Kristine: 0:08

Hey, I'm Kristine.

Carrie: 0:09

And I'm Carrie.

Kristine: 0:10

And we are best friends.

Carrie: 0:11

Welcome to our podcast. We are Kristine and Carrie. We are owners of Lavender and Lace Boutique, a local boutique based out of SherwoodPark, Alberta. And we're just here to talk with you.

Kristine: 0:21

Let's do it.

Carrie: 0:22

Let's do it.

Kristine: 0:23

Okay. We're gonna jump into, um, episode number four.

Carrie: 0:25

Yep.

Kristine: 0:26

And, uh, it's a really good one. We have a guest today and we're gonna start off with, uh, how we do things around here, the, how you doing Carrie, what'd you do this weekend? Give me that whole spiel.

Carrie: 0:36

Yeah, so my weekend was really good. It was quite chill, which is nice. Saturday, we spent the whole day in the pool. We had some guests over. They're fine, I guess.

Kristine: 0:45

Oh, I hear they never leave.

Carrie: 0:47

They never leave. No. You have to kick'em out. And uh, that was just kind of our Saturday, Sunday, we. Chilled. It was so nice.

Kristine: 0:57

I love that.

Carrie: 0:57

It was so nice. I got all my stuff done on Friday cuz it was my day off and so Sunday I just didn't have to.

Kristine: 1:03

Good.

Carrie: 1:03

Yeah. How about you?

Kristine: 1:05

This weekend was busy.

Carrie: 1:06

Yeah, you were busy.

Kristine: 1:07

It was really busy. So, as you know, um, Carrie, not everybody else, um, Scarlet had her very first gym competition that was on Friday. So typically Fridays are my day to kind of do things around the house, et cetera, et cetera. But we were busy with her competition, um, which. She killed it. Um, I'll tell everybody so proud. Um, so like I said, it was her first competition, but she plays second in every event.

Carrie: 1:32

Good.

Kristine: 1:32

Which is so cool. And, uh, came home with five medals and I, I just wanted one. Mm-hmm. Like, I knew, I thought I, in my heart and soul, I thought she was gonna do well on bars, but she killed it in everything. So that was really cool. so that was our Friday. We came home. and, uh, just kind of chilled Saturday. We hung out, uh, with these people that I don't actually think, I don't think they like us very much.

Carrie: 1:55

No, they don't. I've heard.

Kristine: 1:56

Yeah. Um, I feel kind of awkward, like they're trying to like, kick me out often, but it's fine. We, we stayed anyway. Definitely. We ate their food. Yep. drank their booze. You should go there actually. Yeah.

Carrie: 2:07

Yeah. It's, I, I've been there. It's my house. Yeah.

Kristine: 2:11

Yeah, so we hung out with, you guys obviously stayed in the pool for far too long. Um, it was so much fun

Carrie: 2:17

that this is pretty much gonna be the theme of every summer episode is Saturday is gonna be pool.

Kristine: 2:23

Yeah. It was a lot of fun and like the kids were dead tired, so they didn't even wanna hang out with us. They just relaxed and like did their own thing and it was peaceful and it was such a vibe. Yeah, that was, that's so nice. I think I'm gonna put that in the, one of my favorite days category.

Carrie: 2:39

That's good. Sunday.

Kristine: 2:41

Yeah. Sunday. That was Saturday. Well, that was Saturday. That was Saturday, so Oh, yeah. Sunday. Yeah. This is the day. This is the day where I did Jack shit. Yeah. It was lovely. Like I made about 50 pancakes. I actually wrote that down. 50 pancakes. Um, I watched all the TV shows, like basically until my eyes were bleeding, I made cookies and then that's it. And then I watched more shows, but we'll get into that when we talk about our books and stuff. That was my weekend.

Carrie: 3:06

That's so nice.

Kristine: 3:06

It was a good one.

Carrie: 3:08

It really was. It really was.

Kristine: 3:09

Like I, I had a busy Friday, busy like fun, jazzy Saturday, and then did nothing on Sunday. It was awesome. That's great. 10 outta 10. Mm-hmm. Put that one on the list too.

Carrie: 3:20

I love it.

Kristine: 3:21

Yeah.

Carrie: 3:21

Are you reading anything right now? You got anything on the go?

Kristine: 3:23

I am I am reading. Finally, I'm back to it. So I read the, um, novella that you were talking about last episode. what was that the title of the novella again? the One night

Carrie: 3:34

That One Night.

Kristine: 3:35

I read that one night. Yeah. Yeah. So I read that, loved it. Delicious. Um, and then I'm now reading the Pucking Around. and I think that it's great. Yeah,

Carrie: 3:44

it is really good.

Kristine: 3:45

I'm only like, Five, maybe six chapters in, but I'm really digging it already.

Carrie: 3:51

Yeah. It's by Emily Wrath, in case anyone's wondering. But we'll also include all of our book titles and authors in the description of the episode so you can reference back.

Kristine: 4:00

Yeah, it's really good so far.

Carrie: 4:02

Good.

Kristine: 4:02

So I also love a good dirty romance. Mm-hmm. So this, I'm really excited for it to get into the meat potatoes of it all.

Carrie: 4:08

Yeah.

Kristine: 4:09

but otherwise, I finished up a lot of my TV shows this weekend. Um, I watched the last episode of XO Kitty. It's like a high school drama, but it's set in Korea. It's really good. I binge watched the new season of, never Have I Ever So Good. Loved it. I watched a few episodes of Manifest. Mm-hmm. This is all on Sunday.

Carrie: 4:31

Yeah.

Kristine: 4:31

All

Carrie: 4:31

you were busy,

Kristine: 4:32

busy, busy watching everything.

Carrie: 4:34

Busy in quotations.

Kristine: 4:35

Yeah. And then I started, five Feet Apart, movie. That's really good. That was that. That was it. What about you? What are you reading? What are you watching?

Carrie: 4:42

Okay, so I didn't watch any TV this weekend at all. I don't even think I turned the TV on

Kristine: 4:45

opposite Sally's over here.

Carrie: 4:46

Yeah. Um, when I'm really into books, I don't even give a second glance Yeah. To the tv. Like, it just doesn't matter to me. Nick on Sunday was like, Hey, do you wanna watch this to me? I was like, uh, no, no. Um, okay, so I'm reading Mile High by Liz Tom Ford. It's about a flight attendant and she works on a private charter plane of, uh, NHL team.

Kristine: 5:08

Yeah.

Carrie: 5:09

Yeah. It's really good. So there's one of the players, he's kind of like the bad boy. He's like the playboy of the team and he's into her and she hates him.

Kristine: 5:19

Oh.

Carrie: 5:19

she just doesn't like his personality like persona, but he's slowly winning her over, which I love. She really has been. She was trying to resist. I'm like, I'm 50% through the book and like, They're just, you know, slow burn.

Kristine: 5:33

Slow burn.

Carrie: 5:34

Really good though. Really good. And then I'm listening to an audio book. Um, it's called Ward D by Freedom McFadden. So it is a thriller.

Kristine: 5:42

Nice. I love the thriller.

Carrie: 5:43

I really like listening to thrillers while I'm walking. Mm-hmm. I find it really. Keeps me engaged When I'm listening to it. Um, versus listening to like a romance, which sometimes they're slow and, you know,

Kristine: 5:53

it's also really awkward.

Carrie: 5:55

Yeah.

Kristine: 5:55

To hear the dirty,

Carrie: 5:57

when they say cock out loud, I'm like,

Kristine: 6:00

yeah. Or like folds.

Carrie: 6:02

Yeah.

Kristine: 6:02

Like, don't say that.

Carrie: 6:03

It's just, it's a lot. And when they're dirty, talking each with each other on the, it's just a lot for me. So I had to stop with my series that I was listening to. I'll read it.

Kristine: 6:15

Yeah.

Carrie: 6:16

But, so it's called Ward D by Freedom McFadden. It's about, uh, resident doctor. She's doing her rotation in the psychiatric ward at the hospital.

Kristine: 6:24

Nice.

Carrie: 6:24

And it's called Word D and she has a past with Word D Oh. From like her, like past life.

Kristine: 6:30

Oh.

Carrie: 6:31

But. We're just getting there. Okay. So the book kind of goes present and past, back and forth, and every present chapter, it's like 11 hours till morning, 12 hours till morning or whatever, because it's, it's the middle of the night. She's doing the night shift, and then it'll flash back to eight years prior and then it'll come back and it'll be like nine hours till morning. Yeah. It's really good.

Kristine: 6:52

Okay.

Carrie: 6:53

So the whole book is just one night, like, I think. Okay. I mean, it's still nine hours till morning and I'm almost halfway through, so I need to know more. Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. And so she's really freaked out and the power just went out and I don't know

Kristine: 7:08

how far are you into the book?

Carrie: 7:09

Like half half, half-ish.

Kristine: 7:11

Okay.

Carrie: 7:11

It's really good. Okay. Yeah. Excited. Could you try again? Oh, Siri. It was me this time. So that is what my reads my audio read and my Kindle read right now.

Kristine: 7:27

That's awesome.

Carrie: 7:27

Yeah.

Kristine: 7:28

They sound like good books.

Carrie: 7:29

They're both really good. Yeah. I really like Freedom McFadden. She, wrote the Housemaid

Kristine: 7:33

okay.

Carrie: 7:33

Yeah. So I already knew, I liked her writing style, so it was an easy one for me. And on the Hoopla app, which is what I use, she has like 10 books on there, so Oh, nice. Whole summer. Yeah. Audio books. Mm-hmm.

Kristine: 7:44

Nice. Cool.

Carrie: 7:45

Yeah. What else we got on here? I think, uh, that's it for me. That's it for me too. I think I did it.

Kristine: 7:51

Well, should we dive right in?

Carrie: 7:52

Yeah. So, We have Sarah here. She is our operations manager at Lavender Lace Boutique, and we asked her a while ago if she'd be our first guest and she said yes. And I feel like she has some regrets now, but that's okay. That's, it's gonna be such a good one. Okay,

Kristine: 8:07

let's do it. Welcome, Sarah.

Sarah: 8:08

Hi,

Carrie: 8:09

how are you?

Sarah: 8:10

Good. How are you guys?

Carrie: 8:11

We're good. Um, so tell us a little bit about you.

Sarah: 8:14

Okay, so this is not my voice. I don't, uh, feel the best today,

Carrie: 8:18

but she's still here. She's trucking through.

Sarah: 8:20

Yeah. Um, so I am Sarah. I have worked here for the last four years almost. Mm-hmm. Um, I'm a wife. I have two kids. I have a husband that we've been married for the last 14 years, almost 14 years. Sorry, almost.

Carrie: 8:38

Did you get married in 2009?

Sarah: 8:39

Yeah.

Carrie: 8:39

Yeah. Me too. Yeah.

Sarah: 8:41

In December. Winter. Winter wedding.

Kristine: 8:43

September,

Sarah: 8:45

December. Yeah. what else about me? I was born and raised in Fort McMurray.

Kristine: 8:51

Nice.

Carrie: 8:51

Yeah, that's, you have a son that's going into high school.

Sarah: 8:54

Yeah.

Carrie: 8:54

That's, that's weird.

Sarah: 8:55

Very scary. Mm-hmm. High school. And then my daughter is going into junior high, so,

Carrie: 9:01

It feels weird cuz you and I are the same age. Yeah. And I just can't imagine having a kid in high school.

Kristine: 9:05

No. So, no, I'm not ready for that. Barely ready for a seven year old. Like, guess what? I have one.

Sarah: 9:11

And like one of his options is aviation. Like he could potentially fly a plane at some point in like the near future, which is

Carrie: 9:17

Oh, that's really cool.

Kristine: 9:18

That is cool. So cool.

Sarah: 9:19

But like weird.

Kristine: 9:21

I could see that.

Sarah: 9:22

Yeah,

Kristine: 9:22

I could see that for him. Yeah. I mean, I also see a lot of athletic

Sarah: 9:27

Yeah.

Kristine: 9:27

In his, uh, athleticism in his future. But yeah. Cool.

Sarah: 9:31

Currently, this is the longest I haven't checked my email in like all day today. I'm waiting to see if you'd made a team. So fingers crossed.

Kristine: 9:41

Fingers and toes crossed.

Sarah: 9:43

Yeah. So that's,

Carrie: 9:44

that's you

Sarah: 9:45

a little bit about me

Carrie: 9:46

and you're always busy.

Sarah: 9:47

I was gonna say, if I'm not here, I'm driving my car. I'm a. Operations manager and a chauffeur.

Kristine: 9:55

Sarah's kids are extremely busy with sports. Um, they do multiple sports each. So they're, you guys are constantly on the road.

Sarah: 10:05

We are.

Kristine: 10:05

Well, are you counting down the days until 16 so he can get his own car. Yeah.

Sarah: 10:10

But then like there comes like insurance.

Kristine: 10:14

Yeah.

Sarah: 10:14

And like All that aspect that I'm not excited for and

Kristine: 10:17

like the scary thing. So being like responsible and being on the road and like all that good stuff like that. That's a whole other thing.

Sarah: 10:23

Yeah. Yeah. It's a little, it's a little intimidating.

Carrie: 10:25

I agree. Yeah. I'm not ready for that. No, no.

Kristine: 10:29

We have a few years to go.

Carrie: 10:31

Yeah. Brooke's, Brooke's more than halfway there.

Kristine: 10:34

That's crazy.

Carrie: 10:35

Yeah.

Kristine: 10:36

Well, I am like excited, for her to do those things. Cause like, you know, auntie needs a pickup. Come get me babe.

Carrie: 10:43

Right?

Kristine: 10:45

Yeah. Okay.

Carrie: 10:46

So How did you start here and like how did you get here to your operations manager role?

Sarah: 10:51

Well, I am not an operations manager. I have not gone to school for it. Mm-hmm. I'm actually, um, well, not anymore, but I was a massage therapist, so

Carrie: 11:00

You still are sometimes.

Sarah: 11:01

Well, so yeah. I'm pretty sure that's why you guys hired, hired me, so, yeah.

Kristine: 11:05

Yeah, that's pretty much true.

Carrie: 11:07

I mean, it definitely, it was definitely a tick in your favor.

Sarah: 11:10

Yeah. Um, so yeah, I started like September four years ago. Mm-hmm. Almost four years ago. Um, I did not like working in massage therapy anymore. I loved every aspect of it. Um, the last job that I worked, I had a shitty manager. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like a shitty manager. And I was like, you know what? No.

Kristine: 11:31

It's such a difference when you have a good manager versus craps stick.

Carrie: 11:37

Mm-hmm.

Kristine: 11:38

So I feel you. Mm-hmm.

Sarah: 11:40

And I knew I needed a change and, and not, not that I knew that this was gonna be the change. No. But, um, I tried working as an EA for a little bit and then education cuts and I was out.

Kristine: 11:53

Yeah.

Sarah: 11:53

And then I saw your posting and I think it was in the insiders group,

Carrie: 11:57

maybe. Yeah. Probably

Kristine: 11:59

likely. And it said like, Must enjoy nineties music or something stupid on it.

Carrie: 12:04

Yeah. Yeah. That's good. That's how, that's how we used to hire people. Really professional.

Kristine: 12:08

Yeah. We all, we stopped that only a couple years back. Right, right.

Carrie: 12:11

It hasn't been long. No.

Kristine: 12:13

Also, I wanted to mention, cuz we forgot to mention this at the beginning of our live mm-hmm. Today. We did a giveaway,

Carrie: 12:18

our live

Kristine: 12:18

or live. See, when you're used to one job and you get a second one, AKA the podcast, um, we forgot to mention that we had a giveaway going on Instagram and Facebook. Um, and we're gonna announce those winners at the end of the podcast. So Yeah, you gotta hang on.

Carrie: 12:37

Yeah. You gotta wait. Yeah, you gotta wait it

Kristine: 12:39

out. Okay. Back to you Sarah.

Carrie: 12:42

And then you applied

Sarah: 12:43

And I applied. Yep. I actually sent a screenshot of it to I think my friend Janelle, and I said, should I, and she said, you should. And. I don't even know.

Carrie: 12:52

And it was not a job for an operations manager, just so everybody knows.

Sarah: 12:55

No, it was for local pickup. Yeah. It was, uh, packing orders yeah. Order packer, uh, entry level position. Mm-hmm. And I thought, what are my chances? Like That's fine.

Kristine: 13:07

How was the Interview process? Mm-hmm. Like were you expecting like suit and ties or were you expecting what you got?

Sarah: 13:18

Definitely not suit and ties cuz you guys don't sell suit and ties. So No, no. It wasn't suit and ties. I, I honestly had no idea what I was walking into Cuz you guys are like Sherwood Park celebrities.

Kristine: 13:32

Yeah. Yeah. I just took a sip of my coffee. I was, I was gonna spit it out. Yeah.

Sarah: 13:36

Yeah. So you were celebrities. So I was really nervous. I don't think I'd ever, I think I came to one warehouse sale and I don't even think either of you were. Working it at that point. Oh, I think you were like having lunch

Carrie: 13:50

or something. Like, oh, probably

Kristine: 13:52

sometimes we duck out.

Carrie: 13:53

Sounds like us.

Kristine: 13:53

Yeah.

Sarah: 13:54

You weren't even there. Mm-hmm. And um, yeah, so that was like my first time seeing you in person. I was quite nervous and I stood at the, the front for a little bit. I remember that. And I was like, oh no. Do I go back there? Do I mm-hmm. There's no bell. Like no one heard nothing.

Carrie: 14:08

No, we had nothing. We weren't very, I mean, we're still not very professional, but we especially weren't then.

Sarah: 14:14

And, uh, yeah.

Carrie: 14:15

So

Kristine: 14:15

still don't have a bell.

Sarah: 14:16

And I remember you guys were sitting on your office chairs and I sat on like the little low couch. Mm-hmm. Oh God. Mm-hmm. I was so nervous. and I'm pretty sure you like, move stuff off

Carrie: 14:24

the couch for me to sit. Oh, probably. Probably.

Sarah: 14:26

Which should have been like a

Kristine: 14:28

red flag.

Carrie: 14:31

You should see our office now. It's, it's, it's worse.

Kristine: 14:34

We still move crap off the couch for you.

Sarah: 14:36

I know. Yeah. I appreciate it. Mm-hmm. Yeah,

Kristine: 14:38

we don't change. Consistency

Sarah: 14:40

is key. Yeah. And that about the interview, like, I don't remember exact details, but I remember I said I liked like Marie Condo. I think I was watching. I think that was a big thing. Then I was like, I love folding clothes. Really small.

Kristine: 14:53

Stop it. That's I love. Funny and did you actually enjoy folding clothes? Really small? Like were you actually doing that?

Sarah: 15:03

Yeah. Or was I was, yeah.

Kristine: 15:04

Okay, cool.

Sarah: 15:05

I wasn't lying.

Kristine: 15:06

Nice. I I'm pretty positive we asked if she liked coffee. Absolutely.

Carrie: 15:10

We always asked. Yeah. Yeah, because when Andrea said she didn't lock coffee, we were like,

Kristine: 15:13

oh shit, maybe we shouldn't hire her.

Carrie: 15:16

I know. Hire her on the spot and emailed me like,

Sarah: 15:18

when you did offer me the job, you were like, what? What's your coffee? Mm-hmm. What was your coffee for the first day? Was it still a blonde b latte

Carrie: 15:25

then?

Sarah: 15:26

No, I think, oh, actually, I don't know. I should probably look it up. It's probably my email still.

Carrie: 15:29

Yeah. I'm curious.

Kristine: 15:30

That's funny.

Carrie: 15:31

I'm curious cuz Yeah, we, on people's first days we used to bring coffee I think. I think it was just an excuse for us to go to Starbucks.

Kristine: 15:39

Absolutely.

Carrie: 15:40

Yeah.

Kristine: 15:41

We tried, well we don't an excuse anymore, we just go, yeah, they know us by name now. Yeah. These two morons, again,

Carrie: 15:49

they're coming,

Kristine: 15:51

they don't dunno how to park. We often, I often park outside of the lines, especially when I pull into that one Starbucks that we go to. It just like the parking lot is ridiculous so you can't park properly. And Carrie was driving her like super beautiful car that's, you cannot replace it or replace the parts. So Carrie was very far from the curb the other day so far. But that's okay. They probably,

Carrie: 16:16

like I told you, if if like I should have the passport in the glove box cuz if I hit something like, oh yeah.

Kristine: 16:21

Oh you're fleeing,

Carrie: 16:22

I'm heading out Mexico.

Kristine: 16:25

We should passport in bikini. That's all we need. Yeah.

Sarah: 16:28

Yeah. Yeah. What was that Thursday that I took you to McDonald's. Cuz you didn't wanna do the drive thru

Carrie: 16:32

I didn't want to.

Sarah: 16:32

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, okay. Yes, it was a blonde vanilla latte. Mm.

Carrie: 16:37

Yeah. You're nothing if not consistent, Sarah. Mm-hmm. Wow.

Kristine: 16:41

Yeah. So you started, uh, packing pickups.

Sarah: 16:44

Yes.

Kristine: 16:45

And then what? And then how did you

Sarah: 16:48

roll? I was trying to think of

16:50

how

Sarah: 16:50

long I actually lasted.

Kristine: 16:52

It wasn't long.

Carrie: 16:53

Not long. I don't think it was long at all. I

Sarah: 16:55

don't think I was very good at it. So you're probably like, let's move her out.

Carrie: 16:58

You know, it wasn't, I don't think it was bad. I think you were just, I feel like Kristine and I had a conversation like, Sarah's really good at X, Y, Z and you. Would tell us how you were really good with like iPhones and computers and stuff. We were like, huh.

Kristine: 17:15

Yeah. You started like helping us out like we would say it's tech support. Yeah. And Sarah would come running.

Carrie: 17:21

She's tech support.

Kristine: 17:21

She would help us. Yeah. And I think that's when it really started that we knew that you hadn't way like your potential was. Mm-hmm. Like you had so much more to give and then we just, and then,

Carrie: 17:33

yeah. You sat in our office,

Sarah: 17:35

like you guys got new laptops.

Kristine: 17:37

That's right. Mm-hmm.

Sarah: 17:37

And then you're like, help. I don't want to, no. And yeah,

Carrie: 17:42

you set them up. I set them up.

Sarah: 17:44

And then I sat at the front desk IA for a little bit.

Carrie: 17:47

And you sat at the IKEA table in our office for a while.

Sarah: 17:49

Yeah. And it was really high.

Kristine: 17:50

Yeah. Cause you started doing like product entry. Mm-hmm. That's kind of, once you started getting our computer set up, you started doing some of the things that we were doing. Mm-hmm.

Carrie: 17:59

Product entry and descriptions and all that stuff. Yeah.

Sarah: 18:03

Material.

Kristine: 18:04

And that's kind of how it Oh yeah.

Sarah: 18:05

Material.

Kristine: 18:05

Right. Everything had hundred or 95% polyester, 5% spandex mm-hmm. And you're like, that's not right. We need to fix them all. Mm-hmm. And I remember doing that. In the live area. Oh yeah. On, I think I was sitting on boxes.

Carrie: 18:18

Oh, probably

Kristine: 18:19

that sounds right on Wow. At that kitchen table. Right by the ampersand wall. The original ampersand wall. You were over there for a while too.

Sarah: 18:26

I was, yeah.

Carrie: 18:26

You worked there for a while, but

Sarah: 18:27

yeah. Where you guys would take your photos? Oh yeah. Mm-hmm. I would sit there and

Carrie: 18:31

while we were doing photos. Yeah. And she'd put sizes and stuff. Mm-hmm. On a box. You're not wrong. I was definitely on a box cuz there was no room for a chair. No, no, no.

Kristine: 18:40

We were climbing over each other at that point.

Carrie: 18:41

And then we got you your first desk. The little baby. Where is that thing?

Kristine: 18:46

I feel like it got canned. It didn't, I think it was,

Sarah: 18:49

it came here,

Kristine: 18:50

Gibb

Sarah: 18:51

wasn't Jace using it for a little bit.

Kristine: 18:53

Yeah. That kind of adds up.

Carrie: 18:54

Maybe it's on the mezzanine. Yeah. So then you had your little desk.

Sarah: 18:57

My little

Carrie: 18:58

And you were there till we moved. Yeah.

Kristine: 19:00

Did we, did you have a different title at that point? Like what was, did we give you a title there?

Sarah: 19:04

No. No, not yet. No. I was the. Like product entry.

Carrie: 19:08

Yeah.

Sarah: 19:08

Gal. But I remember you'd just be like, oh, Sarah just doing her

Kristine: 19:11

Sarah duties.

Carrie: 19:12

Okay. I don't think you were operations manager until we moved here.

Kristine: 19:15

No, no. I remember when we gave her that title. Mm-hmm. Here. But I was just wondering if we gave you an actual No, I

Sarah: 19:21

don't think I

Carrie: 19:21

did. No. Okay. I think everyone was just warehouse associate.

Kristine: 19:25

Yeah. I think so too. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Carry on.

Sarah: 19:28

Yeah. Um, I was gonna say, what did you guys think of me when I interviewed?

Carrie: 19:32

Oh, I loved you.

Kristine: 19:33

That's a good question.

Carrie: 19:33

Yeah. We, I like, like, I just knew

Kristine: 19:37

it was a no. a no-brainer. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We, we knew that your personality vibed mm-hmm. With ours. Um, and you would be a good employee. Like you just stood out.

Carrie: 19:48

Yeah.

Kristine: 19:48

Sometimes we get interviews and we're like, no, not, not today.

Carrie: 19:53

Sometimes I can tell before we even sit down. Mm-hmm. You know, you can sometimes tell when you're not gonna vibe with someone. And it's just like, It just happens. Mm-hmm. But yeah, we know we liked you from the get-go. It was instant.

Kristine: 20:06

I don't think it took us very long to email you back mm-hmm. At all. And to, to tell you no. That we wanted you

Carrie: 20:13

Well we ended up hiring two people at that time. Yeah. And we were like, okay, can we make this work? Can we, can we afford to hire two people? Cuz we knew we loved both of them. Which I mean hindsight, but Yeah. Shouldn't just stuck with Sarah. But that's okay. Yeah.

Kristine: 20:32

We uh, we, we uh,

Carrie: 20:35

we sometimes you get bamboozled, you know

Kristine: 20:38

I was looking for that word. Yeah. I was gonna say we look,

Carrie: 20:41

we got that catfished.

Kristine: 20:43

We did get catfished.

Carrie: 20:44

Yeah. And that does happen. You don't like, it's interesting cuz you spend whatever between 10 to 25 minutes with someone and they're only showing you their best self. Of course. I mean, no one goes into an interview acting. You know, like an idiot. And

Sarah: 21:02

usually, well,

Carrie: 21:03

I mean, unless it's Kristine and I doing the interview and then we are the idiots. But, um, Kristine and I aren't allowed to do interviews anymore, just in case anyone was wondering

Sarah: 21:11

That's me.

Kristine: 21:13

We took cut off.

Carrie: 21:14

Um, but yeah, you can, you can really get the vibe. But of course some people act completely different in interview and then they start working and you're like, oh, oh boy,

Sarah: 21:26

it's happened a few times.

Kristine: 21:27

Or like, lie a little bit on your, on your resume,

Carrie: 21:30

which is normal.

Kristine: 21:31

Yeah. totes I'm, I'm amazing at Excel. Just joking. It's terrible.

Carrie: 21:36

I told you I had an interview. I made up all of, did you in your last job, do any implementation of this? I'm like, oh yeah, totally made the whole thing up. Yeah. Like, prove me wrong.

Kristine: 21:47

I've done that. Did that six times. Never heard of it.

Carrie: 21:51

And are they still using those processes? Absolutely. Prove me wrong. I

Kristine: 21:55

got an award for that.

Carrie: 22:00

Wow. Yeah. So you know. Yeah.

Kristine: 22:02

No, we loved you right away.

Carrie: 22:03

Yeah. Right away.

Kristine: 22:04

And we knew that you were like, you were good. Yeah. We didn't know this. Good, great job.

Carrie: 22:09

But within, within like six months, we know we were already asking you like where you saw yourself going. Yeah. Mm-hmm. We had that conversation there.

Kristine: 22:16

We, there was a lot of, uh, conversation of like, okay, we think we, you can, Sarah could do this. We think Sarah could do this. Sarah could absolutely handle this role. Yeah. And it was a no, like it was a no-brainer. We knew that you could,

Carrie: 22:28

but I mean, at the time that we kind of envisioned you in this operations manager role, we had six people working here. Right. It was a lot different. Yes. It wasn't quite the same role at the time, but as we've grown, you've kind of grown with it, which is cool. Yeah. But yeah, we were like, we were like, so where do you see yourself going in the next year or two here?

Kristine: 22:48

Yeah, that's what I mean. Like we didn't know No. That this was what was gonna come it.

Carrie: 22:52

We asked you to come to us with some ideas. I

Sarah: 22:54

did.

Carrie: 22:54

And none of them were operations manager.

Sarah: 22:56

None of them were Nope. And I was very stressed when you. Offered me that. And I was like, what if I come with the wrong idea? So that's why I think it was really broad. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Because I think it was like something to do with the website.

Carrie: 23:08

Yeah.

Sarah: 23:08

Something to do with social media.

Carrie: 23:09

Yeah.

Sarah: 23:09

And then I was like, and then we offered you that, and then you're like, um, no, no,

Kristine: 23:14

we see bigger.

Sarah: 23:15

Yeah, that's exactly it.

Carrie: 23:17

But we knew, I mean at that time I could already see where we were headed cuz we were moving out of our warehouse shortly and we knew that we wanted to grow a lot in the next while. And Christina and I knew we couldn't handle it ourselves.

Kristine: 23:32

Oh yeah. There's a lot we can,

Carrie: 23:33

we knew, I mean, we can't handle much, but we knew that there was just no feasible way for us to continue to grow our business. Just the two of us. Mm-hmm. And we just felt like you were the best person for the job and. Ding. Ding, ding.

Kristine: 23:47

Yeah, we were right. Thanks. Woo. I'm fist bumping. No one can see that.

Carrie: 23:55

I just love that. I love the buttons. They never get old for me.

Kristine: 23:59

Karlee was commenting today when I passed through the lunchroom. She's like, I love that you guys found that button. She's like, it's so great.

Carrie: 24:06

We have other buttons. Should I test one more?

Kristine: 24:08

Yeah.

Carrie: 24:08

Okay. Hold.

Kristine: 24:08

See what we got? Hold on,

Carrie: 24:09

hold on. Ooh.

Kristine: 24:12

That is amazing. I

Carrie: 24:13

should have paid that when I was talking about word D. That would've been the perfect music for that. Yeah.

Kristine: 24:17

That's too bad. Next time. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We'll talk about ghosts. Sorry, Sarah, back to you.

Sarah: 24:24

Um, yeah, I'm trying to see what else I wrote on here.

Kristine: 24:28

Well, your notes are so small.

Sarah: 24:30

Well, I made it in a note.

Carrie: 24:32

Oh yeah. And

Sarah: 24:33

then it printed, it was gonna print on three pages and I was like, that's not happening.

Kristine: 24:37

Her font is like font size two. Like I'm a 20 kind of gal. I have really

Sarah: 24:43

good vision, so I can see in,

Carrie: 24:45

oh, did you add that on your resume? You should.

Sarah: 24:47

I should.

Carrie: 24:47

Not that you're leaving or going anywhere else, but No,

Kristine: 24:50

we would chain you here first. I know, I know.

Carrie: 24:52

So how do you like managing such a big team?

Kristine: 24:55

Yeah, let's, so we have how many staff now?

Carrie: 24:58

20, I don't know. Plus 20. Plus. 20 plus. 20 plus I think 22.

Kristine: 25:03

So 20 plus women now. Yeah. And they're Sarah's,

Carrie: 25:07

everyone's but three. Yes. Everyone but three people fall under you. Hannah, Rachel, Katherine. They're the only ones that are in their own umbrella. Yeah. And then the rest are yours. Yep.

Sarah: 25:17

They're all mine. My little baby. I'm just kidding.

Kristine: 25:20

No, that's perfect way. Yes. So how is, how is that? And have you had experience in having all that female?

Sarah: 25:28

Well, no,

Carrie: 25:29

that's a lot of female energy. It's a lot. It's a lot.

Sarah: 25:32

Um, so I, I was gonna say my management experience is I was 18 and I managed Boston Pizza. I was a customer service manager in Fort McMurray and Wow. Nothing like this. No. That is for sure. Mm-hmm. But I'm glad that it wasn't like, here's 20 people. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It was gradual.

Carrie: 25:52

It was a slow,

Sarah: 25:53

yeah, it was a slow grow, which was good. Um, but yeah, it's, it's good. I have like the, our team of managers is what like keeps me going. Is what I wouldn't be able to do it without. Mm-hmm. Without them. So Andrea, Katie, and Hannah Yeah. Are like rock stars. They keep their team in line and then that way I can kind of do my job and help them do theirs. Mm-hmm. So,

Kristine: 26:18

Good.

Sarah: 26:18

That is,

Kristine: 26:19

they are great.

Carrie: 26:20

Yeah. It is a lot of female energy. And not that that's a bad thing.

Kristine: 26:23

We're all syncing up you guys.

Carrie: 26:24

Plus Kristine and I, so like really there's 20. I mean, really, she's managing you and me too. Oh, absolutely.

Kristine: 26:30

We often say that Carrie and I are here for decoration and Sarah's the boss. Yeah. Always. Like if they, if somebody comes up to us and has a question like, don't ask me. Yeah. I don't even know where the paper towel was today. I had, I had to ask for help. Yeah. So like, go talk to Sarah. Sarah knows what's happening.

Sarah: 26:45

And don't your daughter say that

Carrie: 26:47

Always, Brooke always, always says, Sarah's the boss.

Kristine: 26:49

Always.

Carrie: 26:50

Yeah. She knows. She knows what's up. Yeah. But it's, honestly, I don't wanna be like, it's such a relief that Kristine, I don't have to do it. But it is because we have, so I know Kristine and I joke a lot that we're like decoration and we don't do a lot, but we do have a lot of tasks. Yeah. We ma we we're still trying to find our path now that we don't have as many, which hence the podcast being added to our roster. Yeah. But it's just, it's so nice that the day-to-day isn't on us anymore. Yes. Because the day-to-day plus what we do. Yeah. It was, it wasn't realistic anymore.

Kristine: 27:22

It wasn't working. No. We don't do like the managing of the people. We man, like, I mean obviously we have our managers meetings and et cetera, et cetera, but we don't, we don't do that portion anymore. So what I mean like Yeah. we are doing our other things. That portion of that job is not on us. That's on Sarah. That's why she's here To keep the operations running.

Carrie: 27:40

Yeah. And the cool thing is none of us have ever done anything like this. Yeah. So it's not. You know? Yeah. And I was also thinking about the dynamic here, and it was the other day I was thinking about it. Like, if we were to hire someone who was trained in being an operations manager, I just feel like it would be such a different vibe. Like, I love our vibe here. Mm-hmm. I love that. You know, you, you're figuring it out as you go. We are figuring it out as we go. No, none of us, none of us had this in our experience. No. And no one that works here did either. So it's kind of, I love that it's a learn as we go kind of situation. Yeah. Because it, you know, everyone gives each other some grace with some things. Yeah. And

Sarah: 28:23

I think you said that in one of the episodes before. Mm-hmm. And I was like, I was listening and I was like, yes. Mm-hmm. I always say like, especially if one of, um, one of our managers is dealing with an issue on their team, it's like you have to give them grace. Like, they could be having a bad day. Mm-hmm. You could, who knows? Yeah. We try as hard as we can to leave everything at the door before we come in, but like,

Carrie: 28:45

You're spending so much time here. Yeah. It's not realistic.

Kristine: 28:48

No, we've, none of us have done this before. No. We're just, we're just trying to get by

Carrie: 28:54

muddle through some days.

Kristine: 28:55

Muddle through. Yeah.

Sarah: 28:56

And like the thing that I guess I've started, I've, you guys have kind of talked me through it, but like before everyone would come to me with their issue. Mm-hmm. It'd have so many problems or this problem, and then it was on me to fix it, and it was so much, and it was

Kristine: 29:12

like so stressful

Sarah: 29:13

mm-hmm. I had list upon list longer than this, longer than my piece of paper with things I needed to try and fix. Mm-hmm. And now we've said, okay, how can we fix it? Mm-hmm. Turn the tables. Mm-hmm. How can you help us, help me figure out how to fix this because I'm not shipping 200 packages a day. Mm-hmm. I'm not doing that every day, day to day stuff where if they come and they're like, yeah, this is an issue, but. Here's a way to solve it.

Carrie: 29:45

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Sarah: 29:46

This is a suggestion. Absolutely. And then it's like, okay, I have time to process that and think that through. Look and see if it's even possible and then we can make a decision. Not like, good luck, sir.

Kristine: 29:57

Yeah. And making sure, making sure the issues go to the direct manager. Right. Is a huge help. Because when that wasn't the process. Mm-hmm. Or it wasn't happening as often as it should have. You were not Sarah at that moment. No. Like you were about to break. Right. Because you had so much on your plate. That, and that was really hard.

Carrie: 30:18

And that, cuz the end of last year was hard on us. But it was hard on you too. Yeah. Because we hadn't set those boundaries. Boundaries. It goes back to episode three. We hadn't set those boundaries in place for you.

Sarah: 30:27

Right.

Carrie: 30:28

And then finally we said, enough is enough. There has to be like an in between 22 people can't come to you with their problems. No, that's not,

Kristine: 30:36

it's too much. It is.

Sarah: 30:37

It just be a lineup. Yes. And I was like, I'll get to all of you, I promise. And like I felt so bad.

Carrie: 30:42

Mm-hmm.

Sarah: 30:42

But it was now like, I know my specific team, so Stephanie and Brittany, anytime they had an issue, they tried their hardest to fix it. Before and then coming to tell me that what their fix was. Yeah. Or um, okay, I tried, but I flagged this for you. Can you look into it for me? Instead of just constantly coming or being another person just waiting for me. So it was a big, a big thing. Yeah. And I appreciate that so much.

Kristine: 31:10

the figure out on your own was big mm-hmm.

Carrie: 31:12

Giving people the confidence too, I feel. Yeah. Like sometimes if you don't encourage people to solve problems themselves, maybe they don't have that confidence to make that decision.

Kristine: 31:24

Totally.

Carrie: 31:24

And we used to say that a lot to Stephanie when we were training on her own customer service. Like, use your discretion. Because we trust you and you know, it's. It's on you to make that decision. And I feel like a lot of, a lot of our team and a lot of different people have, um, started to definitely like realize that they can make those decisions themselves and we do trust their judgment and it kind of makes things easier too.

Sarah: 31:47

And it was nice that if, um, like Stephanie for instance, if she was to make a call and someone's unhappy with that call, you guys have her back. Mm-hmm.

Kristine: 31:57

Always.

Sarah: 31:57

I know there's been a, a few times that you'll step in and be like, no, I'm replying to that. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's not

Carrie: 32:01

Oh yeah.

Sarah: 32:02

It's not always nice emails that come in.

Carrie: 32:04

So when Christina and I step in, that's when you know it's bad. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's when it's been a while actually. Yeah. Yeah.

Kristine: 32:11

I think so.

Sarah: 32:12

I've jumped in on a few. Yeah. Because you know, Sarah here, if only you knew me and I'm like,

Kristine: 32:20

I love starting when I have to take over. If there's something that I have to put my foot down for, I always start in that way. Kristine here? Yeah. Popping in here for, yeah. Hi.

Carrie: 32:28

We actually had some questions on Instagram the other day about what are some things that really are really hard or what, what brings on your bad days, and sometimes it is reading those emails because sometimes I just, I read things and I'm like, I cannot imagine typing that to another person. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You know, like, I just can't imagine saying that to someone. So reading those, you know

Kristine: 32:52

Yeah, those can, yeah, those can hurt. Those are some nasty ones.

Carrie: 32:56

And then they get you fired up.

Kristine: 32:57

Oh, yeah.

Carrie: 32:57

Then I'm fired up for the whole rest of the day.

Kristine: 32:59

Yeah. Then I need to take a lap around the warehouse. Yeah. Yeah. You're really good at having to, like, when you do have to step in, like now that it's not every single day and every single moment when you do have to step in, you're really good at that. I mean, you're always good at it, but it's, it's nice to know that there's. Another, we have another person that has our staffs. Mm-hmm. Back.

Sarah: 33:21

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Kristine: 33:23

They always back'em. It's good. Glad.

Carrie: 33:26

Okay. So how do you manage your personal life on top of having such a demanding job? Because you're, I mean for, we've all said here that Sarah manages 20 people. Her job is really big. Mm-hmm. It, it really is. At the end of the day, when you write it all down on a piece of paper, it is really big. And you have a lot of things that you juggle throughout the day at work, but then you have your personal life, which is really busy. So how do you juggle that?

Sarah: 33:52

Um, I don't juggle very well. I actually cannot juggle, actually juggle. So, you know, this is,

Carrie: 33:59

Jayce can I

Kristine: 33:59

was just about to say, Jace can juggle. That's good. Next day he's in, get to do a trick. Get him to you.

Sarah: 34:03

It tomorrow teach me. Teach me how to juggle.

Kristine: 34:06

I try to get'em to teach me how to juggle. It doesn't work. No, no. I think it's just something you can do anyway.

Carrie: 34:12

Juggling. You have subordination to hand the ball this way. Yeah. And while you're trying to catch another It's a lot. I've tried it,

Kristine: 34:19

it is really hard.

Carrie: 34:21

I just end up dropping all the balls, which, yeah.

Kristine: 34:26

So, yeah.

Sarah: 34:26

still, it's still a challenge for me for sure. Um, definitely more in the last year than previous years. Um, yeah, my husband works shift work, so like, he's, like right now, I ha I don't think I've really seen him more than a few hours, if not a day since, um, March. He only gets one day off a week. So that is, uh, that is a struggle. Um, but once, you know, once hopefully he's done and hopefully summer sets in and maybe the kids, maybe the kids' activities kinda.

Carrie: 34:58

Slow down.

Sarah: 34:59

Slow down. Um, we have a hot tub coming.

Kristine: 35:02

Ooh. So congratulations.

Carrie: 35:04

Yeah. That's nice.

Sarah: 35:05

Yeah. So I feel like we'll have a lot of movie nights out there. Mm-hmm. Be able to, you know, actually relax. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I've slowly started to do things for myself when I can find the time. I think you

Carrie: 35:17

play volleyball now.

Sarah: 35:18

I play volleyball.

Kristine: 35:19

I'm so happy you,

Sarah: 35:20

it's, it's actually done right now.

Carrie: 35:21

Oh.

Sarah: 35:21

And I only ever made it to three, but like I got to three. Awesome.

Kristine: 35:24

And that was awesome.

Sarah: 35:25

A big awesome. A big deal. So shout out to any, um, volleyball players They are watching. Like Jenna, I think that's probably the only one

Carrie: 35:33

that was on your team.

Sarah: 35:34

Yeah. Yeah.

Kristine: 35:35

That's really cool.

Sarah: 35:35

Um, yeah, so I try, I try to juggle it all. I try, um, probably within the last few months I've tried to finish my work at work. At work. Mm-hmm. And if I have something I have to do, it's on that. Like, can this wait for tomorrow? Can this wait for, you know, in between ballet and rugby and mm-hmm. Can I do this in the car for 15 minutes? But before, I used to be like, Ailey would have dance for three hours and I would literally be barking those three hours in the car. Yeah. Stealing the dance studio wifi. Um, but yeah, I think making that little bit of time for myself,

Kristine: 36:16

I'm so glad

Sarah: 36:17

I did start reading and I stopped, but I need to pick it up again.

Carrie: 36:22

It's so, yeah. Mm-hmm. I find when I don't watch tv, especially at night, my sleep is so much better. I feel like I get a deeper sleep.

Kristine: 36:32

I agree.

Carrie: 36:32

I have like, I feel like I fall into a deeper sleep because I wasn't on, I wasn't watching TV or sitting on my phone before I go to sleep.

Kristine: 36:39

I had a killer sleep last night.

Carrie: 36:40

Me too.

Kristine: 36:41

Like, like dead to the world asleep. And I haven't been able to say that in ages. Mm-hmm. You know that Carrie. Um, but I read last night, amazing Sleep the night before. I didn't read, I watched tv, crappy sleep.

Carrie: 36:52

It changes my sleep.

Kristine: 36:53

Yeah. I, I a hundred percent think so. Yeah. What, what were you reading last, do you remember?

Sarah: 36:57

Um, spare like, um, the, what's his name? Prince? Prince Harris.

Carrie: 37:04

Oh yeah.

Kristine: 37:05

Oh yes.

Sarah: 37:05

Yeah. So I was reading that and I, you know what It's good. I just, I, you know, I haven't picked it up since.

Kristine: 37:12

Okay. So, fair enough.

Sarah: 37:13

You know, maybe I'll take some of your recommendations.

Carrie: 37:16

You should.

Sarah: 37:17

I know Jackie just read that.

Carrie: 37:18

I know, I saw that. I messaged her last night. I'm like, you read the housemaid. I'm so happy.

Sarah: 37:23

But yeah, I, I think making sure that I can have some time for myself. I enjoy watching my kids mm-hmm. Play sports. Yeah. And dance and all that stuff. And especially if I get to hang out with my husband while we do that. Um, I do enjoy that. So, It's kind of nice. I like seeing them do really good. At things. It gives me a sense of pride. So,

Carrie: 37:44

and I feel like last year was really hard to hear because we had grown so fast and we were hiring as fast as we could in training as fast as we could, but we didn't have enough people supporting us up front. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like now you have someone that like directly helps you with things. Mm-hmm. And we didn't have that so. And like we were all doing stuff at night all the time. Yeah. And it's not good for you. And we knew we shouldn't be doing it, but there was nobody else.

Kristine: 38:11

And it was frustrating. It was like frustrating on everybody. Not just us, but our families too.

Carrie: 38:15

Yeah.

Sarah: 38:15

Yeah.

Kristine: 38:15

So not like making that boundary for yourself. Mm-hmm. And making sure you're getting the stuff done is like a huge thing. So like, kudos to you cuz like, it took you a lot less time than it took us to figure that out.

Sarah: 38:29

I'm still, I think I'm still figuring it out. I feel like there's well, we,

Kristine: 38:32

we do too. Like often and oftentimes we still work at home sometimes obviously. But that's, I'm, I'm proud of you. you needed that break too. Yeah.

Carrie: 38:40

Mm-hmm. It is a sign of how much you care about Yeah. Us and our business, which is such a big part of your role and a big part of why Kristine and I. Wanted to promote you. Not cuz we thought that you'd work all night. But because you have that you care, like you genuinely care about what happens. It's not just a job for you. It's like you care about the wellbeing of our company and you like you care. And it's not that easy to find people who actually have that passion. Yeah. Like you do. Like

Kristine: 39:11

when we have all these feelings about our business, we know that you have, you feel them too. Right. And that's a big deal. Mm-hmm. I

Sarah: 39:17

wrote down here, I drank the Kool-Aid.

Carrie: 39:19

You did?

Kristine: 39:20

You did. You freaking chugged it.

Carrie: 39:21

Yeah. Kool-Aid drinkers. Yeah. We, We went. Kristine and I went to a boutique summit. It's been probably three years now. Yeah, it's been a while.

Kristine: 39:31

That was the last one, Atlanta.

Carrie: 39:32

Yeah.

Kristine: 39:33

And love that someone said, find someone who drinks your Kool-Aid. Who, who is so passionate about your business that like they're your right hand and. We always say like, you're a Kool-Aid drinker. Yeah. From that, from that speech. Mm-hmm. Because it is, it's, you know, no one, no matter what you do, no one's ever gonna care about your business as much as you do. But finding someone who cares about it almost as much as you do, like that's, mm-hmm. That's a really big key in finding, um, people to work for you that will help progress your business. So

Sarah: 40:10

I know every time you guys bring me a Whackadoo idea,

Kristine: 40:14

a Whackadoo

Sarah: 40:16

Whackadoo idea, I am,

Kristine: 40:17

we bring them often

Sarah: 40:18

on board. She

Carrie: 40:20

sometimes we're like, we have an idea to run by you. You're like, oh, good.

Kristine: 40:23

Have you ever heard one of our ideas? And like, actually was like, well, that's stupid, but in, or like, have you ever shut anything down? I don't,

Sarah: 40:32

I don't think so.

Kristine: 40:33

I think you just always made it work. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Because I think you, you see that we have this bigger vision. Mm-hmm. And maybe we not, we don't know how to like describe it or Yeah. Explain it well enough. Like how, but you grasp it.

Sarah: 40:44

How long did it take for us to realize that we could put the store in?

Carrie: 40:49

Oh my God. We talked about it for,

Sarah: 40:50

in the Warehouse.

Carrie: 40:52

We talked about it for like a good Yeah. We were talking about it for an hour, and Sarah's like, what, what about the offices that are empty? We were like, oh God. Right.

Kristine: 41:00

And this Sarah, this right here,

Sarah: 41:02

because you're talking about like running racks back and forth between that little mm-hmm. That little building. And I'm like, or we could just. No. Have another bay.

Kristine: 41:11

Oh my God's mortifying. Good Sarah. Thanks.

Carrie: 41:14

Sometimes you need that person that's like separate from the idea. Yeah. To like be like, oh,

Kristine: 41:19

have that bigger vision. Because sometimes we can't get it out. Mm-hmm. Like properly. And you can see that bigger picture, bro.

Carrie: 41:26

You and I think get stuck on an idea. Yeah. And we're like so honed in on it and then we don't see the other options. We just like that's the option. Yeah.

Kristine: 41:35

A hundred percent. That's us.

Carrie: 41:36

It's like, no, that's it. And then we think about it for a while. We're like, oh, okay. Right. Fine.

Kristine: 41:41

There is other options. Yeah.

Sarah: 41:43

Like the number of times you guys will go, Sarah, are you in your office? Come, come here please.

Kristine: 41:49

That is actually a really nice way to put it. But it's not how that works. I usually throw things at the wall.

Sarah: 41:55

You do? But I can tell when Carrie really needs something. Cuz she gonna sing my name. Yeah. And I'm like, oh no. Oh God. All this happening.

Kristine: 42:03

Yeah. I'll throw pens at the wall.

Sarah: 42:04

You do? Didn't I throw something at?

Carrie: 42:08

Yeah,

Kristine: 42:08

yeah.

Sarah: 42:08

It was when I think during like Covid. Yeah. I think when we, one of us had our door closed and I threw it and you were like, ah,

Kristine: 42:17

yeah, that was funny. Ah, we're good at what we do around here. Yeah. What other questions we got for Sarah?

Carrie: 42:23

Um, so how do you like working for us?

Sarah: 42:26

It's fun.

Kristine: 42:26

Are you gonna answer honestly? I wanna know it. Like, gimme the, gimme the dirt. Yeah.

Sarah: 42:32

It's good. It's, you know, no day is the same. Mm-hmm. I will say that there is not, you know, I, I wrote here, I could never like hold another job. I don't feel like I could have bosses, like, I'd have to go into like, If I was to leave, which I've obviously cannot,

Carrie: 42:53

le not allowed to do.

Sarah: 42:54

I have the passwords, I'm not allowed to leave. That's true.

Carrie: 42:59

If you leave, the Kool-Aid will kill you.

Kristine: 43:01

Pretty much.

Sarah: 43:02

Um, like I'd have to go work for myself. Yeah. Like, I don't think I could have a boss because there's nothing that would compare to you two.

Kristine: 43:13

I don't know if that's good or bad.

Sarah: 43:15

It's, it's a good thing. Like you let me, you let me, I was gonna say rule, but that's not No, you're, you Let me kind of Yeah. Run the way I, I want to run. I'm not changing who I am. I am a nice person and I like to think that I manage nicely. Mm-hmm. I'm not, I, when I need to. I will put my foot down and I will get angry and upset. Not angry, get upset and show my frustration.

Carrie: 43:44

What does angry Sarah look like?

Kristine: 43:46

Yeah, I don't, I've never seen it.

Sarah: 43:48

I saw your face and I was like, that's the wrong, that was the wrong thing to say. Um, but you kind of let me do what I need to do. There's things in the day that you guys need from me, or quick changes that you need me to make. Mm-hmm. And you kind of let me drive, do the thing. Yeah.

Kristine: 44:07

Drive the bus,

Carrie: 44:08

which I want you to know is so big for me as a person, because I am, I am a self-proclaimed control freak, and I have a really hard time. It took me a while. Yeah. I'm better now. I don't check out very often. Sometimes just

Sarah: 44:22

sometimes on the prices.

Carrie: 44:26

I just, yeah. It, I, I don't know. Maybe I said this in one of the other episodes. Sometimes I get confused if I said it in an episode or if I said it in a live, but, There's nothing I give you anymore and like ask you to do that. I feel like I have to have to follow up. Mm-hmm. Sometimes I like to follow up mm-hmm. For my own peace of mind, but I don't, I never feel like I have to check that you've done something. Right. Because I just know like you put it on your list and then it's done. Yeah. Or I ask you and then you get this Yeah. Stunned. Look on your face and you're like, I'll be right back.

Kristine: 44:58

Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's already done. Go back to my office for something else. Have to go to the bathroom

Sarah: 45:05

really bad. I'm

Kristine: 45:06

back. Bring my laptop phone. Yeah. Yeah. Whenever we say something, whether in our, like if we text you or whatever, we always know that it's done. I just always like this wild mental checklist. Mm-hmm. That's just, you're really good at checking the pieces off. Uh, you might not think so, but you are very good at it. Okay. You are, whether you write it down or whatever you do, you always make sure that.

Sarah: 45:32

Good. I was, uh, I wrote, it's done. I wrote down here. I'm like, is this my self-evaluation?

Carrie: 45:37

Like, is this Yeah. We're not doing a real one now. This is it. This is the whole shebang.

Sarah: 45:42

So how would you rate me at a five

Kristine: 45:43

selfe evaluation on podcasts? Like, that's, that's daunting actually.

Carrie: 45:47

I do, I do like to think though, that you and I are pretty like lax

Kristine: 45:51

us.

Carrie: 45:52

Yeah.

Kristine: 45:52

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Carrie: 45:54

Like, you know, there are some things we, there has been times in the past where we have been burned by being too lax.

Kristine: 46:00

A hundred percent. Yeah.

Carrie: 46:01

Not by Sarah. Like, you know, in the past. So there's some things that we do try to, like, stand our ground on, but overall I like, we're pretty lax. Mm-hmm.

Kristine: 46:09

Yeah. You know, and, you know, when we're like serious about something that if it needs to be done mm-hmm. Or like why it needs to be done that certain way, you understand that and you don't argue with it. You, you understand it. Right. Like you've already picked it apart in your brain. I'm like, okay, that, that's right. This is what I need to do and this is what I'm gonna do going forward.

Sarah: 46:30

And then I usually run out of the office and Yeah, go and fix it or make it work or,

Kristine: 46:34

exactly. Yeah. But I agree with you, Carrie. We are lax, but we're not, um,

Carrie: 46:39

no.

Sarah: 46:40

You have a way that you want things to be. Yeah. And I try my hardest to make sure that it's, um, up to that.

Kristine: 46:48

And I find that we're really good, um, communicating with each other, with like, especially between the three of us of why we need something done or like how it needs to be done. And like, you'll ask us questions and we'll ask you questions. Like we're very, I think we're very, really good at that. Mm-hmm.

Carrie: 47:02

Yeah, I agree.

Kristine: 47:03

Especially when it comes to like backend things, you know?

Carrie: 47:07

I do. But I'm glad you don't think you could ever go anywhere else and work for a real boss.

Sarah: 47:11

I was really trying to think about it and I'm like, I don't think I could like, Sit in a quiet office and like,

Carrie: 47:20

what do you mean

Kristine: 47:21

no one else will have a button? No. That says, says no in many different ways.

Carrie: 47:28

It just says Sarah. Sarah says Sarah. Sarah.

Kristine: 47:30

Did we have a no button at one point?

Carrie: 47:32

We did. Yeah.

Kristine: 47:32

You What happened to that?

Carrie: 47:34

I think it's still in one of our desks.

Kristine: 47:36

Good. We need to bring that out. I'm not sure why.

Carrie: 47:40

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah,

Kristine: 47:42

yeah. Definitely around. Yeah. No, you, you wouldn't get this anywhere else.

Carrie: 47:47

No. And it's never quiet. I mean, on Fridays it may be. Yes.

Sarah: 47:50

Well, Fridays is, I, I think I said today. Mm-hmm. Fridays is probably my busiest day. You guys aren't here. Mm-hmm. But like, it's usually when, you know, we're getting ready for the weekend.

Carrie: 48:00

Yeah.

Sarah: 48:00

And things like that. Or you guys are still working and so sometimes, what do you mean? Sometimes there's might be a little bit more running around than the rest of the week, but,

Carrie: 48:09

And it's probably good that we're not here If you're like, have things to do because we just are distracting sometimes you can be a little distracting.

Kristine: 48:16

Never.

Carrie: 48:17

Which leads us into a really good question.

Sarah: 48:19

What is that?

Carrie: 48:19

What's the weirdest thing you've heard slash seen from us?

Sarah: 48:25

Okay. I try. Oh, you okay? Mm-hmm.

Carrie: 48:27

Kristine's gonna spit out her coffee.

Kristine: 48:30

White carpet. I had, I have an ice chunk in my mouth, so I was like, afraid that I always, if I were to swallow, like I'd choke on the ice or spit out my coffee. All of our beautiful white carpet. Okay. Sarah, go on.

Sarah: 48:43

Okay. Um, it's

Carrie: 48:44

so I, I

Sarah: 48:46

have a really hard time with this one cuz I feel like it all just blends together.

Carrie: 48:49

Mm-hmm.

Sarah: 48:51

Again, like I said, every day is very different. Um, I do think it's very weird that I know your bathroom schedule.

Kristine: 48:57

Mine specifically. Yeah. So I don't know. So Sarah's our direct neighbor, like direct neighbor. So when I do say I throw pens, like she can directly hear

Carrie: 49:07

that like Yeah. She shares the wall. Yeah.

Sarah: 49:09

There's just the three of us in that corner. That's right.

Carrie: 49:11

Yeah. It's just us. Yeah.

Kristine: 49:11

Um, so to get anywhere out of our office, we have to pass by Sarah's office and Carrie and I, uh, attached to the hip as we are. We share an office naturally and um, We are so strange, so weird. So weird. And Sarah hears and sees it all. So like my bathroom schedule. Yeah.

Sarah: 49:31

Which you'll wave to me every time.

Kristine: 49:34

This one time it's my favorite time. I walked out of the office, but I spun around, looked at Sarah Finger gunned and said, you know what time it is. Like why was that necessary? But

Sarah: 49:50

I don't think Carrie was here that day..

Kristine: 49:51

As I walked to the bathroom,

Carrie: 49:52

I wasn't here. No. I was so sad.

Kristine: 49:55

I think you know what time it is?

Carrie: 49:56

I think it was when I was in Disneyland. I think so. Yeah. Because you had like a, those couple days I was gone. You're like, I kept Sarah updated. Yeah,

Kristine: 50:04

you in the loop.

Sarah: 50:06

Um, I definitely have walked in on the wrong, at the wrong time. Oh yeah, for sure. More than. Oh yeah.

Kristine: 50:13

Like we're changing or something. Like we

Carrie: 50:15

Yeah. Yeah. And you're like, well, we're doing weird stuff. Yeah.

Sarah: 50:18

Well, you've made that TikTok, I think I walked in and you were making a TikTok or something and you're like, just, just ignore us. I think you were, you know that one where you like catch each other? Yes. You like hold onto the, I can't remember what it was.

Kristine: 50:31

The legs.

Carrie: 50:31

The legs when you were running maybe. Or the one where our legs were connected and your legs. We had to support each other.

Kristine: 50:35

Yeah.

Carrie: 50:36

Which it, that was a fail.

Kristine: 50:37

We, I don't even think we posted that, did we?

Carrie: 50:39

Because we couldn't do it.

Sarah: 50:40

Well, I think you needed me to record it or something. And then I walked in and you're like, we're just stop working.

Kristine: 50:46

Well, legs were wrapped around each other with a little questionable, very small space too, so That's too funny.

Sarah: 50:52

Um, I've definitely had to, um, I've gotten a friend a phone call to go and intercept a package

Carrie: 51:01

Oh yeah.

Sarah: 51:01

From the mail. Yeah. Before anyone else has opened it. Yeah.

Kristine: 51:05

Was that mine? Oh, no. We both had that. We both had it package. Yeah.

Carrie: 51:08

Yeah.

Kristine: 51:09

Oops.

Sarah: 51:10

A few different times.

Carrie: 51:11

Like, why don't we ship that stuff to our house?

Sarah: 51:14

I think they were accidental purchases were there.

Carrie: 51:16

Yeah. One of them was for sure. Yeah. Mine was too.

Kristine: 51:18

Well, not accidental. I absolutely did on purpose, but I was drunk. Yeah. And I, it was, I was at a hockey game.

Carrie: 51:25

I was too. I actually ordered it for another staff member for a gift.

Kristine: 51:29

That's true. I remember. Yeah. Yeah.

Carrie: 51:31

And I was like, um, could you, could you grab this before somebody opens it? Because all of the returns that come here, they all say my name on it, which we can't fix.

Sarah: 51:39

We need to fix that.

Carrie: 51:40

I, I've tried. It's driving me crazy. So they all say Carrie and then the address. So like, my stuff gets opened all the time. Well, God,

Kristine: 51:49

the pack starts buzzing. Just go give it a Sarah. Oh my gosh. Gosh, Sarah, I don't know what to do with this.

Carrie: 52:01

If any HR professionals are listening to this podcast, please just plug your ears. Oh, it didn't happen that way. No,

Sarah: 52:12

but like we spent, uh, like we've vacationed and not vacationed. We went on a work trip to Vegas twice.

Carrie: 52:19

Twice. Mm-hmm.

Sarah: 52:20

So, like, I've seen you in your rest, you have in the early morning, which, you know, oh yeah. Not too many employees can say that about their bosses that, yeah. You know, like the first time you, you welcomed me easily into the. Into the Vegas life. We each had our own separate rooms.

Carrie: 52:37

Oh yeah, you did have your own room.

Sarah: 52:39

I did have my own room.

Carrie: 52:39

We were bougie that trip. Ooh. Real bougie.

Kristine: 52:42

So bougie.

Carrie: 52:42

Oh, that was 2021. Those were the good old days. Yeah. Or early 2022. One of the two.

Sarah: 52:47

Like I had own second suite. Yeah, you did. Heated toilet and like Yeah.

Kristine: 52:51

Those are the best toilets. So good.

Carrie: 52:53

The M aria toilets are just Yes.

Kristine: 52:56

It's got like a, the built-in B day.

Carrie: 52:58

Oh yeah.

Kristine: 52:59

And the heated seat. Mm-hmm. Dries front end back like it's a yes. For me.

Sarah: 53:05

I have no idea that was even a thing. So

Kristine: 53:07

Yeah. It's awesome.

Sarah: 53:08

And then trip two was we were right next to each other

Carrie: 53:10

and we were sharing a room,

Kristine: 53:13

sharing a bathroom.

Carrie: 53:15

Yeah.

Kristine: 53:16

Yeah. Sorry.

Carrie: 53:17

Lucky story,

Kristine: 53:17

Sarah. Well, she knows my schedule so she knows when to avoid it,

Carrie: 53:22

but that trip was nice. We actually didn't, we had one full day of just nothing.

Sarah: 53:26

Yeah. Got to go to the pool.

Carrie: 53:28

We did.

Sarah: 53:28

We read.

Carrie: 53:29

That was nice.

Kristine: 53:30

Yeah. All of us, right?

Sarah: 53:31

We're all reading.

Carrie: 53:33

You and I were drinking.

Kristine: 53:34

Yeah. As we do naturally. Yeah. Yeah. We went out some drinks.

Carrie: 53:39

We went You did? At Buk.

Kristine: 53:41

Oh yeah. Yeah. That was good. We did. There's a restaurant,

Sarah: 53:44

restaurant punch.

Kristine: 53:45

Yeah. The punch bowl. Yeah. There's a restaurant in, um, what is it actually called?

Carrie: 53:50

In Excalibur, and it's called

Sarah: 53:53

No.

Kristine: 54:00

isn't it? Oh, I'm looking it up now cause

Sarah: 54:09

and this is exactly, um, why this is the name of it, because

Kristine: 54:14

actually I had to Google it, so I got this, so can this right Buk depo. And it's like impossible to say. I

Carrie: 54:22

don't think one of us has ever called it that.

Kristine: 54:24

No.

Carrie: 54:24

That's the first time

Kristine: 54:25

Beep. Beep beep is my favorite.

Sarah: 54:27

Shout out to the photographer.

Carrie: 54:28

Oh yeah.

Sarah: 54:29

That cuz she's amazing.

Carrie: 54:30

Yeah. Big shout out to the photographer that, you know how they come around to your table and they take your picture and then they con you into buying it. Well I was like, well, we're not gonna buy it cuz that's crazy. And then she brought the picture and somehow she gave us all these snatch jaw lines. We looked like we all lost 20 pounds in these pictures. Yeah. And we're like, yeah, we'll take three.

Kristine: 54:47

Yeah. Right.

Carrie: 54:48

We'll take three of those please. Full round. It's just snatch

Sarah: 54:52

full color. Full color too, please.

Carrie: 54:54

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kristine: 54:56

I don't think I actually look that way. I like Yeah.

Carrie: 54:59

Like your face shape isn't even that way.

Kristine: 55:00

No, I have a very oval face.

Carrie: 55:02

Yeah.

Kristine: 55:02

And I, I have a like a Chin in that photo.

Carrie: 55:06

Like a jawline.

Kristine: 55:07

Yeah. It was magical. There's no way. But that's okay.

Sarah: 55:10

Pasta. Mm-hmm. And.

Kristine: 55:12

A fishbowl.

Sarah: 55:13

A fishbowl of,

Kristine: 55:14

yeah. So it's like a family style Italian restaurant and like, so delicious.

Carrie: 55:18

Hey, can we all talk for one second about what happened when we left that restaurant?

Kristine: 55:22

No. What, what happened?

Carrie: 55:23

We went to the bathroom downstairs.

Kristine: 55:24

Oh my God. Yes. How I f I I didn't know where you were going with this and I'm so happy.

Carrie: 55:29

So we walked into the public bathroom at the Excalibur, which. It's quite the hotel. And we walked in and I saw a man's feet facing, facing the toilet. But then I also saw girls' feet facing the toilet. And I turned around to the girls and I said, they are fucking in this bathroom. Like they are without a doubt having sex in here. And like all you could hear was like slapping noises and we had to pee. Like I, I couldn't go to another bathroom. Yeah. But I was crying, laughing.

Kristine: 56:00

Yeah. And they were, they knew other people were in the bathroom, so they were laughing and still going. So like, there were still moaning and laughing and slapping and like, it was like, there were so many Sounds

Carrie: 56:12

We didn't even wash our heads.

Sarah: 56:14

No.

Carrie: 56:14

We had to run outta the bathroom and find hand sanitizer. Cuz none of us could, none of us could even stay in there anymore. I was crying. I was, because

Kristine: 56:21

I have never, and I'm so happy that happened because I don't, I've never experienced. Walking in on somebody having sex in a bathroom before

Carrie: 56:27

me either. And I, and

Sarah: 56:28

it's not like there was three stalls. There was like at least 15 stalls in that bathroom.

Kristine: 56:33

Yeah, it's a big bathroom. It was a big bathroom.

Carrie: 56:35

And they picked, they were in a small stall. I'm not sure why they did that.

Kristine: 56:38

Yeah, I don't know either. They could have had so much.

Sarah: 56:40

Well maybe they, maybe the like

Kristine: 56:42

molding themselves up with the walls I guess. Yeah. So that,

Carrie: 56:49

you know, that's an experience yeahs so happy.

Kristine: 56:53

Best offers so much there. Yeah. Like boo beep, uh, sex in the bathroom, uh, thunder from Dun under thunder.

Sarah: 57:00

From under fast photographers.

Carrie: 57:01

Yes.

Sarah: 57:02

Yes.

Kristine: 57:02

There's so much to offer,

Carrie: 57:03

like a castle.

Kristine: 57:04

it is shaped like a castle. You can't, no, you should go wrong there.

Carrie: 57:08

No, you can't.

Sarah: 57:09

I should add this. It was only my third time to Vegas. My first time was when I was not even legal. Mm-hmm. So this is really only my second time and this is my experience.

Carrie: 57:18

Yeah. Yeah. Classic Vegas. Yeah.

Kristine: 57:20

You're welcome. We planned that. We called them. It's like, can you do us a favor? Go bang the bathroom. Yep. Ugh. Okay. And go. Sarah's coming.

Carrie: 57:31

We're coming now.

Kristine: 57:33

Is that what they said?

Carrie: 57:34

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We really did cover all the questions we had. The last one was, did you expect to have bosses that act this way? But I feel like you kind of covered that when you were talking. I mean, I just don't think you could ever expect us.

Sarah: 57:50

No, no.

Carrie: 57:53

We're pretty unique.

Sarah: 57:55

Very unique. You both have so unique, unique personalities.

Kristine: 58:01

We do have very unique personalities.

Carrie: 58:03

We do. And I always think when we're live and stuff, and especially on Monday nights and we're super silly. Yeah. Like that's not an act like that is genuine. Kristine and Carrie. Yeah. And people always ask, are you guys what? What's in your cups? What are you even drinking? It's not alcohol. Like this is life. This is just us.

Kristine: 58:19

Yeah. We're how in life we're happy to be with each other.

Sarah: 58:22

The funniest thing for me for Monday Night Lives is that I know it's you.

Kristine: 58:28

Yeah.

Sarah: 58:28

And so when I com, or when I comment, like laughing or like whatever, or text you guys individually or in our group chat, just like how much I'm laughing. It's, it's cuz it's really you and that it's just so funny to see it on camera as well.

Carrie: 58:47

We're putting it out there for the world.

Sarah: 58:49

I'm literally crying on Yeah. On my couch.

Kristine: 58:51

Yeah.

Sarah: 58:52

Watching this.

Carrie: 58:53

That's us. Yeah.

Kristine: 58:54

Oh, I love that.

Carrie: 58:54

That baby. Did you have anything else that you, uh, wrote that you, uh, we didn't ask?

Kristine: 59:00

I have another question for you. Okay. After or now? Yeah. Because we were talking about how big your job is. Can you give a small little snippet for the people, just so they know, even a small, like maybe two, three things off of your day-to-day so they understand how big your job actually is. Mm-hmm. Is that something you can do for us?

Sarah: 59:18

I don't know if I can.

Kristine: 59:19

Okay.

Sarah: 59:20

Every day is completely different. Okay. I mean, managing 20 people is

59:24

huge.

Sarah: 59:25

Yeah. Yeah. Making sure that they have work to do. Yeah. Is another big thing. Like making sure that, um, our friend and support has mm-hmm. Things to enter, make sure that things are going online when they should be, and confirming that they are, and you know, just, there's just so much.

Kristine: 59:42

Okay. No, that, that was like, that was like three things in, in Creon one, so Yeah.

Carrie: 59:46

And you manage our intake team and our shipping team. Yeah. So you are, I mean, you're making sure the operation of our business is functioning. Yeah. So you're making sure the intake knows mm-hmm. What they're doing. Cuz it needs to flow over to shipping because they need to have their stuff and Yeah. It's,

Kristine: 1:00:02

and it all flows up to, um, upstairs as well, like to our social media team. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So like, you are literally making sure everything from that comes through the door is handled mm-hmm. Properly, properly in a timely manner. Mm-hmm. Before it gets out or until it gets out that door because it could be packaged. Mm-hmm. That doesn't mean that's the job is done. It literally needs to leave here. So I just wanted, I need like, you know, I want people to know Yeah. That your job isn't just like, I don't know, to think that you're, the operations matter, just like, just small tasks, what you take on a day is something that is a lot of people won't, wouldn't be able to do. Yeah. Because it is, there's just so much going on all the time and you handle it like so well, a fucking champ. Mm-hmm.

Sarah: 1:00:45

Two of our platforms have a lot of trouble too. Mm-hmm. So I'm always troubleshooting, troubleshooting and fixing computers or printers or cuz I am

Kristine: 1:00:55

tech sport,

Sarah: 1:00:56

tech sport. Um, which also my family thinks it's hilarious that I'm tech sport cuz like my sister's very techy, tech savvy. Yeah. And I'm like,

Carrie: 1:01:06

Not, not compared to her.

Sarah: 1:01:08

So it's, it's funny,

Carrie: 1:01:10

it's go show you how tech savvy we are. Right.

Sarah: 1:01:13

But yeah, no, I, yeah. Making sure that everything is running smoothly and like I have my base, like I, I check our emails mm-hmm. And make sure that all of our packages are coming in and making sure that they're in the proper slot and printed and, you know mm-hmm. Make sure that everything's going okay.

Kristine: 1:01:33

Good. Good. You have such a big job. I just didn't want, wanted to get looked past.

Carrie: 1:01:38

No. Literally from the time we order to, the time the product is out the door, plus the customer service follow ups that ha happen after is all you. Mm-hmm. Like, you, you oversee all of it. It's such, it's huge. It's a huge job. It's, and I know we are like, oh, Sarah's our operations manager, but I don't think everyone understands how big that job is. Mm-hmm. You're like me either until right now and

Sarah: 1:02:03

I'm like, oh, what do I do in a today? I know I check some emails mm-hmm. And I do this and then it's usually at like three o'clock. Like I'm thinking like, what do I have to do? Katie went home early today, so I, but I have to go and accept Grace's transfer mm-hmm. And make sure that Yeah. You know, every, that good to go for that. Yeah. Yeah.

Carrie: 1:02:21

Cuz you also have to cover when your team's not there.

Sarah: 1:02:24

Yeah. And of course, I don't know, everyone's got allergies,

Kristine: 1:02:28

things going on right now.

Carrie: 1:02:29

There's so much going around right now. Yeah. So all the kids are sick and all the parents are sick.

Sarah: 1:02:34

Yeah. Um, I don't really have a whole lot of questions for you guys cuz it's really, um, you've answered them.

Carrie: 1:02:41

Yeah. We kind of covered it all. Hey.

Kristine: 1:02:42

so. We do the, uh, fuck Mary kill.

Sarah: 1:02:44

Yep.

Kristine: 1:02:45

Um, we would like to fuck Mary kill you.

Sarah: 1:02:48

Oh yeah.

Kristine: 1:02:48

Um, before you head you, um, Because it's one of our favorite things to do, part of our podcast,

Carrie: 1:02:55

and everyone who's been listening has been loving it, which I love.

Kristine: 1:02:58

Yeah. Yeah. They're fun to do.

Carrie: 1:02:59

They are fun.

Kristine: 1:03:00

So, uh, do you accept?

Sarah: 1:03:02

I accept.

Kristine: 1:03:03

Oh, okay. Thank God.

Carrie: 1:03:04

Okay. Okay. Do you wanna say the first one?

Kristine: 1:03:06

Yes. What? Almost read yours.

Carrie: 1:03:08

Oh. Oh. Could you? I'll come imagine. No, I can't.

Kristine: 1:03:12

Yeah. Okay. Uh, Sarah's fuck. Mary Kay. Derek Shepherd from Grey's Anatomy.

Sarah: 1:03:19

Okay.

Carrie: 1:03:19

Casey from Yellowstone.

Kristine: 1:03:22

And Jack from Virgin River. Fuck. Mary Kay. Sarah.

Sarah: 1:03:26

Oh God. Yeah. Oh God.

Carrie: 1:03:29

It's a good one. Hey,

Kristine: 1:03:31

it's really good.

Carrie: 1:03:31

I don't know what I would do, so just so everybody knows,

Sarah: 1:03:34

Um, okay. So, Derek Shepherd, Casey. Mm-hmm. And Jack. And Jack. I'm killing Jack.

Carrie: 1:03:41

Okay. Taking him out?

Sarah: 1:03:43

Yep. Okay. He's nice, but

Carrie: 1:03:45

like he's not, yeah.

Sarah: 1:03:46

I liked him better in Grey's Anatomy.

Carrie: 1:03:49

That's fair res. Oh yeah.

Kristine: 1:03:50

Right. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Carrie: 1:03:55

Now we just have Derek Shepherd and Casey. Yeah.

Kristine: 1:03:57

Sarah looks very per perplexed.

Carrie: 1:04:00

It's tough.

Sarah: 1:04:01

Yeah, it is tough. Okay. I would marry Derek. She Oh,

Carrie: 1:04:05

yeah.

Sarah: 1:04:05

Yeah. You know?

Carrie: 1:04:07

Yeah, I do.

Kristine: 1:04:08

I get it. Um,

Carrie: 1:04:10

he's, cuz he's a good guy.

Sarah: 1:04:11

Yeah. And I'm fucking Casey. Yeah. I mean, like, if I'm married to him, then I could like, you know,

Kristine: 1:04:17

but it's not part of all

Carrie: 1:04:18

we have, we have this dilemma often. Mm-hmm. Because we're like, can you know, can you, but no, the choice is to marry them. Yeah. Like, yeah, maybe you're having a sexless marriage. I don't know, but like,

Sarah: 1:04:28

and I can't, um, Yeah. No, I can't with Jack. I know. Yeah.

Kristine: 1:04:35

I actually, I've never watched Virgin River and I've never watched Yellowstone, so Carrie actually had to show me pictures today.

Sarah: 1:04:41

Okay. And who would you,

Kristine: 1:04:43

I would really like to get to know Casey very well.

Sarah: 1:04:46

Oh yeah?

Carrie: 1:04:47

Yeah.

Kristine: 1:04:47

He's so well. Mm-hmm. So,

Carrie: 1:04:49

yeah, he's good.

Kristine: 1:04:50

He's my cup of tea. Yeah. But we had a good list for you. Okay, well thanks Sarah for joining us.

Carrie: 1:04:58

Thank you.

Sarah: 1:04:58

Thanks guys.

Kristine: 1:04:59

I loved it. This is a good episode.

Sarah: 1:05:01

I'm glad

Kristine: 1:05:02

I'm excited.

Sarah: 1:05:02

I was nervous.

Kristine: 1:05:03

Oh, you did a great job.

Carrie: 1:05:04

Once you get going it's like, it's so easy.

Sarah: 1:05:06

It's just talking you guys.

Carrie: 1:05:07

Yeah,

Kristine: 1:05:08

Awesome. Okay

Carrie: 1:05:09

Thanks Sarah.

Kristine: 1:05:09

Thank you.

Sarah: 1:05:10

Thanks for having me on.

Carrie: 1:05:11

Okay. So now it's, uh, time for some questions.

Kristine: 1:05:16

Hey. Yeah.

Carrie: 1:05:17

Okay. So now that you guys have actually been able to wa or listen to some watch, oh my God. Listen to some episodes. We had some questions. Yeah. Listener questions. I think we're gonna try to do a regular thing. Mm-hmm. Um, at the end of our episodes or near the end. Um, Let's kick it off with, uh, a question. Do you wanna go first or you can go first. Okay. This one is from, um, I'm just shortening down the name here on Instagram. This is from TF on Instagram. Um, the question is, do you ever fight? So this is one of our favorite questions to answer. Sarah's like, oh, God, I've, why am I not here anymore? She's just like sitting back relaxing. So yes, Carrie and I spend. A lot of time together. And by a lot, I mean, we spend most of our time together. Uh, we work together, obviously, we hang out together, we choose to do all this. So naturally it's just, we're gonna butt heads over things that's just such as life. Yeah. And I mean, we're running a business together.

Kristine: 1:06:19

Yeah. We have to make like major decisions, life decisions, not only just for us mm-hmm. But for the people who work for us. Right? Mm-hmm. So like, there's gonna be questions or like, there's gonna be things that pop up that we butt head on bed

Carrie: 1:06:31

butt heads on. The funniest thing is the stuff we fight about is never like actual decisions. No.

Kristine: 1:06:36

So like, there's just things that we like, you know, there's just a lot going on for us. Mm-hmm. So we will butt heads and sometimes it's over ridiculous things. Yeah. Like I have an i an idea for social media or something. Yeah. And Carrie didn't like it. And, and then we get mad and we cry, and then we go for ice cream. So

Carrie: 1:06:54

it just, it's usually like a tension buildup though, right? Yeah. Where it's like, you know, it's, the cup is running over and we need to just fight it out.

Kristine: 1:07:02

It's like a once a year we have an annual fight. Mm-hmm. And then we'll get mad. We'll cry. Sarah

Carrie: 1:07:07

sat next to us for one of them and she was like, I don't know what, she

Kristine: 1:07:10

was cliquey, clocking. She was cliquey, clocking on her computer. Yeah. It's, it's not, it's not often. It's not often.

Sarah: 1:07:18

And it's just

Carrie: 1:07:19

sometimes you just, sometimes you just wanna like get mad. Yeah. And there's get mad at each other. There's nothing.

Kristine: 1:07:25

No. That would make me hate you for Robert's 3 0 3. Yeah. I already. Okay, good. Yeah. Um, my alarm goes off every day. Oh. Uh, but there's nothing that would make me hate you forever. No. Oh God, no. No. So, yeah, we fight, it's normal. Mm-hmm. It's gonna

Carrie: 1:07:40

happen and then it's over and we move along. Yep. And we go get ice cream. Yep. Um, yeah, that's the one I got. Okay. So have you ever dnf a book? So that means do not finish. Like, have you ever read a book and not been able to finish?

Kristine: 1:07:55

Um, I personally don't like doing that Uhhuh. I have to see it through. Yeah. I've never not finished a book, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think so.

Carrie: 1:08:05

Okay. I just did, I just did like a month ago. It was by Nyla case. So she's the same author that wrote for the fans and she wrote that book that was called Push. Yep. And. I just really, I'm sure I could have pushed through, see what I did there, and maybe I still will, but at the time it just wasn't filling my cup. Okay. It just wasn't bringing me the, it, I want a book that, like I'm brushing my teeth. Yeah. And I can't put it down. What, what is it? A boot? Little risque. Are we getting into that? So it's about a dad and he starts hooking up with his daughter's boyfriend. Yes. That's good.

Kristine: 1:08:45

That's nice. Wow. You

Carrie: 1:08:47

heard that correctly. And so obviously they're of age, like it's not, but it just, it didn't make me want to do nothing but read. Yeah. You know? Yeah. So I just, I had to put it to the side. Maybe another day it's a little taboo, so maybe another day. Wow. Okay. Okay. And uh, do you have another one or do I have another one? Um,

Kristine: 1:09:09

I don't know the, uh, I've just shortened down the name. Hm. P on Instagram. Um, as Kristine said, they're building a house in one episode. Are you still going to be able to talk to walk in between? Yes, yes, we will. We're be leav

Carrie: 1:09:22

little closer. Gonna be closer our backyard's touch. Yeah. So

Kristine: 1:09:26

still, still walking distance. That's, and then some, and then some very close. Very, very close. And that's, that's my answer for that one. Mm-hmm. Do you have another question? Was that it? I don't. Awesome. Push up three. Keep setting those questions in. Yeah. Because we really enjoy them and we do.

Carrie: 1:09:40

We like answering them. Yeah. And we'll answer a few questions. Yeah. We have load for next week That really tie into next week's episode. Okay. So now it's our turn for fuck Mary. Kill. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Are you going first or am I,

Kristine: 1:09:54

whatever you peck, you go

Carrie: 1:09:55

first. Okay. Sure. You go first, George. Okay. So this is like silver Fox edition? Yeah. Okay. Got George Clooney. Mm. Pierce Brosnan. Oof. Will Smith. Damn.

Kristine: 1:10:07

Damn. Mm-hmm. Oh, shit. Mm-hmm. Okay. I, I'm fucking pierce. I feel like that's

Carrie: 1:10:16

just, I love Pierce Brosnan is my number one silver

Kristine: 1:10:20

fox. Yeah. I think that if I have that opportunity, if I have that opportunity, I am not letting that one slip. No, no. It's Pierce. If I had the op, if all three of them walked in, I'm gonna try to go for all three. Yeah. Yeah. But if I only

Carrie: 1:10:33

coulda got one. Yeah. You can only pick one. I would take,

Kristine: 1:10:36

uh, Pierce Pierce. 10 outta 10. Even right now at his age. Don't, oh yeah. Um, how old do

Carrie: 1:10:41

you think he is?

Kristine: 1:10:42

67. I'm Googling it. I, that was just a guess. I have no idea. It was not an educated guess.

Carrie: 1:10:49

He is 70. Oh, I was really close. Yeah. Yeah. Still,

Kristine: 1:10:54

still good with that. Yep. Um, and then I would probably marry Will Smith. Yeah. I don't wanna kill George, but, I feel like I have this really good opportunity with George Pierce. George 20 is 62 And Will,

Carrie: 1:11:11

will Smith is, he's young. He's the youngest of I'm 54. Okay.

Kristine: 1:11:17

I'm gonna fuck Pierce Mary Well and

Carrie: 1:11:20

kill George Clooney. Oh man. I know. That's rough. That's a hard one. I couldn't, I mean, but that's fair. It's, that's a hard one. It is. That's the whole point of the game. It's the name of the game now. It is the name of

Kristine: 1:11:33

the game. Okay. Okay. You locked in? Uh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Locked in. Okay.

Carrie: 1:11:36

Okay. Carrie? Not me. I, I was, I searched for George Clooney when I was over there in Italy. Yeah. I see. I didn't find him. You already locked it in too. I did, I did lock it in.

Kristine: 1:11:48

Okay. Are you ready? Yep. In Summer Holder. Oh yeah. David Beckham. Okay. Morgan Wallen.

Carrie: 1:12:00

Okay. Alright. They're so hard. Yeah. Like you think

Kristine: 1:12:05

this is just a fun, the second one again. David

Carrie: 1:12:07

Beckham. Okay. So I killed David Beckham. He's hot, don't get me wrong, but I am fucking Ian. Summer holder. No, no. I'm gonna fuck Morgan Wallen because I don't think he's a long-term guy. Ian? No, no. Morgan Wallen. I'm fucking Morgan Mul. Yeah. Okay. He's not a long-term guy for me. He's just like, I'd hope he sing me well. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So he would be my fuck. And I would marry Ian Summer holder so I could wake up looking at him every day. Yeah. He's beautiful. He is my, he is my number one celebrity crush. Yeah. Which is wild cuz he doesn't fit my typical, um, like male appearance. Yeah, that's fair. I think it's, I think it's because of Empire Diaries, it's his

Kristine: 1:12:50

eyes. Oh. When I was looking online, like I was just mm-hmm. Perusing the, my, you know, mint. Mm-hmm. The selection. Mm-hmm. Um, I just, I

Carrie: 1:13:00

stared into his eyes. Yeah. So his dark cuz I, which is also funny cuz what my husband look likes, but I typically go for guys with dark hair. So he, which opposite, but that's, I like that. But his physical rest of him, yeah. Isn't really typically my jam, but he's good. Yeah. I'd marry him Good. In a heartbeat. So thank you for that. You're welcome. David. David's gone. He's out. Nice. I mean, I already married his wife last time, so. Yeah, it's true. I mean, I'm good. It's fine.

Kristine: 1:13:31

So, locked in.

1:13:32

It's

Carrie: 1:13:32

locked in. Okay. Perfect. Okay.

Kristine: 1:13:33

Okay, so we had our giveaway of, uh, a pair of beets. Yeah. The headphones. Yeah. Uh, not the vegetable, the brew. No. Um, okay. So we were giving away a pair of beats on, uh, Instagram. And Facebook. Yeah, through the event. Um, so Amy Lang. Yeah. From Instagram. Okay. Congratulations, you are a winner. And on our Facebook event, Janelle Hartel

Carrie: 1:14:00

Hartel. Amazing. So if you are listening and you're the winner, please message our customer service team at LA Room. Nice boutique. Don't message us on Instagram because that's probably not your best bet. It's not managed by anyone, but Kristine and I, so if you wanna message our customer service team at Chv Lavender Lace, uh, they will get those, uh, sent off to you. Yeah. Okay. Incredible. Thank you. That was really good. Um, so thank you guys so much for joining us. Um, next week we have a really good episode planned, which came from a lot of questions from you guys. Yes.

Kristine: 1:14:32

So it's our, um, we're gonna be talking about family and how, uh, Our family works. How Yeah. Family and how our family mm-hmm. Are dynamic.

Carrie: 1:14:40

Yeah. You guys had a ton of questions and comments about our family and Kristine and I realized how we, maybe how you guys get to see our family maybe isn't actually how things are and we'd like to just talk about it. Yep. Clear things up. It's gonna be a good one. So join us next Thursday for our next episode. You can listen to us anywhere on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Kristine: 1:15:02

That's right. if you have any questions, you can message us through Instagram two Babes podcast. You can email us at hello@twobabespodcast.com. I never said this part before, so feel good about kudos that Thank you. Um, and that, uh, that's what we have for this week. So thank you so much for listening and, uh, we'll see you next Thursday. See you next Thursday. Bye bye.