A Navy Sailor's Venture into Dog Boarding and Digital Marketing

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Yeah.

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And it'll tell us, have you used stream air before?

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No, but this is awesome.

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Yeah, I like a little more of decoration and kind of cool.

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And it'll pop up and say we're live.

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So right now it's just circling around,

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though I can look and see if it's live

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and it's just gonna make me look like a silly person

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on LinkedIn, because I could be doing that too.

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That would not be funny.

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Let's see.

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Nope, that's that one.

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And let's see, is it gonna do another one?

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Yes, we're live.

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All right.

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Hi everyone.

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Okay, so first I could say that everyone

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that comes on the show, I did,

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RG, I did 132 lives during COVID.

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And some people, I started with people I know,

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and then I realized I was getting asked to,

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you know, have other people come in and be a guest.

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And I thought, okay, I love this.

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And then I bring it back because honestly,

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I need to just, I'm a podcast host

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of five amazing shows.

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I do other things too.

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But I've been like losing my own brain cells.

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And I'm like, I wanna like get out there too

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and introduce people.

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So I thought I would take Friday

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for a couple hours and do this.

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But I love RG that you actually signed up.

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So I know you're bold, you're brave.

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Doing lives is never easy.

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So it makes a lot of people nervous.

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And I love to be honest with you that you're a little younger

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because I think that not only diversity,

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but we wanna hear from everyone, right?

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So this live is open to grandmas and grandpas,

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still working, my parents worked till they were 90,

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by the way, crazy.

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Oh, wow.

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And to you.

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So thank you.

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Obviously, we all wanna say,

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not just thank you for your service,

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but thank you for your sacrifice.

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So tell us a little bit about RG.

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Hi.

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Hello, everyone.

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My name is RG and I'm a current Navy sailor.

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I also have a side hustle that I'm working on,

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all the stuff, border originally from the Philippines.

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And then parents had this migrate to the US

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when we were still at the younger age.

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And then pretty much everything went from there,

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like side of the Navy.

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And I had like huge aspiration when it comes to technology

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and also business.

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And I was like, well, also doing the Navy stuff.

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Why not start doing a side hustle as well?

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I love that.

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So what is your side hustle?

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So right now we actually, me and my wife,

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we actually built a dog boarding business back in 2022.

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And then I also did digital marketing and like software.

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And then my main clients are usually business owners.

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I love it.

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Okay, let's talk about the dog boarding

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because that is really interesting to me.

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So you have a plot of land?

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Or is it your home?

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Yeah, so basically it's in our home.

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And we actually started this when we were,

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when we didn't own our home yet.

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And then we were just trying to find something

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that she wants to do instead of working the regular nine

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or five and all that stuff.

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So the background of it is like, we went to Disneyland

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and we have a dog of our own.

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And then when we were going to Disneyland,

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we were like, oh, shit, why did we bring our dog?

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We should have had him go on a daycare or something.

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So we're already there in LA.

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And then we stumbled upon this app called Rover.

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I don't know how familiar you are with it,

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but essentially you just find somebody there.

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It's kind of like upward, you know,

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like five fiber and all that stuff,

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but it's for dog sitters and for dog owners.

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Like the cat sitters too.

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Don't forget about our kitty cats.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And I was like, that's like primarily

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what the platform is about.

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And then we found a sitter there.

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And then basically fast forward a couple of weeks later,

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we were talking about her wanting to quit her job.

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So I was like, what can we do?

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And then, because she mentioned that she wants to do a business

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instead of working the nine or five.

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So I was like, why don't you sign up for Rover?

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And then she was like, that's weird.

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You know, I was like, let's do it.

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You know, like you'll never know what's going to happen.

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And then, you know, after a couple of days,

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pass a background check and all that stuff.

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Next thing you know, you know,

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she published her profile and all that stuff.

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And then at first we were getting up to like,

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basically up to three dogs in a day.

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And then, I Cheers trees and then I