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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Omega-Cheek podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are so happy to be back with you today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to confess, like, do seconds before we record, I just stuffed my toe on my chair and have my toe nails gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm seeing stars and she goes, This is you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is what we say to each other when it's the other person's day to introduce the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: So bear with me if you're watching on audio and I'm my eyes are full of tears and wow it's like a cartoon you know where it's throbbing and oh it's just hanging there oh shoot the show must go on so bad I can't see straight it's going so bad Jay So we're rescuing the art of home making from the daily grind and no toenails
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh gosh, can you hear me?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't hear me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel a little discombobulated because right before we signed on as well, the internet on Angela's side might have put.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, okay, well, I was gonna make you feel better.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanna tell you this story.
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw this performance, a stage performance of something very grand, obviously very professional.
[SPEAKER_02]: And one of the gentlemen who was on stage his pants ripped.
[SPEAKER_02]: revealing the thong, and he was wearing underneath his costume.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he just marches out with the most amazing confidence, like full cheeks for the world to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: The show must go on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will show you my toe.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: How is everyone today?
[SPEAKER_02]: Angela, I'm doing good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing good.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's your black.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think it works?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, it works.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, works.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't like myself in it for the most part.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I didn't know if you had a scenes, you were like, oh, she thinks that was going to work.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's wearing, I go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Laura she thinks she is.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I've realized because I have worn black a few times.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, I'm gonna faint.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't sense, since we did that show, it's winter time black.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I can't do like a black turtleneck or black sweater.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I can have like 10 chest, 10 arms, 10 shoulders, I'm all good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the full drape that I think makes me feel achy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean,
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing really helps.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why people were really beautiful scarves.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just like, I don't Look at you right being look here look here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you see the silk pattern?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to address something because if I get one more message, I love you guys so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the oil.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned the name and where to find it a few weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is it.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what it looks like.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am not going to to buy this, but I want to tell you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: That I use tubes glow serum because that's what I do have.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got already and I put it all over my shoulders and it's too kept looking at me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, look so gloomy, you look so gloomy, he loved it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you love this girl, yeah, and they're little, um, the pot.
[SPEAKER_01]: The pot, the little shimmer pot they have.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, sure, there you go, there you go for sure for sure for the cheekbones.
[SPEAKER_01]: Baby, there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you, you know where to find that at least, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: um fun comments this week yeah okay i have to i have to tell a story though okay and we're gonna talk about work today so we're gonna talk about she's got something big so many comments about work come through yeah that's why we're gonna we're we're we're going to talk about work today because yeah basically you guys asked us to but i have to give a shout out this is i might cry
[SPEAKER_01]: So with the shop, Jolt typically opens, and then I come in the afternoons, and he opened the other day, and I pulled up to bring him a sandwich.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as I was pulling up, I can kind of like tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes I can tell from the parking lot like who knows and who doesn't who's just driving by by chance and who is who knows so I saw this beautiful suburban pull up in this darling family with lots of small children got out and I ran in drop Joel Samachoff when I was coming back to my own suburban and somebody said Angela from the parking lot like I knew it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because most of the time people aren't pulling up to my shop with five children, you know, so like this is this is a podcast listener.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can just I could just tell and so hello to Amy and her sweet family and Amy had her moment, but I think my moment was even bigger than Amy's.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I cried the whole of it said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amy's a long time listener.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a long time listener to the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: She loves the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's maybe commented about once.
[SPEAKER_01]: Show means a lot to her and she had really, really kind of things to say.
[SPEAKER_01]: But honestly, you know, we've talked a lot about things changing for UNI.
[SPEAKER_01]: her little people were all around her and they were following her around like my people used to follow me around like little like little ducklings and I just started crying.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't tell her why I think maybe she thought I was responding to her very kind words but I was just celebrating her sweet family with her and it was so precious and I just wanted to like grab her and say
[SPEAKER_01]: Please save her every moment on my behalf, you know, just and they'd like little ones in Wellies with the Blinky and then little eight year old boys and just like
[SPEAKER_01]: So beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: The I'm so sweet with the best visit and so thank you Amy for coming to the shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: She comes to do our county every year, but doesn't come this far north and she came and she was precious.
[SPEAKER_01]: What a good mom.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're a full woman and so sweet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I understand you crying again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Amy, she's actually crying about her toe.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just needed to tell that story.
[SPEAKER_02]: She said she didn't get an excuse.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had somebody who sent me an Instagram message yesterday.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she said, Shay, I want to come with you to Italy so bad, but like we are in baby land.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just texted her back or message her back.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I said, girl, Italy's not going.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ain't moving.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: You soak up those sweet, sweet, precious little things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gosh.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I used to hate when people tell me that because I was aware.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so aware in the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: How amazing what I was doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought about this last night.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stewart and I got into bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've gone to bed with that man pretty much every night for 20 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got into bed and I snuggle up to him and I was like, I love you so I love having a bed to get into.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love curling up in bed with you and I just pray.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, that's what I try and that's how I say thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lord, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see this blessing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's been 20 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm still, it still dumps me how special it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: The same is true for kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can be aware in the moment how amazing it is, how hard it is, how amazing it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's still passes you by.
[SPEAKER_02]: The time still passes you by, just because you appreciate it doesn't make it like magically longer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can be aware of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can save her every minute.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wait, we have some comments.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to go to comments.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yes, let's go to the comments Rachel's asking the skin thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, Rachel's spends coming is asking ladies, please answer when moisturizing with olive oil doesn't it leave the skin sticky?
[SPEAKER_02]: Does it leave your clothes with greasy stains?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I don't do you do this or is this an inch thing because I do it but I do it in the shower.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like if you sugar scrub with olive oil, okay, do it and then I rinse off afterwards.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not sticky, okay, I don't find it sticky.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I do a sugar scrub as well and then I'll use it when I get out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm not the type to like get dressed.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like to have my clothing on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I wear clothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like I don't want my outfit on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not want my outfit on while I'm getting ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause I just grosses me out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sweaty and like whatever blow during my hair or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I can put my put my in the chair and my back on or a big t-shirt or something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So by the time I get dressed, it's absorbed, but I don't find it sticky at all anyways and I've never had it stain my clothing and I swear by it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, crowning country says happy birthday Angela.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Angela turned 37.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: This week, and we're just celebrating her.
[SPEAKER_02]: The blessing that she is tall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some slunch of blessing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Heather said, happy to birthday, Angela.
[SPEAKER_02]: God grant you many years.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've only had 37.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you have a lot more to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have a lot more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, here's the one from Sierra.
[SPEAKER_02]: We talked about paint on last week's episode, The Eat Drinking and Be Lovely episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sierra says, holy moly ladies, I was on my fifth can of test paint, it's sure when Williams, when you were talking about paint colors.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that funny?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so sad, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Much to my excitement, you brought up ambient light, yellow.
[SPEAKER_02]: I rushed to the paint store 40 minutes away and bought it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hallelujah, my paint surges over and my family slash has been thanks you now I need to decide on color on color of drapes from my living room to go along with the ambient light kitchen with green island oak cabinets.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have an open floor plan any suggestions.
[SPEAKER_01]: No pressure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Could you blindly decorate my living for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: something with green and yellow.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm like, do you still have those plaid drapes, Jay?
[SPEAKER_01]: plaid stripes.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I swear you had plaid five years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it was like the tartan ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I put them up in the winter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Golly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like a forest.
[SPEAKER_02]: Scottish green.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the color of Scottish green.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like red and yellow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they're so pretty.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember where I got them.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I like to change.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I just keep a collection of drapes and just kind of change them out.
[SPEAKER_01]: lifted.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, while it's a big deal, like it's a lot easier than painting, and it's a lot easier than wallpaper.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm always on the hunt for yardage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like anytime I see it, yeah, garage sale, wherever this count, I'm buying it because nothing is easier to make than a curtain panel,
[SPEAKER_01]: And it just makes all the difference.
[SPEAKER_02]: Plus, your curtains do need to be washed.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have hit that point in the summer where I'm like, Where are all these little cobwebs and like bugs coming from?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a favorite.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I swear, I just swiffered that chandelier yesterday.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the little we call them skater eaters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you know, the big dopey ones that fly around your ceiling and then die.
[SPEAKER_02]: Leave their corpses in your windowsills.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's quite, quite lovely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exile skeletons about exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, okay, here's a comment from Rory.
[SPEAKER_02]: Evidence that I followed you all for so many years, watched you make the walk in and I'm thrilled for you to get a cooler and a new to you truck, Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is just so wonderful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love being in an environment like this where people lift each other up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, it just sort of struck me that people are celebrating with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I tell you, I ask me how many laps I've done around the horn here with Bruno Mars just like cranked.
[SPEAKER_01]: So fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: In my truck, I'm just going for drives.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, no, I'm going for a drive.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, okay, who wants to go for a drive?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I go like around the, we have a couple of days.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so you go, I would call it around the horn.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a few towns.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, mom, can you please turn it down?
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do what I want.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know, here's the little fun thing for you guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know the Scottish singer, Palo Noutini?
[SPEAKER_02]: Italian dad.
[SPEAKER_02]: He sounds worse.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's Scottish.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's totally Scottish.
[SPEAKER_02]: His mom's Scottish is dad's Italian.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was raised in Scotland.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Palo Noutini was like a big,
[SPEAKER_02]: slightly obscure pop star.
[SPEAKER_02]: When I was in opposite shape, he was a big star to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, but he had this really popular song called new shoes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to sing it for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, all this down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, back in the day, like, when I'm 19, 20, 21, I am like, I'm deep in power lowland.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I still love him.
[SPEAKER_02]: 20 years later, I still celebrate his entire catalog, as we say in our family.
[UNKNOWN]: So
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great, it's a tired, got a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: How long a teeny is so fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: He will rip your heart out in sadness and then he will like send you to the moon with joy.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is no box he fits in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't say he makes music like this or this or this.
[SPEAKER_02]: He makes it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has so much fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's the kind of music where there's like, there'll be strings in this one and trumpets in this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like, this one's blues and this one's like rock and this one's pop and like, it's so fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I have not stopped playing Palo Noutini in my new car.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, this is it, this is a Palo car.
[SPEAKER_02]: This, it was made.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were made to be together because it's so zippy and fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just think that's so fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, if you need some good summer music, listen to Palo Noutini, oh my gosh, that's so great.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I have yet to put, um, I have yet to make a Spotify for the shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so, so like Joel goes and he logs into my Spotify and he puts on like, Charles Asnivore like some French playlist, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I get in the truck and I like turn on like ex-girlfriend by no doubt.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just crank it and all of a sudden it plays in a shot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I grab my phone, I'm like, sorry, sorry, sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that song, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, yeah, some note out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love so no doubt out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so I got him here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna see him in concert one day.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a couple of artists I need to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: How, wait, how many years ago did, because he was me 12 when you were listening to him?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because he's 39.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I remember being on my way.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was born in 1980s.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a wee bad, and that means I guess we were the same age.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I was born in 86.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm just, wait, when was I born?
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, so I, it's an angel of this real, it's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see that trend of people who are like setting up for their Netflix documentary?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's hilarious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK, well, I sent you that one was so funny that you sent me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Setting up for my Netflix documentary about how I fell in love with Jude Bellingham World Cup and I'm holding up to be his mother.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am totally disoriented to time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I made me that 40.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm I'm I'm already disoriented.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like we're the same age.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know how it gets worse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It only gets worse.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's strange.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember my parents telling me, oh, we don't feel 50.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we don't feel 60.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: You are 50.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are a 60.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now I know exactly what they mean.
[SPEAKER_02]: Your brain doesn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's Aaron from Down Unda.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Queensland.
[SPEAKER_01]: The week you started the podcast was the week we moved on to 43 acres with a toddler and a newborn.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have been a huge source of encouragement and laughs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love watching you both evolve Shay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also started working out CrossFit two years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: After being an exercise hater, my whole life, I love how strong my body feels.
[SPEAKER_01]: So many things you have both discussed have inspired me along the way in home making entrepreneurship and motherhood.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you're going to like today's episode because we're going deep into entrepreneur land.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, um, hold with us for one second and that's exactly what we're going to talk about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's start with your shop.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So three days, two days before we open, two or three days before we open, you can kind of tell because I.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the shop is like a cottage with a greenhouse attached a big, a big greenhouse.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like 25 by 41 or something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we use the cottage for storage right now for chaos eventually that will be part-shot per office and the shop is in the greenhouse like that's where all the inventory is.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I open the door because it gets really warm in there obviously and I can see who drives by.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I saw a vehicle driving by like really slow and then like women kind of like curiously getting out of their vehicle.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just popped my head out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said, we're not open, but do you want to come in?
[SPEAKER_01]: And turns out she was a podcast listener from Arkansas.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's my gosh.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is so crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have had somebody come in from Florida.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her husband had a work trip, a work trip in Wisconsin.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, oh, you're taking me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to do our county.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just so I cannot I'm like humbled and I'm literally stunned at how many people come in and say they listen to this show and they don't they don't they don't say it right off the bat sometimes that check out they're like oh by the way, love the show you know I it just
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just shocked.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm I'm just shocked.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Amy, who I gave a shout out to a little while ago, she told me.
[SPEAKER_01]: She said, we had to like try to find the shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: She goes, you never say the name and you never say where it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Angela was for more business advice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seriously, so she's like I didn't know if it was called Parisian farm girl or every day shadow the show the shop is Every day shadow and it is in Ephraim, Wisconsin, and it'll pop right up if you type in every day shadow on the internet I'll tell you what I'm amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you what
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been working with this new marketer and we'll get into this, but she was like, hey, you have to log into this thing and meta.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I logged in and I found this folder of messages dating back to 2017 that I didn't know existed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh gosh, I don't want to know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I almost threw up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Follow me for what is somebody message me the other day and I found it by chance.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like she was asking about the oil She's like do you check these do you see these messages?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't I could feed my kids or I could spend all day looking for messages I don't I haven't found yet
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so you guys asked you, you've asked us a lot about our businesses and how they work and how the family works and I think it's becoming more and more relevant because I think a lot of women are finding that they sort of need to work.
[SPEAKER_02]: that it's really expensive that life is expensive or just that maybe they they need a purpose or maybe that's just how they're set up or whatever whether you're working in or outside of the house.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if if you don't work outside the home,
[SPEAKER_02]: God bless you, but it still might be interesting for you to hear how Angela and I have sort of carved our way out of this wild world.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so let's, so let's like, this isn't going to still be for you, sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go back and forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're not like one's not just yeah, but in the whole time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll kind of compare notes on what we're doing and how we do things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll, here's, okay, the season is making it lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're talking about making work, lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do want to dive into the details of our work because there is a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I also want to just sort of squat for a second in this idea that working out, working, having a job outside of your home is difficult.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in the sense that
[SPEAKER_02]: any amount of time you commit to work you're not able to commit to your home.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so there is absolutely no scheduling and no optimizing that accounts for the fact that part of your energy and devotion is now having to be directed towards something else.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't think there's any level of efficiency or
[SPEAKER_01]: uh bullet point or nugget take away like nothing that is that is that just falls under the something's got to give category right that's just what it is it is what it is yeah it is what it is so when we talk about making it lovely
[SPEAKER_02]: We're not talking about necessarily changing your life circumstance.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's saying, look, this is where we are.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or here's how to make it stress-free, not or no.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's just this is where we are and acknowledge it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, and do your best and I don't mean that in an overly simplistic way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just mean things change, you know, and that's kind of I want to give them sort of a broad overview of like, let's let's go back to the beginning like how has Parisian farm girl changed y'all Angela started Parisian farm girl 20 years ago 22 years ago 21 21 21 21 years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, that is such a significant period of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I follow this woman on Instagram and then we'll get to this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I follow this woman on Instagram, find heart shepherds, lover.
[SPEAKER_02]: She does great stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: She lives in this dome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like her and her teenage boys built this like dome and have like lived in the elements in this dome and it's really cool and Idaho.
[SPEAKER_02]: She met somebody, they decided to get married.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're moving to Montana and like her followers were sort of like upset that she was gonna leave the dome.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, take the dome with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I messaged her and I rarely do this, but I was like, look, girl, things change.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm happy for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go get married and live in Montana.
[SPEAKER_02]: God bless you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Truly, because no one wants to stay in the same place.
[SPEAKER_02]: I should say that.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people want to stay in the same place.
[SPEAKER_02]: Angela, and I do not want to stay in the same place.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even worth that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't, you know, like life.
[SPEAKER_01]: That would be very challenging to dig your heels in and go, no, I'm going to stay the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: All this is going, wishing by me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you can't, but you won't get any money.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we're talking about work.
[SPEAKER_02]: have maybe a job if you dig your heels in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the irony is I didn't start Parisian Farm Girl as a job.
[SPEAKER_01]: at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I started it because I'm the eldest grandchild, okay, and all my little cousins were on Facebook, and they were posting their burritos, they ate for dinner, and I thought that is really soft work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not want to do that, but we were at my grandma's farm, and everybody was talking about Facebook, Facebook, Facebook.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this was 21 years ago, mine too, and then, um,
[SPEAKER_01]: My mom's friend had started a blog, and then my mom came and she's like, I think I'm gonna do this thing called blogging.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, I'm in that sounds like fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause I was like, oh, look at this baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I wanted like have somewhere where my grandma can like log in and see this baby that was such a big deal because he was the first great grandchild then.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I didn't want to be on Facebook.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought, okay, okay, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I gotta come up with a name.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I love names.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love naming things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I could work for OPI and name nail polish.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think, oh, that's so fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought, oh my gosh, well, I want to have a farm someday.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want either my grandparents' farm or my own, and I love Paris, so I'm Parisian Farmgirl.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I made it.blogspot.com, and I'm BlackSpot.com.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I woke up in the middle of the night, I sat up in bed and I'm like, oh my gosh, I wonder if I can change that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I wanted to spell it like the obnoxious French feminine way, which is the IE and NE.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought, oh, that would be so much prettier.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, nobody can spell my business name still to this day.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's how it started.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just started, like just telling like anecdotal stories about this baby I was so in love with.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then one day, I rearranged my living room, and I changed my header photo to my coffee table with two like yellow, Louis chairs that I had in the background.
[SPEAKER_01]: And people went crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: you're interested in how I rearranged my living room?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do tell, you know, and that's sort of what started.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I met you, like years later.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like good eight years later, and you had monetized your blog and monetized monetization like was a word I didn't even know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I didn't really like then either.
[SPEAKER_01]: My, I know you had like Amazon like I didn't know people were doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought this was a Facebook alternative.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was so naive.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I didn't know you could do that for years and years and years until I finally got into a like a blogging community and like a group or something and they were like, oh, you can know you can make a living doing this and so I was like, well, you know, I had babies at the time, but
[SPEAKER_02]: But I enjoy being creative and it always finds a way to come out.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was a real outlet of the photography and the writing and all the pieces of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's where, yeah, that's where it started.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I don't know, I guess I like blabbing too much.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, well, I'll just blab into a book and blab into these blog posts, et cetera, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_02]: So,
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's how that's how we're here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's immediately, you know, I do think I can really trace God's hand of just Providence in it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's not how I saw things going, but life rarely is, it rarely is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now this is what we do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Although Joel and Stuart now both have jobs as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you kind of make old the economy, called and catch all those checks, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, honey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of it is funny when you know people from the outside, well, though, I do get these messages every once a month.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you go to Italy for work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that meant to be the line for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, you don't understand.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm the staff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Actually I'm the staff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not the one taking the vacation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but no, I feel I feel nothing but grateful for for how we've ended up with work the way that it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and I'll be the first to say it is really difficult to keep work lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: because especially when you own the business, work can really tend to consume you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And either you never want to see anyone again and you're in this kind of like, oh, I hate this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is so difficult.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or you're writing high and you don't want to be stopped to make chicken for dinner.
[SPEAKER_02]: You want to just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: yeah, work until your eyes glaze over.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it can be really hard to straddle some of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if any of you are creative, you can probably resonate with some of that because I think we find that in the home too, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: There are well, I think it's the same lie.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it well, for me, the the home lie is the same lie as the work lie in that I'll eventually get ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll eventually get it all done, like in the home and the laundry will stay done and the dishwasher will stay emptied and the meals will stay prepped.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And with work, it's like the meals will stay answered.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's this like holding pattern lie and it's both for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in work and the home for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's slight note side note here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but I was thinking about our podcast last night because my sweet Georgia is going away to a writer's conference she's flying for the first time without us across the country.
[SPEAKER_02]: big thing together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then she's flying home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, when she gets back, we only have like a week and a half until we leave for Italy.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's going to be 16.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've just don't know what's happening.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: My life is flashing before my eyes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she wants to die her hair.
[SPEAKER_02]: She wants to put this like toner on it for her birthday.
[SPEAKER_02]: To the club.
[SPEAKER_01]: She.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is one with pink hair.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got one with.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm thinking about, okay, she's like, please think about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and she's very respectful.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's a really good kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, okay, my instinct is to say no, look at both of us are flashing right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next ago, your camera is not a spoiler.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just hit your light.
[SPEAKER_02]: It should stop it if you just give it a tap.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, anyway,
[SPEAKER_02]: I decide to say yes because she is almost 16.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's just a few weeks away.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I say yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I realize that a home, a business, raising children life,
[SPEAKER_02]: which I so hard to like hold it and contain it and it's like blowing a dandy lion.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was the image that came into my head was like, you grew this beautiful dandy lion and you love it and you cherish it and you hold your also special and then life blows on it and they just kind of go, which is what they're supposed to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, we've talked about how you can't can't, sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't control
[SPEAKER_02]: And we can segue this into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't control things.
[SPEAKER_02]: You cannot not control things, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can do a good job with what you have.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can control the economy.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't control your adult children.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they are their own little, beautiful parcel and they're doing what they're supposed to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's interesting because as we age, we think, oh, as I get better at this or I get more efficient at this, then it will all be systematic and it'll all be organized.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, girl, that is literally the opposite direction.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, as my kids are going wider and broader and further, yeah, does that make sense?
[SPEAKER_02]: It makes really weird image of like, yeah, that's what we say when we mean there's no arrival.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have kids in college, or not here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, that's just super true.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, and you know, it's like I would say like something snarky like the sooner you can come to terms with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like you, I don't even know that there is such thing as coming to terms with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's really for me, like really important to go like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, how much am I trying to control here?
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because a lot of things that we think are just being like responsible parenting or whatever, whatever is like, okay, I'll speak for myself is actually like me wanting to control something.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that I don't get hurt, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to feel X, Y, C, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or that it reflects on you in a particular right?
[SPEAKER_01]: It reflects on you, heaven forbid.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right, her bad hair dye job.
[SPEAKER_01]: What color is she gonna do?
[SPEAKER_02]: She already bless.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love her so much, but I already told her I'd really dislike her haircut.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she loves it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was she's like, do you like it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Her little curly short thing that she's got.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just said, I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You tell her auntie and to loves it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's so cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: What color though?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a color a little bit like a little bit of a red like a strawberryish blonde kind of a. Oh, I can see that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a little
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here we are.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was just letting it grow out the other day and then I'd come home and she's like, I couldn't take it anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like platinum in preparation for pink.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love pink hair though.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so in, as it applies to work you guys, I gotta share this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Part of me cares so much that I can't breathe.
[SPEAKER_02]: And part of me is like, I'm 40.
[SPEAKER_02]: My kids are growing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you ever get to that point with work where you're just like, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Elliot Homestead is no more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone, you can do it together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take a deep breath.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all going to be okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to support.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's not skinning rabbits anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I think that's what's, there's been a lot of tension lately with work and I think it is because you're putting around square.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, you're doing that shape thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever that thing is, that's what you're trying to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, when we started, we still, by the way, we still have almost dead.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I still actually do butcher sheep, you know, giant, all the things, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: But the fifth life family has changed.
[SPEAKER_02]: My family has changed so significantly.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I miss so badly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dang it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do
[SPEAKER_02]: Now two of them are of a dairy allergy and they have their own passions and pursuits and they're these wonderful lovely people and I so my number one job always.
[SPEAKER_02]: is to do right by the kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how we say it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We look at each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to do right by the kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK. That means we do hard things.
[SPEAKER_02]: We do an intentionally try to do selfless things to build them up.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK?
[SPEAKER_02]: Home educating is not for the faint of heart.
[SPEAKER_02]: Raising contributing citizens is difficult.
[SPEAKER_02]: Work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is our number one job.
[SPEAKER_02]: My job is here to support that.
[SPEAKER_02]: My act, my money job is here to support that job.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And our home is here to support that.
[SPEAKER_02]: My home is not here to be some weird idealistic version of pictures that I want to take in my mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: or some idealistic reality that I'm trying to manipulate around them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our home is here to serve them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when they were little, it did.
[SPEAKER_02]: It really did.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we built, we, you know, for the almost two decades, we've built that framework around them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, eventually you realize,
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they're going to benefit more from learning how to fill up job applications and manage money.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then they are skinning a rooster plucking a rooster.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've got to have those experiences and so.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of, I think, the best piece about our work and maybe what distinguishes it from a lot of work out there is that what you see is what you get.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you show up to my house, it's going to look exactly like you think it looks and we're going to be doing exactly what you think we're going to be doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've only ever shared from this hyper honest place and that was feeling a little disjointed, I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: The alley homestead is now, Shae is Italian Kitchen.
[SPEAKER_02]: All that's to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a big deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a big deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: I keep wanting to talk to stew about it, and it's like, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: She called me last week.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, can I?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think a rebrand.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just started to go and work, I hate that work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: It is what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just was like, do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't even think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just go do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's exactly what you should do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you have when you always have like,
[SPEAKER_02]: the devil in the angel on your shoulders, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, you have self doubt.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have the imposter syndrome.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's true of pretty much anybody in work.
[SPEAKER_02]: You always have that like, huh?
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't talked to like my people in the Italian American community, but I did talk to my Italian community.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I message them and I talk to them about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, look,
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to do this, but I want to do right by you.
[SPEAKER_02]: This isn't like I'm not trying to over step or live in this weird cliché or over romanticize.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to share.
[SPEAKER_02]: I go there and I have these experience.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to share that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, it was really sweet.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of them were like, please do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we'll send you ideas.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, OK, OK, let's do it then.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I feel excited about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are times when you don't feel excited about work, there are times when you feel really excited about work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember feeling that way when you had like jobs when you weren't an entrepreneur?
[SPEAKER_02]: I hated work.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just hated it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you hear that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I sounded like an audio fart.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know what's the weirdest like air compression sound coming through my headphones.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea what that sounds like.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope it's not on the recording.
[SPEAKER_01]: Quick break.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I don't break hold on.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite parts of ending the day is lighting a candle.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a simple ritual, but it changes the entire feeling of a home.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lately, I've been reaching for the candles from salt and light by Sammy, because they're intentionally made with clean ingredients, and I love knowing they've put so much thought into what goes into every single candle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, I don't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a born entrepreneur.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I don't want to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: When I worked at the flower shop, I've told you guys this, I worked at a European flower shop for a decade.
[SPEAKER_02]: I loved it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not that I loved every transaction, but I loved competence, and I loved the creative outflow of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was really good at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really, really loved that job.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there are times when work can feel really lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's usually when you feel competent.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's one of the things I've really enjoyed with the shop is, um, you know, I come out around the counter and I get on the floor and interact with people and I really love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love talking about the antiques.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love talking about like the, you know, I carry artwork that I've had selected in Paris and I love talking about like the history of the artist or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And.
[SPEAKER_01]: a lot of the kitchenware stuff I carry is like from between the world wars where you know I love history like just give me an excuse and I'll tell them I'm like if you need and if you have a question about anything like I love to yapp about whatever you're looking at I can tell you a story I can tell you where it came from I can tell you anything you want to know you know and that's been really fun I had a couple come in a few weeks ago and bought like this big gorgeous oil painting
[SPEAKER_01]: And the painter was a student of Renoir.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this painting was gorgeous.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, I told him all the info at the one we were out on the floor and then up at the counter, she's like, can you tell me everything again?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so she's like writing it down so she can like tell friends with the novel version, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I really that completely enjoy that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that is a very lovely feeling.
[SPEAKER_02]: It really is a lovely feeling.
[SPEAKER_02]: it really can.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, for me, this has been to take everything just like as far as this part of my job having the shop now.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the online store I've had for I don't know four years or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: And but the inventory has been on shelves in my basement.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for me to be able to take it over to the shop and style it, yeah, like so fun and give it life and then to be able, you know, I always have had fun on the website like doing the descriptions like
[SPEAKER_01]: Like if there's a painting of an old building like I will find an old black and white photograph of that building just to give some point of connection like you're actually looking at something whatever whatever so to be able to like talk about that and do that in person is then really really yeah enjoyable yeah it's fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the pieces that makes it lovely is how you can see how the Lord just sort of connected these dots that you didn't even necessarily for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: See or that you didn't know there were there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because when you look back, like when I used the director for our homeschool co-op and also does some pulpit supply for our church, you know, he was a pastor's kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's one of those guys who studies theology in his off time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: He, you can, I can very clearly see.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he went to school for teaching because that was the only program that they offered through a distance.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, like cohort at the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we couldn't afford to move.
[SPEAKER_02]: So he was like, well, I guess I'll go for educate, you know, these, okay, all these beautiful little pieces where now it's like he's fulfilling, you get to see as you, as you get older, you get to see how some of those threads are being drawn together.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the same is true for your store.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they're all these little pieces of ange from, you know, loving Princess Diana or studying Chanel or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, all of these pieces, they build up to this orchestration of think.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that it's best work gets to be kind of an expression of some of those things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got this like this image of like in the winter when you string cranberries and popcorn like they're separate separate and then you take them and go Yeah, all together and you're like, oh, no, we have something.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now now I can see where this was going.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can see where this was going the whole time.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think about I thought about that a lot I've been thinking obviously about work a lot this past week, you know, I first went to
[SPEAKER_02]: I first went to Italy in 2007, in 2007, and gosh, that feels like a long time ago, because it was.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just like, you know, and I remember that trip, I remember like weeping, like I didn't know what to do, I didn't know how to express what I was feeling.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then life just carries on, but I remember being in the flower shop and talking to all the people and being like, oh, we went here and here and here and here, but like this was my favorite of this part was my favorite, you know, then years later.
[SPEAKER_02]: Carla from Joveal Foods invited Stewart and I to come to see what she was doing over there and so we went there and She had taken us to this olive oil factory.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this would have been in 2018.
[SPEAKER_02]: She took us to this olive oil factory that was a little further up north and she's like, well, let's try for a little bit further and let's go to Lake Komo and I stood on the edge of the lake and I wept and I just looked at Stu.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, I know Like I know I
[SPEAKER_02]: just get it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's okay, like you don't have to try to put a word to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, these things that don't really necessarily make sense, but you can see you can see the string Dolores who we've had on here Dolores didn't know me and I didn't know Dolores and Dolores call she asks for my number for some reason I give it to her.
[SPEAKER_02]: She calls my personal cell phone and it's like, I want to take you to Sicily.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to show you this place.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, okay, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's a wild thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're like, but what?
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels like the stand alone, all these little things can feel like your stand alone segments of what, of things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then they pull together.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're like, oh Lord, that's what you were doing this whole time.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what you were doing this whole time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that feels exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think, yeah, sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: difficult, but exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great way to describe this being an entrepreneur, difficult, but exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: But exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so let's let's leave them with something.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's making work lovely for you right now?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or is there something that you're eliminating because it doesn't
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like everything's really cowly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, trying to keep everything really simple.
[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't say for sure, like, what's being eliminated?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I am trying to keep it really simple.
[SPEAKER_01]: And keeping it lovely, I don't know if I get to say that in the first year of something new.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's the interaction with people is lovely.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when Joel says, like, I think we really have something here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's it's going to be okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we had a couple rough days this week where it was really slow.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was our first days being open on those days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was felt a little scary.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then, you know, if I walk in to do like my afternoon chef and he's like, don't panic.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to the feedback is great.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to become something.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's yeah, it's going to be okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That makes it feel lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And but it is scary.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm definitely in like freak out mode.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm having fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's why.
[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like fun fun fun fun fun fun fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Terrified.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, right, like this is so different.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not just like a, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not just like, oh, I bought another dot com.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many of those do I own?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is like a full.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we drive by, the kids go, that's our shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so yeah, it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a total change.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, somebody said to me last week, and it really stuck with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, it's good to remember that you have choices.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You always have a choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I try to remember that even with work.
[SPEAKER_01]: How does, like you feel like is that the way that it is is the way it's always going to be with your job, with your husband's job, with your kids being like, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not like there are choices.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's helpful, I think, when you have to work to remember that there are choices.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, that doesn't mean they're always great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, doesn't mean they're always obvious.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't mean they're always obvious either.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or obviously important.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like you just wake up every day with like black or white situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, to choose from.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Angela and I have probably talked about work.
[SPEAKER_02]: And changes in the way we're feeling this camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: I swear.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to.
[SPEAKER_02]: hundreds of hours, hundreds and hundreds of hours have gone into two to a point where just even we have to be disciplined with our friendship like can you talk and can we not talk about work this time?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we both enjoy our work and so it's like a real and we get each other so it's a real easy conversation to shift into.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do just like your home where you paint the walls or you change your curtains or you come up with a new food system.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like to think of exercising that same sort of like dominion over work.
[SPEAKER_02]: And just saying, OK, we're going to make you lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to make you feel beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to keep working towards something that is good.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and that can be whether you own your own your business or not or work outside the home or not.
[SPEAKER_02]: So
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, food for thought, food for thought, ladies.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tom, let us know in the comments.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, send us the comments and we'll be back here with you next week.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cheers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shea.
[SPEAKER_01]: One more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shea's Italian Kitchen.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the show notes, everydayshadow.com or the location in E from.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Angela's on, let me clarify, Angela's online store is still open.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have to come to E from, thank you, Shay.
[SPEAKER_02]: To shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can just go online and see that inventory and read those descriptions that she's worked so hard to write online.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she'll ship it to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like like every day, she had to increase environmental research.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was all good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want one, but do you want it to be so cute?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want one, but do you want it to be so cute?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll send one in that funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every member of your family.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is so funny.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: See you next week.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cheers.