Her Story
About Jacy
Jacy Hajostek is a versatile professional based in Aledo, Illinois, with expertise spanning firearms instruction, real estate, property leasing, motorcycle building, and artistic pursuits. She began her firearms instruction career in 2008 and has nearly 20 years of experience as an NRA National Rifles instructor, teaching basic pistol safety, concealed carry courses, and legal logistics to over 7,000 students. In real estate, she has served as a leasing agent completing more than 1,500 leases and maintains her license while focusing on other ventures. Hajostek has built motorcycles for about nine years, including custom work for notable figures, and once operated her own garage at Sturgis dedicated to choppers. As an artist, she creates jewelry and kinetic pieces, with her work featured at the Black Belt Treasure Cultural Center. She attributes her success to a desire to become a legend whose name endures, noting that passion feeds passion and that success comes from touching lives and maintaining strong ethics. Hajostek supports the Scleroderma Foundation and emphasizes giving back through knowledge sharing.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Jacy
01What do you attribute your success to?
I want to be a legend because I will never die. If I'm a legend then my name will live on hundreds of years past you. Passion feeds passion. Everybody's 6 degrees from each other.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
You've already made a name for yourself. Now you get two choices. You can either be famous, or you can be a legend at what you do. I want to be a legend because if I'm a legend then my name will live on hundreds of years past you.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
If they're a 9-to-5 or they're so set on autopilot that they know that that paycheck has to come, it's scary to let go of the 9-to-5 to pursue your own dreams. But once you do it is so rewarding. Having a good social network, a good social backwing.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge is just trying to be consistent to a point where your name carries itself. Advertising. I spent a lot of money, like $10,000 a month in advertising. Now it's wanting to advertise again but I have enough clientele from over the years that I don't really need to.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
It's about how many people did you touch while you're out there? How many people did you actually make a difference in their life. I'm giving you tools for your toolbox, and your toolbox is knowledge, and whatever I teach you here today, I need you to go teach somebody else for free. It's not about competing with people, it's about being able to do something, or have the skill set, or an ability. I have to be very, very, not only just using a good code of ethics, but you have to be very staunch in your ways.
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