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- Hey y'all,
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I love showcasing women here in Savannah
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that I admire so much.
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The girls that have followed their dream
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and has made it happened.
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Well, one of those girls here in Savannah is Emily McCarthy,
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and she has made quite a name for herself in design.
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This beautiful store is located on Victory Drive.
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You can't miss it, it's so beautiful,
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but I would like to take y'all
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on a little private tour inside her store.
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I got an invitation from Emily a few weeks back,
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if I would come in and model some of her clothes
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for the spring wardrobe.
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And, of course, I was delighted to do that.
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And I'm wearing one of my favorite tops in the whole world
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that she has designed.
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When you reach a certain age,
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there's things that you can do to hide some flaws.
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And I love this top.
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So come on in.
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Hopefully Emily is here, and you'll get to meet her.
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She is a beautiful, beautiful young woman.
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So y'all, this is the woman I was talking about,
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Emily McCarthy. - Hey guys!
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- And I can't wait for you
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to see her store (Emily chuckling)
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and her tell you her story 'cause it's kinda like mine.
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- Yes, literally.
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Well, thanks for being in here
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today, Paula. - Yes.
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We've known each other a long time-
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- Yes. - And during that time,
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I started my business,
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ironically on the same street as one of your first houses.
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- In our homes. - Yes,
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in our homes. - In our homes.
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- And it's just so serendipitous
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that we're here today. - Uh-huh, I know.
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- And how I got started, I was a graphic designer.
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- Uh-huh.
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- I was designing prints and logos,
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and then that kind of moved into stationary
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and gift products.
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- Yes. - And so,
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that's kind of where it started
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on this side of our retail store.
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So you can see this is still living
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as a part of our brand story.
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So we design many of the products you see here.
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We do mix in some great brands
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that we love and complement what we do,
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like Lake Hersay and Hester & Cook,
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but then we still mix in sort of our signature products,
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and what we become known for. - Yes.
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Yes.
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- So this is a really fun part of the store.
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I like to say like the beginnings of where we started.
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- Yes. - And-
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- [Paula] Because I understand that you did my niece,
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Corrie's wedding invitations. - Yes, I did.
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One of my most favorite wedding invitations.
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- Beautiful!
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- It was inspired by her woodland spode china.
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- Yes. - It was just-
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- Yeah. - It was so beautiful,
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I loved... She was one of those, it was like,
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you do your thing and- - Uh-huh.
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- Come up with whatever- - Uh-huh.
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- You think and it was- - Uh-huh.
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- That's always fun as a designer to be able to do that.
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- Emily, it would be fair to say that you have gone
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nationwide now, right? - Yes, yes.
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So since we began, we obviously started in home and gift.
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- Mm-hmm. - And now I'll kind of
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show you where our brand has
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moved now. - Okay, okay.
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- So we love- - Okay.
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- Our amazing loyal customers.
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Yes? - Let me stop you and say,
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Elaine Siebold gave me this lamp for Christmas.
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- Uh-huh. - I adore it.
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- [Emily] Aren't they so-
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- I adore it. - I love that you can just
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pop them around anywhere. - Yes.
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- [Emily] It's just like instant mood lighting.
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- [Paula] I love it.
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- Right? - Love it, love it, love it.
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And you just hit the top and you got three different levels.
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- Love those. - I just had to tell you
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how much I love it. - I love those.
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So our amazing customers started asking,
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"Why don't you put your prints on clothing or a dress?"
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- Uh-huh. - And I'm like,
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"I don't know how to make clothing."
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(Emily and Paula chuckling)
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So we figured it out,
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and we launched our first clothing brand in fall of 2019.
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And as you can see here,
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this is their Cornelia Dress.
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This is part of our- - This is (mumbling)
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- February collection.
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So we design, now here we are
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six years later designing a full women's clothing brand.
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So we design over 700 SKUs a year.
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So every piece of clothing- - Wow!
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- That you see, we've designed the prints,
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the embroidery, all of our clothing-
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- Wow! - Has all of our
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signature prints on there,
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which stems from where we got started.
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- [Paula] And it looks just like you.
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- Ah, that's- - I mean, you know-
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- The best compliment.
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- You know when you see it.
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- Yes. - Ah, there's Emily.
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- Yeah. (Paula chuckling)
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And then our Poppy Top, which is what-
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- Oh, look at this cute- - Paula is wearing today.
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- Little top, yeah. - This is a
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new Poppy with buttons,
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her name is Bonny.
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But she has this great dolman sleeve,
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and everyone loves her,
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as you know. - Yes.
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- It's just like such a classic.
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- It hide the skins. - And we love to
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pop the collar.
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- Yes. - That's always key.
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But we have our Core Collection too,
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which is what Paula is wearing,
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our best selling styles in just classic
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like colors. - This is great
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for older women. - Mm-hmm, love it.
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- Perfect. - We design
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for the women's body.
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We know that women-
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- Uh-huh. - Are getting older.
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- Yes. - There's things
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we don't wanna highlight,
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and there's things we do-
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- We do. (chuckling) - Wanna highlight.
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So we take a lot of special care
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and intention in how we design our styles
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to make sure- - Yes.
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- That we're complementing,
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and we're helping women feel confident 'cause-
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- Absolutely. - That is everything.
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And if you're not confident,
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then what? - Yes.
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If you feel like
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you look good. - Yes.
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Even going to a grocery store.
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- You feel good. - If someone stops you
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and says, "Oh my gosh, you look amazing today."
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- Uh-huh. - Like how much does
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that change your entire day?
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- A lot, a lot. - So that is our goal, so-
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- And I love the fact
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that you have made this top in all colors.
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- Yes.
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It probably comes in about 10 different colors,
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give or take every season, and different fabrics.
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So you have the faux leather,
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which feels like butter, it is...
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Literally no pun intended.
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Oh my! (chuckling) - It does feel
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like butter, y'all.
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Maybe that's why I love it.
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- I love it, oh! - So.
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(Emily and Paula chuckling)
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(Emily mumbling) (Paula chuckling)
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- But literally that's how we explain it.
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We're like, it truly feels- - Yes, feels like butter.
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- So we have knits now,
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we've got these little great like cashmere tees
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'cause if you're gonna have
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a little knit tee- - Uh-huh.
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- Why not make it cashmere?
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- Oh, yes. - The ultimate luxury.
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We're- - Love your jewelry.
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- Having the green for St. Patrick's Day-
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- Uh-huh. - Since that's coming up-
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- Uh-huh. - In Savannah.
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And some seasonal knits,
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we love these little...
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I love these cozy sets because I feel like-
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- Uh-huh. - It kind of feels like
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you're wearing pajamas, but you're not-
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- Explain this to me. - (mumbling) together.
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Okay, so this is a little skirt.
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- [Paula] Okay, so it's the top.
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- [Emily] This is a skirt, so it's a whole little set.
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- Yes. - With like the tank top.
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- Yes. - And Julia,
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who is here today, we might pass her in our little tour,
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she's wearing this little set.
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- Oh, is she? - Yes.
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- I'd love to see it on her.
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- So, and then we have our-
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- And shoes, they have shoes. - Classic.
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This is a dress version,
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but we have our Oxford top,
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which just has this big dramatic sleeve, which-
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- Oh, I love it! - I just love.
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- I love it. - It's very flattering on.
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So we do a lot of the embroidery.
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- Uh-huh. - So as you can see,
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on my dress and this one,
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so we design all of this. - This is beautiful!
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- And we have this made- - Beautiful!
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- And we go through different fittings and...
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So what a lot of people don't understand
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about clothing is that we are designing a full year out.
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So we're already working on spring of '27. (chuckling)
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(Paula chuckling)
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So ironically we're working- - Wow!
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- On every season at the same time.
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So we're designing spring of '27,
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which is gonna be our nod to Savannah.
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And then we just got in our Holiday samples,
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as our sales team will go to market
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and sell that to retailers.
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- Now where you go to market?
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- So our sales team goes to Atlanta.
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We have an Atlanta showroom-
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- Mm-hmm. - A Dallas showroom-
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- Mm-hmm. - And some of them
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are headed to New York next week.
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- So your retail business
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is huge knit. - Yes.
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So we have about 400 stores that we ship to
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that all represent our brand and their boutiques.
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(Paula applauding) So we're very, very
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proud of that, and so-
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- Now how is your business now?
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- Well, the business technically started in 2009.
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I got into the stationary, and launched-
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- Mm-hmm. - That website-
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- Uh-huh. - In 2012.
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But the clothing piece of it,
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which is really the bulk of our business now.
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- Yes. - Is about six-years-old.
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- Wow, wow! - So, yeah.
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It's gone by really quickly. - That is wonderful.
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I remember going in her first shop on Abercorn.
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- Mm-hmm. - And my niece, Corrie said,
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"I gotta take you to this store."
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And what did I go in and buy?
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(Emily chuckling)
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I bought this in white. - Uh-huh.
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- And man, I bought another color.
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But you didn't have the leather then.
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- No. - I love the leather.
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- That's so, it's so soft (Paula chuckling)
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because the inside is soft too.
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- Yes.
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- And when we go through fabric selections,
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I'm always like making sure
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the backside of the fabric is something
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that is like so comfortable
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that you wanna feel in your skin because-
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- Yeah, yeah. - That's how you feel too.
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- Yes, I feel like I could sleep in this.
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- I mean truly, (Paula chuckling)
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if you would think a faux leather would feel like that.
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(Emily chuckling) - What's the hottest thing
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you've got in the store right now
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that everybody's clamoring for?
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- Oh my gosh.
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Well, everyone is loving the new Oxford tops.
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- Uh-huh. - So I know
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I pulled out the dress.
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We got a hot pink one and a white one over holidays,
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so we did this little stripe. - So cute.
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- And we love a signature trim.
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- Yes. - So you'll see
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that we have this on the cuff. - I did too, mm-hmm.
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- Oh, Julia here has the little knit set on
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we're talking about. - Oh, Julia,
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you're so cute. - Oh, thank you.
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It's so comfortable.
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- [Emily] And this is the Bailey Bomber in a knit,
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which we like for-
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- Yes. - Savannah weather
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'cause it's like transitional.
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You have a little- - Yes.
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- A little white jacket. - (mumbling) feel like
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put together. - Yes.
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And it's like some airy. - Yes, exactly.
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Perfect for our weather.
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- Well, this is adorable.
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- [Emily] As you can truly wear that jacket.
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We've done it in multiple different fabrics.
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This was the first knit one that we've done,
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but like I wore this this summer,
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or last summer we traveled abroad,
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and I took it, I wore it on the plane,
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I wore it everywhere- - Uh-huh.
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- And it was just so easy.
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- It is perfect- - Yeah, it's perfect.
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It's a perfect weight.
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- Mm-hmm. - In Savannah,
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it can be very hot, and then it can get
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(Emily chuckling) cool at night.
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- Well, now it's like cold in the morning,
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and then hot in the afternoon. - Yeah.
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Yes, yeah. - I'll get to work
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and I'm freezing,
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then I'll leave, and I'm like-
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- Sweating. (chuckling) - Ugh, so hot.
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But our Core Collection is what you have on.
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So you can see- - Yes.
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- These are all of our best styles,
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so we have all the neutrals,
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and we have the linen, and then we have the denim.
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So like that top that you love, it also comes in a dress.
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So now once customers- - I love it.
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- Decided they love this style the most,
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we made it in all kinds of different interpretations.
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So we have a dress here, we have a dress that's longer,
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we have like half- - Oh, excuse me,
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I didn't mean to.
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- Oh, it's all right. (Paula chuckling)
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- Get personal with you there. (chuckling)
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- But it's lined, and ooh-
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- Yes. - It feels yummy.
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- So we have a dress, we have, uh...
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And so if you like that collar in that sleeve,
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it comes in so many different options.
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- Here's the leather in the blue-
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- Here's the faux leather in the navy.
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- I love that one. - Love it.
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And we're printing on this leather
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for Holiday of the- - No.
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- We have a leopard print-
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- No. - In this leather.
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Yeah, it's gonna be really, really fun.
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- Oh, how fun! - We love in animal print
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around here. - Yes.
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- But yeah, and so then you kind of get into this
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like saddle leather color. - Uh-huh.
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We call it luggage.
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- [Paula] Yeah.
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- We have it in the black.
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So I mean, again,
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four different kind of color palettes
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in all of our bestselling styles, so.
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- And it seems to me walking around and looking, Emily,
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that your clothes can go to age 18 to 80.
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- You just explained our philosophy perfectly
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without even knowing it.
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We like to say that we're a legacy brand,
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we feel like you can dress in our pieces.
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We have girls that are going through their senior year-
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- Uh-huh. - And needing
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a beautiful white dress for graduation.
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- Uh-huh. - Or they're wanting
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an Easter dress,
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or especially going in their freshman year.
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We dress a lot of these girls for rush parties
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and going to sorority- - Yes, uh-huh.
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- And it's just great because we know
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that they can wear our styles.
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Like we design different styles for different demographics-
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- Yes. - And age groups.
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And so then, all the way multi-generational.
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Julia, who you just met,
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we shot her entire family- - Mm-hmm.
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- In the same shoot that you did,
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but we photographed all the sisters, her mother, her-
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- Oh my goodness! - Nieces.
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- Uh-huh. - So it was such a
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special moment to see all generations-
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- All generations. (Emily mumbling)
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Yes, it's truly one-stop shop.
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- Yes. - No matter how old you are.
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- That's right, that's right.
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So we've got some pajamas too.
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- Oh gosh! - We love a great Pima cotton,
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so soft. - Yes.
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Oh, and look at that collar- - And it has your-
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- There is that collar- - Signature collar
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that you love. - I love.
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- And we've got little comfy pants with a smock waist.
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And then always is a touch in all of our garments,
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we have here the InviteJOY messaging
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that's embroidered on here because-
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- Oh! - And let me show you
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a piece here.
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And all of our garments we sew.
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- I saw that. - A label called InviteJOY,
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and is part of our brand story, and it's my middle name.
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Joy is my middle name and my daughter's.
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So we just felt like this is a way
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to invite joy into your life.
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Every single day- - I love it.
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- When you put on a piece of our clothing-
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- I love it. - It's just a mental note
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to just think- - Yes.
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- About the intention of going into your day
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that you wanna do that. - And here's a little
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tidbit I'll share with y'all.
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Her whole entire family, her husband, her children,
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they're all redheaded.
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- Yes. (chuckling) (Paula chuckling)
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- We're all redheaded, we even got a dog-
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- (chuckling) And it's red. - A (mumbling) Retriever.
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Yes, she's red. (Paula chuckling)
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Because I'm like, why not?
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We might as well, right. - That's right.
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(Emily chuckling) You wanna make her feel
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part of your family. - That's right.
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That's right. (Paula chuckling)
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We joke at anybody that's redheaded
13:23
that comes to work here, they're like,
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"Oh, that must be the first requirement."
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- Oh my! (chuckling) - (chuckling) But not really.
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But it's a running joke. - I adore red hair.
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My mother was a red hair. - Oh, I love that!
13:34
- Uh-huh, so I'm a sucker for red hair.
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- Oh, it's fun.
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And all of our hair is different colors.
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Of course, mine, I gotta help mine a little bit these days.
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- Uh-huh.
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- But my husband's is pretty, pretty dark red,
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our daughter has the most gorgeous,
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she doesn't let me cut her hair really.
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It's so long and thick
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(Paula mumbling) and it is just...
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It is so...
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And there's so many different colors in it.
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There's like a dark auburn-
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- Uh-huh. - And then there's like
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blonde highlights, and it's white.
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- It's so fun. - Our son has gotten
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a little bit more strawberry blonde.
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He spends a lot of time competitive swimming in the pool.
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So I tend to think the chlorine has (chuckling)
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stripped his red a little bit.
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- Is messing his color up.
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- I know, I know. (Emily chuckling)
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So, but he's a boy, he doesn't care.
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- Yeah, he doesn't care. - No.
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- Like the girls.
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- That's right. - Emily has a very
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special section in her store that I want everybody to see
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because I was fascinated by it.
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Emily told me that women- - Mm-hmm.
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- And men will come into her bar area
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and play their games.
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- Yes. - They'll bring
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their games in, they'll play games and have wine.
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- Let's go to the Joy Club. - And you don't have to
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clean up your house- - No, I know.
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- You can do it right here. - You can just do it here.
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So- - Love this.
14:46
- We have a lot of events
14:47
(Paula mumbling) in the store.
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And we just kind of found as part of our hostess philosophy
14:54
here at Emily McCarthy- - Uh-huh.
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- That we wanted a place
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that was welcoming for the community,
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and for all of our friends and family
15:01
and customers to be able to come and spend time together.
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- Yes. - It also-
15:05
- Well, not having to clean up their house.
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- That's right. - So we have,
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this is the Joy Club,
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so we designed it to really embrace
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the little country of Savannah,
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adding a little bit of an elevated flare.
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We have our brand story here, so this is-
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- Uh-huh. - Like all the photos
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over the years of us building the company,
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alongside raising our family and the kids,
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and then we have these fun games.
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So people will come,
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have a glass of wine. - Oh, so you have the games
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for them. - We have games.
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Here we also have ladies that come
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and set up and play Mahjong-
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- Uh-huh. - Multiple times a week here.
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So they love to just come and set up shop.
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Louisa is usually working the bar,
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so you can have beer, wine, or coffee.
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So it's just a fun- - Yes.
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- Place to be. - The deck's usually open,
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especially when the weather's a little bit better
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than it is today. - Yes.
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- But we really spend a lot of time curating wine,
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mostly female wine makers.
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- Uh-huh, good. - So we really try hard
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to really support those labels.
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- Absolutely. - So you can enjoy the bar,
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you can sip and shop,
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and then you can also purchase wine here,
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so a lot of gift giving.
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People love to put a little bottle of champagne-
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- Yes. - In a gift basket.
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So you can do all that here.
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- I love your chandelier. - Isn't it fine?
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We thought it kind of mimicked the Spanish moss.
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- [Paula] Uh-huh, it does.
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- In a modern way. - It does.
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- But we have a lot of fun here. We have events, classes.
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And what you were saying,
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when the women are shopping
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and the men are with them- - Uh-huh.
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- They love to sit (chuckling) in here.
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- Right, they don't mind
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sitting here. - And during football season,
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we'll try to put
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a game on for them. - Right.
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And you got TVs in here? - Yep, right behind you.
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I know there's like me again.
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- Oh yeah. (chuckling) - It's like everywhere
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you are like, they're... (Paula and Emily chuckling)
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- I see that now. - So it's a really fun
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place to be.
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- It really- - It's a really,
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and the ladies- - And truly it is.
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- Especially love it.
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And they always have access,
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we have our new newspaper, The Gold Standard-
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- Uh-huh. - So you can come, sit,
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and read our new little newspaper.
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So that's always- - You have thought
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about everything. - We try.
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- All right, now food. - We try.
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- All right, have you involved food yet?
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- No, we haven't done food.
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It's kind of a layer of things-
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- Uh-huh. - That we're kind of
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working through. - Uh-huh.
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- We do have some charcuterie
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and things that you can purchase.
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- Uh-huh. - And enjoy here
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while you're at the Joy Club.
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And for events we have a lot of local catering partners
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that we'll bring in.
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- Right. - To kind of put that-
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- Right. - That presentation out.
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- Well, I'm so proud of you. - Oh, thank you.
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Thank you. - And like I said, I really,
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I'm big on supporting women
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who have worked hard to pursue their dream.
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And when I started my foundation,
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I started The Bag Lady, the Paula Deen
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Bag Lady Foundation- - Mm-hmm.
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- To help women. - I love that.
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- And their children
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because I was in a boat that I knew I wasn't by myself.
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- Mm-hmm. - There were a lot of girls
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in my boat. - Mm-hmm.
17:56
- It takes a village. - And I love a success story.
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- (chuckling) Don't we all? - Yes.
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- It's fun. - Yes.
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- It's something we didn't really expect,
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but we've pivoted and rolled with it,
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and I can't do it without the village,
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like what you were just saying
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- Yes. - Between here and-
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- Yes. - Personal and family
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and friends, it really takes everyone.
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- Absolutely.
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And gosh, what...
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Did I just lose my train of thought?
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I think I might have. - That's all right.
18:24
(Paula chuckling) It's all right.
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- I can't remember what I was gonna say,
18:27
but it was so important.
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- It was. (Paula chuckling)
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Well, we were talking
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about village and our support. - Oh,
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you said that it was also unexpected.
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- Yes, very unexpected.
18:35
- Do you know, I never went out and pursued anything
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that happened to me.
18:40
- It was all meant to be.
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- God blesses hard work. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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I'm convinced of that. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
18:49
- And all these unexpected things came my way.
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- Mm-hmm, and that's the way this business is growing.
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Like people entered into- - Yes.
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- Our story at the right time,
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and at a time when we didn't- - Yes.
18:58
- Even know that we needed them, and-
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- Yes. - Opportunities presented
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itself like our new facility here.
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- Mm-hmm. - And it all just,
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it's just serendipitous.
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I say that all the time, so. - Yes, yes.
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Well, I'm very proud of you.
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- Thank you, thank you.
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- And I hope you're here serving Savannah
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and the whole nation- - Yes.
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- For many years to come. - Thank you.
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- I can't wait to see- - Thank you.
19:20
- What you do next. - Thank you, Paula.
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Such a fun morning with you.
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- Oh, thank you.
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(Emily chuckling) Back at you.
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I had so much fun in here a couple of weeks ago.
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And the idea came to us,
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why don't we go tell Emily's story.
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- We love it,
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we're here for it. - So thank you for
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sharing with us. - Thank you, Paula.
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- You have a blessed day.
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Love and best wishes, y'all.
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- Bye. - And bless clothes.
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- Yes. (chuckling)
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