Who We Are

I started this company because I felt like shit. I felt horrible. I felt like a failure. In September of 2021 I got fired from two jobs within two months from each other. I felt extremely unemployable and unwanted much so that I hid this news from my parents and would spend my days sleeping in my car in the parking lot at the local library before it opened and then spent the rest of the day applying for jobs.

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Obviously my parents found out. My dad told me he couldn't understand why I was so ungrateful that I lied to my family like that. I had never felt worse.

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Crying, in the only corner of my room that felt like I could be far away from everyone I took a picture of myself and said in six months I'm going to be better. That was December 11th.

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The only company that wanted me was a large engineering company. I worked nights there 6 days a week , 10 hours a day. Exhausted, I would come back home and play games until 7 in the morning.

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I fucking hated my life.

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Nothing happens to those who don't do it themselves. I met someone there, Miguel, he was younger than me, had dropped out of high-school, became addicted to drugs, the whole thing. He told me that he had fucking hated his life too. His parents kicked him out because of his addiction, he couldn't finish school because he had no roof over his head. So he decided to change. He went back to school, he broke his addiction, he got a job. He became a lead in 3 months. He's going to be supervision in 4 years, maybe less. I told him about my dreams. I told him what I wanted to achieve and what I wanted people to think of me. He asked me why I didn't try, nothing was going to happen if I didn't try.

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If that literally wasn't enough of a reason to chase my dreams I was being a sack of shit at 6 am one day watching you-tube videos of other people living their best lives when suddenly at 5 minutes and 58 seconds on this video some asshole walks across my park, with my city skyline in the background. I fucking lost it. Someone my age, is doing everything I want to do. Why can't I do it.

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I spent every day afterwards applying for jobs every night until I got hired again as a full time engineer. I also spent every minute I could developing what is today Strictly Peach LLC.

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It's June 17th, it's been 6 months.

 

This website, and the brand it represents is proof I can. It's proof I am the unstoppable douchebag younger me thought I was before the world tore him down. This space is not just for me to express my love for woodwork, but to help others share their voice too and grow together. Right now we only sell stickers and shift knobs. But we will sell so much more. If this is what can happen in 6 months, then I can't wait for you to join me on the next 6 years.

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-Theo