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Speaker 1: It is Kiss FM that has died for you the

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Speaker 1: weekend at last number one hit music station. Good Friday

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Speaker 1: morning to you. It is time to spotlight our hometown hustler.

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Speaker 1: So Danas Shapiro listen to this. She worked as an

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Speaker 1: office manager for various garage door companies. Right then she

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Speaker 1: decided to take a leap of faith and start her

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Speaker 1: very own business. She'd been thinking about it, and finally

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Speaker 1: she decided to do that. I'm always interested to hear

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Speaker 1: what was that moment, like, Dana, thanks for coming on, Hi,

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Speaker 1: good morning. How are you guys doing well? So you're

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Speaker 1: working for other companies and you said it's a male

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Speaker 1: dominated industry, right, definitely, definitely. What was the business that

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Speaker 1: you decided to start on your own. It's a garage

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Speaker 1: during gate service company, so we do repairs and and

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Speaker 1: new installations. I've been doing this since about two thousand fifteen,

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Speaker 1: working for others. Um As a single mom, I had

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Speaker 1: to do something out of the ordinary to kind of

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Speaker 1: get ahead, and I wanted to build a business that

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Speaker 1: my children would be proud of and hopefully called their

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Speaker 1: own one day. Um my son is actually part of

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Speaker 1: the garage door business. Now we're definitely family owned and operated,

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Speaker 1: and I just wanted to take a chance and see

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Speaker 1: if I can make it. And I'm definitely happy that

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Speaker 1: I did. I'm very proud of my company. I'm very

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Speaker 1: much part of the company, and it's called All Garage

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Speaker 1: Doors and Gates. You can see them on Instagram. But

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Speaker 1: just because I know a lot of people think that

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Speaker 1: they want to do the same thing, but we're just

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Speaker 1: worried to take that leap of faith and do it.

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Speaker 1: What was that aha moment like for you when you

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Speaker 1: said I'm going for it? It was just time. There

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Speaker 1: was only so much that you can do in other companies.

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Speaker 1: And again, as a single mom, I had to build

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Speaker 1: something for the future. With the pandemic and all of

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Speaker 1: us suffering through it, I had to take that stance

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Speaker 1: and take a chance, and I couldn't let fear in anymore.

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Speaker 1: So inspirational. I love it. Deemishapiro, North Hollywood, All Garage

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Speaker 1: Doors and Gates. Check them out. Thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: on and being our hometown hustler today. Very much appreciate you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, you take care, Bye bye you as well,

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Speaker 1: Bye bye. I'm a hustle. It's just that that moment,

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Speaker 1: we just decided to jump and go for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've been working for somebody else, you know, for so

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Speaker 1: many years, and then all of a sudden you're like,

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Speaker 1: I need to do my own company. I want to

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Speaker 1: do my own thing. But see garage stores and gates,

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Speaker 1: I would not be good at that. Yeah, I'm just

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Speaker 1: not good at garage stores and gates anytime an my

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Speaker 1: own Yeah, I know ours broke like a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: and Michael had a call company all right coming next

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Speaker 1: for handbills in the one eight