Episode 93
Unlocking Sustainable Living: The Container Home Revolution
Join Steve Deubel and co-host Kimberly Shaw as they explore the world of sustainable living and innovative storage solutions in this engaging episode of Boxcar Universe. Special guest Susan Frair, known as the Shed Gal, shares her journey into the shed industry, highlighting the importance of customer service and proper training in providing exceptional experiences for homeowners. With the holiday season upon us, the discussion also touches on the challenges of managing our accumulated belongings and the clever solutions Susan offers for storage needs. Steve reflects on the cultural phenomenon of accumulating possessions, humorously referencing George Carlin's iconic insights on 'stuff.' Listeners will hear about the evolution of shelters throughout history and the push for more eco-friendly living spaces. As the conversation unfolds, the trio dives into the intersection of color, design, and functionality, emphasizing how thoughtful choices can enhance our living environments for the upcoming year.
Takeaways:
- The evolution of human shelters reflects a growing awareness of sustainability over the years.
- Container home living offers a unique and sustainable lifestyle choice for modern homeowners.
- Customer service in the shed industry is crucial for ensuring customer satisfaction and repeat business.
- The importance of color in design can greatly impact a home's curb appeal and ambiance.
- Sustainable living trends are influencing home design choices heading into the year 2025.
- Giving grace and understanding during the busy holiday season can enhance customer experiences.
Links referenced in this episode:
- stardustbuilding.org
- shedgal.com
- betablocks.com
- boxcaruniverse.com
- iPhone.com
- infomikewolfmastery.com
- IdealhomeImprovementaz.com
Transcript
Since the dawn of time, mankind has searched for ways to shelter themselves from the elements.
Steve Dubell:Over the centuries, these shelters have evolved from bamboo huts to concrete towers.
Steve Dubell:The last few years, there's been a push to save the planet.
Steve Dubell:Are you ready to embark on a more sustainable lifestyle?
Steve Dubell:Look no further.
Steve Dubell:You're about to enter the adventures of Container Home Living.
Steve Dubell:And now, contractor, radio and TV personality and your host for Boxcar Universe, Steve Dubell.
Steve Dubell:Hi, I'm Steve Dubell, host of Boxcar Universe, along with my guest, co host Kimberly Shaw.
Steve Dubell:And here's what's coming up on this week's edition of Boxcar Universe.
Steve Dubell:We're talking with the shed gal, Susan Frayer, who is the, well, let's just say she's the shed gal here in the Phoenix market as well as all over the country.
Steve Dubell:And we're going to be talking about some storage things and obviously all of us have those items that we have that we've accumulated.
Steve Dubell:And we always talk about my good friend George Carlin, who always talks about, you know, we have just have too much stuff.
Steve Dubell:Well, Susan's got the answer to all your stuff because I'm sure after Christmas we're going to have a lot more to find a place for all that and more on this week's edition of Boxcar Universe, your home for remodeling and renovating your world.
Steve Dubell:And I'd like to welcome all of you to Boxcar Universe as we have the countdown to the big day.
Steve Dubell:Christmas is coming and it's going to be a great, it's going to be a great holiday season for all our listeners and, and we want to be able to actually help all of you get through the holidays a little faster.
Steve Dubell:One of the things I want to make sure that everybody knows about and this comes up every holiday season.
Steve Dubell:Kimberly, you know, we want to thank you for being on the show again, by the way, and it's great to have you back in the studio.
Steve Dubell:You know, one of the things we talked about during Thanksgiving was the fact that people just have this, I don't know, this epiphany to put anything that they want down their sink in their garbage disposal.
Steve Dubell:And plumbers they make, they make such good money around the holiday season because everybody thinks that they could put anything in their garbage disposal and guess what happens?
Steve Dubell:It clogs up.
Steve Dubell:I even had one friend of mine who actually had, you know, those food companies that pack food to come in to, you know, for meals and stuff, not just in holidays, but all season long where they come in and they have These gel packs of.
Steve Dubell:Of that keep the food cool.
Steve Dubell:Well, he was such in a remote, he was such in a recycling mode that he turned around and he said, well, you know, it was plastic.
Steve Dubell:The packs are plastic.
Steve Dubell:Well, what he wanted to do was save the plastic that the gel was in.
Kimberly Shaw:Oh, no.
Steve Dubell:So wait, guess what he did.
Kimberly Shaw:What?
Steve Dubell:He emptied the gel packs in his sink and tried to force them down the garbage disposal.
Steve Dubell:And guess what happened?
Kimberly Shaw:What?
Steve Dubell:It reacted in there and completely clogged up the sink.
Steve Dubell:The P trap.
Steve Dubell:And it overflowed out.
Steve Dubell:It must have been a leak under a sink.
Steve Dubell:It just overflowed under his sink and all his.
Steve Dubell:You know, we all have those cans of stuff that we use in our home, you know, dishwashing soap and bug spray and all that.
Steve Dubell:The.
Steve Dubell:Everything that was all over the place.
Steve Dubell:I mean, it was.
Steve Dubell:He called me up and he said, steve, could you come over and look at this?
Steve Dubell:Something wrong?
Steve Dubell:I mean, it's all plugged up.
Steve Dubell:I tried to put this down there.
Steve Dubell:I'm like, ernie, why did you do that?
Steve Dubell:So I want to urge all our listeners, please, please be.
Steve Dubell:Make sure.
Steve Dubell:Don't get carried away.
Steve Dubell:You know, just throw it in a waste paper basket.
Steve Dubell:Don't get carried away.
Steve Dubell:You're.
Steve Dubell:Your garbage disposal is good, but it's not a dumpster.
Steve Dubell:Yes, it just makes sure.
Steve Dubell:But we want to welcome Susan Freyer, the Shed Gal, into the show.
Steve Dubell:And now, you know, we did a podcast on with Susan up in our container pool manufacturers facility about a month or so ago, and now she's.
Steve Dubell:She's on my turf now.
Steve Dubell:Welcome to Boxcar Universe, Susan.
Steve Dubell:Thanks for being here.
Steve Dubell:You know, it's all about.
Steve Dubell:It's all about, you know, doing all these good things for the homeowner.
Steve Dubell:And what we want to be able to do is talk a little bit about your company and where you're at here in the valley of the sun.
Steve Dubell:And then we also want to weave in a little bit of.
Steve Dubell:Yes, we have the Shed Gal and the Color Gal here.
Steve Dubell:Kimberly's here because she's got her expertise in.
Steve Dubell:In color and design and things like that.
Steve Dubell: festive and going forth into: Steve Dubell:So tell our listeners a little bit about the Shed Gal.
Susan Frayer:Yeah, well, if you don't mind, can I tell them how we met?
Steve Dubell:Yes, please, by all, please.
Steve Dubell:You know, it's a.
Steve Dubell:Besides, this is what we call, like to say blocks in The Wild.
Susan Frayer:That's right.
Susan Frayer:Oh, that's right.
Susan Frayer:Blocksters in the Wild.
Susan Frayer:So there's a TV show called the Blocks and it's Blox.
Susan Frayer:And Steve and I are, we're both on season 16, which I'm anticipating is probably going to air most likely in February.
Steve Dubell:Yep.
Susan Frayer:And should be on prime and it'll be on betablocks.com it's not a syndicated show because they don't allow drama.
Susan Frayer:But I think we can both agree the information as far as being an entrepreneur and the education we received in that eight days was like priceless.
Steve Dubell:Oh my God.
Steve Dubell:Absolutely.
Steve Dubell:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:I wouldn't have, I, I wouldn't have second guessed it in the world once we went through it.
Steve Dubell:It was well worth the effort.
Susan Frayer:Oh my gosh, it was so incredible.
Susan Frayer:So that's how we met and then found out.
Susan Frayer:We both, you know, live in the land of the beautiful sun here in the Phoenix area and we've collaborated on some things.
Susan Frayer:So now to answer your question, what does a shed gal do?
Susan Frayer:A shed gal run some shed gal lots.
Susan Frayer:And I have some wonderful, wonderful, I guess most people would call them employees.
Susan Frayer:I call them team members.
Susan Frayer:We sell sheds, we sell metal buildings, we sell shipping container swimming pools as you and I have collaborated on.
Susan Frayer:We have play sets currently located just south of 99th and Thomas.
Susan Frayer:We are getting ready to move, hopefully sooner rather than later, up to still on North 99th Avenue, but directly across from the Fear Farm and directly across the freeway from the stadium to a big, huge lot will be the biggest shed lot in the state.
Susan Frayer:At some point we hope to be the biggest shed lot on the west coast.
Susan Frayer:So we take care of the entire state of Arizona here out of this lot for our sheds.
Susan Frayer:We do metal buildings nationwide.
Susan Frayer:And then I also have a huge shed gal super center in Easley, South Carolina.
Steve Dubell:Wow.
Kimberly Shaw:Awesome.
Steve Dubell:So you talk about the shed gal is.
Steve Dubell:We'll call her nationwide.
Susan Frayer:Yes.
Susan Frayer:Well, this has never been done before.
Susan Frayer:So prior to us completely revamping our business last year I had several shed lots in Washington state and in Arizona at the same time, had a lot manager run each lot.
Susan Frayer:Every lot was successful.
Susan Frayer:That had never been done before where you have, you know, states that are not right next to each other.
Susan Frayer:And so we decided to go nationwide.
Susan Frayer:And so we've partnered with a couple of investors and our plan is to literally cover the nation with eight or 10 lots in the next 12 to 24 months.
Susan Frayer:But again, this has never been done before in the shed industry.
Susan Frayer:So it's quite a challenge.
Susan Frayer:But it's so far it's a lot of fun, you know, being on other people's timelines.
Susan Frayer:Hey, city of Glendale, Come on now.
Steve Dubell:We have a couple of good things that we're saying about the city of Glendale.
Susan Frayer:Yeah, we.
Susan Frayer:I love you, city of Glendale.
Susan Frayer:Let's get this done.
Susan Frayer:We've already been approved to go on the new property, but they're working on the ingress and egress.
Susan Frayer:And I'm sure we're not the only business out there that, you know the paperwork sitting in a pile somewhere and they're getting to it as quickly as possible, but we will get moved sooner rather than later.
Susan Frayer:And we also do U haul.
Susan Frayer:You can make a reservation through us anywhere, but we have U haul trucks and trailers on our lot.
Susan Frayer:But we're happy to help anyone with the nationwide with a reservation.
Susan Frayer:So we dabble in a lot of different things.
Susan Frayer:We have off grid powered solar.
Susan Frayer:We have a tiny homecoming that's made out of a shipping container.
Susan Frayer:Can't wait to get that on the new lot.
Susan Frayer:So we've really tried to diversify the products so we're not just a shed gal.
Susan Frayer:We're more than that.
Kimberly Shaw:And gratitude is attitude.
Steve Dubell:That's right.
Steve Dubell:That's right.
Susan Frayer:Hey, I had a great compliment earlier.
Susan Frayer:You and I were at a networking group earlier and a gal said to me, every time I see a picture of you online, you just exude joy.
Susan Frayer:And I was like, man, how really made my day.
Steve Dubell:It's the logo on your shirt.
Susan Frayer:I know.
Susan Frayer:My hair looks a lot like it today too.
Steve Dubell:I know.
Kimberly Shaw:I think I have heard of you before coming today.
Susan Frayer:Really?
Susan Frayer:Wow.
Susan Frayer:Wow.
Susan Frayer:So it's kind of cool.
Kimberly Shaw:You're electrifying.
Susan Frayer:My husband's listening to this going, so, yeah, I, you know, it's funny how someone can say a compliment or say something negative and it can completely change your attitude.
Susan Frayer:And that just.
Susan Frayer:I just thought that was really nice.
Susan Frayer:I hope that I do bring joy to the people that I'm around, but I love what I do.
Susan Frayer:And the story of how I got into sheds is.
Susan Frayer:It's unique.
Steve Dubell:It's unique.
Steve Dubell:All right, well, we're going to get into that and we're going to get into a little bit more of the color gal story here a little bit.
Steve Dubell: you know, we have going into: Steve Dubell:It's over.
Steve Dubell:2025 is a new series.
Steve Dubell: to talk about color trends in: Steve Dubell:So everybody stay tuned.
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Steve Dubell:This is our special holiday show where we have my guest co host, Kimberly Shaw, better known as the color gal, and Susan Frayer, who better known as the shed gal.
Steve Dubell:No, don't go tell everybody about your T shirt now.
Steve Dubell:Be good.
Steve Dubell:That's a secret between just us, us people.
Steve Dubell:That's right, studio guests.
Steve Dubell:But you we want to talk a little, a couple of things more we want to talk about today.
Steve Dubell:You know, one of the things that we find out about, especially, you know, possibly during the holiday season is, you know, customer service.
Steve Dubell:And I think having people again in any profession, in any sales mode, you need to know the person you want to talk to when you go there.
Steve Dubell:You're, you're looking not just to buy something or get a service.
Steve Dubell:You want to be able to have, you know, think that they have some kind of expertise in what you're talking to them about.
Steve Dubell:They're not just somebody that they got off the street and paying, you know, minimum wage to just to have a body in the aisle or on the lot or something like that.
Steve Dubell:So I think customer service is very important.
Steve Dubell:And obviously, I mean, you do it with your staff.
Steve Dubell:You got to do training.
Susan Frayer:Oh, yeah.
Susan Frayer:So how I got into the shed industry, it was about eight years ago up in Washington state and all of a sudden I see all these cute Little shed lots popping up.
Susan Frayer:And I didn't know, I didn't know if they were portable buildings that they're built at a manufacturing plant, delivered to you or on site build.
Susan Frayer:I didn't know.
Susan Frayer:I didn't know anything.
Susan Frayer:I didn't know the difference between a 2x4 and a 2x6.
Kimberly Shaw:So was this the she shed era?
Susan Frayer:Well, I think it's still the she shed, Eric.
Susan Frayer:I think, you know, we're trying to figure out who burned down Cheryl, she shed still.
Susan Frayer:But so I, I go to several display lots.
Susan Frayer:Not one was open during their posted business hours.
Susan Frayer:I called and left voicemails.
Susan Frayer:I'm still eight years later waiting for calls back.
Susan Frayer:I did get a hold of one company.
Susan Frayer:I think they were down by Olympia, Washington or something.
Susan Frayer:They're like, hey, here's our email address.
Susan Frayer:Send us what you want and we'll give you a quote.
Susan Frayer:And I was like, oh man.
Susan Frayer:Like, I didn't know what I wanted because I didn't know what they offered.
Susan Frayer:I didn't, I didn't know what was available.
Susan Frayer:So found a company and, and was actually ordering a shed and went to their manufacturing plant and they're like, we can't sell you a shed here.
Susan Frayer:You have to go through our dealers.
Susan Frayer:I'm like, oh, the same ones that don't ever call me back.
Susan Frayer:All this is going great.
Susan Frayer:I literally was like, for the love of God, can I just buy a shed?
Susan Frayer:So they did.
Susan Frayer:They sold me a shed.
Susan Frayer:And I said to the owner during that conversation, man, someone needs a decent dealer in this state.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah.
Susan Frayer:And he said, yeah, we really do.
Susan Frayer:And I said, well, I think you just found her.
Kimberly Shaw:Oh, that's fantastic.
Susan Frayer:So we guarantee our customer satisfaction.
Susan Frayer:Sometimes it costs us money.
Susan Frayer:We are not perfect.
Susan Frayer:But this isn't a side gig for, for us most shed dealers, not all most shed dealers.
Susan Frayer:It's their side gig or they need a job or.
Susan Frayer:That is not how we got into this.
Susan Frayer:I got into this because I thought this is ridiculous.
Kimberly Shaw:How hard.
Susan Frayer:Yeah.
Susan Frayer:And my team, I mean, they're just as dedicated as I am.
Susan Frayer:And so, and I forgot to mention earlier, we are, we're just trying to firm up a location outside of Nashville, Tennessee for shed Gal.
Susan Frayer:So, but I think customer satisfaction, the other part of that is give people some grace, man.
Susan Frayer:If you're not going to give grace at this time of year, I don't know, I mean, there's no better time than this time of year to give grace to those working retail.
Susan Frayer:And, and you know, the person who might be tailgating you or going too slow in the fast lane.
Susan Frayer:Whatever it is.
Susan Frayer:Just.
Susan Frayer:Just give some grace.
Kimberly Shaw:Give yourself some grace.
Susan Frayer:Yeah, absolutely.
Susan Frayer:But at Shed Gal, we encourage our customers to.
Susan Frayer:To check with other companies.
Susan Frayer:They'll see the difference.
Susan Frayer:They'll see the difference in.
Susan Frayer:In professionalism and knowledge.
Susan Frayer:If they call around, people are spending a big, you know, a large amount of money.
Susan Frayer: and metal buildings that are: Susan Frayer:And it cracks me up that I work with shed dealers all the time in training them, and they think everybody wants a quick quote over the phone.
Susan Frayer:I'm like, really?
Susan Frayer:You think someone who's spending $50,000 expects a quote within two minutes and you don't even ask their name or.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah.
Susan Frayer:And so most people in this industry fail, but here we are.
Kimberly Shaw:That's a great story.
Susan Frayer:Shedgal.com and on Facebook at Shed Gal, the joke is don't look up theshedgal.com because you'll find Pastor Joe in Texas who's pretending like he's me.
Susan Frayer:So it's just Shed gal dot com.
Susan Frayer:You.
Steve Dubell:You mean somebody.
Steve Dubell:Excuse me, somebody is shadowing you?
Susan Frayer:Oh, there's several.
Susan Frayer:There's James in Illinois, and he's on Facebook as the Shed Gal.
Susan Frayer:And we've got the shed gal.com.
Susan Frayer:it literally is completely a different company out of Texas.
Susan Frayer:He's a pastor.
Susan Frayer:Nice guy.
Susan Frayer:Well, but.
Susan Frayer:Shed gal.com.
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Steve Dubell:Welcome to the paint department, man.
Steve Dubell:May I help you?
Susan Frayer:Yes, I'd like to buy some paint.
Susan Frayer:What would you like, interior paint or exterior paint?
Susan Frayer:Exterior.
Susan Frayer:We don't have exterior.
Susan Frayer:We got interior.
Susan Frayer:Okay.
Steve Dubell:Interior.
Steve Dubell:You want that oil based or latex?
Susan Frayer:Oil based.
Susan Frayer:We're all out of oil based.
Steve Dubell:We only have latex.
Susan Frayer:Fine, I'll take latex.
Susan Frayer:Smooth or textured texture?
Susan Frayer:We got a smooth.
Susan Frayer:I see flat gloss or semi gloss?
Steve Dubell:Flat.
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Steve Dubell:Gloss?
Susan Frayer:Nope.
Steve Dubell:Semi gloss.
Susan Frayer:You got it.
Steve Dubell:You want it washable?
Susan Frayer:Can I get it washable?
Kimberly Shaw:Nope.
Susan Frayer:Then I don't want it washable.
Susan Frayer:What color paint you want?
Susan Frayer:What colors do you have?
Susan Frayer:Oh, we got any color as long as it's white.
Steve Dubell:You know, it just brings back of.
Steve Dubell:Brings back old memories of Westworld.
Steve Dubell:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:You know, where was that car that we were sitting in?
Steve Dubell:You remember that?
Kimberly Shaw:I started pictures of that.
Steve Dubell:Oh, that.
Steve Dubell:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:Talking boxcar.
Steve Dubell:See that?
Steve Dubell:Can't get away from it.
Kimberly Shaw:Can't get away from it.
Steve Dubell:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:So tell our listeners a little bit about, you know, things that you do.
Kimberly Shaw:I like to think that the outside of the building is the billboard, and if I've got the calling card right, you're coming in.
Kimberly Shaw:And if they're coming in and they're greeted at the door and the interior looks great, they're buying.
Kimberly Shaw:It's just a slam dunk.
Kimberly Shaw:People want to associate themselves living in a place that looks and feels like their lifestyle.
Kimberly Shaw:And so the exterior is widely important, and I think it's Overlooked in so many areas.
Kimberly Shaw:Architecturally speaking, you know, it's just architects and certain builders like a cookie cutter system because they want to profit.
Kimberly Shaw:And I think that you really need to know your demographics and who's living or being in that space and what it really means.
Kimberly Shaw:And using color and emotion and color to describe where and what is going on inside that building is really important.
Kimberly Shaw:And so Color Design Development group really focuses on multifamily and commercial buildings.
Kimberly Shaw:And I have done some single family homes, but I prefer to do multifamily.
Kimberly Shaw:I like a big splash of color.
Kimberly Shaw:Our work has been seen all over the United States, which.
Steve Dubell:It's pretty cool because I remember the early days.
Steve Dubell:I was talking to Mel about this before.
Steve Dubell:How many of our listeners can remember the word or the words phrase paint.
Kimberly Shaw:Now you're really bringing up.
Susan Frayer:That's.
Steve Dubell:Well, that's.
Steve Dubell:Well, that's when.
Steve Dubell:That's when Carol and I met.
Steve Dubell:When, you know, she was my rep for Frazee Paint years ago.
Kimberly Shaw:That's right.
Kimberly Shaw:I got my feet wet in the paint business.
Kimberly Shaw:I learned all about paint and the importance to use paint to not just decorate, but also to protect.
Kimberly Shaw:And so the quality is always really important.
Kimberly Shaw:But what I learned at Frazee was for Z is how to design for multifamily.
Kimberly Shaw:And I got tired of the contractors switching the job on me and using a different supplier.
Kimberly Shaw:So I just kind of went out on my own and said, if you like my designs, hire me.
Kimberly Shaw:And I got more training and did more research in my homework and got trained in a lot of different aspects.
Kimberly Shaw:And the last 20 years has been a ride.
Steve Dubell:Well, it's been a.
Steve Dubell:Yeah, it's been a ride.
Steve Dubell:Absolutely.
Steve Dubell:So a lot of, A lot of different things that have to go into, into thinking about that, you know, and again, talking about the outside of the, the, the dwelling, the curb appeal of what it looks like, I mean, obviously, you know, sometimes, you know, like, Mel, we go in the neighborhood sometimes and.
Steve Dubell:And you see homes or even apartment buildings that.
Steve Dubell:It's like that question, that sentence come up, like, what the heck were they thinking about?
Kimberly Shaw:You know, like.
Steve Dubell:You know.
Steve Dubell:Yes, absolutely.
Steve Dubell:The hoas are, are like the, the, the Darth Vader of hoas.
Steve Dubell:If you don't like it, you know, you're done, you're out of here, you know.
Steve Dubell:No, seriously.
Steve Dubell:But some of the colors and stuff that they, they use.
Steve Dubell:And you notice, I think talking about hoas for a minute, I think some of the hoas that I know that I've been affiliated with and I've done painting in the past, you know, that I remember.
Steve Dubell:Like.
Steve Dubell:Okay, like the one I used to live in when I first moved to Arizona.
Steve Dubell:Okay.
Steve Dubell:There's five colors that you have.
Steve Dubell:You can only make them five colors.
Steve Dubell:Those five colors if you.
Steve Dubell:And then you have to.
Steve Dubell:You can't deviate.
Steve Dubell:You can't flop.
Steve Dubell:The colors from the fascia board to the wall, they has to look this certain way.
Steve Dubell:But certain other ones, as the years go by, you know, I think they've gotten to open it up because the people just said, you know, hey, I want to make my house a different color, and I'm tired of these things.
Steve Dubell:You better start making some changes.
Steve Dubell:And that's when the.
Steve Dubell:The people on the boards changed.
Steve Dubell:Yeah, that's all of a sudden when people start making.
Steve Dubell:Hey, but we could do this now.
Steve Dubell:It's going to be.
Kimberly Shaw:I just think it would be nice if they would just open the palette up for door colors.
Kimberly Shaw:Because your door is so personal.
Kimberly Shaw:Yes.
Kimberly Shaw:I mean, I don't care if you have 20 shades of brown, but, gosh, just have a red or aqua or something sassy.
Steve Dubell:Something that when you walk in the house, you know, when you walk the.
Kimberly Shaw:House, you make a statement.
Steve Dubell:It pops a little.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah, I agree.
Kimberly Shaw:Well, and also, it identifies, you know, my neighborhood, it's like three shades of brown light, medium dark.
Kimberly Shaw:And everybody has a brown, dark door.
Kimberly Shaw:And I'm like, okay, I'm the one with the white mailbox.
Kimberly Shaw:Like, how do I define where I live?
Kimberly Shaw:You know?
Kimberly Shaw:And I don't have my number painted on my curb, but.
Kimberly Shaw:But if I could have an Aquador.
Kimberly Shaw:I mean, on the outside of my house, it's very plain.
Kimberly Shaw:But in the inside of my house, it's a pop of color everywhere.
Kimberly Shaw:I mean, my walls are painted.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah.
Kimberly Shaw:Like gold, yellow, and green and Aquadors.
Kimberly Shaw:And my house is just a clutter of color.
Kimberly Shaw:That's interesting, because I did an HOA that wanted to revamp their palette, and they were Tuscan, and they had 25 color palettes to choose from.
Kimberly Shaw:And they're like, we want to expand it.
Kimberly Shaw:And I said, well, you have a lot of Tuscan colors and already established, yeah, we want white and gray and black.
Kimberly Shaw:And I said, that doesn't really fit your architecture.
Kimberly Shaw:Right.
Kimberly Shaw:I was like, okay, well, I'm going to give you the colors that I think will work with the Tuscan theme, but the architecture drives.
Kimberly Shaw:Did you end up going with more of a.
Kimberly Shaw:I'm curious.
Kimberly Shaw:Like a Santa Barbara look?
Kimberly Shaw:Because that's probably.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah.
Kimberly Shaw:The easiest thing to do is to kind of stick with that theme.
Steve Dubell:Hang tight.
Steve Dubell:We'll be right back.
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Steve Dubell:Hi, I'm Steve Dubell from Ideal Home Improvement.
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Steve Dubell:Hi, I'm John Weisbart, co host of FYI Network's hit TV show Tiny House Nation.
Steve Dubell:Now people all over the country are downsizing the tiny homes or all the big rage.
Steve Dubell:But remember, even tiny homes need repairs and left unattended, those tiny problems become big problems.
Steve Dubell:Don't let that happen to you know what makes your home tick, Kimberly.
Steve Dubell:So tell us a little more about my new adventure.
Steve Dubell:Your new adventure and your color.
Kimberly Shaw:Well, the color psychology is just a part of the new adventure.
Kimberly Shaw: over this week as we roll out: Kimberly Shaw:You can find yoga, relaxation, massage, all sorts of things that are unique to a three night, four day adventure.
Kimberly Shaw:And it will be here in Scottsdale, Lake Havasu, Vegas and the Southwest Pinetop and Different locations.
Kimberly Shaw:You'll be able to see what my husband and I are planning on a bimonthly basis.
Kimberly Shaw:And it's exciting because we are also gearing up to support Mental Health as our charity.
Kimberly Shaw:And we have an upcoming walk that.
Kimberly Shaw:We'll have more details later in this next two weeks about our Walk for Mental Health and our charity that will follow.
Kimberly Shaw:And we want to give back to the hospitals and we want to give back to people who are recovering from maybe a midlife crisis, an injury.
Kimberly Shaw:Anything that we, you know, we all fall down in our life and we need community support to pick us back up and friends, and especially our creator.
Steve Dubell:Absolutely.
Steve Dubell:So, I mean, that's something that's so very important, actually.
Steve Dubell:You know, with all the hectic schedules that everyone out there has, you know, taking a time out to recharge your batteries and do something like that is going to be so important because I know people, when you run too long, you don't take a break besides your body breaking down.
Steve Dubell:Yeah, your.
Steve Dubell:Your mind, your whole mind breaks down, you know, and.
Steve Dubell:And then you start messing up everything.
Steve Dubell:So you need that time to just decompress.
Steve Dubell:That's why, like, I go, I love to go to Coronado.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:Just go out, hit the beach, let the sun drain and all the stress into the sand and let the breeze blow over my face and have one of those funny drinks with the.
Steve Dubell:The drinks with the funny umbrella in it, and I'm a happy camper.
Kimberly Shaw:It's that ocean that renews you, too.
Steve Dubell:Oh, my God.
Steve Dubell:It's so good.
Steve Dubell:It's so good.
Steve Dubell:But the.
Steve Dubell:The one thing we always do, like holiday time is a lot of time to reflect on some things.
Steve Dubell:And, you know, we're all involved in a lot of different things.
Steve Dubell:And for all our friends on.
Steve Dubell:For the show on Facebook who haven't noticed, but one of the things that I wanted to do when it became an opportunity for me is that recently that are.
Steve Dubell:Our good friend Gia, who actually was part of the Arizona Women's Network, was asked by the Arizona Cardinals to actually carry the flag out at the Arizona Cardinals New England Patriots game.
Kimberly Shaw:I watched and I wanted.
Steve Dubell:I wanted to be able to do that because she asked me, she says, well, why don't you come do with us?
Steve Dubell:I'm like, okay, this is going to be really be good.
Steve Dubell:And it was.
Steve Dubell:It was.
Steve Dubell:I wanted to be able to do something because it was our country and obviously to be able to do that.
Steve Dubell:I felt that I was honoring our veterans being able to do that.
Steve Dubell:And it was an Experience that if anybody out there ever has a chance to do it.
Steve Dubell:I mean, this flag was the size of the field, it's 100 yards long, and.
Steve Dubell:And believe me, we had 150 people there doing it.
Steve Dubell:And it was just an amazing experience.
Steve Dubell:And the crew, I want to give thanks to the crew at the State Farm Stadium because we practiced, we knew how it is.
Steve Dubell:I told people we had to go practice.
Steve Dubell:They're like, what?
Steve Dubell:Practice to carry the flag?
Steve Dubell:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:The flag is 100 yards long.
Steve Dubell:You don't think you're just going to fold it up and put it in your pocket?
Steve Dubell:No.
Steve Dubell:So.
Steve Dubell:But it was a great experience.
Steve Dubell:And you know, thanks again to the Arizona Cardinals and all the people that we actually were able to go out there and experience it.
Steve Dubell:And then the game was great.
Steve Dubell:The Cardinals won.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:Yay.
Kimberly Shaw:I watched.
Steve Dubell:Yeah.
Steve Dubell:So that was really great.
Steve Dubell:And we had a lot of good feedback on it.
Steve Dubell:But it was an amazing thing to have happen.
Steve Dubell:And then I happen to find out that another good friend of mine who has a podcast studio in the East Valley, her daughter in law was the singer who sang the national anthem there.
Steve Dubell:And she is just awesome.
Steve Dubell:She has an awesome voice.
Steve Dubell:So kudos to her and everybody that was involved in this.
Steve Dubell:It was a great experience.
Steve Dubell:You know, win, lose a draw at the end of the season.
Steve Dubell:If the Cardinals get into the playoffs, great.
Steve Dubell:If they don't, you know, they, they had a.
Steve Dubell:You know, I would have to say that I had.
Steve Dubell:This was something that came up that I thought, yeah, I'd love to put this on my bucket list and be able to do.
Steve Dubell:And it was really, it was really good experience.
Kimberly Shaw:That's awesome.
Kimberly Shaw:And I love that all your friend networks are really coming together and supporting all of our dreams in different ways.
Kimberly Shaw:It's just fantastic.
Steve Dubell:Absolutely, absolutely.
Steve Dubell:Why don't you tell everyone how we can contact you and Kimberly, you first and then Susan and then we'll wrap things up.
Kimberly Shaw:Great.
Kimberly Shaw:Kimberly Shaw and Tom Shaw, my husband.
Kimberly Shaw:Together we're the Shock and Shaws.
Steve Dubell:Shock and Shaw.
Steve Dubell:I love that.
Steve Dubell:That's great.
Kimberly Shaw:And our pickleball group is the Super Dupers because the D U P R is your rating and that so our.
Kimberly Shaw:Well, we're gonna have capes made for our super duper team.
Steve Dubell:All right, well, I don't mean to interject, but I have to ask you a quick question before I forget.
Kimberly Shaw:Sure.
Steve Dubell:All right.
Steve Dubell:So I saw when I met my friend over at our favorite watering hole, he had two sample pickleball paddles and he had a regular Pickle bowl, you know?
Steve Dubell:So I'm like thinking, okay, this is really cool.
Steve Dubell:I said, can I use my racquetball racket?
Kimberly Shaw:No.
Steve Dubell:Why?
Steve Dubell:It's bigger.
Kimberly Shaw:It is, but it has holes in it.
Steve Dubell:Right.
Kimberly Shaw:And this is a paddle that has.
Kimberly Shaw:It's all one.
Kimberly Shaw:And most of them are honeycomb or fiberglass or the newer ones are.
Kimberly Shaw:What do they call it?
Kimberly Shaw:Graphite.
Kimberly Shaw:Graphite, yeah.
Kimberly Shaw:Carbon.
Steve Dubell:Carbonite.
Steve Dubell:Carbonite, yeah, Exactly.
Kimberly Shaw:And so my husband has got these present last year for a gift for my family.
Kimberly Shaw:And in one year's time, he is breaking more records and winning more games.
Kimberly Shaw:And his league, he won, and we're so proud of him.
Kimberly Shaw:But anyways, he plays like four hours or more a day.
Kimberly Shaw:He's racking up.
Kimberly Shaw:He's in best shape of his life.
Susan Frayer:Wow.
Kimberly Shaw:Yep.
Kimberly Shaw:And he has rid himself of anxieties.
Kimberly Shaw:He is.
Susan Frayer:That's amazing.
Kimberly Shaw:Yeah.
Kimberly Shaw:He's able to conquer some of his addictions and things that have plagued him in the time.
Kimberly Shaw:And he's gone through grief of losing a father.
Kimberly Shaw:So we got things in.
Kimberly Shaw:In a great way.
Kimberly Shaw:It's really transforming his life.
Kimberly Shaw:And I've watched it and I've encouraged it, and we've gone through some ups and downs in our own life, and it's.
Kimberly Shaw:And it's been constant for him and where I want to support him all the way to be who he wants to be in his world, which is to be a pickleball star.
Steve Dubell:Oh, my God.
Kimberly Shaw:On tv.
Steve Dubell:Pickleball star.
Kimberly Shaw:Make it happen.
Steve Dubell:We're getting.
Steve Dubell:We're getting old.
Steve Dubell:Pickleball.
Steve Dubell:Pickleball star.
Kimberly Shaw:Yes.
Steve Dubell:All right, Susan, one more time.
Steve Dubell:Where can we find the shed Gal?
Susan Frayer:Yes.
Susan Frayer:So we are just south of Thomas on North 99th Avenue, soon to be directly across from the Fear Farm.
Susan Frayer:Our website is shedgal.com and you can see us on Facebook.
Susan Frayer:Shed Gal.
Susan Frayer:I would encourage you to follow us on Facebook.
Susan Frayer:We give away.
Susan Frayer:We have some funny giveaways on there.
Susan Frayer: -: Kimberly Shaw:Yay.
Steve Dubell:Yay.
Steve Dubell:That's all good, good information.
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Steve Dubell:So right after the holiday season, so when you start putting your wish list together and your New Year's resolutions.
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