dr. or carpenter. [applause] >> well, good morning. >> good morning. >> it's a pleasure to be with you this morning to talk about our book, and chip sends his regards as well. he is in retirement now in utah. so that would have been quite a trip for him to come. so if you know chip, he sends his regards. this morning, and i want to begin by introducing you to somebody from our book, and that is kim powers bridges. kim owns and operates bridges funeral home this tennessee. in tennessee. but she's not from tennessee. kim is actually from oklahoma. she started her first business there, a tunal business. -- funeral business. but she had to leave oklahoma when she ran afoul of the law. it turns out that kim was engaged in the very dangerous practice of selling caskets without a funeral director's license. before that in the early 1980s kim was on the executive fast track. she grew up in a family of hard working entrepreneurs. she learned the relationship between hard work and success. and after she left col

dr. carpenter. [applause] good morning. it is a pleasure to be with you this morning. chip is in no retirement in did you talk. he does then disregard said this morning i will begin by introducing you to kim powers bridges she owns and operates bridges funeral home in tennessee but she is not from tennessee but actually oklahoma she started her first business there but had to leave oklahoma when she ran afoul of the law it turns out that kim was a gauge in a very dangerous practice of selling casket's without a funeral director's license. before that she was on the executive fast-track growing up in a family of entrepreneurs and after she left college she enjoyed a lot of success in number of different businesses and ended up the one of the nation's largest funeral companies and saw this as the way to people through her work in this very successful in that business but after a few years there laissez a niche to be filled she saw in the funeral industry the merchandise was marked up a significant amount in trump 2536 and dispersant -- of two 1/5 the and 300 -- 600% so s