'Keys to the kingdom'

Pinellas County College Hunks Hauling Junk franchisees Brandan Underwood and Acey Ignacio are all about transparency and teaching the business to their employees. Their goal? To help others achieve exactly what they did.

The Tampa natives, friends from Plant High School, went from part-time jobs to leadership positions at the corporate location for the $50 million organization-wide junk removal and moving company.

Underwood worked his way up to general manager and Ignacio the operations manager at the company, helping to grow the Tampa territory from $400,000 in annual sales with five employees to more than $1 million in annual sales with 30 employees, according to College Hunks Hauling Junk President and co-founder Nick Friedman.