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So, Hunter, tell me about your vision.

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My business, my vision from a business standpoint, man, is, you know, we're trying to become,

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it's kind of a funny quote, but we're trying to become the Amazon of the industry.

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So right now we've added licensing courses to our website so you can get on and apply

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and take the courses to get your licensing throughout the state of Texas to work security,

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whether it's unarmed, armed, bodyguard protection.

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We have also offered, or are offering LTC courses, so License to Carry courses for the

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public, Firearm Safety Training courses, and then also we have an online store.

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So you can get on the store and, you know, purchase firearms, equipment, accessories,

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apparel, everything you need for the job.

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And then all that was live over the last 30 days.

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We're getting all the kinks and everything worked out, and then our plan and our vision

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is to essentially duplicate that in every state that has the online options available.

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So that way, eventually, you can go to our website and get your license in any state

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in the country, purchase the equipment and materials you need, all from that one location.

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That is awesome.

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Are you thinking about, and this is just a question, is it like a franchise model you're

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trying to establish or?

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Possibly.

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So originally, it's more of e-commerce, just, you know, hey, we have the licensing available

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in these states and that does entail obtaining the business license in those states, obviously,

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before we're able to do that.

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We have a few markets in the country that we already kind of operate in off of some

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large events.

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Like we work with Formula One in not only Austin, but Miami, Mexico City, Vegas, Canada.

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So Vegas and Florida, Nevada and Florida would essentially be the first two states we'd go

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after in regards to the franchising side of it.

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But that's not the end goal, really.

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That's not an end all, be all if we don't franchise.

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The e-commerce side, I think alone, is kind of what the main goal is and then we'll just

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kind of take it from there.

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Yeah, thank you for sharing that.

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So where did this vision come from, Hunter?

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Honestly, it came from a little bit of COVID and mainly just another kind of somewhat shutdown

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of our business.

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So COVID, obviously, we were like most businesses, we were shut down six to seven months with

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no income coming in and we kind of had to repivot, refocus on kind of what we were doing.

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That's when we started the construction site security side of our business.

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That was the only thing really going on in Texas at the moment was still construction

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in some phases.

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So we were very fortunate that we locked on with a client kind of out of nowhere that

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put us immediately into five neighborhoods.

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Over time, those five turned into 10, 10 turned into 15, 15 turned into more builders and

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they kind of spawned where we were over the last few years.

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Two years ago though, when a lot of people say the recession was kind of going to home

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buying kind of stopped.

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And we experienced that towards the end of the year in 2022.

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And basically all of our, the bulk of our business at that time was construction and

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events.

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And when construction kind of just stopped over a phone call and kind of put on pause

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for another six to seven months, we got a phone call in September.

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We said, Hey, we'll call you guys back in the spring.

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We kind of had to repivot again and kind of refocus on what we could do.

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And the licensing portion kind of came up and the opportunity there.

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So myself, a handful of our managers, we became licensed instructors, started going down that

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path of getting that option available on our website.

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We then said, Hey, why don't we also open an online store and where you can get all

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these things and purchase everything you need for these courses.

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And that's kind of how it spawned and kind of went from there.

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And we've been working on that pretty heavily.

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I'd say since, I mean, man, since May of last year, so a little over a year, that's all

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been going into a major effect.

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And just now, and like I said, I believe it was earlier this week, we just finally got

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the licensing courses 100% up and running how we want them to for Texas anyway.

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And now we can start really marketing and blasting the one stop shop aspect of it.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah, it does.

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So Hunter, what would you say is the why of what you do?

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My why is 100% my kids, man.

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I have two sons, I have an eight year old and a seven month old, soon to be eight month

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old.

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And they're my why, man.

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I was raised around my mom and stepdad who opened up their own businesses.

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So I saw that kind of life and I wanted that and that kind of lifestyle.

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And it took me a while to get there and then after my first son was born, we already started

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the business.

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We started a valet company first in 2012 and that's still going strong.

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They're killing it.

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But my business partner oversees the valet, I oversee the security.

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Well, when my son was born, that was the same year we opened the security company in 2016.

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And yeah, he's my why, man.

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I push really hard to make sure that I can make myself available as a dad, first and

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foremost, and then secondly, to provide a life that I would want him to have.

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And me being able to take him to school or have lunch with him, I feel like I'm winning.

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And as long as I continue to do that and continue to be available and make time for my kids,

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that's the why I work so hard is to be able to do all that.

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Thank you for being here today.

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and attention.

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yourself.