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Finding Strength Through Faith · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good afternoon, listeners. Thank you for coming on to
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  Speaker 1: Lament of Hope podcast. As you guys know, we always
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  Speaker 1: have so many interesting guests. And by the time this
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  Speaker 1: one comes out, we're nearing our 300th episode, which is
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  Speaker 1: really exciting. But I'm talking today with Jennifer Goff, who
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  Speaker 1: is the founder of Skip the Line. And I came
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  Speaker 1: across this business and I was just so intrigued. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, that pop-up bar that summer
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  Speaker 2: definitely kept me busy. And then once it ended, because
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  Speaker 2: it was just a pop-up short-term bar, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: had to find other lines to wait in, restaurant reservations, concerts.
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  Speaker 2: So that required a little more kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: R & D, doing some research, visiting those lines, telling
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  Speaker 2: people about myself. You know, a lot of those people
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  Speaker 2: were already hiring TaskRabbit, which I'm not sure if you're
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  Speaker 2: familiar with TaskRabbit. It's a company where you can hire
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  Speaker 2: them to do almost any type of task.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you could.
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  Speaker 2: Hire someone to help you build a bookcase. You could
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  Speaker 2: hire someone to wait in line. So that's where I
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  Speaker 2: started meeting all these other people that were already doing this. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was kind of just like seeing how
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  Speaker 2: we could really market with a very minimal marketing budget.
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  Speaker 3: If there even was one.
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  Speaker 2: Just through social media, word of mouth, different press that
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  Speaker 2: we were getting. So it was definitely difficult to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get it up and running to a point where
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  Speaker 2: we had consistent business.
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  Speaker 1: What would you say early on was a very odd
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  Speaker 1: encounter for you, waiting in line? Was there a strange
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  Speaker 1: thing you had to wait in line for or just
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  Speaker 1: really odd circumstance that happened that you had to.
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  Speaker 3: Not that I can remember.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's ever been anything odd because I
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  Speaker 2: really do like to talk to all of our clients
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  Speaker 2: and really get the gist of, hey, what is this?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we really know all the details.
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  Speaker 2: And I think maybe one of the more interesting ones
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  Speaker 2: was someone hired us to hold a parking space in D.C.
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  Speaker 4: So they like park our car in the space, like
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  Speaker 4: on the street. because they were older and they had
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  Speaker 4: to go to a graduation and they didn't want to
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  Speaker 4: have to park blocks away so we sat there in
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  Speaker 4: that space for you know three hours and then they
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  Speaker 4: came and we left the space and they took over
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  Speaker 4: the space so I would say that was like one
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  Speaker 4: of the more interesting requests.
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  Speaker 1: And do you what do you do at the time
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  Speaker 1: you wait.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So when I first, cause I, I actually don't wait
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  Speaker 2: in line anymore. Um, as the business owner, I've graduated
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  Speaker 2: and I do have a team, but I did spend
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time the first, you know, three years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I would say three years doing it myself. Um, And,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you can listen to podcasts. You
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  Speaker 3: can read.
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  Speaker 2: You can look things up on the internet. You can
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  Speaker 2: get some other work done if you're like, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: got some personal things that I need to take care
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  Speaker 2: of that I can do from my phone.
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  Speaker 3: I can use this time to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And even talking with other people in line because we do,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, we do like to be transparent that
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  Speaker 2: we're holding a spot. And once we mention that, people
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  Speaker 2: are intrigued and they want to start a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely. like did this help you at all with the,
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  Speaker 1: with the years that you were doing it where you
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  Speaker 1: had to wait? And it's so cool to say when
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  Speaker 1: you said you graduated, it's like so neat to say
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  Speaker 1: like now everyone else can do the waiting. Um, but
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  Speaker 1: did that like kind of transfer over to your own life? Like,
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  Speaker 1: do you find that waiting? Cause I mean, for, for me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to wait in general. And then on
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  Speaker 1: top of it, any situation where I'm put into having
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  Speaker 1: to wait just because our culture is usually so quick
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  Speaker 1: and fast anyway, I don't usually have to. So if
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  Speaker 1: something's taking a while, it's like odd. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand why we can't go faster. And it can get
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  Speaker 1: really frustrating. But I wondered for you, like, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: traveling around the world, so you're seeing different ways that
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  Speaker 1: people walk through life. And then coming here and waiting for...
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  Speaker 1: you know, free years waiting to, for other people. Um,
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  Speaker 1: has that helped you with just waiting in general or
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  Speaker 1: just things going slower? Like has that transferred over at all?