More Than A Side Hustle

5 Lessons Learned From A Huge Opportunity

April 16, 2024 Anthony & Jhanilka Hartzog Episode 125
5 Lessons Learned From A Huge Opportunity
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More Than A Side Hustle
5 Lessons Learned From A Huge Opportunity
Apr 16, 2024 Episode 125
Anthony & Jhanilka Hartzog

Cheers to a couple from Cleaning Business University hitting $100K while lounging in Jamaica! Our blueprint for remote cleaning businesses is legit. Reflecting on our journey from dust to empire, we're grateful for peer recognition and the chance to stand with service business legends. Networking means sharing war stories and strategies, shaping the industry narrative. Entrepreneurship isn't just a role; it's our core. Our business is who we are, balancing family, work, and seizing opportunities like the recent solar eclipse. Plus, we're diving into podcasting adventures. Share your thoughts and let's keep the conversation going!

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Cheers to a couple from Cleaning Business University hitting $100K while lounging in Jamaica! Our blueprint for remote cleaning businesses is legit. Reflecting on our journey from dust to empire, we're grateful for peer recognition and the chance to stand with service business legends. Networking means sharing war stories and strategies, shaping the industry narrative. Entrepreneurship isn't just a role; it's our core. Our business is who we are, balancing family, work, and seizing opportunities like the recent solar eclipse. Plus, we're diving into podcasting adventures. Share your thoughts and let's keep the conversation going!

🌟 Don't forget to drop us a review to support us!
Leave us A Review

---Resources----

Learn how to start and scale a cleaning business without cleaning ANY Houses
Cleaning Business University Course

Follow us on Social Media:
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Podcast Sponsor:
If you are interested in a spot shoot us an email at info@thehartrimony.com

Speaker 1:

What's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of the More Than A Science Podcast, where we help non-to-families create more impact, income and influence outside their jobs, and hopefully today is no different. My name is Anthony.

Speaker 2:

And I'm Janoka. Thank you for coming back week after week. We ask that you are subscribing and sharing and liking or doing one of those things letting people know we are here sharing with your family and friends. We've been doing this for over two years, so we appreciate those that have been tuned in from the very beginning. Maybe this is your first episode listening to us. Thank you regardless for tuning in.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

So we appreciate everyone for tapping in. You guys can do it.

Speaker 1:

You don't gotta wait I want to give you guys value. So if you want to wait to the end, like you know, I don't know these guys from a hole in the wall I want to give, I want to get some value first.

Speaker 2:

So, and maybe, if this episode isn't value to you, there are many others that I'm sure can provide value. I don't think they'd be coming back at that point. Huh, I wouldn't come back If you're like one episode doesn't provide value. Yeah, I don't know, I'm not a podcast listener like that, so you would tell me. So if one episode you listened to for someone you ran into them somehow, and that one episode you didn't give value, you wouldn't listen to any other one.

Speaker 1:

You maybe, maybe not, but maybe not if they were listening. They were brand new and they're listening. I would have tuned out by now, like what y'all talking? About here, but nah let's, let's get to the game. Let's get to the game.

Speaker 2:

So, number one, what we talking about today uh, well, we are going to talk about an experience that we just had in vegas, about a week and a half ago, that we are very thankful for. That's really what the episode is about. Uh, before we jump into that, we did want to highlight one of our students, or student couple. Essentially that they hit 100K in the business, and so we wanted to congratulate them on that and most likely, get them on the podcast to do a testimony and talk through that. But for right now, just congratulate them on hitting that 100K in under a year.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we visited them out in Vegas and it was a dope conversation and I think it's even more impactful when you can see the transformations that you're helping people get in real life. So if you guys if you're brand new here or you're not we help people start remote cleaning businesses, meaning you build your business and you go out and kind of do what you want to do with it. But the purpose of it was just to help people create income outside their jobs. So they're two, nine to fivers busy professionals and they just started their remote cleaning business about a year ago and they just hit six figures in exactly 12 months, being able to see the exact journey going from and I think we interviewed them on our podcast we have.

Speaker 2:

When they first started in the first month they hit like five, five k in their first month like 20 clients in the first month or something like that something like that, and that was in 2023, and so now they came back a year later, hitting 100k, still working it still um, using the blueprint to make sure that they get where they want to be. And yeah, they're killing it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, if you guys want to know more about that, you can check out cleaningbusinessuniversitycom where we help people start remote cleaning businesses without cleaning any houses. And I think the most impactful part was that she was like I did. We did about 800. I forgot the number it was. It was like a couple hundred cleanings and I didn't have to go to a client's house. I didn't have to go quote anybody in person and I'm literally running this business from my phone. They went on vacation and they told us about their vacation in Jamaica and they told our community about that and they were able to run their business.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's really the best part of it, Like you don't have to be in a specific place for your business to run. So that's the exciting part. So shout out to Jasmine and Quay Congratulations again on hitting that 100K. If you share with us, we will congratulate you as well. Some students may be listening like, oh, I've done that and maybe it wasn't communicated to us. So that's the other part of us.

Speaker 1:

If you don't know, how can we support?

Speaker 2:

Exactly. If you share with us, we are more than happy to kind of just highlight your journey and say thank you and, once again, correct Congratulations. But before we hop into the experience, we had a conversation which is kind of a sidebar of recently OJ Simpson if you don't know who he is, I don't know where you're living. Bar of recently OJ Simpson. If you don't know who he is, I don't know where you're living. Um, recently passed away and we were just talking about is there another? Or we were way too young, but is there a a case that was so big like that in our lives recently, or as adults, or growing up? After his case, I was saying no, because he was a celebrity. That's what made it such a big deal and the world or America was torn on. You know the outcome. The outcome. You know.

Speaker 2:

You see these videos of people sitting in community centers. I don't know why they wasn't at work, but you see people sitting down waiting for the verdict and like maybe 60% of the room is excited, 40% is like pissed, just sitting there. I'm like we don't really. Thankfully we don't have people going around doing that, but I don't know any other case that would compare to that at this point, when it comes to a celebrity doing something of that magnitude, essentially, and then I was like, oh, maybe like a Tupac You're like? No, that's too.

Speaker 1:

No, I would say not on a celebrity. When you brought the question to me and I really thought about it. I didn't automatically think about a celebrity, but I was thinking about a case that had everyone glued to their TVs, was like around the Black Lives Matter movement, when people were essentially getting killed.

Speaker 1:

You were thinking more of black and white, not black or white. I was thinking about people being glued to their tvs, no matter black or white, white or white, black or black, whatever it is, people being glued to their tvs waiting for that verdict, so it's on in your office, it's on in a church, it's on in a conference room, it's on everywhere twitter everywhere. That would be the only case that I think about that kind of had everyone kind of glued to their tvs, not you know around that same type of thing.

Speaker 2:

That same type of atmosphere, I guess. But he, those are to him and his family. But he's went on and his name will live on, for not necessarily being a football player, for the glove not fitting.

Speaker 1:

essentially, you know what's crazy about social media is that there's going to be people out there who don't even know that he was a football player yeah like I see Yo, what's going on?

Speaker 1:

guys, did you know? We own a seven figure cleaning business and we use that business in order to pay off $114,000 of debt. We use that business to help us travel more, save more money and eventually become financially free. If any of that sounds good to you, check out cleaning business university, where we teach you how to launch and scale a six now seven figure cleaning business, and Cleaning Business University, where we teach you how to launch and scale a six now seven-figure cleaning business, and the best part about it is that you do not have to clean homes yourself. I know that sounds crazy, but check out Cleaning Business University. We give you more in-depth information about that. Check it out and we will see you on the other side, like Ice-T.

Speaker 2:

Ice-T has that conversation. He's like there's a whole new generation that does not know I was a rapper. They just know that I'm on SVU. Svu as a cop, as a cop, which was anti his life.

Speaker 1:

Ice-T as a rapper versus Ice-T as a SVU detective. Svu detective you know people out there who have no idea that his music was extremely graphic.

Speaker 2:

But I think being able to pivot I mean not necessarily OJ, but being able to pivot is a good thing. Sometimes you don't have to stay where you started in doing other things. You know what I mean. Like, at some point maybe people don't even know Beyonce had Destiny's Child. I mean, who knows? Depending on your age, you may not recognize that or realize that that's where she started.

Speaker 1:

And even I mean even if you compare it to us, like when we started our journey, we were just talking about debt freedom. A couple years people don't know us for the cleaning business. Maybe it's something else. So it's about people change. It's about adjusting adjusting to the times, adjusting to the narratives and kind of creating your own, your own journey.

Speaker 2:

At that point, yep, but right now we are in the season of people knowing us for a cleaning business and we got flewed out or axed to come to vegas to speak with jobber. Can you explain what Jobber is? For some people that may be like what is that?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so we were invited to speak on their podcast called Masters of Home.

Speaker 2:

Services Got a hat back here.

Speaker 1:

And Jobber essentially is a customer relationship management system, one of the largest platforms in the local service business space. So whether you have a cleaning business, or whether you have a lawn care business, or whether you have construction or plumbing, it allows you to manage your customer invoices and our automations, things like that, and they essentially invited us on their platform. So it's literally one of the largest. So if you think about I don't know, oh, let's compare it. Yeah, what would I compare it to?

Speaker 1:

So think about whatever you, whatever you do in your life and this is like the, the top of the top, you know, top top three in that in that area. So they invited us out to talk about our experience, um, how we run our business and also how does that fit into our family. So we did two episodes, but talk about the um, I want to talk about the experience as a whole.

Speaker 2:

Well, it was honestly our first time no, it's not our first time on a podcast. Let me rephrase this as you know, we've been on many podcasts podcasts. It's our first time that we everything like expenses were paid for for us when it came to us doing an event in any capacity, if you will. Um, so that was exciting one for them. To even consider us was also inside, like you know, what made you think about us. Obviously there's other cleaning business people out there, um, obviously there's other people in the local service business, and I think this was, was, uh, their third season that they're recording for I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2:

so I think that that feeling it felt good to be recognized because technically, you know, we hear sometimes, sometimes not all the time from students a progress that they've made from the course that we put out, um, but it feels like they are our what's the word I'm looking for? Like counterparts or that's not the exact word, but I'm trying to say like at our level, basically Like we're never really around other local service business people. We are mostly around other entrepreneurs, if you will, but we don't really have a community of other local service business people that we can speak to about other things or what they're doing in their business and that type of stuff. So I think that part of it felt really good to be included in that group, versus just the entrepreneurial group that we're generally in or coaching group that we're generally in.

Speaker 1:

And if you know anything about our story, it's non-traditional when it comes to our cleaning business, so it's kind of in some places, in some walks of life, it's kind of shunned upon to do.

Speaker 1:

To have a business where you're not actually doing the teaching people how to do what you essentially never done Like we've never cleaned a home, but you're teaching people how to clean homes and we're like well, we're not teaching people how to clean homes, we're teaching them how to run a business where you have people who actually go out and clean your homes and those are the trained professionals. But we got some experiences and we're going to be reflecting on what it was like to be invited to speak on a platform by a job or master's of home service. So number one I think the title of the show alone is called Masters and it was truly humbling to be on a platform surrounded by other experts, being in a room, being around true experts and masses of what they do. We never take the opportunity lightly, so what would be your thoughts on that?

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, I think we never take the opportunity lightly. I can honestly say that prior to us, we started our business in 2017, and then, mostly speaking about it on a social platform, maybe from then really kicked up in gear 2020, 2019, 2020. Prior to us, I have not seen anyone black, white, indian, anyone speaking about the cleaning business in this capacity, about remote cleaning businesses. Does that mean it didn't exist? No, I'm not saying we're the founders of this. Don't go changing my words now.

Speaker 1:

You got to be careful too, because people are going to take that clip and run with it I just said.

Speaker 2:

I just said if you continue listening to the full clip, they won't exactly that. I haven't seen people talking about it in a social platform. There's a difference, not saying people weren't speaking about it. So I think that and now I have, I've seen other people out there speaking about it Cause, like I said, we didn't invent this, obviously, but for them to recognize us, it is humbling for them to say hey, we see what you're doing, we see the work that you're doing and notice it. After you know, four or five years of putting in that work, which is a reminder for people you know, after the four or five years of putting in that work, which is a reminder for people you know, after four or five years of putting in that work, it is very humbling, it's exciting and hopefully we, you know it continues to open more doors for us in other platforms that we may not have thought thought of, but they seek us out.

Speaker 1:

And going back to that title where it says masters, that was another humbling part where you're on a platform where you're talking, you're talking to these are people who are masters at their craft, masters at the very highest level, whether it be any local service business. So it was truly humbling to be considered for a platform where they're only talking to the top of the top masters. Now I'm not saying we're the best or the only, but to be even mentioned in the same room as other people, which is absolutely amazing. So that would be number one, number two, number two there are talented people in this world and everyone has the ability to do what they are good at. And I say so many pieces had to come together to make that experience happen.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, while we were there, we met other people. We met someone in the window washing industry in like the tri-state area of New York, new Jersey. We met someone that has a lawn Roofing Roofing. So it really was interesting because we always say this business model can work in any business, any service-based business, and so we just went out for fellowship tacos and just had conversations around what are you doing in your business? And oh, wow, didn't think about that and what am I doing in my business?

Speaker 2:

And that part of it is truly because when we speak, you know, factually we've had, we've had coaches, mindset coaches, you know we've had people that coach us on the coaching side of it. But really, when it comes to the business specific side of a local service business, we haven't really had people that we've had consistently. So this also feels like it just opens that door to have those conversations with people about what we're actually doing in this side of the business, because you know we have multiple business in this side of the business. When it comes to our cleaning business specifically, it opens those doors for us, which then can open those doors for our students, for the knowledge that we get and we decide to pass on as well.

Speaker 1:

One part you had mentioned was being around those other experts, and I think sometimes it's kind of intimidating when you have people who've been doing this for decades.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it was like 20, 30 years and I'm like oh, okay 20, 30 years.

Speaker 1:

We're talking about grandfather, we're talking about father, we're talking about and everybody's in the business. Everybody is in the business and we're like you know, we're talking about first generation entrepreneurship here. Yeah, that's the first time, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And a lot of our people are, especially over the last couple years, are first generation entrepreneurs and we don't have that longevity or lineage to go down to, because we see these businesses as like ah, it's a cleaning, ah, it's a lawn kit, ah, it's a plumbing, and we don't have anything to pass down to our kids. So that's something else. That kind of was like wow, she was like my grandfather, she's like my father works in this, my family works in this, my aunts, and it was a picture of them like in an office or something. I'm like wow, that's like really the whole family.

Speaker 2:

That whole family. That's the family business. We're not talking about family.

Speaker 1:

We're not talking about family in the room like this we're talking about in an office space and we're talking about a couple hundred, you do this, you do that yeah but I think it also just shows the different ways that you can run business right, absolutely

Speaker 2:

um, for us. We have always said that the cleaning business was and is like a stepping stone for us. It allows us, first of all, it was our introduction to entrepreneurship. It was our introduction to business, right, and it has allowed us to do a lot more. Um, would the cleaning business ever be our only thing at this point? Not at this time, right. But if it is our only thing, what does that look like? And so, meeting people that the business, you know, this is what we do, this is our nine to five, our business, and seeing our side of it is just a, you know, just opening your eyes to different ways that you can run your business. You can be all in. I would consider ourselves all in as well, but just not as much as it's. You know, we, this is the only thing we do. So that was important and impressive to see as well, just the differences and how they manage that. And family and what it looks like if a family's involved and boundaries and all those things were part of the conversation.

Speaker 1:

That was a good conversation where we have a lot of similarities when it comes to just other family-owned businesses, and it's not just the the cleaning business. I just you have your husband and you have the wife in the same business and it's like.

Speaker 2:

You know how do you balance it, what do?

Speaker 1:

you? How do you turn it up? Oh, I tell my husband this, so I tell my wife this is like, yeah, we do the same exact thing. They just do it, you know, they've been doing it for quite some time, so it was good to be surrounded by other people, but then also the team there was absolutely, I think now no shade to any other show we've been on, but this was the most. I mean, this is also the top.

Speaker 2:

This would be the biggest. So biggest is relative right, because it depends your biggest name biggest name.

Speaker 2:

Some people would say numbers make it biggest, but a biggest name and everything was seamless a lot. Some podcasts we go on. They just you know they'll contact us and say this is the time or date we'll show up and we kind of sit down and roll. Um this one, there was a lot of back and forth just getting logistics together also, I mean, we we've flown for the podcast as well. Um, we had to fly and hotel accommodations, all that type of stuff.

Speaker 2:

But also us being prepared on both sides of questions ahead of time, so that you're aware, you know how, like the celebrities, they go in, knowing what question going to be asked when they sit down there. No surprises here. So like having all of that in place. Uh, the team over communicating make sure you're okay. So it was really a seamless experience with the jobber and we were very thankful and communicated that to them as well. Um, the person we were working with she's like oh, I saw you had an announcement, congratulations. And so they were also very in tuned and prepared with looking at our social platforms. Because that's I mean, if you don't know us personally, that's how you get to know us, that's how you know more about what we do, what we say, how we act. Do we align with your brand, do we not? Uh, and that's where you can get that information.

Speaker 1:

They were, they did their homework, and so that was impressive yeah, that team was super, super sharp and the host of the show, adam, super super bright dude, and the thing about it. Literally, we had a conversation and I was like dude, you are super talented. I'm like, have you done this before? He's like no, like hosting, he's like no, he tells a story about how he got there.

Speaker 1:

I'm not going to share his story, but I think the part about it was is that he took a shot on him. He took a shot on himself and he's doing absolutely amazing. So sometimes you just got to take a shot and see where it lands. And if you want to do some extra credit, take a screenshot of your phone. Or if you're driving in the car, take a screenshot of your your dashboard tag us on Instagram. Let us know you are tapping in so that we can repost you and show you some love too.

Speaker 2:

You can tag us at more than a side hustle podcast or at the heart. We have two ways that you can tap in with us.

Speaker 1:

We appreciate it, thank you. The other thing was it also also puts things in perspective to. We were talking about social media at one point and, um, they're like, yeah, you have a huge, you guys have a huge following. And we was like, I guess, to the local service businesses we do, but in terms of everything else we do and we you know where we want to be. You know that's not where we want to be, so we're always it's always levels, but then it's always more.

Speaker 1:

They're like oh, I would love to be where you want to be, and he's like I'm, I'm beyond where we want to be, like mentally. So it's like how do you get to that next level? But then always reminding yourself that there are people who are looking to get to where you are today. So super important.

Speaker 2:

And so number three, timing. And we say only God, like God really planned this, the event was not going to happen. If this did not happen, if they didn't ask us to come out on this specific week, the eclipse made this happen.

Speaker 2:

The eclipse made this happen, jabra week. Um, because eclipsed made this happen. The eclipse made this happen, jobber. Made this happen simply because, if you don't know, we're from new york but we live in dallas. We don't really have, we don't have any family here with us, and so now we don't have our full-time nanny. We use babysitters, which means we're not comfortable with our daughter staying with them overnight, even if they can do that, but not at this time. She's in school.

Speaker 2:

We wouldn't be able to bring her, not because of school, because if, when we were recording the podcast, who's going to be watching her, that was the biggest thing. Like, what is she going to be doing? So it was a matter of figuring out if we had anyone that could come down to stay with her while we went to Vegas to do this recording. And one of my friends wasn't able to do it work, work reasons and so we're like, uh, we about to have to tell them no. First opportunity where things are getting paper. We're like, oh, we about to have to tell them no.

Speaker 2:

And then realized that my godmother and her sons were coming down for the solar eclipse. So we were like, really in passing of each other, uh, we were in Vegas Sunday to Tuesday. She was in town Sunday to Tuesday, yeah, between working her schedule of the plan she had with Solar Eclipse, I'm sorry and the babysitters getting involved helping to pick her up from school. That's what made this possible. And once again we said only God made this happen on this week, because if it was any other week the answer would have been no, we can't make it Absolutely Basically. Or we could make it, but somebody got to watch the child outside of the studio and she's going to cry.

Speaker 1:

I mean, maybe that would have worked, because it would have been an hour or so. I mean, looking back, it probably could have worked, just hang out.

Speaker 2:

Because there's no sound. You back it probably could have worked.

Speaker 1:

Just hang out because there's no sound. You can't hear it. Hear the sound.

Speaker 1:

Looking back, it might have worked, we could have probably pulled it up, okay, luckily for us, the the solar eclipse happened and you know, with the family coming down, we were able to make it happen. But also there was one, there was one gem about the solar eclipse that I don't even think about. Um, this actually happened in church the other day when they were talking about everyone was, everyone was focused on the solar eclipse. Right, they were planning for it, like your family came down, they were prepared for it and some people were like you know what? You know what happened, is it happens? They was on different perspectives of that event happening. There were people who plan the entire year around being in the right place, which is years because they knew from six, seven years ago.

Speaker 1:

Right, right Time. The location your aunt literally flew down to be in Dallas, which is going to be the epicenter of it in the US. I guess right, and for us it was like we didn't really care.

Speaker 2:

We flew out when she mentioned it to me. I'm like what. I never heard of this. She's like what?

Speaker 1:

Where are you living? I and they made things like that and the traffic in Dallas was crazy, but we actually flew out and when the eclipse happened, it didn't happen in Vegas.

Speaker 2:

It didn't happen in Vegas, so we had no idea.

Speaker 1:

We didn't know the time, we didn't know when it happened, we didn't get to experience it.

Speaker 2:

We saw pictures.

Speaker 1:

We were told, like you can't really experience what was here, and that's the problem. We were talking about the perspective of just life. There were people who planned for that event, who showed up for the event to make sure they were in the right place, right time for an event that happens once in a lifetime or once every, whatever the years are. And there were people who were in the same place same time that didn't even notice it happening. So how can we slow down to ensure that we are taking in the sites that are around us Right? So that was a. That was another gem about the eclipse.

Speaker 2:

So God made the eclipse happen.

Speaker 1:

He also made it happen for us to get on that podcast.

Speaker 2:

He made it happen for us, because if not, baby.

Speaker 2:

But yes thank you, god, as usual. The fourth thing that we had when it came to these experiences keep sharing your story. We were found just by sharing our story on social media for the last seven years. So, yes, I know, in this day and age it may not take you seven years, especially with TikTok People go viral all the time, but sometimes they can't remain consistent with it. But we've been sharing for the past seven years, and so we asked them. You know, we're like how did you find us? And she said well, we were looking because there was another cleaning business owner there. We didn't get to connect with her, though, but she was like we were looking for another cleaning business owner. She was like you guys weren't hard to find. I like searched all you put you guys on youtube and I found you guys right away. And we're like oh, okay, cool, because we've been doing this podcast for over two years. But it's not like we have tons of accolades on the podcast and it's always, you know, thankful that someone is listening it's not an award-winning podcast.

Speaker 1:

Right, it's not an award-winning podcast. Put that in atmosphere.

Speaker 2:

Not yet but we know that you guys subscribe, we know that you guys write reviews and those are ways that we know that someone is listening or based on the downloads and things like that. But for them to find us in that way, it kind of like just keep putting it out there it don't got to be perfect. If you see our first video, youtube videos, um, from when we started to now, and then when we look back in a year or two, so on and so forth. It don't got to be perfect, but the information is is just the same that we're saying, regardless of how it looks. So shout out to them for finding us and shout out to us for being consistent for seven years on social media. Yeah, keep sharing your story people.

Speaker 1:

Um, it's funny because I just recently posted a video one of our first YouTube videos on um on a podcast, and it was about us paying off our debt, cause I you realize there are people out there who don't even know where you started at. Yeah, and I always say find out, find out more about the person where they started, versus trying to find out where they are today. Where did they start before you followed them? What were they doing before you followed them? What were they doing before you bought something from them? Find out more about the person, the individual, the family, the coach, whatever it is. Find out what they were doing before you decided to work with them so that you can see more of a well-rounded view of them so I posted that video and that was one of my highest viewed videos, like recently.

Speaker 1:

I was like, oh, this video had was was on the iphone looking down and if you guys are on youtube, we we got a three-camera setup here right now and we didn't have a three-camera setup, we had an iPhone.

Speaker 2:

We didn't have a one-camera setup.

Speaker 1:

We had an iPhone sitting in front of us and we're recording a video, and I recently posted that video because my friend Andre was like yo post your old stuff Like you never know who's going to find it. So, remaining consistent, but then also keep sharing your story Super important, guys that you never know where it may take you. There is some someone out there that's looking to find out more about something that you know, something that you've gone through, something that you've accomplished, something that you've learned, but you don't know until you get there. So stop being selfish with the information that you have and start sharing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I agree, just keep sharing your story.

Speaker 2:

And the last thing we had here was just, it's really mind blowing of the little we say little little idea that we had of the cleaning business, how, what it's allowed us to do and where it's brought us today.

Speaker 2:

Right, we would have never considered that when we started this back in 2017, about six and a half, seven years ago that we would be on any platform first of all let alone this platform like Jobber, but any platform speaking about the cleaning business, that we would be anywhere teaching people how to do this and changing their life and generational wealth, or that we would have rental properties because of this, so on and so forth, that we'll be traveling the world because of it. So, that little idea get started on it and do it as you grow, right, a lot of times we want it to be perfect before we get started and things like that. Yes, there may be some things, some foundation you want to have or need to have in place, but make the mistakes. That's part of the process, right, that's part of you growing. That's part of the business growing, that's part of you learning and that's what helped to bring us here today.

Speaker 1:

I'm happy you kept looking at me. No, I was listening to you, oh, okay.

Speaker 1:

Get started, get fancy later, don't don't try to figure it out all, and that's. And that's me just putting my own advice out there too, cause I think at this stage it was a lot easier to get started at when we was earlier, because it was like nobody's looking. And then you get some people looking and then you start holding back more because you want things to be perfect and it kind of slows you down. But I would rather you guys, I would rather us do something, take the action, figure it out along the way and then, if it doesn't work, hey, you go back, you make adjustments and you learn as you grow. Some people call it building the parachute while you jump out the plane.

Speaker 2:

now I'm not okay, not uh let's not take that if the place listen don't, don't take that I ain't doing that part now, literally but that's what they call it building a parachute.

Speaker 1:

You know, as you jump out the plane so that you are more, you're going to be more, you're going to move faster, you're going to react faster, you're going to make adjustments faster when you're out the plane and you're trying to figure it out, versus when you're just sitting on a plane and you got all the time to build a parachute. How are you going to know if it works or not until you?

Speaker 2:

jump out. Let's change this analogy, but we do just want to thank Jabba for the opportunity and when those podcasts come out, uh, we'll be sure to tag it. We'll probably put it on our platforms ourselves and to any other company that is listening. I think we are great candidates, uh, to speak on the cleaning business and anything else.

Speaker 1:

Really, we have a lot that we speak about not just the cleaning One episode was mainly about the cleaning business and the other was about generation um about the cleaning business and the other was about generation, um, building generational wealth for your family, some things we're doing for alani and then our second kid on the way.

Speaker 1:

So one was about the cleaning and what wasn't we could talk about. We talked about marriage, talked about relationship, talked about all of that stuff. So make sure you guys check out our podcast if you are new here. We thank you if we provided any value. Leave us a five-star review, subscribe to the page, share it. One person, write a review. We like those. Comment below what was one of your takeaways. If you got any inspiration, we appreciate y'all being here and we'll see you next time.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, peace thank you for tapping in with us again. As you know, we always ask if you guys can, please, please, go ahead and leave us five-star review. Go ahead and write something if you're enjoying what we speak about, if, if you listen to us week to week, please be sure to let us know that helps us to continue to grow and for other people to listen to our show as well.

Speaker 1:

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