Welcome to the Why Not Today podcast where we share and celebrate courage, determination,
the power of saying why not today.
I'm your host, Leslie Cain, and in each episode we dive into inspiring stories of individuals
who have taken bold steps, faced their fears, and embraced the possibilities of today.
From entrepreneurs to artists, dreamers to doers, we explore the moments when they said
enough waiting, why not today?
When it says we uncover the heartwarming, the audacious, and the transformative, whether
it's pursuing a lifelong passion, overcoming obstacles, or simply choosing joy, our guests
share their journeys and inspire us all.
I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Cain, who often said why not today.
And it's funny that Why Not Today came from somebody my dad knew that shared something
that he woke up one morning and he actually had to have some surgery.
And he was wearing an eye patch, which the logo for Why Not Today is my dad.
He had an eye patch on hand of our mustache.
So this gentleman posted on Face Social Media how he met my dad.
Or, no, he thought of my dad and he talked about all the things my dad did.
And then he said, and we both said why not today?
And that's where the name came from.
And the reason I'm going this long story around, well, I met this man's wife the other last
night and she's like, oh, you know, my husband, I know your parents.
And then I'm like, this is my, where my podcast came from.
Your husband, she's like, oh my gosh, I had no idea.
So long story.
But yeah, so Why Not Today is a movement to inspire people to live their dreams, pursue
their dreams and just live their life.
We are not promised tomorrow.
We need to enjoy it.
And so I'm excited about my guest, Kylie Doll, who I met via a Facebook group.
And so if you're not playing on Facebook and you're not connecting and making friends,
you're missing out.
And we connected, she has a podcast that I was on a couple of weeks ago and I'm excited
to have you here, Kylie.
And I really don't know your backstory.
So it's fun.
People try to send me their bios ahead of time.
I'm like, I don't want to know.
I want to be able to uncover it together.
So Kylie, welcome to the Why Not Today podcast.
Share a little bit about you and your, or in your fun fact, and then we'll get started.
So awesome.
First of all, Leslie, thank you so much.
I really appreciate the time that we get to spend together.
So and I love helping podcasts out.
As you said, I have a podcast.
So that's how we're going to be able to learn and grow.
So thank you.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
About me, it's very, it's not simple, but I'm a serial entrepreneur.
I am a military brat.
And I had a grew up in a very chaotic, large family, middle child.
A lot of my siblings did not do well with the military life, but I did.
And I know with military kids and siblings, it's either you either do really well or you
don't, but I loved it, man.
New school knew me like new hair knew me, you know, so I got to reinvent myself each
and every single time.
So that was great.
My parents were kind of funny.
They adopted anybody and everybody off the street that needed a place to go.
And I had cousin brothers, literally my some crazy aunts would just drop their kids off.
And I don't think some of them ever pick them back up again.
So I think that's that chaotic energy a little bit where my father was an entrepreneur, self
made after the military barely got a GED, but my parents were always working on stuff,
working on projects, cleaning businesses.
I mean, just you, you go and they encouraged the entrepreneurship in me.
So I've got really lucky with that.
I often ask people that are entrepreneurs or going looking to start a business, are
your, what did your parents do?
And often people whose parents were entrepreneurs, they follow the same footsteps because that
was the model.
Yeah.
It's well, and like I said, my dad did retire from the military and then he just went into
be a self, a self-taught home builder and actually did really well for himself.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
So what's a fun fact about Kylie?
We want to know.
Fun fact about me, I got two of them, but they're kind of fun and easy.
I met my husband, Dan, on an airplane back in about 2015.
Literally, we sat next to each other.
I was coming back and forth to, to what from South Africa at that time.
And we had about a four hour flight from Tucson onto Atlanta with the best conversation.
And he says, well, how can I stay in touch?
And I'm like, well, hello, if you want to stay in touch with me, you have to be able
to WhatsApp.
So he says, well, what's WhatsApp?
And so I showed him and then he got to his gate and he, what's that?
And he goes, hi, I downloaded WhatsApp.
And so, you know, the story is history.
We started dating and then got married and that's what brought me to Virginia.
And another quick fun fact is I have been very fortunate to do my 50 miler.
So I'm very proud of that.
I do run and I'm very active.
And so I did my 50 mile race in Arizona.
You do it all in one day.
And it's about a 16 hour process, if you will.
And that was back in about 2016.
Wow.
I'm impressed.
Not me.
Not my bucket list at all.
So what does courage mean to you, Kylie?
I like that question and I'm glad that I got to think about it before, but courage to me
means to never give up.
Never ever give up on your dream.
And I love the fact and I can twist in the why not today because that is part of it.
A lot of people get stuck in not accomplishing really what they want to their dreams because
they're afraid.
So I love that idea of why not today and then give that that can give you courage.
So the courage is not to give up and to start now.
Love it.
Not wait.
People I think over analyze over.
Yeah, over thinking.
And it's just one baby step at a time and I always say where we start where finish are
going to be completely different, but just got to start or you're never going to get
there.
So as baby steps.
Yeah, I was talking to some of the other day about businesses and doing things and it's
like I have another business that I've been part of for 30 years and you know, how did
I get to 30 years one day at a time?
One one one courage step at a time and you know, and you wake up one day and like, how
am I here?
Like, how did that?
But yes.
So Kylie, let's talk about have you had let's talk about your courage journey and first
I always start with, are there any times in your life as part of your journey or story
that I call my why not today moments that you woke up in the middle of the night you
were talking to someone you remember exactly where you were what you were doing that you
made that decision on the spot and it totally checked change trajectory of your life.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely.
I can tell you it's 2010.
And I in so some of you might know that I had a safari business and I still do safaris
but I don't go safaris.
Okay.
So actual in South Africa real live safaris.
Oh wow.
That's like, yeah, 100%.
I did it since 2004.
And now I still do.
I lead safaris amazing.
But then I got out of Arizona summers and I would go and spend Arizona summers in South
Africa which was the winter time.
So during the time that we have that.
Oh, that's another story.
Hold on.
I'll tell you that.
All right.
That's really cool.
But during the time that we had a gap like where there was a long weekend and or we had
three or four days without clients because safaris are like one like a like a cruise ship
in the bushbelt.
Right.
And they stay seven days or 10 days and then they go.
So my best girlfriends at the time and my creative director still today was out there
and we were having a long weekend.
Right.
She came in from Jomsberg.
And so we were chatting and talking and now my father again was a self-made home builder.
So I grew up with subcontractors my whole life and they were basically like uncles.
And and and it really kind of like heart crushed me when the sense of like they could they
were great at home building at you know painting construction drywall this or that.
But they all suffered which is how do I run my business like they would say constantly
you know I've got I've got invoices that I'm still two months of giving delivering because
I'm so busy.
Right.
So I said I'm going to solve this problem.
I'm going to build a platform that helps them automate their businesses and and and figures
out a way to start a business.
And that was my aha moment with business in a box and my girlfriend again Nadine my creative
director still today we birthed business in a box over a weekend.
Love it.
And that is such a big need.
And you know people are like oh you just started a business and I found and yeah I just started
a business and it's easy to get LLC and it doesn't take any time.
But because I had a direct selling business for years that I had a corporation behind
me doing everything started my own business it's like how do you find out all the things
you're supposed to know.
And I keep saying I didn't know what I didn't know.
Right.
And there's a lot that goes into this and to have a checklist or to have somebody guiding
you and also systems like that's one thing I teach a lot about and have a course about
systems and putting and I was talking to another friend of mine and I think one of both of
our strengths is you have those systems in your business that if you do something more
than once I would say it should be a system like it should just you shouldn't spend time
recreating the wheel over and over and over and over.
Right.
So creating that system and you know somebody else has done it for you by all means copy
it.
Right.
And borrow but exactly exactly you don't make it don't make it complicated borrow it and
use it.
Somebody also I heard one time said copy you can copy but make sure you're copying the
right cat not somebody that's not successful.
So what exactly is business in a box and thanks for asking how do you mark that and how do
you help people.
Yeah it's so back in 2010 now this is kind of funny think about this 2010 automations
were like huh what and then chat GPT and the internet.
I mean well of course when I started my Mary Kay business in 94 I always say we didn't have
Internet and we didn't have cell phones like that was like a long you know like what.
Yeah I spent commercial real estate I spent 25 years in commercial real estate exactly
at that right time and it's like we're talking glossy fax days you know big cell phones that
took a brick to carry around and now we're dating ourselves by the way Leslie I'm just
saying.
Yeah I know.
We started in New York too.
That's true that's true we were youngsters.
Business in the box it's very simple my passion is to help people start their business and
stay out of a minimum wage nightmare it's very simple and a lot of people get stuck
in the well I've got to have all of this in place before I actually start my business
and I base this on mostly service based businesses because I like to be able to help people that
never thought they could actually start a business and I'm not going to help you get
a PhD I'm not going to help you you know start a trucking company right now I can't help
you with that but my goal is to start a service based business that is cost effective that
gives you all the systems all the coaching everything that you need all of your branding
materials your package your website your all of your social pages your cover pages I have
an amazing CRM that goes along with it that has texting and email capability to make it
easy for you but also to build funnels so that you can go if you're a cleaning business
for example or your consultants you know we help you with like a quiz whatever that lead
magnet is I offer weekly coaching which is part of it you can't have one without actually
having direction and understanding where okay now Kylie you gave me this I did the work
here is the results where do we tweak it so we literally work on your business every Tuesday
at four o'clock which is a weekly coaching call it's our workshop that's where all the
work gets done that's awesome and I think where that's so powerful is that accountability
that you know when I started my why not today business is I talked about a year and a half
doing an LLC and I'm more deadline driven than anything so literally January 1st I'm like okay
before the end of this day I'm doing it but to have that accountability because it just
can slide because you're so busy busy whether you're working in the business and not on the
business which is such a big difference or a lot of people start these businesses as a
side hustle to build to a full-time business but you're so busy you don't have time to do
the things so to have that deadline that accountability updating my website and you know I want to
spend time you know working on it so it's effective and I find during the week when I'm so busy I
don't have time so they usually give me something during the week and on weekends I spend out a
couple hours trying to you know reviewing it but I have that deadline and that makes such
difference so what kind of industries do you focus on Kylie I know you said service but if you're
all service-based businesses at this year in January I had a really good aha moment and
some people well there you go why not today moment I've been with I've done a lot of ministry work
with Kyros prison ministry so it's the women's prison ministry and we get to go into the prisons
and our whole purpose there is just encouragement that's just it we do encouragement we bake
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
thought wait a second if anybody needs business in a box I learned about the reentry team the
reentry community and it's people that are about 90 days from getting out right they've been
incarcerated it's typically you know we're not sorry we're not talking people that are going to
be forever in because of whatever they've done I never ask anything like that but it's they're
90 days and they're going to get out and what do they do when they get out they go look for a job
and they can't get a job because they have a record and so at that moment I said all right
why not today and I built a department of corrections side of business in a box and I've
spent all this year with the flagship program inside of the women's prison here in my area
and I have done unbelievable amount of work trying to get inside of the prisons so now your question
is I have a department of correction side of business in a box but everything is service based
so a really good thing of any kind of construction business whether you're a handyman a painter a
landscaper you know you hang sheetrock you do floors whatever it might be also any kind of
cleaning business which also can be construction auto detailing homes offices commercial any of that
and um companion care is a really big one coaching can still be part of it I know you you never
been to be think out of my flagship prop program four of the ladies identified that they would
like to start a companion care and I'm not talking to cna I'm talking about listen you're
gonna go I need somebody to go and sit with my grandma cook her a meal maybe you're gonna go
pull some weeds for her do a little bit of folding of the laundry and you're gonna sit there for four
hours and you're gonna she needs companion care I know somebody who needs that right now who's got
dementia lives on her own and the doctor just says she shouldn't be driving and she is climbing the
walls because she's so bored yep yep you should be in a home soon but yeah but there's like there's
a gap there so that is that is a really good one and the other one that dawned on me believe it or
not Leslie is um and I will push for lists like in my 2025 this is part of my goals is to have
bi be coaches and what better coach for the department of corrections especially than somebody
that's already been through the program and have been incarcerated and understand what these people
need yeah um that is such an amazing ministry and I do I mentioned the other day of somebody I need
to connect you with but have you also thought about working and this could be a whole nother
thing to work in the recovery of abuse or like addiction well I've got a couple of domestic
violence but also addiction um that there's an organization called Christopher Atwood Foundation
okay I don't know if you've ever heard of him but um his family started this nonprofit there um the
woman that's in charge her brother died of an overdose but at 20 or in when he was in high school
he was addicted in reston virginia which is a pretty affluent area he was addicted to heroin
and went out of rehab and finally passed away but they were never educated on like
Narcamin things that could save people and so they're a nonprofit like days after he passed away
but their whole program is they educate people and a lot of the people in their program that are
their educators and their coaches and their counselors are recovering addicts and so no no
that's a good idea be in a nice partnership because you know people need just that hope that
it's overwhelming like all the things of opening a business that I love what you're doing and
I'm sure there's areas that you can get public funding to help with that yeah it is and and
speaking of that it's like we we just talked a little bit about how much time you spend on things
right and that is like cobwebs of time and you can go down rabbit holes and grants and
it's really really difficult it's um I started my nonprofit which is kind of interesting in when
during my why not today a ha moment starting in january of 2024 and I'm like oh okay well I'm just
going to start a nonprofit to help these people so I did a lot of work I did it's it's called wings
of growth and again you've got to fundraise fundraise fundraise and grants and everything it's just
really really hard for you to do everything on your own and that's why even through through that you
know I I there's there's coaching programs out there to actually have a successful nonprofit
right I'm very big believer on find a coach find a mentor find a program which is going to help
fast track you and actually honestly save you time and money period as I said find the right cat
and copy him and learn that mentorship yeah that's awesome yeah one of the courses I've
thought about doing is how to do a podcast because yeah that's you but I had to figure it out of my
own it took a lot of work and a lot of time it does it does yeah so um yeah I love the nonprofit
wing wings of growth and one of the things with why not today merchandise is I want to be partnering
with nonprofits that to give people the courage to say why not today which aligns with everything
everybody's doing but to have a partnership with anybody that buys why not today swag merchandise
whether it's a shirt or a mug that a percentage is going to go back to these nonprofits to help
support them because I think the why not today message resonates very very much with the nonprofit
world what people are doing they need courage to do all the things and help the people I agree
I agree and it gives them that support so that's awesome Leslie yeah I love your business in a box
idea so any other why not today moments or courage that you want to share before yeah before we wrap
it up I'll just be quick on you this is because it actually was it's um you asked about Africa
and um I was I'm gonna say the early oh my goodness 89 uh probably early perhaps I was deep in commercial
real estate I was getting ready to show a property in Tucson nearest to our Sonoran Desert Museum
and the guy said you came um highly recommended because he knew that my family were big into the
outdoors and so here it is this is glossy fax days I um sent him the package of the listings and my
you know photo shopped card and all that stuff my glamour card and um he uh gets it like a few days
whatever caught princess you know you might think I'm nuts but I'm he now this guy was a um safari
guide so he had a a booking business and stuff he goes Kylie I um am getting ready to go to
Africa in about six weeks the person that was going to help be a gopher for me can't go would you
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
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
and I told my group my entire office like I just got on board and they're like oh my god you don't
even know this guy well I'm a practical person it's like he had five or six doctors on safari and we
were getting to do some community work in the hospitals in the schools in the prisons and I'm
like listen I could be the train wreck that smashes his safari so I'm the one that's like I'm easy this
is great I went spent a month and I was like the safari princess I'm like Lord thank you very much
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
and raise monkeys and that was my that was my love I loved I I knew amazing story God put Africa in my
heart and my dad and I got to go back and forth to Africa several times because he was a big
outdoorsman and I said I'm gonna start a safari business I'm gonna start something that's really
great and I got to do some really great after school programs and I instilled very much giving back
into every single client that came in that's such a cool story and you know when we have to be open
I did it a podcast episode a couple months ago called the why not today scavenger hunt like you
never know who that person's gonna be that's gonna take you to that place you need to be and we need
to be open and aware and be willing to say yes I'm gonna do that you know and not overthink it and
not over analyze it because you just never know there was a devotion I read one time and this woman
talked about they went somewhere and did something and at a conference and her daughter they had
elephant there and her daughter got to ride an elephant and so the whole premise is and it aligns
with your safari but you never know when you wake up in the morning where at the end of the day you
can ride an elephant so you never know when you get up you have the perfect plan for your week your
day your hour and it blows up and but something else comes around so love that so how would you
encourage some good attitude if you keep a good attitude you're gonna make that a lot easier on
yourself absolutely we have a choice um so how would you encourage somebody else to start a business
to say why not today to go on an african safari this is this is an easy one because um I would say
stop overthinking it stop putting your excuses and your reasonings for not doing it because you
can't take that to the grave so just get out and do it yeah just jump take my hand jump off the cliff
with me it's all gonna be okay it's gonna be okay why not today yep yep absolutely as I said in
beginning I would before we talked I always try to tie this back to my dad and things you said so
lots of stuff one you look just like your dad he adopted my dad adopted everybody like every
holiday ever anything everybody was always included invited nobody ended up living with us for long
periods of time except for and actually I lied that he had um this goes way back when he was in
high school a family had an exchange student from one of their neighborhood families had an exchange
student from japan and he came over to united states and was living in the neighborhood my dad was
well the husband of this family that had the exchange student died unexpectedly and so the
wife's like I can't have this kid here and so my grandparents adopted this child this person not
officially but he lived in and my dad was an only child so it was his best friend and you know growing
up he was uncle kozo you know so yeah we're always at that family and then talking about your dad being
entrepreneur and that you know aligned with my dad was absolutely owned his own business and did all
the things and just like you said um you do you know giving back and making a difference and I think
that's such a big thing I love it I love it that is awesome that is awesome highly for being an
amazing guest and I'm excited to dig more into your business in the box and see what that is and how
we can align maybe together some of the things so um well let's see I'm so grateful thank you so much
oh you're welcome I'm excited to connect with you even more so and thank you for everybody for
joining us on this inspiring journey remember every day is an opportunity to take action
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contact you and everything so darling bye you're welcome remember say why not today why not today