Danielle Robison and Flip share personal and business updates: Danny returned from Arizona after her mother's hospitalization, the company held its annual retreat in Ohio, and a North Carolina real estate deal is in final underwriting for a late-December close. They're moving to weekly episodes in 2023 and adding guests.
Hey, everybody flipping in here, Founders of the Freedom Real Estate Group, family of companies, and welcome to another episode of.
Our podcast, which is called Freedom through Passive Income.
That's right. And welcome to another episode. And this is one of our live, live, live episodes that's on locations. He's on location, and I'm on location. And we're going to discuss this here in a little bit. But this is week 49.
Yay.
Only a couple more of these left. I can't believe it. But we'll get into. For those of you watching, you can see that we're in two different locations. We're not sitting next to each other. For those of you not watching, just imagine us sitting in different rooms. But this is. So last Thursday, Danny actually flew to Arizona. And, boy, are her arms tired. Anyway, but because. And I know we talked about this last week, you know, about. About her mom had went into the hospital on Thanksgiving, and so Danny flew over there last Thursday, and I'm going to let her discuss more about what's been going on over there.
Yeah. So flew in Thursday, and we were able to take my mom out of the hospital on Friday. She had had it, like, up to here, probably above my head. We got her home, she started doing exercises. She's getting stronger every day. She is stubborn, determined, and I'm sure that's where I got it from. So she convinced my dad and I to take her to church on Sunday. And everybody that came up to see her was like, I can't believe you're here. And me and dad were like, I know, we can't believe it either, but she made it. She did really great. Obviously was tired when she got home, but everything that she does, like this is getting her stronger and stronger. So that's great. Physical therapy has started, so we're hoping to get surgery scheduled soon.
That is so awesome.
Yeah. The second part of that is you and I, right, Adjusting our schedules and trying to figure out how to. Like, I'm trying to stay on EST time zone, right. So that I've got the morning. So I wake up at 3 o' clock this time to try and, like, get ready and then have some quiet time to do some projects and record, you know, podcast episodes like we're doing now, and. And then be at my mom's house by 10 Arizona time. And then I stay there until the evening and then come back and then call you. And our schedules have been crazy. And I know you've had your own, like, challenges there at home.
Yeah. You know, when we talk about you flying home, I was like, I got this. You know, I'll take care of the dogs. I got this. I've been doing this, no problem. And it has just been. We've been. Well, Rosie's gone because Rosie moved over to a trainer for two weeks. She comes back next week. She's not here this week. And so I got me and the two boy dogs, and we're all just kind of like fish out of water, just kind of staring and just really good. Well, what do you want to do? Hello. What do you want to do? Why don't we just lay around and watch tv? So it's been. It's been weird. And both of the dogs have been. Well, definitely the. The golden retrievers just kind of walk around going, what just happened? I didn't let you go.
So dad. Dad kicked out the women of the house.
It's definitely been an adjustment over here.
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But back in Ohio, though, one of the things we started a few years ago is we started the annual company retreat. And when we started it, it wasn't an annual company retreat. It was actually just the retreat, and now it's become annual, and we're super excited about that. It's been. It's a lot of fun. It's out in the middle of nowhere in Ohio, and it's also super cold there because it's December. But there we did a lot of team bonding activities with a lot of just company bonding activities, you know, and company growth activities. So it was in. And everybody had a lot of fun. A lot of people, you know, let their. Let their hair down or whatever, you know, because it was. We're sleeping in these houses in the middle of the woods, so. But it was a lot of fun. And so they're doing that right now while we're. While she's in Arizona, I'm in Florida, so. So we're. We're having our own little retreat down here by ourselves.
That's right. And a couple of our key members did fly down, and they're going to have an award ceremony today that you and I are going to attend virtually. That'll be. That'll be fun to check out. And then when it comes down to deals, our North Carolina deal is progressing well. Final waters are coming in for closing. Lender is doing their final underwriting, and we hope to close that soon. It's scheduled to close towards the end of December, but we're hoping to close sooner. And it always feels funny talking about this secret deal that we can't give you a Ton of details, and we very vaguely say anything about it at all. But you guys will hear more about it probably in the new year. We might do a podcast episode about 2022 in review and things like that. So that's super exciting. And then Flip and I sat down and really talked about 2023 podcast planning so we could figure it out. Especially because of our distance now with him in Florida and me here, everything seems a little bit harder to get done. Um, and so we're like, we better tackle this, or suddenly it's going to be 2023. We're gonna be like, what are we doing? Um, so we decided to go ahead and start a weekly podcast in 2023. We also decided that. Decided that we are gonna start bringing on guests. So this will be the very first time that we bring on guests to any podcast that we've ever done. Um, we have another podcast that is for our other five companies. Um, it's called Real Talk, which is real talk for real estate investors. And it's spelled kind of funky with the REI for real estate investors. And then a small al is our just fun way to say, hey, Flip and I are very, you know, transparent. And, you know, we just say it like it is. We, you know, you won't get a lot of fluff with us. You know, we're fine with talking about our successes, fine with talking about our failures. Time. Fine with talking about pretty much anything at all. Because this is real life, right? And I think the more authentic you are about the struggles that everybody experiences in business, the more trust, the more that can be built, because you're not trying to hide anything. So that's what that podcast is about. And a lot of our team members help post that podcast. This was our second podcast that we launched, and neither of them ever had guests. So it's going to be really fun to bring on guests to talk about their journey of freedom through passive income. And we're excited to hear other people's stories and be able to share them with you guys.
And let the record show that I was fine with doing two podcasts a day for the next year. You have to limit me down to just one a week. I'm fine with that, too.
It has been a daunting task to do one a day. And with everything we're launching in 2023, oh, I don't know that we could successfully keep it up without being a little grumpy.
And that's funny you say a little grumpy. I'm a big grumpy. And that's okay.
Especially when it gets hard. Like, it's been so easy to run upstairs to our little podcast thing and go whip out some podcasts, and now we're like, okay, we got to record. Is this working? And, you know, we'll just be transparent and just say we've already recorded the two episodes and we had to rerecord because it didn't, like, work. So it always gets. Yeah. A little more frustrating when you're having to learn new ways to do things. So. But we are. We're in the final stretch, Flippy.
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