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Well , we are going to talk about an experience that we

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just had in Vegas , about a week and a half

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ago , that we are very thankful for . That's really what

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the episode is about People knowing us for

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cleaning business and we got flewed

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out or axed to

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come to Vegas to speak with

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Jobber . Can you explain what Jobber is ? For

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some people that may be like . What is that ?

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Yeah , so we were invited to speak

0:21

on their podcast called Masters

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of .

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Home Services Got a hat back here .

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And Jabra essentially is a customer

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relationship management system , one of the

0:33

largest platforms in

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the local service business space .

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One for them to even consider us was also

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inside , like you know what made you think

0:41

about us ? Obviously there's other cleaning business

0:43

people out there . Obviously

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there's other people in the local service business , and I think

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this was was their third season that they're recording for if I'm not mistaken

0:53

. So I think that that feeling it felt

0:55

good to be recognized because technically

0:58

, you know , we hear sometimes , sometimes

1:00

not all the time , from students a progress

1:02

that they've made from the course that we put out

1:04

, but it feels like they are are

1:07

.

1:07

These are people who are masters at their craft , masters

1:09

at the very highest level , um , whether

1:11

it be any local service business . So it was

1:13

truly humbling to be considered for

1:16

a platform where they're only talking to the top of the top

1:18

, um , masters now I'm not saying we're the

1:20

best or the only , but to be

1:22

even mentioned in the same

1:24

room as other people , which is absolutely amazing

1:27

. So that would be number one . Number two

1:29

there are talented people in this world

1:31

and everyone has the ability to do what they're good

1:33

at , and I say so many pieces had to come together

1:35

to make that experience happen .

1:37

While we were there , we met other people . We met someone

1:39

in the window washing industry in

1:41

like the tri-state area of New York , new Jersey

1:43

. We met someone that had a lawn

1:45

Roofing Roofing . So it really was

1:48

interesting because we always say this

1:50

business model can work in any business , any

1:52

service-based business , and so we just went

1:54

out for fellowship tacos

1:56

and just had conversations around what

1:58

are you doing in your business ? And oh

2:00

, wow , didn't think about that and what am I doing in my

2:03

business ? And

2:05

that part of it is truly because when we speak , you know , factually

2:08

we've had , we've had coaches , mindset

2:10

coaches , you know we've had people that coach

2:12

us on the coaching side of it . But really , when

2:14

it comes to the business specific

2:17

side of a local service business , we

2:19

haven't really had people that we've had consistently

2:22

. So this also feels like it just

2:24

opens that door to have those conversations

2:26

with people about

2:28

what we're actually doing in this

2:31

side of the business , because you know we have multiple business in

2:33

this side of the business . When it comes to our

2:35

cleaning business specifically , it

2:37

opens those doors for us , which then

2:39

can open those doors for our students

2:42

, for the knowledge that we get and we decide

2:44

to pass on as well . And so number three

2:46

, timing . And we say

2:48

only God , like God , really planned this , the

2:50

event was not going to happen . If this did not

2:52

happen , if they didn't ask us to come out on this specific

2:55

week .

2:56

The eclipse made this happen .

2:58

The eclipse made this happen . Jabra made

3:00

this happen Simply because , if

3:02

you don't know , we're from New York but we live

3:04

in Dallas . We don't really have any family

3:07

here with us , and so

3:09

now we don't have our full-time nanny . We use

3:11

babysitters , which means we're not comfortable

3:13

with our daughter staying with them overnight , even

3:15

if they can do that , but not at this time . She's

3:18

in school . We wouldn't be able to bring

3:20

her , not because of school , because If , when

3:22

we were recording the podcast , who's going to be watching her

3:24

, that was the biggest thing . Like what is she going to be doing

3:26

? So it was a matter of figuring out

3:29

if we had anyone that could

3:31

come down to stay with

3:33

her while we went

3:35

to Vegas to do this recording . And

3:37

one of my friends wasn't able

3:40

to do it work reasons and so we're

3:42

like we're about to have to tell them no , first

3:44

opportunity where things are getting paper . We're like , oh , we're about to have to tell them no , first opportunity

3:46

where things are getting paper . Like , oh , we're about to have to tell them no . And then realized

3:49

that my godmother and her

3:51

sons were coming down for the solar eclipse . So

3:54

we were like really in passing

3:56

of each other . We were in Vegas Sunday

3:58

to Tuesday . She was in town Sunday

4:00

to Tuesday Between

4:02

working her schedule of the plan

4:04

she had with solar eclipse

4:06

, I'm sorry and the babysitters getting

4:08

involved helping to pick her up from school . That's

4:12

what made this possible . And once again

4:14

we said only God made this happen

4:17

on this week , because if

4:19

it was any other week the answer would have been no

4:21

, we can't make it Absolutely , basically

4:24

. Or we could make it , but somebody got to watch the child

4:26

outside of the studio and she's

4:28

going to cry .

4:28

I mean maybe that would

4:30

have worked , because it would have been an hour

4:33

or so . I mean looking back , it probably

4:35

could have worked , just hang out .

4:36

Because there's no sound . You can't hear it .

4:37

You can't hear the sound . Looking back , it might have worked . We

4:40

could have probably pulled it up .

4:41

Okay .

4:47

Luckily for us , the the solar eclipse happened and , you know , with the family coming down , we were able

4:49

to make it happen . But also there was one , there was one gem about the solar eclipse that

4:51

I don't even think about . Um , this actually

4:53

happened in church the other day when

4:55

they were talking about everyone was , everyone

4:57

was focused on this solar eclipse . Right , they

4:59

were planning for it , like your family came

5:02

down , they were prepared for it , and

5:04

some people were like you know what ? You know what happened

5:06

, is it happens ? They was were talking about the different perspectives of

5:08

that event happening . There were people who planned

5:11

the entire year around being in the right

5:13

place , which was Dallas .

5:13

Texas For years , because they knew from six , seven

5:15

years ago where it was going to be .

5:17

Right place , right time . The location your aunt

5:19

literally flew down to be in Dallas , which is going

5:21

to be the epicenter of of it in the US . I

5:23

guess right , and for us it was like

5:25

we didn't really care , we flew out when she mentioned it to

5:27

me .

5:28

I'm like what I never heard of this . She's

5:30

like what ?

5:31

Where are you living ? I didn't know that people planned and they traveled

5:33

and they made things like that and that traffic in Dallas

5:35

was crazy , but we actually flew out . And

5:40

when the eclipse happened it didn't happen the time

5:43

, we didn't know when it happened , we didn't get to experience

5:45

it .

5:45

We saw pictures .

5:46

We were told , like you can't really experience

5:48

what was here , and that's the problem . We were

5:50

talking about the perspective of just being a

5:52

passerby in life . There were people

5:55

who planned for that event , who showed up for the event to

5:57

make sure they were in the right place , right time for an event that happens

5:59

once in a lifetime , or once every , whatever

6:01

the years are , and there were people taking

6:10

in the sites that are around us , right

6:12

. So that was another gem

6:15

about the eclipse .

6:16

So God made the eclipse happen .

6:17

He also made it happen for us to get on that podcast .

6:19

He made it happen for us because , if not , baby

6:21

, but yes , thank you . Thank you , god , as usual

6:23

. The fourth thing that we had when it came to

6:25

the experiences keep sharing your story . We

6:28

were found just by sharing our story on social

6:30

media for the last seven years

6:32

. So , yes , I know , in this day and age

6:34

it may not take you seven years , especially

6:37

with TikTok , people go viral all the time

6:39

, but sometimes they can't remain consistent

6:41

with it , but

6:45

we've been sharing for the past seven years , and so we asked them

6:47

how did you find us ? And she said , well

6:49

, we were looking because there was another cleaning business

6:51

owner there . We didn't get to connect with her , though

6:53

, but she was like we were looking for another

6:56

cleaning business owner . She was like you guys weren't

6:58

hard to find . I like searched

7:00

, put you guys on YouTube and I found you guys right

7:02

away . And we're like , oh , okay , cool

7:04

, because we've been doing this podcast

7:07

for over two years . But it's not like we

7:09

have tons of accolades on

7:11

the podcast and it's always , you

7:13

know , thankful that someone is listening and not an award

7:15

winning podcast . Right , it's not an award winning podcast

7:18

, but that in not yet but we

7:20

know that you guys subscribe , we know that you guys

7:22

write reviews and those are ways that we know that

7:24

someone is listening or based on the downloads and things

7:26

like that . But for them to find us in that

7:28

way , it kind of is like just keep putting it

7:30

out there , it

7:39

don it out there . It don't got to be perfect . If you see our first video , youtube videos from when we started to now

7:41

, and then when we look back in a year or two , so on and so forth , it don't got to be perfect , but the information is is just the same that we're saying , regardless of how it looks

7:43

. So shout out to them for finding us and shout

7:45

out to us for being consistent for seven years on social

7:48

media .

7:48

Yeah , keep sharing your story people . It's funny

7:50

because I just recently posted a video

7:53

one of our first YouTube videos on a podcast

7:55

and it was about us paying off

7:57

our debt , because you realize there are people out there who don't

7:59

even know where you started at . Yeah , and I

8:01

always say , find out more

8:04

about the person where they started versus

8:06

trying to find out where they are today . Where did they start before

8:08

you followed them ? What were they doing before you followed them

8:10

? What were they doing before you bought something from

8:12

them ? Find

8:19

out more about the person , the individual , the family , the coach , whatever it is . Find out what they were

8:21

doing before you decided to work with them so that you can see more of a well-rounded view

8:23

of them so I posted that video and that was one of our

8:25

highest viewed videos , like recently . I was like , oh , this video

8:27

had was was on

8:29

the iphone looking down

8:32

and if you guys are on youtube , we got a three camera

8:35

setup here right now and we have a three camera setup . We got a three camera setup here right now and

8:37

we have a three camera setup .

8:38

We had a one camera set .

8:40

We had an iphone sitting in front of us and

8:42

we're recording a video and I

8:44

really released recently posted that video

8:46

because my friend andre was like yo post

8:48

your old stuff like you never know who's gonna find it

8:50

. So remaining consistent , but then

8:53

also keep sharing your story super important

8:55

, guys , that you never know where it may take

8:57

you . There is some someone out there that's looking to

8:59

find out more about something

9:01

that you know , something that you've gone

9:03

through , something that you've accomplished , something that you've learned

9:06

, but you don't know until you get there . So stop being

9:08

selfish with the information that you have and start

9:10

sharing yeah , I

9:12

agree , just keep sharing your story .

9:14

And the last thing we had here was just , it's

9:17

really mind-blowing of the

9:19

little we say little little idea

9:21

that we had of the cleaning business , how

9:24

, what it's allowed us to do and where

9:26

it's brought us today . Right , we

9:28

would have never considered that when

9:30

we started this back in 2017 about

9:32

six , six and a half , seven years ago that

9:35

we would be on any platform

9:37

first of all let alone this

9:39

platform like Jobber , but any platform

9:41

speaking about the cleaning business , that we

9:44

would be anywhere teaching

9:46

people how to do this and changing their

9:48

life and generational wealth , or that

9:50

we would have rental properties because of this

9:53

, so on and so forth , that we would be traveling the world

9:55

because of it . So , that

9:57

little idea get

10:00

started on it and do

10:02

it as you , as you grow right , a

10:04

lot of times we want it to be perfect before

10:06

we get started and things

10:09

like that . Yes , there may be some things , some foundation

10:11

you want to have or need to have

10:13

in place , but make the mistakes . That's

10:15

part of the process , right , that's part of you

10:17

growing , that's part of the business growing , that's part of you

10:19

learning and that's what helped to bring us

10:21

here today .

10:23

I happy you keep looking at me . No , I was um

10:25

listen to you oh , okay get started , get

10:27

fancy later , don't don't try to

10:29

figure it out all and that's . And that's me just putting

10:31

my own advice out there too , because I think

10:33

at this stage it was a lot easier to get

10:35

started at when we was earlier , because

10:38

it's like nobody's looking and then you

10:40

get some people looking and then you start holding

10:42

back more because you want things to be perfect and it

10:44

kind of slows you down . But I would rather

10:46

you guys , I would rather us do something , take

10:48

the action , figure it out along the way and then

10:50

, if it doesn't work , hey , you go back , you make

10:52

adjustments and you learn as you grow . Some

10:54

people call it building the parachute while

10:57

you jump out the plane . Now I'm not . Let's

11:03

not take that if the plane is , listen don't

11:05

, don't take that I ain't doing that part now , literally

11:08

but that's what they call it building a parachute . You

11:10

know , as you jump out the plane so that you

11:12

are more , you're gonna be more , you're gonna move

11:14

faster , you're gonna react faster , you're gonna make adjustments

11:17

faster when you're out the plane and you're trying to

11:19

figure it out , versus we just sit on a on a

11:21

plane and you've got all the time to build a parachute , how

11:24

are you going to know if it works or not until you jump

11:26

out .

11:27

Let's change this analogy , but we do

11:29

just want to thank Jabba for the opportunity

11:32

and when those podcasts come out , we'll

11:34

be sure to tag it . We'll probably put it on our

11:36

platforms ourselves and to any

11:38

other company that is listening . I think we are great

11:40

candidates to speak on the

11:43

cleaning business and anything else .

11:44

Really , we have a lot that we speak about not just

11:46

the cleaning One episode was mainly about the cleaning

11:48

business and the other was about generation building

11:51

, generation of wealth for your family . Some things we're doing

11:53

for Lonnie and our second kid

11:55

on the way . So one was about

11:57

the cleaning and one wasn't . We can talk about . We talked about marriage

12:00

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