Ep. 17 - Work Voice vs. Reality: The Duley Family

Entrepreneurship is a profit engine for the family but a drain on time if you don't manage the throttle. Most leaders struggle to balance the high stakes of a multi million dollar real estate business with the grounded reality of being a present parent. On this very special 50th birthday episode, Mike Duley invites his whole heart into the studio as he sits down with his wife, Cody Duley, and daughters, Evelyn and Sinclaire, to discuss the intersection of family and business.

We sit down to pull back the curtain on what it is actually like growing up in a high production real estate household. The conversation covers everything from the secret to raising kids who are not entitled to the tactical benefits of luxury town home investments in Northwest Arkansas. Cody and Mike get into the technical side of land acquisition and utility hurdles while the girls share their perspective on the 18 minute rule and the grit required to recover from an ACL injury. The secret sauce of the Duley family remains their commitment to consistency whether that is tracking chores on a refrigerator to earn a pet bunny or closing 46 deals in a single calendar year.

The unglamorous truth is that being your own boss means you work seven days a week but the payoff is the flexibility to never miss a school field trip or a milestone birthday. This episode moves past the theory of work life balance and shows the systems of discipline that keep a family connected while building a legacy. You will walk away with a mindset shift on how to involve your family in your professional journey and a reminder that the ultimate goal of the hustle is to provide experiences for the people you love most.

If you care about legacy building, family values, and real estate strategy, you will get a lot from this conversation with the Duley crew. Please make sure to subscribe and share this episode with a fellow entrepreneur who is trying to balance it all. What is one tradition or rule you use to keep your family grounded while you grow your business?

Transcript

Birthday Intro And Family Guests

SPEAKER_03 0:04

Welcome to the Real Mike Dooley Podcast. I'm Mike Dooley, nationally recognized broker, bringing you real conversations, real strategies, and real insights into today's real estate market. Woohoo! We're at our show. It's a very, very special show today. I have my whole family, my whole heart is in the house. As you know, uh Mike Dooley, the real Mike Dooley. It's my 50th birthday today. So I thought it would be really cool for our audience to be able to have some people in the house. I'll let them introduce themselves. But first and foremost, we want to thank our sponsor, Mutual Omaha. Excuse me. See, you get messed up sometimes. We want to thank our sponsor, Mutual Omaha Mortgage. Thank you so much. So who is in the house? Do you want to start from youngest to oldest?

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Um, sorry. Um, my name is Sinclair, and um I'm nine years old. Woohoo!

unknown 1:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02

All right, who else is in the house?

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Um, I'm Evelyn. Woohoo!

SPEAKER_03 1:07

And you're 27?

SPEAKER_02 1:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

13? Who else is in the house?

SPEAKER_02 1:13

And Cody Dooley.

SPEAKER_03 1:14

Well, who are the boss, the boss to their bomb?

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Bam.

SPEAKER_03 1:18

Good. Well, we put together some questions and some things so we want to hang out with all our guests. I always tease when I'm talking to a guest and I say there's listeners in Dubai. What other cities do you think people are listening in? Paris, Texas? Paris, Arkansas. Maybe you can tell the audience where are you guys going

Paris Plans And Quick Icebreakers

SPEAKER_03 1:36

in October?

unknown 1:36

Paris.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Why are you going there? Are you guys going to see uh Sesame Street or Arnold Schwarzenegger or what?

SPEAKER_01 1:45

So we're gonna see Celine Dion Dion concert.

SPEAKER_03 1:48

You get should dad on the show. Should I do a Celine Dion song?

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Oh, please.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

Would our audience love it?

SPEAKER_01 1:54

No. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:55

We want to keep the audience, don't we? Well, very cool. Well, glad you guys are here. Do we want to ask some questions? Do you want to throw it out? Um want some easy ones, some softballs like Sinclair. What's your favorite color?

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Pink. I remote.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

I like it. Who else?

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Um, purple.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

Pinky purple.

SPEAKER_03 2:14

There you go. There you go. Dad's is red. Used to be emerald green, but I'm changing for Kelly Williams and for the Razorbacks. Good. What else is on our minds? Um We did we print some questions. We actually asked our audience on social media what kind of questions they

Why We Hustle And Pay It Forward

SPEAKER_03 2:32

have. You guys want to throw some out?

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Yes. Okay. Um Diana Goggers oh care.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

Go ahead, baby.

unknown 2:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Um, so one of them was Dad, why do you work so hard?

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Oh, mom and I work so hard, so we can do awesome things like this. We can do adventures and we can travel, and mom's surprising you with Sissy and Bopi to Paris, which is so fun. So we do it to be able to bless other people, to pay it forward too. And we want to help the people that we work for. How's that sound? Good start.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

What else?

SPEAKER_03 3:09

What else, Evan? What other questions do we have on there? Um, how many how many podcasts have you guys been on? You guys have been on hundreds, haven't you?

SPEAKER_01 3:17

No, no. We this actually ones.

SPEAKER_03 3:20

There you go. Well, we know, mom, put you guys, you've probably been in 50 videos.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Yeah.

unknown 3:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 3:25

Well, if the IRS is listening and CPAs you do work for, so you guys are actors and models. Make sure for the IRS. So all our listeners, most of the listeners are business people, real estate people all across the world.

The Real Estate Work Voice

SPEAKER_03 3:38

So we want to give them tips about real estate. I might ask the question how does how does mom and dad have they sound when they do phone calls?

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Oh, um, well, long hands is like always that's did she have her work voice and then her real voice. It's like, hello.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

And then girl.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

And then whenever she's at home, she's just like normal. And then dad, yours is like, um. What's up, my brother? Yeah, it's like lower than your normal, but it's also kind of lower, deeper?

SPEAKER_03 4:15

It's like What's up, my brother?

SPEAKER_01 4:17

It's like lower, but it's higher. So it's like high. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

If you guys were answering a real estate call, how would you do it then?

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Um, my normal ways, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Ring ring. I'm calling Sinclair. Hey, I want to look at a house in uh 123 Main Street.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Um, okay. Oh not really know it.

SPEAKER_03 4:41

Well, I I got a question for you. Can you tell everyone how many you've seen over 500 houses? Can you tell people how you help mom find and when you go to houses, help mom actually give tours?

Kids On Showings And Tour Skills

SPEAKER_03 4:52

Oh, um You got a story, don't you, during COVID?

SPEAKER_01 4:55

Yes. So whenever it was I yeah, I think it was during COVID, um, we went to this one house and she was on a video call, and there on the paper that like shows the house, it says that there was two staircases. And mom would only saw one, and she was like, I don't see the second staircase. And I was trying to show her the second staircase because I was like, Mom, look, look up stairs. And she would always go up the other staircase. And then I was like, Mom, mom, and then she finally was like, What? And then I was like, What? Choose the second staircase.

SPEAKER_03 5:39

That's awesome. I think the client bought the house. Did you ask for your referral fee? What's the favorite thing that you what's maybe a favorite house or favorite thing that you guys seen at a house? I know we want a pool right now. We're trying to negotiate with mom. Put her on the spot live on the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

What's your favorite part of a house? Is it the kitchen or I like the kitchen?

SPEAKER_01 6:05

Yeah. The kitchen is always has like all the like different colors because there's so many things. Like the back squash.

SPEAKER_03 6:14

Yep. What do you want to do when you grow up? Everyone wants to be maybe interior design for houses. So whenever you have your resume and your interview, you can say I was already on a podcast when I was 13.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

Sinclair, you're kind of thinking about real estate, right? A teacher, real estate, what else?

SPEAKER_01 6:28

I'm like bouncing between things. But also, you know how like you're thinking about interior designing? I also kind of like designing and stuff like that. So, I mean, I kind of could copy me, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:46

Well, you guys are.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Maybe you could be a team together.

SPEAKER_03 6:49

You could be D interiors. That actually sounds good. DD interiors. Uh no. Well, if you were gonna name an interior design company, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Um, probably like I don't think I'd want to own one. Be a part of one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Okay, mom will have to start one for you.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

Okay. Let's ask maybe another question. Maybe get mom involved in a mix, I think, right? Okay, here's one. What's your funniest dad moment that the girls will never let you live down? Um I know we know one for Poppy, but we won't say that on the show.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

I don't know one for you.

SPEAKER_03 7:31

We know a good mom story, but we'll leave that one out too, right? We don't want to get in that much trouble. The audience will have to ask us the next time they see us.

SPEAKER_01 7:39

Uh, Dad, I have a I I have one for you. What

Parenting Fears And Family Influence

SPEAKER_01 7:46

is your biggest fear about being a father?

SPEAKER_03 7:49

Ooh. Farthers. That is a great question. Uh, always I want you guys to be great humans. What is mom? What do we say we don't want you guys to be? What's the word we said? Turds. Turds. So as a father, mom, and dad, we just want you to be grateful, be blessed, and remember where you came from, right? We don't want you to be um entitled or not hardworking or not motivated. So we don't want you to be turds. Hashtag turds. I think I got one from mom here. Uh who in who influenced your life the most and why? Oof.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

Uh well, really, my parents influenced me the most and why, both of them. So I feel like that's what I can attribute my hardworking ethic to. Um, I was brought up to work really hard and to do my best and to do what I love to do. Um, but we were raised to have chores and responsibilities. And the expectation really was to always try your best and do your best. Um, and if you really felt like you were doing your best, you know, that was that was good enough. Um, and always strive to to just be the best that you can be. Um, so that's who I would say influenced me the most.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

That's great. What about you, girls? Um Celine Dion. Who influenced you the most?

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Oh, um, probably you two, because of how hard you work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

Probably, yeah, you too kind of so any of our audience, Seth, and know real estate is hard work, isn't it? If you want to be successful and do it seven days a week, isn't it? Which I have a question on here too. It says, if you guys interviewed me again in 20 years, which I'll be 70, what do you hope's different about our life? I know what Sinclair would say. Add a bunny and a dog, a beach house. Swimming pool. What else?

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Hopefully you could be close to retiring at that point. Probably in your 70.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Very true. Well that goes to another question that was on here too. It says, um, where was it? It was um if I mean where was the money? Let's see. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

Oh, uh, if money wasn't a factor anymore, how could you spend your how would you spend your time?

SPEAKER_03 10:25

How would you guys all answer that? How would mom answer that?

SPEAKER_02 10:28

I would spend my time more with you guys and whatever you were doing. So is this in seven when we're 70 or now?

SPEAKER_03 10:35

Just in general. Money wasn't a factor.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

Yeah. We would travel a lot. We would maybe have a little bit more just downtime where we could hang out, play games, go visit, just do fun things.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

What's mom's favorite game? If you were allowed to say one game, what would you guys say?

SPEAKER_01 10:57

Probably burnt. Oh Mahjong. It's like without any like thing. For a second I thought I forgot about Mahjong. Yeah, I forgot about the family.

SPEAKER_03 11:10

Yeah, mom would be reading books, that's for sure. Toes in the sand. We'd be rucking. Yes, like rucking.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

We'd be going to all the seashell beaches for sure.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

What advice would you give other friends um that maybe want to get into real estate or maybe work hard or um probably try to work hard, but when you have a little bit of time, try to spend some time like if they're older and if they have kids, probably spend more time with their kids too.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

I love that. Which we love doing family trips, don't we? In our spray room, it's kind of fun.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

What do you think you guys have learned from us doing real estate? Um, work hard, e fanies, and don't give up. Ooh, I like that. What about you, Evelyn? What do you think you've learned by watching us do real estate?

SPEAKER_03 12:04

Do you almost have straight A's right now?

SPEAKER_02 12:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Make sure we record that so that when you listen for your for your interview and tell yours.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

Yeah, well, even without you guys as parents, I think. Or myself, I'd also want to do that, like work hard and try my best.

SPEAKER_03 12:24

Very cool. Tell the audience what you guys like doing. Um what sports are you in right now?

SPEAKER_01 12:31

Well, I'm doing full year cheer this year instead of half year. And I'm actually really excited because it will be more harder and probably well, I haven't done it so I don't know, but probably a lot funner. Um, we both take piano lessons and then I play basketball.

SPEAKER_03 12:57

Very cool.

SPEAKER_01 12:57

Not right now.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

Why don't you play basketball right

Injury Recovery And Daily Consistency

SPEAKER_03 13:00

now?

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Um, because I torn my ACL and then have been recovering from surgery.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Well, we talk about that a lot in the podcast and in real estate too. Real estate has roller coasters. Yeah. So you're in a roller coaster right now, we're obviously working back to be great and be at the top.

SPEAKER_02 13:17

What do you think you're gonna take away from having an injury in your life? Like, where how do you think this will affect your life moving forward?

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Maybe making me stronger.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

Mentally, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:30

Yeah. Or maybe having more like practice time because you need to like like work a little bit harder because of the recovery, maybe very cool.

SPEAKER_03 13:45

In real estate, that's what you need. You need consistency every day and put into work every day. So what do we say? You usually have to work out what an hour a day with the exercises.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

Yeah, I have to go on the bike and then have a lot of exercises. What do you say, like when you first started doing your exercise on the Peloton, how you could barely like move your knee? And then that was like flick my foot because I couldn't bend it that far. Yeah. And then now like you're basically riding a bike perfectly well. And so you can have like resistance too, yeah. On it. Yeah. But see how like if you do a little bit a day, how much better that you got? And that's kind of like best with anything anything. Yeah. You just have to work a little bit harder every day. And then think about you're gonna keep doing this for a year. Think about how much stronger you're gonna be at the end of the year.

SPEAKER_03 14:35

Do you remember what dad taught you, what Jesse Itzler taught us?

SPEAKER_01 14:38

Uh, if you spend 18 minutes a day working at something, it'll be like 99% better times better.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

95% better than anyone else in the world at that one thing. That's great. I want to ask you too, change gears a little bit too. What's the the m most favorite house you've ever seen or building or piece of real estate that mom and dad had ever sold or you've ever been in? Can you think of one or two that you really like?

SPEAKER_01 15:03

I mean the Cumbe or old Kimball. I didn't go, but I saw pictures or videos, and you could have a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 15:10

Yeah, four million dollar lake house on Beaver Lake.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

I mean, I mean, I like a lot of houses, but there's this one that I went to you. Uh there's this one house. It was kind of like our house, but a little bit different. It was um yeah, I don't really know. Well, me, you and Sinclair went to one that was with like your friend, and then they had that full house and pool in their slight building or basketball.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

Oh, yeah. Yep, yep. Uh the the owner of house. Yep, house furniture. Yep, that was great. He was flipping and renovating the kids. That was a pinnacle country club. Yep. Yep, that I guess is.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Do you like lake houses in the city houses, out in the country houses? What's your favorite area where a house is? Um or does it matter?

SPEAKER_01 16:05

I like houses more if they're like in an in like a neighborhood or like around other places than like So it would be in the city. Yes. But I also like houses that are out a little bit farther away because you have more nature that you could see. So I like them.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

Yeah, maybe let's go around the horn too, talking about nature. Maybe our audience wants to know what's our favorite animal. What's your favorite animal, Sinclair?

SPEAKER_01 16:37

My favorite animal is a bunny.

SPEAKER_03 16:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

And I'm really trying to get one.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Yeah, tell everyone how you I think our audience needs to know. We always talk about atomic habits, which is get 1% better every day. So what things are you been doing for the last 20 plus days?

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Um Well, I've been doing a lot more chores to like help the family out because they're always working, and also to help to get it funny.

SPEAKER_03 17:10

What kind of chores? So I think too, the audience wants to know. We talk about smart goals and we talk about tracking. So right now you have it on the refrigerator, don't you? What's on the refrigerator?

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Uh I have to feed the cats. I have to put my clothes away. I have to empty the dishwasher. Which they are not put away. Are you I haven't done it for day, but that's because I've been at school and then I have to clean up the cat poop.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

So you have that all on a magnet on the refrigerator and you're checking it off every day that you're doing it.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

I left that short of her. I'm cleaning up the poop. And then I have to organize the entry and organize the shoe area or so you're motivated to do that for an end goal, huh?

SPEAKER_03 18:02

I think our audience needs to know that too. Think about mom and I will tell you, you guys have more discipline and consistency than some adults sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

So we're driven real hard to get that money. You are. What I love is that you're just subtly just doing your chores and making sure you do it every day. And you're not saying C C C, you're just doing it without being told, and you're just letting it be known that you're doing it with your checklist, but you're not like C C C what I did, what I did. You're just doing it because you know that's like I would do that. Nope.

SPEAKER_03 18:33

No, just saying that Fog is dad would do that.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

Any time that does a dishwasher, I did the dishwasher. Now it's up to everybody. You're just subtly just doing what you need to do to get done and hoping it gets noticed and working for that end goal.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

If you don't get a bunny, I would be a little bit upset, but also I'd still be grateful for everything I do have, like a fish and nice answer.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Very good answer. Nice. Yep. So yours a favorite bunny. What's mom's favorite animal?

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Hmm.

unknown 19:04

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

She's not she's not really an animal person, though, is she, guys? No. She says she's allergic to everything, huh? She gives me a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of else by them. And Evelyn's, we know, is not small. What's your favorite animal?

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Um, an elephant.

SPEAKER_03 19:19

Nice. What's dad's? Oh, um dad's favorite animal.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

Oh, but I know.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

Good job, Evelyn.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

I was like, oh, and then it is his favorite.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Very cool. So there's books actually. We talk about Eat the Elephant First, but it's really huge, one bite at a time. So what you're doing right now, Sinclair is you're doing it one day at a time and having consistency. So our audience needs to know that, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Yes.

What We Would Sell In Real Estate

SPEAKER_03 19:49

If you guys were going to start real estate tomorrow, what would you want to sell? So we call it asset classes. Would you guys want to sell warehouses, apartment buildings, you know, multifamily? Would you want to sell houses like mom does? Would you want to do uh rental leases for buildings and and so Andes or TCBY? Uh yeah, I probably you guys want to do commercial retail? I don't know how to which is like getting a TCBY, like getting them to get a space. They don't own the building, they're renting the space.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

I live selling townhomes.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Selling townhomes. Oh, let's give a plug, actually, right now. Good job, everyone. You're trying to get some referrals. Hopefully, the IRS is listening, right? So you want to tell them what what kind of townhouses do we have, moms?

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Oh, we've got some wonderful townhomes in Lowell called Parkside Townhomes of Lowell that are luxury townhomes. Uh right near 49. Wonderful amenities, a great big clubhouse and pool, and pickleball, and basketball, and a dog park and a playground and a trail.

SPEAKER_03 20:52

Yeah, we can have a house of Dix is gonna be right next to it, which is gonna have shopping and restaurants and bars and all things. I think for any of our audience that's listening and they're investors, they should reach out to us at uh 479-616-Home so we can let them know about all our investment properties because these do cash flow, which is very cool. And we believe that area is growing and growing and growing. You like how we weave that in? Good job, Evelyn. Planting seeds. What else do we want to ask? What do you think the audience wants to know?

SPEAKER_01 21:24

Um I have one for okay.

Mistakes That Make Better Closers

SPEAKER_01 21:29

Uh, what is one mistake you're actually grateful you made?

SPEAKER_02 21:36

One mistake I'm grateful I made. You know, I make a lot of mistakes in real estate where you're learning and you don't know everything. You never know everything every day. And I think all those kind of little, maybe not even mistakes, just things you didn't know, but then you it happened and it wasn't awesome, but you tried to find a solution. I always say anytime that there's something that doesn't go perfectly. I always try to learn from that mistake. So I don't make that mistake again. In fact, I'm working on a deal right now. It has to do with the land acquisition and utilities. And Dad and I just went through a situation where it wasn't clear on utilities. And I was like, I'm making sure I am really clear on that. So we don't run into that situation again and lose time, lose money. Um, so I would say, you know, all those little moments are, you need I pay attention to them because I don't want to have that happen again. And so you have to learn from all of those mistakes. So I would say all those little mistakes have made me a much better realtor where I know so much more every single day because I'm constantly learning from those little pieces that are unusual. No real, no two real estate transactions are the like. And so you learn something every single time. So having eight years of experience of all those little things makes me that much smarter.

SPEAKER_03 22:57

She's stacking, you know, and for our audience too, in Northwest Arkansas, there's 4,000 real estate agents, which is a lot. And mom is one of the number ones. We'll brag on her. She did like 80 deals last year, 40, over 40 million dollars. 46 or 40? 46. 46, which is pretty awesome. But I hear mom say this, and we talk about this all the time. Anybody sometimes can get a deal on your contract where the real closers and the real strong people, what mom's talking about, is having the knowledge and the experience and the reps, you can get it to the closing table. That's what mom's really good at.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

Don't brag on mom, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:31

I have a question.

FBI Dreams Family Trips And Wrap-Up

SPEAKER_01 23:33

What did little Mike Dooley dream about becoming?

SPEAKER_03 23:36

Oh, really good question. And this is some of this from our audience. Thank you to our audience. I wanted to be an FBI agent for a long time. I thought that'd be really cool. So, as you know, what I did is I was preparing my resume, Eagle Scout. I didn't actually drink alcohol or anything. I wanted to be the perfect. So whenever I went to the FBI for the lie detector test and all the things, I had the best possible resume that I can have. I was a youth group advisor at church. Uh, when I was in community college and I was in high school, I was helping young people and it was a lot of fun. But that changed when I started reading forcible felony cases, which are very sad cases every day that happen, and I wanted to have more fun in my life. Do you think mom and I are having fun for the most part?

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

You hesitate that one. It is really hard work, but we are uber, uber blessed. Because you know what? In our careers now, we have more flexibility. We can be your homeroom parents, your homeroom moms, your homeroom dad. We can go to field trips. I don't think mom's missed barely any field trip ever for either one of you. So that's pretty amazing. Just so you know, in our old careers, nothing wrong with them, but we're in corporate America and it was harder to leave your office. But now that we're our own bosses, we can kind of control our schedule. So, yes, we work seven days a week, but we pick when we're on, we're off, right? I'll ask you guys, what's been our favorite trip that we've ever taken as a family?

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Oh, um we've got lots of great trips. I liked our Europe train.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Like what places do we go real fast in Europe?

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Um, England, Ireland, Scotland, and uh, London.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

And the cows were one of our favorites, I think, right too.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Yeah. I liked when we went to Sanibel not long ago, but kind of long ago. It was I just love the beach trips. Those are like my favorite, but I feel like Sanibel had a little show, the whole family.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

So anybody in real estate, if their dream job is just selling beach houses, how cool would that be? Maybe that's a job, right?

SPEAKER_02 25:36

I really liked our um trip when we went to the Grand Canyon and Arizona and Utah, and we did that big road trip. I really liked that trip a lot. That was a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 25:48

I was just telling a good friend of mine, Marcus Green, who was on the show a couple episodes ago. He lives in Utah and I talked about the arches. Do you remember St. Clair dad had to carry you the whole way in and the whole way out?

SPEAKER_02 25:59

It was so hot.

SPEAKER_03 26:00

It was definitely testing my 50 years old, my old guy self, right? What'd you say some of your friends' kids are and our parents are in class? Are they in their 60s or 70s?

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Oh no. My friend said that her parents were um her dad was 39 and her mom was 35. She thought they were old.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

Very cool. What other questions should we ask? What would the audience want to know? Um how many videos do you guys think you've been in for the Dooley Group or for us in real estate?

SPEAKER_01 26:37

A lot. One million.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

What was one of your favorite videos you guys have been in?

SPEAKER_01 26:41

That's a tough one.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Uh I liked where you jumped in the lake.

SPEAKER_03 26:46

Me too. And you guys were with the client's daughter in her room, I think.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

That's the same video, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

That's one of our favorites. I do like when you said, of course, what was it?

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Of course my mom's in real estate.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

Of course, my mom's in real estate. You guys had a couple questions. What were they? Do you remember? Didn't it say like you know how long a mile was or something like that?

SPEAKER_02 27:06

Oh. I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

But do you remember what the question? There was three or four questions like that. You're like, of course, our mom's in real estate. We know what a super is or something.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

How many like square feet or acre?

SPEAKER_03 27:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Something. How many feet are an acre I think it was? It was square feet.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

Well, that's right. We'll have the audience answer below. How about that? They'll they'll chime in. Yes. Good. Are we having fun? Have you liked your first uh podcast? Are we nervous?

SPEAKER_01 27:34

Really like it.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

It's really fun.

SPEAKER_03 27:36

Well, we say what does dad do all the time? You hear him say, Mom's showing houses. What's dad doing? Speaking and podcasts. Is that kind of funny? Does this feel like work?

SPEAKER_01 27:46

No.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

It is. This is kind of fun. Get dad drops an episode. Well, everyone that's listening, we need them to subscribe, to like, to share. Is every Friday at 7 07 a.m.? Is that pretty cool?

SPEAKER_02 27:59

Why do you think dad has 707 girls? Flucky number seven.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

What else in James Bonds? Is that kind of funny? Is that being different? Do we also in life need to have fun?

SPEAKER_01 28:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Cool. What other questions do you think we have? What do we like?

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Who's more competitive in the family and who handles losing the worst?

SPEAKER_03 28:18

Oh. Well, one more step. We did actually talk about this question a little bit in the car on the way here, and we think all four of us are very competitive. We did talk about Sinclair's had a couple breakdowns with uh Candy Lamb.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Daddy are the least competitive.

SPEAKER_03 28:34

Oh, I'm very competitive. Ask mom. Well, depending on what's what it is.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Depends on what it is. If I don't, if it's sport related, I'm not competitive. But if it's pretty much anything else, board games, I'm very competitive. Any kind of game other than sports, I'm pretty competitive. And then me and Dad are more competitive with sports.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

What is your favorite sport? What do you guys like watching? What's your favorite sports watch?

SPEAKER_01 28:56

To watch. I like watching uh tennis or pickleball because like live or on TV? Uh just watching it, I feel like is fun because they like have to struggle to get the ball, and it's just I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

I just really did you say Uncle Layson is your favorite tennis player? Is that Evelyn's favorite tennis player? He plays tennis every day. Is that funny?

SPEAKER_01 29:24

Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

But his brother Martin did teach us how to play pickleball, didn't he? He's very good, isn't he? Shout out to him, right? Okay, what what trips do we have coming on? We've made our summer bucket list. So any of our audience listening, is it kind of fun to do a summer bucket list? What's on it?

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Do you remember what's No and you have to do it by yourself?

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Well, you even made a summer vision board two years ago.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

So I'd say most of the people that listen to the show are in business or entrepreneurs or in real estate. Uh, who's an inventor in the room?

SPEAKER_02 29:59

You're not best at that.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

Um you think it's pretty cool that dad has an invention, a patent?

SPEAKER_02 30:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 30:05

Is that cool? Did you guys help? Do you like that?

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Do you guys likes to come up with ideas too? She's our little inventor. She always is crafty and coming up with uh a new idea for something to make.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

Yep. Why tell I tell the story in business a lot. Everyone one time said she wanted to make a pencil case cover. We needed to go to China to make it.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

No, it's a pencil.

SPEAKER_03 30:26

Oh, yes, because the lead kept dropping out whenever it drop out of your bag. And I think for our audience, it's about thinking differently, isn't it? Do you guys believe? And this is what I was gonna say, Sinclair, when you said you're gonna get a bunny, you believe you can get a bunny. And I think that's what our audience should know, too, is that you put enough work in it, you do the right work, it can happen, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 30:45

She can make mom give it.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

She's gonna be. This is recorded, right?

SPEAKER_02 30:54

She's working really hard. It's no, it's getting harder and harder to say no, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

So it's the 50th birthday, so we ate lunch at Cain's. That was a lot of fun, wasn't it? Yes. Where are we gonna go next?

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Um Top Cough, I thought.

SPEAKER_03 31:09

We'll let our audience know. I think we have ice cream on there too, right? So if anybody's looking to continue to sponsor and want to be part of the real Mike Dooley, we need a shout-out to some of our favorite places. Chick-fil-A, we love. What else do we love? Or where are we gonna go to dinner?

SPEAKER_01 31:22

Met Texas.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Texas Roadhouse, we love that. We love the bread, don't we? And you guys want to embarrass Dad on the saddle, don't you? What else is your favorite restaurants?

SPEAKER_01 31:32

Uh, I really like Motine Chicken.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

It's probably shout out to them. Yep. Uh so for any any of our audiences not from Arkansas, we'll have to bring them next time they come for a visit out by Beaver Lake.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

I was just talking about Motinee chicken the other day. Somebody that's been a local, they're like, I've never been. I was like, Well, how have you lived here your whole life and you've never been to Motinee chicken? It's like a staple. Have to go.

SPEAKER_03 31:56

Well, I learned, and I forgot where we were learning this maybe from Nana and Big Dog when we were talking to them. Our whole family has actually been in real estate some. Is that pretty cool? So Boppy and Poppy, obviously. Um yeah. Poppy is a builder for 50 years. Bopy worked in the building company with them some, right? Helping and building and all kinds of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

I actually remember my mom said she got her broker's license like a long time ago. She's like, oh, one time I had my broker's license. Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_03 32:20

We need to bring that back up. And then also my grandfather was had a building company and they would move houses on trucks. Is that crazy? So move it to Florida all over the world. Is that crazy? United States. There was something else that was a real estate, but I can't remember. Oh, my grandfather, Jack Dooley, was also in real estate in Kasimbi, Florida. Is that pretty cool? So you guys might have no choice but to be in real estate or be in business, maybe building company. Is that cool?

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Design is still part of homes and a design.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

Well, as we know, mom's hustling and wrapping up. She's got a few more minutes and we're going to leave. What do we want to make sure the audience knows about us? We're the dualies, right? Do you want to you imitate you saying, we're the dually group? Do you want to do it sinclair for us? Well, we want our audience, so if they're going to come and reach out to us and they want to do anything in Arkansas, we want to be able to help them. More specifically, Northwest Arkansas. So if they want to refer any deals to them, we'd be grateful for it. And our number's 479-616 home. That's pretty easy to remember, isn't it? What's our website? Our website is www.the duallygroup.com. Very cool. How do you spell dually for all the audience?

SPEAKER_01 33:32

D-U-L-E-Y.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Like 10 times a day.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

We want to thank our sponsor too, Mutual Omaha Mortgage, and they're great. And we have several people that work there. How fun is it, Evelyn? One of your best friends. Dad Nate works there and Kelly works there, which is pretty cool too. But they're all across the world. Over a hundred-year-old company. Is that pretty cool?

SPEAKER_01 33:53

It's really cool.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

What else do we want to leave our audiences? We're wrapping up. Mom has a couple more minutes. What didn't we talk about? We should.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

What is one thing you'd hope Evelyn and Sinclair never forget about growing up with you?

SPEAKER_03 34:03

Oh, really good question. That's a great question.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 34:07

I think too that uh mom worked, mom and dad worked hard, but we did it the right way. There's been many times we don't cut corners and we help people and we would give the shirt off our back. So I want you guys to be able to have that grit and hustle and help people and be blessed and remind that no matter wherever we go. And also, I think dad believes this too, that I can do anything. Can you believe you guys think that? You think dad puts his mind to something to do anything? I want you guys to have that. Well, because of right. So if you want to invent something, create something, you want to go to the moon, I believe you guys can do it if you put your mind to it. So we want to provide all the opportunities in the world. Like, where does dad want you to go to college? Uh, Evelyn.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

Harvard.

SPEAKER_03 34:49

Harvard, yad. But where does mom gonna let you guys go only?

SPEAKER_01 34:55

The University of Arkansas.

SPEAKER_03 34:58

So we'll call out to all the admissions people. We need help being triadults at the University of Arkansas when we'll do our plug now.

SPEAKER_02 35:05

What do you think you guys will remember right now? Um like what would you say that you do remember right now? Or that you think you all remember?

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Like all of the opportunities that we have and things that we're able to do. Like you guys sponsor the Razorbacks and like we get or have gotten tour and see the locker room. And then we have like season tickets a lot of the Razorbacks or traveling, yeah. How about you, Sinclair? Yeah, kinda like what Evelyn said, like traveling a lot. Yeah, we always travel. Yeah, and it's really fun.

SPEAKER_03 35:49

No experiences, right? What was your so we said our fervent places, you said Europe, uh mom said Grand Canyon, and you said um Beach, beachabelle. Yeah, dad loves all of those. Dad just wants to be by the beach and hang out and do more things. Well, good. Again, our audience, check us out, subscribe, tell more people about our show. Hopefully, you like this show as a little bit different. It was something awesome and favorite. One of my dreams is to have my whole family for my 50th birthday on my 50th birthday doing our episode today. Are you guys glad you came? Were you a little bit nervous in the beginning?

SPEAKER_01 36:25

I was a little bit amazed, but she loves attention, like getting and it's like the videos that we do when and talking.

SPEAKER_03 36:37

Very cool. Well, good. We're so glad you guys are gonna be a show. Any last things that you want to say to the audience?

SPEAKER_02 36:43

Should we say happy birthday, Dad? Happy Big Five Oh.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

What you guys say, I want to look forward to you. That's so sweet of you guys. That's what you said.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

That's not what I said.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

So remember, tell people we're grateful for the referrals, right?

unknown 36:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 36:58

Good. Well, we also want to make sure we thank all of our people. Mom and I wouldn't be blessed with all the people that make it happen. From who who are named some of our employees or some of our people, like Mr. Mick, who else?

SPEAKER_01 37:09

Miss Cooler, Miss Michelle, Sandy, Jim, John.

SPEAKER_03 37:16

Yep, Miss Tina, Miss Caitlin, Mr. Dane, all the great people that make it happen for us, right? Yes. Well, we're grateful for them. Mr. Jim, who's been our coach for nine years now, which is crazy. He would love to be on the show, wouldn't he? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 37:27

So, okay, you guys have been on many coaching calls, haven't you? All right.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

I visited him and well, thank you again.

SPEAKER_03 37:38

I appreciate you guys tuning in on something a little bit different. Share on social media what you liked about the show. Should we do this again? What if we did this every year on my birthday? How fun would that be? Let's do it. All right, love you guys. Thank you for coming to the real Mike Dooley. Bye. Check out. Thanks for listening to the Real Mike Dooley podcast. Subscribe, share, stay real. I'm Mike Dooley. Until next time.