In The Lobby: Nancy Ruiz on Post Breakup Growth, Entrepreneurial Wins, and The Power of Community

#23: Join us for an inspiring conversation with Nancy Ruiz, an entrepreneur redefining success after a life-changing breakup. In this episode, Nancy shares the highs and lows of her journey, from rediscovering self-worth to thriving in her multifaceted career.

Nancy takes us behind the scenes of her entrepreneurial adventures, recounting stories from the McDade, TX watermelon festival to Austin’s bustling community. She previews her upcoming fashion show, dives into the success of her "Nancy Curl" hair extensions, and emphasizes the role of community support in her personal and professional growth.

Whether she’s overcoming challenges or celebrating milestones, Nancy’s authenticity and resilience shine through. Tune in for an episode filled with real talk, inspiration, and the vibrant spirit of Austin’s entrepreneurial scene.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

Okay, so I was listening to like a couple of episodes Roger and I have done, and like every episode that we do, we kind of say that we're not having a good day.

Speaker 2 0:13

We are.

Speaker 1 0:14

And today was like the same thing, but then our day always, like, becomes a little bit better when we get our guests in the lobby.

Speaker 3 0:23

Like right before the guests gets here. It's like scratch everything, it's showtime and every single time we show up as partners on the episodes. Oh, I love that.

Speaker 1 0:31

Yeah, it's hard, like you know, being business partners, it's like it's a lot of work that Roger and I put into this and then that I bet it is.

Speaker 2 0:41

I can't even imagine doing what you guys do, because that's another level.

Speaker 3 0:45

It's different specialties, right? Yeah, like she's doing a lot of things that I can't do, and then I'm a part of some other things that I'm sure she can do, but it's just maybe my specialty, and then, when you look at it that way, I'm telling you hers is more time consuming.

Speaker 2 0:58

I know Well seeing you do this.

Speaker 1 1:01

That's why I wanted to bring Nancy on is because you know I was talking to Roger and I was like I keep bringing my friends on the podcast but I feel like for season one, roger and I, bringing the people that are close to us just kind of like tells our story better, gets people to know our circle, and I just think you're such an inspiring like business woman here in Austin and it's like Nancy and I went to brunch at two hands the other day, which you know I'm like a regular.

Speaker 1 1:31

You're obsessed with the podcast. They're obsessed.

Speaker 3 1:33

Did you go there for South by?

Speaker 1 1:35

I was there for South by too, and they were giving away free lattes and nothing. I would have had so many, yeah, nothing in life is free anymore, so that was kind of nice South by yeah.

Speaker 2 1:45

Yeah, that's this week, man, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:49

I think it's exciting, too, because our last guest was someone that you know and I mean we walked in. We walked in the episode and you know we walk in with our own set subset of questioning and ways in which we want to take each episode, and we all walked away with a plethora of information and learn more about her, and I think it benefited our audience. So I'm excited to have you on because she's one for one right now and I think she's going to go two for two for sure.

Speaker 2 2:12

Oh yeah, it's always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 2:14

Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:15

Be able to be part of anything with my, my friends, who are amazing and entrepreneurs, especially like you. I've watched you grow and, yes, I told you I was like I always want to be a part of it.

Speaker 3 2:27

Yeah, and how long have you all known each other?

Speaker 1 2:30

Nancy and I have known each other for seven years, that's crazy. Long time.

Speaker 2 2:34

I can call her up, and I know that it's always going to be a pleasure.

Speaker 3 2:38

So those seven years who like. How did you all meet?

Speaker 1 2:42

It was through. I think I had a mutual friend, chastity, yes, okay, yes, and then we just became really good friends from it.

Speaker 3 2:48

Is Chastity still in the friend group?

Speaker 1 2:50

Yes.

Speaker 2 2:51

Yes. I love her. She's killing it right now.

Speaker 1 2:54

All of our friends really are like doing something with themselves. Yeah, doing something well, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:00

Everybody's blossomed. Honestly, it's just nice to see it Like, especially right now, like I'm realizing like fast forward. I'm like, wow, where was I before this? You know.

Finding Home and Identity Through Community

Speaker 3 3:10

Yeah, and seven years, so to know each other. Seven years and you hail from Austin. That's more or less the place that you'll identify with. And then for you, where's home? Is it here in Austin, or?

Speaker 2 3:21

Actually, the home is in the country.

Speaker 3 3:23

Okay.

Speaker 2 3:24

Into the country I mean originally. I'm from Mexico. Okay, san Luis Potosí. It's a little town. My parents we, you know brought me here at age two. Okay, two years old.

Speaker 3 3:38

This is like the same thing with you from Australia to Austin. Yeah.

Speaker 1 3:42

I think when I was with you and we were at launch with Jane, you're like. We have the UN here, literally, and our friends are from all over the place.

Speaker 3 3:49

That's crazy yeah.

Speaker 1 3:49

So beautiful. We're also different looking, so unique.

Speaker 3 3:52

That's very healthy.

Speaker 2 3:53

Yeah. So yeah, I grew up in Elgin well, McDade, and then we went to Elgin population. We had a very, very low population but I loved it because I got close to everyone really, really fast and, like I'm still friends with a lot of my friends from grade school and yeah, and I'm like I'm a huge fan of the audience Like, what is that closer Is? That closer to Austin San.

Speaker 3 4:23

Antonio, houston, dallas. It's closer to Austin. Okay, Got it yeah.

Speaker 2 4:26

About how far.

Speaker 3 4:29

About. I'm probably just like my parents are still like 30, 40 minutes away.

Speaker 2 4:32

Okay.

Speaker 3 4:32

Got it, Depending on traffic. I'm a contextual guy Like I need to paint the picture, Like I need to fully get it.

Speaker 1 4:36

I had no idea where that was so. I'm glad you asked that question. I'm glad that they were, like known for their watermelon festival.

Speaker 3 4:45

Yeah, what is this?

Speaker 2 4:46

Oh my God. So we're known for the watermelon festival. It's like I mean, raised on they on the crop, I guess, but they were known. I know it's so embarrassing. It's funny because I was the watermelon princess.

Speaker 3 5:01

Oh, no, yeah, what does this mean?

Speaker 2 5:04

This means that I love watermelon.

Speaker 3 5:07

Okay.

Speaker 2 5:07

Yeah, I mean, we even had a seed spitting contest. It was funny. What?

Speaker 3 5:12

Yes, this is funny. It's funny, but I feel like everybody knew I'm from the Northeast, so I never experienced anything.

Speaker 2 5:17

I know we just had little festivals and we got to dress up and it was just so inviting and, like you know, people got together back in the day. I feel like we got together, you know, and nowadays it's like you know, it's not like that, you know, I, I feel like that's what made me. I think, growing up, I started realizing like this is where it's at, like this is, this is home.

Speaker 3 5:40

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:41

This felt like home.

Speaker 1 5:42

It sounds like you had like a really good sense of community For sure, kind of growing up in like a small town. Yeah, and I was even kind of thinking about you because you're such a big personality to me, like anytime we walk anywhere, nancy knows everyone, she'll talk to anyone, and I'm like that's kind of rare. I feel like coming out of such a small town.

Speaker 3 6:01

Yeah, I mean, do you feel as if you learn that, being from the small town or, like you, just you enjoy? That's you to the core.

Speaker 2 6:09

I put myself in very uncomfortable situations on purpose growing up. My mom and my dad put me in a corner and would put me there and we're like no, we got to protect you.

Speaker 2 6:21

You can't do anything, you can't go anywhere. I just felt like in my life I knew if I was going to blossom, like I needed to feel uncomfortable and that's what I did. I would, you know, join like FCCLA Future Community Leaders of America. I was joining anything that's going to like make me a better person growing up. So I think that has to do a lot with that With a little bit of that personality.

Speaker 3 6:48

And then, how many siblings do you have? I have four. Okay, so four. And where do you stand in the mix of four?

Speaker 1 6:54

I didn't even know you had four.

Speaker 2 6:55

I mean, sorry, sorry, it's four of us.

Speaker 1 6:57

It's four with you Gosh Four of us, two brothers, one sister.

Speaker 2 7:00

Okay, I'm the baby, okay, so, yeah, so I'm a father brother and he's he's blind. I was talking to you about it, sandra. So I feel like, looking at that, I have been able to evaluate my life a little bit different, because I had to grow up fast. My mom would be like you see how privileged you are.

Speaker 2 7:26

You know, I would every day wake up and see him struggling, and things that not everyone in a daily life has to do, Like Ken, Like things that I'm I know that now I'm doing for them, like I'm helping them, you know. But yeah, having a family with someone with a disability is something that not everyone can understand, you know.

Speaker 1 7:49

So and I feel like you hold that really close to your heart and like to your chest, because thank you for sharing. Yeah, I really am proud of you for being vulnerable and sharing it on the podcast, because I've been friends with her for like seven years and she only like, really like I feel like you. You don't mention it all the time, no, like you don't use it as like a part of your identity, that's the right way.

Speaker 3 8:11

Yeah, you know, like that's healthy.

Speaker 1 8:13

You don't talk about like the hardships that you've been through with your family. With that, like, I mean your mom having four kids and one of them having a disability. I can't even imagine as a parent. That's a lot.

Speaker 3 8:24

And you being the youngest, it's like did that force you to be the rock? Or like, where do you stand in the dynamic?

Speaker 2 8:30

So I remember when I was what maybe like 10, my mom took me to the school for the blind, which was here in Austin. It's huge, right.

Speaker 1 8:39

It's huge.

Speaker 3 8:40

Yes, I'll give you a funny part to what you just said. Yeah, to like appropriately interrupt you, I lived next. Like the next street over from where I was raised was a deaf and blind street.

Speaker 2 8:52

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 8:54

So it's a different experience, right, so please keep going.

Speaker 2 8:57

No, no, no, yeah, honestly, like I remember my mom taking me to the school and, you know, forcing me to go say hi to everybody, like I mean, I've met people with disabilities, people would you can think of anything you can think of like it was there, like I was like had to put myself in a comfortable situation where I felt I felt like even like I would cry, and I was like, no, just go say hi there, normal. And I'm like, but mom, like you know, I, I don't know, like I don't know it's as a little girl, you just don't you feel bad, but they weren't doing things that you couldn't do, like I know, like I would, I would be walking normal and they would have like a cane or something. And I just feel like I learned to have a lot of empathy, good Empathy and love and, you know, patience for someone with a disability. And so as I got older, you know that came in between with what I'm doing, with my career.

Speaker 3 9:55

We need to call you before every episode, and if we're ever at disagreement, we need this empathy button.

Speaker 1 10:00

No, she's really good, she really is yeah.

Speaker 2 10:03

I you know I am very empathetic in people and like I think that's helps me be in you know in my career.

Speaker 3 10:11

And your career. For me, I mean, please. I feel like y'all have definitely a greater understanding, but, like, tell me all the things you do right, like being an entrepreneur in your own like. I have my own understanding, but it sounds like I may be missing out some pieces there.

Speaker 2 10:28

No, so entrepreneur, like what I've been doing. I'm a hairstylist, of course, here in Austin Texas. My business name is Noticeable Impressions. I've been doing hair out of high school at age 18. When I graduated, I went straight to beauty school. I also got my laser hair removal certification and whatnot, but hair was always my thing. So I've been doing hair for a long time, but it has been, you know, rocky.

Speaker 1 11:01

Yeah, up and down. That's why, like I wanted to get her on too is because I know she's a boss, but I've seen her career shift so much over the last seven years. For sure she's been crazy and I feel like she's really at a high right now in her career. Congrats.

Speaker 2 11:15

Yes, thank God.

Speaker 1 11:17

So I was like I've got to get her on, you know. And then even like you're, I know Good watch is hot, yeah. And then the other thing I was going to ask you too, is like are your parents still together?

Speaker 2 11:28

Yes, they're together Okay.

Speaker 1 11:30

They love each other so much.

Speaker 2 11:32

I love them so much.

Speaker 1 11:33

Because I feel like that would be difficult in a marriage too right, Like I can't Imagine having a child with a disability and then trying to yeah.

Speaker 3 11:42

Yeah, I mean it's like even you, connected to everything you said You're having siblings and going through a divorce. That's tough in its own self. But then even you being a business owner, how do you cater to family members? That was the hard thing. I was putting my Holiday holidays and your business.

Speaker 2 12:01

I was doing everything. If you ask my past employers, I was here and there and putting my hands in everything Like cookie jar. I knew I was like Nancy focus on one thing. I wanted less noise in the background. I find that, suffering with ADHD, I felt like I had to put my pants on big girl pants on and say, look, I need to concentrate on one thing and have less noise and just take it one day at, you know, one step at a time. And that's what I've been doing and I think that I can see progress, especially recently, Like I've been seeing a lot of progress in my life.

Speaker 1 12:48

She has like clients, like flying her to, like where they are now, basically like that's how in demand she's become for what she's doing in hair. Like she'll be like in Miami, she'll be in Austin.

Speaker 3 12:59

Can you braid hair Don't braid hair. I need to get mine braided, no.

Speaker 2 13:04

I do just sew in hair extensions.

Speaker 3 13:07

I'll take a sew in. Let me get a sew in.

Speaker 2 13:10

You know what I actually wanted? To take a class just to take. I love taking classes just to learn, but like, yeah, I love it, but yeah, no, I've been doing extensions for three, about almost three years, yeah.

Speaker 3 13:24

So you're I mean one. You have a dynamic setup within your family background, but with your business it sounds like you have multiple different ways in which you can activate income. Would you say that's probably like your final passion? Is it just hair?

Speaker 2 13:41

Yeah, I mean hair. Helping others. Yes, I mean right now. That's where I'm concentrating.

Entrepreneur Friends From Diverse Backgrounds

Speaker 1 13:47

Me. I'll just wait, I can turn into it. It's okay, I'll just let it stop. I'm going to stop this and then I'll restart it, okay, so I was listening to like a couple of episodes Roger and I have done, and like every episode that we do, we kind of say that we're not having a good day. We are, and today was like the same thing, but then our day always like becomes a little bit better when we get our guests in the lobby.

Speaker 3 14:18

Like right before the guests gets here. It's like scratch everything, it's showtime and every single time we show up as partners on the episodes. Oh, I love that.

Speaker 1 14:27

Yeah, it's hard, Like you know, being business partners, it's like it's a lot of work that Roger and I put into this and then that's.

Speaker 2 14:36

I bet it is.

Speaker 3 14:36

I can't even imagine doing what you guys do, because that's another level of it's different specialties, right Like she's doing a lot of things that I can't do. And then I'm a part of some other things that I'm sure she can do, but it's just maybe my specialty and then, when you look at it that way, I'm telling you hers is more time consuming.

Speaker 2 14:54

I know Well seeing you do this.

Speaker 1 14:56

That's why I wanted to bring Nancy on. It's because you know I was talking to Roger and I was like I keep bringing my friends on the podcast but I feel like for season one, roger and I, bringing the people that are close to us just kind of like tells our story better, gets people to know our circle, and I just think you're such an inspiring like business woman here in Austin and it's like Nancy and I went to brunch at two hands the other day, which you know I'm like a regular.

Speaker 1 15:27

You're obsessed with your friends. They're obsessed.

Speaker 3 15:29

Did you go there for South by?

Speaker 1 15:31

I was there for South by too, and they were giving away free lattes and nothing.

Speaker 3 15:35

I would have had so many.

Speaker 1 15:36

Yeah, nothing in life is free anymore, so that was kind of nice. South by yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 15:41

That's this week, man, I think it's exciting too, because our last guest was someone that you know and I mean we walked in that episode and you know we walk in with our own set subset of questioning and ways in which we want to take each episode, and we all walked away with a plethora of information and learn more about her, and I think it benefited our audience. So I'm excited to have you on, because she's one for one right now and I think she's going to go two for two for sure.

Speaker 2 16:07

Oh yeah, it's always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 16:10

Yeah.

Speaker 2 16:10

I think it's going to be part of anything with my friends, who are amazing and entrepreneurs, especially like you. I've watched you grow and, yes, I told you I was like I always want to be a part of it.

Speaker 3 16:24

And how long have you all known each other? And you may want to move the mic a little bit closer.

Speaker 1 16:27

We're going to talk a little louder too.

Speaker 2 16:30

I've known Cassandra for about what.

Speaker 1 16:32

No, you want to put the mic down this bottom. No, because I just don't want your clips. Sorry, I can cut all this, I just don't want your clips to be good for you.

Speaker 3 16:40

She did this to me. Episode one it just.

Speaker 2 16:43

Okay.

Speaker 1 16:44

Like you're literally you're going to get yourself to a point where Okay, because you see on the camera how her mic's in her face a lot. I don't want that yeah.

Speaker 2 16:53

And should I put a pillow right here? Do you have a pillow?

Speaker 1 16:55

No.

Speaker 2 16:56

Okay, because I'm short, because I'm short, yeah, because I'm short, and it's like overpowering Clips, yeah, but anyways, anyways, yeah, no, it's funny, nancy and I have known each other for seven years.

Speaker 3 17:09

That's crazy.

Speaker 2 17:11

I can call her up, and I know that it's always going to be a pleasure.

Speaker 3 17:14

So those seven years who like how did y'all meet?

Speaker 1 17:19

It was through, I think, our mutual friend Chastity. Yes, okay, yes, and then we just became really good friends from it.

Speaker 3 17:25

Is Chastity still in the friend group?

Speaker 1 17:27

Yes, yes.

Speaker 3 17:28

Okay.

Speaker 1 17:28

Yes, I love her.

Speaker 2 17:29

Yes, she's killing it right now.

Speaker 1 17:31

All of our friends really are like doing something with themselves. Yeah, doing something well, yeah.

Speaker 2 17:36

Everybody's Love it. I see it Like, especially right now, like I'm realizing, like fast forward. I'm like, wow, where was I before this? You know.

Speaker 3 17:47

Yeah, and seven years, so to know each other. Seven years and you hail from Austin. That's more or less the place that you identify with. And then for you, where's home? Is it here in Austin, or?

Speaker 2 17:58

Actually, the home is in the country.

Speaker 3 18:00

Okay.

Speaker 2 18:01

Into the country I mean originally. I'm from Mexico. Okay, san Luis Potosí. It's a little town. My parents we, you know brought me here at age two. Okay, two years old.

Speaker 3 18:15

This is like the same thing with you from Australia to Austin. Yeah.

Speaker 1 18:19

I think when I was with you and we were at lunch with Jane you're like we have the UN here.

Speaker 3 18:23

Literally.

Speaker 1 18:24

All of our girlfriends are from all over the place.

Speaker 3 18:26

That's crazy yeah.

Speaker 1 18:26

So beautiful. We're also different looking, so unique.

Speaker 3 18:29

That's very healthy.

Speaker 1 18:30

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:31

So, yeah, I grew up in Elgin Well, McDade, and then we went to Elgin population. We had a very, very low population but I loved it because I got close to everyone really, really fast and, like I'm still friends with a lot of my friends from grade school and yeah, and then for the audience, like what is that closer?

Speaker 3 18:53

Is that closer to Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas?

Speaker 2 18:58

It's closer to Austin.

Speaker 3 19:00

Okay, got it. Yeah About how far.

Speaker 2 19:04

About. I'm probably just like my parents, are still like 30, 40 minutes away, got it, so yeah, traffic.

Speaker 3 19:09

I'm a contextual guy, like I need to paint the picture, like I need to fully get it.

Speaker 1 19:13

I had no idea where that was so. I'm glad you asked that question and then Nancy told me at brunch the other day that they were, like, known for their watermelon festival.

Speaker 3 19:21

Oh yeah, what is this?

Speaker 2 19:23

Oh my God. So we're known for the watermelon festival. It's like I mean raised on they on the in the crops I guess. But they were known. I know it's so embarrassing. It's funny because I was the watermelon princess.

Speaker 3 19:38

Oh, no, yeah, what does this mean?

Speaker 2 19:41

This means that I I love watermelon.

Speaker 3 19:43

Okay.

Speaker 2 19:44

Yeah, I mean, we even had a seed spitting contest. It was funny what.

Speaker 3 19:49

Yes, this is funny.

Speaker 2 19:50

It's funny, but I feel like everybody.

Speaker 3 19:53

I'm from the Northeast, so I never experienced anything like that.

Speaker 2 19:55

I know we just had little festivals and we got to dress up and it was just so inviting and, like you know, people got together. Back in the day. I feel like we got together, you know, and nowadays it's like you know, it's not like that. I feel like that's what made me. I think, growing up, I started realizing like this is where it's at, like this is, this is home.

Speaker 3 20:17

Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:17

This felt like home.

Speaker 1 20:19

Sounds like you had like a really good sense of community For sure, kind of growing up in like a small town. Yeah, and I was even kind of thinking about you because you're such a big personality to me, like anytime we walk anywhere, nancy knows everyone, she'll talk to anyone, and I'm like that's kind of rare. I feel like coming out of such a small town.

Speaker 3 20:38

Yeah, I mean, do you feel as if you learn that, being from the small town or, like you, just you enjoy? That's you to the core.

Speaker 2 20:46

I put myself in very uncomfortable situations on purpose. Got it Growing up, my mom and my dad put me in a corner and would put me there and we're like, no, we got to protect you you can't do anything, you can't go anywhere.

Speaker 2 21:01

I just felt like in my life I knew if I was going to blossom, like I needed to feel uncomfortable and that's what I did. I would, you know, join like FCCLA Future Community Leaders of America. I was joining anything that's going to like make me a better person growing up. So I Think that has to do a lot with a little bit that personality.

Speaker 3 21:25

And then, how many siblings do you have? I have four. Okay, so four. And where do you stand in the mix of four?

Speaker 1 21:31

I didn't even know you had four. I mean sorry, sorry, it's four of us.

Speaker 3 21:34

It's four, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 21:35

Four of us, two brothers, one sister.

Speaker 3 21:37

Okay.

Speaker 2 21:38

I'm the baby okay so, yeah, I mean, I have a brother, older brother, and he's he's blind. I was talking to you about it, sandra. So I feel like, looking at that, I have been able to evaluate my life a little bit different because I had to grow up fast.

Speaker 2 21:59

My mom would be like you see how privileged you are, you know I would every day wake up and see him struggling and things that Not everyone in a daily life has to do like can, like, yeah, things that I'm I know that now I'm doing for them, like I'm helping them, you know. But, yeah, having a family with someone with a disability is something that not everyone can understand, you know.

Speaker 1 22:26

So and I feel like you hold that really close to your heart and like to your chest, because thank you for sharing. Yeah, I really am proud of you for being vulnerable and sharing it on the podcast, because I've been friends with her for like seven years and she only like, really like I feel like you. You don't mention it all the time now, like you don't use it as like a part of your identity.

Speaker 1 22:47

That's the right way, you know, like that's healthy you don't talk about like the hardships that you've been through with your family. With that, like, I mean your mom having four kids and one of them having a disability. I can't even imagine as a parent. That's a lot.

Speaker 3 23:00

And you being the youngest, it's like did that force you to be the rock? Or like, where do you stand in the dynamic?

Speaker 2 23:07

so I remember, when I was what might be like 10, my mom took me to the school of the for the blind, which was here is here in Austin.

Speaker 1 23:16

It's a huge. It's huge, right? Yes?

Speaker 3 23:18

I'll give you a funny part to what you just said. Yeah, like appropriately interrupt you. I live next, like the next street over from where I was raised really was a Deaf and blind street. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it's a different experience, right, so please keep going.

Speaker 2 23:34

No, no, no. I honestly, like I remember my mom taking me to the school and, you know, forcing me to go say hi to everybody. Like I mean, I've met people with disabilities, people would you can think of anything you can think of like it was there, like I was like had to put myself in a comfortable situation where I felt I felt like even like I would cry. I'm almost like no, just go say hi there, no more, and I'm like come on. Like you know, I, I don't know, like I don't know it's as a little girl, you just don't you feel bad, but they weren't doing things that you couldn't do like I know, like I would, I would be walking normal and they would have like a cane or something. And I just feel like I learned to have a lot of empathy, good empathy and love, and you know patience for someone with a disability. And so as I got older, you know that came in between with what I do with my career.

Speaker 3 24:32

We need to call you before every episode and wherever I had disagreement, we need this empathy button.

Speaker 2 24:40

I, you know I am very empathetic and people and like I think that's helps me. Yeah, be in, you know, in my career.

Speaker 3 24:48

And your career. For me, I mean, please. I feel like y'all have definitely a greater understanding, but, like, tell me all the things you do right, like being an entrepreneur in your own like. I have my own Understanding, but it sounds like I may be Missing out some pieces there.

Speaker 2 25:04

No, so Entrepreneur, like what I've been doing. I'm a hairstylist, of course, here in Austin, texas. My business name is noticeable impressions. I've been doing hair out of high school. At age 18, when I graduated, I went straight to beauty school. Okay, I also got my laser hair removal Certification and whatnot, but hair was always my thing. So I've been doing hair for a long time, but it has been, you know, rocky.

Speaker 1 25:39

That's why, like I wanted to get her on too is because I know she's a boss, but I've seen her career shift so much over the last seven years I'm crazy, and I feel like she's really at a high right now in her career. Congrats. Thank God, I was like we've got to get her on, you know. And then even like I, know, yeah, and then the other thing I was gonna ask you too is like are your parents still together? Yes, okay.

Speaker 2 26:07

Okay they love each other. Yeah, I love them so much, cuz.

Speaker 1 26:10

I feel like that would be difficult in a marriage to write like I can't Imagine like having a child with a disability and then trying to yeah yeah, I mean it's like even you, connected to everything you said, like you're having siblings and going through a divorce.

Speaker 3 26:27

That's tough in its own self. But then even you, being a business owner, like how do you Cater to family members?

Speaker 2 26:34

That was the holiday holiday and your business I was doing everything like, if you asked, like my past employers, I was here and there and like, yeah, you know, putting my hands and everything like like cookie, you know. But I knew I was like Nancy, focus on one thing, mm-hmm. And you know I, I wanted less, no noise in the background and I I find that, suffering with ADHD, I felt like I had to put my pants on big girl pants on and say, look, I need to concentrate on one thing and have less noise and just Take it one day at you know, one step at a time. And that's what I've been doing and I think that I can see progress, especially recently, like I've been seeing a lot of progress in my life.

Speaker 1 27:25

She has like clients, like flying her to, like where they are now, basically like that's how in demand she's become for what she's doing in hair. Like she'll be like in Miami, she'll be in Austin.

Speaker 3 27:36

Can you braid hair? Don't braid, I need to get mine braided, no.

Speaker 2 27:41

I do just so hair extensions. You know what I actually wanted to take a class just to take. I love taking classes just to learn. But, like, yeah, I love it. Um, but yeah, no, I've been doing extensions for three, about almost three years, yeah so it sounds like you're I mean one.

Speaker 3 28:03

You have a Dynamic setup within your, your family background. Yes, but with your business it sounds like you have multiple different ways in which you can activate income. Yes, would you say, that's probably like your final, like passion. Is it just hair?

Speaker 2 28:18

Yeah, I mean hair. Helping others. Yes, I mean right now.

Speaker 1 28:22

That's where I'm concentrating because I know you're like passionate about helping people and I feel like that's what hair does, which this is gonna crack Roger up, but he probably doesn't know, like, how beautiful Extensions can make a woman fill 100%, just for calm, no idea. Yeah, even when I first met you, I had like a fool. Like I had a sense. You may not even know this no.

Speaker 1 28:43

But it was right after I had gone through my breakup and I put extensions in and it made me feel like a new woman and I was talking to you about this and you have so many clients that I think you've been tell me like cry after they get their extensions put in.

Speaker 2 28:58

Yeah Well, just like emotionally happy like you're just so happy you're at a high, you you walk into a room with, you know, not that much confidence, because you saw, so much hair postpartum, so many things, obstacles, and you leave with a whole set of hair like and color. You know I do it all, so it's it's so rewarding.

Speaker 3 29:20

I'm sure I don't express but. And and it's like watching those people walk in feeling one way and walk out feeling and looking another way. Yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 29:29

I would leave there, like leave every day, especially not every day, but usually I leave the salon. I'm just at a high like I feel like.

Speaker 1 29:38

I serve my purpose.

Speaker 2 29:39

Yeah, that's I've made someone feel better about themselves and you know, there's times when my hair wasn't done and all correct, but I I knew that I'm selfless with my love, so I felt like giving in, giving it to them. It was just like Purposeful. It wasn't all about, you know, like all the outer, you know, like money and all that to me, like it wasn't that it was, it was more, you know.

Speaker 3 30:05

Well now, I mean, you bring up things about making somebody feel good and I kind of want to get to the juicy stuff. I like what? What do you think kind of got you to fall in love with the side of just like feeling good? Beauty, self-care, is it? I mean, you got to tell me, is there like a climatic moment that had you kind of fall in love with this at 18? Something?

Speaker 2 30:29

oh yeah, I mean I was listening to Selena Quintanilla, okay you know, which so long. That was it Yolanda Saldivar's, like I just heard.

Speaker 2 30:38

I was just telling my yeah they're about to let her out and I'm like please, like I grew up with cassette player, like the cassettes, yeah, dad would be like we got you a new cassette and I'm like, what is it? And it was Selena Quintanilla. And I just remember feeling like this is my girl, like I want to be like her. Oh, like in that I'm not like her, but like I wanted to feel like she's beautiful, she had the glam she just had everything like where she just had a big heart. You could just tell Like I looked up to her.

Speaker 3 31:08

For sure.

Speaker 2 31:09

Growing up, but I know a lot of girls did too.

Speaker 3 31:11

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 31:12

And you know, and her music was amazing and just now that I look back at it, I'm like you know that has to do. You know, when you're asking me all that, like that's how I feel, like I looked up to a lot of people growing up with music. Music was a big part of it. So papras too, but you know the Spanish soap opera.

Speaker 1 31:32

Yeah, I love them. They're so good yeah.

Navigating Cheating and Relationship Dynamics

Speaker 2 31:35

Yeah, but you know my mom, you know she would always put it on for me and you know all the fashion shows growing up and seeing all that I started sticking to me Growing up I'm like it's the fun day.

Speaker 3 31:48

We get some of your family dynamic to be understood. A little bit about your business. I gotta understand more about you, though. Right, like we talked about Selena and that being a motivating factor, I mean love life like what's going on. It seems like you're on a high. We're getting you while you're hot. You know what's going on there.

Speaker 1 32:07

I feel like we have to talk about Beep, that one at Beep his name. Oh, there's one, there's one, no no, no, because this was at like the height of Nancy and I's friendship. Yeah, I'm trying and it's probably like a reoccurring theme in our friendship and something we talk about on the podcast is like cheating, and whether you get cheated on, you know you want extensions to make yourself feel better or it's a catalyst for making your career like go to the next level.

Speaker 3 32:37

For sure.

Speaker 2 32:38

Honestly yeah you're right, because I went through a lot.

Speaker 1 32:42

Yeah, because we talked about level up. I'm like Nancy did a level up.

Speaker 2 32:47

I think that really helped me, that breakup that I went through. I was in a seven year relationship.

Speaker 3 32:55

Okay.

Speaker 2 32:56

Yeah, seven year relationship which I you know respected and you know valued. But, yeah, I had to really wake me up because I mean, within all that, I was always like challenged in putting myself in.

Speaker 3 33:11

For sure.

Speaker 2 33:12

In places where I just knew like I can grow, but I knew that that person wasn't good for me and God did not want him to be in my life.

Speaker 1 33:20

Yeah, I feel like seven years, like I don't, I would never do this now. Wait seven years for like an engagement ring or like something to happen.

Speaker 3 33:29

You'd be surprised, I mean, when you're in that moment I had dated somebody with a similar timeline and I'm telling you like time just go by, Like you don't really realize, until you're like whoa, like we're wasting time here.

Speaker 2 33:41

Yeah.

Speaker 3 33:42

But it's like you say something. There too we're cheating. It's like cheating Some people do it, some people don't, and some people never will right Like it sounds like you repurposed that experience with cheating to benefit you.

Speaker 2 33:54

Yeah.

Speaker 3 33:55

Which kudos to you and whichever side cheated or didn't. I mean, I don't know, and I don't know if you want to share, but it sounds like you really found a way to help mold you to the next level.

Speaker 1 34:09

Yeah, you have to tell them how you guys met too, yeah like I. Because I know this, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 34:14

I'm trying to pull the juicy stuff, but oh well, let's put it this way I don't want to pull too hard.

Speaker 2 34:18

When I met my ex he was, you know, it was like he was a wakeboarder.

Speaker 3 34:27

Okay.

Speaker 2 34:27

And he also was in cells. So when I was working at one of the spas at that time, he walked in trying to sell me a printer. Did this, crack you up, sell me a printer? And he forced himself on me, put his card and was like here, like, I want you to call me Like. And I was like. I refused, I think I let him be on Facebook, but that's it Back then, you know.

Speaker 3 34:49

Sure.

Speaker 2 34:50

But no, we ended up yeah After that we're inseparable.

Speaker 3 34:55

Did he slide in the DMs?

Speaker 1 34:56

Yeah he did, he did, he did, but he poke you since it was Facebook. No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 35:01

That's funny. That's actually that's how my seven year started. My seven year started by us poking each other. Oh yeah, that was so.

Speaker 2 35:08

Okay, creepy people.

Speaker 3 35:10

That's crazy. No no, no, no I don't know, it was like a game, it was fun. Yeah, no no, she poked me.

Speaker 2 35:18

Dude, like I'm telling you, like I look back at that relationship and I realize how much I've grown from that. But no, I have totally respect for him and you know he's happy on his own, but you know we had a hard come up. I mean, he did do some disrespectful things, you know.

Speaker 2 35:38

And I think that now that I look back at him I'm like I would have never the new Nancy would never had put up with that. But you know when you are, you know in your family, you know like my parents. They kind of raised me to work hard, like yeah.

Speaker 2 35:52

Towards a relationship, don't give up. And so you know he had given me a promise ring. I felt like, comfortable with him, and you know I was the girl that would stay home, wash clothes and cook clean, go to work, and that was it. And you know that wasn't the case. You know, with him, you know I felt like he wanted more, he wanted to go, venture out, and you know we took a break and then we got back and still there was infidelity, me walking in. You know I have to give my story, which now I don't care Like I can talk about it. I love about it.

Speaker 2 36:35

I've told my clients about it and I really don't. I wish them the best. But, like now, I want girls to realize like, if you are in a situation like this, like walk away, like there's light. There is so much light at the end of the tunnel, but you have to have faith within yourself, for sure.

Speaker 2 36:54

Like I don't need a person for validation. I really don't. I just need to love myself, and the biggest part of this whole thing has been, you know, growing, loving and nurturing my soul, and it's been the best thing that has happened to me.

Speaker 3 37:12

I mean you say something there too, where you're like there's a light at the end of the tunnel and I think it's like cheating happens on both sides, right? Like women can cheat on men, men can cheat on women, and whatever the relationship dynamic is, Like men to men, women to women I don't want to speak or generalize or say it incorrectly, but it always it can happen in any way, right, Exactly. So, knowing that to be, it's like it stems from somewhere and it sounds like you have the ability to say you can respect him. Yeah, it sounds like he worked through that.

Speaker 2 37:46

Yeah, I mean we did, we got past it for a little bit, but you know I couldn't be with a person. Once you cheat, and this is what I told a lot of guys like once you cheat, that trust is gone and I can't see you the same way, like I will never, I will never, and I find that people like surpass it. You know, but it's not the same. It really isn't, and that's your choice.

Speaker 3 38:11

You have every right to choose that right Like and that's good that you know that about yourself too.

Speaker 2 38:15

Yeah, like right being a relationship if you don't want to be in it. Like why I'm single for three years is because of that. Because, I don't need that feeling If I want to go to Miami tomorrow. I can go and there is no, no one holding me back. Like I love that. But it's not all about going to Miami, it's not all about that. Like it's about going for purpose. Like for me, I go, I work, I come back, that's it. But if I had a guy, with all respect, he'd be coming with me.

Speaker 2 38:49

Right you know, Like if I had a man like and we're together and I'm talking I'm gonna respect him and I'm gonna be like okay, I'm not gonna go to Miami anymore, Chill, or you can come with me and we can make this work, yeah.

Healing Journey and Self-Worth

Speaker 1 39:01

Yeah Well, I feel like being cheated on can really affect your sense of like worth.

Speaker 1 39:07

Like self worth and you're clearly in like a very healed, you know, head space. But do you feel like after that happened, like did you have like a moment where you like felt really lost or low or oh yeah, 100%, and what did that look like for you, Like your healing journey? Just getting to where? Because the woman you are now is so inspiring and I've watched you work really hard to become her, so I just you know, I'm interested to hear what your kind of healing journey looked like.

Speaker 2 39:37

Oh, I mean a lot of mental therapy, like I did a lot of. I listened to a lot of podcasts. One of them I love is Mindful in Minutes After work. All the time I put it on and you know I put my candles on and whatnot, but I feel like that really.

Speaker 3 39:58

Like a mood setter.

Speaker 2 39:59

A mood setter, I set the mood you know, I'm a very spiritual person and I believe that healing, self healing and self worth is everything to me. And so right now that doing the meditations, you know also music has healed me a lot too. I love music, I love DJs, going to, you know, see different shows, but music is very spiritual to me, like it's healed me and my, it's healed my soul and like knowing, and my friends, my family, like all you, everyone has been there, everybody that has been there for me. I I appreciate every, every single one of them.

Speaker 3 40:39

Is there one song? They know who they are. Is there like one song that got you through?

Speaker 2 40:42

No.

Speaker 3 40:43

I don't. I mean, I feel like music.

Speaker 2 40:45

No, not no, no, no, there is. There's some songs that I really like, but I feel like for me it's more so like it's like God's listening and he puts people in your life and like I just remember walking into places and like this was not a coincidence. Like this person just randomly hugged me Like like I don't know, it's like I just felt his presence and I just knew that you know being close to God and has helped me.

Speaker 1 41:15

Yeah, that's awesome. You're big into like manifesting too, right Cause, like I think you said something, cause Roger and I are both huge into it.

Speaker 3 41:22

It's a. Thing.

Speaker 2 41:23

I would literally close my eyes places and I, if I felt something, I would just feel it, and I would just embrace it.

Speaker 2 41:35

And then I would come back and like I'll have to tell you about a story about me on a yacht. Like I manifested going to like Miami on New Years and at that time I had my deed was expired, so and you know you couldn't go on a plane and all that. But I manifested it and I got on that on a private jet. My friend, she like messaged me and she's like hey, you need to come and I'm like I can't, my ID's expired. I said, but I manifested it and I want this.

Speaker 1 42:05

I want to go.

Speaker 2 42:07

I even told my clients and they were like, well, you're not going because your idea. I was like I know, but I got a call later and she's like dude, you don't need your ID, just come.

Speaker 3 42:16

Someway, someway.

Speaker 2 42:17

And I went and I remember that feeling. I was like this is crazy. I've been manifesting this in New Years and my mom couldn't believe it. So I had to call her and she's like she was like this is crazy, like the things that you put yourself in. But yeah, like there's things that I feel like I've manifested in my life that, and I think, especially my business you know that I'm thankful for and it's amazing.

Speaker 3 42:42

Well, do you talk about like working on your mental health right, and you talk about how important it is to you. Do you feel like your trust being messed with in your love life ever affected your trust in business?

Speaker 2 42:58

Yes, a little bit, I feel like.

Speaker 3 43:01

Because there's a bridge there, right.

Speaker 2 43:02

Yes, I feel like some times with him. I get people. You know, the people that you love, the people that you think you love you most.

Speaker 3 43:11

Yeah.

Speaker 2 43:11

Are the ones that hurt you.

Speaker 3 43:12

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 43:13

Are the ones that hurt you, and knowing that I could be hurt by someone that I love, tested everything. But when I look at my mom and my family, like they're my like core and like.

Speaker 2 43:33

I just looked past that and I'm like you know what. I gotta pay attention to the people that are there for me, that are amazing, and someone that's gonna be look at me like 100%, not put 20% in my life. I don't need that. I don't need a half-assed person in my life. I knew in business as well. If you're not gonna give me 50 or I'm not 50, 100% I'm not gonna be a part of it. I rather not. I've been through so much that and just like everybody in my work ethic, like I've paid my dues and I just ask for a little bit of respect.

Speaker 1 44:20

I mean, I feel like I've watched it too, as Nancy's career has kind of progressed and I've watched her receive more and more. I feel like the vultures have kind of been out after you, or it's just because you're such a light. I feel like everyone wants to be around you and sees you being successful. I've really watched people. I feel like try to take things from Nancy.

Speaker 3 44:42

You gotta be careful, it's weird. I've had it happen, especially when I'm selling you right now.

Speaker 2 44:48

You know, it's like people think that they own you, even in like relationships they own you. I'm gonna put her here and I'm gonna stick her in this little box, but I'm not gonna let her out until I say and then it's just necessarily, it could be in anything, in relationships and whatnot but, I just knew I don't wanna be in that box and I refuse to do it.

Speaker 2 45:12

And after a while you get to a point where you're like no like, why Like? Why me Like? Why do I have to sacrifice my life and my dreams for what Like? At what cost? So I took it upon myself to, you know, look at life differently and, you know, go for my dreams and yeah, Do you feel like we ask everyone this?

Speaker 1 45:38

but I mean you're kind of in the Austin scene. You have a lot of clients who are in the scene. You know a lot of people in Austin. Do you ever hear like any like misconceptions about yourself, like good or bad?

Speaker 3 45:51

Because I mean yes and no Very good misconceptions, for sure I learned that from Matthew, who was on here.

Speaker 2 45:56

He was like there's good ones and I think oh, no, I've heard good things, I've heard negative and honestly I don't care Like.

Speaker 3 46:05

I hear you.

Speaker 2 46:05

I don't care, I really don't, yeah, because if I did I wouldn't be where I was at, I would have let those things attack. But I feel like sometimes you just gotta, like, you know, let it disperse, it's all the noise. I just brush it off, you know, and try again, Like I just keep going and I don't look back at the negative. I don't anyone that says anything negative about me, like I'm like okay, you know, because I have a lot of love to give and I know who I am and I know my worth and I know what I feel for people like, especially people that didn't mind share, like I care about everyone and I have a big heart, like I said, like I come from a family like didn't raise me to be disrespectful to someone or whatnot. But you know, if you disrespect me, I will.

Speaker 2 46:54

I will say something, you know I'm not gonna just sit around and let people like bully me, and I think that's the thing is like I feel like a lot of people like would see me, like oh, little Nancy this and little Nancy that, and it's like, yeah, like I'm not little, I have a heart. I do believe, just like you and like you know, together we can like expand, like all of us, like we can all grow.

Speaker 3 47:18

But silence is power when you have receipts. Silence is power when you have really a great sense of community, when you have family backing you and really knowing that person that you are. So I think that's very important right, Like I'm sure that sets you up to stand on that stage a lot brighter and let your light shine, because you know for a fact you are standing right where you should be.

Speaker 2 47:40

Yes, yes, definitely. It's definitely helped me, especially within you know this career and now you know I'm I launched it and it's definitely been a blessing.

Speaker 3 47:54

Well, those are your receipts. Right Like your receipts is you've gone from level to level.

Speaker 2 47:57

Oh, yes, 100%, and you've helped.

Speaker 3 47:59

How many people, from each person, from your chair to your, to the next one appointment to the next right, exactly. So it's like no one can come for you when you're like, hey, wait, let me show you.

Speaker 2 48:09

Yeah, like the days that I left Tony and Guy and places where I worked at like I did hair for Alzheimer's people with. Alzheimer's Days. I left there. There was hard times, there were days where I wanted to give up and I was like, do I even want to do this? Like people were mean to me, and not only that. Like I was like, yes, they were so mean to me, I don't know, and I tried my hardest. I'm like why you know why me?

Speaker 3 48:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2 48:37

You know, I, my sister, I remember leaving the Alzheimer's place. I got fired there. You know why? Because I was too nice.

Speaker 1 48:45

What To those people?

Speaker 2 48:47

I had a lady say you know what she was. She's like you need to be more mean to them. That's terrible. They won't listen and I said no, like I'm not going to be mean to them.

Speaker 3 48:55

Yeah.

Speaker 2 48:57

Like I have. No, that is not. There's no way. That's not mean, it's not mean and so when she told me to leave, I left crying my sister. She held me that day. Sorry, it's like so crazy because she, my sister is amazing.

Speaker 3 49:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2 49:09

But yeah, she like.

Speaker 3 49:11

Shout out to Bigsit.

Speaker 2 49:12

She held me and she said, nancy, like you're going to be, you're going to have something great in your life. And like it's going to be amazing and I love you so much and just get up. Get up, and so anytime I had like bad, bad tribulations, there was my sister.

Speaker 1 49:31

That's so beautiful Cause I feel like all you need sometimes is just that one person to believe in you. And it sounds like that was your sister for you. Yeah, and I've been on the phone with you before and your sister was with you and I was going through a hard time and you were talking me through it and you, I think in that moment you really helped me find my faith again.

Speaker 2 49:52

You know, yeah, no, I remember you were very shook up and I just remember feeling like I'm a Cassandra, please, and don't like I just everything that I had in me. I wanted to express it to you so you can like get past whatever tribulation you were going through. But, yeah, and you know, with that being said, you know, going through these hardship and jobs, I took all that and I was like, okay, I'm going to make this and I'm going to run with it and I'm going to push myself to the, to the limits. Hey, and if I, you know it is what it is Like, you know I wanted to like push it and now I'm here. So I'm thankful that I did that, because if I didn't, then I would be back.

Speaker 3 50:37

You talk about those misconceptions and you push into the limit. What's the next exciting thing that you have on your docket that you're pumped for or looking forward to?

Speaker 2 50:46

Yeah, no, well I'm. I'm working on a project right now. It's a fashion show here in Austin.

Speaker 3 50:52

In Austin. What?

Speaker 2 50:53

Yes, yes, here in Austin I'm putting together.

Speaker 3 50:56

When is this?

Speaker 2 50:57

For when is it?

Speaker 3 50:59

Yeah.

Speaker 2 50:59

It's March 30th.

Speaker 3 51:00

Okay.

Speaker 2 51:01

Mark your calendar because it's exciting. I'm putting a lot of work into it.

Speaker 3 51:05

Good for you.

Speaker 2 51:07

It's taking a lot of work, but I'm I'm all for a challenge and yeah, I've already, you know, set the date and it's going to be at Raina Rooftop.

Speaker 3 51:16

Wow.

Speaker 2 51:17

A little Miami vibe, I figured, why not? You know I've been going to fashion shows here and there. I went to Miami and like I got inspired because, you know, doing hair extensions, I feel like not all everybody sees what I see. Like, when these girls leave, what I see it's like, it's this feeling of like confidence. So I wanted to put this fashion show together and, you know, get some of my clients and have them. You know, wear the Nancy Curl that I've been doing and working on.

Speaker 3 51:51

Oh, we got a curl name. The curl name, the Nancy Curl.

Speaker 2 51:55

Yeah, so I definitely am excited about it because you know my clients are going to be wearing you know this curl and walking the runway at a rooftop here.

Speaker 3 52:06

That is awesome. I mean, can guys attend, Like okay, yes, actually we have a lot of guys coming.

Speaker 2 52:13

Yes, you definitely don't want to miss it, but I feel like I want you know entrepreneurs, everyone come. Like. I was literally just at Skims and the girl was like can I come? I was like, yes, come.

Speaker 3 52:24

Yeah.

Speaker 2 52:24

Yes, she's like okay, we're all going to go.

Speaker 3 52:27

I'm a DM you, so I could get a ticket, yeah.

Speaker 1 52:28

I am. It's such a good networking event For sure. You have a lot of friends coming up, Like everybody including you came to make 288 JiangINGs a bunch of people, and if you're looking at other diverseippers, you get people to come up and at least after this event if you are actually- negoing this virtual like you have had a great meeting with new people that you call right now and you would hang out with other partners.

Speaker 1 52:48

You think you're going to meet just on your own. So it's great to get a hillsong back and it's for our clients to have this to go to growing upperclassmen. Of course, you would have a lot of guests who want you to give high training at home or Italian, men I just like anything that's not from here.

Speaker 3 53:03

Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 2 53:05

Well, I do. I mean, my last boyfriend was Caucasian.

Speaker 3 53:08

I'm not gonna say you know?

Speaker 2 53:09

But I know I'm open to Caucasians, what not? But I tend to attract men from different countries.

Speaker 3 53:15

Yeah, do your thing I mean.

Speaker 2 53:17

I love it. It's just honestly, they just treat you differently.

Speaker 1 53:22

Yeah, I just mean, like what you, if you are already like providing everything for yourself, like kind of like, what do you expect a guy to bring to the table? Cause I had someone ask me this the other day and I had to start thinking about it myself.

Speaker 2 53:38

Well, I will one first things. First is to have empathy, have patience and just you know you don't have to make all this money Like I don't look for that, that's not what I. I mean, everybody's tends to be like, oh, I want a sugar baby and all this stuff, or sugar daddy.

Speaker 1 53:57

Sugar daddy, sugar daddy.

Speaker 2 53:59

I'm like I don't need that. I don't need that. I don't want that. I'm like have you had offers? I have had offers. I've had a lot of offers and you know what? Is it? Austin or Miami? Men, Austin, Miami, anywhere, Like they just oh, I'll take care of you, you don't have to work. I don't want that. That's not what I want.

Speaker 3 54:15

For sure.

Speaker 2 54:16

It doesn't strict my ego, I'm fine, I'm good, I'm good on that. I'm more of like the type of person you know I love, like I. If I like someone, you'll know about it. You know, I don't just date to date. Yeah, that's me. I don't date to date and that's why I'm single. So I mean, if I see someone that I like that has potential, you know you'll, I'll probably be talking to them for a while. You know, I'm getting to know them because right now, like is what I'm seeing is like a friendship is so important to me in a person and like I sometimes rather have them in the friend zone and see where it goes and then, if not like unless they're on the same page as me, we get to know each other. But this whole, like you know, casual sex thing.

Speaker 1 55:10

Yeah.

Speaker 2 55:10

No. All right, you heal the way, so my time, like I have too much things to worry about, and you know I have my. I mean, you know I have to give my attention to the people that do love me, the people that love me. So if that person's just taking from me, what is there gonna be left for? Like there's gonna, my mind's gonna be all over the place and I'm not gonna be a hundred percent in my in my craft.

Speaker 3 55:35

So where you heal the loan right. So that makes sense because remember there are people that heal through dating. Yes and that's whichever way you choose. Like you understand yourself, and I think that's very important. That brings probably even more value to your relationships, because you know exactly what you do and don't like, yeah, which you will and won't settle for. Exactly and it also sounds like since that last relationship, you don't select the same way anymore.

Speaker 2 56:00

Oh, no, yeah, Not at all. I'm like, what was I thinking? Yeah, you know, I'm I was old Nancy.

Speaker 1 56:08

Yeah that's all do you have like a hard time dating in Austin um?

Speaker 2 56:14

I mean yes, yes, you know, and also because I have to keep things very classy, like I don't like to date you know I.

Speaker 2 56:23

Don't know. I find that I don't Connect with a lot of people here so far. I mean in the ones that I do. You know we're divorced or, you know had kids or something. You know they're older and like they're not ready for something serious and you know I don't have time for that. So, and when I'm working all the time I don't have time to like be on my phone and date like I. That's why when I went to other places I was able to meet people, because when I'm on vacation I Go on dates or whatnot and the next thing, you know like they like me. But then there's, like you know, hardships.

Speaker 1 57:03

So I think dating is like a full-time job. Oh yeah, because I heard this thing. It was like maybe you wouldn't be single if you were putting as much effort into dating as you know. You are in your career or something else. Oh yeah, and I'm like shit, like I need to take that advice.

Speaker 2 57:18

So sometimes, when you focus on that, it doesn't come to you. No, you're right, I don't even focus like I don't even know. Like the last time I, like, went out and was like, oh my god, who's what cute guys are here. Yeah, I don't care like it's like be in the present.

Speaker 2 57:34

Mm-hmm like I. I learned like before I wasn't living in the present, like I felt like I was my phone, doing all these things with my phone. Now it's like no, put your phone down, let's connect one-on-one and you know, let life come to you. You know God's gonna bring him in your life regardless. He has a plan already for you. You just don't know it, like he's written it all out. But you, you fight up, fight against it and you surpass that. And I feel like people do that. They're like oh no, but I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna find this and I'm like, no, let it come to you, because Every man that I have really connected on a deeper level, I, I'm not gonna lie like it's come to me, it has and and Dating apps. I'm not gonna lie like I have been on him. I've met some cool people and I, you know, recently, I'm kind of Seeing where something goes with something.

Speaker 2 58:31

But okay you know I'm just going with it. You know I'm not like putting myself good for you, congrats. Yeah, but it's If it, you know, let's see where it goes.

Speaker 1 58:42

But I'm not going to just put everything Out there and not you know yeah, well, I think that's what's really cool too Is because Roger's like really spearheading these events in Austin with the dating app called Thursday, which I was telling you about, and the one thing I do like about this dating app is it's like meeting people organically in person, right, yeah so then it's like if you went there and showed up and your person's meant to be there, Then they'd be there, but you're not looking at a piece of glass or a phone Sweat thing.

Speaker 3 59:13

You know you can only use it one day.

Speaker 2 59:15

Yeah, further than that, are you telling me to go? No, not even like.

Speaker 3 59:19

We do want you.

Speaker 1 59:20

Yeah, I do want to go with you to one Like eventually, if you'll go with me, because I feel like it'd be fun for us just to see what's going on.

Speaker 3 59:27

But haven't you ever like match with somebody and then they can do the texting all-star, yeah like, if I do that, we're FaceTiming I. Exactly. I'm FaceTiming but you meet with them in person, you're like yeah, how, you really are not as deep as I thought.

Speaker 2 59:42

Yeah, I have to have deep connections, like deep conversations, like because this is what I want people to understand, like once this is gone Aesthetically of course what's there?

Speaker 2 59:54

Yeah and the guy that I dated. He wasn't the cutest like I know that for a fact, but I loved him for who he was, for sure, and I valued him as a person. I'm not looking for the most hottest guy. I'm looking for my best friend and someone that's gonna like, take me, take me on this journey with, be on this journey with me, but also respect me along the way. That's all you're. So me, my soulmate.

Speaker 1 1:00:16

Yeah, you don't want a boyfriend.

Speaker 2 1:00:18

I'm okay with being single. Right now I'm having a great time just working on myself and it's a beautiful thing. It's a great path. That God's journey on and journey. Yeah, I'm, I couldn't complain good for you.

Speaker 1 1:00:30

Yeah, well, that's so beautiful. I'm so glad we got to hear your story and we're gonna have him bow your fashion show and make sure people go to it.

Speaker 2 1:00:41

We're doing $6,000 worth in. Yeah, I says that's crazy. I have to talk about that because this is something for entrepreneurs, all the entrepreneurs out there. All my girls are. We're all coming together. I have my girl, crystal Paris. She's doing lashes, alexandra's doing spray tans, I have Erica wants to do in filler and Botox. But, yeah, we're gonna be giving away a lot of prizes so people can raffle. Do a raffle and see. See where it goes.

Speaker 3 1:01:12

I'm gonna. I want to get myself an extension, so I'm gonna be doing a giveaway, yeah. I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 1:01:17

I'm getting one guys, I take care, do that stuff like the Botox and Incare, and I'm all for that side of it, you know.

Speaker 3 1:01:26

I just saw a friend of mine on his story on Instagram he just posted that he was getting Botox.

Speaker 2 1:01:31

I was like good for you dude, I'm telling you it's, it's a thing here?

Speaker 1 1:01:35

Yeah, don't you? I respect him and that gets Botox. Yeah, just take care of yourself.

Speaker 2 1:01:39

You know I I do skincare for guys and I always tell them, like, take care of your skin.

Speaker 1 1:01:45

It's preventive, it's preventive and it's all love for you guys too. You guys have to love yourself.

Speaker 2 1:01:50

So I feel like it's good and, yeah, I think that's why I'm doing this giveaway. I wanted to be, like you know, something for everyone. Like not everybody has the money to to Afford these extensions as well and I I feel bad. Sometimes I'm like I want to give them away. You know I want, but you know I also work. It's a lot of work on me but, like I am, I do a giveaway every now and then I'm I'm doing one for a new winner, a new Client and a pre-existent client. So you have to tell you.

Speaker 1 1:02:18

So, roger like the price range.

Speaker 3 1:02:20

Yeah, I mean, I have. I have zero clue for hair extensions zero clue like, how much?

Speaker 2 1:02:25

how much do you think for one Like for what I have? Because I have one row and I have to care.

Speaker 3 1:02:30

So you have a hair extension in right now. Yes, I have one row of IB extensions if I had a guess, like Give me a range with color everything, or just let's talk about the extensions. I'd probably say like $500.

Speaker 2 1:02:45

No, like a low, keep working Roger deposit. That's probably like a little deposit, no.

Speaker 3 1:02:51

Yeah, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 1:02:52

Yeah, it ranges just the minimal is like 700 and then it goes up to 3000 for hair extensions. Yeah, no color not including color, not including install.

Speaker 3 1:03:03

Yeah so. Yeah how long do they?

Speaker 1 1:03:06

guys need to pay for the first date.

Speaker 3 1:03:08

Yeah, how long do they last?

Speaker 2 1:03:10

They last a year the hair just last a year but, the maintenance is over two months.

Speaker 3 1:03:14

But yeah got it.

Speaker 2 1:03:15

It's a great Investment for someone that wants you know their hair to be long, and then they could do so many things yeah, you could still watch it. Put it up in a ponytail.

Speaker 3 1:03:26

That's an appropriate investment, if that's what you want very seamless that, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 1:03:30

Yeah, do you wanna see? I really don't care. I show everybody I'll be you feel so beautiful?

Networking and Collaboration in the Industry

Speaker 1 1:03:35

It really does. Where can people go to stalk you like your personal Social if you want to give it out, or your business for hair extension when they find Nancy G Reese?

Speaker 2 1:03:46

Nancy G Reese, they can go stalk me there. I'm about to put my I think I'm private, but Business only noticeable impressions. Yes, that's where you can find me. I am on South Congress In Austin, texas, and I've read a booth in Miami part-time, so I'm in Miami every two months if you need anything, but yeah.

Speaker 3 1:04:11

I'm high city.

Speaker 1 1:04:12

Yeah, I love my oh. Eventually we've got to get involved with Nancy where we can do some kind of podcast, give away with her like network to get oh, yes or something.

Speaker 3 1:04:21

Yeah and and it sounds like to I mean the same way you're supporting small business owners. I love large business owners like that's, that's gonna be impactful for that giveaway or something that maybe coordinate together.

Speaker 2 1:04:33

Yeah, I would love to anything that's gonna help, especially awesome $6,000 in giveaways. Yes, we want people to have like the luxury and just feel good about themselves and I'm like why not Austin?

Speaker 1 1:04:47

community, which is so cool. It's hard to find I know, and I gotta let Roger close it out. Yes, because he wasn't here last week and I had to do it by myself and I was like what the fuck is going on?

Speaker 3 1:04:57

She did her solo episode. No, I'm amazing.

Speaker 2 1:05:00

I have seen her like blossoms. She doesn't even need help.

Speaker 3 1:05:06

I'm sorry, roger, I don't know.

Speaker 2 1:05:07

Roger, you're amazing, honestly, like the duals are really awesome. I like it. I've been watching you guys in florist and I I'm very happy to have you guys been. You know, Absolutely on this, yeah absolutely.

Speaker 3 1:05:19

I think we're definitely happy to have you here, thankful for you to be vulnerable, open in ways that I'm sure people thought they knew you, but now they get to know a little bit more the real you, and we're excited for next week's episode and we want everybody to come back because this is the only place where they know it's going down going down in the lobby.

Speaker 1 1:05:40

I think the funniest line too is I'm always like it's going down, but our podcast will take you up. I can't wait for our stickers.