Renee Dierdorff & Amy Guest With Kid Biz And Kristy Chadwick With Prime Leadership

Intro: [00:00:07] Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX studios in Woodstock, Georgia. It’s time for Cherokee Business Radio. Now, here’s your host.

Stone Payton: [00:00:23] Welcome to another exciting and informative edition of Cherokee Business Radio Stone Payton here with you this morning. And today’s episode is brought to you in part by Alma Coffee, sustainably grown, veteran owned and direct trade, which of course means from seed to cup, there are no middlemen. Please go check them out at my Alma coffee and go visit their Roastery Cafe at 34 or 48 Holly Springs Parkway and Canton. As for Harry or the brains of the outfit, Letitia, and please tell them that Stone sent you. First up on Cherokee Business Radio this morning, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome to the broadcast with Kid Biz Empowering Youth Entrepreneurs. Ms.. Renee Deardorff Good morning.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:01:11] Good morning. Thanks for having us.

Stone Payton: [00:01:13] Oh, it’s a delight to have you and your your your corporate structure here. Yes. In the studio, we had a chance to touch base at a million cups event, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I felt like you were. So both of you, you and Amy, both so articulate, so passionate about what you’re doing. But let’s talk about as we start here, mission, purpose. Why are you doing this, Renee?

Renee Dierdorff: [00:01:43] Well, our overall mission and goal is to empower youth entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial spirit through entrepreneurship. So the things that they learn through that journey, those lessons they learn, they’re invaluable. So whether or not they go on to run their own business or not, it’s the journey and the lessons learned along the way that we are trying to create a space for for that.

Stone Payton: [00:02:10] So I suspect you’ve learned a couple of things along the way, too, right? Absolutely.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:02:15] I just we’re leading by example.

Stone Payton: [00:02:18] So what was the genesis? A noble pursuit I think we can all identify with that is nobody says, oh, we don’t want to do that in this community. Right? Yes. But none of the rest of us did it. So what was the genesis? What was the catalyst?

Renee Dierdorff: [00:02:30] Well, I mean I mean, Amy can probably speak to this, but her youngest or her middle kiddo, Avery, wanted to sell cotton candy and started there. I don’t want to.

Amy Guest: [00:02:43] I mean, yeah. So about two years ago, one summer, Avery decided that she was going to rule the world by selling cotton candy.

Stone Payton: [00:02:51] All right, way to go, Avery.

Amy Guest: [00:02:53] She had her toy machine, and she wanted to be different, so she started figuring out ways to do flavors. I was all aboard. Like, I was like, this is amazing. I’m going to, you know, support you full wholeheartedly. Her sisters became her employees, and we started making cotton candy and going to farmers markets at least once a week as like a summer project. It kept him busy, which was great. And then our sisters were like, Wait a minute, we want to be a business owner. We don’t want to be an employee. So then we had to decide individually because she has two of them which who was going to do what and what was going to be their businesses. So now I’ve got three kids with businesses, oh my. Go into farmers markets. And then that kind of trickled because my oldest, best friend is Renee’s oldest daughter, Lila. So so then Lila was like, well, my best friend’s making money. So here we are in a trickle down effect with five girls, with businesses going to farmers markets around the county, just letting them explore what they could do and how they could run their own little companies. Everybody did something different, but we did start to notice that the community loved the ideas of having these kids out there, and we predominantly were the only kids out there in these markets. You know, most markets are even artist markets. Vendor markets in general are mostly adults. So it was a unique to have these kids out there. And so everybody was very supportive. But it kind of came down to, well, this is really cute, but if there’s an adult across the way making something a little bit better or it really wasn’t the right venue at the same time, so we’re like, we need a more even.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:04:43] Kid oriented.

Amy Guest: [00:04:44] Kid oriented, even playing field because there’s probably more kids out there. It’s not just our five kids that want to do this. So we kind of ran with that at the time. We’re like, Wait a minute, let’s see what we could do with this. And we.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:04:58] Actually, about a year ago now.

Amy Guest: [00:05:00] Right, was our very first time that we did it. So last August, we kind of just put it out there like, Hey, is do any other parents have kids? With an entrepreneurial spirit to have a small business, don’t know where to take them, don’t know what to do, want them to have a place to showcase what they’ve got. And we created the first kid Biz Expo and we had 28 kids. Wow, the very first time. And all we did was put make a post on Facebook and we had 28 kids right away. We hosted it at Sutley Baptist Church up on Highway 20, and we had so without anything residual, like no other events happening, no other things going on in that general area because it’s kind of out there on 20. Just with our promotion alone, we probably had at least 300 people from the community just come out solely to support these kids. Yeah, the the feel in the air, you could just everybody was stoked. Like it was very exciting. The kids you could just see going from like, we’re not sure about this to like, oh my God, I’m killing this by the end of the day. Like, their confidence levels. It was amazing. And everybody was very interactive, very generous. And, you know, they stop by each booth and they would talk to the kids like, how did you do this? What’s going on? Kind of things. And the community support was amazing, so we kind of took it from there.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:06:23] Yeah, they were like, Are you going to do this again? Not just the kids that were participating, the parents are participating, but the community like are. There’s going to be more of these and stuff. And so we packed up that day and we’re like and we’re tired. We’ll just we’ll revisit this revisit this in a few days. And just the very next day, we’re like, Let’s do this again. We couldn’t help it, you know. So then we did another one in November.

Stone Payton: [00:06:44] So I bet some of the businesses were interesting. What kind of businesses were the kids in and what kind of things?

Amy Guest: [00:06:49] We’ve had broad ranges, so our daughter’s alone. So Layla makes dip, dry dip mixes, Austin does epoxy resin. At the time, Avery did cotton candy. We have since rebranded to Popcorn. Ha Harper has done hot chocolate, but I think she’s doing muffins this time. But we’ve had like baked goods, lots of jewelry, some artwork in general. We had.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:07:14] Magic.

Amy Guest: [00:07:15] Kits, magic kit. Some of the boys get really creative trying to go in different directions. So we had five PVC marshmallow shooters walking sticks. We have slime.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:07:27] Melted.

Amy Guest: [00:07:28] Crayons, melted crayons, turning them into different shapes. The creativity out there was was quite amazing. It was a full gamut of options all bit.

Stone Payton: [00:07:37] And now this thing has grown beyond just the expo, right? There’s several pillars, aspects to the to the whole thing. Yes, I’ll speak to that a little bit.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:07:45] Yeah. So we have I guess if you consider the expo is a program, it’s the main overall goal that we’re trying to get kids ready for and let them showcase themselves to the community. But under that, we have the Kid Biz Workshop and that’s where a business professional in the community comes out and talks to the kids and teaches them a certain subject. It’s usually business related but can be mindset, just general life skills. And then we have Kid Biz Coach where it is a kid and a adult can, in a group setting mentor each other. And we’ll do that a couple of times a year. And then we have Kid Biz Connect, where it’s peer to peer networking so that they can be among other kids that are in the same mindset is them and going through the same life experience and learn from and bounce.

Amy Guest: [00:08:37] Just ideas.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:08:38] Yeah, brainstorm, but also just get just have someone relate to them.

Stone Payton: [00:08:42] Fantastic. All right. Let’s hear from some entrepreneurs, okay? Leila.

Leila: [00:08:48] Hi.

Stone Payton: [00:08:48] Hello, Leila, tell us tell us about about this business that you’re in now.

Leila: [00:08:54] My business is dip it good. It’s like dry dip mixes. They come in like there’s nine flavors. Yeah. And you can have samples at the market and you put them in sour cream. I have one sweet flavor. That’s cream cheese and they make dips.

Stone Payton: [00:09:13] It sounds marvelous. Just last night, I made, like, these chicken patty things, so I’m wondering if I couldn’t have mixed it in with that. Like, yes, I did some chicken and did some eggs and some breadcrumbs, but I could have put some of this in there.

Leila: [00:09:25] Fiesta is really good with.

Stone Payton: [00:09:27] Well, there you go. See, she’s taking me right to the. Yeah, she’s closing. She’s very good.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:09:32] She knows what pairs well with things.

Leila: [00:09:34] Now you can also put like the some of the flavors on the sandwiches. Some are good with like desserts, apples, carrots.

Stone Payton: [00:09:44] All right. So it’s cool now, but you had to get started. And entrepreneurs of any age, I think sometimes they can think it all through, sometimes maybe even overthink it through, but it’s getting it going. What was the the the the thing that you enjoyed the most about about launching it and getting it going? And what did you find the most difficult? The most challenging?

Leila: [00:10:07] The most challenging part was. Is. There wasn’t anything challenging, but. There was a part where like you have to figure out what flavors and which, like what’s better and what’s not. Because when my flavors, it was good, but it wasn’t like fantastic. So I had to tweak the recipe a little bit and that’s a really good seller.

Stone Payton: [00:10:31] Were there any flavors that sounded good on paper or when you were talking but or thinking about it and then you’re trying like, Nah, that’s not going to play.

Leila: [00:10:39] Actually, all of them have kind of worked out.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:10:42] Are you wanting to maybe change things up a little?

Leila: [00:10:44] Yeah. Feel like seasonal flavors would be cool. Like pumpkin, something for fall, like fun fruit, things for spring and summer.

Stone Payton: [00:10:54] That’d be cool. All right. So the the primary application of this that, you know, works is you mix it in with sour cream and then what do you do with the sour cream? There must be a gazillion things you can do with it once you’ve got your your flavored sour cream made.

Leila: [00:11:08] Yeah, you can put it sandwiches. Just with chips, with pretzels, with carrots. It’s really good.

Stone Payton: [00:11:15] Okay. All right. So you.

Leila: [00:11:16] Say.

Stone Payton: [00:11:17] Baby bagels. Oh, that sounds all right. So you go to the expo or. Or maybe someone finds you somehow, some way they know that you’re selling this. What does that conversation look like? Because they probably ask some of the same questions, but mainly they just they want to go home with something in the right thing. So what is that conversation like?

Leila: [00:11:36] I like, hi, I have samples. So that draws them in like, hey, free food and then they just try them all. Some people try. One is like, yes. And then like, I don’t try this one, I try that one. And then once they kind of have their mind set on a few, I have a deal where it’s like more for cheaper and then, you.

Stone Payton: [00:11:57] Know, whose idea was that to do like these deals? So it’s good to have a mentor or have some input, right?

Leila: [00:12:03] Yeah, they can order online. I talk about that and then sometimes people will ask like, how did you do this? What made you get into this? Where do you see going? So sometimes I would really long conversations about that.

Stone Payton: [00:12:16] Fantastic. All right. So did Harper switch with me or do I still have Harper on the other end here? Who’s at the mic right here.

Amy Guest: [00:12:23] In.

Stone Payton: [00:12:24] Austin? Okay. I think when I looked down at Austin, snuck in there. Austin, tell us a little bit about your business.

Amy Guest: [00:12:30] I sell a epoxy crafts, which include tumblers, keychains, trays, pens, all sorts of little things. Really. If it has a silicone mold, I could figure out how to make it so. So there’s a lot of those things and they can do all kinds of colors and glitters and any sort of design on the object itself.

Stone Payton: [00:12:51] So we have Austin tumblers in the room. I know you guys can see that out in radio land, but we have Austin tumblers.

Amy Guest: [00:12:56] I have made a cup for each of these.

Stone Payton: [00:12:59] They’re very good fun, and I’m operating under the impression we could have a Business RadioX tumbler.

Amy Guest: [00:13:07] Absolutely. Yes, definitely.

Stone Payton: [00:13:09] Cool. I think we should do that. And maybe like raffle it off or like a prize for a sponsor or part of a sponsor. Oh, great. That could be fun. So why that? Did you think about other businesses? And then you said then you kind of migrated to that well.

Amy Guest: [00:13:23] So like she said earlier, my sister had sort of cotton candy. And about a year or so later, my mom was scrolling on Facebook and she saw an ad for resin coasters and she was like, Oh, that’d be really cool to do. And so we went and bought the molds and watched a couple of YouTube videos and figured out how to do it. And once we did figure out how to do it, we realized there were so many other things you could do with resin. And so it started with a couple of coasters and then we went on from there. And then a little while later I started going to farmers markets with Avery. And so that’s kind of how that became a thing.

Stone Payton: [00:13:59] All right. Went and bought the mold. Let’s talk about that a little bit, because sometimes entrepreneurs have to make an investment early on before they’re getting a return. Did you get your capital? Did you get your money from another source? Did you save it up? Did you borrow to talk us through?

Amy Guest: [00:14:14] That was your primary investor.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:14:16] We’ve got some generous investors.

Amy Guest: [00:14:19] We’re quite generous investor. That helps me purchase some of my things.

Stone Payton: [00:14:25] So you got some of that? Do you do you pay it back?

Amy Guest: [00:14:27] Yes. After the Expos, I give her whatever amount spent on that specific expo, I give her back.

Stone Payton: [00:14:33] What does she get that a little bit more? Does she get an interest or like a return?

Amy Guest: [00:14:39] I get my products for free.

Stone Payton: [00:14:40] Oh, okay. There’s perks that’ll work. All right, so it sounds like it’s been fun. It sounds like it’s been rewarding. You clearly enjoy it and you’re a human. And sometimes things may not go well all the time. What are some of the challenges in running this business in particular? In business in.

Amy Guest: [00:14:57] General? Well, was this one specifically when you have to mix resin like perfectly or it will not harden correctly? And I’ve made a bunch of cups where it does not work and the resin still sticky. So you can’t use the cup or some of the other things that are bendy or just don’t look good. So that’s one of the things that. To work, and then sometimes any of the designs or stickers won’t stay. And so then it looks weird when you put the resin over it. So it’s become a science. It’s become a science that you have to.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:15:28] Perfect.

Amy Guest: [00:15:29] To make it work.

Stone Payton: [00:15:31] So what have you learned about the marketplace and what people want and maybe they don’t want or what they like more or how they like to go by or what have you learned from interacting with the customers?

Amy Guest: [00:15:47] Most of them, when they come up to my tent, they’ll start looking at the tumblers because there’s a ton of different designs that you can do. Or they’ll ask me like, How did this start? Or Why did you do this? Or What not? There’s a bunch of keychains that usually get bought that people will look at.

Stone Payton: [00:16:05] Keychains? Yes. You don’t have one that floats, do you? I just lost my hat. Did you do a hat? Didn’t I thought hats would float and I was. That was at the river. So anyway, just if you put a little floaty thing on one. But keychains are popular.

Amy Guest: [00:16:22] Yes. Jewelry, jewelry, necklaces, keychains and tumblers are probably the main three that get sold to.

Leila: [00:16:30] I have one of your necklaces I like.

Stone Payton: [00:16:33] Oh, you guys do business with each other, so you team up. And do you ever give her food?

Leila: [00:16:37] She gives me necklaces.

Stone Payton: [00:16:38] Yeah. And if someone buys one of your dips, you can all you can always say, oh, you might really enjoy a keychain or a tumbler. You can help each other out.

Amy Guest: [00:16:46] I’ve done that a couple of times and sent them over to her table.

Leila: [00:16:48] We have. For other children?

Stone Payton: [00:16:50] Yes.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:16:52] Is it everyone?

Stone Payton: [00:16:52] Well, no, that’s handy and it’s important again, no matter what age you are, you know, in my world, it’s it’s important that I work with other people, with other media platforms, and we try to collaborate other people in other lines of business. Or if I have a client who’s a professional services person, they might be a CPA, but maybe they tell her, you know, a business attorney, hey, maybe you ought to talk to the or at least come on the show. If not if not, become a. All right. So let’s talk about the where. So it’s nice when you have the expo and the people come to you. If you found other places like, I don’t know, like a website or a Facebook page or something like that.

Amy Guest: [00:17:29] Yeah. And we’ve also been to a couple different farmers markets. One was that River Church on Sixes Road. One of them was in battleground on that green.

Stone Payton: [00:17:40] Yeah.

Amy Guest: [00:17:41] And social media do sell a couple of things there, whichever Facebook page.

Leila: [00:17:48] So people can order my stuff on the Facebook.

Stone Payton: [00:17:50] Page. Oh, nice. All right. So you’ve got an e-commerce situation going there. Yes.

Leila: [00:17:56] So professional.

Stone Payton: [00:17:58] No, that’s fair. That’s fantastic. All right. So, moms, we have an event or some events coming up.

Amy Guest: [00:18:06] Absolutely. We have. Our next expo is July 24th. We’ll be here in Woodstock on the the green.

Stone Payton: [00:18:18] Like right behind reformation. Reformation is my beacon and then everything is in reference to reformation.

Amy Guest: [00:18:25] So that makes sense. We will be directly across from reformation in the arts green green event area switch. And that is, like I said, July 24th from 1 to 6. All right. We have right now 46 children signed up to be mine.

Stone Payton: [00:18:45] Yes. All right. Well, color me there. You know I’m going to be there. Yes. We would love to have you there. Absolutely. All right. So do you pay an admission to to get in the venue itself or not?

Renee Dierdorff: [00:18:55] No, it’s free to the public.

Amy Guest: [00:18:56] Yeah. The venue itself is just a fun, free community event. The vendors set up and do their thing. We’ll have face painters and ice cream trucks and all the fun things that make it a good, worthwhile event. But the vendors do their thing, so it is for them to do.

Stone Payton: [00:19:14] Very nice. So bring your wallet. Yes, right.

Amy Guest: [00:19:17] Absolutely. Come to shop and.

Stone Payton: [00:19:19] Be ready to shop and talk with these young, young entrepreneurs.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:19:23] Do want them we do want the public to talk to them because there’s a lot that can be they can learn a lot from the questions that they.

Stone Payton: [00:19:29] Ask.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:19:30] Yeah, but the public learns a lot from them, too.

Amy Guest: [00:19:34] Absolutely.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:19:34] It’s really, really cool.

Stone Payton: [00:19:36] All right. So let’s hear from a couple of other entrepreneurs. I have Harper and Austin. Avery and Avery, man, we have a studio full here. Yes. Yes. All right, Harper, talk to me. Tell me about your business. So you know what? You know what I’m going to do, Harper? I’m going to turn your microphone on, and that’s going to make the whole thing sound better. I turned it down when you guys were switching around. So I’m getting better at this, you know? Look, you know, we’re all we’re all practicing. Let’s try it again. Now that I turned your microphone.

Leila: [00:20:05] On so I make kind of, like, circle cakes, and I’m going to.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:20:16] Book called Cake Bites, right?

Leila: [00:20:18] Yeah. My business name is Cake and Glaze.

Stone Payton: [00:20:22] Cute chicken glaze. All right. So a lot of different flavors. Yeah. Yeah. Like different tastes, different people. Like different ones.

Leila: [00:20:30] Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:20:31] What’s your favorite?

Leila: [00:20:34] Well.

Stone Payton: [00:20:36] I think I could like Oreo. Well, you have Oreo at this next event that they’re talking about. Will you bring Oreo?

Leila: [00:20:40] Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:20:41] Yeah. How about jalapeno? No.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:20:45] What other flavors do you think you’re going to do? What do we get?

Leila: [00:20:48] Cinnamon crunch.

Stone Payton: [00:20:50] Oh, baby. Lemon.

Leila: [00:20:52] Lemon.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:20:53] Chocolate and funfetti.

Stone Payton: [00:20:55] Yeah. All right, so. So one thing that I don’t think the general public always acknowledges and maybe even newer entrepreneurs may not realize there’s there’s the where you’re at the booth and you’re at the event or it’s available online. But sometimes they don’t see all the activity, all of the work that goes into getting ready to be able to actually hand someone the Oreo cake and get to it. Tell me a little bit about all the work behind the scenes that has to happen, for example, to get ready for this event. There’s a lot of there’s a lot that goes into it, isn’t there?

Leila: [00:21:29] It’s really simple to me, to be honest with you. It’s you just it’s supposed to be like whenever I get the box is supposed to be a cake. So I make the batter and then I can there’s like this little mini oven, you know, and it has like nine spheres in it.

Stone Payton: [00:21:48] Yeah.

Leila: [00:21:50] And then.

Stone Payton: [00:21:53] So you figured out the process. But while you’re in there doing that work and I think it sounds like you enjoy the work.

Leila: [00:21:59] Yeah, it’s really fun.

Stone Payton: [00:22:00] Some of the other kids are out playing, right. And maybe you’re playing, too, which is part of why that’s entrepreneurs. We enjoy what we’re doing, but there’s a lot to it. Okay, so you’ve got to make up the batter, then you got to make them pretty right and package them so that it looks like something I might want to buy.

Leila: [00:22:17] Yeah, it’s going to be where someone buys it, and then they can eat it while they’re walking around the kitchen.

Stone Payton: [00:22:23] And then they’ll buy another one before they leave. That’s right. That’s a good idea. Encourage them to eat it right down and tell them to come back, buy on their way out. Right.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:22:31] You’re going to have samples, too, aren’t you?

Leila: [00:22:32] Yeah, it’s just going to be free samples.

Stone Payton: [00:22:34] All right. Fantastic. All right. Again, I’m all mixed up with the names. Austin.

Amy Guest: [00:22:40] Avery.

Stone Payton: [00:22:40] Avery. All right, Avery, lay it on me now. You started this whole thing.

Amy Guest: [00:22:46] The whole.

Stone Payton: [00:22:46] Thing. All right. So talk about that very first idea with the cotton candy. You personally like cotton candy? Was that part of it? Yeah. All right. So tell us more about where in the world did you think at what point did you say, hey, I want to do this, I want to make this a business?

Leila: [00:23:05] So I got a cotton candy machine for Christmas and I wanted to do something fun. So we started to get like logos and started to go to farmers markets at River Church.

Amy Guest: [00:23:24] And then how did you come up with your flavors? Because that’s where it was very creative.

Stone Payton: [00:23:32] Oh. Did you ask anybody what they might like? Or you went with your favorites at first.

Leila: [00:23:43] I mean, I went with my favorites and in some of the best sellers that I would take to.

Stone Payton: [00:23:53] There you go. Well, that’s what I did. I started out doing the shows that I wanted to do, talking to. And then I found out that clients and listeners and people, they had ideas for other shows, kind of conversations that they would want to have. And then, yes, I also gravitated to the best sellers. Right. That’s just good, solid business right there. All right. So this has not been that long. I mean, it might seem longer to you than it does to me because I have gray hair, but it’s only been like this whole thing is like a year a year old. A lot has happened in a year. Yes. I’m going to ask you both, but I’ll start with you, Avery. Where do you see this thing going like a year from now? Will it be bigger and all of that or what do you think we’d be selling more stuff?

Leila: [00:24:43] Yeah, I think it will definitely be bigger. And I’ll have more ideas.

Stone Payton: [00:24:48] In.

Leila: [00:24:49] Better flavors or. Any other ideas?

Stone Payton: [00:24:57] Yeah. How about you, Miss Harper?

Leila: [00:25:01] I’ll probably start game. I’ll probably start and make, like, other kinds of cake. Yeah. Yeah. Then I’ll just grow from there.

Stone Payton: [00:25:11] Yeah. So. And I’ll start with you, Harper, but I want I want to ask you both about this question. If we had and we probably do, a seasoned business person, a mentor who has been through a lot, probably made some mistakes, probably had a great many successes. If you could ask them a question that you think would would help you or something you’ve been curious about that might help you in your business, is there a is there a question or something you’ve been wondering about, something that you would want to have a conversation about?

Leila: [00:25:42] Not really.

Stone Payton: [00:25:43] You got to figure it out, huh? I do know you got to you don’t need a bunch of outsiders. You just but you do pay attention to your customers. That’s the customers are good mentors, right? Because they’re going to they will speak to you. If they don’t tell you directly, they’ll tell you by what they bought right at the last expo. You can you can learn. You can learn from them. Avery, how about you? Would you have a question that you would want to know, like anything from managing the money to how to sell more or you got this thing figured out to.

Leila: [00:26:13] I think I got it figured.

Stone Payton: [00:26:14] I love it.

Leila: [00:26:15] It’s true.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:26:16] They’ve been coming to our workshops.

Stone Payton: [00:26:19] You have been going to the workshops? Yeah. So what kind of things do they talk about at the workshops?

Leila: [00:26:24] Just like I to like time management.

Stone Payton: [00:26:26] Oh, okay. Yeah, well, I need to go to that workshop.

Leila: [00:26:29] It was very. That’s the only one I’ve been to.

Stone Payton: [00:26:32] Yeah. Yeah.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:26:33] Usually the older ones are the ones that. That can hold the tension long enough.

Stone Payton: [00:26:39] Yeah.

Leila: [00:26:39] Yeah, well, I can barely hold it.

Stone Payton: [00:26:42] That might be true. I think those of us that there’s some of us, regardless of age, that that remains a challenge. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, I feel that. All right. So I’ll ask you to the same question, and I’ll start with you, Amy. Where do you see this thing going?

Amy Guest: [00:26:58] Well, our world wide world know our plans and our dreams and hopes and aspirations for Kid Expo in general. As our like as an organization grows, we would love a stable, a solid facility in the community. Okay. To kind of become that staple of where you send your kids to enhance their entrepreneurial spirit, to learn more about business, to learn life skills, to practice these these things, we could have more pop up shops. We could do like classes and camp longer classes in camps than just the occasional workshops. We could offer more to these kids that want to absorb it, just the things that they may not be getting in a traditional school setting because the curriculum doesn’t have the time for it or the focus for it, just based on different schooling systems, but just having an an outside resource that these kids can go to and learn these skills at a young age and kind of just prepare them for not only business, but just a lot of life skills.

Stone Payton: [00:28:00] Well, it certainly seems like there’s plenty of opportunity. I’m sure there are plenty of kids and parents who would love to to be a part of this. So it may be close to infinite as far as the number of people you could you could serve in that way.

Amy Guest: [00:28:15] Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we would love to make it something where we could have chapters across the state. So like we’re the Cherokee County version, we can have a COB version if we solidify how it works and duplicate it and offer the more children can benefit from it.

Stone Payton: [00:28:33] Well, you know, you bring up a good point, because so much of what you’ve learned, you’re going to want to get this and maybe you’re already working on this. You’re going to want to get the I call it the playbook, but you’re going to want to get it bottled right and documented so that you have repeatable processes and transferable.

Amy Guest: [00:28:49] Tools in that process. We have a board of directors, so we are working on all the the done our I’s and crossing our T’s, getting everything organized.

Stone Payton: [00:28:59] That’s fantastic. So, Renee, what can the community do to help? How can the community at large, how can businesses, how can media, how can we help?

Renee Dierdorff: [00:29:13] Well, at the grassroots level, people coming out and supporting the kids at the Expos, sharing our workshops and getting the word out. And when you hear this, just getting the word out and getting letting people know who we are on a business level, we need donations because Amy and I operate at you know, we don’t take a salary from this. This is our own time. We don’t.

Stone Payton: [00:29:37] There hasn’t been a wealth building exercise, so it has been.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:29:39] A self-funded.

Stone Payton: [00:29:40] Exercise.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:29:42] But we’ve talked several times when it’s just me and her and it’s like, this feels important, so it’s 100% worth it.

Stone Payton: [00:29:50] Yeah.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:29:51] And it doesn’t really matter how long it takes to kind of build things where we can. Make this our full time thing, because overall it’s just more important than anything else. So but yeah, we we are a 501 three organization, so all the business donations are tax deductible. And they would go toward the donations would go towards our general operating funds that we can work on all of the programs and all of those lead up to the expose that we do three times a year.

Stone Payton: [00:30:25] Yeah. So that’s a nonprofit designation. So Cherokee Business RadioX was a nonprofit in February.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:30:33] Oh, congratulations.

Stone Payton: [00:30:34] No, no, no. Just in February. Oh, okay. Now we’re back in the black. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Under designation. Oh, yes, I understand. So. All right, so let’s talk about businesses. Is there is there a way maybe to get some returns? There’s there’s the donation side of things, and that’s great. But could we could someone like a Business RadioX or a law firm or whatever, could we be a sponsor? Yes. Like like at this upcoming event, what might that look like or probably get pretty creative with it, right?

Renee Dierdorff: [00:31:06] Yeah. So we have a, you know, event sponsorship for the Expos where it’s, you know, your traditional levels of donating. And then we also have annual giving that a business may able to do is to be an annual sponsor. Yeah. And then another way a business can give back to the organization is to lead workshops.

Stone Payton: [00:31:30] Ah.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:31:31] So we in return would. Advertise your business and then you can come and get in front of these kiddos and really make an impact. So, yeah, donate your time.

Stone Payton: [00:31:44] No, the time is precious.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:31:45] It is. And we appreciate we’ve had so many people already do this and participate in the workshops. So those have been great.

Stone Payton: [00:31:54] So probably an off air conversation, but I want to plan a couple of seats with you before we wrap this segment and move to to our other. Yes. What if business radio sponsored an upcoming event and maybe got some presence in the value of that? I don’t know. In the literature there’s a banner or something like that. But what if periodically we had some of the kids come and talk about their business, either here in the studio or another idea that might be worth exploring? It might even help us get a third party sponsor they could help fund is at events like this. One of the areas was kid biz radio or that kind of wonderful and and really and let them kind of run the thing and maybe interview the board members. Yes that that’s what the.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:32:43] Explosions that sounds incredible because we’ve been trying to think of we thought about having like a booth there or something where we could interview people that are there, like to get kind of like testimonials, but just really hear back from the community what they got out of it. And then also the kids, what they’re getting out of it because because like we talked about, the kids learn what to make based off of the sales. We want to make sure that we’re serving the community the way that they want to be served. So we need that feedback and live and in person at that event is the best way to do that.

Stone Payton: [00:33:17] All right. So we got a thumbs up from Renee and Amy. But Harper, you down for something like that? You like that idea of having radio at the event? Yeah. Yeah. So would you be on the show and or would you be on the show but asking some questions. What do you think about that idea?

Leila: [00:33:34] That’s fine with that.

Stone Payton: [00:33:35] You’re cool with that? You got that? Yeah.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:33:36] You’ve done this.

Leila: [00:33:37] Expert.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:33:38] Now.

Stone Payton: [00:33:39] How about you, Avery? Is that something you could get into? Yes. Yeah.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:33:43] All right. Well, the kids interviewing kids would be. Really?

Stone Payton: [00:33:46] I think so.

Leila: [00:33:47] That’d be awesome.

Stone Payton: [00:33:48] Okay. We went from I think so to awesome. I think we’re making it. All right. So let’s before we wrap, let’s make sure that our listeners have an easy way to reach out to these to these businesses. And so I want to make sure that and let’s make sure we get the info and we’ll publish that when we publish. But for now, let’s make sure that they have an easy way to reach out and have a conversation with you or learn more about you and Amy, either one or both, whatever you think is appropriate, whether it’s a LinkedIn or Facebook email, whatever.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:34:22] So we’re on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok at Kid Biz Expo. So you can just search for us there and you’ll find it. And then you can go to Kid Biz Expo dot com for our website and everything’s there and you can message us on Facebook and we’re very responsive and we’ll be happy to talk to anybody that wants to connect.

Stone Payton: [00:34:40] Well, it has been a real delight having you and your entrepreneurs here in the studio. Sounds like we’re going to get a chance to do to work and play together. That sounds some more. But thank you so much. Keep up the good work. What you guys are doing is so important and we really do appreciate you and the community and Business RadioX Cherokee specifically. We’re going to we’re going to see what we can do to help. All right.

Renee Dierdorff: [00:35:03] Appreciate it.

Stone Payton: [00:35:04] Hey, how about hanging out with this gang while we visit with our next guest? We might learn something cool that. Yeah. You’re willing to stay with us, Harper?

Leila: [00:35:11] Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:35:12] All right. All right. Next up on Cherokee Business Radio, please join me in welcoming to the broadcast with prime leadership Christy Chadwick. How are you?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:35:24] Great. Thank you for having me.

Stone Payton: [00:35:25] Oh, it’s a delight to have you here. So what’d you learn in that last segment?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:35:30] Well, maybe they made their way smarter than.

Stone Payton: [00:35:33] I am, that’s for sure. You picked up on that quick, huh?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:35:37] I did.

Stone Payton: [00:35:38] I did know. It was a lot of fun visiting with them. So we are going to get more involved. Okay. Let’s talk about prime leadership, mission purpose. What are you out there trying to do for folks?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:35:49] I’m well, I’m at the next step that these kids would take in their career. So I like to focus on the middle management where someone is just wanting to get into management, learning those life skills, learning the leadership, the culture, what it really means to build a great team, a great foundation, and what it is to really lead with culture.

Stone Payton: [00:36:14] So I got to ask, and I’ve been wanting to ask this question in the minute that I saw you were going to be on the show. So I’m going to ask her this question. I’ve asked a lot of people this question over the over the years, leadership. Is it an art? Is it a science? How would you characterize that, that word, that thing?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:36:31] I wrote about this in my book. So it’s part science. Part art. Okay. So part art is something that you’re going to learn by experience, by grace under fire, I guess by just doing it and learning, you know, what works when you’re managing someone, everyone is managed differently. Just like when you have kids, each kid is parented differently.

Stone Payton: [00:36:56] And if they burn the cakes, you got to handle that otherwise. That’s right. That’s right.

Leila: [00:37:00] Yeah.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:37:01] But the science part is the things that you can learn, meaning that, you know, you build your foundation with goals and core values at my, you know, at heart. And as long as you lead with your heart and with those core values, then that’s where the where the art comes in.

Stone Payton: [00:37:18] So if you do lead with your heart and your people see you kind of living into these core values that you’re espousing, do you? It’s my theory. So I will tell you, I my answer is yes, but I’m interested in your in your answer. Do you feel like people will give you a little leeway, give you a little space because they recognize your human too, and that if they see you living into that, they don’t just automatically turn off. Turn off. Is that been your.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:37:44] Well, I mean, leadership is loyalty and trust. That’s a lot of it. Yeah. So you want your people to trust you and you want them to be loyal to you. I learned that from being in a corporate world and now shifting my career to to helping others. But we the. Court. The court leadership and leading by heart is by, you know, leading by example.

Stone Payton: [00:38:11] So so the when you’re thinking through establishing, reestablishing, communicating, re communicating values, are there some, I don’t know, do’s and don’ts or some some things to try to keep in mind as you’re establishing them or communicating them? What’s your take on that?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:38:33] Setting expectations early. Yeah. So letting everybody know what the expectation is, what your expectation. If you was to interview 100 people who’s worked under me in the past, they would say that I’m hard but fair.

Stone Payton: [00:38:46] Hmm.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:38:46] And that’s because I’ve set a very clear expectation, and I it’s very high. But, you know, I give them the resources and communicate with them, let them know what I’m expecting, make sure that they’re successful. Because if they’re not successful, I’m not successful. And that’s the way I lead. And that’s that’s the workshops that I’m doing to lead other middle management to be top, top executives.

Stone Payton: [00:39:12] And when you set the expectation and it’s not met, it doesn’t mean you got to terminate someone. Right? But you can’t just ignore that or it’s no longer an expectation. Is that accurate?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:39:25] That is absolutely accurate. So you just have to coach.

Stone Payton: [00:39:29] Yeah.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:39:30] So you’re I mean, you’re when you when they’re doing something that you don’t like, you know, you’re having a meeting of the minds and you are, you know, maybe, maybe they see something that you don’t see. So you have to listen as a leader as well. You just can’t. It’s not your way or the highway per se, but you’re kind of meeting in the middle because sometimes they’re going to have better ideas than you. So sometimes that’s a hard pill to swallow. However, that’s how that’s how lead. That’s how leaders grow.

Stone Payton: [00:39:57] So talk about this workshop. So walk us through some of the things we might expect if we participate in one of your workshops.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:40:04] Yeah. So right now we have the ten day later, the ten day leadership challenge going on. So it’s just ten days. It’s virtual right now where you, you know, you get an activity, you send in the activity and then we talk about it at the end of the week in a zoom. So we do one of those a month right now. So it’s just now started. We just started in February. So it’s brand new and off the ground, but it’s so, so, so far so good.

Stone Payton: [00:40:31] Okay. So in the virtual environment, we have the conversation, we set the context, and then there’s there’s an activity or a set of actions, and then we’re supposed to go back to the ranch in our own environment and apply that activity.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:40:45] Correct. And then you come back with real world, real world experiences, feedback. So you’re in an a group environment with mentors. You know, we have other people that come in and help because obviously I don’t I don’t know at all. So I want to bring people in who know more than I do. Right. That can help help people who are in the workshop to engage and that kind of thing.

Stone Payton: [00:41:08] I would think that that would be an incredibly powerful method of of learning far more powerful than just sitting and listening to you, no matter how eloquent or articulate or how right you might be about all these, to just write it down in my notebook. I mean, there’s value in that. But compared to actually, okay, now go back to to the office and do that and then come back with the results which aren’t always pristine, I’m guessing.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:41:35] Correct. That’s part that’s half science, half art. So with them having engaged engagement, that’s your art part. So you’re learning to actually implement what your what your are your learning to implement, what your what we’re teaching.

Stone Payton: [00:41:50] So how does the whole sales and marketing thing work for a for a practice like yours? I’m anticipating that it might not be terribly easy to just pick up the phone and say, Hey, would you like to participate in my workshops? How does the whole sales and marketing thing work for a thing like your?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:42:08] Fortunately, I started by warm leads by just my network. I was at a position in November. I decided to part ways at the beginning.

Stone Payton: [00:42:20] Of this past November.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:42:22] Oh wow. And decided to go to do my own thing from some encouragement from some past coworkers of mine. Oh, good. So they had called me up and said, Hey, I’m wanting to teach your method to my coworkers, to my team. Will you will you come in? And I was like, maybe not. So I sit on it for a little bit, kind of like with me coming onto the show, right? So it took me it took me a minute to to say yes, but eventually I did. And I’m glad I did because it’s been it’s been real rewarding.

Stone Payton: [00:42:54] Yeah. All right. So the the early part of a conversation, if do you work with individuals as well or right now it’s.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:43:01] Individuals and businesses.

Stone Payton: [00:43:02] All right. So so if if it’s an individual. Or a business, I guess. Talk me through the early part of engagement. I recognize that part of what the execution might be a workshop or some individual coaching or any number of things, but that that first conversation, that early in the engagement, what is that like? Are you are you asking a lot of questions about my world? Like, what’s a what’s that first exchange?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:43:29] Like, I want to see what their mindset is. So I want to see what they I mean, this leadership or my style of leadership is half half science, half art. And I need to make sure that they don’t want to operate totally on science because they will not be successful. So I want to make sure that the partnership is successful. Kind of like when you’re hiring somebody new, you’re hiring for culture, not for not for their ability, because their ability most times, most times you can train somebody to do a certain task, right? You never can hire for culture. You can’t once somebody is who they are, that’s who they are.

Stone Payton: [00:44:08] Okay, so lesson learned.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:44:09] Yeah. So once, you know, you have to define that culture, your company culture, same thing. When I’m working with people, I want to make sure that it’s a fit and I’m not wasting their time. They’re not wasting my time. So I want to make sure that they’re 100%, you know, that I’ve set them up for success.

Stone Payton: [00:44:22] So what do you do now that you’ve gone out on your own, you’re doing this work, what are you finding the most rewarding? What are you enjoying the most.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:44:30] Help business owners, you know, redefine their operations. Yeah, putting people in the right seat, recruiting for them. So we started doing a little bit recruiting. So where we have people that come through our leadership training, we’ve now partnerships with companies, so we’re actually onboarding them. So we went into the company and we have we know how their operations work. So now we’re training those people. So now instead of that six, sometimes 12 week training period, that has been reduced because we’re training them as we’re onboarding them.

Stone Payton: [00:45:07] So the hiring and the onboarding, I intellectually, I know just how critical that is and practically I haven’t proven to be great at either. I at least self identified. I have a tendency to hire in my own image. Right? I mean, I’m probably not the only one, right? No. Is that a common pattern?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:45:30] Yeah, I would say more than 70% of people do that.

Stone Payton: [00:45:33] Wow. And I if someone tells me they can do something, I just I want to believe them. I want to give them that shot. So it’s a I’m not a I’m not a tough job interview.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:45:47] I don’t my interviews are not tough either. I like it to be very I want them to be very comfortable because I want to see how they are in their natural self versus their adaptive self.

Stone Payton: [00:46:01] Oh, yeah, talk.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:46:02] More about that. So that gets a little bit into the behavioral analysis. So you want to make sure that, you know, when somebody said adapt and have an adaptive personality, then that means that they’re they’re adaptive to being who you think they are. So it’s more natural in a pressure situation. That’s who they’re going to be is their natural self. So, you know, if the building is on fire and they panic, they’re not going to get your team out. They’re going to get themselves out. So, you know, in in an executive or a management role, you want to make sure that your your team comes out on top. So you’re only as weak as you’re you’re only as strong as your weakest link. And if you you know, that’s part of being big and culture, making sure that you’re making the natural self more than the adaptive self.

Stone Payton: [00:46:50] So in our earlier segment, we touched on the idea of mentorship a little bit. Have you had the gift of someone mentoring you in your earlier career or as you start this?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:47:03] I did. I did. She may kill me for mentioning her name on radio, but Geraldine Moody was my mentor. So I say she raised me in the bank. She was one of the founders of Community Bank of Pickens County, brought me under her wing, taught me everything that she knew. And I’ve been lucky enough to house that friendship over all these years. But yes, she would be my mentor.

Stone Payton: [00:47:28] So some insights, lessons learned on either side of that table as a mentor or mentee is. That’s right. Yeah. Like, well, let’s take it from the mentee. Let’s say that I have decided, you know what, I need and want to be mentored. Are there some things I could do or maybe should not do to get the most out of that relationship? The ways I can approach those conversations or any insights you might have on that?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:47:58] Nope. Just be honest to yourself. Have the right mindset.

Stone Payton: [00:48:02] Yeah.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:48:03] You know, always learn. From other people. So, yeah, you never want to be the smartest person in the room, that’s for sure.

Stone Payton: [00:48:10] Not been a problem for me. I got I got I got some challenges in this business that has not been one of them. So, like everyone in this room, your your enthusiasm for the business, your passion comes through, certainly here in person, I’m sure, over the airwaves. And I mean, you got to run out of gas sometimes. Where do you go? And I don’t necessarily mean a physical place. How do you. Recharge the batteries and find your inspiration to keep going.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:48:44] My family, for sure. So I come from a huge family. I have. There’s five of me.

Stone Payton: [00:48:50] So am I.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:48:50] I have a brother and four sisters and two daughters, two teenage daughters. Both of them are very active. One of them does rodeo, so.

Stone Payton: [00:48:59] Oh, cool. I love these conversations, guys. And I’ve said this before on the air. If you want to really get to know someone and learn some interesting stuff about them, get yourself a radio show because there’s just so much. It’s that tip of the iceberg thing. There’s just so much. So do you have a family member in rodeo?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:49:17] My daughter. My youngest.

Stone Payton: [00:49:19] Oh, wow. How fun is that? I raised two. Well, Holly raised two wonderful young ladies, but I got to hang out during the process. And my youngest was a gymnast, and I was so proud of her. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the the bars and the floor exercise. I could not watch the balance beam thing. Right. Do you ever feel that way on it? Yes.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:49:45] My my oldest daughter was a catcher.

Stone Payton: [00:49:48] In softball.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:49:49] So I’ve spent most of my life since I’ve had kids and they’ve been old enough to be active, closing my eyes for at least 30 seconds during each event.

Stone Payton: [00:49:59] Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that is fun stuff. All right. So where do you think you’re going to take this thing? Do you want to at some point certify your methodology and have other people teach it as that or. Yeah.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:50:16] I don’t know that I would go certification, but, you know, I have some other people that work with me that I’m training to kind of teach the same thing, right? So, you know, more workshops more more people like myself that teach different things, you know, like social media or marketing technology.

Stone Payton: [00:50:35] So like maybe team up with other people who are best in class in that domain and bring them to the so. Well, that’s a neat idea.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:50:42] Yeah. I’m bringing bring like a group and then have, you know, maybe have a membership to that group where you meet once or twice a month and then you’re meeting the best, have a speaker. And then I like the engagement piece where you know you’re having activities and it’s just not a lot of lecture. And then you mix that up with some real world experience. That way you can test it out and then come back and say, okay, this worked, this didn’t work, why didn’t this work? Let’s go back and try it again.

Stone Payton: [00:51:11] Yeah. All right. Let’s let’s if we can leave our listeners, including the listeners in the room. So I’m going to ask you to approach it. You’re going to be covering some a lot of real estate here, but let’s leave them with some counsel, either from lessons learned, good or bad, some things that you have found. You know, these these couple of things I’m doing have really led to the progress so far. Boy, if I had it to do again or knew what I know now, I probably would not have invested as much time and energy in this. Anything along those lines that’ll help anybody in this room, including me?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:51:47] That’s a hard question. So if I could go back and do anything again, it would be get a coach early. So, okay. So I had a mentor, but not really a coach. So, you know, I’ve I learned the hard way. You know, I spent all these all this money on softball lessons and riding lessons. But we don’t we don’t do those lessons in your career and in your business. So, you know, as you’re growing businesses, you want to learn as much as you can. And a lot of this, they don’t teach at school, but some but you’re learning real world. So you can have you know, you want to do social media, find you a coach. Somebody knows how to do it better than you.

Stone Payton: [00:52:25] I think that’s marvelous advice. All right. Before we wrap, let’s make sure that that we leave our listeners with a way to reach out to you, learn more about your coaching programs, or if they’d like, have a conversation with you or someone on your your team.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:52:42] Yeah. So you can find me on LinkedIn. We have prom leadership, LinkedIn and Facebook, and we have a website so you can find us up from leadership dot com.

Stone Payton: [00:52:50] Fan Oh, I meant to ask why? Why did you call it prime? Why prime.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:52:53] The leadership it was I come up with a couple of names, sent it to my family. My husband’s like, This is it.

Stone Payton: [00:53:00] I said, okay, it sounds like your family and particularly your spouse, very supportive of this move.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:53:10] They are. Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:53:11] So so yeah. I got to ask, though, what was that conversation like when you went home saying, you know, I got this great job, hubby, you know, and this is all good, but I’m not going to do that. I’m going to go out on my own. It was was that a five minute conversation or was that a weekend?

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:53:25] He said, it’s about time.

Stone Payton: [00:53:27] Oh, good for you hubby. Shout out for the hubby.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:53:31] Yeah, he said it’s about time.

Stone Payton: [00:53:33] All right, one more time. Coordinates. Best way to reach out to you.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:53:36] You can find us on website WW. Leadership or on I’m sorry on website WW leadership dot com or on Facebook at Prime Leadership or on LinkedIn at Prime Leadership dot com.

Stone Payton: [00:53:48] Marvelous. Well, thanks for coming down and visiting with us. Something you might entertain if you’re up for it. I think it might be an interesting segment. If you have a local client sometime that you’ve worked with, have them come on, maybe talk about their business so we can give them that opportunity as well. But maybe also talk about the relationship and what they got out of the coaching and the workshop and that guy. If you’re up for that, yeah, yeah. Reach out and we’ll have like a special episode. A special segment on that.

Kristy Byess Chadwick: [00:54:16] Absolutely. And I would love to mentor these kids. So great pairing.

Stone Payton: [00:54:18] Very nice. I have no idea who’s sitting at number four, but it’s one of our young entrepreneurs.

Leila: [00:54:25] Layla.

Stone Payton: [00:54:26] Layla, I’m horrible with the names. Layla, what do you think about that idea? You like that? Thanks. Yes. All right. So we got a lot of we got a lot done here and we have a lot of future plans. All right. This is Stone Payton for our guest today and everyone here at the Business RadioX family saying we’ll see you next time on Cherokee Business Radio.