28: "Who's Someone You Admire and Why?"

This was a fun one, as it always feels good to share about someone who’s had a big impact on your life. Callie and Amanda share someone whom they admire and why!

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SPEAKER_02 0:02

This is the Unsolicited Business Advice Podcast. We're Amanda and Callie, founders, moms, and friends who believe your heart is valid and your way is good enough.

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Around here, we skip the buttoned-up LinkedIn talk and dive straight into real conversations about growing a startup, balancing motherhood, and rejecting the hustle culture. Consider this your weekly reminder that business can actually feel joyful again.

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Hello and welcome to episode 28. We are back. 28. Okay, we had a submission. And this is a fun one. Okay. Because it's not really like a business-y question. Who is a competitor, in quotes, or a past mentor you actually admire, and what have they taught you?

SPEAKER_00 0:50

So I know partly your answer is gonna be somewhat related to mine in some ways. Oh, I thought you said it was gonna be you. That you've been my past mentor.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

No, that you I've you've been mine, which that is true. Oh my god, no, that's not true.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Um no, you dork. I was gonna say that one, and I'll I'll do this one first. One part is one set of mentors, I guess, would be the books that I read.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Oh my gosh. So we'll get to that in a second. But the human that immediately comes to mind um is actually my uncle slash cousin in-law. He's not really either one of those to me. Okay. That's why I say uncle slash cousin. Yeah. Which in Missouri that could sound a little weird, I guess, but um, he's Brad's cousin. And so, but I claim him as my own. And he owns a huge um organic farm in Chicago, up by Chicago.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

And they're international now, and they I mean, they have a huge operation. And so um I've been very close to him for a long time for lots of different reasons. But one of them has been the fact that I'm so inspired by him and his wife and their story and how they started organic farming way back in the 80s. Oh wow. Oh uh like yeah, late 80s, I think. But anyway, back before it was something that anybody was like doing or talking about, and they kind of got called crazy a little bit. Like, what are you? And they did it because they had lost a child and they were there was a piece of them, I think, that uh that has always just been so good. Just goodness spews from these people. But there was a piece of that whole organic farming thing that they did in in memory of her. And so it's been a very beautiful journey, it's been a very wonderful journey. It's but when they started it, they had absolutely no idea that organic farming and the idea of organic food was gonna become what it is now, and it is wild now. Like it's like everything people talk about. Yeah, you would think normal. You would think normal, but how but 30 years ago? Yeah, not at all.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

Like, you know, so I would this would be another thing. I would want to know, like, when did the chemicals start coming out in farming? Yeah, yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

That's a good question. I've never asked him that. But knowing that, and knowing that whenever they had really young kids in their house and they decided to completely transform their business and start this whole new way of thinking that the world didn't yet believe in, and they have become who they are, just inspires the hell out of me. And you you hear about those kind of stories, like you see them in movies and in books and stuff, and you hear about them. But like when it's somebody that you know and you're like, no, that that's real. Like they didn't have enough money to pay their light bill, and now they're I mean, I'm not gonna put numbers on it, but they're being, they're just fine. They are just fine, and so are their grandchildren. So, but anyway, I I just love I love the fact that that's real and it's not just a story to me, and it's not just something that is like this lofty up in the cloud, you know, clouds kind of goal. It's like very real and very and and to me, what that says continually is perseverance, belief, perseverance, just keep going, that sort of thing. And so that's what gut reaction, that's immediately who I thought of.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

What about you?

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Mine is somebody local, and it's Kristen Brown. Oh, who designed go. Yes, yeah, yeah. And I remember meeting her in BI a long time ago. Like I was still, we were still doing Nirium, and I had the idea, I think coming up with the hatchery, the co-working space. And I remember she came into BI as a creative. Because so BI is like, for those that don't know, as a networking group, it's very structured. You have um attendance, you have to like have referrals, you have to have coffee meetings, like all there's a lot of rules. And she was the first creative, I feel like, that came in, and that was like, I am usually against all of this stuff, but like I'm here to grow my business, and I heard it works. And she just always had this air of confidence. Not, I'm sure it's cockiness to some people, but to me it was so such an air of confidence in who she was. And I think for me, like I was still so young in because like she, I think she's only a couple years older than me, but like I was so young in business that I needed somebody that that was like mm-mm, come on, like let's go, you're fine. And I don't know if she knew she did that, but she definitely did, and just the way that she makes decisions, owns them, and if they work out great, if they don't, great, and she moves on and she's not afraid to go against the grain. And I think the biggest thing I respect is I remember when like she changed her pricing, and it was not Columbia, Missouri pricing, it was like California, Florida pricing, and so many people got mad, which that says everything about them. And I had talked to her about it, and she's like, if we want to bring in amazing talent to this town to work for us and be able to keep up with these other agencies, we have to charge a bit more. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

And so yeah, yeah. That's that last few comments really struck a chord with me because I, of course, in in our businesses hear about ticket sales or about coffees or about food or about whatever it is that we're selling. It we've there has definitely been the conversation of a customer going, oh man, that's really high. And I'm like, you know, and and I've said this out loud, both to myself, but also trying to educate the public. Yeah. It's like, I get it. That's too high for me, too. Yeah. But if we want this to exist, that's what it's gotta be because numbers don't lie. Right. I mean, they just don't. Somebody the other day, somebody the other day, well, this happens all the time, but somebody the other day said something about getting um, I think like Garth Brooks or something to our stage. And I was like, okay, clearly we don't understand how this works. And they were just like, well, you guys just get you get some really big stars. Like, how do you do that? And I'm like, it's it's money. Like the anybody will come if we have enough money. Right. If you want Garth Brooks, just that's fine. Just sponsor the stage for two million dollars and we'll be able to do that for you.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Like, yeah. And and and so I think there's like that, I love hearing that about Kristen because in in her pricing and all the things she was going after, because she was basically saying, Hey, we can have that in our small community. We can have that, we just have to pay for it. So I love that she in her in the way she did things with the world, I love that she didn't say, Oh, we can't have that, we're just Columbia, Missouri. Right. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, and she's killing it. She clearly it works. Yeah, like yeah, yeah.

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She just has a just a different way of thinking about things and being unapologetic about it. Yeah, I love that. And like zing when other people zag. And she's built they built this thing called the Bird House, and so it's this small retreat house that's next to them, next to their office, so that teams can come in and there's like two or three bedrooms, a kitchen. So like your team can get away and actually get like be together. Or I mean you could stay at a hotel, but you can also stay there. Dude, that's cool. Yeah, and like in a this economy, everybody's like, What are you doing? And I ran in our kids go to the same, well, some of that works with her. Our kids go to the same school, and I was like, How is it going? She goes, It's going really well. That's amazing. I was so excited because it is kind of like, oh my god, is that gonna work? And sure enough, and there's been just as many people like out of town versus in town, too. That's yeah, amazing. Yeah, so it's really cool. And she's very much like pro like women, but not in like, I'm gonna dig at the man way, but of like the educating really of like working moms and like the statistics that she pulls and the stuff that she does, like it's just so good to be like, thank you for standing up for us. I don't, I don't have that in me right now, so I appreciate you doing it and calling it out, and then like, yeah, who she hires is very like it's the part-time is appreciated just as much as the full time. It's really and like how do we keep moms in the workforce in today's society, which I can admire. Yeah, it's really cool. Okay, so someday I have to meet her. Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah, we can make that happen. Okay, okay. Kristen, if you're listening, I don't know if she does. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good one. That was fun. Okay. All right. I would call out the listener to take some time to think. Who is somebody, a competitor? Because sometimes that brings out good things that like you're either mirroring or want to do or a mentor. Or a mentor. AI.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

I have a further challenge. Okay. Okay. Because I am really into this, have been my whole life, but especially right now. Tell that person what they've done for you. I really think this matters. I think we could change the whole freaking world. Yeah, I agree. If we did more of that. And it's not, you know, not something that's not true, but something that's really genuinely real for you. Yeah. Like whoever that is, just tap on their shoulder and say, hey, this is what you did.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Yeah.

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