The Chamber Members Podcast Episode 6 - Capturing Stories with Josh Troche Pedal Stomper Productions

Welcome to the Chamber Members Podcast, where we bring you valuable insights, helpful business tips, and inspiring stories from fellow chamber members. In each short and engaging episode, we discuss a business tip of the week to help you grow your business and achieve your goals. Stay updated with the latest chamber announcements and events that you don\\\'t want to miss. Join us as we feature special guests who share their unique stories and experiences. In this episode, we have Josh from Pedal Stomper Productions, who takes us on his journey from working at a semi-truck dealership to becoming a successful photographer and videographer. Discover how he turned his passion for storytelling into a thriving business and even built podcast studios to provide a platform for others to share their stories. Whether you\\\'re a chamber member or a business owner looking for valuable insights, this podcast is for you. Tune in to gain practical tips, learn from industry experts, and get inspired by the success stories of fellow entrepreneurs. If you\\\'re interested in being featured on upcoming episodes, reach out to us and let\\\'s schedule your interview. Don\\\'t miss out on the opportunity to grow your business and be part of our thriving chamber community. Subscribe to the Chamber Members Podcast now and join us on this exciting journey of business growth and inspiration.

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Welcome to the Chamber Members podcast.

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During our short 15
an episode, we\\\'ll go over

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a business
tip of the week chamber announcements.

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We\\\'ll get to hear a story
of another special guest,

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Josh with Pedal Stomper Productions.

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First,

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I\\\'d like to mention real quick,
if you are a chamber member

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and you\\\'d like to be featured on podcast,
upcoming podcasts here this summer, later

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this fall.

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Feel free to reach out to myself or Sean
and we\\\'ll get you

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get you on the schedule.

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Now for our business tip for the week.

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Sean with SBS Consulting Systems.

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So today we\\\'re going to talk about goal
setting and 90 day goals in particular.

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Many goals are very important
to grow your business because it helps

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set guidelines for where you want to go
and develop micro strategies to

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to get there.

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Studies have shown that 90 day
goals are pretty much the best ones

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that you can have because

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after about 90 days, your attention
and your focus starts to wane.

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So if you set a goal, 90 day goal,
and then each 90 days review it and set

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another goal,
you can really start to build

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some momentum,
start to have some successes

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and really start to grow
and to build your business.

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One thing we do at SBS Consulting systems is once

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we set these 90 day goals,
we then go and set weekly goals of how to

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or what I call micro strategies
on how to achieve these 90 day goals

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and really to implement them
and to grow your business from there.

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So like I said,
we can help you with those,

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but this is the tip of the week.

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SBS Consulting sits And I\\\'m Sean Hetrick.

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Thank you, Sean.

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Josh, thanks for joining us this week.

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Thank you guys for having me.

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It\\\'s it\\\'s weird being out here. Yeah.

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Look at you from a different angle.

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Yeah. Yeah, we\\\'re closer now.

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It\\\'s.

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It\\\'s disappointing for you, I\\\'m sure.

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So I\\\'m looking forward
to kind of hearing your story

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and how you created
Pedal Stomper Productions and,

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you know, these amazing podcast studios
you got going on now.

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Thanks. It started for me years ago.

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I actually worked at a semi-truck
dealership and the boss was like,

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Hey, go out and take a couple of pictures
of some of these trucks to sell.

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And from there I kind of leveraged that
and I\\\'m like,

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Well, if I can take pictures of them,
why don\\\'t I make videos of them?

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And I ended up with a YouTube channel
that had about 19,000 subscribers

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and a couple of videos
approaching a million views

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that I mean, that\\\'s where the kind of

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I\\\'ve always had a thing
for video and photo and stuff like that.

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But that\\\'s where I\\\'m like,
Oh man, I can do this.

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So it started with that
and that has blossomed.

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I went full time with the business
a little over two years ago now.

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Okay? I have loved it ever since.

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And then earlier this year,
we built the two podcast studios, that

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one of which we\\\'re sitting in right now.

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Yeah. Oh, that\\\'s beautiful, too.
Thank you.

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I think we first met a few months ago
when you\\\'re launching the studio

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from CuyahogaFalls.

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That was, you know, I was just like, Man,
this thing\\\'s awesome.

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Like, we need to get something involved,
you know?

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So I talked to Molly at the chamber,
and she\\\'s like,

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Yeah, someone else was interested.

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I thought that Sean
we start to get things rolling.

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It\\\'s been a process
that\\\'s really exciting,

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so I\\\'m glad we can use the space.

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Yeah, and you guys have had some
great conversations in here.

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It\\\'s been awesome. Thank you

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so you didn\\\'t
start with with your podcast studios.

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You know how I know you mentioned,
you know, you started with

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the company
you\\\'re working for and branched out.

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What you know when you left there.

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What was kind of your vision?

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You know, how do you build those skills
to can do everything you provide?

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Now, it\\\'s kind of interesting because
when I was doing the YouTube stuff,

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it really was
I mean, I was in front of the camera,

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I was behind the camera, I was editing,
I was doing all the things that

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and I\\\'ve always joked,
if you ever start to like yourself

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a little bit, film yourself
for a solid day and then watch it

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for like another day and a half straight,
you will be like, I hate that guy.

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That guy needs to go away.

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But really, I mean, it started
in, I don\\\'t want to say out of necessity,

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but I saw the videos and I saw
I always wanted to get better.

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And that\\\'s

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one of the things that I love about it
is that there\\\'s always opportunities

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to get better with it.

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I when I started to get into it,
I wrote out a business plan

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that said in 3 to 5 years
I go, I go full time when the opportunity

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presented itself and it\\\'s like, Let\\\'s go,

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right?

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So my limited,
limited knowledge of photography,

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I know there\\\'s a lot of stuff
that goes behind the scenes,

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you know, how how do you dive
into learning those skills?

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Is there like a school?

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Did you hit the books?

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Do you watch other
YouTube videos and struggle from there?

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I mean, how does that process work?

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I feel there\\\'s a combination
of it, actually.

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I mean, photography, I mean,
everyone\\\'s like, Oh, I\\\'ve got an iPhone.

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I\\\'m like, Congratulations.

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That\\\'s why your thumb is in
half the pictures, too.

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Or that\\\'s why people aren\\\'t centered.

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It it\\\'s really getting
some basic techniques

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I learned from basic videos
on YouTube University.

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But it\\\'s like anything else
and it\\\'s like even the business side of it

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and like that,
you have to go out and practice.

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It is a skill to get good photos.

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There are some people that are born
with some natural talent.

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One of the photographers

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that works for me, she had never picked up
a camera before in her life,

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but she had some great photos on her phone
and I\\\'m like, She\\\'s got an eye for it.

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So I needed to teach her
the technical side of it.

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We got her up the steam with that.

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So but there\\\'s there\\\'s always new gear,

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there\\\'s always new stuff,
there\\\'s always new things to learn.

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And that\\\'s
one of the things that I love about it.

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But I can still take a decent picture
with my phone and like

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if you compare mine to someone
that doesn\\\'t have any photo experience,

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there\\\'s typically you can be like,
Oh, I know you\\\'ll see that one.

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The passion behind it,
you know, the love for it

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and the passion really go a long way
and speak that in the work.

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That\\\'s a huge part of it.

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And some of the best photos I have
is because I was out

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willing to be outside or willing to be
in these crappy conditions that no

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one else wanted to be in.

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Yeah, it makes like,

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just like you mentioned
last week on your business

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tip of the week, it\\\'s,
you know, put in that time. Yeah.

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The consistency, consistency and just
learning a little bit, a little bit

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and then 18 minutes a day for the year
and you know when you\\\'re 95% better than

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your competition, just that consistency.

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So yeah, it\\\'s consistently
looking at and looking at photos.

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I mean, I edit
every single photo that we run

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so we can look at it and be like,
what do we need to do to get better?

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Because there\\\'s always there\\\'s
always little tweaks that you can make.

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Now, I know you have

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a wide range of services, but what are
some of the services that you guys offer?

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And the main things that we do
is we do a lot of event photos and that

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in fact we do a fair
bit of work for Belden Village.

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We\\\'ve done a lot of work for that
for the mall with photos,

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videos, a lot of the event stuff.

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We also work with a number of nonprofits
for doing promotional videos for them,

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and that\\\'s one of my favorite
kind of passion things because we

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we love telling those stories
and some of those

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the ability to get in there
and tell their stories.

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Same thing
with some of the commercial side.

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There\\\'s a lot of great businesses
out there that their stories need told.

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Yeah, and we absolutely love doing that.

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We do that both photo and video.

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And then once again here in the podcast.

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Yeah, it\\\'s been nice the till we did that
the Aultman Care Foundation

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and the pathway caring for children
that\\\'s it\\\'s

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nice to see what they have going on
and how they support the community

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and what support they need for sure.

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And it\\\'s that it\\\'s
one of the things that I love about it.

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For me, I\\\'m a storyteller.

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You can
tell by the amount that I\\\'m rambling.

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So it\\\'s so being a storyteller, though,
I love coming in and hearing these stories

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and helping these people tell stories
that may not get out

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otherwise, like Pathways, their story,
they market well.

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They do things
to get out in front of people.

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But the fact that you guys brought them
into the studio here,

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there was a story there that I mean,
if you haven\\\'t

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watched that yet, people need to go out
and watch it or listen to it.

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But there\\\'s a stories there that probably
wouldn\\\'t get told many people otherwise.

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And that is what I absolutely love.

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That\\\'s what gets me up in the morning.

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Yeah, and definitely video and podcasts
allow that, allow that storytelling.

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And it\\\'s the easiest and best way
to get that across over and over without.

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I mean, we\\\'ve seen in a few hours
and you can you can keep posting it.

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I mean it\\\'s out there for every might get
a million views you know right

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exactly it
that\\\'s it\\\'s it\\\'s out there just forever

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working for you all the time
even the photos the same thing.

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It\\\'s out there
working for you all the time.

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So I we always like to ask business
owners,

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especially small business owners, get
started in their first nine or ten years.

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So, you know what?

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I guess first is around the customer.

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So what problem do you solve And or,
you know, what would you

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do you feel for your customers?

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For me, it\\\'s that the the problem is, is
so many of them need to tell their story.

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Don\\\'t know how to tell their story.
That\\\'s one part of it.

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The other one is
this is in so many cases, it\\\'s

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just generating that marketing material
for them.

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Someone\\\'s got an event like let\\\'s say
there\\\'s

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for instance,
there\\\'s an event at the Hall of Fame,

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rather than having one of your employees
run around getting for pictures

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that they\\\'re going to forget about

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until the last minute,
that they\\\'re going to be half on an angle.

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There\\\'s going to be a thumb
and there may be some kid picking his nose

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in the background that they didn\\\'t notice.

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Yeah, we come in and take those photos
and get rid of that pain.

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So now they\\\'ve got photos
not only to say, look at what we did,

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but they\\\'ve also got photos to promote
that event the next year

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and they\\\'ve got photos to do other stuff
with.

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And it\\\'s the same thing with the videos
we\\\'ve used.

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We\\\'ve created video clips

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for people from events
where we\\\'ve gotten 100 clips out of it.

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We used 30 for the initial video to say,
Hey, look at what we did.

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And then two months later
they\\\'re like, Hey, we got an event

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that\\\'s got something similar.

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Great, let\\\'s come up with a video for it.

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So it it really it helps with that
marketing and it gets rid of that pain

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point.

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And we can do stuff vertical too,
because they know rails are hot,

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so we\\\'ll do stuff
or we\\\'ll do stuff for vertical also.

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So that way people can put rails together.

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It just takes the pain
away, makes it easy for them.

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They don\\\'t need to think about it.

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So what do you customers choose
you over a competitor?

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And there\\\'s a lot of people that do
photography, you know, like there

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is, you know, how you know,
how did you do free yourself,

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you know, and you provide a little bit
more than some other people do.

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So tell me a little bit about that.

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We we have a little bit more depth.

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We have in many cases,
I was supposed to be working

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with a professional golfer here
and a project coming up and like, hey,

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do you have a photographer
that can work with us on this?

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And I said, Yeah.

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One of my photographers
just came in off the PGA Tour,

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so we\\\'ve got depth in the bench,
I guess you could say, to pull from.

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The other thing is I always strive
to become a partner of whatever business

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we\\\'re working with.

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We want to know your business.

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We want to know what you do.

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We want to tell that story correctly.

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And that\\\'s what
we\\\'re going to take the time to do that.

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It\\\'s video and photo
is very much like paint going on a house.

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It\\\'s so much about the prep work
and not as much about the paint.

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If we put in the time and the prep, it\\\'s
going to come out looking great.

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That\\\'s awesome. That\\\'s so important.

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So let\\\'s get back into
inside of being a small business owner,

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what has been the biggest risk
you\\\'ve taken and that has paid off?

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We\\\'re sitting in it. Yeah. Yes,

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we thought that was going to be 100%
that we\\\'re sitting and that this was

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I mean, there was a number of people

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that were like, Hey,
you should do a podcast studio.

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We need something like that here locally.

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And it ended up I was planning for one

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and the opportunity popped up that I just
kind of had to take on the second one.

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So I wrote more checks and I was very much
planning on a lot of equipment,

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a lot of equipment
to see if there\\\'s a lot of stuff on there.

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Tell you

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there\\\'s a lot of lights and shining stuff
over there that is that is flashing.

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And yes, but I mean, to me, this is it.

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And I it\\\'s been great so far.

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I mean, it\\\'s work.

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We\\\'re gaining traction.

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It\\\'s never I mean,
so many businesses opened their doors

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and like, we\\\'re here, everyone\\\'s like,
you\\\'re going to hear crickets.

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Yeah, it has taken us a little while
to get some of that traction.

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But as we\\\'ve gotten traction,

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I mean, especially thanks to guys
like you, I mean, this has been

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I mean, the phone is ringing,
people are coming in.

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They see the value behind it.

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So the risk is feeling much better. Now.

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I can sleep better at night.

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Plus, it\\\'s nice because you have a

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you know, you have that staff
and I can fill in for you and you can have

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a whole wide range of different hours
for shoot for people.

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When you were talking
about differentiators

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and the equipment in the studio
in general is a differentiator.

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You provide a quality equipment
and quality environment to do it.

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And for sure,
that\\\'s what we\\\'re going for in this.

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We did not want to stick for phones
around the room and be like,

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Go ahead, automate right, right, right.

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Mr. Microphone sitting here. Right, right.

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So, yeah,
I mean, did you think you were going to do

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video podcasts when you first started
or even two years ago or no,

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No, This was there was a friend of mine

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who has a marketing agency
kind of made a push for it.

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Yeah.

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He\\\'s like, Man,
He goes, I think you should do it.

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And it was

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tough to find spaces that made it work,

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but we did.

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And so here we sit and it\\\'s been fun.

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Nice.

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You know, the one in Cuyahoga Falls
is really nice too.

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I mean, you got this laid out
pretty much the same.

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A little bit different decor, right?

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They look different
when you bring them, right, When you\\\'re

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when you\\\'re sitting here on the screen,
they look very different.

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But the most part, we\\\'ve got him
set up for us operationally.

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That was key to me as a former operations
guy to make sure that whoever

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sits behind the desk, whether it\\\'s here,
their wherever, it doesn\\\'t

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matter, they\\\'re pushing the same buttons
at the same time.

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And it it all flows.

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Yeah. Standardization exactly.

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For sure. Exactly.

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So what was the biggest challenge
you faced launching

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Pedal Stomper Productions?

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Oh, that is a really good question.

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I mean, to me it was initially kind of
getting the traction

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to get some of the jobs
because it\\\'s so tough

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when when you start out, you\\\'re like, Man,
there are like you guys mentioned,

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there\\\'s a ton of photo and video people
out there and I\\\'m just starting out.

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Why would anyone in their right mind
write me a check to make a video?

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So when you\\\'re starting out,
there\\\'s that credibility, right?

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Right. It\\\'s
and it\\\'s the belief in yourself.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Imposter syndrome. Yeah.

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It was tough for me to get that going.

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But once I got a couple of people
in there like, Oh my God, this is amazing.

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And I was like, Oh, maybe,
maybe this can work pretty good.

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Maybe this can work.

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And it\\\'s been it\\\'s
been great since, really.

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Has it?

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So is there a particular moment or event

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that kind of changed your business
other than the video podcast?

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Is it getting started or

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in that, you know, close
to a million views on your on your YouTube

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channel or, you know, it\\\'s
there was a moment when

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I had decided that, look,
I\\\'m going to do this full time,

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and I wasn\\\'t sure how it was going to go.

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There was a lot of question
marks and I had been talking

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with a very large company up in Valley
View about doing some videos for them,

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and I was just basically talking
with the people,

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the position that I was leaving
saying, Yup, I\\\'m out of here.

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I got to do this full time for myself.

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I got to go on my own.

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And as I am literally on my way
to that meeting to tell them I\\\'m leaving,

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the phone rings
and it is that client up in Valley View

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and he goes, Yup,
we are going to do this with you.

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And at that point
I walked into that meeting

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with a whole different perspective on
this is how this is going to go.

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And they\\\'ve been great to work with,
phenomenal company.

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I absolutely love it.

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And it\\\'s that moment where I was like,

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there\\\'s that clarification that, yep,
this can happen.

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I love seeing business owners
just go for it and yeah, succeed that way.

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Oh it\\\'s, it\\\'s I always liken
owning a business to a roller coaster ride

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because you one minute you\\\'re like,
Oh, this is exhilarating.

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This is amazing.

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And the next minute
you\\\'re like, Oh, this is how I die.

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Yeah,

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I fall all on your shoulders.

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Right? Right.

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That\\\'s it for sure.

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What\\\'s been like your favorite customer

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or favorite job or project you\\\'ve done?

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I have to say.

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I mean,

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it\\\'s always the last project
that I\\\'ve done.

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For the most part.

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There\\\'s there\\\'s I\\\'ve got two or three
right now that I am so pumped

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to be involved in

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one of my favorites, I have to say,
is with the Barton Community Foundation.

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We we do their Game
Changer awards every year.

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We do the videos that they do use
for those to announce those

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and the people that I have met through
that that are working

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so hard to change this
community to me is is awesome.

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The fact that I get connected
with people like that

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and I get to talk to people like that
and I get to tell their stories, that

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that makes it kind of my favorite videos
to do.

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And I get to do it every year.

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It\\\'s awesome, right?

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What advice would you give
other small business owners?

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That\\\'s always a big question
because I don\\\'t want to be responsible.

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If they mess it is.

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I got to go with Shawn on this.

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It\\\'s go for it. You you need to go for it.

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If someone has said, boy,
you should start a business with that.

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Go for it. Yeah. Look at the numbers.

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Make sure that the math makes sense,
but go for it.

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If it\\\'s remotely possible, do it.

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Yeah.

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Awesome. Great.

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Great advice.

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Thanks for coming on our show today.

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Thank you, guys. It\\\'s been a pleasure.

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What you guys are doing is awesome
that you\\\'re giving so many people voices

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and that\\\'s so, so happy that I was able to
come on and talk to.

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Thank you very much.

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So I know Sean and I really

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enjoyed working with you on this project
and getting these out on our week.

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So we thank you for your knowledge
and your tips.

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You give us some, you know, how to post
things and how to gain traffic and thanks.

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I\\\'m sure that\\\'s very useful
for all your other clients as well.

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They enjoy that for sure. Thank you.

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So I guess up
next is our chamber announcements.

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We have a couple to focus on.

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First is tomorrow night.

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Well, it\\\'s going to have a business
after hours hosted by drive Social

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and the events can be ordered held at
the cast Iron bar and grill in canal form.

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So be sure to check it out.

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Details on that on the Chamber\\\'s website
and stop on by always free food to

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and then

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not too far after that,
next week will be a quick connect.

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It\\\'s going to be a breakfast
for this month\\\'s Quick Connect

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and that\\\'s going to be
at the Embassy Suites in North Canton.

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So make sure you get the event details
and get your ticket and, you know, come

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start your day off with some networking
and get some good food.

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And we always have a great speaker.

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You know, there\\\'s always exciting things
happening on in Canton.

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So that\\\'s the other thing.

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I\\\'ve talked about it a couple of times,
but for $15 door prize,

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you can get up and give a 30 second commercial,

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which is really great to get out to 60,
80 people, your information.

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So that wraps up episode
six of the Chamber Members podcast.

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Thanks for listening.
We\\\'ll see you next week

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Bye!