Peoplehunter was started in 2003 from our home when Flo Lawrence had an idea to locate missing clients for attorneys.  It took many years to create the reputation that Peoplehunter has today, of being an amazing company.  Our business does not come from advertisements.  It comes from clients that have used us and have referred us out to other attorneys.  The business comes from attorneys we meet in person at the conferences we attend most months.  We locate clients for you.  These aren’t clients you want to retain.  They are clients you have already retained, and they are now non-responsive.  Flo was a difference maker, not only in his personal life, but his professional life as well. 

Flo loved what he did.  Flo ensured he was always available personally to clients, friends, and family.  He worked alongside his employees locating your clients.  If he was assigned to your case, you received VIP service.   He knew that sometimes it may take well over the amount he would charge for a locate.  It wasn’t all about the money for him.  It was about being of service.  He always said, “It’s not my money, it’s God’s money.”  It was about making a difference to both the attorneys and their clients.  It was about making a difference for his family.  Being a business owner gave him the ability to go to our children’s sporting events while they grew up. He helped in their classrooms. He went on field trips with our boys.   He was part of the city council.  He spent years helping to get the first high school in Castaic built.  He was President of the Castaic Lions Club and headed the Thanksgiving Feast put on for the Seniors every year.   He was always present for us.  He would get more done in a single day than most of us could get done in a week.  He never complained.  I often heard him say,   “If this is my biggest problem for the day, I’m probably doing really well.”  I now hear myself saying the same thing. 

So many people asked Flo for advice.  He always knew what to say.   I know if he were here today, he would tell you to surrender your objections and your excuses.  He would want you to release your stories of lack and limitation and let them die.  He would tell you that it’s time to allow something new to show up within you.  He would ask you to look for something familiar that you haven’t seen in a very long time.  He would ask you to call in your greatness, your courage and call in that life you have been dreaming you can live. 

He left this world unexpectedly on 8/19/2020.  We were on a morning bicycle ride.  We had just taken our morning picture overlooking the lake.  The sun came down and a beam of light moved through his face to his heart.  It was as if we had caught the angels coming to take him home.  Two minutes later he left this world.   We called each other momma and daddy after we had our children.  Prior to having our children, he called me sweetie.  His final word to me was “sweetie”.  The perfect word that said everything. 

My life looks so different today than it did in August 2020.  Flo left this company in my hands.  His memory is kept alive at every conference.  I have a sign I take with me that lists out the company core values that we wrote together a year or so before he passed away along with one of my favorite photos of him.  Those core values are service, teamwork, efficiency, reliability, thoroughness, honesty, integrity, energy, adaptability, and abundance.

 Flo wanted the same thing for everybody.  He wanted you to live and live well.   Flo gave of his time, his money, and his energy, so others could live more abundantly.  I believe Flo lost himself in others so that something new and unknown could be born within him.  He wasn’t even conscious of this fact.  I believe his higher self, his soul, was guiding him.  He became a better person year after year.  His light was strong and vibrant.  If you knew him, you were touched by that light and it still shines within you today. 

Flo paved the road that I walk on today; and when I come to a fork in that road, and I am confused as to which way I should turn, I hear him.  He whispers in my ear every day.  He tells me how proud he is of all of us.  And he says, “You’ve got this momma!  Keep moving.  Don’t stop.  And know that I will always clear the path for you.” 

It's been an honor and a privilege to carry the torch that Flo passed to me.  I sit at the desk that he worked at every day.  I use his computer.  I even use his cell phone and his phone number when I am searching for clients myself.

For those of you reading this that knew Flo, I hope you will take a moment to quiet your mind and remember him; to rest in the stillness.  That is where I meet him every day.  He’s there and he guides me with invisible hands. 

There are no adequate words to convey how much he is missed.  But I believe the love that he left me with carries on in our children.  And for this, I am grateful.