October 23, 2025 • 23 mins
Kyle Mims is the former President of the Board of Directors for the Shelby County Arts Council as well as a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones in Columbiana. Kyle has been a longtime supporter of the SCAC and continues his support of our mission!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey. On today's episode, we have Kyle Mems from Edward Jones,
our title sponsor for our twentieth anniversary show coming up
on November seventh. Stay tuned, Welcome to conversations with Creatives.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
With the Arts Council. Ladies, I'm Lindsay and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm Leslie and this is Chile Mins. Yes, we're super
excited to have Kyle. Multiple things we can say about Kyle.
One of our board members, one of our former presidents
of the board, Hey, neighbor out. Oh yeah, ourts councils
run over and rescue us whenever we need him. And
(00:52):
they're our title sponsor for our twentieth anniversary show. So
we just appreciate your continued support and we're going to
talk about that in a little bit. However, we always
start with a very important question.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So, Kyle, are you ready?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I guess so yeah? Ready or not?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Go for all right?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You ready for this?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
All right?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
As a resident of busy town, from the busy world
of Richard Scared, you're very familiar with this. Yeah, have
a child, You've read him shirks, probably like busy, busy
cars go fast. I've read these books of the Twins
over and over again. So I'm very familiar with this.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I was not, and that's all.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
So it was a TV show for like many years
as sure. So as a resident, as a resident of Busytown,
we need a car. What food based car would you
drive in busy town?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Do you neat a moment, We're gonna share cars. I
have an actual lace car.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We have a shared car because you do have a
shared car, because why not?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
So this came to me last night at midnight, whenever
I was under the influence of my cold medicine. So
I'm like sitting at my kitchen island like laughing to
myself all night.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Okay, I have the corn cob racer. Oh wow, yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The camera, Lindsay see that it is very fancy and.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You could tell which ones me and which one's lindsay,
this is?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So this is Leslie in the pot. Sure, this is
me in the front with my long hair. So my
car is made out of a corn cob. Okay, and
if I hit the accelerator hard enough, flames shoot out
of the back. I'm not good at drawing flames.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I like since I was a kid, I've always been
really bad at drawing flames.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I think it looks like flames at this.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah, and whenever the flames shoot out of the back,
little corn corn popcorn.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Out of it. It's a corn cob. So you should
have drawn me with like the little you know boxes,
the popcorn boxes, the bucket. Yeah, that's what bucket. Yeah,
catching the popcorn.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, you're like hanging out of the back of the
car like you know popcorn. Also, this is a spare
tire on the back of my corn corp rator. I
realized it's not proportionate to the rest of the tires.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Spare tires are smaller, are they?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
They called donuts called donuts.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I didn't realize that that's actually accurate.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Good job job, yeah, So, and I was going to
color this in and everything, but it took so long
to draw the kernels on the corn corp racer.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So so, yeah, this is my car in busy town.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And then your cloth madisone kicked in, and then my
calf medicine kicked in and I heard tired.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah it's super cool. I mean the popcorn I love,
but it also could almost kind of flame roast the corn.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's like street corn basic.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, basically, I need a bunch of corn corp racers
because I'm just going to be like constantly cooking my car.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I like it essentially.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, yeah, work.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
So that's my that's my uh contribution today's day. You say, oh, well, well.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She's I'm very okay, Okay, the thought remember my thought. No,
I would have a hard shelled chocolate car.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh, yes, you know, which is not good?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Is it just a piece of chocolate or is this
some chocolate covered like a banana covered in chocolate.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, the idea is that kind of look through your flames,
mine would turn into fondue or fudge. So I would
be like a party traveling chocolate car and people can
bring there like strawberries and things.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, so you're constantly shooting like hot fudge out of
the back of your car, and somehow it's a magical
chocolate that doesn't melt in sudden just your car, not
the stuff shooting out of the back of the car.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I had no idea where we're going to leave this conversation.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
This is you don't know where things are going to
go here.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You don't exactly I guess for me and I'm going
to need some help on this because I'm not super familiar,
but yeah, that's okay. I think mine would potentially be
like some type of pepper, whether it be like for
the I love food, I love cooking, so maybe something
related to to that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Like a bell pepper possibly, or do you like spicy?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I do like spicy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You have to like flames shoot out the back of
your pepper.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
There you go, and it could be bacon wrapped possibly
stuff with cream cheese. Oh, now we're talking.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, that's a good way.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Now we're just hungry.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's the only way I can eat like a jalapeno
when it's got the spicy like speats out of it
and then has cream cheese and bacon.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, that's that's that's perfect. Ye, there's nothing like.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's not a pepper anymore. So very yeah. I love this. Y.
This was a I think the was a hit. Yes,
good good drawing. When they hear I'm glad I didn't
drop it. You would not know it from that drawing,
but I do have an art degree, so you do.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
It is fancy.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's not growing food based cars, it isn't painting.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I think it's great.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Maybe you take this and you painted, then you just
play it in the arts council of it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I got a whole gallery that I'm be charge of
so we can hang this, especially my little stick people.
My first version had like a regular looking head with
stick arms, and it just looked weird, so I had
to erase it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And try again, try again, try again. Awesome. Well that
was fun.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Thanks for answering our crazy random question.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So let's get into talking about you and not food
shaded cars. So we always kind of ask about your
Viruain origin story, just about you and your family.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So tell us about you and your family.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, surele men.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Kyle Man so born and raised in this big major
city south of here called Clanton, Alaba. Been there all
my life. My wife and I are from there, my
little boy who will be eleven in two weeks, so
we we lived there, been there all of our life.
That is home, so enjoy being there. I always get
(07:01):
the question, do I want to move further north? And
I love this city, but but Clanton is home.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And he get those good peaches.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Peaches.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you have that big old water tower.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
That's what I should have made is my vehicle Pepper
to beaches? Man, I missed opportunity.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, you're right, yeah, career, Yeah, are a good little duo,
Pinch and Pepper.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That's cute.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Ye, that's great. Well, so when did you kind of
start with Edward Jones and then get introduced and come
to Columbia?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Another question?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know I heard word on the street is that
Kyle Oh yeah, is a musician?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, you know, a musician is a that's a that's
a very good word to use for I like, I
try how about that? Yeah? So, uh, the short story
is is when I was twelve years old, my parents
got me a drum set for for Christmas, and so great, great.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Great, Usually that's a grandparent gift.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah. So I started playing as a kid, and it
it turned into they were always in the bedroom so
super loud. Then I had to move into the garage,
and then as a as an adult. Now I have
a electric set. So now I could put my headset
on and nobody hears anything in the house other than
(08:24):
the taps. But I still play today. So I was
a true story. Last night, got home and wanted just
a few minutes to kind of unplug, so put my
headphones on and last night I was playing to uh
Saint Paul and the Broken montas O. Nice good good jam.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Do you ever play with other people or just is
this just for fun?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So great question. When I was in college, I have
a brother who was three years older, singer songwriter, lived
in Nashville for about sixteen years. He came back and
so when I was in college at Alabama, I played
in his band. So we would play some of the
local establishments downtown Tuscaloosa when I was probably a sophomore.
(09:06):
So we played everything from Black Crows to Crosby Steels
and Nash to country music, so a little bit of everything.
So I did not have long hair. Brother had long hair.
Mine was probably about right here. So not this cut today,
this cut?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Did you still use product?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I didn't have a comb over like this one. Yeah,
the comber was not as strong as this.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Go just free and lose hair. I love it. We
need to see pictures of that. I do need to
see pictures of that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You might need to submit them, so we could put
them right back here.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'll go back and see if I can find it.
Because the name of the band was We called ourselves
the Red Julips. I have no idea where it came from.
So it was my My brother was the lead singer.
I was a drummer and we had three other guys
from the enterprise community played in our band.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, were the Red It had to really be you think, Yeah, yeah,
what was wow?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I didn't know that about your brother too. Have you
still singer songwriter?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
He still plays at home and sings and that doesn't
really rite as much as he used to, but he's
involved in his he does in Georgia now, so he's
involved in a couple of different things in his community
where he sings and gives back. So he's the better singer.
I like to sing in the shower.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Oh good, Yeah, that's great. You sing in the shower.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's great. Well, I do have a question, a follow
up question, because it's a controversial subject that the Arts Council.
When you're not going to ask the electric drum set,
yes versus the acoustic.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Great question, what's your feelings? So it depends on what
set that you get. So I have a rolling kit,
and so I missed the symbols, yeah, of the original kit,
but the way that the electronic kits are made now.
The feel and the actual the heads are relatively they're
close to the other.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They're getting close.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
But you can get in there on a week weekday,
week night, it could be any time of day and
nobody hears that.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You just put it in your ears and disturbed and
the building doesn't come plain.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, great, passionate about it.
I do prefer electric hid at home. But if I
was playing a live show today, one hundred percent, it
would be an original.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
KIV absolutely for sure. It's just a different feel. It's
a different, different feel.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
There's the tidbit about the comb over guy that you
didn't know anything about.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I love it, I know, right, He's just like an
onion sealing away layers. Yes, so now tell.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Us how you're introduced to Edward Jones and Columbiana and
all that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Jazz had a great question. So I've been with the
firm for I guess going on thirteen years. So been
with them for thirteen years, based in Saint Louis. So
this is you know, ever, Jones is a privately held firm.
So at first I started working in Clinton for a
little bit and then realize that I enjoy Lloyd the
opportunity that that could be in Columbiana. The people were great,
(12:06):
and so I actually opened the office back in I
guess that was ten years ago I opened the office.
So yeah, so it's been a great, uh, I guess
transition for me to I still live in Clanton, but
I like to be in Columbiana because the beauties of
that is being there and not being home. Is when
I'm at work, I'm at work. But when I'm at home,
(12:27):
I'm at home. That part of it I enjoy. But
the people of community of the Columbiana community have been
great and it gives me opportunities to be involved with
organizations like the Arts Council.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, and you've been with us for a long time too.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It was like a really long nine or ten years.
I think, I think nine years I've served on the board.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I feel and I feel like you were there before
I was. And I guess I was there before you
because it's just always been Kyle with his clear glasses.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
There no glasses.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, yes, right, good call, good call, so funny, awesome.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
So how does and Edward Jones is like For people
who don't know what Edward Jones is, it is can
you explain a little.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So, obviously Ever Jones based in Saint Louis Or's you've
seen the name. We have offices. I think there's over
almost twenty thousand advisors in the US that we have,
but we all run our individual financial planning offices differently,
but the firm is privately held. So we're very, very
big on the fact of you serve on different organizations
(13:33):
and your personal communities that you want to give back to.
So for me being involved with the Arts Council, if
you go to other Edver Jones offices throughout the US,
I promise you those advisors and teams are involved in
non for profits and different things that they feel the
conviction on to be a part of. So firm wise,
in general, we love to get back with.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Our time awesome, So that is a big thing for
Edward Jones.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
It is like, ye got to support your community. You know,
there's a lot of things that we do on the
planning side that you're there for clients during the retirement
phase or maybe the planning for education or the unexpected part.
But for us, it's always a great way to find
an organization in your community that you truly believe in that,
you also can get involved in. But if you believe
(14:19):
in it, it's really easy to get plugged in. And
so for us or for me personally, that's why the
Arts Council has been super important to me.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Awesome, and I think it.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Helps you to get to know your community does a
lot better as well, and build a lot of trust
in your community too. So I mean, I trust you
guys with my money, That's right.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
My retirement, I love that exactly. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, we always appreciate your generous support with us of
the Arts Council, and we're excited that you're the title
sponsor at the show. And so if you don't know,
we are celebrating our twentieth and we have a show
coming up on November seventh, so come we will you'll
see Kyle there, and yeah, we're going to be excited
(15:07):
about that. We want to ask you a little bit
more about Ever Jones too, sure and how they support
different organizations. What are some are there some specific organizations
or do y'all just kind of get to pick what
organizations you want to support?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So great question. So Ever Jones is based in Saint Louis, Missouri,
so one of the there are tons of different organizations
that each individual offices, they have the we have the
choice of who we want to help out and be
involved with. Nationally, it's the Alzheimer's Association. We're the title
one of the major title sponsors for them as an organization. Great,
(15:42):
But the benefit of owning your own practice is they
give you the opportunity locally to choose who you want
to be involved with and how you want to give back.
And the firm actually has different matching programs that allows
us to if I personally as an advisor wants to
want to get in with someone like the Arts Council.
(16:02):
There's other ways that the firm from Saint Louis perspective
can also help as well. So we have to give
you the option to be involved in whatever local organization
that that advisor and that team wants to be a
part of.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And I know that Edward Jones and you have sponsored
many of our Solivy arts luncheons and that rights.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
But yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Love's to see a part of it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, we really, we really appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Yeah, I mean without without you, you know, without sponsorships
like from local people down and be here. So yeah,
it helps us continue to serve the community. And so
we're in the nonprofit world.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I mean, things are changing so much with grants and
and you know, we're just having to rely on more
in funding, to rely on more you know.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Businesses and sponsors and donors.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So he's a great example of that, Boges.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now let's talk about his relationship in Clinton, like we
talked about. Yeah, Hell, they're building and trying to do
an arts kind of maybe an entertainment district things like
that and Clinton.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, they've they've done some different things down there. We
have a couple of different advisors that are in that area,
so I'm involved with a couple of things and related
to some different organizations. But yeah, the arts council there
is growing, you know, and I know that the one
here with with with you both and then with Bruce
as well, has been involved to help and kind of
give some additional feedback and knowledge to those organizations. But yeah,
(17:31):
specifically for me, it's more Chabby County Arts Council involved with.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Good but glad things in your hometown are growing in
the Arts city as well. Absolutely, don't y'all have like
a big concert down there every year or so.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yeah, there's a big about that, that's right, Peaval Peach Jam.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yes, it's cool, David.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
It is a lot of the.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Chamber there and the local Arts Council from Clinton is
very involved with that. It's a growing event, so hopefully
that that will continue to grow.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, when is that? Can you tell us little bit
more of that?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Normally that's the second weekend of June, so you have
that second weekend of June. I know Albastro Cityfest, Jamie,
they do that one the first week of June, and
then Columbiana does Liberty Day.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Which is the end last Saturday of June.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
So it kind of you know, early on the Peach
Jam and Liberty Day was the same weekend. So we
all got together, i think two years ago to try
to move those dates. So the month of June you've
got City Fest, Peach Jam, and then Liberty Day. So
it's a a lot of live music and festivals within
a three at distance.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's great each weekend, Yeah exactly. I mean we're all
about supporting other art organizations.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
People know about the great things we have in our
state to go around to different cities and you know,
really bring people in to really want to be like
a destination kind of a place, and I think I
think we've.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Worked hard to build that over the years as well.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah, that's right, definitely, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So we're talking about just supporting, you know, different arts organizations,
and you know, we want arts to be accessible to everyone.
That's one of our big missions. And if a key
takeaway if you could talk about how you personally or
even like we said, Edward Jones supports the arts in particular,
what would you want listeners to hear about.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
So personally, I'll go back to the piece of when
you get involved with something, I feel like you got
to you have to have a passion. So I think
sometimes when you think of a business owner, you can
get involved in so many different things in general that
you're really not present, not where your feet are. So
for me the Arts Council years ago, i think nine
years now serving on the board, Jennifer Mayer approached me
(19:47):
and she said, hey, would you like to be involved
with the organization, And for me it was a one
hundred percent yes because of what the mission of the
Arts Council, what we do. You know, there's so many
things within the school system that are great, but there's
also things that are there's gaps that are there and
mean you think about whether it's music or art, and
I'll just speak specifically to music because going back to
(20:09):
Ama drummer, there's something about that part of when you
learn how to play an instrument, you learn how to
sing or the vocal part of it, or aren't like
my son's taking piano now it has been for a
couple of years, and just seeing him kind of step
out of his normal day to day and kind of
reset in that moment if he's being creative, that to
me is pretty nat Now. I love to sit down
(20:30):
and hear a show and the black box, start the song,
theater and be able to really enjoy that part of it.
But when you think about financially given to an organization
and knowing that that organization is doing so many great
things for the community, why not be involved with it?
And so for me, it's like I said, it's not
everybody has that passion, but when you dig down of
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what the Arts Council here truly does on the day
to day. And I'll give both of you credit because
you both have been involved with organization for a long time.
Thank you do a great job with this podcast, which
this is the first one for me ever, so give
me some grace. But for what y'all do on the
day to day of leading the organization, I thank you
for that obviously, with Bruce and George and the entire
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team that's there and the instructors Philip behind the screen.
In general, there's a lot of people who give their
time and sometimes you don't think about it in the
day to day of like it's the job. But you're
making a major impact in these these kids and these
adults lives, and I think it's very important to just
take a step back and realize that you're doing really
(21:35):
good things.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
So thank you, thanks, and thanks for always supporting us.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
We have some appreciate people like you and the community
that see that value, you know, appreciate that value.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So thank you Ken.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, thanks Kyle. Yeah, absolutely, we.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Appreciate you being with us today and sharing that was great.
Appreciate you sharing about Edward Jones and I love that
they support organizations like that encourage you to and just
your personal touch that you just shared. So yeah, find Kyle,
find them. If you need a financial advisor, come see us.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Give us our social don't come see us for financial questions.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
No, please, no, do not want me drawing in so
that that corn car.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Art designs. See us for your corn car designs. Yes, Kyle,
that we managed.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
See us to visit the Arts Council seifically, and then
you can walk across the street and see Kyle.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
So again, appreciate you being with us today.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Thank you both for having me. It's a pleasure to
be here.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
All right. Now, tell us about all our social media.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Right and follow if I can get this right this time.
We are on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts. Please find us
at Conversations with Creatives with Arts Counsel Ladies. We're on
Instagram at the Arts Council Underscore Ladies.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
We are also on.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Instagram at Shelby Underscore County Underscore Arts. We're also on TikTok.
Now have at least three talks and they are very funny.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Thanks Lena. Thank our youngster in office.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yes, she's been doing our TikTok. Did a great job
making us relevant. Yeah, exactly, making these two middle aged
women relevant.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So please find us on TikTok.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I think it's Shelby County Arts councilor yeah, I think so,
so follow us, find us, come see a show, come
and take a class, call us, email us.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That's right, and there's still a few tickets for the
show on November seventh with Active Congress and our big
twentieth celebration, so look it up on our website.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Bye,
Hey. On today's episode, we have Kyle Mems from Edward Jones,
our title sponsor for our twentieth anniversary show coming up
on November seventh. Stay tuned, Welcome to conversations with Creatives.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
With the Arts Council. Ladies, I'm Lindsay and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I'm Leslie and this is Chile Mins. Yes, we're super
excited to have Kyle. Multiple things we can say about Kyle.
One of our board members, one of our former presidents
of the board, Hey, neighbor out. Oh yeah, ourts councils
run over and rescue us whenever we need him. And
(00:52):
they're our title sponsor for our twentieth anniversary show. So
we just appreciate your continued support and we're going to
talk about that in a little bit. However, we always
start with a very important question.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
So, Kyle, are you ready?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I guess so yeah? Ready or not?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Go for all right?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You ready for this?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
All right?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
As a resident of busy town, from the busy world
of Richard Scared, you're very familiar with this. Yeah, have
a child, You've read him shirks, probably like busy, busy
cars go fast. I've read these books of the Twins
over and over again. So I'm very familiar with this.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I was not, and that's all.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
So it was a TV show for like many years
as sure. So as a resident, as a resident of Busytown,
we need a car. What food based car would you
drive in busy town?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Do you neat a moment, We're gonna share cars. I
have an actual lace car.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
We have a shared car because you do have a
shared car, because why not?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
So this came to me last night at midnight, whenever
I was under the influence of my cold medicine. So
I'm like sitting at my kitchen island like laughing to
myself all night.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Okay, I have the corn cob racer. Oh wow, yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The camera, Lindsay see that it is very fancy and.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You could tell which ones me and which one's lindsay,
this is?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So this is Leslie in the pot. Sure, this is
me in the front with my long hair. So my
car is made out of a corn cob. Okay, and
if I hit the accelerator hard enough, flames shoot out
of the back. I'm not good at drawing flames.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I like since I was a kid, I've always been
really bad at drawing flames.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I think it looks like flames at this.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Yeah, and whenever the flames shoot out of the back,
little corn corn popcorn.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Out of it. It's a corn cob. So you should
have drawn me with like the little you know boxes,
the popcorn boxes, the bucket. Yeah, that's what bucket. Yeah,
catching the popcorn.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, you're like hanging out of the back of the
car like you know popcorn. Also, this is a spare
tire on the back of my corn corp rator. I
realized it's not proportionate to the rest of the tires.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Spare tires are smaller, are they?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
They called donuts called donuts.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I didn't realize that that's actually accurate.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Good job job, yeah, So, and I was going to
color this in and everything, but it took so long
to draw the kernels on the corn corp racer.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So so, yeah, this is my car in busy town.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And then your cloth madisone kicked in, and then my
calf medicine kicked in and I heard tired.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah it's super cool. I mean the popcorn I love,
but it also could almost kind of flame roast the corn.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's like street corn basic.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, basically, I need a bunch of corn corp racers
because I'm just going to be like constantly cooking my car.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I like it essentially.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, yeah, work.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
So that's my that's my uh contribution today's day. You say, oh, well, well.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She's I'm very okay, Okay, the thought remember my thought. No,
I would have a hard shelled chocolate car.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh, yes, you know, which is not good?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Is it just a piece of chocolate or is this
some chocolate covered like a banana covered in chocolate.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, the idea is that kind of look through your flames,
mine would turn into fondue or fudge. So I would
be like a party traveling chocolate car and people can
bring there like strawberries and things.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, so you're constantly shooting like hot fudge out of
the back of your car, and somehow it's a magical
chocolate that doesn't melt in sudden just your car, not
the stuff shooting out of the back of the car.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I had no idea where we're going to leave this conversation.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
This is you don't know where things are going to
go here.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You don't exactly I guess for me and I'm going
to need some help on this because I'm not super familiar,
but yeah, that's okay. I think mine would potentially be
like some type of pepper, whether it be like for
the I love food, I love cooking, so maybe something
related to to that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Like a bell pepper possibly, or do you like spicy?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I do like spicy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You have to like flames shoot out the back of
your pepper.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
There you go, and it could be bacon wrapped possibly
stuff with cream cheese. Oh, now we're talking.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, that's a good way.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Now we're just hungry.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's the only way I can eat like a jalapeno
when it's got the spicy like speats out of it
and then has cream cheese and bacon.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, that's that's that's perfect. Ye, there's nothing like.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's not a pepper anymore. So very yeah. I love this. Y.
This was a I think the was a hit. Yes,
good good drawing. When they hear I'm glad I didn't
drop it. You would not know it from that drawing,
but I do have an art degree, so you do.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
It is fancy.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's not growing food based cars, it isn't painting.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I think it's great.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Maybe you take this and you painted, then you just
play it in the arts council of it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I got a whole gallery that I'm be charge of
so we can hang this, especially my little stick people.
My first version had like a regular looking head with
stick arms, and it just looked weird, so I had
to erase it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And try again, try again, try again. Awesome. Well that
was fun.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Thanks for answering our crazy random question.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So let's get into talking about you and not food
shaded cars. So we always kind of ask about your
Viruain origin story, just about you and your family.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So tell us about you and your family.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, surele men.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Kyle Man so born and raised in this big major
city south of here called Clanton, Alaba. Been there all
my life. My wife and I are from there, my
little boy who will be eleven in two weeks, so
we we lived there, been there all of our life.
That is home, so enjoy being there. I always get
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the question, do I want to move further north? And
I love this city, but but Clanton is home.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And he get those good peaches.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Peaches.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, you have that big old water tower.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
That's what I should have made is my vehicle Pepper
to beaches? Man, I missed opportunity.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, you're right, yeah, career, Yeah, are a good little duo,
Pinch and Pepper.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That's cute.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Ye, that's great. Well, so when did you kind of
start with Edward Jones and then get introduced and come
to Columbia?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Another question?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know I heard word on the street is that
Kyle Oh yeah, is a musician?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, you know, a musician is a that's a that's
a very good word to use for I like, I
try how about that? Yeah? So, uh, the short story
is is when I was twelve years old, my parents
got me a drum set for for Christmas, and so great, great.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Great, Usually that's a grandparent gift.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah. So I started playing as a kid, and it
it turned into they were always in the bedroom so
super loud. Then I had to move into the garage,
and then as a as an adult. Now I have
a electric set. So now I could put my headset
on and nobody hears anything in the house other than
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the taps. But I still play today. So I was
a true story. Last night, got home and wanted just
a few minutes to kind of unplug, so put my
headphones on and last night I was playing to uh
Saint Paul and the Broken montas O. Nice good good jam.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Do you ever play with other people or just is
this just for fun?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So great question. When I was in college, I have
a brother who was three years older, singer songwriter, lived
in Nashville for about sixteen years. He came back and
so when I was in college at Alabama, I played
in his band. So we would play some of the
local establishments downtown Tuscaloosa when I was probably a sophomore.
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So we played everything from Black Crows to Crosby Steels
and Nash to country music, so a little bit of everything.
So I did not have long hair. Brother had long hair.
Mine was probably about right here. So not this cut today,
this cut?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Did you still use product?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I didn't have a comb over like this one. Yeah,
the comber was not as strong as this.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Go just free and lose hair. I love it. We
need to see pictures of that. I do need to
see pictures of that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You might need to submit them, so we could put
them right back here.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'll go back and see if I can find it.
Because the name of the band was We called ourselves
the Red Julips. I have no idea where it came from.
So it was my My brother was the lead singer.
I was a drummer and we had three other guys
from the enterprise community played in our band.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, were the Red It had to really be you think, Yeah, yeah,
what was wow?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I didn't know that about your brother too. Have you
still singer songwriter?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
He still plays at home and sings and that doesn't
really rite as much as he used to, but he's
involved in his he does in Georgia now, so he's
involved in a couple of different things in his community
where he sings and gives back. So he's the better singer.
I like to sing in the shower.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Oh good, Yeah, that's great. You sing in the shower.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's great. Well, I do have a question, a follow
up question, because it's a controversial subject that the Arts Council.
When you're not going to ask the electric drum set,
yes versus the acoustic.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Great question, what's your feelings? So it depends on what
set that you get. So I have a rolling kit,
and so I missed the symbols, yeah, of the original kit,
but the way that the electronic kits are made now.
The feel and the actual the heads are relatively they're
close to the other.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They're getting close.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
But you can get in there on a week weekday,
week night, it could be any time of day and
nobody hears that.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You just put it in your ears and disturbed and
the building doesn't come plain.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah, great, passionate about it.
I do prefer electric hid at home. But if I
was playing a live show today, one hundred percent, it
would be an original.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
KIV absolutely for sure. It's just a different feel. It's
a different, different feel.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
There's the tidbit about the comb over guy that you
didn't know anything about.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I love it, I know, right, He's just like an
onion sealing away layers. Yes, so now tell.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Us how you're introduced to Edward Jones and Columbiana and
all that.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Jazz had a great question. So I've been with the
firm for I guess going on thirteen years. So been
with them for thirteen years, based in Saint Louis. So
this is you know, ever, Jones is a privately held firm.
So at first I started working in Clinton for a
little bit and then realize that I enjoy Lloyd the
opportunity that that could be in Columbiana. The people were great,
(12:06):
and so I actually opened the office back in I
guess that was ten years ago I opened the office.
So yeah, so it's been a great, uh, I guess
transition for me to I still live in Clanton, but
I like to be in Columbiana because the beauties of
that is being there and not being home. Is when
I'm at work, I'm at work. But when I'm at home,
(12:27):
I'm at home. That part of it I enjoy. But
the people of community of the Columbiana community have been
great and it gives me opportunities to be involved with
organizations like the Arts Council.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, and you've been with us for a long time too.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
It was like a really long nine or ten years.
I think, I think nine years I've served on the board.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I feel and I feel like you were there before
I was. And I guess I was there before you
because it's just always been Kyle with his clear glasses.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
There no glasses.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, yes, right, good call, good call, so funny, awesome.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
So how does and Edward Jones is like For people
who don't know what Edward Jones is, it is can
you explain a little.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
So, obviously Ever Jones based in Saint Louis Or's you've
seen the name. We have offices. I think there's over
almost twenty thousand advisors in the US that we have,
but we all run our individual financial planning offices differently,
but the firm is privately held. So we're very, very
big on the fact of you serve on different organizations
(13:33):
and your personal communities that you want to give back to.
So for me being involved with the Arts Council, if
you go to other Edver Jones offices throughout the US,
I promise you those advisors and teams are involved in
non for profits and different things that they feel the
conviction on to be a part of. So firm wise,
in general, we love to get back with.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Our time awesome, So that is a big thing for
Edward Jones.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
It is like, ye got to support your community. You know,
there's a lot of things that we do on the
planning side that you're there for clients during the retirement
phase or maybe the planning for education or the unexpected part.
But for us, it's always a great way to find
an organization in your community that you truly believe in that,
you also can get involved in. But if you believe
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in it, it's really easy to get plugged in. And
so for us or for me personally, that's why the
Arts Council has been super important to me.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Awesome, and I think it.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Helps you to get to know your community does a
lot better as well, and build a lot of trust
in your community too. So I mean, I trust you
guys with my money, That's right.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
My retirement, I love that exactly. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, we always appreciate your generous support with us of
the Arts Council, and we're excited that you're the title
sponsor at the show. And so if you don't know,
we are celebrating our twentieth and we have a show
coming up on November seventh, so come we will you'll
see Kyle there, and yeah, we're going to be excited
(15:07):
about that. We want to ask you a little bit
more about Ever Jones too, sure and how they support
different organizations. What are some are there some specific organizations
or do y'all just kind of get to pick what
organizations you want to support?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So great question. So Ever Jones is based in Saint Louis, Missouri,
so one of the there are tons of different organizations
that each individual offices, they have the we have the
choice of who we want to help out and be
involved with. Nationally, it's the Alzheimer's Association. We're the title
one of the major title sponsors for them as an organization. Great,
(15:42):
But the benefit of owning your own practice is they
give you the opportunity locally to choose who you want
to be involved with and how you want to give back.
And the firm actually has different matching programs that allows
us to if I personally as an advisor wants to
want to get in with someone like the Arts Council.
(16:02):
There's other ways that the firm from Saint Louis perspective
can also help as well. So we have to give
you the option to be involved in whatever local organization
that that advisor and that team wants to be a
part of.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
And I know that Edward Jones and you have sponsored
many of our Solivy arts luncheons and that rights.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
But yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Love's to see a part of it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, we really, we really appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Yeah, I mean without without you, you know, without sponsorships
like from local people down and be here. So yeah,
it helps us continue to serve the community. And so
we're in the nonprofit world.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I mean, things are changing so much with grants and
and you know, we're just having to rely on more
in funding, to rely on more you know.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Businesses and sponsors and donors.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So he's a great example of that, Boges.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now let's talk about his relationship in Clinton, like we
talked about. Yeah, Hell, they're building and trying to do
an arts kind of maybe an entertainment district things like
that and Clinton.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, they've they've done some different things down there. We
have a couple of different advisors that are in that area,
so I'm involved with a couple of things and related
to some different organizations. But yeah, the arts council there
is growing, you know, and I know that the one
here with with with you both and then with Bruce
as well, has been involved to help and kind of
give some additional feedback and knowledge to those organizations. But yeah,
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specifically for me, it's more Chabby County Arts Council involved with.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Good but glad things in your hometown are growing in
the Arts city as well. Absolutely, don't y'all have like
a big concert down there every year or so.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yeah, there's a big about that, that's right, Peaval Peach Jam.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yes, it's cool, David.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
It is a lot of the.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Chamber there and the local Arts Council from Clinton is
very involved with that. It's a growing event, so hopefully
that that will continue to grow.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, when is that? Can you tell us little bit
more of that?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Normally that's the second weekend of June, so you have
that second weekend of June. I know Albastro Cityfest, Jamie,
they do that one the first week of June, and
then Columbiana does Liberty Day.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Which is the end last Saturday of June.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
So it kind of you know, early on the Peach
Jam and Liberty Day was the same weekend. So we
all got together, i think two years ago to try
to move those dates. So the month of June you've
got City Fest, Peach Jam, and then Liberty Day. So
it's a a lot of live music and festivals within
a three at distance.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
That's great each weekend, Yeah exactly. I mean we're all
about supporting other art organizations.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
People know about the great things we have in our
state to go around to different cities and you know,
really bring people in to really want to be like
a destination kind of a place, and I think I
think we've.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Worked hard to build that over the years as well.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah, that's right, definitely, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So we're talking about just supporting, you know, different arts organizations,
and you know, we want arts to be accessible to everyone.
That's one of our big missions. And if a key
takeaway if you could talk about how you personally or
even like we said, Edward Jones supports the arts in particular,
what would you want listeners to hear about.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
So personally, I'll go back to the piece of when
you get involved with something, I feel like you got
to you have to have a passion. So I think
sometimes when you think of a business owner, you can
get involved in so many different things in general that
you're really not present, not where your feet are. So
for me the Arts Council years ago, i think nine
years now serving on the board, Jennifer Mayer approached me
(19:47):
and she said, hey, would you like to be involved
with the organization, And for me it was a one
hundred percent yes because of what the mission of the
Arts Council, what we do. You know, there's so many
things within the school system that are great, but there's
also things that are there's gaps that are there and
mean you think about whether it's music or art, and
I'll just speak specifically to music because going back to
(20:09):
Ama drummer, there's something about that part of when you
learn how to play an instrument, you learn how to
sing or the vocal part of it, or aren't like
my son's taking piano now it has been for a
couple of years, and just seeing him kind of step
out of his normal day to day and kind of
reset in that moment if he's being creative, that to
me is pretty nat Now. I love to sit down
(20:30):
and hear a show and the black box, start the song,
theater and be able to really enjoy that part of it.
But when you think about financially given to an organization
and knowing that that organization is doing so many great
things for the community, why not be involved with it?
And so for me, it's like I said, it's not
everybody has that passion, but when you dig down of
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what the Arts Council here truly does on the day
to day. And I'll give both of you credit because
you both have been involved with organization for a long time.
Thank you do a great job with this podcast, which
this is the first one for me ever, so give
me some grace. But for what y'all do on the
day to day of leading the organization, I thank you
for that obviously, with Bruce and George and the entire
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team that's there and the instructors Philip behind the screen.
In general, there's a lot of people who give their
time and sometimes you don't think about it in the
day to day of like it's the job. But you're
making a major impact in these these kids and these
adults lives, and I think it's very important to just
take a step back and realize that you're doing really
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good things.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
So thank you, thanks, and thanks for always supporting us.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
We have some appreciate people like you and the community
that see that value, you know, appreciate that value.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So thank you Ken.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, thanks Kyle. Yeah, absolutely, we.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Appreciate you being with us today and sharing that was great.
Appreciate you sharing about Edward Jones and I love that
they support organizations like that encourage you to and just
your personal touch that you just shared. So yeah, find Kyle,
find them. If you need a financial advisor, come see us.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Give us our social don't come see us for financial questions.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
No, please, no, do not want me drawing in so
that that corn car.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Art designs. See us for your corn car designs. Yes, Kyle,
that we managed.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
See us to visit the Arts Council seifically, and then
you can walk across the street and see Kyle.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
So again, appreciate you being with us today.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Thank you both for having me. It's a pleasure to
be here.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
All right. Now, tell us about all our social media.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Right and follow if I can get this right this time.
We are on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts. Please find us
at Conversations with Creatives with Arts Counsel Ladies. We're on
Instagram at the Arts Council Underscore Ladies.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
We are also on.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Instagram at Shelby Underscore County Underscore Arts. We're also on TikTok.
Now have at least three talks and they are very funny.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Thanks Lena. Thank our youngster in office.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yes, she's been doing our TikTok. Did a great job
making us relevant. Yeah, exactly, making these two middle aged
women relevant.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So please find us on TikTok.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I think it's Shelby County Arts councilor yeah, I think so,
so follow us, find us, come see a show, come
and take a class, call us, email us.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That's right, and there's still a few tickets for the
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