Episode links:Freedom Packaging - https://freedompackaging.com/Tom Hauerstein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hauenstein-2860b44/I’m trying out a new service to decipher the audio into some nice summary and formats which you can view below the sponsor information!Be sure to thank our newest sponsor, Ruvi! Go tohttps://www.goruvi.comand use code packaging to get 15% off your orderIf you listened to the podcast and wanted to connect with Specright to rid the world of waste. Let’s go! www.specright.com/pkg. Prepare your company for the world of EPR laws and be the sustainability hero! Make sure you check them out and join them on their mission to have a world where people are free to make amazing things!Also…If you need contract-to-hire support, or you are looking to hire directly for industry professionals…. Spark Packaging can help. Spark Packaging is the industry partner who provides all your recruitment and staffing needs.  If you are hearing this…and thinking “THAT’S ME”…You need to go to to SparkPackagingINC.com/HIRING , again that is SparkPackagingINC.com/HIRING and answer some of their questions. Once received a Spark team-member will reach out A-S-A-P! Tell them the Packaging Pastor sent ya!This podcast is part of a great network of podcasts about packaging. Go follow Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors along with Packaging Unbox’d hosted by Evelio Mattos.If you want to be a guest on this podcast, or Sustainable Packaging with Cory Connors OR Packaging Unbox’d with Evelio, go to www.encasemedia.com and fill out an application for one or all!Summary/AbstractAdam and Tom are old friends who ran into each other at Label Expo and TLMI. Adam jokes about how he is bad at pronouncing Tom's last name (Howenstein), mentioning his four years of German classes in high school. Tom then joins the podcast and Adam jokes about a Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate skit from Anchorman where they keep going back and forth saying the same thing. Adam and Tom then proceed to talk about Tom's career change, which is to do something with Freedom Packaging. The conversation ends with both of them competing to say their sign-off first, Adam with Stay classy, San Diego and Tom with Take care of San Diego, but mostly stay classy. Tom had been with S One Labels and Packaging for 20 years before he moved to become President of Freedom Packaging. The move was prompted by the opportunity to move to a new company and challenge himself. S One had been an entrepreneurial company, allowing employees to come up with new ideas and then be responsible for executing them. Tom was responsible for starting the Labels and Packaging division, which had been under the LexJet Umbrella. Tom's move to Freedom Packaging was ultimately motivated by the chance to take on a new challenge and grow professionally. John was working for a company that supplied incadesion coating for Indigo presses, when he realized that the industry was different from the rest of the company. He decided to carve out a labels and packaging division in 2017, and ended up managing a team of 14 people in Europe, US, and Canada. His autonomy and empowerment from this opportunity was incredible. He was then approached by Freedom Packaging, whose president had recently resigned. TJ, who runs the rigid side of the business, needed someone knowledgeable for the role, and decided to fly John and his wife out to meet him. After getting to know each other, John decided to take on the role, feeling that he didn't want to have any regrets or what ifs. He was essentially giving up a child for adoption, but was confident in his decision. The speaker recently left a company called S One Labels and Packaging, which focused on digital printing for the Indigo space and other short run projects. The speaker has since joined Freedom Packaging, a converter that specializes in packaging for retail stores, club stores, and food service. They provide packaging for Walmart's Great Value brand, Ama