Realtors Daniel and Erin Reece and Kristena Woodard with WhistlePig Creative

Intro: [00:00:07] Broadcasting live from the business radio studios in Atlanta. It’s time for charitable Georgia, brought to you by Bea’s charitable pursuits and resources. We put the fun in fundraising. For more information, go to Bee’s charitable pursuits dot com. That’s b e. S charitable pursuits dot com. Now here’s your host, Brian Pruitt.

Brian Pruett: [00:00:45] Good morning out there, listeners. It’s another fabulous Friday and welcome to charitable Georgia. I’ve got another exciting episode for you today. We had three amazing folks last week. Stone And this week we got three more amazing people. So I hope you’re ready for another fun show. First off, we are going to welcome Kristena Woodard from Whistlepig Creative. So, Kristena, welcome to the show.

Kristena Woodard: [00:01:08] Hi, Brian.

Brian Pruett: [00:01:08] How are you?

Kristena Woodard: [00:01:09] I’m great.

Brian Pruett: [00:01:09] So first off, I just want to let everybody know that I learned that pigs cannot whistle. I tried and I couldn’t get him to whistle, but then I realized that it’s not really a pig. So sure what a whistle pig is.

Kristena Woodard: [00:01:22] So Whistlepig is actually a groundhog. It’s the Appalachian, I guess people in Appalachia call them whistle pigs, because when they are in trouble or they sense anything going on around them, they whistle to alert the rest of them. And honestly, groundhogs are just really, really cute. So once we saw that they were named whistle pigs, we were like, Oh, well, that’s the name of our business now.

Brian Pruett: [00:01:44] There you go. All right. So. So now you all learn something for a piece of trivia and some useless knowledge. Thank you for that. So I want to talk to you a little bit about your background and. Part of the reason we do this show is about positive things happening in your community. And you have a nonprofit background and you started a nonprofit. So share a little bit about that and why that’s close to your heart.

Kristena Woodard: [00:02:07] So when I was so it goes back to being being raised in the church. My parents were both youth pastors, so giving back and volunteering was always something that we just did in our family. So I really realized that that was my heart and my passion. Then when I guess I was 21, I had the opportunity to join someone in the area in forming a nonprofit called Project Live Love. And it was just such an amazing opportunity. We worked in Atlanta, was our main area of focus, and it was to work with the homeless in Atlanta and to bring about awareness and opportunity for those in sex trafficking. So it was it was awesome. It was it was a really great opportunity and a really. Great way to just really learn a little bit more about myself and like the heart that I have and what I’m truly passionate about. And it’s just turned out to be people. So it’s.

Brian Pruett: [00:03:04] Awesome. So is that first of all, is that nonprofit still around?

Kristena Woodard: [00:03:09] Yeah, they are. So they’re still in Atlanta. The the guy that was running it was his name is Drew Benton. So he did a great job with Live Love. And as far as I know, it was still going on. I, I was with it for about two years and then I had to I was a single mother at the time, so I had to start making a little bit of money. But but yeah, it was it was a great opportunity. We did we did a lot during the winter because, as you know, it’s incredibly cold in Atlanta. So we had a a great campaign that was called three Oh We Go and it just gave us an opportunity to be on the streets at night and meeting people and giving them blankets and keeping them warm. And really just the entire purpose of the nonprofit was to show love and connection. We weren’t trying to change these people’s lives. We weren’t trying to necessarily get them off the street. We were just trying to show them what connection with other humans can do for you and what truly feeling love is like. So that was that was the main point.

Brian Pruett: [00:04:12] So three years ago, our church in Marietta pardon me, our church in Marietta actually did something with Project Live Love. Oh yeah, we had them in our parking lot and brought some of the homeless in and we had portable showers and people to cut hair and did some nails and stuff like that. So. So I’m familiar with them as well. So but when you and I met, I didn’t realize that you were had started that group. So that’s pretty cool. You mentioned that your passion is people. Yeah. And so you and your husband have whistlepig. Yes. So share a little bit what you guys do with Whistlepig and I’ll get to why I’m asking this in a second.

Kristena Woodard: [00:04:49] Okay, so my husband and I own Whistlepig Creative, which is a graphic and web design company. My husband had the business before we got married, so it was called Woodruff Studios, so I had to rename it and get and get a little piece of me in it. But so we really just focus on serving small businesses in our community and helping them grow their awareness online. One of the big pieces that we’ve really been pursuing in 2022 has been being a part of helping nonprofits get their information to grow, to really grow their awareness. So that’s been one of our biggest points this year, which has been great. We’ve been able to help Georgia Diversified Industries, which is an amazing nonprofit in Cartersville, Georgia, helping those who have mental, physical and developmental disabilities and just giving them an opportunity to work and be a productive member of their community. And we’re partnering with we’ll be building the website for the Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter Soon, which is another amazing organization in Cartersville, just really doing great work and helping as many people as they possibly can.

Brian Pruett: [00:06:03] Awesome. Well, that’s where I was going. When you talked about the Georgia Diversified, you are also helping promote an event they’re doing in January. You want to speak about that?

Kristena Woodard: [00:06:10] Absolutely. So January 7th, Georgia Diversified is hosting the first five K of 2023 for Bartow County. So it’ll be January 7th starting at 9:00. Entries for adults, $25 for children. I believe it’s 20. So it starts at nine and we will be doing the five K after that. We’ll have food trucks, live music. It’s a full day like it’s a full event. It’s not just the five K and you go home. We really want people to gather and create community in this space and get to meet some of the people that they’re supporting by running in the race.

Brian Pruett: [00:06:49] Awesome. Well, I know he’s not here, but your husband has a pretty cool thing. He has a band, right?

Kristena Woodard: [00:06:54] Yeah. Yeah, he does. He does.

Brian Pruett: [00:06:57] Tell us a little bit about his band.

Kristena Woodard: [00:06:58] So the band is gypsy outfit. I don’t know how to explain. So I would say they’re like, like psychedelic folk. They’re a little out there and it’s fun. They’re definitely it’s a good time. But this the Saturday tomorrow actually, they are doing a recording of their new album. So hopefully we’ll have we’ll have new music coming out soon. But he’s the he’s the drummer in the band.

Brian Pruett: [00:07:26] Awesome. So can you tell me why it’s important as a small business yourself to get involved in the community and help others?

Kristena Woodard: [00:07:36] Yeah, well, I just. I find I’ve gained so much support from that. I think it’s I think it’s so imperative that we all are involved in our community, especially with the way things are now. I think a lot of us have lost connection. A lot of us have really been super isolated lately, so. What I’ve found is that I have gained so much support, inspiration and just love from being involved in my community and finding people who are like minded. I think that’s a big part of it is I’ve really been intentional about finding people who do like yourself, like who do want to give back to the community and and just getting involved has been really life changing and great for Whistlepig and myself.

Brian Pruett: [00:08:25] Well, another thing that I think is pretty cool that you’re doing is you’re looking to start a women’s group, networking group and help the women in business. Yeah. And that’s that’s kind of a cool thing as well. Speak a little bit about that.

Kristena Woodard: [00:08:37] So I’m super excited to talk about that. So I joined Cartersville Business Club in June of this year where I met you and I found that I just didn’t I didn’t identify as someone who would be in a networking group who was super busy and professional like that just didn’t seem like anything that I would really fit into. But I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and do things. So I started getting involved and I was so surprised at what that truly meant and what I’ve learned from it. Being in this group, I’ve found and connected with so many women. And one of the biggest hurdles that I think women in business face is that connection in that community piece. I’ve also found that men and women network slightly differently, so men tend to be a little more transactional with their networking, which is great. It works. Women tend to be a little bit more relational with their networking. And I just wanted we. The girls that I’m starting this with, Kasey Ripley and Ashley Pritchett and myself, we just really wanted to give a safe space for women to connect, to become community, and to really find inspiration. Opportunities for mentoring, just different things like that. We just felt like there was a hole in our community that we wanted to fill.

Brian Pruett: [00:10:03] Oh, plus, y’all can act up and not get called out anymore.

Kristena Woodard: [00:10:05] And like, Yeah, we’ll be in charge. So no.

Brian Pruett: [00:10:08] Right.

Kristena Woodard: [00:10:08] Just talk. Yeah, but yeah. So it’s going to be called the Cultivate Collective. We’re going to start with our first chapter in Cartersville. So to be Cultivate Cartersville and we will be launching our first event on, it’ll be in February of 2023.

Brian Pruett: [00:10:26] So can women, other women, business owners from the other area come these?

Kristena Woodard: [00:10:31] Yes. The idea is that we just we just get to know each other and we just get to support because what I’ve found is the networking groups have been great for me. I’ve gotten business from them and I’ve learned a ton. But what has been the most transformational for me has been the relationships that I’ve gotten and the the support that they offer me and just the drive that they offer me as well.

Brian Pruett: [00:10:59] So, you know, there’s different ways businesses can give back to the community, whether that’s financial or in-kind. And I just wanted to point out that that’s what you’ve done with the Cartersville Business Club. You guys have taken on and put together the website and the directory for the Cartersville Business Club, and that’s an in-kind thing. So I know the leadership team is appreciative of that and so we thank you for that and being a part of the community and doing what you do. One last question for you is. If somebody out there wants to get a hold of you about your business and want to learn more about talking to you about maybe doing some work with you, how can they get hold of you?

Kristena Woodard: [00:11:38] So my email is all my name is a weird spelling, so it’s Christina at whistlepig Creative. And that’s Christina at Whistlepig Creative. Or just find me on my Facebook. We have Whistlepig creative on Facebook and Christina Woodard on Facebook. And I do want to say that if you do reach out, it doesn’t have to be about business. I just like talking to people. One of the jokes in the networking group is that if you if you ask for a one on one with me, it’s at least a two hour minimum, because I love to learn about your business, but I love to learn more about you. And usually you can’t sum that up in 30 minutes. So if people just want to talk and connect and just find someone to just chat with, I would love that too.

Brian Pruett: [00:12:29] So there’s a new thing instead of a two drink minimum, it’s now two at minimum. Networking one on one with Kristena.

Kristena Woodard: [00:12:34] Yeah. No, it’s. Yeah, If you need to be somewhere, don’t plan on meeting with me. But if you have time and you just want to, like, connect, I that’s my. That’s truly is my passion.

Brian Pruett: [00:12:44] Awesome. Well, Kristena, I appreciate you taking the time. Do you mind sticking around and listen to it? Another story. Amazing story. Awesome. Well, now we are going to welcome Erin and Daniel Reese from the Reese Real estate team, another amazing couple. Guys, thanks for being here.

Daniel Reece: [00:12:57] And thanks for having us.

Brian Pruett: [00:12:59] You guys have some a lot of things going on that are pretty exciting that I wanted to talk about. First of all, talk about your your real estate just a little bit, your background, how you got into it. And Daniel, you’ve got a little bit of a another cool thing that you can do as well as being a mortgage broker. So you kind of have a two and one there. Just talk a little bit about the background and then we’ll get into why I asked you to be here.

Daniel Reece: [00:13:22] Sure. I think it’s seven. I probably should have rehearsed that, right?

Erin Reece: [00:13:26] Yeah. So, so I started in real estate seven years ago. Really, the driving factor behind that was we were ready to have a family and we were looking for a career path that would give us some flexibility and control. And so we both kind of agreed that real estate would be a great path to go down. And, you know, I started out doing it and we both kind of fell in love with it at the same time. It just it’s very fulfilling.

Daniel Reece: [00:13:55] Yeah, it’s definitely I guess in the beginning we really wanted to do real estate, but at the time, financially, we couldn’t really take the leap. So we kind of slow built it from there and eventually I could leave where I was working and start working with her. And then I went and got my registered appraiser license. And then after we got that, I went and got my license and I was like, okay, I want to know every part that there is of all transactions. And ultimately we’ve come back full circle and real estate is pretty much our prime time, but we can do the other things. I don’t do appraisals though, at all. Just just be clear. That was for knowledge. Get better prices, right? That was.

Brian Pruett: [00:14:34] All right. Well, hey, knowledge is good, right? So being also a mortgage broker, how does that help you guys being a husband and wife real estate team, but also being able to do the mortgages.

Daniel Reece: [00:14:43] Legally able to advise people. That really is what helps out and said, I mean, generally you can’t go into people’s rates or you can’t tell them, hey, let’s look at this rather where I can and I can go through it and give more, I guess not technical financial advice, but we can look at different scenarios, different loan products and stuff like that. We generally don’t work with the buyer being with our real estate side and on the finance side, but we do have people that have to refinance and do cash outs and stuff like that. So it’s just more of, again, general all around knowledge that we can help people with.

Brian Pruett: [00:15:18] Awesome. So I know you a little bit. You actually came out when you were with another mortgage company and we’re a whole sponsor at our golf tournament that we helped with the Aces Youth Home and Experiences Foundation. So I know you have a giving giving back heart and obviously you do as well because you wouldn’t be married to him. I wouldn’t think You just mentioned before we got on the air that you do something at a school called High five Fridays. Yeah. Which I think is pretty cool. So share a little bit about that.

Daniel Reece: [00:15:43] Ultimately, generally speaking, the last Friday of the month, given holidays that can switch around, we just have I mean, I guess around 8 to 10 dads go up to Boston Elementary and we all get out there in high five. Every single student on the way in, give them words of encouragement. Hey, it’s Friday. You know, we you’re almost there like this is the weekend and we just get them all pumped up for that. And I mean, it’s tough to have a bad day whenever you start off with a high five was kind of the idea. It’s really tough for me to have a bad day when I start off with 1000 high fives, right? So I definitely it has some benefit for me as well as the children, where it makes it really exciting to jump in.

Brian Pruett: [00:16:19] That’s awesome. How long have you all been doing that?

Daniel Reece: [00:16:21] Well, our son started kindergarten this year, and the first one they offered was the first one that we were there. So. And I don’t. I don’t think I’m going to stop doing that at any point.

Brian Pruett: [00:16:31] That’s awesome. That’s awesome. Well, one of the reasons I wanted to bring you guys in is you guys have started a new program with your real estate helping the helpers. Is that right? You want to share about that? Because that’s pretty cool what you guys are doing.

Daniel Reece: [00:16:44] Sure.

Erin Reece: [00:16:44] Yeah. So excuse me. So we kind of were brainstorming. Again, we both have charitable hearts and how could we help? It really started with going to the grocery store and noticing, Wow, Like, our grocery bill is going up 50%. This is crazy. We both come from single mom households. So it’s like, you know, we notice this difference and it’s pretty substantial. So how are single moms feeling? How are people who are helping our community who maybe don’t make as much money or, you know. Any of that, how are they able to get through this time? So we were like, how can we really give back? And at the same time, you know, help us help the community? And so we thought, what if we could help policemen, firefighters, teachers? And so we kind of came to this program, which is basically we’re going to be pledging 30% of our commission from any sale from a buyer that is a helper in our community, and we’re going to give them back 30% from our commission at closing. And that would be just in a check, you know, no paperwork or strings attached. But we just we think that ultimately. Being able to close on a house and then have the security of an additional check. 30% of an agent’s commission can be pretty substantial.

Brian Pruett: [00:18:13] So I’m assuming it’s veterans, first responders, veterans.

Erin Reece: [00:18:17] Yeah. I mean, and again, this is just the two of us. So we don’t have a handbook, you know, just come to us. I mean, it really could be anybody, people who work in a doctor’s office, you know, we just want to help people who are maybe struggling during this time. And certainly people in our community that have made us a priority. You know, our brother in law is a new Woodstock police officer. So we know firsthand, you know, they’re renting a one bedroom apartment and it’s expensive. It’s really expensive, you know, and they’re planning a wedding. And we have, you know, another family member who is a firefighter and has two young children, and he’s working a second job as an ambulance driver. So it’s it’s people like that that we think this program could really help where, again, at closing, they’re getting back this check where they could use for furniture, put it back in savings, you know, whatever they need it for. We certainly think that it could really make a difference for these young families.

Daniel Reece: [00:19:19] Right. And we do have it where we can also instead of a direct check back, we’re able to do it like at the closing table. So, you know, if they’re nervous about closing costs, they’re actually getting into that home. We can be like, Hey, here you go. Just an example number. We’re going to pay $3,000 of your closing cost. We’ll put that check there so you don’t have to come out of pocket and whatever’s most convenient for them. But we’ve I’ve been here two and a half decades, and ultimately when we were trying to look at it and it’s hard to get in a house like it’s really hard, especially for the people we want in our community. We don’t we don’t want our firefighters, we don’t want our policemen. We don’t want our teachers moving away because they can’t afford to be here. Right? I mean, they’re the ones who brought us up and got us here and we’re how do we bring them up so they can bring our children up and our children can continue the cycle? So that was kind of the big idea behind it is we want to keep them in our community and it’s tough for them to stay in there right now and while we’re going through everything. So hopefully this extra little bit can help each and every one of them.

Brian Pruett: [00:20:20] That’s awesome. So but if somebody asked you to maybe put that towards a nonprofit of their choice, could that be an option for them as well?

Erin Reece: [00:20:28] Absolutely.

Daniel Reece: [00:20:29] Absolutely.

Brian Pruett: [00:20:30] For sure. Awesome. Awesome. Well, again, I’m going to ask you the same question. Why do you think as a small business in the community, you should be involved in the community?

Daniel Reece: [00:20:41] I guess it’s not really that I should be involved. It’s that I want to be involved. And I think everyone should be involved in the community. I mean, that’s literally where our backbone or pillar is. And we just kind of wanted to do that. And really we were changing our mindset in general. I mean, we’ve always had we’ve had our children’s birthday with no presents. You’re bringing all of this for the animal shelter, dog food, like he’s understanding what charity is off the rip. So we’ve always kind of been in the community and doing that, but this time we kind of wanted to take it one step further. And instead of just being charitable, how do we wrap that in our business? And ultimately the idea was money, and then community was kind of our primary focus and we said, switch that. Let’s think of community first and money second and we’ll let you know in a year if that works out for us. But that’s that’s pretty much the idea. And with the branding, I guess that we just wanted to switch over and just go full head of steam. You know, we really wanted to make sure that we’re doing the absolute most that we can. And I mean, we were involved in five KS and it looks like I’m going to be involved in another five years, right? So I mean, it’s really exciting. We’ll have other charitable work that we’re doing. But this one, you know, besides just our free time charitable work, this is our work time, charitable work, so that we can have our entire lives encompassed in it and every day be trying to give back to the community and help.

Brian Pruett: [00:22:01] Awesome. So another thing that I wanted to ask you about real quick, You guys like food? We all like food. Yes, that’s correct. You are you are working on a a restaurant, right?

Daniel Reece: [00:22:12] We are. We have an LOI that was in and it’s going to expire this week. So that’s going to put a stall on us because we did a cold market analysis over at 92. And Tricom is where we had our area and it seems like they’re just going to not respond to our LOI. I think they got bought out by someone, but that is the idea. It’s going to slow down big time on this.

Brian Pruett: [00:22:35] What’s the what’s the restaurant that give us an.

Daniel Reece: [00:22:36] Idea hot dogs.

Brian Pruett: [00:22:38] I go.

Daniel Reece: [00:22:39] Yeah, hot dogs and sliders. We thought cheap food might be necessary for people to be able to grab it. And again, back to the grocery cost. Everything has been super expensive. So we’re like, how do we make the most inexpensive food and sell it to people and not go out of business? We sort of open it up and that’s basically what we came down to, where I was like, okay, we can sell these for $2 and anybody can come get something for under five bucks and eat and. Right. It’s tough. I mean, I think it’s like $8 to go to McDonald’s now, so.

Brian Pruett: [00:23:11] Right. So which one of you two is going to be doing the cooking?

Erin Reece: [00:23:14] That’s neither one of us. Okay.

Speaker6: [00:23:17] Yeah.

Erin Reece: [00:23:18] So we have a we have a friend who has a lot of restaurant knowledge. He actually is the owner of Crave Burgers and Wings off of 92 as well.

Daniel Reece: [00:23:27] Shout out to.

Erin Reece: [00:23:28] Moe. And he’s an incredible person as well. And he was definitely like one of the masterminds with Daniel behind it. So he would be handling that. We would trust him with that. There you go. If you’ve ever been there, they’re delicious.

Brian Pruett: [00:23:42] So. Stone That means if you want an event where some hotdogs, you know where to go now.

Speaker6: [00:23:47] Oh, man, you had me at hot dogs, the chili slaw dog. Are we going to have that on the menu?

Daniel Reece: [00:23:51] Absolutely. Oh, baby, it wouldn’t be a menu without.

Speaker6: [00:23:54] Come to downtown Woodstock, man. Let’s hook you up down here.

Erin Reece: [00:23:57] Oh, yeah. That hot dog. Heaven. You remember them?

Speaker6: [00:24:00] I don’t. I’m only been here a year and a half. Oh, man. No.

Daniel Reece: [00:24:04] It was a staple.

Kristena Woodard: [00:24:05] It was wonderful. One of my. My friend in high school, her mother owned that, and it was. Yeah, Yeah. So, man in hot dog places are, like, few and far between. Like, it’s really hard to find a good hot dog place. I’m really excited.

Speaker6: [00:24:18] So am I.

Brian Pruett: [00:24:21] That was the real reason y’all are here. Yeah.

Kristena Woodard: [00:24:22] We want to know more about Hot.

Daniel Reece: [00:24:25] The charity is actually just hot dogs and we’re bringing them out. Funny enough, that is a part of it. We were setting up to go to different schools and like, cook out and bring food to them and different, I think. Acworth Police Department. We talked to Lieutenant. I forgot his name. I should remember it. He was over there doing the Acworth connections the other day, but I sat down with him and he was like, Hey, you guys can come over here and was like, What if we just come and grill? We can show them all of our programs and we’ll show up with food. So maybe they want to listen. And he was like, Absolutely. So we’re taking our hot dogs to the streets.

Brian Pruett: [00:24:56] Nice.

Kristena Woodard: [00:24:57] How did you get involved with doing the high fives? Like how how did that like is that something that Boston Elementary does?

Erin Reece: [00:25:03] It’s definitely a PTA sponsored event. And obviously having dads do it is really important. It’s have there been moms there? It’s high fives with dads.

Kristena Woodard: [00:25:16] I love that.

Daniel Reece: [00:25:16] I don’t think it has dads in the title, but it’s definitely all dads there.

Erin Reece: [00:25:21] Yeah, it’s it’s a men focused program around dads.

Kristena Woodard: [00:25:24] And I.

Erin Reece: [00:25:25] Love that. It’s really it’s adorable and special.

Kristena Woodard: [00:25:29] Do any other schools. Sorry, I’m not trying to take your dog. Sorry.

Brian Pruett: [00:25:33] I just have a good conversation. Go ahead.

Erin Reece: [00:25:36] I think other schools do do it. I mean. If they don’t, they all should because Daniel will come home. So just pumped up after that. And he’s like, Some of these kids have arms on him. Like that’s he got that glove and it’s like a comically large Mickey Mouse type glove because the last time he came and he was like, I mean, some of those kids really have some arm.

Daniel Reece: [00:26:00] I mean, they’re doing like running windmill, three sticks. They’re trying to hurt me. Some of them are putting they’re letting me know how strong they are.

Brian Pruett: [00:26:08] Because you’re very tall.

Daniel Reece: [00:26:09] Absolutely. They want to put it hurt. But it’s so cool. We actually I coached the basketball team, the kindergarten and first grade basketball team there. So all of those boys except for Jaden wish I saw him this morning, but every one of them, I got to see it in high five before they’re as well. And they’re like running up and hugging me as well. And I was like, Yeah. So it’s just and obviously my son, you know, he was a little excited about it, too. In the neighborhood, kids where it’s just like, cool, I get to be a part of it and I get to hear him like walk past me and be like, That’s my coach, that’s my dad. And I’m like, awesome. Like, you know, have a great day.

Brian Pruett: [00:26:41] So they’re taking over dads for donuts. Apparently.

Daniel Reece: [00:26:44] We’ll be a part of that, too, right?

Brian Pruett: [00:26:46] Right.

Erin Reece: [00:26:47] There’s no reason why the other hand can’t have a right.

Brian Pruett: [00:26:50] There you go. There you go.

Kristena Woodard: [00:26:51] I love that you’re reaching it to not just like the community of adults, but like really the community of children, because that’s another place that we’ve really found. And like, especially in Bartow County, there are a lot of like children that are in free meals, are like are on like have one member families and just things like that. So like bringing the community to the children is such an amazing idea.

Daniel Reece: [00:27:12] I love that any extra positivity that can be put in there, I mean, we’re surrounded by technology and negativity and, you know, people are afraid of the recession and like everyone’s kind of just got clouded thoughts on there where really positivity attracts positivity, even if that’s giving 300 kids a high five and I don’t know who they are, like, have a great day. I genuinely mean it. You know, like, I want you to have these positive reinforcements, even if it’s just some random stranger being there. Any way I can help for adults and children alike, Like we want to be a part of it. We want to be known in the community for helping the community.

Brian Pruett: [00:27:46] That’s awesome. So that’s another reason we’re doing this show, right? Because there is too much negative out there. Let’s put as much positive back out there.

Daniel Reece: [00:27:52] Absolutely.

Brian Pruett: [00:27:53] Another question for you guys. Same thing. Ask Christina if somebody wants to get a hold of you about real estate. How do they do that?

Daniel Reece: [00:27:59] My wife.

Erin Reece: [00:28:03] So you can find either one of us on Facebook. Aaron and Daniel Reece are easy. Not like the candy. We have a Facebook page of the Reece Team real estate as well. Instagram.

Daniel Reece: [00:28:17] Yeah. Here’s my 7703771564 text call. I don’t care who you are, even if you want to have a conversation or say, Hey, how do I get Bryan’s number? Absolutely.

Brian Pruett: [00:28:28] No, the two hour minimum right there.

Daniel Reece: [00:28:30] Yeah. I’m not a I’m not afraid of answering. Unknown numbers still give me anxiety, but I’m not afraid of them.

Brian Pruett: [00:28:36] So they want to sell a property that’s an oceanfront property in Arizona. You’ll do it?

Daniel Reece: [00:28:39] Absolutely, I will. I know a couple of them already.

Brian Pruett: [00:28:42] Yeah. There you go. There you go. I have one more question for the three of you. And so you guys can can take this and run with it if you want to or answer, you know, in any order. We’re coming up at the end of the year. Holidays, obviously. Just give our listeners something to go by starting at the end of the year, starting a new year. Some advice. What what kind of what would you tell somebody? Ending the year. Starting a new year. Who wants to start with that? Go ahead.

Kristena Woodard: [00:29:11] Wow. That’s like a really, really big question that you’re just throwing out super casually.

Brian Pruett: [00:29:15] Yeah.

Daniel Reece: [00:29:16] You know.

Brian Pruett: [00:29:17] Casual, right?

Daniel Reece: [00:29:18] It was very, very casual. I didn’t think it would have something where it be deep. If someone just asked me on the street, I’d be like, that would have caught me off guard.

Erin Reece: [00:29:27] So I have a piece of advice that I heard a few years ago, and I think about it almost daily. So maybe we could go into the new Year and try to make this part of your daily mantra, do one thing each day that can’t be undone. I think that sometimes we get overwhelmed with our own daily pressure. You know, I know as a mom, you can clean your house in 15 minutes later, it’s not clean. And at the end of the day, you can feel like, what did I actually do today? But if you’re focusing on things that can’t be undone, being kind to strangers, you know, reading your kid a book, taking 10 minutes for yourself and prayer, anything like that, you’ve that’s you’ve made it for the day. You know, you can check that off your list.

Daniel Reece: [00:30:13] Absolutely.

Kristena Woodard: [00:30:14] Yeah. I think to piggyback on that, one of the things that I. So what I’m something that I’m not good at is I have not been good in the past giving compliments. It’s something that and not that people aren’t worth giving compliments to. It’s that I feel super awkward. It’s almost it’s like an insecurity of mine to go out and just give a stranger a compliment. But I’ve focused on getting out of my comfort zone lately, and I’ve just been like, I was at the thrift store the other day and I saw this beautiful woman and her daughter, and I walked up to them and I just wanted to let them know how beautiful they were. It was super awkward, but they smiled afterwards. And so I felt like, okay, like, as awkward as things can be, like I got a smile out of it. So I think moving forward, my goal for 2023 is to be a little more present and aware of what’s happening around me so that I can be complementary to other people and also complimentary to myself, because I think the negativity that is out there that we’ve talked about can really penetrate inward sometimes. So I think being able to look inside and to be like, Oh man, like, like I didn’t get the house cleaned, but like, the dishes are done. Cool. Like, there’s my there’s my win for today. And so just being more complimentary to myself and to others, it’s going to be what I feel is going to move me forward in 2023.

Brian Pruett: [00:31:36] Awesome. How about you?

Daniel Reece: [00:31:38] I mean, I feel like my advice could be laughable to some, but realistically, at the end of the year, we’re all stressed. I can’t imagine someone that’s not stressed children or not or they’re thinking about buying gifts and that’s a big deal. Or end of the year quotas and all that. But just try your best to kind of silence it, at least in your head. And, you know, actually focus on Christmas is about it’s not just about presents and running late, obviously and you know, try to enjoy it and try to enjoy your family and really take that in and then, you know, the stress will catch up to you. You’ll get you have to any time of the year, but you won’t have these holidays and this honest time with children actually being out of school and you won’t have that and just try to soak up every minute of it because we’re losing that time every day.

Brian Pruett: [00:32:21] Awesome. I’m going to share a piece of advice, actually, somebody said to me and hopefully have her on the show soon, Melissa Stevens, who’s an incredible well, she’s a business life coach. She’s got a different term for it all. When she comes on, she can explain it. But she told me it’s not about the presents, it’s about being present. And I think, you know, we all need to think about that, whether you’re a dad or a mom or you’re a business owner or whatever, the case is just being present for somebody. The other thing that’s worked for me lately, too, is I get up every morning and I have devotion and then I have a gratitude journal and I write three things down that I’m thankful for. So that would be my advice. Hey, guys, I really appreciate you guys being out here this morning for all your listeners out there. I have a fabulous Friday. Be positive and be charitable.