 Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Geeks are sexy. I'm Jason Laduke from Evil Genius Leadership Consultants And I am your host on the fourth Friday of every month taken over from Michelle Davis for the Geeks are sexy show We're talking about business success and all the great things for entrepreneurial spirit and being successful here in Las Vegas We got a couple great guests for you today actually three great guests for you today We're gonna bring on Dwayne Davidson from entertainment capital group And then we've got Katie Watford who's a fashion stylist and that's a little bit of a new guest that we've never had before Remember all our guests back at the end of the show for our panel discussion But first we're gonna get right into it with Sean Phillips in from Morrison security Sean. Thanks for being here today on D So having a very happy to be here. It's great to have you Sean was born and raised here in Las Vegas He's seen firsthand all the exciting changes that have come in the last 20 to 30 years in town And after starting a career in sales He's actually found a passion a career and a passion in private security and Helping businesses identify their security needs those vulnerabilities and finding ways to help those businesses at a cost that fits their business as well Welcome to the show Sean. Thank you. Thank you very much So tell us about growing up in Las Vegas tell us what you've seen change and tell us why you see that there's a need For private security for businesses here in Las Vegas. Absolutely. So You know growing up in Las Vegas and never really knew how rare it was to be a native Las Vegas until I got the question You know what hotel did you grow up in so but after that, you know I started taking a look at my city as a whole and realizing how it's transformed It's still a great city. I love it But as unfortunate as it is with growth comes more crime as well so being able to be a more Morrison security and Reach out to the community. I feel like I'm making a greater impact in the city that I grew up in That's great. That's great. We all one of things I've learned I'm not a native's Las Vegas, but I've learned the first time I lived here and since especially I've been living here for the last Almost three years now that Las Vegas really want to make a positive impact on Las Vegas and grow Las Vegas in the community That we can be proud of here, and I think that's great. So tell us how you became involved with Morrison security How did he end up working there? Well, it's not it's not too crazy of a story there I I met the branch manager at the time. We were good friends He knew my background in sales and I've done security in the past as well as well as a military career And so he introduced me to the CEO. We sat down had an interview and the rest is history. Okay, cool So tell us a little about what Morrison does for their customers Well, first of all, we give our clients peace of mind knowing that they have an officer on site who can take the burden of Needing to constantly be aware of what's going on in your site. Take that away from the business owner Let that let us deal with the vagrants the police reports things like that let let us take take it off your plate so you can run your business keep your venue safe and Successful that's that's awesome because one of the things that I work with my clients on and we talk a lot about on this show Is if you're a business owner or your the GM of a location One of the things really important is that you're working on your business and you're working on the strategic level and thinking about all the Things you need to do is the business owner of the GM think about the relationships You need to build and not working in your business because that's what your your managers are for and your staff to handle those things Before you even know you have a problem and one of the things that really impresses me about Morrison is this is about Human security. It's about having officers on site who are handling those things for you Especially the the police reporting is something where to come up So what are some of the things if someone's a business owner and they don't have security currently as part of their business portfolio The things that they're relying on and we all have a banker and insurance agent a lawyer and that kind of thing But not all of us have security. They've got a brick and mortar business What are some of the indicators that a business owner should be looking for and what what are some of the things that if they see these Things these indicators that they should be calling Morrison Well, I mean, there's there's a lot of ways to determine whether or not you should bring on security First and foremost, it's kind of a general general rule there if you have about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars of assets or potential loss that you stand to lose during a hit or a Disaster things of that nature that could be prevented not even just a theft But let's say a fire and if you don't have anyone watching your your site at night and it catches on fire Who's there to call? You know, hopefully it's someone calls a woman on the street But you never know but when you have an officer on property when you're not there or when you can't put your eyes On the on the scene That's what security is there for so hundred fifty thousand dollars. That's just a general Ingestimation really but okay every business can assess and can they stand to lose a large portion of their business and still succeed? And then the other way they can kind of gauge is check out crime maps in your area So it's very easy. Just Google crime maps in Las Vegas. There's several websites for it. Type in your address and Go back as far as we want six months yesterday It'll give you a list of everything that's been reported in your area or on your site Even that you might not have known about and the last data range that you select Now we are living in a digital age and a lot of folks are gonna say they're gonna say to me They're gonna say to you you're gonna say listen, I can go get a bunch of internet security cameras and I can I can have Every square foot covered on of my my shop and look at it and watch it from my phone Why do I need a security officer? Well cameras are great We love working with businesses who already have established security surveillance programs But camera is great without someone behind it. It's great to watch the guy walk off with your stuff as he waves to you So having an officer on property we can still Coordinate with the surveillance system put a garden in a guard shack with monitors and everything or if you want to keep on Your phone and you get an alert on your phone Hey, something's going on you call the security company call our dispatch 24-7 anytime you need to get a hold of us you can get a hold of the officer on site We respond to it. We deal with it. We'll liaise on with the police for you Great one of the things that impressed me most when we sat down we had coffee earlier in the week And one of the things that impressed me most about you and Morrison security in general is you have a very strong sense of professionalism With your managers and your supervisors and your officers But you and a very strong sense of ethics tell us a little about how Morrison Applies that sense of professionalism and ethics with its officers and its customers and how they foster that in the company. Absolutely So I love our management staff. We have a great team over at Morrison It's taken a while to develop but we have an extremely solid team now The great thing about all of us in our management team is we all started wearing the uniform We were all security officers at one point so we learned to follow before we can lead That's a very strong. I know you're you have a military background as well So do I and several of our supervisors do as well So we take those those values those lessons we learned Growing up in the military expanding and gaining experience in the military and adding it to how we do business at Morrison Yeah, it's a it's very hard to find a place other than this outside of the military where ethics and professionalism are discussed So often and and I really respect what you guys are doing at Morrison So tell us a little bit. We've got a couple minutes left. Tell us about a specific instance where you've helped accustomed Sure, absolutely. I met I met one of our clients. We networked up and we started a contract came into a partnership She owns a local strip mall a little Plaza in the area there It had it already had security, but they wanted it. They weren't happy with their service. They pushed them out We came in we First of all when the very first night hit there was myself the branch manager All the supervisors and any officers that were going to be on that site We're all on that site in force to train to learn the site together So it's not like we just sent someone off and said good luck to you. Okay, but no, we were there We learned what the site was. How are we going to manage a site that we don't even know what it is? So we were all there. I went around we address the situation of vagrants dumpster divers Panhandlers things of that nature. We went in we cleared them out when we did we made sure to say hey There's a new security company here. Mm-hmm and thing is that people might not know but there's communities of vagrants homeless That they you know the living washes things like that as sad as it is but they do and they talk they talk to each other say Hey, I have been going here this place the people are very generous there I mean there might be an elderly community there that kind of has a hard string for us So they start hitting places. They're easy and when you let them know That they are not welcome on property They are if they want to do business by all means but if you're there to cause problems to vandalize to panhandle to cause a nuisance We're gonna we're gonna stop you. We're gonna get rid of you once they Get that picture things tend to subside It sounds like you really handle very tough problems very tough conversations With some of these communities with professionalism and respect and compassion for their situation And I I think that that speaks volumes to why you're so successful and people keep calling you to to come in and handle their Handle their security so overwhelming right now. So we just got a little bit of time left How can our viewers get in touch with you and how can they get in touch with morris? And if they see those indicators If you've got those things that shan talked about and that's going on in your business or you're thinking of it You're thinking that you might be right around that $150,000 threshold where you can't afford to lose it in one shot How can you how can they get a hold of you to to get you to come talk to them? Absolutely very simple. Go ahead and give our office a call. Remember 702-262-0096 Also, you can reach me by email and we can chat that way s philipsson at morrisson security dot com All right, john. Well, thanks for being here. It's great to have you Thank you very much sure. We'll be in touch in the future This is geeks are sexy and we will be right back with dwayne davison from entertainment capital group