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395: Leading with Pride & Authenticity w/ Dana Cancellaro, CCM
We sit down with Dana Cancellaro, the dynamic Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of Crestmont Country Club. Dana shares her incredible journey, from working in sales and hospitality to becoming a trailblazer in the private club industry. We dive into her personal and professional experiences as an openly gay club manager, discussing the challenges and triumphs of fostering inclusivity and equity in a traditionally exclusive space.
Dana also reveals the pivotal moments in her career, including how embracing her authentic self led to major breakthroughs in her leadership style. She offers valuable insights on handling difficult members, the importance of mentorship, and the power of small changes that can make a big impact. Whether you're a club management veteran or just starting out, Dana’s story is full of inspiration, humor, and practical advice for navigating the evolving world of private clubs.
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Hey everybody, welcome to the Private Club Radio Show, where we give you the scoop on all things private golf and country clubs, from mastering leadership and management, food and beverage excellence, member engagement, secrets, board governance and everything in between, all while keeping it fun and light. Whether you're a club veteran just getting your feet wet or somewhere in the middle, you are in the right place. I'm your host, denny Corby. Welcome to the show place. I'm your host, denny Corby. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1:In this episode I'm chatting with a new friend of mine, dana Cancelero, ccm. She's the GM COO, chief Operating Officer over at Crestmont Country Club, west Orange, new York, and we start off with a fantastic story of her sharing because she has an amazing background from working at Ethan Allen doing radio sales and then finding clubs. And we start off with a really great story of how she was working at a hotel late at night in a big storm and Stephen King walks in the Stephen King. So we start off with a really cool story and we talk a lot about mentorship and the rising through the ranks and in her journey as being an openly gay club manager. We talk about how inclusivity and equity are crucial in the club industry and what her journey was like the ups, the downs, the goods, the bads, the challenges and triumphs that she's faced in the industry and what it really boils down to. And a really cool point is, things really fell into place when she was able to be her authentic self. In the episode we talk and have insights on handling member complaints and negative feedback and what that means and how to handle that.
Speaker 1:And she's a big dog person, so triple kudos in my book, dog people are the best people. And she has Frenchies and I have an English bulldog, so I love bulldog ownership. But no, I'm very excited for this episode. It is really good. If you have not done so already, make sure you sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date with all of our latest releases and content. Head over to privateclubradiocom. Wait about a couple seconds. The box pops up. Big thanks to some of our show partners. We have Concert Golf Partners, kennis Member Vetting and Golf Life Navigators. You're going to hear about them later on more in the show, but right now let's welcome to the show Dana Cancelero.
Speaker 2:Working at a hotel was a lot of fun. I worked at the front desk for a while, the catering and I met Stephen King there. That was cool yeah.
Speaker 1:Cause he's up in that area.
Speaker 2:Moment of my life. Yeah, he's from Maine, so he was in maine and this was after he got hit by the car. Like this is right after you know that whole thing where he was walking he got hit by the car and he was like on the side of the road. Oh my god, you can't make this stuff up. Yeah, I was at the front desk. Sorry, if you have time I'll tell you I'll make time.
Speaker 1:This is, this is gold, yeah it was nuts.
Speaker 2:um. So I get a phone call. It's a dark winter night. There's like three people staying in the hotel. I'm by myself, I'm at the front desk, it's myself, the bartender at the restaurant and one security guard. That's it.
Speaker 1:That's the entire staff on that night. Is this the shining what?
Speaker 2:Yeah, basically Right. So I get a phone call from this woman and she's like my, one of my clients is driving through and he's getting tired. Do you guys have any rooms available? And I'm like oh yeah, absolutely. She goes. Oh well, he's kind of a VIP. Do you have a nice room? I'm like yeah, we have a suite. Telling her all about it, she's like that sounds perfect. I said great, last name. She's like King. I'm like King, get it. She's like he'll be there in about a half hour. I said okay, great. So I'm there like not breathing right For about a half hour straight.
Speaker 1:And then noise.
Speaker 2:I'm not even kidding you. You can't make this stuff up right. It's like the wind howls, the automatic doors open, the snow is flying in the background and this huge zombie figure man comes limping in the front desk, like right up to the front desk, and I'm like, oh my God, I'm like this is how I'm going to die. Like this is it. I'm done, I'm toast. Yeah, this is the end of my story. And I check him in. I'm being so professional because we had training on how to be professional with famous people. I'm professional.
Speaker 2:I checked this man in and he walks away and I'm not even kidding you. He takes three steps and he turns around and he says to me don't you love empty hotels on winter nights? And I was like, no, sir, I don't, and it's because of you. Yeah, scariest thing I've ever happened. I was like, wow, I got to call my mom, I got to get my affairs in order. Like I'm not. I was like counting the minutes for the night audit woman to come in. I was like this is it. This is how I'm going to die. This is crazy. I'm too young for this, please no this is it.
Speaker 1:This is it. Yeah, the grim Reaper has showed up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, so after that.
Speaker 1:I got out of hotels I was like this business is too dangerous. Let me get into private clubs.
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly sorry for you with that story. No, no, that that was an awesome. The industry needed some rainbows, though I'm glad I could bring it that that's how to.
Speaker 1:It's how to affect the journey like that's how to of oh, a thousand percent, yeah, yeah what was it? I mean like the, was it as difficult before coming in? Like, did you know how difficult it was going to be coming into the industry? And was it as difficult as you thought? And has it gotten better?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's definitely. It's gotten better in some instances, right Like I'm at like my club right now it doesn't matter. But I remember my very first conversation when I was, you know, mid manager and I'm speaking to my AGM and I'm like, well, what do you want me to say to people? Because they keep asking me if I have a boyfriend, a husband, like what? Should I say he's like um well, um, um, and you see him like bouncing up and down in the chair. You know being all uncomfortable.
Speaker 1:I'm like whenever you're ready, tell me what I should say, and I'll say it, you know I don't want to lose my job.
Speaker 2:I don't want to get in trouble, uh, but he was actually very nice about it and it was just, you know, I guess, whatever you're comfortable saying, uh, and continuing to work comfortably, that's what you say. I was like, okay, great, my non-answer um. But then, you know, I just started after that. I just kind of made it a point to always drop that in an interview somehow. You know, like, just so you know what you're getting into, um. And then since then, actually now that I'm like this, you know I've become like a pillar of the openly gay club management community, somehow, um, I have I've had young people call me, like I've literally had calls and emails from like young gay club managers that were like, how do I come out at work? Like what do I say? I'm like, well, what'd you say to your parents? You know, start there, let's start with that. But yeah, it can be tricky, but now I'm just I make sure it's very like prominent.
Speaker 1:So no, I was actually going to talk about, like I love just the story from the young hustler go-getter Dana to me. I just go back and then the Stephen King story, which I'm not going to have you tell again because I still have it from the first time and I'm going to make sure it comes in because it's so good. Yeah, but I was going to talk about more like the, because I liked what we were talking about mentorship, because I liked what we were talking about mentorship. But I mean, if you want to go into, like you know, being a gay club manager, like what that has been like, because I think the the I mean, have you talked about like the early beginning stuff, like that had to be so difficult? Maybe you know, or I could be totally wrong, but no, no, no, it's tricky.
Speaker 2:Right, it's because, again, you like find an industry that you love and you're not sure if it's going to love you back. Right, that's the hard part, and it's like I work hard, everyone's telling me I do a good job, but this like fundamental piece of me, like yeah, that's something all of a sudden that's going to make this industry like not possible for me and you know it's not.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's by design.
Speaker 2:Right, the club industry has always been behind. We're light years behind everybody all the time. But you know it's one of the things I said when I was on the Metropolitan Board was you know, guys, this is something we can't afford to be behind on. You know, when it comes to diversity and equity like we can't afford to, because it's hard enough to get young kids to work in our business Right now, you're going to alienate a whole group of them and say, by the way, thanks for applying, but not sure this industry fits. You know who you are. That's a tough message, you know, and so that's. I've always been a big proponent of just you know, inclusivity and equity across the board and clubs.
Speaker 2:And it's not easy, it's not. We're not built for that. We're built clubs, literally. What's the thing people say about clubs? My club is the most exclusive, great. Yeah, let's put the sign on the door Members only private don't come in. So it's it's tricky to build inclusivity into a quite literal exclusive environment, but I think we're we're we're doing really well and and big chapters like the metropolitan chapters working so hard to change that and it's incredible. It's, it's a really great thing.
Speaker 1:What were some of the beginning steps? Like what were some of the beginning I don't want to say baby steps but like what were things that helped get momentum forward. What were things that were done that you can remember, that you know were just good things that just kept and got the ball rolling.
Speaker 2:You know, on that front, I think for me it was just having, um, the fact that I was very lucky to have sort of very supportive general managers as I was a younger manager, Um, and I, I would have to say, part of it really was geography. You know, I'm mostly in New York, uh, which is usually in the forefront of a lot of things. I'm not, you know, I'd never worked in one of the square states in the middle. I don't know how that would go and that that can be tricky.
Speaker 1:No, no, that there's. There's something we said there. You know whether you did it on purpose or not, but you put yourself, or were, it seems like, in a position to where there were more opportunities and trying to put like I don't want to say what is it? Like a square peg in, like a circle hole, but it's like okay, if you're, if you're going to fight the battle, like maybe put the odds in your favor a little bit more. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, exactly, exactly, it's like but that's the thing in the club business across the board. Anyway, right, it's go somewhere where you're the fit right, where you make sense. And yeah, that does apply very much with you know. Folks with you know come from a different background. Let's say, cause it applies, it's not just you know, gay, straight, it's a lot of things you know. Even women in club management. For decades that was like, oh, there's not that many women at the table. Then all of a sudden folks noticed and they're like maybe we should create a specialty group for women in club management.
Speaker 1:You know, and now we do it all the time.
Speaker 2:But that was that just got created. What Seven, eight years ago? You know, that's still pretty brand new. Forget groundbreaking. We're earth shattering, I think at that point. But it's been, but it's been baby steps. But yeah, at the beginning it's, you put yourself in the right place and you have to make sure you're comfortable. That's what it's all about, you know anyway.
Speaker 1:Even in our personal lives.
Speaker 2:It's when you're comfortable, that's when you make the decision to sort of be who you fully are, and that was a big part of my journey as a club manager, even just the way I spoke to people. Quite honestly, I think about it all the time. When I was young, I used to make sure, oh, I want to speak correctly, I can't say anything. I would say to my friends. You know, I talk to my friends when I'm with members. I speak to members and then after a while I realized, well, wait a minute, I'm goofy, like why am I wasting my time being so serious? You know, once I started being me and being goofy is actually when my career took off, when I started interviewing as myself rather than as like what.
Speaker 1:I thought I needed to you know, do and say, my career just skyrocketed from there. How old were you and how many clubs deep, like like when? When was that shift?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So when I was, I was an AGM at Nassau Country Club. That was in 2013, 2014. So I was just, I just turned 30, 31. Yeah, and I started to realize the members, you know, they were a little more of a down to earth membership and I was like, oh, I'm so used to speaking the right way and saying the right thing that you know. I was like this isn't really working, like they're not getting to know me. So I started coming out of my shell more and more and just being me, which I thought was the last thing I was supposed to be on a day-to-day basis, I started coming out of my shell a little more and that's again. I was fully out of that club, which was great. And then, when I had my first interview for Stanford Yacht Club as the incoming general manager, I mean I nailed it. I just walked in and I said, you know, I thought in my head I'm like there's no way I'm getting this job, so let me go in Firing double guns, like we got this baby.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he had the end of the table. I'm like, who's that guy? Never met that guy before. He seems cool. All right, you know, now I know Dan. Well, obviously. But at that point I'm like, all right, guy, nice to meet you.
Speaker 2:Let's go in and see what happens, just being me having fun. And and you know what I? Then, at night, he's like hey, they loved you. I'm like what why? So that for me was like a turning point. It was like, okay, you know what, let me just be myself. I'm wasting time trying to be what I think everyone needs me to be, and let me just be myself, cause I think you know what, I'm okay. I'm not for everyone, but I'm okay.
Speaker 1:That's awesome and and the membership fully supports. Have you been in any situations that you've like? How have you handled? I don't, you know, I'm sure there's been unique situations. How do you handle, like you know, when you can, you can you know whether a member come. I don't know if members complain, like I'm sure, I'm sure you've seen everything and heard everything. How do you, how do you handle? I mean, I'm sure your skin's got to be thick. I mean, just well, and just to go back to your like history of, like, working in ethan allen and doing radio sales, to do radio sales you got to have thick skin anyway. So like, so go back, but you know. So, yeah, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2:No, no, that's fine. So I always say it's so funny, Someone you know. They say something like oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to like upset you. I'm like I've been a club manager for 20 years. I don't have feelings anymore. I haven't had three psychological terrorists, basically. So if you didn't have thick skin in my household you were not going to make it right.
Speaker 2:So it started there. And then really, yes, just like you said, radio sales, I mean talk about notes, right, it's like no, thank you, no, no, thank you. Phone up, closing doors, I mean that's really what it was all about. But after a while you start to realize it's people aren't saying no to you, right, they're saying no to the idea of the concept, the direction of the club. What have you? It's not you personally, Right, and that's what you have to remember. That's kind of what keeps you going from day to day. Or else, yeah, Forget it, You'll just, you'll put your head under your blanket and you'll never want to wake up in this business. It's just you have to understand what it's about. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:So so, so. So going to back to like the member, like how do you handle as a professional GM, like what are those conversations like and you know what's what, what happens, you know what in those situations?
Speaker 2:Sure. So I mean, I think the most important thing, right? Everyone, I have a reputation. When I started a new club, I'm like, all right, give me your top five. I know you have the top five, complainers, the top five. Nothing's ever good enough, nothing's great, like everything at the club, like it's the members. You're like why are you a member here If you don't enjoy the club? I'm like, give me those names, right, let me just sort of take it head on, right? So I will literally seek those people out and I will call them up, email them whatever it is, text them, whatever I have to do to get them in front of me. Hi, I'm brand new here. I know you've had some issues with the club. Tell me what it is, let me know. We sit down, we talk, they'll rattle off. You know seven thousand things that are wrong with the club. You know 7,000 things that are wrong with the club and through that conversation I'll pick off like one or two that are actually doable, changeable things. That are, you know, things we can actually take action on. And that's what I do, and I make these tiny little changes that they've been complaining about for decades right.
Speaker 2:In some cases I had one man that complained about something for decades. He was like I just want to be able to walk my dog up here. I'm going to clean up after him, I just but I need my dog to be walked up here and then I drive him home and that's it. No one ever listens to me. I'm like well, what time is this? He's like at like 6 am. I'm like is anyone here? He's like no, no one's here. I'm like all right, let me see what I can do. So we did. I was like you know what? As long as before 7 am, anyone can walk their dog here. At the club we had a huge property.
Speaker 2:Anyone could walk their dog here as long as they pick up after themselves After that I'm not kidding you, that was three clubs ago that man still talks about the fact that I'm the greatest club manager he has ever met and that the club was never better when I was there. But it's the little things, right. Everyone just wants to be heard and we get, so we get. We turn such a deaf ear to the folks that complain all the time that once in a while you have to remember to just listen and just if there's something that you can change for them, just change it and it makes a huge difference in their world. And that's that's kind of how I handle the tough ones. But at the end of the day, it's not just members too, it's staff, right. Everyone wants to be heard. So how can we hear them, how can we affect a little bit of change just based on what they have to say?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm sure, uh, I hate going like negative, like a tiny bit, but you know, I'm sure you have people talk about you behind your back or there's been like you know chatter at like clubs you know that you've been at in the past. How do you handle that professionally and maybe mentally and internally? Um, you know someone who doesn't I'm trying, I was trying to think of like someone who might not have the thick skin and just you know in it, you know whether they're young or old or whatever, but like, how do you handle that, I think a as a general manager and it being your club and their club, how do you, you respect those boundaries, so to speak, that like level of professionalism, when it's not there on both sides? And then how do you stay strong? How do you, you know, how do you also decompress?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, for me, I always, you know, I've sort of figured out at a very young age like who I am, right, I know my strengths, I know my weaknesses. So if I ever get some sort of negative feedback that I know is unfounded, right, someone hits on something that I know is actually a strength of mine, right, and they're just sort of talking bad about me to talk bad about me, that I have to realize that's not about me, that's about them, and I am I'm very forward person, so I'm not above just sort of sitting someone down and saying hey, you know what can I do better?
Speaker 2:Right, I don't start with. I heard you were talking trapped about me, you know you're talking smack Yo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's it's. Sit that person down directly, Right, it's. Let me let me hear it whether it's a member, whether it's a staff member. You know, what is it you think? What is it you think I can do better at the club? I'm just wondering, you know, I'm just I'm always trying to improve, so what is it you think I can do better? And let them kind of put it in their own words. That usually flips the script pretty quickly, like when you call someone out on BS, like that it usually usually ends pretty quickly.
Speaker 2:I've had it the opposite way, though, too. I've had it the opposite way, though, too I've had. You know, when we get so busy and you're just, you know in it and you're going through the motions and you kind of forget to do the important things that you know you're good at as well, you know, I've had. I've heard people say oh, you know, I wish it was more like this, and in my head I'm will say hey, I heard you said this and I want to thank you because you're right, you know.
Speaker 2:That's the difference is you know what is the feedback? Is it spiteful and incorrect, or is it accurate and helpful and constructive, even if it's not said to you, right? So I'll sit someone down and I'll say you know, I know you didn't say it to me and I'm not trying to betray anyone's trust, but I just I want to thank you for saying it, because I forgot to see it and, and now that you mentioned it, you know I'm going to do better. And again, that it's not that you're taking the power away, it's it's you're taking the power back and saying, wow, you really helped me get back to who I knew I could be.
Speaker 1:Like you get, you get the good end. Like like you, you make sure on both. No, that's, that's, that's a goldie nuggie right Right there, yeah.
Speaker 2:Write that one down. That's a good one.
Speaker 1:For all you people driving, write it down. Yeah, that's one thing I'm very upset with is with Apple podcasts and and Spotify. Um, actually, cause, with audio books you can clip it and you can, you can make notes. Why can't you do that with podcasts? Why is there not like an area you can like make a note on your phone? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Anyway, that's just my sounds like something you need to invent, though you can retire.
Speaker 1:And then Apple's probably like already working on it. They just haven't like released it yet.
Speaker 2:They're waiting for like nine I mean they're listening, they're recording you right now oh, I know, oh, I know, see, these are actually.
Speaker 1:These are actually tin tinfoil lined uh headphones. It's like the new ways. You really can't see how crazy I really am. Uh, and on, our next episode of conspiracy theories is when we really hit hit home. So so, speaking of conspiracies is a hot dog a sandwich?
Speaker 2:Ooh well, can I answer it both ways? I would say a regular unsliced hot dog no. But when you slice it down the middle, like they do at some places in new york, and then you squish it in a bun, then it's a sandwich okay is cereal soup no, okay, no, I don't believe, justin. To be clear, gazpacho is not soup either. That is cold. It's like drinking salsa, salsa.
Speaker 1:That's different, different yeah, oh, um, all right, like I, I have like a weird like food, never mind, all right um yeah, I just ruined your whole day, you're welcome. And I'm going to mexico on sunday and that's all I've been thinking about is like salsa and margaritas. And now I'm gonna be like, oh, that's soup. Like just wow, it's just taking a shoot.
Speaker 2:It's been a while since I've ruined someone's vacation too. There you go. Glad I could help.
Speaker 1:Coke or Pepsi? Oh, coke, oh, thank goodness, okay, yeah, no, and I do want to touch on what you had a lot of good mentors. When we like first talked, we had a lot of good mentor stories. A lot of good mentors. When we first talked, we had a lot of good mentor stories and it's been so funny how it's become a very common thread in all of these conversations I've been having.
Speaker 1:When did mentorship start for you? When did it start? Who were some of the people? What were some of? Maybe just the one or two, just main things that just always like, click and resonate. Was it a word, was it a phrase? Because usually you know it, it it is a lot of things, but each person it's usually this like one or two, it's like it's their little, like, click, their little, you know, like light bulb moment, almost, um, but yeah, when, like, did you have good make? Did it start with ethan allen? Like, did you have good? Did it start with Ethan Allen? Like, did you have good mentors there? And with, like radio stuff, was it more? Once you got to clubs, what was the beginning of it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say I I recognized it the most when I got to clubs. There was probably some prior to that, but uh, the most impactful ones for me were when I started at clubs, specifically sleepy hollow. Um, john Barish was my AGM and again he's the island general manager now at Gibson Island Club. Great guy, I mean. He had took so many students on, he had a great internship program and he was one of the ones that really he made me want to be a club manager.
Speaker 2:And from John, I mean it was, it was a look. Right, it wasn't a word, it was a look you could see, because John had ways of being stoic. God, I hope he hears this, this would be hysterical. You know he had ways of being stoic and you could see in John, with the arms crossed, the look and you see the like, worried, look like, oh God, look at John, something's wrong, like he's not going to tell you what it is, but something was wrong. Something's wrong, like he he's not going to tell you what it is, but something was wrong. And he kind of had, you know, that look. But the moment, you know, the arms were uncrossed and the hands were folded in front and he's looking around and he he would like not.
Speaker 2:He would like not in, in, like approval. I don't, I'm not sure if he knows he does it. That was the moment I was like, okay, we're good, we've done this correctly. So, but really he taught me so much about the club business. He was so great to me. He got me in CMA, which I didn't even know was a thing, I didn't know it existed. And you know, now I've been, you know, on boards of local chapters and everything, and I love it and I get everyone into it. He's really the reason I get everyone involved in CMA, because it makes such a difference. It was really because of him.
Speaker 2:But it didn't stop there. I had the next gentleman I worked for at Nassau Country Club. Tom was also the same way, but the same but different. You know, if that makes sense, tom very much was like you know, I got to take you to the basement. You got to look at the boiler. I'm like I don't want to look at the boiler, it's going to ruin my shoes. He's like come on, we're going to the basement. So we would go to the basement, we go to the roof to look at you know what's failing on the roof. I'm like, well, this is fun. Can we get down? Now? It's snowing, you know facility maintenance and um, and all that stuff. When I started as a GM which is something not a lot of GMs, first time GMs have Um, so really I got that great background from them and they both just believed in me so much and it was. It was incredible to have them both in my corner.
Speaker 1:No, that's, that's, that's really cool, really great, really powerful. Uh, this second one, john, cracks me up because it's, it's I could hear and probably think of some managers, some people going. Why would he? You know you have other people to do that, but it's if you don't at least get your feet wet a little bit and like look and peek and make sure you know you got to keep everybody on your toes and I believe you know you got to know well, at least to at least to get your. You know CCMs, you. You got to know well, at least at least to get your.
Speaker 1:You know ccm's you. You have to know more, you know than enough to be dangerous. But like it's knowing those like little things, and it's like when, like when those little like red flags go up, you can just like detect them quicker. You're like that doesn't seem right. What do you mean? Like I was just up there, like there's, no, there's no way that needs to be cleaned. Like you know just, you know people trying to, you know, pull a fast one on you or, you know, say something.
Speaker 2:Oh, exactly, but that's the thing about club management you have to know like a little bit about a lot of things.
Speaker 1:That's really what it is.
Speaker 2:You don't have to be an expert. You should hire experts, let them do their jobs, but you need to know a little bit about a lot.
Speaker 1:Especially with like interpersonal, like just knowing enough about each sport in each game and enough to how you, you can, you can say enough to let them go. Oh, I didn't know that they know. And then you can pivot that conversation really quick to something else, like so, you can't, you can't get stuck. That's, that's the trick. You can't try to sound like oh, and then they start having a conversation like oh no, I really know nothing about the Eagles.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, my favorite actually so being a female club manager too, you know is when I can dazzle the finance guys with my finance knowledge. That's always my favorite when I'm talking about US Treasury rates and base points and everyone's like, oh wait a minute.
Speaker 1:She knows about the market.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's my favorite. I mean, I literally have to pick the jaws up off the ground.
Speaker 1:It's pretty incredible no, that's another one. Tom taught me.
Speaker 2:Tom said that. He said always know your numbers, always know your numbers. That was another one I got from Tom. I can hear it in my head still now like spread. You give me a good spreadsheet and I'm like whoa, having a great time, no no, not gonna happen.
Speaker 1:Just the worst, just the worst.
Speaker 2:Maybe now you can make things like look nice, but I'm just uh yeah, oh, I can color code with the best of them, denny, don't you worry how are the pups? They're driving me nuts, they're okay. My wife's got this new thing where they're not allowed on the couch Right Cause it's like I'm not. She's like I'm sick of cleaning the couch. They're not allowed on the couch, I'm like. Then you tell them. I'm not taking that dog on the off the couch. Look at him, he's sleeping.
Speaker 1:He's snoring. He's having a great time.
Speaker 2:I'm not taking him off the couch. You, we have a ramp.
Speaker 1:There's stairs that go up to the couch, just for them. We have. We ended up ordering them from like Amazon. They're like these, like foam steps we got because Bella's 16 and we hate her like jumping even though she still does, but like they're everywhere and now, like now, she'll sometimes use them, Like oh, oh, she's a little bougie thing, so we have.
Speaker 2:I think we have the same ones at my house and my one dog, the youngest, who I'm not even sure if I didn't see a scan of it I wouldn't believe he had a brain. If we don't have them up against the couch, he'll walk up the stairs, like in the middle of the room, and just get stuck and he'll just start barking like someone needs to see, like I say. I'm like just please don't leave the stairs in the middle room because he'll climb the stairs to nowhere and he'll be stuck there for an hour. So dumb, so cute, so dumb, oh he's something that's amazing, though he's a little black and tan frenchie.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he's the cutest. Total moron, total moron. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for coming on. I really appreciate it, really really appreciate it yeah of course.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me. I'm very happy to be here. If there's ever anything I can do you let me know.
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