Living The Red Life - How a High School Sweetheart Couple Built Two Businesses

Episode Date: June 9, 2026

Austin and Hannah Rief are proving that entrepreneurship doesn't have to come at the expense of family. In this episode of Living The Red Life, the founders of Midwest Outlaw Garage and Lil' Grease Monkey Childcare reveal how they transformed a small-town dream into two thriving businesses while raising three children side by side. From overcoming difficult childhood experiences and criticism from others to building a 22,000-square-foot operation from humble beginnings, they share the mindset, work ethic, and relentless determination that fuel their success. This conversation dives into small-town entrepreneurship, family business growth, automotive innovation, leadership, and the realities of building companies together as husband and wife. Their story is a powerful reminder that success belongs to those willing to embrace discomfort, solve problems, and keep moving forward.Key TakeawaysWhy being comfortable with discomfort is essential for entrepreneurial growthHow Austin and Hannah built two businesses while raising three children togetherThe power of solving real-world problems instead of chasing trendsWhy self-belief matters more than other people's opinionsHow small-town entrepreneurs can compete through reputation, integrity, and hard workNotable Quotes"You got to be comfortable being uncomfortable.""If you say we're going to do something, we're going to do it.""Don't sit there and ask somebody what they think about your idea. Just do it.""You have to have that self-love that you are worth it, you are strong enough, and you can succeed.""Failure teaches you more than success ever will."Connect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

You got to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And if you say we're going to do something, we're going to do it. Don't sit there and ask somebody, what do you think about this idea? Just do it. Ask 10 people, you're going to get eight people saying, oh, that's insane. I'd never try that. Well, that kind of makes us want to do it even more. You just have to have that, you know, self-reflection or self-love that you are worth it.

You are strong enough and you can succeed. Austin and Hannah Reeve are entrepreneurial leaders, business owners, and the founders of Midwest Outlaw Garage and Lil Grease Monkey Child Care. Drawing from their shared commitment to family, hard work and innovation. They have built thriving businesses that reflect the power of partnership, perseverance, and purpose. Like I've explained to people, you know, working on a small town is it's harder than a city because, you know, everything you do is in the microscope. And if you don't, you know, put it 110% effort, you're not going to get 100% of what your goal is.

You know, I know we're probably not everybody's cup of tea. But, you know, we are just normal people, you know, we're husband and wife and we try to do our best, you know, to make people happy. My name's Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Life podcast, and I'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week. If you're ready to start living the Red Life, ditch the Blue Pill, take the Red Pill, join me in Wonderland and change your life. Welcome back to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast, The Red Life Edition.

Joining me today is Austin and Hannah Reef, and let me scroll twice because I want to get this information correct. You guys have been sitting here so patiently for this podcast, And the reason why is because you are owners of Little Greece Monkey Child Care and Midwest Outlaw Garage. Two things that require you to sit around and something to something to happen or the complete opposite. Chaos and you rush to it. So your patience is very much appreciated and we appreciate the grace. But boy, being in the child care service business must be all about patience.

Definitely is. Definitely is. And we have three kids ourselves. Yeah. We know it all about that. And honestly, it's nice just to chill and not be running around constantly like we normally do. So this has actually been really relaxing for us. Yeah.

Both things require a lot of patience. Yeah. Right on, Bubba. Let's enjoy that silence. Hmm. Yeah. What's it like running a child care service center in a garage? First of all, what are they called?

Let's do that. So the shop is Midwest Outlaw garage. Right on. Yep. And then the child care center is a little gruse center. monkey child care. So it's definitely an odd combination. We get that asset a lot. Like, why did you do that after you have the shop? And, you know, the shortest and easiest answer is we had three kids that were running around the shop

and he called him as grease monkeys. They would go out there and get dirty and nasty and play. And it was not, it's not the safest place, you know, vehicles moving in and out. Yeah, no. But we also, we wanted the family to still be together. So it was not the easiest thing to do, but right next door, we decided to open it up, and we had a lot of state requirements and regulations to get through, but we did it, and now all three kids go to that center, and all of them love it, and the kids there love it. They don't want to go home, so that was the goal. It's actually automotive themed, so he let me have one of his toolboxes, and we use that for the baby changing station. That's amazing. Yeah, it's really cool in there. Very cool.

Yeah, there's a couple in there. Yeah. And then we have, we have valve covers and spark plugs as the coat racks. So it's like it's, yeah, it's unique. And I've never seen an automotive theme child care center. I was just going to ask how common is to find this often. Like, no, no. It just worked. We had so many extra parts laying around and there's so many interesting things.

It's like, you know, let's make this. And let's put a grill on the wall and a door over here. And it works. That's amazing. It's such a, such an entrepreneurial thing to do. Yeah. There's so many avenues we can take this conversation. Do you have photos of your kids everywhere?

like as in the daycare where it's like the beginnings and like the cute black and white photos you know your little grease monkeys like it is family does it feel like it's a family run business when you walk into either establishment i don't have we have pictures in my office we don't have like in the you know the vehicles not i should i should do those up they definitely rule the ruse that's for sure we're actually uh billboards going up next week and it will be of us in our 66 build that that awesome just finished not too long long ago. Yep.

And all three of them are going to be on there. So right on. To show that we are a family. That's amazing. Gosh, what's it like running an auto shop? Like what? Tell me your day to day.

It's stressful. I mean, getting pulled 100 different ways all day. Right on. You know, like customers that, you know, demand to only talk to me or,

you know, mechanics that need help or trying to actually take on a task by myself, which is virtually impossible to finish, you know? For sure. Yeah.

But yeah. It's a long day, but it makes for a short day because it goes fast because you're going every which way. So add that and compound it with raising kids that are on site. What's that like for you? Is it a constant noise? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's an eight-hour day goes by and like what feels like an hour.

Wow. Yeah, during nap time, so it's in a different building, but right next door. But during nap time, they're not allowed to like rev up the cars and the engines right next door in that area because they're sleeping. So do you have a giant sign in the garage? just says nap time. That goes off. Oh, the guys know. We should.

We should. Yeah, I was just going to say like, nap time. Like, it's the whole thing where it's like, what's the big deal with this? Like, no, there's a whole thing that we do here. That would be hilarious. What do you all do on social media? Do you have like a community of folks that follow you? Because this is such a unique thing to do.

Like, do you tell your stories through social media? You just have Facebook. You have TikTok and Instagram, but it's not as big of following us. Facebook. You know, we really haven't done it on social. Okay. A lot of it's been word of mouth. Yeah, I don't really feel like we tell our story per se.

We just, you know, post pictures of kids on the daycare page and then, you know, post pictures of completed vehicles and builds and jobs. Sure, sure. On the shop page, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not really diving into her and I, you know. Yeah, but we, I mean, we don't really have a massive following. I mean, I mean, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know how. It's just a lot of word of mouth on a lot of organic, a lot of organic, a lot of We go to a lot of car shows, so we meet a lot of people. That's something that he's really passionate about. It's just sometimes you can't reach farther when you do that. Yeah. Well, it's great that you all were chosen to tell your legacy maker story because I find it you guys are the most unique thing here.

You're in a room full of all this. And I'm like, you're all way more unique than whatever I see in Miami. Try being born and raised here. I just think it's so cool that it's family first. And it's just like, you know, you're literally getting your hands dirty, running this business and as well, you know, with, you know, poop and stuff with the kids. Well, where do you find, how do you all thrive together as a couple, as a family? And talk about some of the challenges that are that some folks would find super impossible,

but you all are like, whatever, we're a family, we can do it. Adapting to the being in fast forward, go, go, go all the time. Yeah, like learning to slow down and take time for one another. I mean, this trip has been really nice. Like there's just, you know, we forget sometimes that we have to focus on ourselves too. Yep. It is a lot about our kids. And sometimes I feel like they're, you know, we work so long, so many hours at the shop.

Because I, my office is actually in the shop too. And then, you know, I'm the director of the center. So I'm not actually in there watching the kids. But I handle all the, you know, daily operation of what needs to be handled. And sometimes, you know, I wish we could pick them up a little bit sooner, you know. Yeah. But they do pop over and they do. even if they're not supposed to.

Oh, yeah, they'll sneak over to the shop. Oh, sure. They know the back way. So sometimes, you know, I feel like, you know, families that don't have, you know, a business let alone too, don't realize, like, how many hours it really is and how much stress it is. Sure. You know, and that could, you know, play. But it's just that you need to enjoy because it's your constantly in thriving.

I'd say we do everything as a family, you know, with motorcross stuff. You know, there's all the kids, everybody's involved. Yep. The car shows, and the kids love that. You know, they love looking at cars. They love, my son loves taking guys around and showing him all his favorite, you know, builds and stuff we've done. So, I mean, everything we do is fast forward and as a family. Right on.

The kids are around vehicles and around the shop and then around the daycare, no matter what. But they're always close near. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we wanted. Cool. Everything we do is pretty much as a group.

So Midwest Outlaw Garage. Talk about where in the Midwest are you all? Southwest Iowa. So like close to the Missouri border. Right on. Like right there. Try and go like 40 minutes to Lincoln, Nebraska or 20 minutes to Missouri. So right down that corner.

Yeah, we're in Shenando, Iowa. Wow. I've never been in it. It all sounds beautiful. Please tell me more. What is it like there? What's culture like there? What's life like there?

What are entrepreneurs like yourselves like there? A lot of farm related. A lot of farming. Yeah, sure. You know, that's agricultural and, you know, livestock. farming a lot of that. It's a lot slower pace in Miami. That's for sure.

Everything's just kind of on a slow speed. But you're still early risers? Yeah. Early risers. We can't bed late. Yeah. Yeah, I don't really know what sleep is. You can't work and you can't get stuff done if you're sleeping.

Yeah. Saving all sleep for the graveyard. Yeah. That's awesome. That's a shirt right there, dude. Well, welcome to Miami. It's very noisy here. Folks aren't very nice here.

That's good thing. Iowa. People are nice. Yeah. Lauren, she runs studio two. She's from Michigan and she's having experiences here in Miami where it's like there's not a lot of friendly folks down here. It's not very personable.

And I strive and look for that. You know, I enjoy leaving Miami and going into the middle of nowhere and going, ah, humans. Yeah. Love. Talk about the counter hustle. Like you're all clearly hustling, but they've created this hustle culture where it's like, you got to jump in ice bats, you got to do this, you got to do it. You all are at your own pace, but you're all very well doing thriving,

and you understand what hard work equals success and wealth. Talk about the difference between what you do every day and it comes natural to versus what us city folks have to pay someone else to tell us how to do it. Do you understand my meaning there? You're like, moving our yard and stuff like that. I mean, like, just what are these businesses? Like, it feels like it's something that is so like evergreen, so natural. It was so fun, so easy, but also it requires hard work.

That's rewarding. Here, I feel like in Miami, all this hard work is just to feel cool and be liked. It's like you're like, what are you really working for here? Here it's just like family. Clean cuts and set goals and do everything you can to accomplish those goals, you know, lack of sleep. And the time, the clock is just the clock. Yeah. You know, there's 24 hours of the day, so you've got to make the most of all that, you know.

We were both raised very differently, but we have the same work ethic. And I don't know about what this generation is all about, but it's definitely a lot different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When we try to hire and find people, it's just not the same as what it was. You know, we're both 33. Right on. It's not like we're... In Rudy's age, I'm 42.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, I don't know. We just, we were taught a certain way and you have to work hard and you have to do it yourself. I mean, I do pretty much everything myself. and you do yours, like, you know, we don't farm out a whole lot. Like, I have construction stuff to do.

I tackle it. I enjoy it. You know, there's, he does electrical. So, you know, there's not the greatest plumbing, but. Right now. But, I mean, there's, you know, we try to do, you know, everything ourselves. And, you know, that as well has, you know, saved us money too. Great.

You know, and it's, and it just builds skills. Yeah, yeah. I would just say, like, us compared to a normal person, like, you know, they come, up with an idea or a goal. You know, it may sound insane or crazy to them, but you got to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And you got to be comfortable being tired, you know, eight, 10 hours of sleep is a dream. Wow. You know, so you got to make the most of what you can. And if you don't, you know, put in 110% effort, you're not going to get 100% of what your goal is. Very true. You know, so. You know, and if you say we're going to do something, we're going to do it. Right. Don't, don't sit there

and ask somebody, what do you think about this idea? Just do it. Just do it. Don't try. No. You can ask 10 people, you're going to get eight people saying, oh, that's insane. I'd never try that. Well, that kind of makes us want to do it even more.

Exactly. Yeah. Well, our motto here is fail fast, fell well. Like, you know, just learn how to fail and, like, break through and, like, the door closes, smash the window. No, no. Failure. I like failure more and I do success.

Yeah, hell yeah. Amen. You're going to learn more from failure than succeeding, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My personal opinion is like happiness is something you work for. You just not give in to you. Like you got to earn that. Like there's a palace and the great source for you awaiting.

You got to earn that spot. Talk about being legacy makers. Where were all you when you were young grease monkeys? Were you all in a shop yourselves? Or were you helping your parents? Where do you all begin? I grew up, you know, watching TV was a luxury that happened at like 10 or 11 o'clock at night because if the sun was out.

you're working. Wow. You know, dad and grandpa, they had me running every which way. Like, damn, man. 12 hour a day was a normal day of working outside, you know. You don't stop until it's done. So, you know, when I was a child, yeah, we grew up on the country and doing everything ourselves, you know, working farming, working on tractors, mowing, you know, whatever, whatever I was told to do.

Yeah. You know, that's the only way I do. Yeah. You say all that with all these comic book heroes behind you. like that's why Superman comes from Smallville. It's like the true Americana spirit of what it is to pull calf, do the grit, get dirty, and then you become the superhero. Right.

You know, and I feel like that was your superhero journey. Yeah. What about yourself? Yeah. So I was actually born in Alaska. Oh, that's right. We moved. So, yeah, I was a military brat.

My mom got remarried and we traveled around and moved a lot. Help me adapt, you know, help me meet new people and be willing to, accept that. But I was also taught, you know, that you work for everything that you have. And in fourth grade, I mean, I was already buying my own shoes, my own clothes. Wow. You know, I learned the value of money. That was something that was very important to my parents to understand that.

You know, something I wish that, you know, we should probably start doing that with our kids, too. You know, I was also, you know, told, you know, as a child with my, you know, my stepdad, it wasn't, you know, the greatest environment as a teenager. So, you know, I learned that you have to succeed and you have to, you know, sometimes you can't listen to what other people are telling you and you can't believe what they're telling you. And you just have to have that, you know, self-reflection or self-love that you are worth it. And you are, you know, strong enough and you can succeed. Correct. Yeah.

Very different upbringing. Right on. What can you tell folks. Actually, I wanted to inspire you all because I feel like a third building is next is missing now. I feel like you're going to start your academy or your schooling or your own Montessori. It needs to happen because everything you've just listed out is something that is almost like a fantasy today. I'm like, like, do you feel like that is still going to be a valid way of life? Is that going to eventually disappear?

Or did you think that's going to always be around, that thriving culture of being an original grease monkey? I don't know. I figure, I think you need to teach kids now to, I think it's still outworking everyone else is still the guarantee. need, you know. I don't think it's going to survive unless, you know, our generation does. Right. It's just not. And it's just how you teach your kids and how you, what you embedding them and if they listen, you know.

And cell phones don't help. No. They really don't. Like, we didn't have a phone. You know, we didn't. Cell phones make everything too easy. Yeah. Everything's too easy for them, you know.

And I don't know. I hear about people with the phone baskets as soon as they get home to put all the phones of the baskets. And that's going to. That's kind of help for sure that I think, you know. You know, not being able to think for yourself. I think it's hard. You know, Chad GBT is great.

You know, it's a great tool. But when you have to come up with that on your own and you have to think about yourself, it's a whole different beast in game than if you just type it in and somebody types in, you type in something small that comes back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I know kids nowadays are getting in trouble for that, you know, and I don't know. I mean, you're old enough, you know, dial up internet. Oh, for sure.

We had dial up internet. Oh, for sure. So, like, you know. Now my daughter can, she has a question, she just Google it. Yeah. Yeah. Or we had to go through those index cards like in the filing cabinet in the library. Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like some of that is good because, you know, that teaches them to read about something or actually, you know, search for it the hard way. And then it'll actually get remembered. If you just Google something real quick, it's in and out of your head before you, you know, before you know it. Yeah. It's quite crazy how we were created literally from the earth.

And we want to do all these earth. things and the other side is like, well, no, no, we've got this device that's going to make you feel all these things and you look at the Bible like, well, gosh, it's right there in the word. We're experiencing it. Sorry, anytime I can go into religion, I take that moment. Where can folks find and learn more about you today? Shenandoah, Iowa. Yeah.

Look up in the, you'll find a billboard. Yeah, there's billboard. Facebook, you know, Facebook, you mentioned Facebook. Are you looking to expand and do Instagram, maybe some TikTok videos with the kids or workshop videos? We do take top. We need to, you know, utilize it more. We're trying to figure out a way to revamp our marketing.

You know, we're so busy on the day to day. We're trying to figure out how to get more time to market and focus on that and allow, you know, other people to do their jobs. It's just it's hard to, we have found. It's hard. Like, if we don't do it ourselves, it doesn't get done right. And that's unfortunate, but that is what we find. I don't know how some of these just individuals get, you know. you know, thousands and millions of followers, you know,

and they're just, you know, someone were just talking to you, you know. So that's kind of the main goal is to get more followers and get more fans and get more people paying attention to what we're doing. Yeah, I mean, what's going on in the shop is some cool stuff. Yeah, right. It's stuff that has not been done before.

It's stuff that, you know, a lot of shops won't tackle all the different things that we tackle. And Austin in whatever in the mechanic's style, I mean, they are, you talk about Google. I mean, they are literally walking Googles and they don't even use it. It's just they have all this knowledge. And, you know, I really wish more people would, you know, be aware of it. And I know all that's cool stuff.

And, you know, like the, we had a choice, what, in between our second business, we're really going to make open up a daycare and we're going to open up a gym. You know, both things are much needed. The main reason we opened up the daycare was, you know, we had all three of our kids in there screaming and yelling. We're trying to talk to customers. They're tugging out your ankle. Dad, dad.

So it's like, we got to do something. And, you know, we'd have employees call in for, I can't find a babysitter. You know, oh, I'll talk about the daycare. There is. You know, it's another problem solver right there, you know, so then, you know, guys can get off work and their kids are right there. You know, or if something, emergency happens, they're right there. Yeah. You watch all those TV shows and see, you know, big corporate companies who have, you know, let's say daycare is on the bottom floor.

Then you go upstairs and go to work. That's kind of what we wanted to create. Yeah, like Toronto arts is very much like that. Take care of our employees and take care of the town and whatever ways are needed. And it's also great benefits for when you're trying to recruit employees, like quality employees, not just folks that can, you know, smile and nod at you. I mean, how many times have you heard coworkers or have you heard employees say, I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow? I don't have a babysitter. Oh, there you go.

Right here. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I know we're probably not everybody's cup of tea. But, you know, we are just normal people. You know, we're husband and wife. And we try to do our best, you know, to make people happy. And, you know, we wish that, you know, just, I don't know.

I know it's in a small, smaller town, but it's kind of like in the center of the United States is close. Yeah. We're in the era of less is more, the more eccentric, the more out of the way you are, the more mysterious. You're going to engage folks that want to discover you. So it's all about that discovery. The free discovery call. It's the quality clients will always be there because they're in search of you. You just don't even know it.

Well, and like I've explained to people, you know, working on a small town is, it's harder than the city. Because, you know, everything you do is under the microscope. Yep. Word about. You know, people go down to the local diner and everybody knows something. There's a loud bang last night at the shop. The whole town does. What was that?

Yeah. That's awesome. It's a tough crowd. Yeah. It's a lot harder. Right on. I've always wanted to ask someone that runs on the garage. How do you keep your margins on it?

someone walks in with like a busted light. Do you stick to the heart and go, you just got a busted light, man. Or do you go, well, you got a busted light, where to do this, and then you just upcharge them? What is your philosophy of running your shop, sir? 100% of honesty. Like, customer, you know, if he's got a big bill

and he's questioning it, I'm going to walk him out to the shop, and I'm going to break it all down right in front of them, show them the worn-off parts and show them how many things I've got to take off to get to there to where they understand, you know, and no, like 100% honesty. all the time. There's no upcharging, none of that. Well, you know, the misconception of the upcharging, it's frustrating because, you know, you look at a business standpoint, you look at a customer standpoint.

Like, shops do get a discount on parts, but you have to spend a certain amount of money, and sometimes you have to pay a fee every year in order to get that dealer discount. And if you don't purchase a certain amount of products, then they boot you. You know, it's a, the dealerships do it. You know, every shop has it. But you can't give that price to the customer because then you're not going to stay open. It's just not going to happen. But you're only getting that discount because you are a dealer and you are a shop and you have to purchase a amount of money and spend a certain amount of money.

Customers are not spending that kind of money. You know, that's, I'm sure, in a lot of industries, that's in the food industry. Oh, yeah. You know, it's the same thing. But it's not like we're, you know, charging up, you know, 90%, you know, up charge on parts. You know, it's whatever, like, if customers were walking in a door rallies. Which companies out there, we've got to pay $3,500 buy-in to get 15% off. We may not even sell $3,500 for the product down here.

We start to do that to get that 15%. You know, and that's the hard part. So we can't give that 15% off to the customer because we have to make the $3,500 back. It's getting people to understand that and see on that business side. It's very hard to explain. It's one of the largest barriers. No, that's why failure is important because we lose a heck of a lot more than we win. Oh, yeah.

My guy may have two hours in something. I can charge a customer an hour for, you know. Right. But on YouTube, it shows it done in five minutes. And they're both like. Yeah, yeah, with montage music and intro and like and subscribe. We have that. And this guy gets it done in 20 minutes on YouTube.

What are you going to have done me for? Well, book time is, you know, an hour and a half. So it's going to be an hour and a half. Yeah, like a headlight bulb could pay 1.2 hours. It takes my guy two hours to do the first 10 of them. But after that, he can get him done in an hour. So I lost. The first 10, and now I'm finally making money, hoping that more of those jobs come in.

If a bulb takes that long, it's probably because the bumper has to come off. Yep, right. These newer vehicles, you've got to tear the whole front end off to get the headlights out. Yeah. So it's not a quick, you know, it can't just charge the bulb, you know. Do you think when they were designing the cars, we're like, well, now the mechanics can do an upcharge and charge everything because we're pains in the ass designing these damn cars. Everything that they do is for a reason, and it's for a job security. I guarantee it.

Uh, what, amen to that. What are your thoughts on cyber trucks and Tesla's, sir? I like the cyber truck. I think it's very cool looking. I mean, I think it's better definitely for in the city. I don't think it's made for country-style places where there's charging station an hour away. You know, and I don't think you can take the place of a diesel truck. No, I think it's cool.

Yeah, so do I. And still something you can tackle and work on, right? Right. Yeah. He doesn't turn a lot away. Cool. No, if a cyber truck coming in the shop, I would hands down work on it. Right on. And then film it. You better film it. Yeah. Do you all know a local videographer or someone that's really curious about what you all do that happens to own a camera? We actually are talking one right now.

Yeah. I say right away, like, find someone that just like is going to videotape you. And then like once you like get inspired to start talking. Yeah. That inspiration is not by accident. That that's coming from somewhere. Make sure you grab a videographer and just start talking. Even if you want to videotape yourself and then just watch yourself going. did I just do that? Was I just authentically honest with myself?

And that's what I look like. Do it. Try it. And people will respond to that, especially with what you're doing, the right people will be like, you'll just be like an echo. And people will come back to echo locations.

Trust me. It's going to work. It brought you here. It must be working. And I love your all energy. You guys are a great balance and I love your outfits. And again, it takes a lot of true patience

and mental maturity to be so patient. wait for your podcast. So for that, I'm very graceful for that. So how can folks find you and learn more about you besides locally in this billboard and this Facebook? What do you type in? Instagram, TikTok. We have a website now. Yeah, we're going to have a website. That's good. Right. Those are hard to build. You know, there just takes some time. So we finally got that with the help of the team. Cool. You know, they're helping us to that. And then they need to get in the car and they need to drive. All right. I feel like you're on this. That's why we got to

so many car shows and you know we'll go all the way to what job in Missouri and Kansas City of Missouri like what else? Omaha and Nebraska quite a bit we've had customers from California customers from Louisiana and Texas yep so people do travel you know they do come it'd be cool to get you know Oklahoma we're customers in Oklahoma right on you know I live in a pulse of a minute we sell parts to people in Alaska cool I can't wait to actually start filming your episode for Legacy Makers because I want to to ask you all these weird Alaska questions.

With that, what's next for you? Why do you all think you were chosen to be featured as legacy makers? With being an automotive, you know, there's so many, you know, neat things and cool things and things that are changing and, you know, there'll be possible things, you know, it'd be, you know, ideally, you know, the series is, you know, a dream. That's a goal, you know, and we don't stop. You know, we just keep, you know, trying and, you know, maybe we'll fail. Maybe they won't.

But that's something that we'd like. Yeah, I mean, we typically always have some sort of, you know, show, TV engine show or car-making show on the TVs at the shop. And hopefully that's us one day. When people walk into our shop, you know, we have, you know, our branding and the colors and, you know, all that stuff is very important. I'm a very clean person. And so we're, you know, told that we have the cleanest shop in the area, and that's nice.

But people walk in and like, oh, wow, you know, do you guys have your own TV show? I was like, you know, that'd be cool. you've come for the right place. Yeah. So it's got that vibe, you know, and that energy. And I don't know, I wouldn't say, you know, too expensive for people that, you know, just normal. We are normal people too. So, like, we understand, you know, money and we understand expense and budgets.

But it's got that definitely more, you know, top tier. We got everything going on in the shop, you know, from oil changes to fill in a lady's tired. to building a thousand horse power engine. Right on. Yeah. That's probably the hardest thing, another barrier that we have, is people have don't know what we do.

They think we only do, you know, restorations or only work on diesel pickups. Yeah. And we literally do everything. The maintenance is important. Like, you have to have preventative, you know, care in order to have a lifelong running vehicle. For sure.

Getting that through sometimes is tough. I feel like. People to understand that we take care of everybody. Right. You know, whether or not you're building your dream vehicle or just trying to maintenance your day-to-day driver. We take care of everybody and that's a hard thing to portray because it's not a common thing, which may be why we're here. You know, because there's quick-loop shops and there's restoration shops and we're both. That's awesome.

I'm like eager to help however I can to get your voice out because I'm like, there's so many cool things. You guys are also well-spoken and you're so like, I wouldn't say competent. I mean, just you're so confident with what you do. So we need more of that. And I'm so happy to meet you both. And I'm actually quite eager to move you to our next setup, which is your actual interview. But with that, Hannah, Austin, thank you so much for your time and energy. That's Hannah and Austin.

And I am Ray Gutierrez. And we are Inside Success.