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Ep23 - End of an Era, Wrapping Up Season 1 & Celebrating 6 Years of Maker · The Booth Juice Creative Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: All the juice straight from the makeup booth.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the booth juice.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to our final episode of season one.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_02: This episode is a bit bittersweet because it actually marks an end of an era and we may need some tissues.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: Before we dive into that, I would just like to acknowledge that we've had this podcast officially for six months now.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: Which has been so cool.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: Including this one, we would have published 23 episodes.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Which is really crazy.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: And we've interviewed people from artists to athletes to local legends.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's been really, really cool.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's been such an honour to have a platform where we can share people's stories, particularly people from Port Douglas, because I feel like a lot of people think that we are so remote and there's not a lot going on, but there really is so many things going on and so many fantastic stories.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you for tuning in and um yeah, yeah, just very, very grateful for your support.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: We are really excited for season two.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: However, it feels a bit bittersweet because we've had a few changes happening around here at Maker.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: After almost three years here at Maker, I am leaving, which is a little bit crazy.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we haven't had an argument.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: There's no bad blood.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: I've had a lot of people like Kayla, what's happened?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh nothing.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what do you mean?
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, um, yeah, it's just I am going to try out something different.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going into the mining industry, something I'm really excited about, but yeah, obviously it was a really, really hard decision to make because it sucks leaving people that you love.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like a lot of people probably feel like oh they're being so dramatic, you know, but staff come and go, what why is this such a big deal?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_02: But honestly, it is a big deal.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_02: Um, Kayla has worked for us for almost three years, and I have ever known only ever known this store with her in it.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm gonna read off my clipboard because we know that I'm just gonna end up a bloody.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, how much we written?
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_02: Just a little bit.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_02: Michaela has gone from a 17-year-old kid that I snapped up out of high school who has blossomed into one of the greatest women I know.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: In those three years, she has helped me run a store twice the size of the original.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, dude, she's like you're dying, you're not.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_02: Five days a week.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: I think I have spent more time with her than my own husband.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: She has been a superstar in here at Maker.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_02: She's the one that pushed me to start this podcast.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_02: She's some has modelled our products like a pro.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_02: She's become the face of most of our content.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_02: She's joined me in my first work trips away and helped me run events.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: On top of this, oh dude.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_02: On top of this, she is such a great friend.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: She has house it my house and dogs and run the shop all at once many times.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_02: She was one of the first to know I got engaged when I decided to get married, and usually the first to know about anything I'm thinking.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_02: She's super thoughtful and the type to get you chocolates or flowers when you're having a tough time.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: She's certainly the one that makes us all laugh the most.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure if it's with her or she brings us all so much joy, and as excited as we are for her to explore a new industry, we are gonna miss her like crazy.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_02: No, I will not be replacing her just yet.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, you will still see our fat heads on the back of the makeup.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I have considered photoshopping Smudgy the Bulldog's face to replace her, but I don't think you know the difference.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_02: No, in all seriousness, Michaela, you are one of the kindest, most thoughtful, hardworking women I know.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_02: Man Maker really isn't going to be the same without you.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh goodness me.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_02: We are gonna have my beautiful mum Donna come and join us for a little bit, um, because it really is a family here, and yeah, it's um it's gonna be a big change not having Michaela around.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, here she comes.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_02: Come on in.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this sucks.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: This sucks.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: I like the way you started because it meant I wasn't the ugliest one anymore.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my we were when the looks were getting handed out, but oh my goodness.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Having you here is like another child for me.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: Not in the sense that you need a mum, but um it's another person to love.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: As you have more kids, your heart gets bigger.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, I'm gonna miss you.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh don I don't.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: You guys would think I'm dying.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: You would think I'm dying.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: No, you are, because you're not gonna be able to live without us.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: You're little stupid in still cut boots.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: And now I'm gonna have to do more stuff.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: No, um, you have been such a support to Rain.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's allowed me to step back into the studio and paint more, which in turn helps her um pay the rent.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, but you're just so mature beyond your years.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um we, as Rain said, can leave the shop in your capable hands and we trust you with our everything.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um our animals, our homes.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, thank you.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: My son.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: You steer him in the right direction occasionally when he needs it.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, I hope you're still come and visit us all the time and um come do those silly rules that you do changing things around.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so if we need a model, can you come and step back in for us?
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, I'll be able to I mean like there's only so much I can.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: Oh goodness.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, um, don't leave me on red.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's going on with her phone.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't even go red.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: Mine's working.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_02: Mine's green or blue.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, so she does explain a lot of stuff to me as I'm getting old.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she's going to teach me how to do the jewellery because that was my big idea that we'd make the jewellery, and I made one necklace and lifted it up and it all fell apart.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I went, okay, you can do that now.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um my attention span was lacking at that, but I promise I'll learn.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: The reason that you came about being on our list of people to ask to work for us was because um, well, one, we are we did ask Grief, Rain's younger brother, um, who was a similar age to me.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: I did not ask him to work for me, by the way.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: I asked his opinion who he thought in his age group might be a good addition to our team.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: And uh you were pretty much his solo choice.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: He, even though he didn't go to school with you, he knew from other people that you were mature and um reliable and and had a brain in your head.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um and additionally to that, I had worked with your dad years ago at a surf shopping across the street, and um probably some of the funniest days of my working career were with your dad, so I knew that um if any of his humour had rubbed off in your family unit, then we would be absolutely fine.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and given what you and I call each other.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think we've followed so yeah, it's been beautiful having um Robbie back in my life a little bit and and getting to know your family again after Robbie being away for so many years.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: So um yeah, don't be a stranger, make sure we still do stuff together.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like it's been you know, because I grew up as a kid in the surf shop, and so I got a little bit of secondhand, you know, humour from watching you and Robbie work in the shop.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_02: So to me, it's so special to have our own version of that and to go, oh yeah, cool.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: Like we've had definitely some really funny times.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: Film you from a distance when you're trying to do something.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_02: Whatever for you to get your driver's licence.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_02: Something that was funny in the morning and she's still laughing about it in the afternoon.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, she gets the giggles, and if she gets the giggles over something, she cannot stop.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: She'll be standing at the desk on her own, shop's empty, and she'll just crack up laughing.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: And because it's like window, people walk past and they're like, Who is she laughing to?
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh my god, I look like a psych.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: Or even worse, there'll be someone in the store or not even speaking to you at the other end.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I have to walk out the back.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: I actually have like I just let me know if I do anything, and I just walk away.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: I am gonna gift you that card that the camel wants at Toba.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: I love that card.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: Oh no, you've set her off now.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, in all like seriousness, I started here when I was 17.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now I'm 20.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and you're learnt to use some tools when we built the colour.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: I learned to use some tools.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_02: You got your license.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: I got my license fine.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: She refused to do it.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: Don't let Rogers think that would have been a good thing.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_02: Blindly than the blind.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_02: But yes, it has been a wonderful three years.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: And like getting old is hard, and finding yourself is hard, but I'm willing to do it, so and we're always here if you need to come back.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, most of your jobs will still be here waiting for you.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Probably.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Because we will be too late to do that.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: Kelly will do that.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: You'll still be leaving your notes.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna give you so many jobs before she's got like five shifts left.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_02: I know less than beautiful before she leaves.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: Right, Kayla's just gonna do as much as she can.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: She also has to teach us half of our jobs before she goes, but can you show us how to do that?
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: Not me, but you.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh come on.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_02: I did freak out the other day that the printer's got.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it almost like fully set me off.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I was like, no, like I had to walk away.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh my god.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Reef goes, you realize you're gonna have to like go in there sometimes.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, when the printer runs out of ink.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: You get your body boot.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Family rang, there's an emergency.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: Which one?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the printers out of ink.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_02: Ah yes, anyway.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: We do wish you all the best.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: When you earn lots of money, can you take us out for lunch?
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, of course.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_02: So moving on from our pity party.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Season two actually does launch next Friday, the 24th of July.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um, we're kicking it off with special guest Karina Jambrak, who is one of our OG makers all the way from Sydney.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_02: So it was so awesome interviewing her.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so excited for you guys to listen to that one.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: We are also celebrating six years of Maker, actually to the exact day as well.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_02: So I opened Maker on the Sunday, we had a lot, we had a little party on the Sunday, and then we officially opened on the Monday.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna recreate that little afternoon with a DJ and some music and some good food and a few different surprises.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: So um we're really excited for that one.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: This one is VIP only, but we do have two tickets available in a giveaway.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: If you haven't seen it yet, head to our is it pinned?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's pinned on our Instagram.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: You'll see it on there, tag a friend, do all the things that it says, and yeah, you might win yourself and a friend a ticket.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Also, if you are a regular and you haven't seen your invite yet, it may still be on its way.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: Rain has been a bit of a headless choke because I did quit on her, so so you can blame Kayla for drawing me out of life.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: So yes, you can cobble the backlash for that.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: But do let us know if you're like, I feel like I should be invited to something like this.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Let us know.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: Send me a DM.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, we're really excited to have that.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um just to raise a glass and to acknowledge all the things that we've done in the six years and it's also Rain's birthday as well.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_02: On the Monday.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I will be turning 25 on the Monday.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's crazy to think that I was a little 18-year-old and then yeah, we opened on my 19th birthday, and here I am at my 25th.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, don't feel old at all.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but no, we're very excited for that.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_02: And then the week later, we have the Cowgirl Surf Club events returning to Cape Tribulation.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_02: So there's three more this year, and I have sort of become a bit of a rep for them, helping organise and sort things out.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_02: So if you would like to come along, I think there's still tickets for the October one, potentially the one at the end of July, too.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: But I will pop it in the show notes.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and also just swing me a DM.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_02: If you have any questions, um I can help you um purchase tickets and navigate your way up here as well.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_02: So that will actually be Kayla's little last shift that weekend.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: So if you're around, please come and say uh a hello and goodbye to Kayla.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, she's still gonna be in the town, but um yeah, she just won't be in here as usual.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, so there's a lot coming up.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_02: So um, for that reason as well, I haven't um organised any workshops lately.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um, at this point, workshops probably won't be happening until September.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: Um, just because I need to find my feet with everything going on.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and yeah, there's just the calendar is very busy at the moment.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but we will still have podcasts every Friday.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and yeah, just so excited to bring to you season two because there's so many cool guests to share, and I'm recording two or three times a week.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so yeah, we should have lots of juicy news stories.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have any final words for your last podcast?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm quitting because of Rain's April Fool's prank on me.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I want to tell everyone.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I want to tell you.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was not expecting that.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: I actually forgot about that.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: If you um should go back and listen to that episode and OG, you'll know what happened.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell everyone that's like workplace harassment.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I'm leaving.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, no, all seriousness, I'm very, very grateful for my experience here.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's been awesome, and like there's a lot that I've been able to take away from it, which is not many people get an experience like this, so yeah, I'm very fortunate for it.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: And when I was 17, like Rain took me under a wing when I had no idea what I wanted to do.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: I still don't know what I want to do now.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm 20 and I have no idea, but you know, it's kind of my responsibility to figure it out.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I'm very grateful for that, and I'm very jealous of whoever gets to work here next.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: I won't be replacing you just yet.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't know how I'm gonna find someone else that will slot in the way that you have, so it will be a big change for me to give me three words to describe working here for the last three years.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like in a sentence or describing words?
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know, whatever you want.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Memories, beneficial, and grateful.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Very, very grateful.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Love you.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Love you guys.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: Love you guys.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: Have a great day.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Bye bye now.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Bye bye now.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.