Greensboro Reporter

If you're looking for a road map on how to succeed in business, follow the lead of a Greensboro woman who anticipated a need for mobile medical vehicles before the COVID-19 pandemic actually forced a requirement for them. 

Amanda Lefever went from college-scholarship recipient to college dropout to co-owner of Mission Mobile Medical, a business that started in January 2020 and is meeting the growing demand for its products. Timing sometimes really is a big part of success.

"I dropped out and walked away from my scholarship, and my parents were freaking out," Lefever told myFox8.com on Monday, explaining her road to entrepreneurship. "They were very upset with that decision."

Despite the risk, she and her husband Travis, the other half of the business, took all their savings and made the leap.

"Travis was in specialty vehicles (for a short while), and then we had the construction background," Amanda said in the Fox 8 report. "And he had seen there was a market and nobody was really pursuing it. We drained our savings and put $200,000 into this business."

In essence, the company takes used RVs, strips their insides and builds mobile dental- and medical offices in the place of bedrooms and living rooms. Since both Lefevers have backgrounds in construction work, it's not hard for them to sketch out a floor plan and make the changes.

By turning around used vehicles rather than creating them from scratch, Mission Mobile can charge approximately half-price for a unit that meets all the needs the client has.

A vehicle that would probably cost $500,000 new is out of the reach of many nonprofits, Lefever told Fox 8. She said Mission Mobile can typically provide a vehicle at approximately half that cost in half the time.

Amanda noted that it's all about the mission, hence the company's name.

"This team (at Mission Mobile Medical) is helping nonprofits and people all over the country and in Canada reach some of our most vulnerable people who, frankly, some have forgotten," she told Fox 8. "And so it's very powerful to look at what our clients are doing and how they're serving and feel like we've played just a very small role in that."