Podcasts about Foxy

In this episode of Spirit Talk, I'm sharing a deeply personal experience that began with the passing of my beloved cat, Foxy, and unexpectedly opened a doorway into something much deeper. After 19 years together, grieving Foxy gave me an opportunity to fully feel my emotions without holding back. What I didn't expect was for that grief to become a release point for feelings I had been carrying for years... even decades. I share what happened, the unexpected shift I felt afterward, and the beautiful way my spirit guide supported me through it. I also share a very different kind of Spirit Talk experience: mirror portals. Can mirrors act as energetic gateways? I'll tell you about the mirror portal I discovered in my own home, how I cleared and sealed it, and why I believe keeping the energy in your home feeling like your own can make such a difference. I also share a recent experience with someone I've worked with in psychic development, where I sensed a mirror portal in her home before she showed me a photo of it, and the mirror was exactly where and how I had seen it in my mind. Plus, I'll walk you through the simple method I use to clear and close a mirror portal, along with some alternative approaches you can try. In this episode: • Grief, emotional release, and what the body holds • How feeling deeply can create unexpected healing • A message from my spirit guide during a powerful release • Feeling Foxy's presence after her passing • What mirror portals are • How I discovered a mirror portal in my own home • How to clear and seal a mirror portal • An intuitive experience involving a mirror in someone else's home • Why you may want to close a portal even if you don't believe it's dangerous • Tuning into the energy of your own home with discernment Spirit Talk is all about exploring the weird, wonderful, and deeply personal side of spirituality.  From psychic development and spirit communication to the experiences that make us question what's really going on beyond what we can see. If you've ever experienced a portal, strange activity around a mirror, or something you simply can't explain, I'd love to hear about it. Find the links to connect with me, join the Spirit Talk community, and explore my current offerings below. https://spirittalkwithbrandee.as.me/  Reach me here: Email : spirittalk13@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/spirittalkwithbrandee/  Join the soul tribe Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1W3p76tYeo/ 

Topics discussed on today's show: Frank's Anniversary, Blind Barrel's will go BROKE!, Foxy and the Hounds, National Creamsicle Day, Worthless Landmarks, Entertainment News, Jayden's College QB Number, Sports News, Topless with Dad, Thin Shaming, Dating Crazy, Pop History Quiz, What's in the Box?, Over Reacting, Get The Fake Out, Stay Or Go: Martin McDaniel, Looking at the Sun, Longest Hair, A Ton of Drugs, and Apologies.

Clara's Curiosity: Foxy Friends, Nature & Wonder with Karen Belanger-Richmond What happens when a child's curiosity leads her outside—and she discovers a family of foxes?In this episode of the Outdoor Classrooms Podcast, I'm joined by children's author Karen Belanger-Richmond, author of Clara's Curiosity & Her Foxy Friends.Karen shares the inspiration behind Clara's story and how a real-life experience grew into a children's book celebrating curiosity, observation, wildlife, and the simple magic of spending time outdoors.Together, we explore what can happen when children are given the time and space to slow down, notice what's around them, ask questions, and follow their curiosity.In this episode, we talk about:The story behind Clara's Curiosity & Her Foxy FriendsHow Karen's family and experiences in Maine inspired her writingWhy curiosity is such a powerful starting point for outdoor learningHelping children observe and appreciate wildlife safely and respectfullyNature journaling, noticing, and asking, “What do you see?”Simple ways teachers and families can encourage children to become outdoor investigatorsWhat's next for Clara and her adventuresWhether you're an early childhood educator, teacher, parent, grandparent, or simply someone who believes children need more opportunities to wonder outdoors, this conversation is an invitation to look a little closer at the nature right outside your door.A Special Thank YouA special thank-you to Karen Belanger-Richmond and Clara's Curiosity & Her Foxy Friends for sponsoring the Outdoor Classrooms Podcast during August, September, and October. We are grateful for Karen's support of the Outdoor Classrooms Podcast and our mission to inspire more outdoor learning, curiosity, and connection with the natural world.Outdoor Classroom Resources & Links:

We're back with part two of Foxy's chat with South Coast radio's former agitator-in-chief! Presumably you've polished off part one and are fully au fait with Alex's origin story? In this episode we find out more about his imperial phase. His all conquering Isle of White Radio show, his move to BBC Radio Solent and how he became king of the phone in. Controversy was never too far away though - sometimes by design, other times by accident - and Alex talks us through some of those incidents. This includes the time a prank about a squirrel ended up with him being arrested; how an on-air comment ended up with 10,000 Mumsnet readers demanding his head on a spike; and getting involved with a notorious gangster.   These days Alex is involved Retro Staycations on the Isle of Wight: https://retrostaycations.co.uk/ Here's the socials: https://www.facebook.com/alexdykeshow | https://x.com/ALEXDYKE1 And some classic Dyke: https://www.aircheckdownloads.com/audio-search?term=Alex+dyke&sort_bef_combine=relevance_DESC   And feel free to support us on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/crunchandroll  

Before we start, Alex has asked us to let you know that his days as the enfant terrible of the South Coast are behind him. He's a changed man. No more controversy for him these days, oh no. Got it? When you hear some of the stories over the two parts of Foxy's chat with Alex, you'll probably realise why he wants to clarify the reformation of his character! He's probably best known for his substantial stints on Isle of Wight Radio and BBC Radio Solent, but did you know he one of his early gigs was in Aberdeen... at a radio station that paid him double to leave not long after arriving! In this, the first of a two parter, Alex talks about the incident that made him rail against authority throughout his career; why he was a 'nearly man' thanks to Parky; and (trigger warning) his run ins with one Mr James Saville esq. Look out for part 2, coming soon. Why not subscribe, then you won't miss it?   These days Alex is involved Retro Staycations on the Isle of Wight: https://retrostaycations.co.uk/ Here's the socials: https://www.facebook.com/alexdykeshow | https://x.com/ALEXDYKE1   And feel free to support us on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/crunchandroll  

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Ladies did you ever have the talk? Most of us grew up with a generation where uncomfortable conversations can lead into complete silence and discomfort. As we get older and start becoming role models to our own little girls in our community; which allows us to shape our words on how we deliver the talks of life. The talks about cycles and training bras as a little girl were important but wasn't a step-by-step conversation. Tune in as the Ladies and I discuss our experience about THE TALK, we come from different generations, cultures, and give different perspective.

Hello and Welcome Back! It was a pleasure to chat with both 1991 Open Champion Ian Baker-Finch and our homegrown broadcasting extraordinaire, George Harper Junior to reflect on Ryan Fox's amazing win at Royal Birkdale. Ian gave great insight on Birkdale as a tournament test, his pride on how Australasia punches far above its weight on the world stage, and what advice he would give Ryan after his maiden major win.George has unique insight having been a broadcaster with The Open since 2018 and having played a good chunk of golf with Foxy over the years, including a pre-tournament tune up this year at North Berwick. We are proud to be presented by Power Turf NZ. Who are New Zealand's leading providers in Turf Care Equipment and Club Car Golf Carts. 

Read A Long: I Was There! An Easter StoryBy Karen R Lacy and illustrated by Nayeli Cardona CarlinKarenRLacy.comKaren shares the blurb on the back of the book to give children extra time to find their book or Kindle version for a Read A Long with her.  The Biblical Easter story is shared with children in a way they can understand, from the viewpoint of a fox. Foxy explains to his friends that he witnessed Jesus arrive in Jerusalem. Foxy heard people call Jesus the Messiah and he saw the love Jesus and children shared. He shared miracles and praise for Jesus, the betrayal by Judas. Foxy watched the Lord's Supper, and Jesus loves us so much that He sacrificed Himself on the cross for salvation of the people.Jesus arose from the grave so that we all have the opportunity to join Him in heaven!Children enjoy this beautifully illustrated and adventurous Christian picture book, filled with information that is understandable to children about Jesus and the true meaning of Easter. The recommended age group is six to nine years old.#karenrlacy, #karenrlacychildrensbooks, #picturebooks, #animalstory, #amazonbooks, #animalinteraction, #Christianstory, #Easter, #Jesuslovesus, #Hearose, #fox 

Un veilleur de nuit, seul dans une pizzeria pour enfants, enfermé jusqu'au matinavec une batterie presque vide, deux portes, des écrans, et des mascottes quibougent dans le noir. Dans cette chronique de podcast horreur, Chandleyr relitFive Nights at Freddy's non comme un simple jeu à jumpscares ou àanimatroniques tueurs, mais comme quelque chose de beaucoup plus adulte,plus sale et plus réel : un cauchemar de salarié. Car avant même que Freddy,Bonnie, Chica ou Foxy ne deviennent des monstres, le jeu a déjà compris cequ'il y a de profondément malsain dans le travail de nuit, l'isolement,l'hypervigilance, la fatigue et la sensation d'être abandonné dans un systèmequi ne vous a jamais donné assez de moyens pour survivre.Dans cet épisode de podcast horreur français, Five Nights at Freddy'sdevient alors une horreur salariale avant d'être un jeu de monstres. La batterielimitée cesse d'être une mécanique de gameplay pour devenir une métaphorede l'épuisement. Les caméras deviennent une maladie de la vigilance. Lebureau de sécurité ressemble à un cercueil administratif. Et les animatroniqueseux-mêmes apparaissent moins comme des créatures autonomes que commela forme visible d'un lieu déjà pourri de l'intérieur : une entreprise dedivertissement pour enfants qui a gardé sa façade, mais plus son humanité.Entre thread horreur, culture gaming, travail de nuit, entreprise défaillante,fatigue moderne et peur du petit poste sacrifiable, Dans l'Ombre desLégendes explore ce que le jeu raconte vraiment de notre époque.Car le plus terrifiant dans Five Nights at Freddy's, ce n'est peut-être pas lejumpscare. Ce n'est peut-être même pas Freddy. C'est l'idée qu'un monde a pujuger normal de laisser quelqu'un seul, mal protégé, mal équipé, à tenir jusqu'aumatin dans un environnement déjà perdu. Une chronique pour celles et ceux quiaiment les jeux d'horreur, les lectures noires du quotidien, les récits sur letravail qui pourrit la nuit, et cette horreur contemporaine où les monstres nefont parfois que finir le travail commencé par le système.chandleyr@danslombredeslegendes.frDans l'Ombre des Légendes — des creepypastas français originaux et deshistoires terrifiantes narrés cinq jours sur sept.Ce n'est pas un podcast. C'est un rituel.Abonnez-vous et laissez 5 étoiles sur Apple Podcasts ou Spotify.https://smartlink.ausha.co/danslombresdeslegendesHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

J-Bunny and Kacey (aka Lady Breena) sit down with the members of One for the Road at the Midsummer Fantasy Renaissance Faire.  They discuss the unfortunate passing of Three Pints Shy founder Jonathan Siregar just a few months after the band's final show at the Sparta NJ Renaissance faire, how One for the Road came to be, and what the future holds for this new project of old friends and bandmates.  They touch on why David Mikofsky rebranded to The Foxy Bard, Foxy and Twig's career as faire performers, and how that compares to the other members' involvement in faires.  Tim and Erin share how they started doing ren faires in the first place, and Tim corrects the origin story of Three Pints Shy.  Near the end of the show, Crossbones McCoy shows up to steal David Anthony to hawk their show Crossbones & Clyde Mayhem (with Music). Podcast intro "Rock Intro 3" courtesy of audionautix.com.  "Sing to the Heavens" is from the Three Pints Shy album A Another Long Dangerous Year, and "Play the Last Jig" is from the Three Pints Shy album The Burlap album.  Both songs were included with the permission of Three Pints Shy/One for the Road.

The bakery Ryan Fox gave a shout out after his British open win is being inundated with customers from far and wide. Rollers in Auckland's Northcote had queues out the door at opening yesterday and was forced to close early having gone through their stock for today too. They're now focusing just on pies - with the Foxy - a combination of steak, bacon jam and cheese - flying out of the pie warmer. Co-owner Tamara Tait spoke to John Campbell

Before they were getting Paul Henry to send "Death Threats" to Chris Hipkins and talking about shaggin Winnie, Jerry & Manaia chatted to Great NZer Ryan Fox just a couple of days after his win at The Open!Here's the full chat from the Hauraki Breakfast, including what it was like standing over that final putt on the 18th, the whirlwind of emotions since the win and what's next for Foxy...Did you know that we've launched a new Facebook Group called 'The Caravan' JOIN HERE! Brought to you by Export Ultra! Follow The ACC on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok Subscribe to The Agenda Podcast now on iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts! iHeartRadio Apple Spotify YouTube THANKS MATE! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're joined by Champion Golfer of the Year Ryan Fox to relive his historic victory at Royal Birkdale. Foxy takes us inside the biggest week of his career, sharing what was going through his mind as he stood over the winning putt on the 72nd hole, what it's been like celebrating with the Claret Jug, and much more. Then, Kiz & Riggs react to the latest LIV Golf news after the league loses its feeder tour.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Karl from the TAB joins ACC Head G Lane to wax lyrical about Foxy's Open win and table some audio from last week's episode (0:00). Then they pore over the big wins from last weekend (03:30) and look ahead to this weekend's odds, opportunities and omens across the NRL (03:15), and the F1 (11:00)...Then this week's Grab A Pen (14:45), Stats To Impress The Ladies (17:30) and this week's ThreeWay (19:00)... Powered by TAB!Follow The ACC on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok Subscribe to The Agenda Podcast now on iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts! iHeartRadio Apple Spotify YouTube THANKS MATE! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's Agenda, Tony Lyall and ACC Head G Lane look at how Ryan Fox has blown up worldwide, and now the whole world loves him (00:00)! Next, it's a Correction Corner and a heartfelt apology to former Black Cap captain and Grant Fox's grandad Merv Wallace (06:45), could Streaker Bullrush be the greatest sports Halftime show of all time (23:55), and is this the death knell for the Commonwealth Games (34:40)? Finally, it's 'Yours Please', and we may have just come up with a new name for listeners of The Agenda Podcast (42:10)... Did you know that we've launched a new Facebook Group called 'The Caravan' JOIN HERE! Brought to you by Export Ultra! Follow The ACC on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok Subscribe to The Agenda Podcast now on iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts! iHeartRadio Apple Spotify YouTube THANKS MATE! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elite Golf Analyst David Bieleski returns to update us on the latest news, results, previews & more out of the World of Golf including, the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour, Kiwis on tour & more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve are back to break down the World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina as well as The Open at Royal Birkdale. Spain suffocated and neutered Argentina. What made Spain's run so impressive and why SVP believes they could be here to stay as a force. Plus, what in the world was with Argentina after the loss?!? Ryan Fox won the Claret Jug, coming out of nowhere in the final two days to post a 62 and 68. Fox's speed was a big talking point and the guys discuss how that tactic could be advantageous. And of course the guys get into the Bryson DeChambeau ruling. Was it correct? And full reaction to Bryson's actions the day of. Plus, Steve's review of The Odyssey, SVP shares his thoughts on the recent ESPN layoffs, two massive problems Steve wants addressed and some CFB 27 talk to end the pod. | SVPod Approximate Timecodes (0:00) Intro (1:27) The brutal reality of the ESPN layoffs (10:00) World Cup Final recap (22:40) SVP rode in the back of a hatchback (24:50) Dingle tourney recap (27:35) Fantasy season is approaching (30:14) Ryan Fox wins The Open (36:12) Thoughts on Foxy's pace of play (38:50) How Royal Birkdale affected the tournament (41:03) Gordo held on (43:50) Did Bryson break the rules? (47:55) Thoughts on how Bryson reacted to the ruling (53:40) Looking back on Scottie's missed putts (57:47) Major season is over (58:55) Odyssey review (1:05:21) Thank you Jordan Walker (1:06:55) Spit Zyns in the garbage! (1:09:05) Igniter on the grill went out (1:11:55) Weekend recap at Starboard (1:14:05) CFB 27 talk (1:22:45) Thanks for watching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Although this Monday morning debrief kicks off with chat about the Belgian GP trophy and Acting the Goat, it quickly dissolves into analysis of the George-Lewis clash on lap one; the ever-expanding excellence of Kimi;  the heroism of Max; and the P2 for Charles and Ferrari. We know you like your coffee, but, on this occasion, post-The Open (let's hear it for Foxy!), post-The World Cup (even Dexter was animated!), post-Spa, a nice glass of water will probably suffice. With thanks to @CameronCcAnd with thanks to Jetcraft, the world's largest buyer and seller of executive jets: https://jetcraft.comTo TrackNinja, a lap-timer and data app designed to help users improve their on-track car and driver performance through analysis and an innovative Data Garage. A lite version is free; the loaded edition is US$9.99 pcm or $99.99 yearly: https://trackninja.appTo OEM Exclusive, the passionate suppliers of OEM upgrades for exotic and high-performance vehiclesAnd to REC Watches, whose timepieces are infused with DNA and actual material from famous racing and road cars. Claim your additional 10 per cent discount by adding the codeword PETER: https://recwatches.com/next-projectImage: Red BullMusic: Rain over Kyoto Station (The Mini Vandals); Science Montage (Jeremy Blake)Visit our new merchandise store to Make Corners Great Again! https://sl1nk.com/l0uanyxVisit https://alpinestars.com for all your racing apparelVisit: https://fxdworkwear.com for all your purpose-build, technical workwearFollow Peter @peterwindsorBook a Cameo with Peter: https://cameo.com/peterwindsorContact us at: peterwindsoryt@gmail.comWe support the Race Against Dementia:https://raceagainstdementia.comThe Alora dog rescue shelter (Malaga, Spain)https://aloradogrescue.com#standwithukraine - now, more than ever#Canada! #jimmykimmel!Stephen Gallacher Golf Foundationhttps://sgfoundation.co.ukNick: you're with us always:https://samaritans.orgSupport the showVisit: https://youtube.com/peterwindsor for F1 videos past, present and future

What a weekend of golf!!! And Ryan Fox...so good, but a great performance by a number of Australians and Kiwis. We'll chat about that, and all the controversy today on the show.01:00 Ryan Fox, what a star. Wonderful win by the big fella. Mark talks about what he felt were Foxy's most important 2 holes and why. Nick says in majors, bogey's don't hurt too much, but doubles kill you. And Mark talks about the momentum Foxy had, and Nick loved the iron shot he hit on 17.06:00 We discuss Foxy's comments about his nerves on the final day.07:00 One thing (of a few) that annoyed Mark about The Open tournament.09:00 Mark was disappointed, for Lucas, that he couldn't hang on to finish Top 5 given what it would have meant for him in the US.09:30 LIV not looking good atm, and Mark reckons Lucas' is so talented that he should be playing with the top golf talent, Nick says that will l; have to happen via the DP World Tour.11.00 Mark loves Sam Burns game and thought that he had the tournament won, he reckons Burns is not the best player on tour not to win a major - and has overtaken Tommy Fleetwood for that title.12.00 Nick talks about Foxy's phone call home after the win. Very funny.13.00 Nick explains to Mark that Foxy has been copping flak for withdrawing from the 3M open this week, was it the right call? Nick and Mark discuss. Mark says that with The Open Championship next year at St Andrews, a course Foxy has won at before and that suits his game, next year will be very interesting.14.00 Cameron John, what a performance in his first major, and Mark awards him our Hostplus 'Plus for Golf' this week....Mark would love to get him on the show, homework for Nick to arrange as he has a contact.16.00 Okay, onto Day 2. Bryson. Nick and Mark comment that Bryson knew exactly where to stomp to help his situation, we discuss the scenario and what happened. Mark said Bryson knew what he was doing and would have known it was in violation, Nick is a bit more reserved and believes Bryson was very careless.18.00 Mark says that, in part, the officials are in part to blame for what Bryson did given they have been tolerating it.20.00 Nick talks about the reactions from other pros to what happened.22.00 Mark was unimpressed by Bryson's reaction to what happened, the threats he made, the display he put on, and says that Bryson is a massive wanker for this kind of behaviour, and awards the BMW Touch of Class to the R&A for standing up to him and holding firm on their decision.24.00 Mark asks Nick if Rory would have said what he did about Bryson if he was in contention.25.30 Brysons subtle dig at Sir Nick Faldo over his golf strategy comments27.00 The commentary team - Nick and Mark loved it, and explain what they loved about it28:00And notwithstanding Marks touch of class, a wolfpacker has a different ideaAfter the turn:32:00 Marks Top 5 for Betr: golfers who came late to the game and achieved great things. Foxy at #5.35:00 Nick and Mark talk about their age when they first picked up a golf club.37.00 Dan has a bone to pick with Mark over something from last weeks show.38.00 Nick runs through highlights from the global results40:00 Some exciting news from Mark on Claude Harmon, and we reveal that tomorrow we'll chat to the legendary Graham Marsh on the show!42:30 Nick has a ripping Foxy stat.44:00 Feedback for Southern Golf Club, heavily weighted towards Ryan Fox and The Open Championship. The results, pace of play.48:00 Feedback on Bryson being 'a target', and the results of our Twitter poll on Brysons 2-shot penalty.51:00 Questions about watering Open courses, and a comment on the changes to Royal Birkdale.53:00 A question about the draw on day 2 of majors, and why it isn't in lowest score order, like day 3 and 4 are.55.30And for the Golf Clearance Outlet Nick O'Hern has a Ryan Fox inspired masterclass today on how to play Fairway Bunkers.Massive show !We're live from Titleist and FootJoy HQ thanks to our great partners:Hostplus, Talk Birdie To Me's official retirement partnerBMW, luxury and comfort for the 19th hole;Titleist, the #1 ball in golf;FootJoy, the #1 shoe and glove in golf;Golf Clearance Outlet, they beat everyone's prices;Betr, the fastest and easiest betting app in Australia;The Find My Player app - follow every player on every tour;And Southern Golf Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we look back at Ryan Fox's victory at The Open here on "Musings on Golf," we encourage you to look ahead and purchase a terrific book, "Fairways and Greens: A Novel," by Rich Poggi."Foxy" wasted no time in sealing his first major title, while the storylines abounded last week, with the drama produced by Bryson DeChambeau and the ensuing reaction from Rory McIlroy. Scottie Scheffler getting a free drop for a ball he never found! And so close again for Sam Burns and Cameron Young. And what about Doug Parker, who was once destined for PGA Tour stardom? Poggi nails it with the father-son dynamic Doug Parker's in this character-driven story of family, rediscovery, and second chances, all set against a game that has a way of revealing the truth about people when it matters most.

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In this episode, we reflect on the recent major golf tournaments, analyze player performances, rules controversies, and the unpredictability of golf outcomes, emphasizing the importance of process and mindset.Cheers, - The Tie GuysChapters:00:00 Introduction and Major Season Reflection01:03 Walker and Henry Discuss Major Champions and Performance02:15 The Drinking and Eating Habits of Golfers04:16 Starbucks and Chain Food Quality in Cities05:49 Relapsing on Nando's and Food Choices10:15 Watermelon Smoothies and Summer Drinks11:42 Brawley's Beverage and Local Hangouts12:44 Okra and Summer Cooking Techniques15:09 Book Review: The Making of the American Democracy17:36 Jordan Spieth's Performance and Future Outlook20:04 Major Winners and Performance Trends24:34 Rules Controversies: Scotty Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau34:20 Rules Official Decisions and Player Reactions47:26 Ryan Fox's Unexpected Win and Its Significance57:03 The Everest Theory and Player Development01:00:06 Golf Course Analysis and Conditions01:01:31 Closing Remarks and Episode SummaryWebsite: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.thetiepodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thetiepodcast/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mobile.twitter.com/thetiepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ keywords:golf, major championships, rules controversy, player performance, golf analysis, sports psychology, tournament strategy

Mike is joined this week by Episode 1 guest Cheese to breakdown the week that was at The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. We run through all of the reason Foxy's win was so special as well as the big stories of the week. We make sure to chat all the controversy as well as find time to give you the very earl look at this weeks 3M Championship in Minnesota. Want the full breakdown and tips? Hit us up at threeputpodcast@gmail.com

NZ Open Tournament Director Michael Glading joins the show to chat the incredible achievement by Ryan Fox of winning his first Major on the PGA Tour, The Open at Royal Birkdale in the UK, what that could do for golf in NZ & more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on UpNDown, the fellas discuss:Foxy's 1st major win Scottie vs Bryson rulingBetting in golf and much more

How good does it feel to watch a homegrown Kiwi superstar absolutely dominate on the world stage and write themselves into the history books?

It's electric - boogie woogie woogie! Come dance with us on Brothers in Arms! Tonight, do all birds have wishbones?, that says emus, the beaky beak, he says meh, raisins? - nope, concord grapes are foxy, Wayne's World, Rhode Island - blink and you'll miss it, same vein - same vibe, Snoop Dog and Martha Stewart, From Crook to Cook and Goon with a Spoon, Go shawty - it's your birthday cake,  it's all beach, boil em mash em put em inna stew, future plans, don't walk across the bridgeway in crocs, new holes and a contusion, they weren't biting for me, kid-sized kayak, a fish with shoulders, making grown men cry with Disney, House - Kayak - same same, kung fu grip, 12 inch heels with a 12 inch tongue, person dependent, I used to roleplay as an ostrich, and a few Dad jokes that have a little extra cheese. All this and a shout-out to Grandma on this week's episode of Brothers in Arms!   Where you can reach us: YouTube: BrothersinArmsPodcast Instagram: Yourbrothersinarmspodcast Gmail: yourbrothersinarmspodcast@gmail.com Twitch: Twitch.tv/brothersinarmspodcast (schedule varies due to life) Website: https://brothersinarms.podbean.com

A lot of people ask where One Piece stops feeling “too long” and starts feeling inevitable. For us, it's this stretch. We go arc by arc from G8 and Long Ring Long Land into the gut-punch run of Water 7 and Enies Lobby, and we get honest about what works, what drags, and why certain scenes still live in our heads years later.Tenara joins me as we talk through why G8 is the rare filler arc with real storytelling weight, why Foxy is a love-it-or-hate-it detour, and how Water 7 forces Luffy to act like a captain instead of just the loudest optimist in the room. From Robin's manipulation by CP9 to the crew being framed, we dig into the pressure-cooker choices that make Enies Lobby iconic: “I Want To Live,” shooting the flag, the Going Merry farewell, and the way every Straw Hat levels up when it actually matters.Then we push forward into Thriller Bark, Sabaody Archipelago, Amazon Lily, Impel Down, and Marineford. We break down Kuma's shadow over the story, the Celestial Dragons moment that flips the tone, Bon Clay's unforgettable sacrifice, and why the Paramount War still feels like a turning point for the entire world of One Piece. We close on 3D2Y and the two-year plan that turns loss into growth. If you're rewatching, catching up, or trying to convince a friend to finally start, hit play and tell us which arc from this run is your favorite, then subscribe, share, and leave a review.Text us for feedback and recommendations for future episodes!Support the showWe thank everyone for listening to our podcast! We hope to grow even bigger to make great things happen, such as new equipment for higher-quality podcasts, a merch store & more! If you're interested in supporting us, giving us feedback and staying in the loop with updates, then follow our ZONE Social Media Portal to access our website, our Discord server, our Patreon page, and other social media platforms!DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions shared within are those of the speaker. We encourage everyone to do their own research and to experience the content mentioned at your own volition. We try not to reveal spoilers to those who are not up to speed, but in case some slips out, please be sure to check out the source material before you continue listening!Stay nerdy and stay faithful,- J.B.Subscribe to "Content for Creators" on YouTube to listen to some of the music used for these episodes!

Success isn't built on getting everything right, it's built on learning from what goes wrong. In this episode, Kyla Dufresne shares how she grew Foxy Box from a single idea into a fast-growing franchise by embracing failure, investing in people, and staying true to her values. From grassroots marketing to franchise development, this conversation is filled with practical lessons for entrepreneurs looking to grow with purpose.

From The Sip to The Ride, The Style to The Sound, we're running a full-court press on the culture with 30 heavyweight comparison questions. On this episode of Two Mics Up, we're ranking and choosing between:The Sip: Heineken, Becks, or Stella? Hennessy, Rémy, or D'Usse? Coke, Pepsi, or RC?The Ride: Mustang, Hellcat, or Camaro? Escalade, Navigator, or Range Rover? Classic Impala vs Challenger vs Boss 429.The Style: Nike, Reebok, or Adidas? Gucci, Louis, or Prada? Rolex, Breitling, or Omega?The Sound: Nas, Andre 3000, or Rakim? Jay-Z, Biggie, or Eminem? Kendrick, Cole, or Drake? Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, or Roxanne Shante?R&B Royalty: Beyoncé, Rihanna, or Janet? Usher, Chris Brown, or R. Kelly? Aaliyah, Brandy, or Monica? Erykah vs Jill vs Lauryn.Hip-Hop Culture: Snoop vs Cube vs Pac, Outkast vs UGK vs Three 6, Missy vs Kim vs Foxy, Dre vs Premier vs Dilla, Golden Era vs Bling Era vs Trap Era, and more.This is barbershop talk with podcast polish – nostalgia, strong opinions, and debates that hit everything from soundtracks to style, legends to new wave. Every choice says something about your taste, your era, and your definition of culture.⚡️ Watch now and play along.Comment your picks under the video, timestamp your favorite questions, and let us know where you agree or think we're TRIPPIN'. Hit like, subscribe, and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next round of debates on Two Mics Up. Who you got?

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As World Cup fever sweeps The Blue Room, Foxy and Liam join Les and Warren for a Weekly/Mailbag mash-up. On The Weekly, we discuss Burnley's £40m compo claim against Everton and the start of the 2026 World Cup. Then head over to YouTube or Patreon for Mailbag to continue the World Cup chat and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Watch the YouTube version of this episode HEREIn this episode of Maximum Lawyer Live, Tyson Mutrux riffs on a short clip from Marc Andreessen to show you exactly what the near future of legal work looks like: you managing 20+ AI agents instead of a bloated human team.Tyson shares how he and Kashef became “AI vampires” while building Foxy, their new case management system, taking shifts in Bolt, wiring up back-end tools like Supabase and GitHub, and literally waking up in the middle of the night to see what the agents had shipped.Tyson also uses a wild example from the Los Angeles mayoral race to show how a lesser-known candidate is using AI to close the gap on an incumbent with more money and name recognition, and why the same thing is about to happen in your market if you don't level up.If you want a real-time window into the future of law firm operations, months, not years, away and what it means for your hiring, compensation, and leadership, this episode will give you the play-by-play.AI isn't just making knowledge workers more efficient; it's creating “AI vampires” who are so productive with agents that they don't want to stop working and law firms are next. The job of the law firm owner is shifting from managing people who do tasks to managing fleets of agents that run entire workflows.In this episode, you'll learn:The “AI vampire” phenomenon in Silicon Valley and why lawyers should careHow building Foxy turned Tyson and Kashef into round‑the‑clock AI tinkerersWhy AI has unlocked a backlog of “someday” projects that used to require an armyHow AI is already leveling up political campaigns, and why that matters for your marketingThe coming split between AI‑fluent team members and everyone elseWhy top performers who master AI will see their compensation go up while total headcount goes downThe next 12–24 months of legal work: people managing agents, and then agents managing agentsHighlights0:00 – Tyson tosses the original topic and pivots to Marc Andreessen's “AI vampire” clip1:30 – How Emma, Jackson, and Hudson's school transitions mirror the transitions coming to your firm2:40 – Andreessen on coders becoming four to twenty times more productive with AI4:30 – Tyson's Foxy build: taking shifts in Bolt, wiring up Supabase and GitHub, and waking up at night to check the agents6:00 – The physical toll: exhaustion, bags under the eyes, and why Tyson finally pulled back8:30 – The Wall Street friend who used AI to generate 500,000 lines of code and fully automate his home10:00 – Why AI is for idea people: shipping long‑stalled projects with a few prompts12:45 – The elasticity of demand: when code (or legal work) becomes cheap, demand explodes15:00 – What this means for law firms: massive improvements in marketing, intake, litigation, and operations17:40 – The LA mayoral race example and how AI helps underdogs punch above their weight19:00 – The salary shakeup: AI‑effective team members vs. everyone else20:20 – The true “window into the future”: managing 20 agents for discovery, service, med records, and more21:00 – Tough calls: do you eliminate roles or shift people into high‑touch client service?22:00 – Final takeaway: your future job is managing agents and investing in the humans who can do the same

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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 picks up about a year after the first movie. Mike Schmidt and Vanessa try to move on from the horrors of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza while protecting Abby from the truth about the haunted animatronics. But when Abby secretly reconnects with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, she uncovers darker secrets tied to the restaurant's past and awakens a terrifying new threat known as the Marionette. As deadly “Toy” animatronics begin causing chaos, Mike and Vanessa must stop a new wave of supernatural murders before Abby is lost to the nightmare forever.   Eric-NO BAG OF POPCORN         Jordan- NO BAG OF POPCORN  

They're back! 0:00 - The California Association of Realtors is lying about San Diego's Measure A. Again. 28:58 - Fox is looking Foxy in Star Fox a remake of Star Fox. Again. 46:01 - Stranger Than Heaven appears to have a heavy focus on music which certainly appeals to me! If you missed Saturday's live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night! Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner.  It is in the public domain and free to use.  Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting. Chat Transcript: 6:59 PM@jaredknisely6213​​whats andrew disgruntled about today 7:00 PM@jaredknisely6213​​didnt hate it thats what il say 7:04 PM@jaredknisely6213​​yes, i live 2300 miles away please tell so i know how it affects mew 7:12 PM@jaredknisely6213​​im seeing a theme here 7:19 PM@LeeShowrons​​Hey 7:20 PM@LeeShowrons​​Scam? 7:25 PM@jaredknisely6213​​people will exploit the system whether or not they can lie or not 7:28 PM@jaredknisely6213​​problem is: this specifically falls under one of the articles 7:30 PM@jaredknisely6213​​cant keep people from sinning 7:31 PM@LeeShowrons​​Yeah you better 7:32 PM@jaredknisely6213​​is there anything on it that you want 7:32 PM@LeeShowrons​​Why a remake of Star fox when it was already remade twice 7:33 PM@jaredknisely6213​​star fox is the only thing i want on it so i can wait 7:33 PM@LeeShowrons​​if they wanted to celebrate Fox Mccloud they could do a new Star fox game 7:34 PM@jaredknisely6213​​the models kinda look like the sonic movie models which i kinda dig 7:38 PM@LeeShowrons​​A lot of people were thinking that because of star fox being on the movie they're setting up for a smash Brothers movie 7:41 PM@LeeShowrons​​I played Star fox on 3ds and didn't like it 7:41 PM@jaredknisely6213​​its also 50-60 depending on what you want 7:45 PM@jaredknisely6213​​im talking about the hair/fur design 8:00 PM@jaredknisely6213​​thats what you think 8:02 PM@jaredknisely6213​​forget the fact that her uncle is a dictator

They’re back! 0:00 – The California Association of Realtors is lying about San Diego’s Measure A. Again. 28:58 – Fox is looking Foxy in Star Fox a remake of Star Fox. Again. 46:01 – Stranger Than Heaven appears to have a heavy focus on music which certainly appeals to me! If you missed Saturday's live ...Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 439 – If You Can’t Trust Realtors…’ »

On this episode of For Mac Eyes Only: Join Mike and Darren as they discuss a listener question from Lisa about the new Firefox Free VPN. How does it work in practice and why should you use it? How does the new free VPN in Firefox compare to paid services, Apple's Private Relay, or even free VPNs that can be found in other browsers like Opera? Darren questions how VPNs are being used in conjunction with new age verification laws and shares a Quick Tip on selecting a VPN that has your interests at heart, not their wallets. The episode wraps with Mike's Essential App pick: Mappa Mini!

The 90s were a golden era for female rap, and on this episode we're celebrating the women who made it unforgettable. We're talking Latifah, Lyte, Yo-Yo, Kim, Foxy…and on and on and on. The game changers who proved that women could run hip hop on their own terms.Transition from the late 80s to the early 90s 0:53Favorite songs from 1990-93 6:33The mid 90s 9:22Foxy Brown meets JFK Jr. 10:21Favorite songs from 1994-96 18:29The late 90s 23:52Favorite songs from 1997-99 30:23Favorite collabs from 1990-99 35:30If you're enjoying the content that we're making and you're looking for ways to support our independent podcast, here's a little something that you can do:Check out all things TROY at troypodcast.com.Leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Goodpods or Podchaser. Feedback boosts our visibility in algorithms, helps attract new listeners!Check out our store Nuthin' But A Tee Thang at teethang.com. You can cop tees, hoodies, hats, mugs and more.Spread the word to your family, friends and coworkers. A simple share on social media or a casual mention to a friend grows our audience faster than anything else.Sign up for our monthly newsletter, Liner Notes.No matter how you choose to support, know that it is greatly appreciated.

In this episode, I'm sitting down with Kyla Dufresne, founder of Foxy Box, a waxing franchise with 24 locations across Canada and a 25th on the way. Kyla shares her journey from starting Foxy Box in the dining room of her home to building a national beauty brand rooted in confidence, community, and customer experience.Kyla also opens up about her teenage years, moving to Vancouver Island for a fresh start, learning through failure, and why mindset has played such a huge role in her success. We also talk about franchising, leadership, choosing the right business partners, and what it really takes to scale a brand without losing the heart behind it.What you'll take away from this episode:How Kyla started Foxy Box from her dining room and turned it into a growing franchise brand across Canada.Why your environment matters so much when it comes to your mindset, confidence, and ability to expand.The importance of getting out into your community and becoming the face of your business.Why not every paying client or franchise partner is the right fit, and how protecting your culture protects your brand.How failure became one of Kyla's greatest teachers in business.Why progress over perfection matters when you're building, scaling, or stepping into something new.The difference between opening more corporate locations and turning your business into a franchise.Kyla's story is such a powerful reminder that you don't need to have it all figured out before you start. You get to learn, pivot, ask for support, and build something incredible along the way. Tune in for an honest, inspiring conversation about resilience, leadership, franchising, and what it really takes to build a business that changes lives.Take our FREE quiz: https://www.myalignedpurpose.com/quiz

Double J Jeff Jarrett is Wresting Legend and Icon Known to fans all across the Globe. Foxy and I discuss some of the history of Memphis Wrestling. We discuss Jeff working out and training with Steve Keirn and the Fabulous Ones being the Greatest Tag Team to ever come through the Memphis Territory. We discuss his time with Frank Morrell and teaming with Pat Tanaka. We talk about the Blessings and Curses being the son of the promoter his dad Jerry Jarrett. We pay honor and tribute to the late Guy Coffey for all he did and being the right hand man for his dad along with being the right hand man of Jerry Lawler. We remember the late Legendary Brian Christopher, This was a great interview that you do not want to Miss !!!!

Sometimes you need to listen to the universe when it is trying to help you. Kyla Dufrense listened and survived. Dave Young: Welcome to The Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not-so-secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So here’s one of those. [Handyside Ad] Speaker 6: Told you, Brian. Brian: Told me what? Speaker 6: This is part two of last week’s episode. Brian: Oh yeah, and it was getting good. Speaker 6: If you missed it, go back and listen to part one first. Take it away, fellas. Stephen Semple: It’s funny how often we see this mistake. It’s even interesting. There’s a famous marketer, Al Rice, and Jack Trout wrote a book called The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding. And one of the things that they talk about in the book is, don’t extend brand. Look, it’s amazing how many times companies try to just go, “Well, let’s just make it this bigger thing and we’ll talk…” And it almost always never works. You’re much better off multiplying the thing that you do well than trying to add around the edges. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah, you got to keep it simple. I will tell you, it is very challenging to train one person to be the best at five different services. Really it is. Stephen Semple: Absolutely. Kyla Dufresne: We know how to train someone to be the best waxer in a five-day program. We can turn someone with the right personality, obviously, but we can turn somebody into a fantastic hair removal expert in five days. To be great at nails and lashes and hair, I mean, God, that takes a really long time. And then you want to go, okay, you have to do all of these things. How do you get one person to be great at all of those things? You’re going to be putting out a mediocre product, maybe, for the convenience of a one-stop shop. Truly, you can’t be the best at all things. Stephen Semple: Well, and I’m going to put it to you another way too, because that’s the operational challenge. I’m even going to look at it from the marketing challenge. So, what we want to be, in anytime we’re marketing a business, we want to be thought of first and we want to be like the best, right? But thought of first for what? Now, if it’s thought of first for being a salon, well, there’s lots of salons, right? Thought of first for waxing, that’s a little bit different, right? And it’s way easier than to lean into that and really be liked about, because even the whole thing, Foxy Box, people like that. Well, now it’s this other name that was a little bit safer and more conservative because we’re in this area. It was also harder to be liked for that. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. Stephen Semple: So this whole strategy had of being thought of first for this thing and liked the most for this, you had to deviate from that. And I’m going to say, even if you got the operations going, I don’t think it would’ve been a success. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah, for sure. Stephen Semple: In fact, I think if you got the operations going, it would’ve been a trap because it would’ve worked okay. I actually think the universe gave you a gift of it burning to the ground, and causing you to go, wait a minute, I should just focus. I think the universe was actually looking out for you there. Kyla Dufresne: Oh, for sure. Yeah. It was bringing me back to my roots. And I mean, I learned so many lessons in there. Every experience shapes the leader that we are today. I used to lose so much sleep. I used to cry a lot and now I just don’t. I always say to people, things don’t get easier, we just get better at tackling them. Stephen Semple: Yeah, for sure. Kyla Dufresne: Your business doesn’t get easier. At the top of one mountain, you’re at the bottom of the next. Literally it’s just a constant like, okay, now what’s my next challenge I have to face? But the great thing about that experience is, I lost a lot of sleep. I got a lot of gray hairs, I cried a lot, and now I’m much stronger on the other side. I learned how to be a great leader. I learned how to lead a team, how to build a team. I got clarity on my business structure. It wasn’t all a failure. I think Harvard is probably more expensive than 30,000, so that’s my [inaudible 00:05:03] education. Stephen Semple: So you had one store, went to two stores, you’re back to the one store. What was the next step in the evolution? Kyla Dufresne: My first franchise. Stephen Semple: So what made you decide to franchise? Kyla Dufresne: I knew I wanted to franchise from day one. I said, “I’m going to start a brand. I’m going to call Fox Box. I’m going to franchise and take over the world.” My fire behind that, I had a boss at the bar that I worked at. He’s probably going to hate that I call him out quite a lot on podcasts, because I love him truly. And I learned so much from him on how to develop culture into business. But he said, “You can’t franchise this business, Kyla. People come to you. They’re not going to go, you can’t franchise this.” And I just went, “I use this as my fuel. Watch me.” Stephen Semple: Nice. Nice. Kyla Dufresne: And so I told everybody that would listen that I was going to franchise. I’m a franchise. You can buy a franchise if you want. I had no idea what that meant to Stephen. I didn’t know what franchising was. I didn’t know what that meant for my role, but everyone knew like, “Oh yeah, I’m going to sell franchises.” I didn’t have anything. I had no franchise agreement, no FTD, but I told everybody I was a franchise. So two of my top estheticians came to me and said, “Kyla, we want to be a first franchisees. We’re ready. We want to open in the West Shore in one of the fastest growing communities.” I think it was in Canada at the time. And I went, “All right, great. Let’s do it.” I reached out to my lawyers. I said, “I’ve got two of my technicians. They want to be my first franchisees.” They whipped me up a license agreement because it was much cheaper and faster. And like, this is all you need. Put it in front of them. We all signed on the dotted line and things went south from that moment forward. A few things that went wrong. Number one is that I sold a license agreement instead of our franchise agreement. Stephen Semple: Yeah, very different. Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: When you sell a license agreement, there isn’t this 160-page document called a franchise disclosure document. And in a franchise disclosure document, it outlines everyone’s roles and responsibilities in this marriage that you’re going to enter into. So we went into this blind, like, “I don’t know what you’re supposed to be doing. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing.” There was zero expectations. When it came to support, for example, for me, I thought, “Oh, if they need something, I’m going to answer.” If they text or whatever, support to them meant, “Oh, if I’m short-staffed, you come and work in my store.” So when they open their door like, “Hi, I’m short-staffed. They need you to come work.” Well, this is not what I thought I was getting into. So our expectations were just not aligned at all. The other thing that went wrong is that they were incredibly undercapitalized. Because I didn’t understand that you need a lump sum of money to start a business, because I did it organically. Stephen Semple: Because you did it differently. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. I did it differently that I just thought, oh, everyone just figures it out and funds the business. That’s not how it works. These guys had… How much, I think they had $30,000 or something like that to their name and to open the store. 10,000 of that went to me for the license agreement. The remainder was to build out their 1,200 square foot store, market their business, and get up and running. Fortunately, the two of them both were dating general contractors. And so they were, back then too, this was almost 10 years ago, back then you could kind of whip together a space for very little, and they managed to pull off the build out, which was insane. But at the moment they opened their doors, they were strapped for cash and super stressed out. Stephen Semple: Right. Kyla Dufresne: The other thing is that I had nothing systemized. I didn’t understand that. I was in there helping them train their staff. I had no training materials put together. I whipped up an operations manual. My friend owned a franchise, which she since sold a quick service food franchise. She gave me her operations manual. I kind of copied and pasted and changed like, “Here’s your hours.” And the waxing that we do and just general shit. Anyhow, very basic stuff. I had nothing systemized. So when they opened, also I was still in my business waxing full-time. So when they needed stuff, I wasn’t available immediate to lead to them. So we opened and we just had a terrible relationship from the word, go. I realized very quickly that I had no idea what the hell I was doing and I needed help. I found a franchise business coach here in Victoria. Her dad started M&M Meat Shops, which grew to 500 locations. Her name’s Angela Cote. If you don’t know her, she’s awesome. Follow her. Her new business is AC Inc. She teaches field coaching, trains people’s field coaches. But, I reached out to her. I hired her on the spot. I stepped out of my business. We put in a manager at my store so that it could continue running smoothly, systemized everything, built in those proactive support systems, which is, I don’t just wait for you to need something. I’m giving you information to help you make decisions that impact your performance regularly. Weekly, I’m giving you KPIs. We’re meeting monthly to help support you, but we just couldn’t get that relationship back. It was too strained from the beginning. They hated me. And so, we decided to have a mutual termination. I put two offers in front of them. One was, “You guys can keep your store and change your name, or the other is I’ll buy back your store from you and continue to operate.” They chose to keep their location and change their name. Thank God, because back then I went, “I don’t know how the hell I’m going to get money.” Well, you’re in your early days. You have exactly zero. Stephen Semple: Zero. Well, actually often less than zero. Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: Yes, exactly. So they chose the latter, which was a little bit of a relief for me. It was kind of heartbreaking to go like, oh my God, my very first franchise is a failure, but it was the best case scenario. They decided to keep it. They still operate in that market and we’re actually back in that market with one of our fastest growth stores in the system that’s performing very well. But then we went back to market, over prepared at that. We had everything in place like, okay, we’re a buttoned up franchise and now we can go. And I did that. I learned that all from the first location. So it’s a blessing that it was that it was just one that I went, “Okay, I’m out of my league here. I don’t know what I’m doing.” And then- Stephen Semple: How long was it from that coming to its end to then you going out and getting everything together and then getting that real first franchise going? Kyla Dufresne: Probably two years. Stephen Semple: Two years. Yeah. It doesn’t surprise me, because it’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of costs, a lot of work, a lot of time. Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: I just want to add in, that that mutual termination, I managed to work through with my franchise business coach with no lawyers. Stephen Semple: Oh, that’s very good. That is very good. Kyla Dufresne: I always kind of lean into, and I know that we’re Canadian as well, and maybe that doesn’t happen everywhere, but I always lean into that relationship piece. We’re all human beings. And so, if you can get in front of someone and try and work it out together, start there. Stephen Semple: Yeah, it’s always way better. Kyla Dufresne: And instead of going like, “Oh shit, I need a lawyer up.” Let’s start with having a conversation and seeing if we can’t agree on something together. Well, [inaudible 00:11:33]- Stephen Semple: The best way to do these things is you come to the agreement and then yeah, I get at the end, it’s got to be put into legalese words. Kyla Dufresne: For sure. Stephen Semple: But if we can do it where, okay, you and I have come to the agreement, okay, now let’s get it put into proper paperwork because you got to kind of do that. That’s always the best way to land on these things. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. Yeah. It started with like a come to Jesus moment, which is like, “Are you happy? Because I’m not happy. I’m not happy. I’m trying here. And so if we can’t get on board, what’s our next steps? And so let’s get on this together.” But that was probably a two-year process, from me stepping out of my business to going back to separating and going back to market. We had to build a lot of infrastructure. Our FA, our ED, all of our training material had to be filmed and put onto Trainual. There was a lot of building blocks, figuring out our KPIs, our chart of accounts, our COGS, all of those things had to be flushed out before we could go, “Okay, we’re ready.” And so, now that was six years ago now is when we started to, we got our first franchise, because now we’ve had three renewals since then that have renewed for their next five-year terms. Stephen Semple: Nice. Kyla Dufresne: And so yeah, that was probably the pause. And to be quite frank, Steve, we’re kind of in that pause again at this size. We’re doing that now, which is, we’ve gotten this far. Okay, now what needs to change and pivot to be able to get to 50 locations and then get to a hundred locations? Dave Young: Stay tuned. We’re going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this. [Using Stories To Sell] Dave Young: Let’s pick up our story where we left off, and trust me, you haven’t missed a thing. Stephen Semple: I see this all the time. I have clients we’ve worked with for a long time. They get to a certain revenue and then they kind of flatten out for a few years. And often it’s because there’s a whole reorganization has to happen. Some changes have to happen to get ready for that next push. You look at businesses, businesses do that. You go back, look, they grow, they flatten out for a little bit. They grow, they flatten out for a little bit. It’s just because what got you there is not what’s going to get you to the next stage. So there’s always this little retooling that has to happen. But one thing I want to just go back and revisit, this whole idea that you talked about of me and people being out in the community, when you were talking about it, made me think of a story that Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon talked about. And in the early days, he would seek out women who were like taking yoga and Pilates and things along that lines to hire as salespeople. Even if they had never done sales, because he’d be like, “You’re in that community, you understand that community, you hang out with people who are part of that community, and that community is who we’re selling to.” He would much rather hire somebody who was from that community, who had never done a sale of their entire life, than a professional salesperson who is from outside of that community. Kyla Dufresne: I always say to all my franchisees, “You should look for bartenders and servers to be your magicians.” Stephen Semple: Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: I’ll tell you why. They’re quick on their feet. They’re great at diffusing situations, they’re great at communication and they can multitask. So I actually kind of stay away from, if you hire an aesthetician, here’s what’s going to happen. The great thing about our business model, it will look different when we go into the US, but I feel like there’s a larger net of estheticians to pull from. The great thing about our industry in Canada is that the hair removal industry is unregulated. So you don’t have to be an esthetician to perform hair removal services. We have our own certification program that we put everybody through to certify them as a waxer. And the great thing is that if you hire on the right personality, and you train them to be a great magician, they’re going to have loyalty to you. They’re going to stay with you forever because our girls make great money. I think on average they’re like 37 bucks or 40 bucks an hour, with their tips and commissions, being a waxer. So to take someone that has no education, train them in this industry and build them up, they’re going to stay with you. When you hire estheticians, a couple of things. Typically, a lot of estheticians like to do facials and spas, so they might not be the right personality for Brazilian waxing. The other thing is that because they’ve invested in their education themselves, they’re going to be real quick to leave you for someone that gives them 50 cents more. Stephen Semple: Sure. Yes. Kyla Dufresne: So really I lean into, yes, it’s expensive to train your staff, but you’re going to have much less turnover if you really invest in the right candidate, and look for that personality type that is going to be warm and inviting and quick. And typically that really aligns parallel to people in the service industry. Stephen Semple: You know what’s interesting about that, one of, super successful client of mine in the heating and air conditioning business in the US, talks about how he does a lot of his recruiting from people who work in bars and restaurants. Kyla Dufresne: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Stephen Semple: For those reasons. And on top of that, like when you talk about being able to be taken away or whatnot, he’ll train them. So he’ll turn you into an AC tech and he looks at it and says, they may make more money, they may not, but here’s what you get, evenings and weekends off. He can actually give them a better life, give them a better path forward. And what he’s found is, all those things. They understand how to talk to people, they understand how to upsell things, they understand how to diffuse the situation when things go wrong and they’re great in teamwork. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. Stephen Semple: Right? Kyla Dufresne: Exactly. All of those. Stephen Semple: And those are the things that are hard to teach. The technical stuff, yeah, we got books and manuals and trainers. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I think that’s one of the things when I go back to my boss who said, “You can’t franchise this business.” What I really learned from him is how to create a culture where staff want to stay as well. Stephen Semple: Yes. Kyla Dufresne: Because I could have. And at the end of my bartending career, I did go move to the place where I could make almost double the tips, because it was much higher volume. I used to get… Try to… People used to poach me to come and bartend at their bars all the time. And I say that, Lucky Bar is the name of the venue. It’s still around in Victoria. I was there for four years. I had people that I knew the bartenders made much more, try and poach me all the time, but I stayed at Lucky Bar because he created such a culture of family where I loved going to work. We all jibed. He would take us on these staff retreats all the time. It felt like a family and I really wanted to go and work there, taking that- Stephen Semple: And those are important parts to retention. Kyla Dufresne: It’s not always about that extra money. It’s about, “I’m going to be spending most of my time at work. Where do I want to be?” Stephen Semple: Yeah. And you’ve created a place that’s got some fun and things along that lines. I want to thank you for this time. If there’s a final thought, because the people who listen to this podcast, many are looking at this for ideas to help them with their business and they’ve got a smaller mid-size business. What is a piece of advice that you would give them? Kyla Dufresne: I would say, find a mentorship, really. Reach out to… Never be afraid to ask for help. I think that’s probably been one of my biggest blessings is that I have no ego when it comes to like, “I don’t know this.” You got to put your ego aside and reach out if you don’t know something. I’m constantly looking at people who are where I want to be and reaching out and going, “How do I get there?” If someone’s got a hundred locations, 150 locations, I’m reaching out to go, “When you were at my size, what did you do? What did you change?” Recently, our pause right now is I put together a board of advisors. I’ve got all these beautiful C-suite executives on my outside perspective on my brand to help guide me through, what needs to change or pivot, what suppliers do we need to add on or systems that need to be fleshed out in order to help us get to the next level. I also, on top of that, I mean, I’m an entrepreneur. I have a two-year-old. So on top of that, I have my community of moms as well. When you can connect with other business owners, or there’s also a group of, there’s 12 of us female franchisors, we’re on this text group and we meet once a month. When you can do that, it’s going to normalize some of your fears, your thoughts, your stresses, and your struggles, and it’s going to help you push through, because this is not easy. Opening a business is not easy. Stephen Semple: No, it’s not. Kyla Dufresne: It’s never going to be easy. If it was easy, every single person on the planet would own a business. So if you can surround yourself with people that are going to help push you through those challenging times or provide insight, then do that. On top of that, reach back and help the next person. I’m also a mentor for other people franchising their business. I’m always happy to provide my time and give insight of the guts, especially I love it if they come prepared to a meeting to go, “Here’s my questions.” And I do that with people who are my mentors or I reach out to, I come prepared for that and I go, “Here’s my struggles and this is what I need help with.” So my advice would be don’t just show up and go, “What do I need to know?” Come with what are your challenges right now so that you can get actual tangible advice out of it. Stephen Semple: That’s cool. That’s awesome. And if I was going to say what I think is the most valuable piece of information that people could get from this podcast, and I love how you leaned into it, was in the early days, grass roots, gorilla, face-to-face, whatever terminology we want to put towards it, that’s the biggest thing. And if I could tell you the number of meetings that I’ve had over the years with people wanting to start a business, and the first thing I’ve said to them is, “Okay, in the first year, here’s what you want to do is you want to… And I’ll give you some coaching on how to do that,” and then I never hear from them again. And then what I find out is, “Yeah, but I hired this person who’s putting together this app for me and that’s what’s going to make…” I’m like, “You don’t even understand your customer.” And so I really love the fact that you put that out there and leaned into it, because I think that’s really important in the early days. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. Oh, for sure. Stephen Semple: And pretty much every entrepreneur I know who’s been hugely successful did that in the early days. The early days, there was a lot of precedent of the flesh. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. I think it’s kind of a benefit, Stephen, sometimes if you don’t have that extra capital or money because you- Stephen Semple: Because you have to. Yes. Kyla Dufresne: If you felt like, “Oh, I’ve got access to this big loan or all this money, I’m just going to sit here and put it online.” It’s kind of a benefit. You should always think scrappy, always think scrappy. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: How do I get the most return out of my time? And that is… I mean, yeah, you got to go shake your hands with babies and hold babies, and shake hands like you have to. Stephen Semple: Yeah, you really do in the early days for a whole bunch of reasons. Look, this has been awesome and thank you very, very much for your time. So if somebody wants to learn more about your business, or maybe even potentially franchise, where should they go to learn more? Kyla Dufresne: Foxyboxwaxbar.com is our website. Stephen Semple: Foxyboxwaxbar.com. Kyla Dufresne: We’ve got our franchise information. You can find me on LinkedIn, Kyla Dufresne. I’m super active on there. If you’ve got any questions to even … I’m always happy to give my time to people who are interested in franchising and have some questions. Always feel free to reach out. And follow us on social media because our brand is super fun. We’re FoxyBoxWaxbar on Instagram as well, so check us out. We’re pretty hilarious. Stephen Semple: And it’s for the dudes as well. Kyla Dufresne: It is for everybody. Stephen Semple: All right. Thank you very much. Dave Young: Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please share us, subscribe on your favorite podcast app and leave us a big, fat, juicy five star rating and review at Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to schedule your own 90-minute Empire Building session, you can do it at empirebuildingprogram.com.

The brothers took a week off but recently found some time to record a two hour episode. This episode is jam packed with cowbirds, foxes, Twins, Dodgers, Lakers, Sabres, Masters, WrestleMania predictions and Dire Strait's final studio album "On Every Street."We sure hope you click and give it a listen! 00:23 "Mr. Ellis" and the Sabres clinch the Atlantic (Cowbirds) 02:59 Show Intro  03:50 Sabres clinch  12:41 Bum's Foxy yard and show comments  17:06 Bum goes after GRR and The Noobs  20:23 Limpin Lakers  25:35 NBA Finals and Stanley Cup predictions (Disney characters) 28:49 The Masters recap  35:27 Twins way  45:55 Twins or Dodgers way  54:43 Wrestlemania 42 Saturday preview and predictions  1:09:21 Wrestlemania 42 Sunday preview and predictions  1:22:36 Happy Birthday to the producer 1:22:58 Breakdown of Dire Straits final studio album "On Every Street" 1:55:36 Song picks from "On Every Street" 1:57:29 Show outro  Want to get your thoughts involved with the podcast?Check us out on Twitter/X @BumNZillyshowEmail at bumandzillyshow@gmail.com

Kyla Dufresne built up Foxy Box from the dining room table to 24 locations by creating an experience and culture of comfort and trust. Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So here’s one of those. [Wagmore Garage Doors Ad] Stephen Semple: Hey, it’s Stephen Semple here with the Empire Builders Podcast, and I’m here with Kyla Dufresne instead of David Young, which is always so much fun. So we’ve given Dave a little bit of time off. And so we’re going to be speaking about, instead of one of these big companies and going back in time, instead we’re going to be speaking to an entrepreneur that I met at the Canadian franchise show and we got chatting and I was looking at our business and this is going to be a great story. I’m so excited. And I want you to tell me the name of your business and how you came up with the name. Kyla Dufresne: Oh my gosh, you’re setting me up for big expectations for your listeners, so I better … So I’m Kyla. I’m the founder and CEO of Foxy Box Laser & Wax Bars. We are a hair removal concept that specializes in the art of the Brazilian. And I always say we’re not just a transaction for hair removal. We really are a movement to make people feel powerful and energized in their bodies. We have 24 locations open across four provinces here in Canada with our- Stephen Semple: Yeah, just I want us to think about this for a moment. 24 locations, and I’m going to say it. It’s an idea that if a lot of people were presented with the idea, I think they would go, “Really? Franchises?” And it’s like, “Yeah, really 24 franchises,” which is an awesome number. That’s not an easy number to get to. Kyla Dufresne: It’s not an easy number to get to. I think for us, a lot of it was, a lot of our success was timing as well, Stephen, because when I started this business, the hair removal concept was not a concept really in Canada. The US, they’ve got one big player called European Wax Center. They’ve been around for years and years and years, but this concept was a new thing here in Canada. So truly a big part of our success, one is, I mean, obviously our culture and our brand and the success of our franchisees, but it was also timing because we were one of the first hair removal concepts on the market here in Canada. So we really brought this business model to the market, so I think that was a big part of our growth to get to 25 locations within a five-year time span, truly. Stephen Semple: It’s been pretty quick when you think about … Because you started off with one location that was your location, correct? Kyla Dufresne: You got it. I started off actually, I don’t even know if you could call it a location. A house, that’s where I started it. In the dining room of my house where I had four roommates, there was a dining room area off of my kitchen. I set up a table there and a curtain and got to work building Foxy Box. I joked on when I was speaking with someone not long ago on their podcast that when I built Foxy Box, I always said, “Oh, come see me.” I always was Foxy Box. And so I would give my business cards, but it was my cell phone number on it and then Foxy Box was inside this little weird room in my house. And so I’d have people showing up thinking that they had just showed up at Fight Club and not Foxy Box. Like, “Where in the hell [inaudible 00:04:39].” Stephen Semple: Am I in some strange room in Amsterdam? What the heck’s going on here? Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: They were like, “What is this place?” But truly, those early days was what shaped and formed the culture that we have today because when I reflect back, that experience that I was giving to customers, I had to make people feel confident and comfortable enough to take their pants off in the dining room of my shared house to get a Brazilian wax. And how I did that was I incorporated humor. I would usually make a joke as soon as they got there about showing up at Fight Club and not Foxy Box or something to diffuse their energy of like, “Where the hell am I in this weird place?” I would connect with them, really build a relationship with them. So it wasn’t just like coming here and let’s remove your hair. It was building a connection with them. And not only did I never have anyone turn around and run out or say, “No, thank you,” I would have them leave and call five of their friends and go, “Oh my God, I just had the most amazing experience in this weird room and you got to go see Kyla.” And so it was those experiences that kind of helped shape the culture that we have today. And so I preached to my franchisees, “If I could build something successful in that weird room, you all have the most insanely cool four full walls of a branded space, deliver that customer experience inside those walls, you’re going to be wildly successful.” Stephen Semple: There’s a lot of power to being able to say to somebody, and power’s maybe the wrong word, but influence, empowering maybe more, to be able to say to somebody, “Look, I know this is going to work because I was able to make this work in this situation, and let’s face it, we can all agree that situation has distinct disadvantages to it.” So I know this is going to work because I’ve done this before. It’s interesting, I’m working with another entrepreneur and they’re struggling a little bit on some of their sales processes. And I was saying to them, I said, “You’ve got to go back on the phone, make those telephone calls, let’s get recordings of them, and let’s show people how you do it because what you do is successful. Let’s replicate.” I want to come back to your early days. What city was this in where you started? Kyla Dufresne: Victoria, BC is where Foxy Box came to fruition. Stephen Semple: Okay, so you’re in Victoria BC and you’re doing this out of this weird room in your house. How long was it until you were doing enough business that you set up a physical location? Kyla Dufresne: Stephen, my roommate- Stephen Semple: A separate physical location. Kyla Dufresne: Probably bringing maybe five strangers a week to the house before my roommates went, “Ky, you got to stop bringing strangers to the house. You got to think get out of here.” I found a little 10 by 10 room in the back of a jewelry store Downtown Johnson Street, which was like a shop- Stephen Semple: Hold on a second. Kyla Dufresne: Yes. Yeah. Stephen Semple: Not at the back of a nail salon or the back of a hair salon, the back of a jewelry store? Kyla Dufresne: That’s it. Yeah. And keep in mind though, Stephen, back then when you’re thinking about what my competitors were or where the market was, waxing, you could only find in the back of nail salons, which maybe didn’t have the most hygienic standards, or you were going to go to a high end spa and spend over $100 in a dimly lit room with someone who probably didn’t want to be in there with you. So that was the gap in the market that I was trying to fill, which we did fill. And so the room that I found was inside of a jewelry store, but the jewelry store was on Lower Johnson, which had the most foot traffic. I mean, it’s since seen a decline because there’s online shopping now, and this was 14 years ago that I found this space, so there was a ton of foot traffic. So it made sense for me. People were coming in and out of that store shopping and I had a sandwich board out front and I got … They were like, “Waxing. Oh my God, do you waxing here?” I got organically busy just by being in that location, which had all that foot traffic. Stephen Semple: So even though you’re at the back of the jewelry store, you were still able to have some sort of signage out where the foot traffic was. Kyla Dufresne: You got it. I had a sandwich- Stephen Semple: A sandwich board. Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: … board out on either side. And honestly, Stephen, I was there for maybe three or four months. Truly, I wasn’t there for very long before I knew I needed a space of my own. I started getting very busy. The jewelry store didn’t have the most accessible hours. They were like 10 to 6 and I was like probably 12 hour shifts or really more accessible. And so I needed things like a waiting room. I needed a place for my customers to go that I wasn’t have to like, “Oh, let me come unlock the front door for you.” And so from there, I found a second level space a few blocks over, closer to more where there was a lot of professional office workers around us. And I built out a two room space with a waiting room, and that’s where I really got to bring my brand and my vision to life, which looks nothing like how our brand looks today. My whole waiting room was red walls all around. I had a Nintendo console with an old TV so that, a lot of my customers were moms and so I’d encourage them like, “Bring your babies in and your kids and they can play Nintendo while I wax you and it’s safe up here. We’re second level and close the door or whatever.” But since incorporated that into our business model as well, we always position ourselves and pitch ourselves as, “We’re babysitters, we’re fur sitters.” We know that life is busy and so we want to be as accommodating as possible to our customers. So we allow them to bring their kids, bring their babies. Our receptionists double as babysitters. If you have a puppy that you’re like, “I can’t leave it in the car.” It’s a hot day, bring it in. Dogs can’t come into the treatment rooms, but we’ll hold them behind a desk for you. And we’ve got treats and snacks for them. And we really made a point of making sure that we’re accessible to people. Stephen Semple: Wow. That’s a very, very different positioning than frankly a lot of businesses would take. That’s really, really amazing. So you got that second level space and I’ve got a couple questions for you on that. One is, so now you’ve got a second level space, so it’s not the same foot traffic going by, but you’ve built some clientele, you’ve built a little bit of word of mouth. What did you do to promote that space? Kyla Dufresne: I love talking about this, grassroots marketing because back then- Stephen Semple: Perfect. Kyla Dufresne: … I had zero dollars for online spend. And I honestly didn’t even really see the benefit of online spend because I organically got so busy, but I was just so good at grassroots marketing. There’s a combination of things that helped me get busy. One is I was a bartender at the time and the bars that I worked at were very busy and so I used that as my marketing platform. Every single customer that came in, I’d give them a Foxy Box card as well so that they would wake up the next day with a business card in their pocket. I really leaned into my staff’s strengths and I encourage my franchise partners to do this or anyone that I’m mentoring is really when you can lean in and leverage your staff’s strengths, you’re doing two things. One, you’re getting them to market for you, and three, you’re building a community and a sense of family that they feel like they’re a part of something and they’re helping you build something. For me, one of my very first hires, she was a burlesque dancer and she worked at a spa that was a few blocks away from Foxy Box that I asked her if she wanted to pick up some shifts at my store. And one of the things that was really kind of brought her down was that the owner of that spa that she worked with really hated that she was a burlesque dancer. She went like, “Don’t talk about it in the store. It doesn’t align with us as a spa.” She wasn’t supportive of that. I leaned into that, Stephen. Stephen Semple: Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Kyla Dufresne: I was like, “Ooh, I have a [inaudible 00:12:29] burlesque dancer. This is what I want you to do. I want you to get your group together. I want flash Mobs,” were I think back then, do you remember that? Stephen Semple: Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: People would put a song on and then there’d be a group of people break out into a dance. I went, “Listen, let’s do a flash mob with your burlesque dancers.” They all got together. They came up with a dance to the tune of Foxy Lady. “Ooh, Foxy Lady,” or you know that one? Stephen Semple: Yeah. Kyla Dufresne: And [inaudible 00:12:52] the nightclubs, because I had connections at all the nightclubs, I went, “Hey, listen, can I send this group in? Can the DJ play this song? And then I’ve got a team that’s going to clear the floor and do a dance.” And they went, “Absolutely.” So I would send her to the nightclubs, they’d go, DJ would play Foxy Lady. Her and her group would do this dance and then they would hand out Foxy Box coupons and merch. I’d have hats and coupons and things like that. And so that was like my grassroots marketing was getting out into the community with my team. Stephen Semple: Brilliant. Brilliant. Kyla Dufresne: One of the things that I did, I think naivety is bliss when you’re starting a business. The more you know, the more you can be hesitant or reserved to do initiatives. For me, I didn’t know that to go to universities, you’re supposed to buy a table there and I didn’t know that. And so I would literally, student week, September when all the students would come back, I would load up my car with all of my magicians. I would head to the university and we would give out pens and coupons, things that have our brand on it that they’re going to be using at their desk as well as your first free wax coupons. And we would just like every student that was there, we’d just, “Oh, here, come check us out. Here, come check us out.” Later, years later, I learned that you’re supposed to buy a table. [inaudible 00:14:03] $1,000 and you’re supposed to have a setup, but nobody caught us or a slap our hand, so that was great. But those were some of the early day marketing initiatives that we did. Dave Young: Stay tuned. We’re going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this. [Using Stories To Sell] Dave Young: Let’s pick up our story where we left off and trust me you haven’t missed a thing. Stephen Semple: So I want to make a couple of comments about the early day marketing initiatives because I think this is really important. And it’s funny because right on my website, I say, “I don’t work with startups.” I won’t do marketing for startups. Now it’s not true. I have done marketing for a couple of startups, but the reason why I don’t is the biggest battle I have with startups is stop sitting at your desk behind your damn computer using ChatGPT to try to figure out what your market wants. And then you’re going to do some BS online thing and you never want to get out into the community and talk to people. Stop. Most business is one-on-one person to person. And even if you go out there and it fails, you’re going to learn what it is that they like and they don’t like. Do that initially. Do grassroots first. Start there. Because then the other thing is when you get that working and then you go to do more mass media approach, guess what you already know? You really and truly do know your customer. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. I think I’ve heard this from so many big speakers is, people buy from people, period. Stephen Semple: They do. Kyla Dufresne: So absolutely. I coach franchisees on this as well is the importance of getting out into your community. My most successful, fastest profitability franchisees, two months before they opened, they were at every single networking event that they could be at with business cards and coupons before they even opened. Getting out into their community, getting into the hospital unions, the student unions, all of those places to get their name in front of people. Once you have that and you can get your face in front of your community, pair that with online ads and then when they need that service, they’re going to go, “Oh yeah, oh my God. Yeah, I’m going to support that business.” Stephen Semple: Yes. It’s now how you extend that. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah. Stephen Semple: It’s really interesting, I did a podcast on a company called HexClad. So they make cookware. The guy actually came from a cookware background. He worked for a different cookware company and basically he was like one of those carnival barkers who like when you’re going through Costco was selling stuff, right? And when he created his new product, the first thing he did is he said, “I’m going to go out and I’m going to sell this the way I used to sell stuff.” And the first thing he learned was his first pitch that he thought was going to work failed. And so they used that and then they finally found, “Oh, this is the way people connect with this product. This is actually the things they like about it. Okay, we can now market it.” Kyla Dufresne: Yeah, for sure. Stephen Semple: It’s that whole person to person thing that you really need to do in startup. But the other part that I really like that you did that I want to highlight here, use of entertainment. Entertainment is how we get the attention. It’s how we buy the time and the attention of a busy and distracted consumer. They don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product. They don’t care about any of that. You start to wrap it a little bit of entertainment, you now have their attention and you leaned into that. Kyla Dufresne: And times have changed. And so we’ve kind of pivoted with that as well. That entertainment, we do see a lot online, which is be active on your social media. You have to be. If you’re not, you’re going nowhere these days, truly. So being on TikTok, that’s been huge for us. One of our franchisees found us just from TikTok. We’re funny. We put content in front of people constantly. So we’ve kind of pivoted from that entertainment piece, we want to entertain our customers, but you’re absolutely right. You’ve got to be active on social media. Another thing, especially in my early days too, Stephen, I speak on this a lot, which is ensuring that you’re taking care of your community. That’s a huge piece of grassroots marketing. Early on, we used to do this thing called Friday features, and I would tag other business owners and give them a shout-out like, “Hey, my friend at this clothing store, here’s a little bio about her. We see you.” And then we would tag her Instagram. So then she’s sharing that and that helps build your social media as well. And it’s giving shout out to other local entrepreneurs. So that was a big piece that we wove into our early days of marketing. The other thing is that I inherently would just give back to my community, and I didn’t realize that that was creating brand buy-in or marketing, truly. One of my customers had a giant vet bill that she was like, “I have no idea how the I’m going to pay for this vet bill.” And I went, “Let me do a wax fundraiser for you. I’ll give five bucks from every Brazilian that I do on Saturday and you can have that to your vet bill just because I was like, that’s the right thing to do. Take care of this customer support team.” I just always did that. And now on a bigger scale, what we did is I created an event called Foxy Fest. I was inspired by Lilith Fair, this little music festival put on by all female performers, Sarah McLachlan and Jewel and what have you. And they would do a big charitable fundraiser. And I thought, “How freaking cool would that be if I could do something like Lilith Fair and give back to local charities?” So I launched an initiative called Foxy Fest six years ago now, I want to say. I reached out to a whole lineup of female singers, dancers, spoken word poets and asked them to volunteer their time on International Women’s Day to hold an event that would give back to a local charity. They all volunteered their time. The venue donated the venue to us. It was a nightclub, but also I had great connections, but they’re always happy to do that. And all of the ticket proceeds from that event, and we did a raffle and a fifty fifty, went to a local charity. So that was the birth of Foxy Fest. And now to this day six years later, we hold that event on International Women’s Day in 24 locations. Stephen Semple: Nice. Kyla Dufresne: It’s a lot of work. It’s a heavy lift to put on a live event, even though they’re the coolest and the most palpable and a great way, especially for smaller communities, to build that brand in the community by bringing everybody together in one room, it’s a lot of heavy work to put on an event. So some of the stores, if they’re in their early days or they don’t have the capacity to do that at the moment, they’ll do an in store raffle basket that raises money for local charities. But the point is we’re giving back to the communities that serve us. Stephen Semple: Nice. And you’re doing it in this really interesting way. But a couple of things I want to go in The Wayback Machine on because the other part that’s about entertainment is even the name of your business, Foxy Box. How’d you come up with the name Foxy Box? Because that’s a bold name. Kyla Dufresne: Yeah, I don’t even remember truly. I think I had five names written down, one with a beaver, one with … And I asked everybody, “Which one resonates with you?” And obviously Foxy Box was the obvious choice. Stephen Semple: But what I like, and I’m often telling customers about this is, look, you leaned into it. You leaned into what it is you do. You didn’t try to go, “Well, let’s talk about it in this mysterious way,” in which case no one fricking understands. It’s a bold name, it’s an entertaining name, it’s awesome. And I commend you for doing that. And even on the entertainment side, I’m going to go so far as to say, and I know you’re advertising and social media and things, but even if you were … Take this thought away. In future, if you were even to look to go into other media, entertainment is still the key to all of it. Whether it’s radio ad, whether it’s television ad, whether it’s billboard, entertainment is always the key, but you understand that. So you’ve got your store opened. What happened in the first year? You’ve got now that store, a second level, there’s the Nintendo, all those other things there. How’d the first year work out for you? Kyla Dufresne: First year was great. I mean, it was a lot of hard work. I always think that if I started the business now, I don’t know if I’d have the energy for it. I was [inaudible 00:23:13] with Foxy Box and- Stephen Semple: What age were you? Kyla Dufresne: [inaudible 00:23:15] when I started Foxy. Stephen Semple: Twenty … Okay. Kyla Dufresne: And no banks would give me a loan. So I used my bartending tips to fund my business until it was self-sustainable. And then I used those profits to build and expand into my next space. Stephen Semple: How long did that take before you were into your next space? Kyla Dufresne: I was probably up there for, I want to say maybe two years. Stephen Semple: Two years. Okay. Kyla Dufresne: Well, it feels like it was so long ago. Oh my God, maybe … Victoria Gordon Street has been there for, I want to say eight years and I started … Oh my God, you’re making me do some math here. So maybe I was up there … I might have been up at the second level for about four years, which would make sense because I did pivot. I opened up a second location, tried to expand and do all full services, and I burned that one down after about a year, not literally, but figuratively. So yeah, they were moving and shaking. Stephen Semple: So you had the location, then you opened up a second location. So you had two locations and that second location didn’t work out really well. Why did that second location not work out for you? Kyla Dufresne: Okay, here’s my Harvard education. Stephen Semple: Yep. Kyla Dufresne: When I started Foxy Box, I always had this other idea in the back of my head, I just came out the womb an entrepreneur and I’m a classic founder who has 10 billion creative ideas, but I always wanted to open a store called the Diva Den, which you can see I love alliteration and branding, but I wanted to have a full service salon, nails, lashes, hair, waxing, have everything. And so once Foxy Box was going so well, I had two people come and knock on my door, friends of mine from the beauty industry. They went, “Ky, we’re not happy where we’re at. We want to do nails somewhere else. Would you ever consider opening a nail salon because we love your brand?” And then I had a hairstylist friend come and say the same thing to me. I went, “You know what? Sure. Why don’t I open a whole service salon?” I found a space in Oak Bay, which is a very affluent community, a little bit of an older demographic, but a very affluent community here in Victoria. I found a space and then I thought in my head, Foxy Box is going to be way too bold for this community, so I pivoted and I rebranded, but I wanted to keep it because Foxy Box was so successful, I kind of wanted to piggyback on the success of it. So I was like, “How do I intertwine these?” So I called it Foxy Lady. I changed the color from a bold red to a nice teal. I kept the logo, but changed the name. And so it was Foxy Lady Beauty Bar instead of Foxy Box Wax Bar. What that did is created a whole lot of confusion. I had my signs up outside on the building and I had people texting me like, “Ky, there’s someone in Oak Bay using your logo.” And, “Oh, that’s me. Come and check us out. It’s a new brand concept. We’re offering all of these services.” We opened our doors, within four months, all of my nail techs went, “We’re going to go open our own business.” They all left. They took all their customers with them, and then I was stuck with a nail salon that I had no clue how to do. I’m self-proclaimed the best waxer in the world. I filmed our curriculum. I know how to train that, I know waxing inside and out. Nails, I don’t know nails. I don’t know hair. I don’t know. So anyhow, shortly after that, my hairstylist went, “I’m going to go open my own hair salon.” Okay, cool, now I’m stuck with a salon that I know nothing about. And so I hired nail technicians. They were putting out a poor product. I had no idea how to correct it. Thankfully, I was able to get out of my lease after a year, lost a bunch of money on that. Not a bunch. I’d say maybe 30,000, which was a shit ton for me back then. Stephen Semple: Yeah, for sure. Kyla Dufresne: I lost 30 grand in that venture, but I was able to get out of my lease, walked away from that, burned that idea to the ground. I went, “We do one thing and that’s hair removal because that’s what I know, and we just stuck to our model.” Stephen Semple: Oh, no, no. Dave Young: What? Stephen Semple: I was enjoying this episode. Dave Young: Don’t worry. Part two’s coming next week. Stephen Semple: It better. Dave Young: Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please share us, subscribe on your favorite podcast app and leave us a big fat, juicy five star rating and review at Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to schedule your own 90-minute empire building session, you can do it at empirebuildingprogram.com.

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys recap Rory McIlroy winning back-to-back Masters Tournaments, as Pat and Foxy were boots on the ground at Augusta National Golf Club. They also discuss some of the news floating around in the NFL world as we are 10 days away from the NFL Draft, the NBA playoffs starting soon, the NHL playoffs starting soon, and everything happening around the sports world. Joining the progrum is four incredible guests including 2x Major Champion and ESPN golf analyst, Andy North; 2x All-Star, 2x All-NBA selection, PG for the Indiana Pacers, Tyrese Haliburton to chat about his recovery from his torn achilles/shingles; ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania to chat about Doc Rivers being let go by the Bucks and what we need to know about the playoff matchups; later, ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter joins the show to chat about the draft coming up, Travis Hunter moving to one side of the ball, Kenny Moore and the Colts agreeing to mutually work on finding a trade partner, Dontayvion Wicks getting traded to the Eagles and what that means for AJ Brown, and more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we'll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hi everyone! In this episode, we're diving stitch-first into the vibrant world of modern quilting with the fabulous Jenelle Abbott, founder of Foxy's Kits and Quilts. We track Janelle's inspiring journey from Etsy hobbyist to a burgeoning business owner, including the scoop on her highly anticipated "Son of a Nutcracker" block-of-the-month project. Between technical mic checks and hair transformation tales, the gang swaps stories about the magic of QuiltCon, the addictive fun of sticker trading, and why SewTite magnets are an absolute total game-changer for your longarm setup.From discussing the cinematic vibes of "Project Hail Mary" to debating the best way to label fabric kits so you never lose your mind mid-project, this conversation is packed with tips and laughs. Grab your favorite scraps and settle in for a chat that proves quilting is anything but a "granny craft"—it's a full-blown artistic movement!Follow Jenelle on Instagram @foxykitsnquilts and her website www.foxykitsnquilts.com.Send us Fan MailFollow Leslie on Instagram at @leslie_quilts and Rochelle at @doughnutwarrior

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