ANTELOPE VALLEY MEDICAL COLLEGE
Sandra and Marco Johson (www.antelopevalleymedicalcollege.com) met in grade school while growing up in Lancaster. Their business, the Antelope Valley Medical College was started when Sandra would set up training classes for Marco in various aspects of EMT/CPR training, and he would then teach others the knowledge he gained. They saved money to lease a 700 square foot facility and purchase a mannequin. Their first year (1998) they grossed $6,000. Since then, they have exponentially grown in size over the past five years. Their major break came when they received national accreditation from the federal government. This enabled them to offer financial aid to students, and greatly increase revenues. This year they are projected to make over $7,000,000. They have a staff of over 60 people and have trained over 450 students. Their plans for the future are to franchise the CPR portion of their business nationwide and open more schools throughout Southern California.

ALDELANO PACKAGING CORPORATION
Aldelano Packaging Corporation (www.bossthemovement.com) handles the packaging needs of fortune 500 companies including General Mills, Proctor & Gamble and Kellogg’s. They have five packaging plants in California, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. Al Hollingsworth started the business in 1968 when he was 23 years old. When the club stores (Costco, Sam’s club, etc.) began taking off, Al says that created a great opportunity for him to work with major companies that needed “variety packs” to sell to those club stores. Hattie came to work for Al in 1970. She was supposed to be a secretary, but Al asked her to do sales where she became the top salesperson. It was a couple of years later that they became romantically involved. They’ve been married 32 years. The company did go bankrupt in 1985, so they started over with nothing. Today their multi-million dollar business is debt-free and they are looking to expand their business. They want to use their wealth to teach young people to become entrepreneurs.