December 11, 2024 • 15 mins
In this episode of 'The Voices of Business,' hosts Corey and Joshua recap the inaugural season, sharing memorable stories from local entrepreneurs and business owners in Santa Clarita Valley.
Looking ahead, they tease exciting developments for Season Two.
Episode Highlights:
00:00 Introduction and Host Banter
01:22 Season One Recap and Highlights
01:50 Upcoming Episodes and Guests
04:39 The Importance of Local Business Stories
05:49 Personal Reflections and Business Insights
10:54 Holiday Plans and Season Two Preview
12:36 Conclusion and Call to Action
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Corey Nathan (00:06):
Welcome to the Voices of Business, a Santa Clarita
Valley Chamber of Commerce podcast.
So nice to be with you.
I am your host, Corey Nathan, and Iam so glad to be joined by my pal, my
partner in commerce, Joshua Maddox.
Joshua, how are you doing today?
Joshua Maddux (00:22):
Doing well, I'm doing well.
Corey Nathan (00:24):
So just, just to be clear, hold on.
So.
I've been calling you Joshuabecause one time I asked you,
do you prefer Josh or Joshua?
And I think the first time Iasked you that you said Joshua,
but everybody calls you Josh.
So I,
Joshua Maddux (00:36):
yeah, I, I don't have a preference necessarily.
Um, my brother in law is Josh and heworked for my business for a little
bit and lived with us a few yearsback , for a little bit as well.
So, you know.
Got, got relativelyconfusing around the house.
Corey Nathan (00:54):
Yeah.
So you went with Joshuaand he went with Josh?
Joshua Maddux (00:57):
Yep.
Okay.
Yep.
But I don't
Corey Nathan (00:58):
care.
I, I thought it had something to dowith your, uh, circumvention of the
globe trip that, uh, you know, on the80th day you decided, no, I'm going
to stick with Joshua because it'saccepted by the, uh, Aboriginal peoples
of Inner, you know, Papua New Guinea.
Joshua Maddux (01:18):
Nope, nope, no big, uh, no big, uh, element behind that, so.
Okay.
Well, uh, we don't have a guest today.
Corey Nathan (01:25):
We don't, we don't.
We
Joshua Maddux (01:26):
don't, we don't, because you, the listener, you didn't show up.
You didn't show up as our guest.
No, uh, all jokes aside.
No, this is, this episode'sa little different.
so we're, we're sort ofputting a wrap on season one.
We've, we're excited for what thenew year has to bring in season two.
we're going to take a littlebit of a holiday break.
If you hadn't already seen that wesort of took a little bit of a break,
(01:49):
we've been recording some episodes.
So we've got a few episodes alreadyrecorded and, uh, some awesome interviews.
I am looking at one right now.
I did with Austin overat the Jay Blair group.
He is, In the personal protectionspace and he was talking about
doing this road trip across the U.
S.
with a high value asset and howthat got him into what he does now
(02:11):
and it was just just It soundedlike something out of a movie.
It was just wild.
It was super cool.
So that'll be a fun episode.
Corey Nathan (02:19):
I like that one that we did with David.
Joshua Maddux (02:20):
David was awesome.
David has an incredible story aboutreally just how, be in the right
place at the right time, but alsoat the same point, like just that
persistedness of like, he had this ideaand this vision for what he wanted.
Although it wasn't fully flushed out.
(02:43):
It wasn't ready yet.
He still jumped in and said,yes, let's move forward.
And although he had rejection,he still pursued his dream
and it is what it is today.
Um, and he's got, he's got anotherbook coming out, I think next year.
And so there's some, someexciting stuff there.
(03:03):
And then, I can't remember, were you onthe one with Jason over at Poole Chaffery?
Corey Nathan (03:07):
No.
Joshua Maddux (03:08):
Oh, okay.
Corey Nathan (03:08):
So there's another solo one.
Joshua Maddux (03:10):
Yeah, Jason was good.
Jason, just a lot of.
legal wisdom.
One of the other things that he did talkabout, and he was bummed his episode
wasn't coming out until January, becauseif you're listening to this and you have
a business, And you have an LLC thereis the BOI that you have to file before.
Corey Nathan (03:28):
The Bane of my Existence.
Joshua Maddux (03:30):
Yeah.
Um, is that what it stands for?
Corey Nathan (03:33):
Bane of existence.
Joshua Maddux (03:36):
Yeah, I was like, Existence isn't it?
Um, no, if you own an LLC and youdon't do this, it's 591 a day fine.
Not a month.
Right.
a day which is insane.
Don't we love when the governmentgets involved and just decides
to start levying stupid fines?
Anyway, um, there's, there's a reason.
(03:58):
It's just, you know, whatever.
Anyway, not going to get into that.
So if you have an LLC, and you havean accountant or someone who does
that type of stuff for you, I wouldhave a conversation with them.
If you don't, there is a websiteand just make sure it's the gov site
and you're not on some random otherone that's going to file it for you.
It is free to file.
I actually just did mine this pastweek and literally as long as you
(04:20):
have your like your documentation,like your EIN and driver's license and
that, it takes like five minutes to do.
It's not a big deal.
Unless you have a big giant shellcorporation with a bunch of entities.
So, and we've got a few other ones,we've got a few other guests on the
docket, which I'm excited about as well.
Some different industries, different lifestories, so we've got a lot of good stuff
coming down the pipe, which is awesome.
Corey Nathan (04:39):
Talking business in the Santa Clarita Valley, but, uh, you know,
it really is, it's great to talk tolocal business owners, you know, small
businesses, some folks who scale theirbusinesses, real diverse range of folks.
I've been enjoying this.
What it, I don't know if we'vetalked about this before.
But what it what I'm realizingis that, you know, when I was
growing up, we had the local paper.
(04:59):
I grew up in Jersey.
We had the Asbury Park Press.
So we had all these local sections, youknow, local sports and local business.
It was one of the sections.
So I feel like in a lot of ways,as local newspapers have dwindled.
We do have the signal here.
We have KHTS, which is a local newsstation that does stuff online.
But, I think having a place likethis, having an outlet like this,
(05:23):
where we could be the the 21st centuryversion of a local business section,
it's been really cool getting toknow the folks in our neighborhood.
And it's really, um, You know, I know thatthere's a lot of neighborhoods all over
the country just like this where folkswe're, we want to hear their stories.
We want to hear their struggles andhow they overcame different challenges.
So that's what I'm really takinga lot out of that first season
(05:45):
and looking forward to the nextseason of, uh, Voices of Business.
What about you, Josh?
Joshua Maddux (05:49):
Yeah, I think for me, it's been interesting.
Just like you said, there's somany different types of businesses,
there's so many different typesof why people got into business
and why they do what they do.
Paths to get there.
Like some of the, some ofthe paths of how we got here.
From people who traveled far, PaulButler, traveling across the pond.
(06:10):
Um, that episode I made a joke about,you know, yeah, you're just, you just
grew up right around the corner from me.
Um, to people who, you know, me, I'mborn and raised in Santa Clarita.
I've lived here all of my life andhave a different, different story than
someone else who also was raised here.
You look at people like Lindsay andBrian, the schlicks, like who literally
(06:30):
them working at princess being ondifferent ends of the globe, being on
different, you know, one got called back.
The headquarters one is out still ona ship and just their sort of journey
of where they are and to where theirbusiness is today is also interesting.
And to me, I like that aspectof like, how did you get here?
(06:52):
Because so much of that people are like,Oh yeah, well, to have a business, you
have to like go to school and get abusiness degree and then you have to
like start it and then you have to, it'slike, no, yeah, those are helpful things.
Like, but that's never.
The normal path
. Corey Nathan: Yeah, no, it's just not the other one of them that I really enjoyed.
(07:14):
And he's a dear friend of both ofours, uh, is Dennis, Dennis Verner.
So I kind of joke with him, like whatkid grows up saying I want to be a
garbage man, but the truth is I've met.
Almost every one of ourlocal, state, and even U.
S.
elected officials through Dennis.
He's one of the most connectedguys in this in this town.
(07:37):
Uh, so, and now I've become friendswith a lot of the folks on the City
Council and, you know, Suzette was on theshow, Suzette Valadares, who's now our,
Senate, Senator elect of this district.
Um, You know, George Whitesides.
I didn't meet through Dennis,but at a function that Dennis
invited me to, our, our incoming U.
S.
House representative.
He did just secure a billion,billion with a B, dollar contract.
(08:02):
So, you know, for folks who want tobe dismissive of the garbage man, he's
one of the most connected guys in town.
So, uh, that's always fascinating to me.
The stories and, you know, thestories behind the story, you know.
Yeah, and that's, there's a, there's this term that
I have been hearing a lot over thepast few years is boring business.
There's these boring businesses,like garbage collection is boring.
(08:25):
There's nothing flashy, sexy,fancy about Collecting trash.
There's nothing like there'sthese businesses that are just
these boring businesses thatit doesn't matter what you do.
Like it's going to be athing for the next 50 years.
Like it just is what it is.
It just needs to be done.
And guess what?
(08:47):
You just.
Do it well and do it efficientlyand it's gonna make money.
Corey Nathan (08:53):
Yeah.
Well, to your point, I have, um,so I have, I'm a partner or, or
owner of four different businesses.
Um, as you, as you know, so myinitial business, Nathan McDowell
and Rose, I started in 1999.
It's basically a headhunting andsmall scale mergers and acquisitions
company in the entertainment industry.
So that could be considered sexy, I guess.
You know, I've done really greatdeals and, and work with creative
(09:16):
people at the highest levelsof the entertainment industry.
Um, so that one's kind of cool.
And I started to scan media was, uh,you know, this, this podcasting, it's
a real passion of mine that I've beendoing now for about five, six years.
And this is my main focus now, but mytwo other businesses is C Spot Go, a
window cleaning pressure washing company.
And not a sex business.
Again, like, I didn't grow up sayingI want to be a window cleaner, but
(09:38):
in a lot of ways, it's not somethingthat can be outsourced overseas.
You know, folks like clean windows.
They like to have their gutterscleaned and they need people,
local, to, Come and help them do it.
Uh, technology can evolve over time.
So, you know, that might have somethingto do with the, and we're staying on
top of that stuff, and, but the otherlocal business we just started with,
(09:59):
two pals of ours and Joshua was involvedin it as well as SEV Mobile Car Wash,
we're a mobile detailing company.
Again.
The guys who are involved are passionateabout cars and that, that whole space,
but when a lot of folks who grow upsaying, Oh, I want to be a movie director.
I want to be president.
I want to be whatever they don'tsay, Oh, I want to wash cars, but in
(10:19):
a lot of ways, the window cleaningand the mobile detailing business
is sexy to me because it's scalable.
It's duplicatable.
It's it's sellable eventuallyif we do want to go that route.
So yeah, to your point, thereare some businesses that are,
might seem boring on the outside.
I don't know if anybody's going tomake a movie about, you know, C Spot
Go, but in a lot of ways it is sexyto me just for, for the things that
(10:42):
I look for, uh, to invest in, so.
Joshua Maddux (10:45):
Awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
I think, and there's that elementabout stability and all that as
well, which I think is, is nice.
Corey Nathan (10:53):
Yeah, yeah.
So, um, any plans for the holidays?
Or, well, we just had Thanksgiving,so any plans for Christmas,
New Year's, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa?
Joshua Maddux (11:02):
Yeah, uh, Christmas, I just stay in local with,
uh, with the two little ones.
So we'll be, we'll be hangingout local for the most part.
Um, we've got somerelatively close family.
That'll be fun.
Thus we're, thus we're not traveling,so, because if we get sick, Christmas
this year hopefully will be alot less, um, uh, disease ridden.
(11:22):
Last year was, we all had COVID.
It's great.
Oh, jeez.
Not great.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
No, let's not, let's not.
Corey Nathan (11:31):
Well, we are traveling, um, but I get to be with my three
best friends that I grew up with.
Um, it's rare that we getthe entire families together.
We did it a few years ago.
So.
I think it was 21 going into 22.
Um, so one of the kids,well, he's the oldest kid.
He's now, I think, 25.
Jake is.
But, uh, yeah, he got COVID onthe trip or he tested positive
(11:54):
while we were on the trip.
We were in this like bigold house in Arizona.
They all came out here.
This time we're going to the Florida Keys.
Uh, so yeah, my three bestfriends that I grew up with, all
the kids are going to be there.
So it's going to be a blast, but we're,we're leaving the day after Christmas.
So we're going to brave LAX, youknow, the day after Christmas coming
home the day after New Year's.
Joshua Maddux (12:14):
So, so you are crazy when I make, when I make jokes about
Corey being stuck on the freeway.
Corey Nathan (12:22):
Yeah.
Joshua Maddux (12:22):
So January, you're just not going to be here for any episode.
Cause you'll be stuck on the fouror five or whatever coming back.
Corey Nathan (12:28):
Yeah, that's right.
That is not hyperbolic.
So, well, this is cool, man.
Good checking in with you.
Uh, looking forward to season two.
Uh, what did we forget?
We are, we, I, we covered a lotmore than I, uh, anticipated,
but did we forget anything?
Joshua Maddux (12:42):
No, I think, I think that's pretty much what
we want to talk about today.
So yeah, if you're, if you're listening tothis, we're looking forward to season two.
Um, if you're a business ownerand a member of the Santa
Clarita Valley Chamber, we wouldlove to have you as a guest.
Reach out to us either via social media.
Uh, you can also email hello atthe chamber and let them know
you want to be on the podcastand they will direct you our way.
Corey Nathan (13:05):
Uh, Oh wait, we forgot something important.
We're doing something new in, in seasontwo, and this is going to lock us in now.
Joshua Maddux (13:10):
Oh yes.
In season two, Corey's shaving his head.
Corey Nathan (13:15):
Wait, where did that?
You know, I had like three feetof hair about six months ago.
We're going, like, we'rereally going extreme now.
Yeah, I did.
Joshua Maddux (13:22):
No, um, no, season two, season two, we're adding video?
Corey Nathan (13:27):
Yes, we're adding video.
Me shaving my head on video.
No, just kidding.
We are adding video andwe will have sponsors.
So, you know, not to, uh, not toshamelessly plug our show's sponsorship
opportunities, but there will be,you know, the, the, the numbers will
be healthy and, uh, you know, uh,it'll, no, in all seriousness, it'll
(13:48):
be a great opportunity to support.
Local programming just like this,um, support others who want to
tell their story and your story.
We're looking for, good partners, uh, tohelp us continue bringing great stories
and great profiles just like the oneswe've, we've started out with Season
1 and looking forward to in Season 2.
Joshua Maddux (14:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Yep.
And, uh, that video content will be good.
We'll be clipping that a little bit aswell for Instagram and Facebook and all
the other socials, which will be awesome.
Corey Nathan (14:17):
Yeah.
So all the IGs and blue skies andother cool things that cool kids do.
Do we have to dance though?
If we get on a TikTok, do we got to dance?
Joshua Maddux (14:26):
I think you got to dance.
Corey Nathan (14:29):
With a shaved head.
Joshua Maddux (14:30):
There you go.
Corey Nathan (14:31):
All right.
Sounds good to me.
Josh, this is great, man.
Good to reconnect.
And, um, yeah, like Isaid, happy holidays.
Looking forward to season two.
Joshua Maddux (14:39):
Likewise.
Awesome.
Well, you know where to find us.
Corey Nathan (14:41):
Yeah.
Joshua Maddux (14:42):
At The Voices of Business on all the main social platforms.
Give us a like and follow andwe look forward to the new year.
Welcome to the Voices of Business, a Santa Clarita
Valley Chamber of Commerce podcast.
So nice to be with you.
I am your host, Corey Nathan, and Iam so glad to be joined by my pal, my
partner in commerce, Joshua Maddox.
Joshua, how are you doing today?
Joshua Maddux (00:22):
Doing well, I'm doing well.
Corey Nathan (00:24):
So just, just to be clear, hold on.
So.
I've been calling you Joshuabecause one time I asked you,
do you prefer Josh or Joshua?
And I think the first time Iasked you that you said Joshua,
but everybody calls you Josh.
So I,
Joshua Maddux (00:36):
yeah, I, I don't have a preference necessarily.
Um, my brother in law is Josh and heworked for my business for a little
bit and lived with us a few yearsback , for a little bit as well.
So, you know.
Got, got relativelyconfusing around the house.
Corey Nathan (00:54):
Yeah.
So you went with Joshuaand he went with Josh?
Joshua Maddux (00:57):
Yep.
Okay.
Yep.
But I don't
Corey Nathan (00:58):
care.
I, I thought it had something to dowith your, uh, circumvention of the
globe trip that, uh, you know, on the80th day you decided, no, I'm going
to stick with Joshua because it'saccepted by the, uh, Aboriginal peoples
of Inner, you know, Papua New Guinea.
Joshua Maddux (01:18):
Nope, nope, no big, uh, no big, uh, element behind that, so.
Okay.
Well, uh, we don't have a guest today.
Corey Nathan (01:25):
We don't, we don't.
We
Joshua Maddux (01:26):
don't, we don't, because you, the listener, you didn't show up.
You didn't show up as our guest.
No, uh, all jokes aside.
No, this is, this episode'sa little different.
so we're, we're sort ofputting a wrap on season one.
We've, we're excited for what thenew year has to bring in season two.
we're going to take a littlebit of a holiday break.
If you hadn't already seen that wesort of took a little bit of a break,
(01:49):
we've been recording some episodes.
So we've got a few episodes alreadyrecorded and, uh, some awesome interviews.
I am looking at one right now.
I did with Austin overat the Jay Blair group.
He is, In the personal protectionspace and he was talking about
doing this road trip across the U.
S.
with a high value asset and howthat got him into what he does now
(02:11):
and it was just just It soundedlike something out of a movie.
It was just wild.
It was super cool.
So that'll be a fun episode.
Corey Nathan (02:19):
I like that one that we did with David.
Joshua Maddux (02:20):
David was awesome.
David has an incredible story aboutreally just how, be in the right
place at the right time, but alsoat the same point, like just that
persistedness of like, he had this ideaand this vision for what he wanted.
Although it wasn't fully flushed out.
(02:43):
It wasn't ready yet.
He still jumped in and said,yes, let's move forward.
And although he had rejection,he still pursued his dream
and it is what it is today.
Um, and he's got, he's got anotherbook coming out, I think next year.
And so there's some, someexciting stuff there.
(03:03):
And then, I can't remember, were you onthe one with Jason over at Poole Chaffery?
Corey Nathan (03:07):
No.
Joshua Maddux (03:08):
Oh, okay.
Corey Nathan (03:08):
So there's another solo one.
Joshua Maddux (03:10):
Yeah, Jason was good.
Jason, just a lot of.
legal wisdom.
One of the other things that he did talkabout, and he was bummed his episode
wasn't coming out until January, becauseif you're listening to this and you have
a business, And you have an LLC thereis the BOI that you have to file before.
Corey Nathan (03:28):
The Bane of my Existence.
Joshua Maddux (03:30):
Yeah.
Um, is that what it stands for?
Corey Nathan (03:33):
Bane of existence.
Joshua Maddux (03:36):
Yeah, I was like, Existence isn't it?
Um, no, if you own an LLC and youdon't do this, it's 591 a day fine.
Not a month.
Right.
a day which is insane.
Don't we love when the governmentgets involved and just decides
to start levying stupid fines?
Anyway, um, there's, there's a reason.
(03:58):
It's just, you know, whatever.
Anyway, not going to get into that.
So if you have an LLC, and you havean accountant or someone who does
that type of stuff for you, I wouldhave a conversation with them.
If you don't, there is a websiteand just make sure it's the gov site
and you're not on some random otherone that's going to file it for you.
It is free to file.
I actually just did mine this pastweek and literally as long as you
(04:20):
have your like your documentation,like your EIN and driver's license and
that, it takes like five minutes to do.
It's not a big deal.
Unless you have a big giant shellcorporation with a bunch of entities.
So, and we've got a few other ones,we've got a few other guests on the
docket, which I'm excited about as well.
Some different industries, different lifestories, so we've got a lot of good stuff
coming down the pipe, which is awesome.
Corey Nathan (04:39):
Talking business in the Santa Clarita Valley, but, uh, you know,
it really is, it's great to talk tolocal business owners, you know, small
businesses, some folks who scale theirbusinesses, real diverse range of folks.
I've been enjoying this.
What it, I don't know if we'vetalked about this before.
But what it what I'm realizingis that, you know, when I was
growing up, we had the local paper.
(04:59):
I grew up in Jersey.
We had the Asbury Park Press.
So we had all these local sections, youknow, local sports and local business.
It was one of the sections.
So I feel like in a lot of ways,as local newspapers have dwindled.
We do have the signal here.
We have KHTS, which is a local newsstation that does stuff online.
But, I think having a place likethis, having an outlet like this,
(05:23):
where we could be the the 21st centuryversion of a local business section,
it's been really cool getting toknow the folks in our neighborhood.
And it's really, um, You know, I know thatthere's a lot of neighborhoods all over
the country just like this where folkswe're, we want to hear their stories.
We want to hear their struggles andhow they overcame different challenges.
So that's what I'm really takinga lot out of that first season
(05:45):
and looking forward to the nextseason of, uh, Voices of Business.
What about you, Josh?
Joshua Maddux (05:49):
Yeah, I think for me, it's been interesting.
Just like you said, there's somany different types of businesses,
there's so many different typesof why people got into business
and why they do what they do.
Paths to get there.
Like some of the, some ofthe paths of how we got here.
From people who traveled far, PaulButler, traveling across the pond.
(06:10):
Um, that episode I made a joke about,you know, yeah, you're just, you just
grew up right around the corner from me.
Um, to people who, you know, me, I'mborn and raised in Santa Clarita.
I've lived here all of my life andhave a different, different story than
someone else who also was raised here.
You look at people like Lindsay andBrian, the schlicks, like who literally
(06:30):
them working at princess being ondifferent ends of the globe, being on
different, you know, one got called back.
The headquarters one is out still ona ship and just their sort of journey
of where they are and to where theirbusiness is today is also interesting.
And to me, I like that aspectof like, how did you get here?
(06:52):
Because so much of that people are like,Oh yeah, well, to have a business, you
have to like go to school and get abusiness degree and then you have to
like start it and then you have to, it'slike, no, yeah, those are helpful things.
Like, but that's never.
The normal path
. Corey Nathan: Yeah, no, it's just not the other one of them that I really enjoyed.
(07:14):
And he's a dear friend of both ofours, uh, is Dennis, Dennis Verner.
So I kind of joke with him, like whatkid grows up saying I want to be a
garbage man, but the truth is I've met.
Almost every one of ourlocal, state, and even U.
S.
elected officials through Dennis.
He's one of the most connectedguys in this in this town.
(07:37):
Uh, so, and now I've become friendswith a lot of the folks on the City
Council and, you know, Suzette was on theshow, Suzette Valadares, who's now our,
Senate, Senator elect of this district.
Um, You know, George Whitesides.
I didn't meet through Dennis,but at a function that Dennis
invited me to, our, our incoming U.
S.
House representative.
He did just secure a billion,billion with a B, dollar contract.
(08:02):
So, you know, for folks who want tobe dismissive of the garbage man, he's
one of the most connected guys in town.
So, uh, that's always fascinating to me.
The stories and, you know, thestories behind the story, you know.
Yeah, and that's, there's a, there's this term that
I have been hearing a lot over thepast few years is boring business.
There's these boring businesses,like garbage collection is boring.
(08:25):
There's nothing flashy, sexy,fancy about Collecting trash.
There's nothing like there'sthese businesses that are just
these boring businesses thatit doesn't matter what you do.
Like it's going to be athing for the next 50 years.
Like it just is what it is.
It just needs to be done.
And guess what?
(08:47):
You just.
Do it well and do it efficientlyand it's gonna make money.
Corey Nathan (08:53):
Yeah.
Well, to your point, I have, um,so I have, I'm a partner or, or
owner of four different businesses.
Um, as you, as you know, so myinitial business, Nathan McDowell
and Rose, I started in 1999.
It's basically a headhunting andsmall scale mergers and acquisitions
company in the entertainment industry.
So that could be considered sexy, I guess.
You know, I've done really greatdeals and, and work with creative
(09:16):
people at the highest levelsof the entertainment industry.
Um, so that one's kind of cool.
And I started to scan media was, uh,you know, this, this podcasting, it's
a real passion of mine that I've beendoing now for about five, six years.
And this is my main focus now, but mytwo other businesses is C Spot Go, a
window cleaning pressure washing company.
And not a sex business.
Again, like, I didn't grow up sayingI want to be a window cleaner, but
(09:38):
in a lot of ways, it's not somethingthat can be outsourced overseas.
You know, folks like clean windows.
They like to have their gutterscleaned and they need people,
local, to, Come and help them do it.
Uh, technology can evolve over time.
So, you know, that might have somethingto do with the, and we're staying on
top of that stuff, and, but the otherlocal business we just started with,
(09:59):
two pals of ours and Joshua was involvedin it as well as SEV Mobile Car Wash,
we're a mobile detailing company.
Again.
The guys who are involved are passionateabout cars and that, that whole space,
but when a lot of folks who grow upsaying, Oh, I want to be a movie director.
I want to be president.
I want to be whatever they don'tsay, Oh, I want to wash cars, but in
(10:19):
a lot of ways, the window cleaningand the mobile detailing business
is sexy to me because it's scalable.
It's duplicatable.
It's it's sellable eventuallyif we do want to go that route.
So yeah, to your point, thereare some businesses that are,
might seem boring on the outside.
I don't know if anybody's going tomake a movie about, you know, C Spot
Go, but in a lot of ways it is sexyto me just for, for the things that
(10:42):
I look for, uh, to invest in, so.
Joshua Maddux (10:45):
Awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
I think, and there's that elementabout stability and all that as
well, which I think is, is nice.
Corey Nathan (10:53):
Yeah, yeah.
So, um, any plans for the holidays?
Or, well, we just had Thanksgiving,so any plans for Christmas,
New Year's, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa?
Joshua Maddux (11:02):
Yeah, uh, Christmas, I just stay in local with,
uh, with the two little ones.
So we'll be, we'll be hangingout local for the most part.
Um, we've got somerelatively close family.
That'll be fun.
Thus we're, thus we're not traveling,so, because if we get sick, Christmas
this year hopefully will be alot less, um, uh, disease ridden.
(11:22):
Last year was, we all had COVID.
It's great.
Oh, jeez.
Not great.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
No, let's not, let's not.
Corey Nathan (11:31):
Well, we are traveling, um, but I get to be with my three
best friends that I grew up with.
Um, it's rare that we getthe entire families together.
We did it a few years ago.
So.
I think it was 21 going into 22.
Um, so one of the kids,well, he's the oldest kid.
He's now, I think, 25.
Jake is.
But, uh, yeah, he got COVID onthe trip or he tested positive
(11:54):
while we were on the trip.
We were in this like bigold house in Arizona.
They all came out here.
This time we're going to the Florida Keys.
Uh, so yeah, my three bestfriends that I grew up with, all
the kids are going to be there.
So it's going to be a blast, but we're,we're leaving the day after Christmas.
So we're going to brave LAX, youknow, the day after Christmas coming
home the day after New Year's.
Joshua Maddux (12:14):
So, so you are crazy when I make, when I make jokes about
Corey being stuck on the freeway.
Corey Nathan (12:22):
Yeah.
Joshua Maddux (12:22):
So January, you're just not going to be here for any episode.
Cause you'll be stuck on the fouror five or whatever coming back.
Corey Nathan (12:28):
Yeah, that's right.
That is not hyperbolic.
So, well, this is cool, man.
Good checking in with you.
Uh, looking forward to season two.
Uh, what did we forget?
We are, we, I, we covered a lotmore than I, uh, anticipated,
but did we forget anything?
Joshua Maddux (12:42):
No, I think, I think that's pretty much what
we want to talk about today.
So yeah, if you're, if you're listening tothis, we're looking forward to season two.
Um, if you're a business ownerand a member of the Santa
Clarita Valley Chamber, we wouldlove to have you as a guest.
Reach out to us either via social media.
Uh, you can also email hello atthe chamber and let them know
you want to be on the podcastand they will direct you our way.
Corey Nathan (13:05):
Uh, Oh wait, we forgot something important.
We're doing something new in, in seasontwo, and this is going to lock us in now.
Joshua Maddux (13:10):
Oh yes.
In season two, Corey's shaving his head.
Corey Nathan (13:15):
Wait, where did that?
You know, I had like three feetof hair about six months ago.
We're going, like, we'rereally going extreme now.
Yeah, I did.
Joshua Maddux (13:22):
No, um, no, season two, season two, we're adding video?
Corey Nathan (13:27):
Yes, we're adding video.
Me shaving my head on video.
No, just kidding.
We are adding video andwe will have sponsors.
So, you know, not to, uh, not toshamelessly plug our show's sponsorship
opportunities, but there will be,you know, the, the, the numbers will
be healthy and, uh, you know, uh,it'll, no, in all seriousness, it'll
(13:48):
be a great opportunity to support.
Local programming just like this,um, support others who want to
tell their story and your story.
We're looking for, good partners, uh, tohelp us continue bringing great stories
and great profiles just like the oneswe've, we've started out with Season
1 and looking forward to in Season 2.
Joshua Maddux (14:05):
Yeah, exactly.
Yep.
And, uh, that video content will be good.
We'll be clipping that a little bit aswell for Instagram and Facebook and all
the other socials, which will be awesome.
Corey Nathan (14:17):
Yeah.
So all the IGs and blue skies andother cool things that cool kids do.
Do we have to dance though?
If we get on a TikTok, do we got to dance?
Joshua Maddux (14:26):
I think you got to dance.
Corey Nathan (14:29):
With a shaved head.
Joshua Maddux (14:30):
There you go.
Corey Nathan (14:31):
All right.
Sounds good to me.
Josh, this is great, man.
Good to reconnect.
And, um, yeah, like Isaid, happy holidays.
Looking forward to season two.
Joshua Maddux (14:39):
Likewise.
Awesome.
Well, you know where to find us.
Corey Nathan (14:41):
Yeah.
Joshua Maddux (14:42):
At The Voices of Business on all the main social platforms.
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