387: How One Founder Turned a Personal Need Into 21 Childcare Locations with Kristen Denzer

I mean, I guess real estate.

Um, y- you know, Tierra, this, it's hard to compare to Tierra 'cause with Tierra I feel like I really have all of the aspects that are great about entrepreneurship.

You know, you have ...

So, like, I had a dog daycare, you know? And with dog daycare it was very, you know, it had some of, like, the seasonality-

Mm-hmm

... um, with the hotel and holidays.

But then also it, it rarely was someone's career.

Uh, and so we had a lot of, like, college students whose, you know, higher turnover, and it's open all the time.

And so if a dog gets out, you know, at 11:00 PM on a Saturday, you're, like, dealing with that, whereas childcare, you know, it's normal business hours, days.

Um, with, I had an event business.

I mean, and that's super seasonal, very stressful.

Uh, childcare I get to really put my values, and you can see the difference.

I mean, we've had parents say that their kids translated for them [laughs] when they traveled, which is just, like, so cool.

Um, so-

I love that

...

I, I'd say real estate is number two just 'cause it's, like, easy.

You know? It's, like, thoughtless.

I mean, especially commercial.

I love that it's thoughtless.

Um, yeah, so my cousin, who is my business partner and has been the co-host of a lot of our episodes, um, for the first six years, uh, actually also does a lot in real estate.

So I'm gonna have to see if she also agrees that, that, um, but she always says that, you know, if she's doesn't have it invested in something, her money's not doing anything.

So, uh, they always are, are either buying notes, selling notes, buying properties, flipping properties.

[laughs]

I don't know.