Thomas Green here with Ethical Marketing Service on the episode today we have Mitchell Tucker. Mitchell, welcome, awesome, thank you so much. I appreciate it. It is my pleasure. Would you like to take a moment and tell the audience a bit about yourself and what you do? Absolutely. So like I said, my name is Mitchell tucker, I have about 13 years prior law enforcement experience, you know, I was raised in entrepreneurial based family. My dad was an entrepreneur. My mom was an entrepreneur. They own their own businesses but I was, I was attracted to law enforcement at a young age and at 18 I joined the police academy, became a cop in 19 years old, couldn’t even by my own bullets, but I was carrying and I loved law enforcement.
My last couple of years I worked as a robbery detective, a narcotics detective. Um I just felt called to that. But you know, I had something very interesting happened to me. I went to a call, this is after I came out of narcotics, I was working, I was back in uniform working patrol and I got a call and call that. No, no law enforcement officer like getting probably and it was an elderly lady and she said my husband’s going out of town and I would like an officer, a deputy to come to my house show me how I can make it more secure so I can feel safe while he’s out of town now. I just worked several years undercover and uh doing all kinds of really cool stuff. So I’m now I’m in uniform sweating my butt off, it’s hot, I live in Florida, I got a vest on, you know and I’m heading to this lady’s house to teach her how to make the house more secure. So it wasn’t the most exciting thing so I’m get there but you know even though I don’t enjoy the call and I show up with a smile and yes ma’am, I would do this and I would do that and this is how you make your house more secure And I owe that lady a lot now because she said something that changed my life one sentence she said, Wow, the peace of mind you gave me is worth every bit of $500 and to think the sheriff’s office does this for free Now mind you I was there 10 15 minutes And I thought to myself she would have paid me $500 for this, I was here 15 minutes and that entrepreneurial lightbulb kicked on and it changed my life and that’s that’s really how I started to have that shift in mentality and started looking for opportunities and this is what I like to tell people the opportunities were always there, I just wasn’t looking for them because I didn’t have that shift in mentality.
She said that I shifted my mentality and opportunities arise and it’s not because they weren’t there previously just wasn’t looking for them. So would you say that was another thing that called you to change from being a cop to a business owner? Yeah, absolutely. That was, that was the, the number one thing that that turned on that entrepreneurial lightbulb. And you know, then I long story short because we’d be on the podcast all day. But I had a, I started looking for opportunities and I found this product, I developed this product that was an alarm system and it’s pretty unique. You don’t need any wires or sensors, it’s a box this big, you plug it in and protect your entire house. And um, but I needed a couple $100,000 to make it happen. So I found an investor I wanted to work with and I pitched it, he told me no. And then he told me no. And then he told me no. And, and I, I didn’t let up on him. You know, I was probably eight or 10 no’s in a row. And finally he said Mitchell if you send your device because I had a, it wasn’t finished by that prototype.
He said, if you send your prototype to all my product testers and they give the thumbs up, then I’ll invest in you. I said, fair enough. And I didn’t have a patent. So I super glued all the screws in because I didn’t want them to take apart my device, right? And and learn what was on the inside. And I sent it off to all these product testers. They all came back and gave me a thumbs up and I was like, yes, I’m in. And uh, he comes back and tells me no. I’m like, are you kidding me? Like what is going on? So I called him up and uh, he’s like, I’ll never forget it. He answered the phone. He’s like, yes Mitchell, How can I help you? Because at this point I’m getting annoying. Right? And he goes, look Mitchell, You almost made me break my number one role. I like you. And I like your product. And because of that, I almost broke my role, but I refuse to break my role. And I said, what’s your role? Like? Tell me so that I can fix it for the next investor. And he said, I never invest in someone who doesn’t have any skin in the game. He said, you’ve been a cop all these years. You’ve got a successful career. You’ve got a bright future in law enforcement.
I can give you hundreds of thousands of dollars. You could blow it all. I lost my money. You lost nothing. You’re still a cop. So I thought to myself, man, he’s right, I don’t have any way to put skin in the game, I don’t what am I gonna do? Like how can I, you know, there’s no way to prove to him, I didn’t have any money, I was a cop and cops don’t make a lot of money. And so I get home that night laying in bed up all night and thinking and praying and trying to figure out what can I do. And the next day I wake up and I have the answer, I’m gonna quit my career. So my wife is laying right next to me, she wakes up and I said, hey babe, I’m gonna quit my job and and and I was blessed to have a supportive wife, you know, that her face was initially like what? You know, are you, are you sure? But then she said, you know, I trust you if that’s what you wanna do. You know, I think any real man will will find a way to provide for his family regardless unless you’re sick mentally or physically, if you’re a well bodied man, there is no excuse for not providing for your family that might hurt for people, but that that’s my personal belief and opinion.
And I think that I’ve instilled that in my wife that she knows my kids will never go hungry, my mortgage will never go unpaid because I’ll do whatever it takes, I’ll dig trenches 24 hours and have to and because I’ve instilled that in her and gave her that confidence in me, She said, go for it. So the next day I go in, in that day, I go in with my, my letter in hand, I typed it up, printed it and my two week notice, I didn’t know it’s the sheriff’s office policy that they let you go same day, you know, they don’t want someone who doesn’t want to be there carrying around you, right? So they let me go the same day. And I remember thinking, oh man, I thought I was going to be working for two more weeks. I gotta figure this out quick. So I called the investor the potential investor, mind you, he wasn’t even investing at this point on my way home. And I say his name was Ben. I said, hey Ben. And he answered, I’m surprised he even answer because he’s like, hey Mitch. And uh, I said, hey, I quit my job. And he said, you what? I said, I quit my job. And I said, you said, I didn’t have skin in the game.
I wanted to show you I got skin in the game. So I quit my job. And he’s like, you’re freaking crazy. He said, if you can sell me, you can sell an alarm. So then he ended up investing in me. And that started in my entrepreneur journey. And then I started my, my business intact. Security, which is a security guard company and uh, it’s just, it’s floating from there. But it was those, um different times throughout my life and different events that were basically signs on the wall for me is at least how I took them. And uh, really propelled my entrepreneur journey, amazing story. Thank you for sharing it. I was half expecting you to say that the investor wasn’t in, but you quit your job anyway, looking back on it, would you have done it exactly the same or would you have secured the investor before you quit your job? I would have done exactly the same. I tell you it wasn’t easy and you know, I wrote a book, mentally tough and weak society, it was the number one seller on amazon for a while and my, my passion is teaching people mental resilience because the story is awesome, but the story doesn’t end there.
The alarm, the thing, the thing that, that I initially was, was going after initially failed, plummeted and um, you know, you hear all these stories and you’re like, yeah, and then you’re, you’re waiting for me to tell you, oh, he invested in and now I’m a millionaire and everything was happy go lucky, that’s not how it worked, and that’s 99% of time, that’s not how it ever works. Um, and I think so many people, they hear those stories so that when they go on their entrepreneur journey and they make it to that point and then it fails, oh, I’m a failure at it and work and then they go back to the 9 to 5 or whatever it is, you have to practice mental resilience because the truth of the matter is my first entrepreneur journey. Your first entrepreneur journey, the 1st 10 20 probably won’t work, but that’s okay because as long as you love the journey and you’re not just going after the destination entrepreneurship is an incredible thing and I recommend it for everybody. I started a company called intact security, which is a security guard company, me and my family and honestly, in my mind, maybe not in everyone’s mind, but in my mind It was to provide income until the product I created made me a multimillionaire, right?
It was supposed to sustain me until this thing became, became something incredible and it ended up becoming my primary income and it grew to be, you know, we do millions of dollars in revenue, we’ve got 40 or 50 incredible employees, 45 incredible employees and it wasn’t supposed to be my primary income, but being able to shift and be fluid and that’s what entrepreneurship is about, being able to take the blows and keep on pushing through and then make something out of it. It’s interesting that, you know, the thing you mentioned the thing that you, it wasn’t supposed to be a primary income, but kind of people vote with their wallet, right? So if you’re providing something that people want, you’re going to be rewarded for that. And so it makes sense to me. I’ve heard it, I’ve heard it a few times in terms of, you Know, you have to be, you have to respond to what people want, not necessarily what you think. So 100% on board. I did before we go away from your time as a police officer, I did want to ask you what you learn from that period of your life because it sounds like there’s gonna be tons of learning lessons from, from that, from your career.
Do any spring to mind. Oh man. It could be a whole other podcast. Yeah, you, it was incredible. I just did a video on this. If you look at the most successful people, they in general, not everyone, especially not in sports, but in general. The thing that they became the most successful and wasn’t their very first venture. In my, in my opinion, the reason is, is because everything that they’ve done in their life has taught them life lessons and as educated them and let them look at life through a different lens, through a different perspective. So if you have someone who goes into a product and hits it big, he’s only looking at life through that one lens. He only has that one experience. So when he gets hit with something that’s completely off wall, it’s gonna wreck his world, right? You have the person who attempted and failed, attempted and failed, attempted and failed, attempted and then crushes it, That person is more resilient, That person is more, he’s got more mental fortitude and you can look at life through different perspectives and different lenses because he’s had more experience.
I believe that if I wasn’t a cop at the first part of my life, I don’t know that I’ve been so successful in intact being a cop allowed me to sell intact. Uh my security company at a whole other level who understands security better than a law enforcement officer. I mean, I had a lot of experience there when you think of the practical experience as to running the security company from being a cop. So there’s that aspect of it. But then there’s a whole another mental aspect of law enforcement aspect of, you know, never giving up. And I’ve been I’ve seen the worst in people and I’ve seen the absolute best in people. And so I’ve learned a lot of life lessons in law enforcement, being able to see both sides, both spectrums of our, of our society and who is your typical inquiry in terms of people that ask you to help them. Yes. So we’re kind of all over the map, as far as far as the security company goes, you know, I own and operate a couple of different companies, but as far as intact security goes, we provide security for apartment complexes, hotels, um, golf and country clubs, assistant living facilities were all over the place anywhere.
You see an officer in uniform. Um, you see, you can see one and then, and then tax security officer. Okay. And you men mentioned mental resiliency in one of your answers. Um, what does that mean to you? And what would you share with others on the topic? Yeah. Whenever I think about mental resilience, I think about my dad, he was diagnosed with the disease when my mom was pregnant with me and they gave him seven years to live, My dad just passed away a few years ago. So he constantly went against all odds and he was constantly overcoming. And the guy was in so much pain all the time and he always had a smile on his face. He always pushed through. He was always at every basketball game at every event he showed up. He made money, he made it happen. And I believe my dad was one of the strongest men that’s ever walked this planet and at least mentally. And I learned so much from that being mentally resilient to be able to take the blows and keep on going. Because if you can’t, you’re not going to succeed, right?
Failure only kicks in when you quit, failure is not a thing to me. I’ve never failed in my life because if you don’t quit, you can’t fail right now in a different definition of failure. Yeah. I’ve taken a lot of failures, right? But in my definition of failure, I only fail when I quit. You mentioned that story about your persistence with, with the investor. So the reason I laughed is because you already kind of alluded to the fact that failure is not an option in that scenario. Yeah. And like that, that product, that product, um, that I initially created, it’s, uh, it’s that we’re still working on it and it’s taken life works. So it’s incredible how things work. The initial product failed. Um, and there’s a bunch of aspects to that the investor wasn’t so interested anymore. There’s a long story into that, but because of that, the product evolved into something that I didn’t even envision so much better, so much better. I haven’t even released it yet. So I can’t really, I don’t want to talk about on the podcast yet, but it’s coming out soon and it’s like apples and oranges.
It’s so much better than what it was. And uh, so I’m really excited about it. If it would have worked out the first time we wouldn’t have been, it wouldn’t have made it to where it is now. And I know it’s kind of hard to explain without seeing it and understanding what it is, but um, you just be able to take the blows and realize that things happen for a reason it’s not always negative even though it feels negative and that if you don’t quit, you don’t fail. I respect the spoilers, You can’t reveal too much. That’s fine with me. But one of the things which I was really interested to talk to you about is the peaceful savage because it just sounds like something really cool. Can you share what that principle is? Yeah. Now we’re getting into my passion. So the peaceful savage, we’ll share briefly where I came up with the name and I’ll share the concept behind it. It was about three o’clock in the morning. I woke up on a dead sleep with the words peaceful, savage on my brain. So weird, right? Because the two don’t even go together. So I grabbed my phone, three o’clock in the morning, I put in my notes peaceful savage. And I went back to sleep because I didn’t want to forget it because I thought it was a really cool phrase.
Right? Wake up the next day. I didn’t need it in my notes because it was the first thing I thought about and I kind of brushed it off. I get the kids ready to get into school, you know, life. I get to the office peaceful, savage. It’s still in my head and it’s constant. And so I jumped after about like three or four days about popping up in my head quite some time, remember the exact time frame, but it’s constantly in my head. I finally had some time I said, I’m gonna dive into deep dive into this a little bit more. So I look up the definition peaceful. I look up the definition of savage. I’m not connecting them at all. I mean, they’re completely and uh I don’t know if you’re a spiritual religious person, whatever. I’m a christian and I uh I won’t go through the whole process how I got to the bible verse. The Meek shall inherit the earth. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of that verse, but there’s a verse in the bible that says the meek shall inherit the earth in my Neanderthal thinking, mind the thought to me like that doesn’t make any sense, like a meek person. Come try and take my wallet and see what happens. Right? It’s not gonna happen.
That that’s what I initially thought, what the bible is referring to is not this meek, timid little guy, He’s referring to this epic warrior. I mean, this guy is skilled with the sword, he could cut down anything in his past in his path. This guy is a beast. But due to his meekness, he leaves his sword sheath, right? He shows mercy and meekness. And because of that, he keeps its sheath and that’s the person shall inherit the earth. And I thought, wow, that’s very similar to peaceful, savage, right? Peaceful. But when he has the ability when he needs to he has the ability to be a complete savage. You look at law enforcement, they walk around with the batman belt, right? When I was a cop, I was carrying on my hip, I had a vest on. I had the ability to be a savage right. I would never do that. I had the ability to cut down anything in my path with my rifle. But due to my Peacefulness, due to who I am, I kept my firearm sheet that kept it in his holster.
But when I, if I was ever presented with and put in the position where I needed to, I had the ability to become a savage, I had the ability to protect when I needed to protect to keep those safe, who I swore an oath to keep safe, right? Because I was equipped and I was prepared. So it’s kind of the idea of the peaceful savage. I don’t know what category you fall into and a lot of people don’t like talking about politics. We’ve been trained right not to talk about religion or politics. I talk about both all the time. So I fall into a category and a lot of other people do. The silent majority. I believe that what’s wrong with our society is that we are too silent, right? The people with the um outrageous beliefs and and in different ideologies, they’re very, very loud. The the conservatives and like I said, we can do, I don’t know anything about the way you believe thomas, We can disagree and we can be complete friends and that’s what America is about. Freedom of speech and and be able to communicate like this.
I believe though in my personal opinion, you know, the silent majority stays silent too often. I, this is why the peaceful savage, this is one of our staples shorts, I don’t know if we’re gonna have video, but it says pro God, pro family, pro life, pro American, offended? peaceful savage. Right? A lot of people hate it. A lot of people love it. That’s okay. I love everybody. But the fact of the matter is this is the way I believe and I’m not scared to share it, right. And neither should you. And I also believe on a personal development side of things. I believe everything should be attacked as a peaceful savage. I believe if you want the very best marriage you could possibly have, you need to approach it as a peaceful savage. If you want the best job, the best career, you want to become the best entrepreneur, you can, you need to approach it as a peaceful savage and you need to, which which means you need to approach it more or less as a savage side of things. Just all in never give up full force. 100%. And that’s where the term peaceful savage come into and that’s a really brief, fast description of the peaceful savage.
We got a book coming out called the peaceful savage. It’s in the personal development niche. Um, it kind of follows the first book I wrote mentally tough and weak society. It’s a little bit more hard hitting than mentally tough and weak society. So if everything I said, if anything I said offends anybody, you’ll probably like this one a little bit more because it’s not as hard hitting, but the peaceful Savage should be out in December. And so I encourage anyone if that’s interest you. If anything, I said interestingly, go check that out. There’s a lot there to respond to. So great answer, thank you for the answer. I would like to know how you apply it to, let’s say, your your business, for example, how would you go about applying the peaceful Savage to business? Well being able to, you know, there’s so many people that are timid and scared to share what they believe and feel I’ll never be that, you know, when I first started speaking out and saying like, this is how I believe I’m not a very controversial person, not by nature, right? I’m actually very, very reserved.
You know, I’ve been on camera quite a bit now, but if you would have asked me a year ago to jump on this, I’d have been stressing out to get on and get in front of this camera, right? Um, it just wasn’t in me, so I’m a very non controversial, but I’m very reserved person, but I got to a point to where I was sick and tired of seeing our society and our country going the direction. It was. Not only not only morally, but people are People are bots, they’re not living life with intentionality. They go, they wake up and this is everyone’s life. I mean this is this is literally what people do every day. They wake up, they go through Duncan or Starbucks, they get their coffee, they go sit in a cubicle or go to a job that they don’t like for 8, 10, 12 hours a day. Then they go home, they pick up the kids or whatever they eat, they say good night to go to sleep. They wake up, they do it again the next day. I mean literally robots. What what about that is enjoyable, right?
There’s so many people who are living their life like that and they do that year and year out year in year out for and they look forward to a one week vacation once a year. Man, that sounds like a garbage life. I mean, and everyone under the sound of my voice has the if you’re living that life, you have the potential to change. You have the ability to change, you have to you have to be willing, you have to have the mental resilience and that’s where the idea of the peaceful, savage. I mean, peaceful, savage and mental resilience are are like this that’s aspect of becoming a savage right is being resilient and never giving up, never quitting and pushing through. If people don’t like what I have to say, then there’s a ton of other content creators out there, you just click a button and I can disappear and you can find someone else. But you know, if you’re living that life right now and you can turn on the savage inside of you and realize when you turn the savage on you, you turn the fear off, right? When I’m when I’m when I’m approaching business as a peaceful savage, the first thing that goes is fear. It’s always gonna be in the back of the head.
I just don’t let it control me and it shouldn’t control you because if you let fear control, you never do anything great martin Luther King. I’m sure he was scared when he got on stage and said what he said, you know what I mean? Everyone that’s great that stood up and went went against, you know, and had some form of opposition. They were scared, but they didn’t let it control them. And that’s why they’re great, great answer in response to the politics side of things. My I’ve stayed away from it. Not necessarily from a silence perspective, but the whole show is like about how to how to do better in life. You know, one of the things that can make us have a better life or do better in business or do better in general and what my personal experience has been as to the more you kind of enter the field of politics and talk about politics, it does not help you do better. If anything, from, from my experience, the more you kind of engage in that conversation, the worse it gets for you.
But I’m interested to know what your thoughts are around that response, because, you know, maybe I’m wrong about it. No, and I agree with you to an extent, I don’t because if you speak strong on politics, you’re going to alienate a percentage of the country, right? And then they’re not gonna wanna become your customer, right? So, as far as business goes, I get it, I don’t, I own my own intact security. I don’t post on the website. Any politics on my intact security. Social media sites. I don’t I don’t post any politics. It’s strictly intact. Security. We talk about security and that’s it. We leave politics out of it. But I own intact security. So when I speak, a lot of people would consider me speaking for intact. I’m not necessarily speaking for intact intact. Is intact. We provide a security service and we do a great job and our reviews speak for themselves. And, you know, but if you ask my personal opinion or me Mitchell tucker or the peaceful savage. I’m I’m not setting out to talk about politics. But if someone asked me my position or my opinion, I’m gonna share it.
But as a general rule of thumb, you are correct. You don’t necessarily want to mix politics directly with your business. Now, I will say that depending on what side of the fence you go on and we won’t go into detail. I believe that in a way it could benefit you in some aspect, depending on what kind of business you do depend on geographically where you’re located. I think there is a benefit there to some extent, but I think in a general thumb leaving politics out of your business directly is probably a wise decision. Well, I’ve made, I’ve made the wise decision so far then, so I appreciate that you talk a little bit on, on success. I mentioned the fact that I asked the same question at the end of every episode, I say, what does success mean to you Mitchell? Yeah, successes. It’s a good question to ask because everyone should have a different, well, everyone probably has a different definition of it. We think about success, we think about money, cars, big house and you know, they say money can’t buy happiness. That is true. Success to me would be, I think they’re staples of success that will always remain true, being able to provide for yourself and those that you love and care about, you know, general life necessities, those are always going to be a staple of success.
Anything outside of that would be someone’s personal opinion. I just wanted, I want me and my family to be happy. I want my kids to grow up in a free and happy country and um I want to have enough money to help myself and help others, you know, my biggest thing is I want to make a lot of money and it’s not necessarily for myself, but I want to make an impact. If you make $50,000 a year, your impact will be here. If you make 150 over here, if you make a million, it’s here and it’s only gonna grow my, my my goal in life is to make the biggest impact possible. Most people are loved for one generation, remembered for two and then they’re done right, No one will ever speak your name again after three generations. And uh I don’t want that to be the case not only for myself, but I want to make the world a better place when you’re dead and gone. If people can’t say that, Yeah, he made an impact, He made the world a better place while he was here. What was the point of your life? So my version of success would be able to, when I take my dying breath is to know why I lay on my deathbed that I made an impact and I made a difference.
That’s a great answer and I heard um you said about money and happiness, I heard that money can buy happiness if you’re willing to give it away. So I like that that’s kind of what kind of what you said. Right? Yeah that’s so true. Yeah. I mean if I’m sure you’ve been in the position where you helped someone out who generally needed it. You’ve been at the gas pumps and sell an elderly lady pumping gas and are getting ready to pump gas and just go over and swipe your own card. And that that feeling you’ll get and the reaction you’re gonna get from her. I mean you can’t buy that anywhere else and any materialistic thing, materialistic stuff. That feeling you get from that you’re not gonna get it from your Lambo. It’s just not gonna happen. Well um I really appreciate you sharing the peaceful savage. I think the concept is cool and all of your your experience from being a police officer I think. Great podcast guest. Have you got any closing thoughts for us today? Yeah I appreciate it. I’ve enjoyed it. I liked it.
I liked it a lot. If you’re interested you like the idea of the peaceful savage. I suggest everyone go check out ps oath dot com peaceful Savage both dot com. There’s an oath that we live by as peaceful savages. And if you check out that web P. S. Oath dot com there will be like a one minute video which plays the oath. If you agree to the oath you can sign and it will actually add your name to the list of people who signed the oath. There’s almost 300 people or so. A little over 300 people who signed the oath. Your name will get added to that list. And then you will be emailed when the book is released. So do you um do you happen to know what that, what the details of the oath are? Yeah, I do. I don’t have it with me right here. I can pull up. You want me to read it? That’d be great. Yeah. Let me pull it up real quick. Here it is. So the peaceful, savage oath I take this oath by my own free will, knowing that I am bound to it by my word and my reputation, I will take full responsibility for my actions and my inactions. I know that ultimately my success relies on my shoulders alone and I will refuse average and always strive for excellence.
I will prepare myself physically, spiritually and mentally, so that I can be a provider to those who cannot provide for themselves when necessary. I will always be willing to stand in the gap and protect those who cannot protect themselves. I will be vigilant, proactive and intentional while working on becoming the very best version of myself, I’ll be an upstanding citizen of my community and bring value to those around me, to the best of my ability. I will always do and say what is right, regardless of the consequences and our opinions of others. I will instill all of this in my kids and other young men and women around me so that there will always be a generation of peaceful savages, willing and able to do what is right. How good is that to end the episode? Awesome. Thank you so much. Thanks Mitchell. I appreciate you.