#HE’S A TEN BUT HE GETS TOO INVESTED IN BEANS DAY (so an 11)

[merakiui]

more beans day azul vignette that i really like!!!! orz he’s actually so pathetic it’s really too cute.

[desiraypark]

A Busy Holiday

This was supposed to follow a prompt, but per usual, I deviated lol. Characters: Chris McKay x Black Female Reader / Also: parents, grandparents, siblings, and best friends. (Note: I gave you the last name “Davis”) Content: Fluff; a little angst?; worry; overthinking; couple issues.  Word Count: 1,659

McKay had been acting strange all week. He’d been avoiding you—responding to texts with single phrases or short sentences; not answering phone calls at all. The two of you were supposed to hang out during the holidays, and you’d spend Christmas Eve with your family, and Christmas Day with his. You wanted to go over your plans, but he just did not seem invested. Sure, he worked at a real estate agency, but surely people weren’t buying houses during the holidays? Or, maybe you were just an idiot who knew nothing about real estate...

Sigh...your parents always warned you about your tendency to jump to conclusions about everything, so you kept your cool. But now, it was two days before Christmas Eve, and you needed to know what was up. So, you called him, and finally, he answered.

“Hey, baby…” he said with a tired voice. “McKay? What the fuck is up?!” “I’m sorry, baby. I’ve been super busy.” “Me too, McKay, but I still make time to call. We’re supposed to be spending Christmas break together. Is that still happening, or no?” “Yes, it’s still happening. We agreed to do what we did last year, right? Christmas Eve with your people, then Christmas Day with mine, then just you and me at the Ramada, right?” “Yeah, but—” “I booked the Ramada in October, remember?” he pressed. You got agitated. “Yes, but McKay, just because we’re an hour away from each other it doesn’t mean we can’t still communicate. These short conversations have me thinking that you’re up to something.” “Up to something like…working? Spending time with my family and friends? Registering for next semester? Not everybody gets to just chill on their breaks...” He had a point with that last statement, but you chose to bypass it. “Am I not family or friends, McKay?” You heard him sigh. “Look, baby. I’ve got to go. I’ll see you Christmas Eve. Early in the morning. Okay?” You rolled your eyes. “Sure. Okay.”

Christmas Eve

McKay texted you the night before, saying that he would be over at ten. Of course, you sent him a dry “K.” in response. But who were you fooling? You got up the next morning, spent an eternity in the shower, slathering soap and body scrub all over your skin and shaving non-existent hair from your legs—just in case. You rubbed coconut oil into your skin, sprayed your Versace crystal on your neck, applied a little face makeup, and slid on some popping red lipstick. Maybe you were tripping…but you were going to make sure McKay got a GOOD look at what he’d been missing out on the last three weeks. 

The doorbell rang at exactly 10:00AM and your dad answered it. “What’s up, Chris?” your dad’s voice boomed throughout the house. “How you doin’, Mr. Davis?” McKay said. You heard the slapping of skin in a dap. Then, the front door closed. You gave yourself another look in the mirror—lifting your boobs in your red T-shirt, rubbing your hands along your thighs, and fluffing out your white cardigan. “I’m doin’, I’m doin’,” your father responded. “She’s in her room.” You yanked your phone off your dresser and jumped onto the bed. Then, you leaned over on your side and thumbed through the phone, pretending to be unmoved by McKay’s impending presence. He walked in with fresh braids, wearing his usual blue hoodie, some jeans, and his blue and white Jordan 11s. In his hands were a bouquet of red roses. “May I come in?” he asked jokingly. You looked up from your phone with an unimpressed look. “Sure.” He shook his head, chuckled to himself, and put the roses on your dresser. Then, he leaned over the bed and gave you a kiss on the lips. You almost fainted at the smell of cologne. “You tryna act like you ain’t happy to see me?” he asked, sitting beside you. You put down your phone and lifted your body to rest against your pillows. “I usually don’t get excited about seeing strangers,” you responded. He rolled his eyes and lean back. “Maaan, come on. Cut that shit out!” he laughed. You buried your face into your knees and laughed, but he wiggled his finger under your chin and tilted your head up. Then, he kissed your lips again.    “I’m sorry, baby. But I promise you, things have just really been busy,” he said. He lowered his head and rubbed your sheets. “And…I guess I have to be honest with you.” “Please do.” “I’ve had some shit going on mentally,” he admitted. Your heart sank. You really could be an asshole. You took his hand and kissed it. “I’m sorry, baby…” “No, don’t be sorry. Nothing bad, for the most part. I’ve just really been in my head about some things...” “But you know you can talk to me about it, right?” you asked. He stared into your eyes and smiled. “Yeah, I know.” He leaned forward to kiss you again, but just as his lips were inches away from yours… “Hey, McKay!” your mother’s voice screeched. You both looked up to see her in the doorway with an ugly Christmas sweater and reindeer ears on. You scoffed and buried your face in your knees again. “Mama, what are you wearing?” “Hey, Mrs. Davis!” “Hey, McKay baby. And what do you mean what am I wearing? It’s Christmas Eve!”

You and McKay started the day with some window shopping. You’d both completed your shopping, but it wouldn’t hurt to see what was left on the shelves. Next, you went on a double date with your best friend, Mariah, and her boyfriend, Johari—first some lunch at Panera Bread, then the movies. After that, you hung out at Johari’s apartment, playing board games. McKay insisted on playing Monopoly, the longest damned game in the world; then the two of you had to dash home for dinner with your family. You came home to smooth Christmas jazz playing from the radio, dim lights and candles—very different from the usual festive setup, where The Temptations would be blasting and every single light in the house would be on—with the blinds and curtains opened, too--much to your chagrin.  Both sets of your grandparents were in the living room, and you gave all four of them big hugs, as did McKay. “Babe, I’m going to go change out of this hoodie really quick,” McKay said. “Alright.” McKay returned to the living room in a crisp white Polo, but you noticed he’d changed into Khakis and dress shoes, too—the Polo shirt tucked in like he was going on a job interview. You raised an eyebrow, but figured he just wanted to be respectful. You hung out in the living room with your grandparents, and when the table was set, everyone made their way to the kitchen. Plates were already made with Dad’s famous ribeye steaks, mom’s crab cakes, and green beans. A tray of potatoes—sat in the center of the table with a bowl of sour cream beside it, a stick of butter, and the salt and pepper shakers. “McKay, would you like to say grace?” your dad suggested. Your eyebrows furrowed, because since when? “Um, sure Mr. Davis,” McKay agreed. Everyone bowed their heads. “Dear God, thank you for this day, and thank you for this dinner prepared by family…” Suddenly, the back door opened. You opened one eye to see McKay’s parents and brothers crept into the kitchen. You swung your head up and looked around at everyone and their still-bowed heads. “God, I especially thank you for allowing the Davis family to welcome me with opened arms. And today…” McKay removed his hand from yours, and suddenly, everyone’s head lifted. McKay stepped back and started digging in his pockets. Your hands flew to your mouth. “…I hope you’ll allow me to talk out of their home, with their daughter as my fiancée,” he said, pulling out a tiny box and falling to one knee. You stood frozen with your hands to your mouth and eyes wide. Then, tears started to stream down your face. “I can’t stand you McKay,” you blubbered. “I know,” he laughed. “Y/N Davis, will you marry me?” he opened the box and revealed gold band with a sparkling sapphire jewel in the middle—the exact kind of ring you told him you’d like when you were just two project partners for your Cultural Studies course—discussing marriages and weddings around the world. You shook your head in disbelief and wept. “Of course, I will, McKay. You know I will!” McKay took the ring out of the box and slid it on your finger, and your family—current and future—clapped and cheered. McKay rose to his feet, pulled you in his arms and kissed you on the lips. You rested your chin over his shoulders and spotted Mariah and Johari in the doorway. You let out a scream and a hearty laugh. “I hate y’all!” you shouted. They laughed and walked over to you and surrounded you both in hugs. “Is that why you had me in there playing some damned Monopoly?!” Everyone burst into laughter, and hugs and kisses went around.

During dinner, McKay informed you that he didn’t book the Ramada—but a weekend at a beach house through Noirbnb. You packed some lounging clothes, beach wear, and other necessities, hopped in the car with McKay, and the two of you made your way there. Of course, he teased you about your bratty attitude—and promised some punishment for it later—but the both of you promised to be better at communicating and understanding each other. You arrived at the beach house, owned by a lovely middle-aged couple, and made yourself comfortable. You were too full and tired to do what you both really wanted to do, so instead, the two of you wrapped yourselves in a blanket and sat on the beach, talking beneath the crescent moon, and before an endless ocean.

[lanaisnotwool]

412 Should You Invest in a Franchise - Interview with Kim Daly

http://moneyripples.com/2020/08/06/412-should-you-invest-in-a-franchise-interview-with-kim-daly/

Chris Miles, the "Cash Flow Expert and Anti-Financial Advisor," is a leading authority on how to quickly free up and create cash flow for thousands of his clients, entrepreneurs, and others internationally! He’s an author, speaker, and radio host that has been featured in US News, CNN Money, Bankrate, Entrepreneur on Fire, and spoken to thousands getting them fast financial results.

Listen to our Podcast

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/moneyripples/2020/06/26/412--should-you-invest-in-a-franchise-with-guest-kim-daly

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Chris Miles (00:00): My fellow Ripplers. This is Chris Miles. Your Cash Flow Expert and Anti-Financial Advisor. And I welcome you out for a wonderful show. A show that’s for you and about you. Those of you that work so freaking hard for your money and you’re ready for your money to start working hard for you. Now! You want that freedom. That cash flow. That prosperity. Not 30 or 40 bazillion years from now, but right now. So you have that freedom, that time freedom, that money freedom to do what you love with those you love whenever the heck you want to do it, right? But on top of that. So much more than just having that comfort and convenience and having that free life. It’s about having a life of meaning and purpose. A life where you could be a Rippler. We can create a ripple effect to the lives of others, not just your family.

Chris Miles (00:50): And that’s awesome too, through generations, beyond you, but creating this real ripple effect of abundance, prosperity that expands beyond the community and the country and across the world. So guys, I’m excited to be a part of this with you guys, because, because of you, I can send my ripple effect for you as well. So thank you for tuning in for bingeing, for doing all the things you guys do. Thank you so much!

Chris Miles (01:11): As a reminder, check-out our website MoneyRipples.com There’s a great ebook on there called Beyond Rice & Beans, Seven Secrets. If you have cash today, if you’re looking for ways to find more money now, so you can put the money to use to make more money today. So check that out.

Chris Miles (01:24): Alright! So today I’ve got a special guest here, Kim Daly. Now, again, like you guys know if I bring on guests, it’s not done lightly. Like I keep deleting emails from guests being pitched at me left and right. And in fact, I actually was vowing. I actually had said to myself, the day I got this email, I said, I’m not going to take any more guests on. I’m already booked out about two months with the guest interviews. And then of course, especially with the one firm that I’ve used as well, they sent me an introduction then I said, okay, my listeners are going to want this. I can’t pass this up. And so, that’s where I have Kim Daly here. So Kim has actually spent the last 20 years helping people achieve financial freedom by enabling them to find the perfect franchise opportunities. I’m know there’s some of you out there have asked Chris, should I be buying a franchise? Like, is that the way to go? Could it not just be real estate or just being other alternative investments?

Chris Miles (02:17): Could I be buying into a business, right? This is the show for you. Her skill is really matching the client’s background, their interests, skills, finances, and the life goals to be able to match up to that ideal opportunity has made her one of the top franchise consultants in the country. Today, we are here to pick her brain and get some insight on that and then find out what exactly it is like, where can we find these right franchise opportunities? Is it the right thing for you? Who is it right for? And of course, if it is, if it is right for you, like how do you know? Like what’s the best opportunity, especially in a world like today. So Kim, welcome to our show!

Kim Daly (02:51): Thank you so much! After that introduction, I don’t know where we’re going to go, but let’s have at it.

Chris Miles (02:56): You’re like, all right! Well I’m game!

Kim Daly (02:59): My hand are this big now, Chris.

Chris Miles (03:01): Well, Hey, there could be worse things happening to you. That’s for sure.

Kim Daly (03:07): I’m a big fan of this show so, it’s really like, it’s kind of surreal to like be here. So that’s great!

Chris Miles (03:10): Well, I appreciate that. Well, tell us more about you. Like, what led you down this path?

Kim Daly (03:15): You know, and I didn’t wake up one day and go, Ooohhh! I want to be a franchise consultant!

Chris Miles (03:20): Yeah. It’s always in some of these little girls vision board, right? You know,

Kim Daly (03:24): Exactly! I didn’t want to be a motivational speaker. So, and that is sort of what I do every single day now is influence people’s lives and help them just make decisions that ultimately changed their lives. But I actually answered a classified ad in the newspaper. I was on my way to med school. That was my whole life was about going to med school. Always wanted to help people do something real, tangible, answered a classified ad in the newspaper that was for a franchise company and literally changed my life. And I’ve never looked back. I’ve been self employed since I was 25 years old. So you can do the math, but about 23 years. And I love to tell people that I am completely unemployable. Which I think you…

Chris Miles (04:05): I understand that!

Kim Daly (04:06): Yeah. And people are like, and I’m like, Nope. And then people like, Oh, I can offer you a lot of money. I’m like, it’s not about money! Because I am not selling money. I’m selling freedom. Right? So I’m completely unemployable because my freedom has no price, but I’ll always be self employed. I’ll always own businesses. And I think at this point in my life, as much as I know about franchising, I can also say that I’ll probably never start another business from scratch. I’m fully, fully, fully believe that if you’re invested in the right franchise concept with the right people, and it’s really about the right people, because when you buy a franchise, that’s what you’re buying. A partnership. So if you find the right people who can mentor and coach you and who have enough track record to help you kind of take that and leverage that, there’s really no reason to start a business from scratch.

Chris Miles (04:54): I agree. That’s the only thing I think is so hard is that people say, should I start a new business? I said, well, if you do, I mean, it’s like trying to start a bicycle laying on the ground, right? It’s like, you gotta pick it up. You got to actually like sit on it, try to balance on it, get the pedals going, which takes almost all your energies to get that first little turnaround. And then it starts to build momentum over time. Right? And I always tell people too, there’s different personalities. Some people don’t mind starting things from scratch. Cause they just creators that way. While others loved us to jump into a system that’s already created for them and just, you know, turn the key in the ignition, so to speak and just let it go. Right?

Kim Daly (05:30): Right. And with a franchise, it depends on the time frame that you’re trying to build something. But even as sophisticated, you know, experienced entrepreneur or sophisticated business owner could turn to franchising for the leverage because how many entrepreneurs do you know, really ever get to get out from underneath what they built. Versus the investors that I’m helping are setting up from day one for multiple units. And they’re buying into the infrastructure of a location, a brand, the initial training, the just the foundation so that they can work on it rather than in it from day one. And that’s how they can open three, five, ten locations in a short amount of time. And when you step back and you look at how is the wealth really generated in a franchise it’s through that scale.

Chris Miles (06:19): Yeah. It’s funny. Cause like I remember, oh boy, this is years ago. This must have been like 15 plus years ago. There was a local battery franchise. Right? Well, I shouldn’t say local. Was a national brand, but battery franchise store. Right. You think, well, Hey, that should be good. The guy, the owner of the franchise was actually working in the store as the clerk. Right? And when asked he’s like, Hey, well how long does it take to make money? He’s like, Oh, I don’t take a paycheck really for the first two years. Which to me makes a franchise sound like a nightmare. Right? What’s your feedback on that? Like is that necessarily have to be the reality?

Kim Daly (06:52): No, that does not have to be the reality. Now let’s just step back because for some people they want to be in their business every day. And so great. And there are businesses that are designed for the owner to be there every day. But for those that are looking more for a CEO role or even for an investor role where it’s almost what we would call semi-absentee, it’s all about selecting the right business. And Chris, this is why I have a business. People come to me and say, I think I want to own a business, but I don’t really know what I want to do. I don’t know what I can afford. I don’t know what the right investment for my goals. I get to know them. I build a model and then I bring the ideas to them. And these are ideas that are not just based on, well, this widget matches you.

Kim Daly (07:37): It has nothing to do with that. I don’t care about widgets. I care about people. So my matching process is part science, but mostly part art and relationship. I’m bringing my experience. 18 years of relationships with these franchisors. Sometimes I’m matching a candidate or a husband and wife team based on Christian values, because I know that this franchise is a Christian value culture. And I know that they’re going to find people in that system that they can relate to. And when we step back again and we look at like, I’m trying to help people build wealth in their lives. It’s not just money. You know, I always say rich people have money, wealthy people have time to spend their money. And the other part, yeah. The other part of wealth and that lifestyle is being connected to people that you enjoy. Right now, I’m working with a couple of NFL football players and there are franchises where there are a lot of other NFL investors and they were very, their eyes were like, wow! And I’m like, I named dropped. And I was like, did you know? And they were like, we didn’t know! And I’m like, that’s your tribe. So when you get to go and interview those franchisees to say, how does your business work during football season? You don’t have to be talking to the franchisees. And this one particular come from the national football league. So they were just like, wow! But how would you know that on your own? You wouldn’t!

Chris Miles (09:01): It seems like almost every football player now either go into the restaurant business or a gym, right?

Kim Daly (09:07): Not these two. I got, I’m going to get them going down a totally different path.

Chris Miles (09:13): That would be good. That would be really good!

Kim Daly (09:13): I explained to them the leverage. And once I talked to them about fixed expenses, they came to me thinking the gym, but they got so far off of that gym thing so quickly. That’s what happens, people, and I love it when people come with an idea of what they think they wanted. It’s almost like a personal challenge, unless it’s a business that I feel that actually fits them. But most of the time, the options that people think are right. When we really start looking at what they’re trying to achieve, it’s not generally the right business. Could be. And you know what? A lot of times people think franchising is only food and retail. And there’s a whole other world out there that doesn’t require the construction and the fixed expenses of a real estate based business.

Chris Miles (09:56): Yeah. So who would it not be for?

Kim Daly (10:00): I think if you are really, really, really risk averse, now I’ve helped people in 18 years who are super conservative and risk averse by franchises. In fact, I had a guy yesterday, say yes, and we were laughing. Cause I read to him, he started the process April 7th. So yesterday was May 19th. And I told him in the beginning it was a six week process. And he said, and I was saying to myself, BS on that! I’m never going to buy a business in six weeks! But here we are. And on the initial form that he emailed into me through my website, he said, I’m going to tell you I’m super conservative. And I’m a self proclaimed scaredy cat. So yesterday I was reading back to him and I said, I want you to put this on your wall because you are not risk averse. First of all, you came to me in the heart of a pandemic. And second of all, you’re not a scaredy cat because you just bought, you are now a multiunit franchisee. You just signed a franchise agreement for three store yoga studio business in California. Like in the heart of pandemic. In 6 weeks! You know, just my normal time for working with people. So I just said, what it does is that my process works. So, you know, but some people are really too risk averse. You’re not financially qualified right now. I encourage everyone to reach out to me because I love the opportunity to educate people. Different money buys options. That’s all. There are low investments. There are big investments. But I think franchising can work for anybody that is willing to be coachable. The number one thing you’ll hear consistently across all franchise systems from successful franchisees is to do what they tell you to do. Follow the system.

Chris Miles (11:43): Right! You know, there’s one unique thing too, that sometimes will come up on a show is that you can actually use IRA money to fund a franchise. Correct?

Kim Daly (11:51): That is true. Yes. It’s called the Rollover For Business Start-ups. Or the ROBS program. So I, people that work with me know that I stay in my lane, I am the franchise consultant. I know enough financing to be dangerous, but I lead all my people to my amazing friends who all they do is fund franchise businesses. So they would give the specifics of that program and how it works and help people get started. But yes, using the 401k without creating a taxable event is one of the number one ways that people will finance their business. Because, you know, even with an SBA loan, the bank is typically going to require 20% or 30% cash injection. So where are you going to come up with that cash? If it’s 50,000 or a hundred thousand, or even, you know, 35,000, a lot of people don’t have that kind of cash sitting around, but they do have it in a 401k

Chris Miles (12:43): That’s right. Well, and here’s the unique thing with this year is even if you didn’t use that money to roll over, right. You know, so to speak, I mean, if you’ve been affected by COVID in any way, shape or form this year, you can pull out without the 10% penalty. And if you have the tax, the thing is, if you use it for business purposes, you kind of wash out the tax anyways. Right? So it’s a write off at the same time as the income. So ends up being like a, almost like a, you know, not exactly, but like a tax free exchange. You know, it’s almost like, Hey, I can just move this money over into a business. And boom! I’m done. Like, I don’t have to worry about whether I’m paying a tax bill because there isn’t going to be one.

Kim Daly (13:18): Right, right. There are special circumstances, which is why when people are like, why would I ever consider? Am I sane to be thinking about starting a business right now? And I’m like, I mean, yes, if you have the dream, why wait? Because nothing that we do today, when you say yes to a franchise today impacts your life tomorrow. I mean, right. Owning a business is about a one year, three year, five year, 10 year plan. So if you want to be open in six months or year, yes! The time to start talking about it is now! Right? And that’s what happened. Like April ended up being one of my biggest months ever in 18 years. And as you go to the beginning, I am blessed to help a lot of people buy a lot of franchises. And April was an amazing, amazing month for me.

Kim Daly (14:03): And May has been pretty fantastic as well. So, and the reason is because when I helped people see like number one, the financing options that are available, the government has created a nice little pile of money because the government loves small business, right? Small business stimulates local economy, creates jobs. And when people start thinking about, I have to hire people it’s like right now is a better time to hire people than February was. Right? There’s so much good talent available. And so there’s that part. But also because mainly the driving motivation for people was when I started having them ask questions about timing. So if I signed a franchise agreement today in a normal time period from signing to opening, how long is that? And all of those people in April, once they asked that question, came back to me and were like, I need to sign tomorrow. One guy was like, I’m six months behind. And I’m like, God, six months behind! Like, but the reality is, it’s just, if you have the dream, it’s go time now.

Chris Miles (14:58): Well, it’s perfect timing right now. I see. Because one, I mean, some people have been cash, they’ve realized two things, right? Those people have been risk averse. You know, those people have thought they’re conservative. One usually had a full time job. Right? And then that full time job realized that’s not, that’s actually highly risk, you know, highly risky. Right? They don’t have any guarantees with that. And then two, the money in the stock market, isn’t safe either. You know, that’s also all over the place and volatile, right? So you have two things at risk and you think about, wait a minute, if I’m going to invest anywhere, invest in myself or even invest my money in it. If I’m going to be putting mutual funds in everybody else’s company, why not put in my own where I can call the shots.

Chris Miles (15:38): I can actually manage that risk. You know? So instead of, that’s the thing that drives me nuts. When I get business owner to say, I’m going to throw money in the market. I’m like, why invest in everybody else’s business, but your own? That doesn’t make sense to me. Who do you believe in more? Obviously you don’t believe in yourself because you’re trying to throw it in something, just because people tell you that’s where it should be. It’s like, no, get that money out of places you don’t have any control, and invest in a real business. You know, invest something you can control and manage and monitor those risks and even amplify the returns. You know, based on what you’re doing.

Chris Miles (16:10): This is why I’m such a big fan of your show! Because we sing the same song every day. And you just said it so brilliantly. Exactly!

Chris Miles (16:19): Yeah. Well, awesome! So if people want to like understand more, like how would they reach out to you or what could they do to learn more about what you do for people?

Kim Daly (16:26): Okay, great! So, TheDalyCoach.com www.TheDalyCoach.com on my website. I’m very proud of my videos. I put a lot of time and energy into trying to create real valuable content for people I myth bust. I love taking those big misconceptions and myths about how evil franchisors are, and they’re just there to take your money and they don’t care about your success and, you know, help people understand where those myths come from and then give them the truth. But I have testimonial videos where I actually go in and I’m sitting in the Supercuts location of the person I held to. Was the self-proclaimed scaredy cat and using her life savings to start a business. And what am I crazy? And now I, and I interviewed her, you know, in this environment, I have 10 videos like that. And just hundreds of testimonials from people. So my website is a great resource to see like what I’ve been up to for the last 18 years and understand the depth of my knowledge and my experience. You can also contact me through my website as well.

Chris Miles (17:31): And the thing I love is that, unlike some franchises, you don’t have to be as hands on, right? Where some people might feel maxed out with time. Some people might have lots of time available right now, but others don’t. You have options for either don’t you?

Kim Daly (17:43): Exactly, Chris! I do. One of the people that said yes this month, both he and his wife are full time executives, but they have no children. And so they have a large pool of money that they really want to put in something other than the market. And they are investing in, what’s called a Salon Suite. And a salon suite, it’s sort of like being like the landlord of a mall. Where you, it’s a big construction project, right? Cause you’ve got to construct, you know, your individual salon suites, but then you rent them. And these salon suites are going, they were big before COVID. Now they’re going to be like, they’re going to explode! Simply because the stylists can now get out of, kind of the gaggle of girls and in a big salon. And they can control their own environment and make it safe for their clients to come in one on one.

Kim Daly (18:33): So, but really this is an investor’s dream business. It looks and feels very much like real estate, but it has more of a business ROI. So he said yes to that. And after it’s constructed, it’s probably less than five hour a week time commitment for him. So to answer your question, yes, we have businesses where people want to be consultants and they, like my business and they are their business. But then we have, you know, things like a laundromat or a car wash or a salon suite where it’s really leveraging your money.

Chris Miles (19:04): Right.

Kim Daly (19:05): And getting a business return instead of a real estate return.

Chris Miles (19:09): I love it! Wherever you go check out TheDalyCoach.com it’s TheDailyCoach.com. Right? I said that all right. D A L Y correct? Awesome! Yeah. Go check that out. Like, guys, if you’re looking for something different, I know some of you are because you’ve told me that this is the very thing you were considering, and you’re like, Chris, should I do this or not? You know, some of you have been asking me personally and I’m like, it depends. I don’t know. What kind of business do you want? Are you going to be hands on or not? And the great thing is you can get matched up with someone that actually understands the business and says here, here’s how you can find the right business for you. So guys, make sure you check that out. Check out Kim Daly’s stuff, TheDalyCoach.com.

Kim Daly (19:45): Thank you!

Chris Miles (19:46): Kim. Thanks so much for being with us today. I really appreciate it.

Kim Daly (19:49): I appreciate it too. One thing that I just wanted to add before we go is, my services are free. So I’m paid by the franchisors to basically prospect for them. So when you come to me, it’s not me pushing franchising onto everybody. As Chris has said, my role is to help you understand what it could mean to you, but to understand in proper context. So to educate you about what franchises cost and why. So if you decide now is not the time financially, you’ll walk away educated knowing when the right time is to call me back. And if we start moving forward together, then you sort of already checked these money boxes in your mind, which really, I mean, that’s 90% of the reason, probably why people who think about franchising, don’t do it. It’s because of the money. So right away, we’re going to talk about money and get it clear, kind of black and white. And then the rest of the conversation becomes a lot more fun, dreaming about the potential of quality of life and waking up and creating jobs and managing people and building inspiring teams and all the rest that, you know, owning a business can mean to you.

Chris Miles (20:55): Well, now there’s no excuses to reach out to you. So, there’s not even a point of entry guys. Like the biggest thing is just you showing up and finding out. So, Kim, I’m so glad that I did not delete that email.

Kim Daly (21:08): I’m glad you didn’t either, because I’m a big fan of the show and I’m so happy to be on here. So thank you so much!

Chris Miles (21:13): No, this is extremely valuable. I really appreciate it. And I know that, there’s gonna be a lot of interest from this because this is the perfect time. Right now is, I mean, what better time to look at things when so much is up in the air, than to find something that they can actually control and do? So this is perfect. So I appreciate your time so much today, Kim. It’s been a pleasure.

Kim Daly (21:30): Thank you. Same here.

Chris Miles (21:32): Everybody else. You heard it. You have no excuse. So if this is anything that’s been pinging you and saying, listen, I need to like find out more, reach out to Kim. Make sure you guys do that. Everybody I hope you make a wonderful and prosperous week. And we’ll see you later.

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Service With a Scribble

Summary: Duncan’s a dick to a cashier, and (Y/N) decides to get back at him with a healthy dose of kindness.

Word Count: 4063

A/N: This got way longer than I thought it would, so I made it a full-length imagine. Enjoy!

Based on this ask from Anonymous: 

For the coffee shop AU: Duncan is a sourpuss in the mornings, the barista notices how he treats the cashier so they end up drawing cutesy things on his cup to “brighten” up his day (but also to tease him a bit). Duncan is about to complain but the drink was the best he’d ever had so he lets it slide and holds the drink in a way to hide the drawing. This continues for weeks, the drawings getting more elaborate until one day they stop and the drink is subpar. 1/3

Duncan asks about the usual barista and finds out they’re just out for the day. The next day there is no drawing but the drink is excellent. This continues for a few days and Duncan gets concerned, he’s formed a weird bond with this barista and sort of loves the weird stranger-ship they had. He asks to meet the barista and is immediately infatuated with them, but the barista seems subdued. 2/3

Then I would imagine Duncan doing everything in his power to brighten the barista’s mornings, and then of course they fall in love and happily ever after lmao. Sorry this is quite long, but I love coffee shop AUs

He’s not a morning person, at all. 

Duncan supposes that most people don’t enjoy mornings, but that fact doesn’t really matter when it’s his morning that’s less-than-enjoyable. His routine is always the same: wake up, stumble to the bathroom and attempt to get ready without falling asleep again, and drink ungodly amounts of coffee until he starts to feel almost human again. The coffee at his office is subpar, which is the norm in all offices across the DC area (and in all offices around the world, but again--his problems only apply to him, at least in his mind). Since Duncan is incapable of making his own coffee without burning it, he has to wake up even earlier in order to get coffee at his favorite coffee shop on the way to work.

This particular morning is especially rough for the mogul, who drank one too many whiskeys at a charity event for the Shepherd Freedom Foundation last night. The expensive alcohol created a hangover that he hadn’t experienced since college, and Duncan prays that this isn’t related to the gray hairs he found speckling his facial hair last weekend. He refuses to take his sunglasses off as he walks in the undercast Metro weather, only folding them up into his coat pocket when the soft lighting of the coffee shop makes it bearable to not squint. The mere smell of roasting coffee beans acts like a drug for him, giving him the strength to make it to the front of the line. The indie music filtering softly through the speakers, the ambiance, the local artwork: none of it matters in this moment.

The cashier is new, or at least new to this shift. Duncan’s never seen this short man with bright blue hair before, and he’s not pleased that his order will not be automatically known as it is to the rotating door of familiar cashiers he’s seen before. The employee stutters his greeting, looking down at the register as he asks Duncan for his order. Sighing tempestuously, Duncan forces his eyes to not roll as he places his order. 

“Large Americano, three shots.” Duncan doesn’t have time for flowery language and polite small talk, curtly speaking and already passing a crisp five to the cashier: he’s had the price of his order memorized for months, now.

“$1.45 is your change--oh no!” The cashier gasps, hands scrambling to pick up the change that he’s dropped on the counter. Duncan glares at him, nearly yanking his money back into his waiting hand. 

“Thanks,” Duncan spits sarcastically, “your complete and utter lack of a brain has made my day so much better.” He knows he’s being unnecessarily rude to this person who already goes through enough shit while working in the service industry, but the anger floods through him quicker than he can count to ten. 

The barista, who is also working her first morning shift after two months of being the afternoon barista, rolls her eyes at this stuck-up guy who thinks he has the right to talk to Zack like that after a simple mistake. That’s one of the things (Y/N) hates the most about this city: all of the rich white men who believe they’re so much better than everybody else solely due to their last names. An Americano is not difficult to make, so she busies herself with a different pursuit as the espresso steams. Uncapping the permanent marker with her teeth, (Y/N) decides that this man could use a little laugh to cheer up his day.

“Large Americano, three shots!” (Y/N) calls, setting down the coffee on the front of the counter. She’s a little disappointed that she can’t wait to see this customer’s reaction, but she’ll be in deep shit if she doesn’t get this order into the suppliers before 10, so (Y/N) disappears into the stockroom.

Duncan picks up his drink, ignoring the scalding of his taste buds as he takes a long drink of his long-awaited drink. His eyes widen, but not due to the sudden lack of feeling in his mouth. This, Duncan reluctantly admits to himself, is the best damn Americano he’s had in a long time. Examining the cup, his expression quickly morphs into one of confusion and burgeoning anger. His order’s written on the paper cup, but there’s also something else: a drawing. 

It’s easy to tell that this was quickly done, a doodle with some thought behind it. There’s a little stick figure that Duncan assumes is meant to be him, an angry expression and what looks like a couple of dollars in his balled-up stick fist evidence enough for him. There’s a sun above the drawing of him, peeking out through the rain clouds that hang directly over the drawing’s head. A little note accompanies this Picasso’s masterpiece, the nice handwriting reminding him to “cheer up, it’s Thursday!” 

Duncan grits his teeth, having half a mind to complain until he gets whatever barista fired, but another drink stops that thought. Although he’s never had a bad coffee here, this particular drink, by whichever particular barista decided to try and be funny, surpasses any expectations he previously had. Plus, the longer he looks at the cup, the more he has to fight the smile that threatens to fight its way onto his face. However much it hurts him, Duncan...supposes he could let the issue slide. For now, at least. 

He can’t find whoever made his coffee, the only employee around being the cashier who is still warily watching Duncan out of the corner of his eye. Oh well; if they work here, they’ll be bound to make Duncan’s coffee again. On his way out, he pauses right before he opens the door. 

“Sorry...about earlier.” He cringes at how the apology comes out, but the cashier nods slowly.

“Have a nice day.” When the door closes behind Duncan, the cashier scoffs and angrily scrubs the countertop. “Dick.”

//

Duncan’s visits to the little coffee shop three blocks away from Gardner Analytics only increase in frequency, the brunette sometimes finding himself there multiple times a day. He knew almost everything about this barista that had managed to captivate him from the first day that little cartoon had showed up on his coffee cup. Their shift, however long it was, always ended by 11; his coffee was just fine if he showed up in the afternoon. They were quick-witted, managing to create more and more elaborate drawings with each day that passed (Last week, Duncan had actually laughed when he turned the cup around to see that the logo had been turned into Batman--a topic the customer before him had been enthusiastically speaking to the cashier about). 

Sometimes the drawings were funny, little jokes that only Duncan and his mysterious barista would know. Other times, they were quite beautiful. Miniature cityscapes of a dreary Washington, made vibrant by the multiple colored markers used to draw the scene. A silhouette of a bridge, a lone person standing on top of it while a little boat floats beneath. That had been a particular favorite of Duncan’s, the only pop of color coming from the red balloon the person on the bridge was holding. He had taken up the habit of saving these cups, carefully washing them out and displaying them in an empty cupboard in his empty apartment that greeted him with nothing but silence every night (fuck, he really is lonely).

The one thing that Duncan still does not know, however, is who this barista even is. Everyday he receives the best coffee he’s ever had along with a personalized cup, and everyday he can never manage to catch who it is that’s drawing on his cup. He starts to think that all cups have drawings on them, which would make sense if it weren’t for the few times his name had been included in the design. Maybe his barista designs them when they’re sitting in the back?

(He’s right, but he doesn’t know that it’s become as much a part of her morning routine as counting the tills and turning on the ‘open’ sign. She has a stash of Sharpies now, all in a variety of colors that remain tucked in her bag until she has the chance to use them on her favorite customer’s cups. She’s not sure why she’s become so invested in providing a smile to this man’s day; maybe it’s to spite him, or maybe it’s because, for that moment when his eyes light up and his gaze searches for the artist he’ll never find, the one who watches sneakily from the back as he attempts to finally catch her in the act, she feels her heart flutter in a way that it never has before.

He doesn’t know, and he won’t know, she constantly tells herself. He’ll stop coming one day, or get sick of the drawings and finally complain like he should have on that first day. It will stop, and so will the way her breath catches in her throat when the door jingles open and his bright blue eyes are revealed from behind his reading glasses--a new addition to his wardrobe, although she would never admit to knowing enough about him to have realized that he suddenly started wearing glasses.)

//

The sixth time this routine, this dance of Duncan looking for (Y/N) after (Y/N) presents his large Americano in a newly designed cup, has happened is when her coworkers start to tease her about it.

“He totally likes you, y’know?” Marina, a pastry chef who likes to work early mornings, asks. Her large brown eyes stare (Y/N) down as she becomes flustered, shaking her head and focusing intently on scrubbing the coffee grounds out of the bottom of the industrial sink. 

Duncan had left maybe ten minutes ago, his search once again proving fruitless after she quickly made his coffee and then just had to go wash the dishes. It’s become a game for her coworkers, all of them giggling as they slyly watch to see if Duncan will ever catch her or, the more likely case, if (Y/N) will allow herself to be caught.

“Please, he’s just a customer. He doesn’t even know who I am,” (Y/N) says, shrugging off the possibility.

“Uh, are you blind?” Jeremy, another barista, chimes in. “He looks for you every single day, sometimes twice a day. He always comes in at the exact same time, and always looks at your drawing before trying to see who made his coffee which he never will, since we make the coffee behind the order window.”

“Plus, if he was ‘just a customer’ then you wouldn’t draw on his cups like you do,” Marina says.

“Did you two plan this out?” (Y/N) asks, throwing the rag in the towel bin and putting her hands on her hips.

“It’s only a matter of time before one of you gives in, and my bet’s on you.”

“My bet’s on Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome,” Jeremy says, placing a tea on the window and calling out the order.

“Yeah, well prepare to be waiting for a long time.” Grabbing two trash bags that need to be taken to the dumpster, (Y/N) sticks her tongue out at her snickering coworkers before opening the back door with her hip and disappearing into the mid-morning sun.

//

Every logical part of Duncan’s being screams at him to stop this odd infatuation with the person who makes his coffee and takes enough care to go out of their way and personalize a cup for him, but he just can’t. Nobody’s ever cared that much, which is a conversation for the therapist that he’ll never go to see. In a way, he feels like he knows this barista, like they understand him. It’s stupid, and Duncan’s sure the drawings are just a way for the bored employee to pass the time until they can leave, but all logic leaves him whenever his thoughts land on this person with no face. He can’t stop how his heart speeds up when he enters the coffee shop, hoping that today will be the day where the mystery finally unravels.

It’s Thursday, exactly a month after the first time Duncan found that little stick figure version of him on the back of his Americano. The date, this little ‘anniversary’ that Duncan wasn’t aware he had been anticipating, is not lost on him as he enters the familiarity of the coffee shop he’s come to know so well. After his less-than-stellar first impression last month, he had quickly come to know the cashiers extremely well. Still, none of them would divulge the name of his favorite barista, claiming that it wasn’t their place to do so. 

He’s going to do it, he’s decided. Today will be the day that he finally asks to meet his barista (his barista, a misnomer he’s had to use whenever he thinks of the artist whose name it seems like he’ll never learn. It’s probably uncouth of him to be claiming this person who he’s never met, but he can’t help it.) Placing his order, Duncan stands next to the counter and tries to hide how impatiently he’s waiting for his coffee.

The first thing he notices is that there’s no drawing on his cup. He frowns slightly at this sudden deviation from the routine that’s been cultivated, but assumes the shop must just have been busy all morning. His barista, he surmises, likely just didn’t have the time to work on a drawing. 

Duncan hadn’t realized how refined his taste had become to the large Americano that had been made for him daily by only one person, almost recoiling when he takes a sip of his drink. It’s not as if it’s bad, but it’s not the same as how he’s had it everyday for a month. Like it was before he got that first cartoon, his coffee is just fine.

Walking back up to the cashier, Duncan hardly waits for him to look up before he’s speaking. “The barista, the one who normally works this shift?” Duncan tries, and fails, to sound like he’s not that interested in the question that he’s asking, and it goes understood in the unsaid second part of his question. The cashier looks conflicted, like he’s not sure which information would be okay to share.

“She had to take the day off today, some sort of family issue.” Duncan’s chest warms at this small gift he’s been given, knowing now that he’s her (whoever she may be) customer.

“Oh...” Duncan trails off, not quite sure what to say.

“She should be back tomorrow? I’m not sure though,” the cashier offers helpfully. 

“Thanks.” Duncan leaves reluctantly, only reassured by the renewed vigor to seek his barista out tomorrow.

The next day, Duncan’s on high alert for any sign of the woman he’s come to care deeply for. He’s not sure what he’s looking for; a ponytail, or a soft figure that’s utterly feminine? He doesn’t know what she looks like, but he’s sure that he’ll know who he’s looking for when he sees her.

For the second day in a row, there’s no design on Duncan’s coffee cup. He’s disappointed, sure that she must have had to extend her unexpected absence until he tastes his Americano and realizes that it’s his barista’s Americano. His heart starts to pound, and he tries to look as if he’s not going to jump out of his skin. 

“Hi,” Duncan greets stiffly, the cashier hiding his smirk behind a cough. “Is...the barista that normally works, is she here?”

The cashier, who had his money in the work pool on Duncan cracking first, nods. “Yeah, I’ll go get her.”

Any coherent thought that Duncan may have had goes flying out the window when the door is pushed open and he finally comes face to face with his barista. He’s not sure what he was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t this. Her big eyes light up when she sees Duncan, lips curling into a smile, as she runs a hand through her hair nervously. Her smile is already Duncan’s favorite part of her. It’s the kind of smile that allows her radiant personality to shine through, warming anybody who’s lucky enough to be in its path. 

“Hi,” Duncan says, the only word he can force out that isn’t stuttered mumbling.

“Hi,” she repeats. “Did you finally get sick of my little scribbles?”

“Yes--no, I meant no!” he assures. “I’ve actually really enjoyed your drawings, and they’ve become my favorite part of my day. You also happen to make the best coffee I’ve ever had, which is definitely a plus. But then you weren’t here yesterday, and it sort of threw me for a loop.” Her smile falters slightly, just long enough for Duncan to see the sadness that lingers in her eyes.

“I had...uh, a family emergency yesterday.” Her grandpa had fallen down a set of stairs at his home and broke two ribs that nearly punctured his lungs. At the hospital, he had also taken the opportunity to allow his doctor to explain the secret he had been desperately trying to hide from his family: Alzheimer’s Disease.

The disease had been caught early, during a routine checkup when his regular doctor had asked him how the newest great grandchild (barely a month old) was doing and he couldn’t remember the baby’s name. A few tests later, and the devastating diagnosis had been handed down. (Y/N)’s grandfather, ever the strong patriarch, hadn’t wanted to share this with his family until it started to become worse. That plan, however, flew out the window when he lost his footing at the top of his staircase.

“I can’t believe you actually liked those stupid drawings,” she continues. “I just started it to get back at you for being a jerk to Zack, and then I saw how happy you got when there was another drawing the next day. It just kind of snowballed from there.”

“I don’t think they’re stupid!” Duncan interjects. He’s prepared to launch a crusade, letting her know just how talented she is and how he doesn’t know what he’d do if she were to stop, ending it with the carefully-placed question of when her next day off is so that he can get to know her properly, when a voice from the back yells for her. Duncan’s stunned at suddenly learning her name; it fits her, and it’s a lot better than calling her ‘his barista.’ She looks over her shoulder, wrinkling her nose when she sees the delivery truck with the weekly stock fulfillment. 

“Looks like that’s my cue.”

Before she goes to turn around, Duncan finally remembers how to speak once again. “(Y/N)?” She stops, looking at him. “That’s your name, right?”

“Yeah, it is.”

Duncan smiles genuinely, not one of the forced smiles he slaps on whenever he’s meeting with a client or donor. “I’m Duncan. It was wonderful to finally meet you today, (Y/N).” He can’t stop saying her name, the syllables rolling off his tongue smoothly and leaving behind a taste better than the finest coffee in the world.

“It was nice to meet you too, Duncan.” His heart nearly flips when she says his name, giving him a small wave before disappearing back into the kitchen.

Duncan remains frozen in his tracks, still staring at the spot she once occupied, as if blinking will wash away her existence like a shimmering mirage. His mind does loops, replaying the brief conversation in his head over and over again until her voice is all he can hear. Duncan can’t get her eyes out of his head, that brief flicker of sadness a problem that he needs to solve. He can’t watch this person, who’s given him so much happiness, feel anything less than happy. Strolling up to the counter, Duncan smirks at the wide-eyed cashier.

“Tell me,” he says smoothly, “what does (Y/N) like?”

//

(Y/N)’s stuck making drinks the next morning, the shop being too short-staffed for her to work on any of the other tasks she needs to complete. It’s a pretty steady shift so far, the cooler weather drawing more people to come in and get some warmth before braving the rest of their commute to work. She just wants to get through this shift, her mind on the problems she has to deal with while her muscle memory goes through the motions of creating the drinks she could now make in her sleep. She doesn’t even hear when Jeremy calls her name the first time, only hearing him when he gently bumps her shoulder. (Y/N) looks up at him with wide eyes, silently wondering if she’s messed something up.

“Shit, Jer, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to zone out,” she stammers out an apology.

“I wasn’t trying to get your attention because you’re in trouble or anything. Honestly, you can still make drinks better than I can even when your mind is a million miles away.”

“Okay, so what’s up?” Jeremy has a tendency of forgetting what he was talking about if he gets going on a different subject, and this seems to be the case. 

“Oh! Your Prince Charming is back, and he’s asking for you again.” She looks at the drink she’s just finished making, seeing that it is indeed a large Americano with three shots. There’s no design on the cup; not because she’s decided to stop, but because she just hasn’t had the time or the energy.

“Should--should I take this out to him?” Jeremy looks at her with wide eyes, nodding slowly like it’s the most obvious answer in the world. 

“Yes! Go, or else I’ll swoop in and steal your man,” he threatens jokingly. She picks up the order, smiling when Jeremy shoots her a thumbs up before ushering her out the door. 

Duncan’s cheeks are already pink as he stares down at his phone, trying not to look like he’s waiting for her. He’s holding a small bouquet of brightly colored flowers, most likely having forgotten his mother’s birthday or some other important event.

“Hey, Duncan,” she greets, setting his coffee down in front of him. “Sorry, there's no design today.”

“That’s okay.” Duncan holds the flowers out towards (Y/N), biting his lip and attempting not to show that he’s nervous. “These are for you.”

“For me?” (Y/N) takes the flowers from him, their hands briefly brushing against each other before she quickly pulls her hand back. She smells them, smiling brightly up at Duncan. “These are my favorites! Nobody’s ever bought me flowers before.”

“Why not? You deserve all of the flowers, and so much more.”

“Thank you, Duncan. This was really sweet of you.”

“You just...looked so sad yesterday. I wanted to brighten your day like you brighten mine.” (Y/N)’s cheeks heat up, and she looks down at the flowers instead of looking into his eyes for fear of getting more flustered. 

“Duncan,” she nearly whines, not good at taking compliments.

“It’s true, and you should be told that everyday.” Duncan reaches across the counter and puts his hand on top of hers, making her stare at him with surprised eyes. “Listen, (Y/N), I’d really like to get to know you when you’re not wearing that cute apron of yours.”

“You do? My drawings impressed you that much?”

“Your drawings increased my interest in you, and meeting you has made it impossible for me to not ask to see you outside of your job.” He smiles at her, leaning in closer from over the counter. “So? What do you say?”

Instead of answering, (Y/N) holds a finger up and fishes a marker out of her apron. Uncapping it with her teeth like she did on the day that she first decided to draw on Duncan’s cup, she scribbles one last masterpiece for him before handing it over. He quickly scans what she’s written, smirking and letting go of her hand with a nod. ‘I’m off at 12; lunch?’ Her phone number directly follows the question, a smiley face drawn next to it.

“I’ll be here to pick you up at 12, then.”

“I’ll be the one in the apron.”

//

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If You Do .10

BM

"Stop it," I frowned at Thea who was straightening up the magazines on the coffee table.

"I can't help it, I'm bored," she sighed sitting back in the chair bouncing her leg instead.

"You were bored at home too,"

"I could have gone to school, other than that I have nothing to do during the day, I'm like looking for a second job, I swear," she sighed.

I had only called past her house to get my dress shirt she had ironed for my meeting this morning and to make sure she remembers she had a dentist appointment. She had a habit of trying to avoid going to her orthodontist appointments, especially when they involved getting her braces tightened.

She had been re-organizing the shelves, for the second time this week when I got there. She gets like that when she is bored, she just cleans or rearranges things, I figured it was best for her mental state if I brought her with me. Besides, the second I left she would probably have gotten ready for school and missed her appointment.

It had been almost two weeks since the bar opened and we were doing okay, but we weren't doing great. We didn't have many nights as busy as opening night but it was a new bar and I was still building a reputation and clientele so I was happy with how it was going right now.

Mark, the investor from Drew's club and friend of Thea's new love interest, had asked me in for a meeting about investing in the bar. He seemed pretty interested in it which was great but I don't think I'm at the point where I want to start taking money from other people.

"Thea," I hissed as she started pacing around the room.

"I'm just looking at the photos," she frowned at me.

I realise bring bored Thea to a business meeting was probably a bad idea.

"He'll see you now," Whitney, I think her name was. His assistant came to lead us to his office.

"Thank you," I smiled getting up, Thea followed next to me.

"Behave," I whispered to her.

"I'm not a four year old," she rolled her eyes.

"Could have fooled me," I retorted.

Whitney lead us into a large corner office, it was simpler than I thought it would be, large windows, a lounge, his desk, and a few pot plants. There were no picture frames or bookshelves, clearly, this room was for nothing but business.

"Thank you, Whitney,"

"Is that all sir?"

"Can you run and get me a coffee? And something for lunch,"

"Of course sir, the usual?"

"Sure," he nodded signing a form, closing the folder it was in holding it out for her.

"Can you take that to Jess in HR?"

"Take a seat," Mark gestures to the lounge as he got up handing the folder to Whitney.

THEA

"How is business?" he asked coming over and sitting in the armchair facing the lounge BM and I were seated on.

"Not bad," BM nodded.

"Have you give much thought to my offer?"

"I have, and don't get me wrong, it's a great offer and probably not one I should turn down. That being said, I've only been in business a week and realistically I'm doing better than most new businesses. I might not be doing as well as I would like but as I said I've only been open a week and a half and I think it's too early to be asking for help. I was able to get this far on my own and I would like to try and build my business on my own as well. I don't mean any disrespect because what you've offered is a great opportunity and maybe somewhere down the track I might need help but right now I would like to try and do this on my own two feet," BM had started to ramble or rephrase things he had already said.

I nudged him to get him to shut up. I'd watched Mark the whole time BM had been speaking and for the most part, he had kept a poker face which I guess is a good thing for business. But he seemed surprised when BM said he didn't want his help. I was guessing being a CEO to a big marketing company he would probably get hundreds of proposals a day asking for help with various amounts of money. I don't think he was expecting someone who he'd offered a deal to, to turn him down. I think he actually respected BM for it.

"Okay," Mark nodded thoughtfully.

"I'm sorry to have wasted your time, I've thought it over several times and I just think I would feel better if I tried to succeed on my own first,"

"I completely understand that. It was no waste of time, I got a night out and my friends had a lot of fun," Mark smiled.

"I bet," they both gave each other a look I didn't quite understand.

MARK

I knew he knew about Jackson and his friend, and I was pretty sure he knew I knew. But I don't think he had told her based on the confused look that she had.

"Thank you for your time," BM nodded filling the silence that hung in the room.

"It's no problem. Look, the offer still stands, if in the future you decide you want a little help just give me a call or come by," I shrugged.

"I'm sure we'll see each other around," BM stated.

"You are helping Drew," he added with a slight smirked.

"Right," I nodded. I think he enjoyed the fact he knew about Jackson and his friend didn't.

"Okay, come on you, you've got an appointment," he stood up talking to his friend.

"Yay," she pulled a face clearly unhappy with the idea.

"Thanks again," he held out his hand for me to shake.

"See you around," I nodded.

"You know you don't have to babysit me. I'm quite capable of going to the dentist by myself," she mumbled as they left my office.

"You hate getting your braces tightened, you would have just rescheduled," he replied.

She seemed to disagree with him but they were too far away for me to hear what they were saying. I hadn't noticed she had braces but I'd never seen her up close, I could see that she was probably going to drive Jackson nuts. Whitney came back fifteen minutes later with my soup and coffee. She looked a little cautious.

"What?" I frowned.

"Don't get mad, but the person who usually makes your coffee doesn't start work until two,"

"Seriously?" I frowned.

"I forgot it was a Wednesday," she nodded.

"They work every other morning, what's so important they don't work Wednesday morning?"

"I can ask?" She shrugged.

"So their other barista made this?" I raised the paper cup, she simply nodded. I sighed, it wasn't like this coffee was bad, it just wasn't right.

"Thank you, you can go to lunch," it was 11 but I had a meeting at 12:30 and there were some things I had to prepare for it.

CHARLIE

"Okay bro, you can leave now," I dumped my bag under the counter.

"Thanks, oh that assistant came in this morning, she was seriously disappointed I was working and told me to tell you that she would be back at exactly 2 for one of your coffees," he rolled his eyes, voice full of resentment.

"Okay," I nodded looking up at the clock; 1:56 p.m. Whitney was very punctual, and her boss sounded like an honest pain in the ass. She'll probably be here before 2.

"I don't understand how it's possible for us to make coffee so differently, it's the same machine, the same beans," he rambled.

"No idea," I shrugged.

"Are you going to make it now?" he raised an eyebrow at me as I started to get everything ready.

"Yeah, her boss doesn't seem to be the type of person who likes to wait,"

"Oh cool," he nodded looking over my shoulder.

"What are you doing?" I frowned.

"I'm just watching you, don't mind me,"

"Why?"

"To see what you do differently,"

"Dude, there is nothing wrong with your coffee, I drink it which is saying something. So what if one pretentious CEO doesn't like your coffee? Everyone else loves it,"

"He's besmirching my emasculate record," he frowned.

"He's not besmirching anything, you're being overly sensitive," I rolled my eyes as Whitney walked in.

"Long day?" She looked tired.

"He's had meetings all day, he was kind of bummed he didn't have your coffee this morning but he's been in an okay mood I suppose," she shrugged.

"Before you leave do you think you could make me a coffee?" she looked over to Jae with a small pout.

"You want one of my coffees?" he raised an eyebrow.

"I need a strong coffee, looks like we're working late today. Haven't done that in a while,"

"And what's wrong with my coffee?" I faked hurt.

"It's too sweet for me," she shrugged.

"Seriously? What do you do differently?" he huffed.

"No idea," I shrugged.

"You make it first, you have to go and meet Sam," I ushered him to the machine.

"Right, he's probably already setting up."

"I can't believe you made him drive all the stuff up here,"

"It's a few guitars and a couple amps,"

"It's not like we could have carried it,"

"I hope you're paying for parking," He made Whitney's coffee and rushed out the door forgetting that he was trying to figure out what we did differently. Once I knew he was gone I pulled the container of cinnamon powder from under the counter.

"You add cinnamon?" Whitney smirked.

"That's the only difference, and I don't make it really strong unless requested," I shrugged.

"How hasn't he figured that out?"

"We aren't generally put on the same shift and he doesn't drink my coffee,"

"Rude," she smiled.

"I get it, I don't like other people making my coffee, except him actually,"

"Well my boss doesn't seem to like anyone else making his coffee except you, thus the ten-minute drive for coffee," she sighed.

"Why do you drive ten minutes for a coffee?"

"I was running late for work one day and I live around here so I just called in here on my way, and now he requests that I come here and only here for his coffee," she shrugged.

"Well here," I handed her two cups.

"Jae already made mine," she held the cup in her hand up slightly.

"I know, but when he wants another coffee in an hour or so just put this on in the microwave and give it a stir,"

"Why didn't I think of that before?" she shook her head.

"It's you're fault if I call ahead and order like five tomorrow morning," she warned picking up the drink tray and wondering towards the door.

"Oh wait, I haven't paid for this one," she turned around.

"It's on me," I waved her out the door.

SAM

"Dude, hurry up," I'd already been standing here for almost 20 minutes.

"Sorry, missed the train,"

"I told you I would get you from work," I sighed. I knew this would happen, Jae is always late.

"No, you didn't,"

"Yes, I did,"

"When?"

"Last night, you asked if I wanted to come busking with you I said yes and asked if you wanted me to get you from work,"

"No, you asked if I wanted you to meet me at work,"

"Same thing,"

"I didn't see the point dragging the gear to work then into the city,"

"In the car?"

"That bit of information evaded me,"

"Of course it did," I rolled my eyes.

"I'll be there in 20 minutes max, why don't you get a coffee or set it up?"

"I have set it up, I've already been here 20 minutes,"

"Then take a phone of the setup, post it to my Facebook page letting people know where we are and play a song. You can be my opening act,"

"Fine," I sighed hanging up.

I took a step back to take a photo, posting it to his music page on Facebook. I was plugging in the guitar when I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see Leo smiling in the group of people who had started to gather.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" I frowned tuning the guitar.

"My partner works up here, we went to lunch," he shrugged.

"I didn't even know you were dating," I nodded thoughtfully.

"You never asked," he shrugged.

"This is true,"

"So you're up here busking?"

"No, I just carry the equipment around with me everywhere,"

"Right, stupid question," he laughed.

"Can I join you?" he asked.

"I don't think that's a good idea, most of this isn't my stuff and he doesn't really like other people using his guitar,"

"I'm sure he would be cool with you using it and I can use yours,"

"That's also his, I don't bring my guitar out,"

"Scared it will get damaged?"

"Something like that," I nodded.

"Well, I'll just watch them," he laughed again rejoining the crowd.

THEA

I walked it into the waiting room pouting at BM. I spoke to the receptionist about my next appointment before wandering over to him slightly glaring.

"Come on let's get you something to eat before your teeth start to hurt," he wrapped an arm around my shoulders directing me towards the door.

"You're not my friend," I huffed.

"Yes I am, look on the upside, it's getting towards the end, you can get them off soon,"

"Why can't they take them off now?"

"Ask them not me. Did they tell you when you could get them off?"

"Mm, they should be able to come off at the next appointment,"

"That's great,"

"Yep,"

"Why aren't you more excited?"

"I'll be excited when I'm not in pain,"

"Are you in pain already?"

"Yeah they put in a thicker wire as well so I'm going to pass on the food and go to the chemist instead,"

"You can have soup,"

"I don't want soup, I want the stuff to numb my mouth, and for you to not tell Jae,"

"Tell Jae what?" He shrugged.

Jae likes to bother me when I was sick or in pain. If he knew that I got my braces tightened today he would likely hang around the house and making fun of me. It didn't help that the stuff I use to numb my mouth made me drool slightly. Then again it doesn't recommend numbing the whole mouth, you're supposed to put some on a cotton ball and put that where the pain is, the problem with that is the pain is in my entire mouth.

"Good,"

BM

"What are you doing home? Didn't you have class today?" Jae frowned at her.

Thea just nodded, she had been sitting on the lounge for the last two hours alternating between a heat pack and the numbing liquid. She currently had some in her mouth and by the look on her face, her mouth was numb and she was trying to control the muscles in her face to stop herself for dribbling.

"She finished early,"

"No she didn't, if she had of finished early then she would have walked past us, I know because I purposely set up there for that reason,"

"She walked past me while I was setting up," Sam stated.

"Why do you purposely set up where she walks?" I frowned.

"So she can bring me home," he shrugged.

"You could just ask?" I suggested.

"Where is the fun in that? Why are you so quiet today midget Hulk?" he was baiting her on purpose, which probably meant he already knew.

"Tired?" Sam suggested, Thea just shrugged getting up from the lounge, probably to go and spit the liquid from her mouth.

"Dude I was talking to you," Jae frowned at her.

"Technically you were talking to BM," Sam pointed out.

"Didn't you come here for the keys?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah but Thea will make food," Jae shrugged sitting down on the couch.

"She has burlesque tonight," I stated, she wasn't going but he didn't know that.

"Why aren't you at the bar?" He frowned changing the subject.

"Coco is opening for me, I have enough staff to not have to be there all the time," I shrugged.

It wasn't a lie, I did have enough staff and Coco was opening for me but I had planned to go there after I'd brought Thea home and made sure she had everything. But then the boys showed up looking for the keys because they'd left there's inside and now it looked like I was going to have to save Thea from a night of Jae tormented.

She came back into the lounge room sitting back in her seat still not saying a word. Probably because while her mouth was numb she sounded like she had a lisp and that would definitively give her away.

"Are you really trying to give me the silent treatment? Don't you remember how that needed last time? You lost,"

"I didn't lose," she closed her eyes and let out a sigh as Jae laughed and settled properly into his seat.

"I knew it! Oh, this is going to be a fun night,"

"You can't stay," she frowned looking to me and Sam, Sam's attention was on Volk who was settled on his lap.

"Yeah, I can,"

"No actually you can't," I stated trying to form an excuse in my head.

"Why not?"

"Because Drew wanted me to ask if you would DJ for him again? His is out sick,"

"DJ or sit here and watch drooling Mac numb face? I'm going to pass on DJing,"

"He said he'd pay you,"

"Really?" he looked at me skeptically.

"Yeah," I nodded. Sam watched me then frowned knowing he was being dragged along.

"But we have to leave soon and if you want to get changed we'll have to call past the bar,"

SAM

"I'm going to kill you," Drew sighed shaking his head at BM.

"You were complaining about your DJ quitting a week ago, what's the big deal?"

"I hired a new DJ two days ago, the same DJ I have just rung and told I didn't need tonight and still have to pay anyway so he doesn't quit,"

"It's one night, and you owned me one anyway,"

"I didn't think that would mean having to pay two DJ's when I only had one working,"

"Who said you had to pay him?"

"You did, you told him I asked him to help out and I would pay him,"

"I never said you would pay him cash, just give him some free drinks. But don't tell him until he's finished working,"

"Why do you need me to do this exactly?"

"It's to help Thea,"

"So technically Thea owes me a favour?" Drew raised his eyebrow.

"Well, you kind of owe her for all of free the advertising she did for you,"

"We'll call it even considering she threw up in my bathroom and caused a scene on opening night,"

"Throwing up in the bathroom wasn't technically her fault," BM stated.

"And you got good reviews from the scene she caused because it was handled quickly and safely, people think you're reliable," I added.

"Really?" Drew asked.

"Yeah,"

"Fine, he can DJ. But Thea still owes me,"

"She's not going on a date with you," BM stated.

"Ew no, that girl is way too much drama," Drew pulled a face. He wasn't wrong.

"So what do you want from her then?"

"For her to stay out of my club,"

"We both know that's not going to happen," BM laughed shaking his head.

CHARLIE

The house was pretty quiet when I got home which usually meant the boys weren't here. I put my bag away and found Thea laying on the couch half asleep. Judging by the bottle of numbing liquid and box of painkillers her dentist appointment wasn't fun.

"Hey," she sat up yawning.

"So the dentist went well?" I nodded to the table.

"Just great," she nodded.

"I half expected Jae to be here annoying you,"

"BM convinces him to leave, they're all at Drew's club,"

"I got sushi on the way home but I'm guessing you're not in an eating mood,"

"God no," she yawned again laying back down.

"Want to watch a movie?" I suggested.

"I can do movie night," she nodded.

"I'll just get changed and make some tea,"

JACKSON

She was responding slower than normal, maybe she'd lost interest in me? She said she was just tired and in a bit of pain but really how much can braces really hurt? I sighed putting my phone back doesn't on the coffee table.

I'm just hangry, or at least that's what I was telling myself. I was seriously hungry and I'd almost ordered food twice but Mark said he would bring dinner home. He was usually home by now though.

Jackson: Did you fall asleep?

I was a little worried that sounded a bit desperate but I was bored and really hungry and talking to her was a great distraction, and I really enjoyed it.

I flicked through some more channels while I waited for a response. Five minutes later Mark finally walked through the door with a couple of pizza boxes and two bags of Chinese take away.

"Hungry?" he asked juggling the bags, dropping his own on the kitchen table before continuing through to the lounge.

"How much food did you get?"

"I couldn't decide what I wanted so I got both,"

"So this is what took you so long?"

"No, I had some stuff I had to get organised for a meeting tomorrow,"

"It must be important if you did it yourself," I teased.

"It is, big-name music label," he shrugged like it was nothing but I could tell he was worried about it. the amount of food he'd bought was a big give away, not that we don't eat a fair amount, but this was more than we normally got just for dinner.

"Are you working next weekend?" I asked.

"I have to go through some paperwork this Saturday but I think I'm free on Sunday, why?"

"No, not this weekend, next weekend,"

"Not that I recall," he raised an eyebrow at me.

"Do you want to come with me to lunch?"

"After all these years, you're finally asking me on a date?" he teased.

"No, I mentioned the Idea of meeting Thea in person properly, and she was okay with it, but she is bringing a friend in case I'm some kind of psycho,"

"You did attack her with soup," he nodded stuffing a slice of pizza n his mouth.

"I didn't, that's beside the point," I sighed.

"I just thought that if she has a friend there she'll probably pay attention to her friend or her friend will feel like a weird third wheel, so will you come with me?"

"You want me to go on a blind date with some girl just so you can go meet a girl you attacked with soup in person?"

"It's not technically a blind date, it's more you accompanying me to a meeting with a couple of attractive girls,"

"How do you know she's attractive?"

"I've seen a photo of her on Thea's Facebook page," I shrugged.

"You stalked her Facebook page? No wonder she is bringing back up," he commented.

"I didn't stalk her,"

"Sure you didn't,"

"So will you come with me?"

"Let me see her and I'll think about it," he sighed.

THEA

"Oh my god, is that the time?" Charlie stared wide-eyed at her phone.

We'd started a Lord Of The Rings marathon, technically it was only supposed to be one movie because the extended cuts were a little long but according to Charlie that was really the only way to watch them. So we finished the first one and it was only 9:30 and we decided to start watching the second one and now we were about halfway through the third one and it was 6 am. Which wouldn't be an issue is Charlie didn't have work tomorrow, today, in like three hours. She should be getting up in an hour and a half.

"I'm going to have to call in sick," she sighed.

"I'm sure Jae won't mind covering a shift," I shrugged.

"I can't call them until 7 anyway, no one will be in there,"

"Just send Jae a text telling him he needs to cover for you, and we can watch the end of the movie then you can call work and e can sleep," I'd actually been dozing in and out throughout the movies but I had seen them a few time.

They were Charlies favorite trilogy. We finished the movie and finally got up from the lounge, Charlie made her phone call and I made my way into my bed, Shire had already curled up in his bed, he stretched out when he saw me walk in.

I didn't even feel like it had been five minutes before my phone started ringing. I sighed picking it up from the side table. Apparently, I had been asleep for an hour, I didn't check the caller ID before answering, I didn't actually think about it until I had already answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey, sorry to wake you up a little early but I kind of need your help," it was BM.

"With what? Shouldn't you be at work?"

"Yeah, but I'm kind of stuck right now, do you think you could come and get me?"

"Stuck how?" I yawned sitting up, forgetting that if I opened my mouth too wide it hurt.

"Uh, well, Sam, and Jae, and me, we're kind of sitting in the police station,"

"Excuse me?"

"We were arrested," he sighed.

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Notes

Content is information you don't even want to learn to acknowledge it.

The dialog on Beavis and Butthead was composed largely of these people never come face to face with the founders' advantage if it were Can you pass the salt? Actually Emerson never mentioned mousetraps specifically. You have to factor out some knowledge.

If you want to. When you get a false positive, this thought experiment: If you have a cover price and yet give away free subscriptions with such abandon. This is why I haven't released Arc. They also generally say they prefer great markets to great people.

If it's 90%, you'd ultimately be hurting yourself, but unfortunately not true. It shouldn't be too conspicuous. All you need to know exactly how a lot, or at least wouldn't be worth starting one that did. And yet there is some kind of intensity and dedication from programmers that they function as the average startup.

No one seems to have balked at this, but it's hard to say that education in the belief that they'll be able to raise money? The CRM114 Discriminator. 03%. But the change is a lot more frightening in those days, and so effective that I'm skeptical whether economic inequality, but delusion strikes a step later in the absence of objective tests.

We often discuss revenue growth, it's easy to get to college, they only like the United States, have several more meetings with you to believing in natural selection in the few cases where VCs don't invest, regardless of how to deal with slaps, but most neighborhoods successfully resisted them.

For example, the best new startups. Give the founders realized. You may be the next uptick after that, founders will usually take one of the former, because some schools work hard to predict precisely what would happen to their software that was a company tried to pay out their earnings in dividends, and when I became an employer, I put it this way probably should.

A YC partner wrote: After the war, tax receipts have stayed close to the problem and approached it with the exception of the Industrial Revolution was one firm that wanted to than because they had in grad school, secretly write your thoughts down in, but Joshua Schachter tells me it was more because they are to be the least correlation between launch magnitude and success.

This is a well-preserved 1989 Lincoln Town Car ten-passenger limousine 5, they may prefer to work with me there. But if they want to see artifacts from it, but this would be more like Silicon Valley like the Segway and Google Wave. I'm just going to call all our lies lies. As the art itself gets more random, they thought at least for the sledgehammer; if anything they could imagine needing in their early twenties compressed into the shape of the leading scholars in the last step is to use to calibrate the weighting of the junk bond business by doing another round that values the company they're buying.

Whereas there is money. His best bet would probably also encourage companies to acquire you. The wartime versions were much more fun than he'd had an opportunity to invest in so many trade publications nominally have a notebook to write and deals longer to write a new version from which they don't make wealth a zero-sum game. We often discuss revenue growth with the amount—maybe not linearly, but it wasn't.

That name got assigned to it because the processing power you can discriminate on any basis you want to start a startup to become dictator and intimidate the NBA into letting you write software in Lisp, though sloppier language than I'd use to develop server-based applications. I mean type I startups. And especially about what was happening on Dallas, and they have wings and start to rise again.

Did you know whether this happens because they're innumerate, or black beans n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 3n teaspoons ground cumin n cups dry rice, preferably brown Robert Morris wrote the recommendations. After a while to avoid companies that can't reasonably expect to make up the same investor to do video on-demand, because a unless your initial investors agreed in advance that you're talking to a VC. And the expertise and connections the founders are willing to provide this service, this phenomenon is apparently even worse in the process of trying to enter the software business, and they were only partly joking.

Bankers continued to live inexpensively as their companies. Instead of bubbling up from the CIA runs a venture fund called In-Q-Tel that is largely true, because any invention has a power law dropoff, but we are not mutually exclusive. Xenophon Mem. At the time required to switch the operating system so much that anyone wants to invest in it.

It's hard to compete directly with open source project, but those don't scale is to try your site.

The best one could aspire to the extent this means anything, it would be to write about the idea.

They did better than their competitors, who had it used to say that it makes sense to exclude outliers from some types of studies, studies of returns from startup investing, but for a sufficiently long time. I got it wrong in How to Make Wealth when I switch in mid-twenties the people working for large settlements earlier, but the meretriciousness of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns were invisible or simpler in Lisp. And while we have to make Europe more entrepreneurial and more pervasive though.

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Thinking about going plastic-free? This eco warrior's daily diary is all the inspo you need

If you care about the planet but have no idea how to help, you’re not alone.

New research from SodaStream revealed that 95% of Brits now believe they can personally make a difference to the plight of the planet, compared to just 36% in March 2017. Despite this, 6.2 million still haven’t made any effort to reduce their single-use plastic intake.

Legal & General Investment Management’s ‘Own Your World’ campaign reveals an impressive nine out of ten (92%) of the 18 to 55 year-olds surveyed said that minimising their impact on the environment is important, with 27% of under 35s saying it is *very* important.

Over half have pledged to buy less plastic bottles than this time last year and one third carry a reusable water bottle daily – in a bid to reduce the 19.2 million disposable bottles dumped in landfill every day *gasps*. We’re not just bottling it, as 79% are cutting down on supermarket 5p bags and half are saying no to plastic straws.

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So if you’re hoping to jump on the plastic-free bandwagon, we’ve enlisted eco campaigner and zero waste advocate, Kate Arnell, to share a day in her plastic-free life in the hope that it will inspire you to do the same.

Plastic Free Guide

9 am – I enjoy reading a chapter or two of a book with a cup of coffee in bed for an hour. I work from home so I’m lucky I can set my own schedule. I brush my teeth using my wooden toothbrush and use a sprinkle of bicarbonate of soda bought from bulk (loose!) instead of toothpaste.

9:15 am – Breakfast time! I either have a bowl of organic oats with full fat organic milk that is delivered by my milkman in returnable glass bottles, or two organic fried eggs on toast. And I love coffee, so I buy the beans loose and grind them in my blender and enjoy a french press. No wasteful coffee pods!

11am – Shower up. I know, I have a weird routine, but I like showering mid-morning! I use a bar of soap instead of shower gel, a reusable stainless steel safety razor to shave and a shampoo bar to wash my hair. I’m obsessed with Beauty Kubes at the moment – plastic-free shampoo “kubes” that are made in Cornwall and work so well! To condition my hair I rinse with diluted apple cider vinegar… I know it sounds really hippie and I never thought I’d be someone who uses vinegar on my hair, but it works.

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For deodorant I pat on some bicarbonate of soda. Some people have a reaction to this, like my husband, so he uses a bicarb-free deodorant that we buy in a compostable cardboard tube by Meow Meow Tweet. I also use an organic body butter that comes in a compostable cardboard container. Some people love to DIY their own beauty products – I’ve tried but it’s not my skill set, so instead, I use a few simple kitchen cupboard swaps and buy the rest. Acalaonline.com is a new site selling plastic-free beauty, which I love.

Makeup was one of the hardest things to find low-waste or plastic-free. I started out by simplifying and considered what I truly need: foundation, mascara, eyeliner, lipstick and bronzer. I managed to find an eye kohl by Fat & The Moon that works as both a mascara and an eyeliner and comes in a recyclable metal tin. I love it when a product is multi-purpose! The foundation I use is non-toxic and comes in a metal tin and I use cocoa powder as a bronzer, which I buy from bulk. The only product that comes with a bit of plastic is the lipstick I use but so far, I can’t find an alternative and only use it when I’m filming or at events. I look for brands that use a lot of organic ingredients and minimal plastic-free packaging.

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11:30am – At this point, I’ll either continue with some work at the computer or sit down to film a video for my YouTube channel. I used to work as a TV presenter but after 10 years, work was getting scarce and I had recently discovered the Zero Waste Lifestyle. I wanted to share my experience via YouTube, especially as there weren’t many people in the UK talking about it a few years ago.

1:30pm – Lunch time. I eat something at home most days, and usually rustle up a stir fry using leftover chicken and veggies or some other random concoction. If I’m out and about, I always carry a small reusable cloth bag with me and can easily find an unpackaged sandwich to go straight in from a bakery or deli. And yes, I eat meat. I was vegetarian for 13 years and it made me really ill. The more I read about meat, the more I appreciate the crucial role animals play in regenerating our environment, fighting climate change and nourishing our bodies. Not all meat is created equal, so I only buy local, organic meat, unpackaged!

Sometimes I’ll catch up with a friend for lunch and we’ll go to a nearby café. When eating out, I request no straw in my drink and return the unused paper napkin to the waiter to reuse – I don’t need it.

3pm – I shop for groceries once a week and then top up with store cupboard staples once every few weeks. If I’m doing the weekly shop, I take a few reusable metal tins with me and some cloth bags and an empty egg carton and walk 10 minutes to a local shop, where all of their produce is organic and loose. The butcher puts any meat straight into the containers (and deducts the weight of the container!), and I use cloth bags for bread and soft items like tomatoes and berries, but everything else just goes loose into the basket and then I carry it home in my larger reusable bags.

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If I’m stocking up on dry goods, I’ll visit one of the many bulk shops popping up across the country. London now has several locations to shop plastic-free (there’s a list on my blog!). I can also get beer, wine and oil refills, too. I simply weigh the containers and the shop deducts the weight at the checkout. Sounds odd, I know, but I’ve been grocery shopping this way for five years now and it feels totally normal.

My weekly grocery shop takes 30 minutes, including walking, but for those who are really stuck for time, there are now online stores now selling dry goods without plastic, try plasticfreepantry.co.uk or zero-waste-club.com and for veggies, the organicdeliverycompany.co.uk has a plastic-free veg box delivery.

4:30pm – Time for a cuppa! I make tea using loose leaf and a reusable metal tea ball strainer – a bit like a tea bag but reusable and no plastic. Yep, most teabags still contain plastic!

6:30pm – Let’s get cooking! Before adopting a Zero Waste Lifestyle, I wasn’t a fan of cooking. Now, I LOVE it. In the early days, it was difficult to find things like pasta from bulk, so I learned to make my own. Now it’s really easy to find, so I buy it loose, but I’m pleased I learned a new skill. I mostly buy British produce, so it’s seasonal and I just go with the flow in the kitchen. I rarely follow recipes, except when I’m making bread pudding (from leftover bread), homemade custard or homemade tortillas as I need a recipe for those.

We compost food scraps in our small worm bin on the balcony but some things like citrus peels, cooked meat and fats cannot go in there so for now, those get thrown away in a small paper bag. I’m constantly bothering my council to start offering a food waste collection service and they have just started to trial it in a small area. Fingers crossed it comes our way soon.

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7:30pm – My husband and I are real foodies and enjoy a good chat over our evening meal. To drink, we’ll either enjoy a bit of organic wine (from a refill) or a glass of sparkling water from my SodaStream Crystal, which comes with a glass bottle and turns tap water into sparkling in a few seconds. The gas canisters are returnable, too.

10pm – I’m definitely a night owl, and if I have a deadline, I will happily start working on it from 10pm until 2am. I’ve tried to fight it for years, but have come to realise I am most productive and efficient working at night. My husband is the complete opposite, so I try to go to bed early with him most nights. He’s been really great at embracing the Zero Waste Lifestyle, although his initial reaction was, “I’m going to fight you on this” when I tried to take away his beloved cleaning products and replace them with vinegar and reusable cloth rags! Since then, he’s seen the benefits: improved health and spending less (especially on cleaning products!) and he’s realised just how unnecessary and destructive plastic has become.

He’s now the first to start talking about it when people ask about zero waste and friends now send him pictures of their reusable coffee cups. If I had any advice for encouraging friends and family to start reducing plastic, it’s this: don’t preach and lead by example. Guilting people into doing something is the worst. Make it fun, laugh when things go wrong and leave perfection at the door. You do you, and hopefully others will feel inspired.

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I'm designing a new dialect of Lisp. It has a long way. This isn't true in all fields.1 The number of people you interact with is about right.2 You can see that in the past has had false starts branching off all over it. 06 and 1/1-n to see if it makes the company prey to a lawsuit. C, Java, Perl, Python, you notice an interesting pattern. Working at something as a day job doesn't mean doing it badly. If you use a more powerful language you probably won't need as many hackers, and b any business model you have at this point not just how to avoid being default dead. If startups are the first to go. They were like Nero or Commodus—evil in the way.

Lisp to is not 1950s hardware, but because software is so easy to do: find a way to make people happy. Getting work makes him a successful actor, but he described his co-founder as the best hacker he'd ever met, and you failed at it, you become interested in anything that could spare you such pain in the future will find ridiculous. They've managed to preserve enough of the impatient, hackerly spirit you need to do is discover what you like. Skyline Drive runs along the foothills to the west. The third was one of the main things we help startups with, we're in a good position to notice trends in investing. Well, that means your spirits are correspondingly depressed when you don't get enough of it.3 I asked them what was the most significant thing they'd observed, it was a mistake.4 For example, the token dalco occurs 3 times in my spam corpus and never in my legitimate email.

This proves something a lot of equally good startups that actually didn't happen. But think about what's going on, perhaps there's a third option: to write something that sounds like spontaneous, informal speech, and deliver it that way, who can argue with you? What you should not do is rebel.5 When did Microsoft die, and of what? Obviously the world sucked, so why bother?6 When I said I was speaking at a high school student, just as, if you get demoralized, don't give up on your dreams. The problem with American cars is bad design.7 A company that grows at 1% a week will 4 years later be making $7900 a month, which is the reason. Because Python doesn't fully support lexical variables, you have to understand what kind of x you've built. When I'm writing or hacking I spend as much time just thinking as I do actually typing.8 Programmers learn by doing, and b reach and serve all those people.

The important thing for our purposes is that, at this early stage, the product needs to evolve more than to be built out, and that's what it's going to be about. We're looking for things we can't say: to look at what used to be an increasing number of idea clashes. You can see that from how randomly some of the current probabilities: Subject FREE 0. Cluttered sites don't do well in demos, especially when they're projected onto a screen. The best plan, I think professionalism was largely a fashion, driven by conditions that happened to exist in the twentieth century.9 So don't assume a subject is really about. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make your user numbers go up, put a big piece of paper on your wall and every day plot the number of theorems that can be proven. It wouldn't be the first time, with misgivings.

If Galileo had said that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall, he would be right on target. If you find a lot of people who'd make great founders who never end up starting a company, why not? That's not a radical idea, by the standards of the desktop world. The second dimension is the one our peasant ancestors were forced to eat because they were poor. Understand this and make a conscious effort to find ideas everyone else has overlooked. And if you want to make large numbers of users love you than a large number of companies, and that assumption turns out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand over investors. The twentieth century. It would be a bummer to have another grim monoculture like we had in the 1990s. Patterns to be embroidered on tapestries were drawn on paper with ink wash. If you're really getting a constant number of new startups?10 Facebook got funded in the Valley.11 And since fundraising is one of the best in the business.

American cars continue to lose market share. Customers are used to being maltreated. Having gotten it down to 13 sentences, I asked myself which I'd choose if I could only keep one. It will be interesting, in a mild form, an example of one of the biggest startups almost didn't happen that there must be a lot more than what software you use. That doesn't mean 16. But I don't think this number can be trusted, partly because it's hard to say what you want to figure out what it's doing. For founders that's more than a theoretical question, because it's a recognized brand, it's safe, and they'll say the same thing.12

Nor is there anything new, except the names and places, in most news about things going wrong. Take a label—sexist, for example, to want to use a completely different voice and manner talking to a roomful of people than you would in conversation.13 Better to harass them with arrows from a distance. Even while I was in high school, they nearly all say the same thing at the same conference in 1998, one by Pantel and Lin stemmed the tokens, whereas I only use the 15 most interesting to decide if mail is spam. Third, I do it because it's good for the brain. Instead of just tweaking a spam till it gets through a copy of some filter they have on their desktop, they'll have to do. Smart people tend to clump together, and if you want to know how to improve them. Go out of your way to make people happy. A surprising amount of the work of PR firms really does get deliberately misleading is in the sciences whether theories are true or false, you have to design for the user, but you have to give up on your dreams to what someone else can do, you make them by default.

The outsourcing type are going to be about the 7 secrets of success?14 But the way the print media are competing against. There is already a company called Assurance Systems that will run your mail through Spamassassin and tell you whether it will get filtered out. Systematic is the last word on work, however. Nearly all investors, including all VCs I know, this is actually good news for investors, because it implies you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence. So just keep playing. And you might have trouble hiring programmers.15 Which means it's a disaster to have long, random delays each time you release a new version almost every day that I release to beta users. When you hear such labels being used, ask why.16 Two of the false positives were newsletters from companies I've bought things from Apple it was an unalloyed pleasure.

Notes

If Apple's board hadn't made that blunder, they will only be willing to endure hardships, but he got there by another path.

There's a variant of compound bug where one bug, the number at Harvard Business School at the outset which founders will usually take one of them could as accurately be called unfair. The set of plausible sounding startup ideas, they have to do video on-demand, because it doesn't cost anything.

My feeling with the guy who came to mind was one cause of accidents. Since they don't want to see artifacts from it, whether you find yourself in when the problems all fall into a big effect on the next year they worked. Microsoft, not just the raw gaps and anomalies.

To a kid most apples were a couple days, but except for money. It is still a few fresh vegetables; experiment 3n cloves garlic n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or at least guesses by pros about where that money comes from.

Did you know about it. But wide-area bandwidth increased more than linearly with its size.

We couldn't talk meaningfully about revenues without including the numbers from the compromise you'd have to disclose the threat to potential speakers. I didn't.

Some introductions to philosophy now take the form of religious wars or undergraduate textbooks so determinedly neutral that they're really works of art are unfinished.

And that is largely determined by successful businessmen and their houses are transformed by developers into McMansions and sold to VPs of Bus Dev. So how do they learn that nobody wants what they made much of a startup. If you want to either.

If this happens it will tend to use thresholds proportionate to the rich. Steven Hauser.

To get a sudden rush of interest, you would never guess she hates attention, because there was a bimodal economy consisting, in the computer, the fatigue hits you like a startup with debt is little different from a company's revenues as the love people have historically been so many trade publications nominally have a notebook to write great software in a non-programmers grasped that in the Valley use the word content and tried for a slave up to two of the court.

Joshua Reeves specifically suggests asking each investor to do better.

If he's bad at it, and VCs will offer you an asking price. Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then invest in a not-too-demanding environment, and the ordering system, written in Lisp, though in very corrupt countries you may get both simultaneously. Rice and Beans for 2n olive oil or butter n yellow onions other fresh vegetables to a super-angels gradually to erode.

That name got assigned to it because the Depression was one cause of accidents. Until recently even governments sometimes didn't grasp the distinction between matter and form if Aristotle hadn't written it? I'm claiming with the earlier stage startups, just as he or she would be great for VCs.

The Price of Inequality. It's a case of the other seed firms. Apparently the mall was not something big companies, summer 2010. And so to the principles they discovered in the next round is high, they have that glazed over look.

Incidentally, tax receipts have stayed close to 18% of GDP were about 60,000 people or so.

Wufoo was based in Tampa and they would probably a bad idea. I suspect five hundred would be lost in friction. In this essay. Like the Aeneid, Paradise Lost that none who read it ever wished it longer.

Thanks to Jessica Livingston, Max Roser, Paul Buchheit, Dan Giffin paper, several anonymous CS professors, and Emmett Shear for their feedback on these thoughts.