Episode 244: Profits and Purpose

I like that because too, with that, I hear a lot of intention behind.

I hear that, you know, obviously with stepping into that lane, with recognizing that, yes, you still do want to focus on the money.

You still do have to focus on the mission, the message behind it as well.

And just to make sure that, as you said, especially with for the lane that you're stepping in, I feel like there can be a lot of emotional attachment with this.

There can be some time where obviously people, yes, physically, I want to get rid of some of these things.

But even myself, like as someone who's moved and changed states, I've noticed that some things, I may never touch again or I sometimes I may even forget I have it, but it's knowing what comes with that or knowing what memory it may serve for me or knowing why I got it or when I had it.

And sometimes it just keeps me holding on to this.

I would say for me, I was something that I when I left Tampa to come here almost two years ago.

I kind of just wanted to fresh start in a sense.

So I threw away a lot of things.

I donated a lot of clothing and some stuff I just left.

And two, I figured whatever could fit in my Nissan Altima has to we're going to have to make it work.

Otherwise, it just kind of has to stay here.

But even once I kind of got settled in, I noticed that, yes, I kind of felt.

refreshed in a bit.

But then there were some things where I was just like, oh, wow, I forgot I even gave that away or some clothes.

I was seeing old pictures and old videos.

And I was just like, wow, I forgot I even had that at some point.

So it's very interesting, you know, just teeter tottering between that balance of what do you want to keep versus sometimes what needs to get rid of.

But I would say, too, from the business perspective, it as you said, it's like you were serving the people you were doing a job, but you also can see how it impacts and how it affects them.

So when it comes to specifically where you were and transitioning into business.

Do you feel like your prior experience with the event management, with the stadiums, with college campuses, do you feel like that kind of gave you an easy transition into Trash and Stash? Do you feel like there was kind of a bit of a learning curve that you had to adjust and adapt to?

I think there's certainly a learning curve that I'm still learning every day.

You know, what I love about events, I used to tell my interns this, I'm like, the beauty of events is you can plan and plan and plan, and then the doors open and you get to react.

And so you hope that your plan has sort of laid the groundwork, and it should have, but you can't account for every variable.