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#74 | Haily Wilson (LocalTxFoodie) · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: What's going on, y'all?
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SPEAKER_00: Corpus Christi Originals.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh back at it again, coming to you live from the Stream Lab Studio downtown Corpus Christi, Texas, uh at the produced sound studios.
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SPEAKER_00: And we had some technical difficulties on the live stream, so we're just recording it and I'm gonna post it later so you guys can check it out.
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SPEAKER_00: Today we have Haley Wilson of Local Texas Foodie.
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SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
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SPEAKER_02: Not much.
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SPEAKER_02: What's up with you?
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SPEAKER_00: Not much.
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SPEAKER_00: I've been liking this conversation we've been having so far.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's been good.
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SPEAKER_02: For sure.
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SPEAKER_02: Get to know you.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, we're talking about we're we're talking about favor, your job at favor, and then you're supporting local businesses, and and that your your day job at favor helps you find places to like put content on your on your Instagram.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you mainly on Instagram?
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SPEAKER_02: I'm mainly on Instagram, I have TikTok too, and I have Facebook.
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SPEAKER_02: So it's kind of like those are the only three I really do anything on.
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SPEAKER_02: And then I have my website too.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you feel like you have to have all three of those platforms?
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SPEAKER_02: Um I don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: I feel like they all have their own followings, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_02: Like they all kind of generate different audiences.
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SPEAKER_02: So I think it's good to have them all.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't think you have to, but I think it helps.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: So it helps you, so you use them obviously for your business to help grow your your business.
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SPEAKER_00: Is that that's the main reason for having those?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for sure.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and really the reason I started it, I've I've been doing social media for a long time.
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SPEAKER_02: I just kind of always did it for fun, and it really still is just for fun.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, but I didn't get as serious about it until about two years ago, and that's when I started this page.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and so I kind of use it, it's kind of just like my passion project.
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SPEAKER_02: I like to highlight local businesses, I like to bring them more attention that they deserve.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, kind of bring an audience of people who are like wanting to find new places to eat to restaurants that I personally like.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So so your your husband's saying that if you have if they have canned Cokes, it's gonna be good food.
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SPEAKER_00: Is that you?
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SPEAKER_02: He's always said that.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know, like like we'll go into a place and they'll have just like a fridge with canned drinks.
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SPEAKER_02: He's like, Oh, I know this is gonna be good.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, why do you say that?
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SPEAKER_02: He's like, I don't know, just oh every time I've been at a place with canned drinks, I know it's good.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay, and then he's always right.
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SPEAKER_02: So I'm like, all right, okay.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I try I trust this weird judgment.
2:23
SPEAKER_02: That's funny.
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SPEAKER_02: Which place were y'all at in Pavani Express.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, here in town, Southside?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's like connected to a gas station um off of Tiger Lane.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it's kind of like Costora's Tiger Lane over there, like heading towards the south side.
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SPEAKER_00: Awesome, awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's like a hole in the wall.
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SPEAKER_02: Like wow, it's really good.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and is it what what style of food is it?
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SPEAKER_02: Indian food.
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SPEAKER_00: Indian oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: My wife just started getting into that stuff.
2:54
SPEAKER_00: I don't know where she ordered, but they had like lamb or something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Is that a normal meat choice to have there?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, they they do like chicken, lamb, goat, there you go.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh a lot of vegetables, um, sometimes fish.
3:07
SPEAKER_02: Kind of just depends on the restaurant.
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SPEAKER_02: Like I know Pursis, they have salmon on their menu.
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SPEAKER_02: So it kind of just depends where you're at.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, how do you how do you like uh develop like a a taste thing to where I don't know what you call it, but you have like a tasting to where you appreciate it.
3:22
SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: Because some people get stuck on Mexican food, like you know, especially like my culture or whatever.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you take like that Indian stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: When I taste it, I was like, this is I was trying to eat it like Mexican food, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Which is basically scarf it down.
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SPEAKER_00: But this stuff I was like, you're like, oh my sinuses are getting clear.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's like a different kind of spice, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_02: Like, I think a lot of times when people think of spice, like in food, they think of hot.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, but Indian food isn't always necessarily hot, but thus like sometimes it is.
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SPEAKER_02: Sometimes spicy in Indian food means hot, but sometimes it just means like a lot of spices.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, and sometimes like those spices for me specifically, like clear out my sinuses.
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SPEAKER_02: It's kind of like eating too much wasabi, like you're like, oh, this is not good, but also it kind of feels good at the same time.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's that's awesome.
4:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
4:15
SPEAKER_00: So you were mentioning uh uh that you were kind of slacking on on your content, but your content is cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I seen it mostly on Instagram, and I just found you on Facebook uh and and most of your stuff is on Instagram, so that's pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, my main platform is definitely Instagram.
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SPEAKER_02: I have to like push myself to remember to post on Facebook and to post on TikTok.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, if I'm posting just a photo, it will automatically post on my Facebook, but my reels don't automatically post to my page.
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SPEAKER_02: So I have to like really remember to do it at the same time, and a lot of times I forget.
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SPEAKER_00: So right on.
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SPEAKER_00: So, so um, how do you choose local businesses to highlight on your platform?
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SPEAKER_02: Um, it really kind of just goes based on like what I feel like doing, I guess.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, I really want Indian food.
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SPEAKER_02: Let me find an Indian place I haven't been to.
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SPEAKER_02: And we don't have a lot of Indian restaurants here, so that may not be the best example, but like, oh, maybe I really want pho today.
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SPEAKER_02: So where have I not been yet?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, but at this point, I do get restaurants that reach out to me that want to partner with me and want me to feature them.
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SPEAKER_02: I would say it's still like a heavy mix of actual partnerships and collaborations and me just showing people what I'm eating for lunch today.
5:29
SPEAKER_00: That's so cool.
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SPEAKER_00: So you're making you're making money off of like not not monetization, but them the restaurants paying you for it?
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SPEAKER_02: Not always.
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SPEAKER_02: It just depends on the situation and what they want to negotiate with me.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, if they're reaching out to me specifically, sometimes it's hey, can we just do this for trade?
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and so we'll give you a hundred dollar voucher towards a meal and you'll post for us or whatever.
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SPEAKER_02: It kind of really just depends.
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SPEAKER_02: But the more work it's gonna take, the more likely I am to say, like, hey, like I need some kind of money to make this, you know, make sense for me because my time is valuable.
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SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, what if I'm gonna spend what point do you side?
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SPEAKER_02: If I'm gonna spend hours editing, like I can't always do that for free.
6:18
SPEAKER_02: And I would expect that most people will understand that because most people are not gonna go to work for hours for free.
6:25
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, like if you're really passionate about it, like you know, I do some charity, I do work with some like local events, and all my work planning those events is free.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm not making any money off of that stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: But I know that it's supporting local nonprofits.
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SPEAKER_02: So in those cases, like, of course, like this is something I've signed up to do for free to begin with.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, if someone's reaching out to me specifically asking me to do work for them, more often than not, I do need to make some kind of money off of it.
6:53
SPEAKER_02: But I'm not I'm not out here looking to make like some kind of big profit.
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SPEAKER_02: Really, my goal is just to build up local business and to share the places that I love.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Um what's what what inspired uh your passion for supporting local businesses?
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SPEAKER_02: I think it really started with like growing up, like the way I grew up.
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SPEAKER_02: So my mom started a business when I was in middle school.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_02: And so kind of just like watching all the hard work that goes into building a business and sustaining that, like so many hours, just you know, you work harder than anybody else, you know what I mean, when you run your own business.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and so I guess just like seeing what goes into that kind of just ignited a passion for me.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and so I feel like half my life I've been passionate about local business and supporting business and understanding why it's so important to support local over a big chain.
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SPEAKER_02: Like your money goes further with local, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_02: It pays for their kids' t-ball, it pays for you know making their business bigger, and it pays for all kinds of things that you can't really fathom.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, that's so awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Is there a memorable experience that you have visiting a local business?
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SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
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SPEAKER_00: It's kind of hard to tell.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's hard.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: So earlier this year I got invited to go to San Antonio for bird bakeries.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, I think it was their 12th birthday.
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SPEAKER_02: Hopefully I'm right about that.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and I got to meet the owner and she was just like super nice.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, her name's Elizabeth Chambers, and she actually um just had a show on Hulu come out like shortly after I visited with her.
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SPEAKER_02: So she was like nicer than I could imagine.
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SPEAKER_02: So it was cool, it was a cool experience.
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SPEAKER_02: I got to meet some other um like San Antonio food influencers who have followed for a long time.
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SPEAKER_02: Nice.
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SPEAKER_02: So it was cool to like actually talk to them in person.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's like a market for it, like it's so interesting.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Um do you notice any trends in in the local business scene in Corpus?
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think I think you have a good um kind of era of growth of people who are like wanting to change things um and try new things and kind of just like step into a more modern era.
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SPEAKER_02: And for corpus that's kind of unique because I think a lot of people that live here kind of always will agree that it always kind of feels like we're a little bit stuck in the past.
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SPEAKER_02: So kind of seeing like a younger generation rise up and start new businesses and start pushing us into the future has been kind of cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: How do you feel about when businesses like don't kind of like make it and like because businesses open up and close, you know what I mean?
9:49
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, it's definitely like sad, you know what I mean?
9:53
SPEAKER_02: And I think I mean it's pretty normal, honestly, across the board.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, most restaurants don't make it, and that's just the how statistically true.
10:03
SPEAKER_02: Um, and a lot of things go into it.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, most businesses are not gonna be profitable in their first year, and if you're not ready for that, like it's gonna be tough, you know what I mean?
10:13
SPEAKER_02: And um, it's just the the sad truth is that it's not easy to make it in the restaurant world, so you really have to be prepared for that.
10:22
SPEAKER_02: So there's a lot of places that you know I've loved that I've seen go away despite doesn't matter how good your food is, sometimes it's not enough.
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SPEAKER_00: So man, is your mom's business still around?
10:33
SPEAKER_02: Like, oh, it is really yeah, she's uh getting close to like 20 years.
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SPEAKER_02: Is it a booth business or no business?
10:40
SPEAKER_02: It's an e-commerce business.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: Oh, really?
10:43
SPEAKER_00: Wow, she does it for other people, she does it for herself for herself, yeah.
10:48
SPEAKER_02: So she has a warehouse here in town.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and she's kind of gotten into manufacturing and stuff over the last year or so.
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SPEAKER_02: So, and she also does like property management and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, that's bot that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Yo, warehouse here in Corvus, that's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Manufacturing is it, does it is it uh can you share you want to share more about that?
11:08
SPEAKER_00: Sure, yeah.
11:08
SPEAKER_02: So it's metal.
11:09
SPEAKER_02: Um, so it's mostly like metal wall base.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, so like if you ever go somewhere and you kind of see like stainless steel at the bottom of the wall or corner protectors on the wall, um, or even like a metal sign that's like cut out.
11:24
SPEAKER_02: Um, that's the kind of stuff that she does.
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SPEAKER_00: So all this every everything she makes is I'm gonna well, she's been in business for years.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow, she probably got all kinds of customers.
11:32
SPEAKER_00: That's very interesting.
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SPEAKER_02: It's a heavy mix of like residential and commercial, and she also works with like a lot of architects, like you know, specing out designs for new construction, like new hospitals, airports.
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SPEAKER_02: She's an engineer or or no, she just happens to supply the products.
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SPEAKER_02: So she yeah that's so awesome, man.
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SPEAKER_02: Works with people who actually do that kind of stuff.
11:53
SPEAKER_00: Wow, it's like you create your own your own job, your own business, and man, that's that's amazing.
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SPEAKER_02: Probably and we work, I mean, I say we I used to work for her.
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SPEAKER_02: So um it's really like pretty national, um, and some international as well.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, but it's funny because people are like, oh, we're in corpus.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm like, well, like we're in corpus, but we don't really do local sales.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, she is trying to do more local sales as she starts to do more manufacturing herself, like you know, in her warehouse.
12:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
12:22
SPEAKER_02: Um, but for most of my life, it's been like drop ship across the country.
12:28
SPEAKER_00: That's so cool.
12:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
12:29
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_00: These do is she gonna give the business to like one of you guys or potentially.
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SPEAKER_02: So I worked for her for a long time.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, like I grew up watching her build the business, so I know a lot about it.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, so eventually, uh more than likely I will take it over and kind of just you know depends on where my life goes.
12:50
SPEAKER_02: You know, if anything if you know all else fails, we'll sell it or something.
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SPEAKER_00: Cool, yeah.
12:56
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I always wonder like if these businesses that that do exist for a long time, if they actually give them to their kids or if they sell it or yeah, I think it really just depends.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, I mean, having you know, like a family business is pretty nice to be able to hand down to your kids as long as they know how to run it and sustain it.
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SPEAKER_02: Like it's you know, yeah, it's interesting.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, keep keep on building on what you already spent all this time building, you know.
13:20
SPEAKER_02: Don't let it go.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, that's so awesome.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: So we were talking earlier before when we have tech technical difficulties about your so you're working at Favor, favor delivery.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh shout out favor.
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SPEAKER_02: If you guys yeah, shout out favor and H E B.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, favor and H E B.
13:35
SPEAKER_00: We we shop H E B often and we get delivery from HEB.
13:39
SPEAKER_00: So Favor is exclusively the delivery uh for H E B.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so H E B owns Favor, um, and they've owned it for about six years.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: They own Favor, wow.
13:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's a Texas company.
13:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're Texas is Texas only Texas only delivery company.
13:57
SPEAKER_02: So we're only in Texas.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, and I think that's part of what makes us so successful is that we're just really, really focused on what we're doing in one state.
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SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it seems like that'd be a cool aspect because you're a Tex local Texas foodie, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it kind of works together, I guess, right?
14:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's awesome.
14:16
SPEAKER_00: And man, your role there at the at Favor is pretty pretty interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: Like you find new restaurants to add to the app, yeah, to make accessible for people out there.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so so how do you how do you go about doing that?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, it's is it is it difficult to find new restaurants?
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SPEAKER_00: Do restaurants reach out to you to get on the app?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, how does that happen?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's kind of a mixture.
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SPEAKER_02: So I would say like maybe five percent of my like leads are inbound.
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SPEAKER_02: So restaurants reaching specifically out to favor to get up on the app.
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SPEAKER_02: And then the rest is me looking for restaurants that I know that people want.
14:53
SPEAKER_02: So, like, you know, I know that everyone, well not everyone, a lot of people love sushi.
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SPEAKER_02: So looking for good restaurants that have good sushi that people would want for delivery.
15:04
SPEAKER_02: So it's really kind of just like about trying to get into the consumer's mind and knowing what they want and then trying to make those partnerships happen with restaurants.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
15:14
SPEAKER_00: Now how did you wow?
15:16
SPEAKER_00: That's interesting.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: How do you learn that?
15:17
SPEAKER_00: Like, how do you because you don't think like the consumer?
15:20
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people they just think, okay, I need businesses.
15:23
SPEAKER_00: Where do I start?
15:24
SPEAKER_00: And you know, they start somewhere else, but you're thinking like in the mind of the consumer.
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SPEAKER_02: I think that's just part of like who I am and how I've always been.
15:32
SPEAKER_02: Like, I always try to put myself in whoever the customer is, like whatever job I'm doing, like what do they want, and trying to achieve that.
15:41
SPEAKER_02: And I think that's what anybody who's in hospitality, that's excellent what they do.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: That's they try to put themselves in their customer's shoes and try to accomplish what the customer wants.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, hospitality, that's big.
15:53
SPEAKER_00: That's a big one right there.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: So, so your role is senior account executive.
15:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
15:59
SPEAKER_02: That sounds huge.
16:01
SPEAKER_02: It's not as fancy as it sounds.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: So has it allowed you to support local businesses?
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SPEAKER_02: I think so.
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SPEAKER_02: So my main focus at favor is to partner with local businesses.
16:15
SPEAKER_02: We have a national team who work with corporations.
16:19
SPEAKER_02: Um, so the majority of what I do is going after smaller and sometimes regional brands.
16:25
SPEAKER_02: Um, so for example, like I can kind of work after going after like Shipleys if they're owned by a franchisee.
16:33
SPEAKER_02: Um, but as far as like like Whataburger, like I personally would never go after them because they're more of a corporate account.
16:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, so my job is to go after small local businesses and bring them valuable customers that are ready to spend money with them.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh there's a a restaurant that that was sponsoring us for a while, El Valgo Burger and Barbecue.
16:56
SPEAKER_00: Have you tried them out?
16:57
SPEAKER_02: I haven't.
16:58
SPEAKER_02: They are on my like mental list of places I need to go.
17:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
17:02
SPEAKER_00: Oh my.
17:02
SPEAKER_02: I've heard a lot of good things.
17:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's delicious.
17:04
SPEAKER_00: You should try them out.
17:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh and and I'm I was thinking about them because like, is there certain criteria that restaurants have to meet in order to be a part of favor?
17:14
SPEAKER_02: I mean, not necessarily.
17:18
SPEAKER_02: So, like, we don't do like you know, home-based kitchens, things like that.
17:23
SPEAKER_02: So it has to be like an actual like restaurant, like brick and mortar place, like a brick and mortar.
17:28
SPEAKER_02: I mean, maybe a ghost kitchen as well.
17:30
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
17:31
SPEAKER_02: We do work with those.
17:32
SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay.
17:32
SPEAKER_02: Um, so there's some restaurants who have like their regular, you know, business, and then they'll have like an extra concept within the business that they do just for delivery.
17:42
SPEAKER_02: Um, but they're still a brick and mortar restaurant after all.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: Um, so you have to be a brick and mortar restaurant.
17:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, and then other than that, really my ideal partner would have like consistent hours.
17:55
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
17:56
SPEAKER_02: They're not like changing it up every other week.
17:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
17:59
SPEAKER_02: Um, they're staying consistent, they keep their menu relatively consistent, maybe change it every now and then.
18:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:05
SPEAKER_02: Um, like if you have a daily special, like okay, but if you're changing your menu every single week, that can get a little like taxing, yeah, you know, for a favor to have to change it constantly.
18:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:15
SPEAKER_02: Um, so really that's that's pretty much it.
18:18
SPEAKER_02: Just someone who's like, you know, kind of ready to try to grow, um, even if that's incrementally and just 10 extra orders a day can really add up over time.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: Do you see, do you see the restaurants that you've added?
18:30
SPEAKER_00: Like, do you see them growing?
18:31
SPEAKER_02: For sure.
18:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:33
SPEAKER_00: That's good.
18:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:34
SPEAKER_02: Well, like, for example, um, we are partnered with Kiko's, and you know, Kiko's has had a very long-standing brand that they've built themselves, but they do very, very well on favor delivery.
18:45
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
18:45
SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, this year they opened a second location, and you know, I'm sure they could have done that without us.
18:52
SPEAKER_02: But I'm sure like having that extra income from favor doesn't hurt.
18:57
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
18:58
SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
18:58
SPEAKER_00: And we're talking, uh, so no shade on food trucks, but food trucks are different are difficult, right?
19:03
SPEAKER_00: Because they're move around and maybe their hours change.
19:06
SPEAKER_00: Right.
19:07
SPEAKER_00: Have you had any food trucks?
19:08
SPEAKER_00: Or are there any on the app at all?
19:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
19:10
SPEAKER_02: So um, I have a food truck.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: I they just changed their name.
19:14
SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure what their new name is.
19:16
SPEAKER_02: I actually need to figure that out.
19:17
SPEAKER_02: It was called Seven C's.
19:19
SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: On the Weber and um at the Hamlin shopping stream.
19:23
SPEAKER_02: Yes, exactly.
19:24
SPEAKER_02: So they are partnered.
19:26
SPEAKER_02: I just need to like get everything updated since they changed their name because I think their food truck like caught on fire.
19:31
SPEAKER_02: Oh, seriously.
19:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
19:32
SPEAKER_02: So I was unfortunate.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: Um, so I think they had to like replace that food truck.
19:36
SPEAKER_02: So I think with the replacement, they ended up changing the name.
19:39
SPEAKER_02: Um, so they I know that they've done pretty well.
19:43
SPEAKER_02: Um, I also just partnered one in Kingsville who has like a permanent spot.
19:47
SPEAKER_02: It's called like Tremendous Tacos.
19:50
SPEAKER_02: Um trying to think who else.
19:53
SPEAKER_02: Um, I was partnered with Susharia, but he is moving.
19:56
SPEAKER_02: Um so you know, that's hard.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh Derek, we're gonna have him on.
20:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's awesome.
20:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he is one of my besties.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: Oh, he's always man, he's always been real cool with me.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I went to Delmar with him and then I think AM for a time, but he's he's always real real chill.
20:11
SPEAKER_00: He's he's a cool dude.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Bass player, awesome bass player.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, we're gonna have him on.
20:15
SPEAKER_00: So Sushiria hit a uh shout out, Sushiria.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: Um so what are some of the challenges uh and rewards of working with local businesses through Favor?
20:24
SPEAKER_02: Um challenges.
20:27
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I mean, I think what's challenging with working with any restaurant owner is just that they're so busy and understandably so, but sometimes trying to, you know, make meetings work um and try to fit time into their schedule or just getting in a hold of them in general, even if they want to work with me and they're excited to work with me, sometimes getting things you know rolling with them can be a challenge.
20:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I mean that's really like the main one is just you know, I have to stay persistent um and try to not feel like I'm being annoying.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was gonna say, like, are there I'm pretty sure there's some places like, man, if you had favor, you would actually, you know what I mean?
21:09
SPEAKER_00: But they they like you said, some some of like you said earlier, some of them don't feel like they're equipped.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: What when in your eyes you're like, no, you are like yeah, like you've got this, believe me.
21:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, exactly.
21:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's awesome.
21:20
SPEAKER_00: So you you do in uh so next topic we're talking about social media management.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh so how do you feel about let me see, what do I got here?
21:28
SPEAKER_00: You manage multiple restaurants, social media uh social media pages.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: How do you approach uh creating content that stands out?
21:36
SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh.
21:37
SPEAKER_02: Um I mean, really, I think I just try to like fit the vibe, and that can sometimes be harder because you're not shooting in your style.
21:47
SPEAKER_02: You're trying to find like the style of the restaurant itself.
21:51
SPEAKER_02: So like Nuasis Whiskey Library has a very different vibe from Bellino's.
21:56
SPEAKER_02: And while they're still similar, they kind of have that like elevated feel.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Like Nuasis is kind of more like moody.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: Whereas Bellino's is, I don't know.
22:07
SPEAKER_02: Like it just has that finer dining essence.
22:11
SPEAKER_02: So really I'm just trying to like really represent the brands like as they are, so that like you know what to expect.
22:19
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not presenting something that you're not going to experience.
22:22
SPEAKER_02: I'm not making it look better than it is, which I mean they're both excellent concepts.
22:26
SPEAKER_02: So don't get me wrong there.
22:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:28
SPEAKER_02: But I'm trying to portray what they really are so that like you can know what to expect when you're coming in to see us.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
22:36
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
22:36
SPEAKER_00: So how did you get into like doing that for I guess managing social media for other companies?
22:43
SPEAKER_02: Really?
22:43
SPEAKER_02: It just kind of fell into my lap, to be honest.
22:46
SPEAKER_02: I was just doing what I, you know, just managing my own account, um, and did some collaborations with Bolinos, and then they asked me, Hey, would you be interested in helping us run our social media?
23:00
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Yeah.
23:02
SPEAKER_02: So I've been doing that for a couple months.
23:05
SPEAKER_02: Um, and I've been doing my own social media for like years and years and years.
23:09
SPEAKER_02: So this is not something necessarily new to me.
23:12
SPEAKER_02: Um, I've been doing for photography for like half my life.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
23:16
SPEAKER_02: So that's not something new to me either.
23:18
SPEAKER_02: I just never really like put it out to the world that I did that stuff.
23:22
SPEAKER_02: So the more I kind of have put it out there, it's just people have asked me.
23:27
SPEAKER_02: I didn't seek it out.
23:28
SPEAKER_02: It just came to me.
23:29
SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's amazing.
23:30
SPEAKER_00: So just by you creating your your own content, they reached out to you.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
23:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, so uh, so small businesses, uh what are some common mistakes you see uh small businesses make on social media?
23:42
SPEAKER_00: Um how can they avoid them?
23:44
SPEAKER_02: Just like super some simple things.
23:47
SPEAKER_02: Not having a link to your website on your social media, not having your address on your social media.
23:53
SPEAKER_02: Um, I will be scrolling on Instagram and on Reels and see something that looks awesome.
23:58
SPEAKER_02: I go to their page to try to figure out where they are.
24:00
SPEAKER_02: Like, are they in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio?
24:02
SPEAKER_02: Where are they?
24:03
SPEAKER_02: Can't figure it out.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
24:05
SPEAKER_02: So you people should be able to figure out quickly where you are.
24:09
SPEAKER_02: And if they can't, then that's a mistake.
24:11
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
24:12
SPEAKER_02: Even just having a highlight on your Instagram page or something, just like where, you know, location, hours, that kind of thing, that can be super helpful.
24:21
SPEAKER_02: And a lot of people don't do that, which I think is funny because it's so simple, they just don't think of it.
24:27
SPEAKER_00: Wow, so interesting.
24:29
SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's amazing.
24:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know why they don't think of it.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: Like there's a lot of companies too that don't have social media, and if they did have social media, you know, I mean they would get more business for sure.
24:40
SPEAKER_02: I think we live in an age where people they at least I feel like a lot of people I know, they want to kind of go into these places feeling prepared.
24:50
SPEAKER_02: Like before you go to a restaurant, you want to see the menu.
24:52
SPEAKER_02: You want to see like, is there any even something I like there?
24:55
SPEAKER_02: And if you can't find their menu online, you're like, well, I don't know.
24:59
SPEAKER_02: Like, if you're going with friends, I guess I'll figure something out, right?
25:02
SPEAKER_02: They've got to at least have a salad or something.
25:04
SPEAKER_02: So, but I feel like a lot of our younger generation, like, they want to know what to expect before they go.
25:12
SPEAKER_02: And so most people are researching the menu, they want to have their drinks planned out, they want to have their appetizers planned out, they want to have their entree planned out, like getting your outfit planned.
25:21
SPEAKER_02: Like, should I have a smaller meal so I can eat dessert?
25:24
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know what I mean?
25:25
SPEAKER_02: Like, what's the vibe of the restaurant?
25:26
SPEAKER_02: I want to know what to wear.
25:28
SPEAKER_02: So, like, if you don't have those things available to people, like you may be missing out on a big segment of customers who would otherwise come to see you.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: How do you know that people look at look at those, look at it like that?
25:40
SPEAKER_00: That's who I am.
25:41
SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's I'd like to know.
25:43
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, especially if I'm like traveling to San Antonio, like, where have I not been to eat?
25:47
SPEAKER_00: Is that part of the reason why it's it's hard for y'all to decide where to eat?
25:51
SPEAKER_00: Probably.
25:51
SPEAKER_02: Also, everyone always puts it on me, like Haley, you're the one who knows everything.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: You pick where we're going.
25:57
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, I always pick.
25:58
SPEAKER_02: Someone else pick.
26:01
SPEAKER_00: You're like, Well, what time, what day?
26:03
SPEAKER_02: Let me see what I have saved on my Instagram folders because I have like folders for like every major city like in Texas.
26:10
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
26:10
SPEAKER_02: So I can know, like, oh, I'm traveling to Houston.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: I want to go try that, you know, Middle Eastern restaurant that I haven't been to yet.
26:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
26:17
SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
26:17
SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh so how do you balance managing your content and the businesses you manage content for?
26:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, it's really just a lot of like planning my schedule ahead, um, which is hard for me because um, like every day in favor looks different.
26:33
SPEAKER_02: You know, someone might be like, hey, I'm available right now, and this is the only time I'm available this week.
26:37
SPEAKER_02: Come right now, come meet me right now to sign on favor.
26:39
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, okay.
26:40
SPEAKER_02: So a lot of times I'm having to, you know, drop what I'm doing to go meet with restaurants because I have to take care of my number one job, which is favor.
26:47
SPEAKER_01: Right.
26:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, a lot of the stuff I do with restaurants is in my spare time.
26:52
SPEAKER_02: So I'm doing it on my lunch break, I'm doing it after my normal work hours, on the weekends, you know, whatever that may look like.
27:01
SPEAKER_02: So um really having to schedule things is super important for me to like stay on top of everything I'm trying to accomplish.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, that's that's cool.
27:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
27:11
SPEAKER_00: So when you're when you're posting for for your your business the businesses that you post for, do you have the is it like is it like I gotta do po two posts a day?
27:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is something like that.
27:23
SPEAKER_02: Or sometimes.
27:24
SPEAKER_02: So like for some specific ones, like it also depends on what the restaurant owner wants for me.
27:30
SPEAKER_02: So some restaurants are like, I just want you to do four to five posts a week, or I only want two posts a week.
27:36
SPEAKER_02: And then, you know, like they they're paying me based on what their expectations are of me.
27:40
SPEAKER_02: So if I'm expected to only post two times a week, I'll try to look at like, you know, the analytics and see like when are our followers most active and try to post during those times.
27:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, or if we have like specials going on and we want to make sure that our followers know, like, hey, we have a special tonight, then I'll try to post like before dinner time so that as people are you know scrolling after work and they're like, Oh, let's go eat here because that special sounds great, or you know, whatever it might be.
28:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, those analytics, man, that that's huge.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure, man.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: You see when it's a great tool.
28:14
SPEAKER_00: Yes, for sure.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
28:17
SPEAKER_00: So uh so you have uh small business consulting.
28:22
SPEAKER_02: I can, yeah.
28:22
SPEAKER_00: So what is that anyway?
28:24
SPEAKER_02: I uh um um really like it can be it can be a lot of things.
28:29
SPEAKER_02: So if a business like just doesn't know, like you know, that you want to get started with a business and you don't really know what all to do, I can sit down with you, walk you through what that looks like.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
28:39
SPEAKER_02: Um, so like, hey, this is how you file for your tax ID.
28:43
SPEAKER_02: Hey, this is how like some different like website platforms you can use.
28:47
SPEAKER_02: Um, and you can build your own website because it's super easy because they have templates.
28:52
SPEAKER_02: It really just depends on like what somebody wants to do as far as like what general direction I'm leading them.
28:58
SPEAKER_02: Really, it it all it is is like leading them to doing all the things that they need to do themselves.
29:03
SPEAKER_02: It's not doing things for them necessarily, or maybe it is showing them how to use QuickBooks.
29:08
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
29:09
SPEAKER_02: Like, hey, these are things that you can expense.
29:11
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you knew that.
29:12
SPEAKER_02: Like you can expense your mileage uh if you're traveling for business.
29:15
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
29:16
SPEAKER_02: Um, it's all kinds of things.
29:17
SPEAKER_00: That's something you learn with uh your mom uh running your mom.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely.
29:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I working with my mom, I like did everything all the accounting, all the marketing.
29:27
SPEAKER_02: Uh she did most of the SEO, but I helped with it.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: Um you design websites or yeah, yeah, I did my own.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: Like like co actual code or like working with the template?
29:38
SPEAKER_02: So I I used to be able to do HTML.
29:40
SPEAKER_02: We no one uses that really anymore.
29:42
SPEAKER_02: Um so I do not do the new stuff.
29:44
SPEAKER_02: Um, if you want that, I can lead you to someone who can.
29:48
SPEAKER_02: I know people who do, but I am not I am not your smarty pants.
29:53
SPEAKER_02: That's not me.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: So so uh so so what's the process you take uh with a new client for social media uh social media management or consulting?
30:03
SPEAKER_00: Um I mean I guess you kind of mentioned it, right?
30:06
SPEAKER_02: Like just whatever they really it's just like, hey, like what do you want to accomplish?
30:11
SPEAKER_02: And like what are your expectations of me?
30:13
SPEAKER_02: Um and you know, sometimes maybe they want to accomplish something that two posts a week is not gonna do.
30:20
SPEAKER_02: So it's like, hey, like I understand that you don't think you need to post that much, but you actually need to post more.
30:25
SPEAKER_02: Um, or you know, maybe they just wanna, you know, when people go to their social media, they just want to have all the vital information there.
30:33
SPEAKER_02: So maybe they really only need one post a week because they're not really trying to grow on social.
30:38
SPEAKER_02: They just want to have the vital information there for people, their menu, their hours.
30:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like essentially just informational.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: So maybe you really only need to post once a week if you don't really care about growth.
30:51
SPEAKER_02: It all just can't comes down to finding out what their goals are and coming up with how I can align with them to get that accomplished.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: You think restaurants need a need a website, or you think social media will do that for you?
31:03
SPEAKER_02: It just depends.
31:04
SPEAKER_02: I personally I think it's beneficial because when you Google a restaurant and you know, my first my first instinct is to look for their website because typically it's more likely that they manage that more than anything else.
31:21
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
31:22
SPEAKER_02: So if I want the most accurate menu, I usually look at their website.
31:25
SPEAKER_02: Because some people will like put their menu on Facebook, but it'll be like updated in 2017.
31:29
SPEAKER_02: So you're like, that's probably not accurate pricing.
31:32
SPEAKER_02: So like typically I want to go to their website and see their accurate menu.
31:37
SPEAKER_02: So I know what I'm getting myself into.
31:39
SPEAKER_02: Am I spending a hundred dollars or am I spending twenty dollars?
31:42
SPEAKER_02: Like, what am I looking at here?
31:44
SPEAKER_02: Um, so I think it's beneficial to have websites, they don't have to be super fancy.
31:50
SPEAKER_02: You just need all the basic information.
31:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like maybe three pages max, like an about us, a menu page, and then like your home page.
31:59
SPEAKER_02: You know, it doesn't have to be that crazy.
32:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's cool.
32:03
SPEAKER_00: What are so what's some advice you would give small businesses looking to expand their reach?
32:09
SPEAKER_02: Um, my advice would be to uh really try to like honestly grow your social media if you want to reach new people, because that's where most people find things now.
32:21
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
32:22
SPEAKER_02: Like they're they're looking for social media to tell them what they want, essentially.
32:26
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
32:27
SPEAKER_02: That's kind of how the algorithm works.
32:28
SPEAKER_02: It finds out what you like and it pushes that stuff out to you.
32:33
SPEAKER_02: So if you want to find people who like what you have, then push it out on social media because the algorithm's working in your favor, you know what I mean?
32:42
SPEAKER_02: It's pushing out who's most likely to like your stuff.
32:45
SPEAKER_02: So that is a huge benefit to be on social media, but also to not be afraid of change.
32:51
SPEAKER_02: So, like, you know, keep doing what's always worked for you, but also look out to like is are my products what people still want today?
33:01
SPEAKER_02: And you know, if not, then evaluate like, hey, what could we change?
33:06
SPEAKER_02: What could we add?
33:07
SPEAKER_02: What works, what doesn't work, and try to kind of like evolve with the times, you know what I mean?
33:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's big.
33:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was talking to the a radio host last time, and he was saying how the radio basically evolves with the times, and that's how one stays around for a long time.
33:24
SPEAKER_00: It's very interesting.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Do you find that at like sponsored ads or ads help the the businesses?
33:30
SPEAKER_02: Or I don't know.
33:32
SPEAKER_02: I feel like it's I feel like if you're gonna spend your time doing an ad, make it worth your time.
33:37
SPEAKER_02: Make it something that like really truly represents your product.
33:41
SPEAKER_02: Because I see a lot of people sponsor ads that I'm like, if I didn't already know you and know what your product was, I would have no idea what I'm looking at.
33:49
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
33:49
SPEAKER_02: So like don't like even though Facebook ads, Instagram ads are pretty cheap, you know what I mean?
33:54
SPEAKER_02: Like you can probably spend 10 bucks and like reach 700 people or something, but like it is that grabbing customers because if I don't know what that is, I'm not gonna click it.
34:06
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
34:07
SPEAKER_02: So make sure you so make sure it represents your product well if you're gonna do it.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: Well, do you have you use do you use them or like for any of your businesses?
34:16
SPEAKER_02: I uh haven't started using them with any of the restaurants I work with.
34:20
SPEAKER_02: Um, I'm going to, um, but I have used them pretty heavily with my mom's business.
34:27
SPEAKER_00: Oh, right on.
34:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
34:28
SPEAKER_02: And it it usually like does well.
34:31
SPEAKER_02: The conversion rate's usually pretty good.
34:33
SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
34:33
SPEAKER_02: Um, so it kind of just depends on just just be smart with your ads.
34:38
SPEAKER_02: That's all I'm saying.
34:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's cool.
34:40
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
34:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh so small business goes.
34:43
SPEAKER_00: So you passion for travel, do you still travel or I try to.
34:47
SPEAKER_02: It's you know, I have a four-year-old, so it's really hard.
34:50
SPEAKER_02: You know, I have like, you know, full-time job and all this other stuff I do on the side.
34:54
SPEAKER_02: Um, so mostly my trips are like short, like San Antonio, Houston, Austin.
35:01
SPEAKER_02: Um, I have family in East Texas, so maybe we'll go visit them.
35:05
SPEAKER_02: Um, I went to New York in early December last year, and that was super fun.
35:10
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I think we're gonna go again in like maybe November.
35:13
SPEAKER_02: Um, so really it's only like maybe a couple trips a year that are like outside of Texas.
35:19
SPEAKER_02: Um, but for the most part it's like close to Corbett.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, not too far you.
35:24
SPEAKER_02: I gotta like make the most of my time.
35:26
SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, and so that usually means staying close.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, having a good one.
35:32
SPEAKER_02: I'm going to Porte this weekend.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
35:35
SPEAKER_02: For real though.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for real.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: So do you have a favorite city that you like to explore?
35:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, honestly, I really love going to San Antonio.
35:44
SPEAKER_02: Like it's I feel like it's so spread out.
35:48
SPEAKER_02: There's like a lot of, you know, like you can go to like one area and spend like the whole day.
35:54
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
35:54
SPEAKER_02: There's you can go shopping and find places to eat, and um, you know, like find a unique coffee shop or a unique bakery or you know, like whatever.
36:03
SPEAKER_02: Um, and also I really love going to New York.
36:06
SPEAKER_02: That's like it's but it's you can only do so much in just like a short amount of time.
36:11
SPEAKER_02: So um yeah, for sure.
36:14
SPEAKER_02: And honestly, flights are not bad to go there.
36:16
SPEAKER_02: It's like from San Antonio, it's like 200 and something bucks around trip.
36:20
SPEAKER_00: Cool.
36:20
SPEAKER_02: It's not bad.
36:21
SPEAKER_02: So the expensive part is getting when you're there.
36:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, hotel, food, everything's super expensive.
36:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, getting there is not bad.
36:28
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it's definitely.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
36:31
SPEAKER_00: We've been there, we've been there once, man.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: It is it is nice.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it is very nice.
36:35
SPEAKER_00: Those all the buildings and the the over man, it's it's awesome.
36:38
SPEAKER_00: We took the subway everywhere.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we rarely took cabs, but we took the subway.
36:42
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: Every every place is uh we tried New York pizza.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: I can't remember the place, but we just wanted to try some type of pizza from New York.
36:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh 99 Sun pizza.
36:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, not I don't remember why it might have been and then hey, honestly, it wasn't bad.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: They they have those little push carts, the little guys they have those pushcarts where they sell food.
37:01
SPEAKER_00: This guy was selling like peanuts, like uh oh man, you could smell it around the corner.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dude, we gotta get some of those.
37:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
37:08
SPEAKER_00: Broadway, we went to a Broadway show.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: Uh, what did we see?
37:11
SPEAKER_00: Uh, School of Rock, we saw nice live school of rock.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: It was awesome.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was cool.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh, so what are some future plan uh goals or projects that you have for um you know?
37:21
SPEAKER_02: I feel like I'm constantly so busy that it's rare that I sit back and look at like the bigger picture.
37:29
SPEAKER_02: Um, I feel like I used to be a much bigger person, like bigger picture person, but now I'm just like running, running, running, running, running all over the place.
37:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's hard for me to think of like what is next, but I just want to keep growing with favor.
37:43
SPEAKER_02: I love my job.
37:44
SPEAKER_02: I don't plan to leave anytime soon.
37:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, I really, really love it.
37:50
SPEAKER_02: So just hopefully like keep growing the corpus market here with favor and you know, my other markets like Victoria.
37:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, and then honestly just keep, I mean, like personally, like my my goal with my social media is not necessarily to keep growing numbers-wise.
38:08
SPEAKER_02: I mean, sure, it's great.
38:09
SPEAKER_02: Like my goal is to always support local business and to bring awareness to them.
38:14
SPEAKER_02: So, like, my growth will hopefully only benefit them.
38:18
SPEAKER_02: Um, but you know, I just I just want to keep, you know, supporting local business, helping them grow because it's hard to start a business here in Corpus.
38:28
SPEAKER_02: Uh, it's hard to start a business anywhere.
38:30
SPEAKER_02: So any support I can provide them, the better.
38:32
SPEAKER_02: If they do well, I do well.
38:35
SPEAKER_02: That's how I feel.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: Wow, that's that's a cool way to look at it.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
38:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
38:40
SPEAKER_00: So do you so do you see the role of social media evolving for small businesses in the next few years?
38:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, I mean, I don't know.
38:50
SPEAKER_02: It's hard to know because I feel like times keep changing more and more and more, and I feel like it's almost hard to know what's next.
38:58
SPEAKER_02: Um, I don't think social media is going away anytime soon.
39:02
SPEAKER_02: So I do think it's still important to invest in your social media and to try to grow it.
39:08
SPEAKER_02: Um, but the other thing too is I think people think it's harder than it really is.
39:14
SPEAKER_02: Do you know what I mean?
39:14
SPEAKER_02: I think that people like think like, oh, I have to be like super good at photography to manage my own social media.
39:22
SPEAKER_02: I have to be super good at technology.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't want to put a video of myself or something like that.
39:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, or like I don't want to be on camera or whatever.
39:29
SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, well, you don't even have to be.
39:30
SPEAKER_02: I'm not on camera that often on my page.
39:33
SPEAKER_02: Like every now and then, yeah.
39:34
SPEAKER_02: My voice isn't even on my page.
39:36
SPEAKER_02: I don't notice that.
39:36
SPEAKER_02: You got every now and then I'll do a voiceover, but also I hate my voice.
39:41
SPEAKER_02: So that's part of the reason.
39:44
SPEAKER_02: Um so yeah, back to like kind of like the importance of social media and business and like how things evolve.
39:52
SPEAKER_02: I I really don't know what's gonna happen, but I think like you just kind of have to keep pushing for growth.
39:58
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, your in-person sales in in a restaurant or in your business, and like trying to gain every customer that you can.
40:07
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
40:08
SPEAKER_02: Like open yourself up to every avenue, including if you're a restaurant, including delivery, including having online ordering uh for like so people can just place your order ahead and come pick it up.
40:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
40:20
SPEAKER_02: Because people people like want things fast, they want everything fast, fast, fast, fast, fast.
40:25
SPEAKER_02: So if for them, if they think it's me faster to place an order online and then drive to you and come pick it up, they're gonna do it.
40:31
SPEAKER_02: So if you're limiting yourself um by not having things like that, then you know, you're you're losing potential customers.
40:40
SPEAKER_00: You're not staying up with the market, you're not staying up, yeah.
40:42
SPEAKER_00: That makes sense.
40:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
40:43
SPEAKER_02: So just don't be afraid to evolve, I guess, is my thing.
40:46
SPEAKER_02: And things change so fast every single day.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:50
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's hard to know where where things are gonna go.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it seems like it seems like when you when when you're trying to take that step, there's always that fear of failing, right?
40:58
SPEAKER_00: Do you personally like how do you find yourself enduring something that you may think that you're gonna fail at?
41:05
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's hard.
41:06
SPEAKER_02: I think um I don't know.
41:10
SPEAKER_02: Like, I I definitely like have gotten in my head before, like maybe I've been scared to approach like a what I uh perceive as like a big restaurant concept.
41:21
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
41:22
SPEAKER_02: Um because because you know that they're more likely to say no to you.
41:26
SPEAKER_02: So it's that like almost like fear of rejection and trying to overcome that.
41:29
SPEAKER_02: And what I've always tried to remind myself and what I remind my teammates is that if you don't ask, the answer is no anyway.
41:38
SPEAKER_02: So that's that's kind of how I try to just push forward.
41:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
41:44
SPEAKER_02: And just try to be like, you know what, whatever.
41:46
SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm not gonna remember this in two weeks.
41:49
SPEAKER_02: So, like, just do it.
41:50
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
41:51
SPEAKER_02: Like it it can only hurt myself if I don't.
41:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
41:54
SPEAKER_02: Try, you know.
41:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like it's like you end your work week and you go home and you're like, you hate your like for me.
42:00
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh man, those people, what they did, they kept you get home, you see your kids, and your wife, you're like, This is where this is fun.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: This is where this it changes your mindset changes.
42:10
SPEAKER_00: You're like, I'm glad I'm here, you know.
42:12
SPEAKER_00: This is what I'm doing it for.
42:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you do it for your family.
42:14
SPEAKER_02: Like remembering your like why you're doing what you're doing is super important too.
42:18
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
42:19
SPEAKER_02: Like you have have like family members depending on you, and you know, just like your own personal like success, like you know, like you're you're kind of competing against yourself at the end of the day.
42:32
SPEAKER_00: Yes, exactly.
42:32
SPEAKER_02: You know, can competing against your own ego, like not being not wanting to be told no, so you just don't ask.
42:37
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
42:38
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, overcoming yourself, like you're it's hard.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: Having your own obstacles.
42:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for coming on the show.
42:44
SPEAKER_00: Is there anything else you'd like to share?
42:46
SPEAKER_00: Sorry for sorry for the live viewers.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: Sorry as you guys uh uh we'll we'll we'll post this here.
42:51
SPEAKER_02: So hey, technology, it happens.
42:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it happens.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, is there anything you'd like to share?
42:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, I really can't think of anything specific, but um, thank you so much for having me on.
43:03
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I guess my takeaway for people is like, don't be afraid to put yourself out there.
43:08
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to be perfect to start your own social media.
43:11
SPEAKER_02: Um, if you are passionate about something, if you have any kind of creativity in you, just put it out there.
43:17
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't have to be perfect.
43:18
SPEAKER_02: I think people get in their head that think like, well, I don't have that many followers, or I I don't know, I'm not that good, or whatever.
43:25
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter.
43:26
SPEAKER_02: If you want to scroll all the way down to the bottom of my Instagram and look how bad it was when I started, that can be your motivation right there.
43:34
SPEAKER_02: So you know, go back to the to number one, yeah, or like look me up on some of my old accounts, they're not that good.
43:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like some people don't leave them up, like they like archive them, yeah.
43:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, I feel that.
43:49
SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
43:50
SPEAKER_00: Man, good advice.
43:51
SPEAKER_00: Thank thanks for thanks for doing that.
43:52
SPEAKER_00: So we follow you.
43:53
SPEAKER_00: So we find you local Texas Foodie, no spaces, yeah.
43:56
SPEAKER_02: Local TX Foodie on Instagram, TikTok, and my Facebook would be local space tx space foodie.
44:04
SPEAKER_02: And then my website is www.localtexasfoodie.com.
44:08
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
44:08
SPEAKER_00: All right.
44:08
SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for coming on the show.
44:10
SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: Thanks a lot, everybody.
44:12
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44:13
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44:15
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44:21
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44:22
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44:23
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