On this episode Bella speaks with Justin Recla, Operations Officer for The Clear Business Directory Due Diligence and Vetting Solutions. Justin Recla They discuss: The importance of vetting your potential business partners, employees, and service providers How best to go about vetting How Justin and Tonya's background in Counterintelligence translated over to the business world. Does having a due diligence process tells others that you do not trust them? How business owners can use their vetting process when marketing themselves.   Justin and Tonya Dawn Recla are Army veterans and former government agents who bring over 20 years of combined counterintelligence experience to the business world. They established The Clear Business DirectoryTM and have forever changed the way business gets done. For the first time, consumers and business owners alike can make sure potential partners, investors, and service providers are who they say they are and can do what they say they can do. You can find out more at ClearBusinessDirectory.com. Subscribe To The Show: Transcript: This is episode 53 of Bella in Your Business. Welcome to Bella in Your Business, where Bella will discuss anything and everything about your pet sitting business to help you land on target. So get ready. Bella’s got your chute. Let’s jump. Welcome to another episode of Bella in Your Business. Today, I am definitely going to bring an incredible topic that is never talked about. I guarantee you, if you go try to find this topic in the industry, you won’t find it. So this is almost an exclusive on the show. Today, I have Justin Recla with me. He’s an Army veteran and former government agent who brought over 20 years of combined counterintelligence experience to the business world. He established the Clear Business Directory and has forever changed the way business gets done. For the first time, consumers and business owners alike can make sure potential partners, investors, and service providers are who they say they are and can do what they say they can do. How often have you hired someone for your business and just gotten burnt? If you’ve had that experience or you fear that experience, this episode’s for you. Justin, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on, Bella. For sure. So why don’t you fill in the gaps there and break down for me what counterintelligence and a former government agent mean? That sounds so like 007. Super secret and sexy stuff was actually what Tonya did. My wife is also a former counterintelligence agent. Together we have over 20 years of combined experience in the field. Essentially, it is that cloak-and-dagger thing. Tonya was doing investigations, surveillance, and interviews of people who were actually committing espionage against the United States. She traveled all throughout the country following people, surveilling them, and investigating them. A lot of my experience was over in Afghanistan and Iraq, more on the offensive side, gathering intelligence from people. We’ve translated that over into the business arena to help protect business owners from frauds and scams and, more importantly, how to leverage transparency for their own business to establish trust quicker with potential clients. I love that. And before we dive deep, I also want to let our audience know that not only are you two badass business owners, but you also have a daughter who is a bestselling author and all this stuff. Everyone, I met this incredible family at the Fast Inc. networking conference I was at last week, which was just the most anointed place ever. It had the feeling of the Holy Spirit or the universe or whatever you associate with. It was all over that conference. I met this family, was so impressed with them, and instantly drawn to them that I said, you have to be on this podcast. But more so, I want you to tell us about Neva, what she’s doing, and what just happened to her. She’s seven years old,