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Lauren Luckey:
From Army Captain to Entrepreneur
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f you want to be successful in your business ventures, career, or whatever your pursuits in life are, take a cue from former Army Captain turned Entrepreneur, Ms. Lauren Luckey. It’s not by luck, as her last name suggests, that the once Army captain has become a local business success. It was being a visionary, understanding the needs of local consumers, realizing where a gap existed, and taking the risk when the opportunity presented itself. Above all, it took grit for her to be where she is now. Ms. Luckey has come a long way in her career and has a track record for success, with her career starting in the Army. Having that experience prepared her for the stress that comes with the uncertainty of becoming a business owner, she said, “If you’re not being shot and you’re just in the real world, it’s really not that bad…I can handle a lot of stress. And I just think it makes me a better overall leader, to be able to change with every situation, because every small business or launching business or growing business, it changes by the minute…”
Present owner of Mint Locker, a 24-hour dry cleaning service, she believes lockers are the way of the future. She strives to revolutionize the dry-cleaning industry, mostly by eliminating the stress that comes with making it before closing time to drop off your dry cleaning at a traditional dry-cleaning store. Mint Locker offers 140 commercial/residential buildings and four store fronts, located throughout the Las Vegas valley. One simply drops off their dry-cleaning or other laundry items at one of their highly secured lockers, any time that is convenient for them, and Mint Locker turns it around in 1-2 days. The service also offers shoe repair. Prices range from $2.50 for a laundered shirt (business/button up) to $55 + for a leather jacket. There are 3 easy ways to request service: on-line at Mintlocker.com, via text, or through the mobile app Mint Locker. Wanting to further grow her business, Ms. Luckey proudly shared that she recently launched a new business called Kensington, a private butler service. With this new business venture, she is expanding her services to the next level.
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By Brenda Damian
Currently the mobile app, Kensington, offers dry cleaning, but in 60 days they will be adding services from house cleaners to car detailing. Every 60 days, a new feature will be added on the Kensington Mobile app. Ms. Luckey said, “We’re pretty excited about it because we’ve done a lot with Mint Locker, but this is the end-all, be-all for service. We want to create the same company that will do your laundry, clean your house, and clean your car. A one-stop shop for services”. Becoming a business owner has not come without sacrifices for Ms. Luckey. However, the challenges are always having to be on call to answer to employees, to customers, and to meet other business demands. But, the rewards of having her vision come to fruition are rewarding and worth the hard work for an ambitious, gogetter like Ms. Luckey. She had this advice for anyone that is looking to open a business, “I just think if someone doesn’t have that self-starting drive, then it’s not going to go too well, because if you’re easily deterred from what you’re trying to do, then there’s so many distractions in this world…I believed in this one goal that, hey, one day Mint Locker would be here. And one day, we would launch [Kensington]. At the end of the day, you’re going to lose a lot of friends…You’re going to run into a lot of people that don’t understand you. But, if you believe in yourself and your path, and what you’re doing ... I always try to make the right decision…as long as it’s moral and ethical… and not just the easy choice, so that you can go to sleep every night and say…I did the best that I could”. MV
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