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All right, my name's Clay Clark.

I'm the former US SBA entrepreneur of the year sent here on a mission to get you

into a great financial position and we're here interviewing Ryan with tip-top

canine just a great American, a great local business owner, and we're getting into really

this whole tip-top K-9 story.

There's so many people out there that they want to start and grow a successful company, but they kind of don't know where to start.

And then they see somebody like you who's kind of gone beyond the startup phase,

to now you're opening in multiple locations and I kind of want to know

the story behind the story. So I'm going to just start with the basics here.

What's your full name and what's your current role with aiptop K-9 and don't give me that

BS politically correct answer that we're all looking for. Okay well my name is

Ryan Wimpy and my current role is I'm a training manager. I train our head trainers.

That's basically what I'm doing. I train our head trainers, but also train our new locations.

I train those trainers as well.

Where are you originally from? I mean, are you from a place where they grow up, you know,

teaching their young folks how to train dogs? I mean, is he from like an Alaskan village?

Obviously, the Inuit. I'm here from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Oh, born and raised.

Tulsa as and from like an elite group of mountain dwelling people that live in Alaska where they train their kids to train dogs?

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