Episode 64: Starting a Business Is Easier Than You Think | Miranda Bressman | Multipreneur
Miranda Bressman is a true multipreneur. While working in demanding corporate roles in the action sports industry, she and her husband built a portfolio of businesses: from The Secret Headquarters, one of the world’s top comic book stores, to the hilarious Florida Man Card Game, to unique vacation rentals in Palm Springs and Idyllwild. She shares how her path started folding T-shirts in a skate company warehouse, grew into footwear design and project management, and eventually transitioned into entrepreneurship. Miranda talks about starting businesses based on imagination and solving her own problems, using Kickstarter to launch a card game, and running creative ventures alongside family life. Her story is proof that you don’t need to wait for the perfect plan to start something meaningful. Just a good idea, the willingness to try, and the right people by your side.
“You’re not stuck in what you’re doing. You haven’t missed the boat. You can change at any time and it’s never too late as long as you’re still breathing.”
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Chapters
00:00 Meet Miranda Bressman
03:25 From Folding T-Shirts to Sales in Action Sports
07:45 Designing Footwear and Moving into Development
12:10 Managing Teams and Projects in Corporate Life
16:30 Opening The Secret Headquarters Comic Book Store
21:05 Earning Recognition from The Guardian
25:15 Launching the Florida Man Card Game on Kickstarter
29:50 Creating the Florida Woman Edition and Other Spins
34:20 Building Vacation Rentals in Palm Springs and Idyllwild
38:55 Balancing Multiple Businesses with Family Life
43:15 The Role of Imagination in Business Creation
47:50 Lessons Learned from Taking Chances
We got all of this press we were not expecting at all. Like the Guardian put us in the top 15 bookstores of the world and we were like, what? That's Miranda Breman and this is The Powerful Ladies Podcast.
Hey guys, I'm your host, Kara Duffy, and this is The Powerful Ladies Podcast where I invite my favorite humans, the awesome, the up to something, and the extraordinary to come and share their story. I hope that you'll be left, entertained, inspired, and moved to take action towards living your most powerful life.
Miranda Breman is a secret multi entrepreneur while working, demanding corporate jobs and action sports by day. She's also been launching businesses with her husband and business partners. She owns a comic book store in la, two rental properties, created and released a hilarious card game, and is now plotting her next great new business now that she's switched from corporate employee to being a consultant.
With her extra flexibility and time, I can only imagine what else she'll create. Now, on this episode, we talk through her tough childhood, how her gang of girlfriends is serious business, and what it's like to be discovering just how truly great her husband is after 20 years, multiple businesses and an incredible daughter together, all that, and so much more coming up.
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Welcome to the Powerful Ladies podcast. Awesome. I'm excited to be here. Me too. Finally, we finally got you. I know. Finally
let's start, let's tell everyone who you are and what you're up to.
My name is Miranda and what do you wanna know about who I am? That's a big question. We'll get into a lot
of that, but maybe we just say what do you do right now and what are you creating right now?
So right now I'm doing quite a bit of things. We have, we, being my husband and myself, we have some vacation rentals that we've been running for coming up on three years that during the quarantine, that has become our main source of income. Even though people aren't supposed to be traveling, they are.
In addition to that, we also have a game, a card game called the Florida Man Card Game. That was my husband's brainchild. And along with our business partners, we created a card game that. Is awesome. And in addition to that, we have comic book stores and I think that's all I'm also doing project management work contracting.
So a lot right now and homeschooling my daughter. Just
a few things. Yeah, not much. No. We met when we were both working at dc, which then became Tribe Branded Quicksilver Roxy, dc. How did you get into the Action Sports Skate World?
Wow. Purely by accident. I had friends when I was in high school that were skateboarders, that was like mainly the crew that I hung out with.
But when I was in college, like junior college kind of jumping around, I, it was a part-time job that I found 'cause I was so broke and I worked in the warehouse folding t-shirts for a local skate company. That's how I started. And then I just kept going from there and eventually I started making so much money because I moved up in that company to like front office work and then sales and had commission.
I just stopped going to school after a few years and I stayed in the industry for a very long time.
Yes. And as I pointed out on the Thrive Collective, our powerful ladies awesome online community that you also were a model for skateboarding worlds.
Yes. For, so at that same company.
My first job in skateboarding there's this woman, her name's Kiva, and she had a girl's collection of clothing. And it had a very little. Niche following of the skateboard girl and, shot all of our own ads. We would have, or we, she would have fashion shows at trade shows like the a SR show.
So it was mainly just, friends doing it for free. And she was part of my work family, so I was in, a couple of photo shoots and a couple of modeling little shows. But yeah, it was fun. It's part of the job. Yeah, I think it's like,
who, it's not every woman gets to say oh yeah, I used to be a model.
Yeah. Not a big time model, but yeah, it was definitely fun. Yeah. Early
twenties modeling we, yeah. So how did you go from folding t-shirts and modeling to spreadsheets and cost analysis, which is where we spent a lot of time together. Yeah.
Wow. Just, I think it was just part of growing up.
Really. And finding what really I was comfortable in doing and not what was just like given to me as an opportunity. 'cause my first opportunity from folding t-shirts was to do sales. And that's not something that I would go into because I'm very introverted and I don't like, I don't have the kind of personality where I'm trying to like, sell things.
So it really was not. Something that I would do, but I made good money at it. And I, it was mostly because of the relationships I built, not because I was a good salesperson. And from there I was given, I've been really lucky, really fortunate. I've been given a lot of different opportunities to try things that I didn't have any experience in like designing.
I was a footwear designer for about four or five years and I really liked the creative part of that. But it's it's not something that comes naturally or is easy. Like it took me five times as long to come up with the same kind of design that my colleagues were doing. So after a while I was like, this is too hard.
And I moved into development, which I found I fit in a lot better in that field because I was, I like to fix things and to be a little bit more analytical. I do have a creative side, but for me that just was a lot easier. So that's where I landed and I was like, yeah, I like this. This works a lot better for me.
And for people who don't know, a developer in footwear, you're the liaison between the designer and the manufacturer. Yeah. So there is a lot of creative work because of course you're making sure that all of the specs and information get passed off the right way back and forth, but you're also the on the ground person.
Problem solving engineer work. With the factory or with the designer, just with whoever the team is. It's a job that no one knows about, really outside of the industry, which is actually a really cool job. And I think if more people knew it existed, they would want to pursue that path.
Yeah. What did you like about it? I, you're right, that nobody really knows about this job, and you also, you can't go to school for it right now, so it's just all about, the experience and being in design helped me bridge that new career path because they do work together hand in hand.
But what I really liked about it, besides all the analytical stuff, I really like working with teams and making things come together. So I liked the, the project management kind of part of it? Not, I wouldn't say the technical part is, was my favorite part. I did enjoy that, but I really like working with the people, working with teams, making, working together to make a project come to life and being that middleman.
Yeah,
sort of hub of information. It's fun. Yeah. There's I never felt working in footwear that there was a problem that we couldn't figure out. Yeah. And there's something rewarding about that. And just knowing that to together we would get to where we needed to go. I also think the other part that people have no idea is happening if they're not in the industry is all the shenanigans that exist, like when your work isn't, is complete.
Unless someone's been to Asia for work in footwear apparel, they don't know what it's like to. Like, why aren't you sleeping? Because we're going to dinner with every factory and every vendor, and they're forcing us to drink and yeah, they just want us like, they just enjoy hanging out with us and let have a good time.
And like you don't really sleep when you go, even if you really want to. It's hard. Yeah.
Yeah. It is. You work for, your workday is, I don't know, 12, 13 hours, and then you're like, okay, I just wanna go back to my hotel and take a shower real quick. Nope. No. We're gonna go straight to dinner. It's a two hour drive in the opposite direction of your hotel.
And then we're gonna have this amazing meal. 15 courses. Yeah. Lots of whatever the drink is on the table, and then we're gonna go do karaoke. Yeah. And then the van is gonna pick you up at 7:00 AM to do it again. And you're like, oh my
God. Yeah. Yeah. It's really hard to you have that mix of being privileged that you're there and have this opportunity and just wishing you could have a normal day where you got to do your work and feel complete and sleep.
Yes,
I know, but it's some of my favorite memories. Like I'm just thinking about even the photos I have of you and I in Asia between karaoke and when we crashed that wedding at that restaurant and it's just, it's good memories and it's obviously a really fast way to bond with. Your team and the factory workers too.
Yeah, it is. It's really good bonding and they work so hard, this, it's like, for them, they don't get to do that sort of thing. So when you come and visit, they're like, finally I get to celebrate all my hard work. And they just go crazy. Yeah. But yeah, it's good. Those people are, I miss those people the most.
Yeah. I was going through all the business cards I have from each job. They're like, they were organized. I've been like going through them all lately as my paper purge in my house and there's so many people, I was like, oh, I forgot about him. He's awesome. Or her and they, it is like the level of work, their normal day is, or work week is six days a week.
Yeah. And 12 to 15 hours a day. And half of them live in a dorm. They don't see their family, and they're doing this to kick butt and make our projects come to life. And it's wow. It's really impressive. Not only their diligence with, in their work ethic, but how passionate they get about making sure the crazy, weird things that we're excited about actually can happen.
Yeah. They're ama like I don't know that I could do that. No. But some of them, their families don't even live in the same country. It's crazy.
Yeah. And it's not like they, they're dedicated. Yeah. And they're not getting like vacation to go back and forth or things like that, so
No. Or even a weekend.
Ever.
Yeah. And for, and it's like, they're excited, like they have a great job and they love what they do. So I don't wanna paint this picture that it's a forced labor scenario, but
No. Yeah.
It's just a totally different expectation of what it looks like to have a great career than we have here.
Yeah. They have so much pride in their work. So much. Yeah.
Yeah. What are you most proud of from all your years in footwear?
Oh my goodness. I would say the thing that I am most proud of. Is like my most recent experience, which was working, I came, I started focusing on one brand in specific and or in particular.
And the team was just like oil and water and toxic and really within the company that we worked at, it was the one brand where you're like, please don't make me work with that brand. They're crazy. And of course I get assigned to work with that brand and I'm like, duh, fine. And by the time like I had left the company, that brand was the brand that everyone wanted to work for because they were like family.
Everybody just loved each other, got along and, i, even though I don't like to take credit or give myself credit when it's due, I, I should, because I came in and I changed everything that was going on with that team and made them come together and it was just awesome. And being, also being a mentor to some of the people that were on that reported to me and seeing seeing them grow and just how happy they were and what they were doing was, for me, that was like my greatest accomplishment.
No, yeah, for sure. And because it was like a great, it was one of those opportunities where you had, you were responsible for the team. Yeah. Because you were in so many other positions that were important, but had minimal team, right? And I feel like you and I were in similar placements at that company where we kept getting put where.
Like people maybe didn't wanna be, or we don't know how to fix this. You go do it and you'd be like, fine. Only 'cause I like you. Yeah, exactly. And so I like if you did a chart of where our path took us, it would be like such a crazy zigzag loop and like it would make no sense. Yeah. There was no linear sense to where we were going.
Yeah, but I think you should give yourself credit 'cause it's not, it really shows how flexible and resourceful and creative and just business minded you are. That you could fit in all those places.
Yeah. It was for how just, ugh, that company ended up being, it really did give me a lot of different opportunities.
Like you were saying, I jumped around a lot and I did some things that I really didn't wanna do, but it turned out to be a good experience and, so overall that 10 years of my life was worth it for sure. I met some really good people. I did some really good things. I did some things I didn't wanna do, but it was good.
And the whole time that you were kicking butt, those 10 years, you always had side businesses happening? Yes. The first thing that we started doing was that we opened a comic bookstore. I wanna say this year is a 15 year anniversary. Congratulations of the store. Thank you. It's called The Secret Headquarters.
It's in silver Lake la and it was mainly my husband was like in the comics and he hated going to comic bookstores. Hated it. 'cause he is oh they don't take any pride in anything. I hate walking in here. I just wanna be able to go somewhere that I like. So he wasn't even really thinking about like the consumer.
And what they would like. He was thinking about what he wanted to do and his good friend moved out here from Florida and be, we became business partners with him and his wife. They weren't married at the time, but they wanted to do something together. So he was coming out here. His name is Dave and my husband's name is David.
So the Daves, and he is like. I don't wanna just get a job, like I wanna do something. And David was like, me too. I wanna do something. I wanna open some sort of store. And they're skateboarders, so they're like, let's go at a skate shop. And David's hell no. No, we're not doing a skate shop.
And they both read comics. So anyways, they made it come to life. And, it still has been going for 15 years. And it's, at the time there was not another comic bookstore like it, the aesthetic was very much like cigar shop, take pride in those books. And it's not a joke, yeah. There aren't posters everywhere. This is a nice curated store. We got a little bit of negative oh, you guys are snobs because of the way that it looked. Yeah. But the positive, Farley outweighed that kind of criticism and we got all of this press we were not expecting at all.
The Guardian put us in the top 15 bookstores of the world and we were like, that's incredible. Yeah. Things like that were going on and we were just like, holy shit. Wow. We're really onto something. And we had a few other stores open up that totally bit our style, but we were like that. You know what?
That's fine. That's good. So that has been going on and through the years, I took some time off and worked at the store and, it's mainly the two of them that run it. But Tricia, the other partner and myself we've always like collaborated with them and been a part of it and funded it.
In the beginning the wives supplied the breadmakers, supplied the money, and they let the boys go run off with their idea.
No, I think I'm so glad that you brought that up because it, people always wonder how an entrepreneurial business starts. Because especially today, you hear mostly about why Combinator tech companies that have rounds of investing when the truth is like 80% of small businesses are founded or started with someone's own money and there's no other financing, there is no loan, there is no Kickstarter.
It's just you and whatever you have in your savings account. Or if you don't figuring it out with a credit card. Yeah. But most people are fully self-funded. And there's also a mix of, for people who haven't been totally self-funded, like even Coco Chanel started Chanel because someone she was having an affair with gave her the money.
Nice. So there's so many of these businesses where it's the husband or wife is contributing while the other one's working and what that tag team looks like. And usually it's the other way around. Usually the husband's working and he, and like he's supporting financially this idea that his wife has.
So I love that you guys are like, you are the funders, the financiers for their child.
Yeah, we were, and this was before either family had kids, so we were both, very same age. Same interests, two couples, two Dave's, a Miranda and a Trish. And yeah, we were the breadwinners and we completely funded the thing and a lot of it, if not all of it, went onto a credit card.
When we first started we had 0% whatever on the card, so everything went on that card and. It's, it is incredibly easy to start your own business or store at least. Wait, like I never even thought to pursue it when I was, whenever I would have an idea. 'cause I was, oh my God, it must be so hard.
You have to have this money and you really don't. If you have a good idea and it's like you're authentic to your idea. David had this idea and it was like very much his and what he wanted. If you stick to that, it's it's way easier than you think. And he's like, why? Why do I, why did I go to college?
I have these college debt. I'm doing nothing with my major, and I've always wanted to have my own story, like all I had to do, just do it.
Yes. I want to repeat that. You just have to do it like everyone listening. You just have to do it. There's no other magic secret except that just start.
Yeah. Just start. And I'm not gonna say that the first year was easy. It was rough, but we did it. The four of us figured it out, and it, 15 years later it's still going strong. Even during this quarantine, we're still, we're still going.
Yeah. And just like every other business you're pivoting it to, so it still works, it still functions.
Yeah. We're, doing everything online right now. All of our customers are ordering their stuff online and we make sure to ship it out. Same week.
Yep. Then when you and David met, did you ever think that you would become business partners in multiple businesses? No,
this, so we met through the skateboard interest industry.
He, this is funny because we met through some PLM work, which is now what I'm doing. Again, I'm contracting helping build a PLM system. But he and I were like both the super users at this company and he worked in a different office, so I would've never met him. But I was like, I don't know, twenties, being my badass self. And he is in there and I, he is like, who's gonna be your partner Miranda? And I'm like, I'll take that guy. 'cause he had a really, just his look on his face was what? My look always is ugh. And he always seemed grumpy and I'm like, that guy. Yeah, sure. And that's how we met, but I was not interested in him at all.
And about a year after we had met he e he was emailing me and asked me on a date, but I didn't realize that's what he was doing. And I'm like, wait, are you flirting with me? And he's Jesus, it's about time you noticed. And I was like so I went on a date reluctantly, I really didn't want to. And all my friends are like, he's such a nice guy.
And I'm like because I only date mean bad boy, like jerks. And he's not one of them. So I was like, ew. I went on a few dates, I was not interested. And that's so funny. Some somehow he broke me down and it just clicked like a light. But yeah, he tells everyone, my, my daughter, she's was it love at first sight?
And he is not for your mother.
But no, I never thought that we would have our own. I never even thought I would be married let alone have businesses with a man. I was very much I'm doing my thing. That's it. Yeah. But it's been great. He is very supportive and he is not afraid to take chances. Like I never would've just taken that chance.
I'm too much like practical. We have to make sure we're paying this bill and this bill, and he's very much let's just do it. So we're very, we compliment each other
very well in that way. What made you guys wanna get into vacation Rental properties?
Mainly because we, so originally we were gonna try to get a place in Palm Springs, and it was because every year for Thanksgiving, we get together with our partners, Dave and Trish, and now our kids.
And we have Thanksgiving, just us, the two families. Every once in a while someone else will join, but it's mainly we're the group and every year we would go to Palm Springs and we're like, oh, I hate spending all this money. Like we should. We had some money from selling our first house and we wanted to do something with it.
So we were like, we should invest in a rental because for one, if we won't have to pay to come here. And we were going to Palm Springs, just the three of us a lot with our daughter. I go on girls trips there and he's think of all the money we would save if we had a place. And then also we could probably rent it out as well.
So we're like, yeah. And then we started thinking about it as a vacation rental. And Palm Springs is so saturated. We were looking for a house to go have Thanksgiving with them and Idlewild comes up in the search 'cause they're in the same county. And I was like, oh my God, I think I went there once for like sixth grade camp or something.
I don't even know what this place is. Let's go check it out. Because we couldn't find Palm Springs place and we were like, this is a hidden gem. Holy shit. The housing was super cheap compared to like anywhere else in LA And we were like let's try it out. Yeah. The worst case, we have a place to go.
The mortgage is cheap, it's so nice up here, so we tried it out and it's totally been working. And then we bought a second place. Like a year ago. And yeah, it's continuing to work for us and we go there a lot and we have our Thanksgivings there now with our family. Of Trish and Dave.
Yeah. It's awesome. No, I love it. And then I would also love to talk about the Florida man game because we have one in our house. We were playing it over Christmas and I, we love games. Like I grew up in a game family where like a Saturday night as a family would involve game night or a movie night. So playing games is like what we do when we're together as a family.
There's a lot of card games. It's very competitive. Yeah. Like my sister just won her first phase 10. Ever on her birthday last weekend, she's so for 30 or 29 years, she had never won until, oh, like a weekend ago. That's how competitive we are. So when that game cut, I was like, yes, a new game. 'cause once you learn one a couple of times, you're like, okay, like we know this is gonna go, what's next?
So where did that idea come from And just tell everyone about it.
Okay, so this idea okay. It was from the same thing, game night. And I am not a game person at all. And David, my husband, he is, and he's very competitive. That's mainly why I won't play games with him because if we get on the same team, he's rides my ass.
And I'm like, we're not playing for money. Can you chill? So I'm not a big game person, but. He we're having Thanksgiving together with our friends and David, he lived in Florida during his high school years, and Dave grew up in Florida and that's actually where they met, was in Florida and became lifelong friends.
And David has always been following, he gets like crazy alerts on his phone for everything. So he had Florida in there and he was talking about the whole Florida man thing before it was a thing. And he's always missed. He has tons of ideas just pouring out of him all the time. And maybe 5% of them you could actually do something with.
So he is what if we did this? What if we did that? But like the Florida man thing was like. He's we have to do something with Florida man. Because he would, he'd bring it up when it's the four of us. 'cause two of them lived in Florida and he is can you believe this shit?
And he is we have to do something. We have to do something like do this or that. And then we decided one Thanksgiving, like we should make a game out of it. Yes. And so we were, we came up with all these ideas for different types of board games over that four day vacation after the kids would go to bed.
And a lot of them started there were too complicated, there were too many rules. And we narrowed it down to having it be what it is today. And it's basically like a mad Libs and. You take the actual headline of whatever this Florida person did, which is usually something insane and you remove, certain key words and you replace it with something that you draw and it becomes an, sometimes it's not as crazy as the real headline.
But it's like tons of laughs ensue. And you, one of the things that we liked when we did like a tr a test run and we had everything on paper before we decided whether or not this could be a thing. We played with another couple and it was the three couples. We went for maybe four hours and we didn't even get through the deck.
'cause one of the things was, do we have enough cards? Is this playable? Is it fun? Whatever. And we got through four hours, didn't get through the deck. Laugh, like crying, my face hurt. And it's are we even gonna think this stuff's still funny? 'cause we've been talking about it for a year and now it's a thing where a bunch of people isn't played out yet.
But we had such a good time. And the thing that I liked about it, and I don't like playing games, is that it sparked a lot of conversation. So you couldn't get through a hand without stopping and talking. And because it's an actual real headline, looking it up. Looking at the person, the mugshot, and you're like, oh my God.
And or reading the rest of the story. 'cause it gets even more crazy. And then, oh, that reminds me of this person I knew. That's why it took four hours. It was because of, the conversations. And it was just, I didn't know these the couple that came to play the game before we did it.
And after it, I was like, these people are awesome. It's it was it was fun. And so we talked about it for about a year and, everyone had their day jobs, so we didn't have time to focus on it. And the four of us don't really get together that often because we moved to Long Beach and they still live in LA so we really don't see each other as much as we used to.
So every once in a while we'd talk about it and, but once I got laid off from my job, I was like, all right, it's time to do it. Let's do it. And we. We had the game made pretty quickly, and so we were trying to release it on Thanksgiving and it was a year from, the time where we first came up with the concept.
So it took about a year to get it done. And yeah, that was this past Thanksgiving. No it's fun. Yeah. But we, same thing where we got all this weird press, not weird, but awesome press that we were not expecting, we did a Kickstarter. Because we had learned through the store if you can, you should try not to use your own money.
Yeah. So we're like, let's try that first. So yeah, we did a Kickstarter and we hit our goal and everything went great and, so after we launched the Kickstarter, we were, my husband was like looking for alerts on his phone for Florida, man, what's going on with Florida man? And there was one about a card game and of course the first thing that I think is, oh my God, somebody beat us to it.
Yep. Because we had all of these ideas, we've had a ton of ideas and then it comes out and we're like, goddammit, we didn't act quick enough. And I like look at David and I think he was thinking the same thing. I was like, someone else, what? Shit. And then we hit the link and it's a newscaster in Miami talking about our Kickstarter on the news.
So random. And I was like, how did what? So we had a few different news stations pick it up just through like probably their searches and things that they are looking for to report on. But it was cool we got all this press that we were not expecting.
Are most of your sales from Florida or from outside of Florida?
No, I wouldn't say that most of them were, but we do have some. For sure. But it's pretty spread out. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think it's fun. Good. I'm glad you like it. Yeah. Yeah. We were super, like when we shipped it out finally we had been talking about it and making the car, like I did all the layout, the art layout.
So I looked at the cards over and over and I'm like, this isn't funny. This isn't this this isn't funny to me. People are not gonna, are people gonna this game now? Florida man's kind of played out by this point. 'cause it's become a thing now. Like we should have done it sooner. And I was very negative.
And so once it shipped I'm like, oh, I hope people have as much fun as we did. So yeah, I'm always asking for feedback, but I haven't, A lot of the people that bought the game are just like people that we don't know. And we just did or we are do we're running a campaign for we're discounting the game because of quarantine and we want people to be able to buy copies and send 'em to their friends and have a game night with their friends. Ooh, I like that. Buy one, one,
send one.
Yeah, pretty much. So yeah, we're offering like a deep rad discount. We also have Florida Woman. Oh. Which, oh yeah. So when we first were like, okay, let's get this game done and out.
We had so much content and we realized after we played it, like we have enough for two other expansion packs. And I'm like, we have enough. Florida women's stuff for that Florida woman game. So we made all of those at the same time and we didn't really push Florida women at all. But people have been buying it, so yeah.
All of our games right now are 25% off with a later gator discount code for the remainder of the quarantine. And yeah, so we talked about after this, we wanna figure out a way to have a zoom, maybe some sort of contest where you get to play with the creators of the game. Yeah. So we're trying to figure out the, figure out how that's gonna work and how we wanna do it.
But we definitely wanna play with some of the people that we don't know that have gotten the game. 'cause we've played with friends and I wanna play with some strangers. It's like
the eSports of Florida, man.
Yeah, no, I love it. Yeah. So it's definitely on our list to do, to have a game night. Some of the people that have gotten the game from us.
Yes.
And then I just wanna, whether I play or not, I just wanna watch that happen. Yeah. That would be so entertaining for sure. What has been the biggest changes for you with the quarantine? Of course you've discount your game, but like you have a brick and mortar store, you have two vacation rental properties.
You have this game that is accessible during quarantine. You also have your consulting job and you have a 8-year-old daughter. Eight. Yeah. Yeah. And like how is all of that happening? Like, how can you be a multi entrepreneur and now a teacher and now pivoting your whole life?
I like the timing because it, I was actually going through like self-assessment.
I was juggling so many things at once and trying to figure out what to focus on. I've been reading these books, I've been listening to podcasts and I've been going to meetings and seminars, like powerful ladies stuff to Really, yeah. And so for me it was like I was already trying to pause and figure out my priorities and this kind of forced me to do it because I couldn't go out and still have my social life.
Which was that time. Now I'm using to really organize. My thoughts and my projects and get that going. So it's not like a, it's not a huge change for me other than my daughter not being able to go out and me not being able to go out. But it's been, I'm thankful for it for sure, because it has helped me reassess and what my priorities are and what I wanna do. But yeah, as far as the juggling, I really, I have to, each week I reset my priorities because there's so much going on. So I stop each week, like tonight I'll do it and map out next week and be like, what is important for me to focus on next week? Instead of setting the goals too far what do I wanna accomplish this year or with my life, it's like week by week.
And sometimes something goes wrong during the, or happens during the week where I even midweek change my focus and my priorities. That's how I've been dealing with it.
Yeah, no, I totally relate to that. And it's a different level of like exhaustion. I think also because we were talking at a earlier recorded podcast about how much we've had to learn in the past four weeks, it's probably the same amount we've learned in the past four years as adults because we're learning new technologies and new processes, or how do we connect this.
And I think it's great that we're definitely maxing the capacity of our brains right now. Yeah. Which sometimes as an adult can feel underutilized. But it's tiring because we constantly have to keep moving our operations and our processes, and we don't get to actually do the work a lot.
It's, yeah. Oh, I was gonna do A, B, and C, but now I have to do like a ZX. It all gets jumbled and like even. How much time I've spent in calendars for other companies like I. It's the same like stress for my own calendar right now where I'm like, oh, okay, if that moves, everything else is a shift eight times.
And yeah, trying to launch things as soon as possible, but then okay, do we launch it now and sacrifice a true like marketing launch just to get it out? 'cause we know people need it. Like how do you make those choices? And so I've been forcing my team to have a lot more like huddles because I feel like the only thing I don't wanna do is risk.
Making changes in a vacuum too fast. So what is it like for you and your, all of your business partners? Are you guys talking a lot more than you normally would?
Yeah, we are for sure. We like a lot more than we normally would because we would maybe like once every three or four months we would have a dinner where we would talk about things.
Now we have a weekly meeting where we all get on Zoom and figure out what we're doing for that week. Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot more. And that, besides for like my businesses, I've also been doing that on a personal level because I'm trying to like, I'm doing a lot of like self-help reading and activities and stuff.
So I have to set weekly touch base with friends of mine. Yeah. 'cause they're, they make sure that I am, like following what I'm supposed to be doing. Yeah. So there's a lot more meetings and huddles with other people and not just trying to do everything by myself.
Yeah. Which I think is a great segue into talking about how influential other women have been in your life.
'cause I know that you have such an amazing group of girlfriends. You guys are really committed to keeping that, those relationships going no matter what else is happening. Tell us about that and like, how that started and even what it's been like over the ages.
So for me my friendships have been very important because I did not have a good home life.
When I was younger. I didn't have like a. Very strong or even a family unit at all. The first, my first true friends that I met were in middle school when I was 12, and I'm still friends with them today. And they, my friendships for me are that family unit that I didn't have. So it's very important, like how families will get together every year for holidays.
I have to get together with this, with these group of women every year, at least once a year. And, we all live in different places now. Some are in different countries, different cities. So they've been my support system. Everything that a family. Members should be. That's what my group of girlfriends have been to me.
We totally support each other and they're just my family. Yeah. And yeah, so every year we get together and we have a little girls trip and me and one of my best friend, my b fff, she's also a coach. She's awesome. Her and I were like, okay, we're planning these trips and we're crazy like planners.
And so we would have an agenda. We have C bags. We'd find the place. We wouldn't let anyone see pictures or know about it 'cause we wanted it to be this surprise and experience. And it's been, our first year that we did, it was actually the first year we opened the comic bookstore, so we've been doing it for 15 years with the same core group. And there have been like people that have floated in and out, but it's always been like the same core group of about seven of us. And yeah. It's just they just have given me support and been like, they're the ones that I go to when I need to get advice or just, yeah.
They're my family.
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Yeah. At least. Yeah. It depends on what we're feeling that year. But yeah, they've been ridiculous. Ridiculous. The goodie bags, is that going to girls
camp?
Yeah. So fun. One of the things that I'm working on right now that's in early development is with two of the girls in my girl crew.
And we're we decided through, I actually got inspiration on one of your weekly how to sell What, maybe it, it might've been that. Yeah. And I don't know if it was a comment you made or one of the other women made, but I started thinking of something and I'm like, oh my God, I have to call Trish after this because I just have this idea.
And, so her and I talked to our other friend and we are working on something where we're gonna, it's gonna be workshops in the form of a retreat. Love it. And it's basically like a women not only women, but what we were, it was funny because I was like, I have this idea. And Trish is oh my God, I've been thinking about that too.
And then summer was like, are you fucking kidding me? We, did I say this out loud to you? Because I'm thinking of that too. And I was like, what? No. Yay. We were talking about it and we all had the same similar idea of, for women around our age that are going through not a midlife crisis, but like a midlife metamorphosis.
Yeah. Where you're like, okay, I've been doing this and doing this for my family and my career and whatever. And now I want to. F figure out what my, I wanna go in a direction that's more intentional. Yes. And figure out what it is that, what that is. And that's our, we're in super early stages.
We've only had two meetings about it so far. No, I
love it. I love that you guys were all synergistically having the same idea. I love that you got inspired from a powerful ladies event and I love that. It's I hear when you're talking about it, like you really see what you can provide for people.
Yeah. If more people were doing work that was their, in their love language space. Like you guys were planning these events for 15 years for no profit. Just 'cause you wanted to Yeah. And you probably put more work into those projects than you did other things. Yes. Like it's, that's where I think people get shy about leaning in on lean in on what you do, even if you're not getting paid.
Yeah. Because there's a way to, there's always a way to get paid for it.
Yeah. That's always been my issue. And we're all we are all very different, so we have different like perspectives and stuff and yeah. Summer, who's also a coach, she's very similar to you. And she was like, this could totally be a thing.
People want to do this. Yeah. It's not just you that thinks it's cool. And I'm like, oh yeah, you know what, you're probably right. I would totally do that. I would totally pay to go to one of these critiques. It sounds awesome. Yeah. So that's my big, my
next big project. I love it. That I'm super excited on.
I'm excited to get to promote it once it's ready to go. Yeah. I'm definitely gonna let you know. And I want you to be one of the test people. Yes. Because we're, we talked about how we're gonna have a test run and very specific people that we wanna come to get feedback from. So you're on the list.
I'm so excited. You just made my
Sunday. When you hear the name Powerful Ladies, like what does that mean to you? What do those words mean to you individually? What does it take you?
To me, when I think of Powerful Ladies I don't necessarily have one person in mind where it's that's who I aspire to be.
To me, powerful lady is someone who has. Been successful, like despite the fact that she's a woman. Because that ev is very hard in this society. And there's also a lot of women out there who have led very tough, hard lives, and they have come out of it and just like flourished.
And to me that's the kind of person that I aspire to be. And those are the kind of women that I think are powerful and especially ones that, want that help other people, other women grow and don't see them as competition. That's like
total powerful lady to me.
Yeah. And how does it feel when you get to be called a powerful lady?
It's like I am my own worst enemy, and that's something that I'm working on is to stop being so negative. But I don't see myself as one for sure. But when someone says that, it's like huge compliment. I'm like, oh, huge.
Yeah. And that's, I'm trying to, even though I may not believe that I'm a powerful woman, I'm trying to put out there that I am because I want my daughter to grow into a little powerful lady herself. She's already pretty badass. I know. She's crazy. She is very, she's very badass. And yeah, in all the right ways.
She's compassionate, but she also, she doesn't take any shit. She's great artistic, lovable. Shit talker.
I, one of the most like things that have stuck with me that you've said it's when you were talking about your daughter, is that you just wish you had her earlier because she's so awesome.
Yeah.
So David and I, we've been married for 17 years and when we first got married we were like, we don't want kids, for sure, don't want kids. So we had been married for quite some time before we decided we wanted to try. And then it took a while to be able to have her. And he was very much, I was I don't care if I have a child or not.
And he was very much I do not want kids. And when I decided that I wanted to try, he was like I'll do whatever you wanna do. But he didn't really feel like this is something I want. But if you want it, I'll go along and with it and hope it works out. Yeah. Once we had her, we were both she's awesome.
And yeah. The only regret we have is that we didn't do it sooner because we wanna be able to spend more of our life with her Yeah. Than we currently are. Yeah, it's I do have some friends that don't have children and they don't want to have children, which is fine. It's not for everyone, but it's definitely, it's just you don't know until you have one what you've been missing.
Yeah. Especially, it's crazy, especially for such a awesome kid like Sloan.
Yeah. She's awesome. She's funny. She immediately had her own personality. Like you think everything is inherited or whatever, but she's like very much her own person, which is fun to watch, to see.
I still, I how are you gonna turn out? I have no idea. No idea what she's gonna turn into. Yeah. It's fun every day to see, she's now, she's eight and I swear to God she's like a teenager. 'Cause she has so many opinions and that are of her own not one that she's getting from me or David.
It's cool. I feel like you could almost do an entire book just of things Sloan has said. Oh, I know. She asked me the other day what her first word was, and I was like, oh, like I, I can't find, I had a little baby diary thing, and it's locked away. And then I remembered that it wasn't a word, it was a phrase.
And it was, here you go. Here you go from like, whenever she would be crying or da. And I'd be like here you go. Here you go. And I was like, oh, I totally remember because she would be in her crib like crying or wanting to get out or whatever, and she'd be crying. Here you go.
And I'm like, what? What did you just say? Here you go. Oh, I remember laughing so hard at stories you would tell at work or whatever. She had done that, night before that weekend. But yeah, that's one of my biggest motivators for wanting to have kids is just wanting to see what comes outta their mouths.
Yeah. Pure entertainment the other day. So yeah, things have gotten, we're in quarantine and she's here all the time and she's very feisty. And her and my husband, they are, they're like siblings and she's like the older one that bullies him. It's crazy, like they just argue like kids, but only one of them's a kid.
And so she said something, she was like in the bathroom, supposed to be brushing her teeth. That's when we get the most. Shit from her is when it's bedtime. And so I was in a, the living room, he was in the kitchen. She was brushing her teeth and she was saying, she was talking back, saying something, and I don't know exactly what she said.
And he goes, what did you just call me a dickhead? And she's no, I didn't call you a dickhead. Dickhead. And I'm like, oh my gosh. And I start cracking up in the other room. I would too. And she doesn't even know what it, yeah. And he's, he started laughing too, but then now she, that word is in her vocabulary and I'm like, it's okay if you say that here once you go back to school.
You can't say that. Yeah.
That'll get you in a lot of trouble.
Yeah. But she, it has come out a couple times during the quarantine. Oh my goodness. She still doesn't know what it means. She just knows. It means like you're a jerk. Uhhuh. Stop being a dickhead, and I'm like, ah,
nope, don't say that. I can only imagine how much, how many other families are going through similar situations right now.
Like I, yeah, because I'm sure also as a parent, like at your capacity for parenting with you just don't have any more space in your brain to handle things. Yeah. You're like not gonna parent that right now. Just let that slide. Oh yeah. There's lots of things
sliding right now. Be like, do you want ice cream for breakfast?
Yeah. I don't care. Just fine. Just stop talking please for two minutes. Can you stop talking? Yeah. It's been great. She one, I think one of the funniest things she said. Man, she must have been three at the time. And I was like, it was bedtime. And I had read her a story and she wanted to stay up and wanted me to stay in the room.
And I'm like, no, it's, I read you story. It's time for you to go to sleep. I want you to snuggle. I'm like, I can't, because I had to finish up some work or whatever. And she's can you have dad come in here? And I was like, yeah, sure. And she's I'm gonna ask dad if he'll give me or no.
She's have him gimme a kiss goodnight. And I was like, okay. 'cause you have to go to sleep. Okay. Okay. So he goes in there and I hear them talking and he doesn't come out. And I look and he's reading her a book, like she got him to read a book. And I go, what's going on in here? He was like laughing.
And he's do you know what she said to me? And I go, what? He goes she's being all cute. And I got in here to say goodnight. She's Daddy, will you read me a book? And he is no, it's bedtime Daddy, please, will you read me a book? And he is like, all right, what book do you want? And she goes, sucker.
She already knew. She already knew how to manipulate the situation. Yeah. Age three. Yeah. Sucker. I'm like, how do you know what a sucker is? You just called your dad a sucker. And he is, he's a sucker. He still does that too. Still. Sucker
sometimes this a sucker. Sometimes it's called love. Yeah.
When, I think that eight eight is such a pivotal age and I reference it a lot for being like, if I can make 8-year-old me happy, I feel like I'm winning at life. 'cause you're in that zone of being like developed enough to have ideas of what life is like as a grownup or what you wanna do or being able to manage your own kind of projects.
But you're also still in that space where anything is possible like logic, it only half applies and it's actually more fun if it's more ridiculous. When you look back at, put yourself in 8-year-old Miranda's shoes, would she expect you to have had the career you've had and to be where you're at now?
Definitely not.
Definitely not. When I was eight. I was actually like, it was not a pretty picture. I was like, I have a very rough childhood. So at eight I think was, I had like physical abuse, mental and just like no one, like my mother never being there. So for me, I remember I was trying, like Sloan was asking me, what did you wanna be when you were my age?
Yeah. And I was like, so I had to think back what did I wanna be? And I realized that at her age, all that I wanted was to be an adult so that I could live on my own and take care of myself and not have to depend on anyone else. But I, beyond that, I didn't have any aspirations of being my own boss or having a family.
'cause I just didn't think that. Was possible. And like people don't get to do that. Yeah, I definitely, I think the 8-year-old me would be like, whoa, you did all that? Yeah. Oh my gosh.
And I think even how you talked about what you had ate was really like, I think just even like how much hope would she have had knowing how much fun you're gonna have.
Yeah.
So much.
So much. Yeah. It's it's just, it's wild, right? It's wild where everyone's backstory is and where everyone keeps going and you know how, besides, you're definitely independent, right? Check that box. Yeah. You're definitely an adult check. Yeah. When you look back at what else, like the things in yourself that, came from that tough girl, like what else can you give yourself credit for?
I, man, I think that, being in the situation that I was in as a child, it made me very like empathetic and sensitive to other people. And whether or not I wanted to, I was always the caregiver from a very young age. I was the one taking care of everything. And I think that's made me like a very, I.
Compassionate person. And I've always feel the need to wanna take care of people and make things better for them, which for me has been, maybe the only positive thing that came from my childhood. Yeah, I would probably say that. And also to always be hyper aware of money. Because we grew up, or I grew up very poor and I was probably from the age of four, I knew what a bill was and I knew how important it was to pay them and they, you needed money. Yeah,
probably that as well. Yeah. I think it's, you know who I know that who you are for me and what a powerful lady you are.
And that I know whenever we're hanging out, I'm gonna be laughing, I'm gonna be having fun. And I love that we get to there's few people that you cross paths with that you can. Do a lot of great work with and have fun the whole time, because some people, it's it's just work. It's work.
But I always felt with you, if we were on a project together, I was like, yes. Because I knew that you would bring everything to the table. I knew that I would, and I knew that it would be way easier and more fun then fun, like how a lot of other people would show up to do work. So yeah, I think that you have done an amazing job.
So 8-year-old you is definitely proud. Thank you. Yeah. I
yeah the sense of humor thing, yeah, I didn't think of that, but I, for me, it was like a. Coping mechanism. Or some sort of defense mechanism where it's just make a joke out of it and, you just gotta laugh at somehow.
It, if you're laughing, even in times of despair, it will change your mood. So for me, I would always make, try to like, make a joke out of things. So sometimes it's like I hide behind it, but it's just like part of who I'm now, I'm just always cracking jokes. Yes.
Yes. When you look at, in addition to your really strong group of girlfriends, who are other women that have been mentors or inspirations to you along the way?
I would have to say I have, there's one, one woman in my life who she's not a family member, but, i've known her for most of my life because she was a family friend. And she's always been like my stand-in mother she's always supported me throughout the years and we can go like several years without talking.
And, when I see her, she's just she's the best and she's very much like I, I learned later in life, like once we became, once I was older, and I was talking about like real life things with her that she also had a background of abuse and all these things. And I couldn't believe that like she was as strong as she was.
And she's, she she's always making a difference in her community. Like she goes and she writes bills for Congress and she does all this lobbying and she fights for people. And yeah, for me, I feel really fortunate to have her in my life. And she's a great role model.
That's awesome. Yeah. We ask everyone on the show where you put yourself on the powerful lady scale, zero being average, everyday human, and 10 being super powerful lady. Where do you put yourself today and where would you put yourself on average?
Oh, let's see. So zero is what? Just a regular, ordinary human.
Regular human. I would say I'm probably a four right now. About a four. And that's because I am working, I'm working on it, and I definitely know that there are better things to come. So I know that it's, I'm gonna definitely go up the scale, the powerful lady scale for sure.
I love it.
Yeah. I personally am so excited for where you're at right now. I like. Just you having the freedom to do with what you want with your time that moves what you want forward. 'Cause you've worked so hard for other people's visions and what was coming and Yeah. For how creative and smart and resourceful and just all the things that you bring to the table for you to actually use those for what you wanna do.
Now I'm like, oh, think about what you've already created when you were doing it as a side hustle. And I'm like, I cannot wait for what you're coming up with because it's gonna be awesome. And yeah whatever you need, you let me know because I am totally on team Miranda. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah
it's exciting for sure.
I need to like, I need to stay in like the positive zone. Because I'm. I'm far too practical. That's just like how my life has been and I'm trying to get out of that box. But yeah, I'm like, even if I feel, if I'm fighting myself being like, this doesn't make sense, this isn't no, I'm just like, I'm doing it anyways.
I'm doing it. Shut up. We're doing this. Just get in
the car.
Yeah.
Shut up. Get in the car. What do you do to get yourself into that mindset? Is there music you play? You talked about calling people, like what can you do in the moment when you're like, all right, we need to turn this around and let's go.
I am so definitely music. Music has always been my escape. Yeah. When I have to get into a positive good mood, I'm like, okay. Eighties new wave. You cannot get mad when that music is playing. Or if I am. Like that's if okay, I need to get amped. Let's do, we're doing this.
Yes. Eighties new wave. If I need to just chill out because I'm stressed then I'm gonna listen to some yacht rock for sure. But the music, yeah, music helps. That sets the tone. And then I'm reading a couple of different books right now. And one of them is what to say when you talk to yourself.
Ooh, it's awesome. It's by Shad Helmstetter and he's a, psychologist and it's how to stop the negative self-talk. And it's how to like, reprogram your subconscious to be more positive. So I'm almost done with that book. And then I'm also, at the same time I'm reading Tiny Habits.
And going through those exercises as well. To try to stop the negativity. Some of the exercises are wake up every day and start it off with a positive affirmation. And so the one that I'm going with is, today's gonna be a great day. Ooh, I like that. And even if you, he says oh my gosh, who's the writer for Tiny Habits?
I totally forgot his name. B bj. Oh,
let me pull it up right now. Fog. Okay. BJ Fog. There you go.
So I listened to one of his TED Talks and before I started reading the book, and he was talking about the tiny Step, or the tiny habit was wake up every morning and say, today's gonna be a great day. And even if you're going through times of like a.
Whatever someone in your family died it's just very dire. Then you say, today is going to be a great day somehow. And so I'm like, I'm gonna start doing that. And sometimes I forget to, if I'm rushing to do something, I forget to say it. So I wrote it on a post-it and stuck it to the wall next to my nightstand.
So it'd be the first thing I saw. And it totally helps. And I say it, you say it audibly. It's, there's more impact. So my husband heard me and he is like, what did what'd you say? And I'm like, I said, today's gonna be a great day. And he is okay. And it has like, when you say it out loud the people in this house have been like, it changed their mood too. I walked outta my office one day and the two of them were like arguing and I go, Hey you guys. And they like, stop and look at me and both like pissed. And I'm like, today's gonna be a great day. And they're what's up with her?
But it like changed it changed their mood. And the next time I came outta my office, they were like normal, having a good day. So now the three of us always say it throughout the day, today's gonna be a great day. I love that. Yeah. It's true, right? Like it really can be. Yeah. It's, there's so much that subconsciously you, you can really drive yourself down.
And a lot of times you don't even know that you're having these negative thoughts because it's in your subconscious. So you have to retrain yourself with the goofy new age daily affirmations. That's another thing I'm doing every morning when I wake up. I listen to 15 minutes of a daily of I am great, that kind of stuff.
And the author was saying that even if you're not paying attention or like actively paying attention to everything they're saying your subconscious is hearing that and it's your subconscious believes what it hears. So when it's hearing I'm successful, I am happy, I'm great. If they hear, if your subconscious hears it enough, it believes that to be true.
And those are the messages you're sending yourself. And then, once the negativity is gone, it opens up all these doors that we're holding you back. So I'm trying to deprogram myself right
now. I love it. I love it. Yeah. Jesse and I have a. Pretty consistent habit. It's not daily because life happens, but we're pretty consistent in asking each other, like what we're creating that day.
And that's kinda who are you gonna be today? Or if you have a big meeting I'm gonna win that meeting, I'm gonna do this. And it helps not only because you get to declare it out loud, like to the same habits that you're talking about, but now I know what game he's playing today.
So I get to follow up and be like, how'd that meeting go? Otherwise I wouldn't even know we'd have a meeting that mattered. Yeah, because it's so much of work. We don't, it doesn't cross over. I think my favorite thing about, maybe not my favorite thing, but one of the things I really enjoy about being an entrepreneur is that the crossover happens more fluidly.
Like life work. Yeah. What are all the intentions get to like line up and be going in the same direction versus opposite. Yeah.
That is true. Yeah. I've been trying to be more present. Like when David is talking, because before I would be like, come home from work, just so drained and he would start talking to me about something and I would just be like, boop.
Yeah. Turning off my brain. Now I'm not listening to you anymore. Yeah. But being here and like I. Working from home and he works from home now. I like understand a lot more of what he's doing and i've been able to help him with some of his businesses because I'm actually listening to what his issues are and I, there's a lot of experience I have where, yeah, this whole time I could have been helping him, but I was just like me, you do your thing, I'm doing mine.
Yeah, being in quarantine has actually helped our, helped us like come together, like we're not driving each other crazy. We're like learning new things about each other,
which is awesome. And help.
Yeah. And helping each other out. Like I was thinking, he's gonna laugh when he sees this book I'm reading just because you know the cover of it, what to say when you're talking to yourself, Uhhuh but.
He's not at all. He's that's great. What? What does it say? Oh, I'm gonna do that too. I'm like, really thought you were gonna laugh at me? He's no, I have your back. Let's do it. I'm like, okay, great.
So it makes my heart warm. Yeah. No, it's like you guys are a great team, right?
Yeah, he is. He's super supportive. Like in, it took me a while to, even though he was my husband and I loved him, I have these walls, and my girls were, my girlfriends were the only ones that I felt like I could talk to or rely on, or depend on. And I've slowly learned over our 17, 20 years together that he's one of my girlfriends, like he also has my back.
Yeah. And I
can depend on him and rely on him. Yeah. And how awesome is that for Sloan to see not only does she get badass, professional parents and business-minded entrepreneurial parents because she gets parents that are actually a team. Yeah,
I
know. And
I don't know what that is like at all.
So it's gotta be good for, I've heard that.
That's good. Yeah. What else would you like to share with everyone listening today before we wrap up?
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give them a discount. Ooh, fancy. Yes. I think this has been so incredible. Thank you for being just so like honest and authentic and like really telling your story because I, it's so important, right?
People need to know that just like you didn't think it was possible to have everything that you have that they can, and yeah. That you've been like this career boss lady, and now you're pivoting again and there's so much fun in that. What is it to lean in on learning and the curiosity and recreating it.
I like, that gets me excited. That's where I get to nerd out. Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's important for people to know that you're not stuck in what you're doing. And, I, you weren't meant to only do this one thing, like you can branch out, you can reinvent yourself at any age.
You didn't miss the boat because you're, whatever, 30 and you're stuck doing whatever it is you're doing. Like it's any time and you can change at any time. And it's never too late. As long as you're still breathing and able to, make things happen. It's never too late to change your course.
Yeah. And ha and have fun with it, right? Yeah. If you don't have fun with what you're doing change, dunno where to start. Ask for help. That's what powerful I use is for. Yeah,
I know. Get into it. Look into it.
Exactly. This has been awesome. This has been, I honestly just fun and I, we could do this for hours.
So I hope that we get to have you on again and yeah, I just look forward to everyone checking out your game and what's next. And I'm excited for this magical retreat that's coming up. I know. Me too. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Miranda is strong resilience and smart. I love that. Each new business that she or her husband comes up with, I'll start with, wouldn't it be fun if, and I love that they've solved problems for their own life. The comic book story, they dreamed of the game. They wanted the vacation that they imagined.
Miranda's portfolio of businesses show that. Businesses don't need to start from a place of business plans and spreadsheets, but from imagination, creativity, and problem solving. What problems do you wanna solve? What would make your life better? Also, within her story, I hear the transition from her passive steady response of, okay, to opportunities in life, which is the quieter, more systematic and skeptical version of Let's do this to becoming a more bold Yes.
It's the reality she's created with love, success, and family, taking up more and more space in her heart and mind from the past that told her to expect so little. And what a beautiful transition that is for such a beautiful human to connect, support, and follow Miranda as well as her businesses. You can go on Instagram and follow at the Florida Man Card Game at the S HQ for the Secret Headquarters Comic Bookstore and at Raccoon Party Iil for all of her rental properties.
You can also visit their websites, Florida man card game.com, the secret headquarters.com. Really exciting for everyone listening, if you would like to buy your own version of the Florida Man Card game or the Florida Woman Card game, you can get 25% off your purchase right now if you use code later Gator.
Also, if you are looking to check out her amazing rental properties for your next incredible vacation, you can get 20% off your stay by mentioning powerful ladies in your request on Airbnb for both Raccoon Ridge or Raccoon Rock Her two Properties. I hope you've enjoyed this new episode of The Powerful Ladies Podcast.
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