April 20, 2020 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Side Hustlers podcast. I'm your host from
my Heart Radio, Carla Marie. The whole point of this
podcast is to talk to people following a passion outside
of their day job, or people who have turned their
passion into their full time job. And every single person
who has been on this podcast is a small business owner,
and now more than ever, we need to support our
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small business owners. So for the last few episodes, I
have been talking to people who have been on the
podcast in the past to hear how they are pivoting
right now, and you're gonna hear from a few people
in each of these episodes. This is my fourth installment
of how to Help a Small Business Right Now. The
craziest thing for me was that very early on in
recording Side Hustlers, I learned that not everyone can be
(00:46):
a side hustler, not everyone can be a small business owner.
There's just some people who are wired to be able
to do what these side hustlers and small business owners do.
And now more than ever, that has been proven to
me because the way that these people have pivoted their
entire life and have come up with these ideas of
(01:07):
things they've never even thought of. To change their businesses
in this crazy time is mind blowing to me. And
it's super motivational and inspirational and I can't wait for
you to hear from the people from this week. But
if you haven't heard any of these how to help
a small business right now installments, go back and listen
to them, because not only are these small business owners
going to come out of this quarantine stronger than ever,
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but you're going to come out of this quarantine super
inspired and ready to take on the world by hearing
what they're doing right now. So don't forget. If you
do support anyone who has ever been on Side Hustlers,
take a screenshot of your order and d m me
on Instagram at the Carlo Murray and I will get
you a Side Hustlers sticker. In this week's episode, we
are going to hear from Conscient. She is the owner
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of Chip Monkey Wine, the wine company that lets you
personalize your gifts and send them to your friends. We're
going to hear from Rammy, the owner of From the
Ground Up SOS and the really cool thing he is
doing for healthcare workers right now. We're also going to
talk to Roxy from Lauterree handmaid if you remember, Roxy
would handmake accessories and purses. And she's also pivoting her
(02:13):
company right now. And then we're gonna talk to my
good friend Kelly from Rawl Like Kelly sells clothing, but
she's also had to pivot because people aren't buying clothes
to go out in or close to where to work.
So we're gonna hear how Kelly has changed Rawlick. Okay,
let's hear how these small business owners are pivoting right
now for a lot of people. You know, why are you?
(02:34):
Why do you know what you want to do? And
this is something you want to do and do it.
I'm a hustles side side hustle do it. I'm a
hustle hut do it. I'm a hustle side side us.
Come on, ask about me, yo yo. It's the side
Hustless podcast we call the Root. Now you may remember
(02:54):
this person from a few months ago. It's Conscient from
chip Monkey Wine. Hi Conscient, Hi CARLOI thanks for being
here or being at home and talking to me on zoom.
So you have chip Monkey Wine, which is this amazing
gifting service for people. I'm gonna have you explain what
your company is so I don't butcher it. Well, yeah,
it's a way to connect with those you care about,
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using really tasty, soundly selected, high quality wine as a vehicle.
And it's a really cool I know that you gave
me a wine for um, getting my house, purchasing my
first house, and you had a card in there, which
was really cool. It was a picture of me holding
the key to my house. So it's not only just
you know, gifting a bottle of wine, like you really
personalize it and make it like this experience that no
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one's been ever been able to do before. So it's
really cool what you do. But obviously right now it
is a weird time because people are scared about spending money.
So has that impacted chip Monkey at all? Yeah? You know,
I definitely noticed when all of this mayhem first started
that people weren't really gifting. Everyone was, I think worried
about you know, getting enough toilet paper themselves, and their
(04:00):
groceries and their pantry stocked, and and really looking inward
on taking care of themselves and their families, you know,
which is understandable when in time of uncertainty. And now
I'm finding that the gifting is really ramping back up
where people are missing your friends and missing their connections
and really wanting to reach out and realizing that you
could still help someone celebrate their birthday or your parents
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anniversary or you know, mothers Day is coming up. And
I think people are sitting there thinking like, wow, I
can still connect with these people even if I can't
do it in person. It's true because I think there
was a little bit where I kind of forgot obviously
what day it is, what date it was. I forgot
my cat's birthday. I mean I was so mad about that,
but you kind of remember, oh, birthdays are still happening.
You know, milestones are still happening, and this is a
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great way to give someone. You know, maybe you can't
go to a store. I mean, even when you can
go to a store, this is a great way to
give someone in a personal way. But this is super
convenient right now to be able to give someone sucked
a personalized thing. And everyone is talking about drinking their
wine at home. So this amazing. But not only are
you business as usual, but you're doing something new, something
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you've never thought of before. That quarantine and social distancing
has led you to so tell everyone about what that
is yeah, so I was in it. I'm in a
networking group and a lot of the business owners were
talking about how their businesses on hold or they you know,
they're non essential, and I just was thinking, like, I
wonder if there's a way that I can just bring
a little joy to people. And so I decided to
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host this wine trivia happy hour for the group. And
it's super casual, and and when the day came to
do that, I was so stressed that day. You know,
I have two little ones at home trying to run
this business. My husband's super busy with his work and
just juggling everything, and I thought, why did I add
this to my plate. I already have enough going on. Well,
we did the happy hour and it ended up being
the highlight of the day by far. It was just
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such a fun group and a fun way to bring
a little bit of laughter and joy and connect with
others well, and I'm sure everyone else also thought it
was the highlight of their own day to not just
your day. Yeah, so thanks. I was actually really surprised.
I got emails afterwards from the group saying, oh my gosh,
can you do this for my friends? Can you do
this for my coworkers, and I thought, you know what,
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why not, like, let's do this, Let's let's bring more
joy and connect. And it was so fun for me too,
so I decided to do this little fundle where as
a way for you too, if you're an employer or
a boss or a group leader and it work um
that you can connect with your team by sending an
employee appreciation gifts. So you can use my service gifting
company to send you know, thanks for all you do,
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or hey, hou'se quarantine going for you gifts where I'll
pair the wine to these occasions and you can add
your logo to the card or a group photo of
your your team. Make it really personal and personal message
to every single employee, individualized if you want. And if
you send to a team of ten or more, you know,
usually we we I'm working with businesses with teams about
ten to twenty people. I will throw in a wine
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trivia happy hour on Zoom virtual happy hour for free
and we can all have a blast, and that for
team members can open that wine during it if they
haven't already, and just have some fun. It's really cool
that you've been able to kind of pivot to this
because it's something that we're lacking right now, our networking
or team bonding because a lot of companies will do
happy hours or monthly events, whatever it is, and that's
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clearly not happening right now. So it's the same idea.
You know, you're not thinking about work, you're not talking
about work, but you're drinking and you're bonding, and it's
it's cool that you've been able to obviously make money
on your own for this, but kind of give that
back to people. That's something that they lost that no
one realized, like, oh, I need this more than I
could have imagined. So it's amazing that you were able
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to do that. But what was that first moment when
you thought about, oh, I could do this for companies.
Because I know it's still it's still new for you,
you're still putting all of this together. But what was
that first moment when we were like, oh, I should
do this and make it a certain Yeah, I don't
even think I had that moment. I think it was
the response that people gave me that they were saying,
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can you do this for me? You really need to
do this, Please do this for my employees, Please do
this for my friends and and I was like, all right,
let's do it. Why not? People are asking do you
think after quarantine and social distancing, you're still going to
do things like this? You know, I might, you know,
Let's see where this takes me, And um, it was
so fun and I look forward to putting these together.
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Have a couple of businesses already signed up and interested,
so I'm super excited to see how it goes. And
we'll see. You know, I'm still super passionate about gifting
and the connection that can best through gifting, and especially
gifting quality wines, so that's always going to be my focus. Um,
but we'll see. Yeah, let's see where the road takes us. Well,
the last time everyone heard from you on Side Hustlers,
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you had just signed the lease, are about to sign
the lease for a brick and mortar location, so you
have been working from home and finally you were about
to get the wines in a place where people in
Seattle at least could go in taste the wines and
order gifts for their friends in store. Now, obviously things
for a little different. Right now. What happened and where
are you at with that location? Yeah? So unfortunately I
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signed the lease about a week before all this may started,
So total bummer there. So I get to pay for
a space that's just sitting there. But you know, luckily
I hadn't moved the wine from the warehouse yet, and um,
that was a blessing in disguise because I was just
about to you know, it's kind of like days away,
and so I was able to keep my liquor license
at the warehouse spot and basically still operating my business.
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So um, in a way, luckily it worked out timing wise.
But you know, I still can't wait when this is
all done to jump in there and fix up the
space and get it ready for pickups and tastings. And
it's still something I'm super excited about and I want
to be able to meet a lot of people who
are interested in the product and work some more connections.
So okay, so the studio, when you were, you know,
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getting ready and getting to set it up, the whole
point was that you were going to move everything away
from home. Obviously you're still home. You've been working from
home for a very long time, and you have kids.
So give those tips for people who are now working
from home with their kids and going a little crazy.
I have no tips, just drink perfect. Yeah. So my
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kids were at school before and now they're both home.
They're both little, and you know, I think that's one
of the reasons. I added some occasions like how's homeschooling
going for you? So the idea is, you know, regroup
the to carry the three or do that voodoo new math.
There's a wine for that. That's so cool paranting plus
teaching where that wine does not add up. It's very
(10:22):
true and it's funny that your slogan is there's a
wine for that, And little did any of us ever
think there would need to be a wine for homeschooling
for everyone and quarantine. So go to Chick Mounkey Wine
to get that wine for your friend who is really
struggling with the homeschool thing. Yeah, and then you can
have a little virtual happy are yourself and connect over
that for sure. So depending on when people are listening
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to this, the next big holiday we've got coming up
is Mother's Day and a lot of people can't be
with their moms right now, So gifting mom wine and
a personalized wine with the personalized card I mean, moms
would love just the card let alone, the wine and
the card. So it's something really cool to get mom
right now out And obviously, if you've got a team
at work, whether you're a boss or an employee, make
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this happen. Go to chip Monkey Wine dot com support
Conscient and get some wine for yourself and your co
workers and everyone in your life. Conscient. Thank you for
being here or home. Thank you, thank you so much
for having me. Okay, so coming to me now from
not far away, but since for social distancing very far
away is Rammy from from the ground Up Socks. Hi, Ramy, Hey,
(11:26):
Carla Maria, how you doing. I'm good as good as
we can be right now. So you were on Side
Hustlers not too long ago, right as your your main
episode when I think that aired in November? Yeah, okay,
that makes sense. As happened, it feels like it was
actually way sooner than November. That's wild. Okay, So in
November we hid you on the podcast and you talked
about from the ground Up socks. But I'm gonna make
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you do a quick explanation for anyone who didn't get
to hear your full episode, which I'm gonna put in
the description of this podcast so everyone can check it out.
If they missed it, but explain what from the ground
up socks is. So we're an outdoor sock brand creating
high performance, stylish socks that feature local mountains on them,
like Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, and the big thing that
we do is donate five percent of every sale to
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our partners at Washington Gail's Association to help protect and
preserve our trails and public lands. So at the time
you had given me some socks and you're like, I'm
telling you where these when you're hiking, skiing, whatever. So
I am sucked up painting the ads. When it has
come to socks, like my whole life and especially skiing,
I struggle. So the one time I got to ski
this season, I wore my socks and they were freaking amazing,
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like so amazing that you weren't kidding, you weren't lying
your truth. And then I trained for my first ever
five K and at the time when we spoke, you
didn't have compression socks yet. So I started training for
my five K and I was like at the chiropractor
every week, complained about my legs, my feet, everything hurt.
You didn't know that, and you just reach out to
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me You're like, hey, I see your training for a
five K. We've got some compression socks I want you
to try, and I said, okay, it was smooth selling.
After that, I'm super glad. It was crazy and I
ran the whole five kame I had no problems. And
that leads us to what you're doing now with those
compression socks and for healthcare workers. You've got socks for docs.
So explain how that came up and what made you
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do socks for docs and what it is and how
people can help. Yeah, definitely sou socks for docs. It's
our newest campaign where with the help of anybody and everybody,
we're shipping cases of our socks to different health care
facilities nationwide. Basically, how it works is you go to
our website and we're doing this by the case, which
is six pairs of our seven inch crew socks or
individually with our compression socks, and customers can choose which
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ones they want to send, and then all you have
to do is place your order, choose a health care facility.
You can even leave a note in our checkout page
to give them some words of encouragement, and then we'll
take care of the rest. It's really cool what you're doing.
So when you first told me about it, it was
kind of early on all this, and I was like, yes, amazing,
Like so smart to pivot during this and to be
able to help healthcare worker. I was able to send
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a six pack to my friend Maggie, who is working
in New Jersey at one of the testing centers, which
means she's literally standing on concrete all day long. So
if people want to do that, like send it to
someone specific, you said, they can just do the option
that says let us decide, which would mean you let
us decide and then in the notes put the exact
address to send them to exactly. Okay, cool, so do
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that obviously. Or you can pick by state or by facility,
which is super cool if you find your state and
in an area. It was cool to see you had
New Jersey on there and some New Jersey facilities. Love that.
You've also teamed up locally with Joe Chocolate here and
Joe Chocolate I know they have their chocolate that has
caffeine in it, which is awesome. So what are you
guys doing together? Around the same time, our friends over
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at Joe Chocolates had launched a similar campaign where they
were shipping cases of their chocolates to health care facility nationwide,
and so, being good friends with Sam the founder UM,
we decided that we wanted to team up and essentially
empower our two small businesses while allowing people to offer
gifts to health care facilities as well. So now what
we're doing is are called our socks and chalks for
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docks Camp. Look at you guys coming up with all
the clever sayings. We're home alone. We got plenty of
time to think about this stuff. So now we're we're
shipping cases of our socks and cases of their chocolate
to health care facilities nationwide as well. So that's been
a really cool campaign. We thought we started with them
about last week, so super excited by that. So people
can go to ft g U socks dot com to
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see all of this. Is that the best place to
send people to see that everything with Joe Chocolate and
the socks or is there a different place for Joe Chocolate. Yeah,
you can also go to Joe Chocolate's website. It's under
their products listing as well, so you'll find there you'll
see their cases and you'll see their socks and chalks cool.
So this time of year in Washington is normally the
time when we all get the hell outside, We get
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on the trail, we go hiking, we get our new
hiking gear, we buy our new socks. But obviously we're
not doing that. So I'm assuming it took a little
hit for you ring all of this. Yeah, it did.
I mean the first week that the stay at home
orders were placed in, I had like five whole sale
deals fall through, and honestly, like wholesales are main revenue streams,
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so that really devastated our business. You know, for a
little bit. I was trying to figure out ways that
you know, we can step up during this time and
kind of adapt to the situation rather than sit back
and um. That's kind of where the idea for socks
for Docs came in, just seeing other awesome brands stepping
up and like providing healthcare workers with their products, and
you know, us being able to provide the resources we
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have to support those health care facilities as well. So
it's obviously awesome that you're able to come up with
something so amazing out of something that's not the best.
You have been obviously running from the ground up socks
from your home for how long now has it been.
It's been about a year and a half. Okay, so
work from home isn't anything new to you. Nope, I
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got the whole home office set up and it's awesome.
But what kind of tips do you have for those
of us who just started working from home and any
need tube at all, we'll take it because we're struggling. Well.
I found that honestly, establishing routine in your day is
the most crucial part. And it's tough because of being
self motivated. Is it's a challenge to do that. You know,
have somebody telling you, hey, show up to the office
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at nine o'clock and you know you've got to be
here until five. So I found that routine really does help,
you know, wake up, make your bed, go shower, take
some time in the morning for yourself and really get
your mind right. And I usually have a cup of
coffee and kind of warm up to the world before
I start working. And then from there it's you know,
start working in the morning and I usually go until
noon and I take a little break and it's totally okay,
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go for a walk, go enjoy the sun. We're having
this great weather right now, and then you know, whatever
you have for the rest of the day of the afternoon,
just go back to your computer and see what you have.
Get to it. And I learned early on that to
do a routine or to take breaks, because I sat
in the same seat for twelve hours one day, and
so yeah, I didn't realize. So what I started doing
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was after our show, I'll unplug my computer and I
will go to my couch at least so that I'm
moving because at work, I'm in the studio and I
have my office, and then I'll also come home and
do a little bit of work from home. So I'm
moving around and switching things up, and I'm doing that
and also trying to do a midday workout because normally
I would come home from work and work out at
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like two pm maybe, but now I'm just there's no routines,
so I'm working, working, work, and then I'm like, oh,
it's seven pm. I have to go to bed. I
forgot about a workout. So trying to do that whole,
like you said, go for a walk or do something
in the middle of the day to break it up,
makes such a difference. So You're right with that, so
thank you for that. Okay, So people need to go
to f T g U socks dot com to support you,
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to support our healthcare workers. They can also find out
about everything Joe Chocolate and then they can follow you
on Instagram, which is ft g U socks. So from
the ground up socks. I know. At first I was like,
what are all these letters? Am I ever gonna remember them?
I got them now, so I got I'm glad. I'm glad.
It was a tough handle. I had to figure out
that couple years ago. So you know, yes, typing out
from the ground up socks PA probably Okay, So go
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to ftg sos dot com, donate talks to a healthcare
worker or a health care facility. You can do it
all there. And Robby, thank you for being here. Thank
you so much. Carla Marie So Roxy was actually on
a few episodes ago, which is crazy that you're back
already with Lanaree Handmaid. Hi Roxy, Hi carl Marie. So
people if they didn't check out your episode for some reason,
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you handmake awesome handbags and clutches, which I am now
the proud owner of a super cute clutch which I love.
And you also homeschooled your children because you were a
teacher and your kids have been home So people can
go to Launoy Handmade dot com to check out everything
that you do. Obviously, but you and I were talking
earlier this week because I have enlisted you to make
(19:43):
super cool leather pillows for my day bed in my
guest bedroom because I have nothing else to do right now,
so I'm like, well, let me start decorating. And we
were on FaceTime and you started telling me about what
you're doing right now as a business, and I thought
it was super cool, and I wanted to get you
on the podcast to tell everyone that you are making
masks that people cannot only buy. But you did some
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awesome things too with mass originally. So at what point
did you say, Okay, I need to switch my business
a little bit to actually make masks instead of clutches
and handbags and backpacks right now. So at first, it was,
you know, for everybody, a huge shock and kind of
like what do I do now? Like I felt like
the world was in such a panic. I didn't know
if anybody would want to be buying purses. I didn't
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really feel like making purses, Honestly, it was like I
was sitting around every day, like where do I go
and what do I do? And I don't want to
be selling the people during such like a time of panic,
and I wanted to help in some way. And so
over the first week or so, I started getting people
emailing me, like news clips and articles about how the
masks were in such demand because paper masks and and
(20:47):
ninety five and surgical masks weren't available. So my cousin,
for example, works in the e er and I have
another friend in the I see you, and they were
being asked, especially the e er ones, were being asked
to use there's surgical or in any five masks over
and over again. And yeah, they would use them for
like three days, sterilize them, and then use them again.
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One of my cousins they would leave their mask and
then get a new mask for the next day, but
they didn't know who used it the day before they
were doing with it, and just yeah, she's like I
don't want that up against my face. Like even if
I could have a cloth mask with the paper mask
in it, and then it's like not directly touching my skin,
I feel like I have like a little bit more
protection so I started making them for her first, and
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I actually know a lot of nurses and a few
people that are doctors and p a s. And they
asked me for them. And it's all of a sudden,
it just blew up within like a day or two,
how many people wanted them for me. Since I wasn't
feeling like selling my purses and making purses for the
first couple of weeks. It just kind of fell into
my lap and I went crazy with it, and I
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put it on my Instagram and within two and a
half weeks they had made three hundred and fifty on
donation only. That's wild. Three on fifty. You helped so
many people, which I think is the coolest and and
I'm proud to know you and proud of you for
doing that. And as a guess of this podcast, like
this is what this community is. Like. You stopped everything
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you were doing. You stopped your business, your income to donate,
which I love that you did that, and everyone does
keep saying to me, I felt weird selling to people
right now, And that to me is a true real
business owner, because you don't do your business just because
you want to take money from people. You do it
because you love it and because you care about people.
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And I love that you said that, and I love
that a lot of people have been saying the same
thing to me. But you pivot and you figure out
different ways to do things, and you got through it,
and now there is a demand, like people want to
buy math from small businesses, and you started to sell
them for people, which I love and and they're super
cute and they're cool and people can get them on
your website lone handmade. And I know you're still donating
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to people that you know locally, which I love. But
what made you originally say, Okay, I need to start
selling them now because you were donating them and not
giving them to the general public. What was that moment
we're like, okay, I'll sell these. Yeah. So it's so strange,
like how fast and slow things have been changing right now,
like day to day the numbers change, everyone's feelings changed.
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What we're doing in the world is seems to be changing.
And at the first week or so, I was like,
I'll never sell these. That just seems like wrong kind
of there's so many people who need them really bad
for their job, and I'm just going to donate them.
But then I had so many people asking me because
they wanted to wear them out to the grocery store
and everything that I started considering it. Then the county
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that I live in made it mandatory that any time
you leave your house you have to wear them, and
I think a lot of places are now if you're
just going for a walk into the grocery store anything,
and you're over two years old, you have to wear
a mask, and they're finding people and that, Yeah, it's
a thousand dollar fine or jail time. And I don't
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know any if anybody actually has been like fine or
good for them, good for your doing that, because people
aren't going to listen. I mean, I've seen a ton
of people wearing masks because no one wants to get sick.
I mean, you don't want it. You don't want to
be the one to pass it to someone. So that's
super cool that they're doing it, and it makes sense, like, Okay,
you know what, there is a demand for them, people
need them. Let's make them available and let's make them
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cute and let's do it. Yeah. So at that point
I was like, I can't give them away for free
to everybody. I'm not working right now, or making money,
and I'm using so many supplies. So then I started
selling them and I was doing like buy two, donate one,
I'll make one to donate, and I'm just listing them
in like small batches and still donating to all my
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local nurse friends and local hospitals. But yeah, there's a
huge need. The other day I listed like fifty masks
and within a couple of hours they were totally so
people really want and I love that everyone's supporting small
business for it, Like I've seen so many small businesses
doing this, and it seems like everybody wants to buy
from them. First. Absolutely for sure, there was like I
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forget what website put on an article of like all
the places you can get a mask, and I was
going through them at first, and they were like big
name brands or like fashion designers and which I mean
their companies too and whatever, we shop from them as well.
But I was like, I don't really, it felt weird
buying from a big name brand when so many small
businesses were available. But at the time, I hadn't seen
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any small businesses making masks, and now I'm seeing it
and I'm like, oh, this is awesome. I'm glad I waited.
It is really cool, so good for you for doing that.
But you when you were on the podcast originally we
talked about how Lona Ray Handmaid was originally your side
hustle to being you were a teacher, and then you
left being a teacher to homeschool your kids, so essentially
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it still is a side hustle to homeschooling your kids.
So as someone a parent, not granted, you were a teacher,
so you obviously have a background than most of the
parents right now, what are your tips for parents who
are attempting to homeschool their kids right now? So, I
know we talked about this the other day. I feel
so bad because I see so many of my friends
who don't typically homeschool, like stressing out so hard over it.
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And I know a lot of schools are sending out
like a lot of work and it's taking them so
many hours out of the day and a lot of
frustration and tears because homeschool can be really hard to
get used to the schedule, you know. And I think
my best advice that I've been giving my friends is
just kind of calmed down, It's only a couple of months,
Like take it as you can. If your kids start
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getting frustrated and crying, like that's the point where you stop.
You know, they'll be fine, come back to it later,
and kind of relax a little. Like everything is not
going to be exactly the same as if they were
in school. I mean, not all of it done. Yeah,
you can't really bring school home and like expect them
to sit at a desk for like six hours a day.
I know for us homeschooling, usually our day is done
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by lunchtime or one o'clock. You know, it's people can't
wrap their heads around that. I was just talking, you know,
my little sister, and she said something like, I just
you know, all these kids like shouldn't they not shouldn't
be in school now? She was talking about like maybe
they should go back to school in August. And I said, yeah,
I get what you're saying, because she was concerned about
them missing out on stuff. I said, but think about
it, it it is only a few months, which you also said,
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and I told her what you said to me, But
I said, think about how much of your day when
you were in school was switching classrooms, going to gym,
which obviously I completely believe in pe classes kids should
be outside playing to get that. But think about how
much of your day was just wasted, and how like
it's really only four to five hours of max of
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learning a day. And when you you know, when you
take all the other business out of it, or you know,
switching classes or you know, downtime, snack time, whatever may be,
it's not that long lighting up exactly exactly waiting around
for you know, there's thirty two kids or thirty kids
in a classroom, so the teacher has to get to
each of them, make sure everybody's finished before they move on.
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We're at home, like you only have that one child
and or two or three whatever you know, per subper
what you're teaching them, and when they're done, they're done
and you move on to the next thing. So it
really is a shorter day even though you're doing just
as much. And sometimes like if you're having a hard day,
I've always told myself, if I get in reading and
math and we're having a tough day, then we're done.
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You know, they can go outside and like do nature study,
which is science, and like tell them to do as
little scavenger hunt where they look for a leaf and
a rock and this color item or whatever, but they're
going to get that throughout the day. Science can be
cooking classes. Math can be part of cooking when you're
using like a quarter cup, and just kind of bring
that into your day the whole day and not really
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worry about what they're doing at school being exactly what
they're doing at home, because it's not going to be
like that. It's not going to work that way, absolutely not.
And the same thing as a As an adult, you
realize your job isn't the same now being home. For
for most of us doing my morning show, it sounds
completely different being home now. We do somewhat of the
same things, but it's different because I'm in a microphone
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in my living room talking into a computer. It's going
to be different. The same at Homeschooling is different. So
I'm really glad we had you on. I didn't even
plan on asking you about that, but I'm glad. I'm
glad I did because it is awesome to hear from
you on that. And when we first connected, I looked
at you and I said, oh my god, you're so
dressed up. What is happening? Why? Hell? Everyone? So it
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is a Friday heads up. While we're recording this and
you told me today is what. So today's fancy Friday. Um.
I usually work from home and home school my kids,
but I get up and get dressed every day because
we might be going to sports or whatever. But during quarantine, like,
we're definitely not billing anywhere every day. So I've been
wearing pajamas, no makeup, not doing my hair, and just
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to kind of make myself feel human again, I started
doing fancy Friday, which I can't claim that title. I
took it from a friend. One of my friends naked,
and I think she got it from somebody else on Instagram. Um,
and I do my makeup, my hair, I have a
dress on. I like look like myself again. It's so
cute because I feel kind of like the world is well.
It's funny because in the normal world it's normally Fridays
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are casual, and we dressed down on Friday, so we've
completely flipped at this point upside down. I love it,
and I love you for this, and I want people
to go support Lana ray handmade. I'm going to put
the website link in the description of the podcast, but
it's Lana l A n A Ray R a handmade
dot com. Did I spell it right? Yeah? Okay, good Roxy,
(30:34):
thank you for being here. Now go make my pillows today.
I'm working on your pillows. Yeah, pillows, thank you, thank you. Okay.
Joining me from not far away, which is sad that
we're on zoom and not together, is Kelly, owner and
mastermind behind Rowlick. Now, Kelly, when were you on the
podcast originally? Do remember when that was? I think it
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was last winter, so like Dan wear before last really,
so I'm gonna say I don't even I don't know
date or anything anymore. So I just remember I was
wearing a big furry code. Okay, so I know it's
called You're right, You're right, it was went there. I
do remember the furry code. So Kelly owned Rowlick, and
Rowlick is this awesome online boutique where you can shop
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for the clothes that you actually want in your life,
because you really do have everything, and you've you said
I think when you're in the podcast that you put
the clothes on there that you would want to wear,
the comfortable, cute stuff that you would want to wear.
And I'm a big fan of rolic. But obviously right
now people are working from home and they're not necessarily
going out to bars or dates. So what have you
been doing as a boutique where people normally shop from
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to kind of pivot now that everyone's sitting on their
butts at home. Yeah, you know, it's been. It's been well,
first of all, just a big mindset shift because I
feel like a lot like me, like probably everybody else
in the world, when this whole thing started happening, it
just kind of start reeling like, this is it, This
is over, Like no one's going to be shopping are
Like what am I going to do? So I kind
of just didn't do me thing for a couple of weeks,
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just kind of like no one, Like I can't do
photo shoots, A lot of my vendors are shutting down,
Like it's just I just kind of came to a standstill.
But then, you know, seeing how creative and inspiring so
many different businesses were being kind of really got me
to get my mojo back. And so yeah, so I
really shifted kind of the product and philosophy behind the
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stuff that I'm bringing in, just based on what people
need right now and what's bringing them comfort. So, you know,
while normally this time of year, will be bringing in
really fun like lightweight blouses and sun dresses and shorts
and cute things because everyone's excited for spring and summer. Um. Yeah,
started shifting to be more like comfy lounge where things
that will still definitely be versatile to be able to
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wear past the corona time time of our lives. But yeah,
just focusing more on what people are needing and wanting
right now. So you're calling it the Quarantine Capsule collection,
which I love, And it's how many pieces? Yeah, So
it's about seven brand new pieces combined with a couple
that we already had existing, um, and they're all very interchangeable, comfortable, versatile,
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just like that lounge where that you want to be
wearing every day right now, but then also those pieces
that you can also take with you throughout the rest
of the summer and just all year round. So I'm
launching it hopefully when this airs. The waitlist will come
out today. It's funny last year I said, Okay, next year,
I am not buying any more sweatshirts because all I
do is buy sweatshirts at concerts and then I never
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wear them. In week one of just all of the
social distancing. I was. I had gone through all of
my sweatshirts, like my hoodies, my career necks, everything, and
I was like, oh my god, I actually have a
use for them now, this is great. Then I was
mad at myself for not buying more. So I keep
seeing everyone post these like cute matching loungeware outfits. Will
there be matchy outfits in your Quarantine Capsule collection? Well,
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I'm so glad you asked. Yes, there will be. We
have one full matching set that is so cute. It's
like this pull over cowl, next sweatshirts kind of like
across front, so it's different than your normal sweatshirt, something
like very much like the Appalachia kind of look, and
then some really cute joggers to go with it. And
then again, like all the other pieces that are in
the collection can like pair back to those or you
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can wear ma jeans and stuff. So yeah, I just
wanted to be something that people can wear right now
but are also valuable for the future and you can
just get. But that's basically my whole philosophy about everything
I bring in a roll because I wanted to be
versatile stuff that you can get like millions of wears
out of maybe not millions. That's probably a stretch. A
lot of wears in our hands different ways, Yes, exactly.
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If you can't wear something more than one way, than like,
what the heck is the point? No, absolutely with you
on that one um shop rawl like dot com. By
the way, I want to remind everyone and shop r
O L L I c K so they can check
out what we're talking about. The wait list should be
up there by now. If not, I'm going to come
kick your buck, Kelly, because I want to get on
that wait list. So you're doing something else super cool
with masks, and I want people to know about this
(34:53):
because I've recently got a cloth mask and it's super cute.
But I feel like we're gonna this is like a
new thing in our life, and we're going to treat
it like clothes and it's an accessory and you are
going to need to buy more than one mask a
because you're gonna have to wash this one. Say it's
in the wash, what are you gonna do? And then
I think it'll just be a fun way to accessorize
when you know, in a time of this is crazy,
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I have to wear a mask. So you're gonna have
masks on shoprolic dot com. Yes, absolutely, And it's so
funny you say that because had you asked me like
last fall to predict the trends for spring, I definitely
would medic said face masks are gonna be so but
it's so true, like people aren't wearing like ear rings
or hair access there is isn't much right now. People
need masks and you know, if you're going to be
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out and about in them, that's like your one adventure
for the day is the grocery store. Yeah. Yeah, Fortunately
one of my US made vendors, who's awesome, they're all
family rent. They turned their production line into making all
this protective wear both for consumers like you and me
and then also a little bit more industrial strength stuff
for healthcare work. And so yeah, some of the fabrics
they were going to use for their spring and summer
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line they actually converted into masks. So we have three
different versions that will have up on the site, and
hopefully we'll be getting an even more. They're received well,
so those are all for purchase. They'll and then beyond
that too, just because you know, I want people to
have access to Cete masks and be able to fulfill
their needs there. But I want to be able also
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to like donate and contribute to those who are more
in need that might not be able to purchase masks.
So I've committed and it's going to be interesting to
see how quickly I can do it. But for every
mask webs purchased, I've committed to sewing um and donating
a mask myself too, because throughout my years in the
apparel industry, I've picked up a few sewing skills and
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at best, hopefully that will suffice for me making some masks.
A lot of people keep saying, oh, you know, maybe
you're gonna come out of quarantine with a new skill
or new outlook on things. You may realize you can
actually so and make clothes and you never know shop
all maybe the clothes that you actually make, who knows what.
That would be wild if that opened. So people can
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go online chop rolic dot com. You mail ship everywhere
in the US, so no matter where they're listening from,
they can order, which is super cool. They can get
on the wait list for the comfy clothes. And the
company that you mentioned that the mask, it's the same
company that did look all the comfy clothes that you ordered, right? Yes? Yeah,
and so again like almost all all pieces are made
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in the US, family and women run and owned, which
is great. I'm trying to lean more into the whole
ethical and sustainable side of the fact. Not easy, and yeah,
it's it's hard finding those vendors. So I'm just so
excited to support them because you know they're going through
a hard time to hopefully if everything is received well,
we'll be able to get some reorders back in stock.
And yeah, I'm excited for it to hit the web.
Have customers been reaching out to you after either getting
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an order or reaching out like on Instagram saying hey
I want it? Like, are you hearing from people how
it's like different for them shopping during all of this
a little bit Like I've had a couple of people
ask me actually if I was going to have masks,
and that was what first sparked my idea for It's like, well,
because it feels kind of a dicey territory, like I
don't know, you know, you don't want to be profiting
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off of people's need for these things. But now that
it's becoming almost like you said more of an accessory,
it becomes kind of a service provider, Like I have
access to these things, so it should be helping my
customers get those also. But yeah, I mean, truth be told,
it's sales the last couple of weeks. Then, once I
got my motivation and inspiration back, I've actually been pretty good.
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That's a possible or yeah, they're looking for something to
bring them comfort, and like the last round of product
I brought in was very much in that realm spirits
are as good as they could be right now. I
think people are looking for things to bring home that
comfort and coziness, and so that's what I hope to provide. Well,
I was like you at first. The first few weeks,
I I basically like sat around feeling sorry for myself.
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And it was more for me that I couldn't travel
to be with my mom going through everything that she's
going through right now, and I was just so sad.
So early on that I hit got to a point
and I said, if this quarantine ended Friday, whatever day
it was, if this quarantine ended right now, and I
was like, damn, what did I do during quarantine? I
always talked about wanting to do things, Well, what did
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I do. I'm gonna be so mad at myself if
I didn't do anything. I just sat at my couch
and I was like, I'm gonna take this next weekend
to just sit on the couch and do whatever I
want to do, and then I'm gonna actually be productive.
And it took me, Like you said, it was about
three weeks really where I had that moment where I said, Okay,
what am I going to do? Even if it's just
organizing things in my new house and like figure out
(39:35):
what a decorate I need to do something that I
come out of this like, well, at least I got
that done during that time, And I'm glad you were
able to figure it out and piv in. It helps
the rest of us that you're you did that because
now we get a cute lunge where now you get
the cute clothes. Yeah. No, it's been a total mindset shift.
And I think ultimately, like we're all gonna we'll look
back at this time in history. It's just a very
weird time. We'll all make it through. It's just going
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to be something very bizarre to look back at. But
I also think we'll come out of it a little
bit kinder, more resilient, and you know, those of us
in the small business world hopefully a little bit more
creative and innovative because a lot of us are having
to make those ships. I completely agree. And it's crazy
that the last time I saw you was at my
one hundredth episode, which it was kind of after like
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i'd say, ten days after that, it started getting a
little a little weird here. We're like, this is kind
of interesting because I was February twenty second, and my
birthday was March five, and I remember Amazon closed on
my birthday, so that wasn't much time in between. And
we were a big group of people together, which is
scared to think about at that time. But we had
no idea that we would be like on a zoom
(40:44):
call with each other talking about this because we couldn't
be in person. And it's just it's wild. So I mean,
thank you for coming to that. By the way, of course,
I know I look back at it finally because it
was probably less time I was with more than ten people.
Nuts Okay shop rawlic dot com. Oh, support Kelly, get
yourself some comfy clothes. You're supporting a small business and all,
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like Kelly said, everything in the Quarantine Capsule collection is
made here in the US, and you're supporting a small,
family owned operation, so that is super super cool. Kelly,
thank you for for being here today, taking time out
of your day, you know, coming live from my bedroom.
It's been great talking to you. Okay, you just heard
from four incredible people with incredible businesses. Support them if
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you can in any way possible. I've got all the
links below for their website, their original episode, their social
media account so you can support them. Thank you so
much for supporting small business owners right now they need
us more than ever. Thank you so much for listening
to this podcast. Thank you for staying at home and
keeping everyone healthy. Don't forget to wash your hands, and
(41:47):
until next week, keep hustling.
Welcome to the Side Hustlers podcast. I'm your host from
my Heart Radio, Carla Marie. The whole point of this
podcast is to talk to people following a passion outside
of their day job, or people who have turned their
passion into their full time job. And every single person
who has been on this podcast is a small business owner,
and now more than ever, we need to support our
(00:22):
small business owners. So for the last few episodes, I
have been talking to people who have been on the
podcast in the past to hear how they are pivoting
right now, and you're gonna hear from a few people
in each of these episodes. This is my fourth installment
of how to Help a Small Business Right Now. The
craziest thing for me was that very early on in
recording Side Hustlers, I learned that not everyone can be
(00:46):
a side hustler, not everyone can be a small business owner.
There's just some people who are wired to be able
to do what these side hustlers and small business owners do.
And now more than ever, that has been proven to
me because the way that these people have pivoted their
entire life and have come up with these ideas of
(01:07):
things they've never even thought of. To change their businesses
in this crazy time is mind blowing to me. And
it's super motivational and inspirational and I can't wait for
you to hear from the people from this week. But
if you haven't heard any of these how to help
a small business right now installments, go back and listen
to them, because not only are these small business owners
going to come out of this quarantine stronger than ever,
(01:29):
but you're going to come out of this quarantine super
inspired and ready to take on the world by hearing
what they're doing right now. So don't forget. If you
do support anyone who has ever been on Side Hustlers,
take a screenshot of your order and d m me
on Instagram at the Carlo Murray and I will get
you a Side Hustlers sticker. In this week's episode, we
are going to hear from Conscient. She is the owner
(01:51):
of Chip Monkey Wine, the wine company that lets you
personalize your gifts and send them to your friends. We're
going to hear from Rammy, the owner of From the
Ground Up SOS and the really cool thing he is
doing for healthcare workers right now. We're also going to
talk to Roxy from Lauterree handmaid if you remember, Roxy
would handmake accessories and purses. And she's also pivoting her
(02:13):
company right now. And then we're gonna talk to my
good friend Kelly from Rawl Like Kelly sells clothing, but
she's also had to pivot because people aren't buying clothes
to go out in or close to where to work.
So we're gonna hear how Kelly has changed Rawlick. Okay,
let's hear how these small business owners are pivoting right
now for a lot of people. You know, why are you?
(02:34):
Why do you know what you want to do? And
this is something you want to do and do it.
I'm a hustles side side hustle do it. I'm a
hustle hut do it. I'm a hustle side side us.
Come on, ask about me, yo yo. It's the side
Hustless podcast we call the Root. Now you may remember
(02:54):
this person from a few months ago. It's Conscient from
chip Monkey Wine. Hi Conscient, Hi CARLOI thanks for being
here or being at home and talking to me on zoom.
So you have chip Monkey Wine, which is this amazing
gifting service for people. I'm gonna have you explain what
your company is so I don't butcher it. Well, yeah,
it's a way to connect with those you care about,
(03:15):
using really tasty, soundly selected, high quality wine as a vehicle.
And it's a really cool I know that you gave
me a wine for um, getting my house, purchasing my
first house, and you had a card in there, which
was really cool. It was a picture of me holding
the key to my house. So it's not only just
you know, gifting a bottle of wine, like you really
personalize it and make it like this experience that no
(03:38):
one's been ever been able to do before. So it's
really cool what you do. But obviously right now it
is a weird time because people are scared about spending money.
So has that impacted chip Monkey at all? Yeah? You know,
I definitely noticed when all of this mayhem first started
that people weren't really gifting. Everyone was, I think worried
about you know, getting enough toilet paper themselves, and their
(04:00):
groceries and their pantry stocked, and and really looking inward
on taking care of themselves and their families, you know,
which is understandable when in time of uncertainty. And now
I'm finding that the gifting is really ramping back up
where people are missing your friends and missing their connections
and really wanting to reach out and realizing that you
could still help someone celebrate their birthday or your parents
(04:22):
anniversary or you know, mothers Day is coming up. And
I think people are sitting there thinking like, wow, I
can still connect with these people even if I can't
do it in person. It's true because I think there
was a little bit where I kind of forgot obviously
what day it is, what date it was. I forgot
my cat's birthday. I mean I was so mad about that,
but you kind of remember, oh, birthdays are still happening.
You know, milestones are still happening, and this is a
(04:44):
great way to give someone. You know, maybe you can't
go to a store. I mean, even when you can
go to a store, this is a great way to
give someone in a personal way. But this is super
convenient right now to be able to give someone sucked
a personalized thing. And everyone is talking about drinking their
wine at home. So this amazing. But not only are
you business as usual, but you're doing something new, something
(05:05):
you've never thought of before. That quarantine and social distancing
has led you to so tell everyone about what that
is yeah, so I was in it. I'm in a
networking group and a lot of the business owners were
talking about how their businesses on hold or they you know,
they're non essential, and I just was thinking, like, I
wonder if there's a way that I can just bring
a little joy to people. And so I decided to
(05:25):
host this wine trivia happy hour for the group. And
it's super casual, and and when the day came to
do that, I was so stressed that day. You know,
I have two little ones at home trying to run
this business. My husband's super busy with his work and
just juggling everything, and I thought, why did I add
this to my plate. I already have enough going on. Well,
we did the happy hour and it ended up being
the highlight of the day by far. It was just
(05:45):
such a fun group and a fun way to bring
a little bit of laughter and joy and connect with
others well, and I'm sure everyone else also thought it
was the highlight of their own day to not just
your day. Yeah, so thanks. I was actually really surprised.
I got emails afterwards from the group saying, oh my gosh,
can you do this for my friends? Can you do
this for my coworkers, and I thought, you know what,
(06:06):
why not, like, let's do this, Let's let's bring more
joy and connect. And it was so fun for me too,
so I decided to do this little fundle where as
a way for you too, if you're an employer or
a boss or a group leader and it work um
that you can connect with your team by sending an
employee appreciation gifts. So you can use my service gifting
company to send you know, thanks for all you do,
(06:28):
or hey, hou'se quarantine going for you gifts where I'll
pair the wine to these occasions and you can add
your logo to the card or a group photo of
your your team. Make it really personal and personal message
to every single employee, individualized if you want. And if
you send to a team of ten or more, you know,
usually we we I'm working with businesses with teams about
ten to twenty people. I will throw in a wine
(06:50):
trivia happy hour on Zoom virtual happy hour for free
and we can all have a blast, and that for
team members can open that wine during it if they
haven't already, and just have some fun. It's really cool
that you've been able to kind of pivot to this
because it's something that we're lacking right now, our networking
or team bonding because a lot of companies will do
happy hours or monthly events, whatever it is, and that's
(07:12):
clearly not happening right now. So it's the same idea.
You know, you're not thinking about work, you're not talking
about work, but you're drinking and you're bonding, and it's
it's cool that you've been able to obviously make money
on your own for this, but kind of give that
back to people. That's something that they lost that no
one realized, like, oh, I need this more than I
could have imagined. So it's amazing that you were able
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to do that. But what was that first moment when
you thought about, oh, I could do this for companies.
Because I know it's still it's still new for you,
you're still putting all of this together. But what was
that first moment when we were like, oh, I should
do this and make it a certain Yeah, I don't
even think I had that moment. I think it was
the response that people gave me that they were saying,
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can you do this for me? You really need to
do this, Please do this for my employees, Please do
this for my friends and and I was like, all right,
let's do it. Why not? People are asking do you
think after quarantine and social distancing, you're still going to
do things like this? You know, I might, you know,
Let's see where this takes me, And um, it was
so fun and I look forward to putting these together.
(08:15):
Have a couple of businesses already signed up and interested,
so I'm super excited to see how it goes. And
we'll see. You know, I'm still super passionate about gifting
and the connection that can best through gifting, and especially
gifting quality wines, so that's always going to be my focus. Um,
but we'll see. Yeah, let's see where the road takes us. Well,
the last time everyone heard from you on Side Hustlers,
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you had just signed the lease, are about to sign
the lease for a brick and mortar location, so you
have been working from home and finally you were about
to get the wines in a place where people in
Seattle at least could go in taste the wines and
order gifts for their friends in store. Now, obviously things
for a little different. Right now. What happened and where
are you at with that location? Yeah? So unfortunately I
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signed the lease about a week before all this may started,
So total bummer there. So I get to pay for
a space that's just sitting there. But you know, luckily
I hadn't moved the wine from the warehouse yet, and um,
that was a blessing in disguise because I was just
about to you know, it's kind of like days away,
and so I was able to keep my liquor license
at the warehouse spot and basically still operating my business.
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So um, in a way, luckily it worked out timing wise.
But you know, I still can't wait when this is
all done to jump in there and fix up the
space and get it ready for pickups and tastings. And
it's still something I'm super excited about and I want
to be able to meet a lot of people who
are interested in the product and work some more connections.
So okay, so the studio, when you were, you know,
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getting ready and getting to set it up, the whole
point was that you were going to move everything away
from home. Obviously you're still home. You've been working from
home for a very long time, and you have kids.
So give those tips for people who are now working
from home with their kids and going a little crazy.
I have no tips, just drink perfect. Yeah. So my
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kids were at school before and now they're both home.
They're both little, and you know, I think that's one
of the reasons. I added some occasions like how's homeschooling
going for you? So the idea is, you know, regroup
the to carry the three or do that voodoo new math.
There's a wine for that. That's so cool paranting plus
teaching where that wine does not add up. It's very
(10:22):
true and it's funny that your slogan is there's a
wine for that, And little did any of us ever
think there would need to be a wine for homeschooling
for everyone and quarantine. So go to Chick Mounkey Wine
to get that wine for your friend who is really
struggling with the homeschool thing. Yeah, and then you can
have a little virtual happy are yourself and connect over
that for sure. So depending on when people are listening
(10:43):
to this, the next big holiday we've got coming up
is Mother's Day and a lot of people can't be
with their moms right now, So gifting mom wine and
a personalized wine with the personalized card I mean, moms
would love just the card let alone, the wine and
the card. So it's something really cool to get mom
right now out And obviously, if you've got a team
at work, whether you're a boss or an employee, make
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this happen. Go to chip Monkey Wine dot com support
Conscient and get some wine for yourself and your co
workers and everyone in your life. Conscient. Thank you for
being here or home. Thank you, thank you so much
for having me. Okay, so coming to me now from
not far away, but since for social distancing very far
away is Rammy from from the ground Up Socks. Hi, Ramy, Hey,
(11:26):
Carla Maria, how you doing. I'm good as good as
we can be right now. So you were on Side
Hustlers not too long ago, right as your your main
episode when I think that aired in November? Yeah, okay,
that makes sense. As happened, it feels like it was
actually way sooner than November. That's wild. Okay, So in
November we hid you on the podcast and you talked
about from the ground Up socks. But I'm gonna make
(11:48):
you do a quick explanation for anyone who didn't get
to hear your full episode, which I'm gonna put in
the description of this podcast so everyone can check it out.
If they missed it, but explain what from the ground
up socks is. So we're an outdoor sock brand creating
high performance, stylish socks that feature local mountains on them,
like Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, and the big thing that
we do is donate five percent of every sale to
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our partners at Washington Gail's Association to help protect and
preserve our trails and public lands. So at the time
you had given me some socks and you're like, I'm
telling you where these when you're hiking, skiing, whatever. So
I am sucked up painting the ads. When it has
come to socks, like my whole life and especially skiing,
I struggle. So the one time I got to ski
this season, I wore my socks and they were freaking amazing,
(12:34):
like so amazing that you weren't kidding, you weren't lying
your truth. And then I trained for my first ever
five K and at the time when we spoke, you
didn't have compression socks yet. So I started training for
my five K and I was like at the chiropractor
every week, complained about my legs, my feet, everything hurt.
You didn't know that, and you just reach out to
(12:54):
me You're like, hey, I see your training for a
five K. We've got some compression socks I want you
to try, and I said, okay, it was smooth selling.
After that, I'm super glad. It was crazy and I
ran the whole five kame I had no problems. And
that leads us to what you're doing now with those
compression socks and for healthcare workers. You've got socks for docs.
So explain how that came up and what made you
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do socks for docs and what it is and how
people can help. Yeah, definitely sou socks for docs. It's
our newest campaign where with the help of anybody and everybody,
we're shipping cases of our socks to different health care
facilities nationwide. Basically, how it works is you go to
our website and we're doing this by the case, which
is six pairs of our seven inch crew socks or
individually with our compression socks, and customers can choose which
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ones they want to send, and then all you have
to do is place your order, choose a health care facility.
You can even leave a note in our checkout page
to give them some words of encouragement, and then we'll
take care of the rest. It's really cool what you're doing.
So when you first told me about it, it was
kind of early on all this, and I was like, yes, amazing,
Like so smart to pivot during this and to be
able to help healthcare worker. I was able to send
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a six pack to my friend Maggie, who is working
in New Jersey at one of the testing centers, which
means she's literally standing on concrete all day long. So
if people want to do that, like send it to
someone specific, you said, they can just do the option
that says let us decide, which would mean you let
us decide and then in the notes put the exact
address to send them to exactly. Okay, cool, so do
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that obviously. Or you can pick by state or by facility,
which is super cool if you find your state and
in an area. It was cool to see you had
New Jersey on there and some New Jersey facilities. Love that.
You've also teamed up locally with Joe Chocolate here and
Joe Chocolate I know they have their chocolate that has
caffeine in it, which is awesome. So what are you
guys doing together? Around the same time, our friends over
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at Joe Chocolates had launched a similar campaign where they
were shipping cases of their chocolates to health care facility nationwide,
and so, being good friends with Sam the founder UM,
we decided that we wanted to team up and essentially
empower our two small businesses while allowing people to offer
gifts to health care facilities as well. So now what
we're doing is are called our socks and chalks for
(15:06):
docks Camp. Look at you guys coming up with all
the clever sayings. We're home alone. We got plenty of
time to think about this stuff. So now we're we're
shipping cases of our socks and cases of their chocolate
to health care facilities nationwide as well. So that's been
a really cool campaign. We thought we started with them
about last week, so super excited by that. So people
can go to ft g U socks dot com to
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see all of this. Is that the best place to
send people to see that everything with Joe Chocolate and
the socks or is there a different place for Joe Chocolate. Yeah,
you can also go to Joe Chocolate's website. It's under
their products listing as well, so you'll find there you'll
see their cases and you'll see their socks and chalks cool.
So this time of year in Washington is normally the
time when we all get the hell outside, We get
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on the trail, we go hiking, we get our new
hiking gear, we buy our new socks. But obviously we're
not doing that. So I'm assuming it took a little
hit for you ring all of this. Yeah, it did.
I mean the first week that the stay at home
orders were placed in, I had like five whole sale
deals fall through, and honestly, like wholesales are main revenue streams,
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so that really devastated our business. You know, for a
little bit. I was trying to figure out ways that
you know, we can step up during this time and
kind of adapt to the situation rather than sit back
and um. That's kind of where the idea for socks
for Docs came in, just seeing other awesome brands stepping
up and like providing healthcare workers with their products, and
you know, us being able to provide the resources we
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have to support those health care facilities as well. So
it's obviously awesome that you're able to come up with
something so amazing out of something that's not the best.
You have been obviously running from the ground up socks
from your home for how long now has it been.
It's been about a year and a half. Okay, so
work from home isn't anything new to you. Nope, I
(16:53):
got the whole home office set up and it's awesome.
But what kind of tips do you have for those
of us who just started working from home and any
need tube at all, we'll take it because we're struggling. Well.
I found that honestly, establishing routine in your day is
the most crucial part. And it's tough because of being
self motivated. Is it's a challenge to do that. You know,
have somebody telling you, hey, show up to the office
(17:14):
at nine o'clock and you know you've got to be
here until five. So I found that routine really does help,
you know, wake up, make your bed, go shower, take
some time in the morning for yourself and really get
your mind right. And I usually have a cup of
coffee and kind of warm up to the world before
I start working. And then from there it's you know,
start working in the morning and I usually go until
noon and I take a little break and it's totally okay,
(17:35):
go for a walk, go enjoy the sun. We're having
this great weather right now, and then you know, whatever
you have for the rest of the day of the afternoon,
just go back to your computer and see what you have.
Get to it. And I learned early on that to
do a routine or to take breaks, because I sat
in the same seat for twelve hours one day, and
so yeah, I didn't realize. So what I started doing
(17:56):
was after our show, I'll unplug my computer and I
will go to my couch at least so that I'm
moving because at work, I'm in the studio and I
have my office, and then I'll also come home and
do a little bit of work from home. So I'm
moving around and switching things up, and I'm doing that
and also trying to do a midday workout because normally
I would come home from work and work out at
(18:17):
like two pm maybe, but now I'm just there's no routines,
so I'm working, working, work, and then I'm like, oh,
it's seven pm. I have to go to bed. I
forgot about a workout. So trying to do that whole,
like you said, go for a walk or do something
in the middle of the day to break it up,
makes such a difference. So You're right with that, so
thank you for that. Okay, So people need to go
to f T g U socks dot com to support you,
(18:39):
to support our healthcare workers. They can also find out
about everything Joe Chocolate and then they can follow you
on Instagram, which is ft g U socks. So from
the ground up socks. I know. At first I was like,
what are all these letters? Am I ever gonna remember them?
I got them now, so I got I'm glad. I'm glad.
It was a tough handle. I had to figure out
that couple years ago. So you know, yes, typing out
from the ground up socks PA probably Okay, So go
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to ftg sos dot com, donate talks to a healthcare
worker or a health care facility. You can do it
all there. And Robby, thank you for being here. Thank
you so much. Carla Marie So Roxy was actually on
a few episodes ago, which is crazy that you're back
already with Lanaree Handmaid. Hi Roxy, Hi carl Marie. So
people if they didn't check out your episode for some reason,
(19:22):
you handmake awesome handbags and clutches, which I am now
the proud owner of a super cute clutch which I love.
And you also homeschooled your children because you were a
teacher and your kids have been home So people can
go to Launoy Handmade dot com to check out everything
that you do. Obviously, but you and I were talking
earlier this week because I have enlisted you to make
(19:43):
super cool leather pillows for my day bed in my
guest bedroom because I have nothing else to do right now,
so I'm like, well, let me start decorating. And we
were on FaceTime and you started telling me about what
you're doing right now as a business, and I thought
it was super cool, and I wanted to get you
on the podcast to tell everyone that you are making
masks that people cannot only buy. But you did some
(20:04):
awesome things too with mass originally. So at what point
did you say, Okay, I need to switch my business
a little bit to actually make masks instead of clutches
and handbags and backpacks right now. So at first, it was,
you know, for everybody, a huge shock and kind of
like what do I do now? Like I felt like
the world was in such a panic. I didn't know
if anybody would want to be buying purses. I didn't
(20:25):
really feel like making purses, Honestly, it was like I
was sitting around every day, like where do I go
and what do I do? And I don't want to
be selling the people during such like a time of panic,
and I wanted to help in some way. And so
over the first week or so, I started getting people
emailing me, like news clips and articles about how the
masks were in such demand because paper masks and and
(20:47):
ninety five and surgical masks weren't available. So my cousin,
for example, works in the e er and I have
another friend in the I see you, and they were
being asked, especially the e er ones, were being asked
to use there's surgical or in any five masks over
and over again. And yeah, they would use them for
like three days, sterilize them, and then use them again.
(21:08):
One of my cousins they would leave their mask and
then get a new mask for the next day, but
they didn't know who used it the day before they
were doing with it, and just yeah, she's like I
don't want that up against my face. Like even if
I could have a cloth mask with the paper mask
in it, and then it's like not directly touching my skin,
I feel like I have like a little bit more
protection so I started making them for her first, and
(21:31):
I actually know a lot of nurses and a few
people that are doctors and p a s. And they
asked me for them. And it's all of a sudden,
it just blew up within like a day or two,
how many people wanted them for me. Since I wasn't
feeling like selling my purses and making purses for the
first couple of weeks. It just kind of fell into
my lap and I went crazy with it, and I
(21:51):
put it on my Instagram and within two and a
half weeks they had made three hundred and fifty on
donation only. That's wild. Three on fifty. You helped so
many people, which I think is the coolest and and
I'm proud to know you and proud of you for
doing that. And as a guess of this podcast, like
this is what this community is. Like. You stopped everything
(22:13):
you were doing. You stopped your business, your income to donate,
which I love that you did that, and everyone does
keep saying to me, I felt weird selling to people
right now, And that to me is a true real
business owner, because you don't do your business just because
you want to take money from people. You do it
because you love it and because you care about people.
(22:33):
And I love that you said that, and I love
that a lot of people have been saying the same
thing to me. But you pivot and you figure out
different ways to do things, and you got through it,
and now there is a demand, like people want to
buy math from small businesses, and you started to sell
them for people, which I love and and they're super
cute and they're cool and people can get them on
your website lone handmade. And I know you're still donating
(22:55):
to people that you know locally, which I love. But
what made you originally say, Okay, I need to start
selling them now because you were donating them and not
giving them to the general public. What was that moment
we're like, okay, I'll sell these. Yeah. So it's so strange,
like how fast and slow things have been changing right now,
like day to day the numbers change, everyone's feelings changed.
(23:16):
What we're doing in the world is seems to be changing.
And at the first week or so, I was like,
I'll never sell these. That just seems like wrong kind
of there's so many people who need them really bad
for their job, and I'm just going to donate them.
But then I had so many people asking me because
they wanted to wear them out to the grocery store
and everything that I started considering it. Then the county
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that I live in made it mandatory that any time
you leave your house you have to wear them, and
I think a lot of places are now if you're
just going for a walk into the grocery store anything,
and you're over two years old, you have to wear
a mask, and they're finding people and that, Yeah, it's
a thousand dollar fine or jail time. And I don't
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know any if anybody actually has been like fine or
good for them, good for your doing that, because people
aren't going to listen. I mean, I've seen a ton
of people wearing masks because no one wants to get sick.
I mean, you don't want it. You don't want to
be the one to pass it to someone. So that's
super cool that they're doing it, and it makes sense, like, Okay,
you know what, there is a demand for them, people
need them. Let's make them available and let's make them
(24:21):
cute and let's do it. Yeah. So at that point
I was like, I can't give them away for free
to everybody. I'm not working right now, or making money,
and I'm using so many supplies. So then I started
selling them and I was doing like buy two, donate one,
I'll make one to donate, and I'm just listing them
in like small batches and still donating to all my
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local nurse friends and local hospitals. But yeah, there's a
huge need. The other day I listed like fifty masks
and within a couple of hours they were totally so
people really want and I love that everyone's supporting small
business for it, Like I've seen so many small businesses
doing this, and it seems like everybody wants to buy
from them. First. Absolutely for sure, there was like I
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forget what website put on an article of like all
the places you can get a mask, and I was
going through them at first, and they were like big
name brands or like fashion designers and which I mean
their companies too and whatever, we shop from them as well.
But I was like, I don't really, it felt weird
buying from a big name brand when so many small
businesses were available. But at the time, I hadn't seen
(25:24):
any small businesses making masks, and now I'm seeing it
and I'm like, oh, this is awesome. I'm glad I waited.
It is really cool, so good for you for doing that.
But you when you were on the podcast originally we
talked about how Lona Ray Handmaid was originally your side
hustle to being you were a teacher, and then you
left being a teacher to homeschool your kids, so essentially
(25:45):
it still is a side hustle to homeschooling your kids.
So as someone a parent, not granted, you were a teacher,
so you obviously have a background than most of the
parents right now, what are your tips for parents who
are attempting to homeschool their kids right now? So, I
know we talked about this the other day. I feel
so bad because I see so many of my friends
who don't typically homeschool, like stressing out so hard over it.
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And I know a lot of schools are sending out
like a lot of work and it's taking them so
many hours out of the day and a lot of
frustration and tears because homeschool can be really hard to
get used to the schedule, you know. And I think
my best advice that I've been giving my friends is
just kind of calmed down, It's only a couple of months,
Like take it as you can. If your kids start
(26:31):
getting frustrated and crying, like that's the point where you stop.
You know, they'll be fine, come back to it later,
and kind of relax a little. Like everything is not
going to be exactly the same as if they were
in school. I mean, not all of it done. Yeah,
you can't really bring school home and like expect them
to sit at a desk for like six hours a day.
I know for us homeschooling, usually our day is done
(26:55):
by lunchtime or one o'clock. You know, it's people can't
wrap their heads around that. I was just talking, you know,
my little sister, and she said something like, I just
you know, all these kids like shouldn't they not shouldn't
be in school now? She was talking about like maybe
they should go back to school in August. And I said, yeah,
I get what you're saying, because she was concerned about
them missing out on stuff. I said, but think about
it, it it is only a few months, which you also said,
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and I told her what you said to me, But
I said, think about how much of your day when
you were in school was switching classrooms, going to gym,
which obviously I completely believe in pe classes kids should
be outside playing to get that. But think about how
much of your day was just wasted, and how like
it's really only four to five hours of max of
(27:37):
learning a day. And when you you know, when you
take all the other business out of it, or you know,
switching classes or you know, downtime, snack time, whatever may be,
it's not that long lighting up exactly exactly waiting around
for you know, there's thirty two kids or thirty kids
in a classroom, so the teacher has to get to
each of them, make sure everybody's finished before they move on.
(28:00):
We're at home, like you only have that one child
and or two or three whatever you know, per subper
what you're teaching them, and when they're done, they're done
and you move on to the next thing. So it
really is a shorter day even though you're doing just
as much. And sometimes like if you're having a hard day,
I've always told myself, if I get in reading and
math and we're having a tough day, then we're done.
(28:20):
You know, they can go outside and like do nature study,
which is science, and like tell them to do as
little scavenger hunt where they look for a leaf and
a rock and this color item or whatever, but they're
going to get that throughout the day. Science can be
cooking classes. Math can be part of cooking when you're
using like a quarter cup, and just kind of bring
that into your day the whole day and not really
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worry about what they're doing at school being exactly what
they're doing at home, because it's not going to be
like that. It's not going to work that way, absolutely not.
And the same thing as a As an adult, you
realize your job isn't the same now being home. For
for most of us doing my morning show, it sounds
completely different being home now. We do somewhat of the
same things, but it's different because I'm in a microphone
(29:05):
in my living room talking into a computer. It's going
to be different. The same at Homeschooling is different. So
I'm really glad we had you on. I didn't even
plan on asking you about that, but I'm glad. I'm
glad I did because it is awesome to hear from
you on that. And when we first connected, I looked
at you and I said, oh my god, you're so
dressed up. What is happening? Why? Hell? Everyone? So it
(29:26):
is a Friday heads up. While we're recording this and
you told me today is what. So today's fancy Friday. Um.
I usually work from home and home school my kids,
but I get up and get dressed every day because
we might be going to sports or whatever. But during quarantine, like,
we're definitely not billing anywhere every day. So I've been
wearing pajamas, no makeup, not doing my hair, and just
(29:49):
to kind of make myself feel human again, I started
doing fancy Friday, which I can't claim that title. I
took it from a friend. One of my friends naked,
and I think she got it from somebody else on Instagram. Um,
and I do my makeup, my hair, I have a
dress on. I like look like myself again. It's so
cute because I feel kind of like the world is well.
It's funny because in the normal world it's normally Fridays
(30:12):
are casual, and we dressed down on Friday, so we've
completely flipped at this point upside down. I love it,
and I love you for this, and I want people
to go support Lana ray handmade. I'm going to put
the website link in the description of the podcast, but
it's Lana l A n A Ray R a handmade
dot com. Did I spell it right? Yeah? Okay, good Roxy,
(30:34):
thank you for being here. Now go make my pillows today.
I'm working on your pillows. Yeah, pillows, thank you, thank you. Okay.
Joining me from not far away, which is sad that
we're on zoom and not together, is Kelly, owner and
mastermind behind Rowlick. Now, Kelly, when were you on the
podcast originally? Do remember when that was? I think it
(30:57):
was last winter, so like Dan wear before last really,
so I'm gonna say I don't even I don't know
date or anything anymore. So I just remember I was
wearing a big furry code. Okay, so I know it's
called You're right, You're right, it was went there. I
do remember the furry code. So Kelly owned Rowlick, and
Rowlick is this awesome online boutique where you can shop
(31:17):
for the clothes that you actually want in your life,
because you really do have everything, and you've you said
I think when you're in the podcast that you put
the clothes on there that you would want to wear,
the comfortable, cute stuff that you would want to wear.
And I'm a big fan of rolic. But obviously right
now people are working from home and they're not necessarily
going out to bars or dates. So what have you
been doing as a boutique where people normally shop from
(31:39):
to kind of pivot now that everyone's sitting on their
butts at home. Yeah, you know, it's been. It's been well,
first of all, just a big mindset shift because I
feel like a lot like me, like probably everybody else
in the world, when this whole thing started happening, it
just kind of start reeling like, this is it, This
is over, Like no one's going to be shopping are
Like what am I going to do? So I kind
of just didn't do me thing for a couple of weeks,
(32:01):
just kind of like no one, Like I can't do
photo shoots, A lot of my vendors are shutting down,
Like it's just I just kind of came to a standstill.
But then, you know, seeing how creative and inspiring so
many different businesses were being kind of really got me
to get my mojo back. And so yeah, so I
really shifted kind of the product and philosophy behind the
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stuff that I'm bringing in, just based on what people
need right now and what's bringing them comfort. So, you know,
while normally this time of year, will be bringing in
really fun like lightweight blouses and sun dresses and shorts
and cute things because everyone's excited for spring and summer. Um. Yeah,
started shifting to be more like comfy lounge where things
that will still definitely be versatile to be able to
(32:43):
wear past the corona time time of our lives. But yeah,
just focusing more on what people are needing and wanting
right now. So you're calling it the Quarantine Capsule collection,
which I love, And it's how many pieces? Yeah, So
it's about seven brand new pieces combined with a couple
that we already had existing, um, and they're all very interchangeable, comfortable, versatile,
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just like that lounge where that you want to be
wearing every day right now, but then also those pieces
that you can also take with you throughout the rest
of the summer and just all year round. So I'm
launching it hopefully when this airs. The waitlist will come
out today. It's funny last year I said, Okay, next year,
I am not buying any more sweatshirts because all I
do is buy sweatshirts at concerts and then I never
(33:28):
wear them. In week one of just all of the
social distancing. I was. I had gone through all of
my sweatshirts, like my hoodies, my career necks, everything, and
I was like, oh my god, I actually have a
use for them now, this is great. Then I was
mad at myself for not buying more. So I keep
seeing everyone post these like cute matching loungeware outfits. Will
there be matchy outfits in your Quarantine Capsule collection? Well,
(33:51):
I'm so glad you asked. Yes, there will be. We
have one full matching set that is so cute. It's
like this pull over cowl, next sweatshirts kind of like
across front, so it's different than your normal sweatshirt, something
like very much like the Appalachia kind of look, and
then some really cute joggers to go with it. And
then again, like all the other pieces that are in
the collection can like pair back to those or you
(34:12):
can wear ma jeans and stuff. So yeah, I just
wanted to be something that people can wear right now
but are also valuable for the future and you can
just get. But that's basically my whole philosophy about everything
I bring in a roll because I wanted to be
versatile stuff that you can get like millions of wears
out of maybe not millions. That's probably a stretch. A
lot of wears in our hands different ways, Yes, exactly.
(34:32):
If you can't wear something more than one way, than like,
what the heck is the point? No, absolutely with you
on that one um shop rawl like dot com. By
the way, I want to remind everyone and shop r
O L L I c K so they can check
out what we're talking about. The wait list should be
up there by now. If not, I'm going to come
kick your buck, Kelly, because I want to get on
that wait list. So you're doing something else super cool
with masks, and I want people to know about this
(34:53):
because I've recently got a cloth mask and it's super cute.
But I feel like we're gonna this is like a
new thing in our life, and we're going to treat
it like clothes and it's an accessory and you are
going to need to buy more than one mask a
because you're gonna have to wash this one. Say it's
in the wash, what are you gonna do? And then
I think it'll just be a fun way to accessorize
when you know, in a time of this is crazy,
(35:15):
I have to wear a mask. So you're gonna have
masks on shoprolic dot com. Yes, absolutely, And it's so
funny you say that because had you asked me like
last fall to predict the trends for spring, I definitely
would medic said face masks are gonna be so but
it's so true, like people aren't wearing like ear rings
or hair access there is isn't much right now. People
need masks and you know, if you're going to be
(35:36):
out and about in them, that's like your one adventure
for the day is the grocery store. Yeah. Yeah, Fortunately
one of my US made vendors, who's awesome, they're all
family rent. They turned their production line into making all
this protective wear both for consumers like you and me
and then also a little bit more industrial strength stuff
for healthcare work. And so yeah, some of the fabrics
they were going to use for their spring and summer
(35:57):
line they actually converted into masks. So we have three
different versions that will have up on the site, and
hopefully we'll be getting an even more. They're received well,
so those are all for purchase. They'll and then beyond
that too, just because you know, I want people to
have access to Cete masks and be able to fulfill
their needs there. But I want to be able also
(36:18):
to like donate and contribute to those who are more
in need that might not be able to purchase masks.
So I've committed and it's going to be interesting to
see how quickly I can do it. But for every
mask webs purchased, I've committed to sewing um and donating
a mask myself too, because throughout my years in the
apparel industry, I've picked up a few sewing skills and
(36:39):
at best, hopefully that will suffice for me making some masks.
A lot of people keep saying, oh, you know, maybe
you're gonna come out of quarantine with a new skill
or new outlook on things. You may realize you can
actually so and make clothes and you never know shop
all maybe the clothes that you actually make, who knows what.
That would be wild if that opened. So people can
(37:02):
go online chop rolic dot com. You mail ship everywhere
in the US, so no matter where they're listening from,
they can order, which is super cool. They can get
on the wait list for the comfy clothes. And the
company that you mentioned that the mask, it's the same
company that did look all the comfy clothes that you ordered, right? Yes? Yeah,
and so again like almost all all pieces are made
(37:22):
in the US, family and women run and owned, which
is great. I'm trying to lean more into the whole
ethical and sustainable side of the fact. Not easy, and yeah,
it's it's hard finding those vendors. So I'm just so
excited to support them because you know they're going through
a hard time to hopefully if everything is received well,
we'll be able to get some reorders back in stock.
And yeah, I'm excited for it to hit the web.
Have customers been reaching out to you after either getting
(37:46):
an order or reaching out like on Instagram saying hey
I want it? Like, are you hearing from people how
it's like different for them shopping during all of this
a little bit Like I've had a couple of people
ask me actually if I was going to have masks,
and that was what first sparked my idea for It's like, well,
because it feels kind of a dicey territory, like I
don't know, you know, you don't want to be profiting
(38:07):
off of people's need for these things. But now that
it's becoming almost like you said more of an accessory,
it becomes kind of a service provider, Like I have
access to these things, so it should be helping my
customers get those also. But yeah, I mean, truth be told,
it's sales the last couple of weeks. Then, once I
got my motivation and inspiration back, I've actually been pretty good.
(38:30):
That's a possible or yeah, they're looking for something to
bring them comfort, and like the last round of product
I brought in was very much in that realm spirits
are as good as they could be right now. I
think people are looking for things to bring home that
comfort and coziness, and so that's what I hope to provide. Well,
I was like you at first. The first few weeks,
I I basically like sat around feeling sorry for myself.
(38:52):
And it was more for me that I couldn't travel
to be with my mom going through everything that she's
going through right now, and I was just so sad.
So early on that I hit got to a point
and I said, if this quarantine ended Friday, whatever day
it was, if this quarantine ended right now, and I
was like, damn, what did I do during quarantine? I
always talked about wanting to do things, Well, what did
(39:14):
I do. I'm gonna be so mad at myself if
I didn't do anything. I just sat at my couch
and I was like, I'm gonna take this next weekend
to just sit on the couch and do whatever I
want to do, and then I'm gonna actually be productive.
And it took me, Like you said, it was about
three weeks really where I had that moment where I said, Okay,
what am I going to do? Even if it's just
organizing things in my new house and like figure out
(39:35):
what a decorate I need to do something that I
come out of this like, well, at least I got
that done during that time, And I'm glad you were
able to figure it out and piv in. It helps
the rest of us that you're you did that because
now we get a cute lunge where now you get
the cute clothes. Yeah. No, it's been a total mindset shift.
And I think ultimately, like we're all gonna we'll look
back at this time in history. It's just a very
weird time. We'll all make it through. It's just going
(39:57):
to be something very bizarre to look back at. But
I also think we'll come out of it a little
bit kinder, more resilient, and you know, those of us
in the small business world hopefully a little bit more
creative and innovative because a lot of us are having
to make those ships. I completely agree. And it's crazy
that the last time I saw you was at my
one hundredth episode, which it was kind of after like
(40:19):
i'd say, ten days after that, it started getting a
little a little weird here. We're like, this is kind
of interesting because I was February twenty second, and my
birthday was March five, and I remember Amazon closed on
my birthday, so that wasn't much time in between. And
we were a big group of people together, which is
scared to think about at that time. But we had
no idea that we would be like on a zoom
(40:44):
call with each other talking about this because we couldn't
be in person. And it's just it's wild. So I mean,
thank you for coming to that. By the way, of course,
I know I look back at it finally because it
was probably less time I was with more than ten people.
Nuts Okay shop rawlic dot com. Oh, support Kelly, get
yourself some comfy clothes. You're supporting a small business and all,
(41:05):
like Kelly said, everything in the Quarantine Capsule collection is
made here in the US, and you're supporting a small,
family owned operation, so that is super super cool. Kelly,
thank you for for being here today, taking time out
of your day, you know, coming live from my bedroom.
It's been great talking to you. Okay, you just heard
from four incredible people with incredible businesses. Support them if
(41:27):
you can in any way possible. I've got all the
links below for their website, their original episode, their social
media account so you can support them. Thank you so
much for supporting small business owners right now they need
us more than ever. Thank you so much for listening
to this podcast. Thank you for staying at home and
keeping everyone healthy. Don't forget to wash your hands, and
(41:47):
until next week, keep hustling.
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