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Starting sustaining and having a successful small business is hard, but you already knew that, but wouldn’t it be great to have a podcast that talks to and digs in to the people who’ve made it problem solved. This is local vibes, small business success stories, talking to successful small businesses from around America. You’ll hear awesome stories about how they got started and how they survived and thrived online. And in their communities, we find out their special vibe. Welcome to Local Vibes.

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Brought to you by localvibes.us

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Now, here are your hosts, Pat and Angie Cherubini.

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All right, let’s do this.

Angie Cherubini (00:53 ):

Hi everyone. It’s Pat and Angie Cherubini with Local Vibes. It’s our brand new podcast and it’s, it’s going to feature small business success stories across the country is what we wanna do.

Pat Cherubini (01:08 ):

So what we’re trying to do is just shine some light on small businesses, local businesses that have a story, and we want to let them tell their story.

Angie Cherubini (01:19 ):

We’ve we’ve worked with all kinds of businesses over the past 24 years. And you know, we haven’t been in one particular niche. So we’ve gotten to know so many different people and so many different businesses that have awesome stories to tell. And they never, nobody ever tells ’em you never hear about it. And nobody ever, you know, nobody ever says it online. They, they don’t talk about it online, cuz everybody’s too afraid to talk about it online. So we’re gonna bring those to you.

Pat Cherubini (01:52 ):

We are going to start off by getting our ourselves out of the way. We are marketers, but we’re not wanting to do a lot of marketing. We’re talking to the businesses and let them shine. And to do that, we need to at least put our story out there, how we started because we’ve been doing it a long time. We’ve been online for a long time and we want to help businesses. Guide them into what they could do, better ask ’em what they’ve done. That works. Share it with everybody so everybody can grow. Yeah.

Angie Cherubini (02:23 ):

Maybe there’s something, maybe there’s something that a business is doing that’s similar to yours or even not similar to yours that, you know, you can get an idea about.

Pat Cherubini (02:33 ):

So this is going to be very conversational. We are not professional podcasters or broadcasters, but we think that we can be professional without being perfect. We’re just gonna, what we do. We’re gonna ask questions, have conversations and see where these things go. And if you like it, let us know if you don’t let us know. And, and we’re gonna kind of walk a winding path and figure out where this thing is going.

Angie Cherubini (02:58 ):

This will be on YouTube as well. So if you can do us a favor and like, and subscribe below so you can see and be notified when we drop other podcasts and videos,

Pat Cherubini (03:10 ):

Hurry up do that now in case you don’t like it,

Angie Cherubini (03:12 ):

Do it now

Pat Cherubini (03:12 ):

And we already got that outta the way.

Angie Cherubini (03:16 ):

Okay. So, you know, obvious, we wanted to start out by telling you about us because we are a small business too. And, and we started out and I think we have a pretty interesting story on, on how we started out.

Pat Cherubini (03:30 ):

Yep. We’re going to break our own rule where we say people, our customers don’t care about you. They only care about themselves, but since this is small business success stories, we’re gonna tell you how we got to here and how long it took.

Angie Cherubini (03:44 ):

So let’s get started about us.

Pat Cherubini (03:47 ):

Boom. Let’s go.

Angie Cherubini (03:48 ):

So how we got started, I guess I’ll probably lead that off because I was the one who really took the reins and started this. Oh. After I graduated from college, I went and

Pat Cherubini (04:03 ):

Did you say the year?

Angie Cherubini (04:05 ):

I’m not gonna say the year. It’s okay. I’ve already told you how long we’ve been in business. So you can kind of have an idea. Do you wanna date me on everything?

Pat Cherubini (04:13 ):

I dated you back then?

Angie Cherubini (04:17 ):

Well, anyway I was in market and advertising for various companies and I just, I didn’t like it. I liked creating and I liked creating things for the business that, I worked for, but I didn’t, I didn’t like being told what I needed to do and when I needed to do it I’ve always been, I think, a little bit more independent and I think you have to. So I decided to take a leap of faith and do it on my own. Especially when we, I got pregnant for our first child Chase. I knew that I did not want to stay with the company that I was with just because even though they were, I was with Jenny Craig first and you know, a women based company didn’t really take care of their, their women. Especially when they got pregnant. So I knew right then that I did not wanna stay there. And I knew I had the background of designing and advertising. So oh, I’ve completely forgot about this. I remember you bought me, you bought me a program when I first did it, my first computer program.

Pat Cherubini (05:30 ):

We literally did not own a computer yet. That’s how long ago it was, you know, a computer was something that was just being a tool that everybody had. Yeah. So we literally went ou