The Heart of the Town: Revitalizing the Harrisonville Square

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[SPEAKER_02]: We went up and toured their upstairs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a so neat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't been up there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we were.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were stupid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We were.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is probably going to have to be cut from the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But there we have a, we now have a, Hey guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back to A Skin Based Pot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm your host, Lena.

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[SPEAKER_02]: License Estition.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And today I have Kristen.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Kristen Samborn.

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[SPEAKER_02]: License Estition.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Georgia.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why I can't do that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Georgia.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Georgia.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Damn important license.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the decision.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And a very special guest with us this week is Jennifer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Jennifer Pfizer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I own MKB, CFO and bookkeeping.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to talk about something that we all love because we are a part of is the Harrisonville Square.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Jennifer, what's kind of your role with like love the Harris love the square?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Love the square.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am the new president as of January 1st.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Woohoo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exciting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to have a live audience someday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Clap.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Show me your live audience today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So what is love the square?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So what is love the square?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What do they do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a non-profit organization.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So love the square.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's more than just the square where the entire Harrisonville downtown district.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we take up about, I don't know, three, four blocks, really, of businesses that are around the square.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we support them in any way that we can't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So do you know what is going at those businesses over there?

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[SPEAKER_02]: That is the whole...

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[SPEAKER_00]: restaurant ultimate question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think all of them said there are five buildings that are on Lexington Street and Harrisonville.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They all sold within the last year two I think and so they were in pretty rough shape honestly so they've been getting a lot of

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they've been working and they are like, yes, I walked by and it looked like they were doing a lot of work.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like they were working hard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's five buildings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know there's a couple.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there was like a previous restaurant there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's been all kinds of things down there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know if they know really.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're just renovating them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Upstairs are going to be apartments.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there will be more people living on the square, which is always good for business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they, I think our planning to just rent out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there will be retail space available.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, if you are wanting to get a business on the Harrisonville Square, we can hook you up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, pretty soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little chaotic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty soon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But back when we started, I started back in 2015.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the girls' brush shop, they had just started their little brush shop right off the square.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the building is now Nina's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I had a little treatment room.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The square at that point in time was just vacant.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was no businesses down there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was really cute and nostalgic and soon the brick house.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jennifer was an owner of the brick house.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was kind of the first business that really kind of started bringing the Harrison Phil Square back to life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then since then, the artisan is there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then the headquarters and birdies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then a lot of more little shops.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 1, 2, 3.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got Nina's two cover shops.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's way more restaurants on the Harrisonville Square and shopping.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's still a work in progress.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But love the square is there to support the businesses and to bring events.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is probably going to have to be cut from the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But there we have a we now have a vape shop on the square.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Really.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Dude, have you not seen it?

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[SPEAKER_02]: No.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's lit up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Where's it at?

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Next is the orthodontist.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like by the Davis, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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[SPEAKER_00]: not really anything I'm into personally, but I know a lot of people are into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's huge.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, people I see go up those stairs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's huge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're getting so many more businesses there, but tell us about the third Thursdays.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so third Thursdays started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, I don't even know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 22, 23, somewhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a couple of years now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it was every third Thursday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've kind of limited it down because really who wants to get out in January, on a third Thursday, but every third Thursday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like a girl's night out, kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is themed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All of the businesses participate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We stay open late.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the dessert crawl is the first one this year, which

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[SPEAKER_00]: is amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that a march?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's April.

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[SPEAKER_00]: April, so whatever the third Thursday and it is in April, I mean, we go all out for the dessert crawl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You leave with the sugar rush.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love the dessert call because we actually get, we usually bring someone into our shop and I sit there and I eat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She does.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Lena does, but you get to go around the square and just see all of these bakeries that are coming in from other places and setting up and selling their sweets.

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[SPEAKER_00]: yeah and it's amazing yeah it's it's a lot of fun um so if you've ever been on like a wine crawl or something like it's not quite like that but they're similar right like you're just going from there but yeah you're just going from spots and spot buying and eating all of the desserts you could ever want.

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[SPEAKER_02]: talking about that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyone that would want to come in like how would business owners be able to get involved with love this square like come and be part of the events.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And also do they have to be businesses on the square.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They know they come in from other other other places.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First of all we invite any and all people to be involved with love this square.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're actually doing a volunteer drive here in the next month or so to get people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We want some like new blood fresh ideas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We are always looking for new people to come in

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[SPEAKER_00]: bring some energy and ideas and things like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so we will, you can be on a committee, you can be on an event committee, like a lot of the square does Christmas on the square, which is always the first Saturday in December.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we've got some really good ideas for this year and like kind of,

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[SPEAKER_00]: going all out on that and creating like a winter wonderland on the square.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to be involved in planning things like that or third Thursdays.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we also have there's other ways to get involved too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like if you are not an event planner or marketing kind of person, I'm not yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's other like we have an org committee.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that is more involved in the fundraising efforts and making sure that we have money to put on all of these events.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I am on the economic vitality committee and making sure that we have, first of all, an inventory of all the buildings that are there, business owners, asking the public, like, what kind of business do we want?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we can attract different businesses that, like, if everybody says that we want a, you know, Thai restaurant or something on the square,

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[SPEAKER_00]: try to get one of those in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's lots of ways to get involved and lots of ways like no matter how much time you have to give, there's something that you can do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you don't have to be a business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can just be like a part of community.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great way to build, like get to know your community too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was, so I'm an outsider saying this is all right, like I'm not from there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know anybody there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As Chris mentioned, I bought

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[SPEAKER_00]: 2019 and then we all know what happened in 2020.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there wasn't really like getting into my community until like 2021.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's when I joined to love the square and really started getting involved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I went from like knowing no one to knowing everybody in Harrisonville really quickly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And love the square was a big part of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I can be, I'm right there with her, because I live in our south, so I'm not from Harrisonville, but boy, the community has just been so welcoming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just have really blended in well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And love the square is one of those organizations that's helped us, helped us to introduce us to other businesses and to get involved.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As we talked about, there's a bunch of shops in the on the square.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, what are a few must visit spots on the square?

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of hard to choose.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, yeah, like all of it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I say we've got shopping.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got, if you chose, we've got a couple of the hours going through the going through the shops.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's like life music at the breakhouse some night, or not breakhouse at the artisan some nights.

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[SPEAKER_02]: headquarters, but I can't, sorry.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you could literally scream at the article.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, you could spend so from like seven in the morning until midnight if you really wanted to because there's two coffee shops, there's breakfast, there's lunch, there's dinner, there's shopping in between, there's all of the things that you could possibly want to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then other facial and after the truth, come get facial and massage, we're all in the waxing bag.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Summer time is rough for me because the ice cream shop is like gosh.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You just took it all away.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Lena is like her entire everyday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We don't read either of the summer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's because she's just right across the road so we can run across the road and grab something to eat really quick and she's fast and I get her soup even in middle summer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't pretty good soups.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's headquarters, headquarters has shopping, wine, food, like everything you want to do is really.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, in 1986 it's a

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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of a, it reminds me of a speckies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like down in the basement, which sounds bad, but it's like a really cool vibe It's like the rock walls and it's so neat how they set that up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the artisan has how many boutiques do they have in there?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, I think 100

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[SPEAKER_00]: over 100.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want, if you are a budding entrepreneur and you want to sell some stuff, there's plenty of opportunities to do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Headquarters and artisans both have spots so you can like rent and sell your stuff for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you don't have to put all that time and energy and money into your storefront.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Go there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Their space is so pretty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my god.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Silt old buildings are just so unique.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know our building is really unique and we just love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then there is also the district, which is a barn restaurant, and they do a great job.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're open for noon for lunch now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I noticed that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're stakes are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, there's just a lot of, there's so much room to bring so much more in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And we're hoping there's also the event spaces are absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the event spaces are gorgeous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to get Mary come check out the Davis.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: there's also Lexington yeah Lexington I said Lexington is so like baby shower we've done a couple parties there yeah and it is always so pretty yeah we went up into it there upstairs there's a so neat I haven't been up there oh we were we were stupid we were alright so what is okay I don't know how many how much of the future plans you can reveal but what is your vision for the future of

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, honestly, I feel like we're in a really exciting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're kind of in, so, this Christian met the square.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Squares got a lot of lower if you want to go back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was one guy owned every building, gotten a fight with the city, so they couldn't do it any way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then he died, and that's when the building started coming up for sale.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So back in like 2016 to 2019, there was kind of this like

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[SPEAKER_00]: really like a third of the building's got filled.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Lexington in particular that side of the square was really so pretty rundown.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But like we are coming up again on a like kind of this new thing because we've got all five of those buildings that are going to be renovated and hopefully getting filled soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a furniture store.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's called My Home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're over in Miriam Kansas right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm moving to Harrisonville.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's exciting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They sound like scary because I'm always playing as a currentator stores and she doesn't have a place to put any furniture, but she just loves to go shopping for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, all you'll do is have to go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have a couple of hours and it's full of crap.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I get three, so that's coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're opening April sometime this spring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're just really exciting things happening and kind of that like second wave of new businesses coming in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know there's apartments on top of the buildings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have four apartments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's four apartments in the building above us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're gorgeous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's like stepping back in time with the brick walls and the wood floors, and there's a waiting list for those apartments But the ones, but the new buildings are renovating now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're putting apartments in the top level of them And so what does that really have a lot of Apartments and even the rental market engine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I feel like rentals go really fast in Harrisonville So anytime we can

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[SPEAKER_00]: Had a few more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably a good thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, especially nice ones, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like yeah, it'll be really cool spots and just unique places to live So I think some Jenna, let's plug your podcast real quick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you tell us a little bit about the podcast that you do and how people can listen to it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so as I mentioned, I own a CFO and bookkeeping company, so I have a podcast called the Financial Operator.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have business owners on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We talk about kind of the struggles and stories of business ownership and then how we can help other people avoid those pitfalls.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, you come on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it's just kind of a fun conversation really with business owners.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and we've enjoyed Jen has come in and done some to some trainings with my crew on social media and listen to her because some of her vise got me some bookings tell her I don't want to talk to me Somebody tell me what you said when I'm right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, tell us your story of I say there's one piece of advice Jen has given us is to wear our merch every day

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[SPEAKER_02]: around merch as much as we possibly can.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I wore it to the bar.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I ended up booking like two or three appointments.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember who it was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I booked, but I know I booked several points.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you come in and you booked with Lena via the bar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Lena wore her skin babes, our podcast shirt to Casey's one day down in Garden, Garden City.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know your name, but actually she came with my husband.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, you're a wife just the podcast, isn't she?

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, yeah, that's her.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the way he talks about me so lovely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, we are appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you see us, and you know who we are, come up and talk to us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, because we want it, we want to know that you're listening to our show and that you appreciate what we're doing, and um, we, we appreciate you guys more than anything.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, didn't thank you so much for hanging out with us today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And thank you guys for hanging out with us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And we will talk to you guys next week.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Bye guys.