April 21, 2025 • 42 mins
Miranda Johnson's entrepreneurial intuition first sparked in middle school when a teacher suggested she'd make a good secretary. Her response? "No, I'm going to be Miranda Queen instead of Burger King." That early confidence blossomed into a remarkable business journey spanning construction, transportation, and now leadership development.
From her earliest days selling candy in school hallways and braiding hair for cash, Miranda displayed an innate talent for sales and reading people. By age 20, she was securing direct contracts with major builders, eliminating middlemen and maximizing profits. Later, she built a transportation company with over 20 trucks, even obtaining her commercial driver's license along the way.
After 15 years in transportation, Miranda made the difficult decision to sell her trucks and focus on her family. This pivot led to the creation of Mirage Collective, a leadership community built around her mantra: "Authenticity is the new blue check." The platform provides entrepreneurs with powerful tools to showcase their businesses, sell products, and connect with a global community.
Throughout our conversation, Miranda emphasized that "consistency is the ruler that measures results." When entrepreneurs feel like quitting, it's typically because inconsistency has made it impossible to gauge progress. She advocates starting with three fundamental areas: watching your words, guarding your mind, and prioritizing health. Working out, she shared, is her therapy—creating the mental clarity needed for business success.
Her book "The Pain Principle" explores how temporary discomfort leads to long-term growth, while her upcoming "Lead Loud: 11 Commandments of the Next Gen Leader" will further expand her leadership philosophy. Miranda and her husband are also launching "Couples and Entrepreneurship," addressing the unique challenges business owners face in maintaining strong relationships.
Ready to build your business without sacrificing your authenticity or family life? Miranda's journey offers a roadmap for success that values consistency, community, and alignment. Connect with her on LinkedIn or at www.mirageoco.org to learn more about joining her leadership community.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Another episode of the let'sGet Comfy podcast With me, your
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host, norman Harris.
I have a special guest todayfor you, a staple, legendary
individual here in the Tampa Bayarea, and she like new
dreadlocks too.
I like them too.
But a founder, a leader, amother, a wife, someone that has
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found a way to navigate herselfin spaces to lead to success.
I want to welcome to the showmiss.
Miranda Johnson every day yeah,well, miss Johnson, I want you
to tell the folk, because what Ido on this show, I let people
talk about themselves first.
Yeah, and I base you know, alot of my questions around
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highlighting you today.
All right, all right, so youtell the people who you are
today.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Confirmation is out there so you know, I used to
start with the average of I'm amom, I'm a wife.
Now I like to call myself adreamer, because a lot of the
things I realize now, at thebeautiful age of 44, is that
majority of my ideas start in mydreams.
So I take those things.
So, first and foremost, I'm adreamer and um, and I like to
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take those dreams and createreality out of them.
I'm also, um, somebody who'svery playful.
I love to joke, I love to laugh.
I come from a very comicalfamily that does a lot of skits
and everything's off the cuff.
Um, and I'm currently a CEO andfounder of Mirage Collective,
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which is about having aleadership community.
I also work with Tampa BusinessClub.
I'm one of the executiveambassadors with Tampa Business
Club and I also do businessdevelopment with Buy it, rent it
Profit, which is on multifamilyinvesting and training.
Here I was partnered with theTampa Housing Authority Wow.
So like you have time to sleep.
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Yes, actually, um, what am I?
I've decided this part of mylife I'm not working, so
anything that I do has to bethings that I enjoy.
So I am.
I sleep very well because Iknow.
Um again, when, as we get intothe conversation, you'll learn
why I have to sleep.
I've hit the walls already, soI understand.
Rest Nothing happens until yourest.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Nothing happens until you rest.
That's a good one, all right.
So tell us how you came up withthat name, because I really
love the name of yourorganization, your company, and
I also love the logo and thecolor.
So just tell me.
It speaks to a lot honestly.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
so listeners out there google it well, the name
is mirage collective the nameactually for a long time.
Every time I would create abusiness name, I would always
give it like somebody else'sname or something else.
That didn't really meananything for me and this was the
first name.
So my if you ever, if you lookme up, my other company names
were like 5bg transportation,5bg realty.
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All my stuff was 5bg because Ihave five beautiful girls so
everything I did was 5bg, andthis time I was like I wanted to
be me.
So mirage oh, miranda johnsonwas the first time I had an
opportunity to really put myname on it.
And then collective was aboutcommunity.
That was really important.
It was like Miranda wants hercommunity, um, and and this is
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this is the community that Iwould like to establish.
And the logo is about intuition.
It's about using your intuitionand trusting your intuition.
I talked about those dreams.
So when you have those dreams,how do you lean into it?
So it's just that constantreminder that we all have a
little bit of intuition.
We actually some of us have alot more of intuition, and how
do you lean into it?
Always?
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And that'd be your first, yourfirst option.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Got it, got it and I asked that question.
Thank you for expounding onthat because, uh, when I think
about a name, I always thinkabout creativity.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A lot of times entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
They step out in faith and on their own, but they
have that creative ability andit goes into even the name and
things as the smallest thingsyou know.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So where are you from ?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Tell us where you're from.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So my father was.
I am an Air Force brat, so Iwas actually born in England, so
in London sorry, lake and Heath, england and I was raised in
Germany for a couple of yearsand then eventually I went to
Charleston, south Carolina,where my father retired out the
military, became a governmentcontractor.
So Charleston is where mostpeople are going to know me from
Somerville, south Carolina.
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That's my, that's my home,that's my baby, that's where my
mom lives and my brother lives.
Okay, charleston, Charl,charles, what's good to eat up
there?
Oh, we're, so we are.
Uh, see, that's the home of theseafood broil.
Um, if you think about, youknow, your oysters, your, your
shrimp, your fish, I'm sorry,push, that's how we say it in um
, charles, push, it's just thegichi, it's the gichi language.
(05:58):
Um, so, pushing grits, um, yeah, so, having that, that's,
that's our, our normal way ofeating.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Charleston, chewies are our staple, okay, so yeah
yeah, I have a good man checkthat out.
Yeah.
So, uh, looking at yourimpressive entrepreneur journey,
um, I had the time.
You know I do my research andall of my guests uh, and
financial, uh, success.
Um, so if you could tell us howyour experiences from your
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youth that inspired you topursue your path of
entrepreneurship?
You know, have you had anythingfrom when you were younger or
anyone that?
Inspired you.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
My memory that I have the most was you know those
tests they used to give you inschool that would like rate you
on what you should do when yougrow up, like there were those
assessment tests for like careerassessment tests.
So I remember the teacher, Ithink it was like seventh,
eighth grade, and she was givingeverybody these assessment
tests and during the assessmenttest she was like you know,
miranda, fill it out.
And she was like, oh, you'reGod Damn, yeah, yeah.
(06:57):
And again, mine, this is like90, 1990, 91-ish, so maybe 92.
So that would sound great for alot of girls that you tell me
I'm going to be a secretary.
And I just remember, notknowing what I was saying, but I
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said it really quickly and Iwas like, no, I'm going to have
like, instead of Burger King,I'm going to be Miranda Queen.
And I said that to her and Iwas like, and she's kind of
tried to shut me down I was like, nah, I'm going to own some
stuff.
And, mind you, I was alreadyselling candy in school,
braiding people's hair, so I waslike I am babysitting, so I was
already having my little threehustles.
So to me, for her to like putme in like that category, it was
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kind of it ignited me to say,like what else is out here, and
why is she labeling me as asecretary?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So your school, let y'all sell kidney.
We used to get suspended.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
No, they didn't let us.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh, gotcha, I said I had a hustle, got it.
You can go to ISS and in-schoolsuspension.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Oh no, I was good.
I was so good at it.
Actually, I had a clear bookbag and I used to.
You know, I had a very goodreturn on my investment.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's as far as I'll go with that but.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I was able to get candy and sell it.
I even knew what clients Iwould sell my Snickers for 50
cents and who would pay a dollar.
Wow, yeah, I was very good atsales.
I didn't know that, I just knewI was good.
I was very good at sales.
I didn't know that, I just knewI was good.
I was good at reading people.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Reading people.
That's good.
Well, shout out to my two highschool partners, eric Castle and
Dustin Gray.
Oh wow, dustin Gray, he saideverything.
He had the Rice Krispie treats,he'll make you a necklace.
Yeah, he did a lot of things.
Shout out to Dustin I ain'ttalked to him in a while, but um
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.
So my next question is um, whatyou do now?
Uh, it doesn't always.
Well, I couldn't connect whereyou started the sort of in your
entrepreneurial journey, whichis transportation industry, with
the trucking right so where Iactually started was in
construction.
Oh, in construction.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So and that started because at the time my
ex-husband was a sander.
He used to sand houses and hisentire family was in
construction.
Like they sand houses, they hada painter, they had a guy for
everything and I just rememberthey always went through the
middleman.
So the middleman was like theuncle.
Right, the uncle had a contractwith one of the builders, or,
(09:23):
sorry, one of the managers, andthen the manager had the actual
it was so many channels,sometimes he didn't get paid.
I used to get mad because I'mlike, why didn't you get your
check?
Well, this person, this didn'thappen, this didn't happen.
I was like, why are we goingthrough all these channels?
When I first started, I waslike we got to get rid of the
middleman.
He kept saying the middleman.
I was like, how do we get ridof the middleman?
(09:49):
So that's how I really startedwas going into companies like dr
horton rylan homes and Iactually was able to help him
get contracts, direct contracts.
So he, he and I actuallystarted on a construction
company.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Wow, back then and I was like 2000, I was 20, 21
years old you, you were, wow,yeah, okay, and now take us
through how that jumps into thetransport industry.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So second husband Ha, so my current husband, now
beautiful husband Joshua Johnson.
So gorgeous.
Anyway.
So I met him in 2008, 2009.
He decided to get his CDL backin 2011.
(10:28):
This is right.
When the market crashed, a lotof jobs were being lost.
It was extremely hard,especially for men at that time,
to figure out, you know causethey were just losing jobs like
crazy, like stores were closingdown.
He went in and was like, hey,I'm going to get my CDL.
I happen to have a lot offamily and friends in the
transportation industry so whenhe got his cdl again same me.
(10:50):
I don't like to work for themiddleman, so I was like I don't
want to go through channels,stuff, how you're going to get
paid, how do we get directly toit?
So we invested and bought ourfirst truck and that's where it
started so how many trucks didyou guys have Over?
20 over the road, 20 trucksover the road.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, did you get your CDL.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I do have a CDL.
Really, you drive them, I candrive.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You used to.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean I still have an active CDL, I'd stop driving.
I only drove for a whilebecause most of the time I
manage the business.
So I did drive a little bit in2023.
I used to actually run thetampa port really hated it.
I'm not.
I can't back where.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The damn excuse me I was just about to ask you yeah,
I can't I can't, like you know,but no, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I'm not the best driver.
I can go forward like nobody.
I can drive a manual.
I could do all the things, um,but I just didn't have enough
experience inside the truck ofdriving regularly.
If I did, yes, um, my husbandwas my husband's an amazing
driver.
He drives really really well,but me I still have.
Could I get in a truck and if Ihad to move it?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
yeah sure yeah, oh man, that's a good skill set to
have too oh, for sure for years.
You'll be able to use that, youknow.
Yep, also, what circumstance?
Where was there a circumstance,a situation that happened, for
you to transition from, I guess,that transport industry to
empowerment?
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So okay.
So two things.
One was something that I didn'tconsider.
It goes into too long of astory story, so I'll try to make
it short.
I wanted to keep my marriage.
I didn't want to.
I wanted to have a relationshipwith my kids.
15 years in transportation.
I literally raised my childrenin transportation, which means I
raised my kids on a very busyschedule and I'm gonna use the
(12:39):
word busy now I don't like thatword anymore, but I raised them
on a very busy schedule.
I I saw that my daughters werein their 20s you know what I
mean and turn 18, they'regetting older and here I am
still like this.
So for me it hit a wall and thetransportation industry in 2023
was also not doing really well.
It was an opportunity for meand my husband to really look at
(13:00):
ourselves and say how are wedoing?
And we weren't doing good.
So I decided to sell thosetrucks and we decided to start
to sell our trucks and focus onour marriage, which was scary
because there wasn't an optionlike that.
But I realized support is whatI was lacking.
So when I say two things, that'sthe first thing.
The second thing is I don'tlike to use that word,
empowerment, because it's not myjob to empower anybody.
(13:22):
You got to have own power.
I consider more like aconductor.
You know I can help the powersource move through it, but I
can't empower you, um, but Iwanted to be more of a space and
offer.
What we didn't have was whatcommunity was important for me.
So and I really my husband keptsaying you teach, that's what
you do, you're a good teacherlike you need to be teaching
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first.
I thought he wanted me to belike a school teacher.
I didn't know what he meant bythat.
So that's how I got into Mirageand created this.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Mirage Okay, mirage and collective.
What's your mission statement?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Authenticity is the new blue check.
Authenticity, yeah,authenticity is the new blue
check.
We really want you to remain.
You um take, I think, what wetalked about later, that
influencer type of idea justbecause you decide to be a
leader, entrepreneur, whateverthat looks like, you don't have
to mimic someone else to besuccessful, um, and but you do
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need community.
You need people around.
It's really important to havepeople that are going to support
you, to have your ecosystemthere, plus tools that actually
work to your benefit.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The resources are very important, all right.
So what resources you all wouldsay at Mirage Collective that
you all offer?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So one of the.
Well, so we've just transferredto sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's good Services resources.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
So we just transferred to a brand new site
that we've built out a ton ofnew cool tools and stuff that we
just put on the website.
So now people can.
If you're a real estate agent,you can actually put your
listings up there.
If you sell digital products,you can add your digital
products.
You can get leads from yourdigital products, which now
gives you an opportunity to makemore income.
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You can have your own QR codethat directly to your business.
You can post blogs, you can postarticles basically allows you
to be yourself.
You can post your photo albumsanything that allows you to be
you.
You can now take that.
Any type of business can belisted on Mirage.
Oh, you also get a fullmembership directory so you
could be listed directly wherepeople all over the world can
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find you.
It opens you up to a differentspace where you're not just, oh,
I'm a part of community.
You're a part of community thatwants you to sell or that wants
you to earn, but also, if youridentity just is in writing and
that's your skill set, you canwrite on there.
And you can also sell realproducts too, whether they're
digital or real products onthere, as well.
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Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Wow, that's on there, and you can also sell real
products too, whether they'redigital or real products on
there as well.
Wow, wow, that's actuallyawesome.
So that sound.
There is a comfy comedy time.
Okay, so I have a surprise foryou, uh-.
Oh, yes, yes, so it's a joke,right, all right it's a joke,
yeah you love jokes, all right.
So if you tell the audience here, because, um, and I'm just
adding this into the show, okay,uh, so we have two cups here,
all right, my, my glass is clearand, uh, madam over there, her
(16:19):
class, I don't know what coloris that.
It's green, so tell us, tellthe audience, what you're
drinking oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So for the past 15 years plus, I drink chlorophyll
water.
I only drink chlorophyll water,um because I like to feel and
smell like I should like healthy.
Um so, and it also it's just.
It's a good for you, my, Ithink it's a good for you, my I
think it's a great skincareroutine for myself, my entire
(16:49):
family.
I make sure they drinkchlorophyll water, so that's
what I have and that's what Idrink daily.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, she actually.
Let me try it before the show.
It tastes like spearmint.
Yes, that's a flavor.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, that's a flavor , but so the breath should never
be stink too with drinkingchlorophyll water.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
All right, yeah, now thank you for sharing that.
No problem, that's cool.
I really like it a lot.
I just can't.
I don't think I can drink itright now.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know we talked about that well, the idea is
that it will bring out whateveryou smell, whatever you eat.
So you smell like that.
However, you know it'll makeyou more mindful about what you
eat.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah because I don't want to eat no chicken and smell
like bacon definitely not yeahnot, for chlorophyll pork is not
what you want to be smellinglike.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's got some extra smells that's gonna come.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You don't want that one, eat some berries.
We'll get back into the show,all right.
So, uh, you been on the journey.
Like I said, you say 21, 20years old, right?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
yeah, well, when I, yes, when I started in
construction.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yes, all right so, in comparison of leadership uh 20
years ago, what was thelandscape of?
How would you say, uh,leadership was shaped.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Uh compared to present day oh, man, it's a
couple things.
Uh, one of the main things Iwould say is you were more
isolated back then.
Everyone was an entrepreneur.
I didn't have.
There was not entrepreneur,solo entrepreneur None of that
existed.
So a lot of times you were veryisolated.
You might've found you had togo outside to find people that
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were in the industry to get youreducation.
There wasn't Google, therewasn't an Instagram page or even
putting a website together.
So a lot of things you had todo a lot of research, which I
find entrepreneurs today don'tdo as much.
They kind of will go on apodcast or go look at something
on YouTube and go, oh, I canbecome that because this person
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has it without all the details,or does it?
How much money will I make?
How much money can I sacrificeuntil I make money?
Back then you had to reallyknow your path all the way
through to even get somebody togive you $20 to invest into your
business, and it couldn't besomething made up.
So, yeah, that I would say.
Definitely the research side ofit was different.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Right, we had to go out if you really wanted it, you
had to go and different right,you had to go out.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
If you really wanted it, you had to go and get it you
had to go get it and yourconnections mattered and your
reputation.
Reputation was everything.
Uh, when I started me going inand do a build, if I did one bad
job, it traveled quickly.
You know, everybody would know.
They would tell you oh, don'twork with this person.
If you didn't pay somebody, ohmy gosh, you could have been a
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mistake and it would havetraveled.
We didn't even have socialmedia and it would travel so
fast.
So those are things that youget sued easier too.
I felt like back then becausethey just walk into the
courthouse and file some paperson you and you know, now it's
like it's more.
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Things now are a process whereand not that you can't be shamed
I think now the worst thingabout it is that the reputation
can last longer.
You could at least clearyourself up.
Yes, you know you could kind ofrecreate your identity today as
people change on topics anddifferent things come about.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, forget all about you know right five years
ago.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You know right, right in somewhat in some ways, yeah,
so I don't know, I almost stillI've missed old school
entrepreneurship a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But old school, they didn't have a platform like
yours, right, they didn't know.
No, no, no, this did not, not.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
This didn't even exist to be able to meet.
No, no.
So that's why I said there'sthings that I do appreciate, um,
because I actually did scoreback in the day.
I don don't know if youremember what score?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yes, I'm familiar with score.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Back then score was like that taught me a lot about
business.
Now I find there's so many,there's almost too much
information where people getcloudy.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, I can see that actually Also, in your opinion,
can anyone be a leader, nomatter age, seniors?
Because I recently had Alina onthe show, so I know this answer
myself.
Okay, miss Arlene Grosso, shestarted her first business at
the age of 70 years old.
Wow, right.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But just in your opinion, can anyone be a leader?
Yes, anyone, if you're talkingabout age, race and that type of
thing.
In that sense, yes, shouldeveryone be a leader?
No, because it is very much amindset game, no matter how you
look at it, you know, becauseyou have people that are in
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leadership roles that are doingthings that they should not be
doing.
They're taking advantage of thesituation.
So can they be a leader?
Yes, should everyone be aleader?
I would say no, gotcha, theyshould not all be in leadership
positions?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, can I share my thoughts on that?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, so I do believe leaders have a.
They're chosen.
I think you're chosen to be.
I agree with that.
Yeah, you have to be special tobe a leader.
I don't think everyone isdestined or can be a leader, I
agree right.
They may be put in the positionor elevated because of
resources, connections, yeah,but everyone is made to be a
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leader.
You can see, you can tell, youcan feel it, oh yeah, oh yeah
feel it, uh, but yes, I justwanted to ask that yeah because
I'm just looking over yourwebsite, uh, reading more things
about you, yeah, I learned thatthat's a real big focus for you
absolutely leaders, creating aplatform where they could uh
openly, uh, gain right, exploretheir creativity as well and
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benefit from their creativity.
So that's the big bit.
So you have a new book.
I do, yeah, but it's PainPrinciple.
The Pain Principle, yep, thePain Principle.
Why the title?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So it was a reflection of self.
A lot of people would ask meall the time like Miranda, how
are you doing in business?
You have five kids, you'remarried I know you've been
through all this stuff Like, howdo you do that?
And I couldn't really answerthat at first and I had my
moment where I was just up and Iwas like, okay, let me just go
ahead and be completelytransparent.
I was around somebody who wascomplaining about something and
(22:59):
I realized that she was her ownproblem, right, and a lot of
times I saw myself as like, as aleader, you have to always take
accountability.
It doesn't matter how ithappens.
It's most of the time it's yourfault, because somewhere you
didn't do something and now itled to being your fault.
So the pain principle isactually the rest of the title
is embracing self, pain to breakfree.
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So that's the rest of the title.
For me it was how do I put myown self through?
Sometimes pain which might be abreakup right.
It might be reflecting on thefact that I have to be honest,
that I made a mistake in that,or it may be a new connection
that I need to make.
That may kind of feeluncomfortable.
(23:41):
How do I put myself in aposition where I'm okay to
accept temporary pain to getlong-term results?
So the pain principle wasaccepting that there will be
pain.
There has to be pain, it's just.
It's impossible not to gothrough that pain.
But with pain comes change.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah, I think I've reallyrealized that within the last
year of just accepting that nomatter in life, it's just going
to be ups and downs, Like youhave mountains, challenges.
Nothing is going to be.
This perfect's going to makesure your family and the things
that are vital to you is takencare of.
All right so, but I love thatThank you.
(24:32):
I really do, yep.
So people lie to themselvesabout what's holding them back,
choosing comfort overbreakthrough.
Give an example or you canshare your message to the people
.
But those ones out thereprocrastinating right, I felt in
their comfort zone.
Feel like I'm too old or mylast three ventures did not work
(24:55):
out.
Yeah, and I should give up.
Um, and I will say I'm new tothe entrepreneur journey myself
and uh, like I'll be thinkingabout quitting all the time.
I'm not going to lie Normal.
Yeah, all the time I beemotional.
I'm like man, I just want youknow this and I really want this
to work.
So it's a struggle, it's abattle internally and people see
(25:16):
you on social media and like wetalk about we're not social
media, people Right, they we'renot social media, people Right,
they think you're doing good.
That's not really true.
I'm willing to tell, say it topeople.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Like just everybody who's still social media.
That's not just because they'renot making hundreds of
thousands of dollars, it's nottrue.
Yeah, let's be honest with you.
But the question to you is,what's your message to those
people who are afraid to try,afraid to not, later on in life,
say, be that shoulda, woulda,coulda right so let me just say
(25:47):
this, because entrepreneurshipis a little different for me,
because I've always been anentrepreneur, I've really never
worked a nine-to-five.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So the same way like if my business didn't go well, I
would go and find, uh, anotherbusiness.
It's just like somebody wholost their job, they would go
fill out a new application.
Oh so in my mind, like I, thatI'm actually more afraid of nine
to five than entrepreneurship,because I feel like I have to
depend on somebody else to likeapprove my application.
(26:14):
That actually gives me a littlebit of anxiety.
So in my mindset,entrepreneurship I don't I can't
really explain that comes alittle bit more natural, not
easy, but just a little bit morenatural.
So what I would say is my wayto give somebody some
information would be consistencyis the ruler, measurement of
(26:35):
results.
So if you want to, if you everfeel like man, I need to back
off or I'm feeling emotional,I'm feeling sad, because, number
one, there's no emotions inbusiness.
Right, business doesn't careabout your emotions, but when
you feel that way, typicallyit's something that's off on the
consistency and because you'renot being consistency, you can't
get the results and you can'tmeasure your results and it does
(26:57):
make you feel like eitheryou're not doing anything It'll
make you feel like I want toquit today but like you have
that consistency will help buildthat.
But if you stop, go, stop, go,stop go, or you're only talking
about your business but you'renot actually applying your
business, then yes, it's goingto make you feel like you're not
getting anywhere becausethere's nothing consistently
(27:18):
happening.
So if you want those things,the idea is to come up with
small, consistent things dailyto get to where you want to get
for your goal.
And that's helped me and that'swhy I say when I wake up, I
have my affirmations.
That's part of my consistency.
I wake up, I go, make sure I doa workout.
(27:38):
The workout feeds the brain.
When I eat certain things,berries feed the brain.
So everything I'm doing is forthe idea that I'm building what
I need.
So when I start working, mybody and my mind get those
results.
And when I don't do thosethings and I'm inconsistent, you
can see it, it's obvious.
So I always.
(27:58):
When they feel that way,typically their consistency is
off got it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I like that answer consistency will get you way
further.
When I even started up with thepodcast, I did my of course
market research and I wouldlisten to different individuals
and read and they say you know,I really believe I could have
been course market research andI would listen to different
individuals and read and theysay you know, I really believe I
could have been further alongif I never would have stopped if
I didn't take that six monthbreak or that nine month break,
(28:25):
um, and start back.
You know, right, uh, stayconsistent.
It's hard and challenging, uh,but fighting through it.
You know.
You see the yeah, the fruitslater on, you you know.
So, advice to individualspreparing for their later years
in life, so, with beingconsistent and getting to the
comfort zone, what would be youradvice to tell people?
(28:46):
Keep moving, keep pushing.
Just because you're retireddon't mean you hang up the hat.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know, I feel like you just got to do what makes
you good.
I mean, I can't.
I can give you advice.
I know, miranda being 60, 70years old, I'm trying to be
chilling you know what I mean.
I'm just trying to relax.
I'm I'm frolicking, you know.
Um, I don't really want to bein that hustle mindset I do feel
like a lot of times for thatlater age.
(29:16):
Don't try to lean into what yousee everybody else doing.
Still, stay true to what youreally like and what makes you
happy.
If you know that you're, youknow you kind of are a gardener
and that's your area, findsomething in that to make money
out of.
Don't go and try to go wayoutside of things that don't
really relate to you, because Ithink it's not going to bring
(29:37):
you joy, it's not going to makeyou happy, especially in that
second, that latter part of yourlife.
I don't think anybody wants todo that.
And then there's another partthat I like to tell people is
like, remember that hell is todie and only be a fraction of
yourself and to look back andsee like man, I could have been
so much more.
That's really that's the worstthing.
(30:01):
So if you feel like you're atthat age and you wouldn't be
happy if you left this earth andyou weren't even able to do a
fraction, then start doingsomething today what are the
three areas that they can focuson?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
if they was to choose something in life to say you
know what?
I want to start being moreconsistent at this.
What would you say?
Three good things to be astarter.
You know that would be forsomebody age 65 and older.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
What's your word?
Say Power words.
You got to start with yourmouth.
Tongue has to start with thetongue.
After it comes from the tongue,it has to go into your,
obviously the mind.
What the mind is thinking of,who the mind is allowing around
it, what the mind is being fedRight.
And then health.
I don't care what anybody says,if you get outside you get that
(30:45):
adrenaline pumping from a walkor run.
It ignites you in a differentway.
It gives you some type ofenergy that makes you think like
you're almost 10 again.
You know.
You're like oh, you know, know,I could do this and I could do
that.
I'm really a health first focuswhen it comes to leaders now,
especially, um, because I dealwith my own health issues,
(31:06):
because I didn't do that.
So now it's like health first.
All that other stuff will come.
Focus on what you say, what youthink and how you take care of
your health, and other thingswill begin to line up that's
good, that's okay, that's twogot one more, I wasn't three
what was the third?
I thought it was oh, the mind.
So the mind, mouth, your mouth,your mind and taking care of
(31:28):
your health.
So you want me to say okay, youwant more gotcha, you need to
do three.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
See, that's the comprehension skills there.
Right there, I can give yousome more things.
You can give some more huh Okay, so what advice would you give
to someone who feels stuck,whether it's in their personal
life, professional life, theydon't know where to start to
turn things around.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Feeling stuck.
I would probably say if they'refeeling stuck is to pay
attention to their surroundingsTypically.
If they're feeling stuck is topay attention to their
surroundings Typically ifthey're feeling stuck they
usually have people around themthat are also stuck.
Pay attention, who are yousitting with?
Where are you getting yourinformation from?
Really paying attention to yourfriendships, your marriage,
(32:11):
sometimes, you know, and that'ssometimes that's the hard one to
look at your relationships, allthose.
And then what are you doingevery day?
That's why I said it startswith that mouth, like really
what you say, because again youcan feel stuck.
But sometimes it starts withthe words, and I'm a big
affirmations person to start inthe morning and saying I am
using today too, even if youhaven't done it yet, but if
(32:34):
you're not even willing to sayit, and if your words are all
negative and everything that yousay is oh man, nothing's
happening for me.
Oh man, I'm trying to do this,it doesn't work.
That's where it is.
And you need to really look atyour surroundings and find out
why you're stuck there.
Because, again, if you want tobe a leader, everything comes
back to you.
So you have to really look.
So what, what are you doing andwhat assignment has been given
(32:57):
to you?
I think that's another thing isa lot of people, when they say
they feel stuck, they've beengiven some type of purpose or
assignment but, for whateverreason, they keep trying to
change their own mind.
So if you learn how to not tryto change your own mind and
learn to just lean into whatyou've been told, lean into what
you said that you wanted to doand stay focused there, that's a
good answer.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, me thinking I was just complaining this week
okay yep, I was just complainingand doubting this week.
So that is that's real big.
That's.
I'm just thinking about how Ineed to change my words.
But I do manifestation, okay, Ido little sticky notes, um, and
I write down, like happened inmy life, and try to speak
(33:37):
positivity, but then I get madone day and then I just that's
normal.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, I mean, you're still a person.
The idea to think that even I'msitting here and I don't have
bad days is crazy.
But there's a step two that youhave to do.
So, yes, you do yourmanifestations and visualization
.
I'm sorry, manifestation, butnow you need visualization.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And visualization.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You see yourself doing those things.
You get to a point where yousmell it, you feel it.
It's like it's sitting insideyour body.
It's almost like you wantsomething to eat and you're
craving a food and you've got itat home, maybe some leftovers.
That's really good, and you canalmost taste the leftovers.
You can see yourself heating itup in the microwave.
You can see yourself about togo sit down and eat it.
(34:21):
You know that, that feeling youget when you know you got that
food there yeah, they just atemy sushi today too I was gonna
say.
And then they eat it and youknow how mad you get because you
felt it.
So nothing else feels goodanymore, right?
It doesn't even feel natural toeat.
They can offer you somethingelse you want your sushi.
That's how you look at yourlife it's like anything else,
(34:44):
won't feel good, because you'venow visualized yourself in a
certain space, so much so thatyou can taste it, so anything
else is not natural yeah, yeah,I've been seeing that on that
corvette.
I've been seeing yeah, seeyourself driving down the
highway.
You're pulling into thedriveway.
(35:05):
The garage door opens.
I mean, it's full on feelingwhat's well?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
what's next?
Uh, for you like what?
Would you like Any future plansfor this year, let's say 2025.
My theme is thrive in 2025.
So what do you have next forMirage Collective, or I don't
know?
You do a whole lot of differentthings.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I think for this year is to continue with the events
with Tampa Business Club and Buyit, rent it, profit to see
those two platforms grow.
My husband will be startingcouples and entrepreneurship Our
own will be a part under Mirageas well.
The idea is to be transparentand honest with other couples,
because that's an issue thatpeople don't talk about a lot.
(35:51):
Where couples go through us andtheir partners decide to be
entrepreneurs whether it's bothof them or one of them, it's a
lot.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's a lot on the family.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Um and it, it.
There's dynamics that peoplejust they, they create a
perfection.
That's not true and that's whyI talk about yes, I am on my
second marriage.
I'm on my second marriagebecause I was hardhead in my
first one.
Um, but we both were hardheads.
So for me it was I wanted to bethis thing and I didn't really
think about who I was takingwith me, I just wanted to go and
(36:20):
take care of my kids andsometimes you have to slow down
because you want the whole unitto go together.
So couples and entrepreneurshipis something that me and my
husband will be working on thisyear.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
That's really good.
That's really good and you'rehitting all points.
I don't know.
You're like counseling me todayor something.
Oh okay, yeah, for real.
But yeah, entrepreneurship, ittakes a toll on your family.
That's why I try like myfoundation involves my family,
my wife and kids.
Like.
That's why they be here, likemost of my shows I'm so glad to
(36:48):
see that For sure.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
But it's different things.
It requires time, like this issaturday, right?
So yeah, I appreciate my babythank you so much, baby.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, thank you, oh so, but as y'all you gotta tell,
you see the brains um of theoperation for real.
You know what I mean I get ityeah, uh, but show your website
um all your social media Sure.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
So I no longer have Instagram or Facebook, also just
LinkedIn.
So, Miranda Johnson, onLinkedIn or Mirageo Collective,
you can also find our website,which is wwwmirageocoorg.
Or you can find me on the Buyit Rent it Profit platform under
wwwbuyitrentitprofitcom Buy itrent ititprofitcom.
I do leadership training andeducational training on there
(37:39):
and I do have some leadershiptraining educational videos.
Also, if you want to go to theTampa Business Club website to
find out where our upcomingevents are, I'm also on there as
well.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I love that you're involved in the community,
making ways for other people toalso be involved without build
up their platform.
Their brand also obtainvisibility.
I think that what intrigued meabout having you join the show
was how, how invested you werein community, like I know you
(38:09):
don't have Facebook Instagramanymore and longer.
but like just seeing thosethings, just seeing what you do,
it was inspiring for me, to behonest, like that's uh, like I
tell my wife and most people alot of guests on the show I
really don't have like know you,you know what I mean, but I
come on here and I really beenenjoyed learning, actually, uh,
(38:29):
taking time and researchingindividuals and understanding
their journey and how theybecame, you know, successful and
the route that you chose.
So it's really inspiring,because I know it takes a lot of
work to do it, it can take alot of sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It does, it can.
This part is different.
I'll be honest, this part isdifferent.
I'm working on when it becomesunnatural, then I realize that
I'm outside of my lane, so I'mno longer in alignment.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
So I'm working on alignment.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
So if I would say this year it's alignment.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
So, as we wrap up, I just want to know what do you
enjoy doing just like, uh, yourregular day?
I know that people don'tusually ask this.
I don't want to just pop in myhead right now what do you enjoy
like just every single day?
What do you enjoy doing?
I?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I love working out, man, I really do.
It's my adrenaline, um, whetherI get on the treadmill and do
my what?
My 12, you know 12, 3, 30, my,my incline on the treadmill I
like I just started getting backinto running.
I like lifting, that's just my,that's my therapy.
So I do love working out.
Um, like I said, I'm a bigjokester so I love calling my
(39:35):
brothers to older brothers.
So usually every I call mybrothers daily and I just rattle
off some weird jokes and somescenarios.
And then, because I have fivedaughters, so for me it's just
yeah, yeah yeah, they're gettingolder, yeah yeah, you have some
action for real so you know, mypart of my morning will usually
(39:56):
start with talking to mydaughter, my 14-year-old, in the
car ride.
We listen to some silly radiostuff and just enjoy ourselves.
And the best part of my day is,honestly, when my husband comes
home.
Man, I'm loving this part ofour marriage.
So this right now is just beingable to spend time with him and
, you know, wake up and he givesme my morning kisses and then
my night kisses.
I'm like a little giddy, um,which that wasn't always there.
(40:19):
So I'm really appreciating thatpart of my day now where before
it was an irritation andaggravation because I was not
where I needed to be.
So this part of my life I'mjust really enjoying simple
things, wow that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
The book is out.
The pain principle.
I love the uh.
The cover too thank you yes, sowe support miss miranda johnson
, her family, five daughters too.
Five daughters, uh.
Writer.
Author.
Um, do you have any otherupcoming books coming out in
plan?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
for 2025?
March 7th, oh, I forgot tomention that March 7th.
My other book called Lead Loud,which is 11 Commandments of the
Next Gen Leader.
I actually don't get me introuble, cash Doll.
I actually took her TenCommandments song and I redid it
as a way of 11 commandments.
Instead, I added something elseand I made it for more where it
(41:14):
comes down to leadership.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
There we go, so you should add her too.
Oh sure, you post the book.
Add her on there too.
Is she on LinkedIn?
I don't know.
I don't know if Cassie's goingto be on LinkedIn.
I think she's on BMF though.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I do love music.
Music is my baby.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yeah, all right.
Well, thank you for tuning into another episode.
Let's Get Comfy podcast.
I hope you all have enjoyedhearing from the wonderful Ms
Miranda Johnson and howinspirational she is.
Involved she is in thecommunity, just her leadership.
That she possesses.
Visionary, true visionary, butthat really values family values
(41:56):
, enjoying what she does eachand every day her health journey
.
Take notes as far as I have.
So.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Till next time.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
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Another episode of the let'sGet Comfy podcast With me, your
(01:17):
host, norman Harris.
I have a special guest todayfor you, a staple, legendary
individual here in the Tampa Bayarea, and she like new
dreadlocks too.
I like them too.
But a founder, a leader, amother, a wife, someone that has
(01:38):
found a way to navigate herselfin spaces to lead to success.
I want to welcome to the showmiss.
Miranda Johnson every day yeah,well, miss Johnson, I want you
to tell the folk, because what Ido on this show, I let people
talk about themselves first.
Yeah, and I base you know, alot of my questions around
(02:01):
highlighting you today.
All right, all right, so youtell the people who you are
today.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Confirmation is out there so you know, I used to
start with the average of I'm amom, I'm a wife.
Now I like to call myself adreamer, because a lot of the
things I realize now, at thebeautiful age of 44, is that
majority of my ideas start in mydreams.
So I take those things.
So, first and foremost, I'm adreamer and um, and I like to
(02:27):
take those dreams and createreality out of them.
I'm also, um, somebody who'svery playful.
I love to joke, I love to laugh.
I come from a very comicalfamily that does a lot of skits
and everything's off the cuff.
Um, and I'm currently a CEO andfounder of Mirage Collective,
(02:48):
which is about having aleadership community.
I also work with Tampa BusinessClub.
I'm one of the executiveambassadors with Tampa Business
Club and I also do businessdevelopment with Buy it, rent it
Profit, which is on multifamilyinvesting and training.
Here I was partnered with theTampa Housing Authority Wow.
So like you have time to sleep.
(03:10):
Yes, actually, um, what am I?
I've decided this part of mylife I'm not working, so
anything that I do has to bethings that I enjoy.
So I am.
I sleep very well because Iknow.
Um again, when, as we get intothe conversation, you'll learn
why I have to sleep.
I've hit the walls already, soI understand.
Rest Nothing happens until yourest.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Nothing happens until you rest.
That's a good one, all right.
So tell us how you came up withthat name, because I really
love the name of yourorganization, your company, and
I also love the logo and thecolor.
So just tell me.
It speaks to a lot honestly.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
so listeners out there google it well, the name
is mirage collective the nameactually for a long time.
Every time I would create abusiness name, I would always
give it like somebody else'sname or something else.
That didn't really meananything for me and this was the
first name.
So my if you ever, if you lookme up, my other company names
were like 5bg transportation,5bg realty.
(04:09):
All my stuff was 5bg because Ihave five beautiful girls so
everything I did was 5bg, andthis time I was like I wanted to
be me.
So mirage oh, miranda johnsonwas the first time I had an
opportunity to really put myname on it.
And then collective was aboutcommunity.
That was really important.
It was like Miranda wants hercommunity, um, and and this is
(04:30):
this is the community that Iwould like to establish.
And the logo is about intuition.
It's about using your intuitionand trusting your intuition.
I talked about those dreams.
So when you have those dreams,how do you lean into it?
So it's just that constantreminder that we all have a
little bit of intuition.
We actually some of us have alot more of intuition, and how
do you lean into it?
Always?
(04:50):
And that'd be your first, yourfirst option.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Got it, got it and I asked that question.
Thank you for expounding onthat because, uh, when I think
about a name, I always thinkabout creativity.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A lot of times entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
They step out in faith and on their own, but they
have that creative ability andit goes into even the name and
things as the smallest thingsyou know.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So where are you from ?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Tell us where you're from.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So my father was.
I am an Air Force brat, so Iwas actually born in England, so
in London sorry, lake and Heath, england and I was raised in
Germany for a couple of yearsand then eventually I went to
Charleston, south Carolina,where my father retired out the
military, became a governmentcontractor.
So Charleston is where mostpeople are going to know me from
Somerville, south Carolina.
(05:36):
That's my, that's my home,that's my baby, that's where my
mom lives and my brother lives.
Okay, charleston, Charl,charles, what's good to eat up
there?
Oh, we're, so we are.
Uh, see, that's the home of theseafood broil.
Um, if you think about, youknow, your oysters, your, your
shrimp, your fish, I'm sorry,push, that's how we say it in um
, charles, push, it's just thegichi, it's the gichi language.
(05:58):
Um, so, pushing grits, um, yeah, so, having that, that's,
that's our, our normal way ofeating.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Charleston, chewies are our staple, okay, so yeah
yeah, I have a good man checkthat out.
Yeah.
So, uh, looking at yourimpressive entrepreneur journey,
um, I had the time.
You know I do my research andall of my guests uh, and
financial, uh, success.
Um, so if you could tell us howyour experiences from your
(06:26):
youth that inspired you topursue your path of
entrepreneurship?
You know, have you had anythingfrom when you were younger or
anyone that?
Inspired you.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
My memory that I have the most was you know those
tests they used to give you inschool that would like rate you
on what you should do when yougrow up, like there were those
assessment tests for like careerassessment tests.
So I remember the teacher, Ithink it was like seventh,
eighth grade, and she was givingeverybody these assessment
tests and during the assessmenttest she was like you know,
miranda, fill it out.
And she was like, oh, you'reGod Damn, yeah, yeah.
(06:57):
And again, mine, this is like90, 1990, 91-ish, so maybe 92.
So that would sound great for alot of girls that you tell me
I'm going to be a secretary.
And I just remember, notknowing what I was saying, but I
(07:20):
said it really quickly and Iwas like, no, I'm going to have
like, instead of Burger King,I'm going to be Miranda Queen.
And I said that to her and Iwas like, and she's kind of
tried to shut me down I was like, nah, I'm going to own some
stuff.
And, mind you, I was alreadyselling candy in school,
braiding people's hair, so I waslike I am babysitting, so I was
already having my little threehustles.
So to me, for her to like putme in like that category, it was
(07:44):
kind of it ignited me to say,like what else is out here, and
why is she labeling me as asecretary?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So your school, let y'all sell kidney.
We used to get suspended.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
No, they didn't let us.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh, gotcha, I said I had a hustle, got it.
You can go to ISS and in-schoolsuspension.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Oh no, I was good.
I was so good at it.
Actually, I had a clear bookbag and I used to.
You know, I had a very goodreturn on my investment.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's as far as I'll go with that but.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I was able to get candy and sell it.
I even knew what clients Iwould sell my Snickers for 50
cents and who would pay a dollar.
Wow, yeah, I was very good atsales.
I didn't know that, I just knewI was good.
I was very good at sales.
I didn't know that, I just knewI was good.
I was good at reading people.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Reading people.
That's good.
Well, shout out to my two highschool partners, eric Castle and
Dustin Gray.
Oh wow, dustin Gray, he saideverything.
He had the Rice Krispie treats,he'll make you a necklace.
Yeah, he did a lot of things.
Shout out to Dustin I ain'ttalked to him in a while, but um
(08:53):
.
So my next question is um, whatyou do now?
Uh, it doesn't always.
Well, I couldn't connect whereyou started the sort of in your
entrepreneurial journey, whichis transportation industry, with
the trucking right so where Iactually started was in
construction.
Oh, in construction.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So and that started because at the time my
ex-husband was a sander.
He used to sand houses and hisentire family was in
construction.
Like they sand houses, they hada painter, they had a guy for
everything and I just rememberthey always went through the
middleman.
So the middleman was like theuncle.
Right, the uncle had a contractwith one of the builders, or,
(09:23):
sorry, one of the managers, andthen the manager had the actual
it was so many channels,sometimes he didn't get paid.
I used to get mad because I'mlike, why didn't you get your
check?
Well, this person, this didn'thappen, this didn't happen.
I was like, why are we goingthrough all these channels?
When I first started, I waslike we got to get rid of the
middleman.
He kept saying the middleman.
I was like, how do we get ridof the middleman?
(09:49):
So that's how I really startedwas going into companies like dr
horton rylan homes and Iactually was able to help him
get contracts, direct contracts.
So he, he and I actuallystarted on a construction
company.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Wow, back then and I was like 2000, I was 20, 21
years old you, you were, wow,yeah, okay, and now take us
through how that jumps into thetransport industry.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So second husband Ha, so my current husband, now
beautiful husband Joshua Johnson.
So gorgeous.
Anyway.
So I met him in 2008, 2009.
He decided to get his CDL backin 2011.
(10:28):
This is right.
When the market crashed, a lotof jobs were being lost.
It was extremely hard,especially for men at that time,
to figure out, you know causethey were just losing jobs like
crazy, like stores were closingdown.
He went in and was like, hey,I'm going to get my CDL.
I happen to have a lot offamily and friends in the
transportation industry so whenhe got his cdl again same me.
(10:50):
I don't like to work for themiddleman, so I was like I don't
want to go through channels,stuff, how you're going to get
paid, how do we get directly toit?
So we invested and bought ourfirst truck and that's where it
started so how many trucks didyou guys have Over?
20 over the road, 20 trucksover the road.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, did you get your CDL.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I do have a CDL.
Really, you drive them, I candrive.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You used to.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean I still have an active CDL, I'd stop driving.
I only drove for a whilebecause most of the time I
manage the business.
So I did drive a little bit in2023.
I used to actually run thetampa port really hated it.
I'm not.
I can't back where.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The damn excuse me I was just about to ask you yeah,
I can't I can't, like you know,but no, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I'm not the best driver.
I can go forward like nobody.
I can drive a manual.
I could do all the things, um,but I just didn't have enough
experience inside the truck ofdriving regularly.
If I did, yes, um, my husbandwas my husband's an amazing
driver.
He drives really really well,but me I still have.
Could I get in a truck and if Ihad to move it?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
yeah sure yeah, oh man, that's a good skill set to
have too oh, for sure for years.
You'll be able to use that, youknow.
Yep, also, what circumstance?
Where was there a circumstance,a situation that happened, for
you to transition from, I guess,that transport industry to
empowerment?
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So okay.
So two things.
One was something that I didn'tconsider.
It goes into too long of astory story, so I'll try to make
it short.
I wanted to keep my marriage.
I didn't want to.
I wanted to have a relationshipwith my kids.
15 years in transportation.
I literally raised my childrenin transportation, which means I
raised my kids on a very busyschedule and I'm gonna use the
(12:39):
word busy now I don't like thatword anymore, but I raised them
on a very busy schedule.
I I saw that my daughters werein their 20s you know what I
mean and turn 18, they'regetting older and here I am
still like this.
So for me it hit a wall and thetransportation industry in 2023
was also not doing really well.
It was an opportunity for meand my husband to really look at
(13:00):
ourselves and say how are wedoing?
And we weren't doing good.
So I decided to sell thosetrucks and we decided to start
to sell our trucks and focus onour marriage, which was scary
because there wasn't an optionlike that.
But I realized support is whatI was lacking.
So when I say two things, that'sthe first thing.
The second thing is I don'tlike to use that word,
empowerment, because it's not myjob to empower anybody.
(13:22):
You got to have own power.
I consider more like aconductor.
You know I can help the powersource move through it, but I
can't empower you, um, but Iwanted to be more of a space and
offer.
What we didn't have was whatcommunity was important for me.
So and I really my husband keptsaying you teach, that's what
you do, you're a good teacherlike you need to be teaching
(13:42):
first.
I thought he wanted me to belike a school teacher.
I didn't know what he meant bythat.
So that's how I got into Mirageand created this.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Mirage Okay, mirage and collective.
What's your mission statement?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Authenticity is the new blue check.
Authenticity, yeah,authenticity is the new blue
check.
We really want you to remain.
You um take, I think, what wetalked about later, that
influencer type of idea justbecause you decide to be a
leader, entrepreneur, whateverthat looks like, you don't have
to mimic someone else to besuccessful, um, and but you do
(14:16):
need community.
You need people around.
It's really important to havepeople that are going to support
you, to have your ecosystemthere, plus tools that actually
work to your benefit.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The resources are very important, all right.
So what resources you all wouldsay at Mirage Collective that
you all offer?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So one of the.
Well, so we've just transferredto sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's good Services resources.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
So we just transferred to a brand new site
that we've built out a ton ofnew cool tools and stuff that we
just put on the website.
So now people can.
If you're a real estate agent,you can actually put your
listings up there.
If you sell digital products,you can add your digital
products.
You can get leads from yourdigital products, which now
gives you an opportunity to makemore income.
(15:03):
You can have your own QR codethat directly to your business.
You can post blogs, you can postarticles basically allows you
to be yourself.
You can post your photo albumsanything that allows you to be
you.
You can now take that.
Any type of business can belisted on Mirage.
Oh, you also get a fullmembership directory so you
could be listed directly wherepeople all over the world can
(15:25):
find you.
It opens you up to a differentspace where you're not just, oh,
I'm a part of community.
You're a part of community thatwants you to sell or that wants
you to earn, but also, if youridentity just is in writing and
that's your skill set, you canwrite on there.
And you can also sell realproducts too, whether they're
digital or real products onthere, as well.
(15:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Wow, that's on there, and you can also sell real
products too, whether they'redigital or real products on
there as well.
Wow, wow, that's actuallyawesome.
So that sound.
There is a comfy comedy time.
Okay, so I have a surprise foryou, uh-.
Oh, yes, yes, so it's a joke,right, all right it's a joke,
yeah you love jokes, all right.
So if you tell the audience here, because, um, and I'm just
adding this into the show, okay,uh, so we have two cups here,
all right, my, my glass is clearand, uh, madam over there, her
(16:19):
class, I don't know what coloris that.
It's green, so tell us, tellthe audience, what you're
drinking oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So for the past 15 years plus, I drink chlorophyll
water.
I only drink chlorophyll water,um because I like to feel and
smell like I should like healthy.
Um so, and it also it's just.
It's a good for you, my, Ithink it's a good for you, my I
think it's a great skincareroutine for myself, my entire
(16:49):
family.
I make sure they drinkchlorophyll water, so that's
what I have and that's what Idrink daily.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, she actually.
Let me try it before the show.
It tastes like spearmint.
Yes, that's a flavor.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, that's a flavor , but so the breath should never
be stink too with drinkingchlorophyll water.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
All right, yeah, now thank you for sharing that.
No problem, that's cool.
I really like it a lot.
I just can't.
I don't think I can drink itright now.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know we talked about that well, the idea is
that it will bring out whateveryou smell, whatever you eat.
So you smell like that.
However, you know it'll makeyou more mindful about what you
eat.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah because I don't want to eat no chicken and smell
like bacon definitely not yeahnot, for chlorophyll pork is not
what you want to be smellinglike.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It's got some extra smells that's gonna come.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You don't want that one, eat some berries.
We'll get back into the show,all right.
So, uh, you been on the journey.
Like I said, you say 21, 20years old, right?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
yeah, well, when I, yes, when I started in
construction.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yes, all right so, in comparison of leadership uh 20
years ago, what was thelandscape of?
How would you say, uh,leadership was shaped.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Uh compared to present day oh, man, it's a
couple things.
Uh, one of the main things Iwould say is you were more
isolated back then.
Everyone was an entrepreneur.
I didn't have.
There was not entrepreneur,solo entrepreneur None of that
existed.
So a lot of times you were veryisolated.
You might've found you had togo outside to find people that
(18:19):
were in the industry to get youreducation.
There wasn't Google, therewasn't an Instagram page or even
putting a website together.
So a lot of things you had todo a lot of research, which I
find entrepreneurs today don'tdo as much.
They kind of will go on apodcast or go look at something
on YouTube and go, oh, I canbecome that because this person
(18:41):
has it without all the details,or does it?
How much money will I make?
How much money can I sacrificeuntil I make money?
Back then you had to reallyknow your path all the way
through to even get somebody togive you $20 to invest into your
business, and it couldn't besomething made up.
So, yeah, that I would say.
Definitely the research side ofit was different.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Right, we had to go out if you really wanted it, you
had to go and different right,you had to go out.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
If you really wanted it, you had to go and get it you
had to go get it and yourconnections mattered and your
reputation.
Reputation was everything.
Uh, when I started me going inand do a build, if I did one bad
job, it traveled quickly.
You know, everybody would know.
They would tell you oh, don'twork with this person.
If you didn't pay somebody, ohmy gosh, you could have been a
(19:27):
mistake and it would havetraveled.
We didn't even have socialmedia and it would travel so
fast.
So those are things that youget sued easier too.
I felt like back then becausethey just walk into the
courthouse and file some paperson you and you know, now it's
like it's more.
(19:47):
Things now are a process whereand not that you can't be shamed
I think now the worst thingabout it is that the reputation
can last longer.
You could at least clearyourself up.
Yes, you know you could kind ofrecreate your identity today as
people change on topics anddifferent things come about.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, forget all about you know right five years
ago.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
You know right, right in somewhat in some ways, yeah,
so I don't know, I almost stillI've missed old school
entrepreneurship a little bit.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
But old school, they didn't have a platform like
yours, right, they didn't know.
No, no, no, this did not, not.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
This didn't even exist to be able to meet.
No, no.
So that's why I said there'sthings that I do appreciate, um,
because I actually did scoreback in the day.
I don don't know if youremember what score?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yes, I'm familiar with score.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Back then score was like that taught me a lot about
business.
Now I find there's so many,there's almost too much
information where people getcloudy.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, I can see that actually Also, in your opinion,
can anyone be a leader, nomatter age, seniors?
Because I recently had Alina onthe show, so I know this answer
myself.
Okay, miss Arlene Grosso, shestarted her first business at
the age of 70 years old.
Wow, right.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But just in your opinion, can anyone be a leader?
Yes, anyone, if you're talkingabout age, race and that type of
thing.
In that sense, yes, shouldeveryone be a leader?
No, because it is very much amindset game, no matter how you
look at it, you know, becauseyou have people that are in
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leadership roles that are doingthings that they should not be
doing.
They're taking advantage of thesituation.
So can they be a leader?
Yes, should everyone be aleader?
I would say no, gotcha, theyshould not all be in leadership
positions?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, can I share my thoughts on that?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, so I do believe leaders have a.
They're chosen.
I think you're chosen to be.
I agree with that.
Yeah, you have to be special tobe a leader.
I don't think everyone isdestined or can be a leader, I
agree right.
They may be put in the positionor elevated because of
resources, connections, yeah,but everyone is made to be a
(22:02):
leader.
You can see, you can tell, youcan feel it, oh yeah, oh yeah
feel it, uh, but yes, I justwanted to ask that yeah because
I'm just looking over yourwebsite, uh, reading more things
about you, yeah, I learned thatthat's a real big focus for you
absolutely leaders, creating aplatform where they could uh
openly, uh, gain right, exploretheir creativity as well and
(22:24):
benefit from their creativity.
So that's the big bit.
So you have a new book.
I do, yeah, but it's PainPrinciple.
The Pain Principle, yep, thePain Principle.
Why the title?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So it was a reflection of self.
A lot of people would ask meall the time like Miranda, how
are you doing in business?
You have five kids, you'remarried I know you've been
through all this stuff Like, howdo you do that?
And I couldn't really answerthat at first and I had my
moment where I was just up and Iwas like, okay, let me just go
ahead and be completelytransparent.
I was around somebody who wascomplaining about something and
(22:59):
I realized that she was her ownproblem, right, and a lot of
times I saw myself as like, as aleader, you have to always take
accountability.
It doesn't matter how ithappens.
It's most of the time it's yourfault, because somewhere you
didn't do something and now itled to being your fault.
So the pain principle isactually the rest of the title
is embracing self, pain to breakfree.
(23:20):
So that's the rest of the title.
For me it was how do I put myown self through?
Sometimes pain which might be abreakup right.
It might be reflecting on thefact that I have to be honest,
that I made a mistake in that,or it may be a new connection
that I need to make.
That may kind of feeluncomfortable.
(23:41):
How do I put myself in aposition where I'm okay to
accept temporary pain to getlong-term results?
So the pain principle wasaccepting that there will be
pain.
There has to be pain, it's just.
It's impossible not to gothrough that pain.
But with pain comes change.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah, I think I've reallyrealized that within the last
year of just accepting that nomatter in life, it's just going
to be ups and downs, Like youhave mountains, challenges.
Nothing is going to be.
This perfect's going to makesure your family and the things
that are vital to you is takencare of.
All right so, but I love thatThank you.
(24:32):
I really do, yep.
So people lie to themselvesabout what's holding them back,
choosing comfort overbreakthrough.
Give an example or you canshare your message to the people
.
But those ones out thereprocrastinating right, I felt in
their comfort zone.
Feel like I'm too old or mylast three ventures did not work
(24:55):
out.
Yeah, and I should give up.
Um, and I will say I'm new tothe entrepreneur journey myself
and uh, like I'll be thinkingabout quitting all the time.
I'm not going to lie Normal.
Yeah, all the time I beemotional.
I'm like man, I just want youknow this and I really want this
to work.
So it's a struggle, it's abattle internally and people see
(25:16):
you on social media and like wetalk about we're not social
media, people Right, they we'renot social media, people Right,
they think you're doing good.
That's not really true.
I'm willing to tell, say it topeople.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Like just everybody who's still social media.
That's not just because they'renot making hundreds of
thousands of dollars, it's nottrue.
Yeah, let's be honest with you.
But the question to you is,what's your message to those
people who are afraid to try,afraid to not, later on in life,
say, be that shoulda, woulda,coulda right so let me just say
(25:47):
this, because entrepreneurshipis a little different for me,
because I've always been anentrepreneur, I've really never
worked a nine-to-five.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So the same way like if my business didn't go well, I
would go and find, uh, anotherbusiness.
It's just like somebody wholost their job, they would go
fill out a new application.
Oh so in my mind, like I, thatI'm actually more afraid of nine
to five than entrepreneurship,because I feel like I have to
depend on somebody else to likeapprove my application.
(26:14):
That actually gives me a littlebit of anxiety.
So in my mindset,entrepreneurship I don't I can't
really explain that comes alittle bit more natural, not
easy, but just a little bit morenatural.
So what I would say is my wayto give somebody some
information would be consistencyis the ruler, measurement of
(26:35):
results.
So if you want to, if you everfeel like man, I need to back
off or I'm feeling emotional,I'm feeling sad, because, number
one, there's no emotions inbusiness.
Right, business doesn't careabout your emotions, but when
you feel that way, typicallyit's something that's off on the
consistency and because you'renot being consistency, you can't
get the results and you can'tmeasure your results and it does
(26:57):
make you feel like eitheryou're not doing anything It'll
make you feel like I want toquit today but like you have
that consistency will help buildthat.
But if you stop, go, stop, go,stop go, or you're only talking
about your business but you'renot actually applying your
business, then yes, it's goingto make you feel like you're not
getting anywhere becausethere's nothing consistently
(27:18):
happening.
So if you want those things,the idea is to come up with
small, consistent things dailyto get to where you want to get
for your goal.
And that's helped me and that'swhy I say when I wake up, I
have my affirmations.
That's part of my consistency.
I wake up, I go, make sure I doa workout.
(27:38):
The workout feeds the brain.
When I eat certain things,berries feed the brain.
So everything I'm doing is forthe idea that I'm building what
I need.
So when I start working, mybody and my mind get those
results.
And when I don't do thosethings and I'm inconsistent, you
can see it, it's obvious.
So I always.
(27:58):
When they feel that way,typically their consistency is
off got it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I like that answer consistency will get you way
further.
When I even started up with thepodcast, I did my of course
market research and I wouldlisten to different individuals
and read and they say you know,I really believe I could have
been course market research andI would listen to different
individuals and read and theysay you know, I really believe I
could have been further alongif I never would have stopped if
I didn't take that six monthbreak or that nine month break,
(28:25):
um, and start back.
You know, right, uh, stayconsistent.
It's hard and challenging, uh,but fighting through it.
You know.
You see the yeah, the fruitslater on, you you know.
So, advice to individualspreparing for their later years
in life, so, with beingconsistent and getting to the
comfort zone, what would be youradvice to tell people?
(28:46):
Keep moving, keep pushing.
Just because you're retireddon't mean you hang up the hat.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know, I feel like you just got to do what makes
you good.
I mean, I can't.
I can give you advice.
I know, miranda being 60, 70years old, I'm trying to be
chilling you know what I mean.
I'm just trying to relax.
I'm I'm frolicking, you know.
Um, I don't really want to bein that hustle mindset I do feel
like a lot of times for thatlater age.
(29:16):
Don't try to lean into what yousee everybody else doing.
Still, stay true to what youreally like and what makes you
happy.
If you know that you're, youknow you kind of are a gardener
and that's your area, findsomething in that to make money
out of.
Don't go and try to go wayoutside of things that don't
really relate to you, because Ithink it's not going to bring
(29:37):
you joy, it's not going to makeyou happy, especially in that
second, that latter part of yourlife.
I don't think anybody wants todo that.
And then there's another partthat I like to tell people is
like, remember that hell is todie and only be a fraction of
yourself and to look back andsee like man, I could have been
so much more.
That's really that's the worstthing.
(30:01):
So if you feel like you're atthat age and you wouldn't be
happy if you left this earth andyou weren't even able to do a
fraction, then start doingsomething today what are the
three areas that they can focuson?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
if they was to choose something in life to say you
know what?
I want to start being moreconsistent at this.
What would you say?
Three good things to be astarter.
You know that would be forsomebody age 65 and older.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
What's your word?
Say Power words.
You got to start with yourmouth.
Tongue has to start with thetongue.
After it comes from the tongue,it has to go into your,
obviously the mind.
What the mind is thinking of,who the mind is allowing around
it, what the mind is being fedRight.
And then health.
I don't care what anybody says,if you get outside you get that
(30:45):
adrenaline pumping from a walkor run.
It ignites you in a differentway.
It gives you some type ofenergy that makes you think like
you're almost 10 again.
You know.
You're like oh, you know, know,I could do this and I could do
that.
I'm really a health first focuswhen it comes to leaders now,
especially, um, because I dealwith my own health issues,
(31:06):
because I didn't do that.
So now it's like health first.
All that other stuff will come.
Focus on what you say, what youthink and how you take care of
your health, and other thingswill begin to line up that's
good, that's okay, that's twogot one more, I wasn't three
what was the third?
I thought it was oh, the mind.
So the mind, mouth, your mouth,your mind and taking care of
(31:28):
your health.
So you want me to say okay, youwant more gotcha, you need to
do three.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
See, that's the comprehension skills there.
Right there, I can give yousome more things.
You can give some more huh Okay, so what advice would you give
to someone who feels stuck,whether it's in their personal
life, professional life, theydon't know where to start to
turn things around.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Feeling stuck.
I would probably say if they'refeeling stuck is to pay
attention to their surroundingsTypically.
If they're feeling stuck is topay attention to their
surroundings Typically ifthey're feeling stuck they
usually have people around themthat are also stuck.
Pay attention, who are yousitting with?
Where are you getting yourinformation from?
Really paying attention to yourfriendships, your marriage,
(32:11):
sometimes, you know, and that'ssometimes that's the hard one to
look at your relationships, allthose.
And then what are you doingevery day?
That's why I said it startswith that mouth, like really
what you say, because again youcan feel stuck.
But sometimes it starts withthe words, and I'm a big
affirmations person to start inthe morning and saying I am
using today too, even if youhaven't done it yet, but if
(32:34):
you're not even willing to sayit, and if your words are all
negative and everything that yousay is oh man, nothing's
happening for me.
Oh man, I'm trying to do this,it doesn't work.
That's where it is.
And you need to really look atyour surroundings and find out
why you're stuck there.
Because, again, if you want tobe a leader, everything comes
back to you.
So you have to really look.
So what, what are you doing andwhat assignment has been given
(32:57):
to you?
I think that's another thing isa lot of people, when they say
they feel stuck, they've beengiven some type of purpose or
assignment but, for whateverreason, they keep trying to
change their own mind.
So if you learn how to not tryto change your own mind and
learn to just lean into whatyou've been told, lean into what
you said that you wanted to doand stay focused there, that's a
good answer.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, me thinking I was just complaining this week
okay yep, I was just complainingand doubting this week.
So that is that's real big.
That's.
I'm just thinking about how Ineed to change my words.
But I do manifestation, okay, Ido little sticky notes, um, and
I write down, like happened inmy life, and try to speak
(33:37):
positivity, but then I get madone day and then I just that's
normal.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, I mean, you're still a person.
The idea to think that even I'msitting here and I don't have
bad days is crazy.
But there's a step two that youhave to do.
So, yes, you do yourmanifestations and visualization
.
I'm sorry, manifestation, butnow you need visualization.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
And visualization.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You see yourself doing those things.
You get to a point where yousmell it, you feel it.
It's like it's sitting insideyour body.
It's almost like you wantsomething to eat and you're
craving a food and you've got itat home, maybe some leftovers.
That's really good, and you canalmost taste the leftovers.
You can see yourself heating itup in the microwave.
You can see yourself about togo sit down and eat it.
(34:21):
You know that, that feeling youget when you know you got that
food there yeah, they just atemy sushi today too I was gonna
say.
And then they eat it and youknow how mad you get because you
felt it.
So nothing else feels goodanymore, right?
It doesn't even feel natural toeat.
They can offer you somethingelse you want your sushi.
That's how you look at yourlife it's like anything else,
(34:44):
won't feel good, because you'venow visualized yourself in a
certain space, so much so thatyou can taste it, so anything
else is not natural yeah, yeah,I've been seeing that on that
corvette.
I've been seeing yeah, seeyourself driving down the
highway.
You're pulling into thedriveway.
(35:05):
The garage door opens.
I mean, it's full on feelingwhat's well?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
what's next?
Uh, for you like what?
Would you like Any future plansfor this year, let's say 2025.
My theme is thrive in 2025.
So what do you have next forMirage Collective, or I don't
know?
You do a whole lot of differentthings.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I think for this year is to continue with the events
with Tampa Business Club and Buyit, rent it, profit to see
those two platforms grow.
My husband will be startingcouples and entrepreneurship Our
own will be a part under Mirageas well.
The idea is to be transparentand honest with other couples,
because that's an issue thatpeople don't talk about a lot.
(35:51):
Where couples go through us andtheir partners decide to be
entrepreneurs whether it's bothof them or one of them, it's a
lot.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's a lot on the family.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Um and it, it.
There's dynamics that peoplejust they, they create a
perfection.
That's not true and that's whyI talk about yes, I am on my
second marriage.
I'm on my second marriagebecause I was hardhead in my
first one.
Um, but we both were hardheads.
So for me it was I wanted to bethis thing and I didn't really
think about who I was takingwith me, I just wanted to go and
(36:20):
take care of my kids andsometimes you have to slow down
because you want the whole unitto go together.
So couples and entrepreneurshipis something that me and my
husband will be working on thisyear.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
That's really good.
That's really good and you'rehitting all points.
I don't know.
You're like counseling me todayor something.
Oh okay, yeah, for real.
But yeah, entrepreneurship, ittakes a toll on your family.
That's why I try like myfoundation involves my family,
my wife and kids.
Like.
That's why they be here, likemost of my shows I'm so glad to
(36:48):
see that For sure.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
But it's different things.
It requires time, like this issaturday, right?
So yeah, I appreciate my babythank you so much, baby.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah, thank you, oh so, but as y'all you gotta tell,
you see the brains um of theoperation for real.
You know what I mean I get ityeah, uh, but show your website
um all your social media Sure.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
So I no longer have Instagram or Facebook, also just
LinkedIn.
So, Miranda Johnson, onLinkedIn or Mirageo Collective,
you can also find our website,which is wwwmirageocoorg.
Or you can find me on the Buyit Rent it Profit platform under
wwwbuyitrentitprofitcom Buy itrent ititprofitcom.
I do leadership training andeducational training on there
(37:39):
and I do have some leadershiptraining educational videos.
Also, if you want to go to theTampa Business Club website to
find out where our upcomingevents are, I'm also on there as
well.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I love that you're involved in the community,
making ways for other people toalso be involved without build
up their platform.
Their brand also obtainvisibility.
I think that what intrigued meabout having you join the show
was how, how invested you werein community, like I know you
(38:09):
don't have Facebook Instagramanymore and longer.
but like just seeing thosethings, just seeing what you do,
it was inspiring for me, to behonest, like that's uh, like I
tell my wife and most people alot of guests on the show I
really don't have like know you,you know what I mean, but I
come on here and I really beenenjoyed learning, actually, uh,
(38:29):
taking time and researchingindividuals and understanding
their journey and how theybecame, you know, successful and
the route that you chose.
So it's really inspiring,because I know it takes a lot of
work to do it, it can take alot of sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It does, it can.
This part is different.
I'll be honest, this part isdifferent.
I'm working on when it becomesunnatural, then I realize that
I'm outside of my lane, so I'mno longer in alignment.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
So I'm working on alignment.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
So if I would say this year it's alignment.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
So, as we wrap up, I just want to know what do you
enjoy doing just like, uh, yourregular day?
I know that people don'tusually ask this.
I don't want to just pop in myhead right now what do you enjoy
like just every single day?
What do you enjoy doing?
I?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I love working out, man, I really do.
It's my adrenaline, um, whetherI get on the treadmill and do
my what?
My 12, you know 12, 3, 30, my,my incline on the treadmill I
like I just started getting backinto running.
I like lifting, that's just my,that's my therapy.
So I do love working out.
Um, like I said, I'm a bigjokester so I love calling my
(39:35):
brothers to older brothers.
So usually every I call mybrothers daily and I just rattle
off some weird jokes and somescenarios.
And then, because I have fivedaughters, so for me it's just
yeah, yeah yeah, they're gettingolder, yeah yeah, you have some
action for real so you know, mypart of my morning will usually
(39:56):
start with talking to mydaughter, my 14-year-old, in the
car ride.
We listen to some silly radiostuff and just enjoy ourselves.
And the best part of my day is,honestly, when my husband comes
home.
Man, I'm loving this part ofour marriage.
So this right now is just beingable to spend time with him and
, you know, wake up and he givesme my morning kisses and then
my night kisses.
I'm like a little giddy, um,which that wasn't always there.
(40:19):
So I'm really appreciating thatpart of my day now where before
it was an irritation andaggravation because I was not
where I needed to be.
So this part of my life I'mjust really enjoying simple
things, wow that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
The book is out.
The pain principle.
I love the uh.
The cover too thank you yes, sowe support miss miranda johnson
, her family, five daughters too.
Five daughters, uh.
Writer.
Author.
Um, do you have any otherupcoming books coming out in
plan?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
for 2025?
March 7th, oh, I forgot tomention that March 7th.
My other book called Lead Loud,which is 11 Commandments of the
Next Gen Leader.
I actually don't get me introuble, cash Doll.
I actually took her TenCommandments song and I redid it
as a way of 11 commandments.
Instead, I added something elseand I made it for more where it
(41:14):
comes down to leadership.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
There we go, so you should add her too.
Oh sure, you post the book.
Add her on there too.
Is she on LinkedIn?
I don't know.
I don't know if Cassie's goingto be on LinkedIn.
I think she's on BMF though.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I do love music.
Music is my baby.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yeah, all right.
Well, thank you for tuning into another episode.
Let's Get Comfy podcast.
I hope you all have enjoyedhearing from the wonderful Ms
Miranda Johnson and howinspirational she is.
Involved she is in thecommunity, just her leadership.
That she possesses.
Visionary, true visionary, butthat really values family values
(41:56):
, enjoying what she does eachand every day her health journey
.
Take notes as far as I have.
So.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Till next time.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Bye.
Please visitcomfortmeasuresconsultingcom.
We're here to support you andyour loved ones.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Thank you, thank you.
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