September 28, 2023 • 43 mins
Cristi & Ben Dozier (Amy's sister & brother-in-law) join as guests and the 4 main things they touch on:
- Amy's major mistake when she interviewed Dolly!! There's a very special story about Dolly & Jesus that went down when Amy & Cristi's dad passed away...so Crisit fills us in on that beautiful story.
- The episode of Cristi & Ben's HGTV show that Amy was a part of last weekend (you can stream it now on Max...just search Building Roots season 2 episode 2...the episode title is: "A River Runs Through It")
- Mantra cards & Crisit's new life mission statement: "I am now fully aware of my agency to create a life of purposeful intention & profound meaning!"
- Cristi shares simple ways to make your home more inviting...she calls it "making your home feel like a welcoming hug!"
HOST:
Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy
GUESTS:
Cristi Dozier // @CristiDozier // RootHouseCo.com (coffee shop)
Ben Dozier // @BenDozier // RootDesignCompany.com (design firm)
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Cast up little food for yourself. Oh it's pretty bad. Hey,
it's pretty beautiful than beautiful for that for a little
more said he your kick with full thing with Amy Brown.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
All right, Happy Thursday, Amy here, and I'm sitting with
my sister Christy and my brother in law Ben. And
this is the first time we have talked since the
Nashville episode of your HGTV show Building Roots aired. So
that aired on Sunday and this is Wednesday. Now this
is loading up on a Thursday for everyone. But I
(00:55):
know nothing about what you felt when you watched the episode.
I don't know if you've gotten any feed back since then.
I have also hung out with Dolly Pardon and Trey
Kennedy no big deal doing his podcast with his co
host Jake. He's super funny too. And when I saw
Trey Kennedy do his comedy show, Jake was an opener.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Oh. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
They're both real quick, but I just feel as though,
being that we're sisters and we talked so much, this
is stuff we would normally have already talked about, but
we're just going to talk about it on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So we texted and I remember you were just coming
in from Las Vegas and the show was going to
air that night, and you were exhausted, So I knew
that you needed a day or two to like decompress.
But on top of that, you had other things. You
had to go to work Monday morning. Then you had
podcast interviews.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So but yeah, everybody's a Dolly Fanes. That song Jesus
that we listened.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
To, oh Dad song song, So there was Jesus, there
was Jesus. This man, yes he actually did.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You tell me?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, I didn't tell her, And now I am so bummed.
I don't know how that slipped my mind, because that
is such a special story. Christy tell it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So Dad is on life support. His body's only being
kept alive by the machines at this point, and we
are all there and we have to make the group
decision to take him off life support, and we're not
exactly sure will his body hang on. We don't know
what's going to happen. And meanwhile, while we've been in
the hospital, there's been a playlist kind of on shuffle
of a lot of Dad's favorite songs or some of
(02:33):
our favorite songs. And there was a new song by
Zach Williams and Dolly Parton is singing it with him,
and it's called there Wis Jesus. It's a beautiful song.
So my recollection is, just as we are noticing Dad
has passed away, I hear Dolly Parton kind of ending
that song and she's repeating, there was Jesus, There was Jesus.
(02:56):
And honestly, the song to me is so reminiscent of
Dad's life because it talks about roads that you've gone down,
mistakes you've made, but then how you find your way
and represents Dad.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So good man, I really really really missed out on
that opportunity to tell her that story. Maybe I'll get
another chance, because I think that she would find it
really special to hear. I mean, as an artist, you
want your music to impact people, and that is something
I will never forget unless I'm sitting down with Dolly.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Nless, I'm sitting in the room with Dolly.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And I have a chance to tell her anything I
want to, and I chose to talk to her about
Steel Magnolius.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, but gosh, you go back to even our childhood.
You know, we had those big speakers in our living
room ceiling that Dad installed, and we had that tape player,
and I so remember so much Kenny Rogers Dolly Parton
in the stream blasting in the house, you know, in
the early eighties or whenever it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Was well, And I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure
that mom went to see the movie nine to five
in the movie theater the night before I was born. Like,
she went into labor and she ate a hamburger.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You look at what year that came out, because I
think that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm pretty sure it's right. And she had a hamburger
with jalapinos somewhere maybe by the movie theater, and then
she went to see nine to five. So that's my
theme song coming into the world.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, I'm working nine too, Chuck will Well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It was really really special, and saying that keeps playing
over and over in my head. As she would say,
you know, you gotta make hey while the sun shines,
because she said she's going to keep working. She has
more music she wants to make. She's like, maybe I'll
do a comedy album. She's you know, writing books. You know,
she's super philanthropic. I mean, this woman, I don't know
(04:58):
what she doesn't do. So she's pretty fascinating and it's
just empowering to sit there and watch her do her thing.
But that makes you think of a second ago you
said you were in Vegas and you were exhausted. I'm
really working on not saying busy or exhausted. I'm trying
to say my plate is full.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
There's another way to think about that, Okay, tell me.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It's one thing to be busy. It's one thing to
go fast and do a lot of things and have
impact and have purpose. It's one thing to be in
a hurry. It's another thing to be in hurry. I
don't like being in a hurry. I don't mind being busy.
Life is short, living in the fullest.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I just don't like I don't mind being busy. I
don't like being in a hurry. There's like write books
and singing songs and travel and do stuff, but do it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There's a way to do it tinly and organize and
schedule and intentional and purposeful.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I just don't like being in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What Amy is saying, she doesn't like saying she's busy
or exhausted. So what do you prefer to say?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, Ben, I'm on board with you. We got to
make hey while the sun shines. So it's okay to
have a lot going on, but I would prefer to
look at it as my plate is full, like I
have a full day. I've had a full day, because
everybody has their different things that make them busy, and
I don't also being busy and being tired. Isn't this
(06:21):
badge of honor that I want to wear proudly. Vegas
is just an interesting thing because the hours are long
and the time change, and I'm just not used to
that Vegas life, you know. So I do come back
a little bit off or delirious or whatever you want
to call it. But I mean Vegas was awesome too.
(06:42):
Kelly Clarkson, I'm obsessed with her, like she's so good.
She performed a few years ago at the festival and
we had so much fun, and she was back again
this year again so much fun. But she posted this
video that she put up of herself on the Vegas
Strip where she was on her way to the venue
to do sound check for the festival. And this woman
(07:03):
was singing like street singing with a microphone and a speaker,
and Kelly gets on the mic and starts singing, and
of course it's beautiful and the woman is dancing and
having a good time. The woman does not realize it's
Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's one of my favorite videos of the year. It's
I mean, it jumped to the top. I mean we've seen,
you know, cool stuff this year for sure, but well
a lot of hard stuff as well, but just online,
it's really really special when you see something that positive
and organic and just the joy that was on that
(07:41):
woman's face when she realized as she was hugging her
that it was Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, I know, if you haven't seen that, you have
to look it up. But what I loved is the
lady was celebrating even before she knew it was Kelly Clarkson,
and then her celebration went to like a whole other level.
So it was it was exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, so Sunday night, I get home from Vegas and
that is when our episode of Building Roots is airing.
So your show comes on HUTV Sunday nights at nine
to eight Central, and then after it airs, you can
stream any of the episodes that have aired on Max.
So just letting people know if they want to go
check that out. But I stayed awake and I watched
(08:27):
it and I tried to post along and see things,
and I thought I was going to have to turn
it off because I was my plate had been full,
and I was emotional. I think I cried on Saturday
in Vegas during the day, just sometimes that just happens
when you're dehydrated and not sleeping well disregulated.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I mean I didn't cry on the job, I didn't
cry at work, but I cried in my hotel room
just for a second. But I thought I may get
too emotional, and I didn't know that I really wanted
to add that to the evening, and I did get emotional,
but it also just felt really special, and so I'm
glad I powered through because part of me was saying, oh,
I can watch the rest tomorrow. But I watched the
(09:12):
whole thing, and I didn't know how y'all felt about it,
because we haven't talked.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I mean, yeah, there were some emotional parts of it,
because obviously it was kind of reliving a little bit
of the difficulty we walked through with Dad because the
room we worked on in your house was the room
he had lived in, right before he passed away and
then bring a new life to that room was obviously
an emotional process. But I think what I've learned is
it's important to be able to be both. I think
(09:38):
it was like a happy and a sad at the
same time. Like there was a sadness, there were these
hard memories to relive, but then there was this happiness
of the transformation that had happened, and then and the
life that is ahead, you know, as we honor the
life that is past and dad. You know, just being
able to hold both the happy and the sad at once,
(09:59):
I think is important way to be able to live
life because sometimes we want to avoid sad, but sad
is important.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, when you feel it all and two things can
be true at the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So I thought they did a really good job of
you know, we never know we see the episodes with
everybody else. You know, we rarely, if ever, have gotten
a link ahead of time to be able to watch
something before it's kind of aired to America, so you know,
for us as well, it's our first time seeing it.
We don't know what is in it, what's not because
(10:31):
we film forty to eighty hours. Who knows of film
they go through to create something that's forty seven minutes long,
So a lot of things that you do aren't even there,
you know, don't even make it to the final cut,
and you never know the final story that's going to
be told. But I thought they did a really good
job of honoring the story, both yours and Kevin and
(10:53):
Camille's story of the other Nashville couple who we worked on.
And I loved the connection between you and Camille as well.
I don't even know if this got talked about on
the episode, but you all knew.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Each other well, and that was total coincidence. She yeah,
left the music business, the music industry to start her
own apparel line, and she's had success with that. It's
really cool how many people wear her stuff now. It's
like left and right. You see her hats on people,
and I'm very excited for her. She makes merch for
(11:28):
certain artists, but she used to work for Brett Eldridge,
and I'm pretty sure maybe at one point she worked
for Kelsey Ballerini. But she would come into the studio
when the artists would come in, and that's how we
got to know her. And then she had left and
I would go to you know, like flea markets and
she would be set up and that's how I would
see her there with her products before she got a
(11:49):
brick and mortar like a storefront. And then y'all send
me a note and you're like, hey, do you know
this Camille person? And I say yes. And while she
was going to be the other home featured on the episode,
So Small World, huh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, they somehow had gotten connected with a casting call,
because sometimes they'll do that, I guess in areas to
kind of reach out and see who's got a project
with a story that that might be good for the show.
And she had responded to it, you know, amongst others,
and was selected for interview and all the things. There's
a whole process behind the scenes. We don't ever get
(12:29):
to decide necessarily who's getting selected for the show. But
between you and Kevin and Camille, I think it was
an awesome overlap. And we didn't know much about her.
We didn't know about her merch, we didn't know about
her banners. It all really unfolded organically, and then having
the idea to be like, oh my gosh, Camille should
(12:51):
make a banner for Amy's room and what's it going
to say, Well, of course it needs to say cave
winnow because that's Dad's saying, and the rest is history.
I don't know if you want to follow up on
Cabe know and what.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It is or I mean, we've talked about it before,
but some people might be new listeners. But that's just
something our dad would say. He was fluent in Spanish.
And they could also go watch the episode to see
more of the story. Ah, but I wanted to share
Camille's website really quickly so people can go check out
her cool hats and banners and all the things that
she has. And it's shop nboods dot com, So shop
(13:27):
inbods dot com because they're awesome. And if you have
an other in Nashville or near and you need your
dog trained. I know a lot of people in town
that use him to train their dogs, like people that
you would think are really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, beside their house, there's this big garage and like
a training field, and he's every time we were there,
and he was there because he would have to come
there to do his work. I mean, there's dogs everywhere
and anyway, they've got a fun life. Of you know,
I know it's difficult having two small businesses and all
the things that come with it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And now she's opening that candy set.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
She is, Yeah, lucky, it's called lucky. Talk about having
full plates. Her plate, her plate is full. She was
posting that she's been I guess it's been so full
lately that she's never run out of gas ever, And
she basically ran out of gas. So she was rolling
into the gas station and I thought, oh, yeah, that's
that's that's a time pretty normal. Mike, my car now
(14:24):
says to me, refeel immediately.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
If something like that pops up. I'm like, really, I've
got time.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, I'm sure this is just a warning. Okay, So Ben,
what what have you heard or did y'all get any
feedback on the episode? Like do they want all three
of us to do a spinoff? What have you heard?
(14:55):
Or did y'all get any feedback on the episode, like
do they want all three of us to do a
spin off? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yes, definitely. That was the first thing.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'm just kidding now that I really saw really solid
ratings right off the bat from that night.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And it is a Sunday night, which is primetime TV.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It's also NFL Night and so we're up against a
lot of great shows, but it's definitely the most watched
night on television. And so the ratings were really really solid.
And now they're just reviewing kind of what they call
the DVR lifts, the streaming afterwards. And they've got a
lot of YouTube videos coming out on us, A day
in the Life of a tour of our house, a
(15:33):
tour of the town, fly fishing videos from me and
apple Pie making video of you.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
So HGTV is really putting a lot into it.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
But the ratings were really solid, and so they're really
excited to keep pushing the show.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No word off yet, No word on the spin off.
No word on the spinoff.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Amy, we'll throw that out there, we'll manifest it.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Okay, I was joking, But was that the same night
as the Kansas City Chiefs game where Taylor Swift showed up.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I don't know watch much TV or football, but surely.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know about Taylor and American was probably watching the
Chiefs games.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
They were.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Hopefully they dvr'd it or they streamed it later. Those
streams are so important.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
But social media has been incredible on the support. On
social media, the engagements with they're really really liking. I
get a text almost every day from one of our
kind of account ladies at HGTV that helps with the
social media, and she's like, this is so fun, this
is so strong. People just love the day in the
life of you know, Ben and Christie, so it's fun
to share that with everybody.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Gosh, they're just obsessed.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
With you everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm not saying that, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Both Christy and I look at each other were like,
everybody just loves day in the life of.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
No, but there is there is a really cute YouTube
video that did come out. It's like a little mini
documentary and they did a really good job on just
a succinct little I think it's about ten or fifteen minutes.
You know what I'm trying to do, not use the
word little, as I.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Tend to do that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I know where I'm like, did this little documentary? No,
it was a two day professional shoot that people worked
really hard on and there were camera people and sound
people and like people. And here I am saying it's
just a little documentary. But it's like I'm trying to
minimize so rewind. They did an amazing job on a
(17:38):
documentary as a short, succinct, fifteen minute day in the life,
and it was really good. It's on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I love that they did a great job. Well, we
often can minimize what we're doing because we don't want
to make it this thing because if it's not a thing,
or why make it a thing, and just in case
it's not really a thing. All the different reasons why
we minimize stuff, But you're exactly correct. What it does
is it minimizes the hard work that went into it
(18:06):
by multiple people that are involved, not just you and
Ben and y'all's team, the camera crew, your producers. They're
all great. I enjoyed spending time with them so much,
so that was that was a lot of fun having
them here for those times. So we filmed almost this
time last year. I know because I really missed once
(18:27):
the once the video came up, I thought, oh, I
missed that hair color. Okay, I need to I texted
my hair person.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You had a different hair color.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It was more blonde, okay. And so that's how I
know it was this time last year, and it was
you were in town for the Donald Miller Alley Fallon
Writing Workshop, which happened around the same time. I mean
you maybe came back within weeks of each other, but
it was the same time ish, I know, because of
my hair color. And then we filmed thee this summer,
(19:01):
so there's a lot of time that goes in between
the filming and that's why so Stashiro was in on
the beginning, Stashira and Stevenson. The filming that took place
before and then after she had a softball tournament, so
it was just Stevenson.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I know, because they made it to the playoffs or something.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, and it was like out of down game and
it was important for her to be there with her friends.
So I totally understood that she wanted to go do
that because that's a fun memory for her and I'd
love that she chose her friends and that over you know,
being on HGTV or a TV show or something. So
I was proud of her for making that decision, and
(19:38):
I would have been proud of her either way. I
wanted her to do whatever she wanted to do. But
I think his parents that's hard sometimes giving our kids
some agency over their own life. We tend to want
to control. I think my first instinct was like, oh, well,
she's just going to not have to go to the
game because we started doing this together. We need to
finish it together. I want her to be a part
of it. I'll be sad if she's not. But then
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I thought, well, that is selfish of me. She should
actually get to choose for herself what she wants to do.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And of course she's going to choose her friends and
her softball teams. But those are huge memories and she
needed to be there so absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So when Trey Kennedy asked me to be on his podcast,
he said, I'm going to be in Nashville. We'll bring
everything to your house. We'll film you there, set up there.
So we taped the bait.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Does he not live in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
He lives with Taylor Swift's new boyfriend Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Oh he did, Okay, I did not know that. I
thought he was in Nashville for some reason. I don't know.
I guess because you were on his podcast and he
came to your house.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, so this summer he came to the house and
he was on my podcast, yes, but then he came
back yesterday and I was on his. I know it's confusing.
Both were filmed here or taped here, but my whole
point in all of this is we filmed it in
the Cabueno room. You did, yes, and it looks so good.
We use the wood as the backdrop with the hats
(21:03):
that were behind us, and then we were each there
was three of us because it's me, Trey and Jake,
and we each were in our own little orange chair
and we had our microphones and lights and cameras. And
that's what I told you. I thought, Oh my gosh,
I'm going to be able to do work in here.
This is going to be a great space that offers
(21:24):
me multiple backgrounds and options to have a cute vibe.
And so sure enough we set up in there and
we did it. So whenever it comes out on Trey's podcast,
which is called Correct Opinions, I don't know when it's airing,
likely in a couple of weeks to maybe a month,
the video of the room will be up in the podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, I knew you had said you really wanted to
use it in that way, that what if you could
get microphones on stands and different things and cameras set
up and film And I love that you're doing it.
You can show it because even if you have done
it before you couldn't really show it because you kind
of had to keep that room a little bit under wraps,
(22:06):
you know, socially right on social platforms, not socially you
can have people over it, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
When you walk in my house, do not go near
that room. You can't look at hasn't aired yet on HGTV.
I love the room. It's it's my favorite room in
the house now. I love being in there. I'm not
talented enough to put something like that together, but I know, Christy,
we were talking before we started recording about just making
your home more inviting and tips for that, So I
(22:37):
would love for y'all to share some for me and
the listeners. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Well, I think there's a lot of lessons just from
your room in general, if you take what it you know,
the room we did, just in general, if you take
what it was before, which it had a lot of
great staple things. It had a beautiful wallpaper in there,
it had a beautiful light already there, it had nice floors.
So I mean, obviously Ben came in. Ben wanted to
(23:04):
do the woodwork, wainscoating around the walls, you know, and
not changed it up. And then really the most changes
happened with what we brought into the room furniture wise
and decoration wise, and even just changing the little light
bulbs in your light fixture where they will. I think
a lot of them were also burned out, as are
many lights in your house. This is this is an
(23:27):
issue with some of your chandeliers in the house. Is
like like the one in your bedroom literally had one light.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Still does.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's still it still is like that. Well, I know
you want to change that light. So anyway back to
the front room, we just changed the light bulbs to
these little globe candelabra bulbs that were do we go
with the white ones? I think so the opal color. Yeah,
we were kind of debating do we go with the
clear globes or do we go with the more opaque
(23:57):
white ones, And we chose the white. But changing the
light bulbs on your light fixture because they were exposed bulbs,
made it feel like a new light fixture. So I
really think, as you're, you know, trying to create a
space where I've been kind of starting to say, that
feels like a welcoming hug. That's one of the greatest
compliments I think we've had at the coffee shop is
(24:18):
that when you walk in, it feels like this welcoming hug.
And so I've kind of transferred that into as we're
putting rooms together, creating a room that feels like a
welcoming hug. And so how we did that with your
space is you already had these amazing kind of orange
velvet swivel chairs, and we obviously added the wingscoating, We
changed the light bulbs, and then it was all about
(24:40):
the layers that we added on top of that, whether
it was the rug. You know, you have all your
staple furniture, and then you've got your soft goods. You've
got plants. And by way of soft goods, that's throws,
that's pillows, that's different textures, it's drapes. Adding drapes to
a room really cozies it up. And then on top
of that, it's lighting. So lighting by way of changing
(25:03):
your light bulbs, it could be adding a lamp, it
could be adding candles, all of these things. I think
we added three lamps to your room.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I'm not a big lamp person. I mean now i am,
because in that room sometimes I'll just go through because
it looks so pretty when all the lights are off.
But then all three lamps are lit up, and I
just even if I'm not even hanging out in there,
I'm just like, oh, I'm just going to turn those
on in case I walk by because it looks really pretty,
or if someone comes to the door, that's what they
would see. It looks really good. And it's a simple
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detail that maybe you're not thinking could go on top
of a table or a chest or a desk, or
on the ground or whatever type of lamp you end
up getting. The light bulb change, I will say, was huge.
It completely changed the light fixture, and it was a
cute light fixture to begin with, so it never would
(25:54):
have crossed my mind to put those globe bulbs. So
that was a good call for sure. And then when
it comes to drapes, if you're hanging it, where do
you want the rod to go from the ceiling?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Do we want to make the draves as Florida ceiling
as we possibly can in every room? When it comes
to drapes, if you're hanging it, where do you want
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the rod to go from the ceiling?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Do we want to make the draves as Florida ceiling
as we possibly can? In every room?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I think it elongates the windows and elongates the room
as if you can do that. I mean, you want
to go at least six inches above your window and
six inches to the side at least. You don't want
your rod to be right at your window height and
right at the window with you know, you want it
to go up and out in the further up in
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the front they're out. You can go. You know, you
can take it beyond six inches and go more like
a foot.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It's it's all what your room can handle. I don't
know how tall your ceilings are. For you, we went
almost to the ceiling, kind of between the window trim
and the ceiling. And then with that fabric. You want
your fabric to feel full even when they're closed, so
you kind of want to have double the width of
your window in fabric. You know, there's all these little
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rules that you can read about.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
So when it comes to custom drapes, if you are
having to measure in my mind because I've had some
made before and they were so expensive, but I know
that y'all have other options right.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Well for your room. We used the two pages curtains,
which I had never used before. So it's two like
the number two well spelled out two two pages curtains
and they are a custom curtain company that is very reasonable.
I had literally just stun custom curtains at a place
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here through a shop that were probably ten times the
price of what yours were when I ordered them through
two pages. And you can get fabric samples from them
and pick out color. And they have a lineny one,
a velvety one we want with kind of a slubby
slub linen type fabric in your room. You can pick
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a liner, you cannot have a liner. You can pick
the height, you can pick the width, you can pick
the privacy level, all types of things.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Slubby.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I like this slubby Define slubby, Yeah, like a little
bit more textured linen is what it is. It's not
a crisp, smooth linen. If go look at the fabric,
you'll see a little slubby to it.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I know what you're talking about. I just didn't know
that that's how you would describe it slubby.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I don't know if it's a real word. Slub. I
think is a real word.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Welb slub slub.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Okay, it's a textured linen.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I heard you mentioned on a phone call the other
day too that Amazon is an option for custom curtains.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yet on Kevin and Camille's home, we found if you
look up pleated also if you get the pleated curtains,
those really helped them feel a lot fuller. So when
you get a pleated curtain, you have to get a
curtain ring with it. There's some trickle effects that you
have to do. But if you go to Amazon's search
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pleated room darkening darkening curtains, then you'll get pleated curtains
that have liners, which has a custom quality feel to them.
And honestly, I feel like some of the ones we
got for Kevin and Camilles were maybe seventy or eighty
dollars per panel, and that was for a tall, wide panel,
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and honestly, that's a really reasonable price. Now, yours were
a little more customs so they were a little level
up from that, But I thought the quality of Kevin
Camille's were great. They also had a little lower ceilings
and lower windows, so yeah, there were great options.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I just wanted to give people options. If you're saying
that curtains are a way to make your home feel
like a welcoming hug, so just other suggestions rugs, throw pillows, blankets.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yes, all of that. Then we talked about the lighting.
I think having something green or some plants in the room,
even if they're faux plants, you know, even if it's
not a real plant, because you can't take care of
a slubby plant, like a slubby plant. Yeah, I mean,
not that you can't take care of plants, but the
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plants we have in your room were actually faux plants
that looked real and are going to look beautiful year
round and you don't have to water them. But having
that touch of green brings some of the outdoors in,
which gives you this welcoming feel.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
A couple more things would be books I think helped
make a room feel lived in and welcoming. And then
the last thing is vintage pieces or pieces that are
very special to you, like something when you walk in.
You know in your room you have Dad's vintage desk.
We ended up opening it up and filling it with
beautiful supplies that you may want to use, like letter cards.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, you put the buffalo in there to remind me
to be a buffalo and go into the storm and
not be a cow and run away from the storm.
I need to face it head on so I get
through the storm faster, so I have my cute little buffalo.
And then also you put those quotes and affirmation cards.
I don't know what those cards are called, but I
(31:36):
know you sell them at the coffee shop. And I
just dawned on me too. We may have listeners that
aren't familiar, and y'all are. We're on zoom right now
because y'all are in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and you mentioned
your coffee shop. It's called Root House Coffee and if
anyone's ever driving through southern Colorado, they should definitely pop
in for a latte or cocktail. But y'all sell those
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cards there. What are they called?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Just quote cards? Super special name quote cards. You can
also visit us online at roothouseco dot com. And because
of you, and because you said people kept asking you
about the quote cards, because you've had times where you're
posting just a singular quote on your stories or something,
we've added those to online where you can buy a
(32:21):
bundle of fifty of them, and then you can have
your own quote supply as well. So it's just tons
of inspirational quotes that's in line with either books and
quotes and vintage pieces that are special to you, like
something in your room that is meaningful to you. And
that's going to be different for everybody, but that's just
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another layer to the way you can create a welcoming
hug to a room.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Love it. At the beginning of Trey's podcast, he actually,
I had the quote cards out and I put them
on I put you know, they're back in Dad's desk.
But then I pulled a handful out and I laid
them on the coffee table and he picked them up.
And that's how the episode starts, is he's reading one
of those quotes, which I haven't posted online yet, that
you added them to your website. So I need to
(33:11):
do that and link it because people ask me and
I haven't shared that yet, so I will do that.
Because they are such a great gift. I have bought
them from you to give to other people as gifts
and they love them. So I highly recommend you get it,
either for yourself or maybe get them as a gift
(33:32):
for a like or even if you have a gift drawer.
This is something good to keep in your gift door.
Do you have like a gift closet or a gift
dar where you have I guess you have a whole
coffee shop where you can go grab something to givet
to somebody. But I keep a gift drawer of things
that I really like. That just in case you know,
you have a full week and you realize it's someone's birthday.
(33:54):
You can have candles in your gift drawer. You can
throw four Things Gratitude Journal in the if you want to.
Which do you have journals at your coffee shop or
just four Things Tots.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
We don't have four Things Journals in the shop, but
we do have four Things Tots and there are our
own custom Pagosa version that's like Rivers Mountains Campfires Coffee.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I love all those things. Rivers Mountains Campfire coffee, which
your coffee, your Campfire blend is really good, although I
like Backwoods in Front Porch. Those are flavors of coffee
that y'all have that also make good gifts. And again
y'all's website's Roothouse Coat dot com. And then if you're
(34:38):
wanting to get into gratitude yourself or get someone at
Gratitude Journal as a gift, you can hit four Things
dot com for that one hundred percent of the proceeds
go to education in Haiti through Project Meta Share and
some schools that they have in Central Plateau. So you
can feel good about that purchase. It's a win win.
And I just am obsessed with my room and I'm
(34:58):
so thankful for it. And I got an offer on
my house this week, and I was like, you know what,
I don't know that I can sell my house quite yet,
because I'm not ready to say goodbye to this room.
I don't know. Some realture called me and I was like,
how did you get my number? And he said, I
have my ways and I was like, hmm, I don't
like the sound of this.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You can't sell that room. We need to spend more
time in that room right there. That's an option, because that's.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Depends on the offer.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Exactly. I'm like, well, this home was just featured on HGTV.
Does that make the value go up? Just kidding. I
didn't say that to him, but it did feel as though.
I was sort of like, oh, but I just got
my cab Bueno room. I cannot say goodbye to it,
although we could recreate it somewhere else for the right price. Yeah, absolutely,
(35:50):
all right, Well, I love you both. I'm so thankful
to have that experience as a core memory with y'all.
It's really cool and we have it. It'll live on
on Max. I don't know if it's going to live
on Max forever, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah. No, it was a fun experience with you, and
I think you go into something like that and you're like, okay, off,
this goes well. But we knew it would. I mean,
in our heart of hearts, we knew it would go
wonderfully if we were I think we even surprised ourselves
with how well the room came together. We can't wait
to be back there.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Well, and I can't wait to see the rest of
what y'all are doing this season on Building Roots. Because
my episode was just episode two of the season, so
there's what six more left?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Six more left.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
This week's a big one with a really big family
that are big Texas, A and m Aggie, so there's
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Whooping going on.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
They're all agazymy yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It was a big mountain lodge and we have some
smaller ones and some downtown ones and some ranch ones,
and this week's a really exciting one, and all the
ones after that are a lot of fun as well.
So yeah, this week's is the Texas A and m
Aggie Week on HGTV.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, you can see in the opener actually put on
my Aggie ring, which I don't wear that much because
it's a little bit tight, so I need to get
it resized. But in the opener I actually put it
on because I'm like, Okay, these are Aggi's you got
to show up, and these are hardcore aggus, Like maybe
one of them was.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
A yelt leader, one of them was the young leader,
and there's one of the songs as the twelfth man
on the team.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
So big time, big show, big family. Like forty of
them came to the reveal and.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
The house had been in their family for I think
four decades over forty years, and they all have memories
there and so they're really excited to it was really fun.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
To do it for them.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Oh I love that I lost my Aggie ring, so
still waiting for someone to find it.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Oh, it's got your name inside of it, but maybe
you should get another one.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Just keep holding out that's going to show up one day.
Be a little tell me something good. Someone will find
it somewhere. Ben, why don't you leave us with some
been wisdom, a binism of some sorts. Just close us
out with something.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, enlighten us, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Enlighten us. If you do what you've always done, you'll
do what you've always been. And sitting with y'all too,
talking with your hands, it's always an entertaining conversation.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
He does say that a lot. If you do what
you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
So it's up to you to if you need to
make a change. No one's going to come make you
make the change, do the work. You're in charge of yourself.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
You're learning that this year, aren't you, Christy? I am.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
It's not like someone's going to show up and be like, well,
here's what you need to do today. To accomplish this
and to get rid of this habit and to bring
in this habit, you have to do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Amy, I think there's a better question to ask.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Christy has a new life, saying as she is practicing
every day and has come through months and months of
journaling and counseling and praying and coaching and all the things.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
So don't you share that with us? As the parting
wisdom for today's show.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Okay, well, I've been working on you know, I've been
in therapy and coaching and all these things, and part
of my homework has been to create kind of a
mantra or affirmation or something life statement or prayer, whatever
you want to call it, that really can help take
you from where you are to where you want to go.
(39:28):
And for me, I've been in a lot of stuck places,
and so without going into too much detail, just tell
you what it is and see what you think of it.
This has honestly been changing my life and it may
not resonate with everybody, but for me, this is what
my statement has become. I'm going to tell you the
long version, I am now fully aware of my agency
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to create a life of purposeful intention and profound meaning.
I know that is long, so the short version can
be I am now aware of my agency to create
a life of intention and purpose. And to me, that
(40:11):
is just this reminder that I get to decide what
something's going to mean, and I get to decide how
I'm going to change because of it. You know, so
so many things. This is what is literally making me
go on more long walks and things that I know
(40:31):
are just good for me, and that are intentional moves
that I make because I want to create more intention
and meaning.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
In my life. Say the long version one more time.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
The long version is I am now fully aware of
my agency to create a life of purposeful intention and
profound meaning.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
And I like to say I'm now fully aware of
my agency because the agency has always been within. We
always have the ability. It's just when are we going
to discover it? We have these abilities within us, but
we don't always have an awareness of them.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Right, that's good. I wrote it down. I'm gonna I
think I may start joining you and repeating that daily.
The long version. Put that on a quote card.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
On a quote card. Yeah, and if you need to
adapt it for you, you have permission to do that.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Thank you, there's no rules. I love it, Love you both.
Thank you so much. At Christy Doser on socials at
Ben Doser on socials at Brute House Co. For the coffee,
at Root Design Co. For the home design is that everything?
(41:54):
That is all the socials? I think.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
So that's enough.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, And apparently now YouTube to get a peek into
a day in the life of Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Mean it's not our YouTube. Just go to HGTV's YouTube channel.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Gotcha, there is one awesome Next time I'm about to
sit down with Dolly, pardon, let's talk, because then I'll
freaking remember the most amazing story ever to tell her.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Yeah, I reminded you all of that. I just want
to tell them now. I was the one that did that. Said,
next time you have a big interview, please let me know.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I'm going to be kicking myself all night. It's so special.
I'm just gonna have to pretend in my head that
I told her, and it's fine. I just wanted her
to know how powerful that was, because again, when you're
putting out work, you want it to impact people.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
And I think you should write her a letter.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Oh, I am now fully aware of my agency to
create a life of purpose and intention and profound meaning.
And I'm going to purposeful, purposeful intention and profound meaning.
So I'm going to do things like write Dolly a letter.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I think you should. I think that's what Zach Williams did,
sent her his lyrics, and out of so many she
gets all the time. I remember reading about this story.
She loved his song so much. She wanted to be
a part of it.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Boom. I'm writing Dolly a letter. I will send it
to you for approval.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Do you do it?
Speaker 2 (43:19):
For any input and approval? Okay, love you all. This
is by for real this time. Peace
Cast up little food for yourself. Oh it's pretty bad. Hey,
it's pretty beautiful than beautiful for that for a little
more said he your kick with full thing with Amy Brown.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
All right, Happy Thursday, Amy here, and I'm sitting with
my sister Christy and my brother in law Ben. And
this is the first time we have talked since the
Nashville episode of your HGTV show Building Roots aired. So
that aired on Sunday and this is Wednesday. Now this
is loading up on a Thursday for everyone. But I
(00:55):
know nothing about what you felt when you watched the episode.
I don't know if you've gotten any feed back since then.
I have also hung out with Dolly Pardon and Trey
Kennedy no big deal doing his podcast with his co
host Jake. He's super funny too. And when I saw
Trey Kennedy do his comedy show, Jake was an opener.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Oh. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
They're both real quick, but I just feel as though,
being that we're sisters and we talked so much, this
is stuff we would normally have already talked about, but
we're just going to talk about it on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So we texted and I remember you were just coming
in from Las Vegas and the show was going to
air that night, and you were exhausted, So I knew
that you needed a day or two to like decompress.
But on top of that, you had other things. You
had to go to work Monday morning. Then you had
podcast interviews.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So but yeah, everybody's a Dolly Fanes. That song Jesus
that we listened.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
To, oh Dad song song, So there was Jesus, there
was Jesus. This man, yes he actually did.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
You tell me?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No, I didn't tell her, And now I am so bummed.
I don't know how that slipped my mind, because that
is such a special story. Christy tell it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So Dad is on life support. His body's only being
kept alive by the machines at this point, and we
are all there and we have to make the group
decision to take him off life support, and we're not
exactly sure will his body hang on. We don't know
what's going to happen. And meanwhile, while we've been in
the hospital, there's been a playlist kind of on shuffle
of a lot of Dad's favorite songs or some of
(02:33):
our favorite songs. And there was a new song by
Zach Williams and Dolly Parton is singing it with him,
and it's called there Wis Jesus. It's a beautiful song.
So my recollection is, just as we are noticing Dad
has passed away, I hear Dolly Parton kind of ending
that song and she's repeating, there was Jesus, There was Jesus.
(02:56):
And honestly, the song to me is so reminiscent of
Dad's life because it talks about roads that you've gone down,
mistakes you've made, but then how you find your way
and represents Dad.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So good man, I really really really missed out on
that opportunity to tell her that story. Maybe I'll get
another chance, because I think that she would find it
really special to hear. I mean, as an artist, you
want your music to impact people, and that is something
I will never forget unless I'm sitting down with Dolly.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Nless, I'm sitting in the room with Dolly.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And I have a chance to tell her anything I
want to, and I chose to talk to her about
Steel Magnolius.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well, but gosh, you go back to even our childhood.
You know, we had those big speakers in our living
room ceiling that Dad installed, and we had that tape player,
and I so remember so much Kenny Rogers Dolly Parton
in the stream blasting in the house, you know, in
the early eighties or whenever it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Was well, And I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure
that mom went to see the movie nine to five
in the movie theater the night before I was born. Like,
she went into labor and she ate a hamburger.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You look at what year that came out, because I
think that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm pretty sure it's right. And she had a hamburger
with jalapinos somewhere maybe by the movie theater, and then
she went to see nine to five. So that's my
theme song coming into the world.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, I'm working nine too, Chuck will Well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It was really really special, and saying that keeps playing
over and over in my head. As she would say,
you know, you gotta make hey while the sun shines,
because she said she's going to keep working. She has
more music she wants to make. She's like, maybe I'll
do a comedy album. She's you know, writing books. You know,
she's super philanthropic. I mean, this woman, I don't know
(04:58):
what she doesn't do. So she's pretty fascinating and it's
just empowering to sit there and watch her do her thing.
But that makes you think of a second ago you
said you were in Vegas and you were exhausted. I'm
really working on not saying busy or exhausted. I'm trying
to say my plate is full.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
There's another way to think about that, Okay, tell me.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It's one thing to be busy. It's one thing to
go fast and do a lot of things and have
impact and have purpose. It's one thing to be in
a hurry. It's another thing to be in hurry. I
don't like being in a hurry. I don't mind being busy.
Life is short, living in the fullest.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I just don't like I don't mind being busy. I
don't like being in a hurry. There's like write books
and singing songs and travel and do stuff, but do it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There's a way to do it tinly and organize and
schedule and intentional and purposeful.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I just don't like being in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What Amy is saying, she doesn't like saying she's busy
or exhausted. So what do you prefer to say?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, Ben, I'm on board with you. We got to
make hey while the sun shines. So it's okay to
have a lot going on, but I would prefer to
look at it as my plate is full, like I
have a full day. I've had a full day, because
everybody has their different things that make them busy, and
I don't also being busy and being tired. Isn't this
(06:21):
badge of honor that I want to wear proudly. Vegas
is just an interesting thing because the hours are long
and the time change, and I'm just not used to
that Vegas life, you know. So I do come back
a little bit off or delirious or whatever you want
to call it. But I mean Vegas was awesome too.
(06:42):
Kelly Clarkson, I'm obsessed with her, like she's so good.
She performed a few years ago at the festival and
we had so much fun, and she was back again
this year again so much fun. But she posted this
video that she put up of herself on the Vegas
Strip where she was on her way to the venue
to do sound check for the festival. And this woman
(07:03):
was singing like street singing with a microphone and a speaker,
and Kelly gets on the mic and starts singing, and
of course it's beautiful and the woman is dancing and
having a good time. The woman does not realize it's
Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's one of my favorite videos of the year. It's
I mean, it jumped to the top. I mean we've seen,
you know, cool stuff this year for sure, but well
a lot of hard stuff as well, but just online,
it's really really special when you see something that positive
and organic and just the joy that was on that
(07:41):
woman's face when she realized as she was hugging her
that it was Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, I know, if you haven't seen that, you have
to look it up. But what I loved is the
lady was celebrating even before she knew it was Kelly Clarkson,
and then her celebration went to like a whole other level.
So it was it was exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, so Sunday night, I get home from Vegas and
that is when our episode of Building Roots is airing.
So your show comes on HUTV Sunday nights at nine
to eight Central, and then after it airs, you can
stream any of the episodes that have aired on Max.
So just letting people know if they want to go
check that out. But I stayed awake and I watched
(08:27):
it and I tried to post along and see things,
and I thought I was going to have to turn
it off because I was my plate had been full,
and I was emotional. I think I cried on Saturday
in Vegas during the day, just sometimes that just happens
when you're dehydrated and not sleeping well disregulated.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I mean I didn't cry on the job, I didn't
cry at work, but I cried in my hotel room
just for a second. But I thought I may get
too emotional, and I didn't know that I really wanted
to add that to the evening, and I did get emotional,
but it also just felt really special, and so I'm
glad I powered through because part of me was saying, oh,
I can watch the rest tomorrow. But I watched the
(09:12):
whole thing, and I didn't know how y'all felt about it,
because we haven't talked.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I mean, yeah, there were some emotional parts of it,
because obviously it was kind of reliving a little bit
of the difficulty we walked through with Dad because the
room we worked on in your house was the room
he had lived in, right before he passed away and
then bring a new life to that room was obviously
an emotional process. But I think what I've learned is
it's important to be able to be both. I think
(09:38):
it was like a happy and a sad at the
same time. Like there was a sadness, there were these
hard memories to relive, but then there was this happiness
of the transformation that had happened, and then and the
life that is ahead, you know, as we honor the
life that is past and dad. You know, just being
able to hold both the happy and the sad at once,
(09:59):
I think is important way to be able to live
life because sometimes we want to avoid sad, but sad
is important.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, when you feel it all and two things can
be true at the same time.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So I thought they did a really good job of
you know, we never know we see the episodes with
everybody else. You know, we rarely, if ever, have gotten
a link ahead of time to be able to watch
something before it's kind of aired to America, so you know,
for us as well, it's our first time seeing it.
We don't know what is in it, what's not because
(10:31):
we film forty to eighty hours. Who knows of film
they go through to create something that's forty seven minutes long,
So a lot of things that you do aren't even there,
you know, don't even make it to the final cut,
and you never know the final story that's going to
be told. But I thought they did a really good
job of honoring the story, both yours and Kevin and
(10:53):
Camille's story of the other Nashville couple who we worked on.
And I loved the connection between you and Camille as well.
I don't even know if this got talked about on
the episode, but you all knew.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Each other well, and that was total coincidence. She yeah,
left the music business, the music industry to start her
own apparel line, and she's had success with that. It's
really cool how many people wear her stuff now. It's
like left and right. You see her hats on people,
and I'm very excited for her. She makes merch for
(11:28):
certain artists, but she used to work for Brett Eldridge,
and I'm pretty sure maybe at one point she worked
for Kelsey Ballerini. But she would come into the studio
when the artists would come in, and that's how we
got to know her. And then she had left and
I would go to you know, like flea markets and
she would be set up and that's how I would
see her there with her products before she got a
(11:49):
brick and mortar like a storefront. And then y'all send
me a note and you're like, hey, do you know
this Camille person? And I say yes. And while she
was going to be the other home featured on the episode,
So Small World, huh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, they somehow had gotten connected with a casting call,
because sometimes they'll do that, I guess in areas to
kind of reach out and see who's got a project
with a story that that might be good for the show.
And she had responded to it, you know, amongst others,
and was selected for interview and all the things. There's
a whole process behind the scenes. We don't ever get
(12:29):
to decide necessarily who's getting selected for the show. But
between you and Kevin and Camille, I think it was
an awesome overlap. And we didn't know much about her.
We didn't know about her merch, we didn't know about
her banners. It all really unfolded organically, and then having
the idea to be like, oh my gosh, Camille should
(12:51):
make a banner for Amy's room and what's it going
to say, Well, of course it needs to say cave
winnow because that's Dad's saying, and the rest is history.
I don't know if you want to follow up on
Cabe know and what.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It is or I mean, we've talked about it before,
but some people might be new listeners. But that's just
something our dad would say. He was fluent in Spanish.
And they could also go watch the episode to see
more of the story. Ah, but I wanted to share
Camille's website really quickly so people can go check out
her cool hats and banners and all the things that
she has. And it's shop nboods dot com, So shop
(13:27):
inbods dot com because they're awesome. And if you have
an other in Nashville or near and you need your
dog trained. I know a lot of people in town
that use him to train their dogs, like people that
you would think are really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, beside their house, there's this big garage and like
a training field, and he's every time we were there,
and he was there because he would have to come
there to do his work. I mean, there's dogs everywhere
and anyway, they've got a fun life. Of you know,
I know it's difficult having two small businesses and all
the things that come with it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And now she's opening that candy set.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
She is, Yeah, lucky, it's called lucky. Talk about having
full plates. Her plate, her plate is full. She was
posting that she's been I guess it's been so full
lately that she's never run out of gas ever, And
she basically ran out of gas. So she was rolling
into the gas station and I thought, oh, yeah, that's
that's that's a time pretty normal. Mike, my car now
(14:24):
says to me, refeel immediately.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
If something like that pops up. I'm like, really, I've
got time.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, I'm sure this is just a warning. Okay, So Ben,
what what have you heard or did y'all get any
feedback on the episode? Like do they want all three
of us to do a spinoff? What have you heard?
(14:55):
Or did y'all get any feedback on the episode, like
do they want all three of us to do a
spin off? Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yes, definitely. That was the first thing.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'm just kidding now that I really saw really solid
ratings right off the bat from that night.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And it is a Sunday night, which is primetime TV.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It's also NFL Night and so we're up against a
lot of great shows, but it's definitely the most watched
night on television. And so the ratings were really really solid.
And now they're just reviewing kind of what they call
the DVR lifts, the streaming afterwards. And they've got a
lot of YouTube videos coming out on us, A day
in the Life of a tour of our house, a
(15:33):
tour of the town, fly fishing videos from me and
apple Pie making video of you.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
So HGTV is really putting a lot into it.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
But the ratings were really solid, and so they're really
excited to keep pushing the show.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No word off yet, No word on the spin off.
No word on the spinoff.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Amy, we'll throw that out there, we'll manifest it.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Okay, I was joking, But was that the same night
as the Kansas City Chiefs game where Taylor Swift showed up.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I don't know watch much TV or football, but surely.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know about Taylor and American was probably watching the
Chiefs games.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
They were.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Hopefully they dvr'd it or they streamed it later. Those
streams are so important.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
But social media has been incredible on the support. On
social media, the engagements with they're really really liking. I
get a text almost every day from one of our
kind of account ladies at HGTV that helps with the
social media, and she's like, this is so fun, this
is so strong. People just love the day in the
life of you know, Ben and Christie, so it's fun
to share that with everybody.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Gosh, they're just obsessed.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
With you everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm not saying that, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Both Christy and I look at each other were like,
everybody just loves day in the life of.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
No, but there is there is a really cute YouTube
video that did come out. It's like a little mini
documentary and they did a really good job on just
a succinct little I think it's about ten or fifteen minutes.
You know what I'm trying to do, not use the
word little, as I.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Tend to do that.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I know where I'm like, did this little documentary? No,
it was a two day professional shoot that people worked
really hard on and there were camera people and sound
people and like people. And here I am saying it's
just a little documentary. But it's like I'm trying to
minimize so rewind. They did an amazing job on a
(17:38):
documentary as a short, succinct, fifteen minute day in the life,
and it was really good. It's on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I love that they did a great job. Well, we
often can minimize what we're doing because we don't want
to make it this thing because if it's not a thing,
or why make it a thing, and just in case
it's not really a thing. All the different reasons why
we minimize stuff, But you're exactly correct. What it does
is it minimizes the hard work that went into it
(18:06):
by multiple people that are involved, not just you and
Ben and y'all's team, the camera crew, your producers. They're
all great. I enjoyed spending time with them so much,
so that was that was a lot of fun having
them here for those times. So we filmed almost this
time last year. I know because I really missed once
(18:27):
the once the video came up, I thought, oh, I
missed that hair color. Okay, I need to I texted
my hair person.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You had a different hair color.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It was more blonde, okay. And so that's how I
know it was this time last year, and it was
you were in town for the Donald Miller Alley Fallon
Writing Workshop, which happened around the same time. I mean
you maybe came back within weeks of each other, but
it was the same time ish, I know, because of
my hair color. And then we filmed thee this summer,
(19:01):
so there's a lot of time that goes in between
the filming and that's why so Stashiro was in on
the beginning, Stashira and Stevenson. The filming that took place
before and then after she had a softball tournament, so
it was just Stevenson.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I know, because they made it to the playoffs or something.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, and it was like out of down game and
it was important for her to be there with her friends.
So I totally understood that she wanted to go do
that because that's a fun memory for her and I'd
love that she chose her friends and that over you know,
being on HGTV or a TV show or something. So
I was proud of her for making that decision, and
(19:38):
I would have been proud of her either way. I
wanted her to do whatever she wanted to do. But
I think his parents that's hard sometimes giving our kids
some agency over their own life. We tend to want
to control. I think my first instinct was like, oh, well,
she's just going to not have to go to the
game because we started doing this together. We need to
finish it together. I want her to be a part
of it. I'll be sad if she's not. But then
(19:59):
I thought, well, that is selfish of me. She should
actually get to choose for herself what she wants to do.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And of course she's going to choose her friends and
her softball teams. But those are huge memories and she
needed to be there so absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So when Trey Kennedy asked me to be on his podcast,
he said, I'm going to be in Nashville. We'll bring
everything to your house. We'll film you there, set up there.
So we taped the bait.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Does he not live in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
He lives with Taylor Swift's new boyfriend Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Oh he did, Okay, I did not know that. I
thought he was in Nashville for some reason. I don't know.
I guess because you were on his podcast and he
came to your house.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, so this summer he came to the house and
he was on my podcast, yes, but then he came
back yesterday and I was on his. I know it's confusing.
Both were filmed here or taped here, but my whole
point in all of this is we filmed it in
the Cabueno room. You did, yes, and it looks so good.
We use the wood as the backdrop with the hats
(21:03):
that were behind us, and then we were each there
was three of us because it's me, Trey and Jake,
and we each were in our own little orange chair
and we had our microphones and lights and cameras. And
that's what I told you. I thought, Oh my gosh,
I'm going to be able to do work in here.
This is going to be a great space that offers
(21:24):
me multiple backgrounds and options to have a cute vibe.
And so sure enough we set up in there and
we did it. So whenever it comes out on Trey's podcast,
which is called Correct Opinions, I don't know when it's airing,
likely in a couple of weeks to maybe a month,
the video of the room will be up in the podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, I knew you had said you really wanted to
use it in that way, that what if you could
get microphones on stands and different things and cameras set
up and film And I love that you're doing it.
You can show it because even if you have done
it before you couldn't really show it because you kind
of had to keep that room a little bit under wraps,
(22:06):
you know, socially right on social platforms, not socially you
can have people over it, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
When you walk in my house, do not go near
that room. You can't look at hasn't aired yet on HGTV.
I love the room. It's it's my favorite room in
the house now. I love being in there. I'm not
talented enough to put something like that together, but I know, Christy,
we were talking before we started recording about just making
your home more inviting and tips for that, So I
(22:37):
would love for y'all to share some for me and
the listeners. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Well, I think there's a lot of lessons just from
your room in general, if you take what it you know,
the room we did, just in general, if you take
what it was before, which it had a lot of
great staple things. It had a beautiful wallpaper in there,
it had a beautiful light already there, it had nice floors.
So I mean, obviously Ben came in. Ben wanted to
(23:04):
do the woodwork, wainscoating around the walls, you know, and
not changed it up. And then really the most changes
happened with what we brought into the room furniture wise
and decoration wise, and even just changing the little light
bulbs in your light fixture where they will. I think
a lot of them were also burned out, as are
many lights in your house. This is this is an
(23:27):
issue with some of your chandeliers in the house. Is
like like the one in your bedroom literally had one light.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Still does.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
It's still it still is like that. Well, I know
you want to change that light. So anyway back to
the front room, we just changed the light bulbs to
these little globe candelabra bulbs that were do we go
with the white ones? I think so the opal color. Yeah,
we were kind of debating do we go with the
clear globes or do we go with the more opaque
(23:57):
white ones, And we chose the white. But changing the
light bulbs on your light fixture because they were exposed bulbs,
made it feel like a new light fixture. So I
really think, as you're, you know, trying to create a
space where I've been kind of starting to say, that
feels like a welcoming hug. That's one of the greatest
compliments I think we've had at the coffee shop is
(24:18):
that when you walk in, it feels like this welcoming hug.
And so I've kind of transferred that into as we're
putting rooms together, creating a room that feels like a
welcoming hug. And so how we did that with your
space is you already had these amazing kind of orange
velvet swivel chairs, and we obviously added the wingscoating, We
changed the light bulbs, and then it was all about
(24:40):
the layers that we added on top of that, whether
it was the rug. You know, you have all your
staple furniture, and then you've got your soft goods. You've
got plants. And by way of soft goods, that's throws,
that's pillows, that's different textures, it's drapes. Adding drapes to
a room really cozies it up. And then on top
of that, it's lighting. So lighting by way of changing
(25:03):
your light bulbs, it could be adding a lamp, it
could be adding candles, all of these things. I think
we added three lamps to your room.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I'm not a big lamp person. I mean now i am,
because in that room sometimes I'll just go through because
it looks so pretty when all the lights are off.
But then all three lamps are lit up, and I
just even if I'm not even hanging out in there,
I'm just like, oh, I'm just going to turn those
on in case I walk by because it looks really pretty,
or if someone comes to the door, that's what they
would see. It looks really good. And it's a simple
(25:34):
detail that maybe you're not thinking could go on top
of a table or a chest or a desk, or
on the ground or whatever type of lamp you end
up getting. The light bulb change, I will say, was huge.
It completely changed the light fixture, and it was a
cute light fixture to begin with, so it never would
(25:54):
have crossed my mind to put those globe bulbs. So
that was a good call for sure. And then when
it comes to drapes, if you're hanging it, where do
you want the rod to go from the ceiling?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Do we want to make the draves as Florida ceiling
as we possibly can in every room? When it comes
to drapes, if you're hanging it, where do you want
(26:30):
the rod to go from the ceiling?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Do we want to make the draves as Florida ceiling
as we possibly can? In every room?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I think it elongates the windows and elongates the room
as if you can do that. I mean, you want
to go at least six inches above your window and
six inches to the side at least. You don't want
your rod to be right at your window height and
right at the window with you know, you want it
to go up and out in the further up in
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the front they're out. You can go. You know, you
can take it beyond six inches and go more like
a foot.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It's it's all what your room can handle. I don't
know how tall your ceilings are. For you, we went
almost to the ceiling, kind of between the window trim
and the ceiling. And then with that fabric. You want
your fabric to feel full even when they're closed, so
you kind of want to have double the width of
your window in fabric. You know, there's all these little
(27:28):
rules that you can read about.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
So when it comes to custom drapes, if you are
having to measure in my mind because I've had some
made before and they were so expensive, but I know
that y'all have other options right.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Well for your room. We used the two pages curtains,
which I had never used before. So it's two like
the number two well spelled out two two pages curtains
and they are a custom curtain company that is very reasonable.
I had literally just stun custom curtains at a place
(28:01):
here through a shop that were probably ten times the
price of what yours were when I ordered them through
two pages. And you can get fabric samples from them
and pick out color. And they have a lineny one,
a velvety one we want with kind of a slubby
slub linen type fabric in your room. You can pick
(28:22):
a liner, you cannot have a liner. You can pick
the height, you can pick the width, you can pick
the privacy level, all types of things.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Slubby.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I like this slubby Define slubby, Yeah, like a little
bit more textured linen is what it is. It's not
a crisp, smooth linen. If go look at the fabric,
you'll see a little slubby to it.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I know what you're talking about. I just didn't know
that that's how you would describe it slubby.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I don't know if it's a real word. Slub. I
think is a real word.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Welb slub slub.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Okay, it's a textured linen.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I heard you mentioned on a phone call the other
day too that Amazon is an option for custom curtains.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yet on Kevin and Camille's home, we found if you
look up pleated also if you get the pleated curtains,
those really helped them feel a lot fuller. So when
you get a pleated curtain, you have to get a
curtain ring with it. There's some trickle effects that you
have to do. But if you go to Amazon's search
(29:25):
pleated room darkening darkening curtains, then you'll get pleated curtains
that have liners, which has a custom quality feel to them.
And honestly, I feel like some of the ones we
got for Kevin and Camilles were maybe seventy or eighty
dollars per panel, and that was for a tall, wide panel,
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and honestly, that's a really reasonable price. Now, yours were
a little more customs so they were a little level
up from that, But I thought the quality of Kevin
Camille's were great. They also had a little lower ceilings
and lower windows, so yeah, there were great options.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I just wanted to give people options. If you're saying
that curtains are a way to make your home feel
like a welcoming hug, so just other suggestions rugs, throw pillows, blankets.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yes, all of that. Then we talked about the lighting.
I think having something green or some plants in the room,
even if they're faux plants, you know, even if it's
not a real plant, because you can't take care of
a slubby plant, like a slubby plant. Yeah, I mean,
not that you can't take care of plants, but the
(30:38):
plants we have in your room were actually faux plants
that looked real and are going to look beautiful year
round and you don't have to water them. But having
that touch of green brings some of the outdoors in,
which gives you this welcoming feel.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
A couple more things would be books I think helped
make a room feel lived in and welcoming. And then
the last thing is vintage pieces or pieces that are
very special to you, like something when you walk in.
You know in your room you have Dad's vintage desk.
We ended up opening it up and filling it with
beautiful supplies that you may want to use, like letter cards.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, you put the buffalo in there to remind me
to be a buffalo and go into the storm and
not be a cow and run away from the storm.
I need to face it head on so I get
through the storm faster, so I have my cute little buffalo.
And then also you put those quotes and affirmation cards.
I don't know what those cards are called, but I
(31:36):
know you sell them at the coffee shop. And I
just dawned on me too. We may have listeners that
aren't familiar, and y'all are. We're on zoom right now
because y'all are in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and you mentioned
your coffee shop. It's called Root House Coffee and if
anyone's ever driving through southern Colorado, they should definitely pop
in for a latte or cocktail. But y'all sell those
(31:58):
cards there. What are they called?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Just quote cards? Super special name quote cards. You can
also visit us online at roothouseco dot com. And because
of you, and because you said people kept asking you
about the quote cards, because you've had times where you're
posting just a singular quote on your stories or something,
we've added those to online where you can buy a
(32:21):
bundle of fifty of them, and then you can have
your own quote supply as well. So it's just tons
of inspirational quotes that's in line with either books and
quotes and vintage pieces that are special to you, like
something in your room that is meaningful to you. And
that's going to be different for everybody, but that's just
(32:41):
another layer to the way you can create a welcoming
hug to a room.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Love it. At the beginning of Trey's podcast, he actually,
I had the quote cards out and I put them
on I put you know, they're back in Dad's desk.
But then I pulled a handful out and I laid
them on the coffee table and he picked them up.
And that's how the episode starts, is he's reading one
of those quotes, which I haven't posted online yet, that
you added them to your website. So I need to
(33:11):
do that and link it because people ask me and
I haven't shared that yet, so I will do that.
Because they are such a great gift. I have bought
them from you to give to other people as gifts
and they love them. So I highly recommend you get it,
either for yourself or maybe get them as a gift
(33:32):
for a like or even if you have a gift drawer.
This is something good to keep in your gift door.
Do you have like a gift closet or a gift
dar where you have I guess you have a whole
coffee shop where you can go grab something to givet
to somebody. But I keep a gift drawer of things
that I really like. That just in case you know,
you have a full week and you realize it's someone's birthday.
(33:54):
You can have candles in your gift drawer. You can
throw four Things Gratitude Journal in the if you want to.
Which do you have journals at your coffee shop or
just four Things Tots.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
We don't have four Things Journals in the shop, but
we do have four Things Tots and there are our
own custom Pagosa version that's like Rivers Mountains Campfires Coffee.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I love all those things. Rivers Mountains Campfire coffee, which
your coffee, your Campfire blend is really good, although I
like Backwoods in Front Porch. Those are flavors of coffee
that y'all have that also make good gifts. And again
y'all's website's Roothouse Coat dot com. And then if you're
(34:38):
wanting to get into gratitude yourself or get someone at
Gratitude Journal as a gift, you can hit four Things
dot com for that one hundred percent of the proceeds
go to education in Haiti through Project Meta Share and
some schools that they have in Central Plateau. So you
can feel good about that purchase. It's a win win.
And I just am obsessed with my room and I'm
(34:58):
so thankful for it. And I got an offer on
my house this week, and I was like, you know what,
I don't know that I can sell my house quite yet,
because I'm not ready to say goodbye to this room.
I don't know. Some realture called me and I was like,
how did you get my number? And he said, I
have my ways and I was like, hmm, I don't
like the sound of this.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You can't sell that room. We need to spend more
time in that room right there. That's an option, because that's.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Depends on the offer.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Exactly. I'm like, well, this home was just featured on HGTV.
Does that make the value go up? Just kidding. I
didn't say that to him, but it did feel as though.
I was sort of like, oh, but I just got
my cab Bueno room. I cannot say goodbye to it,
although we could recreate it somewhere else for the right price. Yeah, absolutely,
(35:50):
all right, Well, I love you both. I'm so thankful
to have that experience as a core memory with y'all.
It's really cool and we have it. It'll live on
on Max. I don't know if it's going to live
on Max forever, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah. No, it was a fun experience with you, and
I think you go into something like that and you're like, okay, off,
this goes well. But we knew it would. I mean,
in our heart of hearts, we knew it would go
wonderfully if we were I think we even surprised ourselves
with how well the room came together. We can't wait
to be back there.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Well, and I can't wait to see the rest of
what y'all are doing this season on Building Roots. Because
my episode was just episode two of the season, so
there's what six more left?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Six more left.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
This week's a big one with a really big family
that are big Texas, A and m Aggie, so there's
a lot of.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Whooping going on.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
They're all agazymy yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It was a big mountain lodge and we have some
smaller ones and some downtown ones and some ranch ones,
and this week's a really exciting one, and all the
ones after that are a lot of fun as well.
So yeah, this week's is the Texas A and m
Aggie Week on HGTV.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, you can see in the opener actually put on
my Aggie ring, which I don't wear that much because
it's a little bit tight, so I need to get
it resized. But in the opener I actually put it
on because I'm like, Okay, these are Aggi's you got
to show up, and these are hardcore aggus, Like maybe
one of them was.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
A yelt leader, one of them was the young leader,
and there's one of the songs as the twelfth man
on the team.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
So big time, big show, big family. Like forty of
them came to the reveal and.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
The house had been in their family for I think
four decades over forty years, and they all have memories
there and so they're really excited to it was really fun.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
To do it for them.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Oh I love that I lost my Aggie ring, so
still waiting for someone to find it.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Oh, it's got your name inside of it, but maybe
you should get another one.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Just keep holding out that's going to show up one day.
Be a little tell me something good. Someone will find
it somewhere. Ben, why don't you leave us with some
been wisdom, a binism of some sorts. Just close us
out with something.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, enlighten us, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Enlighten us. If you do what you've always done, you'll
do what you've always been. And sitting with y'all too,
talking with your hands, it's always an entertaining conversation.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
He does say that a lot. If you do what
you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
So it's up to you to if you need to
make a change. No one's going to come make you
make the change, do the work. You're in charge of yourself.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
You're learning that this year, aren't you, Christy? I am.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
It's not like someone's going to show up and be like, well,
here's what you need to do today. To accomplish this
and to get rid of this habit and to bring
in this habit, you have to do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Amy, I think there's a better question to ask.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Christy has a new life, saying as she is practicing
every day and has come through months and months of
journaling and counseling and praying and coaching and all the things.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
So don't you share that with us? As the parting
wisdom for today's show.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Okay, well, I've been working on you know, I've been
in therapy and coaching and all these things, and part
of my homework has been to create kind of a
mantra or affirmation or something life statement or prayer, whatever
you want to call it, that really can help take
you from where you are to where you want to go.
(39:28):
And for me, I've been in a lot of stuck places,
and so without going into too much detail, just tell
you what it is and see what you think of it.
This has honestly been changing my life and it may
not resonate with everybody, but for me, this is what
my statement has become. I'm going to tell you the
long version, I am now fully aware of my agency
(39:51):
to create a life of purposeful intention and profound meaning.
I know that is long, so the short version can
be I am now aware of my agency to create
a life of intention and purpose. And to me, that
(40:11):
is just this reminder that I get to decide what
something's going to mean, and I get to decide how
I'm going to change because of it. You know, so
so many things. This is what is literally making me
go on more long walks and things that I know
(40:31):
are just good for me, and that are intentional moves
that I make because I want to create more intention
and meaning.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
In my life. Say the long version one more time.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
The long version is I am now fully aware of
my agency to create a life of purposeful intention and
profound meaning.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
And I like to say I'm now fully aware of
my agency because the agency has always been within. We
always have the ability. It's just when are we going
to discover it? We have these abilities within us, but
we don't always have an awareness of them.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Right, that's good. I wrote it down. I'm gonna I
think I may start joining you and repeating that daily.
The long version. Put that on a quote card.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
On a quote card. Yeah, and if you need to
adapt it for you, you have permission to do that.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Thank you, there's no rules. I love it, Love you both.
Thank you so much. At Christy Doser on socials at
Ben Doser on socials at Brute House Co. For the coffee,
at Root Design Co. For the home design is that everything?
(41:54):
That is all the socials? I think.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
So that's enough.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, And apparently now YouTube to get a peek into
a day in the life of Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Mean it's not our YouTube. Just go to HGTV's YouTube channel.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Gotcha, there is one awesome Next time I'm about to
sit down with Dolly, pardon, let's talk, because then I'll
freaking remember the most amazing story ever to tell her.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Yeah, I reminded you all of that. I just want
to tell them now. I was the one that did that. Said,
next time you have a big interview, please let me know.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
I'm going to be kicking myself all night. It's so special.
I'm just gonna have to pretend in my head that
I told her, and it's fine. I just wanted her
to know how powerful that was, because again, when you're
putting out work, you want it to impact people.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
And I think you should write her a letter.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Oh, I am now fully aware of my agency to
create a life of purpose and intention and profound meaning.
And I'm going to purposeful, purposeful intention and profound meaning.
So I'm going to do things like write Dolly a letter.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
I think you should. I think that's what Zach Williams did,
sent her his lyrics, and out of so many she
gets all the time. I remember reading about this story.
She loved his song so much. She wanted to be
a part of it.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Boom. I'm writing Dolly a letter. I will send it
to you for approval.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Do you do it?
Speaker 2 (43:19):
For any input and approval? Okay, love you all. This
is by for real this time. Peace
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