Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
Hey friends! It's Koa and Sarah, the Cajun Mamas! Grab a cup of coffee and press play on our podcast! You may be familiar with our social media content, but now, we can have longer conversations. We are going to dive in to topics like life experiences, what it's like to be a mom these days, inspiration, encouragement and more. Thanks for subscribing!
Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Today, we reveal how our Lime Life by Alcone businesses became the foundation for our friendship and eventually led to us creating the Cajun Mamas brand. We share our journey from skeptical beginners to confident business leaders who've traveled across the country and helped build a community of empowered women.
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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Today we're going to be talking about our day job.
Speaker 2:Did y'all know we have a job other than this foolery that we call the Cajun Mamas? We have another hat that we wear.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a very important hat. I should say so. Yes, because it's where all of this started. It is our business with Lime Life by Alcone, so we're going to just give you an overview of how it all started and why we love it. Yeah, so we hope you buckle in for this one, because it's going to be interesting. All right, but first we got to talk about our grand sponsor, gossip Boutique.
Speaker 2:Gossip Boutique is your small town boutique with big style. Okay, in Eunice, louisiana, that's not too far from Church Point, where are we from? If you are around this area, you need to go and make a stop at Gossip Boutique and then it's in this cute little downtown area of Eunice you could go, and there's several other shops around and places, a little place to eat and stuff. Make a little afternoon of it or morning of it and go. Yeah, all right. As soon as you walk in, you are just looking at the most pretty clothes you ever did see. They got stuff for every age, every body type. You know young girls all the way up to mature ladies and you're gonna find something over there. If you need an outfit for game day, if you need something dressy or casual, everyday stuff, they even have shoes. They got a charm bar where you can design your own jewelry, necklaces and stuff. I really want to check that out. Yes, me too. I see it's all the rage now, right now all the rage.
Speaker 2:Okay, I just have my one little necklace right here, but sometimes I might want a little chunky charm necklace. Okay, anyway, you're gonna go to 151 west walnut avenue in louisiana, or if you're not from here, don't laugh at me if you're not, if you're not from around here thinking about saying something like young kids say, but then I was like just be quiet, no, just do that whenever you're not go online at the gossip boot.
Speaker 2:Uh-uh, sorry, the gossip dot boutique. That is the website. Okay, the gossip dot boutique for a local pickup or shipping orders you can ship right to your house.
Speaker 1:So or you know, like if you want to go shop online and you want to get something but you don't want to be like, oh, do you want to wait for somebody else to go and get it, like you just shop and then go pick it up over, just go pick it up.
Speaker 2:Somebody can go right, it don't have to be you. Maybe you can just send your kid to go get it for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you won't yeah, because you don't want shirley picking the good stuff and you missed out. No, you don't want to miss out on the website. Get it now yeah they got hold it.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying anyway thank you gossip boutique for being our grand sponsor of coffee talk with the cajun mamas this month. All right, okay. So what is lime life by our cone? What?
Speaker 1:is it? What? Even is it?
Speaker 2:I will tell you right now in the simplest way I can. Okay, it's a makeup and skincare company. Uh, similar to say similar, but I know y'all all know what Avon is. I know y'all all know what Mary Kay is.
Speaker 2:It's in the same realm, okay, but we are talking about all natural skincare, quality ingredients, highest stuff. That actually works too, you know, because you could put like I don't know, like't know, like just grass or like aloe vera on your face. It could, you could beef taler, beef taler on your face, but it might not produce the results you want, right.
Speaker 2:so you need a combination of natural and effective yes, okay, this is what we have here and then the makeup, which is where where Alcone Company started with, okay, professional makeup and I'm not just like throwing that term out there, like it actually is, because it used to only be available to professional makeup artists you could only get it at Alcone store in New York City. They would supply makeup for like Broadway shows, tvs, movies, stuff like that, and you had to be a makeup artist to shop there. Then, about 10 years ago, they decided to try direct sales, which is like what Mary Kay and Avon and stuff do. You know, you can just sign up to be a rep and sell directly to the consumer as a way for makeup artists to make extra money, like on things they have in their kit. Okay, because you know, like say, you go get your makeup done for a wedding or something and, oh my god, it's the best makeup you ever put on your face, it looks so good, where can I get this mascara?
Speaker 2:where can I get this lipstick? Because I love it? Well, the makeup artists if they like, oh well, it's mac from alter or whatever. They're not making anything extra on that. You know that their their profit ends right there with you in the seat, so limelight it wasn't, especially if they're the only ones that could have shopped at halcone, then you know, yes, so.
Speaker 2:So now it was a way for them to be able to continue their um business, like to help build a business for them. And then also, now we're it's anybody like. It's not just pros, it's pro quality products that anyone can use.
Speaker 1:You just need to order with a beauty guide and that's what we do and you know it has such a bad like I feel like direct sales has such uh, sometimes has a stigma, okay, and and I thought it at first I was like I don't really care for that. Um, you know, I can't sell any pressure. So much pressure. It's it, you know like, but you know what, uh.
Speaker 1:Or they say oh, it's a scam yeah, and I'm just like you know what else is a scam If you don't go to work? If you don't work, yeah, it's a scam. So you know, if you work, though, right, then it's not?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like if you have a gym membership that you're paying every month for and you don't go to the gym. Do you call that a scam, because they're taking you $30 a month for your gym membership? You?
Speaker 1:didn't work for it.
Speaker 2:You didn't work for it, but you still paid it. But you're not saying, oh, y'all are a scam. See, it's people that come in and they have to pay $10 a month or however much. Another company, I don't know. This is just my experience with Lime Life. It's $10 a month to be a beauty guide. Okay, so if you but if you coming in and you just shelling out your $10, you're not doing nothing trying to grow your business, you might be like this is a scam. You know they just taking my money, but you're not doing anything. So like how?
Speaker 1:is that a scam? Or some people is like you, making all the money just because I started Like boo, if you ain't working, I ain't making nothing. No, you know like, if I don't coach you how to work or if you not like. It's not a scam.
Speaker 2:No, you can sign up and and not do nothing that don't benefit me at all.
Speaker 1:No, let's do something that benefits both of us, and let's just work.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's go to work yeah.
Speaker 1:And so that's what we did. You went, oh yeah, so.
Speaker 2:I started using the products first and at the time my skin was horrible, like breakouts, irritated, Just. I was to the point where the dermatologist told me it was rosacea. I still don't know if I fully believe that. Maybe it was just a really bad case of it, I don't know, but my skin was horrible and I was in the process I was having kids too, so it probably was some hormonal things. But it even was worse. It was even bad before I had kids and I had tried everything I could think of expensive prescription, all of it, Nothing. And it had gotten to the point where I was using a Dove bar to wash my face with and CeraVe in the tub, because that was the most gentle thing I could find and it would still feel like my skin was just ate up like burning.
Speaker 2:Well, came across another beauty guide in the area posting about the skincare, all natural, this and that, and I'm like what do I have to lose at this point, at this point y'all? When I tried it, within a couple of weeks what was the first thing you got? Like that cleanse and skin therapy. That's where I started. Just basic skincare.
Speaker 2:Not even the one drop, wonder like not even anything extra, just I love to start people off with basic especially when you don't have a routine or you know you switching from a line of a bunch of things and they just need to simplify there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get all that stuff out of there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know stop using all the things that have chemicals. That is just aggravating your situation. And when I stepped away from all the who knows what Mm, hmm, my skin just started healing and I'm like, oh, thank you Jesus, I found something that works and like it, my, my skin is finally looking better. And then I started trying a few other things and, uh, 40 cure cream. Well, I have another story about that, but anyway, um, I was using the products, using the products, and the girl I was buying from.
Speaker 2:She was like using the products and the girl I was buying from. She was like listen, I don't know if you've ever thought about this, or like if you would even be interested, but like what if you would try to sign up and and try to do what I do and just share the products? And immediately no, I told her no, probably at least five times, and she didn't bother me about it, like she would check in every now and then. You know I've told her no many times before. She was like listen, I know you said no, but why don't you just? You use the products anyway. Would you want to just sign up to get a discount and see she's smart? Would you want to sign up to get a discount on your own products and I'm like well, yeah, that would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2:I was still hesitant, though, because I'm like this is too good to be true, you know like what's the catch?
Speaker 2:what else is she's like it's? You know, at the time the starter kit was like 169 dollars so I had to convince my husband it was worth that much and I'm like, look, this line seems to be really promising and I would like to try the makeup. Anyway. It's working. Like at worst case scenario, I just say I do this and then I'm like this is not even worth the $10 a month, so I'll just cancel it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's it, and you know that. And when I realized like there's really no harm in trying, and I did it, and she, she said and I told her her, look, I'm gonna do this for the discount. But I'll be honest with you, I'm not selling. I have no desire to sell. I don't know how to sell. I'm not a sales person. I don't know nothing about makeup. I'm not making no videos. I ain't doing none of that. Can you imagine? Yeah, and she was like I understand that's fine, but she had prayed. I don't know if I ever told you this. No, she had. God told her that I needed this and that I was gonna do this.
Speaker 2:Yes, she prayed. God spoke to her and told her keep at it like she, this is for her. Like she need, she's gonna do this and she had. Like she need, she's gonna do this and she had. She was like you were on my, my dream list of people to work with and she's like I just knew, I just had to get you in and that it was gonna take care of itself once you see once you see how natural it is to, because you're gonna fall in love with the products, like that's what we did.
Speaker 2:The products got us you know, got me yeah, and so when you realize and I'll tie this in with the 40 cure cream story we have a product called 40 cure cream and it's called that because it it helps to heal all kind of things 40 it comes from the 40 cure tree.
Speaker 2:It's a tamano seed oil. Okay, that's the main ingredient, but it has a bunch of other good stuff in it and it smells. It smells like lavender-y. It smells good. I just used it yesterday, slathered it on my kids sunburned, use it for eczema, psoriasis, any type of skin irritation. We grab the FortiCure for everything. Forticure for everything.
Speaker 1:Cracked heels.
Speaker 2:FortiCure anything. So FortiCure cream I had used and this is right when I just started with Lime Life Okay, and I had no intention of selling nothing but I had FortiCure cream. Ria was about 18 months old and she had eczema patches on her legs and Chantel, the girl I was with, signed up with. She said try that 40 cure on her legs two days and they were gone like and I took. She said take some pictures so I'm like okay, took a before picture, put the cream next day.
Speaker 2:They were still red, but not uh rough irritating as much and then the next day, like I took progress pictures and it took about two days before they were almost gone and I was blown away and I thought to myself everyone needs to know about this product, Like every mama needs a FortiCure cream in her house. So I popped my little before and after picture on Facebook and I got my first sale the same day and I'm like, holy moly, this is, there's something to this and it was so exciting and I'm like I didn't feel like I was selling or being salesy or spammy at all.
Speaker 1:All I did Helping somebody, you actually helping somebody.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, and that's like see how jazzed up I get about, like you.
Speaker 1:So jazzed about it, because it's not Because we love it. You can tell that we're very passionate about what we do with Lime Life and it's because it's made a difference in our lives, not only with our skincare and our makeup but just us as people In so many ways.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine she prayed?
Speaker 1:for you, but it wasn't just for you, it was for me.
Speaker 2:Look the ripple effect of it.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, and now we have the two of us have a team of women with us doing this with us, and we see, we're seeing the effects of this in their lives and what it feels like for them to make their first sale, what it feels like for them to make their first sale, what it feels like for them to help somebody else and that's really what that's what drives us is being able to help you find something that's quality, because we've been there, we've tried to find something that was quality, and when we did, we just stuck with it you know?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't know it's just so interesting I find, I don't know, maybe not too bad?
Speaker 2:No, it is.
Speaker 1:But how you know how something like this could really change the trajectory? It's true.
Speaker 2:I really can't imagine my life without it, and if I would have not ever said yes and I was scared too at the time, even though I had said I wasn't going to sell I'm like she's going to pressure me to sell.
Speaker 2:I know she's going gonna end up pressuring me to sell, and of course she didn't. No, we don't do that either. Um, but I can't imagine, and I tell her that all the time she's not with limelight anymore, but I'm still. I'm like she sees me making posts and growing in the company and stuff and she's like I'm so proud of you and I'm like I am so thankful for you because if you hadn't, if you would have gave up after the first no and this we tell our girls this all the time it's not a no, it maybe it's a not right now you know, and especially when you pray and that's we pray.
Speaker 2:I mean, I pray all the time. God send me the people who need this in their life yeah, I don't want, I want this to be beneficial for them and for me, not just one way, not one-sided, and that is the difference, at least for us, in what we do versus other companies, and I could, we could go into that, but yeah, the passion, the, the drive, the intention with the way that we run our business is is to impact as many people as possible.
Speaker 1:Correct, um, in the way that we have? Been felt, yeah, you know like, and it's just, it's amazing. This, this story is amazing for us. But yeah, you know, that's just us we'll talk more about it after.
Speaker 2:We talk more about us and more about us again. Cajunmamascom is our website okay now let's switch back to the cajun.
Speaker 1:Mama hat that, we wear, we wear that hat, but it first started out with limelight, so that's why we decided to do this episode.
Speaker 2:I'm like this is where it all started for cajun mamas and people ask us all the time like how did y'all meet or how do y'all become such good friends and it I mean we. We talked about how we met before the gym, but how, where we really got close was when you decided to to join limelight with me and we were working our businesses together and growing together and we just got so close during that process.
Speaker 1:You know so that that we started this foolery. Yeah, so, um, you can promote with us. We do a business, advertisement, we have merch, ok, so, if you like, need to commemorate your love for the Cajun Mamas please go to our website Sure.
Speaker 2:We design.
Speaker 1:You know we, we come up with fun designs. You know the at is one of my favorites. I love the color, I love the spoon, I love everything. Because everybody knows about the at um and then pov bet, that means poor thing, poor thing poor soul. Okay, yeah, poor soul poor fool, but we have so many different types of designs you know that are just coming up with new things too yeah, we always have ideas of new things.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, you need to go make sure you're checking that website every so often Check the website and then we send out emails when we drop something new, correct, like our cats.
Speaker 2:So you can actually go and subscribe to email notifications from us on the website.
Speaker 2:It'll have a little thing, I think it pops up at the bottom and it's subscribe to emails or whatever. So, yeah, so yeah, go check out what we have to offer, and if you're not already following us on all social media platforms, we would just love and appreciate a follow on Facebook Instagram. We are separate accounts on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. You can just search Koa Malanson on all of those and I should come up. And then Sarah is Sarah O'Prior on Facebook and LLLLippy well, LLLippyLady that is Limelife Lippy Lady.
Speaker 2:Three L's with an Ippy Lady on Instagram and TikTok and then on YouTube. You just put the at sign Cajun Mamas and it's going to go right to our channel. Thank y'all so much we are so blessed to have so many supporters.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And people that actually like to hear us chit-chatting about things.
Speaker 1:We enjoy, what we do we do, and we like to make you smile. So just uh, make sure you're following us all so you get all the Cajun Mama goodies. We didn't matter at this, I think. So, all right, a little bit of practice never hurt nobody.
Speaker 2:So okay, let's talk. I was doing Lime Life for almost a year, right at a year before you joined in with me.
Speaker 1:I had started in 2019. And then I had a little makeup party at my house, invited all of my friends and margaritas, makeup and margaritas, because the margaritas is what got me there. Yeah, and then it all, then eventually the makeup.
Speaker 2:Yes, and so you were buying from me as a customer. And then COVID happened and you were a teacher and you were remote teaching at home and you couldn't leave your house.
Speaker 1:I had to video my lessons, and so then, and honestly, I was following a couple of other friends that was doing it, and one of one of these beauty guides had she just took a picture of other friends that was doing it, and one of one of these beauty guides had she just took a picture of her setup and it was her mirror with the phone on it, okay, and her makeup around it, and it was like so impactful for me, what was it like?
Speaker 2:my off.
Speaker 1:She was like yeah, you could do this. Oh, who was? And I thought it was Bethany Mouillet, oh, and she took a picture of that and I was like, yeah, I could do that, and I had watched her and her little girls put on makeup, you know. And I was like, oh, that's nice, but you know. But then I look back on that picture and I think to myself that, right there was so impactful for me because, like I wanted that, I craved working at home so that I could be with my, my, my children, and you know, like, yeah, a lot of money, yeah, while I make money from home.
Speaker 1:So that was one of the things that, you know, I saw, and then you were doing it too, and then I was buying from you.
Speaker 2:You are yeah. So, so at the time I was like you know, you have extra time right now. You can't, we can't, leave our houses. You know, I know you, you still teaching, but you have extra time. We were about to go, it was May, so the summer was coming and you weren't teaching during the summer. So I coming and you weren't teaching during the summer.
Speaker 1:So I was just like, let me throw this out there. Why don't you just come and join me? You just need to sign up and just do this with me. And you were buying it all up, man, and I like for my birthday that year I had bought like 200 something dollars worth of stuff, and then I guess that was in your mind like maybe, maybe that's when you started thinking about me in that way maybe so, but I was just like okay, I thought she was nuts.
Speaker 1:She called me, though, all right she was, she called me. She was like listen, I don't know if you know about this, but you know this joint incentive and I was.
Speaker 2:I remember I was outside in my yard, me too. We were outside, I was outside.
Speaker 1:I was too when I called you and I remember that call and just being like you made it sound like there wasn't really a lot to lose, you know, and I just like planned on, you know, not really doing a whole lot with it, but just doing it for the like I wanted to do it to support my habit. So, like whatever commission I made was to pay for your own product.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get my own products. And so I jumped right in and I got business cards. You did Right off the jump, just right off the bat, and I bet you like there was a little twinkle in your eye.
Speaker 2:I was so excited to have somebody that wanted to like do this with me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And like kind of like run with me, yeah, and we jumped at every training opportunity we had could like we were hungry for it. Limelight was at the time doing a like a boot camp type thing, remember that and it was like a sorority week or something, yeah, and you had to dress you had a different ways, but from home, from home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it was during covid too. They were trying to keep their beauty guides engaged and active and stuff. So they were running all kind of fun things where you could win prizes and we did all of it. We had so much fun.
Speaker 1:It was so fun. I love to bring up the fact that I did this. I started a business during a time when nobody was spending money. Nobody was like you were. It was COVID. Everybody was scared. Yeah, we were scared, yeah, and we didn't know what was coming next. You know, this was not something that has ever happened, and so I love to tell people that People are like oh, you know, we had a mind the economy's so bad, the economy's so bad. I'm like that is when I popped off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true, we grew a lot during we grew a lot and and you can, you can see that with other creators.
Speaker 2:Content creators yeah, think about all these TikTok stars. They started during.
Speaker 1:COVID. Yeah, I started during COVID and you hear that all the time. Yeah, so it really changed a lot for in a lot of different ways for people, but I mean for us specifically, for me specifically, she was already on the on the growth path, but I grew with it and and so I said yes. And then, to show everybody that I had said yes, my coming out video okay, your announcement when we were finally able to get together, because we did we did it outside, so videos remotely, like, and we'd mash them together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like I'd take clips and it was so funny because we didn't have nothing else to do.
Speaker 2:No, okay, we were just, we were on a snapchat and we would put the filters on our faces record, like myself doing a little clip and then I'd save it, I'd send it to you and you would feed off of myself doing a little clip and then I'd save it and I'd send it to you and you would feed off of that.
Speaker 1:And we would clip we'd.
Speaker 2:Then we'd mash them all together and do videos about the products, about limelight stuff, and like we put ugly filters on our face yeah, Like, oh baby, my skin is so dry and wrinkly what you got for me. And then I'd put like a filter on and be like, oh baby, you need this.
Speaker 1:We need to do that again. Let's revisit that. That was so fun. But, like also, people's always like do y'all script this stuff? No, we have been feeding off of one another for.
Speaker 2:From the jump, from the jump.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is just pure raw.
Speaker 2:It is what it is.
Speaker 1:You know. So anyway, I raw, it is what it is, you know. So, anyway, I'll go to her house, all right, and she's like you're gonna jump in the back of my vehicle and I'm gonna say I jumped on the glam wagon, yeah, okay, so me I'm running, you know.
Speaker 2:I'm in my car with my hand like hung out the side, and I'm like this, like whoo and there's, and look your husband again on board with everything he's videoing. The hatch is open on my back Subaru and there comes Sarah.
Speaker 2:And she's got like this Limelight picture taped to the side of the vehicle. I just printed out a logo like a big L and I taped it on the side Like this is the Limelight glam wagon and you jumping right headfirst in me and we did a boomerang and it was like I'm jumping in the back of the subaru and like I jumped on the glam wagon and all the rest is history.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, and still being made because you and your sixth year of limelight. I'm in my fifth year of limel life. I just remember, you know like how it started and I just love reliving this. It's so true.
Speaker 2:It's been a slow but steady climb and then in this past year, year and a half, with Cajun Mama's exposure growing and stuff, our businesses have also grown and it's just like all this time I like I had a just. I had a desire in my heart from the jump. I was going to bed thinking about limelight. I'd wake up thinking about limelight. I saw the possibility here. I saw women working from home, from anywhere, with their kids paying for dance classes, paying for karate, paying for all these things with their limelight money and I'm like it's possible, if they can, I can. It didn't happen as fast as I wanted it to happen.
Speaker 1:Well, no, it never does. But that's God's timing, but that's not my timing exactly.
Speaker 2:So I'm not saying anybody's gonna come in here and just like hit the top of the company in the first month. It's possible, don't get me wrong, I've seen it happen. But if your journey might look a little bit more like ours, where it's a slow and steady climb, but it's a journey and every step of this journey has been a blessing and so fun and like just you grow and you grow as not just you know makeup, it's not, it's more than makeup and skincare. Like you, the community, can you think of how we've grown personally throughout this journey of Lime Life?
Speaker 1:Like that's the scary part. Where I started to where I'm at right now, I got two whole more kids. I mean, top enroller, top seller yeah, we on those lists know, and that's to me it's not just about how many people did I enroll, how many people you know did I sell to is how many. How many lives have we impacted and made their lives easier by showing them something that actually works? Yeah you know, and that works in our lives, and I don't know yeah, it's all.
Speaker 2:It's a connection, though it's, and especially as women, I feel like you know, we are often our worst critics, you know, and we get a lot of people that say, like I don't even wear makeup anymore because it's just like, it's not worth it, like or just, but I want to, like, I'm ready to try again. And when they message back and they just you can see it in their face how good they feel. You just realize it's so much more than makeup, like it is as a woman, it's confidence and like um and and to feel like you had a part in that.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's where it's at bringing that smile to their face because we get color match photos all the time.
Speaker 1:Okay, we get color match photos all the time and a lot of time people's like oh girl, sending pictures of myself with no makeup on but listen, when they sometimes they send us pictures after they get their makeup in, and that's where it's magical for us, because it's like their picture that they sent us first, it just, you know, that's them in the raw and then, like their face, is just completely. It's not the makeup either, it's from within. You can see that happiness, you can see that confidence, you can see that they actually are happy with what they see and what they've gotten. And that's the same for us too. It is, yeah, you know, same for us too.
Speaker 2:But listen, we are geeking out, so let's talk about our petite this could go on for a long time, so I hope we didn't lose y'all yet. I hope we didn't lose y'all.
Speaker 1:But you know, when you talk about something you're passionate about. That's true. You know who else I'm passionate about. Oh yes, I'm so passionate about chris logan media media. Chris logan has decades of expertise in expertise in web development, but also broadcasting.
Speaker 2:He has his own radio, radio channel station yeah, um, and it is 106.7 it is fm over here planet radio, planet radio.
Speaker 1:You can go to plant is it? Listen to the planet, listen to the planetcom and you can listen from anywhere.
Speaker 2:okay, it's 90s and 2000s rock, rock. It's our genre, it's totally our I love it.
Speaker 1:I do too. And then on the weekends, they do like emo stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's so you.
Speaker 1:I love that kind of stuff, but go go give him a listen. But he's so much more than just a DJ yeah. He also does podcasting? Yeah, he produces our podcast. So like, if you're interested in doing your own podcast because you and your partner can yap like we can, then you might want to, you know, talk to him about producing a podcast for you. Website design, search engine optimization he does text marketing digital marketing logo, design and rebranding Show enough.
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Speaker 2:Okie dokie. Where are we? In this journey? I feel like we make people feel great.
Speaker 1:Okay, yes, but we also feel pretty great too, and when we started this, I saw top leaders going to different places, traveling, and I thought that is not something I'm interested in in the least. I do not want to go all these places, I just want to work from home. I just want to do these things. But that's because I never dreamt that far.
Speaker 2:Or thought it was possible for you. No, not for me. Yeah, that's for other people, that's for them.
Speaker 1:Okay, they're high up and they get to do that, okay, and that's okay for them, but for me that's not. That's never going to happen for me. Well, that was a lie. Okay, because we have traveled several places and we have seen lots of things with limelight.
Speaker 2:All right, you um so let's talk about all the places we've been okay you start at the beginning because you've been more places.
Speaker 2:I went to my first palooza, which is our annual conference in denver, colorado, and I flew by myself. You, I think, were amazed at that, were like I can't believe she's going by herself. Yeah, but I flew up there by myself. I did know maybe two people that was going and that's the ones I was rooming with. I mean, that was before I really knew Carrie and Mickey and all them. I just knew Laurel and Ashley and I was following. I was, I was like okay, but I really want to go because I know and and they told me like when you go to this conference you will be changed and for the better and your business will grow. We see it every time you, you, it's in an. I told my husband this is an investment in my business and I really want to go so I went.
Speaker 2:That was Denver, colorado, and then the second year I went is when you came with me to Washington DC, but you forgot about our first palooza, what that was Washington, our first palooza at the house at home.
Speaker 1:I forgot about that. We did a palooza at home.
Speaker 2:That was because it was 2021 and they wouldn't allowing people to meet up in big numbers yet no so they streamed palooza at home and we had our cute, was that 2020? Well, they did it twice, but okay, I don't think we got. It was just. 2020, was just me and you. That was the making waves year yes, it was just us watching it yes, 2021.
Speaker 1:So that's two years. We did it at home and then. And then we had our team for 2021. Yes, and then so we did like we did Palooza at home. Yeah, and it was just us and we. You got this box and you opened it up as a brand new product, but this was nowhere near no not on the same scale.
Speaker 2:Thank God that you know we're past that. But yeah, so Denver and then Washington DC. Washington DC was where all of this started.
Speaker 1:It was where we had our first viral video, and so our business grew in not only Lime Life Way, but in Cajun Mamas. It wouldn't have been there had we not done it wouldn't, yeah. So it's just a part of our journey, but so so. So. So you went to denver and then washington dc, yeah, and then we went to austin oh yes, I went to new orleans too before that for a leadership conference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I earned a leadership, uh executive retreat in in new or Orleans, um, which doesn't sound, I mean New Orleans, I could drive there. I was so happy I didn't have to fly again, you know, by myself, and that was an extra cost and I and I actually told the Lord Jesus, I was like I remember you praying.
Speaker 2:I prayed, I prayed, I prayed that it would be somewhere I didn't have to fly to because I did at the time. I just couldn't afford it. I'm like I'm't have to fly to because I did at the time I just couldn't afford it. I'm like.
Speaker 2:I'm going to work so hard to earn this retreat and not be able to go because I can't afford to go there. There was, you know, things going on in our life at the time and we were just you know, we were trying to be smart with our money and when I found out it was in new Orleans and I could drive baby, that was it. I ran so hard to earn that retreat and I earned it and I was the only senior, senior, senior director, senior director there, like everyone else, was executive level.
Speaker 2:I was the only one, not an executive, that made it. It was quite the experience that was the year you won that award?
Speaker 1:yes, okay, because you went to san antonio too. What was that for? Oh that, was.
Speaker 2:I forgot about that too. San antonio, that was a um. What did they call that? It was a training, but I can't remember the name of what they called it. But it was something you had to earn too, and you had earned it, but you couldn't go because of Roz yes yes.
Speaker 1:I was pregnant or I was, you were, it was in February, so you were.
Speaker 2:No, roz was in, so you maybe. I don't know why you didn't go to that one.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but it was something. I couldn't do it because of something. Okay, yeah and uh. So I missed out on that and uh.
Speaker 2:But San Antonio. So yeah, new Orleans, san Antonio, antonio um washington dc, we both went to our palooza there so fun then we went to uh, north carolina, uh, austin, back up we went to austin texas for a leadership retreat.
Speaker 1:We both earned um and then north carolina for product launch, and then now we uh will be in houston this summer for palooza. Our, our annual conference is in houston, um, and we're excited about that because we don't have to fly so excited to drive and bring whatever we want all the luggage.
Speaker 1:We want all the luggage all the shoes, yes, not that we wouldn't have done that in the first place, but we can bring anything. And then, and New York. You know, we just got back from New York, and so this New York is on my bucket list you know, and when they invited us there, it was like okay, now we really. This is it. You know, like we this is big.
Speaker 2:We were invited to attend and there's probably maybe 20 people that get to go out of the entire company. It's top leaders, top community builders here.
Speaker 1:I can't even believe that's us.
Speaker 2:No, I know, I know, I know, you know, and we got to sit down at a table with our home office, our CEOo, and plan out the future of this company and, like they want, they want to hear they want our input.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, and not and does your? Company do that. You know where do you work. Do they want to hear from you? I don't know like. I just feel like this is something special. You know absolutely something really special and um and we just getting to leave.
Speaker 2:I think the point is like we just getting to live out dreams we didn't even know we had, you know, and every time something like this happens, I just feel so, just overwhelmed with like gratitude of like Jesus. Thank you for this opportunity that I didn't even know was possible.
Speaker 1:I didn't even know I wanted or that I didn't think, that I didn't trust enough that could be for me, or just to be able to support my family like that, like I just always thought I was going to be a teacher, making nothing and you know, moving on and now God's like, but I have more, I got more, you know like you. Now God's like. But I have more, I got more.
Speaker 2:You know like you, just have you just trust and you just walk in my way.
Speaker 2:And what I want for you and you minister to the people I want you to minister to, and that's another part of why we love doing what we do so much is I feel like this is part, and with Cajun Mamas too, but like we are able to, like, reach people and, on May on, as women, like this is a personal level for them, this is their beauty routine. We're able to help them look good, feel good and make them, you know, build them up, like when I get a comp, when I get a video, a picture or something of oh you know, I'm probably going to break your phone, like, send you this picture. I'm like all I see is those beautiful green eyes, like you know you have such pretty skin yeah it's an opportunity to uplift others, and that's just such a rewarding part of this business.
Speaker 1:It is, you know, you know for our customers, but our teammates too, you know, our teammates, we have like an extra little bond, but we have like a like a chat where we're like, okay, you know, if, whatever we got to say, we want to share something that worked for us, something personal you know we want to pray for each other, like we all come together, and that's part of the lime life you know is the community.
Speaker 2:Yeah so and that's another thing you didn't even know you needed till you experienced it and you know if I just listened, if I just listened to, and I'm glad I finally did, yeah, but my, my sponsor was always like you're gonna see, it's about so much more than makeup and skincare it is gonna see, and I'm like okay yeah, and here we are, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I mean, just reach out if you feel like this might be something for you or you know whatever, reach out, don't reach out. We hope we're giving you something, some food for thought or maybe I don't know, maybe you just want to celebrate with us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we appreciate that like a lot of our story we get comments on our like if we post a picture or something of us in our makeup, even if they person doesn't order. But you just give a oh, I love that lip color, that looks so good, or those colors are pretty, or whatever. We appreciate that too, you know, this isn't like like.
Speaker 2:This purpose of this was not to like try and get y'all to join us, but if that has spoken to your heart in any type of way, pray about it, and if you want more information, reach out to one of us. We'd be happy to share some more information with you.
Speaker 1:It's made such a big, huge impact on our lives and our family's lives, yes, so we just like to share it and whoever wants to listen. We just hope you just enjoy this story, because we enjoy telling.
Speaker 2:It's a testimony to the goodness of god, the whole, the whole thing is, and we can't help ourselves but to tell, to talk about it, because it's just, it's, it's god, it's. All things are's. All things are possible. That's all I just keep hearing. All things are possible, even things you didn't even know were possible, and you work hard we work hard, absolutely, and I mean like we've.
Speaker 2:We've been doing this for five, five and six years and it's taken us growth to get to where we are and we ain't done yet Like we ain't done yet like we ain't done yet. We still growing, but and I ain't going nowhere, growing and not going, and we like it we love it too much.
Speaker 1:So it's true, um.
Speaker 2:Thank y'all for listening to this yeah, if you have questions too, pop it in the chat. We'll go comment and answer your questions. And, um, some of y'all are already our customers and y'all already know how to reach us. Y'all probably have our vip numbers and stuff. Y'all send already our customers and y'all already know how to reach us.
Speaker 1:Y'all probably have our VIP numbers and stuff.
Speaker 2:Y'all send us a text and we'll give you all the rundown of all this fun that we're having All the fun that we're having.
Speaker 1:It's true.
Speaker 2:I mean, if it was a scam, would we still be doing it this long?
Speaker 1:I don't know If this is a scam, like I don't know, I just don't. I don't feel like this is scamming.
Speaker 2:You know like it's just not. And if it wasn't fun, we sure wouldn't be still doing it. No, no, it's the most fun work.
Speaker 1:It's the most fun work and I get to do it at home and I get to do it with my best friend, yeah, so yeah, you call that a scam.
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Speaker 2:Oh yeah, y'all All right, y'all Thanks. Thank y'all for listening to this foolery.
Speaker 1:We'll be back with y'all next week, yep.