Carey Zarate, Artistic Endeavors

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And the the thing with artists is they have their they know what they can

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do. You know? I can paint. I can draw. I can create jewelry.

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I can wire. But what they don't know is what

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else can that piece of art do? Like, they may not be

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able to see, okay. Well, I've made this great drawing. Now what can I

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do? Right. They might think, oh, I can do a greeting card, and that's neat.

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That's one avenue. But what if you could make stickers? What if you could make

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it into earrings? What if it could be the coolest croc charm ever?

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Neighborly in Fairview, Texas. Let's make your business dream a

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community success story. Howdy, friends, and welcome back to another

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episode of Getting Neighborly. I'm your host, Super Dave Quinn. And today, I have an

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exceptional guest and neighbor on our show. Please welcome my friend and

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good neighbor, Carrie Lynn Zarate. Carrie embarked on

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her entrepreneurial journey two decades ago, starting from a spare room in her

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home, initially part time endeavor, and she was

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really building it to a retirement plan. And

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thanks to COVID nineteen, a lot of us experienced this.

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She was unexpectedly let go from her full time job. This became a

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pivotal moment and prompted her to elevate her business to a full time

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pursuit, and, man, I'm glad she did. Alongside the challenge,

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that challenge, she also had some health issues that necessitated

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really reevaluating her business strategy. And today,

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she's the proud owner and operator of Artistic Endeavors, which is a

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vibrant Fairview, Texas storefront located here in the Fairview Town

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Center. And she's been here since May of twenty twenty three. Carrie, I can't

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believe it's really been long. Seems like yesterday that you were here. Good

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morning, and welcome to the show. Good morning. Thank you very much for

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having me. So, to set this up a little bit, I mean,

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I mean, kinda did the introduction, and that's that's fine and all. But let let

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the neighbors know, right Mhmm. Who you are, why are you

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so passionate about what you're doing. I really thought I was a creative.

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People think I'm creative. And then I met you, and I'm like, I'm not

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even a baby creative compared to what you're doing. So, give us give us

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a little bit about a story. Who are you? You know? And and let our

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neighbors, get to know you. Okay. Well, I am a

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creative. I love to make anything. And whether that's

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photography, which I did for a long time, and actually still do, but that's

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that was my part time business was photography. And I didn't make a lot, but

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I did a lot of photography. And, then,

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back in 02/2018, maybe 02/2019 before the

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pandemic, about a year or two before the pandemic, somebody was like, hey. I need

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you to see this. And they showed me these earrings.

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Okay. He actually brought them to me, on my one year anniversary,

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the actual earrings that kick started this whole journey. And he says

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amazing. I know. And he's like and as soon as I saw those, I was

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like, we can make this and this and

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this, and and my mind just flies in 400 directions at one time,

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and all I need is a spark. So you've been this. I won't have any

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ideas in my head, and then you'll say a word, and I'll go, ah. That

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is a true statement if I've ever heard one. Yeah. And so that's how my

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brain works. It's not that I have all the knowledge in my head. It's I

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mean, it's there somewhere, but I have to have the spark to find it. And

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I and other people inspire me by coming up with stuff, which

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then feeds my creativity to come up with cool things

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inspired by them. So tell me a little bit of how I mean,

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tell the folks how you landed in Fairview and and the town center

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because you're you're operating out of your home, and and you made this

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you know, start to make the transition. Yeah. So I started in Lucas,

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and then we moved into Allen. And initially, I was looking in Allen

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for a place because I wanted to be really close to home. And I came

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over here and, actually met you.

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And I loved that you were

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interested in my small business. Like you asked me all these questions and I was

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like, Okay, so maybe this is kind of a cool thing. So I met the

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economic side over there and I met the economic side over here and I went,

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No, this is where I want to be. And I also liked that,

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Fairview is like a small town, but we're right in the middle of all the

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other stuff. Right? So I love that feeling. And

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this complex that we're in, I have a lot of flexibility. If I

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wanna have a late night, ladies night, I'm great. If I wanna have an early

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morning 6AM shoot, I'm great. Shoot being photography, not anything

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else. But I have so much flexibility here. It is awesome. And

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we have other creative things here that really just feed back in. It's

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a very, you know, very good creative area. I

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will say that's one thing that I have loved having you in,

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in Fairview and in the town center is you

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never met an idea you didn't like. Right? And we sort of flushed out. Right?

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Like, so we've done entrepreneurial markets. We've done a

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number of things. Artists and markets. Arts and markets.

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And it truly has been fun, just creating.

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Right? And and I think that's one of the things that you bring

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to the town center is just this. You know, if one of the business

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owners has an idea about how they wanna promote their business or something

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or or, you know, the Lovejoy School District or any number of

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resident, one comes in and says, I want a T shirt that has my dog's

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picture on it that I can give to, you know, somebody.

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You you can do that, but you also say, okay. Here's 10 other things you

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can do with that. And and you let them be their creative self. I love

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that about your shop. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. And I don't even

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half the time, I don't even know what I'm gonna think of until it comes

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out of my mouth. And then I'm like, oh, that's cool. Let's do that.

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So okay. So you've got the the little earring that kinda kicked it

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off. Mhmm. And I'm wearing my own custom lines. You know, that started

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with this little machine. Now now tell me sort of give people a

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breath of what I mean, because literally, you can do so many different

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things, and I and I don't need you to just go down the list. But

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then give some examples of the variety

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of things in that people could

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engage you at. Yeah. So my my joke is that I can literally

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print on anything. We can print on a 60

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inch blanket in house. I can laser cut

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or engrave on two foot, four foot pieces of wood. I can laser

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engrave on little bitty necklaces, earrings. I mean, we also

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have we have sublimation printers. We have embroidery. So we do embroidery. I was I

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was showing earlier I made my own little patches because I wanted something custom for

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me with my dragonfly. And we've done embroidery. We've

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done the printing. We do the signs, the banners. My favorite is basic

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you do basic things like political signs. Right? Like, if you want to Yeah. Yeah.

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We can do all the yard stuff. The basic stuff. For sure. For sure. And

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But you also bring this Our stuff is better quality in the sense

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because I'm so picky. That's for sure. You won't let

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me buy cheap cheap materials. But we don't charge out the

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wazoo either. So we keep it affordable, and we make sure that it's affordable, but

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I want it to last. If you're making an investment you know, I came from

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the no income build yourself, so I know how to

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budget. And I make sure that we're making things that people can work with

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their budget, but still get the best bang that they can get and something totally

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different. Well, what I love too is, like, for the young

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entrepreneur. And okay. Maybe I should take that out. But in my mind,

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it's children who seem to be real creative and they make and draw stuff. Oh,

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I love that. But you open up a door in a world to them that

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once they create it, then you let them put it on any of these different

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materials Mhmm. That they then can go sell, and

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it's sort of this custom product. I mean, you're you're sort of the

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manufacturing, you know, I mean, you they can

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create, you manufacture, they sell, and it opens up

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a whole new world for small business, you know, in terms of that. I really

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love And it's not just little kids. I love working with artists,

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because and the the thing with artists is they have their they know what they

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can do. You know, I can paint. I can draw. I can create

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jewelry. I can wire. But what they don't know is what

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else can that piece of art do? Like, they may not be

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able to see, okay. Well, I've made this great drawing. Now what can I

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do? Right. They might think, oh, I can do a greeting card, and that's neat.

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That's one avenue. But what if you could make stickers? What if you could make

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it into earrings? What if it could be the coolest croc charm ever? What

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if it was a blanket that somebody could snuggle? There's so many

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avenues, and they don't even know about it. So a lot of the

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artists out there that they get stuck and they have to struggle because not everybody

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can invest large amounts in what they feel a lot. Art is

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a luxury. So what we try to do is we make it what we call

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usable art. I like that term. Usable art. Usable

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art. They still get to surround themselves by this gorgeous and and

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things that make them feel and, you know, inspire them,

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but they're not in they're not having to take a huge investment if

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they can't afford it. Right. Hopefully, they can sell it. Right? Like, they don't wanna

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buy a million amount of thousands of dollars. You know, for example, like, I

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love flowers and stuff. I put it on my cup, and that this is a

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sticker. Literally a sticker. I couldn't so I didn't

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have to pay too much for that. I mean, I made it. I didn't pay

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anything. Well, but they don't have to invest in the machine and then figure out

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how to be able you know? Now they're a sticker making company and, like, look.

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I just wanna draw the art. I don't wanna make the stickers. A lot of,

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especially young kids that do a lot of stickers, and they'll sell them at

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school for a dollar, 2 dollars each, and it cracks me up. And and

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they just go to town or, you know, they'll raise money based on some we

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had actually, we even work with non non drawing. I'd made a bunch of

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labels and and specialty stuff for, salsa makers and

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for, macaron makers, a young, young

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baker. And that little step of

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putting a little box with her label on top of it jumped her

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prices up by three times. She was Oh my gosh. Now she's not putting it

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in a ziplock baggie. Now she's putting it in this little box and

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suddenly she's a baker. You know what I mean? Presentation

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matters. Right? It totally does. And so she put it was funny. She said she

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told me that she had her little little stand and she was not even selling

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them for a dollar each. At the next one, she sold them for

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$5 each and sold out. Ah. And I'm like, it's

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become pretty. And and and she was a great baker,

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but, you know, we all our eyes are drawn to the cool and the pretty

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and the unique. We go straight to it. So I love things like

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that, and I love seeing especially my young entrepreneurs. They are

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so creative. In their minds, they come up with

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things. In addition to that side of the business, I also

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love how you have allowed the corporate side of

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business to do customized

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gifts. Right? We only think about swag and that sort of thing, and you sort

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of take that to the next level because, yeah, you could order a thousand somethings

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from wherever. But what you your

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imagination allows people to be creative in their gift,

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if they love art or if they love western themes or whatever it is,

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and and you really open the door for them. And it's not something that 10

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other people have just ordered also. Right? Because they're looking at the same

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catalog. You really do allow the corporate gifts to be

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personalized and almost individualized. Does that make sense?

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Absolutely. And they should be. Part of the problem that's out there

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is most of the corporate brand, you know, gifting that

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you try to do, it's all generic. Or the promos that you give away, it's

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all generic, and all you're doing is handing somebody something that they're gonna throw away.

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Right? And I'm I'm a small business owner. I don't have

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money to throw away. Like, I just don't. I can't give somebody if I was

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gonna do that, I'd hand everybody a dollar bill instead of, you know, at least

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they could buy a, you know, a Might be more effective. Right? It'd be more

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effective. They remember me. But what I try to do is I try

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to talk to the business owners and whoever's doing this and get

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a sense of them. So what they wanna do with their promos is they I

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want them to give something that's gonna tell that person and remind them of

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that brand and then something that's usable.

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And also, we work in very small batches. I will make one croc

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charm. I will make one eyeglass cleaner. I will make

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whatever so that they can try things out because sometimes you don't even

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know what's going to work in your area. So this way they can, oh, you

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know what? I'm doing event. I'm going to try 20 of these and 20 of

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these and we'll see how they go. And, you know, I mean, you know that

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we've gone through bags. Like, okay. This bag was super popular. Not so much this

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much. But and then when they get the bag they love, you know, you're they're

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like, why didn't I get the same bag again? I love the other bag. So

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you know? But that gives them a chance to kind of find what's good for

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them, without, you know, going through it. But a lot of times,

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they just give away the same old, same old. So I like having things that

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people use, usable Yep. And then and then

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stuff that is unique. Really sort of on brand for whoever's giving it.

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Right? And and you recently I love the little was it the western

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for the writs? That was the western sort of leather

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flat, which is great, but it gives great presentation. Yeah.

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So it was really pretty. We engraved the Ritz Carlton's logo on it, and then

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we filled it with it was a Texas gift. So we filled it with, you

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know, Buc ee's things and salsa and, you know, chips

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and pizza. Great Texas stuff. Right? Texas, Texas Robinson. I mean

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so I mean, that's amazing. You're working with entrepreneurs,

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artists and local brands in that basket too. Well,

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you're you're going from that to doing stuff for the Ritz Carlton.

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I love that, you know, that was created right here in Fairview, Texas.

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Right? The an aspect that you bring to our community

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is this connection to a wider, you know,

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broader world. And it was really fun because in that basket, I was able to

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include they they told me what they wanted. You know, we want chocolate. We want

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this. We want that. And I said, well, can I source it all? You know,

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here's your price. So then I sourced it from, you know, Rascobucci

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has the best chocolates. They have those armadillo turds that I love. And I thought

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armadillo turd, Texas basket, done. I I

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got a a Jimmy j sauce salsa, and we did special

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labels to make them things. They actually called me afterwards and said they had

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an order for a case to for for one of the clients

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to take back to Florida with her. That's amazing. How would that

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have ever happened had that client who was staying at the Ritz Carlton

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not gotten that welcome gift basket with their chocolate and their

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salsa and all of those things. It was to me, that's I was like,

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that just made my day. Well, we took some of the chocolate. I

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took those at your Oh, yeah. Yeah. Your I I took them

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at your recommendation, and I took those to Japan and Taiwan, this

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last year. So there are people, you know, all over Japan and Taiwan

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eating armadillo church From Texas. From

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Texas. From Fairview. Yeah. From Fairview. That's amazing.

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Alright. Alright. So we've kinda talked about some of your projects.

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One of the things what you know, again, Fairview's really the

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our our focus and our our passion is for the small to medium

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sized business owner to help them grow and and and, you know, from young

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kids to the artisan, to the creative

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who needs to plug in and figure out how to market their product.

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What's some what's some advice you would give aspiring

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entrepreneurs when they're starting this creative

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business process? I mean, what is what are some of the lessons you've learned?

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I mean, you know, going from part time to full time, it's not it

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this is not an easy endeavor. Right? No. No. It's fun. I

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hope. I I've I've loved it. I love the energy they learn. Love love

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work. They truly love my work. What is what are some of

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the lessons, that you've kinda discovered when you go from part

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time to full time into a brick and mortar business? What are some things

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that, you know, they might can take away from that? Well, for one thing,

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I'm not like anybody else, and I don't try to be with it like anybody

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else. I'm also not in competition with anybody else. And I think

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that's really a hard thing because when you're first starting off,

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you're like, well, they're selling this, so I could sell that. Or, you know,

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how do I compare to them? Or how do I compare to this? Or what's

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how's their soap versus my soap? There is more than

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enough business for everybody. And if you focus on

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being you and your authentic self and you making your authentic product,

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that's what they're gonna want. They don't want a replica of somebody else's product. So

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you don't wanna try to be others. You wanna be you and then try to

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look for what what's not out there. You know? I mean, I try to fill

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a hole. So, yes, I can make the shirts. Yes. I can make the

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sign. Yes. I can do all of that stuff, but I try to focus on

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what I do that's different. Like, putting somebody's face on a stir stick.

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Nobody does that but me. Right? I'm just saying. Putting

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somebody larger than life as a big head, with a little baby

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body, that is totally me. You know? You see big heads. We call them fat

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heads. You see the fat heads out there. They freak me out because they're just

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a floating head. So I put a little body with the big head. That is

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my fault. Body to sit on. Yeah. It has to. You can't have just a

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head floating. It weirds me out. So I have to have the the the body

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underneath it, and I love, you know, those and we put them on this kind

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of, like, coroplast. Yeah. So they're not paper. They're gonna

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last. You know? They can bend them. And then, you know, we make them into

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little fans. We make them into all the wavy things. This is my favorite.

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You know? So I actually made a couple of hundred of these for a small

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business to give out in the summer at a booth. They

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were the most popular booth. Everybody I

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bet. Especially here in Texas. Right? Oh, yeah. No. It was fantastic.

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And people come in, they're like, oh, that's great. And, and it cracks

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me up because they don't throw them away. They keep them in their car. This

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is that that's a usable gift. Like, a I I love that.

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And the the fat heads and those kind of things you're talking about, if

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they're like us, like, we've had them created and and they end up in our

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garage. Right? Like, so my wife like, we'll put them on the wall. The kids

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don't wanna throw them away. Hey. That's my head. Don't throw me away. Yeah. You

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know, so we put them on the walls in the garage, and they're kind of

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fun. And and, again, because of what how you make them, they last. Right?

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So Oh, yeah. Mine are made literally from yard sign material. Four millimeter.

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They last. I this is funnily enough,

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this is the year when I really started making

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the the fourth grade. So at fourth grade in Lovejoy, they have a tradition.

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And it started, I guess, fourth grade for the 2025

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class. And we made big heads, and they leave the school, and we

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wave the big heads around. And the kids all leave the school, and I probably

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do, like, a 50 big heads for the fourth graders for Lovejoy

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every year. And this is the big year where all of

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those fourth grade heads are gonna come out at graduation.

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Oh. And I cannot wait. So last year, we had two

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kids that graduated early. So people saw two

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little kids, and then they came in and got their senior big head. So then

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they have a senior big head and they have their fourth grade big head, you

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know, where the teeth are uneven. The hair is great. I'm sure they

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love it. You know, the guy that's six foot four, he was only like, you

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know, three foot tall at the time. I mean, it's awesome to see

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those variations and to see, you know, the the beauty of the of the child

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and the beautiful woman that she's become, you know, as a senior and just to

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see those those, combos. So this year, it'll be a fun fun year for Lovejoy

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because it's where the big head started. Fourth grade class really

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had big head start. That was actually, started by, one of the parents.

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She's like, I gotta find something fun. You know? We gotta do it. And I'm

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like, oh, man. Let's go. Again, she had an idea because because I already

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did it for seniors. So you talk about the abundance mindset. I

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love that. Right? That people want an authentic thing from an

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authentic person, not a replica. Right? And we're seeing that, like, with clothing.

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Mhmm. We're seeing people I don't want a big brand. I wanna I wanna take

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that and make it my own. And and and then, you know, something that was

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$30 now is a hundred bucks because it's, you know, personalized

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and and and in some way. What are some

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other steps? What are some of the the lessons you've learned just from being in

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a business owner? So, yeah, you you've got the authentic product

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now. Are there some basic block and tackling things that you've

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kinda learned along the way? You have got to understand

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where all your money is coming and going and everything.

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You need to know, especially if you're a creator. People go, oh,

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well, you know, that little thing, it was 67¢ for

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the plastic and the and the you know, like, they go, oh, why is this

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so expensive? It's just, you know, an earring thing and piece of plastic. Yeah. I

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had to design it. I had to print it. I had to buy the

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plastic. I had to, cut it. Then I had to pay for somebody

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to put it together. Then I have packaging. And then I, you know, there's all

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of these things. And a lot of small business owners, a lot of business owners

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when they're getting started, they don't think of the details. Also, they

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try to do everything themselves, and that becomes

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just I mean, you can't you can't create if you're trying to cover everything.

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So aligning yourself or partnering up with somebody that can help

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you, like, I am totally not business. I had to learn a lot,

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but, you know, I try to like, what I found early on that I couldn't

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manage myself. You remember my first year when I didn't have a real manager? It

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was horrible. And I have a manager this

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year, and it's been the world of difference because, you know, Vicky no, Carrie. Go

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sit at your desk. No. Go do this. I know you're gonna do that. This

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is what's You'll do what you do. I can't do that. You go do that.

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And she tells the guys, you know, she's like they're like, well, we asked Carrie,

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and she's like, don't ask Carrie. Carrie will always have something more fun to

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do. You gotta do the orders first. So they all know not to come to

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me because I'm like, oh, yeah. Let's go do this. You know? So, I mean,

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like, learn what you're good at, but also learn what

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you're not good at and accept it. That's okay. It's okay. We're not all built

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to be perfect at those things. Right? Absolutely. But you

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do wanna have a good understanding. You you absolutely wanna understand,

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you know, understand the part of your your business of whatever you're doing. You just

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wanna kinda make sure you take the classes. I I am constantly learning.

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You never stop learning. There's always something out there that you don't know,

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I promise. And I just I if I don't know something, I just

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go go read about it, learn about it, take a class, go to

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a little bit higher, go to a conference, you know, whatever I can do to

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get information. You've you've been able to really work

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well with other business owners in and out of, the town

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center and in in around, like, I think that's an important

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piece of what we're offering from an ecosystem. Yeah. It's

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sort of just this organic conversations around what's

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possible, what we could do, how do you how do you team up with different

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business owners in in a different way, but both of you, you know, benefit from

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that? Would you say that? I mean, have you been able to do that? It

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feels like it. Oh, no. No. Yeah. But the first thing is it's not about

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me. It's about how I can help them. Right. Okay. It

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always comes back to me getting help. There's never been that situation where it

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doesn't somehow magically come back, but I don't go into it

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expecting anything from me ever. I always go in it,

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and how can I help them? Because we go we

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rise and we learn by helping others. That it's just a fact. The

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more people that I educate, the more people that I train, the more people

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that I help in their business, the more people that I

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teach something new to, it just explodes out,

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and and it always comes back around somehow. It always magically comes

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back around even if they're not using me as a business. You know, I get

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phone calls. I'm like, oh, I heard you did this, this, and this. I need

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this. You know? Like, that's how we got Ritz Carlton, actually. That

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contract was because I met them. I had done a,

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some stuff for a nonprofit, and then they invited us to the dinner that

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they were hosting for free. So because they were giving us a free

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ticket to this charity dinner, I didn't wanna come into handed.

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So I said, well, your chefs are donating their time. Give me their

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names and let me make a gift for the chefs. So I made 10

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gifts for the chefs just as a thank you because we were we were getting

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this thousand dollar dinner for free. I'm gonna bring some of it back.

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So I made these gifts, which included that carry all, the

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little catch all, And it included some other stuff that was more chef

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oriented. And we put the logo of the charity on it, but then we put

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their name, chef, set it up personalized because it was for them.

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And when they gave it, well, the one of the people that was attending there

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was the the person from Ritz Carlton, and she's like, these are amazing.

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Where did these come from? And so they gave her my name, and we met

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and talked, and she was like, okay. This is awesome. So, I mean, again,

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I I didn't go there expecting anything. You know? I was getting free

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amazing food, so, you know, win win there. But but just by giving

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that, it came back around to me. And then from that, I was

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able to then give it back to our chocolatier, give it back to our salsa

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people, give it back to, you know Yeah. Other businesses that I could help, you

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know, do whatever I could do. So Man, I I love the

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philosophy, and I knew this was gonna happen when we had this conversation because I

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know who you are, and and I think that's why we connected so well. I

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mean, one, creative, and I can't come see you because then we

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spend an hour and we spin off into all this world.

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Fun. I love it when you come And then we get in trouble by our

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by our managers. And you're a person. Yes. They

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know. Like, no. No. Y'all can't get together because we don't have time. I know.

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You got too much work today, Carrie. Come on. Get back at your desk. Do

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not talk to yes. That's awesome. Well, listen. I know this will

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actually block me in. Like, she'll move boxes, and I literally won't be able to

437
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break away from my space. And then she'll she'll refill my water cup.

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She'll bring me snacks. Anything to keep me at my desk. I know

439
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when I when I come to the door, she's, like, instantly, like,

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if it if it's something, like, you can't get involved, she's up and, like, no.

441
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No. Not even by me. She's a pretty good blocker.

442
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Victoria has been game changer for the store. She and she literally came from

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medical background and has learned all of this stuff. But,

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again, I knew her personality, and I knew her

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00:26:58,740 --> 00:27:02,340
commitment. And I knew that she had what I

446
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needed because she also was not afraid of me at all. Like, you

447
00:27:05,860 --> 00:27:09,640
know, you will smack me down in a minute.

448
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And that I need that. I need somebody that but she also

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00:27:13,795 --> 00:27:16,595
knows when I also she's like, okay. You need a play date. Let's go. Let's

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let's what do you wanna do? And she'll be like, oh my god. Creative juice

451
00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:23,340
and sparks going. Right? We need we need that every now and then. Yeah.

452
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She's pretty cool. And I yeah. When I get to play, my

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favorite time. I have my machines, and I look at all my machines. They're all

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back here now. Let's school series. Let's

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give everybody let's do what we're supposed to be doing here and and let

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people find you. Where can they find you online? Where can they find you, you

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00:27:40,105 --> 00:27:43,784
know, in person, on socials? Tell people how they connect with

458
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you so that they can start, engaging and having this amazing

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experience working with you. Well, everything social

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is, Carrie Lynn creates, and I think my Facebook

461
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,380
is there. So that's the same for YouTube, for Instagram,

462
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for for Facebook. And that's because that's me.

463
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I specifically separated Artistic Endeavors from me

464
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because I feel like Artistic Endeavors is needed in every city. Like, I

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everybody needs a store where they can go and be

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creative or order cool things and stuff like that. So the

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stuff that I personally create, my earrings and things like that that are my design,

468
00:28:21,530 --> 00:28:25,210
that's Carrie Lynn creates. So that's what all the social media is about, and it's

469
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also been around for a long time. Right. Artistic Endeavors, is

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our storefront. So, our website is just

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artistic-endeavors.com, and,

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you can, you know, go there and you can see all the stores. We're constantly

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changing it. So everybody my favorite question, people is like,

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can I look on your website? Is all your stuff on your website? I don't

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00:28:46,570 --> 00:28:49,690
think the Internet's big enough to hold everything that I make. Like, I just Well,

476
00:28:49,690 --> 00:28:51,710
and, honestly, because you're,

477
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it really is something you need to experience. I I highly recommend our artists out

478
00:28:57,450 --> 00:29:01,105
there if you're watching this or seeing this. Just go Got

479
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it. Plans to you don't need anything. Don't plan on buying anything necessarily,

480
00:29:04,945 --> 00:29:08,405
but I promise you probably will walk out with something. Walk in

481
00:29:08,785 --> 00:29:12,005
and just let yourself sort of be creative.

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And and, again, you will find that, oh my

483
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,380
gosh. It's like a it's a very

484
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,400
freeing experience to say it's okay to be like, oh,

485
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,215
I wanna create this little earring The pictures.

486
00:29:28,294 --> 00:29:31,815
Thing that's with my art, and I've never been allowed to do that for some

487
00:29:31,815 --> 00:29:35,575
re I didn't know how. You really give people the freedom to do

488
00:29:35,575 --> 00:29:38,534
that. A lot is they don't know it's possible. I didn't know I could do

489
00:29:38,534 --> 00:29:42,250
that. I didn't know that this was a a a possibility. But when people

490
00:29:42,250 --> 00:29:45,850
come in here for the first time, it's always I love their reaction because they

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always go.

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00:29:50,490 --> 00:29:53,385
I've seen it. I've watched people come in and their mind just go.

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00:29:54,105 --> 00:29:56,945
And, they literally walk around the store, and I'm like, can we help you? And

494
00:29:56,945 --> 00:29:59,625
I'm like, just give me thirty minutes because they it's not a five minute look.

495
00:29:59,625 --> 00:30:03,305
I mean, there is something different in every little nook and cranny because we just

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00:30:03,305 --> 00:30:06,970
do so much. So there's not a lot of stuff on the website. We

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00:30:06,970 --> 00:30:09,690
try to post. We're trying to get better at that, but it's would never I

498
00:30:09,690 --> 00:30:13,530
mean, you you could never do it justice on the website. Yeah. You could

499
00:30:13,530 --> 00:30:17,290
list all these products and stuff, but then it's not now your social's

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a little you know, I would say, like, engaging on the social, you get a

501
00:30:21,050 --> 00:30:24,645
sense and a feel for it. Yeah. But, again, until you walk through the doors

502
00:30:25,445 --> 00:30:29,205
things, but it's and it's even different now. We we change up a lot. Like,

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00:30:29,205 --> 00:30:32,885
we change out the store every couple months. We just when we just

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00:30:32,885 --> 00:30:35,945
did a whole rearrange. So when you come in next time, it's gonna look different.

505
00:30:36,645 --> 00:30:40,370
So it's yeah. No. It's it's just Alright. Well, we'll put all your socials

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00:30:40,430 --> 00:30:43,710
and and links and and all the places we're supposed to, right, in in on

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the website and all that, on the episode so they can get it there.

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We are looking at the backside of JCPenney. So if you come to Fairview Town

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00:30:50,910 --> 00:30:54,285
Center, if you can find JCPenney on Stacy

510
00:30:54,285 --> 00:30:58,065
Road, we're right on the backside. Nice. I like it.

511
00:30:58,285 --> 00:31:01,725
It makes it super easy. Right across from Larks, if people are familiar with

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Larks Entertainment, you're now across the street. Now you

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00:31:05,325 --> 00:31:09,049
got, you know, you kinda got two different mild, mile push There's a

514
00:31:09,049 --> 00:31:11,370
lot of stuff to come in here and do. I mean, you come you go

515
00:31:11,370 --> 00:31:14,830
to Larks. Do you know they have musical bingo on Wednesday nights?

516
00:31:14,970 --> 00:31:18,170
Yeah. It I haven't even had to know yet, but it's awesome. Yard. It's the

517
00:31:18,170 --> 00:31:21,855
best thing ever. I love it. Musical bingo, and they I can

518
00:31:21,855 --> 00:31:25,695
leave singing songs. I mean, we were literally having sing along. I mean, everybody was

519
00:31:25,695 --> 00:31:29,295
singing, and it was awesome. It's the greatest. So yeah. So

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Wednesday nights, I close my store. I'll actually stay open and then walk over there

521
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,580
and have me my pizza. That's awesome. They have amazing

522
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,400
pizza. Right? Yeah. And then, yeah, with revolving up

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00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,160
here and all the choices. There's just there's this is a fun

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00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,895
place to be. Well and I so, again, I wanna say thank you on

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behalf of the town and on top of Fairview Economic Development Corporation

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and and the people and and all the folks.

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You you really have been an inspiration to the town. It it's helped

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us push forward the small business mindset and really who we're

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00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:06,300
targeted audience is. So we appreciate all that you've

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done. And, I I do. I wanna highly

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recommend if if come to Fairview, come check out, come

532
00:32:13,665 --> 00:32:16,385
come hang out in your store for just a little bit. I promise you'll walk

533
00:32:16,385 --> 00:32:20,065
away with a thousand different ideas of things you didn't know you needed

534
00:32:20,065 --> 00:32:23,585
and that you could create. And, literally, if you can draw it on

535
00:32:23,585 --> 00:32:26,725
paper, she can print it on just about anything, anywhere,

536
00:32:27,590 --> 00:32:31,290
and it becomes something that's already describe it. I can usually make it happen.

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I love it. Alright, folks. That's all from us today on getting everybody

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podcast. Remember, whether you're here in Fairview, Texas, or you're

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dreaming from afar, you're always part of our community. And as we

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