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.this great family success story may not continue. my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. we re not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. we re gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. it s not always pretty. everything s gonna change. everything. but i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. this. let s go to work. .is the profit. in 1994, michael and ramona woods launched ashtae a line of multicultural hair-care products based in greensboro, north carolina. ramona: we have a total of 29 items. lemonis: the woods focused on salons and beauty schools within the region, and the response was unbelievable. over time, sales broke through the $1 million mark. and as the business grew, their daughter taylore started pitching in. taylore: the numbers change every day. if we re gonna do inventory, we just need to knock it out. lemonis: but there s one big problem. the company s p ....
.this great family success story may not continue. my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. we re not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. we re gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. it s not always pretty. everything s gonna change. everything. but i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. this. let s go to work. .is the profit. in 1994, michael and ramona woods launched ashtae a line of multicultural hair-care products based in greensboro, north carolina. ramona: we have a total of 29 items. lemonis: the woods focused on salons and beauty schools within the region, and the response was unbelievable. over time, sales broke through the $1 million mark. and as the business grew, their daughter taylore started pitching in. taylore: the numbers change every day. if we re gonna do inventory, we just need to knock it out. lemonis: but there s one big problem. the company s p ....
in 2009 with the 82nd airborne. this was not an easy assignment. this was really dangerous work. in fact, 37 of the men that the sergeant served with didn t return home. it was in 2010 that he was severely injured in an ied blast. he lost an arm, a leg and 40% of his body had burns over it. he wasn t expected to survive the medical flight but he did, fortunately. thanks to really what may be described as a miracle and certainly the support of his amazing wife sarah, 110 surgeries and years of therapy, michael is able to join us here today. and it s veterans like michael that are the reason the v.a. exists, why when i had the privilege of sitting in my office not too long ago with michael and sarah talking about their experience that it was really heartbreaking for me to hear their story. because the v.a. had failed michael. he had to jump through one bureaucratic hoop after another just to try to get the services that he deserved and he earned. in one situation he had t ....
severely injured in an i.e.d. blast. he lost an arm, a leg and 40% of his body had burns over it. he wasn t expected to survive the medical flight. but he did. fortunately. thanks to really what may be described as a miracle and certainly the support of his amazing wife, sara. 110 surgeries and years of therapy, michael s able to join us here today. and it s veterans like michael that are the reason the v.a. exists. it s why when i had the privilege of sitting in my office not too long ago with michael and sara, talking about their experience, that it was really heartbreaking for me to hear their story. because the v.a. had failed michael. he had to jump through one bureaucratic hoop after another, just to try to get the services he deserved and he had earned. in one situation he had to wait 57 days just to get his prosthetic leg fixed. he had to wait 3 1/2 years to be able to get the type of adaptions for his home that he needed to be able to live comfortably in his ho ....