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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Heyo, Welcome to the Calm Down Podcast.
Speaker 1: I need to calm down. You know, since we're all
Speaker 1: working from home, while are we? I feel like you
Speaker 1: and I never did work from home, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you are working or were you on the zooms
Speaker 1: and you get the text or you get the emails
Speaker 1: right when you're supposed to be cheery and all sunshine E.
Speaker 1: That just happened to me. But it's go to But
Speaker 1: she's perfectly into side hustles. Exactly what Aaron's referring to
Speaker 1: is on your laptop where the message flies in half
Speaker 1: the time. I don't turn the notification off, so it's
Speaker 1: the dging like I'm that person in the background. And
Speaker 1: so when you see just the headline of the email
Speaker 1: come through and it's not news you want, well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into all of that. Welcome everybody to Calm
Speaker 1: Down Podcast this week. It is all about, as Aaron
Speaker 1: just mentioned, our side hustles, not to reduce them, by
Speaker 1: the way, these are full blown businesses, but we like
Speaker 1: to um affectionately and maybe humbly, refer to them as
Speaker 1: side hustles. Because we have a lot of different hats
Speaker 1: we wear, and this isn't you know, uh the Aaron
Speaker 1: and Charissa talk about how great they are podcasts, it's more. Um.
Speaker 1: We decided to have this podcast be about business because
Speaker 1: it's a constant quest that we have to grow our
Speaker 1: own businesses, to learn from other entrepreneurs, and just continue
Speaker 1: to be honest about a space that we're both new to.
Speaker 1: You've been in it a little bit longer. But before
Speaker 1: we get into all of that, how was your weekend,
Speaker 1: my sweetheart? I got a bunch of messages asking about
Speaker 1: you after our last podcast. I had a lot of
Speaker 1: people very um concerned and asking how you're doing. And
Speaker 1: I thought it was so sweet that you're so vulnerable
Speaker 1: with your your experience that you've been going through. Thank you. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I thought the UM, I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: my emails or yours. I don't think it's my mine. UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: sure deal, you know what are you gonna do? Um?
Speaker 1: I got a lot of great feedback, my husband and
Speaker 1: I both did, and that was very very sweet and
Speaker 1: thank you. I read everybody's d m s and got
Speaker 1: X messages and it was really really kind. Um. Good
Speaker 1: I am happy to report besides email I just got.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna let it affect me because you
Speaker 1: know why there were no loads of my weekend. I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you why the high of my weekend.
Speaker 1: And I talked to you earlier today and I told
Speaker 1: you a little bit about this. I had an amazing
Speaker 1: um energy spiritual healer osteopath come to my house on
Speaker 1: Saturday work on me because I just I had told you,
Speaker 1: you know, privately, and I'll say it here. I had
Speaker 1: never felt as in the dumps personally as I have
Speaker 1: felt over the last two weeks because of everything my
Speaker 1: husband and I had experienced. And listen, You've been there
Speaker 1: for me through my stocking, my cancer, everything, And I
Speaker 1: just like I never had COVID and I listened to
Speaker 1: you talk about COVID brain, I felt like I had
Speaker 1: COVID brain. Like I just I forgot words. I just
Speaker 1: I was just really slow and I was feeling really
Speaker 1: bad for myself. So I kind of had to get
Speaker 1: out of this. Um a line from Sex in the
Speaker 1: City movie my Mexicoma. Um, but I want to be
Speaker 1: in a Mexicoma and so I um talked to a
Speaker 1: dear friend, and she hooked me up with this woman
Speaker 1: and she was an angel. As soon as I talked
Speaker 1: to her on the phone, she was fabulous. As soon
Speaker 1: as she came to my house, she gave off a
Speaker 1: great vibe. I was telling you the things that she
Speaker 1: was doing. She you know, sat me down and kind
Speaker 1: of talked about things I wanted to improve on and
Speaker 1: things I do as a person, and that kind of
Speaker 1: taught her where to work on me on my body.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of ralph thing before? I have,
Speaker 1: as I've ralfed. I've actually ralfed like like a like
Speaker 1: a ralphing, like throwing up but not good. That's very different.
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with Ralphie from Christmas Story. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of delineations of Ralphie or Stephen, Ralph Andrews,
Speaker 1: my dad, Oh angel face. But what is the medical
Speaker 1: or like holistic reference you're making. I don't know. But um,
Speaker 1: I can't explain what I went through. Basically, she was
Speaker 1: working on things that I was feeling at the time
Speaker 1: from you know, what we had suffered over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, and my whole deal was fear, anxiety, and anger. Yep,
Speaker 1: there they are the three, the three that I am
Speaker 1: dealing with. And she said, like fear and anger were
Speaker 1: kind of located in your liver and your diaphragm. And
Speaker 1: she went in there and started digging. And this wasn't
Speaker 1: like a pampering, calming massage. This was going after your
Speaker 1: business inside, like trying to just work the inside of
Speaker 1: your body to help you have a release. I told you.
Speaker 1: She then worked on my jaw. I tightened up my jaw.
Speaker 1: I feel things in my chest and in my neck
Speaker 1: when I have anxiety. She literally put gloves on and
Speaker 1: worked the back of my mouth where I had tears
Speaker 1: coming down my eyes, just to kind of open me up.
Speaker 1: We did a meditation. We did all of that. But
Speaker 1: the one thing I wanted to tell you about. She
Speaker 1: has a company called sat Supply. It's drinking olive oil.
Speaker 1: She is Greek. If you look up sat Supply, you'll
Speaker 1: find Supply righting it down. She is very good looking. Um,
Speaker 1: I already have somebody I want to set her up with.
Speaker 1: And she she believes in drinking olive oil every single day.
Speaker 1: It's good for what was the word we said? Anti inflammation. Um,
Speaker 1: it's good for your skin. It's good for so many
Speaker 1: different things. Look it up on Instagram. It's not a plug.
Speaker 1: I did it this morning. You're supposed to savor it.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to sip it. It's supposed to help you
Speaker 1: out from the inside out. Listen, I love a product.
Speaker 1: I'll buy anything in the store, and i'll buy anything
Speaker 1: from a healer. You know, well, I've a couple of
Speaker 1: different things. When we spoke earlier, Um, I was really
Speaker 1: proud of you for doing that, because I feel like
Speaker 1: that's also something that was like outside your comfort zone,
Speaker 1: or maybe before any of this had happened, you weren't
Speaker 1: as open to doing so. I think that that speaks
Speaker 1: to a lot of things when we're going through traumas
Speaker 1: being you know, just sort of having an open mind
Speaker 1: about healing and not just suppressing it or being like
Speaker 1: it's fine, I'll get over it and whatever. So really
Speaker 1: working from the inside out. What I found was fascinating
Speaker 1: was the liver that that's what you care all of
Speaker 1: your anxiety? Is it anxiety? I think my anger and
Speaker 1: my fear anger and your fear there, And so I wonder,
Speaker 1: because I love a cocktail, I wonder if when that's happening,
Speaker 1: or like when your body is like trying to you know,
Speaker 1: hence why everything moves through your liver to like to
Speaker 1: talxify you. I wonder if it gets stored there. I'd
Speaker 1: love to learn more about it because I've always just
Speaker 1: been a person and I grew up this way where
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, if there's a problem, like just
Speaker 1: go for a run or go work out, and like
Speaker 1: you'll get over it kind of a thing, right and
Speaker 1: like get like some natural endorphins, which I do think
Speaker 1: is really helpful in you and I are both like
Speaker 1: this or it's like we feel better after we work out.
Speaker 1: But I would love to learn more about your experience
Speaker 1: because I think that even independent of not having you
Speaker 1: don't have to have gone through a trauma to have
Speaker 1: it be beneficial. So I think that that's great. I
Speaker 1: love that in listening to people that she works with
Speaker 1: and listen, everybody has like things that they've gone through
Speaker 1: in their life and it doesn't have to be a
Speaker 1: huge trauma. Like you said, it's just taking care of yourself,
Speaker 1: your inner self. We do so much in you and
Speaker 1: I said it, you know, we get our hair colored,
Speaker 1: we go to a facialist to work out religiously, we're
Speaker 1: really good, like I mean, get your eyelashes, get your botox,
Speaker 1: get anything done. But are you really working on the
Speaker 1: inside of yourself? I mean, it's just it makes a
Speaker 1: ten of sense. And it was, you know, the things
Speaker 1: she was saying to me, and the meditations we were
Speaker 1: doing and so forth, a lot of visualization, which helps me.
Speaker 1: Although I hate when you're sitting there and you're in
Speaker 1: a full blown meditation and you're like, ship, do I
Speaker 1: have to pick up the dry cleaning? This, go back
Speaker 1: to end go back to his end um? But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and she said, it's not like I'm telling
Speaker 1: you things you haven't heard before. It's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: a level list. She gave me a list. These are
Speaker 1: all the things, very long list I need to work on.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I was so thankful. I mean, she
Speaker 1: full blown angel. I loved her so much so she
Speaker 1: walked in our house. I made Jarrett help get her
Speaker 1: massage table out and everything here. He sat and talked
Speaker 1: to her for ten minutes. Of course he did, of
Speaker 1: course he did. Of course he did. Whether out she
Speaker 1: was hot. Jared is that guy that anybody that, hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going By the time you guys are done
Speaker 1: with like anybody that's walked in your home. He like
Speaker 1: knows her her birthday, her, He's so sweet. He's just
Speaker 1: such a good person. But I'm really happy that you
Speaker 1: had that experience and not now. I mean, I'm like,
Speaker 1: can I get her idea? Like I want to get
Speaker 1: in on all that action, all the goodness, and I
Speaker 1: needed for sure. Do you do this weekend? I'm in
Speaker 1: New York. I'm actually sweating currently because I've turned off
Speaker 1: the A C. It is seven thousand degrees here, which
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was that hot there already. It's
Speaker 1: not normally Kyle said, like, oh, it doesn't normally get
Speaker 1: this hot into like July or August. It's like I'm
Speaker 1: constantly sweating, Like no one needs all that. But I
Speaker 1: went for a run this morning and it's like that's
Speaker 1: what I'm into. The heat is when you want to sweat,
Speaker 1: and it's that good humidity. But I had a great weekend.
Speaker 1: I told you, um last week I felt like I
Speaker 1: wasn't being a great wife and I was being selfish
Speaker 1: and not really making it about my husband. So I
Speaker 1: took him on a little staycation. We went to a
Speaker 1: hotel and then of course I got in a fight
Speaker 1: with the manager because the one I'll call him out
Speaker 1: hotel they had to, like I know. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's like I don't want to get in a fight
Speaker 1: with the manager. I don't want to be that person
Speaker 1: because it also embarrasses Kyle where he's like, please stop,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm trying to be better about this.
Speaker 1: But if I pay for something, then I feel like
Speaker 1: I should get the equal service. And this will play
Speaker 1: into later like our own business things where it's like,
Speaker 1: if someone's going to pay for something, we want to
Speaker 1: provide them with the best product, the best servicing, whatever.
Speaker 1: So when I go to a nicer hotel and you're
Speaker 1: gonna spend your hard earn money. So anyways, before I
Speaker 1: could get in a full blown fight with the managers,
Speaker 1: like let's leave. So we left and he was able
Speaker 1: to rectify something and we had a great time and
Speaker 1: we hung out on a pool and like you look,
Speaker 1: having the pool top access in New York, like on
Speaker 1: a day, like you know, the weekends that we had
Speaker 1: was wonderful. So I enjoyed that. I will also, I
Speaker 1: haven't said this yet, I'm leaving New York. We're moving.
Speaker 1: We're moving to another place. I'll just say, who cares,
Speaker 1: I'll end up saying it anyways. Nashville. Yeah, between l
Speaker 1: A and Nashville, so we're both kind of you know.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I got the full on New
Speaker 1: York experience because of COVID this past year, and so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to soak it all up. And now New
Speaker 1: York like completely open. I went to Starbucks the other day,
Speaker 1: left the apartment, no mask in the elevator, no mask
Speaker 1: in Starbucks. I felt like a new person. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if l A is like that yet, is it. No?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm ready for that yet. But
Speaker 1: you're vaccinated. Yeah, yeah, And I just even though like
Speaker 1: a bunch of us, I know, you know, like when
Speaker 1: I say that a bunch of us went out yesterday
Speaker 1: it was a birthday party, one year old birthday party.
Speaker 1: Got a big noboo date with everybody tonight too, Well,
Speaker 1: you can't come, I know, someone said that to me.
Speaker 1: That's someone. A couple of people were like, why do
Speaker 1: you get like jealous of Aaron having other friends. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I was kind of kidding and kind
Speaker 1: of not, but it was more of the fact that
Speaker 1: like when your best girlfriends like hanging out with other people,
Speaker 1: you just want to be in on the action. So okay,
Speaker 1: by the way, they all want you to come. They
Speaker 1: they told me you're just not in town. I know,
Speaker 1: but well that's fun. Yeah, So we had a great
Speaker 1: weekend all the things. And New York. I mean you
Speaker 1: lived here for a couple of years, like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: so much to love about the city and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to soak it all up. The restaurant situation is, are
Speaker 1: you guys mostly inside or is it both in and out?
Speaker 1: What are they doing? Well? Similar to l A And
Speaker 1: I'm sure if other listeners, uh, you guys live elsewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works for you guys. But
Speaker 1: that expansion of the restaurant out into the street, that's
Speaker 1: huge here because there's so many like bike lanes and
Speaker 1: you know whatever bus lands or whatever that they turned
Speaker 1: into restaurant space and they're leaving them, which is cool.
Speaker 1: It's very European because they didn't do away with it,
Speaker 1: and so it's fun to sit outside and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just not I'm not like a
Speaker 1: New York or by like you know, I grew up
Speaker 1: on the West Coast, and so for me, it's like,
Speaker 1: why it's still fun and exciting as someone who's like
Speaker 1: hasn't lived here longer than a year, is like to
Speaker 1: go in Like each neighborhood has its own identity and
Speaker 1: its own vibe, So I'm into it. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I haven't told you? We did this past week.
Speaker 1: This was obviously after we taped a podcast last week.
Speaker 1: Joel Santos, our producer Chris and I worked with him. Um,
Speaker 1: he's wonderful and even more so wonderful because he's just
Speaker 1: as talented, but he also deals with our shenanigans. He
Speaker 1: is working on a special project right now with Tom Rinaldi,
Speaker 1: who joined Fox Sports last year. It was kind of
Speaker 1: towards it was during playoffs actually that he joined us.
Speaker 1: They were in town and asked if Jared and I
Speaker 1: would like to meet them for dinner. Met them for dinner.
Speaker 1: Jared had never met Tom before. So we go to
Speaker 1: dinner and it was so great. We were just saying
Speaker 1: we just wanted to be out. I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: sports because I was so done, you know, just being
Speaker 1: at home and being sad. We go out. My husband,
Speaker 1: he's obviously watched Tom Rinaldi. And for those of you
Speaker 1: who don't know Tom Rinaldi, I worked with him at ESPN.
Speaker 1: Chrissa did as well. He is the guy whenever you
Speaker 1: need to I mean, why am I meeting Tom Rinaldi
Speaker 1: after I've just been crying my brains out for two weeks?
Speaker 1: Great question, I just thought of it now. But he
Speaker 1: is the guy on college game day, during golf, during tennis,
Speaker 1: all of it. He has just the heartfelt, thoughtful, unbelievable
Speaker 1: features that they would provide. And now we're so excited
Speaker 1: to hear with us at box. Yes, full blown, full
Speaker 1: blown tears. So you know, we were excited to go out.
Speaker 1: We started, you know, having a couple of drinks. He started.
Speaker 1: It was like Jared Stole's E three sixty? What was
Speaker 1: your hardest hit? What was the worst loss you've ever had?
Speaker 1: Game seven against the Carolina Hurricanes was going to be
Speaker 1: his first Cup. He's really supposed up three anyways, um,
Speaker 1: and what was the moment, oh moment from the locker
Speaker 1: room after your game seven loss in the Stanley Cup
Speaker 1: finals that you remember that stands out to you. My
Speaker 1: husband was unbelievable. It was like a dating show. I
Speaker 1: learned things about his career as never knew. You know
Speaker 1: what he said, what did he remember after losing Game
Speaker 1: seven of this only kept finals? He was only in
Speaker 1: his second year, by the way, he said, all the
Speaker 1: older guys that will never win, a cop that never
Speaker 1: did and their young kids coming in the room. Again.
Speaker 1: Of course Jared said that, yeah, God, but leave it
Speaker 1: to Naldi to ask the questions that elicit the emotional reaction.
Speaker 1: I know. And Jared was talking about how he was
Speaker 1: a second year player. He's in Game seven, they're down
Speaker 1: by a goal, it's a minute left. He's out there
Speaker 1: to take the face off. He won the face off,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, bait, and I'm like, what happens? It
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was such a great dinner, but I
Speaker 1: felt exhausted afterwards. Emotionally, You're like, I've just been into
Speaker 1: your point. The documentary of Jared Stole's career, Oh God,
Speaker 1: what a guy Rinaldi. He does the second his voice,
Speaker 1: his voice is very much like Keith Morrison whenever I
Speaker 1: watched the Detective shows or like the Datelines. The second
Speaker 1: you hear that voice, like you know something's going to happen.
Speaker 1: So all good. I'm glad that you were able to
Speaker 1: have a great time and you're feeling better. We have
Speaker 1: a great podcast. We'd like to believe it's a great podcast.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, we're gonna talk all things business coming
Speaker 1: up next. We'll take a quick break and be right fast.
Speaker 1: Welcome Baver, how now brown Cow. What I was trying
Speaker 1: to say, because I'm a professional broadcaster is welcome back
Speaker 1: everybody to the Calm Down Podcast. Did you ever take
Speaker 1: voice lessons? No? But I should, and I know America
Speaker 1: wants me to. I don't. I've listened to my voice
Speaker 1: on this podcast. Howsers. Why what do you think wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Easily? I do have a Kardashian twang. I
Speaker 1: hate listening to people in my life that are like
Speaker 1: so like It drives me crazy. I don't hear that
Speaker 1: at all. From boy? Do I hear it? When I
Speaker 1: listen to this? You will tell you what I've learned.
Speaker 1: Oh I appreciate that, but I'll tell you what I've learned.
Speaker 1: Take a us I mean yeah, I mean Jesus, Chrissa.
Speaker 1: Let somebody else have a get a word in. Um. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: this is a calm down podcast, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: calm down about all things involving business. I have lean
Speaker 1: on my good friend Aaron, who has successful I'll say
Speaker 1: all the things and then she'll get weird and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: stop where no on my list. I'm learning to love myself.
Speaker 1: Oh angel face, that needs to be number one. Scott
Speaker 1: Thompson likes to say, you've got to be the president
Speaker 1: of your own fan club. So your wildly successful clothing
Speaker 1: line of Where. First of all, I love Where. And
Speaker 1: for people that don't know the when you spell out where,
Speaker 1: w E A R. The E A is in the
Speaker 1: middle of your name. Who came up with that name?
Speaker 1: Start from the beginning? Why did you want to start
Speaker 1: where amidst everything else that you had going on in
Speaker 1: your life? I came up with that after many many
Speaker 1: cocktails cheers. True story. So I was sitting in a
Speaker 1: hot tub with ALYSSA Green, my husband's teammate who was
Speaker 1: traded from Edmonton with him over to l A. And
Speaker 1: we were visiting our friends in Montana, and we were
Speaker 1: all kind of just sitting around and talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: side hustles, and you know, we had said there's I
Speaker 1: think then we were talking about going the season was
Speaker 1: starting back up. It was an all star break and
Speaker 1: what to wear and there's nothing to wear? And that
Speaker 1: just always stuck with me. And you know, I had
Speaker 1: worked college game day for all those years. I had
Speaker 1: been on those college campuses on a die hard Florida
Speaker 1: Gator fan from going to school there and being forty
Speaker 1: three and trying to wear something that's either team. You
Speaker 1: saw me like a couple of weeks ago, when you
Speaker 1: came around to my house, you're You're like, what are
Speaker 1: you wearing? I was like team issuing shorts and a hoodey,
Speaker 1: I look like a five year old. You get that.
Speaker 1: It looks great, felt great. So I just felt like
Speaker 1: there was a white space within the team apparel world
Speaker 1: that somebody like me who has a very tomboyish kind
Speaker 1: of fashion sense, somebody that wants to wear a hoodie
Speaker 1: that is actually comfortable and stylish. And basically watching my
Speaker 1: husband play, I wanted to cheer for him and where
Speaker 1: a King's gear or where a packer's gear or where
Speaker 1: Gator's gear and then be able to go to dinner
Speaker 1: in it. I felt like the gear that was out
Speaker 1: there was specifically like if you were tailgating or you
Speaker 1: were at the arena and you're or you're like wearing
Speaker 1: a jersey. Yeah, we're not wearing Yeah. So I just
Speaker 1: felt like there was a huge white space for it.
Speaker 1: And that Super Bowl came around and I went to it.
Speaker 1: It was in San Francisco, I think it was Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty and I was asked to host a women's
Speaker 1: NFL Shop event and I was going to talk XS
Speaker 1: and nose and break down the game and they actually
Speaker 1: asked me to wear the gear that was there, and
Speaker 1: I had said to my girlfriend Alyssa Green, I was
Speaker 1: just like, how am I going to wear this? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't even like this? So it was then and there. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: I went to dinner with a couple of people from
Speaker 1: my management team and we sat there and we started
Speaker 1: drawing it out and started talking about it and what
Speaker 1: could be the possibility. And we were at one of
Speaker 1: those tables is that you could write on, and I
Speaker 1: just grabbed a pen and I was messing around with
Speaker 1: my name and I said where and then you could,
Speaker 1: you know, do different we are and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. We took a picture of it and one
Speaker 1: of the girls that was at the table with us,
Speaker 1: her name's choral. She works for Smack Entertainment. She took
Speaker 1: a picture of it, you know, got it framed for me,
Speaker 1: so so I kind of went from there. But that's why,
Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to do it. I really felt
Speaker 1: there was a white space. But man, it took freaking forever.
Speaker 1: It took about five to six years for anyone to
Speaker 1: listen anything. That is, if you're the foremost authority, which
Speaker 1: you are as a female broadcaster in the space, why
Speaker 1: do you think if it was even that difficult for
Speaker 1: you to be heard? Why is that? Why are there's
Speaker 1: so many hurdles on your way to you know, a
Speaker 1: branding or whatever whatever the item or businesses. I think
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One people wanted to know if
Speaker 1: I would really get behind it. That's a big thing
Speaker 1: I've noticed when you're doing you know, when you're pushing
Speaker 1: a product, when you're pushing a company, when you're pushing
Speaker 1: an idea. We know you have a busy schedule. Aaron
Speaker 1: and christ how much are you really going to back it?
Speaker 1: That's what they asked us when we wanted to do
Speaker 1: this podcast. That was something that they brought up. Okay,
Speaker 1: but how much work are you really going to put
Speaker 1: into it right, um, you know, and you say I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put so much work into it, It's gonna be
Speaker 1: my baby, It's gonna be my heart and soul. People
Speaker 1: don't really believe it. Also, this has been tried before.
Speaker 1: I was told that a lot, but for some reason.
Speaker 1: And listen the fans Mike mulbile Hill. The fans are
Speaker 1: right down the middle. They are female and men. It
Speaker 1: is especially in the NFL, especially in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: So females really hadn't been catered to. That was something
Speaker 1: we were hearing a lot. And then they were just
Speaker 1: saying to us, Yeah, we know, we need to cater
Speaker 1: to our females. We just we kind of nothing had
Speaker 1: really worked, I mean had done. What's that are you
Speaker 1: meeting with the league? Like, what's that first meeting that
Speaker 1: you take. We did meet with the league. We actually
Speaker 1: met with people that had the actual license. First. We
Speaker 1: we met with a group that was already producing for
Speaker 1: the NFL and we met with them and we you know,
Speaker 1: getting in the door was kind of hard, and then
Speaker 1: you got to come up with a proposal, and then
Speaker 1: you got to come up with a present presentation that
Speaker 1: a proposal and money. Well, yeah, and then they have
Speaker 1: to go to the league, and then you have to
Speaker 1: meet who they want to design it and style it.
Speaker 1: And then it just never went anywhere, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of like dating somebody that you liked them and
Speaker 1: and sometimes they liked you and sometimes they didn't. I
Speaker 1: was just kind of getting led on for a couple
Speaker 1: of years, and finally I was like, this isn't working,
Speaker 1: This isn't working. We went another route to a manufacturer
Speaker 1: who had a license and was with the NFL, and
Speaker 1: we got really, really really close. Then they had a
Speaker 1: whole organizational change and the person who loved it, who
Speaker 1: was at the top, was gone. So then it kind
Speaker 1: of fell flat on its face. And I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you. I mean my manager, who is my partner
Speaker 1: with this whole thing, Conscience Shorts Marine, she works with
Speaker 1: Michael strayhand with Smack. I mean, we had our ups
Speaker 1: and downs. We had a lot of fights about this
Speaker 1: because when it was kind of dead and there was
Speaker 1: no heartbeat, I was still like, let's go, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go. And she's done a lot, obviously was Stray's
Speaker 1: line and working with the NFL. She's like, dude, when
Speaker 1: it's right, it will come. And I got sensitive about
Speaker 1: it and it really taught me how to work with
Speaker 1: her and how to work with other people because it's like,
Speaker 1: it's got to be the right time. And finally was
Speaker 1: it Houston, the New England Atlanta super Bowl? We had
Speaker 1: it in Houston. Fanatics was having a super Bowl party.
Speaker 1: Mike Gruben was having a party and Constant said to me,
Speaker 1: let's just go to the party. I was like, I
Speaker 1: have a production meeting. She's like, great, You'll be there
Speaker 1: for ten minutes and then get to your production meeting
Speaker 1: on time for the super Bowl the next two days.
Speaker 1: Side note. So yeah, run into the party. You know,
Speaker 1: there's all these celebrities there. Everybody's getting down. My husband's
Speaker 1: like going from buffet to buffet. I'm like, come on,
Speaker 1: I gotta meet Michael Reuben, Wizard of All, you know.
Speaker 1: I walked up to him, I introduced myself and I
Speaker 1: just said, hey, I'm Aaron Andrews, and when the super
Speaker 1: Bowl is all over, please just give me ten minutes,
Speaker 1: I'll fly myself to New York. I have a huge
Speaker 1: idea for a female clothing line. He had told me,
Speaker 1: I've heard it all before. I've heard it all before,
Speaker 1: That's what he said. Yeah, And he's like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: well we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Get
Speaker 1: a drink, and you know he had heard it all before.
Speaker 1: Long story short, I flew myself to New York a
Speaker 1: couple of months later, after I've done hounding constants, and
Speaker 1: away we went. And it went really really fast my
Speaker 1: first year. Why do you think it changed? Why do
Speaker 1: you what? What did you do? What changed? His? Good questions?
Speaker 1: Like why did he change his mind? I sat in
Speaker 1: front of him in this meeting and I basically as
Speaker 1: I either said, like diarrhea of the mouth or puke
Speaker 1: of the mouth. I just kind of showed him my excitement.
Speaker 1: I just kind of went after it. I just puked
Speaker 1: on the table and said, this is what I want,
Speaker 1: this is what I can do. This is the power
Speaker 1: of smack, this is the power of what I can do. Like,
Speaker 1: let us try this, let us try this, and I
Speaker 1: don't remember. I think they thought about it for a
Speaker 1: minute and then it got harder. From there. He paired
Speaker 1: us with a man, a facturer that didn't work, and
Speaker 1: they weren't interested. And finally one day I just called him.
Speaker 1: I was actually laying on this couch behind me, and
Speaker 1: I'm so frustrated and I called him and I just
Speaker 1: I think I started crying. I was like, I know,
Speaker 1: we're so close to something, and it's like Julie Roberts,
Speaker 1: I have all of this and no one, no one
Speaker 1: will help me, and I have addressed for dinner tonight tonight.
Speaker 1: He called it a favor to a manufacturer, and away
Speaker 1: we went. And from there, gosh, we could write a
Speaker 1: book about it, and still could. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you this and then I want to
Speaker 1: get onto your route and we can go back and forth. Um, Ali,
Speaker 1: what is Ali loves or it's not Ali Love, that's Peloton.
Speaker 1: What's Ali's last name? From dry Bar? I know Ryan's
Speaker 1: locating up right now. Yeah, I I know I might
Speaker 1: feel bad. I'm blanking. I'm so, I'm I'm blaming my
Speaker 1: forgiveness and grief mind right now. I wish I could
Speaker 1: help you. The creator of dry Bar, I Ali Webb.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ryan, love you, um Ryan, our producer. I
Speaker 1: saw her she was getting her hair done when I
Speaker 1: was getting my hair done with Justina Anderson one day,
Speaker 1: and this was before we had signed a deal. This
Speaker 1: was before anyone was listening. And I told her about this,
Speaker 1: and I just said, look, I have this idea. And
Speaker 1: I said, how did you do it? How did you
Speaker 1: break down the door from dry Bar? How did you
Speaker 1: do all this? And she said it was exactly like you.
Speaker 1: I would sit in boardroom after boardroom and tell them
Speaker 1: of this idea of dry bar I had, and all
Speaker 1: these men would look back at me and say, that
Speaker 1: sounds like a hair salon. There's already a lot of those.
Speaker 1: Why do we need this? And she said Finally, one
Speaker 1: day somebody gave me my shot, and my friend Justin Anderson,
Speaker 1: who's a hairstyle said, and how much money do you
Speaker 1: have in your bank account now? Because she well, I've
Speaker 1: got her products. I mean, I'm glad no her first name. Now,
Speaker 1: I've never met her, but I used all the dry
Speaker 1: Bar products, for the dry shampoos and for all the
Speaker 1: other things. So yeah, all it takes is that one.
Speaker 1: And for you, it just sounds like that honest conversation
Speaker 1: that you had in order for everyone to feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're passionate about this. Exactly exactly. But her message was
Speaker 1: if you believe in it, if you know it's gonna work.
Speaker 1: Keep knocking those doors down. And look, I mean we've
Speaker 1: had a lot of Heisman's put in our face, a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, hands to the face man, not
Speaker 1: so much. We still are, we still are fighting the fight.
Speaker 1: But that's because we believe in the products so much.
Speaker 1: We believe in the reach that we have. And there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of nasty things said along the way,
Speaker 1: but I kind of use those as my Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: chips on my shoulder. You know, I'll always remember them.
Speaker 1: They feel my fire. I'm not going to keep them
Speaker 1: in my liver though I know you're not. You're not, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not, because you know what happens. It comes out
Speaker 1: as cystic acne right here. And so I just got
Speaker 1: one of those this morning, and I um, I was
Speaker 1: so excited. I got it out very easily. Normally, you
Speaker 1: know the jawline. That's an excessive amount of chest asterone
Speaker 1: I'm told weird. But anyways, it's hard, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get them going. But believe in yourself. Keep knocking those
Speaker 1: doors down, and you know, you have to believe that
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. But don't give up. Don't give up.
Speaker 1: Let's go to House and home and then we and
Speaker 1: keep this going. What made you want to do this?
Speaker 1: And don't say you were bored. You have a talent
Speaker 1: for this. Well, I very much appreciate that. And your
Speaker 1: endorsement means a lot, and I know your space means
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, you've let me come into the
Speaker 1: aforementioned warehouse and a house that you built with this
Speaker 1: amazing clothing line to you know, sort of literally house
Speaker 1: your business. So you've allowed me to come in there
Speaker 1: and do a little bit here and there. In terms
Speaker 1: of design, the impetus of house and Home for me
Speaker 1: was based around the idea that I've always believed. And
Speaker 1: this is whether I lived in a dorm room or
Speaker 1: I lived in my shitty one bedroom apartment or my
Speaker 1: first house I ever bought. I always believed that your
Speaker 1: space is your sanctuary. And so no matter how much
Speaker 1: money you do or you don't have, you should love
Speaker 1: where you live and you should be proud to open
Speaker 1: the door and who's ever coming over. You shouldn't have
Speaker 1: to make an excuse of like, oh, sorry but this
Speaker 1: isn't or sorry but this isn't this. So for me,
Speaker 1: it was no matter where I lived. I I never
Speaker 1: got my deposits back in any places I lived because
Speaker 1: I was always painting the walls. I was like hanging pictures.
Speaker 1: I was doing all the things. But I really do
Speaker 1: believe that your home is your sanctuary and with like
Speaker 1: to drown out all the exterior noise when you walk
Speaker 1: in the door, you have to love the space. So
Speaker 1: during COVID, you know, I was thinking about different ways,
Speaker 1: and everyone was in their home and not allowed to
Speaker 1: go anywhere else. So this idea that I always had
Speaker 1: to do a virtual design company kind of came to be.
Speaker 1: And I'm very much like you, like once I get
Speaker 1: something in my head, like there's no stopping us. Um now,
Speaker 1: sure there's a lot of stop signs along the way,
Speaker 1: but if someone wasn't going to help me or you know,
Speaker 1: I originally was going to do this with somebody else,
Speaker 1: and I gave her till midnight to decide if she
Speaker 1: was going to do it. She twelve oh one came,
Speaker 1: she hadn't responded. I wrote her message. I said we're
Speaker 1: done here, and I just think for you, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: ended up being such a huge blessing. But that's the thing,
Speaker 1: like from me and I would say to anyone listening
Speaker 1: that's thinking about starting a company, or you know, even
Speaker 1: just an idea that they have about a product, anything.
Speaker 1: Just keep going. Look, House and Home is very new,
Speaker 1: and it's literally like in utero, as I like to say,
Speaker 1: it's like it doesn't even spawned into its infancy yet.
Speaker 1: There's so many things I want to do with it.
Speaker 1: But first and foremost, I appreciate people like yourself, not
Speaker 1: just because we're friends, but like believing in you know,
Speaker 1: having something outside of sports that we love to do.
Speaker 1: I heard, actually Kim Kardashian talked about this the other day.
Speaker 1: She was doing some interview, and everyone's always like all
Speaker 1: the Kardashians, like we have to stop that. They have
Speaker 1: been relevant for twenty years. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear that it's like, oh, it's just a reality show
Speaker 1: or she just had a sex tape. Like there's been
Speaker 1: twenty years of equity and business led by Chris Jenner
Speaker 1: that has proven that these women can sell ship and
Speaker 1: there's no coincidence that Kylie whatever you think of whatever,
Speaker 1: is a billionaire and that Kim and even getting her
Speaker 1: law degree, like you can be She was giving a
Speaker 1: talk and she said something about somebody had messaged her
Speaker 1: and said like stay in your lane, and how it
Speaker 1: was so motivating for her because it was very similar
Speaker 1: to you know, the phrase to shut up and dribble,
Speaker 1: Like athletes are just supposed to be athletes, they can't
Speaker 1: be anything more. And so anyways, the tangent here is
Speaker 1: wh where it's starting a company, like where or from
Speaker 1: me with House and Home. I believe in being multifaceted,
Speaker 1: and I really really admire the business side of things.
Speaker 1: I definitely don't know as much as I want to know.
Speaker 1: How could we We didn't go to school for that. No.
Speaker 1: I bought a book the other day how to Start
Speaker 1: a company, actually said how to start a business or something,
Speaker 1: and I put it in in the office. I mean like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna figure this out as I go.
Speaker 1: But I also didn't go to school to be a broadcaster.
Speaker 1: You know. I've figured that out with internships. So for
Speaker 1: anyone listening or cares to know about an entrepreneurial start,
Speaker 1: I would say, if you have an idea like you
Speaker 1: did with where or if I did with House and Home,
Speaker 1: believe in it and work your ass off. That's the
Speaker 1: part where I am like the emails or the inquiries
Speaker 1: or things like that, or crying half the time because
Speaker 1: I just want my clients to be happy. I think
Speaker 1: it has to come from a genuine place of desire
Speaker 1: to want to keep doing and juggling right of like
Speaker 1: prioritizing your life. So yeah, it's been really fun. I'm
Speaker 1: really I'm really motivated by the potential of what this
Speaker 1: can be. So yeah, what's here's my tom or Naldi voice.
Speaker 1: What Harissa, what's been your biggest struggle so far with
Speaker 1: the house and home? Thank you. That's a great question, Aaron.
Speaker 1: It's the lack of time, I think. And I'm not
Speaker 1: very good at delegating because I will pass off. I
Speaker 1: have a couple wonderful employees and i'll pass in. Some
Speaker 1: stuff I do pass off, like the administrative stuff, like
Speaker 1: I'm not good at sitting on the phone with CB
Speaker 1: two and returning a vase that's broken for three hours.
Speaker 1: I'm just not good at it. But I'm good with
Speaker 1: that with my own clothes, I mean, right. But it's
Speaker 1: this control that I want to have because I do
Speaker 1: want it to be right, and I want to um
Speaker 1: as the face like the company, and like the company
Speaker 1: is my own I think I have to learn to
Speaker 1: relinquish some control and trust that other people can execute
Speaker 1: it as well. So I'm learning to do that. But again,
Speaker 1: like I said, this is so new that hopefully that
Speaker 1: comes over time. And um, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: many reasons we wanted to start this podcast was to
Speaker 1: talk to you know, other women that have done this,
Speaker 1: Whitney Herd or now hopefully we can maybe get Ali
Speaker 1: web on here, but to just hear their stories and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to just be women, of course, like
Speaker 1: men that have been very successful in their entrepreneurial space.
Speaker 1: I was actually reading today about Jeff bezos is announcement
Speaker 1: that he's going to space with his company. Um, like,
Speaker 1: here's a guy that just dominated Amazon, created the greatest
Speaker 1: company probably that history will say it was ever invented,
Speaker 1: and now here he is going to space with his
Speaker 1: other companies. So talk about reinvention. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: a guy that continues to not just stay in his lane.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's going to space and he's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not only going to start a
Speaker 1: space company, but I'm gonna be the first person in
Speaker 1: the spaceship. So that's crazy. But um, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Are you enjoying the process of where or is it
Speaker 1: create more frustrations than joy. That's exactly what I was
Speaker 1: just about to ask you. What has brought you joy
Speaker 1: with house and home? Um? Yeah, no does. It's a lot.
Speaker 1: And I think it's because in this hey good problems
Speaker 1: to have. It's moving so fast right now and we
Speaker 1: have to give up. Sorry, I don't want to interrupt
Speaker 1: you. You You have all the leagues except baseball, right we're
Speaker 1: just waiting from MLB, which is amazing. It's amazing and
Speaker 1: you think that, oh, you have all the leagues, but
Speaker 1: then you're like, but wait, there's how many teams in
Speaker 1: each league? Right? And we want each team to feel special,
Speaker 1: and we want each league to feel special. And we,
Speaker 1: by the way, are a very small company that is
Speaker 1: trying to make this work. And I think, what, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do have a lot of joy. It's very cool.
Speaker 1: I need to part of on my checklist. One of
Speaker 1: the things I need to step back and do is
Speaker 1: actually enjoy what you've done. But I do believe what
Speaker 1: has made me so successful is I don't stop now.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that could really hurt you when you need to.
Speaker 1: I eat the last two weeks, but um, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: I just I know that we can be better. I
Speaker 1: also have a lot of fear that when foot all begins,
Speaker 1: my focus and my energy and my time goes to
Speaker 1: my job that pays the bills and my true love.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I'm allowed to have whear is
Speaker 1: because of my NFL broadcasting career. So I just like
Speaker 1: little potholes that I, you know, fell into two seconds
Speaker 1: before we started recording this podcast. I don't know why
Speaker 1: that happened, and I'm confused why it happened, and we
Speaker 1: need to find out so we're well oiled when I
Speaker 1: get going in three week months for the NFL season.
Speaker 1: But it's so much learning, you know, it just really is.
Speaker 1: And that's why I asked Kevin Hart one time, and
Speaker 1: I'm curious with straight to who's a friend of ours?
Speaker 1: Just the thoughts in your head? How do you just
Speaker 1: calm them down? You know? Like I just I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm always making to do list because I have
Speaker 1: so many things to check up on. You're a really
Speaker 1: good to do list person, and you're handwriting is so
Speaker 1: good like my to do look at itself like scribble.
Speaker 1: You're very very good penmanship. And list. But I was
Speaker 1: as you were talking, I was thinking about Bill Belichick's
Speaker 1: voice in my head and it was do your job, right.
Speaker 1: I remember working out um what Rando Cincinnati. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just joking, No, No, I was thinking about got it um,
Speaker 1: Randy Moss when I used to work with Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what was it like playing for
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick? And he was like, it's exactly what you think.
Speaker 1: That everyone just like his whole model. It's whether it's
Speaker 1: on their Super Bowl rings of do your job. If
Speaker 1: you're the wide receiver, just run the route. You're the quarterback,
Speaker 1: distribute the ball. If you're the running back, run the ball.
Speaker 1: If you work in the kitchen and the cafeteria, you
Speaker 1: don't need to weigh in on what plays we should
Speaker 1: be calling on the on the sideline. Do your job.
Speaker 1: And so I think that in business there's the aspect
Speaker 1: of delegation going. Hearing myself talk about relinquishing some of
Speaker 1: that control. Is that if it is someone's job to
Speaker 1: do whatever in your company and they don't do it,
Speaker 1: then there's you know, then call them out, then you know,
Speaker 1: asked them to be better. Things like that. I remember
Speaker 1: my dad telling me a story about management, right, that is,
Speaker 1: you have to do the things that even if you
Speaker 1: don't want to do them, you're as the owner of
Speaker 1: the company, you'll have to do. My dad owned the
Speaker 1: car dealerships and all the all the sales salespeople were
Speaker 1: like huddled around, and he's like, why are these guys
Speaker 1: not selling cars? What's going on? So he walks outside
Speaker 1: and he goes, what the hell's going on here? And
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I forget the guy Steve's phone fell
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. He took a ship, and now the
Speaker 1: phones in the in the toilet and they don't know
Speaker 1: how to get it out. My dad goes, what the
Speaker 1: fun He goes in, he puts his hand in the toilet,
Speaker 1: takes the cell phone out, grows it at the guy,
Speaker 1: gross washes his hand. He goes, now, sell some fucking cars.
Speaker 1: And it was this idea of like, if it's yours,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear what's happening. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear excuses, get the phone, wash your hands, sell
Speaker 1: some cars. So I think that hopefully, um, I know,
Speaker 1: I think about this as my company hopefully continues to
Speaker 1: grow and yours grows even further that it's delegation. It's
Speaker 1: allowing other people to do their job, and when they don't,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get called out for it, because you're the
Speaker 1: person who will call yourself out if you're not doing
Speaker 1: it right. If you don't show it for a game
Speaker 1: and you don't have you don't throw Joe and Troy
Speaker 1: I throw it down to you at halftime and you're
Speaker 1: not there. You can't be like, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: got stuck in the elevator and like that was so weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: guess what. You need to be on the sideline for
Speaker 1: your hit and do your job. So anyways, I am
Speaker 1: just super excited to hopefully have this podcast as a
Speaker 1: platform to talk to other entrepreneurs and people who have
Speaker 1: been wildly successful in their respective spaces so we can
Speaker 1: be motivated and learn and hopefully grow our own company.
Speaker 1: Before you wrap up, I want to do House and
Speaker 1: Home some justice here. Why don't you tell people exactly
Speaker 1: what it is so if they're interested, I love you,
Speaker 1: they could make you have even than your aunts. Yea,
Speaker 1: I love you so much, Thank you so much. The
Speaker 1: House and Home is a virtual design company can also
Speaker 1: be in home if you are in whatever respective city
Speaker 1: I mean at the time, whether that's Los Angeles or uh,
Speaker 1: New York, Nashville exactly. So the idea being is I
Speaker 1: can design your space from anywhere. You send me floor plans, measurements,
Speaker 1: inspiration photos, and then with things like Amazon and Target
Speaker 1: and all these delivery services, I can design your space
Speaker 1: from afar. So the conceit of that was during COVID,
Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to be at anyone's home, but then
Speaker 1: realized that that model does actually work. And if you
Speaker 1: want affordable design, because that's the other thing is interior
Speaker 1: design services are very, very expensive, and a lot of
Speaker 1: designers mark up all their stuff. I'm not interested in
Speaker 1: doing that. I want you to just have a beautiful home,
Speaker 1: pay a set price, and then ensure that you can
Speaker 1: have access to a home that maybe you never thought
Speaker 1: you would have had, and you want people to come
Speaker 1: over and you feel proud of your space, whether you
Speaker 1: have a little or a lot of money. So how
Speaker 1: interested is Jared Stolen in interior designers markup, especially on
Speaker 1: salt and pepper shakers. I mean this guy, when I
Speaker 1: went into where and I was doing a little space
Speaker 1: in there, your husband was so incredible he was picking up.
Speaker 1: He goes, how much is this? How much is I
Speaker 1: just love him so much. He is the king of
Speaker 1: a checklist. He had a checklist and he was like
Speaker 1: going through all the items. What a guy that Jared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a true We're gonna pay some bills so hopefully
Speaker 1: we can continue to do this podcast for a long time.
Speaker 1: We will be back with more Calm Down podcast right
Speaker 1: after this. I'm a chain one of my favorite lines
Speaker 1: from Steel Magnolias. As we welcome you back to the
Speaker 1: Calm Down Podcast. That's when Dolly Parton's hair salon, she
Speaker 1: becomes a chain. I think that goes very well with
Speaker 1: our discussion talking ab outside hustles. I will be honest,
Speaker 1: I haven't been great about the i G. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get back on it, but you should check out
Speaker 1: the Calm Down Podcast on Instagram. Tampa Bay Lightning. They're
Speaker 1: crushing it. But I'm not going to talk about them
Speaker 1: anymore on Calm Down Podcast. Someone you know, it's k
Speaker 1: Perustition didn't help you with your betting. It didn't keep
Speaker 1: putting in your d m s because I'm reading them all.
Speaker 1: I read them all. The other day we put a
Speaker 1: question out there or ask people to ask us questions
Speaker 1: about our side hustle, and we have them now, Lady,
Speaker 1: we sure do so, which we appreciate by the way
Speaker 1: you guys asking questions, because look, this is a podcast
Speaker 1: for everyone. First question we got was this is from
Speaker 1: Meg's oh way O eight. Thank you, Megan. How do
Speaker 1: you bucket slash organize your time when having multiple businesses
Speaker 1: slash side hustles. I think that's a great one for you, Aaron,
Speaker 1: who has seventy five jobs. I probably you know what.
Speaker 1: I don't do it well. I don't do it well
Speaker 1: right now. When I don't have conference calls with teams
Speaker 1: to get to, or planes to get to, or games
Speaker 1: to get to, I feel like my days go faster now.
Speaker 1: I feel like when it's game day or game week,
Speaker 1: I do a better job of organizing it. But obviously,
Speaker 1: for me, first listen, Fox is my priority. I know
Speaker 1: I have to deal with where, and I have to
Speaker 1: deal with other things that I have going on in
Speaker 1: my life, but they fit in. I look to see where,
Speaker 1: you know my schedule, what it's going to be like
Speaker 1: that week when I'm traveling. You know when our ofference
Speaker 1: calls are going to be and then we try to
Speaker 1: fit everything in from there, a lot of text messages,
Speaker 1: a lot of like calls where you try to fit
Speaker 1: in everything at once so you don't have calls throughout
Speaker 1: the day with where and everything like that. You just
Speaker 1: have to be really, really smart. And then by the way,
Speaker 1: you have to deal with having a family and a
Speaker 1: home and a husband. And when it's making them phone down,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, and not making them feel
Speaker 1: like they're last on the totem pole. When I think
Speaker 1: you and I do this, I know that when it
Speaker 1: is especially for you and you have two games during
Speaker 1: the week, you are very honest with Jared about maybe
Speaker 1: where he falls on the priority list, and he's like,
Speaker 1: but like, he's also really awesome about understanding that's your
Speaker 1: busy time, right, So when it is the off season,
Speaker 1: you make a point or a concerted effort. I'm like
Speaker 1: talking to you, I'm like, where are you at? You like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go stru because I'm gonna make dinner
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be a good wife. And half the
Speaker 1: weekend I put my phone on airplane mode so I
Speaker 1: could ensure that I was being an active listener. When
Speaker 1: Kyle was talking or doing something so that it's good.
Speaker 1: So it's just prioritizing. And then since we do work technically, seasonally,
Speaker 1: you much more than I do, as my responsibilities are
Speaker 1: only one day a week, So yeah, seasonal prioritizing for
Speaker 1: Miss andrews Um. Next question comes to us from she says,
Speaker 1: working for six years and I hate everything about my job.
Speaker 1: Is this normal? Or do I start a side hustle?
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think before you start a
Speaker 1: side hustle, you should worry about making yourself happy with
Speaker 1: your job. I know that I had said, and I
Speaker 1: forgot where I was that somebody was asking us about
Speaker 1: doing this for a living. Oh, I was doing a
Speaker 1: Sideline reporter panel last week. I just said, you have
Speaker 1: to love it, because if you don't love it, you're
Speaker 1: not going to be able to live this life. I
Speaker 1: have missed all the holidays. I've missed Christmas, I missed Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: I missed birthdays. I lost friends because I couldn't be
Speaker 1: in their weddings because they wanted me to be a
Speaker 1: bridesmaid week and that Alabama ls you got, you know,
Speaker 1: was playing like who gets married? When du Carolina plays?
Speaker 1: That's your freaking problem. You're mine. I'm working it. You know.
Speaker 1: By the way, Coach k love you great. He was
Speaker 1: always the best to deal with um anyways. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you you have to love it, so I would say,
Speaker 1: and I know, my olive oil drinking self would say, Julia,
Speaker 1: you gotta figure out what's going to make you happy
Speaker 1: with this job before you do a side hustle, because
Speaker 1: that's a lot of work. And if you're not happy
Speaker 1: with your real job, well, I don't know about bringing
Speaker 1: more in. What do you think about that? I mean,
Speaker 1: apparently I'm a therapist, you know. Well, hey, I'll sit
Speaker 1: on your couch any day, sister. And I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at my olive oil that I'm buying after I get off.
Speaker 1: Where are we buying that olive oil? I need it?
Speaker 1: On her site? I think on the Instagram. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: peppery taste to it. You've really ignited a flame in
Speaker 1: me to to take care of myself from the inside out. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I would say to Julia this, I get you
Speaker 1: have to pay your bills. So I think the best
Speaker 1: time to look for a job, sister, is when you
Speaker 1: have one. So if you say to yourself, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't like my job. But I know that I'm using
Speaker 1: this job to get to the next job. Then maybe
Speaker 1: that can keep you motivated to keep going to that
Speaker 1: job with a good attitude, because in the back of
Speaker 1: your mind, when your boss is being an asshole or anything,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, I'm fucking leaving this company anyways, I
Speaker 1: hate you so much, thank you for my paycheck. So
Speaker 1: I would say stay in your job, but informulate a
Speaker 1: plan to get out of it, because sometimes this haphazard
Speaker 1: thing of like fuck it, I'm just gonna quit my job,
Speaker 1: and then now you're depressed because you can't pay your bills.
Speaker 1: So being responsible, have a game plan while you still
Speaker 1: have a job. And going back to what Aaron has
Speaker 1: talked about and I've talked about, is that what is
Speaker 1: your passion outside of sports? By passion is home renovation.
Speaker 1: So build a company or build an idea around something
Speaker 1: you're genuinely passionate about and be patient with it. But
Speaker 1: you still got to pay your bills. Um. Next question
Speaker 1: comes to us from Ashley twitch Shell, who is so sweet.
Speaker 1: I actually love this question. She said, how to be
Speaker 1: confident while talking to a new customer while being genuine
Speaker 1: and likable. So I'll start with this one. You just
Speaker 1: because I have like, yeah, I don't yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: yeah like commerce, but that um, that idea of I
Speaker 1: genuinely want to make them happy, So it's not hard
Speaker 1: for me to want to be kind to them. Um
Speaker 1: do I get frustrated sometimes when a client will say
Speaker 1: I want this, this, this, and this, and then I
Speaker 1: give them this, this, this, this and this and then
Speaker 1: they go, you know what, I don't like that, and
Speaker 1: I go, now, I got to redo it all. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: as someone who's worked in retail a lot in my
Speaker 1: life and I worked at Orchestram's, the customer is always right,
Speaker 1: and I want those people to keep coming back and
Speaker 1: I want them to tell their next three friends that, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, I was a pain. I changed my mind,
Speaker 1: but Charissa was so patient, and so I'm willing to
Speaker 1: take the hits on the front end of this thing
Speaker 1: and know that it's a lot more work for me.
Speaker 1: But my reputee Ashner House and homes reputation um is
Speaker 1: far superior to the annoyances in my opinion. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I deal with clients more directly, but I know that
Speaker 1: like when someone tags wear in a picture, they're wearing
Speaker 1: a sweatshirt or you know all that stuff, Like, doesn't
Speaker 1: that make you feel proud? You know, that's like your
Speaker 1: product is on someone's back or in their drawer or
Speaker 1: purchased by them, you know, oh my gosh. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: and just the fact that they would even look us
Speaker 1: up and then put their credit card number down to bias. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's all very like it's an emotional experience for me.
Speaker 1: And they're so excited to tag me on their Instagram,
Speaker 1: so I'll put it up, which I love doing, and
Speaker 1: it's really cool. I think. One of the couple of
Speaker 1: pinched me cry moments I've had was one of the
Speaker 1: Hunt daughters wearing a Chiefs sweater at the owner of
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Bills. Yeah, the owner of the Chiefs after
Speaker 1: they beat the Bills in the a f C Championship.
Speaker 1: She's like in the confetti doing you know, snow angels
Speaker 1: and she's holding you know, the trophy and she was
Speaker 1: saying her wear sweater was good lack. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like that. And then Camille, we love Camille Um. Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski's girlfriend was doing star jumps good luck star jumps
Speaker 1: into a beanie bag as she was watching I think
Speaker 1: it was like the New Orleans It was yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and she had her tight eye shirt on and she
Speaker 1: just couldn't be cuter and sweeter with all of that.
Speaker 1: And um, I was where I think, I know you
Speaker 1: know this. I was working a it was our last
Speaker 1: game of the year regular season. It was Giants and
Speaker 1: Giants Cowboys, and um, I was doing a stand up
Speaker 1: and I got a FaceTime or I got a call
Speaker 1: and I just put it on mute. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't have time for this. It was Giselle face
Speaker 1: timing me in one of our Bucks shirts, and I
Speaker 1: was like, if I missed it, But she took a
Speaker 1: picture of her face timing me, so that was pretty
Speaker 1: fabulous too. Yes, all those things are pinched me moments.
Speaker 1: And while we don't deal with the customer directly, when
Speaker 1: they show us that they're wearing our stuff, it does
Speaker 1: mean a lot to our team. And I know that
Speaker 1: it makes it a lot easier when you get emails
Speaker 1: or text messages when things go wrong, to remember why
Speaker 1: you're doing it in the first place. Sure, and it
Speaker 1: always happens right. You have to deal with all these
Speaker 1: kind of like struggles and conflicts to make the company better.
Speaker 1: So um yeah, it's just sometimes it's like why why
Speaker 1: did this happen with anyone going to look into this?
Speaker 1: Or did I need to do this? Um? So yeah,
Speaker 1: but delegation. Yes, well a few things as we wrap
Speaker 1: up here, I you know, evidenced by the questions that
Speaker 1: we got um there, and there's some more we just
Speaker 1: start out of time. But I love getting questions from
Speaker 1: you guys. I know Aaron feels the same, and so
Speaker 1: whatever you guys ask us kind of dictates what we'll
Speaker 1: talk about. So don't forget d M Instagram account. And
Speaker 1: then also, um, if you have any specific questions as
Speaker 1: it pertains to business. Again, I'm a nubie in this space.
Speaker 1: Aeron's further down the line, but we'll both keep kicking
Speaker 1: the can and we'll be here for you guys every
Speaker 1: single week. This has calmed down podcast. Aaron, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this, drink your juice, Shelby, and by that, I
Speaker 1: mean you're alive, Oil, I love you, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: to keep smiling. We've been juicing too in our house
Speaker 1: as well. We're doing green juice all of the thing.
Speaker 1: Can you see that green juice on that table there?
Speaker 1: It is. Have a question, how do you make it
Speaker 1: not so clumpy? Like we're do we add more water?
Speaker 1: It's very clumpy. You need that better juicer. It's all
Speaker 1: about Max. Oh okay, well we'll talk about that and
Speaker 1: anyone that's listening. If you've got great juice recipes, send
Speaker 1: them to Aaron right now. We're gonna work. We do
Speaker 1: like two cups of water. It's so really clumpy, so
Speaker 1: I keep adding more. Let take off the vitamins and minerals.
Speaker 1: Does it no? But I'd also add lemon lemon juice.
Speaker 1: I can say if you don't want to keep deluding
Speaker 1: it with water, necessarily like put in something that doesn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of sugar, which is like you know,
Speaker 1: all the other juices. Sometimes a good face like an
Speaker 1: almond mounk. We're all at a time. We'll be back
Speaker 1: with more juice recipes. But why I wish you? Um?
Speaker 1: Is it really clumpy? It's all frothing at the top.
Speaker 1: And then I keep adding water and we're stirring it
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Um, And I send you he resting
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