Back In The Home Studio

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Welcome back to another episode of. Was I supposed to wait for you?

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No, not at all.

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Welcome back to another episode of Just an Epic Life Podcast. This is crazy! This is crazy. We're back where it started. We are in Link Performing Art Studio A, formerly known, well currently known as our bedroom. It used to be the acoustically pleasing room because we have carpet in here. And a lot of things have changed since we released changed since we released episode one years ago.

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We had carpet in here, and then we got new flooring in every other part of the house except for this one. So we have until about two weeks ago, our flooring has been the subfloor because we're on the second story of the house.

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I don't know. Till two weeks till two weeks ago at the bathroom subfloor.

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No. That had tile. This had subfloor.

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No, we had the vinyl went down a year ago. It did? It did. Are you sure? Yeah. We had the giant pile of construction here, but it was on uh yeah. Robert did the subfloor like a year. Did the flooring a year ago, but it stopped at the bathroom because that was tile on top of linoleum on top of backer board.

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It was just uh which by the way, it took something to learn how to not step up into the bathroom, which by the way, the tile is only like what a couple centimeters thick.

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A couple centimeters is that. No, I mean a combination. It was probably a centimeter of all the layers.

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So but you still get used to stepping up. So the first week I would be like Yes.

Twenty-One Years And A New House

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And we got the last bit of carpet out of the house when we got the closet carpet pulled up.

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Yes. Yeah. So now that we've got no carpet in the house, we are on our next journey. Yes. Our next journey, which started yesterday. And we have been in this home for 21 years. And quite frankly.

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21 years and one day.

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Well, not one day. And quite frankly, since Tara moved in, I thought we might never move. But the most perfect house that I've been dreaming of, that I didn't know I was dreaming of, came back on the market. Um, my clients bought it a year ago and uh then called me a few months ago and said, Hey, we we need to sell it. And that's not normal. People usually stay in their homes for five to seven years, and people who buy houses like this house stay in their house. They're what we call legacy houses, so they're typically passed down from one generation to another. So yeah. So we get to move into that house sometime next week.

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So we closed on that house on our 21-year house adversary for this house. Yeah.

Self-Employed Loan And Clear To Close

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I did that on purpose. I wanted to do that. That was a special day for us, so I wanted it to be special day again. So it it's been a journey. I think um, I think by the time you get to see this one, you will have heard that, you know, because we're self-employed, you have non-conforming loans. So it was a little bit of a hiccup. And then um, our most amazing loan officer, she I call her one day to talk about the sellers, because of course they're buying also, and we're talking about it, and then all of a sudden I hear this ringing, and I'm like, like a phone ringing. And I said, Are you calling someone? And Nick answers the phone, and she goes, Hey, since I have both of you on the phone, I have a clear to close. And I was like, Liliana was driving, so I'm like, Woo! Screaming and so excited, and because like that's the moment. Clear to close means you've gotten to the finish, you've gotten to the you can see the finish line, right? And you're just getting ready to, you know, slow motion movie roll music towards the yeah, we don't own the rest to that, the rights to that sound uh run through the the red the finish line tape. So yeah, cool stuff. So it's exciting. The kids are excited, we're excited. Um, I definitely think it's gonna put travel on hold for a little bit, and not because I I want to be clear about this, like sure, there could be the financial thing, but for us, like at this point, they have a fall break coming up, which is in the middle, like is two weeks after we move in. And we're keeping this house as an Airbnb. So, like there's so much to do to get the next house set up or um, I don't want to say livable, but into a space of comfort. Yeah, yeah.

Pausing Travel And Setting Up Airbnb

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Uh like to sit and feel at peace and inspired as opposed to sitting and going, we still need to unpack that box, that box.

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Oh no, we're gonna go sit on the backyard. We're gonna sit in the backyard on a blanket. I don't care. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Yeah, because the backyard's huge.

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It's gonna be great.

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It is, it's gonna be really great. It's really exciting. There, of course, were lots of challenges that made me nerve. I don't know that there were challenges, but things that made me nervous. And that's just because I understand how the process works. And you, my dear. I learned what the consumer understands. This person who I thought knew more than he did, he would say the weirdest thing. I buy a lot of homes. What are you talking about?

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I mean, uh, we've we've we've bought 58 homes, excluding the ones that we live in. Uh but buying uh an investment property to flip it, yeah, is completely different. And there's there's nothing to worry about.

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Yeah. I mean, if a hard money lender just tells you how much you want to put down.

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Yeah. Hard money lender, they look at the asset and they go, excuse me.

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You just I did I didn't mean to, it just came out of no that's embarrassing.

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We're on a public podcast.

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By the way, I burp. It's what we do.

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Yeah, I mean it's like it the if I if I do my job right, if we're using a lender, they say, Yep, looks good. And you know, here's the money. Um, and if I don't do my job right, which hasn't happened yet, they would say, Hey, we're not lending on this property.

Thankful Thursday And A Hard Question

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Um yeah. So it's just been it's been just a different journey. Sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot when we're done with this conversation into something else because it's Thursday.

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It is Thursday.

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And you know that's my favorite day.

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Oh, we're gonna do a Thankful Thursday while in a podcast. Yeah. That's exciting.

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Well, because I'm super excited. So I also I've I've suddenly started calling this the year I get everything I want. Just like honestly, in the last you already have me. Yes, dear. And uh there, it's like this house should not have come up, it should not have been an option. Just that simple.

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She told her clients a year ago, if you're not buying this house, I am.

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Yeah, I don't know that I exactly said that, but I came home and told her. Yeah, okay.

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Well, you lied.

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Yeah, maybe I could have, but it yeah, they shouldn't have moved so quickly. And yet I I truly believe that God paused, like let put them in it for their journey to do what it needed to do, so they could get to the house that they're at now, and that we could be mentally, spiritually, physically, financially prepared for this one. So yeah, and I and then I think about all the other cool things that have happened, like Liliana on Barcy Spirit Line, and she's like being thrown up in the air safely. Thank goodness. Um, Isaiah is a DECA state officer, and he's about 90 minutes from presenting in front of 2,200 people. Yeah, and I'm hoping that we're gonna get to do an episode all about getting to watch him because I told him I said, I want to come watch it. He's like, Mom, you can't do that. And I'm like, listen, do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? Please ask the director if your mom can come. And this will definitely be one of the moments where he compares me to Beverly Goldberg. And if you don't watch the Goldbergs, watch an episode. It's rough. Uh so, anyways, yeah. So the question I asked my team yesterday was really good. I have to find it again. Hold on. Oh, what part of your life right now is going really well, and how do you and how do you often take it for granted?

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What part of my life is going really well right now, and I often take it for granted?

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Yeah. I went first, and then I felt like a weenie because they all said something that I put judgment on mine. So I'm not gonna go first, you're gonna go first.

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What's going really well right now is my relationship with my kids.

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And do you take it for granted?

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I think like it doesn't I don't treat it as a like I treat it as a intentional thing because I value it so much, but I don't take time to imagine what it would be like if there was a chasm in our relationship. And if there was severe strife, I don't take time to think about what that would be. So yeah, I think I I take it for granted.

The Remodel Pile And Finishing Fast

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Yeah, I said my mental like my I think my mentality is a superpower, and I take it for granted. So I went first and that's what I said, and then every not everyone, but the people our age on the team were like my wife and my family, my wife and my family, or my husband and my family. And don't get me wrong, like so. Then that built into the conversation of the tolerance that our significant others must have for us in this industry, because we do answer the phone and we do take text messages, and you well, you're getting a piece of it now, right? Because now I'm I'm so intolerant of you being on the phone when I'm like, this is my time, my time, and yet I there were years that I did that, so yeah, and I don't know that I think I take your yours and mine relationship for granted, nor my children's. I don't think so. I think I'm holding on to them for their life in a good way. Good, anyways, yeah. So that was I just thought it was such a cool question that kind of made us think differently. And if you're really if that's really it, then what are you doing every day when you're not with them to honor them so that you can be with them at full at full capacity when you get to be with them? So this is how I challenged my team because mostly I was like, get off your lazy rear ends, get your job done, set appointments, go on appointments, meet new friends. Because it's easy to say these are the things, and yet when it's time to make the phone calls, when it's time to do the work, oh I don't want to. No, we don't have time to just I don't want to. You have people that you feel like you want to honor, and you're afraid you're taking it for granted because you're waiting until you're with them to do anything. That's dumb. Dumb, dumb. And it's fine. Okay, yeah, it's not really dumb, it's fine, it's what we do. We're conditioned. Yeah, so it's Thankful Thursday, and I'm super excited that we have the opportunity to go see Isaiah. That it's uh I do think oh, we closed on a Friday. Never mind. I was saying, I think we closed on a Thursday, but we did close on a Friday. Um yeah, cool things, and that this space, okay, back to this space. So there's been a pile, he he alluded to it, like this big.

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We designed the rehab of the bathroom two years ago.

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Uh-huh.

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And we bought all of the supplies for all three bathrooms two years ago. We got one bathroom done, and then like four months later, we got another bathroom done, and then all of the remaining supplies just sat here. All the flooring, the vanity, the mirrors, the towel holders, all the electric wire, the outlets, the toilets, like the new brand new toilets in boxes. This was a construction storage site in our bedroom.

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This is when you'll learn something about Nick and me. I kept thinking he would do it, and he was feeling stressed because the remodel that we ended up doing is not the remodel that we wanted. We we got all the stuff for the remodel that was like our shower. Our magic bathroom.

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That we're gonna stay here for for a long time shower.

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Yeah, I hate our closet. I hate our shower. And they're not bad, they're just it's your standard size shower, the smallest standard size you can be. Yeah, it's a single-person shower. So there's no there's no snuggling in the shower.

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It's like the size of this table.

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Um, maybe and then it's square, and then the closet, Nick has to open the door, walk in, close the door to look at his side. So it's awful. So we were going to knock down walls. So I kept thinking he would do it because he runs the projects on the rehabs and he didn't, and he didn't. And he would get stressed every time I'd ask him about it. And then when uh when we went under contract on the new house, I said to him, I want to enjoy the new bathroom for at least two weeks. So just get the bare minimum done.

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So we did it.

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And it was done. I can't believe that good. Yeah, it was beautiful. We got it done. So yeah, yeah, so it's great. So it's been a really fun journey. Um, ups and downs and emotions in the purchase. Uh, actually, I don't know if you had ups and downs. I didn't. I tried to stay as clinical as possible. I tried to stay, which is exactly what I teach or tell my people to do. Easier said than done. Um, and yet on our day that we signed, so on Monday we signed, and you know the scene in Frozen Coronation Day where she's you know, that it's so that became my theme song because I got to smash all of the emotions from the two months into one day, and it was just like I'm getting everything I want.

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You inspired me. I listened to that whole soundtrack.

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The whole soundtrack.

What Do You Want And Go Get It

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Yes, and then I listened to the whole soundtrack of Hercules, and then the whole soundtrack of uh because I was I was part like I focus on learning, like I learn all the time, like in a given day with all the commuting and jobing, going to job sites and you know, spraying weeds while listening to a podcast, I could be listening to like three hours three hours of content each day. And at some point, I'm just done. By like after 3 p.m., you'll rarely hear me listening to content. Instead, I just need something. So you it's a fictional audiobook, or uh I just because of you, I just put on music for the first time in a long time.

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Oh yeah, this is my music guy, and he doesn't do music. But I kept so I kept playing that song. It's so funny because my team's inside of a challenge, right?

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It's going in my head right now, it's great.

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I know. And I can see her dancing around and singing the only like people. Did you no, did you know that did you even know that we had 8,000 salad plates? Oh my gosh, that's so amazing. And then for the first time in forever, and I'm thinking, oh, that's us for the first time in forever. And so, anyways, I'm telling Sherry about it before she leaves um on recording day because I'm like playing this head, the song through my head, and I turn it on real loud in my office, and Jesse, he's my accountability partner this week, and he turns around and goes, Excuse me, Kesley, is that actually making you get work done? Because I think you want to get so many done before you get to be off today. And I was like, Yes, it is, and turn it down. So it was yeah.

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That was just yesterday? Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Is that your back or your dress?

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No pop. Oh no. It is my back.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So welcome to studio Link Performing Arts Studio A.

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And we look forward to showing you studio.

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Probably the last ever.

Like Subscribe Share And Goodbye

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Yeah, whatever. We can come here anytime we want. We own it. Anytime that somebody is not staying here, we can come here.

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We own the house. We can record here.

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When the kids make us crazy, we'll be like, we're going back to the other house.

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Yes.

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So yeah, cool things. Uh I think that one of the things that we've been focusing on this year has been what do you want? And so um, we talked about it in in another podcast about Nick really asking me, like, do you really want this house and figuring out a way to make it happen? So, what do you want?

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What do you want?

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What do you want in life? What do you want in your business? What do you want um in your world? What do you want with your dog?

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Theoretically, his nails on the final floor isn't being picked up by the microphones.

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Okay, we'll see. Yeah, and what one of my social media, my Instagram right now, is like if you hate your job, go find something that you like because you're sucking the joy out of the world for you. So figure out what you want, and then be honest with yourself and go get it.

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Cool.

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Yeah, I dig it.

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I'm good.

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Me too.

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Yeah, so this has been fun, super fun. Thanks for spending time with us. Uh, if you enjoy this, please like, subscribe, share, all those fun things. And until next time, enjoy an epic life.