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SUPPLEMENTS

GALAXY SMOOTHIES

OWNER: DERICK HILTON

“This is just the beginning for Galaxy

The best is yet to come.”

Growing up I always played sports and was really knew I had made other people a lot of money and
active and when I got older I was started getting with the oil and gas industry being so unstable at
into boxing. I won a 4 state boxing title and different times depending on how the economy
opened my own boxing gym where I worked with was I didn’t want to rely on that and have the
the youth in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, future of my family be dependent on that so I
Texas. Then I started focusing on my family and knew I wanted to own my own business one day.
career in the oilfield which spanned almost 2 My wife and I over the years went through our
decades. own weight loss journey.

During that time my wife Sarah and I had two I helped her in the gym and we transformed our
sons Spencer 17 and Elijah 13. I knew that I didn’t lifestyle and enjoy sharing our testimony with
want to only rely on making other people money. I people to give them motivation. Once we moved

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