1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,080 Welcome to the Why Not Today podcast where we share and celebrate courage, determination, 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,360 the power of saying why not today. 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:14,400 I'm your host, Leslie Cain, and in each episode we dive into inspiring stories of individuals 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,200 who have taken bold steps, faced their fears, and embraced the possibilities of today. 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,680 From entrepreneurs to artists, dreamers to doers, we explore the moments when they said 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,240 enough waiting, why not today? 7 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:30,560 When it says we uncover the heartwarming, the audacious, and the transformative, whether 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:35,080 it's pursuing a lifelong passion, overcoming obstacles, or simply choosing joy, our guests 9 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,040 share their journeys and inspire us all. 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:42,920 I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Cain, who often said why not today. 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:49,800 And it's funny that Why Not Today came from somebody my dad knew that shared something 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:55,360 that he woke up one morning and he actually had to have some surgery. 13 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,600 And he was wearing an eye patch, which the logo for Why Not Today is my dad. 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,600 He had an eye patch on hand of our mustache. 15 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,360 So this gentleman posted on Face Social Media how he met my dad. 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,380 Or, no, he thought of my dad and he talked about all the things my dad did. 17 00:01:09,380 --> 00:01:11,200 And then he said, and we both said why not today? 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,560 And that's where the name came from. 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,000 And the reason I'm going this long story around, well, I met this man's wife the other last 20 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,840 night and she's like, oh, you know, my husband, I know your parents. 21 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,200 And then I'm like, this is my, where my podcast came from. 22 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,240 Your husband, she's like, oh my gosh, I had no idea. 23 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:28,880 So long story. 24 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:34,480 But yeah, so Why Not Today is a movement to inspire people to live their dreams, pursue 25 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,600 their dreams and just live their life. 26 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:37,840 We are not promised tomorrow. 27 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,240 We need to enjoy it. 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:45,320 And so I'm excited about my guest, Kylie Doll, who I met via a Facebook group. 29 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:48,800 And so if you're not playing on Facebook and you're not connecting and making friends, 30 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,280 you're missing out. 31 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,520 And we connected, she has a podcast that I was on a couple of weeks ago and I'm excited 32 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:55,880 to have you here, Kylie. 33 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,520 And I really don't know your backstory. 34 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:58,520 So it's fun. 35 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,160 People try to send me their bios ahead of time. 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,240 I'm like, I don't want to know. 37 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,960 I want to be able to uncover it together. 38 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,640 So Kylie, welcome to the Why Not Today podcast. 39 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:12,120 Share a little bit about you and your, or in your fun fact, and then we'll get started. 40 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,120 So awesome. 41 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,600 First of all, Leslie, thank you so much. 42 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,080 I really appreciate the time that we get to spend together. 43 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,040 So and I love helping podcasts out. 44 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,320 As you said, I have a podcast. 45 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,880 So that's how we're going to be able to learn and grow. 46 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:26,880 So thank you. 47 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:27,880 Absolutely. 48 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:28,880 Thank you. 49 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,240 About me, it's very, it's not simple, but I'm a serial entrepreneur. 50 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,760 I am a military brat. 51 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:42,880 And I had a grew up in a very chaotic, large family, middle child. 52 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,800 A lot of my siblings did not do well with the military life, but I did. 53 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:54,280 And I know with military kids and siblings, it's either you either do really well or you 54 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,240 don't, but I loved it, man. 55 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,880 New school knew me like new hair knew me, you know, so I got to reinvent myself each 56 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,400 and every single time. 57 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:04,760 So that was great. 58 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,680 My parents were kind of funny. 59 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:11,440 They adopted anybody and everybody off the street that needed a place to go. 60 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,720 And I had cousin brothers, literally my some crazy aunts would just drop their kids off. 61 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,320 And I don't think some of them ever pick them back up again. 62 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:28,160 So I think that's that chaotic energy a little bit where my father was an entrepreneur, self 63 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:35,000 made after the military barely got a GED, but my parents were always working on stuff, 64 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,560 working on projects, cleaning businesses. 65 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,640 I mean, just you, you go and they encouraged the entrepreneurship in me. 66 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,040 So I've got really lucky with that. 67 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,760 I often ask people that are entrepreneurs or going looking to start a business, are 68 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,640 your, what did your parents do? 69 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:55,160 And often people whose parents were entrepreneurs, they follow the same footsteps because that 70 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,160 was the model. 71 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,160 Yeah. 72 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:02,640 It's well, and like I said, my dad did retire from the military and then he just went into 73 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,400 be a self, a self-taught home builder and actually did really well for himself. 74 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:08,400 That's awesome. 75 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,400 Yeah. 76 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:10,400 So what's a fun fact about Kylie? 77 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:11,400 We want to know. 78 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:16,160 Fun fact about me, I got two of them, but they're kind of fun and easy. 79 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:22,280 I met my husband, Dan, on an airplane back in about 2015. 80 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:26,200 Literally, we sat next to each other. 81 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,520 I was coming back and forth to, to what from South Africa at that time. 82 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:38,640 And we had about a four hour flight from Tucson onto Atlanta with the best conversation. 83 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,520 And he says, well, how can I stay in touch? 84 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,280 And I'm like, well, hello, if you want to stay in touch with me, you have to be able 85 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,280 to WhatsApp. 86 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:47,760 So he says, well, what's WhatsApp? 87 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,800 And so I showed him and then he got to his gate and he, what's that? 88 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,840 And he goes, hi, I downloaded WhatsApp. 89 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:56,080 And so, you know, the story is history. 90 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:01,120 We started dating and then got married and that's what brought me to Virginia. 91 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:09,000 And another quick fun fact is I have been very fortunate to do my 50 miler. 92 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,640 So I'm very proud of that. 93 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,840 I do run and I'm very active. 94 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:17,640 And so I did my 50 mile race in Arizona. 95 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,160 You do it all in one day. 96 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,960 And it's about a 16 hour process, if you will. 97 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,960 And that was back in about 2016. 98 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:26,960 Wow. 99 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:27,960 I'm impressed. 100 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:28,960 Not me. 101 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,280 Not my bucket list at all. 102 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:36,240 So what does courage mean to you, Kylie? 103 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,640 I like that question and I'm glad that I got to think about it before, but courage to me 104 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,560 means to never give up. 105 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,480 Never ever give up on your dream. 106 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:51,840 And I love the fact and I can twist in the why not today because that is part of it. 107 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:57,520 A lot of people get stuck in not accomplishing really what they want to their dreams because 108 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:58,640 they're afraid. 109 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:04,840 So I love that idea of why not today and then give that that can give you courage. 110 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:08,360 So the courage is not to give up and to start now. 111 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:09,360 Love it. 112 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,520 Not wait. 113 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,440 People I think over analyze over. 114 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,680 Yeah, over thinking. 115 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,360 And it's just one baby step at a time and I always say where we start where finish are 116 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,320 going to be completely different, but just got to start or you're never going to get 117 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,320 there. 118 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:24,320 So as baby steps. 119 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,880 Yeah, I was talking to some of the other day about businesses and doing things and it's 120 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:36,240 like I have another business that I've been part of for 30 years and you know, how did 121 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,400 I get to 30 years one day at a time? 122 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,920 One one one courage step at a time and you know, and you wake up one day and like, how 123 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:45,920 am I here? 124 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,040 Like, how did that? 125 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,400 But yes. 126 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,520 So Kylie, let's talk about have you had let's talk about your courage journey and first 127 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:57,800 I always start with, are there any times in your life as part of your journey or story 128 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:03,400 that I call my why not today moments that you woke up in the middle of the night you 129 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:08,320 were talking to someone you remember exactly where you were what you were doing that you 130 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,280 made that decision on the spot and it totally checked change trajectory of your life. 131 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:14,280 Oh yeah. 132 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:15,280 Oh yeah. 133 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:16,280 Absolutely. 134 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,920 I can tell you it's 2010. 135 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,920 And I in so some of you might know that I had a safari business and I still do safaris 136 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,800 but I don't go safaris. 137 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:27,800 Okay. 138 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,600 So actual in South Africa real live safaris. 139 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:32,600 Oh wow. 140 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,040 That's like, yeah, 100%. 141 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,040 I did it since 2004. 142 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,960 And now I still do. 143 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,480 I lead safaris amazing. 144 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:48,920 But then I got out of Arizona summers and I would go and spend Arizona summers in South 145 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,320 Africa which was the winter time. 146 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,680 So during the time that we have that. 147 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:54,960 Oh, that's another story. 148 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:55,960 Hold on. 149 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:56,960 I'll tell you that. 150 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:57,960 All right. 151 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:58,960 That's really cool. 152 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:04,520 But during the time that we had a gap like where there was a long weekend and or we had 153 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:10,760 three or four days without clients because safaris are like one like a like a cruise ship 154 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,200 in the bushbelt. 155 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:13,200 Right. 156 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,840 And they stay seven days or 10 days and then they go. 157 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:25,680 So my best girlfriends at the time and my creative director still today was out there 158 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,360 and we were having a long weekend. 159 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:28,360 Right. 160 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,720 She came in from Jomsberg. 161 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:37,360 And so we were chatting and talking and now my father again was a self-made home builder. 162 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:43,080 So I grew up with subcontractors my whole life and they were basically like uncles. 163 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:48,480 And and and it really kind of like heart crushed me when the sense of like they could they 164 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:55,080 were great at home building at you know painting construction drywall this or that. 165 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:00,880 But they all suffered which is how do I run my business like they would say constantly 166 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,560 you know I've got I've got invoices that I'm still two months of giving delivering because 167 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:06,560 I'm so busy. 168 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:07,560 Right. 169 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:10,720 So I said I'm going to solve this problem. 170 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:16,960 I'm going to build a platform that helps them automate their businesses and and and figures 171 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:18,840 out a way to start a business. 172 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:25,600 And that was my aha moment with business in a box and my girlfriend again Nadine my creative 173 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:31,320 director still today we birthed business in a box over a weekend. 174 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,320 Love it. 175 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,760 And that is such a big need. 176 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,600 And you know people are like oh you just started a business and I found and yeah I just started 177 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,200 a business and it's easy to get LLC and it doesn't take any time. 178 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,120 But because I had a direct selling business for years that I had a corporation behind 179 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,160 me doing everything started my own business it's like how do you find out all the things 180 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:53,440 you're supposed to know. 181 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,080 And I keep saying I didn't know what I didn't know. 182 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,080 Right. 183 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:03,320 And there's a lot that goes into this and to have a checklist or to have somebody guiding 184 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,680 you and also systems like that's one thing I teach a lot about and have a course about 185 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:12,920 systems and putting and I was talking to another friend of mine and I think one of both of 186 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:17,760 our strengths is you have those systems in your business that if you do something more 187 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:24,200 than once I would say it should be a system like it should just you shouldn't spend time 188 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,680 recreating the wheel over and over and over and over. 189 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:27,680 Right. 190 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:33,880 So creating that system and you know somebody else has done it for you by all means copy 191 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:34,880 it. 192 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:35,880 Right. 193 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,480 And borrow but exactly exactly you don't make it don't make it complicated borrow it and 194 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:41,640 use it. 195 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,880 Somebody also I heard one time said copy you can copy but make sure you're copying the 196 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,640 right cat not somebody that's not successful. 197 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:55,760 So what exactly is business in a box and thanks for asking how do you mark that and how do 198 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:57,240 you help people. 199 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:03,240 Yeah it's so back in 2010 now this is kind of funny think about this 2010 automations 200 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,360 were like huh what and then chat GPT and the internet. 201 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:11,280 I mean well of course when I started my Mary Kay business in 94 I always say we didn't have 202 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:17,760 Internet and we didn't have cell phones like that was like a long you know like what. 203 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,160 Yeah I spent commercial real estate I spent 25 years in commercial real estate exactly 204 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:28,120 at that right time and it's like we're talking glossy fax days you know big cell phones that 205 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,640 took a brick to carry around and now we're dating ourselves by the way Leslie I'm just 206 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:33,640 saying. 207 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:34,640 Yeah I know. 208 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,880 We started in New York too. 209 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,880 That's true that's true we were youngsters. 210 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:45,880 Business in the box it's very simple my passion is to help people start their business and 211 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:51,920 stay out of a minimum wage nightmare it's very simple and a lot of people get stuck 212 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:57,760 in the well I've got to have all of this in place before I actually start my business 213 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:06,880 and I base this on mostly service based businesses because I like to be able to help people that 214 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,920 never thought they could actually start a business and I'm not going to help you get 215 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:19,280 a PhD I'm not going to help you you know start a trucking company right now I can't help 216 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:28,240 you with that but my goal is to start a service based business that is cost effective that 217 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:33,440 gives you all the systems all the coaching everything that you need all of your branding 218 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:40,840 materials your package your website your all of your social pages your cover pages I have 219 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:46,400 an amazing CRM that goes along with it that has texting and email capability to make it 220 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:53,600 easy for you but also to build funnels so that you can go if you're a cleaning business 221 00:12:53,600 --> 00:13:00,480 for example or your consultants you know we help you with like a quiz whatever that lead 222 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,560 magnet is I offer weekly coaching which is part of it you can't have one without actually 223 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:12,240 having direction and understanding where okay now Kylie you gave me this I did the work 224 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:18,960 here is the results where do we tweak it so we literally work on your business every Tuesday 225 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,600 at four o'clock which is a weekly coaching call it's our workshop that's where all the 226 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:29,520 work gets done that's awesome and I think where that's so powerful is that accountability 227 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:35,200 that you know when I started my why not today business is I talked about a year and a half 228 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:40,080 doing an LLC and I'm more deadline driven than anything so literally January 1st I'm like okay 229 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:44,640 before the end of this day I'm doing it but to have that accountability because it just 230 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:50,640 can slide because you're so busy busy whether you're working in the business and not on the 231 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:56,160 business which is such a big difference or a lot of people start these businesses as a 232 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:03,040 side hustle to build to a full-time business but you're so busy you don't have time to do 233 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:09,600 the things so to have that deadline that accountability updating my website and you know I want to 234 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:14,960 spend time you know working on it so it's effective and I find during the week when I'm so busy I 235 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,280 don't have time so they usually give me something during the week and on weekends I spend out a 236 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,800 couple hours trying to you know reviewing it but I have that deadline and that makes such 237 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:29,520 difference so what kind of industries do you focus on Kylie I know you said service but if you're 238 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:36,320 all service-based businesses at this year in January I had a really good aha moment and 239 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:44,480 some people well there you go why not today moment I've been with I've done a lot of ministry work 240 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:50,640 with Kyros prison ministry so it's the women's prison ministry and we get to go into the prisons 241 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:55,200 and our whole purpose there is just encouragement that's just it we do encouragement we bake 242 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:02,000 cookies we talk with them and that's it and it's it's it's just amazing but I I sat there and I 243 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:10,400 thought wait a second if anybody needs business in a box I learned about the reentry team the 244 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:19,840 reentry community and it's people that are about 90 days from getting out right they've been 245 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:25,280 incarcerated it's typically you know we're not sorry we're not talking people that are going to 246 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:31,040 be forever in because of whatever they've done I never ask anything like that but it's they're 247 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:37,120 90 days and they're going to get out and what do they do when they get out they go look for a job 248 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:43,840 and they can't get a job because they have a record and so at that moment I said all right 249 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:52,240 why not today and I built a department of corrections side of business in a box and I've 250 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:59,440 spent all this year with the flagship program inside of the women's prison here in my area 251 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:08,880 and I have done unbelievable amount of work trying to get inside of the prisons so now your question 252 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:14,560 is I have a department of correction side of business in a box but everything is service based 253 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:21,040 so a really good thing of any kind of construction business whether you're a handyman a painter a 254 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:29,120 landscaper you know you hang sheetrock you do floors whatever it might be also any kind of 255 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:36,960 cleaning business which also can be construction auto detailing homes offices commercial any of that 256 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:44,560 and um companion care is a really big one coaching can still be part of it I know you you never 257 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:51,280 been to be think out of my flagship prop program four of the ladies identified that they would 258 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:56,720 like to start a companion care and I'm not talking to cna I'm talking about listen you're 259 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:02,960 gonna go I need somebody to go and sit with my grandma cook her a meal maybe you're gonna go 260 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:08,240 pull some weeds for her do a little bit of folding of the laundry and you're gonna sit there for four 261 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:13,440 hours and you're gonna she needs companion care I know somebody who needs that right now who's got 262 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:18,640 dementia lives on her own and the doctor just says she shouldn't be driving and she is climbing the 263 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:25,440 walls because she's so bored yep yep you should be in a home soon but yeah but there's like there's 264 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:30,640 a gap there so that is that is a really good one and the other one that dawned on me believe it or 265 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:38,400 not Leslie is um and I will push for lists like in my 2025 this is part of my goals is to have 266 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:45,600 bi be coaches and what better coach for the department of corrections especially than somebody 267 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:52,000 that's already been through the program and have been incarcerated and understand what these people 268 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,040 need yeah um that is such an amazing ministry and I do I mentioned the other day of somebody I need 269 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,840 to connect you with but have you also thought about working and this could be a whole nother 270 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:09,840 thing to work in the recovery of abuse or like addiction well I've got a couple of domestic 271 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:18,720 violence but also addiction um that there's an organization called Christopher Atwood Foundation 272 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:24,640 okay I don't know if you've ever heard of him but um his family started this nonprofit there um the 273 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:32,080 woman that's in charge her brother died of an overdose but at 20 or in when he was in high school 274 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:36,640 he was addicted in reston virginia which is a pretty affluent area he was addicted to heroin 275 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:44,160 and went out of rehab and finally passed away but they were never educated on like 276 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:50,000 Narcamin things that could save people and so they're a nonprofit like days after he passed away 277 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,200 but their whole program is they educate people and a lot of the people in their program that are 278 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:02,640 their educators and their coaches and their counselors are recovering addicts and so no no 279 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:08,400 that's a good idea be in a nice partnership because you know people need just that hope that 280 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:14,640 it's overwhelming like all the things of opening a business that I love what you're doing and 281 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:22,560 I'm sure there's areas that you can get public funding to help with that yeah it is and and 282 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,800 speaking of that it's like we we just talked a little bit about how much time you spend on things 283 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:33,920 right and that is like cobwebs of time and you can go down rabbit holes and grants and 284 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:40,240 it's really really difficult it's um I started my nonprofit which is kind of interesting in when 285 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:47,600 during my why not today a ha moment starting in january of 2024 and I'm like oh okay well I'm just 286 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:53,200 going to start a nonprofit to help these people so I did a lot of work I did it's it's called wings 287 00:19:53,200 --> 00:20:00,800 of growth and again you've got to fundraise fundraise fundraise and grants and everything it's just 288 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:08,080 really really hard for you to do everything on your own and that's why even through through that you 289 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:14,400 know I I there's there's coaching programs out there to actually have a successful nonprofit 290 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:20,880 right I'm very big believer on find a coach find a mentor find a program which is going to help 291 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:26,160 fast track you and actually honestly save you time and money period as I said find the right cat 292 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:32,560 and copy him and learn that mentorship yeah that's awesome yeah one of the courses I've 293 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,640 thought about doing is how to do a podcast because yeah that's you but I had to figure it out of my 294 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:44,720 own it took a lot of work and a lot of time it does it does yeah so um yeah I love the nonprofit 295 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:50,160 wing wings of growth and one of the things with why not today merchandise is I want to be partnering 296 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,360 with nonprofits that to give people the courage to say why not today which aligns with everything 297 00:20:55,360 --> 00:21:01,040 everybody's doing but to have a partnership with anybody that buys why not today swag merchandise 298 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,680 whether it's a shirt or a mug that a percentage is going to go back to these nonprofits to help 299 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:12,640 support them because I think the why not today message resonates very very much with the nonprofit 300 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:17,200 world what people are doing they need courage to do all the things and help the people I agree 301 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,480 I agree and it gives them that support so that's awesome Leslie yeah I love your business in a box 302 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:29,760 idea so any other why not today moments or courage that you want to share before yeah before we wrap 303 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:35,440 it up I'll just be quick on you this is because it actually was it's um you asked about Africa 304 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:45,920 and um I was I'm gonna say the early oh my goodness 89 uh probably early perhaps I was deep in commercial 305 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:54,080 real estate I was getting ready to show a property in Tucson nearest to our Sonoran Desert Museum 306 00:21:54,880 --> 00:22:01,120 and the guy said you came um highly recommended because he knew that my family were big into the 307 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:09,040 outdoors and so here it is this is glossy fax days I um sent him the package of the listings and my 308 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:18,320 you know photo shopped card and all that stuff my glamour card and um he uh gets it like a few days 309 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:25,040 whatever caught princess you know you might think I'm nuts but I'm he now this guy was a um safari 310 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:31,440 guide so he had a a booking business and stuff he goes Kylie I um am getting ready to go to 311 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:37,040 Africa in about six weeks the person that was going to help be a gopher for me can't go would you 312 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:43,600 want to go and I'm like go to Africa he goes I can't afford to pay you but I'll pay your way 313 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:50,720 and it is a month though now this was east Africa and I'm like I didn't even care I'm like yes yes 314 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:57,200 and I told my group my entire office like I just got on board and they're like oh my god you don't 315 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:03,040 even know this guy well I'm a practical person it's like he had five or six doctors on safari and we 316 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:08,160 were getting to do some community work in the hospitals in the schools in the prisons and I'm 317 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:13,200 like listen I could be the train wreck that smashes his safari so I'm the one that's like I'm easy this 318 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:19,200 is great I went spent a month and I was like the safari princess I'm like Lord thank you very much 319 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:24,240 I sent a postcard back to my dad with a push pilot I said dad I'm not coming home I'm gonna stay here 320 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:32,560 and raise monkeys and that was my that was my love I loved I I knew amazing story God put Africa in my 321 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:39,280 heart and my dad and I got to go back and forth to Africa several times because he was a big 322 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,720 outdoorsman and I said I'm gonna start a safari business I'm gonna start something that's really 323 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:51,280 great and I got to do some really great after school programs and I instilled very much giving back 324 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:58,560 into every single client that came in that's such a cool story and you know when we have to be open 325 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:03,840 I did it a podcast episode a couple months ago called the why not today scavenger hunt like you 326 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:09,200 never know who that person's gonna be that's gonna take you to that place you need to be and we need 327 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:15,200 to be open and aware and be willing to say yes I'm gonna do that you know and not overthink it and 328 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:20,400 not over analyze it because you just never know there was a devotion I read one time and this woman 329 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,200 talked about they went somewhere and did something and at a conference and her daughter they had 330 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:30,480 elephant there and her daughter got to ride an elephant and so the whole premise is and it aligns 331 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,080 with your safari but you never know when you wake up in the morning where at the end of the day you 332 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,880 can ride an elephant so you never know when you get up you have the perfect plan for your week your 333 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:44,960 day your hour and it blows up and but something else comes around so love that so how would you 334 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,800 encourage some good attitude if you keep a good attitude you're gonna make that a lot easier on 335 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:55,760 yourself absolutely we have a choice um so how would you encourage somebody else to start a business 336 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:04,240 to say why not today to go on an african safari this is this is an easy one because um I would say 337 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:12,080 stop overthinking it stop putting your excuses and your reasonings for not doing it because you 338 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:18,720 can't take that to the grave so just get out and do it yeah just jump take my hand jump off the cliff 339 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:25,120 with me it's all gonna be okay it's gonna be okay why not today yep yep absolutely as I said in 340 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:29,840 beginning I would before we talked I always try to tie this back to my dad and things you said so 341 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,960 lots of stuff one you look just like your dad he adopted my dad adopted everybody like every 342 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:40,880 holiday ever anything everybody was always included invited nobody ended up living with us for long 343 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:47,760 periods of time except for and actually I lied that he had um this goes way back when he was in 344 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:53,680 high school a family had an exchange student from one of their neighborhood families had an exchange 345 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:59,360 student from japan and he came over to united states and was living in the neighborhood my dad was 346 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:04,960 well the husband of this family that had the exchange student died unexpectedly and so the 347 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,560 wife's like I can't have this kid here and so my grandparents adopted this child this person not 348 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:17,040 officially but he lived in and my dad was an only child so it was his best friend and you know growing 349 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:22,960 up he was uncle kozo you know so yeah we're always at that family and then talking about your dad being 350 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:28,240 entrepreneur and that you know aligned with my dad was absolutely owned his own business and did all 351 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:33,120 the things and just like you said um you do you know giving back and making a difference and I think 352 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:39,680 that's such a big thing I love it I love it that is awesome that is awesome highly for being an 353 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:45,040 amazing guest and I'm excited to dig more into your business in the box and see what that is and how 354 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:51,520 we can align maybe together some of the things so um well let's see I'm so grateful thank you so much 355 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,520 oh you're welcome I'm excited to connect with you even more so and thank you for everybody for 356 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,680 joining us on this inspiring journey remember every day is an opportunity to take action 357 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:05,760 chase your dreams and make a difference so why not today and you can subscribe like review the 358 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,680 podcast wherever you can find podcasts you want to find everything about why not today we're at 359 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:15,600 why not say podcast dot com and remember we've got merchandise to share your vision share the vision 360 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,920 like why not today encourage yourself when you wear it and encourage somebody else because you 361 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:26,480 never know who's watching so thanks Kylie and I will ensure um enclosed in the show notes how to 362 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:33,840 contact you and everything so darling bye you're welcome remember say why not today why not today