January 24, 2024 • 32 mins
Discover the inside scoop on crushing it in your network marketing/direct selling business as we explore the essential "ins" that will shape your growth strategies in 2024. We'll cover smart approaches, the latest tech, and proven methods to help you navigate the changing world of network marketing.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Vlog-style Reels for Direct Selling: The trend of vlog-style content, that's gaining popularity for direct selling to demonstrate products being used genuinely.
- Repurposing B-Roll in Social Media Content: Repurposing the same footage creatively with different content to keep the audience engaged without the need for constant new content creation.
- Niche Expertise for Direct Sellers: Providing in-depth knowledge beyond just product comparison to help establish credibility and trust.
- Easy Onboarding for Team Members: Making it easy for new team members to join is crucial. Simplifying the onboarding process ensures that potential team members are not discouraged.
- Authenticity in Product Promotion: Sharing honest experiences with the product, rather than exaggerated enthusiasm, builds trust and credibility.
- Automated Engagement with DM Links: We highlight the importance of utilizing tools like LinkDM.com for automated engagement to simplify the process of sending links to interested customers.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to Rock's Talks, the podcast that helps
network marketers grow theirbusiness on social media.
I'm Roxanne Wilson, socialmedia network marketing coach,
with nearly a decade ofexperience in the space, as well
as television and radioexperience, and a passion to
really help you and empower youto be the best network marketer
you can be, which means knowingyourself and knowing your brand.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And I'm Taryn Soa, your social media sidekick.
I run all things behind thescenes at Rock's Talks, While
being the right hand woman toRoxanne, I also strategize and
manage our full social mediaplan.
So I would love to share withyou the tips, the happenings,
(00:50):
all the things going on in thesocial media world.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Each week we're here to give you the latest and
greatest direct selling, socialselling, network marketing,
whatever you like to call it.
The end game is for you toreally understand your business,
understand yourself and yourbrand and to rock it on social
media.
You know, one of the favoritethings tearing up my heart.
(01:14):
Tearing up my heart is in syncbut also is like predictions,
not resolutions.
I'm not big on resolutionsnecessarily.
I don't hate them, they're notlike my thing thing but
predictions those are fun tolook back on.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Don't you think?
Yes, no, I love those.
I love the trend I've beenseeing going around lately on
social media of like what's in,what's out for the new year.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, I haven't seen them in social media.
I just see it like in, like I'mgoogling different things, yeah
.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh, I've seen it on that, I've seen it on some
podcasts.
I'm like, oh, this is fun, Ilike this yes.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, we didn't know.
We're copying you, all thepeople that are doing it, but it
is the beginning of the yearand this is what we're doing, so
shall we talk about today theins, indirect direct selling,
social selling, networkmarketing for 2024?
.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We should like what is in.
I'm very curious becausethere's been so much turmoil.
So shall we say, I think youcan call it turmoil.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I think you can call it turmoil, yeah, so we're
starting what's still in, whatyou can do.
What's working.
What's working on the strugglebus, like, if you're on the
struggle bus or what, what, whatworks, okay, so why don't you
start with with one that you'vebeen seeing on the gram a lot?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So the one I'm seeing is more of the vlog style type
reels, where I mean an exampleis you could do like a day in a
life, but it's more so.
Showing this is how you do it,for you know direct selling is
showing how you're using theseproducts.
So you sell hair products likehow you're styling your hair
(02:59):
with it or showing how your hairhas personally changed from
using it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, you know it's funny.
I don't think this is somethingthat is.
The concept isn't new, but thepackage is new.
It's kind of going like let'stake a page out of the
influencers books and let's useit so day in the life.
Get ready with me.
If your product is like a getready with me, if it's a workout
(03:27):
, if you're selling like withZaire or something, come, get,
come, work out with me.
And you just happen to haveproduct placement, like we've
talked about since, like thebeginning in there.
So you've got your product andyou're showing yourself using it
.
Or maybe I'm seeing yourproduct in the back, your your
the background when I'm watchingit, but making it.
So it makes sense to people howthe thing you are selling would
(03:51):
work for them and the best wayto do that fundamentally is them
to.
If they see you doing it, usingit, they're imagining
themselves.
We used to do that, or we talkedabout that a lot in when I was
doing home shopping, likewhenever you're doing something,
you're you.
Whenever you're sellingsomething home shopping, wise,
you could even play around asfun, because you sit there and
if you talk about the thing andit's just there on screen,
(04:11):
you'll get some sales.
But if you're touching it, ifyou're using it, eating it,
eating it, because people don'trealize that if I'm holding it,
then you're pretending you're,you're visualizing yourself Like
you take the place of moi andyou're thinking about how you
would use it.
If I'm smelling it, even thoughyou cannot smell what I'm
(04:32):
smelling, what the rock iscooking, you feel like you can
because you put yourself in thatsituation.
It's magical, and I think dayin the life's or get ready with
me's are easy ways that you cando it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Because people want video, like don't make me
imagine how I'm using this, andlike a good example of some
things is maybe how you use itfor different seasons of your
life.
So I've got this one girl Ifollow and right now her like
family is sick and she's showingthem how she does natural
things for when she's sick, andthen one of the tips was like
(05:10):
this product that she also takesand it felt genuine and I was
like, oh, I didn't even realizelike you really want to take
that when you're sick.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I love that.
I love that she's showing thereality of it and for those of
you who have these products,it's like wait, you can also use
it for this or this or this.
That's a perfect way to show it, organically and in a way where
it's not like a dump of a listof which almost feels like
desperation, but more likeshowing it.
The other thing I think isimportant for you all to think
about when you're doing this isthat you can truly show the same
(05:45):
footage over and over againwith different options on them.
You can that.
So don't think that you have todo like oh my gosh, I have to
do like five scenarios of megetting ready every day.
No, you can just get some goodfootage.
Use that same footage over andover again.
If you don't take a page out ofan influencer's book and see
how that works, that's what theydo.
(06:06):
It's the same video of thekitchen, same drawer, they're
opening, same mirror, they'repulling open, but it's different
content each time.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yep, yeah, no, I see that.
I'll notice that where it'slike so maybe they had my five
top outfits and they have allthose videos, but then next time
they'll take one video fromthat and make a reel just out of
that.
So in is also being savvy withthe B roll that you're using and
repurposing.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So it's funny you say B roll and B roll has been
something in my life since, likereally golly, I was on the
apprentice, but I think weassume people know what B roll
is.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, gosh, I didn't know what B roll was until I
started YouTube video editing.
So what is B roll?
B roll.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Think of A roll.
Okay, there can't be a Bwithout an A is what I think,
right.
So A roll is like you talkingon camera or showing the thing.
B roll is like just backgroundvideo.
It's probably what it standsfor.
B is probably for backgroundvideo.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't know either, but if you're watching, like
watch a TV show, and you'll seethe show as sunset or people
walking down the street, andthen they'll cut to the meat of
okay, they're in the housetalking.
The house talking is the A roll, the B roll is setting the
stage.
So you know, it's daylight,it's sunset, it's that's how
it's like okay, I'm setting thestage.
I believe this house, that'sreally somewhere in like
(07:32):
Universal Studios, must be inChicago because they showed me
the Chicago skyline.
That's the B roll.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's the B roll.
Set it up and you can use justa B roll in a video for social
media.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yes, and just put captions or something over it,
and then there you are.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Mm-hmm, yes, totally, so I love that one.
What else do we got?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I think another thing is being and again, this is
something that is a concept, butit's just dressed in a
different dressing and it makesit fresh and new, and that's a
lot of things these days.
So niching, niching, niching,niching, niching.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Niching, niching, niching.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Niching down, Niching down, but specifically cause I
think this makes people thinklike, oh my gosh, I can only
talk about X, Y, Z.
We want you to be your ownperson, and if that's a variety
of things which it is that'sgreat.
But when you're talking andyou're focusing things towards
what you're selling, it is greatto be the expert in that space.
So if you sell pens, be theexpert in pens and give people
(08:35):
great knowledge about pens.
Why are pens like?
I don't know why.
Pens are great to use.
This is one of my favorite pens, psm, by the way.
That's cause it's from mywedding location and it's wood.
Look at that, isn't that pretty?
Yeah, that is pretty.
But so if you're sellingcollagen good Lord, you know you
are then you need to become theexpert of the space of collagen
(08:59):
.
That doesn't just mean expertof like.
Why my collagen?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
is better than your collagen Product, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's the expert in like what collagen does for you
in general, how to incorporatecollagen in your life.
I've actually sold collagenprotein bars the other day and
I'm like I don't know how I feelabout this.
I think I'm okay, but I'm likewhere'd that collagen come from?
It's kind of creeped me out,but I'm like I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah.
You know, yeah, I see whatyou're saying there, so I think
we can even take this one stepfarther.
Like you're also the expert andcan bring on customers, you
don't need to send to Sally Sueon your team, who's the expert
of collagen you are.
You can help your clientspurchase.
You can help your clients turninto team members because you
(09:47):
are taking ownership in yourbusiness.
Yes, and you can do it insteadof like always sending like, go
to this, go to this webinar, goto go talk to Jen.
She loves collagen.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
She's a multi-millionaire and she
started like orphanages allaround the world.
You should talk to her about it, and then your ma that they
joined her.
Yes, yeah.
But also in regards to that,terri Bear, tearing up my heart
is that people don't want to seeother Randos.
(10:22):
They came to you and you knowthis, so lean into that, even if
you're like I don't know if Ican, you know more than they
know.
That's all you need to know.
You know more than they know.
So lean into you being theexpert in all the ways and stop
relying on other team members orother people to get the
information to them.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, Yep, you got it , girl, you got it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The other thing you've got is you've got to make
if I'm joining your team,you've got to make it easy.
Make it easy for me tounderstand what it means to join
your team.
Make it easy for me to join theteam If I am like.
If you're like, hey, are you onFacebook?
I'm like not, really, don't go.
Okay, I'm going to add you tofive Facebook groups.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
If I told you on.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Facebook.
Don't put me on a Facebookgroup, just don't do it, because
I'm not there.
Make it easy for me and thatmight be annoying to you,
because you're like wait, listen, if they really want to do this
, they will get in the dirt anddo it the way that they're.
No, they won't, no, they won't.
They'll do something that'seasier.
Hello, hello.
That also goes for, like I'mnoticing, low cost enrollment
(11:26):
fees are big and this kind oflike.
It's funny they say thisbecause also yeah, I'm gonna say
it now, we'll talk about it ina little juxtaposition.
That denotes, but I'm seeing,like when you're like, how much
does it cost to join?
I'm seeing companies do saleswhere they used to be a lot like
$25, or it costs $5, or it'sfree.
That is in right now and I havemixed feelings about that,
(11:50):
because I do understand thepoint.
If you don't have skin in thegame, are you really gonna play
the game?
Did you watch Squid Game?
It's the movie.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, not the movie, but the show?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Did you watch the game show version of it?
The challenge it was stillSquid Games, but they did like a
competition when no one died.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh no, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
No, it's not usually my style, but I like know what
it is we never watched it in2020, but when the game came on
last.
I like reality shows, soreality TV, I'm like okay this
is interesting.
And I was sitting with Scottwhen we're watching.
He got into it and I said youknow, this is like based on a
show that came out.
He's like it is yeah, and he'slike okay, let's watch that.
(12:35):
Well, he loved that more thanthe actual thing.
The reason I bring it up if youhaven't seen Squid Games, it's
like adults playing kid games,but they find out when they
start playing these games inthis place that they don't even
know where they are, that if youlose the game, you die.
You die, okay, I'm in.
(12:55):
But you know what?
The stakes for the game are sohigh that you better believe
they're not like well, if I lose, I lose, I'm going home.
No, you lose, you die, they'rein.
That's a little extreme, Iunderstand.
But even like, and if you win,you win like five big a billion
(13:16):
dollars, 500 billion I don'tknow how much it was, but it was
a lot of money.
My point is that if they don'thave skin in the game, there is
something to be said.
You don't value something ifyou get it for free.
I believe that, however, it is acompetitive world out there
right now and so if you'resaying, yeah to join, it's gonna
cost you a thousand dollars,it's gonna cost you this or that
(13:38):
.
I'm noticing people are lessinterested because there's
competition that's offering itfor less.
I don't know, have you noticedthat?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, no, and I get what you're saying here because
I'm also on the fence.
It's like we're saying this isin because that's what is
happening right now.
But I have the mixed feeling ofbecause I'm the same way.
If I purchase, like a coursethat I wanna go through, I wanna
learn something for my business, I've noticed if I pay in full,
I am not that in it, eventhough I pay, I need a monthly
(14:11):
payment plan.
Because it reminds me of like,oh, yep, mm-hmm.
Like I gotta make sure I'mputting my effort into this.
Like when I pay in full, it'slike I forget about it and I'm
like, oh, I'll get to iteventually.
Yeah, and that can happen inyour business too.
Like when you got in so easy,it's like, oh, grandma's sick.
Like I'll start posting onsocial media next week.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And it never comes.
That's so interesting, Cause Iwas gonna say like, yeah, when
you'd pay it monthly, it'spainful, is what?
You like but I don't wanna callit painful, it's more like it's
the energy.
So, like you took all theenergy, I'm gonna do it painful
and you put that energy out onceand so, like it, almost the
energy that's there dissipatesvery quickly, whereas when you
(14:58):
are energetically paying eachmonth it's like all right,
you're in it again.
It's almost like a jolt of okay, I'm doing this a minute, a
minute.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah.
So I guess if you are like ateam lead and you're bringing
someone on like maybe it'd becognizant of because they came
in lower, like how you're gonnakeep them enticed and going, you
know?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, cause if they're not, if they don't have
a personal motivation, I'm notlike if they wise them big
enough, I'm not saying that, butif they don't have a personal
motivation sorry, I threw up alittle bit Then it they may just
not like.
What do I have to lose?
I only spent $25.
Oh well, like I could pay that.
I could spend that at Starbucks, whatever, and move on.
(15:44):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, yep.
Another thing that is in GoFigure, people actually like it
when they truly believe you likethe products, oh what?
But not like fan girl about theproducts, not like cult.
Loving the products.
This is the best thing ever.
(16:07):
Yeah, listen, no, taryn and Ilove a Stanley, don't get us
wrong.
But if you asked us what annoysus about our Stanley, what
would we say?
Taryn, that's so big, okay,whatever, there's no right or
wrong.
I'm just asking what do you notlike or assume?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, I'm like, are we hinting?
Well, what I don't like aboutit is that it tips over on the
plane and so I actually havelike a plane or like going out
water bottle, and then this ismy at home water bottle, because
it's so easy to drink at home.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I think I saw your color, by the way, at the
exporting goods and I was so inlove with it.
I'm like oh.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's a lot.
I'm kind of over it.
Now.
This is about that's me.
You know I get over a color andso, like my new water bottle I
just bought is like a forestgreen.
Oh, she's beautiful, Is it?
Stanley?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No different brand Stanley has.
Is it a Walla?
What brand is it Iron Flask?
Oh, interesting, there was agreen one I saw that was like an
ombre green to silver, likedark.
And I'm going to silver thatwas at Dix.
Saw what yep, yeah Y'all.
And what I would say is that Iand I annoy that when I, when I,
(17:15):
even though I got the littleextra things when it falls over
if there's too much water andit's it spills, it spills.
So you see what we just didthere.
We gave you an honestassessment.
We love our Stan Lee's but wegave you an honest assessment
about what we like and we don'tlike about it, even mentioned a
different product.
If you are fangirling so hardthat you can't even say what is
(17:37):
wrong with your Stanley, peopledon't believe you.
They wanna hear the truth.
So you can.
I love it, but I wish it didn'tcome in this package.
I love it, but it took me awhile to get to this use of the
taste.
But I love the impact.
I love it.
But you have to remember do notwash, do not dry them.
You gotta hang dry them.
(17:58):
That is reality and they don'twanna hear that after they
purchase it.
They wanna hear it in the.
They wanna be fully preparedfor the situation and you can
fully prepare them.
If you give them the honest togoodness aspect of it.
That's huge and they're likelyto buy it.
(18:18):
I heard Stanley certain.
I heard things about Stanley.
I bought Stanley anyway.
Stanley came home.
Actually my daughter gave it tome, but she knew I wanted a
Stanley, yeah, so remember thaton that.
And I think the last thingyou're probably seeing a lot of
people do this like, hey, drop acomment link or drop shop or
(18:40):
drop collagen to get moreinformation, and that is a big
thing right now.
Many chat, I would say, was theOGs of being able to do that,
not only on Facebook, so wherethey started, but now on
Instagram.
But you were telling me there'sanother one out there.
That is simpler.
Many chat works, but many chatyou need like a PhD.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You do and, trust me, it gets expensive fast.
So if people are using it a lot, you pay for the more people.
That are basically yourcontacts.
And so there's another free oneand we it's DM link, it's
linkdmcom, it's free, itliterally you set it up and then
(19:24):
it sends people the link foryou, so you are not manually
going through your comments likeoh my gosh, look, I missed
somebody and messaging them backthe link.
So automation, baby is myfavorite and simple automation
better.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You don't need a PhD.
You probably don't even need adegree Exciting.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
And if you can't, your hobby maybe can help, maybe
.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
If not your tween or your Gen Z or X or N.
Someone can help.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Someone can help, someone can figure it out,
definitely.
So those are our ins for 2024.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You're so in, you're looking at you, you're just in
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You guys wanna know what's out too, don't you
Awkward?
But you're not gonna find outtill next week.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Skinny jeans.
I told them.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'm not ready for that to be out.
What, okay, we'll go behind thescenes.
Here In Nashville it's freakingsnow wing, it's icy, it's cold.
I still want my skinny jeansbecause if my flare pants suck
up all the snow and they're wetand I get flashback to high
school when I would have to walkhome in my super flare jeans
(20:37):
and I would be wet up to my knee, I'm traumatized.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
No, this is totally traumatized y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Wow, you keep skinny jeans, darn it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
You could also put your jeans in your boots.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The snow pictures are amazing, not cute.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's not about cuteness, don't you Listen.
You're from Michigan.
You know that it's not aboutbeing cute.
It's about being efficient intimes of freezing weather.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Thank you, but skinny jeans allowed you to do both.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay well, if you want to wear skinny jeans, you
can.
Okay well, it sounds likeyou're going to, and so there's
snow in the Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Michigan found me here in Tennessee.
School has been closed all weekfor six inches of snow, like
they don't clean it up.
I mean I guess they don't havethe tools.
They don't have the tools.
Hello Like nothing is plowed.
Here's a fun fact.
I was at the airport this weekbecause, of course, of all weeks
I had to fly out.
I'm like great, so how theyhandle salting things, it's.
(21:37):
There's two funny things.
A, they put it out like threedays before it snows.
They put out salt and it'sstill like 50 degrees out and
there's salt everywhere.
Two is they layer it like athick layer of salt and I'm like
no, you like sprinkle it aboutlike layer.
So I'm at the airport trying topull my suitcase.
(21:58):
It's getting so caught up inthis salt and it's like, like
you guys, you need some YouTubevideos of how to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This is okay.
This is, this is sweet tearbearing up my heart, being a
winter snob cause she's used toit.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And she's down here in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Down there in Nashville, where they don't know
, it is not normal for them.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
They have had snow year after year.
I don't.
I'm not taking this, but like aone day snow, not a six days
snow.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I will say I'm surprised they have salt.
That shocked me because inTexas we didn't have salt, we
used dirt.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Cause we didn't have salt.
So those one or two days Maybethey upgraded.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, those one or two days in Austin where it
would freeze, they would putdown dirt.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah Well, we're going to move somewhere else.
I'm not not cool with this.
Oh wow, it's time to go Already, Seriously.
Oh well, when our lease is up,we probably will move.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Okay, I was like wow, she's like screw this, I am out
of here, even though Ihomeschool my kids, I don't care
, this is BS.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'm going to bring my husband to and from work every
day.
I was like I'm going to Floridaor I'm moving in.
You got an extra bedroom right.
Yeah, come to Arizona.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We don't have these issues, we just have sunsets and
wonderful things.
My behind the scenes, sincewe've last talked, I'm fully
moved.
Yeah, it's done.
We went back to Cali.
Going back to Cali and got thecar.
Taylor, my daughter and Scottdrove and Baylor and I flew.
We all got here last Saturday,so that was good.
(23:42):
Since then we've had Taylorstay till last night really this
morning because her fight wasdelayed.
Jetblue, you suck again, youjust keep screwing over.
A time she just liked them tosay, and it's true, but they
gave her $50 vouchers, so nowshe's like never, again.
And then she's like they gave me, I'm like you can't quit them
when they keep giving you money.
Yeah, come fly with us again.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It was such a great experience.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But we, okay, what'd we do?
So we went, we hikedThunderbird Mountain or it's
really a trail, it's mountainous, so it was beautiful, so we
could look over Arizona or thevalley of the sun Phoenix and
just see all sorts of beautifulsights.
We did that one day.
We went to my favorite danceguy.
His name on Instagram, look himup y'all and I've noticed now
(24:30):
that some of you listening toour do fall home.
That makes me so happy is BigKid Rick, if you're very careful
when you say that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Ah, yeah, yeah, Big Kid, rick, rick, rick, the NAR.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yes, yes.
So we danced with him and hewas so much fun.
And then he's like I want youguys to say after because he was
doing a new video and I'm like,oh my gosh, I don't do that.
So I stayed after but I hidbehind.
He posted, I hid behind someone, so you can kind of only see me
and you can see my littlesister, Rostel, behind him.
But Taylor had so much fun.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Roxane, that is not you, it's a new dance.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I haven't done dance aerobics for months and it was
my first day in his class nine,10 months, cause he's in Arizona
.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I know, my, I know my role.
Don't you worry about it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Disappointed in you.
I want to see you.
I better see you on some ofthese reels coming up forward
when you get your groove, when Iget my when Stella gets her
groove back.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So we did that and Scott came and he had to stay
outside the whole time and wethought he couldn't see.
He could see the whole thing.
He was like he's so funny.
Then we also what'd we do?
What'd we do?
We went to a Toggerna fashionsquare, the V-Mall in the
Phoenix area.
We went oh my gosh, I can'tremember what we did.
(25:54):
Wait, hold is coming.
My family had a welcome backdinner for us, so that was so
we're like, welcome to Arizonadinner.
So we did that one night, whichwas really fun.
And then we had a spa day causeit was her graduation.
She graduated from MiramacCollege on December 31st and so
what she wanted was a spa day.
(26:15):
So we went to the princess andwe had a day.
She said it was the bestservice.
I take her to a lot of spaskind of what we do, but she's
like it was the best one.
It was her best service.
She was with me at my batchparty, so she loved it.
We had a good time and relaxed.
And then yesterday morning gotup early cause my dad got an
award.
(26:35):
He got the MLK Junior FacultyService Award at Arizona State.
So we went to a brunch for him.
It was really really specialand so that was really cool,
cause I usually am like he'sgotten awards in the past, like
he got one during 2020.
And it was like all virtual andwhatnot.
(26:55):
But this was fun to actually bethere and he did a really great
job with his speech and it wasso good.
So, and what was also cool wasLarry Fitzgerald.
If you all know football, hewas a big, he was a cardinal all
his life.
Really really good.
Probably could have won theSuper Bowl if he'd just gone
somewhere else, but he didn't.
He his foundation.
He started a foundation whenhis mother died from breast
(27:16):
cancer so he has a foundationthat helps just helps families
going through that and hisfoundation won the award.
So he was there and my sister,rachelle, is a Cardinals fanatic
so she was like I didn't knowthere was his name.
She was like, wait, he's here.
I'm like, oh, I didn't see him.
She's like I didn't read theinvitation, so she got a picture
(27:37):
with him and so she was a happycamper and all the things.
So and they had these littlekids who wrote essays about
service from all around, like ina contest, and they those who
won came and they were like fromage five all the way to seniors
and they were so cute and whatI really loved about it was they
were very particular, like,okay, we're gonna come up and
you're gonna get your award.
(27:58):
But they said, parents, all theparents come to the front.
And they're like, no, seriously, come to the front.
So they had the professionalphotographer take a picture of
them getting their award andthey said, okay, parents, so,
and so where are ya?
They had them stand right wherethe photographer was so they
could get a picture.
Cause they're like we'rebuilding memories, we're
building history here and wewant you and some of them would
be in the back no, no, no, comeup here, get a good picture.
(28:19):
And I just thought that was socool that is cool.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, like that part even gave me chills.
I'm like, ah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I was like that is so cool.
So the parents got to likereally commemorate and get good
videos and pictures of theirkids.
So it was really cool and thenyeah, so that's been like what
I've been doing.
We are my new fan came.
That's the first piece of thebedroom that came.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
My new fans Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Is she beautiful?
She's beautiful.
She's in a box, but she'sbeautiful and so I'm excited.
We got to get that up.
Well, we don't do that, so wegot to find it.
But also, I ordered last week.
I ordered the what is it called?
The gate, the doggie gate forthe stairs, because you know,
(29:09):
baylor did fall down the stairsand when we were in Boston she
fell down the stairs, all theway down the stairs.
Aw, still gives me like sadness.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
She's okay, she's okay.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And we don't know how it happened, and we were anyhow
.
She fell down.
So, like we're baby gating ourstairs for sure and Maisie comes
.
Maisie comes in like four weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh, it's official.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
It's official that happened in December.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, that was Well, cause I thought there was a
Maisie and then there was a fallas she fell through, but then
the second one's happened.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Second one happened.
That happened.
We got a message like December24th, 20 seconds, saying your
baby's here and that happened.
And then so she's coming inlike a few weeks.
We get to pick her out in twoweeks and then she comes in four
weeks.
So we gotta get the baby gateup.
So I had to order the baby gatelast week.
It's on Etsy because-.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
What is it like, three feet high Like hi, don't
really they made me doincendimeters?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I really don't know.
I think it's like three feethigh, but then we have to get
that installed so that they andI also installed this mesh from
Amazon on the banister so theycan't go through there.
Through there, yeah, oh yeah.
And then the gate.
We just didn't want the look ofa baby gate, and we get one
temporarily.
But when you spend, baby gatesaren't cheap.
(30:27):
If you think baby gates arecheap, they are not cheap.
So we got a wooden one that'sgonna match our house, and so
they'll install it onto the wall.
When it comes it doesn't cometill like the 11th of February.
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Custom baby gate.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yep, there it is Nice .
Speaker 2 (30:44):
What's going on in my eyes?
I'm so glad I'm past baby gates.
That was, yeah, that was a time.
Or like for little kids, likehow you, I don't know, you've
ever gone to the house wherethey have to have everything
locked, so you go to pull out adrawer and it's locked, nothing
works.
Or the door, like any time Iwould go to, like a girlfriend's
house who maybe had a differentbrand.
(31:04):
I'm like I can't even open yourtoilet.
Can you help me?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, you're like, be smarter than the baby locks.
Be smarter than baby locks.
Great pants, love it.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
All right, guys.
We'll see you next week for theouts.
The don'ts Don't do it no moredon'ts You're going to let them
go, and if you did it, for thelast few weeks we'll let it
slide, but next week isofficially when you're not going
to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Goodbye skinny jeans.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Goodbye, skinny jeans .
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Bye everybody.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
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Welcome to Rock's Talks, the podcast that helps
network marketers grow theirbusiness on social media.
I'm Roxanne Wilson, socialmedia network marketing coach,
with nearly a decade ofexperience in the space, as well
as television and radioexperience, and a passion to
really help you and empower youto be the best network marketer
you can be, which means knowingyourself and knowing your brand.
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And I'm Taryn Soa, your social media sidekick.
I run all things behind thescenes at Rock's Talks, While
being the right hand woman toRoxanne, I also strategize and
manage our full social mediaplan.
So I would love to share withyou the tips, the happenings,
(00:50):
all the things going on in thesocial media world.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Each week we're here to give you the latest and
greatest direct selling, socialselling, network marketing,
whatever you like to call it.
The end game is for you toreally understand your business,
understand yourself and yourbrand and to rock it on social
media.
You know, one of the favoritethings tearing up my heart.
(01:14):
Tearing up my heart is in syncbut also is like predictions,
not resolutions.
I'm not big on resolutionsnecessarily.
I don't hate them, they're notlike my thing thing but
predictions those are fun tolook back on.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Don't you think?
Yes, no, I love those.
I love the trend I've beenseeing going around lately on
social media of like what's in,what's out for the new year.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, I haven't seen them in social media.
I just see it like in, like I'mgoogling different things, yeah
.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh, I've seen it on that, I've seen it on some
podcasts.
I'm like, oh, this is fun, Ilike this yes.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, we didn't know.
We're copying you, all thepeople that are doing it, but it
is the beginning of the yearand this is what we're doing, so
shall we talk about today theins, indirect direct selling,
social selling, networkmarketing for 2024?
.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We should like what is in.
I'm very curious becausethere's been so much turmoil.
So shall we say, I think youcan call it turmoil.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I think you can call it turmoil, yeah, so we're
starting what's still in, whatyou can do.
What's working.
What's working on the strugglebus, like, if you're on the
struggle bus or what, what, whatworks, okay, so why don't you
start with with one that you'vebeen seeing on the gram a lot?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So the one I'm seeing is more of the vlog style type
reels, where I mean an exampleis you could do like a day in a
life, but it's more so.
Showing this is how you do it,for you know direct selling is
showing how you're using theseproducts.
So you sell hair products likehow you're styling your hair
(02:59):
with it or showing how your hairhas personally changed from
using it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, you know it's funny.
I don't think this is somethingthat is.
The concept isn't new, but thepackage is new.
It's kind of going like let'stake a page out of the
influencers books and let's useit so day in the life.
Get ready with me.
If your product is like a getready with me, if it's a workout
(03:27):
, if you're selling like withZaire or something, come, get,
come, work out with me.
And you just happen to haveproduct placement, like we've
talked about since, like thebeginning in there.
So you've got your product andyou're showing yourself using it
.
Or maybe I'm seeing yourproduct in the back, your your
the background when I'm watchingit, but making it.
So it makes sense to people howthe thing you are selling would
(03:51):
work for them and the best wayto do that fundamentally is them
to.
If they see you doing it, usingit, they're imagining
themselves.
We used to do that, or we talkedabout that a lot in when I was
doing home shopping, likewhenever you're doing something,
you're you.
Whenever you're sellingsomething home shopping, wise,
you could even play around asfun, because you sit there and
if you talk about the thing andit's just there on screen,
(04:11):
you'll get some sales.
But if you're touching it, ifyou're using it, eating it,
eating it, because people don'trealize that if I'm holding it,
then you're pretending you're,you're visualizing yourself Like
you take the place of moi andyou're thinking about how you
would use it.
If I'm smelling it, even thoughyou cannot smell what I'm
(04:32):
smelling, what the rock iscooking, you feel like you can
because you put yourself in thatsituation.
It's magical, and I think dayin the life's or get ready with
me's are easy ways that you cando it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Because people want video, like don't make me
imagine how I'm using this, andlike a good example of some
things is maybe how you use itfor different seasons of your
life.
So I've got this one girl Ifollow and right now her like
family is sick and she's showingthem how she does natural
things for when she's sick, andthen one of the tips was like
(05:10):
this product that she also takesand it felt genuine and I was
like, oh, I didn't even realizelike you really want to take
that when you're sick.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I love that.
I love that she's showing thereality of it and for those of
you who have these products,it's like wait, you can also use
it for this or this or this.
That's a perfect way to show it, organically and in a way where
it's not like a dump of a listof which almost feels like
desperation, but more likeshowing it.
The other thing I think isimportant for you all to think
about when you're doing this isthat you can truly show the same
(05:45):
footage over and over againwith different options on them.
You can that.
So don't think that you have todo like oh my gosh, I have to
do like five scenarios of megetting ready every day.
No, you can just get some goodfootage.
Use that same footage over andover again.
If you don't take a page out ofan influencer's book and see
how that works, that's what theydo.
(06:06):
It's the same video of thekitchen, same drawer, they're
opening, same mirror, they'repulling open, but it's different
content each time.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yep, yeah, no, I see that.
I'll notice that where it'slike so maybe they had my five
top outfits and they have allthose videos, but then next time
they'll take one video fromthat and make a reel just out of
that.
So in is also being savvy withthe B roll that you're using and
repurposing.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So it's funny you say B roll and B roll has been
something in my life since, likereally golly, I was on the
apprentice, but I think weassume people know what B roll
is.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, gosh, I didn't know what B roll was until I
started YouTube video editing.
So what is B roll?
B roll.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Think of A roll.
Okay, there can't be a Bwithout an A is what I think,
right.
So A roll is like you talkingon camera or showing the thing.
B roll is like just backgroundvideo.
It's probably what it standsfor.
B is probably for backgroundvideo.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't know either, but if you're watching, like
watch a TV show, and you'll seethe show as sunset or people
walking down the street, andthen they'll cut to the meat of
okay, they're in the housetalking.
The house talking is the A roll, the B roll is setting the
stage.
So you know, it's daylight,it's sunset, it's that's how
it's like okay, I'm setting thestage.
I believe this house, that'sreally somewhere in like
(07:32):
Universal Studios, must be inChicago because they showed me
the Chicago skyline.
That's the B roll.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's the B roll.
Set it up and you can use justa B roll in a video for social
media.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yes, and just put captions or something over it,
and then there you are.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Mm-hmm, yes, totally, so I love that one.
What else do we got?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I think another thing is being and again, this is
something that is a concept, butit's just dressed in a
different dressing and it makesit fresh and new, and that's a
lot of things these days.
So niching, niching, niching,niching, niching.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Niching, niching, niching.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Niching down, Niching down, but specifically cause I
think this makes people thinklike, oh my gosh, I can only
talk about X, Y, Z.
We want you to be your ownperson, and if that's a variety
of things which it is that'sgreat.
But when you're talking andyou're focusing things towards
what you're selling, it is greatto be the expert in that space.
So if you sell pens, be theexpert in pens and give people
(08:35):
great knowledge about pens.
Why are pens like?
I don't know why.
Pens are great to use.
This is one of my favorite pens, psm, by the way.
That's cause it's from mywedding location and it's wood.
Look at that, isn't that pretty?
Yeah, that is pretty.
But so if you're sellingcollagen good Lord, you know you
are then you need to become theexpert of the space of collagen
(08:59):
.
That doesn't just mean expertof like.
Why my collagen?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
is better than your collagen Product, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's the expert in like what collagen does for you
in general, how to incorporatecollagen in your life.
I've actually sold collagenprotein bars the other day and
I'm like I don't know how I feelabout this.
I think I'm okay, but I'm likewhere'd that collagen come from?
It's kind of creeped me out,but I'm like I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah.
You know, yeah, I see whatyou're saying there, so I think
we can even take this one stepfarther.
Like you're also the expert andcan bring on customers, you
don't need to send to Sally Sueon your team, who's the expert
of collagen you are.
You can help your clientspurchase.
You can help your clients turninto team members because you
(09:47):
are taking ownership in yourbusiness.
Yes, and you can do it insteadof like always sending like, go
to this, go to this webinar, goto go talk to Jen.
She loves collagen.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
She's a multi-millionaire and she
started like orphanages allaround the world.
You should talk to her about it, and then your ma that they
joined her.
Yes, yeah.
But also in regards to that,terri Bear, tearing up my heart
is that people don't want to seeother Randos.
(10:22):
They came to you and you knowthis, so lean into that, even if
you're like I don't know if Ican, you know more than they
know.
That's all you need to know.
You know more than they know.
So lean into you being theexpert in all the ways and stop
relying on other team members orother people to get the
information to them.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, Yep, you got it , girl, you got it.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The other thing you've got is you've got to make
if I'm joining your team,you've got to make it easy.
Make it easy for me tounderstand what it means to join
your team.
Make it easy for me to join theteam If I am like.
If you're like, hey, are you onFacebook?
I'm like not, really, don't go.
Okay, I'm going to add you tofive Facebook groups.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
If I told you on.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Facebook.
Don't put me on a Facebookgroup, just don't do it, because
I'm not there.
Make it easy for me and thatmight be annoying to you,
because you're like wait, listen, if they really want to do this
, they will get in the dirt anddo it the way that they're.
No, they won't, no, they won't.
They'll do something that'seasier.
Hello, hello.
That also goes for, like I'mnoticing, low cost enrollment
(11:26):
fees are big and this kind oflike.
It's funny they say thisbecause also yeah, I'm gonna say
it now, we'll talk about it ina little juxtaposition.
That denotes, but I'm seeing,like when you're like, how much
does it cost to join?
I'm seeing companies do saleswhere they used to be a lot like
$25, or it costs $5, or it'sfree.
That is in right now and I havemixed feelings about that,
(11:50):
because I do understand thepoint.
If you don't have skin in thegame, are you really gonna play
the game?
Did you watch Squid Game?
It's the movie.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, not the movie, but the show?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Did you watch the game show version of it?
The challenge it was stillSquid Games, but they did like a
competition when no one died.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh no, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
No, it's not usually my style, but I like know what
it is we never watched it in2020, but when the game came on
last.
I like reality shows, soreality TV, I'm like okay this
is interesting.
And I was sitting with Scottwhen we're watching.
He got into it and I said youknow, this is like based on a
show that came out.
He's like it is yeah, and he'slike okay, let's watch that.
(12:35):
Well, he loved that more thanthe actual thing.
The reason I bring it up if youhaven't seen Squid Games, it's
like adults playing kid games,but they find out when they
start playing these games inthis place that they don't even
know where they are, that if youlose the game, you die.
You die, okay, I'm in.
(12:55):
But you know what?
The stakes for the game are sohigh that you better believe
they're not like well, if I lose, I lose, I'm going home.
No, you lose, you die, they'rein.
That's a little extreme, Iunderstand.
But even like, and if you win,you win like five big a billion
(13:16):
dollars, 500 billion I don'tknow how much it was, but it was
a lot of money.
My point is that if they don'thave skin in the game, there is
something to be said.
You don't value something ifyou get it for free.
I believe that, however, it is acompetitive world out there
right now and so if you'resaying, yeah to join, it's gonna
cost you a thousand dollars,it's gonna cost you this or that
(13:38):
.
I'm noticing people are lessinterested because there's
competition that's offering itfor less.
I don't know, have you noticedthat?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, no, and I get what you're saying here because
I'm also on the fence.
It's like we're saying this isin because that's what is
happening right now.
But I have the mixed feeling ofbecause I'm the same way.
If I purchase, like a coursethat I wanna go through, I wanna
learn something for my business, I've noticed if I pay in full,
I am not that in it, eventhough I pay, I need a monthly
(14:11):
payment plan.
Because it reminds me of like,oh, yep, mm-hmm.
Like I gotta make sure I'mputting my effort into this.
Like when I pay in full, it'slike I forget about it and I'm
like, oh, I'll get to iteventually.
Yeah, and that can happen inyour business too.
Like when you got in so easy,it's like, oh, grandma's sick.
Like I'll start posting onsocial media next week.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And it never comes.
That's so interesting, Cause Iwas gonna say like, yeah, when
you'd pay it monthly, it'spainful, is what?
You like but I don't wanna callit painful, it's more like it's
the energy.
So, like you took all theenergy, I'm gonna do it painful
and you put that energy out onceand so, like it, almost the
energy that's there dissipatesvery quickly, whereas when you
(14:58):
are energetically paying eachmonth it's like all right,
you're in it again.
It's almost like a jolt of okay, I'm doing this a minute, a
minute.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah.
So I guess if you are like ateam lead and you're bringing
someone on like maybe it'd becognizant of because they came
in lower, like how you're gonnakeep them enticed and going, you
know?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, cause if they're not, if they don't have
a personal motivation, I'm notlike if they wise them big
enough, I'm not saying that, butif they don't have a personal
motivation sorry, I threw up alittle bit Then it they may just
not like.
What do I have to lose?
I only spent $25.
Oh well, like I could pay that.
I could spend that at Starbucks, whatever, and move on.
(15:44):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, yep.
Another thing that is in GoFigure, people actually like it
when they truly believe you likethe products, oh what?
But not like fan girl about theproducts, not like cult.
Loving the products.
This is the best thing ever.
(16:07):
Yeah, listen, no, taryn and Ilove a Stanley, don't get us
wrong.
But if you asked us what annoysus about our Stanley, what
would we say?
Taryn, that's so big, okay,whatever, there's no right or
wrong.
I'm just asking what do you notlike or assume?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, I'm like, are we hinting?
Well, what I don't like aboutit is that it tips over on the
plane and so I actually havelike a plane or like going out
water bottle, and then this ismy at home water bottle, because
it's so easy to drink at home.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I think I saw your color, by the way, at the
exporting goods and I was so inlove with it.
I'm like oh.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's a lot.
I'm kind of over it.
Now.
This is about that's me.
You know I get over a color andso, like my new water bottle I
just bought is like a forestgreen.
Oh, she's beautiful, Is it?
Stanley?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No different brand Stanley has.
Is it a Walla?
What brand is it Iron Flask?
Oh, interesting, there was agreen one I saw that was like an
ombre green to silver, likedark.
And I'm going to silver thatwas at Dix.
Saw what yep, yeah Y'all.
And what I would say is that Iand I annoy that when I, when I,
(17:15):
even though I got the littleextra things when it falls over
if there's too much water andit's it spills, it spills.
So you see what we just didthere.
We gave you an honestassessment.
We love our Stan Lee's but wegave you an honest assessment
about what we like and we don'tlike about it, even mentioned a
different product.
If you are fangirling so hardthat you can't even say what is
(17:37):
wrong with your Stanley, peopledon't believe you.
They wanna hear the truth.
So you can.
I love it, but I wish it didn'tcome in this package.
I love it, but it took me awhile to get to this use of the
taste.
But I love the impact.
I love it.
But you have to remember do notwash, do not dry them.
You gotta hang dry them.
(17:58):
That is reality and they don'twanna hear that after they
purchase it.
They wanna hear it in the.
They wanna be fully preparedfor the situation and you can
fully prepare them.
If you give them the honest togoodness aspect of it.
That's huge and they're likelyto buy it.
(18:18):
I heard Stanley certain.
I heard things about Stanley.
I bought Stanley anyway.
Stanley came home.
Actually my daughter gave it tome, but she knew I wanted a
Stanley, yeah, so remember thaton that.
And I think the last thingyou're probably seeing a lot of
people do this like, hey, drop acomment link or drop shop or
(18:40):
drop collagen to get moreinformation, and that is a big
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Many chat, I would say, was theOGs of being able to do that,
not only on Facebook, so wherethey started, but now on
Instagram.
But you were telling me there'sanother one out there.
That is simpler.
Many chat works, but many chatyou need like a PhD.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You do and, trust me, it gets expensive fast.
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That are basically yourcontacts.
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(19:24):
it sends people the link foryou, so you are not manually
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somebody and messaging them backthe link.
So automation, baby is myfavorite and simple automation
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You don't need a PhD.
You probably don't even need adegree Exciting.
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And if you can't, your hobby maybe can help, maybe
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Speaker 1 (19:49):
If not your tween or your Gen Z or X or N.
Someone can help.
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Someone can help, someone can figure it out,
definitely.
So those are our ins for 2024.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You're so in, you're looking at you, you're just in
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You guys wanna know what's out too, don't you
Awkward?
But you're not gonna find outtill next week.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Skinny jeans.
I told them.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'm not ready for that to be out.
What, okay, we'll go behind thescenes.
Here In Nashville it's freakingsnow wing, it's icy, it's cold.
I still want my skinny jeansbecause if my flare pants suck
up all the snow and they're wetand I get flashback to high
school when I would have to walkhome in my super flare jeans
(20:37):
and I would be wet up to my knee, I'm traumatized.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
No, this is totally traumatized y'all.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Wow, you keep skinny jeans, darn it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
You could also put your jeans in your boots.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The snow pictures are amazing, not cute.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's not about cuteness, don't you Listen.
You're from Michigan.
You know that it's not aboutbeing cute.
It's about being efficient intimes of freezing weather.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Thank you, but skinny jeans allowed you to do both.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay well, if you want to wear skinny jeans, you
can.
Okay well, it sounds likeyou're going to, and so there's
snow in the Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Michigan found me here in Tennessee.
School has been closed all weekfor six inches of snow, like
they don't clean it up.
I mean I guess they don't havethe tools.
They don't have the tools.
Hello Like nothing is plowed.
Here's a fun fact.
I was at the airport this weekbecause, of course, of all weeks
I had to fly out.
I'm like great, so how theyhandle salting things, it's.
(21:37):
There's two funny things.
A, they put it out like threedays before it snows.
They put out salt and it'sstill like 50 degrees out and
there's salt everywhere.
Two is they layer it like athick layer of salt and I'm like
no, you like sprinkle it aboutlike layer.
So I'm at the airport trying topull my suitcase.
(21:58):
It's getting so caught up inthis salt and it's like, like
you guys, you need some YouTubevideos of how to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This is okay.
This is, this is sweet tearbearing up my heart, being a
winter snob cause she's used toit.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And she's down here in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Down there in Nashville, where they don't know
, it is not normal for them.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
They have had snow year after year.
I don't.
I'm not taking this, but like aone day snow, not a six days
snow.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I will say I'm surprised they have salt.
That shocked me because inTexas we didn't have salt, we
used dirt.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Cause we didn't have salt.
So those one or two days Maybethey upgraded.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, those one or two days in Austin where it
would freeze, they would putdown dirt.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah Well, we're going to move somewhere else.
I'm not not cool with this.
Oh wow, it's time to go Already, Seriously.
Oh well, when our lease is up,we probably will move.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Okay, I was like wow, she's like screw this, I am out
of here, even though Ihomeschool my kids, I don't care
, this is BS.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I'm going to bring my husband to and from work every
day.
I was like I'm going to Floridaor I'm moving in.
You got an extra bedroom right.
Yeah, come to Arizona.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
We don't have these issues, we just have sunsets and
wonderful things.
My behind the scenes, sincewe've last talked, I'm fully
moved.
Yeah, it's done.
We went back to Cali.
Going back to Cali and got thecar.
Taylor, my daughter and Scottdrove and Baylor and I flew.
We all got here last Saturday,so that was good.
(23:42):
Since then we've had Taylorstay till last night really this
morning because her fight wasdelayed.
Jetblue, you suck again, youjust keep screwing over.
A time she just liked them tosay, and it's true, but they
gave her $50 vouchers, so nowshe's like never, again.
And then she's like they gave me, I'm like you can't quit them
when they keep giving you money.
Yeah, come fly with us again.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It was such a great experience.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But we, okay, what'd we do?
So we went, we hikedThunderbird Mountain or it's
really a trail, it's mountainous, so it was beautiful, so we
could look over Arizona or thevalley of the sun Phoenix and
just see all sorts of beautifulsights.
We did that one day.
We went to my favorite danceguy.
His name on Instagram, look himup y'all and I've noticed now
(24:30):
that some of you listening toour do fall home.
That makes me so happy is BigKid Rick, if you're very careful
when you say that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Ah, yeah, yeah, Big Kid, rick, rick, rick, the NAR.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yes, yes.
So we danced with him and hewas so much fun.
And then he's like I want youguys to say after because he was
doing a new video and I'm like,oh my gosh, I don't do that.
So I stayed after but I hidbehind.
He posted, I hid behind someone, so you can kind of only see me
and you can see my littlesister, Rostel, behind him.
But Taylor had so much fun.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Roxane, that is not you, it's a new dance.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I haven't done dance aerobics for months and it was
my first day in his class nine,10 months, cause he's in Arizona
.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I know, my, I know my role.
Don't you worry about it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Disappointed in you.
I want to see you.
I better see you on some ofthese reels coming up forward
when you get your groove, when Iget my when Stella gets her
groove back.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So we did that and Scott came and he had to stay
outside the whole time and wethought he couldn't see.
He could see the whole thing.
He was like he's so funny.
Then we also what'd we do?
What'd we do?
We went to a Toggerna fashionsquare, the V-Mall in the
Phoenix area.
We went oh my gosh, I can'tremember what we did.
(25:54):
Wait, hold is coming.
My family had a welcome backdinner for us, so that was so
we're like, welcome to Arizonadinner.
So we did that one night, whichwas really fun.
And then we had a spa day causeit was her graduation.
She graduated from MiramacCollege on December 31st and so
what she wanted was a spa day.
(26:15):
So we went to the princess andwe had a day.
She said it was the bestservice.
I take her to a lot of spaskind of what we do, but she's
like it was the best one.
It was her best service.
She was with me at my batchparty, so she loved it.
We had a good time and relaxed.
And then yesterday morning gotup early cause my dad got an
award.
(26:35):
He got the MLK Junior FacultyService Award at Arizona State.
So we went to a brunch for him.
It was really really specialand so that was really cool,
cause I usually am like he'sgotten awards in the past, like
he got one during 2020.
And it was like all virtual andwhatnot.
(26:55):
But this was fun to actually bethere and he did a really great
job with his speech and it wasso good.
So, and what was also cool wasLarry Fitzgerald.
If you all know football, hewas a big, he was a cardinal all
his life.
Really really good.
Probably could have won theSuper Bowl if he'd just gone
somewhere else, but he didn't.
He his foundation.
He started a foundation whenhis mother died from breast
(27:16):
cancer so he has a foundationthat helps just helps families
going through that and hisfoundation won the award.
So he was there and my sister,rachelle, is a Cardinals fanatic
so she was like I didn't knowthere was his name.
She was like, wait, he's here.
I'm like, oh, I didn't see him.
She's like I didn't read theinvitation, so she got a picture
(27:37):
with him and so she was a happycamper and all the things.
So and they had these littlekids who wrote essays about
service from all around, like ina contest, and they those who
won came and they were like fromage five all the way to seniors
and they were so cute and whatI really loved about it was they
were very particular, like,okay, we're gonna come up and
you're gonna get your award.
(27:58):
But they said, parents, all theparents come to the front.
And they're like, no, seriously, come to the front.
So they had the professionalphotographer take a picture of
them getting their award andthey said, okay, parents, so,
and so where are ya?
They had them stand right wherethe photographer was so they
could get a picture.
Cause they're like we'rebuilding memories, we're
building history here and wewant you and some of them would
be in the back no, no, no, comeup here, get a good picture.
(28:19):
And I just thought that was socool that is cool.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, like that part even gave me chills.
I'm like, ah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I was like that is so cool.
So the parents got to likereally commemorate and get good
videos and pictures of theirkids.
So it was really cool and thenyeah, so that's been like what
I've been doing.
We are my new fan came.
That's the first piece of thebedroom that came.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
My new fans Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Is she beautiful?
She's beautiful.
She's in a box, but she'sbeautiful and so I'm excited.
We got to get that up.
Well, we don't do that, so wegot to find it.
But also, I ordered last week.
I ordered the what is it called?
The gate, the doggie gate forthe stairs, because you know,
(29:09):
baylor did fall down the stairsand when we were in Boston she
fell down the stairs, all theway down the stairs.
Aw, still gives me like sadness.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
She's okay, she's okay.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And we don't know how it happened, and we were anyhow
.
She fell down.
So, like we're baby gating ourstairs for sure and Maisie comes
.
Maisie comes in like four weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Oh, it's official.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
It's official that happened in December.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, that was Well, cause I thought there was a
Maisie and then there was a fallas she fell through, but then
the second one's happened.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Second one happened.
That happened.
We got a message like December24th, 20 seconds, saying your
baby's here and that happened.
And then so she's coming inlike a few weeks.
We get to pick her out in twoweeks and then she comes in four
weeks.
So we gotta get the baby gateup.
So I had to order the baby gatelast week.
It's on Etsy because-.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
What is it like, three feet high Like hi, don't
really they made me doincendimeters?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I really don't know.
I think it's like three feethigh, but then we have to get
that installed so that they andI also installed this mesh from
Amazon on the banister so theycan't go through there.
Through there, yeah, oh yeah.
And then the gate.
We just didn't want the look ofa baby gate, and we get one
temporarily.
But when you spend, baby gatesaren't cheap.
(30:27):
If you think baby gates arecheap, they are not cheap.
So we got a wooden one that'sgonna match our house, and so
they'll install it onto the wall.
When it comes it doesn't cometill like the 11th of February.
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Custom baby gate.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yep, there it is Nice .
Speaker 2 (30:44):
What's going on in my eyes?
I'm so glad I'm past baby gates.
That was, yeah, that was a time.
Or like for little kids, likehow you, I don't know, you've
ever gone to the house wherethey have to have everything
locked, so you go to pull out adrawer and it's locked, nothing
works.
Or the door, like any time Iwould go to, like a girlfriend's
house who maybe had a differentbrand.
(31:04):
I'm like I can't even open yourtoilet.
Can you help me?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, you're like, be smarter than the baby locks.
Be smarter than baby locks.
Great pants, love it.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
All right, guys.
We'll see you next week for theouts.
The don'ts Don't do it no moredon'ts You're going to let them
go, and if you did it, for thelast few weeks we'll let it
slide, but next week isofficially when you're not going
to do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Goodbye skinny jeans.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Goodbye, skinny jeans .
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Bye everybody.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Thanks for listening to another episode of Rocks
Talks.
We would love for you to helpus get this message out to other
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If you could follow rate reviewwherever you are listening to
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