Today, it’s hard for the nightlife entrepreneur to relish in The O.G.’s growing success without first reflecting deeply on the days that came before it, which occurred over the course of a 20-year career.

“It’s often assumed that my path was a straight line, swiftly moving up the hospitality ladder from one role to the next, which was certainly not the case,” Schott said. “A lot of the past still burns like hell. If the grass is greener now, it was surely scorched earth before.”

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The creative mind behind the operation is Challo Schott.

Plucked straight out of the Miami scene, Challo is a brilliantly eccentric, creative, loner/people lover, cool cat, who’s been an industry veteran “flipping bars” for over a decade in some of the hottest spots in South Florida.

And I say a “veteran” in the warrior sense - he actually has blood on his hands from building the place in less than 40 days.

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Oh, yeah, there are regrets. Missing countless weekends with my daughter. Working incessantly and never learning how to leave work at work.

I’ve never married; I rarely even date because any time not committed to the bars, I commit wholly to my daughter. And there are so many obstacles—you can make bad deals, get screwed, poorly time the concept, place it in the wrong spot … hell, you can have a new construction issue arise, blocking access to your spot and forcing you to go out of business.

The team you hire is everything, and that can be the biggest challenge. If you find passion, nurture it, and if you see strength and honesty and grit, find a way to reward it.

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