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Well, it's time to meet the sponsor on Kevin Keatsman has issues.

We are pleased to have Jeff Schrader with us.

He is with jsquared pet solutions.com.

And anybody that ever listened to me on the radio or this podcast knows that me and my wife, Jessica, love dogs. We love pets. And we're so pleased to have jsquaredpetsolutions.com on as a sponsor. We're going to get to know Jeff a little bit today and find out how he got into animal health and how he started his company and what makes him tick. Hi, Jeff. How you doing, man? Everything good?

I'm doing fine, Kevin. Everything is good, considering the COVID situation right now. But hanging in there. Hanging in there. I'm always fascinated to learn how successful people get where they are.

You've been in animal health for quite some time, but you didn't start there.

This company for you is relatively new, but let's go back a little bit and talk about how you got your career started and how you wound up in animal health. You started in basically accounting

and finance, right? I did. I went to college in Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado,

tucked the way down there in the south of west portion of Colorado. It's up the way down there in the south west portion of Colorado.

It's a beautiful God's country there.

And got my accounting degree, passed the CPA, and then went into work for different

companies as controller, corporate controller, that sort of thing.

And I worked for PepsiCo for 11 years.

And then found my way to an animal health company in Greeley, Colorado.

It was a distribution company,

and went there on the finance side of things as they're a corporate controller.

And I did that for eight years with them until 1998,

and then they asked me to come out to Kansas City and manage their veterinarian division.

So Salesforce, distribution facilities, warehouses, cell sales, that sort of thing.

And then that ever since, and they've looked back.

Ugly rumor has it.

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