Aundrea Hopkins Leads the Conversation on Event Rentals

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Welcome to the Event Pro show, your ultimate guide to the world of corporate

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events. Whether you're a corporate event planner, experiential marketing

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pro, producer, technician, or anyone involved in creating exceptional

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events, this podcast is your go to resource for valuable insights,

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expert tips and inspiring stories from the industry's leading professionals.

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Event Pro Show. And

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I have a great guest today. Actually one

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of the first people I met when I moved to

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Charlotte back in, I don't know, 2018,

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2019. And I've always been

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impressed. Like we've worked alongside on different projects and she's always

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just great to work with. So I knew at some point I need to

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introduce her to this show. So Aundrea, I'm going to do your bio

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really quick. Our guest today is a dynamic marketing and events

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professional known for expertise in social media, public

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relations and community engagement. She's built a strong reputation for

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driving awareness through creative advertising and digital

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strategy. Her deep involvement in community and philanthropic

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initiatives reflects her commitment to growth, both

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personally and professionally. Aundreaa Hopkins,

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welcome to the show. Thank you for the

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welcome. The some of the things I'm like, who

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did that writing? That was very nice. So I sent over

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my highlights, but I will take it. I think

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being in the event industry.

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Has a huge part, you know, with the marketing and

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public relations, no matter if it's social or corporate. So.

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Yeah, yes. And I want to get into that in a

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little bit because you're really great at connecting with people,

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whether in person or even digitally. But

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I like to start the show off with kind of

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a baseline question that I ask everybody because it's just

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unique to everybody and their experience growing up. But

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what is the first event that you could. That you remember attending?

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And I'm looking for like, as a kid, like the

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earliest thing you can remember, you know, when you're a little kid.

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This topic comes up very frequently in my family because

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it was a. Yes, it was a family event. It was my

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aunt and uncle's wedding. And

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I really wanted to be the flower girl. I did.

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But I unfortunately aged out for that. So I got

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assigned to programs

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and also passing out the favors. So I did

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take that very seriously.

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With my assignments and no hard feelings to the

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family member that did not pick me as a flower girl. But

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one thing that's really interesting is this

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wedding took place in Chapel Hill, which

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in North Carolina for those that.

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Don'T live here, that are listening in. And

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that is where I live now. We are a member

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of the club that the Wedding took place at. As a

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family now. And the caterer, yeah,

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the caterer that did the rehearsal dinner is

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one of my clients now. So no way. Fast forward

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a number of years, but I can remember

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packing the Italian almonds in the mesh bag

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and having the assembly line as a family and doing

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the prep work. So. Never

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knew that X, Y, Z number of years that I would be

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working with that same caterer. But those are. And my kids

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go to the club during the summer for camps.

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So that is a full circle. So you were getting in there, going

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to work early. You were, you were in there. You've got

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more experience than anyone else just because you were,

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you were jumping in before anybody was even asking you to. Yeah,

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so I also, my, my grandmother is

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very, you know, a set table,

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using linens, using linen napkins,

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setting this, the flatware properly. So I knew very,

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very early the formality of it all, don't format it.

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So I definitely, you know, family. You know, my mom was great at

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making sure we lived in Tennessee when I was young, but always bringing me

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back to North Carolina. So family gatherings would be

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for sure first memories. I love it. I love it.

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You know, that's a great that you're the first, like just family

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gatherings and that, that makes so much sense because those

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are events, those are celebrations and, you know, those are core memories for

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everybody, I think, or a lot of people. So when

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you, you did that and that was like a good memory, obviously, because

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you're like smiling the whole time you're talking about, obviously your family's still talking about

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it to this day. When was the first time you can remember wanting to be

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involved with events as a career? Like, I want to get paid for this

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and do this professionally. Also.

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Another story. There's always stories to be had.

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My, my first job was at

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16. I won't tell you the reason why I had

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to get a job, but I had to get a job.

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And it was at Domino's Pizza, so. So thank you for choosing Domino's

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Pizza. Can you hold, please? I am a professional. That was you?

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Yeah. Then I moved into working in a family restaurant.

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And in college, I actually went to

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school thinking that I was going to be a math teacher.

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My AP calculus teacher was amazing.

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But then I took a class, a statistics

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class at 6 o' clock at night on a Wednesday, and I was like,

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I don't know if this math career is for me.

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I took an elective in hospitality.

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And really. Knew then that these

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were my people. This what brought me joy.

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I wanted to learn more about it. And the way some of

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my professors at the time went about

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sharing their experience through storytelling, but bringing it

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as education, that's liquid. I mean, that's gold.

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Like you, that's how you learn from people. And

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so I, I then switched over from

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working, like at restaurants to banquets and

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banquets. Then took it very seriously. So

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did Banquet Captain and really enjoyed,

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you know, giving, getting the b. Oh. And making sure we had

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everything set. And when people walked into the room, it was as

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they expected and being a part of their memories

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throughout the event. Like, they didn't know that I was there. But it was a

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joy watching the event take take place.

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So through there's switching my career into hospitality.

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I always tell people, like, I have a degree in

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hospitality, but nothing can prepare you for this

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industry other than the everyday experience that

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you get and give back. Yeah. So I

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agree. I haven't looked back. This is

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year 21 of

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hospitality for me. So it's, it's been

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a great ride. And I really, I really do

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enjoy the community that we have. So

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when you did that transition from restaurants early on

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to banquets, was it, Was it like

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a big step up? Like, are restaurants a little more loose and

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how you operate and then banquets are more

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corporatized, for lack of a better word, or what? What was it like? What was

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that transition like? What's the difference to you? I

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think for me, it was what I was good at.

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I mean, I was not good at being a server at a

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restaurant. And maybe I could relate it

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to that. It's, you know, a quick experience versus a

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planned out experience. Yeah. And so

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I think the restaurant industry is. Is an amazing

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industry as well. I just finished a book, Unreasonable

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Hospitality, which I recommend for anyone to

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listen to. Keep hearing about that. Not endorsed, but

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it is good. Is a really good way to,

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you know, how this restaurant group

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wants to exceed expectations of the guests. So you can do

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that through restaurants. I didn't find my

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joy that way. I found it through the event side

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of it. I think I just really wasn't good at

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being a server is why I switched over to. Right, right.

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Yeah. And banquets, more structured, more planning like, like

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the rest of events as a whole. Um, I think the

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more. The larger they get. You have to

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be planning it way out and thinking about it as opposed to what

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you said. It's like a quicker experience at a restaurant. It's a little more spontaneous

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and kind of go with the flow. I do think everyone

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should work as a server. A Dishwasher, a hostess.

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My oldest is now working as a

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barista and in a gelato shop. And

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I'm very excited because he's able to see the

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importance of what the experience is for the guest, even

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if it's an espresso or pistachio

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gelato. So he's learning a lot from, from his

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new, new job. That's a hard job. Yeah.

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So one thing I will say is I

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just want to talk for a minute about networking because you're an amazing

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networker. And what I mean by when I say that

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is I too go to a lot of networking events. And

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it seems like for years, no matter where I went, you

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were going to be there and you were going to everything, and

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you still do that and you keep kind of a, a

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fast pace of, of doing these things. But

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I know that it works to your benefit and it grows your

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personal business, your, your brand of who you are and, and who you

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represent. But how do you, how do you approach

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networking in general? Is it, is it just everything or

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is there a strategy behind it, or how do you approach it?

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I think there's a value for, for sure to it.

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So everyone's time is valuable. Your time is

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valuable at being there. The person that has

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taken the initiative to put the networking event

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on is. There's a value to that side of it.

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So if you go to a networking event and

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you leave the, the room without

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making a connection or connecting someone to someone else,

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that's a, that's a waste of time for, for

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yourself and for everyone in the room.

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And I'm sure that's in a book somewhere too, that I've read.

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But it is really important to, to make sure

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that you do that connection whenever

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you meet someone in the room. It's not just talking

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about the next event that you're going to do together. I think we, you and

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I rarely talk about the next event we're going to do together.

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At a networking event together, it's the support the

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community. Maybe an experience that we've had on

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a job where I say, hey, Seth, can you tell me like, what you

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would have done in this situation or have you ever experienced this?

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Because that is how you grow as a

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professional and you grow your community.

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Another thing to, to remember, and

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I network very easy now versus

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if you were to say, you know, 21 years ago,

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is my network, has my networking skills improved?

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Absolutely. So I think to remember that too,

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that there are people in the room, that this is

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their first networking event and you should take the

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Initiative as the, you know,

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the older person in the room or, you know, more

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experienced networker, more seasoned. To make. Yeah. Season.

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Yeah. I mean, age has nothing to do with it. To make sure that they

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feel comfortable too. Have you met someone? Is there someone here

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that you'd like to meet? Especially if, you

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know a lot of. Of the attendees.

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I'll use an example, too, of

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networking. Recently, I joined a new organization. I'm still

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joining new organizations. So I'm a new

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member right now of an organization that I think

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it's really important. Even if the.

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The group looks at me and says, well, she's been in this industry for,

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you know, XYZ years, I still might not know

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more than 50% in the room. So

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approach me as a new member to make sure that I

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have those connections. One orientation that I

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went to, There was about 25 people in the room,

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and we had the opportunity to give our elevator pitch.

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And of course I'm going to take it, but you can't go

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in a room without giving an elevator pitch. And the gentleman next

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to me. He was a new member as well. And

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I said, are you. You can go after me? And he's like, no, I'm. I'm

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nervous. And I was like, oh, okay. And I said, hand me your

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card. So I gave my pitch and did my thing.

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And then I said, I'm. And that's me. And I was like, but I

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have one more person that I'd like to share information about. And so I

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introduced the gentleman next to me. One, to

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make sure his voice was heard in the room, and two, to

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show him, like, there's support in the room.

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So that's a very. Like, those are

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different answers, but I think making sure you

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know the value of your time, everyone's time in the room,

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the company that you're representing, the. That's value

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as well, and the growth that

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you can get from your community. I love it. And I

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love that your. Your recurring theme in all of that

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is helping others. You know, like, if I don't. If I don't make a new

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connection or help others, you know, or as I

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go about a networking meeting, I'm looking for opportunities to help

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others. And I. That's. I think that that is like

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a maturity thing that happens as you go. You

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realize that the more you help others, that

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things kind of come back, you know, like. But you're not doing it

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necessarily for that. It's just, you see the value in that. There's value

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to that, and it all kind of Feeds in on, on

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itself there when you do these events like that. So it's not just like

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this selfish motivation all the time you're going. Because there's several

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reasons like yeah, I'd love to, to meet people and I'd love to make

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some deals or something, but that's really not how it works, you know. So I'm

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going to try to help others out at the least, you know, go in and,

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and help others. So that's amazing. I, I actually am

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tucking that away for the, the next one. I'm headed out to here in just

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a little bit and keep that first and foremost. And then that what you

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were saying is like, you know, it's, it's somebody's first event, you know, so

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making sure that you're bringing people in, you're being inclusive and,

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and pulling people in. And I feel like that's so important in our industry

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right now that we, we still need more

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talent to come into our industry. You know, some kind of left

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in the last few years. So that's one way to do that. So

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now I have sat with you

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in, and I alluded to this before, but

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you and I have worked together specifically on one show. I'm thinking about where there

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was a pre production meeting or was like a site survey and we sit down

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at a table with a client and they're talking about what they need on the

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rental side and then I'm there talking to them about AV

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stuff. And after a 30 minute conversation, not

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only had you had, you had like the entire quote built for

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them, you had like drawings prepared, you had like

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versions. And I'm like just finishing my notes, you

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know, like I can get you something in a day or two, I don't

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know, you know, and you're done. Maybe, maybe we had a pre meeting

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before the meeting. Let's go with that. Okay. Yeah, probably.

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But I think I remember watching you start from scratch and it was just crazy.

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Crazy. So you have an awesome approach when you, you approach

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clients. But if you were, if you were talking to an

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event planner kind of learning how to interact

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with a, a rental company, what

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would be the first questions that an event planner that you would

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recommend they ask when they're beginning to plan for things like

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furniture, tents, linens, these types of things as they're

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thinking through their event, like what should they start. Be. Start thinking about? You

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know, as they start to ideate. Yeah, I think

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to talk about the vision of what

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they want to see. What, what is their,

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when they, the guest experience, when they walk into the room

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when they walk into a tent. And sometimes, you

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know, tenting. You're creating a venue

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when you're working in a warehouse. I mean, I've done

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transformations of space before.

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What do you want that experience to look like? And then

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me looking in my toolkit of how I can achieve that

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look for you and listening to the

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clients, I mean, is very important with that. Because

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what I envision is completely different, maybe Seth, than what you

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envision for the event. So making sure that.

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The value of their rentals and design is achieved

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for their event and providing guidance

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along the way of. I do think that

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that will work. Would you be interested in maybe

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trying this too? And so offering without

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forcing a product or a design on

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someone? Yeah, I think that

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that's a mark of a great vendor partner, is

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if you're the client and you're saying, I want to do this thing,

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a bad partner would be like, absolutely not. And that's it. They leave it

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at that. But a great partner would be like, let's think about

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that. Well, maybe you couldn't do that, but here's a couple

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ideas that you could do, and you kind of guide them through that

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journey instead of just always being like, no, that's not

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going to work. That's not a great. That's not a good partner. No, that's not

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a good partner. And. I always

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share as well that the product that you

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select, if you tell me to remove it or redesign

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with it, you're not going to hurt my feelings. I want to provide

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what you want to have at this event. And so.

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I've learned a lot too, because especially when we

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talk about design and if I. If they give

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me the creative freedom to maybe start from scratch

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and I please mark it up, please tell me, move this here.

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I'd like this to be wider. And this

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is a recent experience that I had for.

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An event that's taking place next year where they're

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completely revamping the footprint of the event.

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So we are coming in. It's

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an annual event, but there's a completely new

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footprint. And for. For me to make sure

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that those visuals were there to know that they saw the

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value of the rental items to the. To the new look

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was really important. So.

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And diagramming has come a long way. I mean, I can remember

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doing circles and paint and saying, I promise this

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will fit in this room. And now we have so advanced

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so much with software, so

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I think the visuals, too, really help.

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Whenever you're able to express that value of the rentals

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and how the design will look. Absolutely. So on

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that note, if you have a brand new client, brand new event

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you've never looked at before, what are the first few initial

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questions? Like, where do you start when you sit down with a client? Like, what

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are you asking them? You know, you're like, share with me your vision.

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You were talking about that. But from that point, where do you

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go? What are you thinking about? I think

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asking if there's an opportunity for us to partner together

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because you want to open that door and,

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and show that you're interested in being a part of their team.

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There are so many great professionals

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locally within our community and then nationally as well.

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So how do they see.

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Me and my team partnering with them and making

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sure that we can improve their experience Experience?

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Because if they're potentially happy with their

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existing partner, share that. I'm

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here if you'd like to expand your,

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your network with another partner. But also

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I think you, it's, it's best to put it in the

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client's court for sure to make sure that they are

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open too. Yeah, I love that. And,

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and you and I both probably experience, like clients are different.

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Like the path they walk down to get where you need to get to so

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you can get them a solution. It's interesting the different personality types and

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how people think and, and what's important to them at first. And I,

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I agree. Like, there's, you have to kind of feel that out at the

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beginning of like, who am I dealing with and where, where, where's. Where

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are they mentally, you know, and where should we go with this conversation? Like, can

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we text or do we need to keep this email?

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Like. And I think with the

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communication, because we're dealing, you know,

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with so many different generations too within our industry.

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To making sure that you understand

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what they're comfortable with and so that you can

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service the client where they will have a good experience. Experience

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based on their expectations. Love it.

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I think that's the goal right there. That's the goal.

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So you are heavily involved

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in the event rental industry. So what are some trends, some

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trends right now in that space that are exciting to you because you've been doing

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it for a little bit and there are new things coming out all the

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time. What are things that are exciting or really popular

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right now in that space? So one

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thing that I really enjoy and

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express to everyone, we learn something new every day. And so moving

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into the tenting side of

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rentals and even the staging side of

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rentals, because I can plan someone's

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Backyard barbecue, or I can be doing a groundbreaking event

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for a major pharmaceutical company. So they're.

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There are all categories that we work with

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for trends. On the tenting side, the

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structure tenting that we're

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seeing corporate and social across the country.

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And the customization of these structure tents

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is really amazing that you're able to

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go out in a field or do an extension of a

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venue to create that. And the

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level of engineering and design of it

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matches the level of event experience that you want to have

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your guests, that the guests need to have too. So

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I think that that is, it's. It's a great, you know,

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elevation to the tenting side.

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And for me, it is great to be able to

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create a new venue. Yeah. So there's a lot of

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flexibility and new engineering technology involved,

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so you can do more. So that's cool. It goes back to what your client's

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envisioning and like, there's less. No, there's more. Yes.

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You know, with those type of structures, that's really cool. It's a

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space that I don't, I don't understand as

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much because I don't, I don't live in that space. But I'm always

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amazed, you know, when I come in and see these huge structures and what you

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can do and in a field or some odd place,

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and all of a sudden it's this beautiful environment. I love it. There's a lot

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of creativity in that too. I think there's also a big

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value in showing the process of what it

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takes to get to the finished product too. We

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have some time lapse video, amazing job

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of last year. And it really

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just shows the amount of hours, the level of experiment, expertise,

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and, you know, backing this, this product that we're able

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to offer. But it, they,

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it takes skilled professionals too. I mean, the,

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the tenting team and the, the amount

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of knowledge that we have in, within our organization

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is amazing too. And the continuing education.

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With the American Rental association and

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so on that side. And trends

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for decor is. It's.

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It's so different from person to person

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and can be driven by

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things that are happening, you know, in Europe or

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overseas. And the colors. But then you

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have. You know, weddings that

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are very light in color and sometimes

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very bold in color. And then corporate branding.

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Are we staying on brand guidelines? Are we able to

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move out of brand guidelines? So I, the trend

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of, I think to making it feel

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more personal and like you're

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in a home per se is, is

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reflecting both in corporate and in social.

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Got it. Okay. So that's what's happening right now.

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I love it. I, I think that it would be challenging. This is me knowing

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nothing about the industry, but it would be challenging to keep up with current

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trends and also having enough inventory of the classics

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and kind of balancing the need for that. But I

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did tour your Charlotte facility. Yeah. Earlier this

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year, maybe late last year. So really amazing,

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amazing operation. I love a good process.

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I love good design in warehouses

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and workflow. Amazing. It was exceptionally

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beautiful, if I can use that word for a warehouse.

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Just how you can guys run things over there. You

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can. I mean one thing to kind of

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that's our team in back of the house taking

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pride in our products, protecting the investment and making sure.

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One panel that I was on recently, I kind of, you know,

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shared with a few other planners the importance of

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protecting the product for your. The event that you're

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renting it for now so that it's available for the next

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client to rent for maybe the next week

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or if you're coming back and using it again.

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And you know, we, we do that in the warehouse and

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our clients do as well. And I think that's what keeps us up

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there. Top notch. Oh absolutely. And it, and it is top notch.

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I have seen other facilities and it's, it's probably the prettiest that

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I've seen. You guys do a great job of taking care of your stuff, you

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know, and making sure it's ready for your next client.

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So one thing we kind of touched on, we're kind of what, four

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years or so post Covid. We had a big drain

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of talent over Covid and both of us

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worked kind of through that time and the

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rebound afterwards. But we still have this talent

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drain that we're trying to backfill. Backfill, bring, bring younger people

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into the industry. And so if you were, you were advising someone at the

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beginning of their career on how to get involved and learn more about the rental

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industry, what would you tell them?

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We talked about the associations, mpi,

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aylea, nace, wipa, American Rental

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association and I have been

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a member of the some of these for years. I'm a

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past president of one of the chapters and

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the Aylea chapter in Charlotte and I'm also a new member of

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wipa and so whenever

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also I have spoke at Johnson and Wales

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in Charlotte to some of their senior.

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Students about the rental industry because going back

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to my hospitality career, it was very

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over a broad overview of the industry and

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now it is more segmented. Restaurants,

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production and you know, hotels, sports.

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So being able to share to the future about the

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rental side of it and how the segment that we're

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in impacts locally and

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internationally. With trade shows, you're

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building a mini city on a convention city

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floor. And then with the sporting

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events, you are working months sometimes

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to get these together and the how

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fast they have to come down is still mind boggling.

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So working through those logistics and how.

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Having somewhere to sit and eat and

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be within that event is equally as

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important for the future of events. I mean,

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I think if you would have told me in

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2004 when I, you know, graduated from ECU that I would spend

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11 years in rentals, I probably would have said no. Like

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I had a different vision. But.

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This is one that I've enjoyed for a very long time.

510
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I love it. I love it. Well, on that note then,

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what's the favorite event, your favorite event that you've ever been involved with?

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So you've been in events for like we just said, a little bit and

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you've been involved in different capacities with different

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events all over the place. So do you have a favorite?

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So the Virgo in me will not allow

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to pick a favorite because I do not want to hurt anyone's feelings.

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So I can share, I can share some

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favorite memories.

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Meeting a president, a past president of the United States in a very

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small setting and getting a team picture.

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Very cool. Giving a private tour of

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a venue to a Supreme Court justice. Very

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cool. Working in the event industry.

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Being able to connect and support

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supports my team members and also

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the referrals. Whenever someone says Seth told me to

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call you Aundreaa, like that is why, Because I want to be able.

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If you had enough confidence that I'm going to take care

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of your client, you better believe they are going to be in good hands if

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they call me. So that part of our industry

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and I love a transformation of space, space. I think that

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is a really cool thing to be a part

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of and walking into a blank canvas and

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then 11 days later it is,

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00:33:54,670 --> 00:33:58,510
you would not recognize the space. I think that that is

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really cool. It is cool. It's one of the most fun parts

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about events. For sure. I agree with you there. Well, this has been

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a wonderful conversation. Thank you for spending time with us. If people

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wanted to learn more about you and what you're up to or

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interested in seeing if you could help with one of their events, how could they

541
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get a hold of you? Do not shy

542
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away from connecting with me on LinkedIn. All of my contact information

543
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,000
is there. I am in North

544
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,520
Carolina, have a car. We'll travel to meet for coffee,

545
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,800
lunch, see you at the next networking event.

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And I'm happy to meet with someone virtually, I think. I mean, I did two

547
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virtual calls yesterday and do

548
00:34:43,099 --> 00:34:46,579
not be afraid to reach out. And if you're in

549
00:34:46,579 --> 00:34:49,739
Raleigh, come to the Party Reflections

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00:34:50,139 --> 00:34:53,339
showroom. We just had a renovation, so there's

551
00:34:53,659 --> 00:34:57,259
I'm easy to find. Love it. And we'll link to your

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LinkedIn in the description of the podcast. But Aundreaa, thank

553
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you so much for taking time with us today. It's been a lot of fun.

554
00:35:04,779 --> 00:35:08,579
Thank you. And congratulations on your success of bringing

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this community together with this podcast. It is. I'm very

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thankful to be a part of it. So thank you for having me on.

557
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Thank you. It's been one of the most fun things I've been a part of

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in this last year. And if, if you're enjoying what

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you're listening to, you can hear all of our episodes on@the

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eventproshow.com or wherever you listen to your podcasts, where we

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release an episode about once a week. And I have to

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say, if you need help with some av, go to LEMG Live. That's what we

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do. Absolutely. But we will see you on

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the next one. The Event Pro show is a

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production of LEMG video by Nick Barrett,

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audio and post production by Prince Thompson. You can learn more about

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us at LEMG Live.