From a Wheelchair at 14 to Running a Family Farm

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[SPEAKER_00]: actually fell out of a third story window and crushed my spine and spent my first year of high school in a wheelchair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Charlie Hayes was my first business then I did pop ups at the farm COVID happened and so I started that business off of all my extra flowers that I wasn't going to use for the Charlie Hayes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're definitely worth some loads before the happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Your own thought, your own instinct, don't base all of your decisions on what everybody else is telling you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Be Like Changers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am Kathy Co.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Chair host and we are here to share real stories from real people making a real difference in business, family and our communities.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Today, my guest is someone I admire for many years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We go way back in our early pop-up days when we were both setting up as vendors and learning firsthand the power of collaboration and

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[SPEAKER_01]: Taylor, Jessica is a mom of two, a event planner, a florist, an entrepreneur, a co-owner of hometown, a late-the-family farm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Through multiple businesses, she's helping families create memories, supporting local small businesses, and shows her children with entrepreneurship looks like in real life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And most of all, she's an amazing friend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Today, we're talking about motherhood, business, community, collaboration, creating experiences that matter, and why supporting local isn't just good business, it's building a legacy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Taylor, welcome to be like changeers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so excited to have you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been wanting to bring you considering we did have our, you know, my party at your place.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, when be life changers was there, we did our launch party at hometown of Leitha family farm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a gorgeous place if you've not been there, you definitely have to get out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We did do that and J.T.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Visuals was there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what did you think when you actually came into the studio today?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was so surprised.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was so surprised.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so fancy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's so nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've watched, I've watched the videos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've watched the content.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's so well put together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very professional.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's for that team right over there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love Jared and the team that they're amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like my family.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We all are in it together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of like how we are, you know, coming together is all about collaboration.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think so many times people think they're in competition and really when we come together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We rise to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely community over competition every single time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: every single time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I am so glad that you're here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I know I'm this year I was like I'm going to set time aside to start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: like venturing and doing all of the networking that I need to be doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I, you were my first first stop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel, I feel that is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I know, I know I've been there with you through it all and you have been really pushing hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a lot and I know phone calls I've called and you've been in the basement like I'm in the basement.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't leave.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm puking 500 orders or whatever I'm doing down there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, it's amazing for us as friends as to see each other and like see where we were.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all the progress.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I guess, so I'm raised in a family of entrepreneurs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've definitely had jobs in my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've worked lots of different places, but really, it was definitely a passion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I knew it was going to be the way I just didn't know I was going to acquire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: so many different businesses that I didn't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that comes sometimes like when we when you're truly having an entrepreneur experience like, well, I see this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So when he goes into that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm saying you're no you're like, well, I do I have three things going on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and with it, a lot of them kind of like steam roll into the other one and it's kind of like a new avenue or whatever path of the same business kind of, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they do a lot of times they do an online do they connect a lot and then that shift and pivot sometimes is really hard because you are wondering how they're going to connect.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So tell us just a little bit about which business came first and then we'll go from there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Charlie Hayes was my first business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I started that originally while I was pregnant with my son.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My first and that slowly that business also evolved and expanded.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It started off as like homemade hair bows and bibs and baby mobles because that was what

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I was in deep with being pregnant and then it turned into more of a spiritual business later on with that being like a product I was making I then started doing the vendor events and then as that went on I was like this would be a great thing that I could do at the farm so then I did pop ups at the farm and that became its own separate business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With all of the pop-ups, that's where we met.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so that would have been that time frame of my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then fast forward, you know, I don't even know how many years from there, um, COVID happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And with the flower shortages, I started to have to order.

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[SPEAKER_00]: overseas and order larger quantities for the Charlie Hayes business and I would have extra left over and it was kind of a dark time for everybody so I started that business off of all my extra flowers that I weren't wasn't going to use for the Charlie Hayes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would make arrangements and we would porch drop them through the day because what else did we have to do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know we couldn't go anywhere so we did little flower arrangements for everybody through the community and

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there's nothing I getting flowers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was bright these are days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was such a fun, and it was such a fun time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think back, and I'm like, the kids and I drove around and delivered to all of our, you know, friends, poorches, and their friends, poorches, and it just, I don't know, now I would not want to spend eight hours in a car driving.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got too many things to do, but that seemed like such a crazy time of like simple, I guess, I don't know, but yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so TJ events is your pop up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Correct.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So TJ events is the pop up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's how we met.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I know we had I had started in 2016 and was Casey women's events at the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I had been doing them all over Kansas and Missouri and castles mansions golf clubs wineries and a fun event venues.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's how I found your guys is venue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and then we came across and started collaborating.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so really as far as I can remember as far as the events go, you were always there, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like I can't definitively say what event or what time you were right, you were present for, but as long as I think about the events in the past, I'm like Kathy was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That, you know, it was so fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it makes it so much easier, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When you like cross promote.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, because that's how you really get a crowd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's important to bring out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I know recently there's been a lot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a lot of things going on right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I see both sides.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I see us as the coordinator side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I see a vendor as a vendor side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because we both have been vendors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You were selling that your items.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I used to sell baked goods a long time ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You make tons of banana bread.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because you brought it to the winery before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, yes, so that's how I'll start it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I know when it comes to the cost of the booth and everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But there's just been a lot of like, and it shouldn't be that way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think when a vendor can really come to their coordinator and talk to them and work out things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I also feel that coordinators working together like we have done really does help because it helps one with communication.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and also I believe it helps with that cross promoting to make sure that, you know, your vendors or have other places to go so they can make more money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then not only that, then we don't choose the same day because that helps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that is a huge thing and I tried to reach out to a couple others and I'm like let's all coordinate and not everybody is receptive of that collaboration concept.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But aside from like the community over competition and collaboration, aside from like the benefits for the vendors or the benefits, there's also the benefit in like the education of life or the education of business or even education of vendor events.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean,

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[SPEAKER_00]: you don't know everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're never going to know everything and every single experience you have or you share with somebody you learned so much from.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's, I think that's probably one of the greatest things between

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[SPEAKER_00]: within collaboration.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When you're like able to step, set our pride a lot aside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can I present?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and you never want to be the smartest person in the room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I always want there's always somebody else around that you can learn something from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Most definitely that circle that you're in that room is always choosing what room you're in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's why I always talk to about, you know, I've done a lot of education for vendors now that I'm not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: putting on the right up event right I'm there you know as a mentor for the ladies that are doing they can use my audience that's how I've done that I'm sure the audience so now all those blood sweat and tears years of getting 6,000 vendors in a group and building a reach of where I reach 20,000 people yeah it's really been

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[SPEAKER_01]: hard and I don't want a newer coordinator to experience that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they can come under me and learn or not really so much learn, but just have that audience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Adding to it as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's keeping it active and all of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, so that my community that built has shows to come to and businesses to shop with because that's what they want to do and so so tell us a story telling a little bit more about what goes on at home town elite the family farm Oh my gosh, it's kind of like what doesn't go on there at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We want to keep it as inclusive and family friendly as possible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's huge for me because when I first started the events in the event world, being a vendor, there were a lot of wineries or venues where it was 21 plus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that was one thing that I wanted to bring to this venue as that it was family oriented.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what else are we doing there?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're doing every kind of event you can imagine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, kid activities during the day and we keep those free to the community because my goal is, yes, obviously as a business owner, you want to generate revenue because you want to turn into the green.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But a big passion of mine is giving back to the community and that's how we maintain it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we've got a full food menu now and I'm still working on it every week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We kind of launch a few new items on it to give everybody time to learn it in house

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm just excited for what the internet looks like so much because I remember when you first started tweaking and moving things around a little bit to do more that family oriented you know so it could be for families and I come out and tried the drinks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's like so many different drinks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, and I just loved it because even the kids get a little drink with the little is so it is so you because so pretty, they have all the, you know, Right core on this on the cup and you feel like your real special going in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted it to be a place that

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, when you go everything, I like everything to be a celebration.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to make every little thing in my life feel like a celebration.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so when you go to a restaurant or you go to a concert, you want your cup and you know, to look aesthetic, you want your plating to be aesthetic, you want to be able to take photos with your family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we have plenty of spots in all of that for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because like I said, I want everything to feel like a celebration, even if it's just going to a

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, there is a way to make that a thing that you can post on social media and share with your grandma, you know, that might live in another state or however, whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, an experience and those kids don't get the word experiences, you know, I mean, they're going to remember that and it's something you do that very well for your family, which we'll talk about that a little bit, but you're doing that for more than just your family, just your kids, you're doing that for all kids and that there is

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[SPEAKER_01]: Enjoy in that I'm sure I'm sure to see all the kids smiling to see the family smiling and I mean to watch it grow from the beginning with just the pretty drinks and now you'd like have the food and There's like I got my tomato girl

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got my tomato plants, guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I should have, I should have popped the picture up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm not going to take my phone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But literally, they came out and they were like, these little things, and I don't grow things, guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, my mom has always had a green thumb, and I don't, and I'm like, but then now they have these apps on the phone that you can take a picture.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it tells you, like, if your plant is healthy or not, and what is going on with it, and what it means,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm like, okay, I can do this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know why it got into me this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I really wanted to start with an herb garden, but there's some reason I came out for a farm and to make it look like this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was for the mother's day weekend and it was Bifelike.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was for the mother's day weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, well, if I killed $9 worth of, I should've stopped that bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I took it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I get home to like, oh, you're supposed to have one of them cone things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, that's so good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did you get a code thing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I went to the doll.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was kidding.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got this, like, thing that you lay it's go up, because I didn't figure out later it was the doll.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, it was too late now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's growing up that vine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I hope it's good, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Massively tall now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I can't wait in the little buds are coming outside Do you have it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you put it in a different like pot?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, or is it the ground?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a pot It's a big pot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't put it in the pot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a ground girl I like if I do everything is elevated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I don't want to be demo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I get that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love pot So like and so I did all the earth and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, you said the previous dead eggs like I like the hanging plants in the

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so I did guys go and the tomatoes are growing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're good to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we have a plan nursery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot about that part.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the nursery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Literally what don't we do there?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now you have different areas for people to experience the city and together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is just amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So congratulations, really.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have been pushing super, super hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hometown, late the family farm exist to create moments where community comes together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Families make memories and small businesses have opportunities to grow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If I was to wrap it up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, that aligns.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, we're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for doing that for us because like literally I go out there sometimes in work You know, this is quiet and I'm able to find this a solace place and it's like some of the aesthetics are so pretty So I can just sit there and it really does help me, you know, calm down relax, you know from all the things so

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[SPEAKER_01]: So now let's talk about one thing I love about you is that you're involved with your children in your business because we're both alike like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all about our kids.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I wanna talk about raising entrepreneurial kids for a little bit because seeing our kids at a young age and being able to find their gifts, talents and abilities, it really does help them and it helps them to grow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so why is that important to you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I can tell you how, how it's came to be in my, my family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Charlie had a lawn money business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he had this pushmower.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had a couple lawns.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He would get $40 a lawn halfway through that summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, no, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is too much for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was nine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nine years old.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a lot for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he wanted it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he took these jobs on and he agreed

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[SPEAKER_00]: So halfway through, he's like, oh, no, I can't do this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, well, you have to finish your commitment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then after that, you never have to do this again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so what we learned from that experience is that he doesn't want to launch this, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but aside from that, he also learned commitment, keeping his word.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's there's a different pressure when it's your own business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's different than just showing up to a job and performing at whatever level they want you to perform at.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a whole different level because this person, if you don't show up to Moe their lawn, who's going to Moe, they're going to have to Moe it and that doesn't make somebody not super happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what he learned from that experience and what I learned from that experience were all the things that I just listed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, with my daughter, she's got a slime business and so she has to ship on time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She has to respond to the messages or tell me to respond to the messages.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if I don't print the label for the day, she has to tell me at night, Mom, we've got to go print that label because that order, when is that order do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and so you're instilling values into your children that they wouldn't have learned anywhere else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's fun to get to do it together, you know, I remember because of course my kids are, you know, grown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and um, but they're all entrepreneurial spirit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and even my shy one, the oldest wedding I get into the trading cards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I mean, so he doesn't know things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's buying and selling, but that was, yeah, exactly buying and selling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So even, you know, my older ones, which I always say when I was, because I was really young when I had kids.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got married at a very young age.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was married by the time I was 20 and then I had my first baby by the time I was turning 21.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I was a little timid and didn't know who I was like 100%.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But when I had my, you know, fourth and fifth, which was Hesakaya or Genesis and Hesakaya, I was more into, I knew what I was doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was working in the gym.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had my own business going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had

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[SPEAKER_01]: a brand of daycare, all those things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's more confident.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you can see that in them, even to the state of the ones that are, you know, big entrepreneurial, you know, doing stuff and flipping things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it's, it's amazing to see that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they watch us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so you doing that for them is just setting them up for success.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's that, and it's also letting them know that this is an option.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you don't experience something, I think I think back, and I'm like, I, you know, you had teachers tell you, you can be whatever you want to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you really know that, like you know what you are surrounded by, and so with my children trying and dabbling and doing all these things, and being doing so many different us, doing so many different businesses, they've learned that they can literally do anything through that, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's also important, I feel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and to understand that, you know, if you're really wanting something, you can go get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, and if you're not happy, where you're at, you can change.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that is, but that's having every business they really like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess that's okay not to do this thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in that evolution, my Charlie Hayes business, it actually changed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I rebranded at one point in my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so my son knows that, you know, like, he remembers the hair bows, because he was my very first model.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I used his little toes for these barefoot sandals that I made, you know, and and that's not what I sell any more, so that's not what I make any more, so, you know, and it's fine to watch it as it evolves, you know, and all the things we've learned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All the passions that we've learned and then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: sometimes wondering what purpose was that and then later you're like oh wow now I see how that ties together you know because when I did switch from like I had built like a group with 6,000 vendors in it and you know

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[SPEAKER_01]: having a whole entire platform that is community-based.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I can't just walk away from that, but I think with Gabriel coming home with his special needs being deaf and autistic, you know, I now had a shift gears, I couldn't do nine events a month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you've seen that from baby to now teenagers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's different shifts and you shift well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say that you shift very well because I know you've noticed that my kids are getting a little bit older teens are growing very fast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I've seen you like make sure that you're gotten things taken care of and letting go and let other people start to do this so that you can spend time with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was huge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's always the goal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, with the Charlie Hayes business, it was harder for me to like relinquish some of the control.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Every other business, I've got zero issues relinquishing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That one is kind of like my artistic, you know, business that is also like a passion project.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But all the other ones, I mean, not that they're not passion projects, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was a lot easier for me to relinquish that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think age definitely helped as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: was a factor in all of that as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Which brings me to say, new things that we're doing of the social media trends and you know your kids are coming into that age.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I love seeing the shift now of you guys doing some content.

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[SPEAKER_01]: together and going out and trying, you know, ice cream places and things like that, you know, a Gabriel, I do the same thing like I didn't really realize, you know, he's definitely autistic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't realize, you know, they're for the while I was always like, well, okay, I'm going to have to hurry and get things done so we could do something in the afternoon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was getting super frustrated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure you felt this in your journey as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: because they're sitting over there, they're bored to death, and what they do, they get into things at a certain age.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, since he's about a seven-year-old, yeah, he gets into things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He starts like, okay, you're not going to pay attention to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go, right, you're going to come in here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go get curious over here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm going to get curious over here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go start eating everything, and then I know you're going to come here while I was getting nothing done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, well, I am a content creator as it is like I'm out here telling people about businesses already I'm sharing about non-profits already.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm making sure the businesses are getting seen known and remembered You know, why can't he do it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yes, but then I thought well, maybe he wouldn't like it But then I tried it and I was so surprised to see how he's a little ham.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm like, I know, I'm like you got a lean into that because it's perfect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So now I don't have to be frustrated during the day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just go check.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we're going to do an ice cream ride.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for the idea.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Taylor's idea, but actually he was the one doing the ice cream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like happy to do a whole series of ice cream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I've been noticing some trends with the kids.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tell me what, how did you start that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did they start that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: How did that all happen?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So

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[SPEAKER_00]: It starts off with, you know, going to the locations and trying all the foods and stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My daughter will find the trends right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And actually it's funny because she also likes to go play in venture and do all the things during the day in the neighborhood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, if my son is there, I will scroll the trends that she sent me, and I will do one with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's not super happy with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's like, you are supposed to do that with me, I'm like, you are here, girlfriend, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's that, but so they're her trends, they're definitely her trends.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we're giving you the shout out baby girl.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are your trends.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I have you start searching trends for me and Gabriel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've got you in the trends that are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, no, I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just, it's been fine because my oldest, who laugh, you know, he'll laugh, he'll think, this is silly, like I'm gonna get made fun of or whatever, but he's like, Admi as a collaborator on that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, oh, you want that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree, you want that one, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not on the other one, but I'm still like, I know he actually loves it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I think having that time, because when we're doing it,

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[SPEAKER_00]: rolling like I'm like crying and tears because you mess up more times than you get it right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know the fun part exactly everybody loves everybody loves to know that they're not the only one to know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that I love the I love the new trend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I you know when business always had to be everything had to be the same color you had to look a certain way to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like that's fake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and that's not what it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love now that the trends aren't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's be real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Authenticity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is definitely in right now and I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's because people got so tired being performative.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're worn out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're worn out by everything around us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so authenticity was the only way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: we could go, you know, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's real, you know, and people can relate to that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are you seeing changed in the event industry right now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's funny.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just talking or talking about this the other day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So marketing, marketing is a huge thing that I see changing in the event world, and I honestly told them that maybe we need to go back to flyers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember when that was like the way to advertise?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so anyways, I think that we're in a place in time where we're about to have an entire like shift.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think everything's changing right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do I know exactly where it's going or what I don't?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think that we are gearing away from the performative and we're honing in on, like we said earlier, the authenticity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that that is in real time also in the event world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like people it's not just about like the old way we used to do pop up shopping and like we know we had shopping and pampering prizes, you know, people are wanting more of an experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's why the farm is so important because you're able to do those things like the fashion show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was amazing, you know, right on the end of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: people come to do that, you know, and but during the day they could come, you know, shop for plants or, you know, the other things and then there was shopping and there was there was so much in your rights.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is about the experience and it's also we're going back towards community.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we're we're circling back and finding community and within that you need an experience, you know, with the community.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So with your family, your friends, you know, all the people you care about,

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[SPEAKER_00]: and so what's better than to go do something with those people you care about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you're right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the shift is going back to that word amount because I'm seeing that working way more than like the ads that we used to run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and that circles, that circles back to what we talked about earlier about doing like the micro-influencer going places and doing that, that circles back to the word of mouth because what I have found to be the most effective within our business is partnering with micro-influancers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because they have built their following off of people that trust them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not somebody who's getting a big brand deal saying that these shoes are so good because they got paid at, you know, a ton of money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're over here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went to this place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually ate the food here and I had a quality experience here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so yeah, circling back to that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So

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[SPEAKER_01]: awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have a little bit of fun before we close things out today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've kind of started playing with a little something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to be my first person to play in this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Since she's such a good friend, we're going to play and think how this happens, but it's going to be called the rapid fire round.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh gosh.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She would do do do do do do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like a happy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, would you prefer coffee or tea?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tea.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, what's your favorite tea?

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... i guess macha or chai okay too yes yes are you a morning person or a night out

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it depends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it summer or is it winter?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, oh, that's a good one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, but I guess morning, I'm a morning person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I summer time, I'm a night person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll work all night long, but I do love the peace and quiet of the morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's like a good zen, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But productivity is probably the evening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but still, I'd lean towards morning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you are the booster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think I truly am a morning person but with Gabriel being up and down all night I've ended up I've always been a night out I always am both actually that's where I'm outside we back when when my babies were little I was a night out I'd work all night long but now you know you've got

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got practices.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got, you know, the team that messages me at like 4am and I've got to like have an answer for them So like yeah, I mean, both is very very fair and real So I bring it all out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just need to exist 24 seven people make the joke when do you sleep Yeah, never never never I was like that's the truth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we never I know all right favorite family activity

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, um, so when my back isn't where my back is right now, I would say pickle ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My kids.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ariana loves it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not very good at it, but it's fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fun time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was still going to teach me how to play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we got to go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, biggest mom when you know, I don't know what all I can say on here, but my biggest mom when is when oria goes to school and preaches to her classmates about like equality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a big one for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's it is it's huge for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, I think that's a big mom win for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're seeing your kids stand for, for one's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think that we live in a smaller town.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would say that that's not necessarily the narrative that's out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but she is loud and she's proud.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And her teachers love her for it, so you know, but yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My house because so many kids, I mean, I wouldn't want to be kids, but I remember getting boldly way back, like I, I, I told on one episode, I went through a year where I remember when I first got baptized in all the kids called me at Jesus Freak, I get on the bus and everybody screaming Jesus Freak and like, I mean, that's on trend right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, you know, I mean, but it's weird how trend

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[SPEAKER_01]: go though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's always something, whether whatever is going on, one thing's in and one thing's not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And but the thing of it is there's always somebody who suffers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why does it have to be right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, why does somebody have to have their feelings or feel bad or feel bad about themselves?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We all, yes, there is sadness and there has to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is a time that you may feel not bullied, but like there is time to have that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: right without sadness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no happiness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I get what you're saying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, we shouldn't be bullying people to where they feel bad about what I'm trying to explain to Arya is entirely, is that it's typically a projection, you know, or it's something that's being passed down in their household.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's something it's learned to behave your ultimately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it is important to teach our kids that a lot of times if we just put ourselves and the other person's shoes will see where they're coming from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That true empathy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because you're right, they could be having problems go on at home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They could be jealous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All those things are real emotions that we have to learn about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if we teach our kids that then they can call it out in a good way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and then people can learn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for an educational experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, three percent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we got to become more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Beth, business advice you've ever received.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It would have been years and years ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, it was before I was confident in my own decision making.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I received the advice or a piphany, you know, where it was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, basically you follow your own, your own thought, your own instinct, your own.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not to say that you're not receptive from outside opinions, but don't base all of your decisions on what everybody else is telling you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Based it off of what aligns like for you and your heart.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So knowing what you're got to give and gift this girl and go for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can get that plan and make it and go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One word that describes the seat, your season of life right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say I'm like in a calm state.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in a peace state and I do too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm happy, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I just, I have everything is just good, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: My children and I have a great relationship.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just happy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you can see that, but you've pushed really hard to get there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, they're definitely where some loads before the happy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What is one thing that we don't know about you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, funny, not funny, but I actually fell out of a third story window and crushed my spine and spent my first year of high school in a wheelchair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you have to learn a school, your first year, that's scary, that's nerve-wracking, and I had to do it while being injured.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's not something everybody knows about me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, gosh, woo, no one or see, yeah, but you know the perseverance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Taylor, thank you for sharing your story with us today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think what stands out most is that you're not just building businesses, you're building experiences, opportunities, and memories that will impact families and our community for years to come.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's through TJ events, RIA, on a lease, wedding flowers, or hometown, or late the family farm, you're proving that success isn't just measured by what we build for ourselves, but by the

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[SPEAKER_01]: Friends, if today's episode inspired you, be sure to like, share, and subscribe to be life changers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And tell us how do they subscribe to you, Taylor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you look up hometown dot oletha, mm-hm, town oletha dot family dot farm, you'll find us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And what is the address?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's in all of the Kansas, it's 1100 South Woodland Street, all of the Kansas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome, so you got to make sure to go out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Until next time, remember to align your purpose with the plan and keep being the change that you want in this world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you on the next episode of Be Life Changers.