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The hosts of the Drugs History podcast are excited to be back for the second week. They discuss their experience with the first podcast and their love for catching up over drinks. They introduce themselves as sisters with different backgrounds and nationalities. They talk about the feedback they received and the drinks they are currently enjoying. They also mention their upcoming collaboration and the photo shoots they had for their company. They talk about a spa day and a Dead Sea Float experience they had with their team. They discuss the bonding and conversations they had during the day. They mention being featured in a publication and a billboard for their company. They express their excitement and appreciation for each other's creativity and collaboration. They discuss their love for creating things and how they are always inspired by different scents and flavors. Welcome back to Drugs History podcast. We are your hosts. I'm Cheryl. I'm Terri. And we are excited to have you back for the second week. Before we get started, I want to know, how do you feel as we go into this, into the second podcast? How do you feel after the first one? You know, I feel better, honestly, because when we were reporting the first one, I wasn't really sure what we were going to get. I had some technical difficulties. I know it won't be the last time. But aside from me actually sounding really drunk the first five minutes of the podcast, just because of the delays, I think overall, it went great. I'm actually pretty surprised. So anything much more exciting than seeing the ending for this week, though. How do you feel? How do you feel about it? I love it. I felt pretty good. Yeah. I didn't get any feedback as far as how raw it was. I didn't get into too much detail. But for those of you that are just joining our podcast for the very first time, we are two sisters with an in and out history who love to catch up over drinks. What are you drinking tonight? Well, I got lazy and poured some wine. I actually grabbed a beer. But, yeah, like I said, we are two sisters with an in and out history. We just love to catch up over a beverage, whether it's alcoholic or non-alcoholic at the end of the day. And we're really here to kind of get to know each other, but also let you guys get to know us, because there's just so much that we don't know growing up in different households and with different backgrounds, different nationalities. Kind of crazy. So it's been a whirlwind, and we're so excited to be catching up. It's just all mine. Perfect. Yeah. But the feedback, I think, after the first one was just really raw. People are excited to kind of see what's going on. And, you know, we just have a lot to catch up on in general, I think, and a lot of drinks. Yeah. I'm not going to lie. But super exciting. So you have a glass of wine. What are you drinking? A cab? It is. It is a cab. That would be hotel. Yeah. We're very drinking. My girlfriend in Miami, Vanessa, actually sent me some beer. She's coming out in a couple weeks, which I'm so excited about. Obviously, there will be a lot of day drinking. But she'll be here in just a little over a few weeks. But she sent out some beers prior. One of those were my favorites. One of my favorite breweries in Miami. It's called Urban Animals. Okay. This is gremlin mode, and I'm all here for it. It's really how I kind of feel today. Yeah. It's just like a gremlin spot. But it's a sour. It's a pineapple, mango, peach, coconut, and vanilla sour. So I'm super excited for this. I've been on this whole sour game. What was that? Fresh mangoes. Oh, I love tree in the backyard. Look at the color on that. That is so good. Oh, it's delicious. God. I bet if you just put ice cream in here, it would be so good. That would be sour float. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. It looks delicious. Oh, my gosh. That is incredible. It's so smooth. It tastes like fresh coconut. Like if you just cracked a coconut open. Yeah. And pulled a mango right off the tree. Yeah. And just put it all together. That is what it tastes like. With just a hint of vanilla at the end. Yum. Urban Animals always does a fantastic job. Like I always need their beers when I pop in. No, you're right. I don't think I've ever heard of them. I'd like to check them out, see if they're sourced here. I can find them in North Carolina. If not, I'll get some over to you. So when I go next time. Okay. Awesome. You can't find them over here, right? Yeah. So she really has to ship them in. Okay. Or I pick a bunch up when I go. Every time I go back home, I take a suitcase just for beer. Really? Okay. And so, not to sound like an idiot, but beer travels well on the plane with all the pressure? It does if it's packed right. There's going to be one or two cans that kind of get a little thick and explode. Yeah. Depending, like sour probably have a better chance of exploding than anything else. Okay. At least a little bit more easily. But, yeah, if they're packed right. But I think, you know, again, just coming out of the industry, you know how to pack up those beers correctly. Yeah. And then hope that nothing explodes. That's why it's just a beer suitcase. You don't put anything else in it. Yeah. The people at the Fort Lauderdale Airport always, like I know, we know each other by name now. It's always the same people that work. And, you know, they're like, oh, hey, Cheryl, don't worry, we got you logged in for the NET allergy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Just because we had an emergency plane landing. We'll get into that another time. We came out of that airport. Oh, my gosh. We all know each other by name. But, yeah, they always laugh at me because I take one suitcase just for beer and chips. Yeah. That's perfect. So what about your day with the little gremlin like? You know, I just, it's just one of those days. Like it's not bad. It's just like if I don't have food or like just kind of leave me alone today. Yeah. I mean, we all kind of get there sometimes and it's not that anybody's upsetting me or that I'm having a bad day or anything like that. I'm just like, just fucking let me be. Right. Yeah. Right? Yeah. I think part of that, too, is the fact that it's going from sun and warm weather to cold and super rainy and gloomy. Right. And I think that kind of brought out the gremlin in me for sure. At this point, like I just, I'm ready for the fun and I'm over all this rain. But, yeah. So we have so much to catch up on. Yeah. Because we haven't talked a lot this week. You've been super crazy, busy, but exciting. And we have talked a bit just because we're doing some collaboration stuff. Yeah. So why don't you tell me about your week and what you have going on because it's so interesting and very dynamic and fun. So, yeah. Let us know what's happening. Well, so this week was, it was a big week. For those listening, I am right now in North Carolina, but one of my best, best friends lives in Virginia Beach and we have this company together called KD Design. She is definitely the leader and the force behind it. But I've been there with her through all the hell that got her to this place. She's so creative on making it. Like, no, it's our business, babe. Like, I didn't do this without you. We did this together, which is always so nice of her to give that little bit of accolade there. So anyway, this week, though, we had a huge week in regard to photo shoots. So I made the trip up to Virginia Beach on Tuesday and then it was great to be with all of our whole team. That's always a good time. First day, we had a spa day. So we did massages and the Dead Sea Float. Have you heard of that? No. Yeah. Well, anyway, the Dead Sea Float is this pod. It's like this chamber and it's so, the salt water in it is so dense that when you get in here, you're just supposed to, excuse me, lay there and float. And you float on top of it. Yeah. All right. Yeah, bring it down, girl. So the team that was there, most core team, there were five of us and we do have other players within the company that are more on the extended side of it. But the local core players in Virginia Beach, all of us ladies got together at the spa and it was funny because, like, you know, one person going to get a massage or maybe two people get a massage and then one person going to float. Well, Katie, Beth, and I are just like, we know a lot of sea when it comes to each other. And they've been such great friends for so many years. They were like, you just got to float together. And so we went into this pod because we're so buoyant, we kept bumping into each other. And so after about 30 seconds, we just said, well, let's just sit here and put music on our phone and act like we're in a hot tub. We don't know what else to do. But that was a really good bonding day for all the women together. The other players in the team are, you know, a little bit younger than us. And so it was fun to just, you know, have those conversations that maybe they might be afraid to have otherwise. And we went to lunch afterwards and then got ready for our photo shoot coming up the following day. So that was wild. That was a really good time. Our company is being featured in Scout Guide. It's a great publication. Most major cities have them. It's a franchise publication. So that and then also a photo shoot for the billboard that we're going to be on. That's so exciting. And, you know, Sadie, I love the fact that she's like, this is a we thing, right, because you can definitely tell. I've never met her in person, but just the small interaction that I've had with her on social media has been, like, she's just so, like, more power to women, right. She's just very encouraging and very outgoing. And I absolutely love that, right, when you work with people that are like that. It just makes you that much more excited about it. I love that. But it was so cool, too, is, like, to your point, the fact that she really got the information on some of the side work that you are doing, some of the things that you're doing for yourself. She wanted to make that a collaboration. So we're excited to see how that ends up becoming an ongoing thing. It'll be fun. Yeah. And, you know, thank you. I just – it's so funny because we just have conversations about what drives us and what excites us, right. Yes. And I've just kind of always been that way. We're creating stuff, whether it's a cocktail or it's Syrups or it's food or whatever that's like. Like, I just – I've always had an act – I'm going to say kept, right. Yeah. And I say it that way because I'm very thankful that I have it. Like, if you put something in front of me and I smell it, immediately my brain just goes crazy and it's like, okay, this is going to go with this, this, this, and that. That's awesome. Like, we need to make this right now, right. Yeah. Yeah. And it worked well for me, you know, work-wise because a lot of suppliers were coming in with a new product that they're launching and they're like, hey, what cocktails will we do with this, right. Yeah. And it's like, who's smelling the bottle? And I'm like, oh, here we go. But the fact that, you know, you had mentioned something. You and I are the same way, right. Like, we want to see other women. Just people in general succeed. Yeah, we sure are. It's women and it's our friends and stuff like that. Yeah. Like I said, I haven't had the chance to meet her in person and I can't wait for that day. Yeah. But the fact that she jumped on it, like, immediately. Right. And was just like, let's roll. Like, that's super exciting. I was just like, oh, my God, my shit's coming out in Virginia. Yeah, absolutely. I'm excited for something that happens that way, too. Can you give us a little bit of detail about this collaboration that you're speaking of and what it's for? Because this is super exciting. It's right up our alley. And I'm just, I'm so fucking thrilled for it. Like, I can't even. Yeah. So, it's cool. So, back at the photo shoot that we were doing and the company that I'd referenced, it's called KD Design. And KD Design is an interior design firm, a beautiful interior design firm based out of Virginia Beach. And we have managed through blood, sweat, tears, oh, my gosh, tears, tears, tears, and lots of joy, finally been able to see it really blossom. In fact, it was really fun. And I think I can say this. I don't know. I hope KD will be mad at me. But as we were sitting there having our makeup done, we, our bank account dinged, and we hit that 1 million mark for the year. And so, that was so exciting when you think about, you know, there were lots of times where both she and I, after going through divorce, didn't have power in our homes and weren't quite sure how we were going to pay the water bill or what the kids were going to eat for dinner that night. And so, when you see all the, you know, pain and all the times that you didn't think that you were going to make it at all turn into something so beautiful, it's been awesome. So, anyway, that. And then we completed this hall in the homeowners. That's so awesome. But the final project or product of that project is so stellar that we're going to start doing a collaboration with our clients who, after we're done with those projects, we're going to host an open house so their friends and family can come and see the new space, see what's been done. And we're going to collaborate with you on your product. If you'd like to say a little bit more about that. Sure. So, as kind of briefly discussed, I do make syrups. And I have three core syrups that I am currently making. But it's not just the syrups. So, Hugh and Katie reached out and asked me what it would look like for syrups and then cocktails for these syrups. And, obviously, I already have a Rolodex full. However, they will be using my cocktail recipes along with my syrups and Montels for this open house, which I'm super excited. And then you have one of your favorite bartenders actually pouring them, mixing them up at this open house, which is exciting. It was really fun to see Katie posting about it and kind of give a shout out to everybody who was a little bit involved, right? So, myself and then the whole owner and then also the person who's making the toasters, which are so fun and unique. Yeah. And then the bartender. Super excited for that. And it's funny because when you sent me the video, the finished product, because as I'm designing the menu for this, I'm like, okay, I need to know what colors this house is and it's a Victoria. And it's all these things. We really want to make it themed and personal for them. And you sent me the video. It dawned on me that a lot of Katie's videos on her Instagram page for the design company are bits and pieces of this house where I thought she was doing remodels of different homes, right? Of like a bathroom in one home and like a kitchen in another home and a library office in another. And at the end of the day, it all ended up being one. So, yeah, I'm just super thrilled and I cannot wait just to meet her in person. And what a story. So, congratulations to both of you. Thank you. On getting that one million mark. Obviously, we'll ask her before we put this in. But congratulations, right? Because that's a huge step. And I think it's not just a huge thing. It's a monumental thing because we've all been there even as sisters and having all these things going on. We've been there where we don't know, like, where is the next meal coming from? Like, I'm going to eat, you know, peaches for two days or three days just so that my kids can eat. And, you know, to go from that and be resilient and know that it's just a season and keep pushing through. And then, you know, everybody always says follow your dreams, follow your passion, whatever that is. And at the end of the day, sometimes I think your passion just finds you, right? Right. Yeah. Mine is about following my passion. My passion found me. Somehow I was born with the knack to be able just to put these things together, right, and be creative. And, you know, and I know that it takes work and it takes practice and years of it. And same thing with you and Katie. But at the end of the day, sometimes your passion just finds you. Yeah. And when you're doing what you're supposed to be doing and the right people come in to help you succeed and to see your dreams and your visions kind of come to life, right? Right. Yeah. I think a lot of times that talent is whether it's your design for me or hospitality or the car dealership world or whatever. My passion is people. So that's where, you know, I can say I like hospitality first and whatever. I can, like, put them in order in whichever way. But ultimately, it's about serving people. That part's been really fun for me to see in different areas of fulfilling that, right? And then part of that, too, is having the younger employees that we can train and coach up to be successful in their own way to help them discover their talents. Like, that's super fun, too. It's been a great journey, for sure. Anyways, it's been a crazy weekend over here. You kind of know a little bit. I was at Home Depot, one of my favorite stores in the world. But I was at Home Depot picking stuff up. And then as I was leaving, my car just started acting up. So it is in the shop. Yeah. And not really what I was expecting. But, you know, it is what it is. So I ended up yesterday going to a Life Center. Actually, I did my daughter's school over at LCA. And, you know, sometimes when things are just kind of going crazy in your world, you have to do something outside of yourself. Yeah. Yesterday, I just did some volunteer time. They were packaging food for kids for hunger. Mm-hmm. And so we packaged up 15,000 meals in a few hours for people in Haiti, which was fantastic, right? So cool. And it's not just about you feel good doing it because, again, it's about the people. But I think more so it's about getting out of your own way, right? Like, even though things are just going crazy right now in whatever, you do something outside of yourself and something for somebody else, right? Yeah. And it kind of brings you back to, you know, things aren't so bad. Yeah. And, yeah, there was quite a few of us. I'm going to say there was probably, I don't know, like at least probably like 70 people there. But we were able to wrap these meals. You just pack them in bags. But it was, like, seasonings. It was rice, soy, seasoning, and then chicken stock. And we just set up in a line and just kind of went that way. And there was so many people at each table. But, yeah, what a fun experience. And I'm just so thankful to be able to have had the opportunity to give back that way. Yeah. So Christian dropped me off and went and did his thing for a little bit. But, yeah, it feels better just to do, like, I'm just one of those people that if things are going crazy in my world, as long as I can, I'm going to, like, go find something to do for somebody else. Right, right, right. No, I love that. I love that. And it really does have that effect on us, right? Like when we think something really big is happening in our world, it's good to reflect on truly how fortunate we are in so many other ways. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I would like to know, though, 50,000 bags or whatever of food, how does that compute in my head with 70 people? That just seems wild. So when everything is bad, where were the bags going into? What were the bags going into? Okay, so here's how it's set. So they have, like, 15 tables lined up, right, like just long tables. And then they had stations set up. So there was people there earlier from, like, seven to nine that were there to do stuff. So they set up all the tables. And then at the end of each table is just big bins of one of chicken stock, one of these drying seasonings, one of dried soy, and then rice, obviously. And then in between is, like, bags, these little bags that you can just feel, right? So they have the logo that stands for hunger, and then it has, like, directions and stuff on the back. And so we have the bags with, like, a funnel in between. So you just put the bag right up to it. You funnel all the stuff in. And then you put it on the weigh station, and then that person weighs it to make sure. And if it weighs too much, they take a little rice out. And if it is underweight, they put some rice in, right? And then there's somebody that seals it. And then there's so many bags that get lined up. Like, there was a sheet to let you know they're set too high. And once you fill up that sheet all the rows, then you know it needs to go into a box. You close it up, and somebody comes by and picks it up, right? And then it all gets put on pallets. But it was supposed to go from 9 to 11, and it really went from, like, 9 to 11.20. I think once you start getting the system down, because some of these people were families or friends, and they all came together. Our table was, like, two mom-dars that didn't know each other, right? And then I went by myself, and then there was an older gal that went by herself, and then a gentleman and another older gal that went by themselves. So not knowing anybody, we were able to figure out the dynamic and how it worked. And the guy and I were just like, okay, you do this, I'll do this, I'll put the bag on, we'll put it in the chicken stock, and they grab the bag for me, I'll put in my seasoning, and then we'll go from there. And it was kind of like, you'll see it. I'm going to put it all in a video. But we actually had somebody record our system, because it was really fast. We only had two, four. We had, like, seven people at our table, six people at our table total. And some people had, like, 12. But we were able, with the system that we had going, we were able to bump out the same production with less people, just because we had a good system going. And then two of the people had to leave early, so we just had to swap people out and just give them the details, like, hey, this is how we're doing it. But, yeah, it went to about 1120. That's 50,000 meals, which is incredible. And it looked pretty delicious. I mean, it's rice, it's soy, like, it's full meals. But at the end of the day, when they were trying to just write it down for people in an easy way, those $15 meals will feed 250 kids for a year. Oh, wow. One meal a day. All these meals were being shipped off to Haiti. That's amazing. I love that. We have about 350 people right now that are over there, in the mix of everything that's going on, just to pass out these meals every day. Oh, great. I love that. Thanks. But I'm just so grateful for everything that I have and what we have. And also there's stuff going on with the car, and it's not ideal. However, we still have a car that will be running and, you know, and all the things. But when all this stuff, especially all the stuff that's going on in the year and seasons pass through our lives and wondering how we're going to feed kids as single moms and, you know, just feeling like you're not good enough. And, again, everything that's been going on for the last year, it's really just small potatoes when you're thinking about it, right? It's not anything that's going to end the world. Right. Or having your car down. Yeah. So, yeah, sometimes, you know, you get wrapped up in yourself and volunteering always makes me feel better just to be able to, again, it's about people, right? It makes me feel good to be able to meet other people and to help in any way that I can. Yeah, absolutely. Because there's so many more important things that are happening in life. So, yeah, amen to that. Yeah. I know. I know. I don't mean to sound rude. Like, when people are like, good job, it's like, okay. But it's just, for me, it's not like that, right? It just is. It's like, I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. Well, I mean, for the whatever, different volunteer things I've done or charity events and people say the same thing. This is like about me, too. Like, it makes me feel so good to do this, but this isn't sweat off my back. Yes. Like, and I love it, right? Because Peyton, you know, ever since she was, I want to say seventh, so seventh grade, we did one volunteer thing at the church. It was packing up lunches and then, like, these little what we call blessing bags one year. And then they just didn't do it again, and they did other things, right? And so we do blessing bags every year. But she took it upon herself to start doing blessing bags every year. Yes. And so it kind of goes with either winter, so there are week gloves and hand warmers, and there's always snacks and water. And then she always hand writes cards that are just like, God loves you, you know, or you're loved or whatever. But she's been doing that since eighth grade, and here she is going into ninth, and that's still something that she does, and we just keep them in the car again. I need to stop cracking up over this, though, because we have the exact same bag of blessing bags in the backseat of my car in Texas. Oh, my gosh. And you and I have never had this conversation. Never. So see, folks, this is what this is about. We are literally just on here to bullshit and catch up and really get to know each other. I mean, it's like verbatim. It's like I am you talking right now, or you are me talking. It's the exact same thing. Handwritten cards in there, gloves, lotion, water, some snacks, yeah, a hat. So funny. And it's just so good to see them doing a lot on their own. Like, I love it. Yeah. And this is special. Yeah, it's fantastic. And, you know, there's times where she'll just hand things like a bag outside the window. You know, when people always tell her thank you, but they'll hand a bag outside the window. And there's other times where we stop and we grab a coffee and a bagel or something because we've seen the same person who's not bothering anybody. Right. We had this little guy that every morning in the store that we went to every day, he didn't bother anybody. And he literally would just sit there and read his Bible. Yeah. And that's all he had. And, you know, for us, we wanted to get to know those people, wasn't it, right? So we stopped and we got him a bagel. The first time it happened, we got him a bagel and coffee. And we stopped and we gave him a blessing bag. And, you know, we asked him his name. Peyton was just so sweet. She's like, what is your name? And he says, and, you know, you really get to know their story. And it's one of those things where this guy lost his wife and his daughter in a tragic accident and didn't know how to overcome it and lost his job and lost his home and lost everything. And he just really felt like he couldn't live without them. Right. And he didn't need anything else. And he was like, I'm okay. I've got the one thing that I've ever needed, and that's my Bible. Yeah. And, you know, so we probably talked to him a little bit more and, you know, would stop and break him coffee every once in a while. And then he stopped seeing them. And then I saw him randomly one day. Like, I want to say he disappeared for, like, two years. And I saw him again. It was one of those stories where he ended up kind of he got a job in an apartment and started living his life again. But I think he was so down, right, that you don't know everybody's story. And I think it's so important. Like, we always talk about people that are asking for money and stuff. And we can see who's just doing it just to do it and who's doing it for extracurricular activities. But there's also those people that just have a story that you overlook daily, right? But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. Everybody is just a person. Everybody is human. Yeah. It doesn't matter. And it's not up to us to problem-solve if they're going to use it for a cup of coffee at the gas station or if they're going to use it for the next step. It's not up to me to worry about that. Absolutely. And, you know, I would get it, too, because there's people that borrow money and stuff all the time that are living in, like, half a house and half a car or have their own money, and you're spending it on the same shit. So, you know, get it together, to be quite honest. But at the end of the day, people are people. And I'm really glad that, you know, Peyton has her eyes wide open to be safe and to know what to look for if she's ever in a situation, which hopefully she'll never be. But, you know, she just has a longing to love everybody. And Talyn's very much the same way, I can see. And, you know, but I think it's just so funny when we have these conversations, right, that our lifestyles are so much alike. So much alike. Our lives are so much alike in some ways. Sorry, not in some ways. To the point where, again, we've never had this conversation. Right. So we know that. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's fun. I love that. It's so good. Yeah, I love it. Well, next week we'll catch up on some stuff. I would love to have Katie on the podcast, kind of give us a little insight on how she does it and, you know, really celebrate her one million. Yeah. Kind of where she started and how she got to where she's at, because I think it's amazing when you hear stories like that, right? Yeah. We each have our own story and it's, you know, but just hearing somebody else's and seeing where they came from and where their mind's at now and, you know, and how much their life has just changed, I think that's exciting. So I'd love to have her on here soon. Okay. I'll get that live up. Yeah. Perfect. Well, we appreciate everybody tuning in until our second episode. Yeah, it's been exciting and it's been a whirlwind. We're so excited to be doing this with you guys, so thank you so much. Yeah. Sis, I love you. Love you. Great learning more about you and how similar we are. Yes, absolutely. All right, guys, until next week, we'll see you later. Bye. Bye.