Introducing the Ready Set Coach Podcast - Meet Emily Merrell & Lexie Smith

Meet Em & Lex - two imperfect six-figure business coaches, co-founders, and friends who decided to combine their superpowers to bring to market something they wish they had when they entered the world of coaching. A real, non-BS, intimate, and fun community built with integrity, intention, and a few glasses of wine. 

Tune in to hear Em & Lex get real - real about life, business, relationships, and what it really takes to find your version of success in the world of coaching. 

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Who are Emily Merrell (Em) and Lexie Smith (Lex)
• Em and Lex’s backgrounds and how they found their way into the world of coaching
• A little bit about their independent businesses - Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
• How the two coaches met and decided to embark in starting their own business - Ready Set Coach
• What Ready Set Coach is and the two’s thought process behind launching
• Em’s viral wedding story
• What to expect in upcoming episodes in the Ready Set Coach Podcast

Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram

Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com

Snag free resources from Ready Set Coach here.

Transcript

Emily Merrell  
Lex, how did it take us this long to get a podcast?

Lexie Smith  
I am actually not sure in the back of my mind. I think we always needed one or I knew that but was procrastinating probably just a little bit.

Emily Merrell  
Well, I wasn't because we both have our own podcasts and our own separate businesses and ready sick I was gonna say

Lexie Smith  
multiple businesses, podcasts, you know all the things babies.

Emily Merrell  
Yeah, you know, things that keep us entertained. But I'm so happy that we're doing this. Basically, this is going to be like a glimpse into our candid conversations that we have with one another about all things life and business and relationships. And you'll probably hear about our babies. You'll probably also hear our babies in the background at time. So you know, if you are into games, you can take a sip of your latte or midday Margarita, if that's your vibe.

Lexie Smith  
Every time you hear a baby drinking game. Yeah, literally as we speak, my daughter Ashlyn is on the floor behind us. We're playing the pinky game, which means she spits it out, I put it back in. So if you hear little grunts yep, there, there was one right there. Don't mind don't mind it.

Emily Merrell  
I love it. I think I think it's actually it's an oblique workout I've heard which is, is wonderful to put things forth. So anyways, I just want to talk. You know, this is our first podcast on our new podcast together. But we want to go way back and tell you guys the story about how Lex and I met. You know, it's it's funny to think, you know, I say, you know, gosh, I hate that word so much when I say you know, but it's one of those things where when I started my other company, six degrees society, I never wanted a co founder. And yet here we are Lex. We're co founders. I think you're pretty much the same too. Right? You didn't want to co founder not

Lexie Smith  
at all. I just didn't want a team or a co founder. I wanted it to be me, myself. And I

Emily Merrell  
yeah, I didn't want anyone to be accountable to I didn't want to have anyone to disappoint. And yeah, when Lex and I met one another. It's funny because I wonder if we had when we had met if some like future version of herself had floated down and said, you two are going to be fated to be co founders down the line if we would have laughed it off for envisioned it? No,

Lexie Smith  
it is because that was pre pandemic, I mean, different world pre mom hood, lots of you were pretty newly married to right within a year.

Emily Merrell  
Yeah, like months, basically, as I was so excited for 2022, because 2020 as well not 2022 in that that was going to be my year of travel. Like I had, I think I had a trip booked every single month and I had to cancel so many trips and so many events when the pandemic happened, but

Lexie Smith  
and I just become a fool. I'm like reminding myself as we rewind time, I had just launched my first company that PR bar, Inc. And actually the conference we met at was my very first in person conference. And I was planning to go to Portugal later that year. So different world.

Emily Merrell  
Wow, you had I didn't realize you just launched like When was your official launch?

Lexie Smith  
January of 2020. What? Yeah,

Emily Merrell  
yeah. Wow. Well, in a weird way, I feel like the pandemic worked in your favor because you were able to touch people that you probably never would have gotten in front of

Lexie Smith  
100%. You know, we're talking we're kind of skirting around all these backstories. Emily, why don't you start by just telling everyone a little bit about your backstory? Tell them about six degrees. How did you even get to the point of us meeting?

Emily Merrell  
Oh, once upon a time. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go way back. I grew up in Connecticut. Like my identity. My formation of life was in Connecticut. And after Connecticut, I I was always curious about like Latin American cultures. So even in high school, I lived in Costa Rica with a family for three weeks. I lived in Mexico for two weeks with the family. And then I went to college in the Midwest in Ohio at a college called Denison. But like my whole intention, going to college, and finding a college was the study abroad program. So I ended up studying abroad in Madrid, and I double majored in communications and Spanish. When I graduated college, it was 22,009 and At 2009, I always used to say in 20. Now 2009, and I looked around at the job market, and it looked very treacherous, treacherous at that moment in time. So I ended up deciding to move to a different country. So people had told me that Argentina was most similar to Europe, and it had the most European vibes to it. So without really knowing anyone, I told everyone in their mom that I was moving to Argentina, at the end of the summer, so I, everyone who didn't know someone in Argentina connected me to that person. So I moved to Argentina with the intention to teach English as a foreign language. I ended up getting introduced to entrepreneurship. And I started planning trips for Americans coming down to Argentina, as well as doing in person wine tastings for limited production, Argentine wines. It was truly like my first exposure to entrepreneurs and people taking risks that weren't the traditional consulting or banking or marketing jobs that I'd heard of. And after nine months in Argentina, I was ready to come back to the states and like, figure out what my life would look like. And I ended up getting a role through networking in Argentina, in fashion at Ralph Lauren doing special events in marketing. The funny thing was, it was called retail marketing assistant. And I was like, literally googling what is a retail marketing assistant, on the way to the interview, because I had no idea what that meant. I had no idea what retail marketing was. And that was my exposure in my introduction to fashion. So I built my career in New York City and fashion during special events and marketing. And one of my biggest lessons that I just want to point out is I stayed in contact with all of these people, including vendors and, you know, cross cross partners that we've partnered with organizations we've partnered with. And it was really pivotal for down the line. And when I was at a company called Tory Burch, I started my other business six degrees society as a side hustle with this desire to bring people together and to connect fully. And what we do is we can pick who you meet while networking. So that became my side hustle that ultimately became my full time hustle at the end of 2015. And in 2016, I grew six degrees society across 10 markets in the United States, and piggy kind of back flipped into coaching people started asking me like, how are you getting these amazing venue vendors and venues to partner with and how are you finding these people to attend your events? So I started coaching people and helping them explore creating their own communities and events and doing what I did. And then the pandemic happened in 2020. And back for our story, we're stories in intercede intercept one another. My words are just it's early guys. Intercept one another. But I joined the pandemic, I pivoted all of my events virtual with six degrees. Launched a mastermind started a podcast and then I met lax and we'll I'll save that part of the story to Lex tilters. Yes,

Lexie Smith  
I actually you know, we probably talk every single day we do talk every single day I did not know you double majored in Spanish in communications. How did I not know that? Oh, we should do a quiz show on us. I know something new every day. Okay, my backstory let's let's go to college. Actually. Let's go to my fifth grade yearbook if you opened it see that I wanted to be an Oscar award winning actress in Hollywood literally says that with little Lexi with things in a bob. That dream. Like I call it got more realistic by college and I thought I wanted to go into broadcast journalism. So I started double majoring in PR and broadcast journalism through PR on there just because it seemed like a natural fit. And I was going down that lane hard. I was on intern for CDs. I was the president of the National Broadcasting society. I did the the duck TV I went to University of Oregon, shout out go

Emily Merrell  
do you interned for CBS? Yeah. I didn't know that. Okay, well, we're gonna want to show Okay, I'm gonna do that and come back to that later.

Lexie Smith  
Back in that yeah, um, I did. There's a whole nother story there. We'll save maybe the save that for another day. Anyways, I was on the street in New York City. So I went up to New York City. No, no, no. Like, how many new things can I tell you about? myself? No, I was at a convention in New York City, my freshman year. And on the streets in New York, there was a man and his son wearing my collegiate logos. So I lived in Eugene, Oregon, which is on the other side of the country. So very small world to see someone wearing duct gear went up to him. He ended up owning a PR firm with offices in San Francisco. scope, New York and a satellite office in Eugene, Oregon, which is incredibly random. So I set up an informational interview and I got back long story long that led to my very first job in PR in undergrad, which was very lucky of me. And once I started working in PR, and I had a taste of both PR and journalism, I actually switched my focus from journalism to PR. Fast forward, I actually lived abroad, I lived in Italy for six months, my senior year, and then I moved to Los Angeles, right after college and I worked for a PR firm, most notably known for the show Shark Tank cut, I have so many, many stories, I'll try to keep this concise. So I was working in PR agencies, became a senior account director by the age of 20. To work when I was recruited to go in house for a Hospitality Group to become a director of PR and marketing. There's a reason I'm telling all you all these titles in a moment, then became a VP of PR marketing and business development for the fastest growing Telecom in America. All this to say, I was having a really accelerated successful career path on paper at a young age. And it culminated into it was either a Tuesday or Wednesday, in my office, I collapsed and had to be carried out in a makeshift stretcher to the hospital because my body couldn't hang with the level that I was performing that and where Emily kind of more organically found her way into coaching, I had this big health moment that made me have to rethink life and career. And I was actually listening to a podcast when I learned about coaching and even the concept of it was really, really attracted to the business model. And, again, long story long, how many times I'm going to say that reverse engineered my way into my first company, the PR Inc, which I started the brand in 2019. But made a cold turkey decision to put in six months notice that my job and go full time in January of 2020 and was hitting the ground hard hence went to this conference in Universal City, California, which is where I met the one and only Emily neuro immediately had a girl crush on her. I thought you were gorgeous. I still think you're gorgeous, by the way. Really? Nice.

Emily Merrell  
i Okay, I want to say at this conference, there was like a lineup, you could ask this coach questions and I was like, I'm not brave enough to ask this person question slash I have no desire to ask a question of this woman. And I saw Lex line up and I was like, Who is this like brave gal who was like asking questions. And then someone said to me like, oh, have you met the PR bar? And I was thinking like, this must be a space in Los Angeles. They truly thought you had a space inside. I'd be lying towards you. I don't know if you remember. I like cornered you in the in the hallway. I do. And I was like, Hi, I'm Emily, I hear you host events. That's what I thought you had a space where I could host events

Lexie Smith  
in Los Angeles. You know, I always say maybe someday guys and we should probably So Emily told you about six degrees society. The PR bar is all about puns, but really, it was a PR coaching firm. So all my services to this day are punny like Papa's Clank and wine clubs. So no, there is not a physical logo. It's just branded, branded in that way. That's really funny. I know we met and the one one main memory I have of you besides, by the way on a squirrel note that conference slightly traumatized me. I could have for different reasons. We just, we weren't vibing with the coach. Yeah, yeah. But I remember you telling me your wedding story. Oh, yeah. How many random miscellaneous stories can be thrown into this one short episode. I think you have to real cool real quick, tell your wedding story. Because to me, it was such a memorable thing. And now I'm putting you on the spot. Go.

Emily Merrell  
How did I tell you the wedding story? Like, I wonder how I introduced myself and then told you a wedding story all in one moment. It was a

Lexie Smith  
cocktail

Emily Merrell  
hour. Okay, okay. Well, that hopefully, hopefully it made more sense. And like the placeholder, I wasn't just spewing random stories that you both could be possible. So my wedding story just because it's, it's fun to tell. It was 2019 and it was during the Kincade fires in Sonoma, California. And fun fact, we had had an apartment fire earlier that year, in May of 2019. And then in October of 2019, is when we got married. And I remember I remember my mom saying like, maybe we should buy wedding insurance just because I know there's been fires or are up here at around the fall. And luckily she did because 30 minutes before our wedding ceremony or my seven month pregnant wedding planner comes up to me and says the fire marshals here. He is urging us to evacuate. It's not a mandatory evacuation at this moment in time, but it will be shortly. So fortunately, one of my best friends grew up in St. Halina, which is a town about 15 minutes away, and her mom had graciously extended an invite to her house and said, If anything happens, you are more than welcome to use our house for your wedding. Funny thing is she has multiple properties. So I think she truly meant her like her other property where her son lives. And her son wasn't comfortable with having us all at this like big expensive property. So her mom said, Screw this, you're coming to my house, this 800 square foot house in downtown St. Alena, which had a little backyard like little patio area. And unbeknownst to us, she had also owned the property that was undeveloped behind her house. And my photographer found it out. And she urged everyone to set the ceremony up there. So every participant in the wedding, started knocking on neighbors doors and asking for chairs and benches and set up a whole wedding ceremony. No one would let me help which as a former event planner was torture. I was just given lots of tequila and told to breathe on it. And it ended up just being so magical because all of our vendors pulled through what was supposed to be a sit down dinner ended up as a buffet. Everyone was on the dance floor at that we had the band's we had a horn section. There's a picture of me eating our we did tacos as our wedding food, obviously, which makes it very fitting for us. There's a picture of me eating tacos on the stairs and like everyone around me, it was, if anything more special, the fact the way that it ended up happening. It was traumatizing, but it was special. And then that night the power had gone out again. I don't think I told you this Lex the power went out in the town. And the fires kept moving. So people had a everyone had been staying on property at my at our venue. So they had to get one new location. And then they had to get another location and were evacuated in the middle of the night. And the winds were up to like 90 miles an hour. And so we ended up doing like a brunch in San Francisco at our 800 square foot. 867 square foot apartment. We had like as many people as he could

Lexie Smith  
to add that in there. Yeah,

Emily Merrell  
that really makes a difference. It does price. Sure. Yeah, that was fun. Once we actually were on the way to the honeymoon, I was like, Are you sure? Are we really going? Is this Are we gonna be kidnapped? But yeah, that was my wedding.

Lexie Smith  
Did you get on the news for this? Yeah.

Emily Merrell  
Oh, okay. So you'll appreciate this. I, I see these moments like you see these. I think this is actually like a good learning teachable reframing moment. So yeah, I've been socked. Like, I didn't have the wedding of my dreams, or that envisioned it ended up being better. But I was like, this is such a beautiful story. Like I am someone who's so big about community and the fact that my community built my wedding. I need to write about this. So the next night I literally just drafted like this very long post about the wedding, posted on social media and it got reshard a lot, a lot and it got reshard to other Instagram accounts. And then I went through Facebook Messenger and I just started DMing like NBC, CBS, all of the news, local news anchors until we were on our honeymoon in Tahiti. And I got a call being like, Hi, this is whatever, whatever from NBC. We've got your story. We would love to interview you for this story. And it was so frustrating lax because there is this other couple from Chicago that got got these pictures taken of them with like gas masks on. And that went viral. And I was like No, we should go viral. Like our story is better than their story. But anyways, yeah, it was so we got to interview from Tahiti. My husband was like what are you making me do? What have you who are you? Who did I marry? But it was a really weird way it was like satisfying for me that at least it got recognized

Lexie Smith  
recognized one then the PR in me was salivating at the story is I would and And sorry to just throw one more wrench. I don't know if you remember this. But that night, ironically, a huge transformer blew up outside of the hotel conference and it completely blacked out. entire hotel.

Emily Merrell  
Yes, I remember. Yeah. I remember. I was stuck in the garage. Yes. All right. You always said you picked you up. Yeah, yeah.

Lexie Smith  
Okay, guys, I would apologize for all the squirrels but you better get used to it if you're going to be listening to the show.

Emily Merrell  
This is how our brain works. Basically, we're very organized and then also have 1000 stories. is to tell.

Lexie Smith  
Yes. So you'll, you'll slowly but surely get to know us. And that kind of segues perfectly. So Emily and I met at this conference. And we had a virtual friendship of sorts, Emily was trying to get me to come to a six degree society event. I live in Ventura, California, which is about an hour north of Los Angeles without traffic. And so for me to go into the city for that event is a big, big commitment to, you know, bear the traffic. So when the pandemic hit, I actually was able to go to six degrees events because they became virtual. And anyway, so fast forward, we're friends, yada, yada, yada, this thing keeps happening. And this thing was I would be so this is my perspective, talking to someone, a client lead for the PR coaching business. And there's one person in particular I'm thinking about, and I got an email saying, I just want to let you know, I'm vetting you and Emily Merrill. I was like, oh, and she's like telling me why I should hire you over Emily. I was like, Oh, awkward. I remember I sent a screenshot to you. And I'm like, I think I don't remember what I said to the girl like, Emily's amazing. I'm not gonna I can't speak to what she does. But here's what I do.

Emily Merrell  
I'm pretty sure she sent the same email to me too. Yeah, yeah, no, she was vetting one other person as well. And I was like, Okay, why are you telling me this? Like, I felt like it was the longest sale thing that we've all of us had ever gone through, we were like, just shut her get off the plastic, just pick

Lexie Smith  
one. Um, so basically, this client was readiness, both and it happened a couple other times. And then there also was this cadence where someone would work with Emily, and then maybe they come to me or vice versa. And there could have been a competitive nature, I think that this could have gone a really different route for credit, but she reaches out to me and she says, What do you think about doing something together? So here, you tell this? No, no, no, I nailed

Emily Merrell  
it. And it was interesting, too, because it was also the time when people were starting group programs. And I loved the idea of creating a group but I was so overwhelmed with the actual like, tactical element of creating a group. I was like, What am I have to teach, I have nothing to teach people, you know, all the impostor syndrome got in my head. And so I said to Alexa, I was like, you know, I think we should create something together. But I think it should be a group, I think it should be something that we can ultimately grow in scale. And also, like, you know, if you have a baby, or I have a baby, or like, you need to step out for a session, like we always they'll always be someone to run the things. And so it was Lex who came to me and she was like, you know, what we should do? We should create something that is not competitive with our already existing businesses. I think we should focus primarily on coaching. And so with that, that's how ReadySet coach, and that was all you Lex, you did such a great job, literally, like, we have this conversation. And the next day, she's like, presenting mood boards, with the colors and the logo. And she's like, I'm thinking this logo and like these color palettes. And what do you think about this as a tagline? Like, oh, my God, it's Christmas Day.

Lexie Smith  
Psychopath. I mean, this podcast what? We texted you last Thursday, and it's Monday or something, and now we're doing it full, full thing.

Emily Merrell  
I'll get launched on Friday. Probably. Yeah. So

Lexie Smith  
we decided to niche on coaches. And we landed with that, because we both had independently, built successful coaching businesses and spent a lot of money and did a lot of things wrong and had a lot to offer, about how to not just build a business in the coaching space, but do one sustainably and in a way that supports your lifestyle. So that's something you will learn about as quickly as we really are team work to live not live to work we're all about, you know, the whole point of this career is to support this greater thing called life and our families. And so anyways, we got bought got to busy doing all the nuts and bolts, and then I get a text from Emily.

Unknown Speaker  
And what do I say?

Lexie Smith  
Like she was pregnant. Oh, okay, like building this business baby. And Emily then had a real baby in her stomach. And

Emily Merrell  
like, what did I say? Yeah, I was I was scared. Not I wasn't scared. I was more anxious about like, oh, no, I just you know, we just went down this this connection path like we're about to start a business how am i How are we going to manage building and scaling a business with like the delivery of our child, my child and whatnot. When fun fact my son came three weeks early, which I have not like three weeks early kind of human. I definitely thought he would be two weeks late and He arrived. I think we've graduated our group on Thursday. He came on Sunday.

Lexie Smith  
Yeah, it was perfection. We so we launched basically this it did in the fall of 2020. We launched our first cohort in the summer slash spring of 2021. Jackson was born three days after he graduated. But if we backpedal a little bit, in July, August, August of that year, I found out, I was pregnant.

Emily Merrell  
I was the best text I was in an art museum and I get like a text of I think for pregnancy tests been like is going on, like, is this working? Does this mean I'm pregnant?

Lexie Smith  
I was pregnant. So now we have business baby, Emily was literally giving birth any second that I was pregnant, we actually ironically, had another girl pregnant and our co worker gave birth two weeks after me, we're like this, there's something in the water here at really sick,

Emily Merrell  
not a prerequisite. You don't have to be pregnant to join our program or want to be pregnant. But it was interesting, because I think there was also that like, oh, no, now you're going to be delivering, like, how are we ever what's the timing going to be I want to take a maternity leave, you want to take a maternity leave. And so there was definitely compromise that happened. But I'm really grateful like having had a partner and also been able to take a maternity leave, like Lex was so supportive during the maternity leave, and I was able to enjoy being a mom and enjoy those first few months. And lakhs, of course, delivers during our second cohort, which I'm curious about your experience. What did you feel like that was like?

Lexie Smith  
Yeah, well, I think I, you know, our pregnancies were really a moment for practicing what we're preaching, right? Like the whole concept of ReadySet coach was to teach other people how to build these businesses to support their lifestyle. And here was one of the biggest life transitions facing us. And I felt so supported guys, I got a text message. I don't know a few days after giving birth and Emily had the whole cohort record a video for me saying, Lexi, congratulations, oh, my god, like all the girls in our cohort, they sent me flowers. Of course, I'm very postpartum, very hormonal, no sleep bawl my eyes out. And it was it was really beautiful to not only feel supported by Emily, but also supported by all of our coaches in the program. Just the fact that we're all in this to support our lifestyles, right? There's something beautiful about

Emily Merrell  
that. Yeah. And I think that's a really important thing to just to think about, too, for everyone is like, as you're building your business, what is it that you want your life to look like? Do you want to be able to play with your kid every day and work from home or, you know, be a part of, of the child's upbringing? Or do you maybe were surfer and you want to catch those morning waves and so you want to plan your day accordingly in a corporate job? It's not the right job for you. Likes I thought you were going to talk about when I gave you a surprise baby shower.

Lexie Smith  
Oh my god. Okay, another squirrel story. So I did not want a Emily to host me a baby shower. I hosted her one. It was fun. It was great. I'm just I just didn't I just didn't want one she offered I was like no, she offered again. I said no again. So 99% of our meetings I show up to with like smeared makeup hair and a bun still in my PJs because that's just the life I live now. So I hop on to one of our team meetings in literally PJs, messiest terror of my life. And there's a room full of people staring back at me zoom and my first instinct was like, crap, like, do we have a coaching call right now? And then all of a sudden they're like surprise, and I was in my surprise virtual baby shower, looking like a hot mess. I don't think I I've ever been more surprised in my life. I couldn't even formulate words in that pendant of the pregnancy brain. At that moment. I'm so cool. So oh, man, I was yeah, I look actually very glad this isn't a video podcast.

Emily Merrell  
This is this is what we're showing them to you. We're wearing casual wear and and that's the facts and you can do with

Lexie Smith  
Yes, so So basically, guys, here's where we're at, right? Um, we are now recording this podcast. It is summer of 2022. We're already enrolling our third cohort. We have graduated two cohorts. We officially made this baby a real business registered in the state of Colorado at the end of last year and we're in this and I would say um, and I won't speak for you. I thought I knew a lot about the coaching industry when we started it but now that we are literally coaching coaches, I'm learning so much more And that's, you know why we want to do this podcast, we want to talk about life and all things coaching and what we've learned from each other for ourselves from the other coaches, we have the privilege to work with everything from mindset to tactical things to life that happens in between.

Emily Merrell  
And I also think it'll be interesting for you to hear, like Lexie, and I will share our how we hired our first coaches, you know, what drew us to them. And then also, it's funny, because I'll send Lexie things, and she'll send me things about coaches. And I'll be like, this person really resonates with me. And she's like, Oh, she doesn't do it for me. But then vice versa. And so it's interesting also, as you think about building your own coaching practice, or hiring your own coach, and it could be for personal or professional things. But what is it that makes you gravitate to someone? Is it the way they speak? Is it the content they give you? Is it the fact that they are super successful seeming and have drive a Bentley? And their hair's always perfect, like whatever those things are? We'll talk and we'll dissect that a little bit further.

Lexie Smith  
Yeah. And in between, you're also going to, you know, learn more about us and I don't think we've actually did we bring up who your your official son is and to be introduced Jackson. Okay.

Emily Merrell  
You mentioned Yes, so I'm called I live in. I'm calling in I'm so used to saying this. I live in Denver, Colorado, I moved from so I, after living in New York City, I met my husband funfact at a bachelorette party, which we can dive into later, and met him in New Orleans. He lived in San Francisco and I ended up doing long distance for a year and a half, and then ultimately moving out to San Francisco to be with him. And then once we had Jackson in October of 2021, we were really outgrowing our two bedroom apartment. And my sister had recently moved to Denver and was like subliminally messaging me every single day that I must move to Denver. So ultimately, we ended up finding the house and we settled in Denver were a mile and a half away from her and a mile and a half of my best friend and two miles from my mom who ended up being convinced to move here as well. So we currently live in Denver.

Lexie Smith  
So Emily is the founder of six degrees society. She's a business coach. She's the co founder of Ready Set coach program. She is the host of the sixth degree podcast and now ready, set coach, podcast, Mama, so many other things and amazing human being.

Emily Merrell  
Wow, that's awesome. Can I keep you in my back pocket all day long. That's it gone to a meeting. Hold on one second. Let

Lexie Smith  
me pull this out. This recording because from now on,

Emily Merrell  
I love you're hired. You're hired. And Lexi lives in Ventura, California. She is the mom to Ashlyn, who is two months and counting almost three months.

Lexie Smith  
Yeah, she'll be three months. So nine days, yeah, almost three months.

Emily Merrell  
And she is the coach and the founder of the PR bar Inc. Make sure to spell that all as one word or you will get hit. And you will get cut.

Lexie Smith  
But seriously, and she is the host of pitchin and sipping podcast. Thank you and I think probably the most important things to know about and I are she is a die hard taco lover. Why am team Domino's pepperoni pizza, save your judgment? That's fine. It is what it is. We both love spicy margs we love to read we love to travel. And we're doing life the way we want to do it. And we're excited for you guys too. And thank you for listening to us and all that is about to evolve in your earbuds over the next course of the season. Yes,

Emily Merrell  
we can't wait to hear what you think. So please like us, follow us and share

Lexie Smith  
with friends. For now. That's all bye

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