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EXECUTIVE: Todd Hopkins is the founder and CEO of Office Pride, a Palm Harbor-based commercial cleaning company with franchises nationwide.

DIVERSION: Hopkins is the author of several inspirational business books that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. His books include “Five Wisdoms for Entrepreneurial Survival,” “The Janitor,” “The Carrot Chaser” and, most recently, “The Stress Less Business Owner.”

ORIGIN STORY: Much like someone who discovers religion midlife, Hopkins discovered a desire to write after obtaining a degree in management in 1987 from the University of Memphis. He had just landed a job that required him to travel around to college campuses teaching leadership courses. It was at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn., where he crossed paths with Terry Davis, author of “Vision Quest,” a coming-of-age novel that was adapted into a movie of the same name.
That meeting occurred back in 1988, and though it would be well more than a decade before Hopkins published his first book, the nonfiction “Five Wisdoms for Entrepreneurial Survival,” he says his encounter with Davis “planted a desire inside me to write.”