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The Power of GoodKarmal: Patty West's Path to Making a Difference · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
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  Speaker 1: Monica Samuels, and I am here with my beautiful co host,
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, no, you know what I'm actually yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: like Julie because you're Julie's daughter, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: I okay, yeah, well, thank you, well, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: coming today and helping this out here. So, so where
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  Speaker 1: is your lovely mother? Because she was here yesterday? So
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  Speaker 1: what she just she's what's she doing?
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  Speaker 2: My mom went back to Texas?
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  Speaker 4: She did?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, because your sister's graduating from high school, yes
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  Speaker 1: she is. Well, that is exciting. So she's very busy,
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  Speaker 1: and you're very busy. Right, you're you're here living in La.
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  Speaker 2: I'm adulting, you're adulting.
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  Speaker 1: How's that going going?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I really I really love living.
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  Speaker 1: Looks good in January?
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  Speaker 5: You do?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Well, good, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I love the sun.
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  Speaker 1: I love the sun too. I wish it was out
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  Speaker 1: here we've been since we've been in La. I brought
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  Speaker 1: the clouds in the rain, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: But and it's looking a little more like Seattle, yeah
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  Speaker 2: reason days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but but it's still fun. Well, I'm so glad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thrilled that you could join us and sub in
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  Speaker 1: today evening. Well, thank you. Yeah, this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: fun because we are gonna have a fun, fun show today.
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  Speaker 1: You know why, because it's super fun. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: love this. I love what we're talking about today because
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  Speaker 1: I love Carmel. So let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 1: What if something as simple as a piece of caramel
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  Speaker 1: could shift your whole mood or even your whole day?
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that?
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  Speaker 3: I personally, I would like to Well, Okay, I think
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  Speaker 3: we know someone.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for it. Yes, because today's guest believes that
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  Speaker 1: it can. She's a former Hollywood executive and she turned
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneur founder of Good Carmel. She's the mom of two daughters,
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  Speaker 1: and her company is based in Bozeman, Montana. Please welcome
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  Speaker 1: Patty West. Welcome to the Mom's Called Patty.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: I love this.
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  Speaker 1: This is so I mean, it's just as we say
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  Speaker 1: here in the Mom's Club. This is amazing the whole story.
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  Speaker 1: So can you take us through from your concept to
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen? How did this? How did Good Carmel start?
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  Speaker 1: Tell us the story?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, it's a little long. I'll try to shorten it
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  Speaker 6: as much as I can. I was dating this really
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  Speaker 6: outdoorsy guy, and he got me into hiking, and he
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  Speaker 6: brought a ziploc bag of carmel that had bought his
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  Speaker 6: boss had made, and I thought, wait, you could I
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  Speaker 6: just made karmel on this stove. I mean, I wasn't
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  Speaker 6: a cook or a chef or anything like that, but
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  Speaker 6: I thought that sounds kind of cool. I think I
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  Speaker 6: want to do it. So I played around and I
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  Speaker 6: got my mom's old cookbooks like Betty Croper and Good Housekeeping,
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  Speaker 6: and I tried a bunch of different recipes and I
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  Speaker 6: came up with some caramel that I loved, and I
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  Speaker 6: thought this would make a really cool, like Christmas gift
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  Speaker 6: for all the people I worked with, friends and family.
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  Speaker 6: And then I got to thinking, like what if I
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  Speaker 6: tried to make it more meaningful, Like how could I
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  Speaker 6: add some meaning into it? And I decided to go
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  Speaker 6: to my collection of inspirational quotes. I always was collecting
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  Speaker 6: quotes and writing them down on everything, and I had
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  Speaker 6: a friend helped me figure out.
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  Speaker 4: How to create a logo and it was a little Buddha.
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  Speaker 6: And I wrapped each caramel with quotes and got some
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  Speaker 6: packaging and gave it to friends, and literally the next
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  Speaker 6: day everyone's like you need to quit your job at
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  Speaker 6: Corner Brothers and start this business.
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  Speaker 4: This is a product.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. You know I always think things happen like it's
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  Speaker 1: this was meant to because you picked You picked caramel,
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  Speaker 1: Like if you had chosen chocolate, it wouldn't have worked together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like because it's karma with an L at
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  Speaker 1: the end, and then you're bringing in good karma and
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  Speaker 1: with as part of your product, you're right providing.
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  Speaker 6: And my brother's really punny, he's a bit of a
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  Speaker 6: wordster jokester, and he I was talking about bringing some
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  Speaker 6: caramel to go visit my nana and he's like, that'd
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  Speaker 6: be good carmel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Like that's it. Like all these little pieces just were sort.
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  Speaker 6: Of floating around in my head and it just all
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  Speaker 6: really came together. It was a total like Oprah aha moment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and speaking of Oprah, so you were discovered by
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  Speaker 1: and then you know what, some of our other guests
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  Speaker 1: we've had on the show, including one I'll mention a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later, they started by Oprah discovering their product.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what happened with Good Caramels. I understand. So
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  Speaker 1: you were part of Oprah's Favorite Things. How did that happen?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So, while I was still working in Hollywood my
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  Speaker 6: regular job, I was, you know, starting to create the
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  Speaker 6: business at night, and a friend of mine had given
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  Speaker 6: a sample to another person who worked on a blog
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  Speaker 6: called Daily Candy, and we got in that blog and
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  Speaker 6: like as soon as they said, you're going to be
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  Speaker 6: in this blog.
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  Speaker 4: So I built a website really.
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  Speaker 6: Fast, and someone from Harpo Films, Oprah's film production company,
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  Speaker 6: saw that blog and bought some and sent it to
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  Speaker 6: Chicago for them to try it out.
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  Speaker 4: So it really just happened really organically.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you know, I've so this is the second story
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  Speaker 1: where something like that has happened. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to suggest that all the moms out there
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  Speaker 1: that start making things and sending it over to Harpo
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  Speaker 1: or to Oprah, you're going to be in the Favorite Things.
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  Speaker 1: But that is a very cool story.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. So we're way too small to handle that level
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  Speaker 6: of exposure.
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  Speaker 4: Six months in, I can imagine, we had to shut down.
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  Speaker 6: The show aired like November twenty fifth, you know, it
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  Speaker 6: was her holiday things, and the next we had to
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  Speaker 6: shut down our website for the rest of the year
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  Speaker 6: and just frantically try to fulfill all those orders.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's a good problem to have, I guess
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  Speaker 1: as it could be. Yeah, no, that is great. So
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  Speaker 1: you what, so tell us a little about your career
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  Speaker 1: in Hollywood. So what did you like? I want to
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  Speaker 1: call it give up because you didn't. You're into something
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  Speaker 1: really amazing. But what were you doing before you were
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  Speaker 1: doing this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I was a publicist for television shows, so not specifically
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  Speaker 6: the actors, but the entire show. So I worked with
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  Speaker 6: like twentieth Century Fox, worked on the studio side. They
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  Speaker 6: would hire us, and then ultimately I ended up working
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  Speaker 6: at Corner Brothers TV Network the WB.
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  Speaker 4: So we would handle publicity for all the.
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  Speaker 6: Shows sorry as they would launch, we would get talk
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  Speaker 6: shows for the actors. We would you know, book the
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  Speaker 6: actors on talk shows or you know, pitch a magazine
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  Speaker 6: feature and we would handle.
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  Speaker 4: All of that. So it was a lot of travel,
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  Speaker 4: very glamorous.
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  Speaker 6: I worked with some wonderful, wonderful people like Sarah Michelle
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  Speaker 6: Geller on Buffy, and Carrie Russell on Felicity, Christine Baranski
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  Speaker 6: on Sybil, just really iconic women.
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  Speaker 4: It was a great, great job.
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  Speaker 1: HM. So what did it feel like? What prompted you
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  Speaker 1: then to make this change? Because when you have a
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  Speaker 1: successful career like that, I mean, I imagine if I
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  Speaker 1: shared that career story with a lot of people, they'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, well, she stayed in and of course that's
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  Speaker 1: glamorous and wonderful. What was in you that you decided,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I think I'm going to make this
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  Speaker 1: kind of risky at time. I mean, because being an
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneur is a risky endeavor. What made you make that decision?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 6: When I went to college, I did an undergraduate business
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  Speaker 6: program at the University of Virginia, and so I knew
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  Speaker 6: a little bit about all of it. I'd marketing it, accounting, finance.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I felt like I had more to give
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  Speaker 6: than what I was doing in my job.
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  Speaker 4: I had more that I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 6: It just seemed like I had more creativity and more
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  Speaker 6: ideas than what was being captured in that job.
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  Speaker 1: And so now you did did you immediately? You're in
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  Speaker 1: both You're in Montana now, so yeah, when was when
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  Speaker 1: did that happen? Because the company's based there? Correct?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, after Oprah, I mean, we you know,
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  Speaker 6: slept for like a week after that rush, and then
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  Speaker 6: I hired someone to I'm like, find me someone who
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  Speaker 6: can manufacture this for us.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go anywhere. I didn't have kids. I just had
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  Speaker 4: a boyfriend. We weren't even married yet.
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  Speaker 6: And she brought us this article of a woman in Bozeman,
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  Speaker 6: Montana who had started a caramel company. She bought all
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  Speaker 6: this equipment. Didn't have a ton of sales. I had
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  Speaker 6: a ton of sales, no equipment. So she took us on.
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  Speaker 6: So they manufacture you know, our caramel for us, along
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  Speaker 6: with theirs as well, and so we moved to Bozeman, Montana.
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  Speaker 6: For that partnership. Were two separate companies. But it it's
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  Speaker 6: been amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Well, Montana's beautiful. But when I when
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  Speaker 1: I think of Bozeman, I always think of that Big
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  Speaker 1: Bang Theory episode where Sheldon's trying to get away from
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  Speaker 1: Pasadena to go somewhere safe and he ends up in Bozeman.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, I'm never been there, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know that Montana's gorgeous. Well that had to be that.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be quite a change from Los Angeles to go
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  Speaker 1: to Bozeman, Montana. What was that like?
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  Speaker 6: It was it was a really big change. Bozeman's nice
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  Speaker 6: in that it's a university town, so there are people
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  Speaker 6: from everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there is a lot.
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  Speaker 6: There are a lot of urban transplants who have ended
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  Speaker 6: up here. But I mean it, there's snow. I'm looking
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  Speaker 6: at my window at snow. It snowed yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow. Well it's a little chili here. You're not
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  Speaker 1: missing as far as you're not. The warm weather is
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  Speaker 1: not not here today.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little colder in Montana.
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  Speaker 4: But what's been neat?
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  Speaker 6: You know, when I moved here, I wasn't thinking about family,
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  Speaker 6: and it's been an amazing place to raise kids. My
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  Speaker 6: girls are super outdoorsy and really grounded, and it's been
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  Speaker 6: a great experience.
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  Speaker 1: So do your daughters. I know, in some of the
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  Speaker 1: mom preneur sort of things that we talk about on
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  Speaker 1: this show, they include their kids. I mean sometimes right
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  Speaker 1: down to you know, packaging the item and shipping it,
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  Speaker 1: and like, have you integrated your kids or are they
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  Speaker 1: involved in all in it? Or how does that work.
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  Speaker 6: They're both super busy with their own things, but certainly
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  Speaker 6: around Christmas time I rope them in and that's exactly
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  Speaker 6: what they're doing. They are packaging, they are shipping.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I feel like this.
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  Speaker 1: To me, this would be a very fun. Well, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, I think it's great. When I started to
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  Speaker 1: do this get ready for this interview, I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's that old tomato versus tomato thing, like people say
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  Speaker 1: caramel or caramel, but in your case, you would have
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  Speaker 1: to say caramel every time because and there's no.
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  Speaker 4: Correct Now I'm not consistent, it's true, I do say carara.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, I think both Well, it works for
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  Speaker 1: this for sure, But to me, you have like it.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like a fun. If I had a product
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  Speaker 1: like this, didn't it be able to come up with
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  Speaker 1: inspirational quotes or like fun? How do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: And that that has to be fun? How do you
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  Speaker 1: choose what it's going to go in the product as
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  Speaker 1: far as the quotes, because that's a big part of
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  Speaker 1: what you're it's what you're selling it is.
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  Speaker 6: And there are also there are a lot of fake
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  Speaker 6: quotes out there. You know, we'll find a quote that's
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  Speaker 6: amazing and you look it up and it's like this,
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  Speaker 6: this person never said this quote. But my criteria is
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  Speaker 6: it has to be positive and about either being good
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  Speaker 6: to yourself, being good to others, being good to the earth.
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  Speaker 6: So that's that's really my that's how I try to
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  Speaker 6: live my life.
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  Speaker 1: And you're very and you're also really into sustainability. I
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  Speaker 1: mean your company is trying to be positive all the
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  Speaker 1: way around in terms of how you conduct the company.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's called good Kramel. Yeah, like if
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  Speaker 4: we are what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true. If you were polluting everywhere, that would
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  Speaker 1: probably be bad caramelsthing. Yeah, yeah, no, I think that's great. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we actually have some samples here that you were kind
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  Speaker 1: enough to provide, and I mean there's they've got, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep this one because everyone knows I'm
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  Speaker 1: the best dog mom ever, so I cannot wait to
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  Speaker 1: uh to read what it's in here. Oh when it's
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  Speaker 1: also gluten free and so that's great. So even my
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  Speaker 1: son who's got a gluten intolerant best cat mom, it's
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  Speaker 1: you are okay good, that's yeah. I Cats kind of
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  Speaker 1: take care of themselves though, don't they. I mean or
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, like I always feel like a cat
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  Speaker 1: a mom. Everybody needs a mom, that's true.
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  Speaker 6: They make their emotions heard. Oh okay, they feel things
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  Speaker 6: pretty deeply.
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  Speaker 1: They do.
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  Speaker 2: They're very opinionad.
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  Speaker 1: Your mom is a badass mama, so that's pretty perfect
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  Speaker 1: for her.
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  Speaker 2: But Monica, I think you need this one.
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  Speaker 1: This one is you are brilliant and kind and super hot.
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  Speaker 2: So No, that does not say super salt super hot.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, stupid hot, so hot. I can't read. That's my problem.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, stupid hot. Well that works too.
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  Speaker 2: It's illiterate and stupid hot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that just makes me stupid, right, I can't read.
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  Speaker 2: I'm stupid hot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stupid hot and stupid. No, that would not be
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  Speaker 1: good caramel to tell me I'm stupid.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, well, I want good car stupid hot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that I'm whatever. You're super hot, super cool.
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  Speaker 1: I love this, and I'm sure it's delicious too. So
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  Speaker 1: does it come in I see sea salt caramel? Does
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  Speaker 1: it come in different flavors of caramel?
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  Speaker 4: Or yeah?
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  Speaker 6: We do vanilla sea salt and chocolate sea salt in
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  Speaker 6: all of the boxes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh it's your favorite sea salt.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh wow.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever, whenever I'm.
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  Speaker 6: Like walking through the office and I think I better
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  Speaker 6: do a quick quality check, I'm always grabbing this.
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  Speaker 1: I think that sounds like a perfect plan.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think I'd have a serious problem working in
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  Speaker 3: it's like a sweet business like that, because I would
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  Speaker 3: want to be quality testing a little bit too much.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 3: I'm working in retail right now and I can barely
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  Speaker 3: get through the day without buying something, so I this
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  Speaker 3: would be a big challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this would be super tempting for me. And that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure because I love caramel.
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  Speaker 6: So we're doing when we hire like that's one of
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  Speaker 6: the biggest perks is literally all the caramel you can eat,
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  Speaker 6: like take it home.
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  Speaker 4: We have a ton of scraps or like.
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  Speaker 6: Misshapen ones, and people are just like leaving home with
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  Speaker 6: like huge bags.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's nice.
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  Speaker 3: I have a friend who works at a gym and
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  Speaker 3: complains about not being able to have a gym membership
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  Speaker 3: at the gym they work at. I'm gonna tell them
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  Speaker 3: to quit and work for good Karmo, because then they
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  Speaker 3: won't have to worry about the gym.
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  Speaker 2: They can just eat caramel.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. No, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then she did, and they'll send them Bozeman.
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  Speaker 1: Moved them up to Bozeman. Yeah, I think they'd they
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  Speaker 1: would love it. It's gorgeous up there for one night
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  Speaker 1: for what I understand. So what is your favorite quote, like,
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  Speaker 1: what inspires you? If you got if what quote would
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  Speaker 1: you want in your box of caramels?
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  Speaker 2: Have a few.
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  Speaker 6: The one that I love is help your brothers boat
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  Speaker 6: across and your own will reach the shore. That's not
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: like a Hindu proverb, but you know, when you help
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: someone out, you're not inconveniencing yourself. You're actually getting yourself
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: something too, you know, mm hmm.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Plato.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: There's a Plato quote that I like. It's be kind Forever.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: I think it's everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: So I'm terrify.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: But you know, every single person you encounter has such
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: a backstory that you don't.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Know, right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think it's another one that I really
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: like is if you're facing in the right direction, all
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: we have to do is keep walking.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: If your intention is pointed right, each day you're moving
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: it forward.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love. I love the positivity of it. Now
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: for our moms out there who are trying to start
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: their own businesses, business is business sometimes, do you ever
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: find there's a tension between the business side of it
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and your desire to keep it positive and sweet and great.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you feel any of that? How do
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you deal with that? How do you handle that part
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: of it?
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: I say no to a lot of things, like there's
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: so much that would have grown our business that I
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: just declined throughout the years. You know, I shut down
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: for three months each time I had a baby, just
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: shut it down, wow, and came back and hoped that
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: customers came back.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: We chose to don't. We don't sell to stores.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: You can only buy it on our website, which you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: we could be much much bigger, but less profitable and less.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Time with my babies.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah and so so yeah, I mean I held I've
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: hold I've held it back a ton.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Well that's great.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: That's really admirable.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I think people will get lost.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: And pick them up from school and go to the plays.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: I got to do all this stuff while also having
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: this great business.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: That is great.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: They appreciate that more than you know. Also having a
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: parent that's there to go to those events.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Well, that is true. That's why I retired from law
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: there for a while, so I could spend time with
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: my kids, so that I could become the team mom
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: of my son's baseball team and then become a little
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: much for that. But I but I was there for him.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Hope you knew that. No, that's really cool. Do you
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: do that with all your employees too? Like do they
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: have a pretty generous liberal policy as far as like
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: if they have a baby or how does that work?
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not a huge company, so I can't
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: provide all those huge benefits that large companies.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, we say that.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: You know, we want there, you know, your job to
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: fit your lifestyle. So we work as much as we can.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: If you want to work from six am to noon, great,
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: if you want to work from noon to six great.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: You know, we want to try and make it work.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: And yes, we have a lot of people who have
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: to leave for kids stuff, And I'm thumbs up on
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: that big time.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you know it's interesting you said, you know, you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: could be a lot bigger and if you were at
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the mindset you know, I'm going to grow and be
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: this amazing. You know, I'm gonna be bought by private
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: equity or once you could do that, But you're super
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: successful with keeping it within your own values. I mean,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: like you just you've been on the Today Show You've
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: been featured in Forbes, You're everywhere, and yet you've stayed
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: true to your mission and your values and you're being
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: rewarded for that. If you know, that kind of attention
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: is like the reward. But I think that's a lesson
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: for all those moms out there who want to start
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: their own company. You don't have to, you know, stick
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: to your values. What you're trying to do, and you'll
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: be You'll be rewarded in so many ways, is not
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: just financially. So that's what's so cool about what you're doing. Well,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: what's the next step for good Karmel? What do you
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: want any thing in the future here that you've got
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: planned that we'd love to know about?
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Great question, you know, No, we're just going to We
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: just keep growing every year, and you know all those
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: boxes you showed, that's what we're really enjoying is all
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: those different designs, seeing why people are ordering and what
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: they're sending, what their gift messages are, and then creating
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: new boxes based on you know, what people are looking for.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: It's been really fun.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because didn't you start out where people were like,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: do people like if I've said I want to send
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: something to all of my my Zoomer moms out there
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: who've been so wonderful to us and been a big
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: part of the show. Do I give you suggestions for Hey,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I want you to send this message? Or yeah, is
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that how that you can custom order?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Like half of our business is custom orders. So we
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: were with brands like Nike and Microsoft and Evada and
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: you know, huge great brands and they'll create their own
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: box label or we'll create it with them and then
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: they can pick you know where we have quotes wrapped
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: around the caramels. They can put corporate messaging like Amex
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: puts their their brand message. But like right now, we're
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: printing something today for a funeral, for a you know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: a service.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: We've got the photo of the.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Person and people will put quotes from their loved one
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: who has passed, like funny quotes. Like people make it
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: so creative. It's so fun to see what people do.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, I feel like there's so much opportunity in
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: making custom orders, and I think it's really cool that
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: you guys are able to do that. It's a way
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: to expand the good karma exactly.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I love that, and you know me, I'm such
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a shopper. You're You're probably gonna hear a lot from me, actually,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: because now I'm going to custom order everything all my
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: all my friends are gonna like the Mom's Club, our
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: own little group of friends. Absolutely don't don't tell your mom,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I can do a custom order to the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: friends we call our we call ourselves the Disney Moms.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Is kind of a long story, but yeah, something like that,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that'd be fun.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Or weddings a wedding.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: We do a ton of weddings. Great, we have We
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: have a mom who.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Just ordered some boxes for her daughter celebration just graduated
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: from med school. And on the wrappers, instead of where
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: we put you know, good karma, she put its doctor.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Actually, I love it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That is cute. Well, and I know I noticed how
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you asked that question. Georgia, you do weddings great. Do
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you have anything didn't tell your mother? No? No, no, A
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: very serious boyfriend by the wedding.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought we come into my cousin's weddings this year.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I thought we could make an announcement here on the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: mom's while your mom wasn't wasn't here.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: She'd kill me if I made without her. But that's
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: the number one problem.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: But I tell you what if you if that happens,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: then I think.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Then I'm getting to myself some good custom Karmel.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You should.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I also, I think that it's I love that you've
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: made this because something about I mean witty jokes that
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: women make to each other and like that. It's doctor
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: actually like that kind of stuff. That you're combining it
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: with a suite. It makes for a really unique experience,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: and I just think that's so cool that you can
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: share that. I think it's a feminist humor some of it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the most interesting request you've ever got? When
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you're like, wow, where did that one come from? But
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that's kind of interesting.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: I think the I think the best one was honestly
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: for a celebration of life, where they put the funniest things,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: like the funny things this man has said in his life,
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: and they were racy, like they were Oh, it was
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: really funny. I pictured all the family members opening these
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: and cracking up.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, that is because that that is a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: very positive thing and a various kind of stressful situation.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a note of that too, because my husband,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: he already wrote his entire We went to the computer
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: one day and my kids went to the printer and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: they looked on it and my husband had written his
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: own funeral out because I guess he doesn't trust us
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: to do a really good job with it. So we're
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: just gonna surprise. Yeah, we're gonna surprise him with him
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and it was Carmel. Yeah, we're gonna add and tell
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: him we're gonna do that. I think that would be
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: very cool. Well, this is so interesting and I can
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: already promise you you've got you just whatever happens with
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the rest of the show, I promise you've got a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: really good customer. That would be me. You're gonna be
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: very happy that you were on this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Show because I order lots of stuff.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: But we have some other women who also are interested,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and those are our zoomer moms. Welcome zoomer moms, Welcome
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to them. Hell, well, this is so much fun. And
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I have to say to all you zoomer moms, the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: ones that are here, We're so thrilled that you're here.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And I just want to share with our moms out there.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: If you have friends or you want to be a
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: zoomer mom, you just have to get in touch with us,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and you can also be a zoomer mom on the show.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Very rewarding, as you will find out. So let's welcome
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: our zoomer moms First. Shannon, Welcome to the Mom's Club.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Tell us your name, where you're from, and a little
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: bit about yourself. Hi.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I'm Shannon Summers.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I'm from Dallas, Texas, and I've got two boys, one
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: in college and one about to be in college this fall,
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: so soon to be an empty nester. I'm not quite
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: sure how i feel about that yet, but day by
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: day I'll take it. And I'm a fractional CMO right
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: here in Dallas. And Patty, I love that you've talked
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: about Good Carmel because I have to say I've been
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: a customer. I've ordered in bulk for clients before and
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: know how one delicious they are and to what a
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: big hit they were with my clients. So it's been
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: really fun to learn about your business. And I had
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: a question for you. As I've been building my own
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: fractional business. One of the things that is challenging is
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: kind of juggling time and knowing where should you spend
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: your time to get the biggest output for your business.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: So I'd love to know your thoughts on kind of
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: I guess it's the juggling at all question.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: That's a great question. Well, I'm so psyched to hear
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: you're a customer. That's so cool.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: I'm in the same boat, by the way, one in college,
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: one about to go to college.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's terrifying, isn't it awful?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, I just I'm taking a watercolor class. I'm trying
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: to come how I'm going to fill all of it in.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that that to do list is so serious, right,
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: trying to figure out what to do because there is
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: an unending of never ending really important things to do. Definitely,
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: I delegate as much as I can. I work with
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: my husband, my brother, and a lot of great staff members,
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: so I do.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: I am always looking for something.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: That they could grow with, Like if there's a problem
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: that they could solve and also learn a new skill
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: so that the next top time that problem came up
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: they could do it.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I'm always looking for that.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: I try to really spend my time on things that
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: require me. I am the only one who could do this,
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: and that of course requires some humility, so that I
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: don't think that all of it requires me that's really hard.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: And yeah, anything that is super impactful. I try, even
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: though those are the hardest things and so I want
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: to procrastinate them.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I try to tackle them.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Anything with a huge deadline, Am I about to miss
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: a deal because I've waited too long? So time sensitive
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: and impactful, where like this is going to move my
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: business forward if I tackle this. Those are the things
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: I really try to focus on. But you can't do
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: all of that every day. So then I also try
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: to give myself little wins, but just eat. Okay, I
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: can move this forward and it'll be really easy, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: I feel great about myself.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: That's really helpful.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Yeah, yeah, you bet.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Thanks Brittany, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us your name,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: where you're from, and a little bit about yourself.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: Yes, thank you so much. Thank you.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: My name's Brittany Washington, And just like Shannon, I am
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: here from Dallas, Texas a transplant though all the way
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: from San Diego, California, so yes, a little bit of.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: Cali and me. But yes, nice to meet you, Patty.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: I am actually have not tried good caramel, but I'm
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: going too soon. But yes, I'm actually in marketing, just
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: like like Shannon. And one thing, I'm actually in a PR,
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: PR and marketing, and I have clients who are mothers
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: and I do marketing and a lot of them are mothers,
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: and they do juggle a lot in between trying to
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: balance that lifestyle in PR and living that lifestyle.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: And I have a question for you when.
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: It comes to being in the public eye and trying
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: to be a mother and the things that they are
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: trying to articulate.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: How do you try to balance.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: I want to say, being in social media and living
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: the lifestyle of trying to just be you and using
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: what's that word we try.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: To say in social media? Balancing just living that just
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: trying to be you?
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: What's that word we use, Shannon, in social media living.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: The authenticity lifestyle?
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: Thank you, the authenticity lifestyle because a lot of them
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: try to ask me how to be living that authenticity lifestyle.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: But being a mom but trying not.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: To use vulgar lifestyle vulgar words, but trying to be
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: a mom too.
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: How do you balance that lifestyle?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty vulgar.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that I think about the people on
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: social media that I really connect with YEA are so
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: flawed and raw and vulnerable. And I think trying to
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: be perfect in any aspect, and I speak from experience,
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: is painful and doesn't move anything forward. You're stuck. You
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: can't move if you're going to be perfect. So I
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: think I would advise clients to really like find your
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: vulnerability and share it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: I think it's the imposter syndrome too, is also too
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: where I was trying to get at that imposter syndrome
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: trying to be someone else, but also to trying to
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: balance that lifestyle of being a mom.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, man, my kids are seventeen and nineteen,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: so I'm over a lot of hurdles.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: And I really thought I was doing all the things
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: I was supposed to do and I was doing everything right.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: And I look back now and I'm like, man, we
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: should have had a lot more fun and I should
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: have worried less about the schedule rules and the carpools
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: and what are they wearing?
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: What is their hair like?
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: And if I had had an influencer helping me see
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: that earlier, I think that would have been amazing. I mean,
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: that's what I would look for, is like, yes, we're
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: all impostors.
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: M h, yeah, no, thank you.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: No, that was a great question because yeah, there's also
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I guess a challenge of your company is all about
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: positivity and good karma. And but if everybody saw you
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: that like, oh, she's really not you know you do
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you feel like you when you said you're a little vulgar?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I mean you feel like sometimes you have to project
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: some kind of image of good karma or good karma.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: You know, I don't.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: I really let the product lead for itself. I am
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: not out here unlike today, I am not usually out
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: here as a spokesperson. It's not my comfort zone. I
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: am doing this just for a friend. She pushed me
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: to do it, and I'm thrilled that I'm doing it,
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: But no, I feel like I am pretty anonymous mostly
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: in my life.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Well, we're thrilled that you were able to do it too,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: and yet I've seen you on the Today Show, so
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you've been a good spokesman for you are a good
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: spokesman for it, And I just also want to comment
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: just personally. I'm still often that we have a lot
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of zoomers from Dallas, and I'm from Dallas, so you know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: good job, ladies, I'm so thrilled that you're here. Yeah,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: because I'm actually from well, from Plano, but you know,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: when you're from Plano, you say you're from Dallas. That's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: kind of how it works there. Kim, welcome to the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Mom's Club. What's tell us your name, where you're from,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and do you have a question.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, So my name's Kim.
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: This is Leila. We used to I used to live
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: in LA and I moved to Trinidad, California. It's like
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: population three hundred and eleven people in northern California. So yes,
• 33:53
  Speaker 9: we're kind of in the middle of nowhere. But I'm
• 33:57
  Speaker 9: very inspired by what you were saying, just as mom
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  Speaker 9: that's also trying to start a business and just so
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: that I can be with my kids more so. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: guess my question would be what point in your children's
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: life did you start the business and how have you
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: created those partnerships with big brands.
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  Speaker 2: Good question.
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  Speaker 6: So I started it before I was married and before
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: I had kids, so I had all those late night
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: hours I was free to I mean, I burnt every
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: midnight oil I could that we it was crazy, And
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: once the babies came, I slowed down for sure and
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: got help and so, yeah, I understand that just the
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: brain drain and the energy drain when you have little ones,
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: it's really hard to get something off the ground.
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  Speaker 4: You definitely want to go easy on yourself.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: And the partnership with the brands came, I would say,
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: from the great press that we got when we started out,
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: so they would see us, you know.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: In a in style magazine, and then they would reach
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: out to us.
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  Speaker 6: But we also do a lot of work on LinkedIn,
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: trying to get out to other people in companies, you know,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: just a lot of posting, a lot of sharing of
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: successes and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thank you for that good network. Yeah, sure,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I you know, I just it just dawned on me,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: like how you started. So you've got a recipe and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I've asked ask you this question, is I'm the world's
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: worst cook? I mean, if I'd gotten that recipe and
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: mixed it, nobody would be buying caramel from me. I'm guarantee.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: You like so, but you're you're saying, you're not, like,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: how did you do that? You just by luck it
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: turned out great and you that was how it worked?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Or what did you do?
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Kind of I mean, I really I was not a cook.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: I was a latchkey kid. I never saw my mom
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: cooking a meal. She'll kill me for that, but it's true.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: But to me, when I read that caramel recipe, it
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: almost felt more like a chemistry lab versus.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: You'll know when the brisket's done. I don't. I can't
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: tell when meat is done. I don't know.
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: This was this had a thermometer like, this was math,
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: and I felt like, okay, I.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Can do that. I can do math and chemistry. So yeah.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: So for me, somehow that felt totally doable when you
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: know cooking.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Doesn't feel doable.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: I lucked out that my very first batch was amazing
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: because if that first batch had been a dud, which
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: sometimes harmel is, it's a tricky thing to cook. If
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: that had been a dud, none of this would have happened.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: But I thought, well, gosh, I can do this and
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: this is great. I'm gonna tweak this a little bit,
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: and I'm gonna use white sugar instead of brown sugar,
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: and I played around with it like a chemistry lab
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: and it was really fun.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: That is that is very cool. That's why this is
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: all certaintipity. I mean, look how this all came together.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: It's very cool.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: It was meant to be sure. I don't doubt it
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  Speaker 4: at all.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I was going to ask you, I think as like
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: a young person who may still want to start a
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: business one day, what advice would you give young women
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: who want to start a business, like people women that
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: are the same age as your daughters.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Good question.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: I'd be open to the science, right.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Imagine if I had ignored all the things that were
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: getting put in place for me.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Follow your passions.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: Don't try to create something just to create something. Definitely
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: create something you love that your friends love, that someone
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: wants to buy like you want to follow your joy,
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: follow your passion, and keep your eyes and heart open
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: to what's coming to you.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Do either of your daughters have any interest in continuing
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: with this or do they have other passions that they're following,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: or would you encourage them to be part of your business.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: I want them to live their life. This was mine.
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: You know, it'd be neat if one of them said,
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: this is the coolest thing ever. I want to do it.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: But no one wants to be a doctor. One wants
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: to be a writer.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: And that's amazing.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: I'm so excited for them, but this is a fallback.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: If they want to take a year off and come
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: work with me, I'd love it, you know.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, that is great.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like you.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: So a lot of people try to describe successes like
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I've been getting a lot of advice as I'm a
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: young adult trying to start my career here, and some
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: people are like, yes, say yes to every opportunity. But
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: something that you do that I think is even better
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: advice is to say yes the opportunities that you connect
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: with and that are meaningful to you. Not just saying
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: yes to everything because you want to advance because you
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: want that next job, but saying yes to things that
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: you actually think you're going to exceed in. And then
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: it seems like these serendipitous things happen when you're enjoying
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: what you're doing.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: That's amazing, that's really insightful.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Well there's a lot of there's a
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: lot of good lesson since in today's show, there's that,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and also saying no to the things that you.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people like that but don't fit with their.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: What they're doing, with what they're doing, well, see, aren't
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: you glad you? But I'm so glad you're here because
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: you've you've learned a lot. You know, your mother would
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: have just sat over there and interrupted me all the
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: time and asked a bunch of questions. No, she's good too,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: She's very good, and I appreciate it. I think this
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: is good. This has been great. This is a very
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: inspiring show for a lot of people who because there's
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: so many moms out there who want to who have
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: an idea, that want to start a business, sometimes they
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: get discouraged because it's not I mean, this has worked
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: out great, but anything can happen along the way. But
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: you got to keep pushing forward to which I imagine is
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: what you were what you share and say I could
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: get a box of caramels that just give me that message,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you know, keep going and keep trying. Yeah, well that
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: is great. Well, Patty, how do we order good Carmel?
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Where do we go to find you?
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: You go to Goodcarmel dot com, g oo d hey
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: rmal dot com and we have a ton of different
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: gifts and like low price points, high price points, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: you can also learn how to customize for weddings.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Great, great, so wells. Thank you so much for joining
• 40:14
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• 40:17
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• 40:20
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• 40:31
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• 40:33
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• 40:35
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• 40:37
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• 40:56
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• 40:59
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• 42:34
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