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Never stop thinking, create something out of nothing and build on it

Misty, my daughter from my first marriage, was living in Phoenix, Arizona at the time, and she thought it would be a good idea to move the business out there. We would sell a similar product but would not call it K2 she said she would find some good, honest people to work for us. As we were getting ideas on the recording studio and Head was deciding what we will need. I concentrated on getting the business going in Arizona and finding a place.

I flew to Phoenix on an "exploratory mission" for the business and went shopping for a warehouse and a type of place that would be suitable for our venture. We found one that would work well, and it was very convenient to Misty's house which was just five miles south—west of there. And an added plus was that there was a casino about five minutes away. So, you can imagine that that worked out very well! I went ahead and leased a warehouse, and it was in Chandler Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. Soon as I got back to Indy, I started shipping material to get us set up with our new venture in Chandler. I gave Misty a list of items to pick up for us out there, and we worked hard to get all the employees and products in place to start manufacturing. Orders were already banking upon us and they needed to be filled quickly. I sent a couple of guys that mixed the product in Indy out there to make some products and train others how to make it.

After about a week, I had everyone I needed and everything in place and we started manufacturing our new products. We had names like Pyara, Passion Sense, Stoop-id, and more. Misty was working at the University of Phoenix, and she did not have any plans for quitting there anytime soon. But she had a co-worker that did not like working there, and she was looking for another job, her name was Mansi. Misty told her about our operation, and that I needed a business manager. Mansi thought it might be an interesting job, as well as a challenge for her — which she liked, So Misty, Mansi, and myself met at a local Mexican restaurant to discuss the business. Mansi is very pretty and full of energy. Her parents were from India, and they spoke extraordinarily little English. But Mansi was teaching them a little more all the time. Mansi knew that the product was something that could be short-lived and could also give her a chance to make a lot of money. Mansi was also overly aggressive — in a good way — and taking a leadership role came naturally to her. I was really very glad when Mansi accepted the job because I knew that she was just the type of person we needed to keep up the energy level in our business — which would, of course, ensure our future success. As I anticipated, Mansi fit right in and taking charge and the role of leadership. Very quickly she was doing pretty much everything from bookkeeping, payroll, ordering, manufacturing, packing, and shipping. She could and did do it all. It appears she was on top of everything after a few weeks and she did and did not need me. She even had her dad and mom working there too! But just as Mansi was great at all she was doing she was just great at making NEW sales — which is, as any business-person knows, crucial to any business. She also worked hard to get back some old customers that I had lost to Greg and Doug. She had the gift of gab and if you met her, you would know why she could sell you anything; she is hard to turn down. Maybe that is why she sent her picture to her customers.

Things were really going along very smoothly, and I didn’t have to do a lot in regard to the Phoenix operation. Though I did fly out there every two or three weeks — and, as always, I enjoyed the trips. For a single girl in her mid-twenties, she was doing very well making six figures and she deserved it.