“Today, for me to be the CEO of a company and help drive it and grow it--that's living my dream. To come back home as an adult, and help my father live his dream--that is priceless. Now I get to work with one of my best friends every single day.”⁠ ⁠ Christopher Castillo, 36, was driving home to Orlando one June day in 2017, after a round of sales calls up in Gainesville, when he rang his father. Rick, 59, sounded frustrated. He told his son he was having trouble hearing, and they cut the call short. The next morning, Christopher received a text from his father saying he couldn't hear at all. Christopher called--no answer. His father texted again: "Christopher, you don't understand. I can't talk on the phone. I can't hear anything." Rick had experienced "sudden hearing loss"--that's the term the doctors would use--and the health crisis upended the Castillos' life. Little did Christopher know that he would play a pivotal role in his father's comeback--in both his health and his business, a decades-old solar engineering firm, Castillo Engineering, idling in a $12 billion industry. Link in bio. #Inc5000 (📸: @zackwittman)