When I launched my company, Everyday Spy, in 2019, I had no idea what it would become.

I really didn't know what I was doing at all.

I was a career intelligence officer, and I transitioned from CIA into business intelligence,

so all I had ever known was the business

of finding and analyzing and collecting secrets.

I knew nothing about business or entrepreneurialism

or how to run a business, how to run a payroll,

how to manage HR.

But I was at church one day and a member of the congregation

knew that I was former CIA and actually came up to me and

started asking me some interesting questions about everyday life. But they wanted to know about

whether or not I as a former CIA spy had the same problems, the same solutions, or if I had

different ways of dealing with everyday problems. Things like how I parked or what I wore or what I carried in my wallet or what I carried in my backpack.

It was a really fascinating conversation and they were so excited to hear what I had to say.

So from that conversation was born this idea that maybe there's some way that I can share my

experience at CIA, my experience as a spy with the world. And if I can do that and if I can do

that well, maybe I can even turn that into a business. And that's how we got here in 2025 with

a multi-million dollar business and worldwide fans and people who love to learn from us and

love to hear what we have to teach, who buy what we sell, and who want to work closer with us.

It's a phenomenal privilege to be able to run a business doing what you already believe in.

And for me, that is very much sharing spy education that breaks barriers. My company is growing

fast. It's grown by two to 300% every year since it was launched in 2019. And this year doesn't

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