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Elite Home Staging - A Success Story Of Mother & Daughter Handling Their Business Together! · 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: mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
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  Speaker 1: Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
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  Speaker 1: make a great story later. And let's face it, you
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  Speaker 1: don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
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  Speaker 1: a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
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  Speaker 1: inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Mom's welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Monica Samuels, and today I have a special co host,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Orchid. Welcome Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Monica Jeres.
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  Speaker 1: For joining us. So, Georgia is the daughter of our
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  Speaker 1: co host Julie, and we sent Julie off on assignment
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  Speaker 1: so that Georgia could come and sud for her. Because
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions. So, Georgia, what's the
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  Speaker 1: most embarrassing thing you can share about your mother?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, where do I start?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, we're not going to do that. So, so
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  Speaker 1: you and your mom, But you and your mom have
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  Speaker 1: a great relationship. You're very close, right, would you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I would say we're very close. It would seem to.
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  Speaker 1: Be I think, so she helped you move out here
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  Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, right, she sure did.
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  Speaker 2: My mom has always been there for I just graduated
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  Speaker 2: from college a year ago. My mom has been there
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  Speaker 2: for all stages of life, in all stages of moving
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  Speaker 2: me in and out of different eras that I've lived through.
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  Speaker 1: And so now you graduated college and you are ready
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  Speaker 1: to start your your life and adult hanks, ma'am. So
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to call me ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm from the South.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that's true. That's very polite. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 1: So she just moved you out here to LA and
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  Speaker 1: I know she's gonna miss you terribly. Are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: visit a lot? At least you're gonna be a good
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  Speaker 1: daughter and.
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  Speaker 4: Visit often. I will absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome her often into your home.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm returning to Austin, Texas later this week
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  Speaker 2: because my sister is going to be in her senior
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  Speaker 2: play and she's a soccer player. She'll have her senior
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  Speaker 2: moments in high school.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good. So yeah, because I have two sons,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes it's tougher with when you have sons, like
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  Speaker 1: they go off and you know, I call us, well,
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  Speaker 1: they will. Yes, but I my oldest son, and this
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  Speaker 1: is not to criticize, but he has an apartment. I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen it and it's in Austin, where we live.
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  Speaker 1: So oh, he's not yet invited us. Now that maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Maybe it's because it's not presentable.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the deal is. But so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so would you ever? Would you ever work with your mom?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you think how would that go?
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  Speaker 4: I think it would. It depends on the topic. I feel.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we would work together.
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  Speaker 4: Well, she doesn't watching.
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  Speaker 2: She's watching this show right now, so I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I have to say that you do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some advice. She is she is
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  Speaker 1: actually yeah, she's actually watching what you're doing. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a mom thing too. She's also I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to make you conscious of this, but from what
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  Speaker 1: I understand, she's got the text numbers of everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the studio and she's texting notes and things. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: she will actually very much on top produce. The producer
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  Speaker 1: in this room just told me to sit up straighter.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but not because she thought I was slouching, but
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  Speaker 2: because I love my mother, who's in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Where did text at her to tell me to sit
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  Speaker 1: up there? Where did that come from? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So no, am I sitting straight enough?
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  Speaker 1: Hey? I get that all the time too, And I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be tall. You're sitting up straight. You're doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job. I think it's I think you're good. Could
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  Speaker 1: you ever do that us with your mom? Maybe? Not
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  Speaker 1: that I'm actually I thought, not that I'm wonder in
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  Speaker 1: the coast chair, but two co hosts together. Yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you guys could.
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  Speaker 2: The embarrassing stories would be never ending.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, you know what, We're gonna do another episode
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  Speaker 1: later when she's not watching with all the embarrassing stuff. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Mothers and daughters are amazing, all amazing,
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  Speaker 1: as we say, And we have a mother and daughter
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  Speaker 1: team here to get today. Who are the duo behind
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  Speaker 1: Elite Home Staging and Elite Mason Furniture. And they also
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  Speaker 1: have a podcast called The Power of We, which peels
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  Speaker 1: back the curtain on sobriety, sanity, and survival. Please welcome,
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  Speaker 1: Samantha and Nicole Sinio.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome to the.
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  Speaker 1: Most Probably.
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  Speaker 5: It's so nice to be here. It's like amazing to
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  Speaker 5: be here and we're not there. Yeah, well, I like
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  Speaker 5: it interview us in this chair. We're always there interviewing everyone,
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  Speaker 5: and it's so fun. I love seeing the dynamic. Good
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  Speaker 5: for you for coming on amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's great. Now how did you all start
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  Speaker 1: doing a podcast together?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: We met this crazy lady. We met this amazing lady
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  Speaker 5: and I think you know her. And she said, I
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  Speaker 5: want you to tell your story and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: how am I going to do that?
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  Speaker 4: And she's like, have you ever heard of a podcast?
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  Speaker 4: I was like nope. It was during pandemic right yeah, right.
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  Speaker 3: After and you know, I was still doing zoom classes
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  Speaker 3: and I skipped my zoom class because for some reason,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I have to go to this meeting.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah. She was like, our life's about to change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So we met with her and we knew instantly, like
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  Speaker 5: we had such a connection. And I didn't even know
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  Speaker 5: what a podcast was. I didn't even know what she
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  Speaker 5: wanted me to do, but I knew I had to
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  Speaker 5: do it.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit about your story that
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  Speaker 1: made her think this would be a great podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Where to start?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well you start?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we have just like as a family,
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  Speaker 3: oh crazy story. We're both sober and it's good for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: thank you.
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  Speaker 5: We're sober and my son sober. So we're a sober family.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get that started. And that was not easy to
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  Speaker 5: get there, right, Yeah, it was. Actually we have some
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  Speaker 5: crazy stories.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We had so much going on in our life.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I was a single mom when they were
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  Speaker 5: five and six, and what happened to me was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to keep them in their lifestyle, right, so
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  Speaker 5: I would go out to you know, cocktails with my
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  Speaker 5: friends with moms and the kids would be playing and
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  Speaker 5: I would start with a glass of wine. And that
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  Speaker 5: was like my way of, you know, dealing with the
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  Speaker 5: stress as a single mom. And that was really hard.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's hard on the kids. It's going to
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  Speaker 5: make me cry. I'm not used to talking about this lately,
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  Speaker 5: but it was. It was real. It was real life,
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  Speaker 5: and being a.
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  Speaker 4: Mom is not easy.
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  Speaker 5: Being a single mom is definitely not easy, right, And
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  Speaker 5: you know, I know a lot of people out there.
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  Speaker 4: You're scared.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes you don't know what to do with your life,
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  Speaker 5: so you pick up that glass of wine. Yesterday, I
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  Speaker 5: was at a lunch and I saw these moms with
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  Speaker 5: kids and it was like eleven o'clock and they were
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  Speaker 5: drinking wine. And let me tell you, that was me.
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  Speaker 5: But you know what, that didn't get me anywhere. What
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  Speaker 5: it got me is a lot of headache.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And since we've been on this like sober journey
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  Speaker 3: together with her and my younger brother as well, we've
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  Speaker 3: just been able to like reconnect in such a special
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  Speaker 3: way where we can really be there for each other.
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  Speaker 3: We have such an open and honest relationship and we
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  Speaker 3: can do so many fun things together and it's just
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  Speaker 3: like such a great way to live. And I think
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  Speaker 3: it's just changed everything. And that's why we wanted to
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  Speaker 3: start the podcast to show people that even if you
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  Speaker 3: come from like a dysfunctional family or whatever, you can
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  Speaker 3: I'm emotional.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even would you cry a lot, show you
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about that. We laugh too though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can have an amazing, amazing time with your family. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: things can change.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it changed a hundred percent after that. And
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  Speaker 5: then you know, then we just started. I always wanted
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  Speaker 5: to empower women to get into staging. So there was
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  Speaker 5: no nobody was doing staging right. It was a big
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  Speaker 5: company and me and little companies, but women did not
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  Speaker 5: have careers in staging.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, when I.
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  Speaker 5: Spoke on Steve Schul's stage and people were asking me
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  Speaker 5: all kinds of questions, I said, you know what, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to make sure that people know women know
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  Speaker 5: they can have a career in staging. And that was
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  Speaker 5: really one of my things I wanted to do. And
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  Speaker 5: then little by little she started working at the bottom
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  Speaker 5: in my company, and now you know, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: fast forward. She's a big time boss empowering young entrepreneurs.
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  Speaker 5: So now there's so many young entrepreneurs. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 5: that when I was like doing it and it's fun.
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  Speaker 5: Thank god she can deal with them, so I deal
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  Speaker 5: with my age.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah here, I know exactly what you're saying. So, so
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  Speaker 1: were you Did you have the staging business when you
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  Speaker 1: were first divorced and they were little?
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  Speaker 5: So where did I got divorced in two thousand and
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  Speaker 5: eight and I was like, we lived in Calabasas. I
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  Speaker 5: lived a very bougie life. I didn't know what I
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  Speaker 5: was going to do with my life. And a realtor said,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to start a staging company, and I was
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  Speaker 5: like okay, great. So they were six and seven and
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  Speaker 5: I started the staging company in my garage with a partner,
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  Speaker 5: and literally they would come home and they'd be like,
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  Speaker 5: where's my bed? Well, hold on a second, let me
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  Speaker 5: get back to you. But yeah, so we started there
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  Speaker 5: and then I slowly built it up, and the alcohol
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  Speaker 5: was during that time. And then you know, they went.
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  Speaker 4: To high school.
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  Speaker 5: That's when it was hard for me, because high school
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  Speaker 5: is hard for moms.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, it was hard for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just gonna say that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As a dog, sure you can really like you don't
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  Speaker 3: really know what's going on. You're trying to figure everything out.
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  Speaker 3: And like for me, that's when I first saw drugs
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  Speaker 3: and alcohol at least. And she was crazy. So that
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  Speaker 3: was fun and I got to throw all the parties
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  Speaker 3: because I had the crazy mom. I mean, we had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: So you were the mom that I was.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Cabo.
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  Speaker 5: You bring three friends, Brandon, you're breaking three friends, and
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  Speaker 5: then we would go. It was we had a lot
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  Speaker 5: of good times. But you know, the alcohol does bring
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  Speaker 5: out like other things. So it's just not the way
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to live my life, you know, but I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we have grown so much. I can't even tell you
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  Speaker 5: not that Laurie helped us start on the podcast, which
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  Speaker 5: has changed our life one hundred percent for forever. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we are very grateful to her. And then we kind
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  Speaker 5: of brought this whole thing into our company. So when
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  Speaker 5: we hire, we make sure they understand we are here
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  Speaker 5: to empower you for your journey.
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  Speaker 4: Right. So, Nicole, you know, trains them.
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  Speaker 5: We do meditations with them, we do positive affirmations with them,
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  Speaker 5: we do all that kind of stuff, so they know
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  Speaker 5: they're amazing just the way they are.
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  Speaker 4: But we're going to help guide them to the next
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  Speaker 4: level in their love.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one of the things you said, which I think
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  Speaker 1: is so true in our society, you were just going
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  Speaker 1: to mom's events and everybody's drinking, so I can see.
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  Speaker 1: And I practiced law for years, and the little time
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  Speaker 1: that we ever got to go anywhere outside the office,
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  Speaker 1: it was always let's go get margarita, let's go do this.
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  Speaker 1: It was all around alcohol, So it's very easy to
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  Speaker 1: fall into that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then did you feel like watching your mom as
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  Speaker 1: she was drinking more? Did that make you feel like,
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  Speaker 1: as this high schooler that oh, well, you know it's cool. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think with your friends around her doesn't have any
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  Speaker 1: impact on you at all.
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  Speaker 3: For sure. I think, like as a child coming from
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  Speaker 3: like an alcoholic family or anything like that, when you
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  Speaker 3: see that's what's normal in your mind, you normalize it, right, Like, well,
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  Speaker 3: mom had a drink to feel better, so I should
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  Speaker 3: have a drink to feel better. And that kind of
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  Speaker 3: stuff is like it just gets played in your selbconscious
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  Speaker 3: without I think you knowing it, and that's when you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then also like mom was having fun, so I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, I could have fun too, and like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it just happens, and I'm sure you can.
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  Speaker 4: Relate, right right.
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  Speaker 2: I actually am hearing the timeline. I think we might
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  Speaker 2: be the same age. I'm twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I wish I'm.
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  Speaker 2: This happens every time I like, I get the yeah
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  Speaker 2: yeah closer in age.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was wondering what it would what it's like
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  Speaker 2: working together with your mom.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, we have a really good time. We have a
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  Speaker 3: great relationship now, and we mess with each other a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And we're also very different. We use different parts of
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  Speaker 3: our brain. I'm pretty I'm more logical and she's very
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  Speaker 3: creative and like we get each other. We know each
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  Speaker 3: other so well that when she's thinking about things, I
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  Speaker 3: just know what she's thinking about without her having to
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  Speaker 3: explain it, so I can explain it to other people.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. We have this like crazy connection where
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  Speaker 3: it just works.
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  Speaker 4: No, that happens with me with my mom.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes she's trying to say something and I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I understand what you're trying to say. And it's almost
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  Speaker 2: like your daughter can be your own like translator. But
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  Speaker 2: it's not like another language. It's just your mom's brain
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  Speaker 2: into something everybody else can understand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I can see how that can be very helpful in
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  Speaker 4: a business capacity for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: So how'd you get in? Then you told us how
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  Speaker 1: you got into staging? But was that so? Let's face,
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  Speaker 1: my husband would be the first one to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I could never do a staging business. I mean maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's not easy, maybe an antique store like full of joke, because.
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  Speaker 5: Waging business is not for the week. I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: tell you right now. I mean, do I work all
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  Speaker 5: the time? One hundred percent. I work a lot. I'm
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  Speaker 5: very involved in my company. I have a very big company.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: The reason I have a big company is because I
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  Speaker 5: stayed present in my company, and that is so important
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  Speaker 5: for any moms that are trying to start a business.
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  Speaker 5: It's important to also be with your kids, but to
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  Speaker 5: stay present even when you get bigger, because people need
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  Speaker 5: to still.
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  Speaker 4: Want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 5: They still want to know that you're involved in your business, right,
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  Speaker 5: And that's really why I think it's keeps.
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  Speaker 4: Going up and up and up. And I'm not corporate, right.
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  Speaker 5: I started in my garage, so and I funded everything,
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  Speaker 5: you know, little by little by little.
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  Speaker 1: So how did what were you doing before that? Because
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  Speaker 1: for someone to stay at your house for sale, you
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  Speaker 1: would want to see what their what their work looks like.
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  Speaker 1: So if you just started, were you working with somebody
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  Speaker 1: else and you were kind of what was sing or
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  Speaker 1: staying no?
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  Speaker 4: So that's so funny.
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  Speaker 5: So I got divorced and this big realtor said you
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  Speaker 5: need to start a staging company and I didn't even
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  Speaker 5: know what that was. And he said, you just need
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  Speaker 5: to decorate homes and you know that need to be sold.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, okay, I can do that. I
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  Speaker 5: can do that because I built four houses. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: even think to myself. I can't do that. I don't
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  Speaker 5: have past work. I don't I just did it. I
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  Speaker 5: went out, I did presentations. I went and I got furniture,
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  Speaker 5: and I just went. I didn't even put that thought
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  Speaker 5: in my head. What did I do before? I sold
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  Speaker 5: purses and jewelry when they were babies at a restaurant,
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  Speaker 5: I'd sell ten thousand dollars a night and sell to
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  Speaker 5: all the moms.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I did.
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  Speaker 1: It's very good.
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  Speaker 5: Before that, I was in selling cell phones when they
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  Speaker 5: first came out.
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  Speaker 4: So nothing to do with any wo wow.
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  Speaker 5: So I've always been an entrepreneur and I always have
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  Speaker 5: been very creative.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a very creative person. My eye is very creative.
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  Speaker 5: So I just you know, when I put something in
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  Speaker 5: my mind, I know I can do it, and then
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  Speaker 5: I do it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's impressive because for someone to allow someone to
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: come into your house to stage it, like I have
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: a friend who just did that and she said, oh, Monica,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it was really something. They just like took. I just
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: watched them being carted out of my house. I could
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: barely talk because they were packing everything up and then
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: sending it off to the storage unit. So you've to
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: have a lot of trust.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: But you got to remember back then, people didn't even
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: know what staging was.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: I had to talk them into it. First of all.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: I had to explain to them, when you stage, you're
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: going to get so much more, so much money, more
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: money for your home that you would never because you
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: have all this personal stuff out. So I had to
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: explain it all to them and then bring it in
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: and then it started happening. One after the other people
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: would get more money for their home.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: So what's the stuff you want to take out then?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Because all the personal stuff, the.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Family photos and things like small belongings are an important
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: thing to take out of your home because when you
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: know a potential family is walking through the house, they
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: want to picture themselves living there. So we always highly
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: recommend depersonalizing the house.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: So if I want six oscars, I should remove them
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: because I also.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Privacy purposes too, especially in LA like we signed work
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: with a lot of people who need to get rid
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: of all their stuff put them away because you just don't.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Know, and decluttering is the cluttering one.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, people don't realize when you're going to sell your house.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: You gotta when when we walk in the door, you
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: got to think the house is going to be sold
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: in three minutes. So that's exactly what you know. You
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: have to already get that mindset that I'm selling my house.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I've got to clear out, clean out, declutter, and get
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: the personal stuff out.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: So really I'm essentially moving. Yes, already moving.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: You're moving on to your next journey. How excited.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: I just think about it like that, like you're moving.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: You get all your stuff ready to move, and let
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: us do our job so it sells quickly and then
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: you're ready to go.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, we actually are helping people's dreams come true
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: because their dream is to get out of that house, right,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: And that's how that's.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Quite a job. Like I have hundreds of books, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: my friend was telling me that the person that stayed
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: her house took every cover off of every one of
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: her books, like it would take for I mean, I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: mean if I ever had to put them all back on,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: that would like that's so everybody's a different philosophy. I
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: guess as to what needs to go. And of course,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: well so things have changed. So we were supposed to
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: be here a couple of weeks ago. The fires kept.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Us from going devastating.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I live in Austin, Texas, And I was at a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: get together with neighbors the other night and there's like,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: oh you, all these families from Palisades are moving to
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Austin and we're all talking each other. Do you want
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to sell your house? Do you want to sell your house?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Because everybody's like leaving because they don't have a house
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to go to. But what's it like? Now? What's your
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: business like? And I know you've even you're helping people
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that have lost everything, So tell us a little bit
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Well, this isn't my first rodeo, let me tell you,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: so let me just go back. So I feel like
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: every time there's some kind of catastrophe in Los Angeles,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: I'm like the first responder. And I do that on
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: purpose because I would give back to the community immensely.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: So when COVID hit, every single thing was shut down
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: like crazy. But my business manager said, you're essential, I
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: was like, perfect, what does that mean?
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: He's like, go do what you do and let me
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: tell you.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: We helped so many families be able to because they
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: were really freaked out. Then I would go, I would
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: help them. I would tell them to get them ready
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: for staging. And then they'd move to wherever state they
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: wanted to. But so I've already kind of done that.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: So this time when the fires happened, I knew immediately.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: I put a package together, a rental package, and I
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: advertised and let the people know we're here for you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: This Palisades, it's not people.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: It's like most of the people is not like you
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: and I there. You know, they are been there for
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: many years. It's three generations. It's huge homes. So most
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: staging companies don't have that kind of furniture. So we
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: put a package together and I personally took that on myself.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: I went out and met with them. I brought my
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: stager and then we went out and helped them. And
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: we've been extremely busy, extremely busy, but you know, it's
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: nice to help and give back.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean you've done that for homeless people.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Did I read that or what is?
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: So tell me about it's interesting.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: The Midnight Mission.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: So the Midnight Mission, yeah, is a organization where people
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: come off the streets that were either using drugs or
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: you know, battered women or you know, just couldn't pay
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: their bills and they were living in their cars and
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: I got together with the president of it and he said,
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: I'd love for you to come and stage some you know, units,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: And so I was like, okay, sure, I had no
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: idea what I was getting involved in at the time,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: and I went.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: And I staged these units out of the chills.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: And literally I made them like cute and like, you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: really light and colorful. And listen, these people were on
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: the streets. So when they come in, they don't even
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: know how to live anymore. But they the little kids
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: would come in and help me, and they were so excited,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: and I knew that second I needed to continue. This's
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: so this year, every year we donate thousands and thousands
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: of dollars. We probably donated over half a million dollars
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: of inventory. But this year we got to donate to
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: a mom who has been on the streets and she
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: finally got into the program and she's learning how to
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: get a job again, she's learning how to they have childcare.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: She just got a job at Amazon and she has
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: three kids. And you know, we were able to gift
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: her with when she transitions out of the transitional living,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: she's going to get a new apartment. We're going to
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: furnish it for her. So that was really amazing.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really so nice to see these people and
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: everything they're doing for themselves and bettering themselves to be
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: able to help. It's amazing.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: It's got to feel good.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And then all the people here that have lost everything.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I mean I can't help everyone, and unfortunately
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: we get calls all the time, you know, doing everything.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: We can, but right now we're focused on furnishing rental
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: homes for people who are doing temporary living to find
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: a place to live because most of these people did
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: lose all of their belongings, clothes, I mean everything. So
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: you know, we're doing what we can to help everyone. Yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and yeah, it's it's a crazy time. I mean, if
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: you've I don't know if had you been to the
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Polisades before.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I have been.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it just looks so different.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very sad and yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: So you know, hopefully our community is strong and we'll
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: we'll figure it out.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: What's a beautiful place, it's so beautiful. Yeah, I feel like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you know, it'll come back for sure. But yeah, there's
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: so many families that have been there for generations, right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's important that people know like that we
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: are a mother daughter team, and so when we're out there,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: they remember that, you know, because we are a family
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: business and we want to help them. And I think that,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: you know, living I've always lived in LA I've always
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: lived in California, and it's it's so nice to see
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: the community really coming together through all of this.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: That's what I think.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: I've the best thing out of everything that's happened in
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: the last you know.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Well, we reached out. We wanted moms across the country
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to help here and in North Carolina where they also
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: living in tents right now the winter, so and do
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: what they can. But yeah, I really, you know, commend
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you and and you're a good example. You know. What
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: happened here has made a lot of people think about
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of things, Like in Texas. I learned through
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that experience that we're the third at risk city for wildfires.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: So I talked to a girl whose family lost their
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: house at Palisades and she was talking about I had
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: She said, I had the flu and I've called my
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: mother caused me and I have to leave the house
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: because of the fire, and I have to decide what
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to take. And she said in part she took the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: wrong things because she said, I took my birth certificate
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and searching for it you can get one really quick.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: So it's also to explain to people to be ready,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: like I know, if it were me, I don't know
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: what I would it would take. So yeah, no, that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: was that was quite an experience. Well, we have some
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: ladies who would like to talk to you and ask
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you some questions and they are ours mom, So why
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: do my mom?
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Mom?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Mom's Club. Introduce I'm gonna introduce each
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: one of you and tell us a little bit about
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: yourself and if you'll all have questions, and I guess
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I will start with because she'll be really quick because
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: she's she knows how it works here at the Mom's Club.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: My usual co host, Julie, Welcome to the Mom's Club.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Well, hello Monica, Hello Julie, Ja, Hi Mom, Hi ladies.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Your story is amazing. I uh wanted to touch base
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: on figuring out like how many people work for you
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: as everybody involved in helping people with the fires. Are
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: you continuing your business obviously as well? I mean, what
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: does that look like?
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: You want to answer? Do you want me to yes?
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: We're continuing our business.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: We run about six to seven trucks a day, so
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: we're doing staging, we're doing rentals, we're doing everything.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we are so busy right now.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: We've gotten an extra extra trucks that are dedicated to
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: furnishing our rentals. So we have like two separate aspects
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: of our company right now.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I know this won't surprise Monica, but I
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: do have a part two real quick.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: That's sounds surprising, Go ahead, go for it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: I just want to know, like, first of all, congratulations
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: on being sober. I think that's thank you, very difficult
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: and amazing that you told your story. But how how
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: did it come to all three of you coming to
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: that same journey.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: That's an interesting question. I think if I don't know
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: people who know anything about like addiction or everyone, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: don't think it. I don't know how excited, but like
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: it's not because she's sober. I had to get sober everyone.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: It's like a mental we talk about I don't we
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: talk about it as like a mental obsession over right,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: drugs or alcohol and there's many other things, so you
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: know it. Once she got sober, I think it set
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a really good example for me, and I realized very
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: quickly after many bad instances. I'll say that I needed
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: to get sober, and I knew where to go, And
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I think that was the biggest thing, is I knew
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: who to ask for help, and I was able to
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: ask her. And then my younger brother actually he was
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: partying like crazy in college and I had noticed it
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: for myself and I was able to have a conversation
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: with him and he knew where to come to get
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: sober as well. So I think the biggest thing is
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: knowing where to go to get help because a lot
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: of times, like if you normalize it, you really don't
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: know where to go.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: And also when you get sober, your life just gets
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: better and better. I mean, they saw a huge difference
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: in me right and you know they're struggling. They're having fun,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: but they're struggling. But when you get to that point,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: you're drinking, and then it's not fun anymore.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: They're like, God, does this get better?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: And you know, I appreciate.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: You sharing it because it gets brighter, it gets clearer.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: So thank you.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: And welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: bit about yourself, and do you have a question.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: Yeah, So my name is and Dynam. I'm a realtor
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: actually in the Marina, the Santa Monica, and you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: I've also coached with Steve, so that was just a
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: small right and I'm one of those agents who got
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: the swan of people coming in after you know, the
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: fire and one thing that we've been and I have
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: one son, as you said, like, I'm also a mom,
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: so and he wants to do real essays. I'm taking
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: cues from is it going to be a good idea?
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: But it seems like it's going to be a good
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: idea to work with your whole child. So my question
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: is like one of the things that I'm actually dealing with,
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: I have a lot of leases and we're turning it
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: to short term rentals and most of the stages in
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: the area it's easier to stage to sell, but when
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: you stage because the person is going to live there,
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: it's been really challenging to find enough stages are willing
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: to do that. So in your business that your business
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: had to pivot from staging a property to be sold
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: to staging a property as a maybe short term or
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: leaster for people that had lost everything in the fires.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I have a big company, so
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: we do rentals and we've done it for many years,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: so this isn't like a new thing that I'm doing.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: And we have an amazing team in the back end.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: So basically the rentals work like this. It's one price
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: for the move in, the inventory and the pickup, and
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: then there's a security deposit.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: And then there's a monthly.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: And the great thing is I have an amazing team
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: that checks everything so everything comes clean and new, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: we just do it with furniture. We don't do the
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: accessories in the art and all of that, so that
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: that way they can because these people want to make
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: it their home. They don't want a stage home, right,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: they want to make it their own. So I tell
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: them when I go out, do not don't need that.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: You need to do that yourself so you can make
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: it your own place. And yeah, I buy containers all
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: over the world, so I'm ready at any time for anything,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: so don't forget us.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: And that's impressive to start from your garage to all
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: these trucks and places.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: To thank you, I'm very impressed.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Allie, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: bit about yourself and do you have a question.
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so, hi everyone. I actually lived in the Palisades
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: for ten years and my kids were one of those
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: families that actually West their home. I'm in Calabasis now
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: and I am the founder of Youth Thrive Wellness, Inc.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: I help bring in mindfulness and meditation and healing arts
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: to the schools and community. Great so and that's my
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: main I would say, I also do after school merichment programs,
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: but my love really is working with kids and parents
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: and teachers. And so my question, I think you know
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: right now, I feel like I'm manager transition from all
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: the after school programs I'm doing to like really focusing
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: on my nonprofit and putting all my energy into it.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: And I heard you speak how it was just a
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: mindset like you just did it. And I sometimes have trouble,
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: like my mind is like, oh, you can't do that right,
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: Like it's it's so much.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: So because you're stuck in the fear. You're stuck in
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: the fear. To get out of the fear, and you.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Need to write down everything that you want to do
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: and you just got to take one step at a time.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Don't stay in the fear. The fear is just an
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: emotion and won't get you anywhere. Like they were young,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: I wanted them to stay in their live lifestyle. I
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: didn't want to have to move to a one bedroom apartment.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I knew this is what I had to do and
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: that's it, and that's how you have to stay.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can use your meditation tools as well. Like
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: some of the things that I do because I get
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: to fear a lot is I'll do like a meditation
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: hypnosis to get out of fear and into faith or
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it spirituality. And in order
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: to do that, you can, you know, change your mindset
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: to really you know, better yourself and focus on the
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: next step and the right next thing and the next
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: right action. And I think that that can help a
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: little bit as well.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Thank you, but you got this.
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Good luck to you.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're doing an amazing works.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is very impressive. We have such
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: impressive Zoomer moms.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: We always do.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I'm always impressed. Great, Kim, welcome to the Mom's Club.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about yourself and you have
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: a question.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: So my name is Kimberly. I have two little girls
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: and I resonated with your story a lot. I was
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: an entrepreneur for the last thirteen years I've had my
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  Speaker 7: own business, but with having kids, it's it's just so
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: much harder, especially the age that mine are.
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  Speaker 4: They're two and a half eight months. Wow.
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  Speaker 7: So I guess I have two questions for you guys,
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  Speaker 7: how did you keep the balance between work life and motherhood?
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  Speaker 7: And then for Nicole, what made you decide that you
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: wanted to enter your mom's business?
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  Speaker 3: Good?
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  Speaker 4: Good question, Yeah, you go.
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  Speaker 3: So, to be honest, I'd never thought I would work
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  Speaker 3: for my mom or enter any type of design. I
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: actually went to school. I went to LMU, got a
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: bachelor's and journalism. I wanted to go into the news.
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  Speaker 3: And during the pandemic, it was like a hard time
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: for everyone and she needed help in the warehouse and
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: I had really nothing to do. I was just getting sober.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I started working in the warehouse, counting the inventory, and
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: then I was like, just you know, I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: do more. And I loved the environment, the work environment there.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of like female empowerment, and I was
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: getting empowered myself, so you know, I just kind of
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  Speaker 3: fell into it and I started really loving it growing up.
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  Speaker 3: She we moved a lot. We moved every single year,
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  Speaker 3: and she always had a different style in our house.
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  Speaker 3: So I think I kind of picked up the design
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  Speaker 3: style just like growing up. And you know, I started staging,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: fell in love with it, and it was like no
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: question ever since. I just knew it was the right
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: thing to do.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesome, Yeah, and I totally feel for you. I
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: know exactly what you're going through. Yeah, because my kids
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: are seventeen months apart, so it was very tough. But
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: you know what all I did was I worked until
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: three o'clock. I made and then I would pick them
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  Speaker 5: up from school, take them to ballet, basketball, baseball, whatever
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: it is, made dinner.
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  Speaker 4: And started again.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: It was a again a mindset for me. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: have a choice. I decided, you know what, I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to be involved and I wanted to do this and
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I even worked out and I had a great body
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: back then.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how I did that, but it's just.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: You know, the I think the one of the things
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: that is really important is to give yourself grace. Give
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: yourself grace, like tell yourself you're amazing, you got this.
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  Speaker 5: Like That's what I did every day, and I will
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: tell you I have an amazing life coach that got
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: me to stay on track. So I really believe, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: I'm telling all of you guys this. You know, at
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: fifty six years old, I've had a life coach or
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: two for many years because it helps me when I'm
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: going up here.
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  Speaker 4: It helps me to stay on track.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: It helps me to stay on track with my family,
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: with my stylists, with whatever it is in my life,
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: because you need someone else to talk to beside your
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: husband or your best friend or someone that is in that. Really,
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: I always say this, if that really has made the
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: difference in my life.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Did I also read that you do athletic you do kickboxing?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Wow, Now that takes a lot of fun.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: That's where I get my aggression out. Yeah, I'm like, yes,
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  Speaker 4: I got this, I got this.
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  Speaker 2: That's really good advice for someone who's just starting their
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: career and trying to balance a bunch of things at adulthood.
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  Speaker 4: Right right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Nicole, You're you're not a mom yet, no,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: thank god right now? And neither is Emily one of
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: our zoomer moms. So Emily, do you have another question
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: or a first question?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Hello, I'm Emily.
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  Speaker 2: I'm twenty three and I just graduated u CLA.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulated questions. That's amazing, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 7: I guess I'm wondering what your favorite part of working
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: together and just your job in general is.
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  Speaker 3: What's your favorite thing about it? That's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I would say my favorite part of working with my
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: mom is just that we have built such an amazing
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: thing together and just to see like that we've I
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: don't know, we've been able to like really grow the
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: company at least since I started here, right.
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  Speaker 4: And respect.
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  Speaker 5: We respect each other like crazy. I respect what she
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: brings to the company. She respect what I bring.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting. I think our relationship has gotten better since
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: we started working together because it is so challenging that
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: we've had to actually, like when we disagree with something,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: which we're not always gonna agree with everything. We have
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: to learn to communicate in a way where we can
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: hear each other, and I think as family members, sometimes
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: you don't hear each other when you talk. So that's
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: been like the biggest thing that's actually changed our relationship
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: and it's pretty incredible. Yeah, and then just the job
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: itself is super fun. I mean staging homes. I get
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: to meet a lot of celebrities, a lot of cool
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: people that I look up to personally, and just style
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: their home. It's just such a fun experience.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's great. So do you advise all families
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: just to work together like me? No? Obviously not.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Now most family businesses don't work.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: We're so impressive.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: That's why I've worked really hard because I have a
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: lot of family business in my distance families, and I
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: was like, no, if I'm going to do this.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I'm going to do it right.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: And also I want her to be successful. I want
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: her to be way more successful for me. I want
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: my son to be more successful than if. Whatever I
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: can teach them, I will. But you know, that's what
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: we're moms. We're here to guide, We're.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: Here to be there.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: We're here to sometimes get beat up on. I'm just kidding,
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: but it's you know. I mean, I can say I'm
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: super blessed. I mean, we went through a lot, but
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: I'm so blessed. I have amazing kids. They work very hard.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: They have old school morals, so they don't work like
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: you know until four, they.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Work like I do.
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  Speaker 5: They work a lot, but they love it. And that's
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: the difference. When you love something, you want to work
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  Speaker 5: at it, and I do want to. Yeah, And it's
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: not a race. I want to tell you, it's not
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: a race to be an adult. Like take your time,
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: find what you love. Like I never thought she was
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: going to work with me. Maybe you will be working
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: with your mom, maybe you won't, but like, take time,
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: time and really honor what you want.
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  Speaker 4: That's really important.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: And can't you come from like a divorced family, which
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: I know is a lot. It was really inspiring. I
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: think for me and my brother, the reason we have
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: such a hard work ethic is because we saw my
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: mom and my dad honestly working so hard to support us,
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  Speaker 3: Like it just gave us that mentality that, like, we
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: can do whatever we want. And then my mom's mindset
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: she definitely embedded into us from my early age as well. Well.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: It sounds like you're very lucky that you've got a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: awesome mom, an amazing mom, And good for you set
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: a good example because even when you got off the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: wrong track a little bit, you set the example to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: get everybody on the right track, which is what moms.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Because we're not perfect, none of it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Nobody wrote a book.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I'm this close to perfect, but I'm not there yet either.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: And it's a hard job. I mean, being a mom
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: is not easy, you know.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: So congratulations to all the moms out the Absolutely, that's.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Why we're great.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: This is amazing that you're doing so that moms have
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: somewhere to go. When I was pregnant, I had nowhere
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: to go. You know, there was no rule book or
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: book that even told me what to do. So congratulations, well.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Well where can they? Where can
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: our listeners find you all in your podcast and your business?
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: I never know, I hate.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: If you're looking for staging, you can go to EHS
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Elite Homestaging c A California dot com. If you want
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: to find us on Instagram, our Instagram handle is Elite
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Homestaging dot com not dot com sorry, just late homestaging.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: And Nicole Senia is my Instagram handle. Sam Senia is hers.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: And The Power of We Official is our podcast and
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: check it out.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: We would love that. And this has been so great.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much, and you check that out, ladies,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: and thank you Zoomer moms. You were all tremendous yea,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and thank.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: You for your questions.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Georgia. You know you got a special honor
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: your mother has never gotten before, which is to introduce
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: one of the Zoomer moms. So don't tell her that she's,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: you know, because then she'll start making demands on men.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I'm really quite ready for that.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: We want to thank our sponsors, the Beaman Hotel, which
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: has been amazing. They have hosted events for us in Dallas.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: We've had Mom's Club events, which we're going to do
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: all over the country Tennessee, Nashville, Colorado. We've got big
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: plans for them. And they're events that we have where
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: moms come together and get to know each other and
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: then the local vendors and people make donations and there's
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: some great prizes there. I actually did try to win
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: some at the last event, but I got caught, so
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to do that. But they're great prizes,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: which is why you absolutely want to come to those.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: And we also want to thank our sponsor, Newcom, which
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you Newcom has saved my relationship with your
• 41:50
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• 41:55
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• 41:59
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• 42:02
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• 42:04
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• 42:07
  Speaker 1: your subscription. It is well worth it. Check out new Calumn. Well, Georgia,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: this has gone by way too fast. I think it's
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: always so much fun. But we will be back next
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: time with celebrities and extraordinary moms just like you. We
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: know your me time is precious and valuable. Thank you
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: moms for spending it with us, Georgia. Our motto here
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: on the Mom's Club, and someday you'll appreciate it more
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: when you're a mom yourself. If you don't laugh, sometimes
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: you're gonna cry. So keep laughing. We'll see you next
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: time inside the Mom's Club