Micah
Appearances
Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan
Building Your Brand Brick by Brick with Highbrow Hippie’s Kadi Lee
Like, you know, it was just like, I mean, you couldn't tell us anything. We had the time. You had it going on.
Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan
Building Your Brand Brick by Brick with Highbrow Hippie’s Kadi Lee
I've got Kristen Davis, who actually just had a birthday yesterday. Oh, she did?
Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan
Building Your Brand Brick by Brick with Highbrow Hippie’s Kadi Lee
My clients called me the Florence Nightingale of hair color because I was going around in my car in like a full hazmat suit throwing hair color over.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Parental Roles
Well, I have been engaged for a couple of weeks and my fiance already has a two-year-old son, which means that I'm going to be an instant father to a toddler, which raises a few questions for me. What is a father? Is it something that you are or is it a role that you can step into like I'm about to?
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Parental Roles
For the past couple of months, he's been calling me daddy.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Parental Roles
What do you think of that? It makes me feel a lot more pressure than I was comfortable with at first.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Parental Roles
But even though I did feel the pressure, I also felt the conviction that I'd already decided this was the right thing to do. Like you said, you had doubts. What are your doubts? I am worried about it being too much at once. I'm worried about feeling invaded and claustrophobic.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Where are you guys from? So we're from Smith Station, which is close to Auburn, Alabama. Awesome. And how much debt did you pay off?
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Aircraft is anything that flies. Airplane is specifically. So it could be like a helicopter would be considered an aircraft.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Oh, yeah. They're pretty great. It's got to be to go $4,000.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
So I had gotten a new job several months before that, and it was considerably more than I've ever made in my life.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
But several months goes by and nothing's changed. I'm still living basically paycheck to paycheck. And I was like, this isn't okay. Something's got to change. So I remembered from high school, the Dave Ramsey.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
And I was like, hey, we need to do this. And so we did.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
So at the beginning, it was about $160,000 together. And then towards the end, it was about $140,000. Of course, now, because of promotions and stuff, we're back up to about $160,000. Okay, okay.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
I love how quickly she threw you under the bus. It's okay. I'm also the nerd, so it's my own fault. It was a lot of things. It was, yeah, I mean, obviously aircraft, truck, I mean, vacuum, just payments that we had coming through. We didn't do credit cards. I never touched credit cards. But kind of the big thing was we were just buying stuff that just really didn't matter.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
So the first about six months, which is when we paid off all our consumer debt before we got into the mortgage, it was rice and beans. I mean, we weren't eating out hardly at all. We had date night. That was a required thing that we would do. But we cut all the subscriptions up. We didn't buy anything like it was bare bones. Only if we need it, did we buy it?
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Right. The first six months was that. And then we got through baby step three. So we hit four, five and six.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
And so that slowed down that kind of mentality a little bit.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Let us grow a little bit. Um, but towards the end I was like, man, this mortgage just really stinks. And so that's when I started talking to her about, Hey, maybe we should sell the aircraft that we've paid off. Oh, And that's the whole thing.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
How did it feel when you sold it? I was sad. I teared up.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Did you fix it up? Yes. So we got it right before COVID-19. Oh, my gosh. And so the market went crazy high in general aviation. And then on turning that, we put $24,000 into it as well. New paint job, new stuff inside, all kinds of stuff. Wow. So you've got no aircraft now. Well, not mine, no. You fly one professionally, but you don't have your hobby...
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
It's just what I do on the side. I do stuff with Civil Air Patrol. So I fly with them. But on the primary side, I'm actually IT. Oh, nice. So this was a hobby of yours. Correct.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Well, it depends on what I want to do. If it's with Civil Air Patrol, then I have to get a certain mission set for that. And there's all kinds of training requirements and stuff I have to maintain.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Yeah, I would say the number one thing, you're living now. You're not thinking seven years from now. So start thinking about what your life's going to be like and then make the sacrifices now so it can be that. And so it's more of a mature mentality.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
We actually led several Financial Peace University classes as coordinators. And so we had our parents and stuff who were happy for us. They weren't necessarily on board with everything we were doing, but they were happy that we were going down this path. But it really was each other and just...
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
With the credit cards or just in general? Credit cards. Credit cards. I would point out something that's been brought up several times is obviously statistics, right? I'm a big statistics guy, being IT, right? Very numbers-oriented, being the nerd. But on top of that, I would bring up what these credit card companies do and who they target with their advertising and who they're going after.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
This is casual, baby.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
I dated Ben for a while. Your? Your? My track record was. Well, I was like, what? No, literally, you couldn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
And he's, like, got biceps, 12-pack, curly hair. And I'm just like, is this Taj Mowry? No hands, no feet, no neck. And she was like, yeah, he looks like Taj Mowry. And I'm like.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
Why are you turning red? She's pissed. Hawaiian.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
My lashes, like, please.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
Your man is not on reality TV.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
One thing Lara hates is a poorly dressed man.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
There is no room for error. Do not show me your belly button. Get your shit tailored. I don't want to see your belly button. Literally. No pattern. No.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
I'm colorblind. I don't see color.
What's the Reality?
The PODcast is Officially Open with Love is Blind's Micah and Laura
No, that was like... I remember when that first came out.