearly took everything down with it.

In this conversation, Mark and James walk through the entire unraveling — a year-long sale process that dragged on while taxes piled up, credit cards maxed out, and the business came down to $50 in the bank before the deal finally closed. Mark talks about the loneliness of being a business owner during a crisis, why no one really asks if you're okay until it's almost too late, and the friendships that got him through it when nothing else could.

They also get into what recovery actually looks like after burnout, why money was never really the point, and how refram ...