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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi guys, Welcome back to another episode of Clyde Confidential.
- 0:03Speaker 1: This episode is going to be a different one. Since
- 0:08Speaker 1: my entire podcast is highlighting team dynamics and people behind
- 0:12Speaker 1: the scenes, I thought that I would introduce you to
- 0:15Speaker 1: my team. This is the first time in my life
- 0:17Speaker 1: I've had a team. I'm still getting used to it.
- 0:19Speaker 1: I'm still learning how to be a boss because, as
- 0:21Speaker 1: you know, I've always been the assistant. But having been
- 0:23Speaker 1: an assistant and now having to run a team myself,
- 0:27Speaker 1: there's definitely been a learning curve because I am so
- 0:30Speaker 1: used to being behind the scenes myself. But anyways, I
- 0:33Speaker 1: wanted to bring everyone up here individually, just so you
- 0:36Speaker 1: can meet them and sort of understand Clyde a little
- 0:39Speaker 1: bit better and who you've probably been emailing.
- 0:43Speaker 2: You.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Will start with one of my interns, Reuben. Hiy, thank
- 0:49Speaker 1: you for making the drive over here today. I know
- 0:50Speaker 1: you typically aren't at my house all the time. You're
- 0:53Speaker 1: mostly remote, so I'm very grateful.
- 0:55Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't usually have the pleasure, but it's for hutten.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Thanks.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Yeah, you've been with us for since January.
- 1:02Speaker 1: It's just January, Oh my god, it feels longer than that.
- 1:04Speaker 1: But it doesn't, not in a bad way, in a
- 1:06Speaker 1: various way.
- 1:06Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, well I think that honestly speaks such just
- 1:08Speaker 4: how fast Clyde's growing as well and everything that's happening
- 1:11Speaker 4: in between. So it's it's really fun.
- 1:13Speaker 1: You're very sweet. Well, since you've come on to my team,
- 1:16Speaker 1: he has totally transformed our social channels because I had
- 1:19Speaker 1: this idea to do our roster videos for so long
- 1:23Speaker 1: and to have these little bits around our job openings
- 1:27Speaker 1: to engage people and make them go viral, and I
- 1:30Speaker 1: had no idea how to execute that until you came
- 1:32Speaker 1: into my life. So thank you very much.
- 1:34Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's fun, it's new as well. You know,
- 1:36Speaker 4: the thing is with Clyde, you know, it's a discrete
- 1:39Speaker 4: service and you know that's something that's taken into operation
- 1:43Speaker 4: but also really pronounced as well, So you know, wanting
- 1:46Speaker 4: to kind of build a community around the assistance and
- 1:49Speaker 4: the kind of network you guys have is also really important.
- 1:52Speaker 4: But it's then hard to you know, balance a bit.
- 1:55Speaker 4: So I think videos like that and you know, engaging
- 1:58Speaker 4: with socials in that way is it's fun.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you so much. And you're a junior,
- 2:03Speaker 1: so I get to keep him for another year and
- 2:04Speaker 1: then hopefully hire you when you graduate. But if you
- 2:07Speaker 1: want another job, I won't be offended.
- 2:09Speaker 3: No, I'm loving it here, are you kidding?
- 2:11Speaker 1: Okay? Okay? So tell people the interview process, the application
- 2:15Speaker 1: process to apply to Clyde, what was that like as
- 2:18Speaker 1: a college student, and tell us a little bit about
- 2:21Speaker 1: your role after that. Please.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Well, you know, typically programs up, you know, run for
- 2:26Speaker 4: college students to be interns that they can they can.
- 2:30Speaker 3: Be a little.
- 2:32Speaker 4: Neglectful sometimes, you know, not just of like certain schedules,
- 2:36Speaker 4: but also just like what the actual intern I want
- 2:38Speaker 4: and what they're passionate about. And I think that is
- 2:40Speaker 4: something that was so clear from day one here that
- 2:43Speaker 4: you know, that's taken into account and you know, you
- 2:45Speaker 4: guys want myself and the other interns to really feel
- 2:48Speaker 4: like they're getting something out of it and do something
- 2:50Speaker 4: they're passionate with. So that's that's great. I was lucky
- 2:54Speaker 4: enough to have a close friend of mine be an
- 2:56Speaker 4: intern of yours previously, so I'd kind of gotten that, Yeah, Sophia,
- 3:01Speaker 4: I'd kind of gotten that insight anyway, So it's really
- 3:04Speaker 4: exciting from the jump. I remember the first call I
- 3:08Speaker 4: had was with Emily, Oh no, yeah, Emily, and then
- 3:13Speaker 4: it was I had another one with Patrick and Grace.
- 3:16Speaker 4: So it was nice to actually meet the team as
- 3:18Speaker 4: well and just kind of see how everyone's kind of
- 3:21Speaker 4: really friends with each other too. And you know, coming
- 3:24Speaker 4: into that is fun, you know for college kids like
- 3:28Speaker 4: applying to different things, and you know those internships are
- 3:30Speaker 4: hard to navigate, but you know, you guys made it
- 3:33Speaker 4: very easy. And that also speaks to how you know,
- 3:35Speaker 4: well you guys operate outside of the intern program and
- 3:38Speaker 4: in your own work as well.
- 3:40Speaker 1: You're very sweet, Well, we're very lucky to have you. You've
- 3:43Speaker 1: totally taken on the role of actually pre your time.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Last semester, we didn't have designated lanes for interns until
- 3:49Speaker 1: I brought Sterling onto the team, who really he's my
- 3:53Speaker 1: head of people, and Sterling's role is to kind of
- 3:56Speaker 1: come in be like you need this system, this system,
- 3:59Speaker 1: this is and this is the way I stay organized.
- 4:02Speaker 1: This is how a team can stay organized and implement systems.
- 4:05Speaker 1: I didn't have any systems before. I was kind of
- 4:07Speaker 1: just like, sure, sounds great, and we have five interns
- 4:11Speaker 1: who are all doing everything, and then Stirling said, no,
- 4:15Speaker 1: we need to actually have departments and have interns focused
- 4:18Speaker 1: on specific things, right And ever since then it's been
- 4:22Speaker 1: I feel like everything's been flowing really really great, and
- 4:24Speaker 1: everyone's in their lanes. Everyone knows what to do on
- 4:26Speaker 1: a daily basis. Rather than coming to me saying, well,
- 4:29Speaker 1: what can I do today, You guys know exactly what
- 4:31Speaker 1: you're doing. You're obviously doing socials. Tell us about that.
- 4:35Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think it's good to have like a
- 4:37Speaker 4: scope because it is like holistic. Everything does feed into itself,
- 4:41Speaker 4: but you know, having that kind of direction is good,
- 4:43Speaker 4: I think on our end to then know what we're
- 4:46Speaker 4: doing and actually do a more involved.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Job with that.
- 4:50Speaker 4: As far as the socials goes, it's it's interesting because
- 4:55Speaker 4: you know, coming into college, you know, beforehand, I was
- 4:58Speaker 4: kind of doing various work. I've worked in entertainment previously,
- 5:01Speaker 4: more on the front facing size and coming into the
- 5:04Speaker 4: you know, other side of it now it's really interesting
- 5:06Speaker 4: to see, you know, what's different, but still kind of
- 5:10Speaker 4: using that experience to kind of inform what I do now.
- 5:16Speaker 4: So it's also a learning code for me too, And
- 5:17Speaker 4: it's like, you know, eye opening and exciting, I would say,
- 5:23Speaker 4: with the socials for Clyde, it's really a matter of, like,
- 5:27Speaker 4: you know, you're not really selling a product to an audience.
- 5:29Speaker 3: And I actually like that that's.
- 5:31Speaker 4: Taken away because I think it becomes a bit more meaningful.
- 5:36Speaker 4: So instead you're really just like focusing on what Clyde
- 5:38Speaker 4: represents and you know, what people want to think of
- 5:40Speaker 4: when they hear the name Clyde and that that sort
- 5:43Speaker 4: of thing and playing around with that.
- 5:44Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's exciting.
- 5:47Speaker 1: And then how do you feel like you're able to
- 5:49Speaker 1: balance college and an internship all at once? Because I
- 5:52Speaker 1: feel like that's something that a lot of students question,
- 5:56Speaker 1: would I be able to take on an internship while
- 5:58Speaker 1: I'm in school or maybe while I'm playing a sport
- 6:00Speaker 1: and in school? And then plus internship, how demanding do
- 6:04Speaker 1: you feel like it is to have an internship while
- 6:06Speaker 1: you're a college student.
- 6:07Speaker 4: I think you before you take one on, you just
- 6:10Speaker 4: have to make the decision in your head. You have
- 6:12Speaker 4: to be aware, my schedule is going to change. Am
- 6:14Speaker 4: I ready for the story? I want this and stick
- 6:18Speaker 4: to it? You know it's it's you've signed up for
- 6:20Speaker 4: it and you're you're going to do it. I think
- 6:22Speaker 4: if I hadn't have worked previously, Like growing up, I
- 6:25Speaker 4: had been working while in school, so I've always kind
- 6:29Speaker 4: of been accustomed to that kind of.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Balance.
- 6:33Speaker 4: But I and I in college, I slowed down. I
- 6:36Speaker 4: had my you know, nice like you know, a year
- 6:38Speaker 4: or two of like you know, kind of focusing on
- 6:40Speaker 4: just the studying and figure out figuring out.
- 6:42Speaker 3: What I want to do. But it was a mental
- 6:45Speaker 3: shift for me. I was like ready to work.
- 6:47Speaker 4: And as long as you're doing something you actually are
- 6:51Speaker 4: excited by and passionate about, and you know that kind
- 6:54Speaker 4: of fills your creative cup, then I think it's less
- 6:58Speaker 4: feeling like work and actually something you look forward to
- 7:01Speaker 4: and when you think about it, you know, naturally it's
- 7:03Speaker 4: not like I have this hour of the day where
- 7:06Speaker 4: I'm just thinking about this and I'm always thinking about
- 7:08Speaker 4: it and I'm always trying to work it into my schedule.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Right, And we're not strict with hours, I say to
- 7:13Speaker 1: all the interns, school comes first, obviously, and it's kind
- 7:17Speaker 1: of a as you go thing. It's not you need
- 7:20Speaker 1: to be logged in at nine am by any means
- 7:22Speaker 1: at all. I know, when I want something post on
- 7:25Speaker 1: social I just text you and you do it very fast,
- 7:28Speaker 1: so thank you. But yeah, I would say we're pretty flexible.
- 7:31Speaker 1: And then once an intern spends a semester with us,
- 7:36Speaker 1: you receive school credit and we help you get your
- 7:39Speaker 1: next job. So, whether that be internal, whether that be external,
- 7:43Speaker 1: all of our interns have access to every single job
- 7:45Speaker 1: listing on there. So if you see something, say something right, right, say.
- 7:51Speaker 4: Something, say something yeah, exactly yeah, And I you know,
- 7:55Speaker 4: being internally is also just as exciting to me as well,
- 7:58Speaker 4: So you know, it's it's always all opportunities, but it's
- 8:03Speaker 4: nice to have something outside of college while you're in
- 8:05Speaker 4: college that you could that can you know, take a
- 8:07Speaker 4: mind off all.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Of that, because I wish I interned when I was
- 8:10Speaker 1: in school. I never I mean I went to GEORGIAWN
- 8:12Speaker 1: in DC. All the internships were sort of just politics,
- 8:15Speaker 1: so there wasn't anything in entertainment or anything exciting. So
- 8:18Speaker 1: I think that is the benefit of going to school
- 8:20Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and having all all access to entertainment jobs.
- 8:25Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it surrounds you, like just environmentally, you know,
- 8:27Speaker 4: so you've kind of drawn into it whether you want
- 8:29Speaker 4: to be or not. And a lot of people make
- 8:31Speaker 4: the decision because of that, but yeah, I agree.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Cool.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Well, what are you most excited about for the rest
- 8:37Speaker 1: of the semester and what's the most valuable thing you've
- 8:41Speaker 1: learned so far?
- 8:42Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited to keep expanding that.
- 8:44Speaker 4: You know, we've I feel like we've gotten into grips
- 8:46Speaker 4: now of like the fundamentals and we've we've we've figured
- 8:50Speaker 4: that out. But there's a lot more to do, and it, yes,
- 8:55Speaker 4: the lot there's always a lot more to do, and
- 8:58Speaker 4: you know, I'm excited to be doing. I think there's
- 9:00Speaker 4: a lot of ideas and a lot of projects you know,
- 9:03Speaker 4: planned to come up, so having a play around with those,
- 9:07Speaker 4: and yeah, I'm excited about, you know, creating different kind
- 9:10Speaker 4: of content and thinking about different you know, marketing elements
- 9:15Speaker 4: for whatever you guys have coming up. And I think, honestly,
- 9:20Speaker 4: on the learning side, it's interesting, you know, working in
- 9:24Speaker 4: entertainment previously, I kind of had an understanding of like
- 9:27Speaker 4: the how the system itself work, but actually getting into
- 9:30Speaker 4: like a kind of emotional intelligence. So when you have
- 9:33Speaker 4: to read you know, a candidate and the client, but
- 9:36Speaker 4: you're not just reading like you're kind of reading the
- 9:38Speaker 4: ineffable parts of it. You're not really it's not just
- 9:40Speaker 4: the you know, title experience in the name and age
- 9:44Speaker 4: or something like that. You know, it's actually like someone's vibe,
- 9:47Speaker 4: like literally like right, you know, in those sort of things,
- 9:49Speaker 4: and being able to actually get fluent in that is
- 9:54Speaker 4: fun to do. I actually find that fun because I
- 9:56Speaker 4: just like working with people anyway. But it's also Sydney
- 10:00Speaker 4: teaching as well.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Yes, because you obviously do our socials, but you also
- 10:04Speaker 1: see the matchmaking process. You see the way all of
- 10:06Speaker 1: our brains work when we're doing replacement. You help source.
- 10:08Speaker 1: You do much more than socials, even though social is
- 10:11Speaker 1: your primary focus.
- 10:12Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Well, I'm very grateful and I'm so happy that I
- 10:17Speaker 1: have you for so much longer.
- 10:19Speaker 3: So me too. Thank you.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Seriously, You've transformed all my socials and I am so
- 10:23Speaker 1: bad at it. And now our page is popping off, so.
- 10:27Speaker 3: It's small to come, more to come, stay tuned. Thanks
- 10:30Speaker 3: very good, Yeah, thank you.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Next up on my team, I have Sterling with me.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Sterling is my head of people and Sterling has been
- 10:40Speaker 1: with me since September. That's crazy. I actually didn't realize
- 10:44Speaker 1: that that's a long time.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, you know, Tex season, so I was
- 10:49Speaker 2: like looking at all my backmans, I was like, wow,
- 10:50Speaker 2: I've been here for like quite a bit. Yeah, like
- 10:52Speaker 2: it doesn't even feel like it, and like, you know,
- 10:55Speaker 2: known you for at least a year, and so that
- 10:57Speaker 2: feels good. But uh yeah, happy to be here.
- 11:00Speaker 1: I mean seriously, since you've joined my team, everything my
- 11:03Speaker 1: life has gotten so much easier in the best way,
- 11:07Speaker 1: not like I'm trying to have my life be you
- 11:10Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's been more organized. I don't
- 11:13Speaker 1: have to worry about things, you just handle it. And
- 11:17Speaker 1: when I met I met Sterling. I did this big
- 11:20Speaker 1: fire relief project last year and Sterling also works at
- 11:23Speaker 1: w ME, so two jobs such a worker. But I
- 11:28Speaker 1: met Sterling at my event last year, and I watched
- 11:31Speaker 1: the way that Sterling wrangled the wm folks to come
- 11:36Speaker 1: in and volunteer, just having everyone in order. You know.
- 11:40Speaker 1: I would email Sterling and then I would get a
- 11:42Speaker 1: group of volunteers in the next day, so on top
- 11:45Speaker 1: of your shit. And I just remember when I met you,
- 11:49Speaker 1: just clocking it, and in my head thought, I need
- 11:52Speaker 1: to hire that person when I build out my team.
- 11:56Speaker 1: And I had my eyes on you, and I approached
- 11:59Speaker 1: you for coffee last spring and sort of said, I
- 12:01Speaker 1: don't know if I know you love your job of
- 12:03Speaker 1: w me, you're probably not ready to fully leave, but
- 12:06Speaker 1: I need help and you're perfect and please consider it.
- 12:11Speaker 1: And now we're here and it's been life changing for me,
- 12:14Speaker 1: and I know that the team loves you and we're
- 12:18Speaker 1: just very grateful to have you.
- 12:19Speaker 2: So thank you. That means so much to me, And like, honestly,
- 12:22Speaker 2: this has been like very life changing for me as well.
- 12:24Speaker 2: Like I think moving here six years ago, I really
- 12:28Speaker 2: wanted to get into working in di in the entertainment
- 12:31Speaker 2: space and like really working with people. That's something that
- 12:34Speaker 2: as an educator, I've always loved that development tool or
- 12:37Speaker 2: the development piece, and so like when you talk to me,
- 12:40Speaker 2: we were sort of chatting about like what this role
- 12:42Speaker 2: could be. I was like, would love to help, got
- 12:45Speaker 2: to see how does it work and how does it
- 12:46Speaker 2: fit into like the hecticness of my life. And then
- 12:50Speaker 2: you're like, we'll figure it out, Like you know, like
- 12:52Speaker 2: we'll start off slow, we'll start off easy, and just
- 12:55Speaker 2: like having just a natural organic relationship in like conversations
- 12:58Speaker 2: with you, working with the tea and really building out
- 13:02Speaker 2: something that like I want to take that weight off
- 13:05Speaker 2: of your shoulder, you know what I mean, Like you
- 13:07Speaker 2: building this company then in the pandemic, like being a woman,
- 13:11Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, in entertainment and like
- 13:13Speaker 2: really carving away for you and so many folks behind you,
- 13:17Speaker 2: Like I want to be a part of that, and like,
- 13:19Speaker 2: how can I help also increase sort of our pool
- 13:23Speaker 2: and increase sort of like how are we thinking in
- 13:25Speaker 2: a more inclusive way, thinking about gender, think about identities,
- 13:31Speaker 2: racial identities, gender identity, sexual preferences and identities and things
- 13:35Speaker 2: of that nature, and so like how can we create
- 13:39Speaker 2: something that can change lives? Like never worked in entertainment
- 13:43Speaker 2: six years ago, just started in twenty twenty two, and
- 13:46Speaker 2: so with two degrees, you know what I mean. And
- 13:50Speaker 2: so I think about so many of my friends and
- 13:52Speaker 2: peers and even people who still work at W and
- 13:54Speaker 2: me have gone to other places, and like they were
- 13:58Speaker 2: always looking for that start, and I offers that opportunity
- 14:01Speaker 2: for so many people.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Yeah, giving people opportunity is why I do my job,
- 14:06Speaker 1: because it's the most fulfilling thing in the world. And
- 14:09Speaker 1: I'm sure now you share that sentiment with me, and
- 14:13Speaker 1: you do change lives as lame as that sounds. You
- 14:16Speaker 1: literally give someone a very cool job opportunity and it
- 14:19Speaker 1: changes everything. I will never forget when I got my
- 14:23Speaker 1: job with Gen it changed everything for me and I
- 14:26Speaker 1: literally cried, just sobbing. I remember everyone's like, are you good?
- 14:30Speaker 1: I wasn't because they knew that working for her that
- 14:33Speaker 1: was the dream. And when you do this for all
- 14:35Speaker 1: these younger kids who really are trying to figure it
- 14:37Speaker 1: out in their twenties, taking an assistant job seems very
- 14:43Speaker 1: there's not much meaning behind it at first, but then
- 14:45Speaker 1: when you realize all the places you can go from
- 14:48Speaker 1: doing these assistant jobs and really being an excellent assistant
- 14:51Speaker 1: and just being able to say, hey, you get to
- 14:54Speaker 1: go work for this really impressive human being, and we
- 14:57Speaker 1: work with the most impressive human beings in the world,
- 15:00Speaker 1: and to have that be the center of our company
- 15:03Speaker 1: saying if you are qualified and you apply to Clyde,
- 15:06Speaker 1: you could go work for someone pretty freaking amazing. So
- 15:10Speaker 1: just be able to filter that for folks and provide opportunity.
- 15:14Speaker 1: I know that we both love doing it, and I
- 15:16Speaker 1: feel lucky to get to say I love my job
- 15:19Speaker 1: and I love my team and being around people, and
- 15:24Speaker 1: that's why I approached you because I knew you were
- 15:27Speaker 1: really good with people and you shared that same quality.
- 15:30Speaker 1: And I think that whoever is on my team, I
- 15:33Speaker 1: want them to be smarter than me. I want them
- 15:35Speaker 1: to be better at me in a certain area. I
- 15:36Speaker 1: want them I want to learn from them. And when
- 15:39Speaker 1: you came on the team, asking someone to come work
- 15:43Speaker 1: for you when you're a startup is like it's going
- 15:46Speaker 1: to go one of two ways, right, So you being
- 15:49Speaker 1: so willing to come work for me, having after having
- 15:52Speaker 1: met you a couple of times at a volunteer event
- 15:54Speaker 1: and you were so passionate about Clyde, and that was
- 15:58Speaker 1: so lovely to hear. But you know what I mean,
- 16:01Speaker 1: when you're asking someone, Hey, I have a startup, do
- 16:03Speaker 1: you want to come work for me? You might have
- 16:06Speaker 1: to leave your other job, or we could figure it out.
- 16:08Speaker 1: You know, that's a little daunting. But you were so
- 16:10Speaker 1: flexible and it obviously worked out really well for us.
- 16:13Speaker 1: But I remember when you came on the team. I
- 16:16Speaker 1: had actually cycled through two realms of employees before you,
- 16:20Speaker 1: and one was a family friend, one was a direct
- 16:23Speaker 1: friend that never works or ends well. And I really
- 16:27Speaker 1: struggled to sort of find my people my people, which
- 16:30Speaker 1: is ironic because I run a recruiting agency and I
- 16:35Speaker 1: was having the toughest time filling my internal team. But
- 16:39Speaker 1: then when you came on the team, I started to
- 16:41Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, we're getting so close to like having
- 16:44Speaker 1: our core group, and you came in and you really
- 16:47Speaker 1: just turned it around for me. You dissected everything in
- 16:52Speaker 1: the most impressive way, being like, this is the system
- 16:55Speaker 1: I use for this, this this. I did not know systems,
- 16:58Speaker 1: you know. I had been the assistant who was doing
- 17:01Speaker 1: things off of my I didn't really have systems. I
- 17:03Speaker 1: was kind of just running around town using my sticky
- 17:07Speaker 1: notes and it worked for me. I was never using asana,
- 17:11Speaker 1: which I probably should have been. I was never using
- 17:12Speaker 1: AI tools, which I probably should have been. But yeah,
- 17:16Speaker 1: so let's talk about what your initial thoughts were as
- 17:20Speaker 1: sort of the processes that you helped us implement.
- 17:23Speaker 2: No, for sure, I think my initial thoughts were, this
- 17:26Speaker 2: is an amazing opportunity. I talked to so many of
- 17:29Speaker 2: my friends, some at work, some outside of work, and
- 17:31Speaker 2: I was like, I really want to go for this,
- 17:33Speaker 2: but like I'm terrified because I love my job so much.
- 17:36Speaker 2: And I met her through my job and so like
- 17:38Speaker 2: being able to have sort of like a place to
- 17:42Speaker 2: meet so many amazing people. I was like, I want
- 17:44Speaker 2: to be able to have them both, and you were like, okay,
- 17:47Speaker 2: let's figure it out. Let's like see how it works.
- 17:49Speaker 2: And what's so funny is that as much as I
- 17:52Speaker 2: like dive into the Clyde work, it doesn't feel necessarily
- 17:56Speaker 2: like a daunting, like two job like type of thing.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Sometimes my primary drama and picked it up. But sometimes
- 18:02Speaker 2: that's like harder than this because it's like it's so easy.
- 18:06Speaker 2: You have such an amazing internal team already. And so
- 18:08Speaker 2: I think from when we met at Forgot the coffee shop,
- 18:12Speaker 2: like when I met Emily Verb. Yes, well no that's
- 18:14Speaker 2: when we met. Oh yeah we met twice. Yeah, so
- 18:16Speaker 2: me and you met at VERB and then I met
- 18:18Speaker 2: Grayson Emily again, and more of like an official sort
- 18:21Speaker 2: of capacity of like what would it look like for
- 18:24Speaker 2: me to transition on the team. It was just so
- 18:26Speaker 2: amazing and y'all already had things like locked in motion,
- 18:29Speaker 2: and so like that's what you want to be a
- 18:31Speaker 2: part of. Like and I know you said earlier about
- 18:33Speaker 2: like you know, having a startup and trying to recruit
- 18:36Speaker 2: people can go either or whatever way. But like y'all
- 18:39Speaker 2: were so buttoned up in your systems and it works,
- 18:42Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's like you're you're not
- 18:45Speaker 2: building like this. It's I think something that a lot
- 18:47Speaker 2: of companies, startups, organizations, institutions sort of fail is they
- 18:52Speaker 2: try to go too big at once. And I think
- 18:54Speaker 2: that you were being so intentional of like making sure
- 18:56Speaker 2: you had your core folks in hand and like having
- 18:58Speaker 2: folks come from intern to assistance to like really seeing
- 19:02Speaker 2: how your brain works, how the company works, and really
- 19:04Speaker 2: build out that system and then having me an external
- 19:07Speaker 2: come in and sort of be a part of that.
- 19:09Speaker 2: And it's not too many voices.
- 19:10Speaker 1: In the totally not too many cooks in the kitchen
- 19:13Speaker 1: exactly exactly.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Like a part of like group processes are storming, and
- 19:17Speaker 2: so like when you're storming gets really you're really putting
- 19:20Speaker 2: everyone together and we all have our own way of
- 19:22Speaker 2: like our norms of how it works for the four
- 19:25Speaker 2: or five however many of us, and so it was
- 19:28Speaker 2: really nice to have sort of had its storming phase
- 19:30Speaker 2: when it was just like a smaller group, a more
- 19:33Speaker 2: intimate group, and of course we have the interns and
- 19:35Speaker 2: things of that nature. But you really gave me sort
- 19:37Speaker 2: of the freedom to use my brain, which like again
- 19:40Speaker 2: I started off as an assistant, came a coordinator in
- 19:43Speaker 2: all those promotions later on, but like I didn't really
- 19:45Speaker 2: have a lot of autonomy in my job, even coming
- 19:48Speaker 2: from education, being a teacher, there's not a lot of autonomy.
- 19:51Speaker 2: It's like this is the system, this is the structure,
- 19:53Speaker 2: these are the tools in place. And so I was
- 19:56Speaker 2: able to take that, bring that here and really emerge
- 19:58Speaker 2: and marry them in a way that's like sustainable for
- 20:01Speaker 2: my life. And that I'm glad to see that. Like
- 20:05Speaker 2: I think so many things have like carried on and
- 20:07Speaker 2: like honestly, I feel like the girls are better and
- 20:09Speaker 2: that'suded than me now, Like.
- 20:11Speaker 1: You're so funny, you have just I mean, one of
- 20:15Speaker 1: the things that I knew that I did not have
- 20:19Speaker 1: the capacity to do anymore was run my team day
- 20:23Speaker 1: to day. You are the person who is now running
- 20:26Speaker 1: the team day to day, and I trust that you
- 20:28Speaker 1: are doing that. You and I have our weekly calls,
- 20:30Speaker 1: but I'm very much about you should go do that.
- 20:33Speaker 1: I trust you. I have no second thoughts about whether
- 20:39Speaker 1: or not people are working or doing their jobs I
- 20:41Speaker 1: know that you guys are on it, and to be
- 20:42Speaker 1: that feeling I'm I know other founders understand that when
- 20:46Speaker 1: you finally have that feeling of things are just handled
- 20:50Speaker 1: so I can go focus on bringing clients and being
- 20:52Speaker 1: on zooms and doing the other side of the business,
- 20:55Speaker 1: the day to day operations. It gets sometimes you get
- 20:59Speaker 1: to a point where you're like, oh my gosh, and
- 21:01Speaker 1: I feel terrible about this, but I can't check in
- 21:03Speaker 1: with the team on the daily being like is everyone happy?
- 21:05Speaker 1: How are you doing? What's going on here? Like what
- 21:09Speaker 1: are the areas that like, you guys need help with?
- 21:10Speaker 1: Like I in a good way, I've gotten so busy
- 21:14Speaker 1: that I do not have the time to do that anymore.
- 21:16Speaker 1: But to have you do that and really run my
- 21:19Speaker 1: team for me so that it's such a well oiled
- 21:22Speaker 1: machine now that feeling like you cannot put a price
- 21:26Speaker 1: on that it is so I'm so grateful, seriously. And
- 21:31Speaker 1: then what you've done with the internship program is unbelievable.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Yeah, one of my first sort of like professional things. Ever, Wow,
- 21:39Speaker 2: I'm aging myself in twenty fourteen. However long ago that
- 21:42Speaker 2: is six years ago.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I know, I graduated college not to age.
- 21:48Speaker 2: Myself and the first thing I ever really professionally did
- 21:52Speaker 2: was an internship program, and so like again, like, really,
- 21:55Speaker 2: how do we develop the talent in the future. Generation
- 21:58Speaker 2: has always been so near and during to my heart
- 22:00Speaker 2: and so important to me, and so being able to
- 22:02Speaker 2: like work with Clyde and also I talk about this
- 22:05Speaker 2: with the team so much, like it's wild that like
- 22:08Speaker 2: these are people's first steps into professionalism, our first steps
- 22:11Speaker 2: into the industry, and like it's an amazing opportunity, Like
- 22:14Speaker 2: I can't imagine if I was an internet Clyde around
- 22:17Speaker 2: the time when I was like you know, in college
- 22:19Speaker 2: and so being able to really build something, and of
- 22:23Speaker 2: course it's always growing, it's always adapting, Like you know,
- 22:25Speaker 2: I think I've been through like maybe two intern cycles
- 22:28Speaker 2: and we're already thinking about, Okay, how can we improve
- 22:31Speaker 2: on the next one? How can we sort of have
- 22:32Speaker 2: these different tracks that really utilizes people's strengths, because I
- 22:36Speaker 2: think that that's the biggest thing too in the industry
- 22:38Speaker 2: that's so hard is that how do you how do
- 22:40Speaker 2: you focus on people's individual strengths and see how they
- 22:43Speaker 2: work together as a team totally, And so there's some
- 22:45Speaker 2: people like again, y'all are amazing at recruiting, and like
- 22:49Speaker 2: the staffing part of the agency and the company, I
- 22:51Speaker 2: am not the greatest, Like I remember, I remember chatting
- 22:56Speaker 2: with you when I was like, you know, trying to
- 22:58Speaker 2: reot someone and I had like some any questions and
- 23:00Speaker 2: I was like buzzling in all these things, and like
- 23:03Speaker 2: y'all are just so quick, and I was like maybe
- 23:05Speaker 2: I'm lagging. I'm like, Grace, can you please help me?
- 23:07Speaker 2: Give me like a step by step tutorial and then
- 23:10Speaker 2: being able to still just focus on sort of that
- 23:12Speaker 2: operational piece and that still helps y'all with the recruiting,
- 23:16Speaker 2: and it helps y'all like be tighter and be leaner,
- 23:19Speaker 2: and then also again bringing equity and inclusion in the space.
- 23:22Speaker 2: And so how are we working so amazing that like
- 23:25Speaker 2: it's already embedded into the systems that we're using. We're
- 23:28Speaker 2: already thinking about difference and like you know, thinking about
- 23:31Speaker 2: bringing people and their backgrounds and the richness of that,
- 23:34Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Yes, before you came on, I had I would hire
- 23:39Speaker 1: interns and everyone was doing everything. I actually was just
- 23:43Speaker 1: speaking about this when Reuben was sitting here, and they
- 23:46Speaker 1: would ask me, what can we help with today, and
- 23:49Speaker 1: then I would kind of have a moment of Ooh,
- 23:51Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys want to just work
- 23:53Speaker 1: on this together, and then people would be doubling up
- 23:56Speaker 1: on work and it just really wasn't organized. So when
- 23:59Speaker 1: you had the thought to actually have designated lanes for interns,
- 24:02Speaker 1: that changed my life personally. And I know it's really
- 24:05Speaker 1: helped the company just operate so much smoother because now
- 24:10Speaker 1: all of our full time employees can reach out to
- 24:12Speaker 1: these specific departments when they need help with something, and
- 24:15Speaker 1: it's just it flows better. I think everyone no one
- 24:19Speaker 1: has any question about like what their day to day
- 24:21Speaker 1: is anymore. And you guys have your team meetings exactly, Yes,
- 24:26Speaker 1: you have your and then I can go about my
- 24:28Speaker 1: day and the team comes over to work here every day,
- 24:31Speaker 1: but I can be on my laptop focusing on client
- 24:34Speaker 1: stuff and sourcing because I'm very much still in the
- 24:38Speaker 1: day to day of recruiting. But I know that everyone
- 24:41Speaker 1: else is doing their own thing to help me be
- 24:44Speaker 1: better because they're focused. I can focus exactly anyways. So grateful,
- 24:50Speaker 1: and I guess, what what are some of your goals
- 24:54Speaker 1: for the company?
- 24:55Speaker 2: Wow? And the next year, well, I have so many,
- 24:58Speaker 2: so let me narrow them down. I don't know that yet,
- 25:03Speaker 2: but I think my goals for the company. I think
- 25:05Speaker 2: something that I really want to focus on so much
- 25:08Speaker 2: is like expanding sort of the internship program that we
- 25:11Speaker 2: know it. We used to just focus on, like the
- 25:13Speaker 2: main semester's Fall and Spring, and so something that we're
- 25:16Speaker 2: bringing about is like minimesters, and so how can we
- 25:19Speaker 2: have sort of like that in between space that I mean,
- 25:21Speaker 2: colleges do it, so why don't we do it as well?
- 25:24Speaker 2: And like giving folks sort of like that bite size experience.
- 25:27Speaker 2: And then also how can we sort of elongate the
- 25:30Speaker 2: time that we have with like our fall and spring
- 25:33Speaker 2: interns and then also usher in and sort of newer
- 25:35Speaker 2: class and have them sort of meet in the middle.
- 25:38Speaker 2: And like we already know what the needs are, we
- 25:39Speaker 2: already know what the strengths are from the previous semester,
- 25:42Speaker 2: and so that's something that I'm really excited about, and
- 25:45Speaker 2: like continuing to develop that internship program across even more
- 25:50Speaker 2: tracks and so sort of like operational tracks, and in
- 25:53Speaker 2: the operational tracks, these are those lanes, and then the
- 25:56Speaker 2: recruiting track, these are those lanes. Because what I really
- 25:59Speaker 2: want to do is I want the entire full full
- 26:03Speaker 2: time staff, Like I want y'all to be able to
- 26:05Speaker 2: just do whatever you want. I want to be able
- 26:07Speaker 2: to develop everyone to being senior leaders, you know what
- 26:10Speaker 2: I mean, like you know, to be as much as
- 26:13Speaker 2: I can with your help of course, of like to
- 26:15Speaker 2: be to your executive level. And so in order to
- 26:18Speaker 2: do that, they have to get out of the weeds.
- 26:20Speaker 2: In order to keep them out of the weeds, it's
- 26:22Speaker 2: really creating sort of that operational system for the interns
- 26:26Speaker 2: to grow and learn and like have some more tionomy
- 26:28Speaker 2: and have some more ownership. And so that's my biggest
- 26:31Speaker 2: goal for sure. I think what I also really missing
- 26:35Speaker 2: is something that we connected on instantly literally is just
- 26:38Speaker 2: the impact component. And so how can we sort of
- 26:40Speaker 2: use sort of how can we use sort of like
- 26:44Speaker 2: our lane and our day to day and like our
- 26:46Speaker 2: network really to really increase our impact efforts, And how
- 26:51Speaker 2: can we really align and sort of designate on like
- 26:53Speaker 2: maybe having sort of like a semesterly or whatever seasonal
- 26:57Speaker 2: focus on who we're working towards or like causes we're
- 27:00Speaker 2: working towards, bring more volunteer opportunities, and like we have
- 27:03Speaker 2: such an incredible network of assistance, and like even the
- 27:06Speaker 2: universities and institutions we work with and all of the
- 27:10Speaker 2: employees or employers that we have and the clients that
- 27:13Speaker 2: we have, like, how can we utilize that to make
- 27:16Speaker 2: a difference? And so that's definitely I think second on
- 27:19Speaker 2: my apply.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Bunch offit in the next year one thousand percent. Because
- 27:25Speaker 1: something I learned during the fires was, oh, my god,
- 27:28Speaker 1: my network is massive.
- 27:30Speaker 2: Massive.
- 27:30Speaker 1: So the fact that we sprung up that volunteer center
- 27:34Speaker 1: in a day, someone donated a studio to me at CBS,
- 27:38Speaker 1: and then we had over two thousand families come in
- 27:42Speaker 1: over a span of three weekends, and that's all because
- 27:45Speaker 1: of the network. Everyone came together. I actually sent out
- 27:48Speaker 1: an email, a call to action email, to every single
- 27:51Speaker 1: person I've ever emailed with, interacted with some people that
- 27:54Speaker 1: didn't even know me, and I said, guys, LA is
- 27:57Speaker 1: literally on fire right now and I need your help.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Please read this email. And then I looked back at
- 28:02Speaker 1: the list and kind of had a holy shit moment
- 28:05Speaker 1: of Wow, I can't believe I just email all these people.
- 28:08Speaker 1: It's kind of ballsy, like a little bold, But then
- 28:11Speaker 1: it made me realize like how far we can reach,
- 28:14Speaker 1: Like one email can reach the craziest people because of
- 28:17Speaker 1: what we've created, And I want to do more with
- 28:20Speaker 1: that because when stuff pops up in Los Angeles, we
- 28:24Speaker 1: have access to people with resources and people who do
- 28:27Speaker 1: want to help and who may just not know which
- 28:30Speaker 1: direction to look in. So if we can provide just
- 28:34Speaker 1: like we've provided this community to assistance and to talent,
- 28:37Speaker 1: let's provide them with one extra branch of Okay, here
- 28:41Speaker 1: are volunteer programs that you can get involved with happening
- 28:45Speaker 1: this month. Here are the best causes to donate this
- 28:47Speaker 1: month or ongoing, and this is how you get involved.
- 28:51Speaker 1: So appso freaking lutely we will do that.
- 28:54Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm so excited to do it because like
- 28:56Speaker 2: I know that there's so many people, like even a
- 28:59Speaker 2: w ME peper are like, hey, is Clyde doing anything else? Again?
- 29:01Speaker 2: Like I know that they and people love to continue
- 29:05Speaker 2: to come back to something. And so when you're showing that,
- 29:07Speaker 2: like we have these relationships we're building, we're pouring into
- 29:10Speaker 2: the active communities that we live and work in, like
- 29:13Speaker 2: people want to be a part of that. Really, And
- 29:15Speaker 2: then I'd say the third final amongst My long list
- 29:18Speaker 2: of goals I have for Clyde is just to really
- 29:20Speaker 2: like are really in person events again with that network
- 29:23Speaker 2: of like how can we really with Beverly Hills, with
- 29:26Speaker 2: New York City, Miami, like all of these places that
- 29:29Speaker 2: we have like a good strong sort of I won't
- 29:33Speaker 2: say reach, it is a reach, but like you know,
- 29:34Speaker 2: we actively have people there, Like how can we use
- 29:37Speaker 2: that community to come together? Because I think that's important
- 29:39Speaker 2: as well, speaking to what you shared earlier about like
- 29:42Speaker 2: you know, learning from the people around you, like they
- 29:45Speaker 2: can learn from the people around them, and how can
- 29:46Speaker 2: that pour back into the community, the industry and Clyde
- 29:49Speaker 2: as a whole, and so really trying to like really
- 29:52Speaker 2: have those in person events and those touch points for
- 29:55Speaker 2: people to also see like Clyde is a real thing
- 29:57Speaker 2: and it's helping so many people and like come on board.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Like I scream and shout, like every time my friends
- 30:03Speaker 2: are like looking for a job or like just curious
- 30:06Speaker 2: about anything, I'm like, do you follow class staffing, follow
- 30:10Speaker 2: a look at the Instagram stories.
- 30:12Speaker 1: I got our roster video.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Look at the roster videos. Sign up on the asana
- 30:16Speaker 2: your truly helped create and like you know, like I'm
- 30:19Speaker 2: always directing people there and like that's just me within
- 30:22Speaker 2: my own network when people are seeing again what's actually
- 30:25Speaker 2: happening in the community that you're creating, Like and I
- 30:28Speaker 2: think that what's so important, especially in this sort of
- 30:31Speaker 2: like era in this generation, is that like you don't
- 30:33Speaker 2: have to necessarily have a brick and mortar to have community.
- 30:36Speaker 2: I think so many people get lost and like, oh, well,
- 30:39Speaker 2: I know people because I work at this agency, I
- 30:41Speaker 2: work at this production studio and like we meet every day.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Like no, you can have that sort of like virtual
- 30:46Speaker 2: The pandemic taught a stat you can have virtual community
- 30:49Speaker 2: with people. And also like you don't even know how
- 30:52Speaker 2: many people are in your actual network, and like doing
- 30:54Speaker 2: something in South Florida or like doing something in Texas
- 30:57Speaker 2: even and people being like, oh wow, I didn't know
- 30:59Speaker 2: that they had that many people who are like employed
- 31:02Speaker 2: by Clyde in this area in this region, right, And
- 31:05Speaker 2: so it's my soapbox. Yeah, like the top three things
- 31:08Speaker 2: that I really want to work on within this.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Next year great answers. I'm entirely aligned with you. And
- 31:12Speaker 1: we did host an LA event maybe a month and
- 31:16Speaker 1: a half ago and got so much positive feedback because
- 31:20Speaker 1: all of the assistants met each other. And I also
- 31:23Speaker 1: had a pinch me moment similar to the email I
- 31:25Speaker 1: sent out of when we had everyone go around the
- 31:28Speaker 1: room and say who you worked for and the names
- 31:31Speaker 1: that came out of their mouths. I was like, what,
- 31:35Speaker 1: that's kind of crazy, and then we all looked to
- 31:39Speaker 1: each other like we did that We actually gave all
- 31:41Speaker 1: those people jobs to these really impressive human beings, and
- 31:45Speaker 1: that's kind of wild that all of those assistance to
- 31:48Speaker 1: these incredible people are standing in a room together and
- 31:50Speaker 1: that's pretty cool, and they're all getting to know each other,
- 31:53Speaker 1: sharing resources, sharing tips. That's also a benefit of using
- 31:56Speaker 1: us because every assistant that we give a job to
- 32:00Speaker 1: in chief of staff employee is on a Slack channel
- 32:03Speaker 1: together and they can chat with each other, ask for help.
- 32:07Speaker 1: It's a resource, it's a way of sharing information without oversharing,
- 32:11Speaker 1: and it's a way to make an often isolating job
- 32:14Speaker 1: feel not so isolating. So the community building is something
- 32:17Speaker 1: I am so passionate about and that's what makes us
- 32:20Speaker 1: not like the other regular recruiting agencies. We are different,
- 32:26Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely, And you know what I mean. Girls, when
- 32:29Speaker 1: she's like not a regular moment. It's not a regular
- 32:32Speaker 1: recruiting agency or cool one, but no, it's been so
- 32:36Speaker 1: fun to build out. And I love bringing people together.
- 32:39Speaker 1: I love connecting and the community aspect of it. That's
- 32:42Speaker 1: literally what we do. So we don't stop at the placement.
- 32:46Speaker 1: We continue to build on these relationships time after time.
- 32:50Speaker 2: And I also want to add something that you just
- 32:52Speaker 2: made me think about again. So maybe my fourth topic
- 32:54Speaker 2: or my fourth add on option is like that professional
- 32:57Speaker 2: development for them as well. And I know that's something
- 32:59Speaker 2: that we're trying to work on this summer of like
- 33:01Speaker 2: thinking about workshops, thinking about sort of like you know,
- 33:04Speaker 2: having those professional development clinics. I think again, that's such
- 33:08Speaker 2: an underutilized tool that a lot of people don't have.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Like there's LinkedIn learning, but people aren't like they don't
- 33:14Speaker 2: know anyone necessarily who's doing that. And I think that
- 33:17Speaker 2: with you as the face and with again all the
- 33:19Speaker 2: people in our network, it gives it sort of that
- 33:21Speaker 2: familiarity and that relatability of like, oh wow, it's that easy.
- 33:26Speaker 2: It's that easy to sort of like come up with
- 33:28Speaker 2: an elevator and elevator pitch and like making sure that
- 33:30Speaker 2: like I know what I'm doing, I represent my boss well,
- 33:35Speaker 2: and like I can communicate that to other people who
- 33:38Speaker 2: don't have that experience or who don't know how to
- 33:40Speaker 2: put themselves forth in that way. And so I think
- 33:42Speaker 2: also building on sort of that professional development bank and
- 33:45Speaker 2: having more opportunities and events and all those types of
- 33:48Speaker 2: things I think would be your great use of, like
- 33:50Speaker 2: the cloud platform.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do it. Well. Thank you, Sterling, You're the best.
- 33:55Speaker 1: I'm so happy on the team and I feel lucky
- 33:58Speaker 1: every day, truly and deeply obsessed with you.
- 34:01Speaker 2: So thank you.
- 34:07Speaker 1: Grace Miller is next. Hi, she's so nervous, that's hysterical.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Grace has been with me since I started the company.
- 34:15Speaker 1: You were my first hire, literally my first employee. And
- 34:19Speaker 1: what's been really cool about Grace is that she's now
- 34:23Speaker 1: sort of turned into my chief of staff. Grace used
- 34:25Speaker 1: to be my assistant. Actually, you were my intern first
- 34:30Speaker 1: when you were at Chapman. I found her through the
- 34:32Speaker 1: Chapman Career Center, and then you became You were kind
- 34:36Speaker 1: of my intern assistant because I didn't need a full
- 34:39Speaker 1: on assistant at the time. This was three years ago,
- 34:41Speaker 1: four years ago. How long ago? Yeah, three years three
- 34:43Speaker 1: years ago. But I needed to help. So I reached
- 34:47Speaker 1: out to Chapman, who we have a great relationship with,
- 34:49Speaker 1: and I said, do you have anyone who would like
- 34:52Speaker 1: to join my team in a part time capacity? And
- 34:55Speaker 1: you were on the zoom when I had asked that,
- 34:57Speaker 1: and then because you had been working for the Career Center,
- 35:01Speaker 1: and then you had reached out saying, actually, I would
- 35:04Speaker 1: do it myself, and I'm like, are you sure? So
- 35:08Speaker 1: then Grace started as my intern into my assistant and
- 35:12Speaker 1: now you're a talent corinator, but you're basically my chief
- 35:15Speaker 1: of staff. That's very nice of you, and that's what
- 35:17Speaker 1: I want for you, By the way, I want you
- 35:19Speaker 1: to continue to grow into that role. And if you leave,
- 35:22Speaker 1: I will you know how I feel about that.
- 35:25Speaker 5: I love you?
- 35:26Speaker 1: Are you happy? Anyways? I am so lucky to have you, truly,
- 35:34Speaker 1: like you've been here with me since the beginning, and
- 35:36Speaker 1: I feel like that's so special. And the way you're
- 35:40Speaker 1: so passionate about this company too, which makes me feel
- 35:44Speaker 1: so happy and I actually could not survive without you
- 35:49Speaker 1: for real.
- 35:50Speaker 5: Well, that's very nice of you, and it all comes
- 35:53Speaker 5: from you. I'm so passionate about you, and like since
- 35:57Speaker 5: the beginning, I admired you, I looked up to you.
- 36:00Speaker 5: You I want to be you. I want to be you,
- 36:02Speaker 5: And so that's where it really comes early.
- 36:04Speaker 1: Are you crying? No, but you know your eyes are water,
- 36:11Speaker 1: your eyes look like they're glassy.
- 36:13Speaker 5: But then I was like, oh my.
- 36:14Speaker 1: Gosh, when I yawn, I tear, and everyone you know this,
- 36:17Speaker 1: everyone always thinks that I'm crying and I'm not. I'm
- 36:21Speaker 1: just exhausted. So I was up until one point thirty
- 36:23Speaker 1: packing like a nut job because I'm going to New
- 36:25Speaker 1: York on Sunday, as you know. And I realized last
- 36:28Speaker 1: night before bed that I did not pack and I
- 36:31Speaker 1: didn't want to spend tomorrow packing tomorrow on Saturday and
- 36:35Speaker 1: night I'll anyways.
- 36:37Speaker 5: Sorry, no, but I have always been so inspired by you,
- 36:41Speaker 5: and I love the company. I've always loved what you
- 36:43Speaker 5: were doing, your message, and yeah, I just wanted to
- 36:48Speaker 5: come work for you.
- 36:49Speaker 1: You're the freaking best. Let's tell everyone what the beginning
- 36:53Speaker 1: was like. I guess like, since you started, how has
- 36:56Speaker 1: the company change? How is your role? Well, of course
- 36:59Speaker 1: your role has change from sted into now more on
- 37:01Speaker 1: the talent side. But let's talk about your journey at.
- 37:04Speaker 5: Clyde yeah, it's grown a lot. The company has grown
- 37:08Speaker 5: a lot, the clients. You know, we have a lot
- 37:11Speaker 5: of clients and it's very busy. But I think from
- 37:15Speaker 5: the beginning you very much have had the same kind
- 37:18Speaker 5: of mindset about everything and how you handle business, and
- 37:22Speaker 5: I've always really respected that, and so it's like I've
- 37:26Speaker 5: signed on to you and I think that hasn't changed,
- 37:30Speaker 5: which I've loved. But in the beginning, it was a
- 37:34Speaker 5: lot of megan personal stuff who you worked for before,
- 37:38Speaker 5: and then.
- 37:39Speaker 1: I went to India. I do I think that was
- 37:44Speaker 1: probably the craziest thing I asked you. I always think
- 37:46Speaker 1: back to what is.
- 37:47Speaker 5: A crazy I remember asked exactly what you're about to
- 37:50Speaker 5: tell me, and it was very funny. And yeah, we've
- 37:54Speaker 5: communicated every day for three.
- 37:55Speaker 1: Years, correct.
- 37:57Speaker 5: I think just in general since the beginning, I learned
- 38:00Speaker 5: such a sense of urgency and professionalism from you, and
- 38:05Speaker 5: you know, I think I understood the weight of what
- 38:07Speaker 5: we were doing and everything. You know, you always had
- 38:11Speaker 5: such a good, healthy mindset of you know, I think
- 38:14Speaker 5: assistants are looked at in the industry very negatively a
- 38:18Speaker 5: lot of the time, and bosses yell and you know,
- 38:21Speaker 5: are angry and you have never once been like that,
- 38:24Speaker 5: and so you've set an incredible example. And I just
- 38:27Speaker 5: always really respected your communication style and your professionalism and
- 38:32Speaker 5: your communication and so I've wanted to, you know, do
- 38:36Speaker 5: my best to embody that myself.
- 38:38Speaker 1: That's very sweet. Well, I've watched you manage the interns
- 38:42Speaker 1: and you've been doing an excellent job, and I think
- 38:44Speaker 1: that a lot of them now look up to you.
- 38:46Speaker 5: Oh well, that's very nice. No, it's it's nice to
- 38:49Speaker 5: have people to rely on as well, because it was
- 38:52Speaker 5: you know, me and you and then a few others
- 38:55Speaker 5: you know, throughout. But but now, like we've been saying,
- 39:00Speaker 5: like there have, it's helpful to have specific interns that
- 39:04Speaker 5: are in departments and it's like I can rely on
- 39:06Speaker 5: them for different things because you know, we are doing
- 39:09Speaker 5: recruiting at the end of the day, but there's a
- 39:11Speaker 5: lot of other facets to what we're dealing with on
- 39:13Speaker 5: a day to day basis. And so, you know, as
- 39:16Speaker 5: much as i'd love to just do as much as
- 39:18Speaker 5: I can, I need to.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Be good about So you don't own out exactly. Yes, yes,
- 39:24Speaker 1: but it is crazy to think that you and I
- 39:26Speaker 1: were just doing literally everything by ourselves. Up until a
- 39:28Speaker 1: certain point.
- 39:29Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, and all over text all day, every day,
- 39:34Speaker 5: all day long, email calls.
- 39:36Speaker 1: Yeah, you really got to start sleeping more. I always
- 39:38Speaker 1: yell at you, you do too. I will be up
- 39:42Speaker 1: in the middle of the night because I'm a weirdo,
- 39:44Speaker 1: and I actually operate better at nights sometimes because no
- 39:48Speaker 1: one I like it. I like to be on email
- 39:49Speaker 1: when no one's on email because then I can actually
- 39:51Speaker 1: get through mine when anyways, you're always up at the
- 39:55Speaker 1: same time as me.
- 39:57Speaker 5: I know, well I learned from you no sleep, But
- 40:00Speaker 5: I think that's something I've really also come to realize
- 40:04Speaker 5: is we don't work in a nine to five industry,
- 40:07Speaker 5: and so if you're you want to be in this industry,
- 40:09Speaker 5: you just can't want those hours. But I think that
- 40:12Speaker 5: also comes with a lot of privilege outside of it.
- 40:15Speaker 5: So of course I enjoy the you know, being out,
- 40:19Speaker 5: you know, at night and on a walk or something
- 40:22Speaker 5: or with a friend and I'm like, wait, I'm gonna
- 40:23Speaker 5: send a quick email, And that's just is kind of
- 40:25Speaker 5: the name of the gate.
- 40:26Speaker 1: You do that because from the bottom of the heart
- 40:29Speaker 1: of your heart you want to do that, then that's
- 40:31Speaker 1: fine with me. But I also want you to have
- 40:35Speaker 1: a life.
- 40:35Speaker 5: And totally and I do, and I think you have
- 40:38Speaker 5: created a really healthy work environment where I do have
- 40:42Speaker 5: a really great work life balance, And of all of
- 40:46Speaker 5: my friends that are the same age, I think everyone
- 40:49Speaker 5: handles it in their own way. But I I would
- 40:52Speaker 5: say most of my friends think I have like the
- 40:55Speaker 5: best boss ever, and I do, so that's very sweet.
- 40:58Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I am all about so the team comes
- 41:01Speaker 1: over most days to my house and I'm all about
- 41:05Speaker 1: come in at I don't care what time you come in.
- 41:06Speaker 1: I want you to have your morning because if you
- 41:09Speaker 1: are taking care of yourself in the morning, and if
- 41:11Speaker 1: you like slow mornings, take your slow morning and then
- 41:15Speaker 1: come in the afternoon. I know you're always on email.
- 41:17Speaker 1: I'd rather have you get in your morning workout and
- 41:20Speaker 1: then come to work and be a better version of
- 41:22Speaker 1: yourself once you've taken the morning to take care of
- 41:25Speaker 1: yourself and catch up on anything personal that you need
- 41:28Speaker 1: to be doing for yourself. Totally, because I believe as
- 41:32Speaker 1: a leader, if you give employees the space to better themselves,
- 41:36Speaker 1: they will be better for you period. I think I've
- 41:39Speaker 1: always lived by that, and when I was an assistant,
- 41:43Speaker 1: I had a really amazing work life balance actually, and
- 41:46Speaker 1: I was able to show up better for my boss
- 41:47Speaker 1: because I had been able to take care of myself.
- 41:51Speaker 2: It was the.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Jobs that I wasn't taking care of myself. I wasn't
- 41:54Speaker 1: working out, I wasn't eating healthy, I didn't have time
- 41:56Speaker 1: to grocery shop, and I was the job jobs that
- 42:00Speaker 1: really did not give me. That were the ones that
- 42:03Speaker 1: were not longer lasting and the ones that I did
- 42:06Speaker 1: not stay in.
- 42:07Speaker 3: Right.
- 42:07Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's I don't know. I I'll
- 42:12Speaker 1: never change that. And even if we go back into
- 42:15Speaker 1: an office, I want people to be able to it
- 42:18Speaker 1: won't be a five day week thing. I want you
- 42:20Speaker 1: guys to be able to live your lives. I think
- 42:22Speaker 1: that employees who have big, in full lives and friends
- 42:28Speaker 1: and family, and when you leave this office or my
- 42:34Speaker 1: house and you go home and you hang out with
- 42:37Speaker 1: your girlfriends, that makes me happy because then I know
- 42:39Speaker 1: that work isn't your entire life.
- 42:41Speaker 5: Yeah, no, exactly, And that is why she's megging grim
- 42:44Speaker 5: and the best boss ever. Literally that's nice, but no,
- 42:48Speaker 5: I appreciate that as well, and I think it's so nice.
- 42:50Speaker 5: You know, we have our team meetings in the morning
- 42:52Speaker 5: and I'm able to get up and kind of get
- 42:55Speaker 5: my day started, and I do like to check emails
- 42:58Speaker 5: first thing. But you know, yeah, me too, I do this.
- 43:01Speaker 1: We are very similar.
- 43:02Speaker 3: Yeah, we are.
- 43:03Speaker 1: Whenever I'm on email. Crasis somehow always on email. And yes,
- 43:09Speaker 1: I mean, you are such a good worker, it's crazy.
- 43:11Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, Well, thank you very nice.
- 43:14Speaker 1: What has been your favorite part of the job and
- 43:17Speaker 1: what has been the most challenging part of the job.
- 43:20Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good question. I think my favorite part is, Well,
- 43:25Speaker 5: one thing would be the consistency. You know, I love
- 43:27Speaker 5: that I have been here for almost three years and
- 43:30Speaker 5: worked with you for that long, and there's something that's
- 43:34Speaker 5: really comforting about that. But then also to see how
- 43:38Speaker 5: the company has grown and expanded and gone through so
- 43:41Speaker 5: many phases and dealing with all the clients we've dealt with,
- 43:44Speaker 5: that's been really fun. But I think that also comes
- 43:48Speaker 5: with challenges. You know, we're always dealing with new people
- 43:51Speaker 5: and communicating with a lot of different people, having to
- 43:54Speaker 5: learn how to communicate with different people, whether it's internally
- 43:58Speaker 5: or interns, or you know, different clients and their teams.
- 44:03Speaker 5: But I think it's all a great learning lesson and
- 44:05Speaker 5: really fun.
- 44:07Speaker 1: Speaking of clients, there was one client that had reached
- 44:11Speaker 1: out to me probably two months ago, asking to hop
- 44:15Speaker 1: on a call because she wanted to hire an assistant.
- 44:16Speaker 1: And I don't even remember this woman's name. She was
- 44:20Speaker 1: not in entertainment. I don't even know what she did.
- 44:22Speaker 1: I forget who referred her. Also, I don't think I
- 44:26Speaker 1: was friends with the person. But anyway, she got my
- 44:27Speaker 1: email asked to hop on a call. I was traveling
- 44:30Speaker 1: that day, so I said, I'm a loop and Grase
- 44:32Speaker 1: she's happy to take the call for me, and virtually
- 44:34Speaker 1: I'm not available. The way that this woman responded was
- 44:37Speaker 1: so disrespectful and crazy, basically saying she want to hop
- 44:41Speaker 1: on the phone with Grace because Grace was so young
- 44:44Speaker 1: and had only been with the company for so long.
- 44:46Speaker 1: And said, well, if you're not going to hop on
- 44:48Speaker 1: the phone with me, I could have given you all
- 44:50Speaker 1: this business. And I wrote her back and I was like, listen,
- 44:54Speaker 1: I think we're done here. If you don't respect my team,
- 44:58Speaker 1: then I don't want to work with you. Grace's more
- 45:00Speaker 1: than capable. She's been with me since the beginning, and
- 45:03Speaker 1: this is kind of where I draw the line. And
- 45:04Speaker 1: I also need to protect my employees and set the
- 45:06Speaker 1: tone for like what I'm going to put up with,
- 45:09Speaker 1: and that if she's speaking like that to someone who
- 45:11Speaker 1: we apparently have a mutual friend with, who I've never
- 45:14Speaker 1: even met, and that's why she's treating me, how is
- 45:17Speaker 1: she going to treat her assistant. So we didn't even
- 45:20Speaker 1: move forward with her. I think I responded and close
- 45:23Speaker 1: the loop, but I got so angry. I was like,
- 45:25Speaker 1: don't you talk about Grace that way. Grace is the
- 45:29Speaker 1: most capable human being she can talk to. I put
- 45:32Speaker 1: her on calls with way more important people than you, lady.
- 45:35Speaker 1: I was so pissed. Yeah, but that to me, I
- 45:39Speaker 1: was just like, how dare you? Like, don't this is
- 45:41Speaker 1: these are my people. You don't get to talk about
- 45:43Speaker 1: them well?
- 45:44Speaker 5: And it was such an amazing moment for me because
- 45:47Speaker 5: I did feel like you really had my back and
- 45:49Speaker 5: that was so yeah, and you didn't need to, which
- 45:52Speaker 5: is the thing. It's like I am so much younger
- 45:55Speaker 5: than who she you know, whatever, but you are mighty
- 46:00Speaker 5: thank you. But it's at an amazing example and it was.
- 46:04Speaker 5: It really meant a lot, so thinks worse.
- 46:06Speaker 1: I mean, that's my duty, My duty is to to
- 46:10Speaker 1: to draw the line somewhere, right if and we don't
- 46:13Speaker 1: need to actually take on clients, if they treat us badly,
- 46:18Speaker 1: how are they going to treat their staff? And then
- 46:19Speaker 1: we just wind up in the same position because if
- 46:22Speaker 1: I put a candidate with a toxic boss, they're just
- 46:24Speaker 1: going to come back to us. It'll be a whole
- 46:26Speaker 1: mess and we have to replace them. Yeah, it's just
- 46:28Speaker 1: more work for me, honestly, and I only want to
- 46:30Speaker 1: work with good people.
- 46:31Speaker 5: Yeah. So well, and I think going back to what
- 46:33Speaker 5: you were saying about the challenges of the job, I
- 46:37Speaker 5: just have had to learn so much about the business,
- 46:40Speaker 5: you know, and contracts and the legal side of things
- 46:44Speaker 5: and dealing with the different kinds of people and how
- 46:47Speaker 5: how to talk to them. And so that's been something
- 46:49Speaker 5: I've you know, been thrown into over the years. And
- 46:51Speaker 5: You've put so much trust in me, and I really
- 46:54Speaker 5: appreciate that. And I do feel like I've learned so
- 46:57Speaker 5: much about just industry and business and how to talk
- 47:02Speaker 5: the talk.
- 47:03Speaker 1: How to talk the talk. Yeah, well, I'm glad. I mean,
- 47:06Speaker 1: you are definitely a self starter, You're definitely another person.
- 47:10Speaker 1: I do think that our entire team is full of
- 47:13Speaker 1: people now who can go off and do their job
- 47:16Speaker 1: where I have no hesitation in question. And again to
- 47:19Speaker 1: describe that feeling to another founder or someone who's trying
- 47:22Speaker 1: to build their own team, it took me how many
- 47:25Speaker 1: years to get here? Like I finally can say I
- 47:28Speaker 1: have the best team around me, and I feel so
- 47:31Speaker 1: safe and protected and I'm able to be the best boss,
- 47:35Speaker 1: the best entrepreneur, the best leader. Hopefully podcasts host soon,
- 47:41Speaker 1: because I know all my other stuff is handled by
- 47:44Speaker 1: my team. I started this company in twenty twenty in
- 47:48Speaker 1: we didn't really start doing stuff until twenty twenty three,
- 47:51Speaker 1: I think is when you probably came on right. Twenty
- 47:54Speaker 1: twenty three is yay. And it's taken me this long
- 47:58Speaker 1: to finally find my team and finally have that aha
- 48:02Speaker 1: moment or that relief moment of wow, I feel like
- 48:05Speaker 1: every single person on my team is excellent, and I
- 48:08Speaker 1: have no questions and no anxiety and no doubt and
- 48:11Speaker 1: no pit in my stomach. And I'm just very grateful
- 48:15Speaker 1: because now I can go on to do all the
- 48:17Speaker 1: things that I need to do as as business grows,
- 48:20Speaker 1: knowing that the day to day is just handled and
- 48:23Speaker 1: pretty unlock and also knowing that you can go out
- 48:27Speaker 1: into the world representing me well, same with everyone else
- 48:30Speaker 1: on the team. That is also a part of it, right,
- 48:33Speaker 1: you are now very much associated with Clyde and I
- 48:37Speaker 1: feel so bad because the amount of people that probably
- 48:40Speaker 1: now blow up your phones for job openings is probably
- 48:46Speaker 1: a lot, but you deal with that with grace, no
- 48:50Speaker 1: pun and it's just it's really unbelievable.
- 48:54Speaker 5: So I do love people and I love meeting people,
- 48:58Speaker 5: and it's fun how this job has expanded my network
- 49:01Speaker 5: to so many people and all different types, so that's
- 49:06Speaker 5: been very fun cool.
- 49:08Speaker 1: Have there been any challenges or what's the hardest part
- 49:12Speaker 1: of your job today?
- 49:13Speaker 5: Do you think the hardest part of the job I
- 49:16Speaker 5: think has been every day something new is normally thrown
- 49:21Speaker 5: at me, whether it's about a contract or you know,
- 49:24Speaker 5: just business deals in general, or dealing with clients and
- 49:28Speaker 5: their team members and a lot of times having.
- 49:31Speaker 1: To act on the fly.
- 49:34Speaker 5: But that's taught me a lot and I think made
- 49:37Speaker 5: me a better worker, a better communicator, better person, probably
- 49:42Speaker 5: all because of you.
- 49:44Speaker 1: Stop it and what do you play this game? What
- 49:48Speaker 1: are you looking forward to the most as we grow?
- 49:52Speaker 1: Just I guess for the next couple of months.
- 49:54Speaker 5: I am excited to continue to see how the company grows.
- 49:58Speaker 5: I think it's grown so much in three years, and
- 50:03Speaker 5: even just in the past year, in the past six months,
- 50:06Speaker 5: since January, since January literally, so I'm like, I don't
- 50:10Speaker 5: even know where it's going to go in the next
- 50:13Speaker 5: you know, however many months. I know if someone said
- 50:15Speaker 5: it earlier about our event we've just had about a
- 50:17Speaker 5: month ago with the assistance. I love connecting with all
- 50:21Speaker 5: of them and meeting in person, and I do think
- 50:23Speaker 5: it's such a community that you've built and that the
- 50:26Speaker 5: company has built, and so it's really exciting to be
- 50:29Speaker 5: a part of that.
- 50:30Speaker 1: Well. I can't wait to do that either, and I
- 50:32Speaker 1: agree we definitely need to do more community building events.
- 50:35Speaker 1: And when I look back at when it was literally
- 50:38Speaker 1: just us to now, it's wild and my brain does
- 50:41Speaker 1: that often, and it's just been really refreshing having you
- 50:46Speaker 1: by my side through all of it.
- 50:48Speaker 5: And yeah, well, thank you, of course, you're the best,
- 50:52Speaker 5: the best, Thank you, Grace, thank you Miken.
- 50:57Speaker 1: And the last, but not least, my lovely assistant.
- 51:02Speaker 2: Hello.
- 51:06Speaker 1: Do you know how many people come up to me saying, Wow,
- 51:09Speaker 1: your assistant is so good, but like in a way
- 51:13Speaker 1: that makes me think that they want to steal you.
- 51:16Speaker 1: And I'm always like, yeah, I know you're not taking
- 51:20Speaker 1: your seriously, You're I feel so blessed, And the whole
- 51:26Speaker 1: sentiment of this episode is really how lucky I am
- 51:29Speaker 1: to have such amazing employees. And I, as you guys know,
- 51:34Speaker 1: was the assistant I've I had Grace as an assistant previously.
- 51:38Speaker 1: That was my first real assistant. You're my second real assistant.
- 51:42Speaker 1: And I've been so lucky to have really twelve out
- 51:48Speaker 1: of ten assistants. And I just need you to know
- 51:52Speaker 1: how epic and fantastic and loyal and trustworthy and all
- 51:57Speaker 1: the things I like, you were all of these things,
- 52:02Speaker 1: and I feel so lucky, Emily, and I just really
- 52:07Speaker 1: want to spotlight you and talk about the way that
- 52:10Speaker 1: you've literally changed my life and made me give it
- 52:13Speaker 1: allowed me the space to just see my friends go
- 52:18Speaker 1: do like be in my meetings, take a break, you know,
- 52:24Speaker 1: so thank you for that, and just thank you for
- 52:26Speaker 1: being always having such a great attitude too. Whenever you
- 52:29Speaker 1: come into my house, I feel like I am just
- 52:33Speaker 1: in there's a lot happening here, and then you always
- 52:36Speaker 1: come in with the biggest smile, and you're always happy
- 52:39Speaker 1: and you're just contagious positive energy at all times. So
- 52:44Speaker 1: I'm going to shut up and let you talk about
- 52:46Speaker 1: your career, how we found each other, and your experience
- 52:49Speaker 1: with Clyde, if you want to.
- 52:52Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, well that was such a nice intro. But
- 52:57Speaker 6: I originally found out about Clyde because Meghan, through the
- 53:01Speaker 6: career center at my college, Chapman, where Grace also went,
- 53:05Speaker 6: did a zoom just talking about, you know, her experience
- 53:09Speaker 6: as an assistant as well as talking about the company.
- 53:11Speaker 6: And I also remember Graces in that zoom too, and
- 53:14Speaker 6: I thought like, oh, this would be cool. Like I graduated,
- 53:17Speaker 6: I think, like a couple months earlier, so I followed
- 53:19Speaker 6: the Clyde Instagram and always thought like, oh, maybe one day.
- 53:22Speaker 6: But then in January of last year, when the fires
- 53:27Speaker 6: happened in La Meghan posted that she was looking for
- 53:31Speaker 6: volunteers to volunteer at her fire relief center at CBS Studios,
- 53:36Speaker 6: and I thought like, okay, well I wanted to get
- 53:38Speaker 6: involved with like helping with the fire relief anyways, so
- 53:41Speaker 6: I'm like, this sounds like it'd be a good opportunity
- 53:43Speaker 6: and feel rewarding so I like sent in. It was
- 53:47Speaker 6: like for a fire relief volunteer like intern. So I
- 53:50Speaker 6: sent in my resume and I talked to Grace on
- 53:52Speaker 6: the phone, and you know, she was nice. And the
- 53:54Speaker 6: next thing, I know, Grace like emails me being like
- 53:57Speaker 6: oh yeah, like here's the address you can like go to.
- 54:00Speaker 6: And I got there and it was this huge like
- 54:04Speaker 6: soundstage just like full of full of clothing racks and
- 54:08Speaker 6: all these different donations. It was a little bit overwhelming.
- 54:11Speaker 6: And then Megan came in and I just said like, oh,
- 54:14Speaker 6: I'm here as like the fire relief intern. And she
- 54:17Speaker 6: was like, okay, great, like get started doing this like
- 54:19Speaker 6: call these people, and I was like okay, sure, and
- 54:23Speaker 6: I think, you know, I mean, it was great. I
- 54:25Speaker 6: was meeting all these different people and obviously it felt rewarding.
- 54:28Speaker 6: And after like I think a week or something, Meagan said,
- 54:32Speaker 6: let's talk about job stuff, like you know, I'm gonna
- 54:33Speaker 6: hire you to be on my team, right, And I
- 54:36Speaker 6: was like, oh, okay, sure, thank you.
- 54:39Speaker 1: Oh my god. I have the memory of literally you
- 54:42Speaker 1: coming in and me being like, oh, intern, You're hired.
- 54:45Speaker 1: Like I think that day I was so overwhelmed and
- 54:48Speaker 1: I'm sure you can attest to that. It was such
- 54:50Speaker 1: a crazy environment to walk into. Literally, I fell into
- 54:55Speaker 1: that project backwards, and I had a studio given to me,
- 55:02Speaker 1: and then I didn't know what I was doing at
- 55:04Speaker 1: the time, right I started collecting donations out of my
- 55:06Speaker 1: house and then we moved all the donations into the studio.
- 55:09Speaker 1: I didn't have a plan. I lied to them and
- 55:11Speaker 1: said I had a plan in order for them to
- 55:13Speaker 1: give me the space, and then we kind of figured
- 55:15Speaker 1: it out in the fly and you helped me do
- 55:17Speaker 1: everything with And what stood out to me about you
- 55:21Speaker 1: during that project is that you were the first one
- 55:23Speaker 1: in last one to leave. I also got neurovirus probably
- 55:28Speaker 1: two weeks into that project.
- 55:30Speaker 2: And I.
- 55:32Speaker 1: Knock on wood, I don't get sick that often. I've
- 55:34Speaker 1: never been sicker in my entire life. And that was
- 55:37Speaker 1: also my body telling me to slow down and to
- 55:40Speaker 1: chill for a second. And to know that you were
- 55:43Speaker 1: there at that center with all these people wrangling the volunteers,
- 55:48Speaker 1: dealing with all the literal parts of these trucks were
- 55:54Speaker 1: coming from Florida to drop off donations, and knowing that
- 55:57Speaker 1: you were there to hold down the four while I
- 56:00Speaker 1: was on my deathbed. Who else can do that? Honestly,
- 56:03Speaker 1: that was so much to dump on your plate, and
- 56:05Speaker 1: you were incredible. And when we wrapped up that project,
- 56:09Speaker 1: we did three weekends of it. You helped clear everything
- 56:13Speaker 1: at the end because we had so much extra product
- 56:15Speaker 1: at the end. Figuring out what to do with everything
- 56:19Speaker 1: was really also overwhelming, and I didn't I had to
- 56:24Speaker 1: get back to my day job. So Emily worked with
- 56:27Speaker 1: all of these shelters and centers and had all of
- 56:33Speaker 1: this product donated at the end. And I remember you
- 56:36Speaker 1: texting me the photo of you by yourself in CBS
- 56:41Speaker 1: with nothing around you, once everything had been cleared, and
- 56:43Speaker 1: I just remember being.
- 56:44Speaker 7: Like, holy Molly, Emily did all that like it was
- 56:49Speaker 7: so it was such a big project, and you really
- 56:52Speaker 7: did get thrown into the fire, and thank you.
- 56:56Speaker 1: Watching you in that environment made me that I needed
- 57:01Speaker 1: you to be my assistant.
- 57:02Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, I sent that photo to so many people.
- 57:05Speaker 6: It was just me with my arms open wide.
- 57:08Speaker 1: But anyone who was there who saw that, yeahter knew
- 57:12Speaker 1: how much work it was. It was so much work. Yeah,
- 57:15Speaker 1: and I will never forget how much work that was.
- 57:17Speaker 1: Oh my god, But that was last year you've been
- 57:20Speaker 1: in my life for a little bit over a year,
- 57:22Speaker 1: almost year and a half. Yeah, tell me about your
- 57:26Speaker 1: experience so far.
- 57:28Speaker 6: Oh, I mean it's been great. It's it's fun and
- 57:31Speaker 6: I mean one like, I love working with Grace. I
- 57:34Speaker 6: love being like here at your house with the dogs.
- 57:37Speaker 6: The dogs are like I feel like my family as
- 57:40Speaker 6: well too at this point. I love them and it's funny, Grace,
- 57:44Speaker 6: like we'll sit next to me and say like, I
- 57:46Speaker 6: can't believe this is our life in the best way
- 57:50Speaker 6: and funny ways sometimes. But it's just like every day
- 57:54Speaker 6: is totally different, and that's like my one my favorite
- 57:57Speaker 6: part about the job, probably one of the most difficult
- 58:00Speaker 6: parts too, but just like you know, I have usually
- 58:03Speaker 6: kind of what I expect for the day, but there's
- 58:05Speaker 6: always gonna be something that comes in, something you know,
- 58:08Speaker 6: that I didn't expect. So I just love like the
- 58:11Speaker 6: random things. And sometimes I'll like tell my parents like, oh,
- 58:14Speaker 6: like I just did this random thing today. They're like,
- 58:16Speaker 6: what I talked to this person or you wouldn't believe,
- 58:19Speaker 6: like whose dog I was walking or you know, whose
- 58:22Speaker 6: house I'm moving helping them move to another house, And
- 58:25Speaker 6: it's just like every day it's different.
- 58:27Speaker 3: But so fun.
- 58:28Speaker 1: That's so true. So oftentimes clients and maybe one of
- 58:33Speaker 1: my old bosses at times, will reach out and they'll
- 58:36Speaker 1: need a runner, or clients who live in New York
- 58:39Speaker 1: who come to LA will need someone for the day
- 58:41Speaker 1: and say, oh, just just take Emily. So Emily's been
- 58:44Speaker 1: in very wild environments in the best way, but she's
- 58:49Speaker 1: got gotten access to support some very cool people since
- 58:55Speaker 1: and even we do work one of our clients, he
- 58:58Speaker 1: has a son, a monthly retainer. He hosts a lot
- 59:01Speaker 1: of cool events, industry events at his house, and Emily
- 59:06Speaker 1: works all the events. And one of your celebrity crushes
- 59:11Speaker 1: I think right was coming up in the elevator and
- 59:16Speaker 1: that you know, that was like a.
- 59:17Speaker 6: Fun moment you got stuck in the elevator, the elevator.
- 59:21Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't think you could ever imagine coming
- 59:24Speaker 1: to this job that also being a part of it,
- 59:26Speaker 1: which is probably really fun.
- 59:28Speaker 6: Mm hmmm, yeah, it is fun, and I think it's shown.
- 59:32Speaker 6: I mean, it's I'm so grateful that you like trust
- 59:35Speaker 6: me enough to just say, oh, my assistant can do this,
- 59:37Speaker 6: like she can help, and that you have like no
- 59:39Speaker 6: like hesitation to recommend me to people is so sweet,
- 59:42Speaker 6: and like, you know, it feels like rewarding to me
- 59:45Speaker 6: that I've shown that I'm like a trustworthy person and
- 59:47Speaker 6: that you can like count on me to not like
- 59:49Speaker 6: destroy your reputation or something else.
- 59:52Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I'm gone. No, I I mean, you have
- 59:58Speaker 1: all of my passwords, all of my things, Like you
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: could ruin my life. I want to, but I don't
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: feel like you will, so planning on it. I feel good.
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: But now I understand like the risk that a lot
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: of clients of ours take when they literally hand over
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: all of this personal information, Like you literally have all
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: of my stuff, like access to my email, and I
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: don't think I would be so keen to just give
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: that to anyone, So like you really are so trustworthy
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: and all the things, and yeah, I'll die on this hill,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: like I have no hesitation. But just like anyone who
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: knows you and spends time with you just right away
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: just like falls in love with you and gets that
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: vibe like you are so warm and you're so good
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: with my dogs. And to ask someone to come in
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: and maybe take the dog out while I'm in a
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: meeting or running or out to do something, that's kind
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: of a big ask. And you do it with a
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: smile on. And you also have a Golden Retriever and
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: my Golden Retriever is insane, and you're like the dog whisper,
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: and you're so good with summer and anyways, I'm just
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: so grateful because being someone's assistant is such a tall
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: order sometimes and my life is so nuts that you
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: deal with literally every part of my life, like down
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: down to the client stuff, the clients, my dogs, my
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: foster son. You help with Io. You pick him up
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: from school the days that I can't. You actually pick
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: him up from school every day. I do drop him
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: off in the morning, but Emily picks him up for me,
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: which is a huge help. And I'm just so grateful
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: for the way like you, I think everyone who works
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: for me has become family, but like it's so intimate,
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: and now having a full time assistant, like I'm really
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: realizing how intimate it is and how integrated you are
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: into my life. Like I'm going to New York on Sunday,
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: You're staying here. You're taking Io to a concert with
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: your boyfriend and sleeping at my house while I'm gone.
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: You know, it's so nice and it really gives me
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: such a nice peace of mind. So thank you from
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart.
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: Of course.
- 1:02:10Speaker 6: No, I mean Io genuinely feels my little brother now too.
- 1:02:13Speaker 6: So I love being in our little family.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I will have his own episode.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: Oh he should. Yeah.
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: I feel like that is a lot to go into
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: right now. But in short, we met a amazing family
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: during the fires last year. And I have a eighteen
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: year old, an amazing eighteen year old who lives in
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: my poolhouse, and he is going to graduate in June.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: And I don't think that I would have been able
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: to do this without the support of my team, actually,
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: because it was a lot to take on and there
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: was no question whether or not I was going to
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: do it, but I only really said yes knowing that
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: I would have support to do it. And he's incredible,
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: Like we're helping him with his transition phase. Once he
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: graduates high school, he'll go out into the world and
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: get a job and go to college and be amazing.
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: But this transition phase has been so crucial and I'm
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: not only changing his life, but you're also changing his life,
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: and so is Grace, and so is the other Grace,
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: and so is Georgia. Everyone on the team has really,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: really really stepped up for him, and that was when
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: I also knew how or when I realized how lucky
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: I was to have you guys in my life, because
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: that is something that is absolutely not in the job description.
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: But you guys have basically become like big sisters to
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: him as well, and that goes such a long way
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: to me. So well, anyways, what are you most excited
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: about for this next year?
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: One.
- 1:03:50Speaker 6: I'm excited to be going on my first ever work
- 1:03:53Speaker 6: trip at the end of June. I've always wanted to say, like, oh,
- 1:03:57Speaker 6: I'm going on a work trip to New York. So
- 1:03:59Speaker 6: I'm gonna be there at the end of June for
- 1:04:02Speaker 6: a little bit with Megan. That will be fun. Yeah,
- 1:04:05Speaker 6: But I'm also just excited to see our team keep growing,
- 1:04:08Speaker 6: Like I just love everyone who we work with, and like,
- 1:04:12Speaker 6: little by little we've gotten more people, and so I'm
- 1:04:14Speaker 6: excited to see, you know, what becomes of that more
- 1:04:17Speaker 6: co workers. You know, maybe I won't have to bother
- 1:04:20Speaker 6: Grace as much, but.
- 1:04:23Speaker 3: I'm excited.
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: Yes, I'm so excited to have you in New York.
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: In New York. That will be very fun because you've
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: never met.
- 1:04:29Speaker 6: Patrick, right, No, I was talking to Patrick on the
- 1:04:32Speaker 6: phone today being like, I'm so excited to meet you
- 1:04:34Speaker 6: in person. Like we realized every conversation we've ever had
- 1:04:36Speaker 6: is about work, and we're like, we just want to
- 1:04:38Speaker 6: get to know each other. So yeah, yeah.
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: Well that will be so fun. Okay, So for you personally,
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: what are some of your goals for yourself and and
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: for for you at the company.
- 1:04:52Speaker 6: Let's see. Well, one, I feel like one I've already accomplished,
- 1:04:56Speaker 6: such like the goal of like learning how to be
- 1:04:58Speaker 6: an assistant, learning how to support like my boss, as
- 1:05:02Speaker 6: well as like a whole team. And I think that
- 1:05:04Speaker 6: especially after graduating from college, I feel like, well one
- 1:05:09Speaker 6: two years of my college really COVID, and I feel
- 1:05:11Speaker 6: like getting out, I'm like, okay, I don't have the
- 1:05:13Speaker 6: best resume, Like I don't. Kind of was like worried
- 1:05:16Speaker 6: that I would, you know, be a few years out
- 1:05:18Speaker 6: of college and be like, oh gosh, I didn't do
- 1:05:20Speaker 6: the right experiences. I didn't like, you know, join the
- 1:05:23Speaker 6: right clubs or like get involved enough in school, or
- 1:05:25Speaker 6: didn't like keep up with the right connections or whatever.
- 1:05:28Speaker 6: So it was so I feel like I'm so like
- 1:05:30Speaker 6: lucky and fortunate that I just kind of like fell
- 1:05:33Speaker 6: into meeting you. And I remember one of the other
- 1:05:36Speaker 6: volunteers at the relief center, who was an assistant in
- 1:05:40Speaker 6: our network said, after like she found out that you
- 1:05:43Speaker 6: were like hiring me, she was like, oh, Emily, your
- 1:05:45Speaker 6: career set for life. And I was like, oh, okay,
- 1:05:51Speaker 6: like thank you. She's like, oh, you got Megan, You're good.
- 1:05:54Speaker 6: So I yeah. I love that you've been able to
- 1:05:57Speaker 6: teach me like all of like being learning from you
- 1:06:00Speaker 6: as someone who was an assistant for so many years,
- 1:06:03Speaker 6: and and you've always like known that like ultimately, like
- 1:06:05Speaker 6: my career goals are like more like creative in the
- 1:06:07Speaker 6: film industry, like my major in college with screenwriting, and
- 1:06:11Speaker 6: I love that you've always just like supported that and
- 1:06:14Speaker 6: let me, you know, if I want to be like
- 1:06:15Speaker 6: on a set or something or making something with my friends,
- 1:06:17Speaker 6: You're like, oh no, like please do that. Remember you
- 1:06:20Speaker 6: you donated to my seed and Spark for my feature film.
- 1:06:23Speaker 6: So I just love that I know that you're like
- 1:06:26Speaker 6: supporting my career outside of here, and I know like
- 1:06:30Speaker 6: that you'll like I don't know, be proud to like
- 1:06:32Speaker 6: support me in my next steps through my life. And
- 1:06:34Speaker 6: that's like feels great.
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: That is all I want for you. Of course, I
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: would love for all of you to stay with me
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: forever and ever and ever, but you need to eventually,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: if there ever comes a time, hopefully not suit, that
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: you decide that you need to go do something else
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: and pursue your creative endeavors. I'm your biggest fan, always kidding.
- 1:06:54Speaker 6: No, yeah, I really appreciate that, because I think some people,
- 1:06:57Speaker 6: like they know their bosses would be so I mean
- 1:07:00Speaker 6: beyond just like the disappointment of not working with them,
- 1:07:02Speaker 6: be like, feel so betrayed. But I know that you,
- 1:07:05Speaker 6: like I don't know, support my my career and just
- 1:07:08Speaker 6: like everything I want.
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: But you'll give me like a couple months.
- 1:07:11Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yeah, we're not there yet exactly not yet.
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: I'm like, I booked her, we booked a New York
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: trip for June, so I like anytime before June. Not
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: like I'm worried about Emily leaving.
- 1:07:26Speaker 6: But I'm then no rush because I know, like you'll,
- 1:07:29Speaker 6: you're fine with me doing other things.
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: Outside and I think that's that's to my point earlier.
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: If you are doing the things that make you feel
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: whole unhappy outside of work, whether that's taking the morning
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: to do your creative stuff or do a workout, or
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: go for a walk or like cook breakfast at home.
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: Please go do that because this job is important, but
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: it's not that important your lives. Your lives need to
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: come first. So yeah, anyways, thanks gurly, thank you. Okay, well,
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: thanks guys. I mean now you can sort of see
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: our team dynamic and the different roles that everyone fills.
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: I'm very big on do your thing. However much you
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: want to put into this, that's great, but it doesn't
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: need to consume you. You know. I'm just grateful to
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: have the help, and I want to make sure that
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: everyone's feeling good and also pursuing their other stuff, because
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: why wouldn't you if you can, you know, if you
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: have the time, do it all. So all right, well
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: it's Friday. You guys should go home and go live
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: your lives. See you. Thanks guys,