My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom Freedom.

Freedom.

I recently got invited to a professional entrepreneur networking event in my hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Now, the group has been around for almost 20 years, and I still remember the

first time I was invited to sit with them back in 2014, not long after I had launched my own

little LLC that has since grown into everyday spy, as you know it today. That first visit,

it's absolutely seared into my memory and not

for good reasons, but the reasons are so relevant and important for what I have planned for you in

season six of everyday espionage that I am actually really excited to tell you the story now.

In February of 2014, as Ghee and I were finalizing

our resignations from CIA, I opened an LLC in Florida to start laying roots in our new

post-agency home state. I knew exactly nothing about business, well, at least not legitimate business, but I had a supportive

wife, I had a one-year-old son, and I was absolutely dedicated to building the best life I could

for both of them. Now, when you register a new business, you have to pick an industry like

manufacturing or retail or some sort of skilled service provider.

But coming from CIA, I didn't really have any marketable skills I could talk about.

Technically, Ghi and I were still undercover until the agency gave us approval to disclose our employment there.

But I knew that when secret agencies

create shell companies or cutouts, they register them as consultants. So that's exactly what I did.

I ordered my first business cards from VistaPrint. I paid a little extra to use two colors

in my logo instead of one, and I said yes to the discounted second box, of course.

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