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Building a Brand: Maintaining a strict and unwavering code of ethics with employees, clients and community. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I am Rashwan McDonald, the host
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  Speaker 1: your American dream. Just keep listening, my guests. There is
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  Speaker 1: a season hr professional with over twenty five years of
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  Speaker 1: corporate experience, but he has transitioned from corporate to entrepreneurship.
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  Speaker 1: This company, in the Guardian, is a private security corporation
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  Speaker 1: with three separate division armed and unarmed uniformed security officers,
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  Speaker 1: personal protection and private investigation. He's serving the States Georgia, Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: and North Carolina. Please work with the Money Making Conversation
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass Travis t Wade.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Travis, I'm good, pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show to talk about
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  Speaker 1: your company in The Guardian. Like I said, I've been
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  Speaker 1: in a position I owned a couple of businesses and
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  Speaker 1: one was a comedy club, and I use the term.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm not being a unprofessional. I say this
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  Speaker 1: rent a cop. And that's when we said, when you're
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  Speaker 1: a rent a cop man, come by and make sure
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  Speaker 1: our place is protected. And now those are the type
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  Speaker 1: of people that you provide when I say the term
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  Speaker 1: rent a cop.
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  Speaker 3: So no, we don't I don't find an offensive or
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  Speaker 3: we don't use the word rent a cop. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when you think of a rent a cop, you think
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  Speaker 3: of an off duty officer. You think of someone who
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  Speaker 3: has that legal ability to either arrest or detain. You know,
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  Speaker 3: for us is more of our first thing is about safety,
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  Speaker 3: and it's more of working with our clients to build
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  Speaker 3: a tailor made uh tailor made option for them in
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  Speaker 3: their security, in their security efforts. You know, it's more
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  Speaker 3: of a partnership of us working with them to make
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  Speaker 3: sure all of their security needs are met.
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  Speaker 2: Now we've used the word partnership.
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  Speaker 1: That means that I can set the standards of the
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  Speaker 1: type of security I want based on the attending event.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, absolutely, you know, prior to us the assignment or
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  Speaker 3: the start date of the services we work with. We
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  Speaker 3: sit down with our client and we talk to them
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  Speaker 3: and we tailor make we customize, you know, their security needs.
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  Speaker 3: If they are a medical facility, that works for for example,
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  Speaker 3: we have a medical facility for rehabilitations for children, so
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  Speaker 3: we use a guard that is more customer friendly, more
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  Speaker 3: more personable, has a more of an open and polite
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  Speaker 3: personality than more of the physical presence. Right for some
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  Speaker 3: of the for some of the locations that we may
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  Speaker 3: have like an hotel or warehouse, you know, we may
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  Speaker 3: use more of a physical preference there. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a terrible approach. We sit down with our clients.
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  Speaker 3: We sit there, we listen to all their needs, all
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  Speaker 3: their wants, all their concerns, and we work together again
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  Speaker 3: like a partners would work together.
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  Speaker 1: What Travis, you got that great voice man that comes
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  Speaker 1: from that twenty five years of HR experience.
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  Speaker 3: Hope it does. You have to have the calming voice
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  Speaker 3: to speak to some of these employees. Some make it violent.
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  Speaker 3: You got to be able to calm them down. You
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  Speaker 3: got to be able to talk to them and meet
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  Speaker 3: them where they are. So that's something that you learn
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  Speaker 3: with over twenty five years dealing with employees crazy non crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's fun though. I love it. I love
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  Speaker 3: what I did.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is really interesting because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: whenever I hate the word, you know, private investigation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I take I think TV TV, you know, because because
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  Speaker 1: that's all I because I've never actually actually not I've
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  Speaker 1: never called upon anybody to from a private investigator. Stay
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  Speaker 1: break down, you know, the non TV version of what
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  Speaker 1: private investigation really is all about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's not all the you know, we're not
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  Speaker 3: looking into who may murder the neighbor or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: We're not looking and stuff like that. Most of the time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in the corporate world, it's more so looking inside,
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  Speaker 3: coming into their corporate environment and finding out certain things. Right,
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  Speaker 3: they can have maybe some inventory missing, right, they can
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  Speaker 3: maybe have some some some uh uh uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some money missing from a till or something, or from
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  Speaker 3: somebody's money box or something like that. It's for us
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  Speaker 3: investigating that also some investigations as far as you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe someone who was assaulted by a of employee or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. We go in and it's just information
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  Speaker 3: that can be provided. If there's any lawsuits or any
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  Speaker 3: insurance claims or anything like that, we provide in that
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  Speaker 3: information that we found an investigation.
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  Speaker 1: So I won't call you if I thank my girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: cheating no meat and you follow around.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't do that, you know, because you would call
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  Speaker 3: that MTV show a cheater. They'll do that. But for
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  Speaker 3: for for us, you know, we concentrate on the corporate
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  Speaker 3: environment and also small businesses. Now we don't leave our
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  Speaker 3: small business partners you know, out of the fold there.
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  Speaker 3: But it's more of a corporate environment. And when we
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  Speaker 3: talk about private.
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  Speaker 1: Business, let's let's break that down a little bit, because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think about that private investigation internally. That gets
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  Speaker 1: in other words, if someone steals money, instead of going
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  Speaker 1: in and sitting down and pulling fingers, they can bring
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  Speaker 1: your company in to evaluate basically become an arbitrator by
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  Speaker 1: gathering all the information.
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  Speaker 2: It was about that pathway.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you got investigating and you know, talking
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  Speaker 3: to all the witnesses talking to anyone involved, interviewing them,
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  Speaker 3: gathering statements, gathering evidence where they were at that time,
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  Speaker 3: whether they see what happened before the incident, what happened
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  Speaker 3: after the incident, what happened during the incident, Gathering all
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  Speaker 3: that information. Gathering uh, you know, the information about the
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  Speaker 3: particular employees, about you know, their life cycle of employment
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  Speaker 3: with the company. You know, look into any disciplinary actions
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  Speaker 3: they may have in the past. You know, maybe there
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  Speaker 3: was some you know, if it's a retail company, maybe
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  Speaker 3: they had you know, a multiple of shortages come up
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  Speaker 3: when they're when they reconcile their money during the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, which happens in the retail industry, you know,
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  Speaker 3: looking at all that and factoring all that and then
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  Speaker 3: bringing out we don't we don't come and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this person is guilty. We don't come and see this
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  Speaker 3: person's not guilty. We provide them with all the evidence
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  Speaker 3: that we have, all the things that we found, and
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  Speaker 3: then you know, they can make that decision or again,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if there's any type of lawsuit or anything,
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  Speaker 3: or they need to take it to their board treating decisions.
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  Speaker 3: That's the information they used.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. I'm speaking with Travis t. Wade.
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  Speaker 1: His company, The Guardian is a private security corporation with
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  Speaker 1: three separate divisions, armed and unarmed uniform security officers personal protection.
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  Speaker 1: And he was just describing the private investigation is not
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  Speaker 1: the version you see on TV, but corporate tied to
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  Speaker 1: small business where they go in and probably gather information
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  Speaker 1: so the case can be uh with the person who
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  Speaker 1: is being accused or the company who's doing the accusing
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  Speaker 1: as all the facts from an independent source.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, correct.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I've managed Steve Harvey in my lifetime. I'm also
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  Speaker 1: currently in relationships with a.
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  Speaker 2: With a managed relationship with Steven A. Smith.
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  Speaker 1: And so I've seen personal security. I've seen personal protection
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes we went to a certain locations where we
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  Speaker 1: had to up to annie because of the crowd size.
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  Speaker 1: How did you get into personal protection business? And describe
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  Speaker 1: your version of it?
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  Speaker 4: Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
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  Speaker 4: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making
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  Speaker 4: Conversations Masterclass, hosted by Rashaan McDonald.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll give you a little backstory our founder. Our founder,
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  Speaker 3: mister Benjamin T. Backer was a retired NYPV officer in
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  Speaker 3: New York City when he retired from being n YPV officer,
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  Speaker 3: he went into private protection and his first client was
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  Speaker 3: a music industry record label giant, which was def Jam Records,
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  Speaker 3: and he went into private protection and protecting one of
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  Speaker 3: their biggest artists, which is DMX. This is back in
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  Speaker 3: the mid nineties late nineties, So that's where that started
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  Speaker 3: with our company and when he when he went on
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  Speaker 3: and created Guardian Security Management, of course that fraction of
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  Speaker 3: the business had to be included into that. Included with
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  Speaker 3: the armed and unarmed, it was also the private protection
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  Speaker 3: because he definitely had experience there. So the private protection
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  Speaker 3: comes from that and it's and it's it's all what
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  Speaker 3: it says, entails, you know, private. It can be anywhere
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  Speaker 3: from executives of CEOs of companies to celebrities right two
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  Speaker 3: individuals who just want a different level of security when
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  Speaker 3: they go out. It can be a normal civilian, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if they want a certain level of protection, security to
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  Speaker 3: feel safe, right to feel comfort someone. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: not about making sure that one is harming you. It's
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  Speaker 3: also about you know, you feeling that you have someone
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  Speaker 3: with you that can that you can talk to. We
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  Speaker 3: bring a human aspect to it. A customer service aspect
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  Speaker 3: to it, someone that you can relate to, someone that
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  Speaker 3: you can enjoy behaving with. But it's also one point
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  Speaker 3: protecting your well being, protecting your intellectual property, and making
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  Speaker 3: sure that you reach your destination and home in a
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  Speaker 3: safe and blessed condition.
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  Speaker 1: I would tell you this when I think about the
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  Speaker 1: growth of social media influencers, the growth of hedge funds
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  Speaker 1: and CEOs and all that that portion of the business
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  Speaker 1: probably has grown over the years.
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  Speaker 3: Correct it has, it has, and unfortunately it's grown with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of these mass shootings, a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: really fanatic fans out here that take that part of
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  Speaker 3: them being fan to the extreme right really excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: really taking that to an extreme to where a celebrity
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  Speaker 3: or someone of interest or someone popular will need that
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  Speaker 3: type of protection because you know, a fan is just
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  Speaker 3: too involved with them to engross into what they're doing,
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  Speaker 3: to where they they feel that they're entitled to be
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  Speaker 3: in their personal space. They feel that they're entitled to to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, be with them day and night and do
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing. When you know, listen, celebrities are just
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  Speaker 3: like us, right, They're normal people. They need their privacy,
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  Speaker 3: they need their personal space and when a fan or
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  Speaker 3: someone is violating that, that's when you know the personal
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  Speaker 3: protection comes.
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  Speaker 1: In a classic example like the head coach of the
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  Speaker 1: Detroit Lions telling his home because his daughters friend posted
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  Speaker 1: their address, I believe on social media and.
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  Speaker 3: Then yeah, absolutely, I read about.
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  Speaker 2: That and so that that that alarm.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you don't want to walk out out
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  Speaker 1: your front door with a stranger standing on your lawn
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  Speaker 1: or that that's an uncomfort that people are uncomfortable. Uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: state a lot of people understand. But what a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people understand is that a lot of ordinary people
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  Speaker 1: out there making a lot of money, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people out there are influencers and just because you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but when they get in the wrong area, when that's
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong area, meaning where that fan base is
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  Speaker 1: aware of who they are, then it became security is need.
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  Speaker 1: How does one go through the process that your company
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  Speaker 1: evaluating this is a client we should bring on board
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  Speaker 1: for personal protection travel.
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  Speaker 3: So of course it starts with the conversation, right, and
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  Speaker 3: it starts with a conversation with the potential client, just
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that it's a match, right, and it's
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  Speaker 3: with anything right it's it's you know, you want to
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to compare it to like a dating
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  Speaker 3: side or anything, right, but you want to make sure
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  Speaker 3: it's a match.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: We we want to make sure that we can provide
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  Speaker 3: what you need and that you are a type of
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  Speaker 3: client that we want to want to you know, do
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  Speaker 3: business with and partner with. Right. You know, so we
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  Speaker 3: we look at someone I'll give an example of someone
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  Speaker 3: that's maybe high risk, but that might be in a
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  Speaker 3: certain type of business or industry that that doesn't match
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  Speaker 3: with our goals and our priorities.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to go too deep into it, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, someone might say I need personal protection, and
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  Speaker 3: we asked why why do you need personal protection? What's
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  Speaker 3: going on? We you know, we we interview them, we
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  Speaker 3: allow them to interview us, and we see, as you know, listen,
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  Speaker 3: all money is not good money, right. You know, even
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  Speaker 3: some of the the the more criminal, uh fraction of
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  Speaker 3: our society needs personal protection to look for personal protection,
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  Speaker 3: and that's not where we want to kind of kind
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  Speaker 3: of be in, uh you know, so we kind of
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  Speaker 3: stay away from that stuff. So you know, again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we make.
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  Speaker 2: Sure everybody needs protection, right, Travis everybody.
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  Speaker 3: But you delivered it.
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  Speaker 2: But you delivered the note so smooth. Though Rashana all money,
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  Speaker 2: it's not good money. Even the criminal element needs protection.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes we just have to say that's not the
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  Speaker 1: way we do business.
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  Speaker 3: To call you.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, when I first met you at Travis
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  Speaker 1: at this event, what really stuck to me or struck
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  Speaker 1: me was the fact that you are a corporation. You
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  Speaker 1: are an African American owned business, and you're doing business
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  Speaker 1: not just in the city, but you're doing it in
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  Speaker 1: several states. And I told you that. I said, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's unusual. I really want to interview you with that.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about you kind of mentioned earlier about how
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  Speaker 1: it all started in personal protection, how did the brand
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  Speaker 1: because you was in corporate now now you're in entrepreneurship.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that journey if you leaving the corporate space,
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  Speaker 1: but also how this company has grown to be in
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  Speaker 1: business and three states nationwide.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I'll start with how it has grown.
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  Speaker 3: And again I have to I have to give you know,
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  Speaker 3: the flowers, the credit, the accolades to our founding, our founder,
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  Speaker 3: mister Benjamin Manor, who founded Guardian Security over twenty five
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  Speaker 3: years ago and built it as a brand to be
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  Speaker 3: dealt with in the Atlanta, Georgia area, starting off with
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  Speaker 3: you know, us being a preferred vendor at the Olympics
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  Speaker 3: in Atlanta in the early nineties and partnering with major
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  Speaker 3: corporations like the Coca Cola factory here in Atlanta. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we started off being their security vendor, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: also partnering with Georgia Power and then some of the
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  Speaker 3: other entities here in Atlanta, and then moving on to Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and particularly Birmingham in Bestsemer we have an
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  Speaker 3: office Investmer, Alabama and partnering with some medical facilities Divita
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  Speaker 3: Dialysis in Birmingham, we have around eight locations they're partnering
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  Speaker 3: with them, and also the Vicinious Medical Facility in Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: We have about seventy eight locations there with them as well.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, doing all that branching off in
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina. Now that's that's probably our newest venture. Branching
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  Speaker 3: off of North Carolina, starting off with partnering with some
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  Speaker 3: construction entities to be a physical presence during their pre
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  Speaker 3: construction phase in their construction phase, to partner with them
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  Speaker 3: and looking to build greater relationships in the North Carolina area.
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  Speaker 3: But I decided to leave my corporate world of over
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  Speaker 3: twenty years in a commercial retail bank in New York City,
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  Speaker 3: one of the only black managed, formerly black owned retail
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  Speaker 3: banks in New York City, Carver Federal Savings Bank, to
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  Speaker 3: where I was the head of their human resource office,
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  Speaker 3: to come down to Atlanta and to run and take
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  Speaker 3: over Guardian Security Management. You know, as a kid, you
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  Speaker 3: always think about you know, I was always thinking about
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  Speaker 3: owning your own, right, you owning your own being a boss,
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  Speaker 3: right your kids? You want to be a boss, right,
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  Speaker 3: I want to be a boss. You know, see you
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  Speaker 3: raise suits and you think about being a boss. And
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  Speaker 3: then and then you see all of these boss figures
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  Speaker 3: all over the place, all these these these black individuals
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  Speaker 3: doing great things and something I always wanted to do.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, life starts to life like life be
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  Speaker 3: lifing is some of the phrases are now. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: my life turned into a profession of HR, which I
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  Speaker 3: love and I love working with HR and I love
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  Speaker 3: working with people, and I think HR kind of relates
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  Speaker 3: to every industry. HR can be transferred into every industry.
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  Speaker 3: You know, from a corporate industry to small businesses, from
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  Speaker 3: finance to retail to security. Right, it all relates because
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  Speaker 3: you all do. You're always dealing with people, right, You're
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  Speaker 3: always dealing with how to manage people right, how to
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  Speaker 3: work with people in every fraction of hrs relatable to
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  Speaker 3: every industry. So when I had the conversation with our
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  Speaker 3: founding member and he brought the opportunity to me to
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  Speaker 3: come on over and take over, it was of course
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  Speaker 3: a lot of decisions.
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  Speaker 2: That's New York to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's New York to Atlanta. The money is not
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  Speaker 3: the same m hm. You know, the base salaries aren't
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  Speaker 3: the same. So you got to think about that. You
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  Speaker 3: got to think about certain things. The hustle will bustle.
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  Speaker 3: But I just thought about as a kid, how it
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  Speaker 3: was thought about being a boss and owning my own
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  Speaker 3: and running something of value, and being able to help
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  Speaker 3: our community, being able to hire from our within our community,
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  Speaker 3: being able to help our people that are disadvantaged. And
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  Speaker 3: this gives me that perfect opportunity. Of course, I am
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  Speaker 3: a God free man. I prayed on it. God tell
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  Speaker 3: me do what you gotta do. Brother, I'm giving you
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  Speaker 3: the blessing and I did it. Of course, it's not easy,
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  Speaker 3: the struggle and understanding the dynamics here from New York
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  Speaker 3: to Atlanta. Again it's New York to Atlanta. But but
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  Speaker 3: it's been awesome, uh, to the Atlanta metro area. The
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  Speaker 3: people I haven't been meeting, Oh my god. I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: ask for anything. But it is definitely the Black Mecca.
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  Speaker 3: So many opportunities for for for min already owned businesses,
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  Speaker 3: so many opportunities for women owned businesses, so many great
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  Speaker 3: people to meet, like yourself, you know, like you initially
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: spoke to mister Donald, mister McDonald, it was just like, wow,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: you tell me about the great things that you're doing
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the podcast, and it was just awesome. And then when
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  Speaker 3: I got the call, I just felt blessed to even
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  Speaker 3: be able to speak with you right now. But you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I just think I'm having a good time having fun.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't think that you're coming. You're coming into things
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  Speaker 3: and and and bring certain uh you know, uh work
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: ethics and bring certain priorities from your executive world and
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: be experience that I'm bringing over to this small business
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  Speaker 3: to try to and to continue to grow it to
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  Speaker 3: be an official corporate entity. You know that we would
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  Speaker 3: have so many resources down here.
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  Speaker 2: So many there's Atlanta special Man.
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  Speaker 1: You know when I when when people listen to the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: show and the Guardian, that's the name of this private.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Security Guardian Security Matter.
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  Speaker 1: What is the secret of your success at the company's success.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I think being true to who we are, not being
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  Speaker 3: someone we're not right. We didn't been coming here trying
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: to be an allied universal right. We're not trying to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: come in here and treating our people, you know, unfairly.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's being true to who you are
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: and being true to your people and your staff. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what will continue has continued us should
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  Speaker 3: be where we are and will continue us to grow.
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  Speaker 2: We know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of being having you partners in it because,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I've been exposed to so many levels
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  Speaker 1: of security. I've been fortunately living in Chicago, Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: born and raised in Houston, now based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been all over this country. I've seen so
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  Speaker 1: African American men and women who've been in the security business,
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  Speaker 1: but no one who understood the model or how to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: turn this into a corporation, how to turn this into
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: a business other than an individual or just based in
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the city, and you can see the tentacles.
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  Speaker 2: Of what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You are a widespread company that can build on RFPs
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: for security. And that's important because you have a track
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  Speaker 1: record that says I do like you said, can I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: do medical, I do private, I do all levels.
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  Speaker 2: Of it, and I got the insurance.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Plus I have their staffing and the accounting that shows
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  Speaker 1: that we function as a company. Well, if somebody wants
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to come into this business, what is their business plan
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to be in the security business?
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  Speaker 2: Dravis?
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  Speaker 3: So what what I've always told UH managers, executives, CEOs
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  Speaker 3: that I've that I've counseled being an HR person is
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: you have to learn the business first. You have to
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: know the business. You know you have even with me
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: coming into understanding HR, I had to learn the business
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: of security, which I did, you know, joining forums, joining
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: excuse me, you know, joining some of these great uh
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: uh chamber of sites that are out there. You know,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: you have to learn the business of security or whatever
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: industry you're getting in. You need to really learn the business.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And the second thing is, you know, there's always good
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: to have a mentor you know, someone who can guide
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: you through you know, no one does it by themselves.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: You know, yes, you can be very independent and self
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: start all the things that you preach when you're in
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: an interview, right, but no one does about themselves, especially
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: running a business. No one does about themselves. So invite
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: people to work with you who may know certain things
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: better than you. You know, and always, you know, be
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: open to learning.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: As you know I mentioned earlier, was born and rais
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. So I'm a country in New York
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  Speaker 1: City is my favorite city.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I love. I love the crowd. I love the hustling bustle.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, now, give me two things you miss
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  Speaker 1: about New York City and give me two things that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you love about Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let's start with two things that I
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: miss about New York City. One thing would probably be
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: the authentic West Indian food. Okay, gotcha, give me a
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: good jerk chicken from from Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Flatbush, Brooklyn. Man,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: that's awesome. And the second thing would probably be Christmas
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: in New York. I'm a I'm a holiday per I
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: love Christmas. The lights in the city, beauty, It's awesome.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: It's beautiful when they light the trees up and they
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: light up some of the department stores on Fifth Avenue
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: and Madison, It's it's wonderful. So some of the things
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  Speaker 3: I love in Atlanta, Oh my god, I love I
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: love the people because they're so open to helping, they're
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: so open to too meeting. It's just the people themselves.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that would be the pro the people in the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that stands out because the fact that Atlanta is
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: unique and the things that that's why Tyler Perry is successful.
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  Speaker 1: That's why African Americans come here. They are successful because
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  Speaker 1: there's a core and that was set up many many
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  Speaker 1: years ago by the structure of African Americans who had
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: power and didn't offend the white structure. They work together
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and it gives us an opportunity to be as successful.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: But Travis, you know when again your personal services protection,
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  Speaker 1: armed uniforms, security officers, private investigation. You're serving the states
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  Speaker 1: of Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina. Uh, the Guardian is a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: private security corporation. Travis, thank you for coming on my
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  Speaker 1: show man. This is really this is really great. Before
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  Speaker 1: we go, how can we get in touch with you
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: if someone's listening to the show and want to use
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: your company services.
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  Speaker 3: Then they can go to our website. Our website is
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: www dot the Guardiansecurity dot com. Let's make sure we
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: have the Guardiansecurity dot com. They can always reach out
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: and call the office. Anyone who's looking for work, anyone
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: who's looking for for to partner with us and looking
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: for us to potentially be in their apartner with them,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: they can call the office at seven seven zero seven
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  Speaker 3: sixty six two six one. One's I'm sorry, it's four
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  Speaker 3: zero four seven sixty six six one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that real quick, because I want to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: bring that in about because you do offer employment opportunities
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: others one all about the opportunities because you have different.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Levels, they have different level services.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the employment that you offer and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: being that you're the HR guide.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: That's right, Guardian Security.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Talk about how people are screened and how can one
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: listening to the show if they want to get employed
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and they feel they are qualified to work for your country.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Because you offer an employment in three states Georgia, Alabama
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and North Carolina, how can one work for the Guardian Security.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so you can come to our office in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: You can give us a call again. Our phone numbers
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  Speaker 3: for zero four, seven sixty six to six point one.
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  Speaker 3: You come into the office and the days of Monday
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  Speaker 3: and Friday from the hours of ten am to two
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  Speaker 3: pm to fill out an application. We hold your application
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: on file. Any shifts or any opportunities comes up with
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: new clients, we give you a call, bring you in interview.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: You you just just don't have any criminal record. We
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: have to do a criminal background check and fingerprinting in
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: drug screening, and you don't really have to have that
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: much experience. If you do have experience, is great, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: we also do have entry level opportunities for security officers,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: so you don't You don't need to come in with
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: a whole bunch of security experience or be a retired vent.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: You know, we love working with retire events. If you
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: are a retired vent and you are looking for something
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  Speaker 3: part time, this is definitely the place for you.
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  Speaker 1: Cool Again, thank you for coming on my show. The
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Guardian Security dot com private security corporation with three separate divisions.
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  Speaker 1: If you're interested in getting a job in armed and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: unarmed uniform security, opportunities are available. Personal protection. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be a supersized person. You're a smart person,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: male or female as well as private investigation is not
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: what you see on TV.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: It's a corporate space and they.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Go in and they mediate with information and providing the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: person who's being accused or the person who needs all
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the situation that needs to be investigated, because it's not
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: always a boy somebody being accused. They handle and provide
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the facts. Again, Travis, Hey, you know sometime going to
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  Speaker 1: good places like we met a good because I got
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the interview of a good guy like.
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  Speaker 3: You, and.
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  Speaker 1: You make me feel good, Travis, because like I said, man,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I've seen this. I've seen this title before security, but
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: never in a corporate design space like this. Congratulations man,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you sir.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thank you again for having me.
• 30:01
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