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Welcome to the Share the Struggle podcast Camper Sessions, windsor Fairgrounds edition.
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That's right.
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This week's episode of Share the Struggle podcast is being recorded from the confines of our lovely little camper at one of our absolute favorite places to be, the Windsor Fairgrounds.
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Let me tell you something everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations?
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be Back on time reading the bad words, the whole day gone, falling behind.
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I'm running behind you Too fast and way too fast.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
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What it do, what it do, what it diddy-do, hot diggity-damn.
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The Loud Proud American is so excited to be back with you.
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Oh, it's true, it's damn true.
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Welcome to the Loud Proud American podcast.
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Properly, precisely, beautifully's damn true.
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Welcome to the Loud, proud American podcast, properly, precisely, beautifully, perfectly named share the struggle, because everybody struggles.
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Y'all know it's true.
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It is true.
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I don't care how well you pretend to be put together, I don't care how many filters you have on your Instagram posts.
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I don't know or believe or question or want to talk about all the little fake nonsense you put on your Facebook profile.
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What we're here to say is the truth today, and the truth is everybody struggles.
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You can cover things up, brother, you can butter them up, you can try to put butter on that biscuit.
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You can go ahead and put filters on that profile pic, but the truth is y'all be struggling.
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There's something out there that's bothering you, that's challenging you, and the truth is there is strength if you are willing to share whatever the hell those struggles are.
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So that's why we got ourselves a podcast that's been running since 2020, believe it or not July 2020.
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What are we at?
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216, 217 episodes, something like that.
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I can't remember, man.
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I can't remember.
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You know why I can't remember?
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Because I'm freaking jacked up.
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I'm freaking jacked up.
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I'm running a little low on sleep, but high on positivity, if you ask me.
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Okay, no chemicals here.
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There's no chemical imbalance.
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This is just adrenaline and energy.
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That's all this is, and an extreme cup of positivity.
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You know why I'm so positive?
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Because I'm recording today's podcast from the confines of our lovely little camper our lovely little camper here at one of our favorite places to be, the Windsor Fairgrounds.
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That's right, I'm actually recording today's episode on opening day of the Windsor Fair, and this year the Windsor Fair blessed all of us, vendors and patrons, with a sweet little treat.
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And that little treat just happens to be an extra freaking day, and that extra day is none other than a Saturday.
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So if you do what I do, if you're a fellow vendor like me, a small business owner that travels around looking for the opportunity to meet and greet people, when you are a fair goer, when you go to fairs you depend on fairs you fully understand and appreciate how much a Saturday benefits you and your business.
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So there's pros and cons to this right, the con being that if you depend on a Saturday and you're set up somewhere and all your eggs are in that Saturday little basket got all my eggs in that little basket and it just happens to rain and be a miserable day, you can lose the overall benefits of that entire event by losing a Saturday.
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So if you are blessed with an extra Saturday, that's a goal of mine, and when you are blessed with an extra Saturday, that just happens to be one of the most beautiful days you've experienced all year.
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That, folks, is called a blessing, and I'm so damn excited about opening day of the Windsor Fair.
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Today you wake up with optimism because everything is in sight.
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Right, all the days of opportunity are ahead of us, right, there's no day behind us.
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We haven't lost a day in a business.
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They're all ahead of us to gain.
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So you feel damn good when you are kicking off a fair, and when it happens to be one of the best fairs in your calendar, it makes it even that much better.
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So we're excited to be here and I'm just going to kind of build you up and lead you up to what's going on, give you a little insight, and then I'm going to have to get giddy on because the wife's down there covering the tent and she has to get on home real soon because she has to work at the hospital tonight.
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So right now her and my mom are running things.
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So I have a very, very short window to give you all some positivity and some updates.
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So that's what I'm back here to do.
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Okay, you ready, I said.
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Are you ready?
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I think we went over that right, was that last week?
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I mean they all blend up together right now.
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But are you ready?
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Do you remember that little conversation, that changing of your mindset?
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Because we all come to realize that perception is reality and what you perceive to be true shall be true.
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So if you're facing that challenge and you're asking yourself can I handle this challenge, am I ready for this challenge, I want you to reframe and reimagine how that question is being asked.
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And for me personally, being the redneck wrestling fan that I am, listen, here's the truth, y'all.
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I'm going to put my hand on that Cabela's catalog.
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I'm going to put my eye to the sky.
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Give you the truth from the sky.
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I was born white trash.
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Okay, trailer park white trash.
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I'm proud of it.
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I don't run from it.
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Okay, I was born and raised on on, on wrestling.
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Okay, that's what my grandfather used to call it the wrestling.
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You know, you're an old school wrestling fan.
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When it's been referred to as wrestling, I didn't even, like you, just dropped the W right off of wrestling, and it's wrestling.
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Okay, when I imagine Triple H coming out giving me the old are you ready?
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I'm ready, and for this fair I'm so damn ready.
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Okay, that's how we connect episodes.
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Right there, folks, hold on to your pants yeah, hike up your panties, okay.
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Grab on to your bloomers.
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Fasten up your britches okay, because that's what you do.
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So here's how things go.
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Y'all, I'm going to give you the positives, I'm going to give you the excitements, the highlights, and then I'm going to touch on a little bit of the worrisome feelings that go on in the back of your mind, and then we're going to put a pretty little bow on it, pretty, going to put a pretty little bow on it, pretty little bow on it, and we're going to get back to making things happen.
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So to give you a little update, when we last had an episode, we talked about our road trip to drop the camper off and underdog metal coming to save the day because the truck was dead on the side of the road at 95.
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So I gave you that little recap.
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That's where we were.
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Since then, I've been in straight up production mode trying to get ready for this fair, and I got to say that I'm so happy, confident and pleased with all I was able to accomplish.
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Now I know in a few days I'm going to run out of certain items and things and sizes and I'm going to say to myself self you should have made more of those.
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But what I'm here to say is I'm proud of what I accomplished and if you are a longtime listener, if you're a day one listener, if you've been here since the early days, the wee, wee, early days, all the way back in July 2020.
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Can you believe that it's 2024, y'all right, isn't it?
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It's 24,.
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I believe, wow, it's out of control.
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I believe, wow, it's out of control.
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So if you listen along, you realize that I've had to make an adjustment with my quest for perfection.
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I had to realize that things aren't just going to be perfect.
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Sometimes you just got to get and do things the best you can and be okay with them.
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Because I used to hold myself and my business back because if I wasn't prepared enough, I didn't have enough products, I didn't have the best positioning as far as how my things were going to look, the presentation, all those things.
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Then I would hold myself back from doing things or I would tell myself you're not ready for things.
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I've really adjusted to the point of doing the best I can to prepare as best I can and just making it happen.
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So what I mean by that is this I've been working copious hours in the office trying to get things done.
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This is all in the mix of us trying to prepare and get ready for the little one that's on the way.
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So while preparing for the beautiful arrival of little Miss Paisley Rain, I'm also trying to position our business in the best way possible for this fair.
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So I have moved and maneuvered every ounce of credit and finances that I possibly have I'm rolling into this fair just shy of the red in every single category that I possibly have.
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That's my fair air conditioner.
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Y'all, I probably got to turn that off.
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Oh please, that's my fair air conditioner.
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Y'all.
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I probably got to turn that off.
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Oh please, please hold.
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I would edit this out, like a much more organized host would edit this out.
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But the truth is there's no growth in editing.
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Okay, we're taking, we know how to edit.
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The growth comes from responding and relating to what's happening.
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Y'all, right now you realize I'm annoyed that I have to stop the recording and get up and shut off the air conditioning.
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Some of you are thinking Keith's telling himself, if he talks long enough, the AC will shut itself off.
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Oh, you're right, I tried it, it didn't work.
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It didn't work.
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I'm going to get up.
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I tried it, it didn't work.
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I'm going to keep on talking and shut the AC off, which is really unprofessional to do.
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But this is what happens when you get a camper session recording.
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I don't even have a mic stand.
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I'm holding on to this hillbilly right here just speaking and preaching the truth.
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As I was saying before, the lovely AC kicked in.
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We're rolling into this fair single digits away from maxing out everything that we have, but we bank on and we bet on ourselves and our business and our brand pulling us through, dragging us through and bringing us to a bigger, better, brighter tomorrow.
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So I've got it all banked on today.
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I've got it all banked on the next 10 days.
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I believe this fair is 11 days on today.
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I've got it all banked on the next 10 days.
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I believe this fair is 11 days.
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So I really had positioned myself the best I possibly can on inventory to hopefully have the best possible event that we can to reposition our family and then get ready to grow our family.
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So that's kind of what we've been doing, but the old me would have left the office so upset about all the things I left behind.
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I have stacks of apparel that I just couldn't get to.
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I just couldn't finish.
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But what I did was prioritize things and then just kind of handle them as I see fit and then just work countless hours on making as much stuff as you can.
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I've worked so much on making apparel that I can barely move my arms, like my elbows and my wrist.
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I feel like I have the old arthritis and the old tendinitis in on vacation.
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They're just lounging around the house making life painful.
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Okay, that's what they're doing.
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Some in-laws you don't want to see.
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I'm suffering a little bit today, but anyways, it's all worth it.
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It's all worth it.
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We rolled in here with the bus.
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Anyways, it's all worth it.
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It's all worth it.
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We rolled in here with the bus, fully loaded to the brims.
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My brother, old Steve O'Violette, came over here from Divine Customs and helped me and my mom put the tent together.
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We got a new location.
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This year we are flipped Our old location's right behind us, which is great.
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It flipped us to the main drag, the main street, and I do believe that it's going to make a massive difference on my business, the main street and I do believe that it's going to make a massive difference on my business.
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I have built this beautiful little forecast in my mind of how much my business is going to increase, based off of a new location and an extra Saturday, and I'd share it with you, but I can't.
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But it's made a massive difference on my forecast and on my plan, and I have two goals here.
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The first one exceeds last year by a little bit and the next one exceeds last year by a lot a bit.
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I try to do most of these fairs and events with two goals a low goal and a high goal.
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That low goal is like hell or high water.
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This is what I want to get.
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This is a number that's going to make me feel great and satisfied and happy and accomplished.
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And then there's that next goal.
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That's the like holy crap, that was truly amazing goal.
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Okay.
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So I set both of those.
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Both of those goals will make a major difference on me and my family.
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So I'm so excited about where we are today, so rolling into the fair, me and my mom, after Steve O left, finished the setup and then we worked straight through just trying to build the tent, get everything up there that we possibly could, and then the way the bus is structured is I have all of our overstock in totes on the bus, so I was able to just put a table in the middle of our tent and, uh, as a 20 by 20 tent, and then just call out sizes that are missing from the shelves and then just throw them on the table.
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So we had a couple hundred different t-shirts and sweatshirts piled up on this table and then we closed up.
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It must've been like about eight o'clock or so that we stopped setting up um eight o'clock at night and um we started in the morning and we um took off and headed to Walmart to get supplies that we needed, and then we came back and by the time we had dinner and went to bed.
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It was probably 1130, 12 o'clock, I would say and then you get up first thing and get down there and finish your display and your setup before the fair opens up, and that's what we were able to do.
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I'm super excited and pleased and proud of the presentation that we put forward for everybody.
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I'm so thankful for our new location.
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The weather here is absolutely perfect right now.
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So we're primed and positioned for a truly successful event.
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I think this week's going to be amazing.
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I am truly feeling like we're going to set a record this week and I'm excited about it.
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I'm really excited about it.
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With all that said, I'm recording this episode at about 12.30 in the afternoon and we didn't get our first sale until 11.45, so we started off a little bit slower today, but it's okay, baby, it's opening day and uh, all the freaks come out at night.
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You know what I'm saying.
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That was cheesy, wasn't it?
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Well, if you don't know this by now, I'm cheesy.
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Anyhow, I still feel good about things, right?
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So those are all the positives.
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Those are all the exciting things that I want to share with you about the fair um.
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So pleased, so thankful, so blessed by our new location on our display.
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I'm going to try to post up some photos later on today so you guys can see what we're working with, and I look forward to coming back in a week and updating you guys on just how everything went.
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So those are all the positive.
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Those are all the great things um.
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Campers set in looking good.
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Tent set up looking good.
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Me and my mom are enjoying ourselves.
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Great things Campers set in, looking good, tents set up looking good.
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Me and my mom are enjoying ourselves.
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Great company.
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Underdog Metals.
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Behind us, ledgeway Farm is here and now we're starting to know more people at this location.
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It was nice that the fosters already came over and greeted us and you just feel welcome here.
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It's a real family feel type of fair.
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I always preach to anybody that likes going to fairs that this is a must-go-to fair for our state.
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It absolutely is.
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So we're incredibly excited to be here.
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Everybody enjoys us being here and that's really truly half of the battle.
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So all that considered, all that said, beyond blessed and excited for everything that's ahead, what I want to outline now is some of the fears and frustrations that go on in the back of our head.
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So this episode was going to be a touch different this week.
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We had full intentions of recording this podcast episode before I left home for the event, and the idea behind all this was we were going to record the episode.
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Me and my wife, allie, and myself were going to record our podcast episode, and I really wanted to put things out there into the ether about how it feels for this whole fair experience, me being gone for 13, 14 days, how that feels to my wife, okay, how those things um work at home for my wife, and then how they work at home for your wife, who is over eight months pregnant.
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So I really wanted to have Allie's perspective on, like her fears and her frustrations and her challenges, because they are a plentiful right.
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And, seeing as how I'm on the road with my mom, that means that Allie is taking over all my mom's duties at home as well.
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So just to kind of put a little, just a little, you know, couple of paint drops on the canvas here to give you an understanding as to what it's like at home.
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She would have four dogs a cat, a pig and a horse to take care of twice a day, bare minimum, right.
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So she has to do all those things.
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So imagine her getting up in the morning and now she has to go to my mom's house, take care of her two dogs, our two dogs find the cat, feed the cat, take care of the horse, muck the stall, take care of the pig, all those things, get water going, all that stuff and then get to work on time, right.
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Then work her full day, being full ass pregnant, come on home and then do the nighttime chores as well, right?
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So there's a lot of things that go into that.
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And then you're dealing with and thinking of your husband being, let's say, just shy of two hours away.
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So I'm not crazy far away, but I'm far enough away that when you're a few weeks away from your due date and you're running around doing all these crazy things, there's got to be a layer of fear there.
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There's got to be a layer of restlessness and anxiety that comes with.
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What if something happens?
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What if I need to go to the hospital?
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And how does my husband get here?
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Right, all those crazy critical things.
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When you're looking at life and times of what we're doing based off of our due date, then we're fine, we have plenty of time.
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I should get home from the fair, have a couple, two or three weeks, have the baby, that type of scenario.
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And then you know, start to adjust and then head out to the Freiburg Fair if all goes well.
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But, as we all know, these things aren't scheduled, right.
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You don't just mark in a calendar nine months ago, this is how this thing is going to go, and then it all works out.
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So there's those challenges that are there.
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We haven't been stressed out about these challenges until our latest doctor's visit, or I would say two visits ago, where we actually had the visit and Allie had a cervix test and she is two centimeters dilated and 80% thinned out.
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And we're like, oh wow, this kind of feels really real when this happens.
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And the doctor had mentioned to her like I don't think you're going to make it to your due date, but do your best to hold that baby in for at least another week.
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And that's when we both kind of butted in and said how about two weeks, because I'm leaving for two weeks?
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And the doctor was like oh yeah, and kind of blew it off and was like, yeah, I think you'll be fine.
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We left there feeling like all right, we're going to be all right, but this is really happening, sweetheart.
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Things are starting to pick up.
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Allie went back to work and then all of her coworkers started to freak out and panic like what are you doing here?
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You're going to have that baby in two days.
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You better get home, your husband better not leave.
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And they just started putting all the stress and frustration and anxiety on our plate.
