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Real Estate Coaching Radio
"hgtv" Discussed on Real Estate Coaching Radio
"But if you continue to not do it on the third call, then you will be doing whatever it is during our call. And when I coach full-time, I would you did that too. Oh, hell yeah. It's very effective. Especially like, and you know it is amazing. Also, there's no rescheduling of that call. Right. So they'll show up. And did you make your 5 expired contacts? No, excuse, excuse, excuse. Okay, guess what we're doing now? And then I remember these calls because really there were oftentimes the most significant pivot that they had professionally because they can't run and hide. I'm going to listen while they're doing it. They're going to, I'm going to listen while they dial. I'm going to listen to what they say. I'm going to give them real-time feedback. I'm not going to talk about them making the calls. But 99% of the time, when you force somebody to do what they don't want to do when they don't want to do it at the highest level, they are successful at it because they are being observed. And that's really what great coaching is all about. We are not real estate trainers. We are a real estate coaches. We can not give lightweight information. We can not just give surface information. You listen to this podcast. And some of you are like, holy crap, this is amazing. Look what they're telling me. How much better can their coaching be? Well, our private coaching is at a level that I hope all of you guys will be able to experience because it is instrumental in some of the most successful agents in the sense we've been coaching. Some of the biggest named agents in the country are pass coaching clients or current coaching clients. HGTV stars, these people that you know that are famous, coaching clients of ours personally of Julie and I's. Now, why is it that they hired us, even though we are probably the most expensive when you hire Julie and I personally, why are they hire us?
Real Estate Coaching Radio
"hgtv" Discussed on Real Estate Coaching Radio
"Those opportunities are going to return to the market. And if you don't do this, you will wish you did when we go on the next upswing. You know, I have to say, one of the, again, we're talking yesterday about some of the positive things that are happening. One of the positive things that exists now that did not exist during the last housing crash is the viewpoint, a really warehousing sets in people's minds. So after the housing market crashed back in O 6 O 7 O 8 O 9, a lot of people, and it was very, it became almost a popular topic and all the, let's say, left leaning news outlets to talk about, this is the time where we should socialize housing, rents are too high. Somehow the American Dream is no longer own a home. Blah, blah, blah. All this sort of Marxist doctrine about real estate. There should we have private ownership. You know, the government should own housing and dictate who gets what, all the rest of it, all this crazy stuff started. Very negative. Get very negative. All started to actually sort of become normalized. And then what happened? Frankly, millennials and HGTV and bravo TV made real estate sexy, not sexy again, but sexy probably for the first time. For sure. And then this whole ass wave of the housing boom housing real estate being in real estate has completely the context of it has completely changed. When Julie and I got into real estate, any of you who are over the older than 40 will know what I'm talking about. Real estate was not seen as essentially a job that you want to do aspire to. It's something you fell into or is there a part time job, that kind of thing. Now it's something that's aspirational. And along with that, or maybe as a result of that, what's incredible that's happened is people now are absolutely in love with real estate.
Accelerate Your Business Growth
"hgtv" Discussed on Accelerate Your Business Growth
"Well, I think anybody can find time for whatever they want. I really do believe anybody can find time anybody can find money, no matter how much time no matter how much money, if it's something you really, really want. So I think that is the question, how important is this to me? I really think that's it. And I mean, people are super capable. I mean, I have an 18 year old son, and I'm telling him, I'm teaching him all the time. Like, if you really want something, if anybody really wants something, they'll find the time to find the money. Money is really not a, it is a decision making factor, but not as much as the perceived value of the thing. I'm teaching them how to sell real estate right now. Vacant land. Raw vacant land. I buy a vacant land and I sell that same vacant land. You know, I'm never gonna get on HGTV because it's super boring. It is not interesting at all. And I really love it. I really enjoy it and I'm teaching him the business right now and I'm telling him how dad how would people find money to do this? And I'm telling him, if they see the value, if it's valuable to them, they will find the money. Just give them the opportunity to do it. And I think that's the same thing with somebody's book with somebody's time with somebody's money. If it's really important to you, you will find a way to make it work. The question is how important is it to you in light of everything else you have on your plate right now? And if it really, really, really is important, then you just square it up with that and go, okay, this really matters to me. And I need to sit down with myself, sit down with my spouse, sit down with whoever it is. And I need to really say this matters to me..
Accelerate Your Business Growth
"hgtv" Discussed on Accelerate Your Business Growth
"Well, I think anybody can find time for whatever they want. I really do believe anybody can find time anybody can find money, no matter how much time no matter how much money, if it's something you really, really want. So I think that is the question, how important is this to me? I really think that's it. And I mean, people are super capable. I mean, I have an 18 year old son, and I'm telling him, I'm teaching him all the time. Like, if you really want something, if anybody really wants something, they'll find the time to find the money. Money is really not a, it is a decision making factor, but not as much as the perceived value of the thing. I'm teaching them how to sell real estate right now. Vacant land. Raw vacant land. I buy a vacant land and I sell that same vacant land. You know, I'm never gonna get on HGTV because it's super boring. It is not interesting at all. And I really love it. I really enjoy it and I'm teaching him the business right now and I'm telling him how dad how would people find money to do this? And I'm telling him, if they see the value, if it's valuable to them, they will find the money. Just give them the opportunity to do it. And I think that's the same thing with somebody's book with somebody's time with somebody's money. If it's really important to you, you will find a way to make it work. The question is how important is it to you in light of everything else you have on your plate right now? And if it really, really, really is important, then you just square it up with that and go, okay, this really matters to me. And I need to sit down with myself, sit down with my spouse, sit down with whoever it is. And I need to really say this matters to me..
WLS-AM 890
"hgtv" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"The Washington Post between the podcast and the radio show today decided to release a story telling all of us what we all knew for the last year and a half plus that the Hunter Biden laptop showing all the corruption with the Biden family on It was authentic Now a lot of you are probably saying fairly enough Dan why are The New York Times in The Washington Post all of a sudden coming around And indicating that yes the CEFC China Sino hawk charisma all of this stuff that was happening with Hunter Biden his dad and on Joe's brother Jim Biden Why are they acknowledging now that the stories may have been accurate the entire time Folks there's a lot going on behind the scenes And I am absolutely confident that this version of events I'm about to tell you is the correct one There is some legal action happening Now is this legal action against hunter Let me just be clear Jimmy you getting this on tape is because I know I'm gonna get so many and you said there was gonna be indictment I'm not saying that I am not saying that I'm not saying that I am not saying that I'm saying there is going to be some legal action That legal action may be that it isn't an indictment But it's going to be something that the media can't ignore because it's not going to be able to be painted as a conspiracy theory There may be some evidence that slips out some of the attorneys involved in the case may talk So the left is figuring now there may be I'm not saying there's not going to be But I'm not going to tell you Oh man there's a big indictment The whole Biden family is going down in the media is trying to get out in front of it It's possible it's possible I'm simply telling you this and I'm sure of it Something on the legal front is going to
Netflix is A Daily Joke
"hgtv" Discussed on Netflix is A Daily Joke
"Young men in particular. They don't like women with money, power, and respect, because they know you can't tell that kind of woman what to do. Young men want a woman that's chill. That's a quality in a partner that they seek out and brag about. Oh, bro I'm dating this new chick. She's so chill. She doesn't give a fuck about what I do 'cause she's chill. She lets me do whatever I want 'cause she's dead inside. She's chill. She's like a corpse with tits. It's awesome. She's chill. I have never, ever wanted to date a man that was Jill. 'cause chill, don't pay the bills. My nephew is 25 years old, and he is dating this architect. My goodness, she, she is so smart and interesting, successful, and charismatic, and we all hope that he marries her one day. But he calls me up earlier this week, and he was like, you know, auntie alley. I think I'm a break up with her. Yeah, because she's a boss at work. And so she thinks it's okay to come home and boss me around. I was like, oh. Wow. That shit's gonna happen to you no matter what. Whether she a boss whether she employed or unemployed, once you get married and have kids, your wife gonna boss you around. And you would know that if you watched House hunters. House hunters is a show on HGTV where a couple pretends that there's a decision to be made together. And they go on this fake ass journey looking at three different houses and the audience is meant to be left in suspense. Which house? Are they gonna choose? It's whichever one Barbara wanted in the first place, okay? And Barbara, who lives in Boise Idaho or wherever the fuck these HGTV shows are filmed, where houses cost $5000 an acre. Barbara she don't got money, power or respect, but Barbara is a woman and all women are very good at being extremely unpleasant..
The Mom Room
"hgtv" Discussed on The Mom Room
"Sunday morning and I'm in one of these predicaments where my husband got called in late last night. He came into my room, brought the dogs at like ten 30. And the monitor hooked up the monitor. I was half asleep, so I didn't say anything to him. Anyways, so he had to go to the hospital. I don't know when he got home because I eventually went to bed. But now it's Sunday morning, and I came downstairs by myself while I have the dogs. I'm having coffee. It's 7 34 a.m.. And Milo is still sleeping. And while it's great to have your morning coffee by yourself, I'm also like, is he sleeping too much? Is this going to affect his bedtime tonight? Want like, this is a perfect example of the mental load of being a mom or like the default parent. And like the default parent is not necessarily that you are physically doing so much more child care tasks than the other parent. It's literally mostly a mental load. For example, if my husband was here right now, having this coffee, he would not even think twice about just letting my low sleep until he woke up. But I'm sitting here like, should I go wake him up? Like, trying to figure out when he fell asleep last night and counting how many hours he had, and then what time he would be going to bed tonight, is he going to have to have a later bedtime? So now I am unable to fully enjoy my morning coffee by myself because all these things are going through my mind. While at the same time, I'm like, I have HGTV on, like I'm scrolling. Social media. So like, it's not like I'm sitting here sweating in like an anxious state ruminating about it..
WTOP
"hgtv" Discussed on WTOP
"At HGTV dot com. Good morning 6 38 time for traffic and weather on the AIDS. That means back to Rita Kessler in the traffic center. We're starting to see a delay in Maryland on the north Beyond Baltimore Washington Parkway from Powder Mill Road had passed 1 97 Watch for any Crash activity. Southbound is an off and on delay. After the Beltway making your way past 4 10, where we may have a crash as well. An inbound 50 the delays after 202 off and on making your way toward onto New York Avenue headed toward the light at Bladensburg Road. Southbound C to 95 SOS from betting tortillas, Capitol Street. Also some volume getting onto the inbound 11th Street bridge with nothing reported MacArthur Boulevard, Arizona Avenue. You're under police direction for the crash. In Virginia. The delay continues to grow on north beyond 3 95. This is now before the Pentagon trying to head toward the 14th Street bridge at the exit for the north Beyond George Washington Parkway. The exit ramp is blocked, as is the left side of the roadway. There is a tow truck on the scene for that crash, but I'm not sure how much longer that's going to take in the delays just going to continue to grow southbound 95 had some volume from triangle into Quantico. But that seems to have eased. North bound, sees the volume from Dale City into Woodbridge with the lanes open, East and West. And 66. No reported problems in Maryland again westbound 50 at the Severn River Bridge. The right lane reportedly blocked with the Rick for solutions to all your plumbing problems called the five star Plumbing Experts of Crop Metcalf, 1 800 Go Cropper visit crop metcalf dot com. I'm Rita Kessler. W T o P. Traffic. Look at the forecast. Now. With Mike Stanford Beautiful day across the region, lots of sunshine, breezy, low humidity her husband in the mid to upper seventies, It will be clear and cool overnight lows wrench in the upper.
MAKE SPACE — A Home Design Show by Never Skip Brunch
"hgtv" Discussed on MAKE SPACE — A Home Design Show by Never Skip Brunch
"Virender. You get back into design. It like i was like i can do this again. I can still do this. I love this. And i can do it myself. Ray vegas that confidence to know. I can do it by myself. Was took a little bit like an artist at harvard. To accept out is lives inside of me for you know second time of the all the time no artists that the questions everything with that job ended up getting another job and another song and work that bar and hand-drawn work nights and work to pay basically so i could continue during interior design every dollar. I made a back into design and it works cavas. That sent me up to four to keep working. This is what i wanna do. I can make this happen and then ended up getting pregnant with my first daughter and moved to when we were in survivor. Time it was this way too cold Can handle have no family here. Like in my husband's gone cast that year so i did not want to be alone and we had family in charleston. South carolina's may sisters or there. My mom who just moves air legit. My husband was like great in the within four weeks. We have moved to charles and it was a guy knew that. That's where i needed to be if i was having children but at the same time i just establish yourself in chicago arranged the designer in the client as in just got himself back on my feet. That was almost like a he starting all over again. I knew i had to do it. Put me back at square. One and i knew if i was going to make it here. I had to figure out a way to do that. And so i was taking free jobs still working in music still traveling still like just had a baby still doing all the things that working for free to prove myself and i'll make out start building a name here as well because to markets or to Obvious jobs in the translated work. Maybe a few years after giving birth to my daughter in an hustling..
MAKE SPACE — A Home Design Show by Never Skip Brunch
"hgtv" Discussed on MAKE SPACE — A Home Design Show by Never Skip Brunch
"I have super exciting interview. I am so pumped her this on. I'm sitting down with mary. Welsh fox stay sick and we are talking all about her new show on. Hgtv breaking bland and diving into the winding journey of how she got there. We dive into specific design strategies. We talked about the creative process. We talk about her show and she also shares her story. And i think it's amazing because it's a really good example of how your story can truly defined your style your creativity and the life experiences that you have is something that you can draw on when you're creating your spaces and trying to find what you're style is in create a space that speaks to you. So i'm so excited. I think by the end. You're going to be so pumped up to go. Check out her new show. So let's dive into this amazing conversation. No cavern welcome back to make space. Today i have a really really special guest. I'm beyond excited to sit down with her. So i have mary welsh fox stay sick. Don't put your her name and you're gonna talk. All things design things her new show so welcome thinking highly. Thanks for having me on i got. You didn't butcher my practice so to start by just diving into your story. Like what did your journey into design even look like Interesting ride to save at least but you know it's funny. I've had to reflect on this ally in. They noticed. now. I do tell my story. Every time i remember more. You know what i mean. Eli Turning forty this year so there's a lot of it that it's a long time x w interior design in school so it's been a long time since then and there's a lot of paths that you just forget about and yet you forget about pieces. Were like integral parts. That really made you who you are but like ten to acting go to the glossy shiny things about the hardships. You know right so if you want me to start from school i guess. Let's start there. Cool i i went to colorado state university and was went. Their agricultural school in i A huge snow skier be sending biology. So that was like my plan. But i always wanted to be an artist and really wanted to study art but at the time. That wasn't a new there. Were art majors. And i knew that that was a possibility but i at that time. Not like only like a businesswoman or a scientist or a doctor. He had not the only thing that i could do to really make a living Didn't understand understand that guy. Just starving artist so i never was working with my hobby. you you know when you're artist you just can't let go. That is like it burns inside of you. And i'm one of those people if i don't love what i'm doing then like i don't wanna do you know what i mean like..
For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"hgtv" Discussed on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
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For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"hgtv" Discussed on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"So that land the plane here with you. Let me ask you this so while filming a show and growing your own family and trying your hand in new spaces in like adding things to the list and just growing as a person like as a human being. I'd love to know for you. Maybe let's just say in this last calendar year. What is like one. Way that you have ground or evolved or changed or improved any in any category at all where you just say. This feels stronger now than it was even a year ago. I think for me probably come with the executive coaching. Come with the change of my job. It's come with age being parents but also like actively working on it is realizing that much. There's so much stuff that goes in the not. My problem bucket that i need to be okay with that and like not trying to convince other people that what i'm doing is right or what i'm saying is right like being comfortable with what i'm doing on my own and not needing everyone else's approval because my family's always been big on that like he's someone who wants to do it even if it's something as simple as like let's go here for vacations. I can everyone on my team. So i could make the argument and i think that's applicable a lot of people across the board that we really want that support and approval in general. And if i can have it. That's great but if i feel like i'm in a good place and i don't have it from whoever just being okay with that not feeling the need to continually explain myself and try to convince people because i think oh out of time during matt Me too. I'm very alpha in that way and generally think i'm right and so i mean i can't help it that i'm right so often but actually i know i know i know i'm a lot and so i love that answer. That's it is nice to get older. How old are you lena. I will be thirty seven this year. Yeah okay so. I'm when i'm decade older than you. You just continue to get better. Which is nice to know like you're going to love yourself interiors gonna love yourself ten years from more. I mean i would never go back. Never go back out here. I don't know why he ever was stupid. Yeah if you even chart like this is where i was at seventeen. This is where. I was at twenty seven. This is where. I'm thirty seven. It's like this continuous uptick. Okay how about this. These are just. Oh this is my favorite. Yeah off the top of your head. Just i'm asking everybody in the flipping the script series question. What for you is the most important thing you get out of switching things up every once in a while a sense of like that i can continue i think longevity probably if i was doing the same thing and it was not nece i think i would kind of be a rut and so that things are different all the time. I get longevity It's good. I like that. Yeah i put a little more gas in the tank thing that you love. Okay in kind of the flip side of that. What alike comfortable familiar thing or practice or person or just whatever thought whatever it is do you hang onto when you're in the upside down part of of things changing a flipping script like what is the. What's a constant that kind of hold you steady through change or upheaval of any kind. I always probably a weird answer. But i think just like independence like you said like my parents been divorced a lot. A haven't been pretty. There's been a lot of like everyone has their reared stuff. And i've gone through a lot of stuff where it was i had you just rely on myself and getting married challenging because you have to like let someone else. And so when things are weird. I've always been like okay. Well i'm not really. I haven't relied on anyone else not financially not emotionally not engaged these things so i can fall back on knowing. I can manage myself if everything falls apart. I can manage myself and a lot of time. That's helpful and sometimes it's not show because it turns into the stubborn is in isolation but hasn't probably in the last chunk of my life. But when i was younger for sure I love that answer. I was the opposite. i got married. You're going to die got married. Ona's nineteen and then. I was married for twenty six years and got divorced last year and so i never literally been an adult by myself. I wasn't an adult when i got married and so this last year of discovering that i am enough for me is monumental like it's it's life altering that i actually can. I can put my chips on me and it'll be enough and it'll hold so i actually love that you learned that early and i hope my kids do too. I hope they learned that there are enough and then nobody has to complete them. They could just add to the story last question. And you can answer this however you want. We've had literally every kind of answer for this question. Could be like endearing and earnest or could be absurd. It doesn't matter what saving your life right now. make kids. there's always gonna cry. I'm crying and took. yeah they just. There's so much going on and you know relationships my husband and my kids are great but you know family dynamics and and work stuff. It's just you know it's it's it's like. I'm very dedicated. You just keep going jetski working. But when i stop think about it it's like there's a lot going on and having like my awesome heads my awesome husband like i don't think about anything else when i'm like playing with jack or charlie's nine months she's so fat and june and like she's laughing at he kind of like rings back yet and it's like okay. There's a lot going on over there but this is great and everything's gonna be okay so good also. So fat in cues king. Oh yeah of course. I've assumed that was a gift in here. I have by four top of the day at south. Fantastic before i let you go. Can you just sort of tell me community where they can find you a where they can follow you where they can find built together your new book all of it. Yeah so company is named. It's called chicks in a hammer. And that's what it is on various social media channels and you wanna follow me. Which is like you know baby is an armpit and reared stuff. I mean a stars yak hawk on instagram. And we have our store you district company this and we're also online so you can get the book on our website. You can also get at hunter bookstores. An amazon and stuff like that. So yeah that's that's right on. Okay well i just wanna eat ano- that i think you are fantastic and i love your work and i even whatever it is that you choose to kind of show us. We're here for it and charity on in every way i just really sincerely just i want your star just to continue to rise. It's really fun to watch. And i'm really proud of yale and it's exciting for women to watch you do what you do with such like enormous success and it helps us realize god hell we can figure stuff out. We can learn. We can try something new. Reinvent yourself whenever you want anytime never ever ever too late. So thanks for coming on the show today. Thank you for having off. Take you to dinner. Yeah e. higher. Yeah absolutely. i'm.
For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"hgtv" Discussed on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"All from a kids book. That is the goal. And i really appreciate that i that work and frankly that's just the truth of the modern family. My youngest. your kids are adopted. Their atheism and i remember when my son was an third grade and they had this genetics. Like family tree project. Where your spouse to like interview a grandparent and talk about the traits that you have your grandparents has been. What did they pass to your parents. What trait it. Absolutely acidic weird. Yeah guests who just drove right up to the school. And i was like. Let's just talk about this because first of all this is making my own. Kids fell credibly alienated and isolated. Let's just talk about of course. The teachers really like generous. And i'm like can you just go through all the kids in your classroom and imagine which wants do not apply so some kids are adopted. Some are with steps. Some of these kids have been fostered. Are renell yeah like this is not the nuclear family structure that is the common story anymore and so bravo to gil for introducing those narratives to our kids. I think we raise them up differently. And this hopefully will never be something. Anybody ever has to talk about again. That's families just look different at. And i know yours and mine does and i love that. And you're right. There's so many stupid books for kids and weird weird shows. My kids are big. But i have. I have little nephews. And i'm like i hate what is happening on the tv a. Cozy comfy cute. These are the three cs that defined what i wear. They just are. I apply the same rule to my shoes. Because the absolute last thing i want to do is walk around and choose to hurt my feet have identity for. Of course i have but now i have zero tolerance. It's for this nonsense. That's one of the reasons that my rossi's are in constant rotation cute. Yes check and when you put them on it feels like you're giving your feet a little hug. They are so so so comfortable. I've been wearing rotties slip on sneakers forever. But i've also added their new flats and their loafers to the mix because they all look good. They travel well their wash. It ball what in the world and you just feel like. You're walking on clouds. They just i cannot tell you how comfortable they are so yes yes yes. Did you know they have bags to i. Use their overnight or bag almost every day of the week. So here's another thing. Rossi's has recently launched a shoe line for guys designed with an artistic level of detail and created with nearly zero waste just like all their products. Rossi's reduces their footprint literally by crafting shoes and handbags out sustainable materials like him as well as thread made from one hundred million plastic water bottles. It's crazy they are really turning trash to treasure here. So step up. Your wardrobe with washable sustainable. Stylish shoes and bags from rossi's had to write these dot com slash for the love to find your new warm.
For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"hgtv" Discussed on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"Fancy pants people in here because i am not cfo. I'm not a ceo. I'm not cmo and so the whole company and the last gosh two months as really kind of grown pretty significantly and it's still changing and i'm still learning stuff so the business was by far the hardest Good for you for knowing when to call in reinforcements. And and what's funny is of course as you're experiencing feel scary to release the reins of something he's built of your of your beautiful baby but then you you staff for growth the contribution that the smart fancy people bring to the table. It always makes me wonder. Why was i doing this by myself. Like why did it take me so long to hand this over to somebody who is really competent here and able to kind of grow the whole mechanism together. So 'cause you really can't do everything. I wanna talk a little. Bit about the tb experience and what it was like for you at the beginning. What you hated what you wanted to change what you did change because season one to seven. I mean you have a completely different grasp of what you're doing now. Yeah there's wonder. Floor are aaron today before ours premier. And i'm like oh god don't watch season one. Oh gosh right you. Are you right kind of like a rope. Like you're kind of clunky wasn't ever we're and that's kinda strange that. When we started filming there was a graffiti festival because we live right downtown. And they were like. We're just gonna film you guys like going through the festival. I was like what does that after you at the show and afterwards they're like we just wanted to get comfortable in front of the cameras. But you're fine. 'cause my family is big and weird and dysfunctional and like it was just a camera there while we're still being begging weird dysfunctional so that was never weird but like a that how to make tea like. There's there's things that i know now is like when you're done talking out which seems simple but you're in a scene and i'm like talk to my contractor. I'm like okay cool okay. So this is what we're gonna do bob and he's like. Yeah when in doubt walkout so just things like that like when you talk a open to the jhirad. Don't let them tell them. You're back in our team harley season one through five our team was kind of like going back and forth figuring out who was going to be on the production team one through three and we had some not so hot people. I don't cry. We had this little tiny woman that made me cry like gauge. Who she was there was washed out. He put lipstick on and she had come from the bachelor the bachelorette so just like really different worlds but once you got our team together and we kind of understood what we needed to do for tv and they understood what our construction was like. Then it started mash. Because i think our show one of the reasons it's successful is because it's very different. It's not like a host based show. It's not a structurally sound house. And you're just making pretty again like it's this really big beast with significant construction and i think in the past years. Td and like hdtv and designed tight shows her just going direction which is awesome. Like it's more real. I think people like it but it was a new visiting wasn't fitting inside the box. Which was nice is it was nice when you guys hit the scene to have a really different show on the network. It felt for a while. I think i'm allowed to say this. That all out of the shows were kind of same same same and so coming in well. First of all having women at the helm was really fun to watch and not just put in the pillows on lake doing the damn thing and then such a monstrous undertaking time. I mean sometimes. I look at the houses that you guys are gonna take on and i'm like don't do it just here. Thank you walk away like this. A not salvageable. Have you ever had one just so completely sideways that you had to cut it We had one was species in five. How's that went completely sideways. That it's a season six house. So it's airing now is delay delay. Yeah it was such a mass. And i think the other thing that people don't quite understand as i don't have like a huge bank account and we have to get thirteen properties for each season so some of the houses that people are like. Why did you buy that. I'm like i don't know. I i'm right there with you. Yeah yeah oh man. that's so true. I'm curious how it has felt to you. What's it been like now to just be pretty recognizable in your community in your city wherever you go you know because you've now forfeiture anonymity that you probably once enjoyed when you were waiting tables. How does that feel. Because that's a strange thing. 'cause i know how you feel you feel i'm just i'm a person i'm i'm i'm just the same same cool thing. Yeah i'm just a person just like you know but people freak they freak because they love you and then they feel like they know you too. Which is exactly how i started this interview and so how have the like how does it feel. How are you managing that. What's your boundaries. It is super interesting because on one hand like the people who've known me forever. They're like us not that like my neighbor when people drive by like he's like i have a show like these rat. Caravaggio mike like what do they care about you. But i also really like you know the only reason we have a show is because they're stands and people love each and what. I have to give a lot of credit for production company for this. Because they can edit this show they can edit content a million different ways and the way it's edited together. It's it's not fully us. But it's a pretty accurate. Small snippet of us and people do feel like they know us. And i think that means in a word doing our job electrical feel like a can relate to us so when i do see people out there like there's always that has again my brain is like am. I supposed to know you because it might be someone mindy. But i should know or it might just be a fan. That knows my name. My kid's name. So it's there's never been estuary where i felt like my like my boundaries were pushed or anyone was doing too much and i think you know it's probably annoying for my husband like i knew he's super proud me write. It is probably a little annoying. Like you know i gotta stop. You can picture times or whatever but he also understands that. That's why i have a job. That's why will still running houses but that's why like that's what keeps everything going. It's cheesy but we have best like they're awesome. Say something mean about me on social media by now they go police it for you. Same exact same. I always can just say. I'm just gonna leave it for the comment or they'll get it. They'll like circle the wagons. And all you shouldn't have done that they're going to get. I know like you poke the bear. You don't even know. I think yesterday on instagram with poll about his our season premiere. I don't know when this is gonna air but it actually is tonight. And i was like who's going with me who's washing it and did a poll and it was like me and like not me. I'm cranky. I don't like you or something like that when you put in your answered shows that it's ninety nine percent in one percent so i got this message. This woman like who is this one percent and if they paints you why are they following you. Take the time to in hawaii. Gosh that makes me laugh so hard and it is so true that you know i remember one time. I had my brother with me at this huge event. I'm speaking at. I'm it's like seven thousand people some absurd thing and there's like a book line in you know it's all the things absolves span fanfare woman on my brother. She's like i just absolutely love your sister. She is amazing. My brother was like she's okay. Well herself she's not. I mean she's all right. This is ridiculous which is helpful to have like a weird family. Who's like this. We give you two thumbs down. So don't i think that's bad cannot believe anyone that ever asked the best advice i ever got. Because i don't know if you've ever met or talked to jen padre but she's in texas. She's awesome she just had her first season on. Hdtv a premiered like two months ago. But i was talking to her a lot early on. I don't know revolt gender as we somehow connected on instagram. Shoot asking you questions. Because i've been doing a lot and i was in the same position a long time ago and when we started using one my original network executive when she came out she said. Tv's a weird place so you'll be okay if you can do a couple of things she's like you need to remember that the people who love you don't love you. They loved version of you. That we've created and ramsey and the people who hate you don't hate you. They hate the version of you that we created and let them see so. If you can remember that none of this has anything to do with you. You'll be fine if you can't remember that you're gonna you're gonna lose friends family and it's going to go back because i've seen it go back and sounds like your family is good at this to like my family. Not that i am the kind of lean towards leaving my own high but they all our friends and family keep us. Keep us even young. I get the big iro. I really love that. Somebody told me early on to a helpful tidbit kind of along the same lines. Which is that you want to believe the high you want. You want to believe that you're as great as everybody thinks they're like if you full like wholeheartedly believe all this inflated enthusiasm about you then you're also gonna believe all the inflated negatively like you you don't get one and not the other and so all of it is skewed to a poll kind of like you said it's not reliable that's not reliable data and so even if it's one hundred one good tha bad. All you're gonna focused on. Is that one bad. That's just how we are only for ten years. So i think for some people. It's a lot harder. I've talked to erin napier early on. I'm kind of a jerk. She's one of the sweetest humans in the world and she was having a really hard time with. And i was like you to not care to do. This is gonna work. You're gonna eaten alive. People are are terrible their main their man and you have to develop skin. You just have to or it's just not your industry otherwise it's too easy to take you out of your own head out of your own light even just value because the things that people will sound internet they can be really vicious. It's been fun to watch aaron because i've literally watched her skin thick. It's wonderful. i think it's good for our communities also to watch us set like emotional boundaries around stuff like that and not. Just be a doormat for everybody. Say whatever they want to us. I always just say this is my party. And if you're being rude to me and my other guests you get to leave. This is my corner of the internet. My party i'm hosting advocate. Your is like not accepted blocked by our. You've been a support. You need across every category including your bras. I'm going to introduce you to the most comfortable ever owned there from third love. And here's the thing. They're not only comfortable and perfectly fitting but they're pretty. 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For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"hgtv" Discussed on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"Have to support your work with one hundred percents. It was construction lending construction learning how to run a business and learning. Tv which is the weirdest world in the world. All at the same time. And i did none of them gracefully like my my company that has existed for a just recently like went through. This big overhaul is started doing executive training. Because i don't like managing humans i'm control-freak and i'm like no one's going to do it right. Must i do it. Which is not true. But i don't know enough for mind..
For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"hgtv" Discussed on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"Okay meena. Well come to the show. I thank you i love you i love you. I love your funny little quirky family. I love your show. I love your mom. You guys you just have the you've got the secret sauce. You got the magic funny ever some like brand people here not the show but for like at a. I'm working for another company because of the show and they were in the house and we had finished filming and they're like thank you so much you've been amazing to work with your so great and my husband walks in and i was like baby. Did you hear all that. The people do like like a high. You guys don't know her totally totally you write that down for him. Were like nodding the looks. Yeah you could be like no. They say i'm delightful. So what do you know. Yeah i was just telling you that we did a short season show on hgtv. And i was telling just my community unlike. Look the best thing that i can tell you for some marriage advice. If you're going to remodel a house together with the person you married is to have cameras producers around. That's it because they make you behave like you cannot act like the lunatic that you want to act like you have to be pleasant and and kill and like nice and so yeah Built in accountability. I hear you. We're going on season seven so my husband lost that built in. Idee gene is gone so he just doesn't now. Donnelly totally yeah. This shine is off the penny so at this point it's probably very much is what it is in your world which i love so i can't imagine anybody that is in my community and listening and doesn't love yield at hdtv. As much as i do but just in case. Somebody's under rock of already kind of told my listeners. A little bit about you could have high level your credentials. But i wonder if you hand just kind of give us a look at how you got started doing what you do because you are. You're a girl in a man's world. And i love to hear about your kind of ascension to be right. Now i will try to do like you know the the nutshell version but i don't have any training. I never wanted to be a designer or architect or anything like that. I went to college. For general studies waited tables and high school and college after college. I did like my first house that i lived in college. I worked for my landlord and it had been an over under duplex like but it had like a beautiful staircase that they closed in to make it and over under duplex and wasn't anymore. So i was like. Hey take this wall down and open up staircase like it's truly darkened the living room and i don't know why but he said yes so that was like the first thing i did and got like a little taste of it and there wasn't much after that until i graduated like a built my bad in badger because i'm in college bedrooms or this big so it was a big platform bed with dressers under it and stuff like that but when i graduated with no job prospects that i wanted. I didn't want a cubicle. And a crappy pantsuit. So it's still waiting tables. I decided to convince my mom to cosign on a house for me because like i was like okay. This is my thing. I don't have a job while they house they'll make sense and it was. It was a hud house which is urban development which is shorthand for ills rare. Very bad and it was a full gut. And i got a construction alone but the construction was nearly enough to cover the work that needed so i went up when he comes in so my mom and i did a bunch of static. We didn't touch the mechanical. 's because my advice i give everyone as it can flood or set your house on fire. Leave it to someone else but me dead like the flooring in the cabinets and the tile and with windows and doors and i did trim just literally learned as we went washed each videos. I legitimately bought construction for dummies. Don't actually ever read it by on a lot of other books that like read the instructions with the flooring the flooring installing and that was that was the first one we did and it was fun and i had a little bit of money. Twenty grand save from out pretty bad crack and i was in college that invested and this rate before the market crash so it was about. It's like forty thousand dollars so was like all right. I'm gonna pull it all out in oregon. And i bought a twelve thousand dollar house and mom and i renovated it was about this bag and that was just the beginning of of the cycle and for a long time it was just i was still waiting tables. Mom was an is an attorney but she doesn't really practice anymore and you know we'd worked. I wait tables at get some cash by tile. we'd install it. She not kidding. Get like a brown paper bag of cash from her criminal. Science softening eventually got my real estate license in two thousand nine. After i pay my i and says like i could that that second realized five hundred bucks and made a like a little facebook page and i came up with the name two chicks and a hammer. Because i wanted something like fun and quirky not serious and made this facebook page and just kind of started documenting the homes. We were doing more kind of for our and i had a handful of realtors at followed me because the area we're in at that time was up and coming so they wanted to see the houses that were coming up next and acer pages. How the talent scout from high nuclear crushing company found two chicks and a hammer and had my cell phone number and my home address and said you ever thought about making a tv show. and mom. And i are not mistaken. I i'm shredded once. I did some research mom. And i definitely aren't the type to pass up an opportunity and i was just waiting table so i always through. I don't know a lot of people probably don't understand as much as we do. How long the processes between like you get called by talents. Now you go through twenty steps for the next ten months or whatever to maybe even get a pilot to maybe get a first season. And so i was waiting tables like all the way through filming our pilot and then it aired and it got kicked up and that was the beginning of the end in our season seven. That's bananas indorama story. I mean just like you know overnight. Success obviously waiting tables real estate license flipping houses shooting a pilot. You know just eat piece of cake a real piece of cake. I love that. And i think what i love. Maybe the very most. Is that your self top that you know we watch you now. You know everything about everything when it comes to a house. you're just you absolutely have it locked and loaded. I assumed this is what you studied. This is what you grew up doing. You had some sort of mentor but you bought a handbook for dummies. Any disfigured. It out i. i think i love that. I'm curious what was harder for you. Was it harder to learn construction or was it harder to learn how to run a business because you. That's that's two pillars that you.
For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"hgtv" Discussed on For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Podcast
"Hey everybody welcome to the for the love. Podcast with me jehangir. You're very very happy. Host as we continue on in our flipping the script series. We're going to be looking at all the ways that even changing our home our career and ultimately our point of view enables us to create new possibilities for ourselves with the one and the only meena. Hey everybody jin hat maker here. Your host of the for the love podcast. Welcome to the show so right now. We are in the middle of a series called for the love of flipping the script. We were really interested to talk to people right now. Who are pivoting. I think probably collectively. We are pivoting. Were were re entering life. Some semblance of normal is coming back. Whatever that really means and so. We're all in this season of like kind of a new story and so we really wanted to talk to learn from people who have done this themselves so maybe they flipped the script on their life on purpose. They started something new. They tried something new. They change their mind. They changed their life and for some of our guests. This script was flipped for them. And either way. I was interested to learn from them. What do they have to teach us right now. What lessons did they learn. What courage could they share and thought it was timely for a series like this for so many of us who scripts have changed whether by force or by choice. Either way what we do. So i have really wanted to talk to today's guest. For more than one reason she literally flips like she literally takes something old and what most people would say beyond repair and flips it and turns it into something beautiful and new slash old and stunning. And i also wanted to talk to her because she flipped the script on her own life on her own career on what she knew how to do what she was willing to learn how to do and so today. I have the absolutely incredible main a- hawk on now. If you know where you love you may have heard of her little show on. Hdtv called good bounce right good bounds and she is incredible is a superstar. I love what she has done and she'll tell you this but she doesn't have a background in construction. That's not what she grew up doing. It's not what she studied. She taught herself. She taught herself. She went to school for something entirely different but discovered this kind of passion. I mean there's no other way to describe it. It's it's her absolute entire life now. She discovered this passion and figured in a what. I'll teach myself a learn. I'll take a risk. I will pivot from where. I thought it was going. And i'm going to go this direction. Instead she built her business two chicks and a hammer with her mom and has also been growing her family like right in front of our eyes over the course of her show growing her business expanding and kind of every possible way and then most recently she added a new layer to her repertoire. She wrote a kids book called built together. And of course. I love it because it's centered around the idea of diverse families and what makes a family. I think we have a lot to learn from her for what it means to take a risk to make a change to make pivot to try something new even if it's a male dominated industry even if you don't have a history for it and you have to learn from scratch. I just drew a lot of inspiration from her. Today pasha's darling. She's absolutely darling podcast listeners. You might wanna pop over to the youtube channel so you can kind of say her too because she's got this like infectious way about her in a good way i are left. She literally was outside. Working on a remodel came inside for the podcast and went back to it and premiering a show tonight so hilarious anyway. That's over on youtube channel. If you wanna watch his talk and not just listen to us. Talk but any way you're gonna love her. You're gonna love this conversation and if you don't already love meena get excited.
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
PRO TALK With Garage Outfitter Aaron Cash
"Thanks very much for being on the show. It's a pleasure to see you patrick. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. Thank you are the fourth or fifth canadian. We've had on the show so you're doing a great job the represent your country. Thank you for being on my pleasure. It's great to be here. Can you please talk about your business. You have a franchise Garage outfitting business. And can you talk about how that got started. And how many franchisees there are and where they're located in basically how it works the star. Yeah absolutely so Garage living was started in two thousand and five as an independent single entity. company We had Focus on on simply Doing garage organization for customers in our local market and that business grew and in two thousand and fourteen we franchise the concept and we now have thirty four locations with twenty eight Across the us and six across canada and since we started we've completed over twenty thousand garage projects. That's incredible to me so interesting. Did you have an interesting construction before you started this company. How did it come about so. I've always been interested in construction and building I consider myself handy but don't have a background in in any specific trade or carpentry. More just doing projects with my my my dad at at the category at his cabin I have a business background and This was an opportunity that came about You know at the time when we started. Hgtv was like splitting and there was so much. Focus on home improvement and diy and increasing real real estate values in flipping houses and the big box retailers. Were opening a store a day across north america. And you know garages were were really. That forgotten are a space in the home that was getting very little attention and had a ton of potential.
The Mason Minute
The Great State (MM #3725)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation. I saw a TV commercial, the other night, I think it was on HGTV or the History Channel. I do remember, which one I was watching for Alaska, tourism wage, the governor of Alaska welcomed you to the great state of Alaska. Now, I've got nothing against last. I've never been one of the few States, I've never been to, but I always wondered why everybody refers to their states or to other states, especially in politics to the great state are all states. Great are some good or some mediocre, but every time we talk about another politician, it's from the great state of Vermont, Illinois, Tennessee, it's always the great state. What makes that would State great, why are we calling them? Great States. Is this some kind of political etiquette? Does it really mean anything and a self-reference, your own State, the great state of Alaska? Well, if the governor of Alaska didn't think the state was great, took, it shouldn't be running it. I couldn't figure out where it came from and why we use all the superlatives that don't really matter. It's kind of funny and it's kind of sad. At the same time, we have to pump ourselves up to remind ourselves how great we are. Sometimes I know we all do that in life to dead.
The Mason Minute
The Great State (MM #3725)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation. I saw a TV commercial, the other night, I think it was on HGTV or the History Channel. I do remember, which one I was watching for Alaska, tourism wage, the governor of Alaska welcomed you to the great state of Alaska. Now, I've got nothing against last. I've never been one of the few States, I've never been to, but I always wondered why everybody refers to their states or to other states, especially in politics to the great state are all states. Great are some good or some mediocre, but every time we talk about another politician, it's from the great state of Vermont, Illinois, Tennessee, it's always the great state. What makes that would State great, why are we calling them? Great States. Is this some kind of political etiquette? Does it really mean anything and a self-reference, your own State, the great state of Alaska? Well, if the governor of Alaska didn't think the state was great, took, it shouldn't be running it. I couldn't figure out where it came from and why we use all the superlatives that don't really matter. It's kind of funny and it's kind of sad. At the same time, we have to pump ourselves up to remind ourselves how great we are. Sometimes I know we all do that in life to dead.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
Detroit mayor: HGTV's Curtis was 'scammed' in house deal
"Detroit mayor. Mike duggan says the star of hgtv's rehab addict rescue was apparently scam when she bought a blighted home from someone who wasn't the owner. Coal curtis paid seventeen thousand dollars for the home and twenty seventeen and she says she spent sixty thousand on repairs and other costs so far. But the home is owned by the city's landbank authority curtis filed a lawsuit last week after the landbank. Put the home on the market. She says it would be wrong for the landbank to benefit from her investment. The mayor says that he hopes a deal can be worked
The HT Guys
Discovery Plus streaming service launches for viewers
"It seems like every network. These days has a plus service. We got disney plus we got. Espn plus we'll maybe there's only two that have plus but there are other networks putting out streaming versions like a peacock fox now. Cbs all access abc all access. And this week. Another service joins the ranks. And it's one that we will especially me amick cited about. It's called discovery plus yet another plus service discovery plus allows you to stream more than fifty five thousand episodes of twenty five hundred plus current and classic shows including networks. Like hgtv food network tlc. Id animal planet discovery channel and a bunch more. The service also includes discovery plus originals. Which they say are exciting. Can't miss series and specials that you won't see anywhere else discovery plus also includes exclusive streaming access to the bbc's largest natural history offering featuring shows like planet earth blue planet and frozen planet discovery plus also features popular shows from any history and lifetime.
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
An Interview with Grace Mitchell
"Okay so i wanna talk a little bit about your tv show and also your new line for at home. So tell me a little bit about your tv show and the new christmas collection. My tv show on hgtv is called one of a kind and it's basically about what i do in real life which is taking people's memories and and experiences and putting it into their homes You know i like to think about going beyond just making him pretty room and really making it personal and unique to them to where they really feel like their home and so i've done two seasons of that that have already aired and you can watch it on. Hdtv dot com or amazon. Or you know whatever you watch television in four at home so a really you know awesome adventure in my life has been working with at home on product line and Which includes christmas a really beautiful christmas collection that. I'm really proud of actually. Just put up christmas lights yesterday. The earliest. I've ever decorated christmas. Ever normally you know when. I'm pulling christmas out for one thing. My christmas stuff is not well organized right now but i am changing not in twenty twenty days yes but a kind of dread it like pulling it out in the boxes. They're all broken and blah blah blah. But this year. I am pumped. I think you know. I've seen a lot of this just looking at social media to people decorating really early because We are just ready for the cheer and some magic like let's get some magic up in here. it's true so you're at home. Is lots of releases and chris. Mrs just one of them right. Yes so this. Is you know where the grace mitchell for whom collection is going to be around a long time in though. Yeah so we. We worked pretty pretty far ahead. And i just feel like each collection gets better and better just so excited about all of them in just the unique things that they bring to a store you can just walk into which is great. You know a lot of people online shop. And i do some of that too. But it's sort of like magazines and books. There's just nothing like getting a magazine and opening and feeling the pages looking to pictures and dog airing and tearing out you can't. It's it's it's different. It's just hard to get that feel online. And i feel like it's the same sort of with home decor to go in there and piece things together in my car and looking at all I love you know when people send me videos and photos of them going in the store and looking at it and talking about what they like and and showing like with what they already have at home and how they're gonna pay for it and then with the holiday collection I really love a sort of a vintage kind of heirloom like special christmas things. You know I feel like a lot of christmas for a number of years of for us was like throw away. So yeah you get these begging by like the two hundred ornament It breaks your kids. Terrel the top soften thrown away. So i love this like every item just feels really special and unique and personal. It's just like the weight of it even like some of the weights of the ornaments just feels good and like some of my favorite ornaments are some from My husband's grandmother. Who i feel like it's my own And you know. They're really old from those thirties and forties. And there's you know the details the hand painting and the magic of them. I really just tried to for that too now so that you feel like when you buy it at your find something really special like something that feels like it sort of have a has in memory attached to it in a way. Yes we'll be showing a lot of pictures of the collection in the show notes. And i'm heading over there right after we chat and i'm hoping to get some of the varied size would christmas trees. Yeah yeah the the light up christmas trees. Those are ready. So i actually as soon as soon as i see fresh garlan in the store i bought all different trees You know an odd number. So i think i have eleven total for my mantle and i just so those yeah in there and it just feels really exciting to decorate for christmas this year. And i'm so proud of the collection. Because i feel like it's just so magical even when i showed my kids you know. I took my kids here. They were like oh. This is your special with really sweet. And it's been you know. A lot of the collection has sweet little like woodland animals And each animal sorta corresponds to. You made me think of one of my children. So it's just you know kids like there are very specific things that i remember my childhood that my mom would bring out like we had this little box with the dancing santa and light up the kids love that stuff so some of the ornaments light up the trees light up. Some of the things twinkle. They've got like a snow globe with the music box. And those are the things that. I remember from my childhood at christmas so i wouldn't put those things in the collection. Also
The Living Room with Joanna Weaver
True Christian Hospitality with Karen Ehman
"Me. I've always just a pastor's wife so you know you would think with the resume that hospitality should just come easy. And i had a mother who was amazing at hospitality even though she worked fulltime job My memories are so full of our house. You know not only having people over for dinner but literally. My parents opening their homes for people who needed a place to live for a while. We used to call it gustafsen home for wayward boys and girls. I love that and there was just this open armed like we knew if someone needed a place to say even today even though my parents are much older i know that if someone really needs somewhere to stay that my parents have an extra room and would be happy to have them and so that spin just a part of their life which i would just imagine. You should have become part of my dna. But it doesn't come as easy to think that this that hospitality in that open armed approach to life. Is that a a personality type or a spiritual gift or something that we all need to cultivate. Why definitely think certain personalities tend to have an easier. Go of it. I definitely think it is a spiritual gift however not off the hook if we don't have the personality or we don't have the spiritual gift of hospitality because you know in the bible. We are told to practice hospitality. And when you look into the greek rendering of the word it's written as a command. It's not a suggestion. It's not a a sentence that best translated now. If you decide to offer has to do it this way you know. We are all told the practice hospitality and so. I don't think that it's something that we're exempt from. However i think if we can learn to have the right perspective about it it can be something that all of us can do. Because what's happened. Joanna is that the world has tainted what we think of hospitality. We look at what. The world says entertaining. Is you know which is having people to impress them with your fancy stuff in your gourmet food big house and all of those things we see on. Hgtv and i'm not knocking hdtv right. I love watching it. I'll ride but we need to learn to use those decorating websites those fixer upper shows. And all that as a resource rather than try to mimic them the lifestyle. And think that if we don't have gourmet food and a lovely redecorated house than we can't practice hospitality entertaining. What the world entertaining puts the emphasis on you in impressing others. Hospitality puts the emphasis on your guests and seeks to refresh them. Not impress them when they are in your home. It's it's about them not about you. Say about your stuff about your your food about your home. It's about them and how they feel when when there with you and the person who i reached out to me with welcome with my pastor's wife and they lived in a very old church parsonage that hadn't been redecorated in years. She used to feed me. Warmed up creamed chipped beef over day old bread. That had been into toast because that's what her family was having their eating leftovers that night. But you know what it tasted like. A gourmet feast when i was with her. Because i really didn't care about the food. I really didn't care about the house. I cared about how i felt. And i wish i could quote properly who i. I heard say that you know people will never forget how you made them feel. And that's what has battalions. It's making them feel wanted and welcomed and really listening to them as they speak. It doesn't matter it doesn't it doesn't have anything to do with your home your
Being Boss: Mindset, Habits, Tactics, and Lifestyle for Creative Entrepreneurs
How Vivian Kaye Turned Her Hair Care Needs into a Multi-Million Dollar Biz
"K. is a fourteen year veteran entrepreneur who has bootstrapped to companies from the ground up for the last seven years. She has strictly focused on the e-commerce world where she built kinky curly Yacky, which offers textured hair extensions for black women to over one million in annual revenue Vivian has been featured on shop. Expert Academy Series Ted Conferences the way we worked and has been featured and digital publications such as Black Enterprise Magazine and refinery twenty nine Vivian, welcomed being boss. Thank you for having made such a pleasure to be here. Vivian! We've gotten to know you a little bit over the past couple of days. You've popped in on some of our sessions. You've been offering us so much guidance and. Radiance and your smarts and all of the things. So now I'm dying to hear your story like, can you, can we? Let's rewind a little bit and we're GonNa. Get into all of the wisdom that you have to share, but I want to know more about your entrepreneurial journey, so tell us like. Where did it begin? How did you get to where you are now being on Ted and refinery twenty nine this morning i saw on your instagram. You're on somebody's vision board like talk about goals. How did you get there? Honestly I really don't know. Because, it's not like being an entrepreneur was a big thing right, so you know back when I was growing up? Being an entrepreneur was for people who didn't have jobs. And so I kept you know I was always in jobs where the one person department one Person Marketing Department and then you know I was at a job one day and decided to start side hustling. So I started out my first business as a side hustle and then while I was running that side. Hustle I got fired for sorry I got laid off. That's the momentum. Laid off from that job, and then at that point I said. You know what let me just let me just go for it. Just go for it and do whatever I need to do. 'cause I'm young I'm free and I can. I can do whatever I want. And while I was running that business I started running, and then I had started a side hustle with kinky curly Yacky, so it was like I had businesses running at the same time so it wasn't something that I set out to do, but with both businesses I set out to solve my problem. And at the time I didn't realize that that was the best way to start a business. But that's what it was I. set out to start to solve my own problem or to solve a pain point that I saw people were having so so that's how my entrepreneurial journey began. What was the first sight hustle? The first sight has a wedding decorator. So all I would do is go in and decorate people's wedding so instead of being on a an event planner doing you know doing all those little things I focused on one thing and what it was I decided so there's a whole story behind that so I'm one of four girls and I'm the second the number two. So my older one was getting there. My older sister was getting married and she hired a decorator who who sent you decorate the wedding for? Say a thousand dollars right, so she paid her deposit. Everything was good, but two weeks before the wedding she came back and said I need another thousand dollars, but didn't have a reason why. Right so I thought well. Of course, she couldn't have paid for A. She couldn't afford to pay her, so she ended up having to hire different decorator that decorated did a crack tastic job. And so I'm like. Why is it so difficult? Why can't decorators just say that they're going to do X. Y.? And this is what it costs and Bass what they do and keep it simple, so then I thought well. I'm just GONNA I was been into decor and HGTV when TLC used to beat more home decor than reality so I would So I started I decided I wanted to be a wedding decorator I. wanted to create weddings that were simple, but fabulous so I would ask. My bride's like okay, so do you remember the last wedding that you went to? And they would say yes, will do you remember the centerpieces or the decor? Remember. It was pretty I'm like that's what we're going to do. So instead of spending mortgage down payments on decor. Why not create something that is memorable, but affordable and people just remember it was pretty, and that's it so that's what I set out to do. And it was a it was a great success, and this was a business that I started with no prior knowledge like I just figured it out as I was going along. And so I can tell that you're a branding lover at heart because you're like, forget pretty. I want memorable and I think this is going to be a thread that we we've through all of your stories, but before we get to connecting those thoughts. I went to hear more about kinky curly Yucky, so what was? What was the problem that that was solving? And how did well I I'm the worse doing I always do this. I always asked two questions in a row. So question one is more about kinky curly yacky. What problem did that solve? And then I'm really curious to hear a little bit more about how I do think that whenever we have side hustles and day jobs and we're trying on a bunch of different things they all start to. Tie together in some ways like we're always learning lessons from one thing to the next. I'm also really curious to hear. What lessons did you learn from wedding decorating that you're able to take to kinky curly yacky. That's a great question. Okay, so the first question was How can you KEROUAC even started? About problem so the problem was I as I was a wedding decker, and so I'm I. I actually live in Toronto, so it's one of the most Toronto Canada, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the world so I was doing everyone's wedding from you know the Muslims to South Asian to Indian to everyone, everyone's wedding so This is going to be a bit explain if anyone really wants to know the real detailed answer. I could always do that at a later point, but. For Black Women. We have to present. We have to show up in the world in a certain way, which is quote unquote presentable so most a Lotta Times wearing our hair, as it is naturally with kinky curly with kinky hair It's not professional. Why don't go professional? So I wanted something that looks like my hair. But would protect my hair because our hair is not suited to this north. American environment, it's it there's not moisture. It dries out really quickly but anyways I wanted something that looked like my hair and know what asked me where I bought it because I didn't want that whole. Nikki manashe thirty two inches of blonde wig down to my I wanted something that looked presentable. So I searched and searched and searched for something that looks like my hair, and then when I found it I weren't to a meet up. To just like a general networking event, and another black woman came to me and said WHO's your hairdresser? And what is your regimen for keeping your hair like that? And I said girl. This is a wave. And she was like I would buy. And this was in this was in two thousand eleven, so I thought well if she would buy it. And I bought it. There's gotta be at least a dozen. Other women would buy it to now. When I was looking to solve my problem, I saw I saw the gap in the market I. Thought There are no companies just selling kinky hair, but I was already running the successful decor business. I was buying my coach bags. I was going on vacation. I was happy with that, and then I decided then I thought well. You know you know. Weddings have a down sees. It feels like you know what I can't like. Itching the back of my brain, so then I said to myself you know what in the down season of of of Vivian the core I'm going to launch his company and I literally made up the name while I was in the shower like I was like Yankee curly. Jackie, O okay and I bought a domain name, and I launched it in December two thousand twelve, and it immediately took off. Okay so I actually do want to hear the details about the actual hair. You don't mind no worries because okay, so I remember talking to emily in the early days of ALMANAC supply company, which is her business and she was trying to find very specific candle containers to pour her candles into, and we talked about some deep googling like how you just have to search like. Get real good at searching. So how did you well? I guess two questions? Are It was a we've, but it looks natural so I think this goes back to that almost that brandon conversation of like it doesn't have to look quote Unquote Professional. Let's make it memorable like let's just make it bigger. Bigger let's make it more of a statement. which I think is so cool so I guess I have two questions here one. How did you find the natural hair? If there is a gap in the market? How did he find a? We've that had the natural texture and then in that might be getting too much of your secret sauce like you might not have to answer that one, but like how do you? How do you find the materials and then guess my next question is? How did you start to then scale and expound upon that not having any experience in that industry so how? Sold! The key was that I was trying to solve my own problem so What I was doing is I. Would I was doing that deep googling I was in facebook groups I was on hair care black hair care forums. Just you know just. Talking with other people and people of course at that time, a lot of people were sharing okay well. I bought this here I. Bought that there, and so that I would of course make note that, because again at the time I was not looking to start another business I was just looking to solve my own problems, so I wrote. You know I would contact every. Every single factor, every single manufacturer, every single website that said they would do kinky hair, and the once I found the one I was like. Wow, this, actually a pretty decent I would ask them to tweak it a little bit. Just a suit, my needs and they did it and I was like okay and I thought well after the girl confirmed my idea. I decided okay well. Let me see the state. Factory can still do it and I would order the same product under different names and asking to do different things to it, and they would do. So I thought okay. Okay. I'm onto something here. And so that's how that's how I was able to. I guess perfect the product because again. I I like to get high on my own supply, so that's the beauty of the businesses that I M my customer. I know what I'm looking for I know what problems I'm looking to solve I. Know What my pain points would be. And what other black women's pain points would be, and the only person who's able to address that is me. So of course I use that to my advantage You know to tell my brand's story but at the time again I listen, I'm an immigrant. I'm a college dropout and now a single mother. So I had no clue. About all these storytelling and branding mark I had no clue I just thought it was just doing what kind what came naturally to me. So so how I scaled that business well, I think one of the mistakes that a lot of people are making in starting businesses that they don't have an audience for the product that they have and so then what I had done again I inadvertently created an audience by by being on those facebook facebook. Forums a facebook groups that had black hair care forums because I was shining. Just being Vivian online people remembered me. So bad, and the funny thing was what I, when I when the business launched, no one knew it was me I didn't. I wasn't. My face wasn't the base of the brand it was just like here's some products. You guys will love Ed Oh. My Gosh and people bought it, but what happened was. I was facebook group and someone I didn't do. The WHO is on the back end of my website do that. Who has privacy on the back end of my product? Someone in one of the facebook groups created a fake place book profile and posted all my information in those facebook groups. Saying this is the person who owns that brand. So what she meant. To to like to help me to make me fail actually was what turned my like. What is what actually skyrocketed my business? Because once people found out that I was the person behind that brand, they were like well. Shoot I'm going to almost support her because she's this. She's that I remember she's Great. She's awesome, and that's what took off so I realized then that. My brand, my person like why. Is What is going to help me succeed in business. Amen I. Resonate so much with what you're saying and. I have branding agency as well and really focus on personal branding and I i. feel like one a lot of people always tell you you need to identify your customer and what they need, but I always think it really does start with you if you can start with what you need you like, you can trust that. We're not all that different and that if you can just get specific about yourself, you're going to be getting specific about your dream customer. Customer so we are so aligned there and then the fact that I mean it was an unfortunate, and you know really inappropriate way to learn the power of personal branding, but you did learn the power of personal branding, so that is incredibly exciting and I. WE'RE GONNA dig into more about like how you leverage that and who you are, and what you do, and how you bring it into your business and draw boundaries and all of the things but. We do have an attendee question that I. Want to slide in here if we may. I'm in this question is from. Death and I think especially for creatives. Who is you know most of our crowd here then we add like to hear your. Hear your thoughts on this, so here's your question. so Vivienne said she had the hair problem herself and chose to solve it, but what kept her on that path instead of ending up as an all purpose, beauty, Guru or similar. To be honest. Hair is not my jam. So really what I? How I think of it is just the ends to a means way or means to an end it's the means to an end, so my real goal is to give black women confidence to show up as they are in the world. So hair just so happens to be the the means to that end. So how I just stick to hair you know I'm pretty. I'm pretty good at focusing on the one thing like it's what I've learned is You know niche of and that's my I will preach about I say niche, but its niche. You know it's either. We can use them interchangeably potato potato. Okay, so with me I. Find that if You speak to a very specific group of people, and you sell them a very specific product. They will be your most loyal fans. They are cheaper to market to they. Are you know more about them? Especially when you already are them so for me that makes it very easy to stick to that one thing because I know that very well and I can speak to it now. Let's just by started venturing into. Say. Make up girl I'll even know how to put on eye shadow right so it wouldn't. It wouldn't. I wouldn't have authentic voice I can't lend that often into city to that product, but what I do know is hair. I'm not a hairdresser. I'm not a hair stylist. Because I had a passion for solving my own problem so that I could show up as quote. Unquote professional in the world. I can solve the I know what looks professional for me. You know I learned you don't like it. That's your problem. Not Mine Right, so we as a black women. What started in two thousand? I want to say. In Two thousand eleven two thousand twelve. Is that Youtube? We started all jumping on youtube and teaching each other how to care for our hair. We stopped putting before. We're used to put chemicals in our hair in order to straighten it to look to fit that European standard of beauty. But then we were like you know what I'm tired of that crap. We're tired of that. We don't want that if that's not Howard. The hair grows out of our heads. You're either going to accept this as we are or not right so so the goal of. Of making black women confident in how they show up in the world is really what keeps me focused on here. There's other people and I and I realized. I'm really good at that, so if I just if you just focus on the one thing that one goal your why. Then you're. You'RE NOT GONNA get distracted by all the Shiny Mirror. The the shiny objects that are floating around, because yeah I could make some easy money doing makeup, but I'm not passionate about that I. don't that doesn't that's not my jam? I love the what you did was instead of doing. The sheds are what people may have expected you to stuck with thing I think oftentimes people in this crowd see either see someone who have sort of diverged from that path, or so. They're thinking okay I. Should I should diversify as well or they sort of get these little inklings of like going to different. Different things I love that what you've done is just focused. You focused on doing the one being amazingly well exactly, and that's and that's the one, if I had to give one piece of advice to anyone is do that one thing and do it really well before you move onto anything else because you know doing that. One thing really really really really really really. Really really really advising that really do that. One thing really well. Guess what you can do anything you can apply that same, so that's what I learned in billions, the core I learned that if I kept it simple and I just focused on providing my brides with this one product and do it really well, it would speak for itself, so I took that same. Simple yet fabulous and I applied it to. Kinky Curly Aki. So people like what can I all? I'm explained the Kinky curly Yacky. What is that, so? It's Kinky kinky hair, and it's curly for curly hair, and then there's Yacky. So? Yuck, so yacky actually is short for Yak, or against the long overreact so back in the day when they wanted to mimic black women's hair straightened. They use hair from Jack the animal. So the industry just put an eye on the end and call the Yacky, so you would know what Jackie was. If you were a black woman, so any block won't be like. Oh! You got that Yacky in and so it's a sort of tongue in cheek, so you would have to be part of that target demographic in order to understand the name of the the name of the brand clear I love that. You're very specific about your dream. Customer to effect. Because I was her I get hot on my own supply. So at some point, did you end up closing the decorating business I did? I closed it I. Shut it down back in two thousand fifteen, and the only reason why I did is because I got practice. More. Yeah so I launched kinky curly. Aki in the summer of two thousand twelve by July of two thousand, thirteen. I was in the business was doing really well at that point? It was I was just doing just under four hundred thousand dollars in sales. and I found out in July I was pregnant. Anti ago. And so you know with my? With wedding core I had brides booked a year out. Right so so I was still doing those weddings, still going to the still going to meetings breastfeeding doing weddings that type of thing. And then I started I wasn't really paying attention to what can carry Aki was doing I didn't know all these numbers until later on because I was doing it just because I just loved it and I was learning about H. Tim Allen Marketing in Seo and I just I just threw myself into it, but wasn't paying attention to the numbers. I just knew it was doing well. But then when I found out, I was pregnant. I was like okay. Okay, the being you got to the chill, you gotta chill. You can't be can't be doing everything and then in two thousand, fourteen march, two, thousand, fourteen I, gave birth to my son and he's been wonderful ever since he's six now. and then I saw what can curly accu was doing I thought. Ma'am really half assing it. What happens if I put my full ass into this? And once I did again. It took off, so so yeah, okay so. I I know that whenever entrepreneurs are listening to this or site hustlers listening to this. They're like wait a second. She accidentally created a half a million dollar business and wasn't even paying attention. So how does that happen? Did was that like word of mouth or referral? Launches You have specific marketing plans. What did that look like for? You had none of that I had was what people knew me from in the facebook groups, and and because I was also also go. Gee of the niche, their niche of just selling kinky hair did not exist before I. Start before I created my company. So because I saw a gap in the market I'm A. I pioneered that so any other company that you now see selling kinky hair is because of me. And so then because I was first to market with that bat just. Exploded because that's women were looking for. I was solving their problem and on top of that I looked like them. Right so it's like they were like girl. You know, 'cause. One of the things would be like girl I was tired of the whole African in the front, an Indian in the back. If you're a black woman, you know what that means, so what that means is we're all from. Black women are from the African for so we had these tight kinky air, and then we are putting on these silk weaves. I didn't blend with our hair. So I was tired of the whole African in the front and Indian in the back, and that resonated with people, so it just and I didn't do I didn't i. Here's another thing I just literally launched with one product. I locked to one product and I only had three lancs. I only had three lengths. I remember at the time, and someone would buy one I would take that money in going by two. And that's how I built. My business I didn't I. Bootstrap I started from zero. I took no outside capital I didn't have any debt I literally started from the bottom. And was it easy. No, no, it wasn't. Is that possible ABSA freaking move? All right well, we're going to take a little break here because we've got to tell you about working smarter and not harder and. 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Why do you think that autheniticity and being true to yourself and using your own personality is important for anyone who is building a business or a brand? Because people don't necessarily. I think one of the biggest things people need to keep in mind as people aren't necessarily buying the product. As you can see, it's not like I'm the first person to ever sell Kinky, textured hair extensions and back. There were tons of companies that had it, but what they did. is they buried it underneath the silkier texture, so not the first. To Sell Kinky textured hair extensions. But what people don't realize that people aren't necessarily buying the product. They're buying the person or they're buying the emotions. They're buying lifestyles behind the product. So brand is where you can tell that story so branding will help you. To, help you, stand out in the crowd. It will help people remember and especially when you have a story that resonates with someone one. That's what they're buying into. They could care I. Mean Yeah, you could, you could be selling something. That's more expensive and more has a tools unless this unless that, but what they're buying is the person or the idea or the emotions behind. It so I that's what I realized very quickly is especially in the wedding decor. Businesspeople clouds giving. You made me you made it. It feel so simple. You made me feel so comfortable, and you made this process so easy for me and I realized. It doesn't go learn how to do all the fancy. You know all the fancy. Do Decor all I want but that's not what they care about. They care that I made them feel good about the money that they were spending made their wedding. Feel pretty like I made them feel that way. So that's that's really what you should focus on. I love that you said that you're not the first person to sell kinky natural hair extensions, but that it's been buried, and so you took a product unique in on it, and then you highlighted it, and it's beautiful, and you're owning it and you're helping. Other women own it I'm curious, little bit with some of the activism around. Natural Hair California has banned hair discrimination. It's something that I was so excited to see and when it continue to see, are there any levels of like activism or do you think even products like yours have helped? Create that kind of. Activism you know? Do you think that it's like no? This is who we are and this is just as professional as any other hair well I. Think the problem was that we were letting you know black women in general were we were leading the world? Tell us what was beautiful. And you know Youtube and you know the the beauty of the Internet was us being able to see each other people outside of our own communities, and how they look. How many rock their hair and all that jazz so I think really it. It just helped people just be who they wanted just to be who they are like just to be their authentic selves and truth be told, and it does just women in general, because even society tells us. Women were supposed to look like like I'm pretty sure after this quarantine thing has done. There's going to be a lot of people who were blonde. That aren't blonde anymore, right? But you know with black women where we're especially, you know we. Don't want to say Alison to say hated on because of how we look, and so then this i. feel just the way to just listen world we have to teach. We have to teach the world. This is how we are. If they don't like it. That is their problem. Because this is how my hey, this is how the hair grows out of my head naturally. It's curly it goes. It goes to the heavens because that makes me closer to God in the Sun. Right, as so if that's not something you think is professional, I think you really need to reexamine what your idea professional is. Karen sorry. Goes show that Chad. Presentation matters absent. That is what the Internet gave us. It gave us access to each other and to To all kinds of beauty and bodies and ways of being right, and it allowed us to see ourselves and others, and we can't help it, but need permission you know, and that permission sometimes simply in representation I have so many role models where I'm like. Oh, I didn't know I could do that until I saw them do it. And you're providing tools for that awareness as well which I think is like that's an important part of this, too. It's not only having access to the vision of its having access to the tools to, and that's even what you've done. Okay Vivian, you're you just radiate confidence? We all see. We all feel it over these past couple of days, do you? Some of our listeners are indeed here today WanNa know. Do you ever doubt yourself like? Do you ever have what we call being bossed? Friday? Feelings I mean especially going into industries that you didn't have experienced in. Full frequently. Battle with imposture syndrome Prodi feelings all the time. But then. I. Think to myself you know what. If. I don't do what I'm. Put on this earth to do then nobody will. Nobody will be able to do it either, because people who who look like me or even in the same situation as me so I. Guess I'm a single mom. I've been through depression. I've been I've been through all the things that tried me and I came out gold. So if I don't tell that story, I don't tell people how it's done. Then everyone's just this is GonNa be one hell of a boring world so if I. Let that Imposter Syndrome. Eat Me! Eat Away at me. Then that's not that's not fair. It's not fair to anyone. Right, so I shine so that everyone else can shine to. Raise that's like. Your purpose higher than your emotions absolutely. Thinks the. Catholics. Say she's like yes. I, know what with his quarantine? My bow talks has worn off so you can see my reaction. That's right. My eyebrows moving now. I love it. Up Cackling. Right I'd like to bring this to. The branding things, which you've talked a little bit about and the conference, but not everyone has been a part of the conference like listening to this we have. So many more people who have been who have been here with for the past couple of days, so I wanna to talk about this personal branding piece. And if you have any top tips for anyone who's looking to infuse more of their personality into their brand, how can just any old person in by any old person I mean? Everyone is a snowflake How can anyone shine in their business and use themselves as a tool for growth? Or what I want to remind people is you don't need to be me. So you, you know there's. If you think about people like if you think it will jams, right? There's different Jams Jentzsch. Ruby shied differently than a diamond emeralds than that, so you need to be exactly that so be yourself because the minute you start being someone who you're not. It's going to feel like work. It's going to feel You're going to hate it. People will see right through it. So you really don't have any choice, but to be yourself and so sometimes that means you being quirky, or it means you know. Maybe you do more blogging than you do video or whatever the case may be. You just need to show up as yourself. In whatever platform however way you want to do it and the people who it will resonate with. We'll find you. They will find you, so don't be. Please don't be anybody else you don't. That's not what you were. Put on this earth to be to be someone else I just doing yourself a huge disservice by not being yourself. How windy you feel the most yourself Vivian. Like sometimes it's hard to know like what what is me. What should I be sharing? Where do I draw these lines? You know what you know you know where the lines are to be drawn right? You know you know liking. We women. That's one thing I find with specially with women, and there's a lot of things on finding, but anyhow with women we need to trust. Our guts were always second guessing ourselves. We're always doing all these things, but you just need to trust yourself because you know what you know where that line is. You know what you should be sharing what you shouldn't be sharing. Someone there's comanding that unlike very existential questions, which is basically sums it up I'm like, but but even are we but a bundle of sell. What is time? What is personality? What is money. So sorry asked me asking the question again, so I can play it all night, so the question is windy. You feel most yourself like. How do you know what is authentically? You because I think all of us. WanNa show up as we are and who we are. But we can start to second. Guess Ourselves, so you were saying like we. As women need to listen to our guts like we know, it's in our guts. But how do you tune into that like I know like? Let's just say. I remember doing a couple of years ago, I did. I was I was asked to speak at a hair like a beauty hair brand thing and I didn't like it. 'cause hair was not my passionate kid. I could give to kicks about hair, but put me on. Put me in a forum or an opportunity like this. This is where I shine. So I know. You know you know like you know like you know. I'd so, that's the only. Way Can I can explain. We know you know you know. My in I think even what you're explaining is that you know by trying things, and then like listening to yourself right, so you did the hair thing or you went and spoke at the hair thing and you're like this feels gross like, but you wouldn't have known that if you hadn't tried it. I ache, factly eggs, and that's the key to life to. You gotta try. You gotTA. Try GotTA. Try GotTA. Try 'cause. That's the only way you're gonNA. Find out what you. You like and don't like you can apply that to life like you don't know you like Kale until you try it. You don't know you guys that do this until you try it. You have to go through and try a bunch of different things, and then and you know one of the things I started to realize because I'm I'm forty two, so at forty I was like you know what I'm done trying to live in this Fox like I'm done, it's over. I'm Vivian means lively one so Vivian you just need to go about living your best life because. You know all before I was forty at kept trying to be. Everyone kept trying to put me in this box. You know be a box. Go in the box. You know what I. I discovered that I was a parallelogram. Graham is is a sideways buckler rectangle that has. The Google it okay. I was a parallelogram and I was tired of being put into the box, and so once I turned forty. I just flip the bird to everything and said you know what again if you do not like it, I do not care. That is not my problem. You can go kick rocks with an open Tokyo.
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Leslie Allen on speaking freely
"Welcome to the TENNIS DOT COM podcast. I'm one of your host. Nina Pantic joined as always by Irena Falconi. Hey, guys, how's it? Goin' our special guest. Today is the one and only Leslie Allen. Leslie Welcome. Hi. I'm so excited to be here with you. Guys for those who don't know Leslie wasn't amazing. Tennis player career high numbers seventeen as well as doubles number ten and we're going to talk to her about her career, but also what? She's been up to since stopping link. That's a lot to get into. Let's begin with. How has your quarantine shutdown period band during the coronavirus pandemic? What have you been up to? Well. It's a good thing that I like myself. Because I spent a lot of time alone I'll like everybody else and I'm in new. Jersey so very close to the epicenter of New York. Things were just out of control a few months ago or a few weeks ago. so one of the things that I decided that I would do once. I heard that it could be helpful was too so fabric masks so I just went to. My sewing area, dug out all the savage that I had because I. Work in real estate as well usually for my client I will so the Mahan. ME, apron and I just had. Had all that fabric and turned it into masks donated it to the hospitals they they accepted it. They sent us. I did it with another tennis player Pope Amuse and so we would get them picked up, and then they would send us pictures of them in the hospital with the signs with masks with signs that would say, stay home or stay say or be well, so it was a little bit. It was a lot rewarding. So. What else have you been focusing on during this pandemic? Tell us a little bit more. One of the things that I did I spent the last few years working was some tennis athletes that were on NJ -til, excellence a team and they were now heading off to college, and I wasn't quite sure that they knew all the things they would be facing as a student athlete so I, did a virtual training with them, and they were from all across the country. It was about a dozen of them may have different challenges and things to to figure out or interview. current athletes. What's it like so? It was really eye opening for them rewarding for me because my friends. They call me the professor because there's two things that I did. I either get up in the morning and I profess I'm GonNa do this I'm GonNa. Do this do that do that and usually I'm spinning like a top and do any of it so so they can hear me and my cadence, oh. You're professing now. They just say we don't even listen to you. We know we know you're not GonNa do, but maybe one thing on the list, but the other thing that I do. The professors is I. Love to teach in. You experience some of that I. Just I just love so it was rewarding to work with the athletes and some of my individual clients virtually to do win for life trading. So, how do you guys Know Each Other? You mentioned? You know arena from from working together. What have you guys been up to together I guess in the past couple of years. Will I will the first time. Obviously followed her career in since she was from New York and live not far from where I lived in New York. We were both in Washington Heights arena. Would you say you were Washington Heights to? I typically say Washington Heights but I'm more in. Would in lactose seven I street? Yeah, that's why I ask because I know there's a difference. But anyway we were, we were New Yorkers kindred. Areas and so I was coming down to do someone's life training with the boys and the women were young men, and the women just help them be ready for what they might face on the tour in terms of media training. How do you do interview techniques? How do you pivot and not answer difficult question? How do you get your point across and we bonded right away. Away, because we both loved HGTV and we still do so so that was I don't know two thousand fifteen in Ben, I, guess the last time I saw her was in November during winds life training at the Sloan Stevens Invitational Camp and Rada was there is one of the guests, coaches and speaker, so we just and we just kept up. Overtime was the magic of text. The company's the Wgn Usda than hire you and win for life. Colin teach people and train them. They need to. I have done some. You know I'm always involved with Billie Jean and the power hour and I haven't done as much with the US, but perhaps I, will you never know? So you know it's, it's my passion, so I'm not gonNa Chase people to to take the opportunity to to get better and to have To improve your. Your ability and I think when we feel more confident about ourselves, especially as as young women. you just do better. You play around the court. You're not worried about some things because you know all I'm GonNa. As that interview I'm not worried. I know how to speak at this party I'm not worry, and that's just one less thing. You can check on your list so. Game! Oh I believe it helps you.
Asian Americana
What We Inherit: Marie Kondo and the Security of Stuff
"Parents are preparing to remodel my childhood home. They want to add a room to the house. So that my mom's mom my paw-paw can stay with them. She's been in and out of the hospital and at ninety three. The family doesn't think she can live on her own anymore. The first and last time we remodeled our house was sixteen years ago. And I'm pretty sure that's the last time or house was D- cluttered at any in-depth way since then. My mom has made several attempts to clean the house. But it's never really worked now that my mom's busy taking care Paul. I thought I should fly home to help. Assess the situation okay. So this is the most this what we're looking at right now. Is the most thing that gives me the most headache when I come home. What are we looking at mom and are standing in the living room looking? Glass Window that spans. The back wall and overlooks an enclosed patio inside there are cardboard boxes plastic bins plants. An old fish tank and a bunch of other stuff large clear plastic sheets cover the boxes and another sheet for some reason is taped to the ceiling. How many would you say that? There's in patio. Oh some of the some empty boxes but how do you? Why did you because I don't have time to go? Charging the go on the cops can so they put it in here? Just get away from my side and it's also kind of an eyesore eyesore. I mean is is so I I would have WANNA clean up a couple of time. I tried to let them know is paper cannot just toss it. I had to look at by details a lot over the sweat a lot. Even when there's a task at hand like cleaning our house my mom always has to multitask. Since I'm only visiting California for short while I thought we would be able to spend the weekend decluttering instead. Mom had other plans money doing. I'm pure and the ginger could make some Sephora Papa and knife family. Whenever anyone sick we make soup. It's something that my papa always does. But since she sick herself it's my mom's job to make and deliver it to her. Which is why I guess. Mini cleaned up pasta sauce jars. That mom's saved over the years are finally coming in handy. Mom is the Middle Child. She's the third five she and three of her siblings emigrated from China to Hong Kong to Sacramento California with Paul when my mom was just eleven when I was growing up. That's all I really knew like a lot of other children of immigrants. I knew a lot about my mom's immigration story while also knowing nothing everything she told us was very matter of fact. Papa sacrificed a lot and worked in sweatshops. So you and your brother have to study hard. Mommy had to take care of her younger siblings. So you and your brother are lucky. You don't have those responsibilities. Are FAMILY HAD LITTLE MONEY. So we had to save everything. And even after my mom escaped the Clutch SA- poverty moved out of Papa's house and started a family of her own. She held tight to this rule. Anything that came into our house rarely left so we did toss something out. I mean not top. We put in a box and then we put it in the uncle Terry and he says garage okay so so you didn't technically throw away anything we when you were modeled. We was in a hurry so he everything that box. We originally remodeled the house. When I was ten I guess I was so young that I never realized what my mom's main cleaning technique was putting things in boxes and shoving them into my aunt and uncle's garaged. Okay what happened to the VOX? After year we moved to think that in so some of the box be opened up. Nba Use it and some of the box. Do in the in the patio thing. Yeah so can you. The patio is filled with boxes from our first remodel. But also things for my dad's parents my union and yeah from when they passed away many years ago aside from the patio. Our House as a whole is just so full of things even before we planned this newer model to add a room for Papa. My Dad and I had been trying desperately to help my mom. Clean her closet. We thought we could start small before tackling the whole house after Marie condos the life. Changing magic of tidying up was released and translated into English in two thousand fourteen. My Dad bought a copy for mom a Christmas present. Murray condos hopeful osophy is that if an object to spark join you. You should get rid of it. I thought that there was no way that all the things in my parents house could possibly spark that much joy. I was hopeful that reading this book with somehow enable both of my parents to turn into something worthy of hgtv show but simply put it. Hasn't okay well. So so dad bought you this book. The Mary Condo Book for Christmas copiers. We use did you. Did you read it? Sure did I did. Did you learn anything from it? You Go Clo- make it nicely and I love this. I kept it and I found out. I love a lot of close i. That's why we did make it like that but the problem is one. I had too many close to the way they set out after two. We have our mess up again. That the purpose of that is you have to keep it up every day. And I don't have time to do that. I don't but I don't have done it before. That's when they don't have like five pair of jeans ten pair you know or they have won. T shirt I had twenty one t shirt male one of my friends too gene. Naturally he could do it I have. I do have to go over my plant pans now. I have pobably thirty pair or more clearly. The MARIKANA book didn't drastically changed my mom's cleaning habits and because I live on the other side of the country for my parents. I can't be there to help clean every step of the way so I thought that having my mom watch Marie condos new Netflix. Show tidying up with. Murray condo would provide her with some tips aerial Bernstein a professor and journalist whose parents fled to Cuba then to the US refugees from Eastern Europe also thought that when she told her mother about the show You know we watched episode or two of the show together and then we went to try to do some of the Actual tightening and it's just really hard for her You know it's just very difficult to to think about getting rid of things You know my mom is living in the US now for for fifty years so it's not necessarily that she's not used to American culture. But I think that I think that just about legacy of having to to give things up almost sixteen when she came to the US. And I think that's for her. They're still idea that giving up something that's very integral unimportant. Throughout my mom childhood anything that could possibly get a second or third or tenth use did but I never really contended with the idea that this history this life of immigration impacted my own childhood as a kid I really resented how're cabinets overflowed with tupperware or how. We had an entire room in our house dedicated to storing stuff that I thought was junk photo albums. My Dad's records and broken record player kitchen gadgets. I was always embarrassed that we couldn't just get rid of things like other families. Why you think it's so hard for you with stuff like everything I buy like it. So that's why why would I taught away the thing that I you know. I like okay. Let's talk about some of the things that you allowed things. You have a lot of your tupperware though. Oh my mom has an obsession with tupperware. It's mildly unhealthy. When I was in elementary school she's to sell Tupperware to friends and coworkers but mostly to herself so she could get rewards points and get even more tupperware. Oh I love tougher billy. I do why because I don't know because I am over my end. Shoo Shoo Shoo introduced me to upper. Because you make a lot of cookie Dune a holiday and she put it inside a separate and she just eat it you know and give it to friend and so I think from there on I found out you know. That's good to use tupperware. This is the first time my mom has mentioned the story to me. Despite knowing tidbits about mom's immigration she never talked about her early life in California and any emotional sense. But it's something I've always wondered about. Why do you think that we have so much stuff? Because it'll be good furniture and those they last a long time and then Miko Shah Gobi. -CATION BE BY A souvenir and which I haven't done lately. Yeah Yeah but but all those good we cannot just toss it and you not quite sure what my mom means by good. No one in the house uses those things anymore but saying something is good has been excuse for not getting rid of a lot of our
Talking Tech
I just cut the cord, finally!
"Hiring isn't easy but there is one place you can go where hiring is simple in smart that place is ziprecruiter where growing businesses connect to qualified candidates candidates try it for free at Ziprecruiter. Dot Com Slash Tech Talk Ziprecruiter. The smartest way to hire consumer reports recently outlined wind what most of us already knew that the fees being charged by cable companies are one rate in the adds another on the final bill you know it's similar to many travel aval websites which advertise come on nightly roommate but then. Ding you later with hidden resort fees and taxes so when I wrote an article about it this week for USA Today Day I asked Jonathan Schwab as the senior policy counsel for consumer reports what we could do about those fees and he told me there was only one option cut the cord and the fees would go away. I have some words of advice as well. Check your cable bill right now because when I took a look doc my bill was a steady in reasonable one hundred eight dollars and ninety one cents monthly until this month when it jumped to da Da da a hundred hundred and fifty four dollars a whopping five hundred and fifty two dollar yearly increase frontier communications my Los Angeles provider jacked up the Combo Internet. TV Rate from seventy five to ninety stopped offering HBO for Free Which Ballooned Up to twenty dollars and threw in a nice broadcast TV of twelve bucks to watch local channels and taxes went up to really when I called frontier complain they pretty much refused to budge saying that I had a promo rate that no longer was valid so basically I two choices cancel service altogether and re sign up under my wife's name which would now oh get me to a promotional one hundred thirty dollars monthly for what we had or disconnect altogether so I picked up a fifty dollar. You're watching your Internet service rate from frontiers. La rival spectrum and I have a router arriving hopefully today fees spectrum itself is notorious for digging us with extras like the ten dollar self installation fee they are charging me to plug in a router and to call them confirm that I indeed have service. The alternative is fifty dollars to have a technician. Come to the house and do the work and for cable subscribers. It's good to know that they do that. Twelve dollar monthly broadcast as well and it's growing at thirteen dollars and fifty cents monthly later this month I signed up for the one year plan so hopefully I got fifty dollars a month for that one year. I'll also be adding youtube. TV The Cable Alternative Service to replace the cable channels this this is fifty dollars monthly which is pretty hefty but the wife will kill me if I can't get her news channels and PBS which is coming to YouTube td later this year so so in the end. I'm going to be paying one hundred dollars monthly instead of one hundred and eight dollars monthly which really isn't much of a savings at all but I'm not about to give frontier the satisfaction this faction of nearly six hundred dollars hard in dollars every year for no good reason read your cable bills everybody cutting the cord fans no. I could've skipped up YouTube TV or slaying or playstation Vue or who live TV and just bought an antenna the pickup local channels in really saved but if you're a fan of cable able channels like FX AMC HGTV CNN ESPN and on and on you got to pay the Piper with one of the cable TV alternative services I I could live without them and just watch regular Youtube Netflix Amazon and be the happiest guy in town but I live alone. What do you think listeners. Have you looked at your bill lately. Please tell me what you're finding out there because I'd love to hear from you. Look for me on twitter where I'm at Jefferson Graham. You've been listening to talking tech. Please subscribe to the show wherever you listen to online audio and I'll I'll be back tomorrow with another quick hit from the world of tech hiring can be a slow process cafe tour. Coo Jio Dylan Moskowitz needed to hire a director of coffee for his organic coffee company but was having trouble finding qualified applicants so he switched to Ziprecruiter Ziprecruiter's technology analogy finds people with the right experience and invites them to apply to your job. Dylan posted his job on Ziprecruiter and was impressed by how quickly he had qualified candidates apply apply and in just a few days. He found his new director of coffee with results like that. It's no wonder four out of five employers who post on Ziprecruiter get a qualified right candidate within the first day see why Ziprecruiter is effective for businesses of all sizes trust Ziprecruiter for free at our web address ziprecruiter dot com slash tech talk that Ziprecruiter Dot Com Slash T. E. C. H. T. A. L. K. ziprecruiter dot com slash tech talk ziprecruiter the smartest way to hire.
Michael Brown
Suzanne Whang, former host of HGTV's 'House Hunters,' dies at 56
"Bigger Suzanne Wong was known to fans of the HGTV shows the host of house hunters from its start in nineteen ninety nine until two thousand seven also an actress one was diagnosed with breast cancer in two thousand six which she beat but returned last year Suzanne along with fifty six ABC's chasing
Patti Vasquez
A Very Brady Renovation to air on HGTV
"On tonight a very Brady at renovation kicked off on HD TV they are renovating the old the Brady bunch house. now if you know with the Brady bunch house they did not film inside the house so I'm assuming they have the got the house to make it look like the TV
Steve Cochran
Chicago, Brian Hopkins And HGTV discussed on Steve Cochran
"The city of Chicago is shut down work on the HGTV show windy city rehab and is moving to revoke the licenses of one of its stars stop work orders are now in place on the two most recent projects alderman Brian Hopkins says the show is not above the law we gave them every chance that we possibly could for them to do the right thing to work with the neighbors to follow the rules to get the permits you're supposed to get and they can can you take down their nose at the whole
Lori and Julia
Christina Anstead Is Pregnant! HGTV Star Expecting a Baby with Husband Ant Anstead
"And Christina instead, formerly Christina El Moussa from HDTV famous about to have another baby. She and her husband aunt are expecting their first child together and Christina has two children from her previous marriage with flip flop star to Rick El Moussa, Christina made the announcement with aunt on Instagram sharing. Interesting name, he's not anti comedian is not the British and from ant and deck. No, no, Adam anthem singer. Not that one either. Not even the
Gary and Shannon
Here’s the story / of HGTV / and how it outbid Lance Bass for this Brady house
"KFI's Corbin Carson reports live from the mandatory evacuation area of McVicker canyon where the flames are right. Behind some homes Yeah the. Fires destroyed twelve buildings and is just five. Percent contained look lake Elsinore mayor Natasha Johnson says she lives. In an evacuation area and this. Is just heartbreaking. We did the whole corridor. So from
Memphis Morning News
Actor Alan Alda reveals Parkinson's diagnosis
"Flynn, six hundred and ninety two point one FM It's morning, news it is six forty six eight temperature Of sixty nine degrees I noticed. Some high schools are having some. Football scrimmages force Goodman, that, means it's It's back in the air college football teams opening up. Their practices today So one month away from the real? Deal, and but but you said high school high schools like approaching quickly yeah When their seasons get here they start the middle of August and hope hope the weather that we've seen for the last few days will continue. To stick, around as those young men get out there and start, conditioning and. Working out, and that sort of stuff because again that can. Just be brutal on anyone who's outside athletes construction workers I mean? That's I did look down the road the other day. In the the guys who put the roof on the house I'm like man if they'd just waited a few days because they were doing it right when I mean during that brutal. Heat wave, few days they'd have been better off so yeah well, it is. It is, man It is nice to have these temperatures like we've got right now for those working outside I, know it's a it's going. To help, them, be more. Productive and actually Heaven forbid actually. Be a little comfortable, while doing by the way numbers ran from shark week Which I. Didn't watch any I didn't watch any of it this year it was down it's my. Fault then they averaged one point million in total. Viewers on the Discovery Channel is down still. They, nearly doubled CNN's average, of eight hundred ninety, one thousand Melissa different. Times n., n. viewers well actually with those numbers it's more like minnows but that's. Another story Fox News twenty fifth consecutive month is the most watched network in cable in July Beating, out the the others, FOX was first in primetime. With an average of about two point four. Million viewers and. Finished first in. The total day around one point four million Hannity and Tucker Carlson or the top two. Programs for the month and and then MSNBC's Rachel. Meadow came in third with the appropriate named. Rachel, meadow show MSNBC overall, was second behind Fox, News channel in primetime. But then, in total day they dropped to third behind Nickelodeon believe it or not Out of the victory cable networks CNN placed tenth in prime. And seventh in the total day CNN. Lawsuit HGTV USA history channel Discovery Channel hallmark channel and I think shape with Martha, on public access perhaps or maybe after in that last one I missed that one but FOX. Business network beats CNBC who had a twenty three year low in, business day viewers for the month I haven't I in all fairness to, both of those business networks I, have a tough time watching those all those. Tickers and things scrolling or just distracting they're just really hard to to watch but so if if if you're into if you're a TV junkie. Our news junkie then those are the numbers that have been, have been coming in It would have probably helped shark shark NATO Oh I don't know about that, if it had, come out during the month a different channel but maybe they would have fed off. Of each other fed off of? Each. Other did you say that on purpose no now this and this. Was the thirtieth? Anniversary to of shark? Week wasn't that inter twenty fifth or thirtieth I mean I I know they. Were like celebrating some monumental anniversary thirty thirty okay in doing it and look and I I know people right now I, got, a, friend of mine and he's like oh man I got this recorded on the DVR, because he works. A lot and he's like I got this I can't wait to watch, this and I just didn't really think about it much this year, not, that, I was ever a big shark week fan and you know you wanna you wanna, give me a. Story about sharks giving jaws all right That's all you need right there. We're gonna need a bigger boat, did you. Hear about Alan, Alda I. Don't know if you heard okay. What's that he was Hawkeye yeah. Yeah yeah he is Oh wow just lost voice like. Al. Michaels or? Al Michaels has. A. Voice, like. Alan Alda Alan Alda. Has, come out. And said that he is he has. Been diagnosed with. Parkinson's disease oh man yeah he's eighty. He's I didn't realize he's eighty two he still doesn't he doesn't look eighty two to me I know he's been around forever. With, with. Mashan and he's been lots of all kinds of Malaysia ever since he left mash But. He said he was diagnosed three and a half years ago says he. Has, a full life and? He still loves to do his podcast to. Act and give talks and Ellen all, does a podcast really yeah, I can. Only imagine yeah he is a wild eyed left-winger yeah. I can only imagine what he talks. About I. Bet, he added. He'd suffers from TD s worse than. A lot of. Folks out there yeah but you know. What he does give some great advice in his he he put out a tweet says if you get a diagnosis keep moving Yeah. I love that good for him you know unlike our friends on. The, left when when someone on the left get sick I don't I'm happy and I don't celebrate and I don't you know wish the worst upon them I'd I'd give me he's a human being he's someone, who's. Been, in certain roles I. Never, watched mash but he's been in. Certain, roles in movies that light and you know. I don't wish this. Upon anybody so I would I do offer him prayers and I do. Hope, that it's something that? Does not hold him back eighty two years. Old, there's a lot of things that, can sneak up and get, you yeah And, you know so if if this, is the worst. Thing going on right now, it's something he can live with and and hopefully continue to do what he loves Yep absolutely. We wish we wish him well and a long healthy fight Parkin's. Yes And again unlike. Some or other, friends on the? Other side who would be happy you. Know if they. Found out rush. Had this or something and it would celebrate and dance in the, streets and late night comedians would make fine but that's the way they react the. Tolerance, side. Where's Gary burger is he he's still alive right radar I think. So I don't know the mash question I just, assumed you knew everything about mash. Now I said, I never watched? Star Mary used to be like on. The.
Valentine in the Morning
‘Flip or Flop’ Star Christina El Moussa Lands Her Own Solo HGTV Series
"The morning hollywood headline jill has got the hollywood headlines what's going on lindsay lohan did an interview with the new york times and she said that she wants people to know he's a normal nice person a good person lindsey said i don't have any bad intentions and my past past to say in the past people have to just let it go and stop bringing it up because it's not it's dead christina el moussa currently stars with her ex husband targe on hdtv's flip flop but christina is getting a new hdtv series all to herself it's called christina on the coast it's going to focus on her design business here in southern california it's gonna premier early next year and then tarak is also in discussions for his own show jay has well i'm hollywood headline feel about that what are you thinking you watch that was kinda strange but good for them that they continue to do the show after the divorce was strange seemed like they had a good relationship and they have kids everything for the fact that they're both still going to be on tv and maybe not a good thing the biggest takeaway from hdtv was when chip and joanna gaines and announced that they wouldn't be doing their show anymore that to me was heartbreaking still have something in the works with hgtv i believe correct has a little spin off show yeah okay the design process gotcha about magnolia or something like that i don't know okay all right we are such grownups so we sit around hdtv all the time last night my son calls said to be less because you know dad sometimes i just don't like captions what are you talking about the captions and the tv i go oh yeah i've never turn those off since you were a baby i guess i could turn those off now you've had him on for years yeah i just i've had direct tv for years so she's always had captions turned on because when he was a kid we turn the volume down his watcher captions adult shows it's funny so big it's a big move we might be turning out turned off how about that movin was so it was like me we can't make any promises now three in the back nikes just think the things we do sean like me is it you no is it good is it to do this isn't it sudden you is it you is it isn't it bruce valentine in the morning three my fm.