Blain Mikkonen keeps choosing to spend his time on what he loves... even if it costs him more hours, more risk, and more work than the easier path would have.

Blain Mikkonen is the co-founder of Grain Designs and The Pines. Nearly twenty years in, he's still making the same choice on purpose: doing the right thing, even if it’s harder.

In this episode of Never Been Asked That, we get into:

• Why he chose furniture over a career in architecture
• The choice to work seventy hours doing work that was his, instead of forty for someone else
• Choosing to have the harder conversation and push back a delivery date rather than let quality slide
• Deciding what came next in the shop instead of walking away when the money fell through
• Choosing to step back from the grind so his kids actually know him