January 3, 2024 • 14 mins
What if you could easily connect with individuals who share your quest for personal growth and fulfillment? Would you be willing to expand your social circle and possibly stumble upon a romantic spark along the way? Welcome to our podcast, where we share our ongoing journey at About Good Company. Founded with the aim of bringing together determined yet busy individuals, we're passionate about building a community that helps you find not just company but 'good company.'
At About Good Company, we believe in the power of real-life connections. We explore the often elusive realm of matchmaking, a service considered a luxury for the high-end demographic, with an aim to bridge this gap. We're here to prove that the thrill of meeting new people and forming meaningful relationships is an experience that should be accessible to all. So buckle up as we share our insights, discuss the highs and lows of our mission, and invite you to join our community of 'quality people' on a journey to personal growth. We promise you'll leave with a fresh perspective on relationships and community building.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So, now that we know about Good Company why you and I
came together to create thisorganization called about Good
Company and part of the missionbehind it to bring good people
together and now we know aboutthe place, the Macrith, where a
lot of this will happen.
Now we have to talk about typesof people, that what kind of
(00:22):
people do we want to be a partof this?
Like who are we looking for toparticipate in?
Like who do we want to bringtogether?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I would say I think we've talked around who these
people are and the types ofpeople.
When I think about Good Companyand what we want to provide for
people, in my mind the avatarof this person.
They're really busy, they'redoing a lot and a lot can be
(00:59):
professionally growing, a reallyheavy work phase where they're
about to get a promotion or theyjust got a promotion, or
they're hustling to buildsomething, a vision, a dream.
But they're busy and they'rethe types of people that their
person is going to have to slapthem in the face because they're
(01:21):
so focused on the pieces oftheir life that make them a full
person.
Not that they're workaholics orthey're anti-relationship or
they haven't expressed interestor they haven't talked to their
married friends about hey, ifyou know any single people that
(01:43):
are good, some quality singlepeople, let me know I'm over
here.
Live them a life, not that theyhaven't had those conversations
, but just that they are.
They're taking the time tofocus on themselves, not in a
trite or cliche way, but reallyhoning in on what brings them
joy and trying to chase afterthat.
(02:06):
And I think that reallydescribes you.
Before you met Debbie.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
We're building this for younger Valden, current Anna
Bevan.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, you know so and I think you and I discuss this
a little because I think we havea little bit of divergence
about who, who, not necessarilydivergence.
Like the audience you're afteris somewhat narrow the audience
in a global sense.
The audience I'm after is alittle bit broader, because keep
this in mind, like you and Iare of two different generations
(02:38):
, right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
We are.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And I know let me bring it home.
So you talk about busy people,right, and because that's
something that resonates withyou right now, like you're a
busy person, you've got a job,you've got a couple of side
hustles and you're going to dothis with me as well, right.
And I can deal with that too.
I'm still an electricalengineer, but I'm a master maker
also, but I'm also aphotographer and I'm a full-time
(03:00):
husband.
You know, and not even talkabout the other stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You're doing a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, I do a lot myself and you know, back in my
single days I had a websitedevelopment company and I was an
electrical engineer and I was aphotographer and I was a single
dude trying to figure out howto date people.
So I understand the whole busyidea.
The question around qualitypeople right, this is a tough
one that I have to deal with inthe communities of people that I
talk to with.
You say the word quality people.
(03:24):
Sometimes people get offended,which I don't understand,
because I'm not saying you'renot quality.
If you think you're a qualityperson, you're a quality person.
And not only that, it'ssomewhat subjective too, because
the quality person to you isnot the same as a quality person
to this next person over here.
But at the end of the day I wantto help people in general, come
together.
I know I cannot help everybody.
(03:46):
I know that Some people don'teven want to help themselves.
So this what I'm saying is thatthat avatar might be we've
honed in on this specific one,which is great, and that's what
we're going to move forward with.
But I think the target willmove a little, not necessarily
move.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think you're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It'll broaden over time, right, because you know, I
know some 40, like, let's talkabout the age range, like right
now.
The target that we're afterright now is kind of late 20s,
mid, 30s, mid to late 30s.
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah mid, late30s, which is great.
A lot of people that I talk toare late 30s, late 40s, right,
(04:28):
and that's a demographic that Ireally want to service as well,
right?
So you know, as we go on, likeyou and I won't be able to throw
all of the parties, or you know, we can't be in more than one
place at one time this wholesocial circle idea just so you
know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Because this whole social circle idea is, from my
perspective, is big, which isaside from about good company,
have the same spirit, you know.
But in my eyes, you know, withmy communities of people, I want
to plant social circle eventsall over the city eventually.
But I and I can't be all overthe city, so I've got to kind of
(05:03):
enroll other people to help mewith that sort of thing.
But this right here, what we'redoing, I think about good
company, is at a higher level,right, and I won't use that word
.
But I'm excited about whatwe're going to do because I just
I know how frustrated it is forquality people to find other
quality people, right, whateverthat means to whoever's
(05:25):
listening.
And I know people share thatfrustration and I we've got the
resources to make that happenand to help people and I'm
excited about that because Ilike helping people.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, I think you're a point about the audience
growing, the avatar of theperson not necessarily changing,
but like expanding a little bitis very true.
I think the more we pull peoplein on this group and invite
people to be part of about goodcompany, we're going to see that
(05:58):
there are more people that wantto be a part of this Right.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that's what we want to create Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Like at its core, like dream of all dreams, and
everything that I ever throwparty related is.
I always wanted to feel likebreakfast at Tiffany's, where
you like wander through andyou're like holding your drink
up in the air and you're like,excuse me, excuse me, excuse me,
pardon me, like oh hey, oh mygosh, I didn't see you.
(06:25):
This is great.
How are you doing?
Yeah, like that sort of energy.
Where you're, you're alwayslike moving to the next place
because you don't have to stayin one spot.
And so, if we can, like, we'regoing to get to that point where
, about good company events aregoing to feel like breakfast at
(06:46):
Tiffany's and then we're goingto bring them back down to
smaller, more curatedcommunities of people who are
really similar in theirbackgrounds and their value
system, in what they'veexpressed they wanted in the
future, through intimate eventsthat are exclusive to people who
(07:06):
are further into the about goodcompany community, right, and
that's exciting too, becauseit's that you described earlier
like a smaller social circlewhere there's five women and
five men, like that's this too.
Like four men, four women,absolutely Around a murder
(07:26):
mystery dinner party, wherethere's a theme and you sort of
are talking to somebody aboutnothing that you're actually
talking about, but you'reconnecting over some of the
interpersonal stuff through winedinners where we have a Somalia
, come in and walk through.
Why are these pairings working?
With what you're having, wherepeople can learn but also joke
about how much they don't know,there's something.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I feel like you're talking about me and my wife
when we were at that last wineparty.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, but there's something really exciting about
like having a conversation aboutsomething that you're not
having a conversation aboutbecause that's when you get to
know, like, do they laugh at thesame jokes that I laugh at, do
they like the same movies that Ilike, without having to ask
those questions.
So I think that what sort ofsets us apart other than being a
(08:19):
fan of chance meetings with alittle bit of help, but also
there's so much you can learnabout somebody without having to
directly ask the questions,about learning to learn about
them, and if we can facilitatethose interactions, like that's
it.
That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's the backbone of the whole thing is
facilitating.
What's the word you just used,Interactions.
Interactions facilitatinginteractions in a comfortable
setting.
That's what it's all about.
One question that was on thetable last weekend when we
talked was value proposition.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yes, one.
I think our value propositionis your time is better spent
with us.
We care about your relationshipgoals and where you wanna go in
your future relationship wiseas much as you do.
If that hasn't come across inour like hype about this, like
our volume's gotten a littlehigher.
(09:16):
I've gotten more animated, myhands are moving around, then
maybe like start at thebeginning of the episode, then
you'll catch it all the waythrough.
But we believe in what youwanna accomplish.
We wanna accomplish that withyou.
We wanna help that be madepossible and we wanna use your
time wisely, right and so andlike.
(09:37):
That's why you're here as amatchmaker.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Exactly, and I mentioned earlier that
matchmaking itself is a highticket item.
It's a luxury item.
Yeah, oh yeah, and the idea ofmatchmaking is not on the radar
of most people, like they don'teven hear about it.
But there's a society of peoplethat have because they
participate heavily in it.
But that's a society of peoplewho are high income individuals,
and this is going back to thevalue proposition conversation.
(10:05):
As I mentioned also, one of mygoals when I came into the
industry is to see what I can doto bring that service to more
of a working class demographicalso.
Yeah, yeah, and what people maynot know is that the average
contract in the matchmakingworld is about $15,000.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's the average, so that means a lot of the high
end people that I work with Go alot higher, yeah, a lot higher.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Like I was just on a mastermind call with some people
in the industry and the guysaid hey, we need everybody to
raise their prices $5,000.
Now their price is already$25,000 for a contract Shhh
Right, and they wanna raise itanother like $25,000, $50,000,
$100,000 is not weird for peoplewho participated in the
matchmaking industry, Bothclients and matchmakers
(10:51):
themselves.
But I know normal people, notthat they are normal people, but
regular people don't have, I'mgonna go with they aren't normal
.
Yeah, they don't have $15,000 to, I mean, the company that you
mentioned.
You know I've gone throughtheir process and I know that
their cost is $9,000 to $15,000.
Right, so it takes somefinancial resources to
(11:12):
participate in this right.
So another one of the valuepropositions that I'm bringing
to the table is the same workthat we do for people who pay
$100,000 for a contract is thesame work I'm trying to do for
people who participate in aboutgood company.
And not only that.
This is the same work I'mtrying to do for the people that
are in my communities.
They don't recognize the valueof it, right you know.
(11:33):
So I'm pretty much casting mypearls to swine, so to speak,
but I'm also dedicated tohelping them understand the
value in what I'm doing, becauseit's real value.
I use the exact same tools thehigh-end matchmakers.
The high-end matchmakers arepart of my network, like we work
and we collaborate with eachother all the time.
So the value proposition forabout good company is not only
(11:56):
are we putting you in the spaceof good people, we're actually
doing some work behind thescenes to make sure those people
are somewhat compatible withbeing in your space right.
Because, at the end of the day,I want people to be in rooms
that are target rich forenhanced social circles,
building friendships and findingyou know your love interest.
(12:18):
That's my goal as a matchmakerin this particular endeavor.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, I think that's fantastic.
I also think that there's avalue proposition that we've
talked about a little bit.
I think being in real life withpeople is so important, and I
was just talking to a friend ofmine who's having a hard time
making friends.
She just moved to a new placeand, as we get older, making new
(12:46):
friends that aren't connectedto us at work and didn't go to
college with us or aren't likebest friends from childhood if
we still have any of those isextremely hard.
And so this is also anopportunity for that, for you,
(13:07):
to meet people of your same sex,a different sex Like.
That's still pretty awesome andthough it's not the core of why
we're gathering people together, but it is a benefit Absolutely
, and I think, if you can like,spend one price and get two
things kill two birds with onestone as they say back in the
(13:31):
day Back in my day.
Yeah, back in your day.
I think that's exciting too.
Yeah, absolutely, I mean I likemeeting new people.
I wouldn't say that I'm alwaysin the market for friends,
because that's a heavier liftRight, but I'm not opposed to
meeting new people and findingnew friends by any means.
So, now that we know about Good Company why you and I
came together to create thisorganization called about Good
Company and part of the missionbehind it to bring good people
together and now we know aboutthe place, the Macrith, where a
lot of this will happen.
Now we have to talk about typesof people, that what kind of
(00:22):
people do we want to be a partof this?
Like who are we looking for toparticipate in?
Like who do we want to bringtogether?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I would say I think we've talked around who these
people are and the types ofpeople.
When I think about Good Companyand what we want to provide for
people, in my mind the avatarof this person.
They're really busy, they'redoing a lot and a lot can be
(00:59):
professionally growing, a reallyheavy work phase where they're
about to get a promotion or theyjust got a promotion, or
they're hustling to buildsomething, a vision, a dream.
But they're busy and they'rethe types of people that their
person is going to have to slapthem in the face because they're
(01:21):
so focused on the pieces oftheir life that make them a full
person.
Not that they're workaholics orthey're anti-relationship or
they haven't expressed interestor they haven't talked to their
married friends about hey, ifyou know any single people that
(01:43):
are good, some quality singlepeople, let me know I'm over
here.
Live them a life, not that theyhaven't had those conversations
, but just that they are.
They're taking the time tofocus on themselves, not in a
trite or cliche way, but reallyhoning in on what brings them
joy and trying to chase afterthat.
(02:06):
And I think that reallydescribes you.
Before you met Debbie.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
We're building this for younger Valden, current Anna
Bevan.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, you know so and I think you and I discuss this
a little because I think we havea little bit of divergence
about who, who, not necessarilydivergence.
Like the audience you're afteris somewhat narrow the audience
in a global sense.
The audience I'm after is alittle bit broader, because keep
this in mind, like you and Iare of two different generations
(02:38):
, right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
We are.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And I know let me bring it home.
So you talk about busy people,right, and because that's
something that resonates withyou right now, like you're a
busy person, you've got a job,you've got a couple of side
hustles and you're going to dothis with me as well, right.
And I can deal with that too.
I'm still an electricalengineer, but I'm a master maker
also, but I'm also aphotographer and I'm a full-time
(03:00):
husband.
You know, and not even talkabout the other stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You're doing a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, I do a lot myself and you know, back in my
single days I had a websitedevelopment company and I was an
electrical engineer and I was aphotographer and I was a single
dude trying to figure out howto date people.
So I understand the whole busyidea.
The question around qualitypeople right, this is a tough
one that I have to deal with inthe communities of people that I
talk to with.
You say the word quality people.
(03:24):
Sometimes people get offended,which I don't understand,
because I'm not saying you'renot quality.
If you think you're a qualityperson, you're a quality person.
And not only that, it'ssomewhat subjective too, because
the quality person to you isnot the same as a quality person
to this next person over here.
But at the end of the day I wantto help people in general, come
together.
I know I cannot help everybody.
(03:46):
I know that Some people don'teven want to help themselves.
So this what I'm saying is thatthat avatar might be we've
honed in on this specific one,which is great, and that's what
we're going to move forward with.
But I think the target willmove a little, not necessarily
move.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think you're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It'll broaden over time, right, because you know, I
know some 40, like, let's talkabout the age range, like right
now.
The target that we're afterright now is kind of late 20s,
mid, 30s, mid to late 30s.
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah mid, late30s, which is great.
A lot of people that I talk toare late 30s, late 40s, right,
(04:28):
and that's a demographic that Ireally want to service as well,
right?
So you know, as we go on, likeyou and I won't be able to throw
all of the parties, or you know, we can't be in more than one
place at one time this wholesocial circle idea just so you
know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Because this whole social circle idea is, from my
perspective, is big, which isaside from about good company,
have the same spirit, you know.
But in my eyes, you know, withmy communities of people, I want
to plant social circle eventsall over the city eventually.
But I and I can't be all overthe city, so I've got to kind of
(05:03):
enroll other people to help mewith that sort of thing.
But this right here, what we'redoing, I think about good
company, is at a higher level,right, and I won't use that word
.
But I'm excited about whatwe're going to do because I just
I know how frustrated it is forquality people to find other
quality people, right, whateverthat means to whoever's
(05:25):
listening.
And I know people share thatfrustration and I we've got the
resources to make that happenand to help people and I'm
excited about that because Ilike helping people.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, I think you're a point about the audience
growing, the avatar of theperson not necessarily changing,
but like expanding a little bitis very true.
I think the more we pull peoplein on this group and invite
people to be part of about goodcompany, we're going to see that
(05:58):
there are more people that wantto be a part of this Right.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And that's what we want to create Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Like at its core, like dream of all dreams, and
everything that I ever throwparty related is.
I always wanted to feel likebreakfast at Tiffany's, where
you like wander through andyou're like holding your drink
up in the air and you're like,excuse me, excuse me, excuse me,
pardon me, like oh hey, oh mygosh, I didn't see you.
(06:25):
This is great.
How are you doing?
Yeah, like that sort of energy.
Where you're, you're alwayslike moving to the next place
because you don't have to stayin one spot.
And so, if we can, like, we'regoing to get to that point where
, about good company events aregoing to feel like breakfast at
(06:46):
Tiffany's and then we're goingto bring them back down to
smaller, more curatedcommunities of people who are
really similar in theirbackgrounds and their value
system, in what they'veexpressed they wanted in the
future, through intimate eventsthat are exclusive to people who
(07:06):
are further into the about goodcompany community, right, and
that's exciting too, becauseit's that you described earlier
like a smaller social circlewhere there's five women and
five men, like that's this too.
Like four men, four women,absolutely Around a murder
(07:26):
mystery dinner party, wherethere's a theme and you sort of
are talking to somebody aboutnothing that you're actually
talking about, but you'reconnecting over some of the
interpersonal stuff through winedinners where we have a Somalia
, come in and walk through.
Why are these pairings working?
With what you're having, wherepeople can learn but also joke
about how much they don't know,there's something.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I feel like you're talking about me and my wife
when we were at that last wineparty.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, but there's something really exciting about
like having a conversation aboutsomething that you're not
having a conversation aboutbecause that's when you get to
know, like, do they laugh at thesame jokes that I laugh at, do
they like the same movies that Ilike, without having to ask
those questions.
So I think that what sort ofsets us apart other than being a
(08:19):
fan of chance meetings with alittle bit of help, but also
there's so much you can learnabout somebody without having to
directly ask the questions,about learning to learn about
them, and if we can facilitatethose interactions, like that's
it.
That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
That's the backbone of the whole thing is
facilitating.
What's the word you just used,Interactions.
Interactions facilitatinginteractions in a comfortable
setting.
That's what it's all about.
One question that was on thetable last weekend when we
talked was value proposition.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yes, one.
I think our value propositionis your time is better spent
with us.
We care about your relationshipgoals and where you wanna go in
your future relationship wiseas much as you do.
If that hasn't come across inour like hype about this, like
our volume's gotten a littlehigher.
(09:16):
I've gotten more animated, myhands are moving around, then
maybe like start at thebeginning of the episode, then
you'll catch it all the waythrough.
But we believe in what youwanna accomplish.
We wanna accomplish that withyou.
We wanna help that be madepossible and we wanna use your
time wisely, right and so andlike.
(09:37):
That's why you're here as amatchmaker.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Exactly, and I mentioned earlier that
matchmaking itself is a highticket item.
It's a luxury item.
Yeah, oh yeah, and the idea ofmatchmaking is not on the radar
of most people, like they don'teven hear about it.
But there's a society of peoplethat have because they
participate heavily in it.
But that's a society of peoplewho are high income individuals,
and this is going back to thevalue proposition conversation.
(10:05):
As I mentioned also, one of mygoals when I came into the
industry is to see what I can doto bring that service to more
of a working class demographicalso.
Yeah, yeah, and what people maynot know is that the average
contract in the matchmakingworld is about $15,000.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
That's the average, so that means a lot of the high
end people that I work with Go alot higher, yeah, a lot higher.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Like I was just on a mastermind call with some people
in the industry and the guysaid hey, we need everybody to
raise their prices $5,000.
Now their price is already$25,000 for a contract Shhh
Right, and they wanna raise itanother like $25,000, $50,000,
$100,000 is not weird for peoplewho participated in the
matchmaking industry, Bothclients and matchmakers
(10:51):
themselves.
But I know normal people, notthat they are normal people, but
regular people don't have, I'mgonna go with they aren't normal
.
Yeah, they don't have $15,000 to, I mean, the company that you
mentioned.
You know I've gone throughtheir process and I know that
their cost is $9,000 to $15,000.
Right, so it takes somefinancial resources to
(11:12):
participate in this right.
So another one of the valuepropositions that I'm bringing
to the table is the same workthat we do for people who pay
$100,000 for a contract is thesame work I'm trying to do for
people who participate in aboutgood company.
And not only that.
This is the same work I'mtrying to do for the people that
are in my communities.
They don't recognize the valueof it, right you know.
(11:33):
So I'm pretty much casting mypearls to swine, so to speak,
but I'm also dedicated tohelping them understand the
value in what I'm doing, becauseit's real value.
I use the exact same tools thehigh-end matchmakers.
The high-end matchmakers arepart of my network, like we work
and we collaborate with eachother all the time.
So the value proposition forabout good company is not only
(11:56):
are we putting you in the spaceof good people, we're actually
doing some work behind thescenes to make sure those people
are somewhat compatible withbeing in your space right.
Because, at the end of the day,I want people to be in rooms
that are target rich forenhanced social circles,
building friendships and findingyou know your love interest.
(12:18):
That's my goal as a matchmakerin this particular endeavor.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, I think that's fantastic.
I also think that there's avalue proposition that we've
talked about a little bit.
I think being in real life withpeople is so important, and I
was just talking to a friend ofmine who's having a hard time
making friends.
She just moved to a new placeand, as we get older, making new
(12:46):
friends that aren't connectedto us at work and didn't go to
college with us or aren't likebest friends from childhood if
we still have any of those isextremely hard.
And so this is also anopportunity for that, for you,
(13:07):
to meet people of your same sex,a different sex Like.
That's still pretty awesome andthough it's not the core of why
we're gathering people together, but it is a benefit Absolutely
, and I think, if you can like,spend one price and get two
things kill two birds with onestone as they say back in the
(13:31):
day Back in my day.
Yeah, back in your day.
I think that's exciting too.
Yeah, absolutely, I mean I likemeeting new people.
I wouldn't say that I'm alwaysin the market for friends,
because that's a heavier liftRight, but I'm not opposed to
meeting new people and findingnew friends by any means.
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