All right. Good morning. My name is Leslie Kane and I am the host of the Why Not Today
podcast. This is a podcast to celebrate people who have been courageous and said, why not
today? I started this podcast to honor my father, Patrick Kane, who often said, why
not today? I'm based in Reston, Virginia, a Planned community right outside of Washington,
DC. And thank you guys for joining us today. And I'm excited about my guest, Miranda Reigns,
who don't really know it all. We haven't even had laid eyes on each other, even on Zoom
until just now. Never met her in person, but I'm excited to have her share and share her
story and share a little bit of what she does. And I always like to talk about connections,
how you meet people. So Miranda is in the Mary Kay world with me, but we're not going
to talk about Mary Kay today. Somebody, Miranda, because, and I don't want to give her a whole
story because I guess she started this really because of COVID, I think, created a new business
for herself and helping people, helping women feel better about themselves. And we're all
about that in this podcast, giving women courage and confidence. So somebody I heard about
her, somebody recommended her, spoke very highly of Miranda. And then I actually have
invited her to do an event for me and Mark, for me and my customers and team members,
but I really love her message and her story. So I wanted to hear from her today. So I'm
super excited, Miranda, to have you here with us. So why don't you share a little about
yourself today and a fast, fun fact or a fascinating fact that people might not know about you.
Well, thanks for having me, Leslie. It's a privilege to spend time with you and to be
invited to be a part of your podcast. And so I, again, my name is Miranda. I live in
Tyler, Texas. So a Southern girl, if you're looking at a map, I'm between Dallas, Texas
and Shreveport, Louisiana. I am married to my hot honey named Paul. We've been married
over 20 years. We all, we both forget exactly how many, so we don't hold it to each other.
But I'm, gosh, I think we're on 22 years now and we have our oldest daughter, Bella Gray,
who will be 18 in March. And then we have a nine year old, Bristol Fay. So we are parents
and we, gosh, we just love lake life. We love Texas life. We love traveling. We love eating.
We love doing all the, all the fun things. And a fun fact is in addition to our careers,
which we both pursue and enjoy and, and love, we are also full-time pastors. We are, we've
been pastoring Lakeview community church here as lead pastors for 13 years. And we just
choose to be bivocational. And prior to that, my parents pastored for 28 years at the same
church. So fun fact is that we are also in ministry and are blessed to have a phenomenal
church, great staff. So if y'all are ever this way, you're all invited.
What fun. I had no idea about that, about you. That's really pretty cool. And I think
we're going to be friends because I love lake life too. I live on a lake. It's not a big
lake. But then I spend a lot of time at a friend's lake. That's a lot bigger lake. So
I'm like, I have my little lake and my big lake. So I'm a water girl and love to travel
and gone more than I'm down.
Yes. We love like life. So are you on a lake or just, well, we live. So with Tyler, we
have Lake Tyler. Okay. Our church is called Lake view. Cause our church is on the lake.
A lot of our, a lot of our members live there on the lake, but we actually have a lake house
on Lake Jacksonville, which is 45 minutes down the road. And a fun fact about that is
if you know, Patrick Dempsey from you, we call him a dreamy, if you will, from grace
anatomy, his lake house is around the corner. Oh wow. That's fun. On our upper deck. We
like, I mean, I think we're nosy, but we do, you know, pay attention and we drive by the
jet skis and just see what's going on. But yeah, they're around the corner. So that's
a little fun thing.
So, um, yay. Well, exciting. So I'm hurt. I'm excited to hear your story, but before
we hear your story and your courage, tell me what does courage mean to you? You could
describe her.
You know, courage to me is just, it's hard to put simply Leslie, but I just think of
courage and faith as a synonymous thing. It's just, I feel when you're courageous, you are
just blindly pursuing. You are just, I mean, running with hair on fire in pursuit and you're
not worried about what you see, but how you feel and know the plans that are for you are
in that direction or to prosper you. So I think that that courage is synonymous to faith
just in blind pursuit of.
I love that definition. So I've, I've created, I don't know if you checked on my website,
but I've created courage cards with everybody's courage to be able to share. So we will definitely
see that one. All right. So what have you done in your life that takes courage, obviously
being a pastor, but would love to talk, you know, if there's specific things in your life
that took faith and courage, but also, you know, your newest adventure. I mean, they
say if you have to need something done, give it to a busy person. Right. You are busy.
There's some courageous stories or what you've done or let's talk about what you're doing
now too.
Well, you know, let's say, I think that, you know, if we look at our life and just look
at all the things that we've done with faith and, and courage, I think we all could really
testify to, to times where you've had to make courageous decisions that that was, you had
to. And then there are times where you stepped out on faith and took a leap and made courageous
decisions for the current situation that you're faced with. And so for my life personally,
that's been stepping out of my comfort zone by nature. I am introverted by nature. My
personality is not to be in the front or the limelight or the center. I kind of prefer
to observe and look in the back. And so I think anytime I've had something arise where
I've had to take myself out of my personality or out of my preference, it took courage.
And so I could take that back to, you know, my freshman year of high school, changing
schools to a new location with the move that we had that took courage to go somewhere new
and be a part of, you know, hard enough. Yes. And high school, but because of that one decision
that changed my college plans, it changed all kinds. It was such a gift to do that.
The relationships I built with that decision. So looking back, I could see that path was
for me. And that was the best choice at the time. But in the moment, you know, you never
know. It's scary. And I remember because of that high school, if we're, if we're tacking
on decisions, one thing that led to another with courage, because that pivotal change
at 15 years old, going to a new high school, it also led to an opportunity for graduation
and ranking. And at that point, I was looking for every scholarship opportunity available
to me for college. And so it was presented that I'd be a part of the Miss Texas Pageant
System, Miss Texas USA Pageant System, which again, not in my comfort zone. Never. I was
a pastor's kid growing up. We didn't do beauty pageants and nothing against it. We just weren't
educated on what that looked like or what that was. And being, you know, a competitor
on the inside, taking a courage, a courageous step to say, this is not my world. This is
not what I'm familiar with, but I may try this. And then that step led to basically
where I am today, taking that experience and learning how to natural neck for color diagnosis
and natural neck for putting things together. Fashion wise, a natural neck for body shapes,
what silhouette serve, what body shapes. And then in college, because of those experiences
through Miss Texas USA, I competed a couple of years in that and the connections and the
relationships. And then in college, one friend would have me dress her or go shop for her
or pick out things for her and diagnose her. And then it just led. And of course, this
was all, you know, 25, almost 30 years ago. But back then you did everything in person
and face to face, but all of those courageous steps, which then led me and built confidence
for me to pursue a career in sales and marketing, which with Mary Kay, and I'm grateful for
23 years of doing that. But throughout those years of just building skill and confidence
and knowing color and running with the natural ability of, again, what looks go together,
what things compliment women best. It led me to a couple of years ago, friends saying,
Miranda, I know we used to do, you used to shop for me. And now that we're in the season
of all being at home, we're in a season of cleaning out, will you help me with my closet?
Will you help me go through and make sure everything I own serves me? And then it snowballed
from there. One other courageous decision was to just step out and run with something
that you know, you feel confident in, you feel skin. But I feel like sometimes Leslie,
when we, when we feel something is for us, but yet the nerves creep in. I think sometimes
we also have to listen. Yeah, the doubt, the nerves, even if you want to say anxiety about
starting something new and should I, is this something I should run with or pivot with?
Sometimes we have to feel, take cues about what people around us are asking, are implying,
are seeking our advice to others, are seeing talent in you. Others are seeing skill in
you that you may or not looking at yourself, owning it. But sometimes if you are, if people
keep asking you for something, your opinion on something, your advice or your help, then
they're, they're letting you know, I believe in you. I feel that you're skilled in this.
I see great things in you. And so that may be an indicator when you don't have the courage
or faith, people are having that for you. Borrow their courage, borrow their faith in
you to step forward in that direction. And that's, that's what happens. So fast forward.
Here we are four years later. And yeah, I've been blessed. Yeah. So I mean, gosh, you said
so many cool things. I love that you're Miss Texas and you know, being from Northern Virginia,
there's not a lot of pageant world. I never really knew much about it. But yeah, that
takes a ton of courage. But yeah, I love what you've done with the style thing and talking
about, I love what you just said that you kind of listened to other people, you know,
so we have that idea in our head and it's kind of that voice. And, and I always say,
listen to your first voice, not all the doubting voices. Right. And it's so many why not today
moments and that's kind of how I started the podcast. It was like, I just had this idea
and kept talking to a friend and then somebody mentioned the phrase why not today? And I
told her that she's like, well, that's the name of your podcast and why not today and
just started and I just did it took one step at a time, which sounds like kind of what
you're doing. And I love, you know, listening to what other people are saying. So let's
talk about this business that you've created another side hustle. Don't you love that?
We all have so many different things. What can we do? So tell me what that looks like.
What do you provide? Do you work with women, men? Is it just clothes? Is it makeup? Is
it accessories? Share a little bit about what you are and how you can serve people. Absolutely.
Leslie. Well, my goal is that I just want women to be, and men, it could be also a bit.
I'll talk about women specifically in this moment, but I want my friends to remember
their worth, their value and their beauty. I think a lot. Well, we are so hard on ourselves
with the expectation that we have to be and do and have a certain look, our static, you
know, whatever that means, but ever social media and staring at zoom screens all day.
I mean, yes, magnified. Yes. And no one, we're no one is, we're going to let Miss Texas be
Miss Texas and Miss America be Miss America and all that. But we need to be us. We need
to be confident in our own skin. But I do feel with that comes awareness, awareness
of our coloring. I think every person, men and women should have clarity on their coloring.
Where on the color wheel would do we land? Because there are colors that serve us well
and some that do not. Right. When we, this is my opinion, but when we wear colors that
serve us, you have you ever lessen put on a shirt and say we went and saw our mama and
you walked in the door and your mom was like, what's wrong with you? You know, your mom
was telling you, you look sick that that that color doesn't. Yeah. Nobody said her and her
mom or friend have a code word when they go shopping and you don't like something somebody
else has on you go, that looks really comfortable. And that's, that's yeah. And then when likewise,
when you put something on and then all of your friends are like, Oh my word, you get
back from vacation, your teeth look so why your skin's glowing. What they're saying is
that color serves you. Our eyes take in color first. And what I found throughout all the
years again, going back to my college years and pageantry, because we had to be camera
ready and all of that is realizing most people have no idea color, like no one, excuse me,
no one knows the colors that served them well. We can look at a color and say, Oh, I can
appreciate that or I don't like that. But
in the eighties, was it eighties, whatever they had that color me beautiful and people
all their colors. And I still have people say, you know, I'm a warm or I'm a cool. I'm
like, I have no idea what that means. You know, I know the comments that I like that
I feel good in, but are they really the colors and the color I'm wearing today is really
not a color. We're very often. So when we're done, you have to
That's, that's the key is, is finding out where we land on the color wheel and our closet
may not be every well, in my opinion, it's not going to be every color of the rainbow.
It's going to be a part of the color wheel that serves your undertone, chroma and value.
And that's why I love diagnosing friends, men and women. What is your undertone of your
skin. Where do you land on the chromatic scale and the value scale and that little recipe.
We take the color wheel and now we've shrunk it. And so if you buy clothing or likewise
women with their lipstick, let's say their makeup. When you wear colors that serve you
well and that's all you have in your closet. When you wake up in the morning, you get dressed.
It is fun. We don't walk in our closet and like, oh, I'm frustrated. I have nothing to
wear. Nothing looks good. Nothing goes together. So the color serve you well your wardrobe
is mixed and matchable, you know, interchangeable, if you will.
And animals. Remember those
Yes.
But we want to also acknowledge color and your body shape because there are silhouettes
that serve us really well and things that we should avoid and we're all wonderfully
and beautifully made. So no one's trying to make one shape into another. We all need to
recognize this is who I am and this is what I should consider wearing. And then also in
our style lane. If you are casual sporty or if you're boho eclectic or if you're a trendy
girl or lean classic wherever you land be you, you do you. So we need to find and shop
for and have a wardrobe. In my opinion, that serves us with color, shape and style in mind
and I love quality over quantity. That's, that's just me personally. And that's kind
of how I work with my clients building a
A capsule wardrobe at the beginning. So in other words, good basics that serve you. And
then we go from there. But I really just want to build confidence in my girlfriends and
let them know with your makeup in your clothing. This is your best. And we know in the morning
when we can spend our time on ourself. It might be a little self centered hour. It's
okay. It's okay to invest time in yourself. It's okay to feel good. Look at. But what
I know is when we do that in the morning and we walk out the door where we're not worried
about our hair. We're not worried about our coloring our makeup or outfit. We're not worried
about it anymore. Then we can take the rest of the day, Leslie, and we can focus on the
person in front of us. Right. Cause when we've invested in ourself, it's not about us anymore.
We are done with us. The rest of the day can be about the people in front of us. And that's
really what we're all called to do is serve one another and love one another. But it's
hard to do that when your mind's always thinking about, Oh, I wonder how I looked at it. Yeah.
It really, to me is the basis of, of health for your mental health, your physical health,
emotional health, it's just being confident and what you can bring to the table and your
best. Love that. And that's really what I've been trying to do with my business. Um, not
just Mary Kay, but with the podcast is giving people courage and confidence. And that's
kind of the subject we've been circling around, obviously the courage part, but you know,
how do you give people confidence and, you know, make people feel better about themselves,
that, you know, color that they like and feel comfortable in and just, you know, so many
women aren't courageous and confidence and confident. I don't know if you've heard this
statistic, but a girl's self-esteem is highest at age 10. Self-esteem is highest at age 10.
And so try to teach people, you know, early how to give them confidence and color. So
I know you do, um, like zoom events with groups. So you're doing one with me in March. So if
anybody's watching this before March or listening to this and wants to join us, let me know.
But, um, tell me what other things do you do one-on-one? So what does this look like
when you do a group or a one-on-one? Tell me how that works and what you do.
I love working one-on-one because I can get very detailed and typically we schedule a
power hour virtually. So obviously I'm in Virginia and you're in Texas. So let's say
I got you to work with me. What does that look like? So virtually we would set up a
one-on-one hour together and, um, I would have you, we would work with, um, you'd show
me some, like of your favorite pieces in your closet. So I can get a feel for your, for
your style, what you love and what you're drawn to. I would do a body shape assessment.
So I would have you literally stand up, stand in certain positions and move your arms a
certain way and that way I can diagnose your body shape. And then therefore tell you within
that power hour, what your shape is and then what silhouettes are best for you, what we're
going to avoid at all costs. Then we would go through your coloring and this will play
a little bit in your makeup bag. I love to use makeup because if we were in person, I
could drape fabric and, and visually look at you and tell, but over the camera and of
course, virtually we'll use the power of lipstick and makeup, jewelry, accessories to help me
diagnose you on the color wheel. And then once we have that power hour, once I have
you diagnosed, then we can go, I can do personal shopping for you. I can, um, more importantly
help you edit your closet so we can go through your closet, be a blessing with things that
do not work for you. We're going to bless somebody else with those sweet little things.
They are not for you in your body shaping color.
We just helped my mother clean out her closet this weekend and I'm like, there was things
she's holding on. I'm like, mom, if you haven't carried that purse or worn that and it's sitting
in your closet, you could be blessing somebody else to use it that has no of this and you
have a ton of them.
Yeah. Sometimes you need a friend. I got a friend I'd tell her that I grew, I love you,
don't you buy another leopard sweater. She had 12. You need no more, no more. And we
added that.
Funny how we can do it so easily for somebody else. So I had helped my mom and a friend
clean out closets and then I was talking to a friend about cleaning out my office and
I'm looking at things like, I can't get rid of them. Like, okay, I need someone to come
do that for me at my house.
Yes, that's what we do. We edit. But again, it has to do with your coloring and your body
shape. So what you own in your closet at the end of the day works and serves you. So when
you walk in, it's your closet. This is not Dillard's. We don't need an apartment store
of every size you've ever been over the past 15 years. We need clothes that fit you right
now. And then we need them to be, you know, simple and easy to put together and accessorize
whatever your style is. That's where it's a little bit different. But so I do a lot
of one on one and we can take that from editing to shopping and I do a lot of group events.
So for friends who have, well, maybe even just a bunch of girlfriends getting together
or businesses where they have staff that need to maybe sharpen their image because they're
representing that brand or that company are for Mary Kay friends who just want to talk
about image in this beauty business. I can teach general classes for an audience over
subject matter like body shape or I can talk about basics or how to accessorize properly.
So I can do, I can do group events as well that are more just general. And I hate to
say rules because when it comes to fashion, guidelines to be our best. These are all just
suggestions for a best approach. And so whether that be the topic, there's so many four ways
to wear a t-shirt. I mean, there's just so many topics we could cover just based on the
audience, but it doesn't have to be, you don't have to be a certain age. This doesn't have
to mean you have to be a certain, a certain styling. You don't have to have a certain
economic situation to afford certain brands. These general classes can just help everyone
where they are. They're beginner to the expert.
That's awesome. So I know one of the tips and my friend said she liked his accessory.
So she called me after she was just raving about you. And I'm like, how many accessories
do I have? Do I have enough?
Exactly. Just little things that make the difference. And you know, at the end of the
day, because we're wanting to be our best and we're beautifully, wonderfully made, whatever
that looks like, but it's just little things that help build confidence. Just little, little
tweaks here and there make all the difference in the world. And if a friend can just tweak
one thing and change the way she feels for the day, you know, I tell a lot of women that,
you know, when you have a good hair day, ain't nobody going to tell you nothing wrong. You
know what I mean? With a good hair day, nothing can go wrong. It is, you walk different, you
talk different. That's how we should feel every day.
That's awesome. I love that. And I had a friend one time that I'd lost some weight. I went
to visit her out of town and we went shopping to get new stuff. And I literally stood in
the dressing room and she just brought me things and things I'd never tried. And I don't
know if you're familiar with Chico's, the clothing store. So they purposely don't have
mirrors in the dressing room. I don't know if you know that because they want women to
walk out and see. And you know, when I show people Mary Kay and colors and stuff, I'm
like, okay, let's finish the whole thing and then look like not pieces. And I always tell
people just like you had mentioned earlier, like when you have a new look that somebody's
not, they may not say, oh, your makeup looks good or your shirt looks good, but they're
like, something looks different. You know, I don't know what it is. I had a customer
one time I told her that and I said, wait to see what your husband, just probably not
to say he likes your makeup. And so she sent me an email one day, she goes, okay. It was
like, wait for it was a subject. She goes, I was doing my makeup. The husband walked by
the bathroom. He goes, did you get your hair colored? Yeah. Yeah. It was different, but
didn't know what it was. What a cool business and being able to help women and confidence
and courage and those little things. And as you said, have it. And I love how you describe
you helping your friends just come beside people to help people to revamp thing. And
I think, you know, we have changed our style because of what's been going on the last couple
of years and a little more casual and a little different. I remember one time my sister said
for friends comment, Leslie is always dressed up, which I wasn't, but I had jewelry on and
I had makeup on my hair. Those little things. Yes. Make a difference. It makes the difference.
Yeah. And that you care and you look like you didn't just roll it. But I remember one
day I was trying to stay in the office or stay home and I always get up even during
the last couple of years, I always get up even if I'm not going anywhere and do my hair
and makeup. And one day I didn't. And I put on yoga pants and a t-shirt and didn't real.
I was just felt yucky. So I'm like, all right, forget this. I'm going to get dressed with
clothes, you know, nicer clothes and some jewelry and do my makeup. Cause I just felt
you know, even at home, you know, you just, you feel more confident when you do. You do.
And I'll say this to you, Leslie. I feel like when we invest time in ourself, I know I,
while God talked about, you know, just putting that, that investment of time, it helps you
look at others more clearly. And I also think that when you invest time in yourself and
whatever that may look like for some women, you know, not a lot of makeup, a lot, you
know, that looks different forever, but in our own way, investing our own time to look
and feel our best. When we walk into the room, it's not that we're wanting to be the center
of the room or attention or anything like that. That's not never even on the radar,
but when we walk in the room, you can't help but take people's breath away because today
the most important commodity we have, I feel is time. We've got our time. And when you
walk in the room and you are put together in your style, whatever that is, it ought
to be a certain thing. But when you look your best and are put together, we turn our heads
and take you in and we're like, man, she looks awesome. Or she's so cute. And also because
you're walking in with confidence because you're walking yourself. And here's what it
says. This is what I know. This is what I know. When you invest the time in yourself
and you walk in the room, you carry a spirit of excellence about you. And other people
with a spirit of excellence can relate and are attracted to other spirits of excellence.
So when you walk in the room, your spirit of excellence, me over here with spirit of
excellence, I see your spirit of excellence. We're attracted to one another. And that's
who you end up drawing into your circle. That's who you end up drawing into your life. And
birds of a feather flock together. So at a glance we can say, oh, she has spirit of excellence
or he does. And that's who I want to talk to you in this room. That's who I want to
get to know and hear their story and find out why not today for them. Like what's going
on with them and draw some curiosity. We see and recognize that. So the power of spending
time in your on yourself in your best lane, so worth it for your, for your own clarity
and, and way to be focused on others, but for you to draw people to you and into your
life by setting an example of what you feel and your value and worth this.
Yeah. Love that. And I've never really thought of it that way, but it does make perfect sense.
Somebody recently asked me if I feel other people's energy and at first I'm like, I don't
know, but then I started paying attention to it. And there's people that I spend time
with that you walk away and you're ready to tackle the world or just on a conversation.
And then there's other people who are like, oh my gosh, that was just painful. And you
know, paying attention to that. And I'm really working on taking care of my word of the year
of space. And so working on the space and who is around my space and who gives me energy
and who sucks me dry and you know, paying attention to those people. So I love all that
you're sharing and we could talk forever. And I can't wait to have you share more in
our event in March. So if anybody is listening to this and wants to join it or join Miranda
and other things. So I always ask too, before we get off phone, when we talked about regrets
and I always kind of talk about that, but what, let's just talk about encouragement.
What encouragement would you give somebody else to say why not today?
Well, I would just be mindful that if I can get spiritual for just a second, but scripture
reminds us that the enemy comes in to steal, kill and destroy. That is, that is what he
wakes up every day doing. He's on a mission. So we have to be aware that God has plans
for us. And, and in Jeremiah, we're reminded that these plans are for us to prosper. There
are good things in store for us, but we are in a battle to, from the enemy to, to be destroyed
at every level. So every time we go into pursue something, there will be the voice of the
enemy trying to creep in. There's going to be doubt come in because that's his goal.
But what I, what I would like to say is for an encouragement is you have to be careful
what voice you're listening to. And you have to be prayerful and mindful about it. We cannot
listen to, to the writer, to the left of us. I know there are people who we love, who are
family and close friends, but sometimes not even their words are positive and encouraging
and uplifting, but because they don't know our heart, they don't know our mind, they
don't know our goal and our pursuit. So even though they mean well, we can't listen a lot
of times to those voices. You have to know the voice you're tuned into to listen to.
And a lot of times I'll just say, Lord, and, and, and through this situation of making
a hard pivot in our life, my husband and I were both 20 years into each of our careers
and we're presented opportunity where he had to make a pivot. And we just said, Lord, we
have to hear your voice. We have to know without a doubt, please confirm within us. And despite
the naysayers, despite what things look like, that's where faith and courage comes in, just
blindly chasing the obvious. But when we pray about it, we also have to be slow to respond.
We have to make sure that we're quiet and we're listening to the right voice. So I would
just encourage everyone to just look at it and, and know that you'll feel peace. You're
going to feel joy when you're pursuing things in the right direction that are made for you.
You will. And scripture says that the Lord will bless the work of our hands. So we pursue
it and then we work for it. But yeah.
And yeah, so true. And it reminds me of when I decided to make the pivot in my life to
quit my full-time job to pursue Mary Kay full-time and made that decision. And it was really
a why not today? And it was the date in the time was to go shopping. I'm not even a shopper,
but my national sales director was going shopping. I wanted to go. And I remember I made the
decision the date I was going to resign and leave. And every day my mother called me like,
are you sure? Should you do this? And I'm like, you know, I just, I knew that that was
what I need to do. And the same thing with this podcast. I just knew I didn't know what
it looks, look, would look like. And I still don't know the end goal. It's going to look
like I have big ideas and I just don't know where it's going to go. I mean, my goal is
it to be a movement and to change people and give people courage. So, yeah, I love this.
So I always ask the question and try to connect back to my dad. And I know you knew nothing
about my dad and you emailed me and you're like, how am I supposed to answer this? So
it's interesting because this podcast was kind of started, it was started in honor.
So I was trying to connect, you know, things that I hear are similar. So the one thing
that I heard you say is you had to do a different path in your life, which took you a totally
different place. And so in high school, when you had to make that pivot, and I think my
dad was very similar and my brothers were at the eulogy when he passed away and shared
about my dad always had it plan A, B, C, D and things pivot. And so he grew up in California
and played football in high school and was supposed to play football in college. And
the night he graduated high school, he got in a horrific car accident and almost died
and lost the sight of one of his eyes. So the logo for the why not today is my dad's
logo, which is an eye patch and a hand around mustache. And because he always had an eye
patch. And so he was supposed to go play football in California, I think USC, but because of
that, he had to pivot. And he didn't go to college till six months later. And it's kind
of a funny story how the world is so different now. But his dad's like, you should go to
Notre Dame, your grandfather lives out there. So they put him on a train and went to Notre
Dame, Indiana, how much I mean, now, it's so hard to get in. But went started Notre
Dame graduated, stayed there. And my mom lived in the same town in South Bend. And she he
met my dad, my mom because of that. So if that pivot haven't hadn't happened, like so
many sequence of things, you know, something bad, we always look at, okay, those terrible
things. But because this terrible thing happened, look at what the difference he was able to
make and probably wouldn't have left California otherwise. Right. So yeah, it's kind of a
cool path. Just never know. You never know all your faith and your courage and say why
not today? Well, thank you so much for being a guest. And I loved hearing you talk and
I'll probably be talking with a southern accent today. But so how can people find you if they're
interested in pursuing you with your styling business? Is there a name for your business
or? Well, I just you know, because I was helping friends at first, and it turned into other
things. So it's it's Miranda's closet clients is my Facebook group, private group. But you
can find me on Instagram, I think I'm out of out of friends, or on Facebook, but Instagram
Miranda rains and I spell it M a M a r a, a rains r a i n s Miranda rains on Instagram,
also on Facebook, but anyone's invited to be a part of my private Facebook group. Anyone
can join. It's a private great. So you'll find me see my face just asked to be a part
my share your contact information. Oh, great. Great. Yeah, absolutely. So Instagram, Facebook.
Yeah, I'm gonna go I don't know if I've joined it. I need to. So well, thank you again. I
love talking to you. And again, if people want to join us in March, and I'll share that
in the show notes to the information about the thing we're doing in March. So I love
hearing your story. Remember to that. The Why Not Today podcast is on iTunes and Spotify
and every other place. If you could like it, share it, review it, I would appreciate it.
The website is live finally, and it's why not today podcast.com. And we do have t shirts
and cups. So if you want to be courageous and say why not today? We're here to help
you. So look also looking for guests if you know people that have been courageous or done
something courageous. So again, Miranda, thank you for joining me today. It was a pleasure
and I feel like I have a new friend. You do likewise. I appreciate you. Thank you for
having me. All right. Well, thank you. And thanks everybody for listening. Bye.