Sorry... Next! with Guenn and Krista
Guenn and Krista share stories about their lives, families, relationship struggles, drama and much more on Sorry... Next!
Sorry... Next! with Guenn and Krista
Sorry... Next!, First Episode!
Our podcast captures the essence of friendship, exploring laughter, life challenges, and shared experiences. We discuss our personal journeys, relationship dramas, and the beauty of friendship, inviting listeners to relive their special moments of camaraderie.
• The origin of our friendship and its evolution
• Navigating life changes like divorces and new beginnings
• Amusing adventures and the fun side of life
• Relationship mishaps and insightful stories
• The importance of support in friendships
• Future podcast plans and community events
that's us. That's us.
Speaker 2:This is the beginning cheers sorry next sorry, yes, I love it.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm Gwen.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Krista.
Speaker 1:And this is our podcast. You guys, we have been dying to do this for so long.
Speaker 2:It's been way too long and overdue, but timing's everything and I think the timing of this is perfect.
Speaker 1:All of 2024, it was on our vision board, if you will, but everything happens as it's supposed to. Yep, I believe in now, marriages separations.
Speaker 2:Second, marriages, second marriages.
Speaker 1:Almost second marriages, almost divorces so many fun things for us to talk about and get into. And that's what Krista and I want to do. I mean, we have great times together where we laugh and we share our lives like sisters, like family, like best friends, and we realized through the course of that that not everyone we know has that relationship with people Right and that sucks. So let us be that for you Like join us and have fun with us, laugh with us and we're going to talk about all the nitty gritty.
Speaker 2:Everything.
Speaker 1:Everything. What's good in our lives, what's bad in our lives.
Speaker 2:Sorry Dylan.
Speaker 1:All right, you're going to Dylan. Our producer is related, and so he may hear things about family members that are easier or harder to hear than others, because, like our tagline says, I mean the name of the show is Sorry.
Speaker 2:Next, and really what we want to express is that the stories we're telling are true, yep, but we may change some names to protect the guilty, because, I mean, it's true it really happened to us and it's our reality, it's our version, but we don't want to throw anyone under the bus.
Speaker 1:We don't want to affect and we might like you later.
Speaker 2:Thank you, so that's right. I mean, you might not have been liked in the story, but that's why we protect you, because we might like you tomorrow or next week during the story, we might stay married to you tomorrow. That's right, exactly that's right, and.
Speaker 1:Krista and I have been friends for a really long time. I mean, I've done radio in the Charlotte market and on a syndicated show and a bunch of places for a while, and Krista became my friend in sales and in marketing 2010. Yeah, oh, we were doing the math the other day and couldn't believe it. I mean, it feels like we've been friends forever, sisters, but then when you get down to the numbers, my math- you were like 13 years.
Speaker 2:You're like it's 2025. 15 years, like, oh, I'm wrong, weird, because I'm 25.
Speaker 1:We're still that old, yeah. So I was on Tanner in the morning on WSOC 103.7, the FM station, after I had been on a big morning show as like a female personality with two male leads, and then I went to country radio, which is where I fell in love with really with music and with the art of my profession. You know, I was really enjoying what I did for a living and kind of had learned some negotiating and some chops about how to kind of hold up my own in a career standpoint. And got to this country show and your husband was my boss, which is awesome. The suit was my boss and he, the suit was my boss and it was he's still one of my favorite bosses ever. Um, and it was the greatest professional experience I ever had was my time on that country show, absolutely without a doubt.
Speaker 1:And then you were the girlfriend. Like shouldn't have been the girlfriend at the time because you were an employee and a sales rep and you were climbing the ranks and it was very taboo. Like it was. Like does our company have a policy about that? Like, are they allowed to walk in at 9am late together? Like what's the?
Speaker 2:you know, the rumor mill was swirling and Billy grooms would be in the lobby taking a checking if you're late or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we need to edit his name out and be like the chair checker the chair checker. And what is he now? He's like a mayor.
Speaker 2:Of Folly Beach or something I love. Billy, he's a beach bomb. He should be a guest because he's got great stories.
Speaker 1:He's a beach bomb with all the good stories. He's the guy you meet at the beach bar that knows everybody, knows everything and has a good story to tell with good beach ways.
Speaker 2:Yes, and when I was a sales rep 2010, I had just gotten divorced was trying to figure out what the path was. He would be in his three piece suit in the lobby and if we walked in late he wouldn't write down names and he would act like he was writing down names just to try to put some pressure on. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Ruthless. All right so, but how? What was your story to come into the radio station? Because that's, I think, a pretty good story we're sharing too. Like you were divorced, Like you said you had a young kid and you were trying to figure out what's next for me, yeah.
Speaker 2:So what's crazy is, I graduated college with a biology degree. I was wanting to do like medical, which whenever I tell people that they're like you have a biology degree, I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I'm that smart, yeah, I love science. But life happened and what? Uh, the dad, or the dad, the guy that I was seeing we decided to get married and, um, you know, he had his own business, so he had Party Bus Company, which I know people in Charlotte will remember it was called Party Bus. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:That's his name.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so, anyway, I started working for the business doing event planning and sales and stuff like that. So I decided not to go. We got married, I had Colson, you know. Then we got divorced and so, you know, that was my job and so I had to find something else. So this was 2009. And I, you know, that was when the economy was awful. So I was trying to get into medical sales because I had sales and I had, you know, I had sales experience and I knew science and I was good at biology. So I thought medical sales. But it was hard. They were hiring managers for entry level positions. So a girlfriend of mine ran the wine bar next to 131 Maine on East Boulevard and they needed some help and I needed income. So I was like I'm happy to to bartend. And then that turned into me helping like full-time at 131 Maine where I was bartending and, um the radio station was very close to 131, maine, very close, yes, and so the big suits would come in and have lunch and one day they were over there.
Speaker 2:I overheard them talking about hiring and I was like my ears perked up because obviously I had a young child. I was trying to make ends meet. You know it was. It was a struggle and I said sales, I can do sales. I don't know radio, but if you just teach me the radio side, I can do it. And I went in, I interviewed and they hired me and I was hired originally for the small tiny WBCN, the AM News Talk Station. They gave you a bad back yeah, they did. But I, you know, obviously I moved over to the WFNZ, the sports station, sold that a lot of the country and became, you know, I moved over to the wfnz, the sports station, sold that a lot of the country and became you know top sales rep and met dj.
Speaker 2:That's another funny story. Yes, met the suit um which I knew him before because he would do concerts on our um, our houseboat that we rented out like yeah yeah, yeah and so I had met him. Then I didn't really like him when I met him the first time.
Speaker 2:I was like he's kind of full of himself, but I loved his dad, so I loved Papa Stout and I would hang out with him during those concerts. So anyway, full circle started at the radio station, was reintroduced to him and months later we kind of started dating to him and, um, you know, months later we kind of started dating.
Speaker 1:So, oh my gosh. And then fast forward. I have my first child of three and I'm at her wedding to the suit, my boss and we all just had such a good time and had so many mutual friends and just everything clicked along. And then Krista and I, over time, we're able to develop these like lunches where, because me working in morning radio and her in sales, our schedules are very fluid. Right, we are not corporate nine to fivers and anyone that is. I praise you, because I actually don't know how you really are locked into a desk or timed that way anymore, and after COVID I can't imagine that schedule. But we can get into more of that later.
Speaker 1:But we were able to go on these lunches because for me, working on a morning radio show, I was done by 11 or 12, other than literally coming up with content to talk about the next day. So that meant living my life and having fun and going to bars, going to restaurants or being a part of drama, watching the Bachelor, whatever the nonsense was, yeah, what was going on. And so we would close down cantinas or you know the 131 Mains, like these restaurants we would go in. I'd get there by noon, and then our good friend Amber, who wants to be on this podcast so bad. And Krista and I would sit there, and then the staff would change over. They'd be like, do you guys mind closing out?
Speaker 1:Because, like, the dinner staff comes in next I'm not working in a double today and we'd be like, okay, sure, we had no kids, no pets, no mortgage, like we had no responsibilities, but whatever the hell we wanted to do, it was the greatest time in life. We didn't even realize that until now. And then you're in your forties and you realize now I actually have money to spend. I get to decide what the hell I want to do. I don't Right. You stop owing things to people or expectations to people. Things evolve in life and we're all learning that too. But we had so much fun back then just doing whatever we wanted, within the parameters of the sales managers too, though They'd be like can you be here this time? I'm outselling.
Speaker 1:You wanted your sales reps to be outselling, so then Amber and I, we weren't allowed to be in the office, yeah, cause I was in sales at one point, for you guys too.
Speaker 2:And then Amber and I would go back to the station trying to act sober, which was hilarious.
Speaker 1:Oh, I had so many good stories and so many good of those like memories and moments to share. But then Krista now does so much stuff with all the music festivals. She's left the corporate world, which is how I'm able to dog it kind of, because neither one of us are chair, checked by anybody or mandated to do 40, 50, 60 hours for a certain company by a certain time. I think we both work more than that, but it doesn't feel like work when you're doing it for yourself. So that's the beauty of it. But so, and Krista and her husband, the Suit, have now formed this marketing company and they do these huge festivals that everybody goes to and they know all the country artists and they know all the musicians and all the promoters and all the marketers and all the businesses, because they do sales and they do marketing. So they're just so cued into everything and so they always have the good stories and always have the good access.
Speaker 1:Like I said, hey, my son wants to go to the NBA game this week. She's like okay, I got your tickets. I'm like it's the Lakers, nobody has tickets. Like I, I work for the radio station too. I can't get tickets. And she's like I got you walk, in, there you go I gotcha.
Speaker 1:And she did. You know, it's amazing. So it's always a fun each other. We're going to tease each other. We're going to love each other. We're going to support each other.
Speaker 2:And have fun.
Speaker 1:And have fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's going to be yeah. So it's just going to be an entertainment, right? Something like for you to listen to, to just have fun together and join us on our journey, and you may laugh, cry, spill your wine, all the things we're drinking Vouv today. I know Cheers know it's not the first bottle, no, but do you know it's actually pronounced? I know you hate that when I say this, but it's buv like love, but with a v I just hate when anyone tells me what you're doing.
Speaker 1:Just try it, but try listening to someone else. Or try saying buv, try saying yeah buv, buv.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it doesn't sound right, but move click.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I don't think you should say it like that we could double check it, but I'm pretty sure. It's not that I don't think you're right, it's that I don't like to say I'm wrong.
Speaker 2:I don't either. I'm never wrong. Okay, the suit. He's always wrong, I'm never wrong.
Speaker 1:So we just launched our Instagram page to kind of help us be excited about this channel and the show, and so we want everyone to kind of follow along and join us and give feedback and say those of you that know us, which we feel like is a lot of the Charlotte market, like when you guys hang out with us and you know our stories, like ask us to share them and talk about it and we will, we'll keep tying those little stories and moments in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and how long? I mean, how long have you been in radio? Because you started?
Speaker 1:like 2005, 2006.
Speaker 2:On Kiss right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kiss 95.1, right out of college. So I went to East Carolina in 01 to 04. And then I worked with a Fox affiliate in Greenville, North Carolina. And then I moved back to Charlotte after college, Providence High School and the Charlotte Shockers it was a middle school mascot, the Shockers, it was a lightning bolt.
Speaker 2:That doesn't sound right, that sounds.
Speaker 1:But anyway. So then, yeah, I went to East Carolina and came back and I worked for the Fox affiliate in Charlotte doing WCCB's morning show, Fox News, rising at the time, writing for the teleprompter physically rewinding the tapes from the 11 o'clock news, checking the scanners, like was that person arrested, released on bail X, Y, Z and then worked at the radio station too?
Speaker 1:because that made you no money? I literally went to work at midnight. I woke up at 11 at night and I would have to go through the roadblocks on South Boulevard and then Independence Boulevard for, like the drunk driver, and. I'm like my hair's wet, you know, from taking a shower, and I'm like I'm on my way to work. Buddy and the cops were like I haven't had anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like God bless you.
Speaker 1:It was at lunch for me that was yesterday. I go to bed at four, so yeah. So then I would go to work all day and then the radio station hired me to do promotions, to set up events at grand opening, at the Best Buy or that car dealership with the Mazda on sale. You know, I would go to those events and work for them and then I'd also nanny whatever it took until 4 PM and then I'd sleep from four to 11 and then start over the next day. And then one day the radio station said, hey, we need a sales assistant. Could you maybe work for us more than this like promotions thing? So I was like, yeah, that'd be great. And then they said, hey, we need you in sales, which means you can't work overnight. Could you just come in eight to five? And I was like, all right.
Speaker 2:And then that sucked.
Speaker 1:Sales is hard, especially when you're selling air Right, tell that to a 24-year-old out of college. Go sell air. Here's a phone book, here's a and everywhere you go you're like they've already got somebody. We didn't have enough tutelage or we didn't have enough supervision, we didn't have enough guidance.
Speaker 2:And then you have the old sale, like not old but the experienced reps that were there that if you call on their account they get all mean. I didn't know.
Speaker 1:Like you know, this is before the internet was what it is today, where it's like you can really tell who everyone's using. Like we were on DMV software, right, it wasn't as easy, and so I mean people were faxing in sales orders back then like a fax machine existed, and so it just for a little while. I did that in the radio show. The biggest radio show in our market in my mind at the time was AC and TJ, and they needed a new girl on the show. And they said, hey, they walked into the sales pit which I was in and they said, hey, we're interviewing a real radio girls. You know, could you guys fill in the days the real radio people aren't coming? And I like jumped up to Yankee Pete and I was like, oh, I'm so excited for my day.
Speaker 1:I'm coming in on Tuesday. I did a pop. You know, I did a radio show in college. I'm a producer right now for Fox, like rising. And he's like, okay, yeah, whatever, just sign the sheet. I'm like, okay, sign the sheet. And then it's my day and I'm in the studio with everybody and we're talking and I start laughing and I like, and Ace, the.
Speaker 2:Ace and.
Speaker 1:TJ, he's like Gwen. If you think something's funny, don't go like this, cause you block the mic and people don't know. Chances are, if you're laughing, they're laughing.
Speaker 2:They're laughing Right.
Speaker 1:So just share your life and your emotions with us. We want to know all of it, the good, the bad. Just share.
Speaker 2:When you're sharing it on the air.
Speaker 1:So yeah, but you're kind of alone in a room with just a couple of people. You don't realize you're talking to hundreds of thousands of people, right? So then that was a cool. And then so they said can you come back tomorrow? I'm like sure, yeah, and then that turned into a four- then you had kid after kid, after kid too.
Speaker 1:I had three under three and it's very hard to wake up at three or four in the morning when you it's just and not like there was a snow day and my husband's like, what do I do? There's no school, and I'm like, well, I'm already at work so figure it out, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to tell you. I'll be home at 11 or 12. I mean, if I can make it in the snow, I don't know or like we would have the flu and I have to go to work. Like you don't get to be sick, no, one time I missed a flight and they're like. Well, the show starts at, you know, 6 am, so you better, there's. No, you don't get to take the day off for your birthday, right?
Speaker 2:There's no participation. No, it's hardcore.
Speaker 1:So just after I had all the kids and had to kind of establish in my mind myself a little bit, I was like I can't and I heart. At the time I was with I heard radio and they were great. They said if you don't, if you aren't able to do the show, seeing you here, let's start putting your stuff there, let's start making you available for more appearances. Or they just were go with the flow. They said let's do whatever you want to do. Yeah, like I mean, we're going to take away your health insurance and your benefits, we'll make it part time and I was like you know what that actually works for me, that's fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it worked out great, especially with you having three young kids.
Speaker 1:Yeah and I'll honestly say like I've never taken a step back and pay because you just add more in other areas right. You can just work harder more endorsement, reinvent yourself in other ways.
Speaker 1:I almost categorize it to NASCAR. It's like once you pay your dues, you can get the sponsorship Yep, right, or you get the client relationships or you get the clout. I think people say a lot now is like yeah, I don't know, so it's, don't have to do a nine to five to pay. I've paid my dues, yeah, right, so you can get kind of the same opportunities. And that's the beauty of it is to do what you love in a better way. That's not as time consuming and taxing. We've dialed it in, yeah, right. Yeah, that's what I lean on you a lot for is I'll be like Krista, we need this company, needs this, and you're like done. And you like know what to say, know what to do, know how to manage it. Yeah, like these music festivals, you do. There's like a drone and I'm like she's. The drone shows off, she's doing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's all. Krista, that's her baby, with the music festivals and all the artists.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, we need to have the suit on to tell the story about how the festival started, because it is a good story. So we'll save that for a. It's a great story.
Speaker 1:Well, this is the beginning, yeah, this is the beginning. Yeah, I mean there's so much shit to talk about.
Speaker 2:I know, like it's like we were talking earlier, like about how you know what are we starting with right?
Speaker 1:That's what we do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and obviously I think they'll just kind of unfold into whatever we make them.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:And everybody can join us for the fun ride on it and everybody can join us for the fun ride on it.
Speaker 1:But we'll have a system in place where we decide this one's going to be about relationships. This one's going to be about the work, the concerts. I mean. Even today we're at the nail salon and this couple's having such drama.
Speaker 2:I walk into the nail salon and Gwen's on her computer working and there was this crouched couple, like they were crouched down on these little stools right next to you and I was like what?
Speaker 1:I thought at one they were blocking the ATM too, and some nail salons now are cash only. Yes, I know someone that owns a business that makes a fortune off the ATM machine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's like so much money smart. Yeah, stupid, the girl's blocking it but they're blocking the ATM, and so I walk in and I hear the guy saying and I love you so much, and I'm like, I look at Gwen, like I'm like typing away and I'm like oh girl, I've heard it all and we're like just side eyeing, like what's happening over here?
Speaker 2:it was. And then I hear her saying, well, just screenshot it and I'll send it to you and then I'll tell you what to text or something. So anyway, we go sit down and I was like I'm going to go back over there and just see what else I hear, and went over looking at nail colors and they were still saying the same. They were just repeating the same thing. So when we go to leave, I asked the nice woman at the front desk, hey, what happened to that couple right here? And she's like, oh yeah, they're crazy, they come here all the time. He had six full glasses of wine or cups. She said cups, yeah, she goes. I gave him one. It was half full and he said no, I need a full glass.
Speaker 1:I heard him order a half glass because his glass was already half full. So he asked for like a half on top of his half Of really good wine. It's Nail Salon. I mean, I love you guys that you offer us wine and drinks. I think that's a really nice perk.
Speaker 2:I usually say no, because maybe I'm working or all the day, or if it's a really bad day you'll just take the red Maybe, but I also think it's just.
Speaker 1:I'd rather drink none than drink bad. I'm at that good of a stage in my life I'd rather drink none than drink bad, but six cups like full cups.
Speaker 2:She's like full cups, she goes.
Speaker 1:oh yeah, that's what they do here. That's what they do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we asked them. We said do they come in all the time?
Speaker 1:She's like all the time when, where can we go? Where we take advantage of an opportunity like that, Like for me at the Mexican restaurant the free chips and?
Speaker 2:salsa like they're at the nail salon taking advantage of the free bad wine and, obviously, having a couple's counseling session or something. You are totally in counseling. Right there there was that young girl that was sitting right behind them. She looked like she was doing schoolwork or something. I was like, oh, she's getting a whole lesson in relationships.
Speaker 1:And it was an area where they could walk home. I mean, we're not. Yeah, I don't think they were driving anywhere. Yeah Right, that's our PSA. Yeah, don't drive kids. No.
Speaker 2:They were Ubering Okay, yes, we'll go with that or walking. But yeah, that was funny, it was great. Just, you know I don't like we just got some really good couples drama right there. We did, because you know we don't have any.
Speaker 1:Right, we both have a good share of couples drama. I mean divorces, almost divorces, like literally lawyer saying cancel the divorce paper, like pull it from the judge's docket. And then reconciliation, Second marriages, fancy friends, private planes.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh Blue water, all the things. Cabo, key West yes, we need to go Key West.
Speaker 1:There's a place in Key West we love to go.
Speaker 2:Yes, we should actually go there and do our podcast there.
Speaker 1:We will, and we'll write it all off, we'll teach you guys all that We'll bring.
Speaker 2:Dylan. You like Key West, we'll go.
Speaker 1:Nope, that'd be great. I like it. Well, we hope you guys stay with us and keep watching. And we're going to keep Amber on and one of these first episodes she's our like golden musketeer yeah, golden girls, I, I, I don't like the name because we're, we fight so hard to be not young in appearance wise wrinkles. I know I didn't. We'll have our injector on, yeah, and she's all.
Speaker 2:Ellie the injector injectors Amazing.
Speaker 1:And yeah, we'll pump the concerts that we are promoting. We'll let you guys in on the secrets of who the artists are going to be or what cool stuff is coming to town, the things we're involved in.
Speaker 2:Which I'm going to give a plug now to the Joey Logano Foundation and his team and us partnering with them and doing the third annual Joey Logano Concert for Charity with Jordan Davis. Tickets will be on sale February 7th and we're excited for it. It's going to be great. It's a great cause, great event. This is our third year doing it. Joey and his team are awesome.
Speaker 1:So, so good. And I show it Cody just always goes right. Yes, I mean, it's a fun place to be and you can think back like when a mechanical bull was something you'd get on, and now we look at it with nostalgia. But it's there and it's awesome. Yes, like it's a fun. It's a fun atmosphere, it's a fun night. It's not on a beaten path of like uptown, but go to Cody Joe sometime. Get the tickets.
Speaker 1:Wednesday night line dancing ladies night, yeah, yeah it's for a great cause and we're going to share so many things we're passionate about, Like I have. I support Give Hope Global and I go to Ghana a lot.
Speaker 2:And you're going soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in a couple of weeks Yep Right after that show. Yeah, I'll go at the beginning of March.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'll be awesome. Yep and Isabel Santos Foundation is one that we support as well. So, yeah, this is going to be great. We're excited. So yeah, um, so yeah, stay tuned. How do we wrap up?
Speaker 1:This is it. I think we are wrapping.
Speaker 2:We're excited to do all the sorry next with you and to cheers with you and to keep drinking with you and to have some fun and to uh, share our stories, where the names have been changed to protect the guilty Cause. We might like you tomorrow, yes, love it All right, cheers. See you next time.
