“Fighting’s not the only thing I have in my life, and fighting’s not going to last my whole life, either. I can’t be 50 fighting, so I need to have something afterward that’s ready for me and hopefully be able to make a living for my family without me having to go to a 9-to-5 (job) if I get hurt during a fight or if I just decide I’m done. I don’t want to be going and working as a waitress again like I was when I was 18.
“… I grew up where we made our own meat. We got our own milk. We had our own vegetables that we vacuum sealed. We froze, we canned, we pickled – we did all of it. So I have a lot of those base talents, I guess you’d say, that I learned as a kid, and I decided to just take off with this one. … The opportunity showed itself when somebody was like, ‘Would you sell some of these?’ And I was like, you know what? I’m going to go for this and see what it does. And it’s not just me. I’m not over there just pickling all the time. My family’s helping me and I’m hoping to just hand it over to the less busy family members very soon and get (Prowler Pickles) FDA approved hopefully in the next couple months.”
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