From Police Officer to Multi-Million-Dollar Business Owner

Rebuilding your life from rock bottom takes a different level of grit. In this episode of Masters of Home Service, host Adam Sylvester sits down with Kevin Cook, a former police officer turned multi-business owner and now sales coach. Kevin shares how he went from $31,000 a year and a house headed for foreclosure to building a seven-figure landscaping company, growing a 15-truck fleet, and starting over again.

Show notes:
[00:00] Intro
[01:14] Working 12-hour shifts and living on $400 a week
[03:30] How Kevin’s landscaping side hustle made $75,000 in year one
[06:13] The traffic stop that made him quit law enforcement
[07:59] Survival mode thinking that destroys sales
[09:06] Mindset shifts that helped him rebuild confidence
[13:41] How he scaled and sold his seven-figure landscaping business
[17:24] Building a 18-wheeler trucking company during COVID
[19:06] The “I’m your guy” sales mindset explained
[21:37] What it really takes to grow a landscaping company
[23:22] Lessons from selling a business and starting over
[25:13] How Kevin navigated difficult seasons
[26:00] How he thought about risk while scaling up
[27:39] His transition to becoming a sales coach

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