Benchmark Happenings
Brought to you by, Jonathan Tipton & Steve Reed of Benchmark Home Loans, Benchmark Happenings is a podcast that is a biweekly discussion about living in and moving to Northeast Tennessee along with the local real estate market. Join your host Christine Reed as she interviews Jonathan & Steve, local business owners, sought-after industry experts, Veterans, Realtors, Benchmark clients, and more.
Benchmark Happenings focuses on discussing all things related to mortgages and Northeast Tennessee. Placing the spotlight on all the reasons you would want to live in and move to Northeast Tennessee, Benchmark Happenings highlights upcoming events, local businesses, things to do, and other aspects related to Northeast Tennessee. We will also be answering mortgage questions from buyers, sellers, and real estate agents as well as discussing everything going on in our local real estate market.
To help you to navigate the home buying and mortgage process, Jonathan & Steve are currently licensed in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, contact us today at 423-491-5405 or visit www.tiptonreedteam.com.
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Benchmark Happenings
Styling Success and Empowering Communities: Carlina Alder and Azlinn Edwards on Running Azlinn Hope Boutique and Raising Breast Cancer Awareness
What if you could turn your passion for fashion into a powerhouse boutique that doubles as a force for good? Join us as we catch up with Carlina Alder and Azlinn Edwards, the mother-daughter duo behind Tennessee’s beloved fashion haven, Aslan Hope. Fresh off a dazzling fashion show that not only showcased the latest trends but also raised over $5,000 for breast cancer awareness, Carlina and Azlinn offer a wealth of insights into the fall and holiday fashion scene. They discuss their unique collaboration with Rick Hill's Porsche, which brings an extra touch of elegance to their events, and the incredible support they've garnered from local businesses and volunteers in downtown Johnson City.
But it's not all glitz and glamour—Carlina and Azlinn delve into the realities of running a boutique, from the art of market purchasing and trend forecasting to the emotional nuances of personalized customer service. They share heartfelt stories of making women feel truly seen and confident, emphasizing the importance of genuine relationships in their business model. Discover their commitment to curating stylish, comfortable, and versatile clothing that resonates not just with the trends but with the heart. Whether you're a fashion enthusiast or an aspiring entrepreneur, this episode is packed with inspiring stories and practical advice on building a business that's both stylish and socially impactful.
To help you to navigate the home buying and mortgage process, Jonathan & Steve are currently licensed in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, contact us today at 423-491-5405 or visit www.jonathanandsteve.com.
One, two, three things to do and awesome local businesses, and on this show you'll find out why people are dying to move to Northeast Tennessee. And on the way, we'll have discussions about mortgages and we'll interview people in the real estate industry. It's what we do. This is Benchmark Happenings, brought to you by Benchmark Home Loans, and now your host, christine Reed home loans.
Speaker 3:And now your host, christine Reed. Well, welcome back everyone to another fabulous episode of Benchmark Happenings. And I have speaking of fabulous. I have two of my most fabulous friends that I love dearly that have joined us today. So Carlina Alder and Aslyn Edwards.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you for having us. We're so excited. We love and adore you.
Speaker 3:Oh well, it's very mutual. I love both of you, two of the most beautiful ladies, and you know you own and operate, probably in my opinion, one of the best fashion boutiques, not only in the area, but I would say you rival most here in Tennessee.
Speaker 2:Wow, thank you, that's so kind, that is so kind. Yes, we appreciate that. We work really hard, you do.
Speaker 3:You do work hard, and I was looking back to the last time that we had you guys on for a podcast, and that was July of last year.
Speaker 2:Wow, it's it's fine, unbelievable, that it's been that long yeah, cause we've almost been in business for 10 years, do you?
Speaker 3:believe that Years. That's amazing.
Speaker 4:And downtown Johnson city for the last five of those 10.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, and I know they really appreciate you being down there to help build the businesses and there's been some fabulous businesses. Come in down there to help build the businesses and there's been some fabulous businesses come in.
Speaker 4:It's doing amazing downtown. The restaurants down there really bring a lot of people into that area and yeah, they find us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially if you're moving here, it's a great place to come downtown. It's, you know, beautiful. You can shop. They've really cleaned it up. It looks so nice. You can shop home decor at our friend's store reclaimed and then you can come in and shop at aslan hope. It's just a great day to grab coffee, walk around and shop um and then have dinner. It's, it's awesome. I love it and it's beautiful.
Speaker 3:Your, your shop is absolutely beautiful. I mean, talk about eye candy when you walk into aslan hope and I know your tagline is hope is always in style yes, but it's. It truly is eye candy to walk in there. I love it. So let's catch up on some things that have been happening with the two of you. So just fill us in, aslan and Carlene, on some things that's been going on.
Speaker 2:Well, we've been. We just had a huge fashion show, we've been to market. We know all the fall and holiday trends coming up. We have so many people that are trying to join our team so that we can grow, and it's just been an amazing year. So we'll have to fill you in on all the things, but yeah, it's been awesome.
Speaker 3:Well, let's talk about that fashion show, yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, me and Brittany were there with bells on. It was so bougie it was Thank you.
Speaker 4:It's a passion to show women beautiful fashion and bring it to the community in a way that everybody can come out and support a good cause and really just support the community, us and other businesses and everybody comes together in a way that supports the whole community and that's what makes it really special yeah, it was really special.
Speaker 2:And with the silent auction items that were all donated by a ton of businesses in our community, we raised over $5,000 for breast cancer awareness and just that alone was so much fun to see and to watch and to be able to bring those people together, like she was saying, in the community. I mean we sold way over 250 tickets. I mean we had the time of our lives. It was so fun. You and Brittany looked absolutely beautiful in your. Aslan Hope, as always.
Speaker 3:Of course, we both had to sport our Aslan Hope.
Speaker 2:I loved it, and then the.
Speaker 4:Porsche partnership.
Speaker 3:Yes, tell us about that how did you get Rick Hill to bring all those Porsches?
Speaker 2:in, were they not beautiful?
Speaker 3:They were amazing.
Speaker 2:Spotless. They were gorgeous, yes, so that was fun. So we wanted to be able to incorporate a new business and my really good friend, michaela Hill so she's part of the Rick Kill family and CJ they have owned it and they've been running it and doing such an amazing job. And this year Portia was trying to empower women. So they had an empower women movement through Portia this year and so they reached out to us and they were like this would be an amazing partnership and we're like of course it would. And then they're doing things like partnering with the Met Gala and having fashion around that. So Portia was like, ok, this would be perfect to have a fashion show. So my really good friend Michaela was like let's do this. And it worked out and I mean the community support was unmatched. There were so many people there, it was so positive and full of people just smiling and enjoying and it was a really beautiful time and how and enjoying, and it was a really beautiful time and how we pulled it off.
Speaker 4:We're really not sure, we're not sure. We're a very small scale business. Um, you know, we have employees, but we like the five of us and we had some husbands and, yeah, husbands, thank God and good daddy. My son-in-law shout out to Jared Edwards for being uh be doing the most he actually is amazing. He's the most precious husband in the world Most precious, driving that U-Haul with all those goods around Um he's always there.
Speaker 4:He's always there and uh and all of our family and our work family and then just other people in the community. Other people came to volunteer that day just to show their support. And it means a lot to us. You know women supporting other women in the community and things that they show up and you know help us do. It's just. You know we can never say thank you enough.
Speaker 3:Well, I can just tell you, when Brittany and I walked in, it was we were overwhelmed with how many people were there, and but you had so many things, not only for women, but you also catered to the men, so that was our goal this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So we were like okay, well, if we bring cars, men like cars, they have a little bourbon and champagne, so you can get both the women and the men you know, and we had a great time. The food was amazing, the catering was fantastic at the social, so that's a great event space. If you're moving here, it's a great location, yeah, yeah. And then the cigar sport yeah, yeah, the cigars.
Speaker 3:I mean you know, that was the sweetest little man, he was precious, so what a great idea. You know, and and it really was, I mean it was, I had people calling me wanting a ticket and I actually had one of my friends couldn't go that day, so I commandeered her ticket to give to someone else so they could attend the event. So really, I think our audience just needs to understand that the Aslan Hope fashion shows that you guys have been doing they're really an event that you don't want to miss.
Speaker 4:Yeah that's right, that's our goal. I mean we hope that people and we do sometimes as soon as the one was over.
Speaker 1:They're like when someone in the spring and summer, you know they really want to mark their calendar. So we?
Speaker 4:you know we try to get it out there as soon as we can plan for it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And especially if you're a business looking to find some partnerships to grow your business, I feel like that's a great opportunity to get a lot of eyes on your business. So we have a lot of amazing platinum sponsors that are able to do that, supported by, you know, the whole community to be able to get together and do something that awesome it's. It's really cool to see it come together, Cause we're like there's no way we just did that, we just pull it off.
Speaker 3:You do, we try, you do and you pull it off with grace and style. Thank you and so speaking about empowering women. So, aslyn, I know you've been involved in something I think it would be good to share about starting point for women.
Speaker 2:Yes, I would love to. So what the goal is for starting point is to find that starting point. You're looking to start your business or to find connection in the community. So what we've tried to do is I'm a part of a masterminds group that other women owned businesses. They get together and we talk about our problems, because being a CEO or owning your own business it's a little lonely and I don't think people realize that and lonely in the sense of who am I supposed to go to?
Speaker 2:Cause you don't have a superior or someone that you could ask like hey, you've been through this before. How do you do this? So it's a way to grab those different people from different walks of life and say, hey, you know, we've got someone 20 down, 20 years down the road in a business. Or you know someone like me who's more savvy with social media. You know, we've been able to connect on so many levels and what's really cool is that connection grows different opportunities, different collaborations, and that alone has been an amazing place for me to feel like I can go and have support and trust, and it's a great, great opportunity.
Speaker 3:So I mean that's wonderful, and how many are in your group?
Speaker 2:So right now we have 11. But the first starting point, I think we had about 100 people show up so they come and listen and learn and connect with other businesses, so it's a great networking opportunity. The next one is actually September 10. And I'm leading it, so I'm excited to see how many people come and show up and we're going to learn and talk about social media from the standpoint of Instagram reels, videos, what those look like versus you know posts and how to do your location to be able to find things you know, just little tidbits of information that can inspire you and help you grow your business on a different level through social media.
Speaker 3:Wow, that sounds so you have to be part of the mastermind group to attend, right?
Speaker 2:No, anyone in the community can come.
Speaker 3:So yeah, it's thinking about anybody that owns a business. Why would you not want to do? Social media is the key. It is.
Speaker 2:It is, and the event itself is such an amazing networking opportunity, like as on said um, it's tell them where it is and yeah, so um, our friends at uh grace meadow farms, so they are allowing us to use that space and it's uh, next tuesday, september 10th, at 8 30 am. It includes your breakfast coffee and you can come out and talk and support and learn and I'll have the PowerPoint presentation that I'll have. You can actually take those numbers with you and learn and, you know, have that to access for later. So yeah, Tickets are.
Speaker 2:I think they're $40 and they're online at reclaimcom. Okay, yeah, and if you have any questions, you can call Aslan Hope the store, you can call me you, you can message us, but it's a great way to get the community involved um and network.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love it. That sounds exciting. It is.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna check my calendar you should definitely try to try to come to that I might bring steve along you should they have?
Speaker 3:good coffee.
Speaker 2:I know he likes coffee for social media. Yes, we need a better presence in social media, for sure well, I I actually read today that 66% of businesses that are on Instagram are utilizing it and that other. You know those other percentages are not, so it's just trying to utilize that, because that's where all people are right now.
Speaker 2:That's where the ads are going instead of on. You know, some radio, some TV works. But if you're a small business, it's a great place to start, because you can start with a small amount of money and grow your business on there.
Speaker 3:That's what I was thinking about you know, and Instagram.
Speaker 2:It seems to be more prominent for social media advertising versus Facebook, right, right right, yeah, and you can use Facebook business suite to get it out on both no-transcript good businesses to connect with, and that's the way you got to do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you know, it seems like the common theme with these podcasts, when we bring people in, is the entrepreneurial spirit. Yes, and that's what I love about the two of you. There's something that sets you apart from so many as an entrepreneur, and it's such a sacrifice that you have to make. It is a sacrifice.
Speaker 3:You look like you're having so much fun. Like I said, you always pull everything off with grace and style. It's and there's other things we'll talk about coming into the store and what sets you apart, but I think, as an entrepreneur, Carlina, what would you, what would be some of the things that that you could give as advice to some young people wanting to come up in the business world or, you know, just to really give them a realistic view that it's really not all rainbows and roses right.
Speaker 4:It is not.
Speaker 4:And I think I would start by saying I think I would start by saying if you love it, you'll figure it out. It won't feel like work and don't be afraid to stumble, and you know, and then just get back up and keep going, because I think for us we've said over the 10 years that we definitely started out crawling. So don't think you have to have it all figured out in the very, very beginning, because you know, if it's something you've never done, you won't have it all figured out. So you will learn as you go and then, through mentorships and other small business mentors and leaders like you'll connect with people who will inspire you or support you through the process.
Speaker 4:We're very fortunate, you know. Like we said before, working together we bounce a lot of things off of each other. So find, you know, someone who will cheer for you and who isn't afraid to tell you that they don't like your idea. But you know, maybe there's another way of looking at something. So you know a lot of honesty. Be accepting to constructive criticism along the way too, because if someone's just telling you what you want to hear, they're probably not telling you what you need to hear, you know. So I would just say be open to any and all advice and you know, filter through that and figure out what you can make work.
Speaker 4:So it's, it's a process of commitment. If you are in it for the long game, Um, but just you know, if you stumble, get right back up.
Speaker 3:I tell you I love that, carleneene, and that, just, really, just as I know you as a woman, I admire you so much because you, you know, not only in the business realm but you're also a successful mom. Oh, thank you and I look at Aslan, here beside of you, that beautiful daughter that you've raised, alex as well, your other daughter, you've raised Alex as well, your other daughter, right, you've done such a wonderful job and the partnership that you all have it's, it's really just um it. It takes a lot of work.
Speaker 2:It takes a lot of work it just didn't happen, and both of you are so intentional in what you do yes, we try to be very intentional, um, and it shows with how you know she raised me and how we've raised this business up over the last 10 years so it's fun to to be partners, because if you're not sure on a decision, like she said, I think it's the best way is to bounce it off and you're like nope, yes, maybe yeah, having someone to give you that you know, perspective that you haven't thought of
Speaker 4:will definitely give you, you know, another way of you know taking things into consideration that you would need to do. There's so many decisions that go on in the type of business that we run, because I mean, it's just unbelievable when we do go to market and we're, you know, trying to plan our buying and plan for the future and plan so far out, and there's so many things that we have to filter through when we look at what we're, what we're doing for the business, especially buying and buying ahead and buying for certain, you know, customers and buying for certain trends or buying for certain things.
Speaker 4:So you know we're we're not only physically but mentally exhausted sometimes going through the process and we're like Whoa and uh, and so sometimes she'll look at something in a different light and I'll be like, no, that's not our customer, or she'll be, yes, that is our customer. And then we have to think about why so there are so many decisions that go on in the day-to-day, even week-to-week running of a small business.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you talk about. You know making decisions ahead of time, especially in market purchasing. You know seasons of clothing. How far ahead are you, ladies, planning?
Speaker 2:Six to eight.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's about six to eight months yeah, sometimes yeah, sometimes, yeah yeah 12 months Sometimes.
Speaker 2:So times whenever, times on certain brands, whenever we're like, oh, what's trending for fall or Christmas? We bought Christmas, probably, you know, three or four months ago at this point and we're like you know what? We're going to check our books, yeah, because we know, we know what's trending and what's coming. You know, we see those things like animal print will be big for fall 24, um, coming back around to those kind of key pieces and um, you know, seeing those come back in style. And then how do you make it? Okay, well, we know our customer now at this point. So how do we know what she had maybe six years ago?
Speaker 2:Like I keep that inventory in my brain, she does, I know it's in everybody's closets I'm like and I should sleep better at night but it's in there. You know what I mean. I'm like there's so many thoughts that run through my brain because I'm like okay, well, I know this customer has this, so she doesn't need another pair of you know slacks, or she doesn't need that color, because we bought gray three years ago, so let's do them in a different color this year so that you know she loved them and they flew out the door.
Speaker 3:So let's be more strategic and buy them in cream. You know, yeah, oh, wow, even that. Yeah, it's that tedious, deep of a thought process at some point in you know, in some cases, yeah, and I think about it goes to uh, the next question is what's really set you apart from the other um boutiques, um, fashion stores that are around, and I think I know I know what sets you apart, but I want you to kind of tell our audience and how you approach women. You know when they come into your store or how you're buying for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so just yesterday we had a lady come in and she was telling our store manager, becca, who is absolutely amazing and will make you feel like a million bucks, I think. Hearing those women that come in and they say I have never felt more welcome.
Speaker 2:I have never felt more seen and, you know, cherished. I think that there's a difference when you can make people feel so much light, where they have a lot of darkness, because clothing is very, very hard to put together and wear and you know, like we've, we've been styling for 10 years now and she's been doing it for me my whole life.
Speaker 2:So you know, just learning how to have those, those inspirational things and then to speak light and life and confidence over women. I think that's what sets us apart, and to feel welcome when you walk in somewhere. That's what you want, right. Um and so we want people to feel seen. And there was a lady that cried on us in the fitting room the other what couple months ago? And she was, like you know, no one has told my. I've been divorced for a couple of months and no one's told me I'm beautiful.
Speaker 2:And she was in tears, saying, like you just said, that that dress looked beautiful on me and I'm like you know, there's things like that where you're just like this is awesome and we've gotten great reviews and you know we want people to feel seen and loved.
Speaker 4:And I think it's our honesty. Yeah, when we help ladies, we are honest with you know, that does look beautiful. That's not your size, not your fit.
Speaker 1:That may not be your color.
Speaker 4:So I think the honesty is what endures people to us, because they know that they'll get a true answer when they get something that they like.
Speaker 2:Because what we've also learned is it's not sales, it's how you make people feel. It's relationships. It is relationships At the end of the day and I think that's in the honesty, Like you said if someone's walking around in our outfit, they're a billboard for us, so also it's a reflection of how we want them to, you know, be able to be seen as like oh, that looks beautiful, and we're like because we took the time to make it look beautiful. You know, not trying to sell someone something, that's right.
Speaker 3:And I think that goes back to that was exactly what you know is in my heart, you know, thinking about how you all treat people as they come into the shop, because I've actually brought friends who don't shop.
Speaker 3:They don't like to shop. They're like, christine, I don't know how you do what you do, but you know they always love what I wear. I'm like Aslan Hope, aslan Hope always. And I've taken women there and they're like, oh my gosh, this was amazing, I loved it, and so you do those things. I have another friend actually that I'm going to bring down on a Friday, so get ready. She was actually looking at my social media and was saying okay, where did you get this? I'm like well, I got that at Aslan Hope and I said it looks like we need to schedule a lunch date and we've got to go shopping.
Speaker 4:Yes, we really like to buy the clothes that we wear, or?
Speaker 1:we would wear.
Speaker 4:We like clothes that are A little elevated but also extremely comfortable, so we want it to be a good experience to meet our customers wherever they need their wardrobe to be enhanced If it's denim, if it's sneakers, if it's dress shoes or an event dress. So I feel like we buy things that we would love and feel comfortable wearing, and I think it's really easy to sell things like that because you believe in it.
Speaker 3:So that's what we do Well, and you both look beautiful today. I mean, I'm looking at the the Julie Voss jewelry that you carry, so we love Julie and you have a lot of other jewelry there too, we do?
Speaker 4:We have, and we're always always trying to find what's new, what's beautiful, what trending, trending, um. So we're always trying to find. But we have, um, the Sheila visual jewelry.
Speaker 2:We have, um, we have a lot of really pretty fashion jewelry that we really love to accessorize and make everyone feel like they've completed their look when they walk out our walk out our door and I think what we do so well, which we talk about on our fashion segment on wjhl, which is the local channel here we do a fashion segment every month and what we love is to tell people you can shop I mean, there's those accessories for 15 to 50 to 500 very affordable.
Speaker 2:Yes, you can find affordability, and then, if you need something for an event, we have all of that. So we want people to feel like it's not expensive. It's mixing high and low that can make it look elevated. I guess is what our main goal is, so we love that.
Speaker 4:So everyone feels put together they feel completed when and at a high, low, you know, range of price points? Yeah, absolutely, and that's how we like to shop.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so so what are some of the trends coming for the holidays fall and holidays I know you've talked about animal print, aslan, so what? What else is can we look forward to?
Speaker 2:So, um, I'm excited to see burgundy accessories this year. That's a big trend. We were talking about that Wine colors. Yeah, those wine colors.
Speaker 3:Wow, haven't seen that in a while.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yes, and we have some belts, some bags, some things.
Speaker 3:Just touch the bags. So I have to say, at the fashion show you had the cutest bag accessories. They had the pearls wrapped around them, the square bags you had clear, you had all these colors.
Speaker 4:We do have really fun bags right now, yeah, and they're such great price points for the style and the uniqueness that you would find Game day bags We've got some really fun clear game day bags and then a lot of just woven bags and the acrylic bags that are trending right now.
Speaker 2:So we're really always on a mission to find something very unique for our customers and the bags have been really fun yeah, yeah, that conversation starter piece is what we like to say absolutely yeah.
Speaker 3:So when's market again? Do you have a plan to go?
Speaker 2:It's so fun so we always go in. So we go about four, is that right? Four times a year, yeah, we're always, always on a mission. We are on a mission and I'm telling you, it's like we make it look fun and the vendors make it look fun, but it is a lot of hard work. You know, we're up early and we are staying late. Um, we push it to the last second of every single day and we're like we are tired.
Speaker 4:But we really try to add to our social media while we are at market, because we do, you know, be the buyer. Engage with us, tell us what you want us to shop for for you, if we can find it. We're always on a mission to find it for you so engage in our media.
Speaker 3:When you guys are at market, as I do, I do always look at your social media and I love that.
Speaker 4:Uh, when you guys are at market and you're holding things up and and I can choose, I can say yes or no and it really affects our, our decision a lot of times, because we have a lot of color options sometimes and we have customers who you know, know their color now, or you know, they like being educated about what they look good in and they'll be like buy the blue, buy the red and we will buy. You know what the customer wants.
Speaker 2:And sometimes we'll go back and they said we want the gold instead of the silver. We'll go back and we'll buy it, you know. So sometimes we've changed our minds because the customer has it's been an overwhelming hundreds of options. You know hundreds of choices for the gold, so we'll go back and buy it instead of the silver. You know so. It's fun, it keeps them engaged and it's also like we care about that. We want them to have a voice, you know, at our store, cause they're the ones buying it.
Speaker 3:Absolutely so. When's the next event for Aslan Hope?
Speaker 2:So we're we're hoping to do a holiday soiree. We'll keep you posted.
Speaker 3:We'll keep you posted so excited Like Christmas time? Yes, potentially, oh my God.
Speaker 4:Between, maybe end of October, first of November.
Speaker 2:Probably right before Thanksgiving is kind of what we're thinking.
Speaker 4:Because we have some really amazing holiday looks and fun You're going to lose your mind. Unique stuff coming this year, so good, but yeah, and then we have some shopping events, just small shopping. We're going to do our fall open house next week, the 12th, 13th, 14th Yep Thursday, friday, saturday Just stop in.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:Have a little pumpkin spice latte or a little coffee drink and just see what's new.
Speaker 3:I'm definitely going to have to come down because I've not been in a while and I got to see the new fall.
Speaker 2:It is rolling in. It's gorgeous. And we get boxes every single day, every single day so.
Speaker 3:Steve's back there recording this podcast. Tell him to let me come and spend money.
Speaker 2:Cover your ears and take the limit off the credit card. That's right, we got a thumbs up, okay, good so you all can better him up for me. We will we'll make her look good for you.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, she does that for you, so she does but yeah, so uh, just stay tuned on our media post with our open house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have calendars on our website now so you can see our events every month, which is really helpful, I think, if anyone owns a business that's listening to this, creating those events for people to mark their calendars, because people are busy You've got kids, you've got your own business to run, but to make those connections and to come out and see those people, our events are well attended and we want them to be well attended because we love to see people network and enjoy new things.
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So, ladies, this has just been. It's a breath of fresh air and it's just such a privilege to just be with both of you and I just love what you're doing at Aslan Hope. I really think you're pouring into women, you're helping women, you're building such a great community and I think you're just integral to Johnson City. I hope to see Aslan Hope grow and divide and conquer so to speak Because I thank you. Ladies, if it can be done, I know that the two of you will do it.
Speaker 4:We hope so.
Speaker 2:Thank you, we appreciate that we work hard and we love and appreciate the time that you've given us here today.
Speaker 4:Yes, thank you so much, it's great.
Speaker 3:All right, Well, until next time. Hopefully it won't be a year again.
Speaker 2:No, we're not doing that. We've got to get it back on. We're getting back, okay.
Speaker 3:All right, and I'm coming down soon. Come see me Do some shopping. Yes, all right. Thank you, ladies, thank you.
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Speaker 4:Happenings.
