March 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Mother and daughter relationships can be challenging at times even in the best of circumstances. Meet Samantha and Nicole Senia, a dynamic mother/daughter duo who work and thrive together. Podcast hosts of their own show " THE POWER OF WE !" these two ladies overcame substance abuse to create a successful and thriving business. It's an inspiring and informative show you won't want to miss!
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hi, Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
(00:35):
inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom.
Welcome Mom's welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and today I have a special co host,
Georgia Orchid. Welcome Georgia.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thank you Monica Jeres.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
For joining us. So, Georgia is the daughter of our
co host Julie, and we sent Julie off on assignment
so that Georgia could come and sud for her. Because
I have a lot of questions. So, Georgia, what's the
most embarrassing thing you can share about your mother?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, where do I start?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, No, we're not going to do that. So, so
you and your mom, But you and your mom have
a great relationship. You're very close, right, would you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I would say we're very close. It would seem to.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Be I think, so she helped you move out here
to Los Angeles, right, she sure did.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
My mom has always been there for I just graduated
from college a year ago. My mom has been there
for all stages of life, in all stages of moving
me in and out of different eras that I've lived through.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And so now you graduated college and you are ready
to start your your life and adult hanks, ma'am. So
you don't have to call me ma'am.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes, I'm from the South.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's just that's true. That's very polite. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So she just moved you out here to LA and
I know she's gonna miss you terribly. Are you gonna
visit a lot? At least you're gonna be a good
daughter and.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Visit often. I will absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Welcome her often into your home.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh yeah, I'm returning to Austin, Texas later this week
because my sister is going to be in her senior
play and she's a soccer player. She'll have her senior
moments in high school.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So that's good. So yeah, because I have two sons,
and sometimes it's tougher with when you have sons, like
they go off and you know, I call us, well,
they will. Yes, but I my oldest son, and this
is not to criticize, but he has an apartment. I've
never seen it and it's in Austin, where we live.
So oh, he's not yet invited us. Now that maybe
(02:48):
that's a good thing. Maybe it's because it's not presentable.
I don't know what the deal is. But so yeah,
so would you ever? Would you ever work with your mom?
I mean, do you think how would that go?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I think it would. It depends on the topic. I feel.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I feel like we would work together.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, she doesn't watching.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
She's watching this show right now, so I feel like
I have to say that you do.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'm gonna give you some advice. She is she is
actually yeah, she's actually watching what you're doing. Yeah, that's
kind of a mom thing too. She's also I don't
want to make you conscious of this, but from what
I understand, she's got the text numbers of everybody in
the studio and she's texting notes and things. Yeah, so
(03:34):
she will actually very much on top produce. The producer
in this room just told me to sit up straighter.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, but not because she thought I was slouching, but
because I love my mother, who's in Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Where did text at her to tell me to sit
up there? Where did that come from? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So no, am I sitting straight enough?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Hey? I get that all the time too, And I
couldn't be tall. You're sitting up straight. You're doing a
great job. I think it's I think you're good. Could
you ever do that us with your mom? Maybe? Not
that I'm actually I thought, not that I'm wonder in
the coast chair, but two co hosts together. Yeah, maybe
you guys could.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The embarrassing stories would be never ending.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, well, you know what, We're gonna do another episode
later when she's not watching with all the embarrassing stuff. Well,
you know what, Mothers and daughters are amazing, all amazing,
as we say, And we have a mother and daughter
team here to get today. Who are the duo behind
Elite Home Staging and Elite Mason Furniture. And they also
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have a podcast called The Power of We, which peels
back the curtain on sobriety, sanity, and survival. Please welcome,
Samantha and Nicole Sinio.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Welcome to the.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Most Probably.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
It's so nice to be here. It's like amazing to
be here and we're not there. Yeah, well, I like
it interview us in this chair. We're always there interviewing everyone,
and it's so fun. I love seeing the dynamic. Good
for you for coming on amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's great. Now how did you all start
doing a podcast together?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
We met this crazy lady. We met this amazing lady
and I think you know her. And she said, I
want you to tell your story and I was like,
how am I going to do that?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And she's like, have you ever heard of a podcast?
I was like nope. It was during pandemic right yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
After and you know, I was still doing zoom classes
and I skipped my zoom class because for some reason,
I was like, I have to go to this meeting.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh yeah. She was like, our life's about to change.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
So we met with her and we knew instantly, like
we had such a connection. And I didn't even know
what a podcast was. I didn't even know what she
wanted me to do, but I knew I had to
do it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So tell me a little bit about your story that
made her think this would be a great podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Where to start?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, well you start?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I mean we have just like as a family,
oh crazy story. We're both sober and it's good for you. Yeah,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
We're sober and my son sober. So we're a sober family.
Let's get that started. And that was not easy to
get there, right, Yeah, it was. Actually we have some
crazy stories.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
We had so much going on in our life.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You know, I was a single mom when they were
five and six, and what happened to me was, you know,
I wanted to keep them in their lifestyle, right, so
I would go out to you know, cocktails with my
friends with moms and the kids would be playing and
I would start with a glass of wine. And that
was like my way of, you know, dealing with the
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stress as a single mom. And that was really hard.
You know, it's hard on the kids. It's going to
make me cry. I'm not used to talking about this lately,
but it was. It was real. It was real life,
and being a.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Mom is not easy.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Being a single mom is definitely not easy, right, And
you know, I know a lot of people out there.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You're scared.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Sometimes you don't know what to do with your life,
so you pick up that glass of wine. Yesterday, I
was at a lunch and I saw these moms with
kids and it was like eleven o'clock and they were
drinking wine. And let me tell you, that was me.
But you know what, that didn't get me anywhere. What
it got me is a lot of headache.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah. And since we've been on this like sober journey
together with her and my younger brother as well, we've
just been able to like reconnect in such a special
way where we can really be there for each other.
We have such an open and honest relationship and we
can do so many fun things together and it's just
like such a great way to live. And I think
it's just changed everything. And that's why we wanted to
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start the podcast to show people that even if you
come from like a dysfunctional family or whatever, you can
I'm emotional.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I don't even would you cry a lot, show you
don't worry about that. We laugh too though.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, you can have an amazing, amazing time with your family. Yeah,
things can change.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I mean it changed a hundred percent after that. And
then you know, then we just started. I always wanted
to empower women to get into staging. So there was
no nobody was doing staging right. It was a big
company and me and little companies, but women did not
have careers in staging.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And I was like, when I.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Spoke on Steve Schul's stage and people were asking me
all kinds of questions, I said, you know what, that's it.
I'm going to make sure that people know women know
they can have a career in staging. And that was
really one of my things I wanted to do. And
then little by little she started working at the bottom
in my company, and now you know, I'm going to
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fast forward. She's a big time boss empowering young entrepreneurs.
So now there's so many young entrepreneurs. It wasn't like
that when I was like doing it and it's fun.
Thank god she can deal with them, so I deal
with my age.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah here, I know exactly what you're saying. So, so
were you Did you have the staging business when you
were first divorced and they were little?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
So where did I got divorced in two thousand and
eight and I was like, we lived in Calabasas. I
lived a very bougie life. I didn't know what I
was going to do with my life. And a realtor said,
you're going to start a staging company, and I was
like okay, great. So they were six and seven and
I started the staging company in my garage with a partner,
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and literally they would come home and they'd be like,
where's my bed? Well, hold on a second, let me
get back to you. But yeah, so we started there
and then I slowly built it up, and the alcohol
was during that time. And then you know, they went.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
To high school.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
That's when it was hard for me, because high school
is hard for moms.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, I don't know, it was hard for everyone.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, I was just gonna say that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
As a dog, sure you can really like you don't
really know what's going on. You're trying to figure everything out.
And like for me, that's when I first saw drugs
and alcohol at least. And she was crazy. So that
was fun and I got to throw all the parties
because I had the crazy mom. I mean, we had
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So you were the mom that I was.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Let's go to Cabo.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You bring three friends, Brandon, you're breaking three friends, and
then we would go. It was we had a lot
of good times. But you know, the alcohol does bring
out like other things. So it's just not the way
I wanted to live my life, you know, but I mean,
we have grown so much. I can't even tell you
(10:48):
not that Laurie helped us start on the podcast, which
has changed our life one hundred percent for forever. You know,
we are very grateful to her. And then we kind
of brought this whole thing into our company. So when
we hire, we make sure they understand we are here
to empower you for your journey.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Right. So, Nicole, you know, trains them.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
We do meditations with them, we do positive affirmations with them,
we do all that kind of stuff, so they know
they're amazing just the way they are.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But we're going to help guide them to the next
level in their love.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, one of the things you said, which I think
is so true in our society, you were just going
to mom's events and everybody's drinking, so I can see.
And I practiced law for years, and the little time
that we ever got to go anywhere outside the office,
it was always let's go get margarita, let's go do this.
It was all around alcohol, So it's very easy to
fall into that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And then did you feel like watching your mom as
she was drinking more? Did that make you feel like,
as this high schooler that oh, well, you know it's cool. Yeah,
I think with your friends around her doesn't have any
impact on you at all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
For sure. I think, like as a child coming from
like an alcoholic family or anything like that, when you
see that's what's normal in your mind, you normalize it, right, Like, well,
mom had a drink to feel better, so I should
have a drink to feel better. And that kind of
stuff is like it just gets played in your selbconscious
without I think you knowing it, and that's when you know.
(12:20):
And then also like mom was having fun, so I
was like, oh, I could have fun too, and like,
you know, it just happens, and I'm sure you can.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Relate, right right.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I actually am hearing the timeline. I think we might
be the same age. I'm twenty two.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Okay, I wish I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This happens every time I like, I get the yeah
yeah closer in age.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, I was wondering what it would what it's like
working together with your mom.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Honestly, we have a really good time. We have a
great relationship now, and we mess with each other a lot.
And we're also very different. We use different parts of
our brain. I'm pretty I'm more logical and she's very
creative and like we get each other. We know each
other so well that when she's thinking about things, I
just know what she's thinking about without her having to
explain it, so I can explain it to other people.
I don't know. We have this like crazy connection where
(13:16):
it just works.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
No, that happens with me with my mom.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Sometimes she's trying to say something and I'm like, no,
I understand what you're trying to say. And it's almost
like your daughter can be your own like translator. But
it's not like another language. It's just your mom's brain
into something everybody else can understand.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I can see how that can be very helpful in
a business capacity for you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So how'd you get in? Then you told us how
you got into staging? But was that so? Let's face,
my husband would be the first one to tell you,
I could never do a staging business. I mean maybe
it's not easy, maybe an antique store like full of joke, because.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Waging business is not for the week. I'm going to
tell you right now. I mean, do I work all
the time? One hundred percent. I work a lot. I'm
very involved in my company. I have a very big company.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
The reason I have a big company is because I
stayed present in my company, and that is so important
for any moms that are trying to start a business.
It's important to also be with your kids, but to
stay present even when you get bigger, because people need
to still.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Want to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
They still want to know that you're involved in your business, right,
And that's really why I think it's keeps.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Going up and up and up. And I'm not corporate, right.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I started in my garage, so and I funded everything,
you know, little by little by little.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So how did what were you doing before that? Because
for someone to stay at your house for sale, you
would want to see what their what their work looks like.
So if you just started, were you working with somebody
else and you were kind of what was sing or
staying no?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
So that's so funny.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So I got divorced and this big realtor said you
need to start a staging company and I didn't even
know what that was. And he said, you just need
to decorate homes and you know that need to be sold.
And I was like, okay, I can do that. I
can do that because I built four houses. I didn't
even think to myself. I can't do that. I don't
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have past work. I don't I just did it. I
went out, I did presentations. I went and I got furniture,
and I just went. I didn't even put that thought
in my head. What did I do before? I sold
purses and jewelry when they were babies at a restaurant,
I'd sell ten thousand dollars a night and sell to
all the moms.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
That's what I did.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's very good.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Before that, I was in selling cell phones when they
first came out.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
So nothing to do with any wo wow.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
So I've always been an entrepreneur and I always have
been very creative.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I'm a very creative person. My eye is very creative.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
So I just you know, when I put something in
my mind, I know I can do it, and then
I do it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, that's impressive because for someone to allow someone to
come into your house to stage it, like I have
a friend who just did that and she said, oh, Monica,
it was really something. They just like took. I just
watched them being carted out of my house. I could
barely talk because they were packing everything up and then
sending it off to the storage unit. So you've to
have a lot of trust.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
But you got to remember back then, people didn't even
know what staging was.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I had to talk them into it. First of all.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I had to explain to them, when you stage, you're
going to get so much more, so much money, more
money for your home that you would never because you
have all this personal stuff out. So I had to
explain it all to them and then bring it in
and then it started happening. One after the other people
would get more money for their home.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So what's the stuff you want to take out then?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Because all the personal stuff, the.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Family photos and things like small belongings are an important
thing to take out of your home because when you
know a potential family is walking through the house, they
want to picture themselves living there. So we always highly
recommend depersonalizing the house.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So if I want six oscars, I should remove them
because I also.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Privacy purposes too, especially in LA like we signed work
with a lot of people who need to get rid
of all their stuff put them away because you just don't.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Know, and decluttering is the cluttering one.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, people don't realize when you're going to sell your house.
You gotta when when we walk in the door, you
got to think the house is going to be sold
in three minutes. So that's exactly what you know. You
have to already get that mindset that I'm selling my house.
I've got to clear out, clean out, declutter, and get
the personal stuff out.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So really I'm essentially moving. Yes, already moving.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You're moving on to your next journey. How excited.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I just think about it like that, like you're moving.
You get all your stuff ready to move, and let
us do our job so it sells quickly and then
you're ready to go.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I mean, we actually are helping people's dreams come true
because their dream is to get out of that house, right,
And that's how that's.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Quite a job. Like I have hundreds of books, and
my friend was telling me that the person that stayed
her house took every cover off of every one of
her books, like it would take for I mean, I
mean if I ever had to put them all back on,
that would like that's so everybody's a different philosophy. I
guess as to what needs to go. And of course,
well so things have changed. So we were supposed to
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be here a couple of weeks ago. The fires kept.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Us from going devastating.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I live in Austin, Texas, And I was at a
get together with neighbors the other night and there's like,
oh you, all these families from Palisades are moving to
Austin and we're all talking each other. Do you want
to sell your house? Do you want to sell your house?
Because everybody's like leaving because they don't have a house
to go to. But what's it like? Now? What's your
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business like? And I know you've even you're helping people
that have lost everything, So tell us a little bit
about that.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well, this isn't my first rodeo, let me tell you,
so let me just go back. So I feel like
every time there's some kind of catastrophe in Los Angeles,
I'm like the first responder. And I do that on
purpose because I would give back to the community immensely.
So when COVID hit, every single thing was shut down
(19:24):
like crazy. But my business manager said, you're essential, I
was like, perfect, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
He's like, go do what you do and let me
tell you.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
We helped so many families be able to because they
were really freaked out. Then I would go, I would
help them. I would tell them to get them ready
for staging. And then they'd move to wherever state they
wanted to. But so I've already kind of done that.
So this time when the fires happened, I knew immediately.
(19:53):
I put a package together, a rental package, and I
advertised and let the people know we're here for you.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
This Palisades, it's not people.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
It's like most of the people is not like you
and I there. You know, they are been there for
many years. It's three generations. It's huge homes. So most
staging companies don't have that kind of furniture. So we
put a package together and I personally took that on myself.
I went out and met with them. I brought my
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stager and then we went out and helped them. And
we've been extremely busy, extremely busy, but you know, it's
nice to help and give back.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh yeah, I mean you've done that for homeless people.
Did I read that or what is?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So tell me about it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The Midnight Mission.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
So the Midnight Mission, yeah, is a organization where people
come off the streets that were either using drugs or
you know, battered women or you know, just couldn't pay
their bills and they were living in their cars and
I got together with the president of it and he said,
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I'd love for you to come and stage some you know, units,
And so I was like, okay, sure, I had no
idea what I was getting involved in at the time,
and I went.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And I staged these units out of the chills.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And literally I made them like cute and like, you know,
really light and colorful. And listen, these people were on
the streets. So when they come in, they don't even
know how to live anymore. But they the little kids
would come in and help me, and they were so excited,
and I knew that second I needed to continue. This's
(21:43):
so this year, every year we donate thousands and thousands
of dollars. We probably donated over half a million dollars
of inventory. But this year we got to donate to
a mom who has been on the streets and she
finally got into the program and she's learning how to
get a job again, she's learning how to they have childcare.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
She just got a job at Amazon and she has
three kids. And you know, we were able to gift
her with when she transitions out of the transitional living,
she's going to get a new apartment. We're going to
furnish it for her. So that was really amazing.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, it's really so nice to see these people and
everything they're doing for themselves and bettering themselves to be
able to help. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's got to feel good.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And then all the people here that have lost everything.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, so I mean I can't help everyone, and unfortunately
we get calls all the time, you know, doing everything.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We can, but right now we're focused on furnishing rental
homes for people who are doing temporary living to find
a place to live because most of these people did
lose all of their belongings, clothes, I mean everything. So
you know, we're doing what we can to help everyone. Yeah,
and yeah, it's it's a crazy time. I mean, if
you've I don't know if had you been to the
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Polisades before.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I have been.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, it just looks so different.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, it's very sad and yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
So you know, hopefully our community is strong and we'll
we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
What's a beautiful place, it's so beautiful. Yeah, I feel like,
you know, it'll come back for sure. But yeah, there's
so many families that have been there for generations, right.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Yeah, and it's important that people know like that we
are a mother daughter team, and so when we're out there,
they remember that, you know, because we are a family
business and we want to help them. And I think that,
you know, living I've always lived in LA I've always
lived in California, and it's it's so nice to see
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the community really coming together through all of this.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
That's what I think.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I've the best thing out of everything that's happened in
the last you know.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well, we reached out. We wanted moms across the country
to help here and in North Carolina where they also
living in tents right now the winter, so and do
what they can. But yeah, I really, you know, commend
you and and you're a good example. You know. What
happened here has made a lot of people think about
a lot of things, Like in Texas. I learned through
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that experience that we're the third at risk city for wildfires.
So I talked to a girl whose family lost their
house at Palisades and she was talking about I had
She said, I had the flu and I've called my
mother caused me and I have to leave the house
because of the fire, and I have to decide what
to take. And she said in part she took the
wrong things because she said, I took my birth certificate
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and searching for it you can get one really quick.
So it's also to explain to people to be ready,
like I know, if it were me, I don't know
what I would it would take. So yeah, no, that
was that was quite an experience. Well, we have some
ladies who would like to talk to you and ask
you some questions and they are ours mom, So why
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do my mom?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Introduce I'm gonna introduce each
one of you and tell us a little bit about
yourself and if you'll all have questions, and I guess
I will start with because she'll be really quick because
she's she knows how it works here at the Mom's Club.
My usual co host, Julie, Welcome to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well, hello Monica, Hello Julie, Ja, Hi Mom, Hi ladies.
Your story is amazing. I uh wanted to touch base
on figuring out like how many people work for you
as everybody involved in helping people with the fires. Are
you continuing your business obviously as well? I mean, what
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does that look like?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
You want to answer? Do you want me to yes?
We're continuing our business.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
We run about six to seven trucks a day, so
we're doing staging, we're doing rentals, we're doing everything.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yeah, we are so busy right now.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We've gotten an extra extra trucks that are dedicated to
furnishing our rentals. So we have like two separate aspects
of our company right now.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yeah, and I know this won't surprise Monica, but I
do have a part two real quick.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's sounds surprising, Go ahead, go for it.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I just want to know, like, first of all, congratulations
on being sober. I think that's thank you, very difficult
and amazing that you told your story. But how how
did it come to all three of you coming to
that same journey.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
That's an interesting question. I think if I don't know
people who know anything about like addiction or everyone, I
don't think it. I don't know how excited, but like
it's not because she's sober. I had to get sober everyone.
It's like a mental we talk about I don't we
talk about it as like a mental obsession over right,
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drugs or alcohol and there's many other things, so you
know it. Once she got sober, I think it set
a really good example for me, and I realized very
quickly after many bad instances. I'll say that I needed
to get sober, and I knew where to go, And
I think that was the biggest thing, is I knew
who to ask for help, and I was able to
ask her. And then my younger brother actually he was
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partying like crazy in college and I had noticed it
for myself and I was able to have a conversation
with him and he knew where to come to get
sober as well. So I think the biggest thing is
knowing where to go to get help because a lot
of times, like if you normalize it, you really don't
know where to go.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And also when you get sober, your life just gets
better and better. I mean, they saw a huge difference
in me right and you know they're struggling. They're having fun,
but they're struggling. But when you get to that point,
you're drinking, and then it's not fun anymore.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
They're like, God, does this get better?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
And you know, I appreciate.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
You sharing it because it gets brighter, it gets clearer.
So thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
bit about yourself, and do you have a question.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Yeah, So my name is and Dynam. I'm a realtor
actually in the Marina, the Santa Monica, and you know,
I've also coached with Steve, so that was just a
small right and I'm one of those agents who got
the swan of people coming in after you know, the
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fire and one thing that we've been and I have
one son, as you said, like, I'm also a mom,
so and he wants to do real essays. I'm taking
cues from is it going to be a good idea?
But it seems like it's going to be a good
idea to work with your whole child. So my question
is like one of the things that I'm actually dealing with,
I have a lot of leases and we're turning it
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to short term rentals and most of the stages in
the area it's easier to stage to sell, but when
you stage because the person is going to live there,
it's been really challenging to find enough stages are willing
to do that. So in your business that your business
had to pivot from staging a property to be sold
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to staging a property as a maybe short term or
leaster for people that had lost everything in the fires.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Well, first of all, I have a big company, so
we do rentals and we've done it for many years,
so this isn't like a new thing that I'm doing.
And we have an amazing team in the back end.
So basically the rentals work like this. It's one price
for the move in, the inventory and the pickup, and
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then there's a security deposit.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
And then there's a monthly.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
And the great thing is I have an amazing team
that checks everything so everything comes clean and new, and
we just do it with furniture. We don't do the
accessories in the art and all of that, so that
that way they can because these people want to make
it their home. They don't want a stage home, right,
they want to make it their own. So I tell
them when I go out, do not don't need that.
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You need to do that yourself so you can make
it your own place. And yeah, I buy containers all
over the world, so I'm ready at any time for anything,
so don't forget us.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And that's impressive to start from your garage to all
these trucks and places.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
To thank you, I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Allie, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
bit about yourself and do you have a question.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Yeah, so, hi everyone. I actually lived in the Palisades
for ten years and my kids were one of those
families that actually West their home. I'm in Calabasis now
and I am the founder of Youth Thrive Wellness, Inc.
I help bring in mindfulness and meditation and healing arts
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to the schools and community. Great so and that's my
main I would say, I also do after school merichment programs,
but my love really is working with kids and parents
and teachers. And so my question, I think you know
right now, I feel like I'm manager transition from all
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the after school programs I'm doing to like really focusing
on my nonprofit and putting all my energy into it.
And I heard you speak how it was just a
mindset like you just did it. And I sometimes have trouble,
like my mind is like, oh, you can't do that right,
Like it's it's so much.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
So because you're stuck in the fear. You're stuck in
the fear. To get out of the fear, and you.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Need to write down everything that you want to do
and you just got to take one step at a time.
Don't stay in the fear. The fear is just an
emotion and won't get you anywhere. Like they were young,
I wanted them to stay in their live lifestyle. I
didn't want to have to move to a one bedroom apartment.
I knew this is what I had to do and
that's it, and that's how you have to stay.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, you can use your meditation tools as well. Like
some of the things that I do because I get
to fear a lot is I'll do like a meditation
hypnosis to get out of fear and into faith or
whatever you want to call it spirituality. And in order
to do that, you can, you know, change your mindset
to really you know, better yourself and focus on the
next step and the right next thing and the next
right action. And I think that that can help a
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little bit as well.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Thank you, but you got this.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Good luck to you.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, you're doing an amazing works.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, that is that is very impressive. We have such
impressive Zoomer moms.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
We always do.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I'm always impressed. Great, Kim, welcome to the Mom's Club.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and you have
a question.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
So my name is Kimberly. I have two little girls
and I resonated with your story a lot. I was
an entrepreneur for the last thirteen years I've had my
own business, but with having kids, it's it's just so
much harder, especially the age that mine are.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
They're two and a half eight months. Wow.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
So I guess I have two questions for you guys,
how did you keep the balance between work life and motherhood?
And then for Nicole, what made you decide that you
wanted to enter your mom's business?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Good?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Good question, Yeah, you go.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So, to be honest, I'd never thought I would work
for my mom or enter any type of design. I
actually went to school. I went to LMU, got a
bachelor's and journalism. I wanted to go into the news.
And during the pandemic, it was like a hard time
for everyone and she needed help in the warehouse and
I had really nothing to do. I was just getting sober.
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I started working in the warehouse, counting the inventory, and
then I was like, just you know, I wanted to
do more. And I loved the environment, the work environment there.
It's a lot of like female empowerment, and I was
getting empowered myself, so you know, I just kind of
fell into it and I started really loving it growing up.
She we moved a lot. We moved every single year,
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and she always had a different style in our house.
So I think I kind of picked up the design
style just like growing up. And you know, I started staging,
fell in love with it, and it was like no
question ever since. I just knew it was the right
thing to do.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
That's awesome, Yeah, and I totally feel for you. I
know exactly what you're going through. Yeah, because my kids
are seventeen months apart, so it was very tough. But
you know what all I did was I worked until
three o'clock. I made and then I would pick them
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up from school, take them to ballet, basketball, baseball, whatever
it is, made dinner.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
And started again.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
It was a again a mindset for me. I didn't
have a choice. I decided, you know what, I wanted
to be involved and I wanted to do this and
I even worked out and I had a great body
back then.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I don't know how I did that, but it's just.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
You know, the I think the one of the things
that is really important is to give yourself grace. Give
yourself grace, like tell yourself you're amazing, you got this.
Like That's what I did every day, and I will
tell you I have an amazing life coach that got
me to stay on track. So I really believe, and
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I'm telling all of you guys this. You know, at
fifty six years old, I've had a life coach or
two for many years because it helps me when I'm
going up here.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
It helps me to stay on track.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
It helps me to stay on track with my family,
with my stylists, with whatever it is in my life,
because you need someone else to talk to beside your
husband or your best friend or someone that is in that. Really,
I always say this, if that really has made the
difference in my life.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Did I also read that you do athletic you do kickboxing?
Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Wow, Now that takes a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
That's where I get my aggression out. Yeah, I'm like, yes,
I got this, I got this.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
That's really good advice for someone who's just starting their
career and trying to balance a bunch of things at adulthood.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Right right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I know, Nicole, You're you're not a mom yet, no,
thank god right now? And neither is Emily one of
our zoomer moms. So Emily, do you have another question
or a first question?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Hello, I'm Emily.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I'm twenty three and I just graduated u CLA.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Congratulated questions. That's amazing, Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
I guess I'm wondering what your favorite part of working
together and just your job in general is.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
What's your favorite thing about it? That's a good question.
I would say my favorite part of working with my
mom is just that we have built such an amazing
thing together and just to see like that we've I
don't know, we've been able to like really grow the
company at least since I started here, right.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
And respect.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
We respect each other like crazy. I respect what she
brings to the company. She respect what I bring.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
It's interesting. I think our relationship has gotten better since
we started working together because it is so challenging that
we've had to actually, like when we disagree with something,
which we're not always gonna agree with everything. We have
to learn to communicate in a way where we can
hear each other, and I think as family members, sometimes
you don't hear each other when you talk. So that's
been like the biggest thing that's actually changed our relationship
and it's pretty incredible. Yeah, and then just the job
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itself is super fun. I mean staging homes. I get
to meet a lot of celebrities, a lot of cool
people that I look up to personally, and just style
their home. It's just such a fun experience.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
So yeah, that's great. So do you advise all families
just to work together like me? No? Obviously not.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Now most family businesses don't work.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
We're so impressive.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
That's why I've worked really hard because I have a
lot of family business in my distance families, and I
was like, no, if I'm going to do this.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I'm going to do it right.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
And also I want her to be successful. I want
her to be way more successful for me. I want
my son to be more successful than if. Whatever I
can teach them, I will. But you know, that's what
we're moms. We're here to guide, We're.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Here to be there.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
We're here to sometimes get beat up on. I'm just kidding,
but it's you know. I mean, I can say I'm
super blessed. I mean, we went through a lot, but
I'm so blessed. I have amazing kids. They work very hard.
They have old school morals, so they don't work like
you know until four, they.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Work like I do.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
They work a lot, but they love it. And that's
the difference. When you love something, you want to work
at it, and I do want to. Yeah, And it's
not a race. I want to tell you, it's not
a race to be an adult. Like take your time,
find what you love. Like I never thought she was
going to work with me. Maybe you will be working
with your mom, maybe you won't, but like, take time,
time and really honor what you want.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
That's really important.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
And can't you come from like a divorced family, which
I know is a lot. It was really inspiring. I
think for me and my brother, the reason we have
such a hard work ethic is because we saw my
mom and my dad honestly working so hard to support us,
Like it just gave us that mentality that, like, we
can do whatever we want. And then my mom's mindset
she definitely embedded into us from my early age as well. Well.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
It sounds like you're very lucky that you've got a
awesome mom, an amazing mom, And good for you set
a good example because even when you got off the
wrong track a little bit, you set the example to
get everybody on the right track, which is what moms.
Because we're not perfect, none of it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Nobody wrote a book.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I'm this close to perfect, but I'm not there yet either.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
And it's a hard job. I mean, being a mom
is not easy, you know.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
So congratulations to all the moms out the Absolutely, that's.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Why we're great.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
This is amazing that you're doing so that moms have
somewhere to go. When I was pregnant, I had nowhere
to go. You know, there was no rule book or
book that even told me what to do. So congratulations, well.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Thank you, thank you. Well where can they? Where can
our listeners find you all in your podcast and your business?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I never know, I hate.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
If you're looking for staging, you can go to EHS
Elite Homestaging c A California dot com. If you want
to find us on Instagram, our Instagram handle is Elite
Homestaging dot com not dot com sorry, just late homestaging.
And Nicole Senia is my Instagram handle. Sam Senia is hers.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
And The Power of We Official is our podcast and
check it out.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
We would love that. And this has been so great.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Thank you, thank you so much, and you check that out, ladies,
and thank you Zoomer moms. You were all tremendous yea,
and thank.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You for your questions.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Thank you, Georgia. You know you got a special honor
your mother has never gotten before, which is to introduce
one of the Zoomer moms. So don't tell her that she's,
you know, because then she'll start making demands on men.
I'm not sure that I'm really quite ready for that.
We want to thank our sponsors, the Beaman Hotel, which
has been amazing. They have hosted events for us in Dallas.
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We've had Mom's Club events, which we're going to do
all over the country Tennessee, Nashville, Colorado. We've got big
plans for them. And they're events that we have where
moms come together and get to know each other and
then the local vendors and people make donations and there's
some great prizes there. I actually did try to win
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some at the last event, but I got caught, so
I'm not allowed to do that. But they're great prizes,
which is why you absolutely want to come to those.
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your subscription. It is well worth it. Check out new Calumn. Well, Georgia,
this has gone by way too fast. I think it's
always so much fun. But we will be back next
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time with celebrities and extraordinary moms just like you. We
know your me time is precious and valuable. Thank you
moms for spending it with us, Georgia. Our motto here
on the Mom's Club, and someday you'll appreciate it more
when you're a mom yourself. If you don't laugh, sometimes
you're gonna cry. So keep laughing. We'll see you next
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time inside the Mom's Club
Hi, Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
(00:35):
inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom.
Welcome Mom's welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and today I have a special co host,
Georgia Orchid. Welcome Georgia.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Thank you Monica Jeres.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
For joining us. So, Georgia is the daughter of our
co host Julie, and we sent Julie off on assignment
so that Georgia could come and sud for her. Because
I have a lot of questions. So, Georgia, what's the
most embarrassing thing you can share about your mother?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, where do I start?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, No, we're not going to do that. So, so
you and your mom, But you and your mom have
a great relationship. You're very close, right, would you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I would say we're very close. It would seem to.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Be I think, so she helped you move out here
to Los Angeles, right, she sure did.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
My mom has always been there for I just graduated
from college a year ago. My mom has been there
for all stages of life, in all stages of moving
me in and out of different eras that I've lived through.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And so now you graduated college and you are ready
to start your your life and adult hanks, ma'am. So
you don't have to call me ma'am.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes, I'm from the South.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's just that's true. That's very polite. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So she just moved you out here to LA and
I know she's gonna miss you terribly. Are you gonna
visit a lot? At least you're gonna be a good
daughter and.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Visit often. I will absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Welcome her often into your home.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh yeah, I'm returning to Austin, Texas later this week
because my sister is going to be in her senior
play and she's a soccer player. She'll have her senior
moments in high school.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So that's good. So yeah, because I have two sons,
and sometimes it's tougher with when you have sons, like
they go off and you know, I call us, well,
they will. Yes, but I my oldest son, and this
is not to criticize, but he has an apartment. I've
never seen it and it's in Austin, where we live.
So oh, he's not yet invited us. Now that maybe
(02:48):
that's a good thing. Maybe it's because it's not presentable.
I don't know what the deal is. But so yeah,
so would you ever? Would you ever work with your mom?
I mean, do you think how would that go?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I think it would. It depends on the topic. I feel.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I feel like we would work together.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, she doesn't watching.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
She's watching this show right now, so I feel like
I have to say that you do.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'm gonna give you some advice. She is she is
actually yeah, she's actually watching what you're doing. Yeah, that's
kind of a mom thing too. She's also I don't
want to make you conscious of this, but from what
I understand, she's got the text numbers of everybody in
the studio and she's texting notes and things. Yeah, so
(03:34):
she will actually very much on top produce. The producer
in this room just told me to sit up straighter.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes, but not because she thought I was slouching, but
because I love my mother, who's in Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Where did text at her to tell me to sit
up there? Where did that come from? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So no, am I sitting straight enough?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Hey? I get that all the time too, And I
couldn't be tall. You're sitting up straight. You're doing a
great job. I think it's I think you're good. Could
you ever do that us with your mom? Maybe? Not
that I'm actually I thought, not that I'm wonder in
the coast chair, but two co hosts together. Yeah, maybe
you guys could.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The embarrassing stories would be never ending.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, well, you know what, We're gonna do another episode
later when she's not watching with all the embarrassing stuff. Well,
you know what, Mothers and daughters are amazing, all amazing,
as we say, And we have a mother and daughter
team here to get today. Who are the duo behind
Elite Home Staging and Elite Mason Furniture. And they also
(04:32):
have a podcast called The Power of We, which peels
back the curtain on sobriety, sanity, and survival. Please welcome,
Samantha and Nicole Sinio.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Welcome to the.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Most Probably.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
It's so nice to be here. It's like amazing to
be here and we're not there. Yeah, well, I like
it interview us in this chair. We're always there interviewing everyone,
and it's so fun. I love seeing the dynamic. Good
for you for coming on amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's great. Now how did you all start
doing a podcast together?
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
We met this crazy lady. We met this amazing lady
and I think you know her. And she said, I
want you to tell your story and I was like,
how am I going to do that?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And she's like, have you ever heard of a podcast?
I was like nope. It was during pandemic right yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
After and you know, I was still doing zoom classes
and I skipped my zoom class because for some reason,
I was like, I have to go to this meeting.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh yeah. She was like, our life's about to change.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
So we met with her and we knew instantly, like
we had such a connection. And I didn't even know
what a podcast was. I didn't even know what she
wanted me to do, but I knew I had to
do it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So tell me a little bit about your story that
made her think this would be a great podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Where to start?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah, well you start?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I mean we have just like as a family,
oh crazy story. We're both sober and it's good for you. Yeah,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
We're sober and my son sober. So we're a sober family.
Let's get that started. And that was not easy to
get there, right, Yeah, it was. Actually we have some
crazy stories.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
We had so much going on in our life.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You know, I was a single mom when they were
five and six, and what happened to me was, you know,
I wanted to keep them in their lifestyle, right, so
I would go out to you know, cocktails with my
friends with moms and the kids would be playing and
I would start with a glass of wine. And that
was like my way of, you know, dealing with the
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stress as a single mom. And that was really hard.
You know, it's hard on the kids. It's going to
make me cry. I'm not used to talking about this lately,
but it was. It was real. It was real life,
and being a.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Mom is not easy.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Being a single mom is definitely not easy, right, And
you know, I know a lot of people out there.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You're scared.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Sometimes you don't know what to do with your life,
so you pick up that glass of wine. Yesterday, I
was at a lunch and I saw these moms with
kids and it was like eleven o'clock and they were
drinking wine. And let me tell you, that was me.
But you know what, that didn't get me anywhere. What
it got me is a lot of headache.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah. And since we've been on this like sober journey
together with her and my younger brother as well, we've
just been able to like reconnect in such a special
way where we can really be there for each other.
We have such an open and honest relationship and we
can do so many fun things together and it's just
like such a great way to live. And I think
it's just changed everything. And that's why we wanted to
(07:47):
start the podcast to show people that even if you
come from like a dysfunctional family or whatever, you can
I'm emotional.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I don't even would you cry a lot, show you
don't worry about that. We laugh too though.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, you can have an amazing, amazing time with your family. Yeah,
things can change.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I mean it changed a hundred percent after that. And
then you know, then we just started. I always wanted
to empower women to get into staging. So there was
no nobody was doing staging right. It was a big
company and me and little companies, but women did not
have careers in staging.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And I was like, when I.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Spoke on Steve Schul's stage and people were asking me
all kinds of questions, I said, you know what, that's it.
I'm going to make sure that people know women know
they can have a career in staging. And that was
really one of my things I wanted to do. And
then little by little she started working at the bottom
in my company, and now you know, I'm going to
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fast forward. She's a big time boss empowering young entrepreneurs.
So now there's so many young entrepreneurs. It wasn't like
that when I was like doing it and it's fun.
Thank god she can deal with them, so I deal
with my age.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah here, I know exactly what you're saying. So, so
were you Did you have the staging business when you
were first divorced and they were little?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
So where did I got divorced in two thousand and
eight and I was like, we lived in Calabasas. I
lived a very bougie life. I didn't know what I
was going to do with my life. And a realtor said,
you're going to start a staging company, and I was
like okay, great. So they were six and seven and
I started the staging company in my garage with a partner,
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and literally they would come home and they'd be like,
where's my bed? Well, hold on a second, let me
get back to you. But yeah, so we started there
and then I slowly built it up, and the alcohol
was during that time. And then you know, they went.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
To high school.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
That's when it was hard for me, because high school
is hard for moms.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, I don't know, it was hard for everyone.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, I was just gonna say that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
As a dog, sure you can really like you don't
really know what's going on. You're trying to figure everything out.
And like for me, that's when I first saw drugs
and alcohol at least. And she was crazy. So that
was fun and I got to throw all the parties
because I had the crazy mom. I mean, we had
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So you were the mom that I was.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Let's go to Cabo.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
You bring three friends, Brandon, you're breaking three friends, and
then we would go. It was we had a lot
of good times. But you know, the alcohol does bring
out like other things. So it's just not the way
I wanted to live my life, you know, but I mean,
we have grown so much. I can't even tell you
(10:48):
not that Laurie helped us start on the podcast, which
has changed our life one hundred percent for forever. You know,
we are very grateful to her. And then we kind
of brought this whole thing into our company. So when
we hire, we make sure they understand we are here
to empower you for your journey.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Right. So, Nicole, you know, trains them.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
We do meditations with them, we do positive affirmations with them,
we do all that kind of stuff, so they know
they're amazing just the way they are.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But we're going to help guide them to the next
level in their love.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well, one of the things you said, which I think
is so true in our society, you were just going
to mom's events and everybody's drinking, so I can see.
And I practiced law for years, and the little time
that we ever got to go anywhere outside the office,
it was always let's go get margarita, let's go do this.
It was all around alcohol, So it's very easy to
fall into that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And then did you feel like watching your mom as
she was drinking more? Did that make you feel like,
as this high schooler that oh, well, you know it's cool. Yeah,
I think with your friends around her doesn't have any
impact on you at all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
For sure. I think, like as a child coming from
like an alcoholic family or anything like that, when you
see that's what's normal in your mind, you normalize it, right, Like, well,
mom had a drink to feel better, so I should
have a drink to feel better. And that kind of
stuff is like it just gets played in your selbconscious
without I think you knowing it, and that's when you know.
(12:20):
And then also like mom was having fun, so I
was like, oh, I could have fun too, and like,
you know, it just happens, and I'm sure you can.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Relate, right right.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I actually am hearing the timeline. I think we might
be the same age. I'm twenty two.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Okay, I wish I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This happens every time I like, I get the yeah
yeah closer in age.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, I was wondering what it would what it's like
working together with your mom.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Honestly, we have a really good time. We have a
great relationship now, and we mess with each other a lot.
And we're also very different. We use different parts of
our brain. I'm pretty I'm more logical and she's very
creative and like we get each other. We know each
other so well that when she's thinking about things, I
just know what she's thinking about without her having to
explain it, so I can explain it to other people.
I don't know. We have this like crazy connection where
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it just works.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
No, that happens with me with my mom.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Sometimes she's trying to say something and I'm like, no,
I understand what you're trying to say. And it's almost
like your daughter can be your own like translator. But
it's not like another language. It's just your mom's brain
into something everybody else can understand.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I can see how that can be very helpful in
a business capacity for you guys.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So how'd you get in? Then you told us how
you got into staging? But was that so? Let's face,
my husband would be the first one to tell you,
I could never do a staging business. I mean maybe
it's not easy, maybe an antique store like full of joke, because.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Waging business is not for the week. I'm going to
tell you right now. I mean, do I work all
the time? One hundred percent. I work a lot. I'm
very involved in my company. I have a very big company.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
The reason I have a big company is because I
stayed present in my company, and that is so important
for any moms that are trying to start a business.
It's important to also be with your kids, but to
stay present even when you get bigger, because people need
to still.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Want to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
They still want to know that you're involved in your business, right,
And that's really why I think it's keeps.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Going up and up and up. And I'm not corporate, right.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I started in my garage, so and I funded everything,
you know, little by little by little.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So how did what were you doing before that? Because
for someone to stay at your house for sale, you
would want to see what their what their work looks like.
So if you just started, were you working with somebody
else and you were kind of what was sing or
staying no?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
So that's so funny.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So I got divorced and this big realtor said you
need to start a staging company and I didn't even
know what that was. And he said, you just need
to decorate homes and you know that need to be sold.
And I was like, okay, I can do that. I
can do that because I built four houses. I didn't
even think to myself. I can't do that. I don't
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have past work. I don't I just did it. I
went out, I did presentations. I went and I got furniture,
and I just went. I didn't even put that thought
in my head. What did I do before? I sold
purses and jewelry when they were babies at a restaurant,
I'd sell ten thousand dollars a night and sell to
all the moms.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
That's what I did.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's very good.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Before that, I was in selling cell phones when they
first came out.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
So nothing to do with any wo wow.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
So I've always been an entrepreneur and I always have
been very creative.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I'm a very creative person. My eye is very creative.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
So I just you know, when I put something in
my mind, I know I can do it, and then
I do it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, that's impressive because for someone to allow someone to
come into your house to stage it, like I have
a friend who just did that and she said, oh, Monica,
it was really something. They just like took. I just
watched them being carted out of my house. I could
barely talk because they were packing everything up and then
sending it off to the storage unit. So you've to
have a lot of trust.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
But you got to remember back then, people didn't even
know what staging was.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I had to talk them into it. First of all.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
I had to explain to them, when you stage, you're
going to get so much more, so much money, more
money for your home that you would never because you
have all this personal stuff out. So I had to
explain it all to them and then bring it in
and then it started happening. One after the other people
would get more money for their home.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So what's the stuff you want to take out then?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Because all the personal stuff, the.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Family photos and things like small belongings are an important
thing to take out of your home because when you
know a potential family is walking through the house, they
want to picture themselves living there. So we always highly
recommend depersonalizing the house.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So if I want six oscars, I should remove them
because I also.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Privacy purposes too, especially in LA like we signed work
with a lot of people who need to get rid
of all their stuff put them away because you just don't.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Know, and decluttering is the cluttering one.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, people don't realize when you're going to sell your house.
You gotta when when we walk in the door, you
got to think the house is going to be sold
in three minutes. So that's exactly what you know. You
have to already get that mindset that I'm selling my house.
I've got to clear out, clean out, declutter, and get
the personal stuff out.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
So really I'm essentially moving. Yes, already moving.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
You're moving on to your next journey. How excited.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I just think about it like that, like you're moving.
You get all your stuff ready to move, and let
us do our job so it sells quickly and then
you're ready to go.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I mean, we actually are helping people's dreams come true
because their dream is to get out of that house, right,
And that's how that's.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Quite a job. Like I have hundreds of books, and
my friend was telling me that the person that stayed
her house took every cover off of every one of
her books, like it would take for I mean, I
mean if I ever had to put them all back on,
that would like that's so everybody's a different philosophy. I
guess as to what needs to go. And of course,
well so things have changed. So we were supposed to
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be here a couple of weeks ago. The fires kept.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Us from going devastating.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I live in Austin, Texas, And I was at a
get together with neighbors the other night and there's like,
oh you, all these families from Palisades are moving to
Austin and we're all talking each other. Do you want
to sell your house? Do you want to sell your house?
Because everybody's like leaving because they don't have a house
to go to. But what's it like? Now? What's your
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business like? And I know you've even you're helping people
that have lost everything, So tell us a little bit
about that.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well, this isn't my first rodeo, let me tell you,
so let me just go back. So I feel like
every time there's some kind of catastrophe in Los Angeles,
I'm like the first responder. And I do that on
purpose because I would give back to the community immensely.
So when COVID hit, every single thing was shut down
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like crazy. But my business manager said, you're essential, I
was like, perfect, what does that mean?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
He's like, go do what you do and let me
tell you.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
We helped so many families be able to because they
were really freaked out. Then I would go, I would
help them. I would tell them to get them ready
for staging. And then they'd move to wherever state they
wanted to. But so I've already kind of done that.
So this time when the fires happened, I knew immediately.
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I put a package together, a rental package, and I
advertised and let the people know we're here for you.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
This Palisades, it's not people.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
It's like most of the people is not like you
and I there. You know, they are been there for
many years. It's three generations. It's huge homes. So most
staging companies don't have that kind of furniture. So we
put a package together and I personally took that on myself.
I went out and met with them. I brought my
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stager and then we went out and helped them. And
we've been extremely busy, extremely busy, but you know, it's
nice to help and give back.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh yeah, I mean you've done that for homeless people.
Did I read that or what is?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So tell me about it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The Midnight Mission.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
So the Midnight Mission, yeah, is a organization where people
come off the streets that were either using drugs or
you know, battered women or you know, just couldn't pay
their bills and they were living in their cars and
I got together with the president of it and he said,
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I'd love for you to come and stage some you know, units,
And so I was like, okay, sure, I had no
idea what I was getting involved in at the time,
and I went.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And I staged these units out of the chills.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And literally I made them like cute and like, you know,
really light and colorful. And listen, these people were on
the streets. So when they come in, they don't even
know how to live anymore. But they the little kids
would come in and help me, and they were so excited,
and I knew that second I needed to continue. This's
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so this year, every year we donate thousands and thousands
of dollars. We probably donated over half a million dollars
of inventory. But this year we got to donate to
a mom who has been on the streets and she
finally got into the program and she's learning how to
get a job again, she's learning how to they have childcare.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
She just got a job at Amazon and she has
three kids. And you know, we were able to gift
her with when she transitions out of the transitional living,
she's going to get a new apartment. We're going to
furnish it for her. So that was really amazing.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, it's really so nice to see these people and
everything they're doing for themselves and bettering themselves to be
able to help. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's got to feel good.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And then all the people here that have lost everything.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Yeah, so I mean I can't help everyone, and unfortunately
we get calls all the time, you know, doing everything.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
We can, but right now we're focused on furnishing rental
homes for people who are doing temporary living to find
a place to live because most of these people did
lose all of their belongings, clothes, I mean everything. So
you know, we're doing what we can to help everyone. Yeah,
and yeah, it's it's a crazy time. I mean, if
you've I don't know if had you been to the
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Polisades before.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I have been.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, it just looks so different.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, it's very sad and yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
So you know, hopefully our community is strong and we'll
we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
What's a beautiful place, it's so beautiful. Yeah, I feel like,
you know, it'll come back for sure. But yeah, there's
so many families that have been there for generations, right.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Yeah, and it's important that people know like that we
are a mother daughter team, and so when we're out there,
they remember that, you know, because we are a family
business and we want to help them. And I think that,
you know, living I've always lived in LA I've always
lived in California, and it's it's so nice to see
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the community really coming together through all of this.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
That's what I think.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I've the best thing out of everything that's happened in
the last you know.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well, we reached out. We wanted moms across the country
to help here and in North Carolina where they also
living in tents right now the winter, so and do
what they can. But yeah, I really, you know, commend
you and and you're a good example. You know. What
happened here has made a lot of people think about
a lot of things, Like in Texas. I learned through
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that experience that we're the third at risk city for wildfires.
So I talked to a girl whose family lost their
house at Palisades and she was talking about I had
She said, I had the flu and I've called my
mother caused me and I have to leave the house
because of the fire, and I have to decide what
to take. And she said in part she took the
wrong things because she said, I took my birth certificate
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and searching for it you can get one really quick.
So it's also to explain to people to be ready,
like I know, if it were me, I don't know
what I would it would take. So yeah, no, that
was that was quite an experience. Well, we have some
ladies who would like to talk to you and ask
you some questions and they are ours mom, So why
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do my mom?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Welcome to the Mom's Club. Introduce I'm gonna introduce each
one of you and tell us a little bit about
yourself and if you'll all have questions, and I guess
I will start with because she'll be really quick because
she's she knows how it works here at the Mom's Club.
My usual co host, Julie, Welcome to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well, hello Monica, Hello Julie, Ja, Hi Mom, Hi ladies.
Your story is amazing. I uh wanted to touch base
on figuring out like how many people work for you
as everybody involved in helping people with the fires. Are
you continuing your business obviously as well? I mean, what
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does that look like?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
You want to answer? Do you want me to yes?
We're continuing our business.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
We run about six to seven trucks a day, so
we're doing staging, we're doing rentals, we're doing everything.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yeah, we are so busy right now.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
We've gotten an extra extra trucks that are dedicated to
furnishing our rentals. So we have like two separate aspects
of our company right now.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yeah, and I know this won't surprise Monica, but I
do have a part two real quick.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's sounds surprising, Go ahead, go for it.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I just want to know, like, first of all, congratulations
on being sober. I think that's thank you, very difficult
and amazing that you told your story. But how how
did it come to all three of you coming to
that same journey.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
That's an interesting question. I think if I don't know
people who know anything about like addiction or everyone, I
don't think it. I don't know how excited, but like
it's not because she's sober. I had to get sober everyone.
It's like a mental we talk about I don't we
talk about it as like a mental obsession over right,
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drugs or alcohol and there's many other things, so you
know it. Once she got sober, I think it set
a really good example for me, and I realized very
quickly after many bad instances. I'll say that I needed
to get sober, and I knew where to go, And
I think that was the biggest thing, is I knew
who to ask for help, and I was able to
ask her. And then my younger brother actually he was
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partying like crazy in college and I had noticed it
for myself and I was able to have a conversation
with him and he knew where to come to get
sober as well. So I think the biggest thing is
knowing where to go to get help because a lot
of times, like if you normalize it, you really don't
know where to go.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And also when you get sober, your life just gets
better and better. I mean, they saw a huge difference
in me right and you know they're struggling. They're having fun,
but they're struggling. But when you get to that point,
you're drinking, and then it's not fun anymore.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
They're like, God, does this get better?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
And you know, I appreciate.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
You sharing it because it gets brighter, it gets clearer.
So thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
bit about yourself, and do you have a question.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
Yeah, So my name is and Dynam. I'm a realtor
actually in the Marina, the Santa Monica, and you know,
I've also coached with Steve, so that was just a
small right and I'm one of those agents who got
the swan of people coming in after you know, the
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fire and one thing that we've been and I have
one son, as you said, like, I'm also a mom,
so and he wants to do real essays. I'm taking
cues from is it going to be a good idea?
But it seems like it's going to be a good
idea to work with your whole child. So my question
is like one of the things that I'm actually dealing with,
I have a lot of leases and we're turning it
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to short term rentals and most of the stages in
the area it's easier to stage to sell, but when
you stage because the person is going to live there,
it's been really challenging to find enough stages are willing
to do that. So in your business that your business
had to pivot from staging a property to be sold
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to staging a property as a maybe short term or
leaster for people that had lost everything in the fires.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Well, first of all, I have a big company, so
we do rentals and we've done it for many years,
so this isn't like a new thing that I'm doing.
And we have an amazing team in the back end.
So basically the rentals work like this. It's one price
for the move in, the inventory and the pickup, and
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then there's a security deposit.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
And then there's a monthly.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
And the great thing is I have an amazing team
that checks everything so everything comes clean and new, and
we just do it with furniture. We don't do the
accessories in the art and all of that, so that
that way they can because these people want to make
it their home. They don't want a stage home, right,
they want to make it their own. So I tell
them when I go out, do not don't need that.
(30:00):
You need to do that yourself so you can make
it your own place. And yeah, I buy containers all
over the world, so I'm ready at any time for anything,
so don't forget us.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And that's impressive to start from your garage to all
these trucks and places.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
To thank you, I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Allie, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
bit about yourself and do you have a question.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Yeah, so, hi everyone. I actually lived in the Palisades
for ten years and my kids were one of those
families that actually West their home. I'm in Calabasis now
and I am the founder of Youth Thrive Wellness, Inc.
I help bring in mindfulness and meditation and healing arts
(30:48):
to the schools and community. Great so and that's my
main I would say, I also do after school merichment programs,
but my love really is working with kids and parents
and teachers. And so my question, I think you know
right now, I feel like I'm manager transition from all
(31:09):
the after school programs I'm doing to like really focusing
on my nonprofit and putting all my energy into it.
And I heard you speak how it was just a
mindset like you just did it. And I sometimes have trouble,
like my mind is like, oh, you can't do that right,
Like it's it's so much.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
So because you're stuck in the fear. You're stuck in
the fear. To get out of the fear, and you.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Need to write down everything that you want to do
and you just got to take one step at a time.
Don't stay in the fear. The fear is just an
emotion and won't get you anywhere. Like they were young,
I wanted them to stay in their live lifestyle. I
didn't want to have to move to a one bedroom apartment.
I knew this is what I had to do and
that's it, and that's how you have to stay.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, you can use your meditation tools as well. Like
some of the things that I do because I get
to fear a lot is I'll do like a meditation
hypnosis to get out of fear and into faith or
whatever you want to call it spirituality. And in order
to do that, you can, you know, change your mindset
to really you know, better yourself and focus on the
next step and the right next thing and the next
right action. And I think that that can help a
(32:17):
little bit as well.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Thank you, but you got this.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Good luck to you.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, you're doing an amazing works.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, that is that is very impressive. We have such
impressive Zoomer moms.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
We always do.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I'm always impressed. Great, Kim, welcome to the Mom's Club.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and you have
a question.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
So my name is Kimberly. I have two little girls
and I resonated with your story a lot. I was
an entrepreneur for the last thirteen years I've had my
own business, but with having kids, it's it's just so
much harder, especially the age that mine are.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
They're two and a half eight months. Wow.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
So I guess I have two questions for you guys,
how did you keep the balance between work life and motherhood?
And then for Nicole, what made you decide that you
wanted to enter your mom's business?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Good?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Good question, Yeah, you go.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So, to be honest, I'd never thought I would work
for my mom or enter any type of design. I
actually went to school. I went to LMU, got a
bachelor's and journalism. I wanted to go into the news.
And during the pandemic, it was like a hard time
for everyone and she needed help in the warehouse and
I had really nothing to do. I was just getting sober.
(33:32):
I started working in the warehouse, counting the inventory, and
then I was like, just you know, I wanted to
do more. And I loved the environment, the work environment there.
It's a lot of like female empowerment, and I was
getting empowered myself, so you know, I just kind of
fell into it and I started really loving it growing up.
She we moved a lot. We moved every single year,
(33:53):
and she always had a different style in our house.
So I think I kind of picked up the design
style just like growing up. And you know, I started staging,
fell in love with it, and it was like no
question ever since. I just knew it was the right
thing to do.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
That's awesome, Yeah, and I totally feel for you. I
know exactly what you're going through. Yeah, because my kids
are seventeen months apart, so it was very tough. But
you know what all I did was I worked until
three o'clock. I made and then I would pick them
(34:28):
up from school, take them to ballet, basketball, baseball, whatever
it is, made dinner.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
And started again.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
It was a again a mindset for me. I didn't
have a choice. I decided, you know what, I wanted
to be involved and I wanted to do this and
I even worked out and I had a great body
back then.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I don't know how I did that, but it's just.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
You know, the I think the one of the things
that is really important is to give yourself grace. Give
yourself grace, like tell yourself you're amazing, you got this.
Like That's what I did every day, and I will
tell you I have an amazing life coach that got
me to stay on track. So I really believe, and
(35:13):
I'm telling all of you guys this. You know, at
fifty six years old, I've had a life coach or
two for many years because it helps me when I'm
going up here.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
It helps me to stay on track.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
It helps me to stay on track with my family,
with my stylists, with whatever it is in my life,
because you need someone else to talk to beside your
husband or your best friend or someone that is in that. Really,
I always say this, if that really has made the
difference in my life.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Did I also read that you do athletic you do kickboxing?
Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (35:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Wow, Now that takes a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
That's where I get my aggression out. Yeah, I'm like, yes,
I got this, I got this.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
That's really good advice for someone who's just starting their
career and trying to balance a bunch of things at adulthood.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Right right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I know, Nicole, You're you're not a mom yet, no,
thank god right now? And neither is Emily one of
our zoomer moms. So Emily, do you have another question
or a first question?
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Hello, I'm Emily.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I'm twenty three and I just graduated u CLA.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Congratulated questions. That's amazing, Thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
I guess I'm wondering what your favorite part of working
together and just your job in general is.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
What's your favorite thing about it? That's a good question.
I would say my favorite part of working with my
mom is just that we have built such an amazing
thing together and just to see like that we've I
don't know, we've been able to like really grow the
company at least since I started here, right.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
And respect.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
We respect each other like crazy. I respect what she
brings to the company. She respect what I bring.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
It's interesting. I think our relationship has gotten better since
we started working together because it is so challenging that
we've had to actually, like when we disagree with something,
which we're not always gonna agree with everything. We have
to learn to communicate in a way where we can
hear each other, and I think as family members, sometimes
you don't hear each other when you talk. So that's
been like the biggest thing that's actually changed our relationship
and it's pretty incredible. Yeah, and then just the job
(37:32):
itself is super fun. I mean staging homes. I get
to meet a lot of celebrities, a lot of cool
people that I look up to personally, and just style
their home. It's just such a fun experience.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
So yeah, that's great. So do you advise all families
just to work together like me? No? Obviously not.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Now most family businesses don't work.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
We're so impressive.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
That's why I've worked really hard because I have a
lot of family business in my distance families, and I
was like, no, if I'm going to do this.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I'm going to do it right.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
And also I want her to be successful. I want
her to be way more successful for me. I want
my son to be more successful than if. Whatever I
can teach them, I will. But you know, that's what
we're moms. We're here to guide, We're.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Here to be there.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
We're here to sometimes get beat up on. I'm just kidding,
but it's you know. I mean, I can say I'm
super blessed. I mean, we went through a lot, but
I'm so blessed. I have amazing kids. They work very hard.
They have old school morals, so they don't work like
you know until four, they.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Work like I do.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
They work a lot, but they love it. And that's
the difference. When you love something, you want to work
at it, and I do want to. Yeah, And it's
not a race. I want to tell you, it's not
a race to be an adult. Like take your time,
find what you love. Like I never thought she was
going to work with me. Maybe you will be working
with your mom, maybe you won't, but like, take time,
time and really honor what you want.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
That's really important.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
And can't you come from like a divorced family, which
I know is a lot. It was really inspiring. I
think for me and my brother, the reason we have
such a hard work ethic is because we saw my
mom and my dad honestly working so hard to support us,
Like it just gave us that mentality that, like, we
can do whatever we want. And then my mom's mindset
she definitely embedded into us from my early age as well. Well.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
It sounds like you're very lucky that you've got a
awesome mom, an amazing mom, And good for you set
a good example because even when you got off the
wrong track a little bit, you set the example to
get everybody on the right track, which is what moms.
Because we're not perfect, none of it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Nobody wrote a book.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I'm this close to perfect, but I'm not there yet either.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
And it's a hard job. I mean, being a mom
is not easy, you know.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
So congratulations to all the moms out the Absolutely, that's.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Why we're great.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
This is amazing that you're doing so that moms have
somewhere to go. When I was pregnant, I had nowhere
to go. You know, there was no rule book or
book that even told me what to do. So congratulations, well.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Thank you, thank you. Well where can they? Where can
our listeners find you all in your podcast and your business?
Speaker 4 (40:15):
I never know, I hate.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
If you're looking for staging, you can go to EHS
Elite Homestaging c A California dot com. If you want
to find us on Instagram, our Instagram handle is Elite
Homestaging dot com not dot com sorry, just late homestaging.
And Nicole Senia is my Instagram handle. Sam Senia is hers.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
And The Power of We Official is our podcast and
check it out.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
We would love that. And this has been so great.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Thank you, thank you so much, and you check that out, ladies,
and thank you Zoomer moms. You were all tremendous yea,
and thank.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You for your questions.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Thank you, Georgia. You know you got a special honor
your mother has never gotten before, which is to introduce
one of the Zoomer moms. So don't tell her that she's,
you know, because then she'll start making demands on men.
I'm not sure that I'm really quite ready for that.
We want to thank our sponsors, the Beaman Hotel, which
has been amazing. They have hosted events for us in Dallas.
(41:15):
We've had Mom's Club events, which we're going to do
all over the country Tennessee, Nashville, Colorado. We've got big
plans for them. And they're events that we have where
moms come together and get to know each other and
then the local vendors and people make donations and there's
some great prizes there. I actually did try to win
(41:36):
some at the last event, but I got caught, so
I'm not allowed to do that. But they're great prizes,
which is why you absolutely want to come to those.
And we also want to thank our sponsor, Newcom, which
I'll tell you Newcom has saved my relationship with your
mother because it's an app that you use to sleep
better and reduce your stress and focus. I mean, it's
(41:59):
a great app and if you're interested and you want
to put, if you put Mom's Club in the code
at checkout, you get fifteen percent off every month of
your subscription. It is well worth it. Check out new Calumn. Well, Georgia,
this has gone by way too fast. I think it's
always so much fun. But we will be back next
(42:20):
time with celebrities and extraordinary moms just like you. We
know your me time is precious and valuable. Thank you
moms for spending it with us, Georgia. Our motto here
on the Mom's Club, and someday you'll appreciate it more
when you're a mom yourself. If you don't laugh, sometimes
you're gonna cry. So keep laughing. We'll see you next
(42:40):
time inside the Mom's Club
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