1: House Coffee’s Superhero Origin Story

Intro:
Hey, you’re drinking house coffee – unfiltered conversations brewed at the intersection of real estate life and coffee shop service. We’re Maggie and Rich – local business owners and friends sharing stories and welcoming you to pull up a chair with us. The door’s always open. Let us pour you a cup.

Maggie:
Welcome to house coffee.

Rich:
Thank you so much Superstar. Should be here with you Maggie

Maggie:
Same this has been a long time coming and I emotionally and mentally was not prepared to sit down and record today, but I’m glad we’re ripping the Band-Aid off

Rich:
And gotta just we just got to rip it off. We’ve been putting this off for so long. We’ve been talking about it for over a year, right? Yeah. February we did the math on it February of last year. I think was

Maggie:
February 2022.

Rich:
Yeah.

Maggie:
So first thought of the idea and here we are in February 2023.

Rich:
Perfect. Well, we also made a promise to each other not to stop recording. Yeah, so no matter what we say, maybe we’ll edit some stuff later, but we’re just gonna roll because we got to get this thing cranking.

Maggie:
Yeah.

Rich:
We got some ideas to kick it off with and we’ll go from there.

Maggie:
Cool. So here we go

Rich:
Intros, who are you?

Maggie:
So my name is Maggie from I am a licensed real estate salesperson. That’s my technical title. I’m a real estate agent and I also specialize in staging so I have a staging company called Welcome Home Co and I have two poodles

Rich:
Fun facts. Yeah, you got a lot going on you’re in the middle of a home renovation, right all kinds of stuff. Well, we’ll get in all that. My name is Rich. I own a coffee shop in our last I would I was gonna say our town but I have since relocated from our town to a nearby town

Maggie:
In our city. Yeah area.

Rich:
Yeah. So the coffee shop is called storied coffee. It’s we actually just celebrated four years of having our brick and mortar store. The anniversary was yesterday the 23rd of February. So

Maggie:
I was there.

Rich:
Yes, I saw you there. I also was there. I’m a new dad. So that’s been exciting a father. I’ll tell you what I’m getting more sleep than was advertised. So I’m pretty excited about that. It’s possible actually that I’m sleeping more. now than then I you haven’t heard of anything more now that I have in the last probably three years. So

Maggie:
I feel like you have more energy now since becoming a father then you had before

Rich:
Yeah, I don’t know. I’m smiling a lot more. I’ll tell you that much. So side of me. I didn’t know I possessed.

Maggie:
What is your baby’s name?

Rich:
His name is Oliver Marshall. So we’re

Maggie:
He’s stinking cute.

Rich:
Yeah, we’re pretty lucky.

Maggie:
Everyone thinks he’s cute.

Rich:
I know

Maggie:
He’s really cute baby.

Rich:
We were a little worried because you know, everyone says babies are cute, but like they’re not always actually not

Maggie:
All babies are cute

Rich:
Ours is certified cute.

Maggie:
Yeah,

Rich:
So we’ve been excited about that.

Maggie:
Yep.

Rich:
Yeah, just laying low a little bit on a little bit of like a paternity leave. I’ve been doing a lot of organization on the behind the scenes House business. Yeah, we did we moved into our new house. like we finished moving basically the day before we went to the hospital for

Maggie:
That was

Rich:
Fun for a potential induction, which did become. the birth of our of our boy, so Yeah, thanks for helping us move. All right. Well,

Maggie:
Why are we here?

Rich:
We’re here. For House Coffee, which is a our fun. Cheeky name for the podcast because you’re in real estate I am. A coffee person if you will I run a coffee shop. But I think we’ve just been forging a friendship through mostly because of the coffee shop. You’ve been a long time guests there. And over the last four years. I mean we met you

Maggie:
Met you before you had to Brick and

Rich:
Mortar doors out of my mouth. Yeah, exactly. Storage started out as kind of a pop-up. game that we knew was gonna become a A store at the very least and and so we met you while we’re doing those pop-ups you and Brandon.

Maggie:
Yeah.

Rich:
And you guys have just

Maggie:
Thought of another pop-up that I came to before you opened recently. I have photos of it

Rich:
Which one

Maggie:
It was at Great Flats Brewing.

Rich:
Yeah shout out. Yeah, that’s Brewing. We did our first like espresso events there. Which was fun?

Maggie:
Yep.

Rich:
Thanks for being there.

Maggie:
Yeah, you were groupies. We were like story groupies. We just followed.

Rich:
Yeah, there was a little opening of people where who we would catch like at all the various papos because we were all over the capital region,

Maggie:
Which really good spot like Great Glass is a great.

Rich:
Yeah. It was a good little spot. Those guys are super generous with us at the beginning and so many people were all those pop-ups were like, nobody asked us for money almost and Um, you know, they give us so much free like use of the space and just worked with us and not for any reason other than just like the Goodwill of business. I think for me getting started having that experience of like so much. Friendliness and like collaboration of businesses that really that was encouraged. That was an encouraging experience and You know, we’ve we wanted to do that as much as we could as well for others as as opportunities have come up since sorry. It has developed more so That’s something I really appreciate about the business Community sometimes and definitely want to celebrate.

Maggie:
Yeah,

Rich:
We’ll see how that plays out in our podcast days to.

Maggie:
Yeah. So, why did we start a podcast? Well, I was asking that myself to myself recently like because we’ve been on you know, we this idea kind of came together a year ago, right and then we kind of spent all summer. Deciding about like what our whole show is going to be about the name and our plan and everything. And then I feel like we had done all this preparation work and then it got to a point where you were about to have a baby and then it just like totally cut off and You know not not being a parent myself, but also knowing so many people in my life who have babies like that’s such a precious time in your life that you’ll never get back. So I know that that’s such a sacred time for you and your little family now and so now here we are recording. I’m like, why what what was it that like made us want to do this? Yeah. You’re a girl.

Rich:
Yeah, especially when we knew like By the time we did launched and get going I would have

Maggie:
We knew that you were father by the time we launched this podcast, but it’s kind of funny that’s like that it’s here now.

Rich:
Well, you know, I think okay

Maggie:
You reached out to me.

Rich:
Yes.

Maggie:
This was really your idea. You came to me about it when? when we were doing sort of a event kind of thing right and at one of your locations

Rich:
And then yeah, I said Maggie should we start a podcast? And I think the reason that I said that to you was well, the reason I said that for one was because it was an idea I’ve had for a very long time to do. Something of a podcast that would be a little bit of a behind the scenes of specifically stored and it wasn’t going to involve anyone like any other Industries or anything like that specifically it was gonna be more of like, hey, here’s another look into storied and our experience as business owners entrepreneurs the startup phase all that kind of stuff and I had thought of maybe having one of my staff who was a good conversationalist co-host it with me and we talked about it, but just for whatever reasons things never really materialized and

Maggie:
You are gonna maybe do something with Christine.

Rich:
Yeah Christian and I can have conversations on the mic about just our experience as business owners because we at the time we’re to co-owners, basically 50/50 Yeah again for whatever reasons. Yeah, just never quite panned out. I think the idea of like sustaining that and investing in it was was a lot and then I don’t know the idea I couldn’t shake the idea though. And I think I just came to a point where I realized like you and I had enough of Rapport and history of conversations about Business and Entrepreneurship and again you knowing a lot of the behind the scenes of storage yourself just made me think like She’s a great conversationalist. She’s doing her own business thing. I think too. I was watching you because you you do a lot of your work at stories.

Maggie:
Yeah, I do.

Rich:
It’s like, you know your work from home.

Maggie:
Yeah,

Rich:
It probably does thing. And so I think I was watching you develop a brand and a business around staging and welcome home Co and all the stuff and it just made me think like we’re kind of taking parallel steps here. Although we’re in different Industries, but there’s a lot of crossover so much crossover for business owners, no matter what you’re doing. They’re so many struggles that are unique to each person in situation. But also like you can relate to someone who has experienced.

Maggie:
Yeah

Rich:
Business ownership, you know, and I think that’s something that we we’ve talked about too is just that loneliness and business. Yeah, really be there for people and So yeah, you just eventually just hit me like Maggie would be a good conversation list you had at that time done a podcast over podcast on my own experience. Yeah, and I thought that would be good working

Maggie:
Lunch.

Rich:
Not rip. Dude. Shout out working lunch. All right still available online. Is

Maggie:
It still

Rich:
Want to listen, you know, maybe we’ll give a little reboot to some work

Maggie:
Here.

Rich:
We’ll make it the the working.

Maggie:
Coffee.

Rich:
Well, I just mean it doesn’t have to be the 30 minutes segment about podcast, but maybe a little highlights of

Maggie:
Flashback and flashbacks.

Rich:
So yeah, you know I think it or I think it developed organically the idea for this podcast. Yeah, I think

Maggie:
Yeah

Rich:
Because born out of our pre-existing friendship and shared experience of my coffee shop. Us building Brands. Yeah in and just Seeing that those things kind of like fit together because

Maggie:
I knew you well enough at the time to know you are serious because people say things to each other in passing all the time,

Rich:
You mean about the podcast about serious about that idea.

Maggie:
Hey, we should do a podcast.

Rich:
Yeah.

Maggie:
I say that probably like once a week to people, you know what I mean? Not really but but right but when when you suggested it, like I knew you were serious. I knew you had an idea so I I don’t know how long it was till I responded, but I think I was in storied and I was like Hey, like were you serious about doing that and

Rich:
We talked like June.

Maggie:
Yeah, we talked around a couple ideas. Well, we and then we sort of for a while. We’re just like joking about like, oh, well, that’ll be a podcast episode before anything ever save it for the Pod. And here we are so that that’s kind of cool that this is actually I think it’s a it’s amazing that we’re actually here right now.

Rich:
Yeah. yeah, it’s a

Maggie:
And I guess but maybe you didn’t know that like Um, this is a really amazing idea. We have put a lot of thought and a lot of heart into this show and it took a year to get here.

Rich:
Yeah

Maggie:
A year. So I guess my encouragement for you listening would be if you have an idea don’t be discouraged to execute on that idea because of the time it’s going to take because I mean if I had my way I probably would have launched this podcast over the summer but it was still worth the wait in my opinion. So here we are. Yeah,

Rich:
That’s a good point. And I think I think I want to speak to that real quick. I would love to unpack one of the things that we hope to do for my point of view with the Pod is to Dig into experiences around various things in business and something that a lot of people are doing. We were just saying this before we hit record. There’s like this proliferation of podcasts like the next podcast right

Maggie:
Now just fine. It’s like

Rich:
It’s the next social media totally, you know, it’s almost like everyone people say like, oh, it’s saturated Market, but it’s almost like you need a podcast every all right, every business maybe news podcast, right? I mean, I’d rather do this than do like tiktok

Maggie:
Same

Rich:
Personally just I’m not being good. I’m with so I mean, you know, that’s a whole other thing about um so potential future thing we could we could get into is like For whoever’s benefit just talking about our experience starting a podcast,

Maggie:
Right? We’re

Rich:
Kind of in the middle of it. Now. We’re doing a whole bunch of stuff. We are even forming like, you know, we formed our LLC to do it. So we’re we’re trying to make it pretty official and and not just like a side. No, this is

Maggie:
Definitely not a side cake in my opinion. And I know that you feel the same like this this podcast is something that we take very seriously because it’s it is an extension of our businesses

Rich:
Right that

Maggie:
We’re very like protective over so It the whole point of it is to sort of like peel back the curtain on our individual businesses. But then at the same time let you in on it and have like an inside look as to what what it is that we do and yeah, we take this very seriously. This isn’t just like a it’s fun, but it’s it’s definitely we have bigger broader goals for the show

Rich:
Is worth saying as well said and it’s worth noting like House Coffee is gonna be its own brand. that arose out of a desire for each of us to like you were saying peel back the curtain on

Maggie:
Yeah.

Rich:
On our respective companies, I respective Brands and experiences in business. But at the same time House Coffee is gonna take on a life of its own and we’re excited to see yeah that play out and just reiterate like where I was going with that previous thought is you know. Sharing about story is something we’re gonna get into on here because you know, we were talking about what our goals are very podcast and one of my goals is definitely to be processing

Maggie:
The

Rich:
Trauma. I was starting a business and and running a business and you know, maybe that’s not a traumatic experience for everyone, but it has certainly Been quite a ride for us. So You know, I’m excited you let me in on that side of it. So exactly so I’m excited just to walk through the history of story and and our business and experience and

Maggie:
And

Rich:
Share that for people’s benefit. I’m excited to hear about how you’re different. My business has evolved things and staging and your experiences there. We’re gonna get into all that stuff and just anything we’ve experienced. Basically, I’d put it like this anything we’ve experienced in business is fair game. Yeah, and or anything that anyone has experienced or experiences in business, it’s fair game. So like we might get into we can talk about trends that are out there. Yeah, just just I’m almost up for anything that has to do with the business owners experience especially when it comes down especially as it relates to like

Maggie:
Creativity

Rich:
Well, As it relates to like the entrepreneur or the small business owner or even if it’s big business corporate, whatever like the journey how they went from small business to Big Business anything like that. I was so just like thoughts about the kinds of things that interest me in terms of in terms of conversations with you

Maggie:
Sure

Rich:
But that as that’ll be in the future because I think our starting place is going to be like the more local my experience with story your experience with welcome homeco and just unpacking a little bit more about who we are and what our own experiences have been and then I could see this evolving into the kind of thing where we we talk about. business and Trends and stuff like that so I have one other thought yeah to share there and then maybe you can you can tag but Just just this idea that has continued to to come up for me is like we’re not gurus,

Maggie:
Right. Hi any means we’re not written down right here in front of me.

Rich:
We are not remarkable. Yes shout out remarkable. We’ll get you that referral affiliate link on our website pretty soon. We got yelled to mention our remark our shared love for remarkable.

Maggie:
We are not gurus.

Rich:
No. Yes, exactly. So we are. We’re not business experts by any means you might be more than I am. But I have mostly uncovered a lot of what not to do in business versus like what you should do. I have some advice I might give now based on my own mistakes, but this is not one of those podcasts where it’s like you need a notepad out and you’re taking

Maggie:
Right copious notes about things to this while you’re driving and not worry about missing like yeah any nugget of information. They need to write down.

Rich:
We’re just trying to have conversations as business owners about business for business owners.

Maggie:
Um and invite you The Listener to share your experiences to and kind of, you know, peel the curtain back on your business.

Rich:
Yeah

Maggie:
As it pertains to you know your world.

Rich:
So this is primarily not going to be like an interview style podcast. It’s primarily going to be Maggie and me having conversations.

Maggie:
Yes

Rich:
About our experiences in business. Likely, we’ll have some. Interviews with friends and other people in business things that come our way. I was as far as opportunities go but you know, there’s a lot of podcasts out there that are like, hey, we got this guest on today and and this is gonna be a little bit more of like Commiserating with each other a little bit more like processing and and checking in with each other holding each other accountable to like business growth and development and ensuring those experience for the benefit of listeners and taking feedback. We get from listeners and like we hope to develop a little bit of a community around this and and get feedback and and hear from other people and incorporate that into the podcast but it’s gonna be largely like our

Maggie:
As just our personal experience. Yeah

Rich:
On the mic.

Maggie:
Yeah.

Rich:
And I think there’s a lot of what I wanted to say. So you

Maggie:
Just cut I think just to like tack on a little bit to that is like our experience in business is very different. I think my well, they’re both very people-centered you centered around. Coffee shop customer service and in my business with helping people buy and sell houses and also with staging. They’re both service Industries. But I think that my part of the show is going to be more like sharing. anecdotal things that have happened to me along the process and what I’ve learned and I see my share of this show to be helping the public with their home buying or home selling and in the process more than just saying like, oh my experience as like getting my real estate license and doing this or that if people have questions about it, I’m happy to talk about it, but I’m not going to be I’m not a like statistical market research kind of. Person like I pay attention to that but that’s not what I’m going to be offering.

Rich:
So this is in other words if I’m hearing you, right you’re excited to bring like like service to listeners.

Maggie:
Yes

Rich:
Via the mic

Maggie:
Correct

Rich:
Versus like Making this a real estate podcast from your angle,

Maggie:
Right? Like there are so many other amazing shows out there that do that and I I am just one person who has a trailer full of furniture and I want to talk about home design and what to do to invest like in terms of should you refinish the hardwood or should you redo your kitchen? Like I want to talk about those types of things when it comes to the home side of things not necessarily the Interest rates

Rich:
Exactly

Maggie:
That makes any sense.

Rich:
It makes sense to me probably because I have a lot of context to the conversation

Maggie:
Right

Rich:
From our previous conversations, but And

Maggie:
I feel like for your for your side of the podcasting like interrupt me. Correct me if I’m wrong is about. Yours might have a little bit more technical. Side to it because of like, I don’t know like first for example, like you have employees and I don’t you use a POS system. I don’t like so I don’t know if that makes it a POS point of sale for those not knowing what that means is and so like our I don’t know. That makes any sense comparing.

Rich:
Yeah, you know that. this is interesting to think through because Well, okay, if I were an average listener, I’d be like House Coffee. It’s coffee and it’s real estate. Yeah, it’s like, how are we gonna how are those two things gonna find in a relevant way for conversation and I

Maggie:
And it’s a no-brainer for me. Yeah.

Rich:
Well, I’m not saying I don’t get it either. I’m just saying like it doesn’t necessarily come across. Intuitively, which is part of what excites me about it there. Well, we’ve talked about ways that they cross over homeowners who want to make better coffee at home, you know, like the really practical ways that that can that that can make sense for us and we’ll probably end up covering

Maggie:
And those Of what exactly?

Rich:
Is very much a play on words for us because of who we are and what we do and less about you know, what the content of our podcast will always necessarily be. It won’t always be houses or home

Maggie:
Staging

Rich:
Developing or exactly staging you won’t always be coffee or technical knowledge or even always business insights or ownership perspectives, although I think that’s primarily where for me it’s gonna it’s gonna live is that the business owners perspective.

Maggie:
Yeah.

Rich:
Yeah, yeah. Lots of there’s there’s lots of unpack.

Maggie:
Yeah

Rich:
There possibly. Check out my notes real quick. See if I touched on all my goals. for the pod Yeah, I’ve had like three notes. So

Maggie:
I have you’re going to like this podcast if

Rich:
Yeah hit us.

Maggie:
You like coffee? Check beautiful functional spaces

Rich:
Love it.

Maggie:
You’re interested in behind the scenes of the small business startup

Rich:
Check check. That’s especially where I’m gonna camp out

Maggie:
And last but not least you want a friend.

Rich:
I definitely want a friend.

Maggie:
So here we are. Yeah

Rich:
We We did a lot of work around like the language. Yeah how to talk about our podcast how to describe it to audiences like how to what we would put in our little about section. Yeah quote unquote and and we found ourselves like using that friend word a lot. We really want to see Community develop around our shared conversations and we want to share conversations with listeners and and really be those friends who get it.

Maggie:
Yeah

Rich:
When you’re in business

Maggie:
Are you a creative person

Rich:
True? Exactly. You don’t even have to be in business to get this podcast.

Maggie:
Or a dream.

Rich:
Yeah, if you have a dream any kind of creative pursue nonprofit, like Community organization all kinds of things just just like a passion something that you’re passionate about that you’re working toward. Okay, that is a journey and very often. It can be a lonely Journey or just you hit you hit road blocks you hit obstacles you big ideas are sometimes lonely ideas. Yeah, it’s hard to find people who relate so we just feel like we get it, you know, we want you to feel seen and understood and heard and we’re your friends who we can commiserate and we can celebrate and and be here you on cheer you on we can be there for you and and with you even if we’re doing different things like we Feel like we get it. Yeah.

Maggie:
My friend Jess who’s also another business owner and creative person when I was talking to her about this podcast. She instantly related because her business is nothing to do with coffee or houses, but she immediately related to the feeling of loneliness in starting her own business and pursuing it and she’s like Maggie your podcast is gonna be like a lighting a candle in a dark room and you’re like revealing the the light of this kind of shining a light on the side of business that nobody talks about. Yeah speak.

Rich:
I love that and shout out to just for that idea. Yes. We definitely borrowed it.

Maggie:
Totally

Rich:
That candle idea. I like it because one it’s like hey, look same thing is saying we’re not gurus like we’re not We don’t even have a flashlight like it’s just a candle. Okay, it’s our best effort at lighten up a space. But the point is like we’re here with you, you know with each other where we’re just trying to to be helpful and and offer any kind of light that we can this is that togetherness. It’s that trying to illuminate things for you and with you.

Maggie:
Yeah,

Rich:
I was just yeah love her work.

Maggie:
It’s kind of like when you’re going through a really hard time and you call up your best friend and you’re like hysterically crying over something and you’re best friend. No, I know you never done that but I’ve never done that but you know that best friend you you call the person who, you know can relate to your situation. So like you’ve got a best friend that you can talk to about your love life. You got a real best friend that you can talk to about your business. You’ve got a best friend that you can talk to about like you’re pets. I don’t know but like so weird the best friends that you can talk to or listen to go through the pains and celebrations of business and we’re here to listen and we’re also here to offer our experiences.

Rich:
Yeah,

Maggie:
If you want to hear them. Yeah,

Rich:
And that’s I mean, that’s all it is. That’s all it is. That’s all we got. Yeah, no pressure. Well, let’s see. What more can we say? This particular episode is really intended just to rip the Band-Aid off get us on the mics put some ideas out there about what we’re doing and what we hope to do any other. Final thoughts on that

Maggie:
No. But I think it would be helpful for our audience to ask us questions.

Rich:
Yeah things

Maggie:
That they are interested in hearing us talk about I would love it if people could submit their questions to us. We do have an email address and a website. It’s House Coffee podcast at gmail. And our website is also House Coffee podcast.com. And our Instagram is House Coffee podcast. So we should be really easy to find

Rich:
We are out here

Maggie:
On the web and we would genuinely love to hear from you.

Rich:
Yeah. Yeah, I think that very much the conversations we get to have with. Future listeners will will very much shape what this podcast becomes or will influence conversations in in pretty cool ways. So I’m excited to be building these conversations.

Maggie:
I mean it already has I mean

Rich:
With others

Maggie:
Look at Becca who helped us with. Yeah our photos. Shout out to Becca. You’re amazing. She’s been a huge influence in some of the things that we’ve talked about and

Rich:
Just love anyone

Maggie:
Club. Yeah.

Rich:
All right something we’re gonna do in the future. We’re gonna have a book club going Becca challenge us with her own goal this year

Maggie:
Loomis photography. We’re talking about

Rich:
Like a Loomis photography. So she challenges with her goal of reading one business. I think Business book a month. I started out but then I had a kid. So I’m like he’s halfway through that book. I’ve picked up a different book that I started that I’m I’m finishing right now. I’m excited about that. So

Maggie:
You want to share the books that you’re reading

Rich:
That January book was deep work by Cal Newport. I’m gonna finish it because I like it. It’s a good read the book. I’m reading right now that I’m finishing that is actually really shaping my perspective on My business as it currently stands and will certainly be affecting some. Decisions that I make in the near future regarding my business is called the e-myth Revisited. Excuse me. It’s it’s a classic it is a myth the E myth. I think it’s entrepreneurial myth and then it’s Revisited because it’s like a second edition and Google it it’s a it’s a great. perspective on how to work on your business rather than in your business in my experience very much has been one of working in my business because of all kinds of reasons that will unpack on the Pod and he sort of helps you figure out how to work yourself out of your business to where you’re working on it and developing it and it’s kind of running itself through systems rather than your hands-on experience. So it’s been super enriching. I do want to bring it to the book club and Have us all read it because I think the way it works for different people in different Industries will be interesting to explore

Maggie:
Would be interesting. Yeah.

Rich:
So those are the two books. I’m focusing on right now. I’ve got another one by Donald Miller. Called storybrand. I’m excited for that. I’m thinking a lot about marketing and his particular perspective on how marketing. Works well, which is more of like a story framework Seth Godin. I don’t know. Yes. I heard of him. He’s got a book out to who knows when it’s from last several years. This is marketing. I’ve been reading a couple marketing books because I’m a terrible marketer. If you go on our if you go on stories social media WE Post like once every two or three weeks, it’s pretty bad, but I’m trying to figure out how that could work differently for my personality and I think those two books so those are all things and Becca mentioned that she’s been reading for February. She’s been reading a book called profit first profit first. Yeah, which also sounds really intriguing.

Maggie:
I haven’t started any of those books, but I have a number of books that I am listening to at the moment. I prefer audible as my yeah reading and but it’s so funny because the two books that I’m currently listening to now I also have paper back cover. Piece and the first book is the 12-week year. Have you heard of it?

Rich:
I don’t know.

Maggie:
It’s um get more done in 12 weeks and you can get done in 12 months. Well, it’s like breaking up your years and into 12 weeks and the other book I’m reading is not a business book. It’s just a self-help development book called your brain is not broken and it’s about like navigating. As an adult with ADHD and that’s been super helpful for me, like even just being able to communicate like what’s going on in my brain to the people in my life and articulate it in a way that I’ve never been able to do before. It’s a great book.

Rich:
Sounds good. Do you feel like that has Do you feel like anyone can read that book and take things away from it?

Maggie:
I sure definitely it’s definitely geared towards people who have ADHD. and I encourage those that have someone in their life that they love who has ADHD to read it because it can help you get a better understanding of like why they have emotional problems sometimes and even for children I’m finding this book is so for helpful for a kid that I have in my life and Not my kid, but just a kid in my life and I just I’m seeing things and recognizing patterns of behavior. That we’re of myself when I was that age. So it’s super helpful. I would definitely recommend reading it if you know someone or if you have it

Rich:
Sweet HD, so shout out to the house coffee book club. We have not officially launched it but we’ll we’ll talk with Becca. Basically what we want to do. There is we want to all jump on that, you know pick the same book. Yep for the month read it and then maybe I’m sure it’ll come into our conversations a little bit. as as Maggie and I go and then we want to bring Becca on and have a little Book club.

Maggie:
Yep,

Rich:
Toward the end of of you know, maybe after we’ve all finished. It just like processed together some thoughts from it that we can share but we will put that out on social and hopefully have a bunch of you reading along with us and maybe we can as we share insights, you know, as we’re reading online y’all can feed back on that and we can get some good conversations going so that that’s exciting idea. for me I don’t know. I think that’s that’s just about it. I mean, we got it. We got a lot of

Maggie:
Yeah, we covered a lot

Rich:
And stuff ahead.

Maggie:
Any last minute thoughts?

Rich:
I don’t know I think. We got a shout out TJ.

Maggie:
TJ

Rich:
Is a storied staff member who is in college for audio engineering and and he’s a he’s great musician and just a good friend of storied and

Maggie:
Call him our producer.

Rich:
Well, I think we can he’s now a good friend who’s our produce the podcast so we’re gonna be relying on him to To make

Maggie:
Some audio magic

Rich:
Sounds bad, LOL DJ no. No, it’s probably our fall they could do anything about it. So yeah, shout out to you TJ McMaster for his his audio engineering and how about our studio space? I mean Yeah, and I think we’re very proud of the studies.

Maggie:
I mean, it’s like we you’re not proud of our students. I’m

Rich:
Not not proud. I just shout out to

Maggie:
You just recording at the P1. Office building in Downtown Schenectady,

Rich:
Shout out to their generosity for

Maggie:
Shout out to P1 and the team there for letting us have our little space here.

Rich:
Yes. Thank you so much. All right, let’s just wrap it. So let’s just wrap it. All right. So good chat with you, Maggie.

Maggie:
Okay.

Rich:
Catch you on the Pod next time

Maggie:
Later.