CNBC TV Blue Collar Millionaires

Steve took every kid's fantasy of secret passageways and turned it into a booming blue-collar business.

Charlie is the owner and founder of Paradise Greens, a lawn company that installs synthetic grass for residential or commercial clients.

Brian's mission is to help people who have lost everything. His company specializes in property restoration after natural disasters.

For a guy like Larry, retirement just wasn't his game. In 2000, he decided to break into the tire and wheel industry.

Denise Burgess took the phrase, "anything a man can do, a woman can do better" and made it a reality.

Dru and Ray stumbled upon a printing and packaging company that was near bankruptcy and turned it into a multi-million dollar company.

Bruce Schindler is an outdoorsman who moved to Alaska and fell in love with the art of fossilized tusk carving.

Richard Bell went from a failing business and living on his mother's couch to hitting it big in the surplus home finishing business.

Jeb recognized there was an opportunity to improve the auto parts delivery service. In 2011, with only $7,000, he launched Wheelz Up, LLC.

Chuck created In the Ditch Towing with no formal education, just hard work and sheer determination.

Since 2004, Laura has accumulated 18,000 acres of mineral rights which has made her millions.

Nick's business, Two Marines Moving, is not only run by an ex-marine but the company only hires ex-military.

Having the dirtiest of dirty jobs, chimney sweep Mark Stoner wrote the book on becoming a blue collar millionaire.

Hawaiian natives Joe and Kristen Souza say the greatest reward of their ukulele business is spreading aloha through music.

As a kid, a blue-collar work ethic was instilled in Steve as he worked nights and weekends for his parent's janitorial service.

Although it took over a decade, Jason was able to open his own painting and home repair company called Phillip's Painting that now boasts 150 employees.

Chris converted his obsession with racing fast cars into a lucrative business model that 16 years later, is pulling in $6 million-a-year

Dave and Kristen Weimer took a tiny construction business that made no money and turned it into a $20 million construction company.

As an elementary school teacher Scott took a part-time summer construction gig and turned it into his full-time career.

Nick and Dallas went from high school friends tomulti-millionaires by creating a company called 'Kush Bottles'.

This dynamic duo may be sitting pretty right now, but neither one of them is above jumping back in the driver's seat and getting their hands dirty, if needed.

Combining Rick's hobby of trapping and stuffing alligators with Bunny's bank teller money sense, the couple opened Florida Trophy Gators.

Debbie Wiener went from being a struggling stay-at-home mother to the owner, and operator of Slob Proof Furniture.

At a young age, Ron figured out how to make money by salvaging old auto parts and using them to fix up broken cars.

Mike has taken his childhood dream of owning a Lamborghini Countach and turned it into a custom car-building enterprise.

Connie was born into poverty and raised in the school of hard knocks. Now, her pavement company hauls in $2.6 million annually.

Mickey's company is responsible for laying thousands of miles of fiber optic cable throughout the country.

Simone was inspired to start a demolition company to help New Orleans (and herself) get back on their feet.

When Brian realized he was smarter than his bosses, he decided to go out on his own and start his own company.