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Intro: [00:00:07] Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX studios in Woodstock, Georgia. It’s time for Kid Biz Radio. Kid Biz Radio creates conversations about the power of entrepreneurship and the positive impact that journey can have on kids. For more information, go to Kid Biz Expo. Now, here’s your host.
Stone Payton: [00:00:29] Welcome to this very special edition of Kid Biz Radio. Stone Payton here with you this morning. And we have a studio full. We’ve got some young entrepreneurs and we have the folks who are behind the scenes running this marvelous organization, Renee Deardorff and Amy Guest. Welcome back to the studio.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:00:48] Hello.
Amy Guest: [00:00:49] Happy 2023.
Stone Payton: [00:00:50] Yeah.It’s going to be an exciting season. I’ve missed you guys. You know, I went chasing Elk in Kentucky for a couple of weeks, and so I’ve been out of pocket and I actually got back in time to go to the gala. But the only thing I harvested, no elk, was a terrible cold. I didn’t want to get anybody sick. So that’s why I didn’t go.
Stone Payton: [00:01:10] Well, I really wanted to attend. I’m looking forward to future events and I want to talk about that in a little bit. But get me up to speed on the gala. How did it go?
Renee Dierdorff: [00:01:19] It was awesome.
Amy Guest: [00:01:20] It was so much fun. Oh, my goodness. It all came together somehow.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:01:24] We had a great time. We held it at Woodstock City Church and we appreciate them letting us use that space. And we have beautiful over 100 people there.
Amy Guest: [00:01:35] And Kevin Williams from Chick fil A was a great speaker. The kids were really engaged in his his speech and conversation. He was very entertaining. So that was that was the highlight for sure. Yeah.
Stone Payton: [00:01:47] Fantastic. And we are going to talk about some upcoming events before we close, because I want to make sure that our listeners kind of have that calendar together. And can they also go to the website and see upcoming stuff and what’s the website again?
Renee Dierdorff: [00:02:00] It could be Zappos.com.
Stone Payton: [00:02:02] Well, that’s handy.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:02:03] Yeah, we might try make it easy.
Stone Payton: [00:02:05] And then as early as this Sunday afternoon, I’ve got it on my calendar and I would like to attend if I can. You’ve got a workshop and the kids are going to play a very active role in actually facilitating this workshop.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:02:18] Yeah.
Amy Guest: [00:02:18] Yes, that is correct. So this Sunday at 3:00 right here at the Innovation Spot, we will be hosting the first of the year’s workshop on brainstorming and it will be led by our older, more seasoned kid partners, one of which we have in the room, Austyn,
Austyn Guest: [00:02:36] Hello.
Stone Payton: [00:02:37] Hello, Miss Austin. So are you ready for this workshop? Have you thought about what you’re going to say or questions you might ask?
Austyn Guest: [00:02:45] I have thought about a few questions to ask. Have begun to think about how this is going to go and what me and Laila are going to talk about and help these kids brainstorm about what they’re going to do and just some new ideas in general for the for the new year.
Amy Guest: [00:03:01] It’ll be a good place for kids who want to start a business but don’t know where to start or have a couple of ideas, a way to hone in on that kind of bouncing ideas off of each other, but also kids with businesses that maybe want to plan out some new things for the year. So it’ll be a good like open forum kind of.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:03:18] So they’ll be leading it, but it will be kids talking to kids and the parents can chime in, too, of course, because I’m sure they’ll have questions, especially if it’s brand new, which is totally fine because we’ll be there as well. Yes, but it’ll be very interactive. And we’ve done something similar last year. It kind of turned into that, which made us think about it was at the end of last year. It made us think about this one being a great way to start the year where these kids were just just the ideas that they had were amazing, and it turned into a really good conversation. So we’re looking forward to this one.
Stone Payton: [00:03:47] Great. And it’s okay if an old man with broken dreams comes in and gets re-inspired.
Amy Guest: [00:03:52] Absolutely. You’re always welcome. Yes.
Stone Payton: [00:03:54] Well, I’m looking forward to it. Well, you know, I thought that maybe for this edition of Kid Biz Radio, it might be a good idea to go back and get you guys to share what I call the origin story. How did it all get started? What compelled you to do it? Some of what you learned along the way, I know our listeners would be interested in. I certainly am. So yeah, please, please share that origin story with us, if you would.
Amy Guest: [00:04:22] Sure, we can do that. Let’s see. So two years ago, maybe a little bit longer, like two and a half? I don’t know. Anyway, my middle daughter is a dreamer, and she was going to run the world of cotton candy. She was going to rule the world. She decided she wanted to sell it. And I was like, okay, let’s figure this out. So we’ll I’ll take you to farmer’s markets in the area and you can sell your cotton candy. Her sisters were her employees. We all worked together. It was very fun experience. But then, of course, her sisters decided that they didn’t want to be employees anymore. They wanted to be their own business owners. So we figured out a couple of business ideas for everybody else than we were taking. So I was taking three girls to farmers markets, which of course led when your bestie has two daughters of her own and they see what their friends are doing, they’re like, Oh.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:05:20] Neat on this.
Amy Guest: [00:05:21] Action. Wait a minute. So then they had business ideas. So now we’re the two of us are taking. Five girls to farmers markets around the area and little tiny events that was it to like didn’t cost too much for moms to, you know, invest in their kids for this. The community was so supportive and very sweet. Everybody loved seeing kids working hard at something and, you know, doing something for themselves and running a business and trying something new. But also at the same time, we kind of felt that it wasn’t the the best avenue to showcase the kids. It almost felt.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:06:00] Like novelty, like, oh, isn’t that cute? Yeah, they were very nice about it, but it wasn’t. They were competing with.
Amy Guest: [00:06:06] Adults because adults do that for a living, you know, go to event event to support themselves. And we were just kind of like on the sidelines and we didn’t I don’t know. It just felt more like we needed our own venue. So we’re like, wait a minute.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:06:20] We could try.
Amy Guest: [00:06:20] This. We could try this. So light bulb went off and Renee and I are like, okay, let’s do a kid’s vendor event. Maybe there’s other kids in the area. I mean, we already got five. We’re halfway there, right?
Renee Dierdorff: [00:06:30] Yeah, we started by getting interest. You know, we asked the community if something they’d be interested in and people jumped all over it. So that kind of gave us a little fire there to make it happen.
Amy Guest: [00:06:39] So we hosted our very first kid Bizz Expo, just the two of us, August of 2021 at Seattle Baptist Church, and we had 27, seven kids. Wow.
Stone Payton: [00:06:52] 27 kids. That had to be encouraging.
Amy Guest: [00:06:55] It was so exciting. We had a DJ and Rene’s husband Adam is in the fire department, so he brought the fire truck and that was, of course, entertaining. We had a bounce house, food trucks and we just turned it into a fun community event. And if you know, we’re suitably is it’s it’s not close to anything. It’s not there’s no residual people come walking around. So we had at least over two 300 people that showed up solely for us based on our efforts, efforts, our marketing efforts, we were determined to make it an event for these kids. So we were very excited and exhausted.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:07:35] It was exhausting. It was so rewarding.
Amy Guest: [00:07:37] The feel, the environment of walking around and hearing the comments from the people, the spectators and the parents involved and the kids involved like you watch. These kids are like, I don’t know what’s happening at the beginning of the day. To the end of the day, like running the show, you know, and really feeling inspired and in the moment and just like proud of themselves. And then people walking around notice that and they’re engaging these kids and they’re wanting to know more and then asking us, is this we’re doing this again, right? Like, when is this happening again? And is this what you guys do for a living? And we’re like, Woo, hot. Yeah, but yet. So then we’re like, the next day, I guess we have to do this again.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:08:24] This something like.
Amy Guest: [00:08:26] People liked it. So we had a connection in Milton and we went over there to host. We did a holiday themed one in November, so just a couple of months later with how many kids did we have? Like 35, I think. Something like that, Yeah, 35 kids. And then that was even bigger because it was in a location that was like a live work play area. So people were able to walk around and they’re like, What’s happening over here? You know? And it became like an event. Yeah, we had Santa, we had face painting, ax throwing bounce houses, which was amazing. So with that, we’re like, okay, maybe we do have something.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:09:05] Then we thought about, well, we should probably make this a nonprofit organization. And then in December we applied for a51c3. We got that in March, and.
Stone Payton: [00:09:16] That seems like a very short window. I would have thought it would have taken much longer.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:09:21] Than we’re surprised.
Amy Guest: [00:09:22] But very surprised. Yeah, everybody told us it’s like, which is not I’m not minimizing it at all. It’s a lot of paperwork. But yeah, somehow we managed to push it through as quick as possible and they got it done. And that like three month window, which was great. Yeah.
Renee Dierdorff: [00:09:38] So I mean, like I say, the rest is history, but I mean that was not even a year ago that we got that. So last year we spent the year developing the foundation of the organization and we had three more expos. And you know, here we are.
Amy Guest: [00:09:52] And here.
Stone Payton: [00:09:53] We are. You have office space in this same facility that I’m in, the innovation spot. You’re over in the other building?
Speaker4: [00:09:59] Yeah, Yeah, we have an office now. We’ve been doing we had a numerous workshops last last year. We had the three big expos, one at the mill at Etowah. In April. We had our summer expo at the Woodstock Arts Green, and then we had our October expo last year alongside Crabapple Fest back at Milton, which was massive.
Speaker1: [00:10:25] So many people.
Speaker4: [00:10:26] Yes. So that was a lot of fun. So we’re, I think total between the expose of last year and workshops, we had over 150 kids involved in our program, which is amazing and super inspiring and exciting. So obviously we’re hoping for that continued encouragement. This year.
Speaker3: [00:10:47] We started the podcast.
Speaker4: [00:10:48] We started this podcast with Stone, which has been fun because what else have we done?
Speaker3: [00:10:54] The parades this.
Speaker4: [00:10:55] Summer we’ve done a couple of parades, which is just super fun for that, like exciting time, just like a low key cool thing where you get to throw candy at people. Yeah.
Speaker3: [00:11:05] We had our inaugural board of directors, so we got some amazing people that helped with that. We had ten workshops and I you mentioned the workshops. We were in round Canton magazine.
Speaker4: [00:11:13] We were the June cover of Around Canton Magazine with the beautiful cover girl next to me. She still loves me for that one.
Speaker3: [00:11:22] We presented to the community a few times with 1 Million Cups and also a Cannon business club, which was really fun.
Speaker4: [00:11:28] Yeah, it was.
Speaker3: [00:11:29] Good to try to get awareness out to the community of.
Speaker4: [00:11:32] Business leaders. Get in front of them.
Speaker3: [00:11:34] Yeah, yeah. And get in front of them. And because of that, I feel like we garnered a lot of support from the community.
Speaker4: [00:11:39] Absolutely.
Speaker2: [00:11:40] You really have gotten a tremendous amount of support from the Woodstock community, the Canton community and Cherokee County. All of these folks, they’ve really rallied, haven’t they?
Speaker4: [00:11:50] They have. It’s been I can’t even describe like to have other people believe in your passion and to support it. And it’s a it’s a great feeling.
Speaker3: [00:11:58] We attribute a lot of that momentum that we had last year to that because getting the word out and just supporting it and that helped us believe in ourselves, which helped us keep going. And it’s just this whole thing. So grateful is the best word, I think for sure how I was feeling, especially at the gala, just the accomplishments and, you know, just seeing all the kids in the room and we had them stand up and we got to applaud them and we got to thank our board. And just yeah, there’s a lot of people in that room that we were very proud to have there, and we were very grateful for their support all year.
Speaker2: [00:12:31] Yeah, and clearly the kids are learning and growing through this process. Do the two of you feel like you have been learning and growing along the way?
Speaker4: [00:12:41] Goodness, yeah.
Speaker3: [00:12:41] It’s been uncomfortable situations, but that’s where you grow. Yes. You don’t grow in your comfort zone. We’ve learned a lot.
Speaker4: [00:12:48] Yesterday has pulled me out of my comfort zone numerous times. I am not a public speaker, as I’m sure anybody who’s been in the room with me has noticed. But we have presented so many times now that it’s a learning process and it’s much less overwhelming. I’m now more capable. We’ve learned so much more about the nonprofit industry in general and the business behind it because it is still a business. And so learning those foundations has definitely been eye opening. And that’s a learning process.
Speaker3: [00:13:18] Yeah, because neither one of us had nonprofit experience in the past. It was a brand new world for us.
Speaker2: [00:13:23] So yeah.
Speaker3: [00:13:24] It was what do we do from the get go? So that’s a part of the community. I mean, the community helped us with that too.
Speaker4: [00:13:29] So yeah, our board was critical in that, helping us discover and lay that foundation.
Speaker3: [00:13:36] Yeah, doing everything right from the beginning. That was a big thing for us and making sure that it’s not just half done, you know, because we owed it to the kids in the community to make sure that this thing can build from the ground up.
Speaker2: [00:13:46] So another constituency that surely benefits tremendously from this and learns a great deal is the parents. What are some I’ll call them pro tips, but what are some things to keep in mind as your kid expresses an interest in entrepreneurship? Maybe some do’s and don’ts or some things, some resources, some things to be reading or thinking about that that let’s let’s leave them with some Pro Tips in this segment.
Speaker4: [00:14:11] Do you have any tips that you have learned that as coming from the kids point of view? Possibly.
Speaker1: [00:14:19] There have been many lessons to learn along the way of starting a new business out of just an idea you get from going from that to going to market to expanding your business as much as you can to get it out there. A good lesson is definitely interacting with customers. You definitely get better at that as you go. It is definitely a difficult start for some people. It’s kind of hard to interact some in some ways, but by the end of the day it just gets easier and easier to interact with the customers and talk to them and get them interested in your products or your service. That is definitely been a helpful learning that along the way. Also, like she was talking about earlier, public speaking has gotten much easier as well.
Speaker4: [00:15:07] Which I imagine has helped at school also.
Speaker1: [00:15:10] Yes. Yes, it has. Especially since we’re starting to do that a bit more.
Speaker2: [00:15:15] So how about in interacting with your parents? Are there some things that they’ve done apparently very well that kept you encouraged? Because I could see that same conversation happening in some household and even not on purpose, just inadvertently it gets shut down just because the parent doesn’t quite know how to handle the conversation or doesn’t want the kid to get disappointed, or.
Speaker3: [00:15:38] I’d say listen and let them kind of just have that brainstorm and open discussion because and don’t I think a lot of people get maybe shut it down because they don’t have that mindset and it’s overwhelms them or they think that it’s too much. And in before we kind of got started, there really wasn’t a place for that kid to try that stuff out. And that’s why we are doing what we’re doing, because we’ve talked to parents that are like, Well, I’m not really, you know, entrepreneurial minded and I didn’t know what to do with this kiddo that’s got all these ideas. And so it’s a place to channel that. And our workshops are a great way to kind of dabble in all of that. And we’re always we’re always available, you know, if a parent needed to talk to us individually, of course. But biggest thing is listen, because, you know, and just try something small and let them get creative. I mean, it just depends on what they’re wanting to do. But yeah, don’t shut it down. Let them try to, I think, express their thoughts on that.
Speaker4: [00:16:34] Big part of that is letting them try. Yep. Because that is probably the hardest thing, I guess as a parent, just in all aspects. Like you don’t want them to fail, you know, but they have to try, you know? And so if it starts with something as simple as a lemonade stand or whatever craft that they want to create, and even if you’re worried that it’s not going to sell, they still need to experience all the parts that go with it, the good and bad. So just letting them try something help could only help them.
Speaker3: [00:17:04] Yeah, it’s the life skills that they’re learning that go along with it. That’s the point of all of it.
Speaker2: [00:17:08] So I wonder at the other end of the continuum, is there also the trap of maybe pushing too hard, too fast, like you, you get so excited. Like, like as an entrepreneur, I would be so excited if my kid and then I’d want to do too much and maybe not place enough accountability on them. So there’s.
Speaker4: [00:17:25] That. We have seen, unfortunately, I’ve seen a couple of instances where it becomes more of what the parent wants than what the kid wants, and then the kid gets burnt out because it’s not fun anymore, you know? And so that kind of correlates, you know, in along the lines. But it’s starting that conversation that like, you know, like how you approach things, like how much effort you put in your accountability for it and then things of that nature. So letting them hold the stake in it because it is theirs and not trying to do the work, let them do the work and make them feel like if they want to do this or not, you know, but trying to take it over or run it how you want it run is takes that joy away from them.
Speaker3: [00:18:02] Yeah, they have to have ownership in it one way or the other.
Speaker2: [00:18:05] So yeah, yeah. Point So at this point, what’s the most fun? What are you guys finding the most rewarding about the work?
Speaker4: [00:18:14] Good question. Oh, man.
Speaker3: [00:18:17] I mean, we love Expo Day.
Speaker4: [00:18:19] Expo Day. I mean.
Speaker3: [00:18:21] Know, it’s stressful leading up to it. Just trying to make sure all the ducks in a row. But when it’s kind of like, okay, we’re.
Speaker4: [00:18:28] Here once it starts, then it comes together. Walking around is like just this uplifting, like, Yeah, we did this.
Speaker3: [00:18:36] But, you know, just it’s just fun to show the community and let these kids do their thing and let everybody see it all come together. And because, you know, we talk about how the workshops lead up to the expo and that supports the kids along the way and keeps the conversation going and gives resources to everybody along the way. But the Expo Day is like, This is why we do this. This is why we’re here. We’re seeing it in action, seeing the smiles on everyone’s faces and, you know, not just the community but the kids and their parents and everything. And then they feel I know they feel the same way, like this is why we did all this, especially if it’s a kid that’s brand new and hadn’t done it before. They’re getting the full circle. They’ve been working really hard, making the inventory, doing all the having the conversations, and they may not exactly see how it all clicked yet. But then they’re making money and they’re, you know, doing all the things and they’re seeing the fruits of their labor and just feeling proud of themselves and just knowing that that’s that day that that happens. That’s what we love.
Speaker2: [00:19:32] And at this point, you guys are really beginning. Maybe you’re further than even I realize, beginning to develop or maybe you already have begun to package methodology, discipline, rigor, steps to okay, here’s a a path, a roadmap for for helping your kid get into business or for the kid to get into business. Yes. You.
Speaker3: [00:19:55] Yeah. I think that and you can interrupt me any time, but when we were developing workshops for this year, we took what we learned last year, what you do right? And we’ve noticed a pattern and you’re talking about a path where there’s like a pattern leading up from now to the expo and then when the expert is over recapping, figure out, you know, reevaluate, readjust or just bringing in new kids, you know, talk about that brainstorming thing and then you’re leading up to the next one again. So, you know, the elevator pitches and all the things that were very successful last year for people just getting ready for the expo is just trying to lean into that and develop this pattern. So over time we will have more methodology, but we’re crafting that. So it’s another year of learning. You always learn. But yes, we have definitely found a pattern.
Speaker2: [00:20:41] Fantastic. Now forgive me, I get my entrepreneurs mixed up, so I don’t know if it’s Austin or Layla or who it is, but somebody in this ecosystem has got a new business that they’re launching has made quite a substantial pivot. So it is you Awesome. Are you up for describing this new business?
Speaker4: [00:21:00] Sure. Yeah, it has definitely pivoted.
Speaker2: [00:21:03] Yes.
Speaker1: [00:21:04] Big pivot. So I originally started with epoxy crafts like resin tumblers, keychains, that sort of thing. And this year I have recently pivoted to a mobile photo booth business, which has been a fun journey already. And we’ve just started. We got a small camper, a camper that.
Speaker4: [00:21:25] It’s like so cute and like little vintage.
Speaker1: [00:21:27] Vintage camper, and we have set it up to wear the outside. It has a ton of different decor and set up different scenes and all these different things that you can have different photo shoots for, photo shoots that you can bring to many different events or you can use for really any occasion. And soon we are going to open up the inside to have a photobooth machine with different backdrops and different props so that you have the outside for photos and the inside for a more photobooth feel.
Speaker4: [00:21:58] Yes.
Speaker2: [00:22:00] And so you can be present at the at the expo for this kind of thing. But it strikes me as something that you might be at some point willing to. However, the structure is rented out for an event.
Speaker1: [00:22:12] You can rent it out for an event or I can bring it to an event such as an expo or a farmer’s market or any event of that nature.
Speaker3: [00:22:20] And photographers can use it.
Speaker1: [00:22:22] Yes, photographers can rent it out and have their clients and.
Speaker4: [00:22:25] Like mini sessions.
Speaker1: [00:22:26] Yeah.
Speaker4: [00:22:27] I could do parties weddings. So we’re trying to figure out all that. It’s capable of it at.
Speaker3: [00:22:32] The moment and what you enjoy being there for and doing it for.
Speaker2: [00:22:35] Yeah, I got to believe having the experience of being in the other business has probably served you really well in getting this one off the ground. Yeah.
Speaker1: [00:22:43] Yes I have. From what I’ve learned previously with my other business has really helped carry on into this one with all the different lessons like the interacting with customers, public speaking, the money management, the time management, just everything has come together to help with this new business.
Speaker2: [00:23:01] So what’s the biggest lesson you feel like you’ve learned around money.
Speaker1: [00:23:06] Before.
Speaker4: [00:23:08] To save it? Yes.
Speaker1: [00:23:09] With my previous business it helped a lot for me to start saving more money rather than just. And they get all on something as soon as they see it. It has helped me save stuff to get new, more materials, maybe some new materials, and even maybe even pay somebody if they help me out during an expo that I have money saved up for that it has definitely helped with money saving.
Speaker2: [00:23:35] So a ton of things coming up in 2023. I know about a couple. I’m going to try to attend the upcoming workshop I plan to be at. You’ve collaborated with another organization to do something. I think at some point the The Limitless folks, you’ve got your spring gala. I’m just hitting some of the hot spots and people can go to the website. But yeah, just give us some broad strokes on some upcoming stuff.
Speaker3: [00:23:59] Well, first that’s happening or the workshop. So we are also having workshops in the Milton area too. So, you know, the brainstorming this weekend and the next weekend there’s going to be one in Milton. So it gives people an opportunity. There’ll be 20 workshops this year, so we have.
Speaker4: [00:24:11] 20.
Speaker2: [00:24:12] You know, there’s only 52 weeks.
Speaker3: [00:24:15] So double a.
Speaker4: [00:24:15] Lot. Oh, my gosh.
Speaker3: [00:24:17] But there it’s it’s brainstorming for both in January, but it just gives people more dates. So and if they loved it and they want to come again, they’re welcome to and they can provide a lot of insight to it. So we have workshops on the docket and the first expo is going to be at the mill on Etowah in April, April 23rd to Sunday from 10 to 2. Then we’ll have one on July 8th in Woodstock again. So that’s our pattern. Spring is in at the mill in Canton, and then we have summer in Woodstock, and then we’ll be at Crabapple Fest again. They asked us to come back and do that in this fall in October.
Speaker4: [00:24:52] So and as far with the Limitless organization, we’re working and coordinating with them to offer more accessible and inclusive areas of our expos to encourage their audience to be a part of our expo. So that’s very exciting. So we’ll be promoting that this year. We are working on incorporating to more of our programs the kid biz coach and Kid Biz Connect, hopefully one of which will be starting as soon as March, so there’ll be more details on that. It’s a mentorship program that we’re working on. We have a date scheduled for our golf tournament. We can announce that save the date, September 11th. It’s a monday. We will be at Bridge Mill Golf course for our golf tournament, which would be fun.
Speaker3: [00:25:42] Save the.
Speaker4: [00:25:42] Date. Save the date on that. Let’s see.
Speaker3: [00:25:44] We also have our scholarship fund that we have. We have some funds that we can use for the first expo where we want to have some kids apply for that and they will get their vendor fees paid for. So. That’s right. Yeah. And the help of the community. Yeah.
Speaker4: [00:26:00] When we were the community was very helpful in supporting that cause When we were selling ornaments and out doing some small fundraisers, all those proceeds will go and benefit some kids to pay for their vendor fees.
Speaker2: [00:26:12] We are so blessed with this community and it sounds like they’ve helped directly and probably created some marvelous opportunities to connect with area business people who want to rally behind this kind of effort. I know that this particular type of effort is very dear to to the Business RadioX family. It’s something that we really want to support. So there are going to be continue to be opportunities for local businesses to support. And I suspect you can get pretty creative in whatever’s going to serve them and support the kids, right?
Speaker3: [00:26:42] Yes, We are going to have community partner, annual community partner opportunities and the levels would be geared towards small business in the area. People want to help and we appreciate it so much. So we want to help make that possible.
Speaker2: [00:26:55] What a fantastic year this is going to be.
Speaker4: [00:26:58] It’s going to be busy. It’s going to be busy.
Speaker3: [00:27:00] So if I look like a deer in headlights, just I’m not.
Speaker4: [00:27:03] Just.
Speaker3: [00:27:04] Me.
Speaker4: [00:27:05] All the time. Just keep moving.
Speaker3: [00:27:07] I’m good. I’m fine. Just give me a high five.
Speaker2: [00:27:10] Well, we are so delighted that you guys are putting so much energy and effort into this. And we want to support you any way we can. And when I say we, I don’t just mean business Radio X, I mean the local business community. The community at large. Keep up the good work.
Speaker4: [00:27:24] Thank you.
Speaker2: [00:27:25] And keep us posted. And let’s get some of these community folks and some of these business folks in the studio and give them a chance to share their story and and talk about how and why they want to be be a part of this. I really enjoy doing this show. If you can’t tell, this is a lot of.
Speaker4: [00:27:40] Fun, but we love that you enjoy this. It’s definitely been helpful for us so much.
Speaker2: [00:27:46] It’s my pleasure. All right. Until next time, this is Stone Payton for our guests today, our roomful of youth entrepreneurs and of course, Amy Guest and Renee Deardorff and everyone here at the Business Radio X family saying we’ll see you next time on Kid Biz Radio.
