We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Addison Belland. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Addison below.
Hi Addison, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
I have always listened to the good Lord in my head since I was young and learned to trust the process in life. My life has lead me through incredible and unexpected experiences that has landed me; happily married and owner/operator of Keep Animals Out LLC. I seek to understand; people and wildlife. I have always trusted I have a purpose and it wasn’t the most clear until I got together with my husband. Alexander and I met when I was 13 and he was 12; he was my first kiss. Then we went to different high schools and didn’t try to form a relationship until we were in our mid 20’s! He had an amazing baby boy, born on my birthday and was 4 when his dad and I started dating. We are now a supporting tripod of love for each other. Alexander was working for a private wildlife business for years and began coming home with moral dilemmas, feeling he was becoming a salesman more than anything. Then Covid hit; I got sent home for months, (I worked in an elderly care facility doing cosmetology) and decided it was time to start our own business keeping animals out of homes and businesses. Alexander and I both have a love for animals and taking care of people. The industry of pest control has become all about contracts and keeping people on maintenance programs instead of actually keeping animals out. We decided to go all natural and successfully find ways to keep animals out of homes. Our purpose has been presented by the good Lord through us trusting where we are being brought to on a moment to moment basis.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
My husband and I keep animals out of your home and or business. We are the owners and operators of Keep Animals Out LLC. We are an all natural company with the ways to live around wildlife and not with wildlife. We share our knowledge and experience of wildlife behavior to help people better understand them and how to keep them outside and keep homes off limits. We teach people how to deter wildlife naturally and teach wildife that living in houses will get them evicted and or live removed and safely relocated. We also seal up “entry points,” ways wildlife find to get inside out homes. We make repairs that last and successfully keep animals out.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Looking back on my journey thus far; patience, trust and being a sponge have been the most impactful for me in being successful and happy. My advice for anyone at any point in their journey is to be courageous and try being more patient and trusting the process and being a sponge. My sponge analogy means to always be open to absorbing new information. It also means to filter the information you bring in, question its validity and if it doesn’t resonate, squeeze it right back out, just like a sponge. Keep what serves you and let go what doesn’t. When we are open to receiving and to letting go, we can constantly upgrade, balance out and be peaceful in any situation.
Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?
My parents taught me to seek to understand; ask questions and go to God.This has kept me opening and closing doors in my life that I would not have had the strength or know how if it weren’t for them. This came from crazy experiences with them as well, making me able to navigate the storms of people, choosing grace over frustration. I have been taught to go to God and question even my parents; learn from their thoughts and perceptions on life and gain a better figuring out of my own life and how to share with others the good word, good feels and good life. I am eternally grateful for all my parents did, good/bad/right/wrong. I am eternally grateful for my relationship with God and all the power and peace it brings. I am eternally grateful for all the love and lessons I am here to share.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://keepanimalsout.wixsite.com/keepanimalsout
- Instagram: Instagram.com/keepanimalsout
- Facebook: Facebook.com/keepanimalsout
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@keepanimalsoutllc?si=iaoGFkyNc2cqVl4M
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/keep-animals-out-littleton-3
Image Credits
Addison and Alexander Belland
