Teacher Turns $1K Into a $50K/Month Cleaning Empire ft. Yianni Avgerinos

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Speaker 1 What's up, guys, and welcome back to the Level Up Podcast. My name is Paul Alex, and today we have another interview with another successful serial entrepreneur, guys.

Speaker 1 And you guys are going to love this. You know, I'll usually interview people that start from humble beginnings, just like myself, guys.
You know, I was in law enforcement. I was in corporate America.

Speaker 1 I did ATMs, I did, what is it, credit card machines,

Speaker 1 consulting now. And now, you know, I have mentees from Harvard, from Penn State, all these Ivy League schools.
And man, it is awesome, guys.

Speaker 1 And if you ever wanted to go ahead and build your dreams, this is going to be the interview that you guys are going to want to listen because it's very inspiring. Okay.

Speaker 1 I want you guys to meet my special guest, Yanni. Yanni is a school teacher that is transitioning now to a serial entrepreneur in the cleaning space.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you heard it right.

Speaker 1 In the cleaning space, you're probably like, what is that, bro?

Speaker 2 Like, what do you mean?

Speaker 1 Housekeeping? Guys, you guys are going to hear it, okay? So if you guys have been looking for any ideas, if you guys have been looking for inspiration, this is the story to listen to.

Speaker 1 Yanni, welcome to the show, brother.

Speaker 2 Paul, thank you so much. Thanks for having me here.

Speaker 1 Absolutely, dude. How are you liking Miami?

Speaker 2 It's phenomenal. The weather is a bit warmer than Chicago.
I'll tell you that. Yeah, it's a bit warmer than Chicago.

Speaker 2 Fourth time here. Yep.
But I'm just super, super honored to be here today. Yeah.
Thanks for having me at at your place. You know, great, great studio.

Speaker 2 Looking to share beautiful things with like-minded people.

Speaker 1 No, absolutely, dude. And that's what it's about.
You know, Level Podcast,

Speaker 1 we've been able to scale quite fast for the podcast that we've had now here for a little bit over a year and a half. And it's just simply because it's about self-help, dude.

Speaker 1 It's about what's in here, right? The heart, dude. Just like our conversation.

Speaker 1 Guys, if you guys, you guys didn't know because, you know, it was just us and Emilio back here, but, you know, we had like an hour and a half conversation. It should have been recorded.

Speaker 2 It should have been recorded.

Speaker 2 It was fun, right?

Speaker 1 It was fire. It was fire, bro.
But to go on with that, now it's your guys' turn to listen to Yanni's story. Okay, so Yanni,

Speaker 1 talk to us essentially why the cleaning business. Why are you going ahead and already painting that vision that it's going to be a hundred million dollar business for you, dude?

Speaker 1 Like, what do you see for yourself doing the cleaning industry?

Speaker 2 You know, a little bit by myself, I actually started a cleaning business back in 2021, which is just after COVID.

Speaker 2 And, you know, my background is actually in education. I've been teaching for almost 10 years,

Speaker 2 PE and health teacher for third, fourth, and fifth grade.

Speaker 2 So I do have that background, that level of experience when it comes to working with children, working with adults and teachers, collaborating and wearing different types of hats.

Speaker 2 And I always knew in the bottom of my heart that I wanted and needed more in my life.

Speaker 2 I come from a Greek family

Speaker 2 and born and raised here down in Chicago. I should say up in Chicago, right?

Speaker 2 And my parents were immigrants of our motherland. And

Speaker 2 just seeing my dad, right, over the years, growing and selling his restaurant business for almost 40 years just really inspired me.

Speaker 2 And just being in hospitality, just being in customer service, I always knew that I always wanted more and to give and provide. Yeah.
Right. And to make some kind of impact.

Speaker 2 And I feel like cleaning, specifically cleaning, what's interesting is it's a multi-billion dollar industry and it's now still freaking growing. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 2 So I got into it because I always had a passion in cleaning. I had a passion in teaching.
So I kind of meshed those together

Speaker 2 during COVID, those COVID years. And kind of crazy, I'm like, how do I start any business? It was my first real

Speaker 2 business venture.

Speaker 2 And I started cleaning houses of my own. And I started, I was very hesitant in the beginning walking in people's homes.
And I didn't know about commercial cleaning.

Speaker 2 I only had one vision fixed-minded on housekeeping, on residential cleaning.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 And pretty soon, clients started to like my service. I love to clean.
It was my passion. But I quickly realized within six months, I'm like, I can't be doing this by myself.

Speaker 2 So I started hiring cleaning techs, house cleaning ladies, made a lot of mistakes, overpaid. my people.
I didn't know how to manage and hire and recruit the right way.

Speaker 2 It was a great learning curve for me. Fast forward five years, we have a team of 25 cleaners.
We have partnerships with other cleaning companies nationwide in different states.

Speaker 2 We're collaborating on bigger commercial cleaning contracts now. So essentially we have two divisions within our company, residential and commercial cleaning services.

Speaker 1 Wow, I love that.

Speaker 1 So let me ask you a quick question. So it gets to a point and, you know, essentially,

Speaker 1 I'm thinking this started this as a side hustle, right? Because it wasn't your main source of income in the very beginning, right?

Speaker 2 Exactly.

Speaker 1 And it was the same thing for me, man.

Speaker 1 When I started my very first business, I mean, I've been a senior entrepreneur now for like two decades, but you know, I stopped in the entrepreneurship game to go ahead and work in corporate America and then law enforcement and then came back in the game, right?

Speaker 1 So, with that being said, it started off as a side hustle. At what point, what was the moment, dude? Paint the picture for us, okay? Because I'm a big storyteller.
I love movies, bro.

Speaker 1 So, paint the picture the day that you were just like, I can scale this, you know, like I think I might have to go ahead and transition into actually being an entrepreneur and i know how to how i'm gonna make it work very good question my first aha moment was my i would say six to 12 months into the business from 2021 to 2022

Speaker 2 and i was teaching there in a day and at the time we were teaching remote on zoom yeah teaching right so we would finish at one o'clock so this is right in the middle of covid I guess just after.

Speaker 2 Just after. Yeah.
Okay. But there were still restrictions and masks.
Of course. People freaking out back then.
Right. Different, different, different times then, right? But

Speaker 2 I think because of covid yeah that was almost like a catalyst for me i'm like wow people are now really prioritizing cleansiness and and and uh quality control in terms of cleaning services yeah for their facilities i mean i i we i've connected over the years with other uh commercial janitorial cleaning companies right and they were doing electrostatic disinfecting and they're making a killing yeah but i was more focused on what i was good at so i focused on residential first right right so my first aha moment me teaching, you know, making $2,000 to $4,000 a month extra by myself, I mean, I was hustling.

Speaker 2 I would be cleaning during the weekends. I'll be cleaning in the evenings after school.

Speaker 2 So that was my life for the first two, three years, while also

Speaker 2 working and assisting my dad at the restaurant. So

Speaker 2 I've always worked long hours.

Speaker 2 I guess the second aha moment was year two to year three.

Speaker 2 At this point, I had about 10 cleaners.

Speaker 2 Revenues growing.

Speaker 2 Did not know how to manage. I was learning along the way, hired some business coaches along the way.

Speaker 2 And get me wrong.

Speaker 2 I guess captured and absorbed a lot of good knowledge and information. Most of it was just fluff.

Speaker 2 Until I found someone that actually understood the game and where I've hired my business consultant two years ago. So I do go a lot of love and respect to him.
He now lives in Europe.

Speaker 2 I love that. Yeah, we're so connected to this day.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm doing great right now. But the aha moment was back in 2021, the first six to 12 months.
And I'm like, I could scale this thing. This is a scalable business.
Why?

Speaker 2 Because the cleaning industry is a high-demand industry. It's not the most sexiest business for certain people, right? I'm not selling cars.
I'm not selling jewelry, whatever.

Speaker 2 cleaning services, right? And I quickly realized there's different niches, there's different avenues within the cleaning industry.

Speaker 2 There's strip and waxing, there's Airbnb, which I've dabbled a little bit, which I may revisit in 2025.

Speaker 2 There's floor scrubbing, there's window washing, there's carpet cleaning, there's daily janitorial, there's one-offs, there's kitchen cleaning. The list goes on, right? So

Speaker 2 fast forward five years now,

Speaker 2 almost five years,

Speaker 2 the vision here is to grow this thing and focus more on the commercial side.

Speaker 2 Because I've reached in the past eight months,

Speaker 2 almost a year,

Speaker 2 on scaling nationwide. So

Speaker 2 I had a to be honest, to answer your question, I had a lot of breaking points or aha moments. It's kind of like hard to remember exactly the year and time, but yeah, no worries, dude.
It happens.

Speaker 1 You know, it's entrepreneurship. At the end of the day, you know, it's about the journey, dude.
And, you know, with every nude level, there's a new double, just like we were talking about, right?

Speaker 1 So essentially, as you grow, I'm pretty sure you're going to have other aha moments, right?

Speaker 1 So with that being said, why choose, choose, I guess, going to the, would you say the industrial side?

Speaker 2 Or is it the corporate side? Yeah, so there's, so there's, there's, I guess, three divisions, residential, commercial, and industrial. Okay.
Industrial is more like factories,

Speaker 2 assembly lines, warehouse spaces,

Speaker 2 and more industrial, right? Commercial is more office spaces, corporate, like a space like this, right?

Speaker 2 Providing cleaning services for common areas such as the bathrooms of this building, the elevators, right? There's a niche for that still.

Speaker 2 No, no, no, there is. And I don't believe AI, AI, a whole different topic, right? Yeah.
I am leveraging AI in certain aspects of my business, right?

Speaker 2 But in terms of cleaning, the actual labor itself, there's still certain things that I believe for the long term, it won't be taken away by AI.

Speaker 1 Got it. Right.

Speaker 2 But like warehouse space where there's less foot traffic, overnight cleaning for big, let's say 100,000 square feet, 200,000 square feet, warehouse spaces.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we could put a robot in there to clean. Right.
Yeah. But daily janitorial, weekly cleaning services, you need an actual physical person to do that job.

Speaker 2 And I do see the future in growing this business. There's so much opportunity out there.

Speaker 2 There's property managers, facility managers that I'm working with nationwide that are subbing out contract work. at a national level.

Speaker 2 And they have corporate clients like the Walmarts, the insurance companies. And I've tapped into those networks too a little bit the past eight months.
That's why I've seen such a huge growth spurt.

Speaker 2 But also I've acquire the right skill sets, right? Fine-tuning my sales skills, fine-tuning my collaboration skills and negotiating conflict if there's any conflict, right?

Speaker 2 How to empower people within my business, right? We have a whole onboarding process.

Speaker 2 We conduct weekly group interview calls for techs, right? Let's say five people show up or 10 people show up.

Speaker 2 We have a whole onboarding process once they reach the first checkpoint, right?

Speaker 2 And now I'm training my admin assistants to do that. So delegation was another breaking point for me.
And I really started delegating a year and a half ago when I met my business consultant.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So here's my quick question for you.

Speaker 1 How are you finding your leads right now? Good question.

Speaker 2 It's a combination of different things. I would say heavily more on cold calling

Speaker 2 and networking. Okay.

Speaker 2 I've dabbled in Facebook. I've dabbled in Instagram.
I didn't see great results. I don't know what I was doing.
I'll be honest, right?

Speaker 1 Something that I would believe you probably go through like LinkedIn for like B2B.

Speaker 2 I was going to say, B2B, LinkedIn is very powerful. I admit some great connections through LinkedIn because there's that level of credibility.

Speaker 2 People see your resume, your background, your history, your experience. And

Speaker 2 there's that level of not just respect, but credibility and trust. Right.
Anyone can make an account on Facebook. Of course.
There's certain, there's a level of,

Speaker 2 again, credibility qualifications on LinkedIn. And that's where we, we're using an AI, an AI tool, but where

Speaker 2 we do outreaches every day. Right.
Maybe 20 to 40 or I think it's 10 to 20 connections and then X amount of

Speaker 2 messages that we send out. Right.

Speaker 2 I'm fine-tuning the follow-up game. That's that's the bulk of your business, right? Following up with the right people and following up the right way.

Speaker 2 And then, yeah, networking calls, networking events. I have been so busy in time constraint with

Speaker 2 the teaching job.

Speaker 2 And By all means, listen, I'm not doing all this because I hate teaching. I'm doing this because I'm grateful for teaching.
Of course. If it wasn't for teaching, I wouldn't be the man I am today.

Speaker 1 Of course. And probably,

Speaker 2 I don't regret one bit of teaching.

Speaker 2 It is still my passion.

Speaker 2 I love kids. I love students.
I love working with teachers and parents. You know, bridging home and school is very important.

Speaker 2 And me working at a tier one school or low-income areas, some kids live a very rough upbringing.

Speaker 2 And you you need a certain personality. You need a certain level of empathy for these children.

Speaker 1 Yes, you do.

Speaker 2 And I teach third, fourth, and fifth grade PE and health for about 10 years right now. So I've learned, I've learned a lot in

Speaker 2 that career.

Speaker 2 And I've been pouring in certain skill sets from the teaching job to my businesses.

Speaker 2 And yeah,

Speaker 2 as you know, I started the ATM business a couple years ago with A-Team Together, which by the way, if you guys are serious in building residual income, you should definitely sign up with A Team Together from A to Z how to start, scale, and even exit your ATM business, which is I

Speaker 2 just did just recently, right? I had six ATMs. My vision was originally, you know, 30 ATMs, but I decided to take the route of cleaning.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And again, there's, there's not to

Speaker 2 bash ATM. ATM is an awesome ATM, an awesome business model, right?

Speaker 2 But once you find something that really works and you love and have a passion for, you double down on it. Oh, yeah.
That's one tip I could say.

Speaker 1 I always tell people, you know, Yanni, is I always tell people there's, there's stepping stone businesses. There's stepping stone businesses.

Speaker 1 So ATMs, like for me, when I first came back into entrepreneurship, like, and I was serious about it, right?

Speaker 1 Back in 2018, man, while I was in the law enforcement myself,

Speaker 1 is that I was just like, dude, I'm not going to do ATMs forever, but I'm going to do ATMs now, right? And I didn't know ATMs was going to lead me to the online space, right?

Speaker 1 Which is remarkable because now I'm able to meet, connect with good entrepreneurs like you, dude.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, other people, like just all the different people that I work with now are associated with

Speaker 1 opportunities that I've gotten through the online space and just the connection, right? Because you meet your tribe, dude. You meet people that you want to be around.

Speaker 1 Right. And it's very hard to find that in your city sometimes.

Speaker 1 So with that being said, number one, I love the fact that you talk about your core values and how you being a teacher actually build you up to be an entrepreneur, dude.

Speaker 2 If it wasn't for teaching, I would not be here today.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, it gave you the skills.
It gave you the skills to have empathy. It gave you the skills to actually look at it from a human aspect, especially with children, dude.

Speaker 1 But I believe like, you know,

Speaker 1 yeah, employees are not children, but at the end of the day, employees, you have to have some emotional intelligence to run a business as a leader. Yes.

Speaker 1 As a leader, dude, because there is such a thing as being a good leader and just being a boss right and and people do not like working for bosses anymore especially i preach that too i preach that too with my people

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Speaker 1 Oh, absolutely. What do you think is the number one, or let's say top three? Let's make it easy.

Speaker 1 Top three characteristics that someone who is looking to be a CEO, somebody who's looking to be a business owner, that they need in order to run a successful company?

Speaker 2 That's a very good question. I actually wrote these three down.
I've kind of revamped three, four, five things over the years, and I take notes of myself and how I've developed in my business. But

Speaker 2 number one is having faith in God. It all starts from above.
Yeah. Right?

Speaker 2 Praising the Lord and having faith in God, which ultimately will empower you to have faith in yourself. There's times where you'll be stuck in a rut and nobody will be able to help you.
Right.

Speaker 2 And sometimes you got to find that strength, that faith within.

Speaker 2 So God is number one.

Speaker 2 Number two is surrounding yourself with the right people.

Speaker 1 Environment.

Speaker 2 And by doing that, you got to have some level of the right mindset. So that ties into number three, having the right mindset.

Speaker 2 Well, having the right mindset, some people have the right mindset, but they live on a scarcity lifestyle or negative type of thinking or lower level thinking. And they could be great, awesome people.

Speaker 2 They could be angels, right? But unfortunately, some people don't have that right mindset, but most importantly,

Speaker 2 have the strength to take massive action.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 2 Right? And yeah, it's baby steps.

Speaker 2 When you first develop or create something, it's going to be very challenging at the beginning. You have no idea what you're doing.
doing, yeah, right.

Speaker 2 And that's what I did for the first three, four, five years now, right? I'm still learning to this day. By no means, I'm a mastery in what I'm doing, but I've learned a lot and I'm grateful for it.

Speaker 2 And I'm looking to not just scale the business and make more money, but really empower people, bring opportunities for them, for their children.

Speaker 2 That also ties into teaching. Like for me, that makes my freaking day.
I know it made a difference for this cleaning tech or my supervisor.

Speaker 2 You know, I have, you know, I have prepaid people in advance, you know, for appreciating their hard work and their dedication, right? So going back to your question, I go on tangent sometimes.

Speaker 2 God, mindset, and massive action. Those are the two main ingredients, right? If you don't have those three things,

Speaker 2 I mean, what? 90% of businesses fail in the first five years. Yeah.
OPA cleaning will be in the trajectory of profitability moving forward. I love that.

Speaker 1 I love that, dude. And that's what it's about, dude.
And I mean, that's why you're doing it full-time now. That's why you're going to scale it.

Speaker 1 And you have your vision, you know, of hitting your numbers, eight figures, then nine figures.

Speaker 1 And for a lot of people, they can't even see running a successful business to start off with, especially when they're starting off as a side hustle.

Speaker 2 They can't even conceive it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No.
And it's very true, man. But how are you supposed to conceive something that you're not familiar with, right? The majority of humans, right?

Speaker 1 Especially myself, I'm an average guy, blue-collar guy. Came from poverty, came from an immigrant family.
My mom, very hard worker, single mother, dude.

Speaker 1 But at the end end of the day, she showed me how to work hard, she showed me good morals, she showed me core values, but she didn't show me how to work smarter.

Speaker 1 All right, and just like you said, dude, we, there's so many different ways to make a million dollars, but it's just like there's two things that we want to figure out here, guys, especially you guys listening right now on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube, especially with Yanni's story.

Speaker 1 Is and we had this conversation for about an hour and a half before the pod. We did it.
It's just like, there's so many ways to make a million dollars, dude.

Speaker 1 But, you know, which way do you want to take? And then how long do you want to actually go ahead and

Speaker 1 invest as far as time to get there, right?

Speaker 2 sacrifice and and and that's the thing dude like you know i'm 37 and for for me you look phenomenal at 37 by the way thank you thank you bro like like 30

Speaker 1 31 the most thank you bro i appreciate you man thank you but um what i tell people is just like with me i had my mindset of like hey dude you know i need to go ahead and hit the pavement running in entrepreneurship because i feel like i started late right but people will tell you dude yeah people people will tell you especially when on social media you have a lot of 20 year olds glorifying, hey, you got to be a millionaire before you're 21.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, you haven't made it in life, right? So you hear that on a daily basis, and you're just like, shit, what did I do wrong? Right? And it's just like, you know, it's not real, dude.

Speaker 1 It's not sustainable.

Speaker 2 The average drill, when they hear, the average person, when they hear that, they get discouraged. 100%.
They make up excuses. 100%.
And they don't even try. Or they just dabble in the game.

Speaker 2 They just give up. They give up.
They give up. People like us who are built differently, because I know we're built differently.
Yeah. Okay.
We hear that.

Speaker 2 We feel that for many years, but that's just a motivator for us to push us harder. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then surround yourself with people that want to challenge you in a good way to push you forward in advance so we can all win together. Yeah.
I'm all about that model. No, that might be, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, absolutely.

Speaker 1 Same. So

Speaker 1 what it comes down to it, and the reason why we're saying this is because, Yanni, you did something that I think every single entrepreneur needs to do when they're starting any type of business.

Speaker 1 And what you did correctly when you told me right before the podcast is like, hey, dude, you know, as I was doing this as a side hustle, figuring out the clean business, I was working the logistics.

Speaker 1 I was actually doing the work, actually doing what my employees do now. It is key to lead by example, guys.

Speaker 1 Everything that I go ahead and have done from day one, I've done everything, dude. Customer service.
I've been the

Speaker 2 email threads.

Speaker 1 Email threads. I've done the marketing.
I've done the sales. I've been the

Speaker 1 guy on the camera.

Speaker 2 The cleaner.

Speaker 1 The cleaner. I've done it all, dude.
You know, and to think, look, at this stage of the game, for me to be like, no, I don't do that because I get paid too much money is complete bullshit.

Speaker 1 I will still go ahead and do that entry-level position if I have to.

Speaker 1 And that's what a true leader does, dude. And that's what I like.
That's what I like about you, Yanni. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Is you actually doing

Speaker 1 the foundation work. You did the foundation work.

Speaker 1 Now you're able to skip your nine to five and go ahead and start your dream of starting a cleaning business, which is going to be your first stepping stone into building wealth for you and your family, your future wife, your future kids.

Speaker 2 And you're going to make it happen, dude. I'm going to make it happen.

Speaker 2 There's no way of going back right now. No.
And all way of doing things. That's it.
And I think that there's different levels of mindsets. Yeah.
When you grow spiritually,

Speaker 2 financially, physically.

Speaker 1 100%. 100%.
So let me ask you this, man.

Speaker 1 Your dad, I want to talk about your dad real quick. He built a restaurant for the past 40 years.
Did you ever like,

Speaker 1 did you ever get like a mentorship from him? Did he ever say like, hey, Yanni, you know, this is what it takes to run a sustainable business for 40 years?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 First of all, I've learned a lot of

Speaker 2 good life learning lessons from my dad. And if you have an immigrant parent, which I know you do too,

Speaker 2 well, coming from their motherland, they have natural wisdom. and knowledge that still applies to this day.
Absolutely. And I'm grateful for that.
A lot of famous quotes and just metaphors,

Speaker 2 which has to do with the mindset, which has to do with

Speaker 2 having a good soul and helping other people around you. And

Speaker 2 I've learned not just hospitality, but I've learned how to serve other people. And my purpose in life

Speaker 2 is service. Yes.
Right? So, yeah, I get paid last, but I want to make sure people get happy.

Speaker 2 I want to make sure they're happy because if they're happy, that really makes me happy. I don't rely on their happiness, though.
I'll make that clear. I don't rely on their happiness.

Speaker 2 I have,

Speaker 2 you know, I'm grateful to be, you know, to be a Greek. And being being Greek is a big part of our blueprint,

Speaker 2 part of our identity as Greeks, and I'm sure you've met some Greeks before.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I've learned to persevere. I learned what hard working actually means.
I've learned what it means to work your nine to five from teaching and then go straight to the restaurant and help cook food.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 quick side note: if you guys haven't visited, Mr. T Z Euros

Speaker 2 in Schiller Park, Illinois, just 10 minutes away from Waihare Airport, we're known for our Euro, our gyro sandwiches. We're known for our Greek chicken.
I love that. If you guys want some Greek food,

Speaker 2 think of it as a taco stand, but for Greeks,

Speaker 2 it's not a sit-down, but it's more fast food. Yep.
Greek American fast food.

Speaker 2 We're there for almost 40 years. And I've helped my dad develop his website, connected, integrated, Uber Eats, Grubhub, all that good stuff, online ordering.
And I'm grateful for my dad.

Speaker 2 I'm grateful for my mother. I'm grateful for my family.
I've learned a lot from them.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. There are certain things, though, that our immigrants still hold to this day,

Speaker 2 which sometimes does not always align with how we operate here. Right.

Speaker 2 Because there they had, there was more arrest, there was more fear, you know, coming from the country. They did not know the language.
My dad went to school.

Speaker 2 He got a degree in a bachelor in engineering or computer science. He ended up being a restaurant owner, right? He was working multiple jobs.

Speaker 2 My mom got married at 17. He's eight years younger, eight years older, excuse me.

Speaker 2 He was at 25 years old, you know, sleeping three, four hour days for multiple years, building his business. That was like a,

Speaker 2 that was always inspiring to me. And it's kind of funny.
Ever since we're little, my dad goes, don't get into the restaurant business. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, dude, that's the best.

Speaker 2 You know, parents are always going to warn you.

Speaker 2 They want to protect their kids. They want to protect you, dude.
But, but, listen, would I want to operate a business? No, because I know how it is.

Speaker 2 I would prefer to operate a cleaning business, right? What I'm good at.

Speaker 2 I would love to be an investor, maybe, or an owner, a co-founder of a restaurant and help built it, but to operate it, not my thing. Because I've been there.
I've been there, right?

Speaker 2 But I've learned certain

Speaker 2 ways of communicating with certain people. I will learn Spanish along the way.
Yeah, my man. You know,

Speaker 2 I'm at, what's it called? 100% fluent in Spanish, but unpuito espionage.

Speaker 1 Siabla. Siabla.

Speaker 2 Mi Griago and ingrecia, si. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, the basic words, and just to communicate with, you know, student workers my dad had of the past, and then hiring the right people,

Speaker 2 but also not just paying them the right way, but treating them the right way.

Speaker 1 Culture is everything, dude. Culture is everything.
That's how you keep people.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and that's how

Speaker 2 I didn't learn about the call trip aspect from my father.

Speaker 2 That came from teaching. That came from my personality.
My dad has zero tolerance and he has zero patience. It's kind of funny.
He's more old school. But I love and respect.

Speaker 2 If it wasn't for my dad, you know, he paid for our colleges. I'm one of four kids.
I'm one of four kids. I'm the the second kid in the family.

Speaker 2 You know, if it wasn't for my dad and my mom, I wouldn't be here today either. So it all stems from that.
Yeah. It all stems from that.
Right. And I think that

Speaker 2 having your identity and your roots is so important.

Speaker 2 Right. So important.
But I also believe having

Speaker 2 your own personality or flair is also

Speaker 2 amazing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's also impactful. Right.
Right. So, yeah, I've learned a lot about hard work from my father.
I learned a lot about perseverance.

Speaker 2 I learned about customer service and the customer is always right kind of mentality. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Right. Got to serve.

Speaker 2 And that's what kind of drove me into the service-based business, which is cleaning services. I love that, dude.

Speaker 1 I love that. Humble beginnings, you know, you're sharing your story, your family values, core values that your dad brought up to you, and you helping your businesses.

Speaker 1 That probably inspired you to go ahead and start businesses and guided you to go ahead and actually have that entrepreneurship spirit and mindset, right? So let's talk about mindset real quick, dude.

Speaker 1 And then, and then, uh, what we want to do is a little mini master class on the initial steps that someone can take, one of our viewers or listeners on Spotify or Apple or YouTube, guys.

Speaker 1 Uh, make sure to share this with a friend.

Speaker 1 It's a very valuable, valuable interview I have here with Yanni, where you could do a basically just your first initial three to five steps on how to set up everything that you need to do a cleaning business, dude.

Speaker 1 Because you, you know, it, dude.

Speaker 2 Like, you're the man, you're the man with the plan, right?

Speaker 1 So, so let's go ahead and talk about mindset real quick. Um, now, how old are you, Randol Dioni?

Speaker 2 I just turned 30 on February 20th, dude. Pris prime, 30 years old, dude.
I love that.

Speaker 1 Man, I can still remember when I was 30 like last year, 37 years later, guys. So, all right, dude, let's talk about mindset.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 1 when did you initially think of becoming an entrepreneur? What year? What was what age were you?

Speaker 2 2018

Speaker 2 first job after college as a teacher assistant for a PE department at a different school and that job got me this job

Speaker 2 I was always researching reading yep learn big fan of Tony Robbins by the way oh yeah Tony Robbins awesome

Speaker 2 Carnegie yep

Speaker 2 And that was like, I guess, the way beginning, building, I guess, the foundation of my mindset. And I always knew that I could do more.
Cause my older brother had different businesses in the past.

Speaker 2 Now he's into like food, uh, food, uh, food plants, food prepping, right? With his wife there.

Speaker 2 Um, and might see my dad being an entrepreneur, a restaurant business owner, and then seeing other people online, right?

Speaker 2 After reading and researching, I'm like,

Speaker 2 pretty soon I could be doing the same thing. Pretty soon I could be my own boss, right? At the time, I didn't think of maybe empowering or leading others.
I just thought of having a side hustle.

Speaker 2 So I did start as a side hustle first, but I did have some level of

Speaker 2 a mindset where

Speaker 2 I won't let anything or anyone stop me in persevering in something. You know what? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work out.

Speaker 2 There's a list of a million things you could do. Start crossing them out, the ones you don't want to do.
And that's what I did.

Speaker 1 So around age 21 to 22.

Speaker 1 Okay. Around age 21 to 22 is when you first started doing entrepreneurship.
You started doing your due diligence. You started researching, you know, reading Tony Robbins, Dale Carnegie.

Speaker 2 Great books, man like i love where's that poor dad yeah um yeah um robbe kesaki yeah

Speaker 1 you got it you got realistic

Speaker 1 so uh so with with that um okay and then now finally uh going into your 30s dude now you're living the dream uh you're transitioning now full-time into entrepreneurship building this uh seven to nine figure cleaning business um with that being said what do you think was the delayed gratification between the age of 22 to 30 that you're finally now going full-time into entrepreneurship and I always tell people this like take take my life for example dude I was

Speaker 1 18 years old I was doing nightclubs from 18 to 24 but then around the age of 21 I was working in corporate America so I was double duty and the reason why is because my mother my parents my siblings my ex-girlfriends at the time they were just like hey get a real job get a real job so so to me it was always that voice in the back of my head that was just like dude like do I should I get a real job?

Speaker 1 Like, what should I do? Right. So at the end of the day, what it comes down to it, did you have a similar experience or did you tried multiple ventures and just failed?

Speaker 1 Like, what was your journey, David?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
So this was my first year after college, getting my teacher assistant job, a TA position for a different school. And like I said, that job got me this job.
Right.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 Just different milestones. Now looking back, it's like, wow, all these things happen, right?

Speaker 1 What was the delayed gratification basically like from the age of like 21, 22, where you first started going into entrepreneurship?

Speaker 1 And then by the age of 30, now you're going full-time into building a seven to nine-figure cleaning business. Like, why essentially, why did it take so long?

Speaker 1 Because a lot of people, they think that once they start researching or studying to do entrepreneurship or invest into like a first program, of course.

Speaker 2 Analysis paralysis, my friend.

Speaker 1 Analysis paralysis. Okay, so that's what it was for you.
Analysis paralysis.

Speaker 2 A combination of that, but also time constraints with my corporate job. Got it.

Speaker 2 I knew I even told my parents, you know, and they're like, and they're, and, you know, they're very hesitant leaving last year, even too. Like, are you sure? You know, you shouldn't do it.

Speaker 2 There's benefits. Yeah, but there's way more benefits on the flip side if you actually grow and scale a successful business.
Absolutely. Right.
Yeah. So I've always been a risk taker.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I guess a couple other business ventures in the past where I actually wanted to start my wholesaling real estate business. Right.
My ex-business partner, we part our ways, whatever.

Speaker 2 It was a great learning experience, I have to say. Then I got into like trading Forex and crypto and stocks.
Made some money, lost a ton of money.

Speaker 2 That was a great learning experience for me too.

Speaker 2 And then I got, and then COVID hit.

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Speaker 2 Hives during my next spa day not if i can help it learn more at treatmyhives.com then covet hit right along the way i was building certain certain um skill sets right communication confidence right oh my god confidence and once you start winning you get more confidence right yeah yeah no absolutely then i got into the cleaning business right right just just after covet i'm like what else can i do i love cleaning i've always been a clean freak i've always been a clean freak in the family one of four kids i was the one in charge assigning different cleaning tasks hilarious my mom will tell me what to do and then i'll kind of assign it to my siblings uh my sister my brother you know you sweep i vacuum you wash the dishes right take out the trash um and yeah and then fast forward five years i got 25 cleaners on staff right now collaborating with six companies other cleaning companies and facility maintenance companies nationwide and i always always thought small.

Speaker 2 Now I'm thinking big. Like the market is huge.

Speaker 1 Huge. Huge.

Speaker 2 Huge. I mean, just Chicago alone, the market in Chicago, which complemented me branching and growing in Indiana as well.
Yeah. And landing those grocery stores, by the way.

Speaker 1 I love that. Yeah.
I love that, dude. So, okay,

Speaker 1 our listeners, they focus primarily on mindset, self-help, self-education. That's why people listen to this podcast, dude.
We grew to the top two business podcasts now up to this year in 2025, guys.

Speaker 1 And that's such a blessing. Yeah.
I mean, I got to give it up to Emilio, the guy behind the camera, guys. Emilio is the shit.
So with that being said,

Speaker 1 a lot of our listeners, whenever they do DM us or send us a message or email, they always say, like, hey, dude, like, we'd really love the fact that you bring on these different guests.

Speaker 1 And they actually go ahead and give us advice. So if right now somebody was to ask you, dude, how could I go ahead and get started? Okay.
And you, and, and here's, and here's the test, okay?

Speaker 1 Because I like tests.

Speaker 1 Clarity is everything in business. Clarity, okay? So a confused buyer will never buy.
Okay.

Speaker 1 So this is why I bring on the experts in specific niches and industries, guys, because dude, you're the go-to. You're the go-to in the cleaning industry.
You're going to blow up, dude. I know you are.

Speaker 1 You have a heart of gold and you're going to inspire a lot of people.

Speaker 2 Thanks for that.

Speaker 1 So with that being said, give us a short masterclass. Let's say five minutes or less, dude.

Speaker 1 Just let the audience know or the listener know how they could go ahead and jumpstart a cleaning business and land their first job.

Speaker 2 Amazing. Well,

Speaker 2 this would be relating to me when I first got started, which by the way, I had a different mindset. But I always knew I wanted more.
So I think that the number one ingredient to success

Speaker 2 is God.

Speaker 2 Having faith in God, right?

Speaker 2 Submitting to God.

Speaker 2 It could be challenging for some people, but that alone is the umbrella.

Speaker 2 Having the right mindset and taking massive action. So I was always the risk taker.
I always wanted to learn more, learn more, absorb more, absorb more, and then start taking actions.

Speaker 2 And I knew from the beginning, I know I will make mistakes. Right.
So

Speaker 2 I started cleaning houses by myself. I wanted to test it out.
The test went well. It was, I think, three to six months.
I got incorporated in January of 2021.

Speaker 1 And do you think it's important in the very beginning stages of building, like, let's say a one-man or one-woman cleaning business, right?

Speaker 1 Because it started off a side hustle, now you have 25 employees. Yeah.
But do you think it's important to take out like an LLC?

Speaker 2 Absolutely. Okay.
Absolutely. And operating any operation or business, you have to have a certain entity for different reasons, right? For

Speaker 2 protection, security, but also tax advantages. Okay.
Right.

Speaker 2 And just structuring yourself for success for the future, which will ultimately help you and other things you may also venture in, like real estate. Yeah.
And

Speaker 2 protecting and preserving your wealth against inflation, which inflation right now is crazy, It is. It's always changing.

Speaker 2 But yeah, from starting your LSC, it's very easy. You could go to your attorney.
You could do it yourself.

Speaker 2 Go to your state, right? You can make an LSC in Wyoming.

Speaker 2 I know there's benefits in Wyoming and Delaware, but if you live in Pennsylvania, if you live in Texas, if you live in Illinois, go through the state.

Speaker 2 If you want to make it even easier for yourself, which I created, the Illinois ATM

Speaker 2 Solution Company,

Speaker 2 I went to, they changed the name. It was Ink File, and now it's called Busy.
Yep. Busy.

Speaker 2 busy right two e's three three e's right and then from there you have to what i've learned is focus on your rgas what are your rgas your revenue generating activities what are you doing every hour of the day what are you doing every day of the week to attract the right people to get business in the door right every day is a launch in the beginning right and this is why most businesses fail in the first five years i think 80 or 90 percent of all startups fail i mean one of them is because of cash flow mindset and not focusing on your RGAs.

Speaker 2 I'm really, I've learned that a year and a half ago from my business consultant. Cash flow.

Speaker 1 Cash flow base. Cash flow.
Cash flow. Sales does it does

Speaker 1 work for everything, guys. It fixes everything in business.
So, okay.

Speaker 1 So you set up your LLC and then I'm pretty sure you have to allocate a certain amount of money to cleaning supplies. So for a beginner, let's say they're doing one man, one woman show.

Speaker 1 They want to land their first client. They don't want to overspend.
What would you say is about the average you would spend on like a set of cleaning supplies?

Speaker 2 Literally under $1,000. Really? It's not a big investment.
Man, that's that.

Speaker 1 That's remarkable, dude, because a lot of people are like, I need tens of thousands of dollars. I need hundreds of thousands of dollars.
You don't need $50,000.

Speaker 2 You're not buying a business, right? $50,000, $100,000, or $1 million to buy a business.

Speaker 2 If you want to start from the ground up and be the entrepreneur and be the CEO of your own company, you have to start from somewhere. So for specifically for cleaning, less than $1,000.
I love it.

Speaker 2 To get everything all set up. I love that.
All your documentation, right?

Speaker 2 Your articles, all that good stuff. And start getting basic supplies.

Speaker 2 Start cleaning small houses start cleaning barber shops on a weekly basis and things just start adding up from there right yeah your vacuum cleaner um uh shark i get shark which is like the one tier below of of dyson i think dyson's a bit overpriced but they're a great model right shark is one of our uh

Speaker 2 I guess, repeating kind of equipment that we use. We have our tornado backpacks, or tornado vacuum backpacks for more commercial spaces that we

Speaker 2 You need your mop bucket, your mop, some gloves,

Speaker 2 Windex paper towel, your toilet bowl cleaner. I mean, that's under $1,000.
Let's be real, right? Absolutely. And then you buy in bulk every so often, right? And you find a good vendor to supply.

Speaker 2 As you scale, you're going to eventually find a vendor that can help you

Speaker 2 maintain your materials.

Speaker 1 Any good vendors you would recommend for the audience that's listening?

Speaker 2 Yes, I do. I do.

Speaker 2 They actually

Speaker 2 changed the name from Seaway Supply Store in Illinois, from Bellwood, Illinois, or Maywood, I should say. And now they're called Brady IFS.
They're a national

Speaker 2 cleaning supply store. Okay.

Speaker 1 Right? Brady IFS. Just let them know that you heard it from Yanni.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And quick side note, part of my vision to be a full in-house facility.
maintenance company. So we won't be just doing cleaning here long term.
We'll be doing maintenance

Speaker 2 for the entire building. We'll be building and starting our own supply janitorial store.
Nice. We could supply chemicals, vacuums, and distribute nationwide.
Nice. That's part of my vision.

Speaker 2 That's how I'm going to hit 100 million. Yeah.
No,

Speaker 1 that's huge, dude.

Speaker 1 So, okay, so from that, you got your established, you got your foundation, you have your supplies, so your logistics. Now, let's talk about one of the most important aspects.
There you go. Business.

Speaker 1 Sales. Sales.
Sales. So how do we generate leads? How did you generate leads in the very beginning? Just to clarify for our listeners and viewers that are now just tuning in right now.

Speaker 1 And what would you recommend that they do, especially from a beginner aspect? There might be some people that are listening to this, dude, that have no sales experience.

Speaker 1 They might be like, you know, scared to talk to people, dude. What's the path of least resistance just from you, man?

Speaker 2 Leveraging platforms. and building your skill sets and scales and being comfortable and confident and talking to people.

Speaker 2 I start off with basic platforms. One is called Nextdoor.com.
Nextdoor.com. Another one's called Care.com.
I think they're based somewhere in Europe. But you make a little profile of yourself.

Speaker 2 Hey, I'm Teresa. I'm a housekeeper.

Speaker 2 I'm a nanny. I'm a dog sitter.
I'm a dog walker. You make a little profile.
You put your credentials. You put how much you charge.
And I started getting testimonials, or I should say, reviews.

Speaker 2 In the beginning, before I got incorporated, I was getting, clients loved me.

Speaker 2 At first, I was very hesitant, right? Walking in people's homes and cleaning, me being a male, right? In the beginning. But people eventually loved me.
I started cleaning.

Speaker 2 So leveraging Care.com and next door, like in the way beginning. Cleaning houses and selling cleaning services for houses is so much easier than commercial spaces.

Speaker 2 I will tell you that from experience. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. So, and then, and then leveraging Facebook, making a Facebook profile for your business, Instagram page.
And just start it, just start small.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Post once a week, then seven times a week, then seven times a day.
That's my goal.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. No, absolutely, man.
And that could become easier with processes and automations, man.

Speaker 1 So maybe after the podcast, we could go ahead and just give you a few tips and strategies on how to do that. I would appreciate that.
But

Speaker 1 yeah, brother. So

Speaker 1 what would you say is a good starting point for a beginner to charging for the services?

Speaker 2 A good starting point. That's a very good question.
It's a very...

Speaker 1 not difficult I know it's going to vary based on like square footage and all that jazz but let's say like a 1200 square foot 1500 square foot house how much would you you charge for that?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of variables. Scope of work, how many bedrooms, how many baths, right? Is this an apartment or a single-family house? Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 2 ranging, standard cleaning-wise, $100, $200

Speaker 2 in that range. per visit.
Now, if it's a reoccurring client, which we do have weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, we do have those incentives, right?

Speaker 2 If we could lock in and provide consistent cleaning for a house, a homeowner, right? If it's weekly, there's a discount, obviously, right? But that's the range, 100 to 200.

Speaker 2 On the deep cleaning sides, right? During spring cleaning season, which right now we're freaking busy, right?

Speaker 2 Ranging between $300 to $600

Speaker 2 per

Speaker 2 deep cleaning. We do a lot of move-in move-outs as well.
We have a great relationship with Killer Williams based in Lincoln Park, Chicago.

Speaker 2 So we do a bunch of move-outs for them for the real estate firm there as well.

Speaker 1 So then let me ask you, since you started off as a one-man team, now you expanded over to 25 employees, what is a reasonable size portfolio for one person to handle?

Speaker 2 You mean what? You're asking for one cleaner? How many houses they can or yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Basically one cleaner, dude.

Speaker 2 It's going to come down to their availability and commitment levels.

Speaker 1 So let's say you have a full-timer. Let's say you have somebody for like 40 hours a week.
Sure. What would be like reasonable like to start delegating?

Speaker 1 Because remember, like my mind right now, guys, I'm thinking like an operator, right? Yeah. You're telling me this, this high-level overview of your business.

Speaker 1 I'm just like thinking like, okay, so if I was to get like five cleaners and they worked 40 hours for me, how many houses can I delegate?

Speaker 2 We'll do the math. I mean, it comes down to the hours too, right? So

Speaker 2 we typically pay for labor cost 16 to 22 an hour, depending on your

Speaker 2 level of experience, reliability. First three months we get them onboarded, we have like a preliminary phase.
If they pass the evaluation and no bad reviews from customers,

Speaker 2 we give them a dollar raise. Nice.
Right. So we typically charge, depending on the house and also the city, you know,

Speaker 2 $40 to $50 an hour. That's the range.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So let's say what's the average cleaning time that it would take?

Speaker 2 Yeah, four hours. Four hours? Four hours a cleaning job?

Speaker 2 Probably

Speaker 2 10 houses a week.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I was going to say like two houses a day.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
That's actually a cleaner's dream to do two houses a day.

Speaker 1 Two houses a day. So 10 houses.

Speaker 2 Man, that's pretty good. But the thing is, not all cleaners do work full-time.
They have other jobs. It's a part-time.
It's a part-time thing. And that's where you could start.

Speaker 2 That's where you could leverage as the business owner and accommodate their schedule as well. And then I had the experience where cleaners have quit their jobs to work full-time with OPA.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Wow.
That's awesome. And so I have three or four cleaners

Speaker 2 since the beginning, for four years right now. That's amazing.
Yeah. Jose Antedisa.

Speaker 1 Dude. Shout out to them.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm just saying, dude, it's hard to find good people to work for, man. And, you know, I always say, like, that means you're leading by example.

Speaker 1 You probably showed them, like, hey, I did this and they're probably respect you for it, dude. You know? Thank you, yeah.
And I know that's huge in sales, especially, right? It's huge in sales.

Speaker 1 you gotta sell the vision that's just the client exactly also to your providers and your cleaners absolutely everybody dude everybody uh it does the sales process never ends right customer service is part of sales so with that being said dude um we're coming up to the end of our interview so right now let's say you have

Speaker 1 a hundred thousand people listening to this which it's very possible right Emilio

Speaker 1 obviously Paul obviously so all right you're gonna have a hundred thousand people listening to this when it goes out within a 30 range. And it's going to be inspiring.

Speaker 1 They're going to be like, dude, that's badass. He was a school teacher based out of Chicago, now full-time entrepreneur doing his own clean business.

Speaker 1 And they're going to be like, bro, how can I connect with this guy? How can I go ahead and talk to him? How can I go ahead and network with this guy, right?

Speaker 1 Because your network is your net worth, guys. So, Yanni.
Give us a few words of encouragement to the person who wants to actually start this business that right now is unsure of themselves, dude.

Speaker 1 This is the level up. It's about helping other people, dude.

Speaker 1 So what do you have to tell to that viewer right now that's listening to you, dude, that's on YouTube, that's watching your interview, and it's just like, yo, like, give us a word of encouragement, bro.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Number one, like I said before, have faith in yourself, have faith in God, right?

Speaker 2 Number two, having the right mindset. Number three,

Speaker 2 surrounding yourself with the right people. And I would say number four, take extremely massive action.
Don't be afraid of failure. Start today.

Speaker 2 Don't keep pushing the deadline to next week, to next week. Start today.

Speaker 2 Start accepting that failure failures and mistakes will come and you have to accept that and that will also build you build some character in you as well and i've learned in business this that in business you have to fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee sometimes dude that's it right muhammad ali muhammad ali that's right brother right so

Speaker 2 take a leap of faith in yourself right and try it out absolutely and try it out absolutely and never quit right and keep surrounding yourself with the right people and that's part of uh the motto here right like keep leveling up and that's this is why I came in today.

Speaker 1 That's good to you. You have to, man.

Speaker 1 You have to keep leveling up, guys. And as you level up, there's always going to be obstacles.
There's always going to be roadblocks.

Speaker 1 But with good people, good culture, and good surroundings, dude, you could go over anything, dude. You can expand.
You know, life is short. Go for it.
Make it happen. Go for it.

Speaker 2 Right? Go for it. Go for it.

Speaker 1 So, with that being said, where can they find you, my man?

Speaker 2 Yeah. You could find us at opacleaning.com, which, by the way, if the camera's right here, that's our logo.
Opa. Opa Cleaning.
Love Love it. We named OPA because it is a catchy name.
It's also Greek.

Speaker 2 Yep. Right.
And we have a lot of European customers as well in Chicago. And just a really catchy name.
I think OPA is a very universal phrase to use.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 2 Even with the Hispanics, too. So we love OPA.

Speaker 2 Our customers love that coming in. We're your OPA cleaners, right? But yeah, www.opacleaning.com.
You can find us on Instagram, same thing, OPA Cleaning.

Speaker 2 And then Facebook, OPA Cleaning, O-P-A-A2As, Cleaning. Right?

Speaker 2 You can also find us on LinkedIn as well. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Love that. Love that, guys.
There you guys got it. Yanni, the owner of Opa Cleaning out of Chicago, Illinois, guys.
Guys, that wraps up this episode. This is the Love All Podcast with Paul Alex, guys.

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