Miranda G | Discussion Combustion Podcast | #288

[00:00:00] We'll have this discussion. Discussion? What discussion? This is a discussion. Combustion. Coming to you from Denver, Colorado, this is Discussion Combustion Podcast with your hosts Kevin Batstone and Arthur Rawe. Is having options for clips and promoting businesses and whatnot. Are we rolling? We're rolling. All right, 288, we're here. Miranda's in the building. What a fun story of how we met.

[00:00:27] Yeah. You hit us up. Like, I want to come down and see what you guys are all about. See what's going on. Just let in the DMs. And you were like, at that point you're like, I'm not doing your show though. You're like, I just want to check it out. That's fair. And then we kind of, you know, circled back. You did deny us. You're like, I'm not doing it. You're like, I just want to come in and maybe watch one. Yeah, I did say that. And then we're like, okay, how about you come on in? And then, and then we ended up just sitting and talking for like an hour. It was great. And then you're like, why don't you, that was, we could have just recorded that. Yeah.

[00:00:54] Yeah. Yeah. You're right. And then you said you had this mastermind thing coming up, which we'll get into here in a bit. And I was like, Oh, perfect. Let's get you on this date to promote that. Yeah. So here you are. And I didn't back out. Yeah, that's good. You're welcome. Yes. So that's fun. And you sent us great guests already. More to come. Steph was fantastic last week. And so we said in the opening last week, we were like, the viewers don't know Miranda yet. And now they're about to get to know you. Here we go. And you're not from Denver. I am. Okay. You are. Pay attention. Yeah. I should have known this for the next time.

[00:01:23] That's why I quit drinking. More than that. Never lived anywhere else. Okay. Nice. So what's your like favorite part of Denver? Cause there's like different areas. We should talk Denver or Colorado. Of like the metropolitan. Front range. Denver, much in it. When you're not. When you're not. I do not. I, because I'm from here. Yeah. So I, I went to college in the city. I went to Metro State. So I was in the city all the time. I'm not a huge city person.

[00:01:52] I'm very picky when it comes to like being in the city. So if I'm in Denver, it's because I'm being paid to, or it's during like, I don't know, a weekday, like midday or something random. I am not a fan of the traffic. I can, cause I'm from here. It's changed so much and I don't love all the changes. So I'm like, I remember not, but it's there. Um, but I, again, like I go to Denver for meetings constantly. Cause everyone's like, let's just meet in Denver. And of course.

[00:02:23] Okay. Is it like a South Broadway meetup or like, where's the normal meetup when you get called? It's all over. Okay. Honestly, it's all over. I mean, there's Cherry Creek. There's like downtown, downtown Rhino. I like Rhino area. Cherry Creek, I don't mind. Um, I just, another thing too, is I hate parking downtown. Oh, that's the worst. I sound like an old complaining person. No, I don't like it either. I'm like, and I gotta pay to park where I don't even want to park. Right. And then I have to come back to my room. Yeah.

[00:02:52] And then it's not safe in a lot of areas now that it used to be growing up. And so don't love it. So Denver's out. You're not a big fan of that. So what are we talking about? We go in Aurora. We go in commerce city. No, I grew up in Lakewood. So I live in Brighton though. So I like Brighton. I mean, I like, I like living in Brighton because it, people are like, Oh, it's so far away. It's really not. Um, but I like, it's quiet. It's pretty, it feels secluded without really being that far. Um, but I love Lakewood. I mean, it's where I grew up.

[00:03:20] Um, it's where my family is, where they have their businesses. I'm still there like four days a week minimum. Did you ever go to that lakeside park or whatever it is? Uh, oh, that's like, it's not really Lakewood. It's not Lakewood, but yeah. Oh, it's like that little convenient park. No, it's the one that was like offset. No, it's the amusement park. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a thing anymore. It's no, it's still there. Is it really? Yeah. They run the rides. I gotta go. I didn't have, man, I've been in many moons. Okay. My grandmother lives really close to there.

[00:03:48] Um, so growing up as a kid, we used to always walk there with all the grandkids and stuff and it was crappy back then. It still is, but it was fun. And I was like, yeah, cause you didn't know. Hey, you know, when things are consistent, it earns my respect, you know? Consistently shitty. Yep. Oh yeah. Gotta respect it. Like random thing. I went to high school. I went to high school with the owner's granddaughter and I'm like, what? You guys like have money? Like when you just let it look like this? Yeah. Whatever. Pretty dilapidated. Yeah.

[00:04:19] Now, especially. It's like, do you even jump on that roller coaster? It's like a wooden roller coaster. Fun fact. I'm not getting on there. I don't know if that's a really fun fact, but it was the first roller coaster I've ever been on. I'm not a heights person. I'm terrified of roller coasters. And I was like, game, let's go on that one. I don't know. The one that's going to take your life. Like I was, I was like, this is so stupid. The whole time. Like the seatbelt was just like a regular, like, it's like a little, like, it's like a not safe. There had to be some lawsuits, huh? I was like flying off to see it. I was like, this is not safe. Oh, my God. Like 70 years ago. Oh, damn.

[00:04:48] Who knows now? I didn't know it was still running. Yeah. It still does not. I feel like it's not as often as it used to be. Maybe just a couple months out of the year. It's definitely in the summer. To keep the cost down. Probably. I don't, who knows? I look in, I haven't been forever, but yeah. So I, like I said, my grandma lives by there. She's lived there my whole life. So I went to elementary school, not far from there. So Wheat Ridge area. Yeah. I grew up there too. So you know all the areas. Do you feel like living in Brighton, Brighton's your day? I'm not really sure what that means. That's a great dad joke.

[00:05:17] She came up with that one on the spot. Yeah. No. I live in like a suburb surrounded by farms. So it's like, again, like. Also smells like cow shit. Sometimes. Not always though. I like that though. It makes you feel alive. You know? But again, like I like being away from the city. Me too. So far. Yeah. I still want to feel like, that's like 30 minutes. As long as I'm an hour from an airport. And I. Within. Yeah. Right. And I'm close to DIA too. So, but not too close. So I like it. It's nice.

[00:05:46] It's like, I think we're like the youngest people in our neighborhood. That's fun. So I like it cause it's chill. But yeah. I, like I said, Lakewood still, I have a soft spot for it. I love it. I wouldn't live there cause too close to Denver. Denver's creeping too close to Lakewood now, but. Denver's just getting too big. Yeah. You know, they built this city, not anticipating millions of people to move into it. Well, and we still have one of the better infrastructures out of all the cities. Which is crazy. Yeah. 25 is good. I feel like some of those side roads like sixth and you know, some of those other ones

[00:06:15] are, you can tell like weren't prepared for the amount of traffic that is on it now. Yeah. It's crazy. Cause like the boom happened really in like what? 2010. I moved here in 07 and then it just. Yeah. I would say like, it really went crazy probably in like 2010. Um, when we became legal and stuff. Um, everyone. That was awesome. I was in high school. So, um, but I was like, man, I remember when I was like learning how to drive and everything.

[00:06:41] Like I 25 has always been a shit show, but like, but there was like no traffic anywhere else. And now it's constant. It's pretty rough. I think I take 470. I'll pay the tolls. I will do it sometimes if I'm coming out this way. I hate coming to Aurora. So I, I, um, this is special. This is, this is twice. This is twice. I have a handful of friends live in Aurora too. I'm like, can we not? I just hate driving here because the traffic, it's like one way in, one way out. Like 225 baby.

[00:07:11] It's a little, yeah, it could be a little rough for sure. And though I like driving, I hate sitting in traffic. Oh, I know. It makes a lot of work. I'm cool if I'm moving. Yeah. Do you drive a manual? I know I'm asking you a lot of questions here. I don't. Okay. This is the work. This is some, probably the biggest shame of mine. You know how to drive a manual? Shameful thing. I blame my father. You're wearing a Corvette? I am wearing a Corvette. The Corvettes I've driven were on my, oh boy, this is going off the rails. But I grew up, I'm, I'm a big car girl.

[00:07:39] I grew up in a car, very car central, centered family. And I still don't know how to drive a manual. I'm going to fix that. I also drag race and I still don't know how to drive a manual. Oh yeah. My dad's like, and he'll like make fun of me, but she doesn't even know how to drive a manual. Well, he didn't teach you. You're the dad. What are you doing? He tried to teach me like twice for like a day. And he was like, can't. It's, it's pretty easy. It's not, it's pretty easy. You ever driven a dirt bike or anything like that? Motorcycle. I have like a mini bike, not a dirt bike, but like a mini chopper. Oh, those are fun. Little pocket rocket.

[00:08:09] It's no, it's not like a, it's literally a chopper. It's like a mini Harley. It's literally a chopper. Like long. It's like, I probably still fit on it. I got it when I was a kid, but, um, but that even still wasn't complicated. Not really. Um, so, but yeah, so we, I tried like twice in my life and my parents love them dearly. My mom is like too lax when she teaches and she's just like, yeah, do that. And my mom, what am I doing? And then she's like, just keep going.

[00:08:39] I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing. And then my dad is the complete opposite. What the hell are you doing? Stop doing that. Put your fucking eyes up. Okay. I'm like, Oh my God, you're stressing me out. That's a lot. Screaming and like giving too many directions. And my mom's just too chill. And so I'm like, okay, this is going nowhere. Yeah. So I still haven't learned, but that is a, that is a goal of mine. I think this is obtainable. You can do this. Here's the thing. Just get a rental. Yeah. Well, yeah, that's one way to do it. Rentals. Or an old car. Just an old beater. Like if I was to go to like. They don't, they don't not going to rent manuals because it's a liability. Yeah.

[00:09:09] People are going to rip the transmission out. But what I would do is go out east, like to Watkins, find a country road out in Bennett, or, you know, out to the farms there in Brighton, you know, back country road and just, just go. We were, um, so my parents own a motorcycle shop and they switched locations now, but are since this first time I tried to learn, first time I tried to learn it in Lakewood, but like the street that they were on was like, it's just other businesses. And then there's like residential on one side and like, there's not a whole lot going on on that street. And it's usually pretty empty.

[00:09:39] So we used to like practice up and down. Like that street and like around the block. Cause it wasn't crazy. Um, and then they move locations and now it's kind of by this area. So they just have like one long strip that like we can practice and practice a little bit, but yeah, my dad was like, so where I learned how to like just drive, uh, mostly was in cemeteries. Oh, okay. I've never heard that one before. This is a turning of a country song. Um, my parents were always like, we'll drive in the cemetery cause we're going to kill.

[00:10:08] Um, it's fine. No one's around. So your parents have a sense of humor. Um, yeah. And so my mom is from New Mexico and we used to practice out there too. Cause we go to New Mexico all the time and she's from a really small town. Um, and there's literally like nothing besides like dirt roads and a couple of cemeteries. It's chilly fields. So we were just like drive around there too. And practice some cemeteries until like here and Colorado do the same thing. And so, um, yeah, that's where I learned how to drive. In a cemetery. In a cemetery.

[00:10:36] And then I learned how to race in a abandoned target parking lot. Oh yeah. Um, so there's that. Nice. Um, but yeah. So you, wait, so you learned how to race in an abandoned target parking lot. I was 10 years old. So, so were you like, were cones like set up? Uh huh. Okay. Well, kind of, I mean, it was a dragster, so you're not turning like straight, but like still a little bit learning how to like, not like maneuver. Um, but yeah, it's, I mean, it's not abandoned anymore. This apartment's there. Of course it's like a full fix, but it was like abandoned forever.

[00:11:06] So my dad was like, no one's ever here. Like I'm 10. So he's like, we'll just go like your car's small. We'll just go out there with like, when no one's around and just rip it. Um, but yeah, I still don't know how to learn how to drive manual. So I think it's, you can do it. It's fine. I'm also like a very, I don't know how to describe it. Like I have to know like every step first and you have to like explain it to me very thoroughly. And then one by one, cause then I'll get frustrated really fast and then try to like

[00:11:35] do the next thing before I'm done with the first thing. Yeah. So I think that's like gets me tripped up a little bit. You just gotta be in the moment with it. You know, when I teach people how to drive manual, I, I take them to the classroom first and we learn what the clutch does, what it is. The importance of it. That's my style. Right. Cause you gotta know what it is before you know how to use it. And so we break it down. What does the clutch do? What is its purpose? It's to engage and disengage the engine and the transmission. Yeah. So once we know that, then we can put it to work. That's fair. Right. That's a good way to look at it. Get the laser pointer out, start going to the chalkboard.

[00:12:03] And then we take this thing to out to the streets. Yeah. Yeah. You don't start ripping gears. Yeah. I mean, like I said, I grew up in a car family, um, classic cars mostly, which a lot of those are manual. So I'm like, dad, so you wait, so you grew up with all these like classics just sitting around. Like I'm not going to teach you like how to drive on these. Like you're out of your damn mind. Um, but yeah. So if you want to go way back in, in the family history, my grandfather, he passed when

[00:12:32] I was really young, but he was in the car industry forever. He owned car lots. Um, so my dad grew up on car lots and then he went on to work, um, at dealerships cause my grandpa passed when I was doing stuff. So after he passed, the car lots were sold, all those things. Um, so he loved cars, the industry, he worked for a few different, um, dealerships. He was like a finance director, salesman, all the things. Um, and then he opened his own business, but so he grew up around that stuff. Um, he grew up racing as well.

[00:13:00] And my mom, she's into cars of course. Cause like my dad and stuff. Um, but she always loved classic cars too. Like it was, you know, like when the time she was growing up, that's when there was classic cars as a norm. So like she loves, she loves and has appreciation as well. Um, so then her and my dad, you know, they share that. My dad's just like addicted though. Um, so yeah, I grew up around cars all the time and it's always been like a little side gig. My dad buys and sells cars, um, just for funsies.

[00:13:30] And then now my husband and I, and my dad buy and sell classic cars as a side passion as well. I love that. Kind of flip them, make some profit. Yeah. And sometimes we don't even have to flip them. Um, but yeah. So yeah. Um, so there's, there's always new rotations coming in and out, but yeah. So practice on one of those. My, my dad wouldn't murder me if I ruined one of those. Cause he like, you know, is he gonna watch this? Probably maybe. Um, teach the straw to drive manual. Yeah.

[00:13:58] I, my, his friends make fun of him because they're like, this is your daughter. This is your, and she doesn't, he's like, I know she doesn't want to learn. I'm like, don't, don't you do that? Don't you speak for me? Don't blame me. He's like, she's a bad driver. But so, but yeah, so I grew up around classic cars and started drag racing when I was 10. And yeah, I'm obsessed. Did you run Vandemir? Yes. Before it went bye-bye. That was my childhood home. Like we grew up, I grew up at Vandemir. I love that place. My favorite place.

[00:14:28] Super hard broken. Still, even if they do rebuild, they don't ever be the same. It's never going to be the same. It's kind of pointless, honestly, but whatever. We need to, we need a strip drive. So it's going to go out there by Kingsburg. Yeah. I was talking to the Vandemir family and that's kind of their plan, but they're way behind schedule. Of course they are. My dad was talking to Vandemir too. And saying the same thing. He was like, we'll see. Funny story. My dad, like I said, he grew up racing as well. He was like, when I was a teenager racing, they were like, oh, we're going to sell Vandemir and we're in clubs. And he was like, so no one ever really took him seriously.

[00:14:56] He was like, so, you know, when they're this time he's like, they've been threatening to sell forever. Let's see if they actually do it. Um, so he, he was like, I feel going to sell. I think they're just going to be done. It's a point of selling to, to move. I think it's stupid. It'll never be the same. It was the parking lot situation. That's ultimately what it came down to. And they didn't have running water. No running water. They didn't have running water forever. I know. That's what made it fun. Who gets, you know, one time Kevin, and this happened long enough ago that, uh, one

[00:15:24] time we, um, got access and to, oh, we had the media, media center in there. Oh yeah. That was fun. And, uh, and so that was like one of our very first media events. That was cool. Where we got up in there, we were sitting with the team and it was kind of fun because like all the coverage team, they were all eating ice cream. And, um, I forgot about that. And I like had like a comment about the ice cream, like which ice cream is the best. I got excited. Yeah. It was a good time. And cause here's the thing, people who are behind the scenes doing all the media, they're,

[00:15:53] they're just like everybody else. They're, they're excited about the sport. Oh, of course. You know, having fun with it. We were there to cover the sport, you know? Yeah. And HRA was in town, which I'm a big NHRA guy. Me too. You know, obviously partnered with NASCAR, Tony Stewart's over there now. Do you still keep up with it? Um, not as, not as much, but I mean, you're in there. Yeah. I mean, I still, my dad does. It's a great sport. Oh yeah. Of course. I'm hoping we get it back to Denver here by 27. Because not having, not having a drive. I mean, we have Pueblo, but it was closed last year too. Yeah. That's kind of a shitty facility.

[00:16:22] And who wants to go to Pueblo? Pueblo is like long drive. Sorry Pueblo. Long drive. That's not my favorite place. It's no one's favorite place. Pueblo is a weird place. It's, it's a crap. Um, it's crap. It's full of crystal meth. Sorry. I have, I have family that's in Pueblo. I don't, I'm sorry. They know it. Um, and then the only other track is way in the hell out. I always forget the name of it. It's a, it's still working. Um, we're talking drag racing. Yes. But it's also an airport. Okay. It's like a private airport. It's like out on the border of Nebraska.

[00:16:53] Yes. Yeah. It's out, out in a passport. It has a funky name. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. It's not Sterling. I love that track. It's just so far. I've never been out there. Oh, it's so fun. I've never been. It's like, obviously it's not like Bannery was like, you know, it's epic. Yeah. But also it was like Bannery was very like, it's an NHRA track. So it's professional. Professional. This track used to be one. Um, they're not anymore, but it's just, it's more of like, it's in the middle of nothing. It's grassroots. It's in the country. It's not like crappy.

[00:17:23] Yeah. It's well kept because it has to be. It's still a working airport. Um, but it's like, because it's not NHRA, it, I mean there's rules, but it's, it's a, you know, not as many. Yeah. And people just go out and have a fucking blast. If you end up in the sand traffic on your own. And like, it's just like great time. People are camping, like. That sounds fun. I love about racing. It's so fun. It's one of my favorite tracks I've ever been to. And it's not fancy. Like I said, but it's just such a good time.

[00:17:50] And people are just having a blast and like hanging out on the hangers and like, whatever. It's a good time, but it's so far. And so like not having band of me, three hours. Yeah. Or more. Probably from Brighton. Yeah. Um, or more or whatever, but like not having band of mirror then, I mean, street racing is always going to be a thing, but it's way worse when we don't have a track. Yeah. I mean, I feel like you're always gonna have street racing. A lot of those guys are just going to rip up to I-25 and you know, down Wadsworth and wherever they go. And then we still have Colorado national speedway. If you have, if you're into oval racing, have you ever been there? Oh yeah.

[00:18:20] My dad, um, great. My dad had a bunch of buddies that, uh, that I would race there growing up. I like in high school had a boyfriend whose family was like into racing there. So we used to go there all the time. Yeah. Um, not the same though. Well, it's different. It's different style racing. Yeah. So, I mean, it's fun. I'll go. It's a blast, but I want to race. You want to put the power down. And I'm not racing. I'm not, I'm a go straight type of type of lady. No turn left. No, no, no left turn. That's fair. Not for me.

[00:18:46] But I mean, one of these times you have to know what it feels like to rip through gears on a standard, uh, manual transmission. I love it. Drive over the day. That's a great feeling. I've been in the passenger seat for that, um, on a NASCAR track, but, uh, and like rode the track and stuff. Um, that was a blast. I don't want to do that. So what, what is your like dream car? Like your Eleanor. Do you have like two years to talk about? Cause I have a list.

[00:19:15] Um, but it depends what category we're talking about. I mean, I am a Corvette girl. I grew up. Do you like the newer Corvettes or you like more in the classic? Cause the newer ones. What year? So the brand, brand new ones. Love. They look like McLarens. So that I, I love that. And I hate that. Cause I like McLarens too. Um, so I like that factor, but I also like, and then it's like, oh, then it kind of, it's not Corvette, but I think they're sick. Like I, I love mid engine. I think they're so cool.

[00:19:45] Um, they're sleek. They're beautiful. They like, you can still tell it's a Corvette. Like, I mean, they still have the classic features, but, um, it's just a cool looking car. I think I'm like, you can't be mad at that. So you're on team Chevy, huh? Oh yeah. Are you, are you, are you a Ford guy? He's pulling it out. Oh, sorry. Oh, fuck. But. I'm fighting words. Let's take it to the race. Let's try. I'll drag race you for it. I'll take my manual transmission. I appreciate it.

[00:20:15] I'm a cargo, so I have some appreciation for them. But my dad is very much a Chevy man. Um, that's fair. No Fords allowed at the edge. Funny though, cause he does have, you know, I have one Ford that he drives and he's like, don't tell me. What kind of Ford is he? Literally just like a daily. It's a freaking X4. Um, but whatever. For his daily? Like one of, one of. Okay. Yeah. Like, uh, I told you the addiction is real. Um, but we also have a T bucket.

[00:20:41] Um, and it's a Ford T bucket, but it's acceptable because it has a Chevy engine. Oh yeah. There's a gray area. So that's okay. That's okay. That's all right. That's all right. Um, I, I do like old, you know, Ford trucks. I don't like the new ones, but. I mean, the 67 Shelby GT 500, one of the greatest masterpieces ever made. Yes. So yes, I agree, but not my favorite. That's fair. I'll take, I'll take a, I'll take Corvette over that. Taking the Corvette over the Shelby. Split window Corvette.

[00:21:11] All right. Around that same time, like the stingray. Are you going? Yes. Any of them. Yeah. I just love sixties Corvette. So Willie B brought to the studio that one time. I mean, those are, those are, that's like classic. That's what it's a kid. I mean like. Willie B is a big Corvette. You know, Willie B from one of them. We had him on a few years ago and he brought over like what, what car is Willie going to show up? That was cool. He's a solid guy. It was so cool having him on. Cause I listened to him on the radio. My dad met him a few times. Nice guy. We have like some mutual friends. I've never met him, but yeah. He's a big race guy. Yeah.

[00:21:40] He does a lot for the automotive community around. Yeah. I know. He donates cars too. He donates cars. People are less fortunate. He'll like fix them up. I'm less fortunate. Send me one. No, but yeah, huge into cars. I mean, Corvettes are always favorite as far as like super cars and stuff. Ferrari. Okay. Is my, is my girl. Oh, Ferrari over Lambo every day. Yeah. See, she gets it. I like the Lambos. Josh, I hope you're listening. You can't say like, I hate that. I mean, they're a cool, I appreciate cars. So they're cool cars.

[00:22:08] But like, the hurricane is like a classic. Hurricane. It's cool. Right? Hurricane. The 70s, 80s ones are way cooler. But like, I feel like that's a car that every young person, as soon as they get money, they're like, oh, get the Lambo. Lime green. I'm like, every side, or orange. I'm like, you're so predictable. That's what Josh do. Like, they're badass cars. Yes. But I don't. Ferrari is way better.

[00:22:35] Ferrari is just, it's the standard of an exotic car. Ferrari. It's elegant. I agree with that. It's like, it's unattainable. It's like, it's that exclusivity. It's great. Like, the whole, the family that, you know, Ferrari family, like all that history is amazing. It's so intriguing to me. It's incredible. I agree. I love it. It's good. What about Ford versus Ferrari? I was just going to go into that. Did you see that movie? I did. That was a great movie. It's a very good movie. Let's not forget that Ford defeated Ferrari in the 24 hour Le Mans.

[00:23:05] I don't believe Chevy did. So I'll just leave that nugget there for you. It's fine. It's fine. When you have to call a Chevy to tow your Ford. Well, I mean, we know what Ford stands for. It's first on race day. So yeah, I mean, I'm not hating, but I'm hating. But yeah, no, Ferraris are my favorite. Like that's, that's the car. Like you'll know. Well, like if you see, you'll be like, Oh, okay. That's the one. That's the one that's for supercar wise.

[00:23:33] But I'll probably like, I said, I grew up around Corvettes. My dad has always had a Corvette. Okay. Like not the same one. Never that. Always rotating, but he's always had one. Like if he's like buying and selling, whatever, there's usually a Corvette still on hand or like the longest period he went without was probably like six months, my whole life. Without a Corvette? Without a Corvette. Those were the darkest six months of his life. And then he's always like, man, he'll see one drive by. He's like, I need to get another one back. Like every, every time. But yeah. So love those.

[00:24:02] I mean, I just, I'm just the car girl. What does he have currently? What Corvette? It is a, I think just, him and my husband just bought it to sell it. It is a 60 something. Sold already. It's a late 60s. The reds are great. What color are we dealing with here? Yellow? Red. It needs, it needs some work, but it's, it's cute. That's fun. It's very cute. He'll probably keep it for a little bit and then sell it as he, as he does. I learned growing up to don't get attached. Everything has a price tag. So. That's true.

[00:24:42] That's true. I like, I think Princess Diana had one the same as my mom's. Um, she's, she's had it forever. Um, and then, so that's, that's like, I don't touch her fucking car. That's her baby. She's like, I don't give a shit what you sell. Don't touch my car. Um, cause she had one before I was born. I think. Um, and he sold it without telling her. Oh, oopsie. He, I mean, look, if he had to do that, I agree with the move. I didn't have to. You just did. I was just like, that's the right price. And then I was like, babe. So.

[00:25:12] I sold her car. She like, he took her out to like a nice, like lunch or something. And then she was like, what'd you do? He was like, I sold your wheels. She was like, you mother. So she was pissed. And then he got her the other one. And then she was like, don't you ever touch that again? So she's had that my whole life. Um, someone stays in the garage. I mean, she drives it, but that one doesn't get touched. It's hers. Um, actually I think it's currently in my name. So my dad can't sell it. Um, it's tactic. Um, and then the other one is a, like a family heirloom car.

[00:25:41] It was a car that my dad and my grandfather used to sell back and forth to each other when they needed money. It's a Riviera. Oh, with like the clamshell headlights. And it's, it's gorgeous. Um, so they used to buy and sell to each other all the time. And it was like, so one of the two of them would always just be better off financially. And so they would, they would, they both love the car. Yeah. And they would be like, don't sell it. If you need to sell it or you don't want anymore, sell it to me. Yeah. Or be like, if you need money and you need to sell the Riv, sell it to me.

[00:26:10] Like, do you need to sell that car again? Cause I wouldn't mind buying a back. Yeah. So they would do it. And one, that is fun. Yeah. And so when my grandfather passed, um, it was in his possession. And then there was like a whole family drama around it, but my dad didn't like fight for it. Be like, no, that's my car. Um, so when he passed, my dad took it over and it's not leaving. I will not allow it. It's my car. Yours. I'm like, dad, I will buy it. Like we're not, that's, that's my, that's my baby. Keeping the family tradition alive. Yes. I took high school, like senior pictures with it.

[00:26:37] My dad drove me up to the aisle for my wedding in it. And like, it's, it's my, it's like my favorite thing ever. So. Yeah. That's a no change. And it's pristine. It's gorgeous. So the original color, it's like a really deep, like maroon. And then it's still that color, but my dad made it two toned with black and he made it a little bit. I was not a fan of these changes. I was like, not a fan of the two tone. He had some pinstripe, a little, just a little touch. And I'm like, stop it. Cause I'm very much a purist for most cars. I want too fancy.

[00:27:07] And I'm just like, it's don't, don't make it modern. Leave it alone. Um, he threw new rims on it. Then I like powder coated black and like, I mean, it looks so. Can I ask a serious question? And it's, it kind of, it has a, it's a car question. Go for it. So how do we feel about backup cameras? I probably need one on my daily. I'm going to go thumbs down on the backup camera. Okay. Modern.

[00:27:35] So wait, none of us have a backup camera on our car. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. None of us. New car. Yeah. Every time I rent a car and it has it, or like I'm driving someone else's, I don't even use it. Like it comes on or whatever. I have trust issues. I'm still using the mirror. Me too. Cause I'm like, yeah, that camera might be fake news. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah. One thing that is fun though. Cause I used to sell cars and, uh, and, uh, so I would be like in the parking lot with

[00:28:03] a customer and I would be like backing it up and I'd be like, you want to see how close we could get to this car? Stop it. You're not one of those. Yeah. And then they'd be like, I don't know. And I'd be like, I'd be like, come on. Are we talking with backup camera? With the backup camera. My dad does this without it. And so, so I'd like back up and like, you can see the bumpers so you can almost kiss bumpers and they're all like, are you sure? And I'm like, all right, let's hop out. And so I'd like get as close as I could. And then we would hop out and go look at the back and they'd be like, oh my gosh, it's so close.

[00:28:30] I mean, they serve a purpose, whatever. But like, I would never put that on like a car didn't come. Oh, you wouldn't add it. Yeah. No, that's even worse. That's even worse. And a lot of these new cars have like, it'll beep at you. You know, if you're trying to change lanes and like vibrates and we get a rental car like that. And literally after 30 minutes, I was like, I'm going back. I can't do this. I need a different car. Like, or I'm like, how do we try? I'm like, how do we do? I was like, how do we take this thing? I was so pissed. Then you have to disable it every single time you start the car. Yes.

[00:29:00] Or the like, my biggest pet peeve with new cars besides electric ones is the like the automatic like kills, like it turns off, turns back on. Oh, when you come to a stop. Yes. Oh yeah. It's so annoying. There's no way that's good for it. It's not. Not only that it's supposed to save fuel. It really doesn't because the vehicle has to refire, which means you have to dump fuel. Exactly. Right. I like people like, no, it saves fuel. I'm like, how you have to restart it. And that's killing the starter. Yeah. Well, it doesn't make any sense to me. I'm with you. Who am I? I'm not a car engineer.

[00:29:30] It's to get people back into the shop. They design phones, they design cars and everything. Remember the days we used to build things to last. I know. I miss those days. I'm not even that old, but I know. I was watching this, this like tick tock on vintage refrigerators, like from the 50s. The big green ones. Yeah. They still are great. Yeah. They had like a foot thing on the bottom to open it up. They open from both sides. They have like these swivel shelves and stuff. There's that company that like makes new ones like that.

[00:30:00] Smeg. Smeg. I haven't heard of that. They're expensive. They like make them look like the vintage ones, but they're new. But they're new. So they're probably just lighter. They do like toasters. The toasters are like several hundred dollars. Really? Stupid. But they're very cute. Do they have like a TV in them or something? No. They just made, they look vintage, but they're new. Hmm. Cause now they have smart fridges with TVs in it. That is a terrible idea. I think they're cool, but like it's going to fail. What's the point of it though? Like you can watch, you could watch discussion combustion on your fridge.

[00:30:28] I mean, if you're like cooking and your cell phone isn't big enough to like watch it on. Okay. Most people's kitchens are close to their living rooms where there's a turn it up, you know? Yeah. I don't know. I think the. It's too much. It's too much. It's too. It's too fancy. And then it's going to break down and then you have a stupid, you have to fix the wiring in a fridge. Yeah. That's for a smart TV. No, it's silly. Yeah. So it's funny because the whole backup camera thing. Yeah. So, you know, I got my girl, she has her single friend.

[00:30:58] We're going out on Halloween night to go clubbing and partying. And, um, you're way cooler than that. And you know, like my, my wife, she's attractive. Her friend's attractive. Like we're a good looking group. And so a bunch of guys are like all hitting on her friend and all this stuff. And then I ended up getting one of these guys that like wants to tag along and like take us to some other places. Either way. You let a stranger in your car. You know, I did. I did. Bad decision. Number one. I was in control of the situation. I was definitely in control here.

[00:31:27] But the thing was, is I like whipped it parallel, parked it and backed it in with no camera. And people are impressed by this nowadays. That is true. They're impressed by it. My husband's party trick is like, if I'm DD, he's lit and we're driving somewhere. I, I can parallel park. Okay. But sometimes it takes a long minute. I hate parallel parking. Not for me. Okay. Um, whatever, but I hate it.

[00:31:55] My husband's very, really like very good at it. So like I'll be DD. He'll be shit face and he'll do it from the passenger seat and I'll gas break and he'll just, Oh wow. And they're like, why do you, he's drunk. I'm like, he's got it better than me though. I'll admit it. And he's like, guys, fine. Like in the passenger seat. That's pretty impressive. I've never parallel. I've never parallel. Parallel parking. Like can do it. Like he's. Wow. I've shifted from the passenger seat though. I wanted to feel like what it was like to be a right hand drive. Hmm. You know, like Europe.

[00:32:25] Yeah. That's pretty impressive. Yeah. But I cannot do that. I'm not a part. I am again, I have to go to the city. I have to parallel park. I'm already upset. So I'm like best, the best situation for me is if I can pull into one of them spots. Oh yeah. Best day of my life. I hate like, and then I get all flustered and people are like looking at you and I'm like stop. And I drive a Jeep. I'm like, this is the worst thing to park. Like, don't look at me, please. I've had it. I was in a peculiar predicament on trying to parallel park on Perry one day. Okay.

[00:32:54] And it didn't go well. And the lads behind me were getting, I didn't hit anything. I was like taking too long and the people behind me started getting impatient and shit. And I like pull up next to me like, you suck. I was like, thanks, man. Yeah. I've had times when people are just looking at me like laughing. I'm like, I'm just going to leave. Like that's the girl. I'm just going to buy. Don't look at me. It's fine. Yeah. I swear. I'm a car girl. I just not going to parallel park. That's fair. That's all right. I'll admit it. I don't work on my own cars. I'll help. But. You got to change your own oil though, right?

[00:33:24] If you had to. Yeah. I call my dad. Or I'm like, I call my mechanic. Hey, you got time. Let's do it. But I mean. Change a tire though. I mean, it'd be cool to learn. I'm not against it. Yeah. I'm just also like. Let someone else do it. That's my job. That's fair. But that's yeah. Hmm. I'm okay with that. I've never changed the oil on a vehicle. Really? I've never changed my own oil. Wow. I've seen it done, but I've never done it myself. I used to do it myself.

[00:33:53] You just got to like get underneath there. It's way easier on older cars. I know that. Yeah. You just crawl under there. It is. And it used to save money doing it yourself. Now it's almost not worth it. By the time you buy the filter, you buy the oil, then you have to get rid of the oil. Oh my. You might as well just pay grease monkey. Yeah. For sure. I literally just call my, like, there are like two mechanics that I go to. One of them is next door to one of my parents' businesses and he's a very long time family friend. And so like, I get him for free. That works. You got the hook. I'm like, can you get him? We got time today.

[00:34:22] And then I always am like, I will pay you. He's like, no, you won't. You're not paying me. Just leave. What'd you say his name was? Gator. Gator. Oh yeah. That's a car guy right there. Call up Gator. Gator. Gator will fix it. He's not old either. Pay him in food. Like whatever his. He literally tells me, he's like, you got lunch? I'm like, down. See, that's fair. I'm like down. What does Gator eat for lunch? Now I'm guessing it's normally possum. I'm going. But. Gator eat anything. He's a sub guy, I bet. He wants an Italian sub.

[00:34:51] He'll eat anything. He'll make a shit. Gator. His favorite is my mom's cooking. So I'm like, ma. Hey there. I mean. Nothing's like homemade. Nothing's like homemade. Yeah. I mean. If I can get free all the changes, I'm gonna do it. He. And then I'm like, okay, I'll come back and you can do something else that I can pay you for. That's nice. So yeah. That works. I mean, the car community is really cool. And. Everybody loves cars. Like even if you're like not a car person, you can still be like, ooh, like when you got a classic. Yeah.

[00:35:20] Like they still look good. They're still going to be like, they're always. Yeah. They're always going to look good. Always breaking necks. I don't care who it is. Oh yeah. Even like the younger scene. Like my, say I have a younger sister. She's very into, she appreciates old cars. Um, she's very into like the street scene. She loves like new age cars. That's more her jam. But again, she still appreciates old stuff. And there's like a lot of kids that are like, oh, that's so stupid. You're an old head. Well, I'm like, you realize that you wouldn't have that without this cake. Just saying like, okay, it's fine. It's fine.

[00:35:49] But no, I'm, I'm very like, I, when I, I don't have children, when I do, they will, they will be into cars. They don't have a choice. Um, but I think like, it's a dying, like appreciation for, you know, a lot of young kids. People aren't really driving as much anymore. That too. And it's just like with the younger generations, they like the new, the flashy, the stupid Lambos, like all that stuff, which is fine. But like, they don't, you know, they don't see anything before that and they're like, Oh, whatever. So they don't appreciate it. They just want the shiny object.

[00:36:18] They just want the shiny object. And I mean, classic cars are to me, obviously it's again, it's a family thing. It's like, it's part of who I am, but it's an art form. Like they don't, they don't make them like being stupid. Like they really don't. It is true. Like there's no innovation anymore. As far as like design, like aesthetics. I don't think, look at the damn cyber truck. Yeah. I was about to say, you don't like the cyber truck. First of all, it's terrible. It's so anyone can hate me for this. I don't care. I hate electric vehicles. They're terrible for the environment. Yes. Don't even talk. This is a public service announcement.

[00:36:48] I'm like, you think you think that is like about emissions, whatever. Yes, I agree. But where do you think those batteries are coming from? And where do you think they're going? Where are they going? That's the thing. And you know how many batteries they take? You know how expensive those batteries are? And they're a fire hazard. They're a fire hazard. The cars. It's a piece of shit. They are pieces of shit. I don't care. You know what we think about? Well, what you two think about electric vehicles? The bullshit button has officially debuted.

[00:37:18] I hate electric vehicles. I don't give a shit what anybody says. They're stupid. That's bullshit. And they drive. They're terrible. They're fat. They're fast. On acceleration. You can't go that far in them. You can't go far. They don't weigh anything. They accelerate fast. Take that on a road trip. Tell me how that goes for you. Right. I mean, I guess people don't really like road trips like you. So I also grew up road tripping. Road trips are awesome. So like, I just, I, I, at first when Tesla's came out, I was like, oh, that's so cool. And then I was like, wait a minute.

[00:37:46] And then I drove one and I was like, get me out of this crap. Like, I hate that. And now they're creeping into racing. NASCAR has a prototype that's electric, but they're not going to race it. They said. So last time I was, um, I've been to Nashville a few times, Nashville super speedway for events that I've, um, Nashville super speedway. Yeah. Concrete. Yeah. So I was an event planner for a few motorsport events there. Um, but so I like got to go to the track or ride on the track, all the things and stuff. And then like, of course I just, I'm nosy. I ask all the questions.

[00:38:14] I'm like, okay, like what car has like the best track time, blah, blah. Fuck Tesla. Really? I'm sorry. Get out of my face. That does not count. Yeah. It's, it's all acceleration. It's like a different class of car too. Like it's not even, you can't compare those at all. No. The weight for one. And I mean, like, it's just, it's just not the same. And then they're like, yeah, well race this again, like race that against a Tesla. I'm like, it's not, it's not a car. It's a different type of vehicle. It's a golf cart. Right. It's a fast golf cart. Super fast. Yeah.

[00:38:43] You can't compare the two. It's two, it's two different entities, but they're starting to, you know, like formula E, you know, formula one has an electric division. You're going to start seeing more and more of that. I think. Unfortunately, but the purest in me is just, I hate it. Well, and also like you're looking at geo politically, the manufacturing factories that can actually spit out the type of brains that these current cars need is so like stressed out.

[00:39:13] And the, and like the amount of lithium that's available. So it's like, there's still lithium harvesting. Yeah. There's probably still more fossil. Which is terrible for the environment. It's so dangerous. It's counterproductive for one. And now there's an inventory problem because they made too many and they can't sell them fast enough. People aren't buying them quick enough and they have too much aged inventory. Especially with Tesla. Especially while Teslas are getting burned. Yeah. I mean, there was one in the. They're blowing themselves up anyway. It doesn't matter. That's fair. Just set fire to fire. Yeah. Whatever. I mean, that's happening all over. These Tesla places are getting attacked and burned into the ground.

[00:39:43] It's crazy. It's pretty wild. But yeah, the electric vehicle, I can talk cars for three hours. Me too. I know. I wasn't expecting car talk. I know. I'm like, hi guys. We're going to talk cars. We don't need cars. It's like my favorite type of podcast, but let's get into the nuts and bolts about what you do. Yes. I'm an event planner. I do all types of events. I've been in the industry. This is going on my 12th year. I went to college for event management. So I have a bachelor's as well. I started in the industry right before college.

[00:40:12] Congratulations for using your degree. I know it's rare, huh? It is. People are like, do you think college is a waste? I'm like, no, I use mine. Sorry. You know. I'm one of the rare few basically. I'm like, I knew what I wanted and I didn't. So I don't know what to tell you. But yeah. So I've always, I listen, I'm, I'm Latina. I'm also Native American. We have a big family all over. We, any event is a big thing growing up. Um, so I just, they're fun. Yes.

[00:40:38] Um, my parents, like I said, their own businesses, they used to throw these huge crazy parties for their motorcycle shop all the time. We would always be going to somebody's party. Still are. Um, excuse me. Um, but it's just, it was interesting to me. And I'm also like, I think I was born this way. I was born a control freak. Um, my mom would be like, she's bossy. I am. Um, if I can control it, I will. Uh, so like when it comes to like parties, I used to always be like, why don't we do it this way? Why are we doing this? That doesn't make any sense. That's super.

[00:41:09] Shut up, Miranda. Like, stop. But I just like, it was just fun for me. Um, and then as I got older in high school, I threw a mail in parties, never at my own house though. Cause I was smarter than that. Um, and I was always being charged with my friends to be like, let's throw a party. I'm like, cool. Whose house are we? Yeah. Um, I need to know the floor plan. I need to know where we're. Okay. Let me just tell you our, our most epic party was before project X was the project X movie or whatever. We don't know if I saw that.

[00:41:39] Um, project X. It was called project X. Uh, it was like about a big, huge house party that like went around like high school. I think it's high school. Was it a documentary? No, no, no. It's just, it's just a funny. I mean, it could be, could be. Um, but it's just like these kids have a giant party. This like the rich parents. Like super bad. Like, Oh, it's one of those. It's like very super bad ish. Um, but like it's, it's a crazy, whatever. It's not like, I don't know. Cause my party was in like 2012.

[00:42:07] So I think it was like around, around that time, but we were, we were, we were like, so joking, like we're the originators of that. Um, but my friend, her dad had this baller ass house and him and his wife were out of town. And she was like, uh, she's like, can I have some people over? And her dad was like, no parties. Um, and her step mom was like, you could have some people just like whatever. Right. And it was cool. Be chill. It was our anniversary. Like they're out of town. Like, okay, cool.

[00:42:35] She's like, she's like, you know, everyone, like you have a lot of friends, like just invite everybody. I was like the step mom. No, no, no. My friend. Um, so my friend was like, just, I was like, who are we inviting? Like, who should we invite? She's like, everyone. I was like, what do you mean everyone? And so I was, um, okay. Like most of high school, I was the varsity baseball manager. And so like, I was friends with all the athletes and stuff like that. And so I'm like, she's like, dude, just send out.

[00:43:05] This is when faith. I didn't get a Facebook till like my freshman, sophomore year of high school. And this was my junior year. So like Facebook was still very popular. Um, and she was like, just go on Facebook and do like a massive in face. Okay. And we're like, we're probably gonna end up having like 50 people. That was not the case. Would you have like 300? Not that many, but probably at least like two. And who was on drink duty? And we didn't even know half of them. Like they were not from our school at all. People just showing up. People just showing up.

[00:43:35] Was it a BYOB? No. Oh boy. Well, you know, so like all the true players. Like they brought their own. But so me being that bad fighter that I am, I was like, I'm like, we have to buy alcohol. We have to do this. I'm like, we'll just pitch money. Like, it's fine. Like, we'll just charge people to get in to our party. Okay. And it was part of the invite. They knew they had to pay to get in. And so like, uh, girls were free. Um, guys had to pay. Even smarter. Of course. Guys had to pay, whatever. And so that's fine. Men learn this at a very long, young age.

[00:44:05] Y'all just gotta pay. I'm sorry. It's just the way it goes. Girls, if you want to pay, sure, go ahead. But I mean, till this day, like I'm still paying. Of course. You know what I'm saying? That's just the facts of life. Um, so there's a cover charge. So there's a cover charge. Like we went and bought, we got a couple of kegs. We went and got like a bunch of different stuff. Like, uh, we had people, you know, buying for us, whatever family members are mine. Uh, and older cousins, like things like that. But so then I'm like, okay, we have cover charge.

[00:44:32] We have certain colored solo cups, wristbands, marking the hands at the door. This is legit. This is legit. I had two people, I had two people working door to like, um, we did, we went and bought a bunch of like food trays from my Costco chips, like all the things. It's a serious party. Like playlists. We have like different playlists for different areas. Like we decorated like balloon, like just random shit. We like marked off certain, we thought we were smart by getting caution tape and marking off certain rooms. Like don't go in there.

[00:45:01] Cause like people, people are like, I'm going in there. Of course they were. We had, this was also, this was the time of when Jersey shore was very popular. I didn't watch that. So it was like little Jersey shore, like kids here and there. And we had some like references and we're like, here, these are the smash rooms. And these are the smash rooms. We have like signs on them. So like, like it was, it was a thing. And so it turned into like huge party went off without a hitch. We like, we contacted all the neighbors first. Like, and they all had kids our age. And so we were like, Hey, like tell your parents, like, don't call it.

[00:45:30] Like we're having just like a birthday party or whatever. Or like, Hey, don't you might sanctioned. So, and this is like in a nice neighborhood. Um, cops never got called. We part till 7am. Like it was wild that then like, I was like, okay, people are sleeping. Like I didn't go to bed till like eight. Cause I was like, we gotta clean up like fuck. So we're cleaning up now where the parents coming back. Like the, so the, this is a Saturday. They were coming back Sunday night because that's like a stressful moment. It's like, okay, we threw the party.

[00:46:00] Now we got to like, make the house look legit. Oh, it's wrecked. This is a beautiful, gorgeous house. Oh, that was, that's at least our worries. Yeah. The hot tub, like had a chunk broken off. There's puke all around it. No people's, uh, some people, there was a like private, like little mini, like lake. It's like a pond, but behind the neighborhood. Um, that, that house, like the house we were in that area didn't have access to it, but the house on the other side did. So they have like little, like little like canoes and stuff.

[00:46:26] They would take some group of people, jumped the fence, went and stole some canoes, ended up in the front yard. Like there was some people that got mad that didn't get invited, like egg the house at some point. And then it was, there's beer cans in the neighbor's yard. There was, it was, it was just a shit show. Yeah. It was a shit, but it was, went off without a hitch because we thought we were so slick. We cleaned up. Everything was great. There was chunks of the floor missing. It's fine. We just like put the rock.

[00:46:55] Did they have house cameras back then? No, this had to have been before that. No. Before ring cameras. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. See kids nowadays, they're, they would have had them though. Cause they were, they're funny. Uh, they have them now, I bet. But they, um, they, he, so the chunks of the floor, like it was like nice. Like, I don't know how to describe the floor. It was like rock type of like flooring. Nice. So there was like little chunks missing. And you just glued them back in. Someone that woke up in my friend's dad's Corvette the next day. We didn't even know he was, we thought he just like left. He was sleeping in the Corvette. Like the keys were hanging on the freaking hooks were stupid.

[00:47:25] We didn't think about it. Like he could have stole the car. Dumb. Um, but anyway, so all that we cleaned up, you would not be able to tell until this was also like the last weekend of summer before junior high school. So like, so we're going into the first week of junior year. We all were like, let's get ready together. We have a late start. Let's all hang out and like, we have a brunch while I bought her house. And we've had, we're cool. Well, shit went down that day. We went to school extra late.

[00:47:55] Cops were there at the house because shit was stolen. Oh no. And very expensive shit. Like over $30,000 of stuff was stolen. Damn. What was, what was the biggest ticket item? Uh, some like guitars, a couple of, I think some joy, some signed football, signed guitars, like very rare collector items, collector items, bunch of like, uh, some like iPods, like a Louis Vuitton bag. Like it was a shit show. Wow. People got to be like that. I'm like, why'd you got to ruin a store? Yeah. Like a good thing.

[00:48:24] Why can't people just be chill? You're always going to have one snake in the grass. Yeah. It's like, we found out, we ended up finding who it was. We got some of the stuff back. Like, not everything. Uh, he went to a different school. Like we had no idea who he was. Did he get arrested? I, I think he, they, he did, but they let him off on something stupid. I don't know. It was dumb. Like he got, he got arrested again. Probably. Oh, I'm guaranteed. He's probably incarcerated as we speak. Probably. Well, and hopefully in jail, they learned some lessons to, you know, not many, but so

[00:48:53] yeah, I mean, that was, so I was like, aside from the chicken and stolen part, but it was an awesome part. It was a great time. Like people were like, I'm like, I'm like 17 years old. And I'm like, yeah, we have to like, this is happening. I'm like, what time is it? Okay. Time to switch up the playlist. Like I'm running around. Like I'm, I'm drunk, but I'm like running around making sure other people are, are like, well, not enough apparently, but like, you know, make it having a good time being like, Oh, like, do you need a refill? Like I just, you were hosting. Hosting. It was at my house, but I was hosting. Okay.

[00:49:23] We made good money that night. Um, not good enough to cover things, but like, or the stolen goods. I made out. I had to, I made it. I made like $600. Um, but it's pretty good. I mean, that's good for a 17 year old. Yeah. And even some people even stole some alcohol and they didn't pay, but that was the whole thing. But even afterwards I was like, okay, have we done different? Um, so then I just like, was again, I always like, like to control things that can. Um, and I always had fun and like with learning different things.

[00:49:51] And I just was like, there was like popular event planning TV shows back then that I was like addicted to. And I was like, maybe this is what I want to do. Like there were a handful of things that I thought I wanted to do. Um, they're all very, very, very. I want to be. What do you specialize in? Is there like, um, specialty for anyone that's listening? Um, I, I don't like to put myself in a box. I'm very against like niching down, which is so funny because my industry is very like, you have to pick any or like wedding planning.

[00:50:20] We can go into that. So I have a ton of experience in wedding planning. I can do that shit in my sleep. Um, I, I, I loved it. Um, it was what piqued my interest kind of in the beginning, but I always knew like, I don't want to just be a wedding planner. I want to do other stuff. There's so many other cool opportunities out there. Um, but business. So I launched in 2020. Um, rough year. Why did so many companies start? It's like the birth of the entrepreneur that year. It really is.

[00:50:49] So many of my friends were like, fuck it. Um, I don't know. I, I, so I planned on starting my business, uh, end of 2019. Um, but my official launch was January of 2020. So there's that, but I, I'm so grateful for 2020. I love 2020. It was a needed challenge. That's. We learned some things. Um, it allowed me time to learn a lot of things on the back end that I wouldn't have if I was just thrown in to it. I still did like a decent amount of events that year.

[00:51:19] They were just very intimate or like small. How to do the mass and social distancing and yeah. Um, terrible. We are not medical experts and this is an opinion based show. That's correct. Yeah. Uh, next. Um, but yeah, so that was, that was an interesting time, but I still like did well for it being like my first year being in a pandemic. Um, I actually networked my ass off. Like, so I was already working in the industry at this point when I launched my business.

[00:51:47] Um, let's see, it was 2020. So I graduated 2020 or 2018. I'd been in the industry since 20 late 2012, 23rd, or at least 2013 ish something around there. Um, so I already knew ever since the house party, you were in the industry pretty much like house party. People still probably talk about that. There's no way they don't. Me and my friend. Talk about it. Um, her, her dad passed away a few years ago, but like, we were like, man, I'm like, sorry,

[00:52:16] Richard, but we had a great fucking party at your house. Like, I'm sorry, but we still like, you're like saying that at the eulogy and stuff. It's so it's just, it's like, you know what? That's what you do in high school. You do dumb shit. Exactly. Oh, like whatever, you know, Mike, I'm so glad it wasn't at my house. My parents would still be pissed, but whatever. So like, I was like, you don't get at this. Um, but again, like I said, growing up doing it, my parents used to have big events. So they had a motorcycle shop. They have a motorcycle shop. So they used to throw big customer appreciation parties in the summer, big pig roasts.

[00:52:46] Um, and they'd roast a bunch of pigs. They would have band, live bands. I used to, at a few of them, they had like a live boxing ring. Like they had, um, burnout competitions, like, and it was just, it was a good, good time. And I used to always help with that. And like, it was like on their little street where their business was. And, um, my mom would cook all the food. My mom and I, and my sister and my grandma and like some friends would cook all the food. Like several years in a row, it was like three to 5,000 people. Damn. That's a lot of food.

[00:53:16] One party. That's a lot of food. And it was, it was, we had a lot of pigs. Um, and it was, no, we didn't charge people to be there either. That's a lot of food. That's a lot of hogs. We didn't charge people to be there. One year we partnered with like a nonprofit for kids with, for like kids with cancer thing. Oh, that's nice. Um, so like they just do different things. Like, so growing up I was always around parties. And so like, I would, my parents would be like, we don't know what the fuck we're doing. We're just throwing a party. Like we just know how to throw parties. So yeah, that's where it really stem from. But yeah, anyway, so what was in the industry since like 2012, 2013 time.

[00:53:45] Um, so I didn't know a lot of people luckily through all my random jobs throughout the industry. Uh, but I still was like, I need to network, like having my own business, totally different, all the things. Right. So 2020, like you're not in person. So what do you do? You go to social media and I met a majority of people. I still have really good connections with work through social media. Like some of my best friends I met on social media, um, in the industry. So I was just always like DMing people, following people, liking myself, like, be like, Hey, like, you gotta be active. It, it, it changes things.

[00:54:13] I mean, that, that's what led to this conversation. Yeah. What was being active. And so I love social media for initial connection, but, um, I think it like people get stuck in just social media and we were like, we have to use that as a tool to connect, but then we need to be face to face to build relationships. Like, well, and courage to you for doing that because you are the only person that's reached out with like the style that you reached out to us.

[00:54:42] Oh, okay. Where it's like, Hey, Hey, I'm trying, I'm trying to make some new connections. Right. Cause props 2025 is a new year. I'm trying to build some new momentum, understand some new stuff, you know? So taking those risks, getting slightly uncomfortable, going to new places, meeting new people. It's, it's one of those things where it's like, I'm very comfortable in my house and like, I don't need to leave. And like, do I really want to go? But anytime that I've went to an event or a networking event where I was like on the fence about it.

[00:55:13] I say this to myself all the time. I'm like, I don't want to go. And then I'm like, but every time I say this, it ends up being good. So go. It's true. But yeah, so social media, I networked a lot and that was great for business building, all the things, but I'll have to say like, so most of my business in the beginning was weddings. Colorado is a top three destination for weddings. And so we do have a lot of business here for it, which is great. I mean, I'm so thankful for all that. But it overtook my business.

[00:55:42] It became majority very, very fast. And again, I'm very, I was thankful for all the experience, all the connections. And of course I need money. So like, it was great. And I'm a new business. Like I got to take what I can take. So it was great. So now we're going into your five. I would say the first three and a half years were mostly weddings. And then I was like, what are we doing? What are we doing? Like I started to get burnout very fast because I was just saying yes to everything. I still like doing weddings.

[00:56:11] I'll never, like, I don't, I'm not mad at them. I still enjoy them. Yeah. Celebrate and love. Yeah. Like, I mean, well, there are stories there, but there are stories. I mean, a lot of times it's, it's when people are their worst selves. Um, not the, not the, because they're all like, there's all this shit. There's emotions and ties to the money and like pleasing people. And there's too much pressure put on it. People are just like, they're very entitled.

[00:56:40] Like it's so I got a lot of that. And then we threw a party at my mom's house. Love that. I had two weddings and my first one was 30 people because we couldn't have our original plan because it was in 2021. So which was a destination wedding. And so we're like, fuck with you, we're in Colorado, which was not what I wanted. Um, but I was like, I'm not going to wait either. So we had a small wedding, untraditional style here. And then a year later we eloped again in Italy. Okay. Wow. Wow. And that's where we were supposed to get married.

[00:57:07] So we were like, we're like, well, I was like, I still want my, my husband's like, it's fine. We'll just have two. It's fine. Yeah. I'll probably have like, I know she wants to still do like a church wedding. Cause she's Catholic. Like her, her, she's Latina. And so like, I'll probably still do that at one point. That's interesting. Yeah. I mean, I'm Latina. I grew up like in the church, but I was, I didn't want a church wedding. Just cause my husband's not like super religious. So like, or he's not really at all. But, um, so I'm like, I'm not going to put you through that. Yeah. That's fine.

[00:57:35] So what is your like ideal event? Like if you could choose, I know you're not, I love car things. I love car things. Um, but I love, I have a lot of very, again, so we'll go back to the niching down thing and how I'm like, I don't want to niche because some people, it makes sense. Right. They're really good at it. They love it. And they're like, I don't know anything else. That's what I want to do. That's what they want. That's fine. Um, that's not me. I, my interests are so random, like cars.

[00:58:03] I mean, it's not random once you know me, but cars, I love fashion. One of the dream jobs I thought I would have would be in fashion. Um, I thought I'd be a fashion designer. And then I was like, no. Um, but I still could be in the industry through events, which I have had a few fashion, um, clients, which has been amazing. And I still am pursuing more, um, experiences in that. I love working with brands and like corporate companies, um, like unique brands.

[00:58:28] I mean, literally it could be for anything like makeup, shoes, um, apparel, car stuff, like alcohol. Like I don't care. Um, I just like working with other, like meeting new business people all the time is fun. And like helping like promote what they're doing and like, you know, bring their brands to life is super fun. Like brain activations, things like that. Um, literally open to anything. Like at this point, my ideal event is not a wedding.

[00:58:59] Um, I will still, I'm taking on, I've, I'm like, okay, you have to say no to weddings. It's okay to say no. So I'm only going to take on like four maximum a year. They have to be very, very aligned with what I like. Um, they have to be not very traditional, have some type of interesting element or the, the couple has to be like just people that are like, I just really feel connected with, I guess. Um, and their vision is something that excites me or destination. I'm down for destination weddings. I'll do that.

[00:59:28] Um, cause I love travel. Yeah. So traveling's huge for me. I will do any type of event, non-colorsal, not in this country, preferably. Um, but yeah, I mean, I just, right now I'm working with a women, like really popular women's social group. Um, that posts events all the time. Right now we're working on, excuse me. I can't remember my, um, we're working on a girl's like trip to Aspen. Okay. Um, so we're doing that. And then I'm also working with a really good chef friend of mine. He's doing a dinner series.

[00:59:56] So he's doing a monthly like luxury dining series. So I'm helping him plan those. Those, and those are like, those are, that's what excites me. Like really like community based things, but they are very different from each other. They're, they're still good networking. And it's always super fulfilling when you can get involved with something that you're doing it professionally, but it makes like this big impact. Yeah. Right.

[01:00:19] Like on somebody's life or like what, like all, probably every single thing that you jump into is making a big impact on somebody's life and you have something coming up. I do. So we'll get into that now. Um, so with the last year and a half ish or whatever of being like, what do I want for myself, my brand, my company? Like where, where am I going? Like, I know like what I don't want now, but like what, what's the plan?

[01:00:45] Um, and it's obviously, I'm wanting to reach out to people in different, completely different industries. I mean, cause events are across all industries. Um, even if it's not big events, small gatherings, private things, client dinners, whatever. Um, so I'm like, how do I put myself? Like, how do I put myself in front of the right people? Um, and this idea came about with just a couple of entrepreneur friends of mine. We just were like, let's catch up in, go get drinks and dinner together. Um, and it wasn't even to talk business. It was just to hang out.

[01:01:13] Um, and as you know, as entrepreneurs yourself, if you have entrepreneur friends, as soon as you get together, you're not talking business. Are you never not talking business? It's who you, I mean, it's part of you. It's exciting. Yeah. I mean, what are you doing with your time? If you don't have ideas, right? You just want to be creative. Yeah, exactly. And I'm in a very creative field industry, whatever. So like my two friends that I met up with, one's a videographer, one's a photographer. We just start talking and the videographer, um, he,

[01:01:43] he does a lot of work with people in real estate and like other industries too. And I'm like, how did you like just picking his running? Like, I guess we weren't supposed to talk business and it came up and I'm like, how did you like meet all these clients of yours? Like what, what did you do? And, um, he was like, I started going to a bunch of random ass networking events. Um, and then I was like, I, I, I, this is a thing where I'm like, I call myself an outlier. Like I have gone to a lot of industry specific events, networking events, things like that. I don't love them.

[01:02:13] They've never, a lot of them don't excite me. They're the same format. Every time it's the same people. Every time I, this is a whole other topic, but I've always felt like kind of the black sheep, that layer of my industry, which I'm very okay with. Um, now at first I was like, uh, and then I was like, well, actually I started to be in this industry because I wanted to be different. So that's a whole growth thing. Um, but so own that. Yeah. So I love it. Like it's literally why I started as part of the reason why I started my own business.

[01:02:42] I never want to have my own business. And then I been in the street for a while and saw what the industry was. And I was like, someone needs to change some things because this ain't it. Um, so that's me, whatever. So then of course, like when I go to networking events or whatever, things that are very industry specific for me, I feel out of place, which is not the worst feeling to have. It's like an industry specific. So like, uh, if you want to throw it to weddings, like a wedding networking thing or like a wedding, like, or like a wedding, uh, like an exclusive wedding networking

[01:03:11] group and they have these quarterly events or whatever. It sounds like the same conversation. It's like a chamber of Congress. Every single time. We're like people just show up and here, use us for that. That are like, they do, they continue like education. They're like speakers, whatever like that. But again, like I don't want to just be in wedding. So it doesn't really like, it isn't, it didn't feel right. And in Colorado, I will say the wedding industry is extremely white, which whatever, but like,

[01:03:40] I don't have a problem. They have a problem. That makes sense. I've always had, um, I didn't really experience racism until I became a business owner. Um, well, I did a little bit when I worked for some other people, but especially as a business owner, especially in a predominantly white industry. Um, and I don't, I don't make a big deal out of it. Like what? Like it's never been anything super, super extreme. Um, but enough for you're like, okay, like that was clear, right? There's no Latin culture involved in this.

[01:04:10] So, so when I, uh, had my courthouse wedding, I opted to having them speak in Espanol first. I love that. And then that was out of respect for her parents and her because she speaks English all the time in the household. And like, that's not her first language. So, so like, you know, if there's a whole subject there, I'm not going to get too deep into, but that's, that's, that's kind of interesting that like, you didn't, I'm not looking to be

[01:04:38] like, Oh, I just need to be around other Latinas or, you know, Native American people or whatever. I want to be around everybody. Right. I want, I want a mix. Like that's what makes everyone great is our differences. But, um, it's very, very white and it's very like one note. It's very like, there's these certain expectations. So like, what's the difference between like a white wedding? And it's not even the white wedding. It's the industry. So it's not even like the way it's not even like the wedding itself. It's just the industry. A lot of business owners are right.

[01:05:07] We should, again, that's not an issue. It's just, there's a lot of those owners that they make it an issue that you're not. If that makes sense. So, so it's like, they're like, you're, because you're, you're the, you're the, you're the, like the minority as far as like the event coordinators. And it's getting more over time right now. It's harder to like, and they don't want to do business with you because of that. Sometimes there's that, or they just like, they don't even want to talk to you. Or they like, and then another thing too, I noticed, which is again, it's, it's getting better.

[01:05:34] But I was always the youngest person in my position before I had my business because I did have a lot of experience before graduating and whatever. Like, so I excelled very fast in the positions that I was in. So I was the youngest person in my position and Brown, whatever. And people had a problem with that. Yeah. It's like, I, I'm like, whatever. Like I would just get, I would get the cold shoulder. I would get like little snide remarks.

[01:06:01] I would like not get put on projects because they didn't, they're like, oh, she doesn't understand whether it be age or race or whatever. And this is all based off of like predisposition. Um, I had some like pretty bad experiences for like when I worked at a company that I thought was like my dream company that I'd work for. And I was like, this is a fucking nightmare. Um, and I had to like, they were like, I wasn't like getting work and I was literally just sitting at a desk staring at nothing because I had no work.

[01:06:29] So I would go, it was like for this big production, like event production company, whatever. So I would go wander around the other departments and ask people if I could like watch them and like learn things and like help and like, cause I was like, I'm bored. I'm like, I'm talented. I know what I'm capable of and you're not giving me the chance. And like, I'm just wasting my fucking time. Um, this also was part of the reason why I started my own business, but, um, anyway, so there's just a lot of like networking events or like whatever, or like this mixer or whatever. And it's always, again, it's the same people, a lot of very stuck up people.

[01:06:59] I'm not gonna lie. Um, and they like, I go out of my way to like try to get to know people. Um, and they just, again, cold shoulder or whatever. Or they're just like, yeah, or like just, just rude. Just blatantly rude. Some people are just like that. Yeah. And like, I don't understand like how God made it. So such a big stick could be up someone's ass. You know what I'm saying? Like sure. You'll meet a lot of them. I can imagine. How did God create room for that?

[01:07:29] They, and like, and there's just a lot of people that are very like it. They're very, so the event industry, funny enough is it is a constant team effort. If you hate team product, like group projects growing up, don't be in the event industry. That makes sense. Because you have to work with new people every day. Every project you're with new, even if it's like, oh, I know these people, but you don't know these ones or like the clients, whatever. You have to know how to adapt and be around so many different types of personalities.

[01:07:57] And people and just like, you may not like, we don't even need to not like each other on our personal level. We should have to work together. Like, it's just a whole thing. So there's a lot of clicks. Yeah. It's very clicky. And a lot of times it's like, oh, it's just, just white people with each other. And then people are like, well, oh, Mexicans are only working with Mexicans or black people are only working with black people. And I'm like, cause you won't work with us. Like, so of course we're going to go to our community that we know that it makes sense. Like in each other, like, right.

[01:08:24] And again, like I'm sure it's across many industries. The event industry is very, very, very much. That's a problem. Especially I'm sure it's not as bad in like major cities, right? Like LA, Chicago, New York. It probably is. It might be. Like there's segregation even in, in like the subdivisions in Colorado. Like you have predominantly like black areas, Latina, like white areas. It's interesting. I mean, cars pretty much mostly white and Latin or Mexican mostly.

[01:08:53] Um, but the industry itself is just, it's always been pretty white here. Um, and again, I don't give a shit, but they do. Um, so then it's hard to, there's been times and I'm the last person, like if you talk to anyone that knows me, I am the last person to be like pulling the race card. Like there has to be another reason why they're acting like this. Right. But then there's just times where you're like, there's literally no other reason. Or they make it blatantly clear. Well, and I think like, and this is a whole nother conversation, but like, I think some

[01:09:22] of this stuff is like subconscious as well. Like people don't realize that they're doing it. And if they, yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure some are out there, but like, I think some of it is just like, you know, comfortability with, uh, like what's around, like what you grew up with. And so that's fair. That's a point too. But at the same time, we still have to give everybody space because just because I'm comfortable with something doesn't mean that that is always the right approach or that that's always the right energy to have.

[01:09:51] And even outside of race, there's just a lot of clicks. Um, and so like, oh, we, we have like, everyone makes friends in their industry, right? And they're like, oh, of course you want to work with your friends, but I'm sorry. Sometimes your friend is not the right fit for that client. Um, but they don't, they don't care. Um, and so they're very clicky and they're like, oh, we already work with a wedding or an event planner or a wedding planner. I'm like, with what? Cause that doesn't make sense. Or a planner will do, oh, I see this amongst majority of planners. They just stick with what they know.

[01:10:20] And then they're just like, oh, well I can, what I'm like that. Like certain service providers are like for certain people, certain vision, certain budgets, certain locations, like you, we have to mix it up constantly or we should be mixing it up constantly because our clients, I mean, if you have diverse clients, I guess for me, I have, my clients are very diverse in all four, like in every sector. So like, of course I want to work with people that I've worked with a lot, but like they might not be the right fit. So I'm not going to recommend them because then both people are unhappy.

[01:10:50] My clients are unhappy. My service providers are happy. They're like, we don't, we don't mesh. And I'm like, yeah, but I've learned that. Um, but again, so like the industry is like that. What in my experience, I guess I can only speak to my experience, but I've talked to a lot of my vendor friends have the same experience. Um, and again, the other thing too, is because the wedding industry is so big here when there is other events, like all event service providers are probably working in the wedding industry

[01:11:18] at some point or do a little bit here and there, even if they're like, oh, we're really corporate, they probably still get called for weddings too. And they can, I mean, you're not going to always say no. Right. Um, so it's all the same community. It is different, but it's the same, if that makes sense. So there's not like, oh, just, I mean, there are some things that are like, oh, we're the like corporate event networking group, whatever. Excuse me. Um, but again, like then I'm having to go to multiple different things that are niche again in multiple areas. And then it's just so much.

[01:11:48] And I'm just like, I never feel like totally like, oh, this is what I need. If that makes sense. Because I am very not niche. Um, so I, and the reason, like when I reached out to you guys, I said, I wanted to reach out to businesses and totally different industries to learn what you do. Did you connect with any other podcasters? Um, no, not yet. Okay. Absolutely. I didn't really try. Okay. Um, but you're like, you're like discussing your bus. You came to the right place.

[01:12:16] So you guys, like I was drawn to you because your audience is very mixed and your topics are so random and all over the place. And I'm like, oh, this feels right. Like this is how I am. Um, so all that to say, like, I have interest in so many industries. So like, I like, I get inspiration from industries that would to a random person not make any sense for me to like be engaged in. Like, why are you, why do you want to hang out with tattooers and barbers? Like what, what does that have to do with you?

[01:12:46] I'm like, it could be everything that's good. Opportunity. Yeah. I'm like, they have events. Do they not? And like, they, or they should. I'm like, well, they do. And I'm like, or they have connections to people who might need me or like whatever. Or it's just, it's good to know people and everything. It is. And as an event planner, people come to me all the time. They're like, you just know people. Like, can you send me this recommendation, this recommendation, whatever. And so I usually, I got a guy for everything, um, or girl, whatever. But like, I have someone for everything, for like pretty much every random thing you can think of.

[01:13:16] So it makes sense for me to, and my parents are the same way. I think that's just what comes with being a business owner sometimes. But I love that. I love connecting people. It has, I cannot be involved at all besides making the connection. That's so cool to me. Yeah. I'm like, you needed this. And I'm the person you came to. I'm honored. Here's something you should use. There you go. It's fun. Like that's part of my job that I absolutely love. So anyway, I'm getting all the way back to this, my new thing that I'm doing. Um, so this new style of events for me is masterminds. I don't have you guys ever, we talked about this.

[01:13:45] You guys haven't been to a mastermind before. No, I thought it was, I thought it was a board game. It is. I almost bought the game for tonight, but I forgot. That's so funny. But so, um, I, because I couldn't find networking or mastermind groups that I was, that I loved or I was fully excited about, or like felt right. I was like talking to my friends at the dinner and I was like, what events do you go to? What events do you go to? And they're like, but don't worry about the other friends. So like, you need to just be the one that puts them on. And I was like, Oh no, that's not what I was asking you about.

[01:14:15] Like, I don't want to be the host. I'm not trying to do all that. Like, obviously I'm an event planner. I can do it. But I was like, I don't, I don't want to be the center of retention. I don't want to have to like, no, no, no, no. And then as the discussion went on for that dinner, it was like, no, you're, you're going to do it yourself. And I'm like, as always, I'm like, who said though? And they're like, we said. And so I was like, okay, like you're onto something, I guess. And so I was like, well, let me think about it. And this was back at the end of last year.

[01:14:44] So probably like, maybe it was like around November, December-ish. I remember correctly. Um, and I was like, Oh, whatever. Like, we'll think about it. And then, um, before that, like conversation, like I said, I was trying to be like, Oh, where can I find these other events while boss? I was like, maybe I should host my own thing or maybe whatever. I don't know. But then I just kept, ah, no, I don't want to do that. And then that conversation happened. And then I was like, well, shit, maybe I should, but what? And I didn't know. I was like, just a random networking event. I'm like, I don't, they're all structured the same. Like, I don't know.

[01:15:13] So I was considering, I'm like, what, what do I do? Um, time went on. I was in a mastermind myself. I went to like one in-person one. And then I did like an online one. And I liked the online one. It had a lot of different people in it, but it was like just women, um, which is cool, whatever. But again, it's too niche for me. I like going to women only things here and there, but I don't want to just do that. Um, cause it doesn't make sense for me. Um, and so I'm like, where can I go?

[01:15:41] That's not, not just a women's group, not just an event planning group. Like what? Like none of this makes sense for me. And so I was like, okay, I did kind of like the idea of the mastermind, whatever, but I don't necessarily like how most masterminds are run. Like the format's always the same again with the, I like to switch things up. I get bored. And so I'm like, okay, maybe I can have like a mastermind networking group. And so I thought on that and then talked it over with more friends. Again, I mastermind with friends and was like, let's workshop, like let's braid them.

[01:16:11] Okay. And then they're like, oh, we should do this. Oh, like, here's your solution. Like whatever. And so I'm having my own little mini masterminds, which I do all the time with friends and I'm like, okay, yeah, I can do this. And I'm like, what the fuck am I doing? Um, so that's launching. I mean, it's, it's launched for my first, um, event launch party session is what's today say? This will drop on the 13th of March. Okay. So on the 19th. So that's a Wednesday. It's a Wednesday. I'm doing it. A lot of networking stuff is usually during the week. I'll probably mix it up.

[01:16:41] I'm going to start with Wednesdays for now. Um, it'll be probably be random as time goes on, but yeah, it's on the 19th is a launch party first session. It sold out. Uh, yeah. Nice. I started was like, okay, let's do that. I'm like 30, 40 people. We're at 70. And I was like, I got a cap. I got a cap. So, uh, so 70 people, um, pretty big group. I'm really excited. Half the people I don't know. So I was like, so cool.

[01:17:07] Um, but yeah, so it is going to be a group of what I like to say is, I'm going to realize, um, outliers, creators and innovators, um, a room like full of unlikely friends. Like that's what I want it to be like. Like you would probably never cross paths, cross paths with these people outside of this room. Cause what other reason would you? Um, so I like communities like that because like I said earlier, I think like, I like to draw my inspiration from so many different sources.

[01:17:35] And a lot of times when I'm brainstorming, mastermind, workshopping with friends and other industries, I like have a light bulb that goes off. They'll be like, Oh, this is what I'm doing. Like just venting to me about business. And I'm like, Oh, here's my advice. Um, and then I'll be like, Oh shit, I should take my own advice. Um, or like just something will click where I'm like, Oh shit. And they're like, let's an idea for myself. And I'm like, Oh my God. Like it just, just blossoms and blooms and just goes crazy.

[01:18:01] And, um, that happens in like every business conversation, of course, especially when it's like, of course, like I'll go to my friends and be like, this is my problem. Like help me. And they'll help me. Right. Um, but again, I find a lot of solutions when I'm helping other people for myself that I like in the back of my brain and then it just comes forward and I'm like, Oh shit. Like, wait a minute. This makes so much sense. Um, so I want to create a room for that to happen for that to flourish and blossom. And again, like I, I of course learn from people in my industry, but I've learned way

[01:18:30] more from people not in my industry. So I think to force people to talk to people they wouldn't normally talk to, they're going to learn a whole lot and they're probably going to teach a whole lot. Um, and then obviously that just comes into natural networking. People are going to, then you just meet a new person and then who's here and blah, blah, blah. So like currently the list has realtors, chefs, restaurant managers, tattoo artists, engineers, like photographers, like there's, there's, uh, like slam poets.

[01:19:00] There's like painters. There's so many random people. And I think it's going to be so cool for those people to just talk, you know, like intermix. So are you going to like have the sticker? Like in what they do? No. Like, hi, my name is. Okay. If you haven't, if you haven't learned this. Alcoholics Anonymous. If you've learned this, you'll learn this really quick. Um, that's one thing I absolutely hate at networking events is fucking name tags.

[01:19:28] Like, or I hate name tags. I hate them. You're there to meet people, right? And learn who they are. You're not going to walk up and be like, like, no, you don't know, Bob. Like talk to them. And be like, Oh, what's your name? What do you do? Blah, blah, blah. Right. That's true. That's just what happens. I'm going to walk up to you and say your name. Like I know you, that's weird. Um, and they're ugly. They're ugly. They don't look good. They look stupid. Half the time you can't read it. Like they're pointless. I hate them. I'm sorry. Name tags should always have been out.

[01:19:56] I would always put like my name tag near my hip. I put it on like my glass. Okay. So it's just like, so people don't really see it. Wait, so you're saying if, if Kevin, I, the DC PC boys, we got to come to one of these. Wanted to come on the 19th. It's fully booked. I might give you guys a. We got to record that night. We do have. Oh, you're correct. Yeah. Cause what time is the event? Like five to seven? We'll be, I mean, we'll be in recording. Yeah. But we got to get to this event or a event coming up.

[01:20:25] Do we have somebody booked on the 19th? I don't know. We'll talk about that off mic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I make an exception. I've already made a few. I mean, that's where is it? Um, so this is going to be in Lakewood. Uh, actually a good friend of mine. It's, um, her and her business partners co-working space called creative locale. Um, it's off of like, I'm probably going to get this wrong, but I think it's around like 16th and Kipling. Um, but she's actually, she's a jeweler and her studios in that space, but she's my jeweler and she just, um, moved to this space.

[01:20:55] Her business partners opened it, whatever. It's a really cool co-working space. They just bought another building on the same property to expand. And so I also, with these groups, I want to host them in different, um, different venues every time if I can, or at least cycle through different ones, um, to help, you know, promote those businesses as well and get new people in the door. And which is why I was like, this is a perfect space. It's a co-working space. Like it's big, whatever. Um, they have a new building, so it's something we can show off. And so like, this is obviously connecting the people that are coming, but I want to

[01:21:25] highlight businesses that we can host at, um, and just, you know, change it up every time. There's obviously there's going to be open networking portions, but then there is like more structured session portion. Yeah. Um, again, a lot of masterminds are pretty similar where they usually have a speaker or like, and they'll be like, this is our topic for tonight. We're going to learn about marketing. Oh, boring. Um, and you're like kind of like in a lecture style, like in a classroom, not my thing. Yeah.

[01:21:54] I'm like, Oh, I'm back in school. Um, which I get, they have their place and that's more for like a workshop. Um, if I'm like, okay, I need to learn certain things. Like this is a cool marketing workshop. I'll go to that, but I don't want to go to a mastermind for that. Cause I feel like it's too niche again with the two niche. Like it's like, we're talking about this whole list one topic. We've got to stick to this topic all night. So you're on this like next the niche movement. Some people make sense for me and the people that I connect with. Is it next? Is it like next? It means like, no, it's the next to niche.

[01:22:22] I mean, I just, I think they're, especially when it comes to entrepreneurs, like we grow and evolve so rapidly that like, we, I feel like a lot of times we feel like we have to stay in this certain like persona that we created. Yeah. And like, and again, for some businesses, yes, it works. It makes sense, whatever. But being in a, uh, creative entrepreneur, that's not going to work for me. And then a lot of other creative entrepreneurs, that's not going to work for them or people

[01:22:50] that are maybe in like a very niche industry, but are not that type of person. And they're the outlier of the industry or they're the person, person like, um, pushing new agendas or like being more open-minded. They need a space too. Um, so that's why I'm creating this, but yeah. So like our sessions are going to have, we'll start with a topic here. And like, well, it's always start with a topic. Um, and any speaker, whether it be myself or I bring in a guest speaker, I don't want

[01:23:18] it to be longer than like a five minute thing. And, um, that can be a jumping off point, whatever. You can stick to that if that, if it relates, but if not, I want to create the space to have progressive discussions about other things for people to vent, for people to ask questions for people to be like, Hey, you're an outsider. This is what I'm dealing with. What's your perspective? How would you, how would you approach this? Um, I want those discussions to flourish because I think we all need that. And again, like when you're a business owner, you tend to have business owner friends and

[01:23:47] you can have those discussions, but you need to branch out and talk to other people. Again, when you talk to people that are completely different from you and different scenarios, whatever, that's where you learn the most. Like you don't grow from being in the familiar. So, um, that's what I want to do with this is just really promote growth for everybody, new connections, you know, being open-minded. Um, this is a place for my golden rule is the golden rule. You treat people how you want to be treated is the place for mutual respect.

[01:24:17] It's crucial. We can be so, so different, but this is a place for mutual respect for mutual respect and connection and collaboration. And I'm going to mix it up with like, I will have these masterminds. I'm going to try to do once a month. Um, we'll see how that progresses again. I'm not going to hold myself to just doing that every six weeks. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's a surprise. Um, but like, it'll be like, sometimes it'll be these bigger groups. Um, and it's not just one giant group talking. I hate that about masterminds. It's usually just one giant group yelling at each other.

[01:24:46] Um, we're talking over each other or whatever. We're not doing that. Um, and sometimes it'll just be like, Hey, we're going to do an intimate dinner. I'm capping in at 20 people. We're going to this really cool new restaurant, this cool new chef, like wants to have new people in here. We're just going to have a dinner and I'll just hang out and chat and just like chill and vibe and see what happens or like, or some nights be like, Hey, we're going to have this workshop or we're going to have this like cocktail hour with this workshop, or we're going to go do some crazy activity together just to like, let some steam off.

[01:25:14] I just want to do putt, putt really bad. I'm down with putt, putt. I want to do putt, putt. Okay. Let's do some racing. Do some car racing. I mean, that's gotta be on the list. Um, just, just fun activities. Like again, like again, the mastermind is yes, it's the base, but I want it to branch off. My ultimate goal is to have, it's going to have like the mastermind groups, you know, small special events or big special events, activations. And then I really want to lead this into retreats.

[01:25:43] Um, I'm very interested in doing more planning for retreats. And so I'm like, well, fuck out. I was playing my own, which this has also been a conversation for the last like year and a half with a friend of mine. We were going to do a retreat together and then we're like, well, the type of group that we're wanting to attract, like, you know, we kind of have it, but we don't necessarily have it yet. And then we, we had some planning meetings, whatever. And then we kept putting on the back burner and I'm like, God, we really have to get this going. But I'm like, but how, whatever.

[01:26:08] And then this new mastermind group came to mind and it's been progressing. I'm like, wait, duh. Like this will funnel into that goal. Like that makes sense. Um, and bring in my love for travel, um, and bringing people together. And I, I think one thing in life, I think that everyone can do for themselves that can only make your life better is to travel and experience new cultures and new places and new ideas and be exposed to new things.

[01:26:35] Um, it does amazing for the soul, but also for your business. It's true. It makes you like see things so differently. So I, there's a lot of people that may think they can't attain that or they don't want to do it by themselves. So they don't know how to do it or go about it. Or like, I don't want to plan this myself, whatever. So I want to bring together these retreat groups and be like, I got the planning. You just, you're down. Okay, cool. Like I'll plan it all. Like, let's go. And, um, we'll see where it starts, but overseas is my favorite.

[01:27:05] So, um, Europe is my favorite, my favorite areas to be in right now, but, um, I'm open to anywhere, but yeah, those possibilities are endless, but I just really want to bring people together and promote, promote all this. Well, you're doing a successful job. Thank you. You have terrified. But so we all know, that's good. I'm not, I'm not like, I mean, of course I want to be confident and I am confident in my abilities, but I'm also like, I'm shitting bricks guys. Like I hate being, I'm, I hate being the center. Like this is so awful for me right now.

[01:27:35] Just so everyone. You've been crushing it. We're like, wait, we're like an hour and a half. Um, cause like I can, my mouth pretty well, but I don't like, I like connecting people and I like be like, you know, conversational and networking on a personal level. Like when I'm working, um, when I'm working an event, I have to be yelling at people all the time or like bossing people around and that's cool. Right. Like standing in front of people and being stared at while I speak or happening to have a speech or like this, we were like, that attention is on me. Not my thing.

[01:28:03] So that's like one reason why I was like, I don't want to do this group because I have to be the center of attention and that is not fun. You're going to crush. Well, maybe the universe is like pushing you and pulling you into a certain, you know, and there's like this level of success that we all experience when we do things that make us uncomfortable. Absolutely. I, again, so I was listening as kind of a mastermindy type is not really mastermind, whatever.

[01:28:27] I was like listening to or in this, um, I don't like business coaching type style ask mastermind ask like talk. Um, and the woman that was leading it said this also helped me like assured me. This was the time where I was like, do I do it? Do I not? And then I listened in on this thing and I was like, fuck the sign. But she was just like, you can't expect to grow, you know, in the familiar and like sometimes

[01:28:55] like your biggest areas of growth or like you won't succeed until you're absolutely doing something that you do not want to do because you don't want to do it. Not because like you don't think you whatever, but just based off of sheer fear and like letting fear stop you. And I'm like that and I'm like, okay, why don't I want to do this? And I, it boiled down to I was, I'm scared. I like just like anyone is. You have to admit that. Of course. Like I'm scared of being judged. Of course. Like we all are.

[01:29:25] And I'm very much like, I don't give a fuck person, but of course I give a fuck when it comes to my business. I, there's still a lot in my business. I'm like, I don't give a fuck, but there are certain things where I'm like, I, I'm scared to like come off the wrong way or I'll say the wrong thing or offend somebody or whatever. Or like, or someone's just like, Oh, she's an event planner. Her event sucks. Like that's my biggest fear. Like, Oh my God. No, that's not happening. But that's never happened. I mean, I haven't hosted many events that like, weren't like outside of like personal events. Yeah.

[01:29:54] You know, like hosting an event. We all need that every once in a while. It's just like that. To be humble. Yeah. I don't think like, I'm like, Oh my God, I can't get any better. That doesn't make sense. Of course I can get better. Um, but like, yeah, I don't, I mean, I know that I'm very good at what I do, but I will, it's a constant journey. Like you're never going to be like, if you stop and like, I'm the best I am. I'm not going to get better. You're not going to grow. Then you actually, you need to grow.

[01:30:24] Um, so I am very much like, I know I have things to work on. I already know. Um, but yeah, it's just fear of just again, attention being on me, people staring at me, people judging or people being like, this sucked or being like, what is she doing this for? Like whatever. And I'm like, well, that's dumb. Um, I, I know it's dumb to think that way, but like, it's still, I'm like, Oh, everybody does it. We're all guilty of it. I mean, and go ahead. We got a full send it. And that's what you're doing. You got a full send it.

[01:30:53] I just have to be like, okay, fuck it. Like I, and the other thing too, like I tell myself a lot is there's like two so cheesy quotes that I live by. Um, but my number one is like, everything happens for a reason. Most things do happen for a reason in the way they're supposed to, like everything was designed for a purpose and you're going through, you're going through the journey that you're on is for your better good. Like that's, it's whether you know it or not, like I fully, fully believe that. Uh, I get behind you on that one. The universe unfolds as it should. Yeah.

[01:31:23] And then like, for me, I am a religious spiritual person. So I'm like, yes, the universe like has plans for me. God has bigger plans than I can imagine. Like, I just have to know that and just do what I feel is right in the moment. And just like, I can't, I, I truly don't, I really don't live with any regrets for good. I mean, there's some things I'm like, I'm going to probably change that. But, but probably not because then it would be, I, it's a butterfly effect. It would be a totally different position.

[01:31:50] So I just accept what, whatever happens and you just keep going. Control what you can control, which in your case, you'd like to do a lot of that. I do. Yes. My husband, my family is very much like, Miranda, you can't control anything, everything. I'm like, watch. I'm like, but I can. Go ahead and give that a try. But let me, let me, let me get in the ring. Um, but another like quote, whatever is just like, I just like, you don't, you don't know if you don't try.

[01:32:20] Like I'm scared of failing, but of course I'm going to fail if I don't try because then I'm never going to have the opportunity to succeed. And that's a, again, that's like a duh like moment. But like, there's so many like people that I look up to that live by that. Or like one of my favorite artists like says that all the time and just like, when it comes up from other people's mouths, it makes sense, you know? So I'm like, yeah, of course I'm like, if I have these crazy dreams, right. And I have these crazy goals, like how mad am I going to be if I don't get there?

[01:32:47] Like, I'd be really upset, but like, I won't know if I can get there if I don't actually, you know, put in the effort to get there. Mm hmm. So, I mean, I, the last like year and a half has been, I'd say actually really a year has been a huge growth inner, like inside growth. Um, I was like in a hard place in my business last year because I was transitioning of like, what am I doing? And like this, and then business was down. Of course it was because I didn't know what the fuck I was wanting to do.

[01:33:14] And like, I was learning myself again and learning like what my plan is, what my visions are. And so like, so much inner growth happened that I'm like, okay, it would be such a waste to have had all that growth and to like fall to my fears, you know? So I'm like, well, I guess I, you have one life. So if I want this crazy big life, I have to do crazy big shit. Go all in. So I'm terrified, but like, fuck it, I guess.

[01:33:44] That's the best place to be. And you've successfully created a new bridge with Denver's finest podcast. The people's podcast, the people's podcast. I'm a little biased, but I'm going to agree with you at the moment. Hey, there's only a couple out there and respect to you. If you've been doing it longer than DCPC. It's only a few out here. So, oh my God, you guys have been doing it for a long time. Yeah. So we're, we're super excited to, to have built this connection. And actually we didn't build this connection. You build this connection. Yeah, you kind of, you kind of facilitate it all. Yeah.

[01:34:13] And then sent us a massive like list of guest referrals. I was like, okay, I'm like, they're like, hey, like I'm sure on most podcasts, they're like, send us, you know, send us people you think should be on. I'm like, you asked the wrong person for that. Oh yeah, our IG was blown up. I was like, I sent them on. I was like, I should probably stop. No, it's good. We'll stop for now. If you need a new batch, let me know. We have so many in the works that are going to be coming up. We've, we've had a couple of screening calls with a few of them and a couple of more on the book. So we're looking forward to that. I'm excited. I mean, again, I love that. I think for a long time, I'm like, why do I do what I do?

[01:34:43] What's my favorite part? People always ask those questions. Right. And then I always have different answers. I'm like, that was not genuine answer. I don't know. But I think again, with this growth thing, like the best part of my job is connecting people. It has, could have nothing to do with me, but I love like fostering connections that people benefit from. And then they, like, it's an honor for people to trust me to even ask. For sure. And then for them to be happy, they're like, oh my God, like, I can't, like, I'm so glad you connected us.

[01:35:11] Like that is like the best feeling in the world. Like I like, okay. It's like when you, like, if you cook, you're a cook, you know, like feeding people is like, like a lovely. It's a great. I love doing that too. Um, it's like when people like your food, like it's a big deal. It's like the same thing to me. That makes sense. So it's yeah. I, so for anyone that's trying to connect to you, I was going to connect with you. I was going to use that. Where can they go? Um, so my website of course is rose events.com.

[01:35:41] Rose is spelled R O Z. Um, and then my Instagram is rose events.co. And then my email is on my website and my Instagram. But, um, yeah, shoot me a DM, a text, an email, whatever. I'm open to all forms of communication. I'm always wanting to meet new people. Um, yeah. Well, it was a pleasure talking with you. It's a great chat in depth. We didn't even get into guns. We're gonna have to save that for round two. Oh, we're gonna be bad for guns. We're gonna have to face though. We can put me in the background. We can just like, can we just be your voice?

[01:36:11] We can do OG podcast. You know, where no one saw you. That's the best. That was prime podcast. Yeah. See, that was, I don't even like podcasts. That's AM radio. That was so 10 years ago. We're in the future. That's prime podcast time. Well, you don't have to see me. Um, but cause again, I don't let people look at me, but, uh, yeah. So, I mean, always open to coming back. Yeah, we'll get you on for sure. You're in the warehouse. Let me crash someone else's. Someone else's. And I'll just be like commentary in the back. You'd be like our, our Jamie from Joe Rogan.

[01:36:41] Hey, look that up real quick. Would you? Oh my God. Can that be my job? That'd be great. Who knows? It was awesome chatting. Yeah. It's a great show. Um, we'll leave all your links down below for the viewers, listeners, scroll down, get in touch with Miranda. Fantastic. And, uh, we're going to get out of here. We're going to shut it down. We're on to happy Friday tomorrow. Sweet. Yeah. We got a lot of shows to do. We'll talk about your event a little bit here off mic. Um, great chat. My ass is numb. So that's how I know it was a good one. I've been sitting too long. Yeah. I didn't finish the whiskey, so we're still okay. Oh, look at that. What a pro. I'm sure Art finished his over there.

[01:37:11] Art checked his. Art said this one. Hey, there's hair on the chest for a reason. Thanks for tuning in to Discussion Combustion. Please, be good to yourself. You deserve it. Thanks for joining us.