Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jordan Spring . We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Jordan thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with a story that highlights an important way in which your brand diverges from the industry standard.

With many business the standard is just the basic outline of the rules. In the reptile industry the basic standards for many are purchasing, selling, and probably keeping. Although our small business, Green swamp Exotics,LLC does this, we do go above that. We trap nonnative and invasive species, Removing them from the wild. We educate the public on native, nonativr, and even the venomous snakes and how to live with them. Green Swamp Exotics is slightly more diverse in operations than most. With less than 10 people in Florida being able to remove iguanas and tegus from the wild alive, we are honored to be one of those 10.This has probably been one of our best successes, we have removed alot of iguanas and a few tegus, which allows native species to come back to the areas. All the tegus have found amazing pet and education homes and some of the larger iguanas have as well. We enjoy making a difference.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I understand people reading this may not know who I am, which is fine, I am Jordan, I am the CFO of Green Swamp Exotics LlC. I am 1 of less than 10 people who can remove iguanas and tegus alive and also a college student working on a bachelor’s in environmental policy and management. Our business was established in 2019 after over a decade of animal keeping alone. We didn’t start catching or trapping until 2021. We attend almost all the FWC commission meetings and speak publicly about fair rules for Exotics, with an emphasis in the conservation aspect as well. We do educational shows, birthday parties, and also buy and sell reptiles. We work with a wide variety including large prohibited reptiles such as reticulated pythons that we are permitted for. In the long run we do want a store front as well as a zoo front so we can continue both routes.

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

Building a reputation is an important business aspect. Although we do educational shows with schools and such, I believe one of the things that helped us get more noticed is the public speaking. We attend almost all FWC commission meetings to voice for fair and reasonable rules. I look at both sides when I do this and always strive for the middle. As a newer trapper/catcher people who have done this for decades have thanked me for being a voice. I never noticed people knowing me or my business until more recently, I have always looked at all of us at working together.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

When the 2020 and 2021 prohibited species bans came into effect one of the rules caused us to have to pivot alittle in our business. The rule no longer allowed public contact on prohibited species, this included: burmese pythons, reticulated pythons, iguanas, tegus, and even other reptiles in this category. This was detrimental to us as many of our shows consisted of touching these animals and eleviatiating fear to create understanding. It hit us on some of our events but we fought to get some of that back. We won that fight and now our educational programs can utilize the animals more effectively again, even though the public can’t hold them by their selves.

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