Episode #58 - Interview with Lauren Hulsey

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From the recording studio dedicated to all things IIDA Alabama.
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Hello, and welcome to All In Design IIDA Alabamas Podcast.
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Thank you for listening.
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My name's Chad Moore here with my co-host Mark Griffo.
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Hey everybody.
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And it is the first of June, the official start of summer.
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So we are recording today's episode from the beach.
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Almost got a spit take on that one.
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And you were faced my direction.
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Yes.
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Waves crack.
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Yeah, the spray of the ocean.
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Add sound effects later.
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But uh our guest is uh is a fan of the beach.
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Um uh was there recently, not too long ago, has another trip coming up.
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This was some of the uh talk prior to pressing record that Mark was not privy to because he showed up late to uh our recording today.
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So uh much diva behavior.
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So, anyways, uh let's turn it over to Mark uh since he's well prepared for uh today's podcast.
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I am as prepared as I always am in there.
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I have my questions printed out and highlighted red.
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We've joked about this before.
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I don't have any notes on mine.
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Chad has lots of notes on his.
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See?
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I mean, look, I'm glad I look it over and you do have notes on yours.
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And then I have my my questions for the end.
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Um I do like the idea of having a show at the beach, though.
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I I do too.
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We should probably work that out and get some, you know.
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We've got designers in Penskola and Destin and and Along30A that that I know that we both know.
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Yeah and so um IDA, board, uh Dia and Jess, um look for that expense.
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The budget.
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We're gonna the budget.
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Do we have a budget?
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No, I don't think we do.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Somebody asked me, and then we're gonna get to the guests real quick.
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We'll we'll get to you in just a second.
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Calm down.
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Yeah.
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What what do we pay a month for our like hosting?
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I think it's like somebody asked me the other day, and I was like$12 a month for a month.
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I think it's we bumped it up a little bit, so it might be like 16 or 18.
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Okay.
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Because if we have so many listeners, yeah, yeah.
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Well, our format changed from half hour to an hour.
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And so depending on how many we record in a month and post, we needed more storage.
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Yeah.
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So for all the people who want to start a podcast, yeah.
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If you want to start a podcast, it only costs like$16 or$18 a month to host it on the website.
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Yeah.
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And then it can go out to all the different super simple to get it connected to all the things.
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Yeah, so it's hosted in one spot.
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Yeah.
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And then it feeds all the podcast like players.
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It was Spotify.
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It was so simple that when because neither one of us knew what we were doing, still largely don't.
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Um but uploaded it to the hosting site and then was like, okay, connect it to you know, Amazon and what all the different ones.
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And some of them were like, oh, it could take you know seven days before it hosts.
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I'm like, all right, well, this might take a while.
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And then like within I don't know, like ten minutes, they were it was on all these different things.
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It was like, oh, we're live, we're live.
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We have a podcast now.
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Yeah.
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So that's to say that after this, you're really gonna blow up.
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Yeah.
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I don't know if life's gonna be the same.
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So now that we've discussed the beach podcast hosting and the fact that our guest life will not be the same after this, let me introduce our guest.
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It is Lauren Holsey, who is is an interior designer at Barrett Kent Studio here in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Lauren, we're thrilled to have you on the show.
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Um the floor is yours.
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Why don't you introduce yourself?
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Yeah, good to be here.
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Thanks for having me.
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Um Yeah, so um I grew up in Aniston, Alabama, a small town.
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Uh went to uh Alabama for school.
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Um I've known for a long time that I wanted to be an interior designer.
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Um from probably a pretty young age, maybe didn't know exactly what it was, but um I think in the questionnaire I mentioned um from a pretty young age enjoyed watching uh this old house with my dad.
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Um and and kind of enjoyed obviously like the construction side, seeing things go together.
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Um, you know, I maybe didn't know um that where I'd end up was part of that at the time, but um, or part of the process.
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Um, but um I guess at some point started watching um uh Trading Spaces, um, which I've talked all about these TV shows and now most I can't of the design ones on TV can't stand to watch.
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Not everyone they have similar paths though.
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People be like, well, I used to watch and they like they make that cringe face when I say it.
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Yeah, I kinda kinda hate it, especially TV.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Let's no more plugs for them.
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Um it's episode's not on TV by HGTV.
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Um but um I guess kind of started getting into and uh maybe understanding the interior design side of it, maybe from from that.
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Um so uh knew for a long time what I wanted to do.
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Um like I said, went to Alabama um and um and then graduated kind of on the tail end maybe of the the recession.
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So uh which which recession?
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Right, right.
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The world we live in.
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The recession.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um and um I guess um I had done an um internship right before my senior year um in Atlanta and um worked for a firm there, and um they had offered me a job, and then you know, I'm doing the follow-up, you know, come spring, and then um I get the email um, hey, we're on a hiring freeze, and this isn't gonna work out.
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So, you know, here I am uh right here, ready to graduate, and thought it was difficult, you know.
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And um, and so um while I was in school, I'd worked at a daycare, and um so there I was, um graduated and um stayed on at the daycare doing um So you stayed so you stayed in Tuscaloosa.
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Stayed in Tuscaloosa and uh doing the job, you know.
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My mom was a teacher and she always, you know, not not that she was pushing it on us or anything, my sister and me, but you know, if you ever have kids or something like that, teachers always on on your kids' schedule and things like that, you know, coming up with I did wonder because in the questionnaire it said, become you know, I graduated becoming the one thing I said I would never be.
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Uh-oh.
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And so I did write in the margin.
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What do you have against Tupac?
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Yeah, right, right.
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Yeah, nothing around nothing against teachers.
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They're great, they're great.
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Just it's just not what I wanted to do.
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Um but moms are somehow always right still, right?
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Um but uh did she do it and I told you so?
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I was like, uh uh maybe not in so many words, but she was like, you do have you do have a job, so enjoy that part of it.
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Um but um yeah, so uh stayed on at the daycare, ended up uh worked at the in classrooms at that time, got on their administrative staff to uh get out of the classroom.
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And um how old were the kids?
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Um so I kind of worked at both ends of the spectrum, um, newborns, so had a class um with two other teachers um of 15 newborns, um, and did that for a little bit and then went and worked in the preschool classroom.
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Uh so kind of both ends, um which both were you know, both were fun for different reasons, but still wasn't both were terrible.
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Terrible for different reasons.
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Well, the newborn, I mean you're just like picking them up and yeah, yeah.
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Exactly, exactly.
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Just you know, uh in the babe room, you know, you're you're on that everybody's schedule feeding, you know, changing, napping, you know, and that kind of thing.
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Preschool, a little more active any, you know, or you maybe depending on the on the day.
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Maybe still changing.
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Right napping.
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It's all the same.
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Yeah.
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Um so uh uh I guess uh as I got that kind of began to wear on me, I I just started blindly sending out resumes.
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Um if I'd um, you know, we'd come to Birmingham for something, I'd walk around downtown homewood, drop off resumes, you know.
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I was just you know, I I was ready to do what I I want had wanted to do.
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Um, and so um we uh went on a family beach trip and um down to 30A and I was like, well, I mean I'm here, I got my resumes.
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Yeah, right.
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So the beach spray hitting me in the exactly, exactly.
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And um so uh it seemed like there was uh some money to be spent there, so uh you know, and uh so wrote down every store we passed and everything, and when I got home, again just blindly sent out resumes.
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And um so um I got a call from um from a store um in Grayton Beach area and um and they called me in for an interview.
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So um uh kind of store?
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Uh so they're a furniture store.
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Okay.
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And um they did have one designer in-house at the time that focused solely on um, I guess full house um uh like renovation furniture finishes, all you know, kind of the the whole thing.
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And um the job that was available was just for an associate in the store.
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But I was like, you know, you gotta bow interiors.
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Okay.
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Yeah, they're at the corner, kind of at the turn back to Red Bar.
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Um if you ever rode the bus uh from the parking lot to Red Bar, you parked in that parking lot.
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Um, but um uh it was kind of you know, maybe this isn't exactly what I want to do, but I've got to get into it.
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You know, it yes, it's like it's not being a teacher.
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And no offense, everyone who's about to cringe when I say this, it's also not Tuscaloosa.
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It it's it's not and just made a lot of enemies.
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Well, I do love my wife's born and raised in Tuscaloosa.
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Um, I was ready to get out.
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Uh so um yeah, so uh they uh can't went down for an interview and um got the job on the spot um in true um I like to say Alabama girl fashion.
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I drove from the beach back to Tuscaloosa, went to the old miss football game that night.
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Exactly.
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And um so um and then the next weekend um I went with my parents basically in the eye of a hurricane, found an apartment, moved down there the next week.
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Um and uh so um Okay, were you saying there was a hurricane or not headed directly, maybe we were on you know the outer bands, but um you know.
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So adding it was what year were you down there?
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What years were you down there?
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Uh I moved down there in 2013.
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Okay.
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And you didn't take that as an omen, like the showing up?
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Why would I?
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Yeah, you might as well go ahead and check it off the list.
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Right?
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It'll be another 10 years before.
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Exactly, exactly.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um so moved down there, and um in uh about two weeks after I started working there, I was assistant manager at the store.
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And that was also the time that uh in-home consultations were kind of starting with um like kind of the maybe the potter pottery barn model, you know, that there is someone's going coming out to your house, you know, for an hour and measuring for you know your living room furniture, you know, a smaller project.
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And um and so um I started that uh process at the store and um and was helping with kind of one room, the the rule kind of uh or I guess the parameters of it was help with one room, and then if they need more, they'll work with uh Melissa, the other designer that was handling larger projects.
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And so um that kind of started to grow and um and as you know, as I was in their house, you know, it's like well look at this or look at that.
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And sorry, Melissa, you're not here.
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I've now got the whole house.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And um so that kind of then started to, you know, more and more projects and more and more responsibility, and um in that also learning how to deal with clients, something you know you're certainly not taught in school, uh, you know, that um kind of uh I guess sometimes like the dynamic of a client, you know, some are easier to work with, some are harder, some understand the um expectations that you have tried to set, some don't.
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And then when that goes awry, how do you handle it?
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When that grows great, how do you handle it?
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When you started out, were you doing it by yourself?
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Like you'd go by yourself, or did they have somebody it was it was baptism by fire?
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Right.
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Um and how you learned.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And you were like staying exclusively on 30A?
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Yeah, yeah.
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So these are all like high dollar second homes really for people.
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Yeah, and um people that aren't very exacting.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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Whatever.
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Whatever.
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Right.
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Yeah, when they're ready to write the personal check, and you know, for uh the whole, you know, all the furniture in their house, you know, uh that they've just walked into your store and you know, you've measured for a couple of things, and they're like, well just write the check.
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And you're like, all right.
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You're like, no, this is a different task, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Did you partner when you were working in it, Bo, did y'all partner at all with any of the firms or designers down there?
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Were you guys kind of exclusively your own show?
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Um, we were exclusively our own, I guess to an extent.
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Melissa worked with um I know, here she is again.
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All to the side.
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Um she would work alongside architects and uh contractors and uh, you know, and and was really, I guess, ultimately involved in the whole process.
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Whereas if if I did work on a project, it was after it was, you know, ready to go, it's built, it's we just need to furnish it kind of thing.
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Okay.
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And um, and and because I guess because that's what the the stores, you know, they're trying to sell merchandise, they're trying to sell the furniture.
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And um, and so um I guess through that I started to on one side I saw one I wanted more.
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I w I wanted to be on the you know, I wanted Melissa.
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We we know.
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We we knew you saw it.
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Um time to bring in our special guest.
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We got Melissa on the phone.
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Here's a reunion.
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Come on in, come on in.
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Um and um She doesn't look happy.
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Yeah, she was listening right outside the door.
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Um so uh it was kind of looking at uh maybe wanting more and wanting uh to be a little closer to home.
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I was working a retail schedule, which I mean everybody always says, you know, you lived at the beach, it's like living the dream.
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But um, if you think about the traffic that you're going down, you know, say on 30A to get to the beach and you're like, oh, or to dinner, you know, uh I've been sitting here forever, there's nowhere to park, you know, all that.
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Uh you know, when you live down there, you're doing that to go to the grocery store and you know, and uh run errands.
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And it does.
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And I don't want to speak for you.
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I lived down there for three years, right before you.
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So I would have left about a year before you moved down there and been there for three years.
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And again, I'm not speaking for you.
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Yeah, I did not live on 30A.
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Yeah, okay, right.
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So a lot of people are like, oh, like you you you worked there, like I worked at I worked at Alice Beach for three years in kind of the infancy of the property.
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Yeah.
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And I didn't I didn't live in Alice Beach because I'm not a multimillionaire multi-times over.
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Right.
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It's still, I mean, it's still a beautiful area and stuff like that.
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But yeah, like you're you know, it's still you're still working.
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Did you did you know Melissa?
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It's still a job.
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I didn't I did not know I did not know Melissa.
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Actually, it would be really funny if I didn't know Melissa and if it's like no, I did it here on the web.
00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:04.000
She always talked about this.
00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:08.480
She was on this wall to make these jokes.
00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:09.519
I'm gonna move on.
00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:11.359
I edited myself.
00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:12.799
So good.
00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:20.160
But yeah, like a lot, yeah, it's kind of like yeah, you live at the beach, and then sometimes you can't even find time to go to the beach museum.
00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:24.559
Not real problems, but yeah, like you're you're still working 40, 50 hours.
00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:24.880
Right.
00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:25.359
Exactly.
00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:34.400
It's also kind of those people that travel for like they're constantly in different cities and going to different, they're like, oh, you got to go see so and they're like I never got out of the like the conference area.
00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:34.880
Right.
00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:35.519
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:36.799
Yeah, exactly.
00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:37.759
Exactly.
00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:38.400
Yeah.
00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:48.559
So um, you know, um to my family's dismay, uh, I moved from the beach and um because they were, you know, they were they would come visit.
00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:48.960
Yeah.
00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:55.440
Um and uh so I thought, well I'll move, you know, if I'm gonna make this move, I want to move closer to home.
00:17:55.599 --> 00:18:00.720
Um and so um I got the bright idea to move to Atlanta.
00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:05.119
Um that's about um if you leave at like 2 a.m.
00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:08.880
It's like you know, an hour and a half to where my parents live now.
00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:12.880
If you live and you leave it any other time, any reasonable time.
00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:13.359
Yeah.
00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:18.720
Um it's you know, still f somehow five hours, you know, like it was from the beach.
00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:32.640
But uh um, but um moved up to Atlanta and or just north in Roswell and um started working for um a uh store that had a similar setup.
00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:37.759
They had um a store and then they also had um a design firm.
00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:41.119
And how how'd you find that um uh Instagram?
00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:42.400
Okay, okay.
00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:52.319
So yeah, I just you're not our first Instagram person who's yeah, found a job by discovering a firm and being like, hey, hey, sure you're happy.
00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:53.039
Right, right.
00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:54.079
Thanks for the follow.
00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:55.920
Exactly.
00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:57.200
Exactly.
00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:10.160
And uh so got a job um in Roswell, and um, but I was working in the firm at this point, so now I've got Melissa's job at the other firm.
00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:14.160
And did you text Melissa and be like, I'm the you of Roswell if you're doing this?
00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:16.480
I did it.
00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.599
Umelissa listens to this show.
00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:23.680
I kind of want to know where she is now.
00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.440
We're gonna do some follow-up investigative work later.
00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:28.000
Yeah.
00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:49.359
And um so uh started working in their design firm, and um uh we were focused mainly on like large-scale renovations and additions um and worked very closely um with one contractor that probably handled 80% of the projects um that we worked on.
00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:55.440
Um and then um and then kind of the other 20% was was new build.
00:19:55.680 --> 00:20:00.880
And so um I learned a lot from that project or from that job too.
00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:19.839
Um it was uh I kind of kept getting myself into these um roles of uh maybe the I don't want to say the leadership wasn't there, but it was like every time I got into this job, it was this new role that you know that they didn't have somebody on staff that had done.
00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:41.440
And um, so the person that had been running like their firm, I guess, to this point was more so focused on let me sell furniture out of the store, and so it wasn't focused on finishes and um everything that helps with uh I guess the construction side of things and understanding millwork drawings and you know and um and everything like that.
00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.960
And so it was certainly, you know, a learning curve.
00:20:45.039 --> 00:21:05.440
And I learned a lot from the contractors that that I worked with because they were willing to hold my hand through a lot, you know, uh when a question came up or um or or something, you know, like they were willing to walk me through on uh on site and say, you know, like here this is what we're working around and you know, we've got this problem to solve and and that kind of thing.
00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:08.720
And they were they were really like I said, willing to hold my hand.
00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:16.640
And so I learned a lot um from from working alongside them and um again, kind of baptized baptism by fire.
00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:17.839
Right.
00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:23.440
Yeah, and um it it was uh if I wanted to keep doing it, I had to learn it.
00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:32.559
And uh, you know, sometimes that's easy and sometimes that's really hard, you know, and um and and it was really hard at times to you know to learn.
00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:39.599
And um and when you make a mistake learning to to go to the client and be like, hey, I made the mistake, but here's how we're gonna fix it.
00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:46.640
And um and I mean even you know, almost 15 years into it now, you know, it's it still happens.
00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:51.039
No one's you know no one's no one's perfect, no one's uh doing this perfect every day.
00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:52.480
And turns out there's a lot of detail.
00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:55.359
Exactly.
00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:59.759
Turns out you're gonna be learning forever and um and spoiler alert.
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.559
Yeah, right.
00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:01.359
What?
00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:02.400
Yeah.
00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:03.680
It's constant.
00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:17.200
And um and um so um so definitely learned uh learned a lot at that job and um and then it was kind of that thing, like uh learned I wanted a little bit more.
00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:19.599
Um I knew I wanted to kind of gotta go do more.
00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:21.200
Yeah, I got a question real quick.
00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:31.440
Yeah, how was how was so on top of the transition from like 30A to Atlanta in terms of like your job and your responsibilities and continue to grow and work on the TCs?
00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:33.759
How was it just in terms of geographically?
00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:39.119
I mean because like 30A is completely different than like Atlanta and 285 and Roswell.
00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:45.039
I mean, was that at all like overwhelming, or you just have like the personality of like I'm here, I'm jumping into it and I'm just doing it.
00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:50.559
Yeah, I mean it was it was obviously different on uh a couple different levels.
00:22:50.799 --> 00:23:01.039
Umise, which a lot of people don't kind of get in terms of like Florida panhandle, like there is such a thing as beach time and kind of beach priorities.
00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:06.079
It's different in different places, but yeah, the pace can be different, especially in offseason.
00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:08.000
Yes, definitely, definitely.
00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:09.519
It was Atlanta-like.
00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:31.680
Um I think because I was more in like the suburb kind of feel and setting, it wasn't as uh uh chaotic, but there was like um a lot of times at the beach, you know, you're uh with this being like their second home, you know, maybe they're in town for a week and you've got to pull off a line that week.
00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:41.680
Or um, hey, we're um, you know, say we're they're down here for um like the last week of the summer, we're maybe ordering some stuff.
00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:51.519
Uh we've got to order your sectional, it'll be here in you know, eight weeks, and then we'll be here for Thanksgiving, but it needs to be in the house when we come, and so you've got to go meet the movers.
00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:57.680
And so there were like maybe some of that dynamic kind of went away uh with the Atlanta side.
00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:01.759
But so what you're saying is you moved outside the perimeter of Atlanta for a slower pace.
00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:04.160
That's what it sounded like.
00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.920
That is exactly what the sounded line is.
00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:06.319
That's right.
00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:08.000
Yes.
00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:09.839
Don't make assumptions.
00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:10.559
Right.
00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:11.759
Absolutely.
00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:13.119
Absolutely.
00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:13.759
Yeah.
00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:16.960
Yeah, the timelines are definitely that's a great point.
00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:21.599
Timelines are definitely so how long were you um at the beach and how long were you in Atlanta?
00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:25.839
Um a little over four years at the beach and a little bit at over four years in Atlanta.
00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:26.240
Okay.
00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.599
Um and so um apparently that's like my time.
00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:31.839
I'm at over the place.
00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:36.400
College Beach, Atlanta.
00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:37.440
Now I'm permanent.
00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:40.559
Don't worry, Brian and Adam, it's been more than five years.
00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:43.279
We're past the hope.
00:24:43.599 --> 00:25:13.680
Um but uh yeah, so uh kind of again got that uh itched uh that I wanted to do more, and a lot of what we were doing in Atlanta felt like that, you know, they were coming to the store for the it for the look of the store, and and it was the same thing at the beach, you know, like people were looking for this one look in the and so um it felt more or less like reinventing the wheel, this cookie cutter, you know, like kind of over and over and over.
00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:14.640
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:38.559
And I I kind of uh felt like I was losing the you know, we had kind of taken this uh from uh more of like a farmhouse uh look to maybe more of a modern farmhouse, and it was it it was it was slow to I wasn't looking at you on the It was yeah, modern farmhouse.
00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:41.119
It's a big transition.
00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:50.160
Um and I I was just kind of creatively just uh I don't know, stuck.
00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:53.279
I was it was it was yeah, all right?
00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:56.640
Yes, yes, I hate to do this, but I I keep going.
00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:58.640
I wonder if Melissa's having the same issue.
00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.440
Maybe she might all do that.
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:04.160
We should really have her on the show.
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:13.279
All right, so you you hit hit kind of a creative wall to a degree and started looking for excuse.
00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:27.039
Started uh looking for for something new and um and at that point um you know the the move that I thought was moving uh closer to home in Atlanta and needed, you know, my it wasn't really.
00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:43.519
And um my sister and brother-in-law had started a family by that point, and and uh, you know, it was getting harder to to leave, you know, when I'm seeing them, or you know, uh maybe I'm missing out on something because I can't get over there, you know, or whatever it was.
00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:47.440
And um, so I was like, I mean, here's two things.
00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:51.440
I'm you know, I'm ready for something different here, and I'm ready to be closer to them.
00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:56.880
And um, and uh so again Instagram took to Instagram.
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:12.880
Yep, took to Instagram and um started just uh I knew I wanted uh to work for an architecture firm because I knew I wanted to be just uh totally immersed in a project.
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:17.920
I wanted to be a part of it from beginning to get away from the Yeah, yeah.
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.000
I wanted to get away from that store aspect.
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:32.079
And I also knew that um I didn't want to work for someone that was doing, you know, that it seemed like clients were coming to for a certain look.
00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:53.519
I wanted someone that was doing both residential and commercial, I wanted someone that was um doing all types of projects, it was doing something traditional, it was doing um something more modern, that it was just, you know, when you look when you scroll through their website, it's just everything's uh, you know, in the best way is is a mix.
00:27:53.759 --> 00:28:12.160
And um and so um so those were kind of my parameters in looking and um ended up finding um Barrett Kent in uh I guess at the time, Barrett Architecture, and um and uh so again went on the whirlwind two weeks.
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:29.119
Okay, found oh no, I actually didn't do the whirlwind two weeks um because when I moved here in 2021, that was when everyone was selling their house and living a lot of people have moved into apartments or things like that when they were trying to find their house or waiting on you know this or that.
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:32.160
Oh yeah, and I couldn't find an apartment.
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:41.279
So um I I lived on a blow-up mattress in my parents' sunroom first six weeks.
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:50.480
Um and at the time my uh sister and brother-in-law were also building a house, and so everyone moved back home.
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.160
Oh wow, I was gonna make a joke.
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:57.039
I was like, so because you didn't have your childhood room anymore, but it was also other people in the house.
00:28:57.119 --> 00:28:57.759
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:01.359
So Well, you did want to be closer to the right, I did.
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:02.799
That is what I said.
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:03.920
That is what I said.
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:05.359
Careful what you example.
00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:07.680
I want to be closer, I'm gonna be in the next room.
00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:08.880
Right.
00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:16.400
And um, so uh my sister and I constantly made the jokes that maybe at our most successful, here we are living at home, you know.
00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:25.200
And um, you know, and so um but sometimes those those experiences, even though they can kind of suck, yeah, um are still special in a way.
00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:30.079
I I do look I do look back on it and it it it was it was fun.
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:40.160
My my grandmother was still living at the time, and you know, it was multi-generational in a in a house, and it was you know, it was um interesting to to say the least.
00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:51.599
And like you said, I do look back on it very fondly, but in maybe in the moment it was like yeah okay, let me let me close the clear glass doors to the sunroom and go to go to sleep.
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:53.519
Yeah, exactly.
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:54.160
Yeah.
00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:59.519
Um but um yeah, it's certainly worth it um in the long run.
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:03.119
And um yeah, so here I am.
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:04.720
It's been five years.
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:06.400
Okay, now five years.
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:09.119
So talk a little bit about what I just cut you off.
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:09.839
Did you want to go first?
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.240
I think I was gonna ask the exact same question you're about that.
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:15.519
Oh, I was gonna say uh let's let's get Melissa on the line.
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:15.920
Yeah.
00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.400
What talk a little bit about what Barrett Kent does.
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:18.640
Yeah.
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:19.680
Yeah.
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:21.279
So um That was it.
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.079
That was it, yeah.
00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:22.960
Yeah, that was it.
00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:29.839
So um we uh work in commercial, religious, um, and residential.
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:35.039
Um uh we do we joke that we do some uh boutique educational.
00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:46.160
We've we've worked with that might be we've worked with uh yeah uh with Restoration Academy on a few projects.
00:30:46.400 --> 00:31:00.160
And um while we don't do uh they're a private school in uh Fairfield, and um while we aren't doing the the public bid work side of of education, um it's uh been really fun to work with them um on projects.
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:05.200
And so we that's uh that's our uh office joke, is that it's boutique educational.
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:08.079
It's it's who we want to work for, and we have to do that.
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:09.599
And you're like I used to be a teacher.
00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:10.640
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:11.680
I was a teacher once.
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:14.480
The daughter of a teacher, so I will lead this.
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:17.440
I get what you do every day, you know.
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:18.880
Yeah, for sure.
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:19.519
Yeah.
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:28.960
Um yeah, it's um it's been really fun fun to work with them and um and and to have the the mix of projects, you know.
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:31.119
Um I'm sorry, go ahead.
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:34.240
No, I was gonna say how how how do you you all find projects?
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.720
Where where do you um a lot of our projects are word of mouth, um, I would say.
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:41.680
Um Do you guys have a strong Instagram account?
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:49.920
Um we we try to have a strong I wish you could see everybody's faces.
00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:52.160
There's multiple faces being moved.
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:55.599
Um when we post, it's great.
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:04.799
Um but I think that a lot of um our projects come from um Brian and his uh dad uh started the firm.
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:09.119
Um he was uh uh bear uh now I've lost it.
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:11.440
Uh was it Barrett?
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:12.480
There was Garrison Barrett.
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:14.079
Garrison Barrett, there you go.
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:16.720
And um back in Pepper Place a long time ago.
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:17.680
Yeah.
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:50.400
And um and then uh as uh that firm uh separated and uh Brian and his dad started this firm and um they we've kind of I guess the projects that they've worked on have come back, you know, like maybe it's a church project and we did a classroom building and now they're ready for a sanctuary building, or um someone that went to church there and now their office, you know, needs uh has a renovation or a new build, or you know, it's it's kind of like a word of mouth in the community, which again I love.
00:32:50.720 --> 00:33:10.240
It's it's very rare that um we also have a joke in our office that you know it's it's rare that we go somewhere that we don't find somebody or somebody's saying, Oh, I used to work for Brian or Lauren or uh and um and so that's uh that's always fun to to meet people and um and they always have the best things to say about them.
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:17.599
And so, you know, uh having a a good working for someone that has a good reputation in the community is is really incredible.
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:18.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:20.960
That would be it would be not great the other way around.
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.799
I love where I work with the people who run the place.
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:26.880
Oh you work there terrible degenerates.
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.000
Yeah, no one likes them in the community.
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.559
But our Instagram page rocks.
00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:34.160
Right, right, exactly.
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:35.359
So when we post.
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:35.920
Exactly.
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:36.559
When we post.
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:38.480
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:44.559
How many uh so how how big is the firm and and are you the only interior designer there?
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:45.279
Are there others?
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:46.319
Like what's the setup?
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:50.880
So I think we have uh nine, well, we've got ten now.
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:57.519
Um uh one of our um co-op students just came, or she's about to start um beginning of June.
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:07.680
Um and um for let's see, I was the only interior designer for about four years, and then Abby came on um spring of this past year.
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:10.159
So she's been there a little bit over a year or so.
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:15.199
Um that's been really great to have um another interior designer in the office.
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:27.440
Um, you know, I've uh one thing that I maybe didn't have at my back and call at other jobs was someone to, you know, bounce things off of or you know, or something or that kind of thing.
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:39.599
And so um uh obviously I've I've learned a lot working alongside the architects and kind of understanding how what they're doing is incorporating into what I'm doing and vice versa and that kind of thing.
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:58.159
And um it's been great to have um Abby there as well to now to kind of uh when I'm you know asking um I don't know a question, uh getting an opinion on something that she knows what what the way I'm thinking about it, and not necessarily that she's gonna agree with me, but she knows the same similarity.
00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.920
Exactly, exactly.
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.880
The reason that I'm yeah, absolutely.
00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:03.760
It's been really great.
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:05.519
And she probably wants your job.
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:07.199
Yeah, probably, probably.
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:08.239
I am the Melissa.
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:10.239
Yeah, I'm Melissa.
00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:12.079
For sure.
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:21.119
Over the um five years, is there a project that's stood out as far as you know that was either inspirational or just what fun to work on?
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:22.000
Yeah.
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:26.480
Um I mean, there's certainly um a few.
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:33.199
I'd say one of the uh most interesting to work on, um, you know, as there have been many.
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:38.480
Uh we were just completed, I guess it's been a year now, um, the Mountain Brook fire station.
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.400
Um they built uh their old location.
00:35:42.559 --> 00:36:06.800
Um uh it was um too small, and we helped them they found a piece of land just down the street from their location, and um, and so um we helped them build that and that was uh kind of a merging of a couple worlds, you know, there's the dorm aspect, there's the so that you've got your residential side uh, you know, to a point.
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:28.719
Um you've got a kitchen that's residential, but it also has a commercial hood, and you know, it's it's kind of a merging of a couple of all of our worlds, and then um I have to say, like I and and then of course the the uh apparatus bay and and all the support uh equipment that they have, and you know, of course Apparatus Bay.
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:30.000
Oh no, that sounds cool.
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:35.519
Oh this is the apparatus bay.
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:37.760
Yeah, did you guys have to do a bunch of research?
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:38.480
This is a dumb question.
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:39.119
No, no, no.
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:40.480
No, I thought the same thing.
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:44.880
I was like, how do you exactly yeah how do you design and build something that you have no?
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:50.000
Yeah, I mean you think of fireman, the firetruck comes to your house.
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.840
So a fire pole is less safe than a slide.
00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:56.960
So they have a slide.
00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:57.840
Oh, yeah.
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:01.679
They have a apparatus bay and a slide and a slide.
00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:04.000
I think it's a connected to the apparatus bay?
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:05.840
It is just on the other side of the door.
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:09.679
Um and um but direct access.
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:12.960
Um but yeah, it was it was fantastic forum.
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:14.559
Yeah, we're gonna go.
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:18.000
Um we could have had the podcast from the fire station, you know.
00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:20.159
Oh man, on location live.
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:21.199
Oh, that's next step.
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:21.920
That's next level.
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:23.679
What's your favorite project?
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:25.599
Well, we're in it right now.
00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:30.239
We exactly.
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:39.519
Uh so it was um there was a lot of research that that uh that we had to do to understand.
00:37:39.679 --> 00:38:01.360
Uh there were a lot of discussions with the firemen and and just understanding, you know, what they needed on a day-to-day basis, what they needed um uh like um I can't remember the stats exactly, but um the chances of a firefighter contracting cancer are very high.
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:09.280
And so there have there's been a lot of research on what can be done to, you know, they're around all these carcinogens and uh, you know, and everything.
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.760
So what can we do to make them healthier?
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:13.039
What can we do to help them?
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:24.159
And so um a part of that was um Adam in our office went to a fire station conference and kind of learned about this red, yellow, green kind of uh way to look at the fire station.
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:56.800
So green is like your residential living areas, um, yellow is the apparatus bay, and then red is going to be anything that um that is uh when you're returning from a fire cleaning gear, cleaning uh their uniforms, um it has a special washing machine, it has a special dryer, um, and then that kind of goes into um uh kind of the last step of that is uh that saunas are they've I guess the getting the chemicals out of your skin.
00:38:56.960 --> 00:38:58.480
So that is this has a sauna.
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:02.159
Yes, it does should have been a firewall.
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:02.880
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:04.480
Save lives again.
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:06.159
But the cancer bit doesn't sound good.
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:07.199
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:08.719
I'm ignoring that.
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:09.840
Remember the slides.
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:17.760
And um so it was learning all of all of that and how we could incorporate that.
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:21.119
And so it was uh it was very interesting to learn about it.
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:28.960
So the the colors are those are those just codes like as you're doing the drawings, or is that something that's actually also visible within the space?
00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:47.039
So as we were planning out the floor plan, um we were kind of looking at it in plan view as our kind of uh green, yellow, red, and um, and then as we uh talked through that, it helped us to then present that to how they would use the space.
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:55.920
You know, we're talking we're thinking about travel paths and so that you're not taking something that's in the red zone back to the green zone and you know, and all of that.
00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:59.760
And so thinking through the separation of those and and everything.
00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:02.000
So it was very interesting to learn about.
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:09.679
Are they responsible for so they so they come back, you know, and not from you know getting a cat out of a tree, but like they come back from a round?
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:10.559
They really don't do that.
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:13.440
Well, we we we were at the station the other day.
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:25.519
Let's see where this goes, and we're doing our our one-year walkthrough, and you know, the you're standing by them, you hear their hear the radios go off, and um there's a dog stuck under a tool shed.
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:27.360
And I bet they do that.
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.440
Yeah, so so the dog off a ground off the ground.
00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:32.880
They won't get a cat out of now.
00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:33.920
Yeah.
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:38.800
So they uh you know, they leave the station, and while we're walking through, I'm like, I hope they make it back.
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:40.320
You know, I want to hear, hear about it.
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:41.760
I mean, only good news, of course.
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:43.360
Only good news.
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:47.599
And so they get back and you know, we're we're finishing our our walkthrough and everything.
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:51.440
And um, and I was like, so did it turn out?
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.800
Like I I only want to know if it's good, but did it turn out okay?
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:57.280
Like, lie to me right now if it didn't, you know.
00:40:57.440 --> 00:40:57.679
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:02.320
They're like, oh yeah, we got to use the saw and cut through the floor, and you know, just say yeah.
00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:03.199
So it was a thing.
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:07.440
So it was save the dog.
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:08.719
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:18.480
And uh, one of the things that was interesting when first became apparent is that you've got to, or at least I don't know if they still do this, but to install the car seat.
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:20.639
Did you know this, Mark?
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:24.639
I I think I've heard of this, where they teach people how to install the car seat.
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:25.039
Yeah.
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:25.840
Yeah.
00:41:26.079 --> 00:41:27.599
How the hell did that happen?
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:28.320
How did that become a fire?
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:30.639
How did that let's give it to the firemen?
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:31.519
Yeah, exactly.
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:36.239
Is it because they're the ones who show up to wrecks and have to cut people out with maybe I don't know.
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:41.039
Lauren, like she's the fire in the room of three people.
00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:42.320
She's the authority.
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:43.440
Yeah, right.
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:44.159
You win.
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:45.840
You're in charge.
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:46.800
Is that the reason?
00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:48.320
I've now taken you all's jobs.
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:52.960
So the podcast is uh tell me about yourself.
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:55.840
Um that was the one of the most emasculated.
00:41:56.079 --> 00:42:05.599
I was like, hi, um there's instructions that I could follow, but can you show me read this?
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.079
Did you just was this with your oldest?
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:12.960
Like, did you just want to know for sure, or were like Is this required?
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:22.639
I I was told to go there by somebody very important in my life that um told me that's where you're supposed to go there and do it.
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:27.280
Now I I don't, you know, obviously the firemen didn't like roll their eyes or anything.
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:28.400
They're just like, No, no, no.
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:30.239
They were like, oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, let me show you.
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:33.519
And it was like, okay, that's probably pretty much how I thought it was gonna go.
00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:34.000
But yeah.
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:42.400
So for the first and what I hope is the last time, Aaron and I actually called the fire department a couple weeks ago, which was a complete false alarm, everything was fine.
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:47.679
Our one of our carbon monoxide detectors went out, went off in our house.
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:50.639
And went off like twice in three minutes.
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:51.199
Yeah.
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:54.960
And we Googled it, and we're like, we're we're like, this has got to be a false alarm.
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:55.119
Right.
00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:03.039
Because there's other carbon monoxide, there's like it's nowhere near the basement, which is where like the gas and the hot water heater, which is gas, is down there, the furnace is gas.
00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:04.159
Like, it's not near there.
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:05.840
It's gonna, it's gotta be a false alarm.
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.599
Yeah, but we're we of course Google it.
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:08.719
You ask Google everything, right?
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:09.119
Of course.
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:12.719
And Google was like, it's probably a false alarm.
00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:14.559
Call the fire department.
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:26.800
So we called the fire department, homewood fire department, and they showed up at like nine o'clock at night on like a Thursday, and I texted our neighbors, and I was like, hey, just heads up, we're fine.
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:30.000
Yeah, but this is you're about to see red lights.
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:30.239
Yeah.
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:42.480
And uh, and and it was uh four guys from the Homewood Fire Department, which is right, I think the station number two, which is really close to our house between us and the public's on Green Springs.
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:59.440
And like the first guy gets out of the truck, they park on the street, and I meet him in the front yard, it's kind of pitch black, and I'm talking to him and like kind of explaining what's going on, and we go up to the front door, and then these two other guys come up behind him, and I'm letting them go in first, and then out of the corner of my eye, I see another guy he's coming up the steps.
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:05.360
And I turn to walk in my house and then I pivot on my back foot and I stick stick my head up and I go, Hey Nick.
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:15.039
And it was a buddy of mine from Auburn 20 years ago, who I knew as a fireman, but I didn't realize he was at homewood, let alone a hour and a half from my house.
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:18.559
But that's the only experience I have with firemen.
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:22.000
Lauren, how frequently do they respond to those sorts of calls?
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:24.960
I don't know how to do that.
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:27.360
Should we change our carbon monoxide detection?
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:28.320
Right.
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:34.239
I was gonna ask, like, so the apparatus, but then they're coming back.
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:34.559
Yep.
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:38.480
Again, this is where we got derailed from the saving saving the dogs versus letting it.
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:40.400
Well, there's a lot of stuff thrown at us.
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:43.039
There's an apparatus pay, there's a website, there's a sauna.
00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:47.199
Are they responsible so they get back and they're coming back from like an actual fire?
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:47.440
Right.
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:49.920
Actual legitimate not what you had.
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:50.800
Not what I had.
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:51.119
Yeah.
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:51.840
Not worth it.
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:53.920
Well, then they hung out for 20 minutes and we talked about.
00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:56.960
They were like, is this house made of concrete?
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.119
Like, how's your mom and them?
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:05.440
Um are they responsible for cleaning their own stuff?
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:08.559
Like, I mean, they fully like they take care of all their stuff.
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:09.440
Absolutely, yeah.
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:11.039
That's also pretty impressive.
00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:11.440
Right.
00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:13.920
You know, there's not just like dropping their dirty clothes.
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:14.320
Right.
00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:17.119
Somebody else is picking them up when there's like a service that comes around.
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:41.679
It's uh they have to, you know, they're uh cleaning their gear, putting it all away, and um the hoses, if they've been used, they have to be dried out, and um, and so like um in some of our research, like uh where you I guess for example, where we had the slide, there's a two-story volume that they'll uh provide like a bar that you could hang the hoses to dry out.
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:42.239
Dry out.
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:47.440
Um and um so um yeah, they're dealing with with all the equipment when they came out.
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:48.239
All the laundry.
00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:48.639
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:52.880
All the laundry and wet hoses and special washer and dryer.
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:53.679
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:55.280
Where do you shop for those?
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:57.280
Um they provided them.
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:00.559
Uh the washing machine is called an extractor.
00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:01.599
Um, yeah.
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:03.679
They got a lot of it just sounds cool.
00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:04.719
It's really cool stuff.
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:05.280
There's like a board.
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:08.000
Right.
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:10.400
There's a a board wash for like the EMF.
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:12.719
So that's so the washing machine's the extractor?
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:13.039
Yes.
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:15.280
Okay, I'm calling our washing machine the extractor now.
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:16.320
Absolutely.
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:18.480
There's a boot wash station.
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:32.239
There's um, and then the um the dryer looks like um it has like these tubes that fit into the arms of their gear, and then kind of the same for the pants, I guess.
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:36.800
So the air I mean it's just all standing up in the room, like you sneak you can walk by.
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:38.400
There's it's not enclosed.
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:41.599
Um, but um, I guess what's that called?
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:43.840
Uh um the dryer.
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:46.880
Switch ma.
00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:51.840
I don't want to belabor too many questions on the firehouse, but I do have at least one.
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:52.960
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:54.159
Because we could go on after the other one.
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:57.119
I feel like the whole episode could just be the firehouse.
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:02.719
And I but I and I feel like there's at least a few people out here that want to know the answer to this question, so I'm gonna ask it.
00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:05.119
I'm gonna assume it's open.
00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:07.199
But is the slide a tube?
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:08.320
The slide is a tube.
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:09.039
It is a tube.
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:10.960
Oh, I was thinking it would be open.
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:13.360
It is a tube.
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:16.079
Is it lit up?
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:16.960
Does it have lights in it?
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:18.400
It is not lit.
00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:20.960
Um it's I don't remember.
00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:22.960
I think it's uh triple helix.
00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:24.559
We have to do a fantastic forum.
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:25.440
A triple helix.
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:27.039
Oh, so it's fins around?
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:29.119
It's it's I'm just imagining the quick.
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:31.360
Ow.
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:35.360
Yeah, yeah, it's coming from the second floor and and extends down.
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.360
Do you think we could do a fan fantastic forum at the Oh yeah, I'm sure.
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:40.639
Oh we okay.
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:41.360
This is happening.
00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:41.679
Yeah.
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.960
I mean, you are in charge of these sorts of events, so it actually works out.
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:45.360
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:51.599
And I'm agreeing for the Mountain Brook Fire Station right now, I said, and of course I'm agreeing for the Mountain Brook Fire Station.
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:53.360
Yeah, well, just show up.
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:54.480
Yeah.
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:59.280
Just show up like we're gonna get them to install at a car seat and then be like, could we?
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:04.239
Yeah, yeah, and then could we run through real quick?
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:04.639
Yeah.
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:05.199
Yeah.
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:05.840
Okay.
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.000
All right, so okay, so it's crazy.
00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:10.159
Uh we're 47 minutes in.
00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:16.000
So I usually around 55 minutes we or even at 50 minutes we switch over to the rapid fire questions.
00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:21.440
So um considering that we've talked almost exclusively about uh you getting into the industry.
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:21.840
Yeah.
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:24.159
Um and then working on one project.
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:26.559
Just the one all this time.
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:35.199
No, well, I just wanted, is there anything that you would like to talk about with the you know these last few minutes before we get to rapid fire questions that we haven't really covered?
00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:38.639
Um, let's definitely fill the time for rapid fire.
00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:40.000
Um let's see.
00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:44.079
But I you know what's what's your process at you know, uh when a client comes in?
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:44.320
Yeah.
00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:45.679
How do you deal with the client?
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:47.679
Uh or or anything else that you might want to do.
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:48.239
Yeah.
00:48:48.400 --> 00:49:11.360
Um so uh residential clients um uh I feel like kind of work oddly similar to um like when we're working on a religious space that you know that may be a um committee that we're working with, but there's kind of the same ownership of it, this emotional connection to it.
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:16.719
And um so a lot of times we're you know, with both, we're we're talking to them.
00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:21.920
Um usually our first conversation is, you know, understanding their program and things like that.
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:32.239
And um usually within that understanding, you hear them start to talk about, you know, like the underlying needs and wants and things for this space and that kind of thing.
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:41.440
Um and so um as we kind of start that, it really becomes a conversation, you know, we're we're talking to them very often.
00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:43.920
Um, residential clients, of course.
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:55.440
Um, you you really build a relationship with the with all of your clients, you know, in in some degree, residential maybe more more than others, just because of the way that we work with clients.
00:49:55.519 --> 00:50:23.599
And um, but um you know, I think that our our relationships are one of those things that that do keep, you know, like I was saying earlier, you know, word of mouth, people you know, repeat clients and things like that coming back that we're building the the relationships and and part of that is um learning to listen and and understand and then to when you do listen to take that information and and turn it into you know what they do need and ask the right questions.
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:27.199
And you know, sometimes that's I hear you, but I forget never too.
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:29.360
Exactly.
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.079
I'm sorry, I wasn't listening as for the business.
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:33.039
Yeah.
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:47.199
And uh so um uh I I think that no one of my main things is uh to build that relationship early on because it builds that trust that you know I I I want you to get I want the client to get what they want.
00:50:47.360 --> 00:51:02.159
And so um I'm I'm more than willing to to do whatn what what they want and guide them through the process and everything, you know, I'm doing this every day, and so I try to remember that they are not and you know, even when they're something they do once every week, you know.
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:03.360
Exactly.
00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:26.159
And um so even when the reaction is, you know, maybe what I don't expect or something like that, even taking the time to talk through, you know, uh you know, a reaction to, you know, presenting finishes and you know, they're uh kind of um diving in on this one uh detail of it and uh you know how the carpet's gonna repeat or something like that.
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:39.599
And um I guess ultimately, you know, a lot of times we're presenting to them finishes that are, you know, um uh two by two sample of a carpet, you know, that's going in a large, you know, fellowship hall or something like that.
00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:52.079
There's there's very little uh in, you know, in my head the fellowship hall is already built and you know, and I'm switching out the carpet and I'm changing out the lights and you know, you're very visual and can can see it, whereas a lot of times they can't.
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:52.719
Exactly.
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:53.519
Yeah, exactly.
00:51:53.760 --> 00:52:19.519
And so uh taking the time to to talk through uh it with them and and everything, and and like I said, like just taking the time to talk to them and listen to them starts to build that and that trust in, you know, uh in both of us that you know that you know sometimes I have to trust that it's not the right thing because they didn't like it, you know, even though I s uh I see it at it that it is, and then of course, you know, I'm wrong sometimes.
00:52:19.599 --> 00:52:27.840
And you know, go back to the I would never tell Melissa this, but sometimes sometimes.
00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:28.639
Yeah.
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:30.320
Melissa was wrong all the time.
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:31.360
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:33.039
More times than not.
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:35.840
You missed another speaker.
00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:44.719
I just have so many questions about Melissa though, but I really loved her, but she's really getting sounding horrible.
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:57.840
Hey, on the off-chance in this podcast based on interior designer Badger's former mentor, you know.
00:52:58.559 --> 00:52:59.199
A whole new scene.
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:04.880
Exactly.
00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:09.039
All right, well, I guess now we're ready for rapid fire.
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:12.719
I feel like I had a question and I can't remember how I was gonna word it.
00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:32.719
I just think it's very interesting that you and and good for like from from younger designers' perspective, but also designers who either are not maybe not fulfilling f feeling feeling words, feeling fulfilled or looking for more, that it's important to take those jumps.
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:33.280
Yeah, yeah.
00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:33.679
Right.
00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:34.719
Because you took pretty big jumps.
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:43.679
I mean, you know, you know, you left Anston to go to Tuscaloosa, to go to 30A, to go to Atlanta, to go to to go to Birmingham.
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:53.920
Um and I don't want to make presumptions, but I would assume that, you know, just based on what you've said, that like all of that is kind of intimately connected in how you ended up to where you are today.
00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:54.559
Absolutely.
00:53:54.639 --> 00:54:02.159
I mean, I wouldn't have learned or been prepared for this job if I hadn't have taken the others, you know, in in no way, you know.
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:14.320
Uh of course, as you know, you think, oh, I went to school, I've got it, you know, like you know, and um and then anything.
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:16.159
Yeah, absolutely.
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:28.719
And um and uh and and also uh also the the people side of it that they couldn't have taught you in school, you know, that you learn over time and um and uh and all of it.
00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:29.440
But yeah, yeah.
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:35.599
Did you know anybody before you went to whether it be 30A Atlanta or to Birmingham?
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:36.639
Did you know people?
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:42.719
Uh not uh on 30A, um not in Atlanta, but I didn't know people here.
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:44.559
Yeah, I mean she lived in her parents' house.
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.719
Yeah, yeah, my parents.
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:49.599
Yeah, well that's another thing that they don't tell you in school.
00:54:49.840 --> 00:55:01.119
It's that like you know, that that's a whole nother that's a whole nother podcast right there of those those life moments of going out and being in a place by yourself, right?
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:09.599
Having to build a professional network, having to build a social network, especially going from a place where you've been there for four years, five years, yeah, you've got all those things, right?
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:11.519
You've got that social network, you've got that social media.
00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:15.119
One would assume that she had it in 30A, and it wasn't just Melissa.
00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:18.559
She left one person behind.
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:20.320
See you later.
00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:25.840
Uh and I have to say on that note that Birmingham has been the easiest to build that.
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:36.320
And and I mean, I I assume it can only be the people, but uh that it's it's been way easier here, you know, uh to build that you know professional community.
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:40.159
And do you think that's because you were better at it?
00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:42.000
Because you already had two times under your belt?
00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:43.840
Or that Birmingham people are just better at it.
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:47.519
Birmingham people are they're just better, you know, than everywhere else.
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:50.639
You know, yeah, comparing them to other yeah, yeah, easier.
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:51.360
So anywhere else.
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:52.079
Easy.
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:53.039
Easy.
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:54.480
Birmingham is better.
00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:56.480
I think that's the new slogan for the city.
00:55:57.519 --> 00:55:57.840
All right.
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.159
Uh is this me going first or you going first?
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:02.000
Um I'll go first.
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:02.480
Okay.
00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:08.960
If you had to be a teacher, what grade would you be in?
00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:09.599
Why?
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:22.800
Um I would say that it would be like kindergarten-ish because one kindergarten lights.
00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:26.880
I think the the younger side.
00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:28.000
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:35.599
Like um, they're still saying hysterical things, which I'm sure, you know, kids among all ages, we're still saying funny things, obviously.
00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:38.559
Um we are hilarious.
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:52.320
But um uh I think that um there's more time to be uh creative and uh you know, some some nice, you know, hand print art and you know.
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:54.159
Yeah, you can turn a handprint into anything.
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:54.960
Yeah, turkey.
00:56:55.199 --> 00:56:55.679
Yeah, yeah.
00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:57.360
Santa, you know, anything.
00:56:57.679 --> 00:56:59.199
A turkey and Santa.
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:03.440
If the listeners would like to write in what else you can make with a hand.
00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:06.719
What about a footprint next week on the podcast?
00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:09.440
See, she's already taken over.
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:12.239
She's gonna close us out.
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:14.960
Um let's see.
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:19.440
If your friends described you in one word, what would it be?
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:20.079
Oh.
00:57:25.199 --> 00:57:28.960
I would hope that it would be loyal.
00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:29.679
Okay.
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:32.559
It's very I I get real introspective.
00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:34.239
I haven't asked that question.
00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:34.719
Yeah.
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:35.760
But what would they actually say?
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:36.079
Yeah.
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:38.320
But what we're asking.
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:40.159
Not what you would hope.
00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:41.039
Yeah.
00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:41.840
Right.
00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:42.960
All right.
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:50.320
So this one I've asked this question kind of in the past, where it's been um like, what are you sneaky good at, or what are your hobbies?
00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:52.159
But I'm gonna ask this one a little bit differently.
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:52.480
Okay.
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:54.639
What's a hobby you would like to start?
00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:55.280
Oh.
00:57:56.800 --> 00:58:06.639
Um I've recently gotten into um uh gardening at my house.
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:11.199
Um so more on like the flower side of things than um vegetables.
00:58:11.599 --> 00:58:13.119
Than vegetables and things like that.
00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:16.559
Um so I think I'd like to get get into that more.
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:21.760
You know, I'm yeah, I'm talking, you know, more about like, oh, the rain, we needed this, you know, lately.
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:22.400
So yeah.
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:24.639
That's a sign of age and maturity.
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:28.880
And you're in your house and you're looking at, yeah, the lawn could use a little watering.
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:30.559
We've been needing this, so yeah.
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:32.159
Yeah.
00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:40.239
Um speaking of vegetables, if you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:46.079
Um probably pizza.
00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:47.599
Oh, it's a good answer.
00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:53.440
Um I didn't have to pick a pizza so I could eat different pizza.
00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:54.880
Yeah, I see what you did there.
00:58:55.039 --> 00:58:55.599
Yeah, that was smart.
00:58:55.840 --> 00:58:56.000
Clever.
00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:02.239
Because that can really go lots of like you know, there's pizza that can taste wildly different.
00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:02.719
Yeah.
00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:03.039
Yeah.
00:59:03.519 --> 00:59:04.159
What would yours be?
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:06.400
It's not how we're working this.
00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:06.880
Oh.
00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:08.000
So Chad.
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:11.119
Uh we do I need to ask the question.
00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:12.320
Give me the papers.
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.639
Yeah, I love how you're like, that's not how we're working this.
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:18.480
Mine would be spaghetti.
00:59:18.719 --> 00:59:18.960
Okay.
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:19.280
Okay.
00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:20.719
It would be spaghetti.
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:22.719
Yeah, man, I can't get enough spaghetti.
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:23.039
Okay.
00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:23.599
Okay.
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:25.360
And it's always been like that.
00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:30.480
There used to be a place in uh Auburn called Toomer's Diner.
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:32.000
It was next to Tumor's Corner.
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:32.400
Yeah.
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:35.119
And or no, it's called the excuse me, Auburn Diner, Auburn Grill.
00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:36.719
It was next to Tumor's Corner.
00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:39.840
And one of the entrees was spaghetti.
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:44.239
And you could go there and you could order spaghetti, and then you could get seconds for free.
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:44.639
Oh.
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:48.480
And they would bring an entire bowl of spaghetti for free.
00:59:48.719 --> 00:59:48.960
Yeah.
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:53.119
And outside of me loving spaghetti, like that was just that was a killer deal, right?
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:54.960
Yeah, I would go get spaghetti all the time.
00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:58.960
Yeah, I I can't think anything else other than pizza because that was such a good answer.
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:00.480
Come on, Chad.
01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:01.440
You're really original.
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:02.000
I know.
01:00:03.119 --> 01:00:04.639
Yeah, let me go with pizza.
01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:05.119
Okay.
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:08.079
Pizza.
01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:08.639
All right.
01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:15.599
If you could be a character in any Disney movie that's including Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, who would you be?
01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:17.760
Huh.
01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:22.800
Um that is hard.
01:00:23.039 --> 01:00:27.920
Um because there's gonna be a follow-up to why, I feel like.
01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.000
Um I didn't actually write that down.
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:30.639
Okay.
01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:32.400
I don't care why.
01:00:33.599 --> 01:00:35.440
Just make anyone, just tell us an answer.
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:41.760
Um goodness, I don't know.
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:47.519
Um Do you want to say a princess and you're avoiding it?
01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:56.960
No, because I'm all uh uh I've been watching Toy Story lately with my nephews, and I'm like, but like I don't know what the yeah.
01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:58.800
Who would my answer be?
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:03.280
You know, um maybe the aliens, you know, easily entertained.
01:01:03.360 --> 01:01:06.239
I don't know, you know, in the little like you know the claw game.
01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:06.800
Claw game.
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:07.119
Yeah, yeah.
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:13.199
The claw we were talking about being easily entertained earlier.
01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:16.400
I really guess she's answered why.
01:01:18.480 --> 01:01:23.599
I would not have guessed like if you were to give me a hundred presses, I don't think I would have come up with the aliens in the claw game toy story.
01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:24.639
Yeah.
01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:27.199
I'm really bad at the question, like what's your favorite?
01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:31.360
You know playing Mark mental real quick.
01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:32.239
Well, hold on.
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:33.599
What's your least favorite?
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:36.639
Flipping through a couple of sheets of paper now.
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:37.920
What do you hate?
01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:39.360
What do you yeah.
01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:42.719
Um okay, we'll see how this one works.
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:46.960
What's one thing you wish clients cared more about?
01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:48.239
Ooh.
01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:50.079
Hmm.
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.239
And if you want to name a specific client.
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:52.960
Client.
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:54.480
Okay, this is the time to do it.
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:58.239
Um cared more about.
01:01:59.119 --> 01:02:13.280
Um, is it easier if we divide it by market?
01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:17.119
Like what do you wish residential designers cared more about?
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:18.719
Or maybe you wish they cared less.
01:02:21.599 --> 01:02:38.159
Um Is there anything that you wish that let's just say are very important we won't give names or give anything away, very important city employees at a recent most favorite project here in the Birmingham area that you've done that you wish they cared more about.
01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:50.159
Um a lot of the okay, was part of the question what do they care l wait, it was more least.
01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:51.840
Which is more about or we could go least.
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:53.119
I'm gonna go least about.
01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:53.599
Okay.
01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:58.559
I wish that the churches weren't as worried about coffee.
01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:03.039
And this is not like you know, this is very specific.
01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:09.199
So um a lot of times we're doing, you know, um common areas, gathering spaces that have like a coffee bar.
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:09.599
Right.
01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:20.800
But then we've got to get the coffee into the sanctuary, and then the coffee is often discussed on oh, we're gonna stain the carpet with the coffee, you know, always with the coffee.
01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:22.480
Always with the coffee.
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:26.800
So uh which coffee is dictating entire design decisions.
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:30.079
Yes, it really is, it really is.
01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:37.280
Um, which is not the not a design, I mean it is a design directed question because it directs my design all the time.
01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:40.960
Um, but um I think that's a fantastic.
01:03:42.159 --> 01:04:01.440
Yes, there isn't anything else you need to know because it's funny because you know, um, when I have conversations with my wife who's also an interior designer, she'll bring up very similar things where she'll be like, you know, this client is really hung up on this one very specific thing.
01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:05.920
And now that you mentioned coffee, they have all been a little bit coffee-esque, yeah.
01:04:06.239 --> 01:04:13.920
Just in terms that they're they're not really that important to the goal of the project.
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:18.320
But now they're thrown in as a suggestion by the club, and now they're gonna be able to do that.
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:20.239
Yeah, the goal of the project.
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:21.360
Yes, yes.
01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:26.079
It's how the coffee's thrown away, how the coffee, uh how the creamers are refrigerated.
01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:31.280
Wow on site at the coffee bar, not brought in every Sunday, you know, things like that.
01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:32.480
It dictates a lot.
01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:33.280
The coffee.
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:33.760
Yeah.
01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:34.639
Coffee.
01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:34.960
Yeah.
01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:36.960
I'm gonna have some coffee after this.
01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:45.119
I had some right before uh and I'm gonna go home and talk to Aaron about how the kitchen needs to be redone because I want the coffee.
01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:49.440
What is your happy place?
01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:53.599
Um that's easy, I'd say the beach.
01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:54.639
Yeah, yeah.
01:04:55.199 --> 01:04:56.320
I like the beach, no, yeah.
01:04:56.480 --> 01:04:57.280
I mean, it's a big thing.
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.760
Um what's something in your house that you'll never get rid of?
01:05:07.039 --> 01:05:16.400
Um I have some um decorative glass bowls, and they uh but they hang on the wall.
01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:19.920
Um they uh I really don't know how to describe this.
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:22.639
Um if anyone wants it's it doesn't exist anymore.
01:05:22.880 --> 01:05:24.719
More wants to look up Viz Glass.
01:05:25.039 --> 01:05:30.159
Um think of uh it's displayed in a hotel in Las Vegas.
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:34.480
I don't know if you if this is Las Vegas.
01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:35.840
I have two, yes.
01:05:36.400 --> 01:05:38.159
Um they have it all over the ceiling.
01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:41.599
I couldn't tell you which I don't know, maybe.
01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:42.559
That's what I was thinking.
01:05:42.880 --> 01:05:49.679
That's probably um and um they're just uh extremely colorful and yeah.
01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:50.880
Where did you get them?
01:05:51.199 --> 01:05:52.880
Um at Marquette in Atlanta.
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:54.000
Yeah.
01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:57.280
Yeah, there's an artist that I think he's in Seattle.
01:05:57.599 --> 01:05:59.760
Um Portland, maybe anyway, Chahuli.
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:02.800
I can't remember his first name, but that's what he does his class.
01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:03.119
Okay.
01:06:03.519 --> 01:06:10.000
And kind of his more signature thing and these kind of dull flower-esque.
01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:11.519
Okay, then that's probably.
01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:11.840
Yeah.
01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.599
And in a place like Las Vegas, there'll be 10,000 of them.
01:06:16.159 --> 01:06:24.559
And then there's other places where he does these kind of spires, like unicorn spires kind of thing, and they'll be in botanical gardens and stuff like that.
01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:26.400
There's some in the museum here in Burkina.
01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:27.760
Is that similar?
01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:28.320
Yes.
01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:28.719
Okay.
01:06:31.360 --> 01:06:32.800
I was ready for it to be like, no.
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:34.639
Not at all.
01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:43.280
Alright, if you had eliminate two of the following, which ones would you choose?
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Okay.
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So eliminating these from the earth.
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Okay.
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Books, music, or movies TV.
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So which would you keep?
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Which would you feel like you're going to set out?
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I think so.
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Um I have to eliminate two.
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Okay.
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Um eliminating movies.
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And books and music.
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Did you just come up with this question?
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Um I mean you can't eliminate books and music, so I guess I so I guess I have to eliminate TV.
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Um, it was movies TV, it was together.
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So now we got books, yeah.
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Those were together.
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Can't yeah, that's that was one.
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Like just kind of left with books or music.
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Or music.
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Okay, then I guess I'd have to keep books to use music.
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All right.
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Controversial for sure.
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I feel like that that's one that's a dastardly.
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I don't know if I've ever used the word dastardly.
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You've used it every time it's not good.
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Um because if you say books, yeah, you're really.
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Right?
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Exactly.
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But music is pretty terrible.
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Music's pretty terrible to get rid of.
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You don't want to like get rid of music.
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Yeah, but she just did.
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I just did.
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It's just books from now on.
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She hates music.
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Where did you find this question?
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You asked that.
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I sort of just made it up.
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You just came up with it.
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Man.
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What number, what number am I on?
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This is the last one.
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This is the last one.
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I feel like I gotta make it good, but not apocalyptic.
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Maybe a nice question.
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How far are you for in music?
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Nice question.
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Um, let's see.
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What is one chore at your house with glass bowls on it on it that you weirdly enjoy?
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Uh laundry.
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Which is not a popular answer, I know.
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No, no, that's not.
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Yeah.
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What's rope?
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Yeah.
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Like the whole process, like the whole cleaning, drying, folding.
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It smells good.
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I mean, I don't want to put it away just like every other, you know, I'm human.
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But you know, it there is a gratification.
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There is a gratification to it, you know, that the process and it smells good.
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The folding folding's folding's fine.
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Okay.
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You know, make piles, right?
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Yeah.
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Organization.
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You know.
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I don't have kids, so I'm not folding, you know, I'm not getting to like the end of the fourth load, and now I have to fold tiny clothes, but you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And your laundry room is just a bomb of dirty.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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So hates teachers, hates music, loves laundry.
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That's the takeaway.
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Thank you for listening.
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Can you make that my song?
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Because I hate music.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, which was my next question.
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Uh what genre would you like your song to be?
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Your song is just gonna be Sweet Melissa.
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So we have the rights to play that song.
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This podcast just got a lot more expensive.
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For our budget.
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I can't go to the beach now, but yeah.
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Um genre.
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Um, let's do like um, I've got to answer it good because I like already acted like I hated music when I eliminated it from the earth.
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So I've got to get now the pressure is on to pick a good genre.
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Um I don't know that this is a good genre, but yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um let's do like uh 90s pop.
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90s pop.
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Nice.
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Alright, I think there's plenty of uh material to work with for the song.
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It's gonna be great.
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Yeah.
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Thank you so much for coming on.
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This was fun.
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Yeah.
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Lauren came in with a barricade shine.
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All in design in the afternoon time, plans on the table for stories to tell, designing spaces and doing it well.
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But it's still down on 38, living that beat the life, drifting away, loading 50 gas, the time to adjust.
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Wait a little window in the dust, turn the gentle on the test, better than all the rest, on the two to the cleaner quest, turn the fetus, all the best.
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Work on the side, it's a big and ball, for the brave ones, wanna for the silence rolls gotta slide and it's on a tune out of the fire function.