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Speaker 1 (01:01):
This is DJ Retro here for the Grind Podcast. Thank
you for coming back to listen to another episode. Today
we have another guest and I'm kind of intrigued. I
have to let you know the things that she can
do and the things that she can put together and
pretty much show you her vision. You're definitely gonna like it.

(01:23):
The guest today is no stranger to beautifying a home,
staging some furniture to give you that new fresh look,
or whatever you need and don't forget. You can listen
to other episodes of The Grind podcast at www dot
theogrind dot online. So what I'll further do. I'm gonna

(01:44):
introduce Dusty Steve Fans. How you doing, Hi.

Speaker 7 (01:51):
Asking me here?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
You're very welcome, thanks for joining us here tonight. I
know we were chopping it up before we started to
record to call, and we were getting into some great conversation.
But before we get back into it, I would like
for you Dusin to introduce yourself. We know that you
are the founder of Go dus Staging and Design, and

(02:15):
I'm gonna I'm gonna let you take the floor here
so you can let the listeners know who you are.

Speaker 7 (02:21):
Thanks James. So, yeah, I got into homestaging. Let's see
twenty twenty one when the real estate market was going crazy,
and during that time it was a pandemic, you know,
and we had just bought our house twenty nineteen, and

(02:42):
so we were in the process of doing a lot
of remodeling and things like that. So I so rewind
my husband's an architect, so I was in the health industry,
and yeah, I should have stuck with that to help
people during the pandemic time. But you know, during that time,
a lot of people were like, oh, okay, atter work.

(03:03):
I wasn't going to the plot studio, I wasn't teaching people.
I had a few coins that I would go to
their house, but you know, I was like, you know,
I'm doing this stuff to my house. And then I
was staying the real estate and they were these houses
were just flying off the market and they didn't look
so good, I mean, and they were getting a lot
of money for it and multiple offers, and I was like, wow, okay,

(03:26):
I know this is just the time. But at the
same time, I'm looking at them and the houses really
looked bad, and I'm like, imagine if they would have
faced and they could have got more money. So they're
basically leaving money on the table by not, you know,
doing the things that they should be doing for their home,
because at that time, like your house is a product,

(03:49):
you know, and you're selling it. So just like we
wouldn't go out on our first date with Wheelers in
our hair, or we wouldn't you know, sell us are,
you know, without trying to detail it first anything like that.
It's the same thing for your house, and so you're
going to market your house in such a way that

(04:10):
you know, during that time, it's just it was a
tough time. But that was what intrigued me about it
because my husband, you know, him being an architect, and
would come home with all these projects and everything, and
I'm going over stuff with him, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, I really loved this design stuff. And thinking
back to like when I was young growing up, and

(04:31):
I'm like, I've actually always been into that, but the
health field was, you know, pretty much was my life.
So so tapping into something totally different, you know, on
the creative side, I'm like, wow, I really loved this
a lot, and so I dove into it and went
to school for it and got credited and you know,

(04:53):
started started out working on the business side of things.
And you don't realize, you think it's all just about, yeah,
being creative and all that stuff, that there's a lot
more to it than just that when you're trying to
like run a business, so yeah, you end up realizing
it's more business than it is actually creating.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Well, yeah, I could agree on that one. Once you
start diving into like the nuts and boats of it
and getting acquainted with the behind the scenes stuff you
have to do, yeah, you get kind of book. But
when you get into I'm sure when you get into
that mode though, when you actually find it being pieced

(05:38):
together and your vision is coming to fluition and the
client loves it, what's that feeling like when they walk
in and you've sourced what they've meant, And what's that
reaction like for you?

Speaker 7 (05:54):
So so the reaction is, so let's just say, you know,
back when HDTV started hdgt N, I say that right,
hg Oh my lord? So that was what year was that?

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Man?

Speaker 7 (06:14):
So I had a talent home that I purchased and
then I remember watching that all the time. That was
one of my shows, and I said, oh my god,
the reveal, right, was like that was the main thing
of this. People loved that before and after. Yeah, And
I remember watching and then that's what made me go
and you know, to get my real estate license and

(06:36):
all that during that time. So without was I must
have been. That was so twenty twenty twenty, Oh my lord,
I'm forgetting my years now because we're problem now. So
it was like twenty twenty four, twenty five. It's actually

(06:58):
right before two thousand and eight. That's what it was
because before the market crack, and that's why I didn't
continue on with my real estate license because I was like,
uh oh, I'm not doing so well with my property
that I own right now, and I'm like, how could
I get into the real estate market right during that time?
But looking at so like, let's say in client, they

(07:22):
are when you're changing up their house, So I do.
I specialize more in occupied homestaging, so it's not necessarily
vacant homestaging where you're putting in everything is your idea,
and that's great. When I first got into staging, I
had to realize who am I and what do I do?

(07:43):
Because if you're serving everyone in the market, you're not
serving anyone, you know, if you're trying to reach everyone. Yeah,
so I had to niche down. And you said you
were in the military, So I love to serve that,
and you know, the help the elders like downside things
like that, you know, because they're an older generation and

(08:07):
they're not understanding that in today's market that what is
in their house is not marketable for what today when
the so let's just say the homeowner who's coming to
buy your home is going to be a lot less
younger than you are, right, who's coming to purchase your home.

(08:31):
They're about ten years younger, twenty years younger. And if
you look at it, you're get to say, well, they're
probably the age maybe when I purchase this home, because
most people keep their homes about eight you know, five,
eight years, ten years match usually right.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
So.

Speaker 7 (08:48):
When you think about it like that, you know they
need some upgrades. And so I like to do consultations
and come in and say, okay, listen, I'm going to
work with your existing items. And so it's not that
luxurious as you know doing a vacant home and bring
the in more brand new items. I mean, that's amazing,

(09:10):
But for occupied homes, I like to help with the
budget and say I'm gonna work with some key pieces
that you might have in your home, and I'm going
to place them in a way that's going to show
your home's best features, right your home. Like sometimes people
the way that they decorate their home. Decorating is not

(09:33):
the same as staging. So decorating is their ideas what
they like things like that. So if I do a
redesigned project and I'm gonna say, okay, here, fill out
my form, tell me everything that you like, and then
I am only helping them design on what they like.

(09:54):
But when it comes to staging, I have to tell them, Okay,
I know you love your blinds that are hanging up there,
that you spend a lot of money on curtains, right right,
And some people are like, oh no, they're they're going
I'm selling them with the house, and you're trying to say, oh, well,
I don't you know, the person who's purchasing the homes

(10:16):
probably doesn't want those curtains, right, And see, it's like
trying to tell them in a nice way that let's
just take all of this down because maybe that window
is a big feature of the home. As soon as
they walk into that living room, you have a big
window that outlooks overlooks the yard outside, and then it
looks really nice. But with these curtains up, it's kind

(10:39):
of darkening the room and it's not showing your space
in the way it should be shown. Right. So that's
that's one of the tough tough things, is trying to
just convince the homeowner that this is not your house anymore.
If you're getting ready to put your house in the market,

(11:00):
that's not your house anymore. And you have to look
at a business transaction and say, what is going to
be the best thing that I could do for this
house to get it sold quickly? And then that's all
we're thinking about.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
And I kind of noticed that. I like watching what's
the one about the millionaires when they sell the house
in la I got an English show, but it's.

Speaker 7 (11:27):
Just that one where the girl she's was the playboy.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Model, I believe, So I think she's on that show.
I'll think about it in a second, but I I
like watching that show. It's so many good shows out there.
But right, so I got to go back and recordable
Hulu and go back and flash them. But they even
say the same thing like you're saying. It's like, you know,

(11:51):
if I if I have a home, I get so
attached to it, but I don't realize I'm not attached
to it. So you come in, you're looking at it
like you say it from a business perspective, and you
have to detach me from the home.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
In order to spell it right.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Not that you don't care, but you have to. You
have to be that one to say okay, let go right.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
It's saying it all in a nice way. And that's
why I try to tell like real estate agents like hey,
I'm here to help you, so that you it's like
the good cop, bad pop kind of thing. So if
the agent comes in and we are part of their marketing,
you know that they say okay, just like any other contractor,

(12:36):
they're gonna say, all right, well, I have a professional
homestage that that's going to come in and take a
look at your house and then let you know, you
know the things that can be changed around here before
we put your house up on the market. So that's
always my big thing, is like stage before you list,
because you're missing out on money. It's the house. I

(12:56):
see a lot of homes, and there's a lot of
them are just I don't know what the photographer is,
I don't know what's going on and just taking these
photos and listing them. But it's very frustrating to me
to see that we're in twenty twenty four now and
and you know, ACTV has been up for a long
time and uh staging has been around, you know since

(13:21):
the seventies, you know, Short you know, coined the terms
on staging, and it's it's going on. It's been around
for a long time, but there's still those people that
are still listing the house just as is, and it's
just not gonna work in today's market. It really isn't et.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, I'd like to share a stat from your website
so everybody our listeners out there. So if you go
to gold Dust STAGINGILV dot com, shout out to Dusty, right,
So she gives you some numbers here and I'll just
read them from her web page. It's say, it's a
staging statistics show staged homes sell eighty eight percent faster

(14:05):
and for twenty percent more. So that's a phenomenal number.
And the one that got me is is eighty two
percent of buyers find it easier to visualize the property
as a future home when it's staged. So she's even
giving you this knowledge on the website about what's important

(14:25):
to sell your home and what staging can do for you.
So I'm glad you actually put those those facts up there.

Speaker 7 (14:32):
Yeah, And just like we spoke about, you know before
we started recording, is how you know your wife can
see the vision, but then you know, your brain works
in a different in selection and you walk in and
you're like, eh, I don't see it. This is not
not my thing, right, And a lot of people that
don't have the eye for it, and some do, so

(14:54):
you know, staging might not be forever. And there's a
lot of people that just adore, you know, home de
core and they don't need a stager. But for those
people that are out there, there's a lot of people
that just don't have the vision whatsoever. And what beaging
does is let them see what this home see and

(15:14):
without having, you know, having to say, oh gosh, I'm
gonna have to go in and repaint all these walls.
You want your home ready it needs when when buyers
are looking on you know the MRIs, listen on Zillow
or whatever to say, okay, let's full house shopping this weekend,
and they're scrolling through shite white white and they look

(15:36):
and say, oh man, look at that house. Okay, Nope,
I don't want to see that. There's it. I have
to fix too much stuff about it, you know. So
you're just you're not giving your home the opportunity that
should have before listing it and I try to get
a hold of people way beforehand. I mean it takes
like a month to two months of going through your home.

(16:00):
And if I could get to somebody before day lists
are home and say hey, let's get your home ready, right,
I'm able to use the items that they have. And
then if there's some key pieces that need to be brought,
like a coffee table, other you know, linen, you know,
white towels, white beddings, you know, because that's one of

(16:21):
the main things. Your room might look heavy, it might
have dark furniture, but you just add in, like you know,
some tops of color. Get that white in there so
that it looks good for the photos. So that's there's
there's a lot of different techniques that you could do
for the staging. It's just each house is different, right,

(16:43):
You're not going to use the same same thing.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
For each house, right, And you know, clients are be
flexible too. So I'm talking to these clients out here
that would like to have staging done. When you have
a professional come into your home, like Dusty, when she
shows up, she's licensed, she's insured, she knows what she's
been doing. She's doing this for a while. Don't ask

(17:06):
for a deal. Pay you gotta pay for it. You
gotta yeah, come on, now, you know what, So if
you want it done professionally, folks, you also have to
be willing to pay the professional right. Take what they
say for granted, take it for a great AsSalt and
be like, listen, I'm gonna trust you on this, okay.
And I think sometimes as clients too, you know, it's important.

(17:29):
I was. I was a private investigator for years. Wow, yeah,
for ten years old the fire investigator. Yeah. Yeah. So
I worked law provisions, private investigations. And the one thing
I had clients call me and they would say, hey,
I need this done, I need this person follows, I

(17:50):
need this and I'd be like, okay, cool, I said, uh,
you know, sixty dollars an hour, yeah, and that could
That's when I started. That's when I first started, right,
So I didn't know. But even then they were like,
they were like, that's a lot of money. Can you
do it for twenty No, they don't. They don't understand,

(18:13):
you know exactly. I'm like, you don't understand the gas
I have to put in my car, I have to carry,
the weapon that I carry, I have.

Speaker 7 (18:23):
Probably in the mindset to do that. It's not like
to go out there. It's got to put on your home,
whole game face, your whole game face, just like you
have to put on your home your game face when
you go out when you source, you know, and not.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah. Yeah, so you know people have you got to say.
Anybody listening now, if you're on the other end of
someone who does this work profession, you really got to
understand what's going on.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
So yeah, I want to from what's that?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Where you? Where are you originally from?

Speaker 7 (19:05):
Born in Vegas?

Speaker 1 (19:07):
You're you're Vegas natives?

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Oh yeah, awesome? Oh yeah, and just just finally got
out of there.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Mm hm m hm. You know, it's good to actually
meet a Vegas native. I think a lot of folks
that have meet they are from everywhere else but Vegas.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Really yeah, predominantly, I mean there's some here and there,
but predominantly I meet a lot of people who are
not from here. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (19:35):
I the Vegas. I used to love it, you know
when I was younger, growing up, it was great. I
used to live like right behind the Venetians, So there
was apartments back there. I think it was called desert
clubs and that was amazing, like when you're in your twenties,
because you know, we didn't have high rises and stuff
back then, so that was that was the spot over

(19:57):
there off So that was the spot, and that was
the life, you know, just running around doing my thing.
And but yeah, living outside of Vegas now is the
best decision I made. Now. You know, with my husband
being an architect, we can actually start building our dreams.

(20:19):
You know, he wants to build a home that we're
able to be able to become Airbnb hosts things like that.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
So there's a lot.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
Of stuff for the future, you know, just trying to
think of, Okay, my skills, I'll be able to be
the project, you know, directing everything, putting it all together.
He's designing it all. I'm designing like all the interior stuff.
Of course, he's not doing anything without my face.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
So way.

Speaker 7 (20:52):
He likes to put things together and then he shows
it to me and I'm like, well, actually, I think
you should put this here and there and there. So
it's it's a lot of fun. And I'm glad I
jumped into you know, homestaging because yeah, during the time
when I was telling him, hey, honey, I think I'm
going to get into home staving, you know, because he
works with interior defensers, you know, and like, what the

(21:15):
heck is homestaging? And I didn't even know about it,
you know before then obviously actg but I never like connected,
you know, all these things together that Okay, yeah, like
this is something that you can actually get into a
profession that you could get into without going to design school, right,
like paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and then be

(21:38):
stuck in school for like four or five years.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
And I'm like, Okay, how come it's a real kept
secret in the industry, right, yeah, pa into this.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, And because when you're getting into it, you're still
working with all you know, design files, You're still using
all these apps and everything to build and create stuff
to be able to send science and say, hey, here's
here's what I envisioned what your room would look like.
Do you like it? Okay? If not, say no to this,

(22:12):
they know that, and then I can go back and
start creating again something else.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
But just just like you.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
Said, James, like, no matter what profession it is, you
there's a lot of work like behind the scenes of
how to prepare for something so moving moving out of
Vegas and getting a place so that I can have
a large garage because if you were to rent like
a warehouse in Vegas, I'm got be paying out the

(22:41):
Yunyang for that, you know. And so now I'm out
here in Proun and I actually have I have space,
you know, and to start working on inventory to be
able to rent out furniture because out here it's kind

(23:01):
of a tough uh industry out here, because I've called
a lot of agents and they're trying to say, well,
oh no, we don't do staging out here. And I said,
wait a minute, don't you understand that this place is
growing and it's basically the next Vegas, right because Vegas
actually is so bad, happen to move on the outskirts. Yeah,

(23:26):
And I said, if you don't jump on the bamlag
you Now you know, soon everyone is going to be
forced to stage homes because that's just going to be mandatory.
It's that's just the way it's going to be. But
until it gets to that point, everyone seems to think
that they don't need it.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
So, you know, we we visited Perump I want to
say four weeks ago. We actually went on we actually
went on a Sunday drive out there because we were like,
we hear a lot about pump. Yeah, and we just
hit the highway and just went out there from you know,
and it didn't take long to get out there. It
was only like, what thirty thirty five minutes?

Speaker 7 (24:03):
Well for you, it takes an hour actually, But where
where are you coming from?

Speaker 1 (24:08):
I think we were already. I think we were already
by Blue Diamond or somewhere down there, right, Yeah, we
were already out that way. So we just we just
shout out that way just to see what was out
there because we heard it there was a winery out there. Yeah,
and uh yeah, we went out there. It is growing.
I see a lot of new bills out there, yep. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:31):
Oh and that's and so that's the other thing. So
if I'm working with occupied homes, that's the main thing
I try to tell them, do you know you're competing
against the new home bills. People are gonna come out
here and they want they're gonna say, why am I
gonna purchase this house that's old and kind of like

(24:51):
ran down, It needs some upgrades and all that. Unless
they're into that kind of thing, they're gonna end up
getting a new home build because they're going to get
a better deal and we don't have to fix anything.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Footage out there because it's really not really not restricted
out in proNT right now.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
Yeah, right, yeah, So that was one of the reasons
why we came out here, so that we could build
and you know, do our thing. But I definitely it's
trying to get people convince them. It's not the thing
is not convincing. It's just saying, you know what, this
is what I know to be true, and just know it, right,

(25:32):
because you can't really convince someone to to do something
that they don't want to do really, right, So.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Did you guys come in? I remember the night that
we met last year, rightly. I think we introduced ourselves.
I was playing in Lake Las Vegas, so when I
was out there and we introduced ourselves. We introduced ourselves
to each other in time flies, doesn't it. And did

(26:02):
you guys have to drive here from then or were
you already still out We just.

Speaker 7 (26:09):
Misved in March, we just moved out here. So we
were we lived. We lived in Tustany that was right
by Lake Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh my goodness. We were neighbors.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
Yeah, I love it over there.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I missed Las.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
Vegas a lot. Actually, it's it was such a nice,
like little getaway and the wetlands.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Oh my god, beautiful, beautiful ride our.

Speaker 7 (26:42):
Bikes and stuff, and and that's the difference of living
there versus living out here. We haven't been able to
find like the secret spots, you know, like you know,
bike and because it's just such a vast open space
out here, it's like, okay, where do we go? So yeah,

(27:03):
we we were coming back from Death Valley and then
that's and it was during Christmas time and we were like, hey,
let's let's go look at houses for fun. Yeah. No,
it's never for fun. You look at something and you go, okay,
let's get it. It's like trying to stay I'm gonna
go look at this car, right and you're gonna see
the car. Of course, it's always going to be the

(27:24):
one that you want right.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
There, exactly, And you wound up buying the first dig s.
Yeah for a second.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
Yeah, it's yeah, you can't just go look at something.
I've never really been a big window shopper anyway.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
So for our listeners, do they do you just of course,
you just don't take care of there.

Speaker 7 (27:46):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
What other areas do you service to if anybody were
to call you get.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
In touch with you, Yeah, Senderson, Las Vegas and perumpt.
But I mean, you know, if you're if you live
out of state, obous, they would have to work work
a deal, you know, Premia to do something like that.
But mostly I'm just in town. Yeah, in Nevada.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right, what's the what's the commercial where the attorney
was saying, if somebody says Nevada, Nevada, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (28:24):
When you go to the d n B, there's like
a basing sign that said it's Nevada, not Nevada.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Mm hmmm. See, I'm originally from Chicago by way of Michigan,
so me coming to Nevada. I used I used to
visit here when I was in the Marine Corps and uh,
I was stationed in California, up and down SoCal and
every once in a while we'd come out here and
do maneuvers on the Air Force base against the Air

(28:52):
Force because I was in the Air Wing in the
Marine Corps. Now so yep, so I frequented of Vegas
a lot, a lot, So you know, I was always
in and out of here. But my wife fell in
love with it when she when she visited, and we
came out here as well and got married out here.
So I want to Yeah, she was like, I want to,

(29:14):
I want to move. I said, well, let's go there.
So we picked up from Georgia and relocated out here,
and you know, we love it. It's a m it's
a big move. You know. We were sitting still pretty
much for like going through things, you know, life for
fifteen twenty you know, fifteen years or so before we

(29:35):
met each other. And yeah, it just kind of it
just is where we call home and we like it.
You know, spread out people are friendly for the most part.
Uh about five years now?

Speaker 7 (29:49):
Wow, Yeah, it goes by fast.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
It does go by fast.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
Now we were talking it was just yesterday.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
It does. It just goes by so fast. You know,
it's just like I can't believe this year we're already
in going into it's already August. It's like what happened?
And uh, and around this time last year is when
we kind of met. So hopefully when you came to
the DJ set, you you enjoyed what you hurt?

Speaker 7 (30:16):
Oh are you kidding me? No, that's so. Yeah. So
it was a I think I messaged you if I
take me a little video or whatever.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, the NASCAR, and we were.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Sitting upstairs out there at Lake I'll say this and
every time. So we were up there just hanging out
and watching TV up there, and it was nice if
nobody else is up there, so we had the whole
place for ourself. But you guys were all jamming out
downstairs and something would come on, a good groove would
come on. I said, oh, and my husband's like, go

(30:49):
down there and go dance. I'll see you in a minute.
I said, okay, I go down there and dance and
get my groove on for a second and say, okay,
going back upstairs, back upstairs time. Yeah. I came down
several times and then I was like, hey, man, I
like what you're doing. And I think you gave me
your card. I must have lost it, like I said,
because that was November, and then the Sembers when you

(31:12):
know we're like, oh my gosh, we're gonna be moving.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
This is crazy.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
Get our house ready, yeah, because it was contingent upon
us selling our house for us to get this house here.
So man, was it was crazy. It was a crazy
time being in a house so fast, you know, all
because you know, and that was a sad thing too,
because I told the agent that I was working with,
I said, she wanted to lift my house like right away,
and I said, oh no, I need to de clutter

(31:40):
and get my house market ready, right and yeah, thankfully,
and she kept calling every single day, and I busted
my butt to you know, get that house prepared. Before
you know, I was willing to let people even come
into the house. So thankfully I had some older photos
and I sent them to her so she can like

(32:01):
list it. But I said nobody to come over. And
it took me about, you know, four days, and that
is a lot of work, a lot of work in
four days. And I don't suggest that to anyone. I say,
at least give yourself a month or two to get
your house ready, because it's a lot of work.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, it takes you have all the little knickknacks, the drawers,
the small the small stuff gets I think the small
stuff gets you. But yeah, it's a lot of work.
And I know after that, when we bumped into one another,
I know you had a great time. And for those
that are listening, I do R and B hip hop
throwbacks nineties if you want to book me at DJ
Retro nineteen nineties, So don't yeah, don't be shy, but

(32:44):
that's great. Not. The one thing I like to ask
my guests to come on to the show before we
get out of here is top five. I like to
know what you like to listen to, Like what you're
going on for music? Yeah, like you know, it doesn't happen.
It's whatever you like to listen to, Like if you're
in a good mood or you're going through something or

(33:06):
something's on your mind, it helps you think a little
bit better. Like what's the top five groups or people
that you listen to.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
Oh, okay, educate us.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
We might hear something I need to go in rotation
or something.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Well, yes, that's nice.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Sense.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
So I'm definitely you know, listening to your stuff just
takes me back. It takes me back to like being
young again. You know, I'm eighty, so I'm you know,
what do they call us retro now?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
And yep, retros?

Speaker 7 (33:38):
I'll this month and I'm like, man, you know, time
fly fly And I don't necessarily listen to a lot
of hip hop, but it just depends on what mood
I'm in, you know, because I'll I'll go back and say, oh,
it's if something comes on the radio and we're driving around,
like road trip or anything like that, because you know,
ended up getting the RD and stuff. So a lot

(34:00):
of road tripping and camping and things like that. So
I do love to listen to the old school then
things that are going on now. Just to tell you
the truth, I mean, I listened to Oh Man, you know,
I just get into my own like little DJ thing
because I was like, you know what, I want to

(34:20):
like make some like like lo fi stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
You know what lo fi is? Dood? I just start
getting in a low fi. Yeah you did too, I do.
I do like lo Fi. I start getting into it
probably two years ago because when I was in school,
I was getting my degree in it, but I was
I would use that for good study music like it.
It's like decompressions you a little bit, kind of puts

(34:47):
you in a good mood and smooth jazz.

Speaker 7 (34:49):
I listened to that lot, Yeah a lot too. We'll
plug in some of that when it's like dinner turning
around here and of wine, just like chill out. So
I don't I don't really like happ into a lot
of music stuff. I'm more into like learning. If I'm

(35:10):
up a drive, I want my I want to learn something,
and so I try. I try now in my older
age to say dusting you know, like is that music
like really helping me right now? Like yes, it does
put me in a good music mood. But yes, I
always feel like I need to be learning something. So
I'm always just tapping into podcasts. And but you know what,

(35:34):
now that I see all your songs and that you uploaded,
you uploaded a lot of stuff, a lot of that,
and now I can like plug into that whenever I'm
trying to fill the group, and you know, I can
plug into your stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
I like you. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it.
You ever need to. I did not upload those to
Spotify as a that I'm trying to make sure I
maneuver a copyright and to make sure everything you should go.
But I'll find a way to properly do it. But
for now, for YouTube and other places where it's not monetizing, sure, yeah,

(36:16):
I'll put it up so people can enjoy it and
stuff like that. Yep, as long as I don't have
any commercials, I could put it up or I'm not
making any money on top of their music being played right, So,
and that's the joy of it. I think that's the
side of me where I just like, you know, that's
what That's what I do it for too. I love
taking people back. I hear a lot of people that say,

(36:39):
you took me back to an era where and when
you play this music without now it's kind of got
lost and they haven't heard it and they're like, where
did you come from? I've actually had people say have
you been because where.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
Have you been that I was? You know when I
met you. I'm like, oh man, I'm like, okay, this
is this is good.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
I'm like m M, you know, ye, well thanks? Are
you think you are?

Speaker 7 (37:11):
You beating love Lake Vegas nowadays because I know that
they started back after the whole COVID thing, like there's
Summerset series out there on the lake.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah. I actually performed out there on the lake. They
actually had me on the main stage in Marty Gras
when Marty gra Bor out there. Yep, yep, so I
had I was about to performed there. I'm out at
Bella Linda's her ice cream shot there, I'm out there
on the patio. Yep. So we shifted down there, and

(37:45):
you know, we're around town doing shows and stuff. So
people can look at the website, the grind dot online
and we have different events and stuff that we do
around town and if people need to, they can book
us there, but we kind of move around. We do
a lot of different things.

Speaker 7 (37:59):
For house party, yeah, not everyone's gonna make it out
till they Yeah, yeah, good chill spot.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
So yeah, people book us and we're everywhere, so we're
pretty much everywhere. So wherever they need us, we're doing.
We're doing it.

Speaker 7 (38:13):
Right for open houses and stuff. For realtors, you know,
you can like do a set. That's That's what I
was like, Man, I need to get his information. And
when I saw you on Instagram, I'm like, hey, oh
my gosh, I think I met you, right because you
posted that's what was that picture? It was almost like

(38:33):
ell cool ja kind of yep.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yep, we did a spoof video. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
I was like, oh my god, I think I met him.
And then you know, befriended you and stuff, and I
was like, hey, oh my gosh, I'm like I found
you again because like I said, you know, I lost
your card I moved and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
So I'm also glad we reconnected. I'm glad you reached
out and you know they have somebody. You have great energy,
so it's good to you know, run back into somebody
that's some great energy and very positive. But yeah, we
did the videos and we're doing more on social media, yep.
But you know that's we've done open houses before. We've

(39:12):
done DJ sets, mild music, something in the background, nothing
you know, but were too no fi, yep, jazz sometimes,
you know what. We've actually had people say that having
a DJ there, even though you're playing, because you can
play lo fi anywhere, right, you can just put up

(39:32):
a speaker, but they said it with the DJ, it
gives it a little bit more professionalism instead of playing
it right out of a box, right, so they find
a better reaction. You have somebody standing there, you know,
the main thing is.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
To keep people at the house as long as possible
for an open house, and having a DJ there and yeah,
you got you know, you got the caterer there, right,
they're they're coming or eating food and you got somebody
d ding and people are like, oh my gosh, you know,
and they're already seeing like, okay, oh, imagine our parties here,

(40:13):
what we're gonna do here? You know, they're already starting
to visualize, and okay, what what are the things that
take you back? Music and smells, right, yep, that is correct.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Ye.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
You smell something and you're like, oh my god, that
reminds me of the bloggio or oh my gosh, that
reminds me of you know, anything, whatever the smell is.
But music it takes you back to say, if you're
you're playing like something that's gonna like, I don't know,
you just never know, like the way the energy goes

(40:47):
that day. And say somebody comes and they're looking at
that house and all of a sudden the song comes
on and they're like, god, did someone reminds me of this?
They won't forget that house, right, They're going to say,
oh my gosh, I think I really fell in love
with that house.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
You know.

Speaker 7 (41:03):
So that's it's music is h is a god sense
because it really just takes people to a place where
you know, you.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Don't out And I love you sharing and thanks for
being on the show with us today. We're about to
wrap up the podcast, but before we get out here,
I would like for you to share to the listeners
where they can find you, your information phone number. Please
let our listeners know how they can find you.

Speaker 7 (41:34):
Okay, So I switched my my Instagram page. It was well,
I still have that one, but the Golden Staging, but
I switched over as soon as I moved because I
took a little break and twenty twenty three made the move,
came out here and I said, Okay, I think I'm

(41:55):
going to start a new page, and I started property
Styling with a g d s D four.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:04):
GDSD is Golden Staging and Design. So property Starling my
uh gold staging lv dot com and then my emails
goldst staging at gmail.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
So yeah, and I get to give her a call
to seven oh two five three ro oh five eight
one zero. Thank you, yeah, Jane, very well.

Speaker 7 (42:31):
Ks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
I really appreciate you being here. Thanks for taking time
out your day. And I'm gonna have a special mix,
uh dedicated to you at the end of the podcast
or listeners, please stick around. We're gonna do a micro mix.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we're here from the time A long
time finking thing.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
With the meal that sound bring me alone.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Hey, okay, okay, you see your best spine up figure
your staff. You want to call me your The best
staff have been a welcome to.

Speaker 8 (43:21):
The first death.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
I never regard them, just to impress that. See my
team with a really waste time. You go back for
your one real time. You want to do this one
more time? Can't let me start it? We call you
resident stopping. I'll make it snapping, running thing.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
Like babakay yeah.

Speaker 8 (43:45):
Man, running drinks like wall okay, yeah, we wanna train
g God, we come up with no golly life body
you know, live your life, oh your wa it's.

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we drink Cody bar all there because we life doung
hard all there. We go pat body all there. Every
night in the bed you swear to release your gas.
All drinks doub and done yet old there we go past.
I'm gonna come to pay your hips out there. How

(44:30):
about the way to your lips pocket? You're so sweet,
so nice out there? Another prinds like a bag empress.
See my team, we don't really waste time.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Your rounds are puzzle on one. We lie.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
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Speaker 1 (44:44):
Can let me.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
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Speaker 1 (44:47):
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Speaker 9 (44:49):
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road like yeah yeah yeah, runny drinks okay.

Speaker 8 (45:01):
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Speaker 2 (45:09):
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Speaker 8 (45:13):
Donny life body by you.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Live your life or your word.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
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there so bgin Cody ma old there cover life some
part o there so rigin Cody ma ol there, cover
wee life some part o there so rigin Cody ma there,

(45:40):
cover we life some part There's a whig and Cody barn.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
There's which.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
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Somebody's there, Silent fun technique, sing it fandom bum dum technique,

(46:21):
demand them dumb take like Steger stripe like pulamp tigar
them dead, shut my legus, sweetnap.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Sweet girls, will you what I see? I think?

Speaker 6 (46:34):
Go like real but free like girls Sue said, your.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Loves me with.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
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your boss like you start to cool the night, No.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
Shape but bosh you go boom.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Boom boom boot you can't go.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
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bum bum bum technique Man the bandom dumb take like
Snickers stripe, like to pull um trigger the bad shut
my leguors sweetnapped.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Like your bom.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Bom bomb girls.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Uniform girls before.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Tell come, come, come down my talent. Don't lose no time,
no talent. I need a bomb jumping. Let them think like, don't.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Shaking it up for making it citing your free.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Tactics und technique last collunch every.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
Boom boom boom, I ruined.

Speaker 10 (48:28):
I ruined this, I ruined girl Coobland.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
Cops, we come out.

Speaker 10 (48:43):
The pie vocals say jazz turned them to this We cops,
We come out the pie votles save my jazz turn
out this come from tonight where roll like basses.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yeah, accept losses the price hive.

Speaker 10 (49:04):
We don't care where the glasses we have the cream
and sausage.

Speaker 6 (49:09):
We many gone onderco we mainly got them. Why not
then be he halts me handy your tonight terms not
by the own service for one, not not when we
roll out on night tis not not you own the

(49:30):
service for one not bottle when we roll out a
night time we know, buy one of by gads we know.

Speaker 10 (49:39):
Buy one of my kids, you know, buy one of
my games real us in the places.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
You know, buy one of my kids, we know.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Buy one of my girdresser.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
You know, buy one of my girls.

Speaker 6 (49:52):
We know by one what fat like the girl and
center piece?

Speaker 1 (49:56):
And if I'm people not to say enter please these
drinks in a.

Speaker 10 (50:02):
Return suspense d G when don't bring him expert.

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