Trying to do a knockout with text.

I admittedly am an amature illustrator user. I have only used it for a week now. I do have experience in photoshop so the learning curve was ok.
I want to create a vector logo so I cannot use photoshop. I know how to do what I want to do in photoshop but not in illustrator.  I need to do a knockout on a letter of text combine all objects together as one so I have a single vector file with transparency in the appropriate places.
There are 6 elements in this graphic: clean, green, text on bottom left, text on bottom right, the arrow on the "g" and another "g" (in white behind the green making it appear as a knockout).
Visually this works as long as you have a white background since the rear "g" is in white. There is a white stroke around that "g" creating the knockout effect. What I have been trying to do for the last 2 days is combine all of these elements into one object with everything white being transparent. I am frustrated.

Ok, we are getting somewhere. Thats a whole lot of steps to do a simple knockout but it worked, thank you.
The only problem was when I outlined my letters in "clean" I lost my gradient fill. When I tried to add it back it puts the gradient in each individual letter not the word as a whole. I am sure I was supposed to prep something properly and I did not.  Do I have to do this over or can I fix it from here?
It now looks like this:

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