April 5, 2026

Living IN Parish | Local Leaders The Podcast #223

Living IN Parish | Local Leaders The Podcast #223
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In this episode, Jim Chapman sits down with Lizzie Baudoin as she discusses Living IN Parish Magazine. This new addition to Livingston Parish will cover the lifestyle and culture that makes Livingston Parish such a unique place to live, work and play!

You can learn more about Living IN Parish Magazine by visiting: https://www.livinginparishmagazine.com

Timestamps:
01:36 Meet Lizzie and Her Vision
02:47 The Birth of Living in Parish
06:37 Influences and Inspiration
11:14 Challenges of Launching the Magazine
13:49 Content Expectations of Living in Parish
15:45 Community Engagement and Contributions
16:52 Distribution Plans for the Magazine
18:38 Funding Through Advertising
20:18 Connecting with Local Business Owners
21:45 The Growth of Livingston Parish
23:16 Launch Party Excitement



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Local leaders the. Podcast hey, everyone and welcome back To

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Local leaders the.

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Podcast AND i have a guest sitting.

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Across from me that actually HAS i would call it

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a fairly new. Business it is taking shape In Livingston

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parish and it is directly centered Around Livingston, parish So

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i'm gonna have her introduced. Myself we're going to talk

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about her, business talk about the great things that they're

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doing doing.

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And what they foreseeing in the. Future so introduce.

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Yourself my name Is Elizabeth, bodenway but everybody calls Me,

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lizzie AND i am the co owner Of living In parish.

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Magazine and who do you co own that?

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WITH i co own it with my, Mom but we

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have two completely different aspects that we cover with. It

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so we, uh it's like a perfect. Pair you wouldn't

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think working with your mom is a good. Dynamic it

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sure is for.

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Us a little bit of yen and a little bit of.

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Yang never hart in, business that's for, sure and you

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need somebody that has a different perspective on things and

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usually that's the spark that lights the, fire as they,

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Say so you have a, Business first of, all when

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did you really start focusing on this?

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Business so my mom has had this vision for this

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magazine for about ten, years but she never had like

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the creative aspect for. It she just knew business wise

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that she wanted to do this because there was a

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gap in the industry. Here and this was way BEFORE

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i was even in high, school AND I i don't,

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KNOW i got home from college AND i started working

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with her in the industry at the newspaper In Point,

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coupee and she was, like holy, cow you are selling.

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Amazing your articles are. AMAZING i have had more positives

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in the past three months Since i've hired you on your.

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Writing AND i knew THAT i was getting that responsible

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because people were emailing me, like, wow this your your

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writing is so refreshing for this. Industry Point coupee really

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needed something like, this and so, Mom mom was, like, well,

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look you, Know i've been wanting to do this magazine

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for god knows how. LONG i think that you AND

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i would work perfectly together on. It like you, Said

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yin And. Yang she does all the business, aspects the,

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layout the, graphics she does it all organically by, herself

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AND i do all the, righting, photography creative marketing and.

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Advertising and we just one day In november she was,

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like are you ready to Launch january? First AND i

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THINK i had. Planned she told it to me on A,

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friday AND i had plans to go to the, oh

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what is it The Renaissance. Festival, yes it was around that,

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time AND i was, like, okay, WELL i go to

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The Renaissance festival in the, MORNING i, said WHEN i get,

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back can you have a? Logo, Maide i'm going to

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go ahead and make A facebook for. It and by

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the TIME i got, back she had the logo made

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AND i was, like. Perfect we decided on some, colors and,

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uh it just skyrocketed from. There we got an immediate

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response On facebook from it.

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All if you we now tell me you.

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Know, incidentally the name of this magazine Is living In,

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parish which is pretty pretty.

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Good so it started WITH. I, HONESTLY i looked up ON.

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CHATGEPT i was, like give me fifty this is WHAT

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i want to. Do give me fifty examples of a good,

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name and, honestly none of them. STUCK i think the

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only good one THAT i really liked was Called down The,

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road AND i was, LIKE i don't. Know mom said

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that was too. Bumpkin she wanted to call it Next,

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gen AND i was, like In living To, parish you

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can't have anything that sounds too, modern. Right it needs

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to be community focused and Next gen does not sound community.

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Focused SO i suggested down The road and she was,

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LIKE i don't like. That that sounds too, bumpkin AND

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i was, like. OKAY i thought about it for a

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little bit AND i was, Like Livingston, Parish Livingston, parish

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AND i was thinking about other examples of magazine names,

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nationally AND i don't, know living In parish just like

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stuck with. ME i didn't Even, chatgypt did not spit

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that out to. ME i was just, like, NO i

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think that's what we need to name. It AND i

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told it to her and she was, like, YEAH i

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like that. Name and it's just enough to confuse, people

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but they kind of understand ONCE i start talking to

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them about. It they're, like, oh it's not Living Ston parish,

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magazine it's living In. PARISH i was, like, yeah it's

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a play on.

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Words, yeah, YEAH i like. It it's it's definitely good

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play on. Words and it stood out from the, beginning

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AND i think it kind of speaks to what the

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magazine is before you ever open the, magazine WHICH i

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feel like is very. Important you mentioned, that you, know

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you were still in high school when this was kind

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of and maybe even before, that when this was surfacing

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and swirling around in your mother's. Mind but you, know

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you're not an old person sitting across from.

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Me.

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Now i'm used to sitting across from forty to fifty six.

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Years, old and you're a little bit younger than. That

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SO i would say it's.

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Not many young people that are establishing businesses at your.

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AGE i think that might be. Fair there's a few out,

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there but the majority your. AGE i know WHEN i

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was your, age establishing your business was at about the

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bottom of my.

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List so what do you attribute that?

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TO I, well first of, ALL i attribute my writing

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to my. Creatives all the way from elementary school to high,

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SCHOOL i was always. Writing you can ask any of my.

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TEACHERS i always favored My english. TEACHER i actually got

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a thirty six on My English. Act. NOW i aced

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every essay from my first leap test on AND i don't.

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Know there was just always that creative aspect to my.

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Writing AND i guess it's because of my family, history

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Which i'm sure we'll get to. Later but what attributed

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the business to my mindset? IS i really have to

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say it's because of OUR otc in high. School it

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really drilled that the fourteen leadership traits of The Marine

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corps into. Me AND i could say in my four

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years OF rotc At Denim Springs High, SCHOOL i definitely

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developed more leadership traits in those four years than ever

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and it really helped me through college and now just

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every aspect of my. LIFE i take those fourteen traits with.

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Me and obviously at FIRST i thought that was going

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to be specifically for The Marine, corps but life did

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not take me that way in college AND i really

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found my calling in doing this instead marketing business In.

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English, yeah and you, know of, Course colonel Bias is

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that was the.

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Leader of that. Program i'm sure when you were. There

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he's gone, now but my.

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Son was in that program as. Well and a phenomenal

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program WAS rtc and still is At Denhim Springs High.

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School probably one of the probably one of the best

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programs That i've scene initiated At Denhim Springs high and

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that was that was a big deal when it first came.

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Around Congressman Garrett graves is who kind of pushed that

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through and it was a great thing for this community

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when and, NEEDED i feel like at that. Time so

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and you mentioned obviously you went To Denham Springs High,

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school but you did mention your history a little, bit

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your family.

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History tell me a little bit about.

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That so my great grandfather bought The Livingston Parish news

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in nineteen sixty four and he passed away in seventy.

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Seven my, grandfather my grandfather took it Over Jeff david

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in seventy, seven and my mom worked there and managed

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it for about twenty. Years and when he passed away

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in twenty, fifteen that is when we kind of migrated

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To New roads and doing the newspaper. There of, course

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now The Livingston Parish news is owned by my Uncle

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McHugh and we still have a great relationship with.

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Them, yeah and.

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So we it's just A i take that experience from

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that and being raised in that. ENVIRONMENT i was there

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every day WHEN i was in middle school AND i

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went to d S. Jh my grandfather Had he actually

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went to a city council meeting and was trying to

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make sidewalks built so THAT i could walk from d

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s J h to the. Newspaper and he, WAS i

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don't care if they have a what's that road HATCHEL

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i was, LIKE i don't care if they extend the

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sidewalks past the. NEWSPAPER i just need to make sure

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that they're FROM djo the Living Stool Parish news. Building

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and it's like in my, HEAD i could close my

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eyes and still hear the back press running and the

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sound that the door made when you'd push it, open

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when you'd open, It AND i remember walking out and

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the time would change and we leave the building at

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five o'clock And i'd look up and, say, oh it's

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dark house side at five. O'clock and you, know it's just.

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You you have different things engraved in your head from your,

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childhood AND i definitely attribute a lot of this industry's

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success to me being raised in that.

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Environment, yeah it was in the. Blood you.

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Know it sounds like a lot of history there. Now

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getting back to your, Magazine so this this became a,

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thought then it became an, action and then you built

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The facebook, page you started kind of promoting it out.

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There what were some of the early.

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On challenges that you had that Maybe i'm sure you

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saw some, coming and like all business, owners some of

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them we never see come until they're like staring at.

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Us, well at, first we had a goal of we're

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gonna launch our Website january, first and then we are

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going to launch print the Following, january and we obviously

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exceeded that goal, now but we had a couple of

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technical difficulties with our website took about another month to get,

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upgoing WHICH i it hurt me a lot because a

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lot of people were expecting that website Announcement january, first

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AND i built up to it for a while and

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it just didn't, happen and SO i it was kind

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of complicated for. Me LIKE i, said it took another

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month for it to get, up and that was not

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because OF i was just technical difficulties that we didn't,

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foresee but because of the response that we've received in the.

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Past how many months have we been doing, this like five?

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Months four?

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Months we are able to print starting In. April we

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kind of set that goal In january once we had the,

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website kind of idea of flowing in everybody's brains and

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we were, like, no we just need to do the.

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Print we need to have a physical and we just

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it brought a whole other aspect to the business, perspective

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showing that we would have a physical and we'd literally

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be able to physically represent the community versus just an online. Presence,

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yeah we do have a large online, presence BUT i

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would love for that to reflect in our print as,

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well just BECAUSE i Know i'm not the only person

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that appreciates a physical in your hand.

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Copy Of Oh i'm the same. WAY i would much

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rather have something to hold and read than.

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You.

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Know a lot of times.

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You'll find articles on The internet and you'll see a,

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headline but maybe it's your, phone and you know you

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don't have the best eyes.

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Anymore like, yours, truly and you don't want to sit

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there and have to strain your eyes to read that.

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Thing and it's nothing like having a physical copy in

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front of you and then you can pick it up

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and read it whenever you want and whenever you have.

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Time really is the aspect. There so you work through those.

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Challenges though obviously you got your website up and, running

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and we want to talk about your magazine in, particular

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what can you expect.

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When you open up a copy Of living In.

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Parish so we have been working with a lot of other.

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Contributors it's not just my mom AND i of course

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where the brains behind, everything but WE i can't think

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of my success without thinking about my. Contributors we're going

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to have a recipe From Hemail's Cajun kitchen every single

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month relating to the theme of the. Issue so this

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upcoming month In. April the issue is themed mudbugs And,

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magnolias and so he's going to have a really, good

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a two fa recipe as soon As i'm not going

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to say as soon as you open the. Magazine there's

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gonna be a few contributors pages, first and then, uh

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when we get to the content in, there it's going

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to be a. Recipe i've been working With Terry, taylor

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who is another big content creator specifically In Livingston, parish

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and he's going to be doing my food reviews for.

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Me so it's it's gonna be less of a review

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more of like a an, offering like this is what

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this restaurant that's local has to, offer and this is

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what we tried and what we recommend from. That it's

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not going to be like a rant or. Rade obviously

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it's gonna be a, raeve but it's not gonna it's

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just gonna be.

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It will be a, critique right exactly.

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Exactly and then we have a couple of other. Contributors

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faces of The parish is just business features based on

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the business owners, themselves and then we are going to

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have like an art, section a classroom, section pet, section

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events because our schedule doesn't launch on the first of the.

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Month with our, event it's not going to be a.

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Calendar it's more just going to be a showcase of

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what to expect coming.

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Uh i'm trying to think of what. Else we're gonna

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have a lot of columns in there from other local

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business owners that would want to put anything out there

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just to get another form of visibility in, there and

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nonprofits as. WELL i have a nonprofit section just for

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like events that they have going on that are fundraising

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or different resources that they have throughout the community to

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be able to help people around the.

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Community very good and so it's going to be different

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in the effect of it won't be your traditional news

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where you've got you, know these crimes took place or

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you know there's a place for, that and that's not

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what your magazine.

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Is going to be more centered.

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Around it sounds to me like life inside Of Livingston

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parish and just the the arts and culture of the parish.

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And things of that.

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Nature would that be, Accurate, yes living In, paris that's.

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It so you talked about features.

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In the magazine and in this magazine, incidentally we do

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want to mention it's there's.

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No cost to. It it'll be, Available, uh in various.

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Locations do you do you have any locations in mind

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yet that people can expect to pick it up when

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it is.

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Element, YES i have a list on my, phone but

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my phone is not.

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Various.

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Places various PLACES i can name a few Now Frogs.

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Market we really just wanted to distribute all throughout the.

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Parish so not only could you expect to see us

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on tables and markets that you wouldn't expect that our

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contributors would be, at but you can also expect us

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From springsfield To. Denham in, fact we're printing And. Hammond

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that way we can distribute south and instead of it

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Being denham, centered BECAUSE i Understand denham is a bubble

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to everybody that lives in, it we wanted to distribute coming.

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NORTH i guess we're in north and that way there's

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no skipping out throughout the. Parish and we have a

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pretty even distribution all throughout the entire, parish even Like, Mara, Paul,

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Albany French settlement Or vincent and so WE i mean

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we we have a lot of very positive response you

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can expect to pick it up. At LIKE i, Said

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Frogs Free, Science Big, Mics French, Settlement Roasting co's new,

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Cafe more To, Love Wildcat, nutrition and that's just to

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name a.

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Few, yeah and so it sounds like you're going to

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hit all corners Of paris, Really so whether you live

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In French settlement, there you live right here in the

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heart Of Denim, springs you'll be able to access the.

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Magazine and that's important now because it's. Free, obviously printing,

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it managing a, website having a website, built none of

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that is, free and so there's a cost.

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There and how are these costs paid?

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For so it's paid for completely by. Advertising i've had

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a lot of response from smaller business owners that sure

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will have their day in my magazine one way or

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other's saying that my prices are a little too, high

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and it's because we have to account the printing. Costs

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we don't skimp out on quality. Whatsoever that magazine will

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not feel free to pick. Up it'll feel like you

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have to pay ten dollars to pick it, up and it's.

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Not we want for it to be a resource to the.

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Community so our advertising prices or that completely pays for

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it by. Itself and we haven't really had that much,

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pushback and LIKE i, said even the smallest businesses will

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have their day in. It we have a couple of

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new ideas that are going to be coming out to

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be able to help those smaller guys that can't really

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afford to pay for a full page in the. Magazine

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and we completely understand. That, sure but LIKE i, said

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it's going to be completely paid for by, advertising and

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LIKE i, said we don't skimp out on quality or

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anything like. That it's gonna be on soft touch, paper

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there's not gonna be any staples in. It it's going

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to be bound with a. Spine, yeah it's gonna be good.

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Quality AND i just wanted to make sure that our

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advertisers that are paying however much they're paying for our,

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advertising that they feel like it's worth.

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It, yeah that they're getting what they're paying for as

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far as and.

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They see where that money's, going which is you, know

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an important thing for an advertiser in addition to THEIR

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r OR. Y so what would you say your favorite

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aspect of doing what you're doing is.

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Definitely going out and speaking to other business. Owners it's

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something THAT i. Have at FIRST i was very nervous,

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about BUT i have appreciated it and appreciated the response

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That i'm getting just from, them not just from the,

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community about how much we've needed. This because the magazine

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isn't just business centered like other magazines, are and it's

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not just community centered like other magazines. Are it's an

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aspect of. Both you can expect for business owners to

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pick it up to be reading their their articles about their,

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businesses but you can also expect people to be picking

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it up to learn about the events around the local

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community or what kind of resources they have around the.

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Parish so we have a wide demographic and we're expected

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to print ten thousand copies starting In april, monthly so

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we can attest to being able to reach all of

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those demographics as, well just with the sheer amount that

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we are going to be printing even starting. Out and,

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so LIKE i, said the biggest thing THAT i appreciate

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now Since i've started doing this is being able to

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speak to other business owners that completely understand Where i'm

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coming from and WHY i started.

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This, sure and you, know it's important to keep in

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Mind Livingston parish is not what it was ten years,

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ago fifteen years, ago even thirty years. Ago it is

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the fastest growing parish in the state Of. Louisiana it's

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a massive parish relative to its, size and it used

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to be primarily. Rural but that is that is slowly but,

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surely uh not occurring. ANYMORE i, mean you are getting

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a lot of people moving into this. Parish it seems

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like there's no end. Insight AND i know some people

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don't like, that and uh they want to stay out

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in those rural areas and and don't want. Neighbors and

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the OLDER i, get the MORE i get, it believe. Me,

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uh but it's, common, folks and you have to Have.

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UH i couldn't think of a better time to have

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a magazine out that focuses on the culture of the people. Here,

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uh everything from the food to the, arts to the. Downtown,

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look we've got a downtown historic district here that it

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is a beautiful part of our not our parish in

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the city Of Denham, springs and and it deserves as

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much promotion as it can possibly. Get we have all,

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well CON's other little nuggets in this parish that not

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many people are familiar with unless you spend a lot

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of time driving around the parish or you've been, here

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your entire. Life so anything that features, that to me

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is a good thing and a positive.

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Thing for the.

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Parish SO i commend you for that for. Sure if

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someone is interested, in you, know, HEY i would love

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to have one hundred copies of magazine or something placed

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at my. Business would they just email you on your

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website or how would that go?

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About, yep you could just go ahead and email. Me

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my email is, public my cell phone number is. Public

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you can give me a call AND i will put

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you on my distribution list and it will be no

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problem for anybody to just carry however many copies they

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like in their.

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Business, yeah very.

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Good and you actually have a launch party coming up pretty.

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Soon tell me about.

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That so we are having our launch party at The

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Aspen room next To Big MIC's On april, sixteenth store

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already at four. Pm but it's gonna kind of be

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like a come as you are. Event we're looking from

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four to seven o'clock because it's during the. WEEKS i

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want as many business owners to be able to come as.

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Possible we are going to be doing a ribbon cutting,

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there but that's not going to be the main aspect

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of the. Event we're going to be doing a cover

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reveal for Our april, Edition So i'm going to try

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my hardest to keep it a secret until. Then i'm

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speaking with a lot of business owners about, partnering And i'm,

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like do you want to see the? Cover like it's

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it's Keep it's getting hard for me to keep a. Secret,

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Sure i'm going to try and until the, party and

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we're going to do a huge reveal just of the,

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cover and we're going to have however many COPIES i

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can bring in there at once for everybody to. Read

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and the big point of it is that it's going

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to be the day before our, distribution so it's going

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to be a place for our, contributors for business owners

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alike or anybody that would want to come and hear

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about the magazine to be able to be there and

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read it before anybody else gets. To we are also

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going to be doing a silent, auction AND i just

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wanted to have another aspect of this event for smaller business.

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Owners LIKE i, said they will have their day here

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for them to donate goods to be able to be

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presented in front of these bigger people that will be

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at this launch party and get their name more out.

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There all of the proceeds from That Silent auction are

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going to be donated To Launch therapy because it's a launch.

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Party right look at you with them play on wards

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twice in one.

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Podcast, right very, good and give me that date again

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for people and.

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Meamos it's going.

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To be On april sixteenth at four pm At fast

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starting at.

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Four but you can show up as you get off

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work or, whatever or as you're headed home and photo.

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Booth we're going to have huge balloon. Displays we have

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a lot of small businesses that are just looking to

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itching to get get a little get a piece of

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their business out there at this.

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Party very.

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Good, so if anybody would want to donate anything to

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The Silent, AUCTION i don't have a minimum, price but

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all of the proceeds are going to be donated To

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launch and we are still accepting donations for. That we

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are also looking if for any, vendors like event vendors

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that would want to be. Included just to reach out to.

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Me you, KNOW i do anything to be able to

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support any kind of local.

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Business, sure so very. Good any final.

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Thought anything you want to, MENTION i guess.

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Look for that magazine to come out.

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Soon, Yes Livingston parish is the ninth biggest parish out

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of sixty. Four so when you think about the demographics

479
00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:50.000
of that and just how much these. BUSINESSES i, mean

480
00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.559
our parish is made of a million and one small

481
00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:56.759
businesses and WHATEVER i can do to be able to

482
00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:01.279
support them over a, Franchise i'm going to do. It

483
00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:03.240
and that's kind of the whole focal point of this

484
00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:09.039
magazine is just to really keep economics, here keep everything,

485
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:15.440
local and give a grounding to the community of everything.

486
00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:16.839
Local it's very.

487
00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:20.279
Important and you, know a long time, AGO i had

488
00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:24.079
a dream that one, day, uh this parish would be

489
00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:27.839
less of a bedroom community and more of a. Destination

490
00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:31.920
AND i think forever we have been a veteran. Community

491
00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:35.000
everybody leaves The Livingston parish to get to, work, right

492
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:39.839
and so even in WHAT i, do one of my

493
00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:43.960
goals with that was to feature how many great things

494
00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:47.759
we have here in the way of business and business

495
00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.680
owners and the hustle that exists in this. Community it's

496
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:56.480
SOMETHING i spotted many many years. Ago and so this

497
00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.519
is just another additional business that's coming into the parish

498
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:04.720
that's been here that is going to feature this. Parish

499
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:07.279
you said at ninth largest parish in the, state and

500
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:09.519
a lot of people would be shocked to realize that

501
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:13.440
the fastest growing parish in the state relative to the

502
00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.400
amount of people coming. IN a lot of people would

503
00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:18.960
be surprised to learn. That so we're not the world's

504
00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:22.519
best kept secret any. Longer people are figuring it. OUT

505
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:25.480
i went to a, new a brand new, business a

506
00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:30.599
chicken joint On Jubin, road just last, week AND i

507
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.240
mean the line was out the door and around the,

508
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:36.119
building and they had An olympic champion rustler there THAT

509
00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:39.480
i was very familiar with and a FORMER ufc. Fighter

510
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.920
and who would have thought you would have saw that In,

511
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:44.279
Livingston paris five years.

512
00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:46.519
Ago so at The Dave's Hot chicken, opening AND i

513
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:48.880
am going to add, THIS i was actually the first

514
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:51.799
customer that. Day my fai was free because of, it

515
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.799
AND i got a hat signed By TRIPLE. C, Yeah

516
00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:57.160
i'm so. Excited my boyfriend's very excited about.

517
00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:58.079
That did you meet The?

518
00:28:58.119 --> 00:28:59.559
Schmoe, YES i met The.

519
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.640
SCHMOE i dig that. Style, yes, YEAH.

520
00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:07.720
I know he was wearing he was wearing some fancy shoes.

521
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.599
And in a belt. Buckle, YES i was standing.

522
00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:13.039
With my friend who works At Five Star, Printing, jenna

523
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:15.920
she does their, marketing and we've known each other our entire.

524
00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:19.480
Lives and she was, like he's Wearing Balenciaga's i've never

525
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:20.000
seen that.

526
00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:22.200
Here, yeah He's.

527
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.480
Uh he's a heavy influencer in the in the world

528
00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.599
of mixed martial arts and always around those. Events i've

529
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.279
been familiar with him for a little, while but, uh

530
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.839
WHEN i walked up to, HIM i, said you're the

531
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:36.119
schmoo and he, said and you're the.

532
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:39.599
BRO i, said you're right about. That, YEAH i am the.

533
00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:42.839
BRO i try and go to as many ribbon cuttings

534
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.039
AS i, can AND i try and write about all of.

535
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:49.279
THEM i just really want to center as much of

536
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:53.079
the as much of this parish around my magazine AS i,

537
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:55.960
can and support anybody THAT i, can franchise or. Not.

538
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.440
Wonderful Dave's Hot chicken is a, franchise but you know

539
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:00.279
every franchi as.

540
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:00.559
LOCAL.

541
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.079
Ok, yeah that's, RIGHT i, mean and people need to

542
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:05.599
keep that in, mind just because you're buying from a,

543
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:08.880
franchise whatever it. Is if it's a franchise, business it

544
00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:13.559
has local, ownership unless it's like even McDonald's McDonald's is

545
00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:16.680
a good. Example they're not From Livingston, parish but that

546
00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:19.720
family is right right there In Baton rouge that owns

547
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:24.079
all those locations. Exactly so it doesn't mean you're not

548
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:27.319
supporting local because you buy from a. Franchise and plus

549
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:30.799
you're keeping the money here and not chipping it off somewhere,

550
00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:31.480
else which is.

551
00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:33.480
Nice you, Know i'm gonna give a little bit of

552
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.359
intel about. Me my first job was. McDonald's ACTUALLY i

553
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:38.759
worked at the McDonald's On florida and WHENEVER i was

554
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.119
sixteen years, Old AND i guess this is also like

555
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:44.160
a good aspect of HOW i got WHERE i. AM

556
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:47.960
i started A facebook GROUP i was sixteen years. Old

557
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:51.680
That facebook group was called McDonald's Crew Member memes and

558
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:54.279
it now has one hundred and ten thousand people in,

559
00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:58.000
it just McDonald's workers that all related to each other

560
00:30:58.039 --> 00:30:59.960
on a certain. Level AND i started that by myself

561
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:01.839
WHEN i was sixteen years. Old i'm twenty one. Now,

562
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.720
yeah one hundred and ten thousand people in, it and

563
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:08.519
it's still very very, active, Right so that's kind of

564
00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:10.119
an intel THAT i don't really tell a lot of.

565
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:14.759
People it's kind of embarrassing, honestly but it does kind

566
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:19.400
of show LIKE i SINCE i was a. Teenager it

567
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:22.799
is something That i've been passionate about just. THIS i

568
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.000
would hate to call it content creating BECAUSE i don't

569
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.759
see myself as a content creator AND i hate being.

570
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:28.680
Still, yeah there's there's kind of A i do.

571
00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:32.079
TOO i hate painting myself into a. Box and they're you,

572
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:35.599
know content creators are to, me or people that walk

573
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:38.880
around and they you know they're doing they're clipping out their.

574
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.000
Life, uh there's.

575
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:45.759
A difference between that and, reporting for, example reporting on,

576
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:49.440
businesses reporting on, culture reporting on.

577
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.000
Restaurants these are those are to.

578
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:55.799
ME a concrete content creator is a part Time i'm

579
00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:58.799
just out there promoting myself, right with big.

580
00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:01.720
Difference What i'm doing is full. Time it takes up

581
00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:02.079
all of my.

582
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:05.160
TIME i get, it trust, me if anybody gets, It

583
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.519
Jim chapman does no doubt any final.

584
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.839
Thoughts, NO i think that's gonna be.

585
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:15.319
IT i want to shout out your, website so let's do.

586
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.480
That shout that.

587
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:20.960
Out so my website Is living in parishmagazine dot com

588
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.200
and it is completely. Free all of my articles are.

589
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:25.440
Free it's free to look at anything and all of

590
00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:27.400
my sections are on. There anything that's going to be

591
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:30.079
in my physical magazine will be on my, website.

592
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.119
And no, paywalls no.

593
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:36.400
Paywalls everything everything with my magazine is completely, free completely free.

594
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:39.160
Resources we do sell advertising on our website and it

595
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:42.680
is our cheapest advertising at two hundred dollars for three whole,

596
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:46.400
months and SO i definitely recommend that to anybody that's

597
00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:52.799
smaller Our i'm trying to think of our numbers for.

598
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:54.319
THAT i know in our first thirty days it was

599
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:57.839
six thousand people on my. WEBSITE i know just last

600
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.119
week our main, advertiser who is The Abbey clanch she

601
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:06.920
does my. Hair she's amazing small. Business her advertisement on

602
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:09.960
the website got one hundred clicks just last, week one

603
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:13.000
hundred people visiting her website off of.

604
00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:13.759
Mine very.

605
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:15.880
Good SO i would definitely recommend if you have a

606
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:17.680
small business and you want to be able to contribute

607
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:20.240
in some kind of, way just running it out on my.

608
00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:22.559
Website it won't.

609
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:27.000
Hurt, yeah, yeah it certainly wouldn't. Urt And i'm going

610
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:27.839
to link.

611
00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:31.000
That website in the description of this podcast of whether

612
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:34.279
you're listening to it or watching the video, version it'll

613
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:34.720
be length.

614
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:36.880
There so if you're driving down The word or something like,

615
00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:38.559
that no. Worries when you get to where you're.

616
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:43.759
Going just look in the. Description you'll see that the

617
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.839
actual physical. Launch BECAUSE i know people are going to

618
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:50.200
want to hear this, again what day is that selected?

619
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:52.680
For so we are going to be doing a launch

620
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.480
party On april, sixteenth and we are going to be

621
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:56.720
Distributing april.

622
00:33:56.759 --> 00:34:00.200
Seventeen, okay there you, go and look there's laws. Bunch

623
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:01.000
parties are a big.

624
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:04.279
Deal and WHEN i think of, That, Look i'm older

625
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:06.720
than you are by just a couple of. Years but

626
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:09.000
WHEN i think about, THAT i think about When JOHN.

627
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:14.079
F Kennedy junior Launched. George uh that was a huge.

628
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:18.519
Deal AND i remember seeing him pull The they had

629
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:21.800
a big super imposed, cover, right it was like four feet.

630
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.599
Tall it was on a big easel and he was.

631
00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:26.800
In New york and he pulls that thing off and

632
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:29.760
it Was Siddy crawford and she was dressed Like George.

633
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:32.880
Washington it was a great cover if you appreciate that

634
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:36.480
sort of. Thing and uh, so who knows we're gonna

635
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:36.960
make yours that.

636
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:41.639
Big we'll expect that expect four foot cover print and

637
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:43.000
we are going to be pulling That.

638
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.119
Sidney crawford on it and in front of the antique.

639
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:48.960
District, WELL i am going to be. HONEST i will

640
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:50.519
give a little intel on the. COVER i, KNOW i

641
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:56.119
but our issue is mudbugs and magnolias and the feature

642
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:59.320
business for the cover is pinch and peel. Crawfish SO

643
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:01.880
i guess it's not going to Be Cindy, crawford but

644
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:03.920
it'll be uh, casey.

645
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:07.920
There you. Go we'll take. It and, look he can't

646
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:10.800
beat the timing on. That it is crawfish, Season there's

647
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:14.480
no doubt about. It so thank you for coming. On

648
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:15.280
shout out to.

649
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.840
You, look shout out to your mother who put a

650
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:19.360
lot of belief in her daughter.

651
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:21.760
There, yeah and.

652
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:26.039
Not only, that but also, look as a, PARENT i

653
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:30.719
can tell you it's it's not easy to kind of

654
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.480
let go of a little bit of, control especially to

655
00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:37.440
your own, child and have that. Trust so shout out

656
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:39.920
to her for having that trust in you to know

657
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:42.920
you can handle your side of that. Business oh, yeah

658
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:43.559
so very.

659
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.880
Good thank you so much for coming.

660
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:46.079
On.

661
00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:49.440
Folks check it. Out any questions you can go to that.

662
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:53.679
Website you can hit the contact us form and ask

663
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:55.000
whatever you'd like to.

664
00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:59.679
Ask we appreciate you. Listening thank you so, much and until.

665
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.679
Next, Time I'm Jim chapping to remind you love your,

666
00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:06.039
community support local, business and keep.

667
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:07.880
Leading thank you very, much