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What's your why? So I know at the beginning, whenever we first started talking, you had said,

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it used to be your father that owned the company, right?

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Right.

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And so did you just get handed a company or did you want to be in this business?

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Yeah, back, I worked through high school, college, different breaks. And then I went,

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my dad and I had an agreement right after college, I had to go

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work on my own to see if I could even make it on my own. So I had a professional career there.

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And then I came back in 2005 in the marketing area. And then by 2016, it was just, my dad had

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two partners, the two partners retired. So then it was my dad and myself for five years till 2020

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when he retired at the age of 80. And my why, it's critical. I don't think I had a strong why

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going into it. I know I didn't because I was all over the place. So my why is I'm a person of faith

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who coaches people up and leads from the heart. Leadership is critical in any business, but

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especially as you're growing. To give you some stats from growth, in 2020, we had 110 employees,

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today we have almost 300. So when you have that, you've got to have strong leadership,

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you've got to have process in place and continue to improve with the technology. So my phrase is

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always people, process and technology. And in that order always, and that's how you're going to grow

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and sustain that.