010: Building a Creative Business After Graduation with Streamline Collective

Ever wonder what it actually looks like to go from student life to starting your own creative business? In this episode, I’m joined by Jack and Allie of Streamline Collective—a Cincinnati-meets-Lakeland design duo who turned their passion for creativity (and each other!) into a web design and branding studio.

With fresh experience in the design world and a heart for helping small businesses find their visual voice, Jack and Allie share what it’s been like to transition from college into client work, build a brand from scratch, and balance their individual creative strengths within one business.

We chat about:

1. What the real-world expectations of designers actually look like after college
2. Why stepping into entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be scary
3. How they divide and conquer branding, photography, and social content
4. Tips for taking that very first step toward building a brand
5. What they’ve learned from working in editorial design, photography, and client services

If you’ve ever dreamed about starting something of your own—or you’re in that “what now?” season after graduation—this episode is an honest, encouraging peek behind the curtain of creative entrepreneurship.

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

Today I'm with Jack and Allie, who just launched Streamline Collective, a brand and web design studio in Lakeland, Florida. We all went to Florida Southern College together and went through the graphic design department and have remained friends since then. Today we're talking all about expectations to have for designers, design trends, the transition from college life to postgrad careers to being a business owner and everything in between. So without further ado, let's jump into the conversation. Today I'm joined with Ali and Jack, my old college colleagues, I guess is the word. We classmates. We met in a graphics class, went through the pain together, and now we're here today talking about postgrad life. So go ahead and introduce yourself. Tell us what you're up to. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

Hi, I'm Allie. And I work now at a local magazine in Lakeland, Florida. Yeah, as the lead graphic designer there.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

And I'm Jack. I work remotely for a job up in Cincinnati. I'm a junior graphic designer for that. Also graduated in May of 2024 and then also proposed to Allie early 2025.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

Early missed ring by spring. Thank you. Glad to be here. It's a big deal. My hair makes you blend in. I can't see it, but it's there. Awesome. Well, I really appreciate you guys taking the time, and I'm super excited to hear what you've been up to post-grad. How has it gone? Has it gone how you thought it would? We'll start with that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:59

Um it's going good now. So we graduated in May, I think I mentioned, and I don't think I got a job until what, like September or so. Um, and we really started applying in like January. Like we were doing. Like before graduating. Before graduation, we had our I mean, I interned throughout college, right? So I already had like my portfolio. I had a website, I had experience. I was actively interning at um the Lunds Group, which is a local like architectural firm. Right. And so I was like constantly applying to like any job that I could find. And I wasn't even like specifically looking in like Lakeland or like Florida, Jack is from Ohio. So we just were like generally looking like in like this side of the US, to be honest, just to get opportunities, right? East Coast. Um, and it was like being met with like rejection after rejection. Um or just awesome. Like the best feeling ever, right? So um, and then I would do like if I had an interview, I'd make it maybe like one or two interviews in, and it's like, wow, like I feel so confident, like I'm I'm doing great, like they seem to really like me, and then it's like dang, like we picked you know the next best candidate or something for it. Um, and then it was just like constant, and I this was like starting in January, so I had always just like pictured postgrad, like graduating, you know, maybe going back home for a few weeks, but then like moving into an apartment, starting my job, like starting my life post-grad. And then that just like did not end up happening. So I went back home when I worked for my dad for a bit, um, continued to apply, and then I ended up getting connected with my like now boss um at the Lakelander through an old connection that I'd made at an internship at Catapult. Um, and it just kind of like took off from there. So I did a bit of contract work and then a position opened up, and then that's where I've been since. So yeah, and then Jack and I started our own company, Streamline Collective, uh what, about like a month ago, maybe a month ago. Um, which is something that we've always like talked about doing because we're both within you know the arts and the creative field, and we've just never really like took the time to actually do it. So we figured we would just commit and start go for it. Go for it, why not?

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Kind of in the the same boat as Allen since I've really thought graduating college would have a job shortly after. Um the whole go home, get comfortable, you know, because I had to go back up to Ohio with all my stuff. Um but uh yeah, we applied for uh so many jobs, and it was either rejections or just pure silence for the longest time.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

Yeah, um were you guys applying for the same jobs?

SPEAKER_00 4:41

There were a few that we were, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Really? The only reason we both interviewed for it, but the stipulation when I did my phone screening was you have to live in Cincinnati, and I was like, that's okay. I have family that live in Cincinnati because I I knew I had a place to go, but because my like permanent address was not Ohio immediately, like I was not.

SPEAKER_03 5:04

They just were like, Yeah, you're not moving for this.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Even if like you can be the most qualified person, which is crazy because like I feel like we experience that with so many different positions where it's like you have to have say a minimum of like four years of experience, but these are like entry-level positions, so you just think you're not getting paid enough to have four years of experience. And even if you have four years of experience collectively with like internships and like freelance work, none of that was like credible enough for a lot of companies because they expect you to have four years of experience at like an agency or at some sort of like corporate job, yeah. Um, and that's just like not attainable for a college student. So like idol and certain types would help. Right. And then it's like you turn to your professors for help, and there's only so much like advice and counsel that they can offer you because this is like what you know they've prepared you as best as they think that they can, and it's just like it doesn't seem like it's enough when you're actually like in that that stage.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

Yeah, yeah, and I mean truly the obviously for hours in your show, um, like right before graduating, Allie plays first, I play second. So if there's a good chance that uh if she had been able to interview for that job, uh I probably would have lost to her again.

SPEAKER_03 6:21

Yeah, but there's so many different factors that go into hiring.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

Yeah, and but I mean the main the main reason mine got through was because I'm from Cincinnati. Right. So that makes sense. Which you know, that that helped, it was nice. I mean it's uh it pays well enough for the job that it is. Um and obviously I I had certain things that I was saving up for right away, like a ring. Um that was my first big expense out of college. Um but yeah, I mean I I went home, stayed in my parents' basement for how I mean until March. So um I have quite a few months, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

We were doing long distance where he would fly. He had like the frontier, like what is it called?

SPEAKER_00 7:02

It was I think it's just their all you can fly uh or go wild pass, that's what it's called.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Oh, cool. So we like some flights were like $13 for a flight, but you have to book it like 24 hours in advance. So we like generally knew when we'd see each other, but also like he could go to book the flight, and there just would be no flight to book. And then it's like, dang, we won't see you for another two weeks, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

The the hours for those flights sucked.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

I bet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

I was I was getting home at like 3 a.m. and then kind of work 8 a.m. the next day.

SPEAKER_03 7:30

So but it's all worth it in the name of love. All worth it in the name of love.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

But um, but I mean I right so right after college, I did some photo gigs, which was nice. Worked for did one for Goodwill. Um, and so that was a nice like kind of intro uh or post-grad way of doing that. Um but once I got back down here, I've been able to do a few other photography gigs, which is nice um for Warlife Forest Southern, for uh the conference, um also just things around like catapult. So yeah, it's been good to have that.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

It's just been the connections for us mostly. Like the people that we met through like internships and working in college. That's really the only places that we've been able to get work thus far. Like that's how I have my job, that's how Jack's gotten any freelancing photography work. Um anything that I've done, like for graphic design freelancing stuff prior to Streamline Collective, has just been people that I've known or they're a friend of somebody that I've done work for previously. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

I feel like that takes like there's two ways you could take that, where it's like like the idea, because that's kind of how the world works a little bit, is it's just like it's all about who you know. Like you could be so qualified, but if that's so and so's son, like he's probably gonna get the role because they know him. But in a way, it's like super freeing because that's honestly so easy. Like it's just like okay, so then all I have to do is meet people, right? Yeah, like you don't really have to strive, you just have to meet people, and like that's kind of natural for I mean humans. Like you want to talk and you want to know people, and like y'all's personalities, especially, like they're pretty easy to talk to, but I don't know. I feel like if you change your mind on that, that makes it way more fun, and it's just like a game, like it's just like okay, well then how many people can I know?

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Yeah, I mean, um, the fact of with Allie working for the Lakelander, there was a a photo gig where their photographer was just like out of town or something, um, and their backup photographer uh was also out of town.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

I don't remember the exact producer lives in our producer who lives in Claremont, so he like strictly goes home at 5 p.m. He's not staying for an event that goes till eight just because he's gotta get home. And then our the photographer that we do contract work with was also busy, I think. Yeah. Um so then they turned to they were like, oh, do we know any photographers? I don't know. And I'm sitting in the room like, guys, pick me, pick me.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

I was like, My hands are like my fiance. He does I know a guy, I know the guy. I know this guy, I think he does pretty good work, you know.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

He captured those 15 photos really well and my grad ones like so, but yeah, it's really it's really about the people that we've met thus far, which has been nice too, because we then can go um like launch pitch is coming up at Catapult. So it's like just there's so many opportunities in this community that we have like found where you can just kind of like show up, and there's so many people to talk to and so many people to network with, which is proving to be super important for us right now to be able to like make those connections and find that work.

SPEAKER_03 10:49

Cool. So, what are some of your plans with Streamline Collective?

SPEAKER_02 10:54

We've talked about it for years, or at least I know I have since we both I think it was our sophomore year that we both started graphic design, and I've always jokingly said, like, oh my gosh, wouldn't that be so cool if we worked together? Like, no bosses, we're our own boss, like you do the photos, I do the design. Like it just it works great, right?

SPEAKER_03 11:15

Everyone was jealous of these two in college, just perfect match.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

We're the only couple that's everything. We're the only department so far. So and staying together. Yeah, we're twins. We're twins. I hate that. Oh, yeah, we did too. Yeah, I don't understand it. But every time we walked in, we're just gonna do it. Hey twins, if I show up and he's not there, something goes wrong, or vice versa. Yeah, I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

But not a fan of that one, but it's okay, but um after the anyways, back to the plot.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Um um um so it's more so been like an unserious, but like for me kind of serious thing, because I just think it'd be cool. Like you get to work with your best friend doing the thing that you love to do. Um, and so when he uh had the opportunity to then fully move down to Florida a few months or I guess a month ago. Um 30 days exactly um that was when we had like a 13-hour drive.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

No, wasn't more uh I think it ended up being like 18 hours.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Yeah, that's right, because we did wedding tour, wedding venue tours. So 18 hours in a car with somebody. So obviously there's gonna be plenty of time to talk. So we started to we started talking about like logistically, okay, how do we want to like go about this? And really it's literally just like committing to starting it, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:41

Like it's not you already have the skill set.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

You already have the skill set, and you have the skill set to create your own brand. So it's not like you're hiring somebody to do like you know the bulk of the work and the heavy load of like initiating your brand. Um, so we just kind of went on Pin Trump, Pinterest and looked up like color palettes and like I don't know, other ideas and looked up like local um creative agencies. It's kind of funny because we technically do creative work at the Lakelander, so I also can use like my own company that I work full-time for as an example of a competitor in a sense. But um so we just like I don't know, we kind of put our heads together and thought of like all the skills that we are like good at and we're comfortable and confident in doing, but also the things that we kind of like are striving to like learn more about, like video work and stuff. Um we're still in the phase right now where we're trying to determine like pricing and like what's like the most like I don't know, approachable for the consumer to like look at our website and be able to like comfortably like read it and understand like what we have to offer and like make that first connection so that way they can actually like submit the inquiry and whatnot, versus like I don't know, I think looking at some agencies it's pretty intimidating because you see like this huge number immediately and you don't really know what you're getting yourself into. So we're kind of trying to like best strategize how to avoid stuff like that right now. Um and figuring out really like our target audience. So just because we've been surrounded mostly by like small business owners and entrepreneurs, that's kind of what Lakeland is huge on, right? Yeah, we have the market, there's a ton of startups here. So our like vision is to kind of take that and use that to our advantage because a lot of the agencies here are still targeting like people that are past that startup level where it's not really attainable for someone that's starting it. So you have this huge population of people that need that like next step, right? Um, but they don't have the resources to do that themselves. Totally. Do you have anything to add?

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Not really. I mean, you kind of just covered every base there.

SPEAKER_03 14:51

Um so when I called you guys, you were literally just had this conversation. Right. Like I don't remember exactly when that phone call was.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

We literally didn't even have our website. Yeah. We were making our website like that night, Sosh the next day. So Right.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

Well, you guys were like, we'll get it to you.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

I'm like, you don't need a rush. Like It gave us a deadline for us.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

I I guess when I said like we threw it together, it was more so that of like when you you reached out, like, oh, we need to get this out. We need to get this out.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Oh, there is a need, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

And so I I think that there's still a a part of this like we still need to put a little more time into like our website and stuff um to make that bird. So that's the first thing that people you know come in, that's what they see. And obviously if if we're not showing our best work immediately on there, like you know, that's they're not gonna stick, they're not gonna stick around.

SPEAKER_03 15:39

And that's kind of like the hard part of like what you were saying earlier, where you know how to do branding and design, so you don't have that cost, like you can do it yourself, but the cost is like the mental thing, and I'm just gonna mental thing of like trying calling it done.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

Yeah, because you're your it's never done your worst enemy with stuff like that, right? Right. You do all these other brands and you kind of have an idea of when generally like you've perfected it enough to where you're like happy with it, even if nothing is ever like I don't know, for me, I feel like there's always room to improve on anything that I do. Yeah, um, even looking back to like my thesis, right? That was the biggest project that I'd ever taken on at the time, and I was incredibly proud of it. Obviously, I placed well. Um but I look at it now and I'm like, dang, like there's so many things that I think I could change. So it's the same thing for like when you're building your own brand as a designer. There's so many like things that I want to do and that we want to like accomplish with it that you start to like overthink. And it's like I'd rather spend that energy like working on other stuff that feels like it's less stressful and less of like a commitment because this is like you're doing something now for yourself, which feels like it's like the hardest decision because this is like bringing you income. So, like, what if I you know go about this the other way and whatnot, even though this is like what we do all the time.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Another part of that would be for like the time management, obviously, with being post-grad. We were just in college, we with all of our classes up, you always had time to do stuff, and you know, you go to bed at 12, 1 a.m. and you're fine the next day. And you have deadlines, and strict deadlines, and yeah, there were strict deadlines for assignments and all that. And for this, it's uh you have to give yourself that deadline, and you also have to do your full-time job, you know, the the eight hours a day. You have to make food, you have to care for boo, you know. Our cat.

SPEAKER_03 17:32

Um you were pointing at Ali, I was like, okay, I care for boo.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Um, but so like there's there's a lot of time that like gets taken away, and you don't realize, oh, you know, you only have 30 minutes to an hour to actually work on it at night. And it's like, well, I want to sit during that time.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

And so it's just kind of figuring that out and balancing that um and making that transition from college life to now out of college.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

Are there any people that you're looking at for inspiration as business owners or designers or any resources that you're fueling yourself with? Um, we've looked at your website a lot. Um, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

I think it's pretty well done. Oh, thank you. Um Megan Carroll is a local artisan designer that we've looked a bit at. Got two super talented. She's got a lot of experience under her belt. Um I like am sitting in on a lot of conversations and participating in them at my job um about creative work too, because it's relatively new to the Lakelander. Um, like we're known for our magazine, obviously. So trying to like navigate taking on creative clients. So through those conversations with people that have you know significantly more experience than me because they're older than I am, um, has let me kind of like, I think, see a different side of like the market and the people locally, because these are people that they've you know known and worked with for years um and that we're targeting as a company. So it's kind of helped me to understand like the audience that we need to be able to target is different than the audience that like the Lakelander or Kinsley Created and like they're all targeting people that have the money and the finances to do things. Um but that being said, like we're still able to look at those websites and their strategies and pull like really good pieces from them. Um just because obviously those are all companies that have had great success and they all started you know somewhere. So what do you see?

SPEAKER_00 19:35

I I keep wanting to add things and then you keep talking and running away. But that doesn't that doesn't stop you. Um so I mean, but no, truly, as you said, we we looked at at your website. We've uh all the names you mentioned, um because it it really is a big thing of just you're looking through and you're stealing what looks good because it's what anything is for the art field at this point. Yeah, you know, nothing's original, yeah, nothing's original, nothing's new.

SPEAKER_03 20:00

But nothing, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

So you're you're like, okay, what do I like about this? Yeah, you're taking your own spin. Yes. But um, so yeah, it's it's we're doing our best to figure out what pieces we think work, what doesn't, but obviously we just got into doing this like our own branding, right? And so with that, until we hear feedback in a sense, we're not gonna be like, oh, we need to fix this or this. So it'll take some time for us to you know work out the clinics with it.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

Right now we kind of like in terms of flow for the website, right? Like, I know in my mind, I can put myself or I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of like a consumer and thinking like, what do I want to see when I'm on the website? What do I want to see when I'm on social media? We haven't even really launched our Instagram. All we did was like start the account. But um, the next like step for us this weekend, we're gonna try and sit down and like strategize, you know, Instagram posts and like coordinating a photo shoot so we have photos of us and like doing different stuff. Um because those there, I mean, there's so many, we talked about this earlier. There's so many things that go into like launching a business, and in a sense, like we're in the same position as the people that we're trying to like help.

SPEAKER_03 21:13

Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say. Is like the pain that you're feeling of trying to build your own website, I think makes you an even better designer because you now know exactly what you're custom well with the target audience that you have. Of course, mostly startups and people who they've probably either DIY'd their website or like their cousin did it and it looks terrible or whatever. Like that's kind of the type person that we both work with. Um and so like feeling that struggle with yourself, I think makes your it makes it a lot easier to write like your website copy or your social media copy because you know exactly what it feels like. You can talk to that and that's not manipulative.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

I don't know, like package multi-thousand dollar deal of like, oh, we'll run, we'll run your website. So you're paying so you just have to pay us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Right. Which there is a market for that and there is a need for that. I've also noticed their I say I noticed. I saw an Instagram most of companies trending to hiring solo creatives rather than having an in-house team. Because I think the reality is like when you work in-house or at an agency, same kind of I mean they're completely different, but either scenario, the idea is like they're not gonna be fresh, like it's the same person. And so there are tests where consistency is good, but I think creative-wise, like having new people and new perspectives is good. And so I think that is in our advantage, even though fresh out of college, like that job security was top priority for saving up and like getting your feet on the ground. Yeah, I think long term the need for independent creative people like you guys will always be there.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

For sure.

SPEAKER_05 23:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Even like obviously AI is a big conversation right now, and you can go on most platforms and type in, like, make me a logo with like X, Y, and Z, and it's gonna produce something. But I think at the end of the day, a lot of these companies will still hit a point where even though that might suffice for the very beginning, and that that will help them at least like in a sense, quote unquote start their brand, sure, they're gonna hit a point where they're plateauing and they're not, you know, continuing to succeed and continuing to gain clientele because they don't have the branding or the marketing to back what they're doing up to be able to appeal to more people.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

And if for if you're using AI, you know, if you're not asking the right questions of like, oh, I like this logo because of all these reasons, and it's just a I like the logo because it looks cool and it's the colors that I kind of want it, right? Like that's not gonna work long term as as I was saying, just because you have to then base all of your branding around that. And like you need to kind of have certain certain questions answered for you know the simplest of things, like like your logo, to be able to flesh out all the rest of the branding.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Um, and so you know, sometimes it's a great way to start to get like references and all that.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

But so what kind of businesses do you think it's worthwhile for them to invest in professional branding in a website? Because there are things like Aunt Sally making candles, if she just wants to have her Etsy shop and do her Canva logo, I personally am not offended by that. Like you do you, you do not need to pay thousands of dollars. So, what do you think is like a few signs that it's time to maybe invest in better branding?

SPEAKER_00 24:51

Well, I'm I'm gonna more pass this to Ali. Um, but for Andrew Logan's is what the first thing that came to mind.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Okay, so I was gonna say scalability is the most important thing. So for example, um I have he's now a you know a pretty good friend, but I had the opportunity as like essentially in my intro design classes to to make a logo for somebody that makes handcrafted chocolates in town. Um, and that gave him the ability to like it took the stress and pressure off of his chest of trying to figure out like, oh my gosh, I'm trying to make my chocolates and do all of the business side of things, and uh now I have to create this identity.

unknown 25:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Right. So people can understand who I am and like how can I differentiate from the competition. Um, he's now like he's gone, he's still in catapult, but he's gone from selling, you know, just a few bars of chocolate and like bonbons to like you know friends and family to then being in the farmer's market, and then I don't know if you've heard of Market on Kentucky. Yeah, it's just recently opened. He was asked to be in Market on Kentucky. So he has like a spot, like a technically a brick and mortar, and he's selling like so much more product because it's open like multiple days a week. He's constantly being able to sell, you know. Um, but that all started initially because he had the you know, the belief and he knew that he wanted to scale his business to a point where eventually he wants to be able to leave, you know, potentially his full-time job, take this on. This is what he's really passionate about. Um, but he understood at the time, even though it was like really early on, that he could not get to that point unless he invested early on in creating that identity for himself. Um, so yeah, like if you know your aunt or your mom just wants to make candles, that's amazing, and I totally support it. I would buy them. But like it's to me the people that really are driven and have like a clear goal for their future, like I they have their eyes set on like a building that they want to eventually like lease out, or they want to grow their business to like a multi-state, regional, national level. Those I think are the type of like dreamers and visionaries that have like the potential in my mind, in and that starts from like the very beginning of being like a startup in a you know in a co-working space such as Catapult. Um, and there's a huge audience of that in Lakeland.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

I love that response. I totally agree. I think scalability is a good marker for if it's worthwhile or not. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

No, I mean that that really sums up perfectly. I feel like uh I I'm not adding much to this conversation. No, that's fair. Because uh I just keep saying, oh yeah, Ali's covered all of it. Allie's got it. Um I guess when for us we've been together so long, I just know she's gonna cover all of it.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Lead graphic designer versus junior graphic designer. I know, I know what can I say, second twin.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

Firstborn twins, second oh well, that was funny. All jokes, all things.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

Tough love, tough love.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

So, but yeah, no, scalability, the dreamers and visionaries, as as she said. Um, yeah, right. That's that's really that's the base thing because yeah, for Etsy, like if you're just selling on Etsy, that's awesome. Fully support it. We buy things off Etsy like all the time. Nothing against that. Yeah, but there's the side of if you're not growing to say that's your full-time job, that is like you need your own website, you need very specific branding so that when people see it, like they know who you are. Yeah, if you don't need that, then yeah, we're not trying to target you, right? But if you need those sorts of things, we're trying to grow and have that scalability.

SPEAKER_03 28:49

That's so what is your goal for your scalability? Like, do you want to grow a team? Are you hoping to just stay the two of you? What are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_02 28:58

I think so. Initially, right now, my belief is like I would want to grow to a point short term where like if someone were to come and ask, um, I don't know, what is something that we wouldn't do? Like drone work. This was like a conversation. Yeah, we talked about drones, yeah. If somebody were to say right now, can you do photography? Can you build us a logo and do like the drone? Like, in my mind, short term would be having the connections creatively to source and have you know friends and colleagues that we would like bring on to the team for those like individual projects. Um, I don't know, we haven't really thought too much super long term.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Yeah, I mean there's something to say about like if it ends up just being the two of us and being able to cover like enough um projects and clientele, like it'd be amazing. Obviously, if we grew to the point where we were also taking on, you know, um employees, like that would be amazing.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

Um I think in a dream world this would become like a full-time thing for us to give us the ability to like travel. Yeah, right, so where we can work because this isn't a job that you really have to be in one place, right? Like, I mean, sure, you're gonna do your meetings and you're networking and everything, and that's better to do in person, but then in the time that you're working, if you're you know, traveling a couple states, you still have the ability to go find your local coffee shop and sit down and get your your branding and stuff done. Um, and we both really want to be able to travel. So I think generally that's something that you know, having the ability to take this to where it would allow us to like leave a full-time, more corporate style job to have that flexibility would be amazing.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

I mean, if if I still had the uh the go wild for Frontier, you know, somebody could be like, hey, I need a photo shoot out in California.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

You'd be like $13 flight, yeah and I'm there.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

And that into them to the fees, but uh totally.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Well, where can people keep up with you? And we'll link it in the show notes, but now's the time. Coming soon. Um check out the website.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Check out the website. Um streamlincollective.art. Love it.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Unfortunately.com with taken.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

But dot art is cool because I mean it's within the arts. Yeah, no, it's fun. Agency sites are usually pretty funky. So and then Insta or yeah, Instagram is also streamlinecollective.art. Yeah. So coming soon.

SPEAKER_03 31:29

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