#167 - RDR Rewind • Kari Hargrave

Yeah.

What kind of drove me? Well, I also I had a two year old daughter at the time and I was driving from my home, which is, you know, an hour and a half away from the corporate office to and from work, too.

And I realized that, you know, by the time I got home, I mean, she was in bed.

Right.

We're working nine to five.

I'm an hour and a half away.

I'm in traffic.

I was missing out on that.

And so what kind of drove me to start it and do it is I thought, OK, she's not going to remember that I'm not here when she's two.

Right.

I think they say your earliest memory is when you're four or five.

So if I get this going by the time she's in kindergarten, like maybe I can be always there for her.

And this is the only really it's funny.

And it's a catch 22, because as a mom and as a female agent, you know, it's our, our roles are different.

It's, it's tougher, right? Sometimes.

And then I'm, my husband's a firefighter, so I'm single every third day.

So that's a whole other issue in itself, right? I'm out there for 24 hours.

So I was like, Oh, let's throw that in there.

And he was a great, by the way, obviously he really helped out in the beginning, but I think what really drove me was just wanting to be able to spend more time with my family.

I realized if I stay in a corporate job, I'm going to have to ask off.

I'm going to have to do all these things.

I'm going to miss out on coaching my kid when they play volleyball or missing their play.

So that's, that that was the main drive is i knew i was already a mom and i had planned to have other kids and i thought this is what one way i can do it and make money and i'd seen other people do it i actually had a person that got me interested in agency that was internal with our company and said you would be a great agent and i know you want to be a mom and this is the job for you and I owe everything to her because she's right.

So that's what drove me in the beginning.

And I would I mean, I worked.