Lee Rhodes
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I would say day-to-day legacy is... is so much more, you talk about the word sexy, but it is the sexiest part of my day, is knowing that there are people out there sitting in a chemo room somewhere who are going to get They're parking paid for and they don't even know it. And that's something that Glassy Baby did.
That's something that the customers, not me, that's the people buying Glassy Baby, lighting Glassy Baby, believing in Glassy Baby, believing in flame, believing in the way flame touches you, the way color touches you, the way stories, each has a name and a story, the way all of that can be just as important as, you know, as making a million dollars and giving $100,000 away.
That $4 of parking is just so... Yeah. Day-to-day matters as much as the end of your life. And that's one thing you learn, too, when you're sick with cancer or you're working in hospice.
I'm still, you know, I'm still not great at it. I have a great team now, which I'm really excited about. So, I mean, I really do. And I'm thankful every day. But I have made so many mistakes. But they're not mistakes because they're bad or I'm bad, even though, again, Glassdoor. It's that, you know, people need to match. People need to find interesting what you're doing and how you're doing it.
You know, no one works harder than me. No one knows the business better than me. No one's and I'm not a great CEO. I just happen to know what I do very, very well. Like no one knows the insides and outs better. No one cares about it more. No one probably finds the joy of a new glassy baby and the name and the story being out in the world as much as I do.
And so you kind of have to drink the Kool-Aid a little to work for glassy baby. And that's a hard to, that's hard because I don't know who's going to drink it. And I don't think all businesses are like that. I think, you know, I think some restaurants are like, there's some places where there's also passion involved and you got to like buy in. Right. And, um, That's what I would say to people.
I would have people identify whether they're a drink the Kool-Aid business or not. Because if you are, then you need to hire differently than you do for just a road like getting your books done. People that do our books have to figure out, okay, they need to love the fact that we're giving huge checks every month, writing them to giving partners. That's not easy when you're running finance.
There's a lot of things that happen in the small business that – I think kind of being part of the team really at your core and you can't ask someone, you can't pay someone enough to do that. You can't ask someone to be that. And that's where hiring becomes a problem for me because I don't know whoever, whoever it's going to be. And I never, you know, I lose people. I'm not mad at them.
I'm not mad at myself. I hear them when they say you're these five things that are awful. I said, thank you. Yes. I'll try to work harder on those. But then the next person, you know, You'll have the same...
Yeah, letting go. I'm pretty good at letting go. I'm pretty... But I guess I'm also... Because I'm a mom and I'm all those things, you know, I know how to, you see something goes wrong, you fix it, you move on. You fix it, you move on. That's a learned trait. And I, you know, most people you work with don't know that yet. That, you know, like we just had something fall apart completely.
And my executive team was like, okay, well, I've got a photo shoot. I've got a meeting. I've got like, they all had things to do that day. And I was like, oh, hi, everyone. No, regroup.
Concentrate. Fix this. Like, it's like you're going down a river and there's a big boulder in the river. Okay. You're still floating down the river, but you can get around the boulder. Like you can't do anything about that. It's the same thing. You need to get that issue taken care of, put that fire out and then move it aside and don't concentrate it on it anymore.
A lot of people on my team, we have fires and we, God, we got to put the fire out, we got to put the fire out, we got to put the fire out, and then they go ahead and do their thing while the fire is burning. And I think it's learned that you need to get rid of the fire, move it aside, no matter how it, it may come back to you and it may rear its head again and you may lose the opportunity.
That might just be what happens with it, but don't let it sit there. And I think With hiring people and training people, it takes time to give people the confidence to And build up their confidence enough to have them be the ones saying to me, no, Lee, we're not doing that right now. We're fixing this problem. That's what I really want to see in people.
I want to see people taking, if they've taken the bull by the horns and it hasn't worked and the bull's still loose, figure out how to get the, catch that bull and then move forward. I don't want to see the bull running around. And that's a hard lesson to learn.
Yeah. Thank you. It is, it's the most important reason why we all come to work. I know that for a fact, all of us at Classic Baby, because it's hard work. We have a foundation and we give, we give $5,000 baby grants over every month and we give to, And then we give big donations. We give to the environment. We give mostly to cancer.
We give to angel flight that flies patients around who live in rural areas. We give to, we've never really said no to anything doing basic needs, which are my passion. That's what I saw in the cable room. People, you can't get well if your basic needs aren't met.
If you're not having anything to eat and you have chemo all day and then you go home and you have the $1 burger at McDonald's, that's not a McDonald's. It's just simply your body needs more. It needs more nutrients. It needs better food. And so – We like to cover all of those, get into those basic needs. So we do a lot of small organizations that are just doing the really hard work.
I mean, they're running around their cars and delivering handmade food that they made. People like that for us, that's my sweet spot. Like who's really touching people every single day? I do love universal parking. It's kind of a passion for me. Because I did see when I would go to the chemo room, it was $16 every single day when I had chemo. That's $8 an hour parking. That was back in 1997.
No one was alive back then.
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