Let's Talk with Leaha & Rhonda

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The following is a paid program sponsored by Crawford management group and smart time consultants. Please be advised that the voices and opinions you may hear do not necessarily represent the views of K u and v Las Vegas, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, or the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education. Hi, this is Leah Crawford. And

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I'm Rhonda Nolan.

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Welcome to the let's talk with Leah and Rhonda show.

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We're here for you and we're ready to go. Let's do it. Good morning. Las Vegas. How is everybody doing? Yeah. How you doing today? This cold? It is cold. Yes, ma'am. Have you pulled out your fur coat yet? No. Okay. You don't is back in Philly?

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You know what? It's gone. It's gone. It's gone. You don't need them out because you didn't need them out here for lunch jackets though.

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Okay, well, I'm gonna tell you something. After six, seven o'clock at night if you're going to dinner or going to a show or whatever. You need your

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we need you do need a coat to coat a fur coat is a bit that's a necessity is something that is not really I don't think so. Not he is not that cold here. I don't think so. It's not that cold. It's warm, cold cold. But it's not for like Chicago is for cold cold. Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah. That's for cold cold. This is not to be sweating. Me put on a swimsuit under pharmacophore coils are very warm.

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Yes, they are. But I at least get to wear my once or twice in December and once and twice or January. And then after that it's over. But at least I get to wear it you know, at least four days, at least four days in a couple of

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months. At least four days. You know, I wasn't. That's not my call. I got more coats. Okay, that's, that's, I think that's all you need for here. But it is cold. Yes, it is cold. It's it's a different type. Because 60 degrees here is cool.

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Yeah, and 50 degrees is cold and 40 degrees is super cold is super

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cool. In comparison, and comparison comparison, I had a friend that came out here and they saw 60 degrees and they bought shorts. And they were like, I don't like it at all. It's not not the same. It's not the same 60s It's not the same 60 but it is I can't believe we are just eight days away from Christmas. Oh my gosh.

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Guys flown by.

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It is truly gone. So I want to tell everyone you know, first of all, happy holidays and I know we're out there with shopping. Be careful because from what I understand there have been a lot of car break ins you know, if you're going shopping, just FYI. When you are done in the mall, and you put your bags, bags in the car, get in the car and go in go to your next spot or go home and and put your bags up because they were you know just talking to a few different people about cars being broken into into different models. Oh wow. So just be careful. But while you're out there shopping, you know support small businesses. Yeah,

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support your small businesses. They're all over Las Vegas and Henderson in Summerlin, they have some beautiful things. We went to a beautiful shop when you say it was beautiful. We went to this beautiful candle shop.

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Right. It's called Speak, easy candle. And it's off of mall and Durango. I wanted to say Alicia Alexander is the owner. And when you walk in, it's just it looks like just a candle shop. And you have to ask for the candle making experience. And then she opened up a door like a speakeasy. Oh, am gee, it was beautifully decorated design. I mean, and you sit there to have a bar some candlemaking stations. amazing concept. Amazing cones.

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It is a fantastic concept and we're gonna and we're going to be visiting her store next year. And we will take you in there and kind of tell you exactly what's happening but maybe we

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should do a pop up and just let's do a pop up and let's pop up with a few people and make some candles because the gin the gin and tonic candle going there because I think we got to gin and tonic candles

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gin and tonic the old fashion. The Margarita is they smell so wonderful and they make them right there in the building right

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but gin and tonic I was shocked because I'm like I'm not a gin drinker, right a drinker. But I'm thinking gin and tonic but candle. Oh my god, it just smells so good. If you like

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Juniper that Juniper flower is a gorgeous flower and the fragrance is just fantastic. And yes, if you're looking for some gifts, something different, something for someone who has everything, but they still need a little something because it's consumable, right it is. They have travel size candles, if you know people to travel and go on cruises and things of that nature. They love to have a beautiful scent in their room. They have things for the home they have special scents for the bathroom the kitchen. So yeah, check them out. Again. It's

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called the Speak Easy candle

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and it's located at

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well, I don't have the address. I know I know how to get there. So what I did was Google it and when I googled it to trust, but no you do, we can look up the address. I can get you the address that we're

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looking at, but it's in a new area ladies and gentlemen, it's an area it's a mixed media area where they're going to have shopping, dining and living space. It's a brand new area is fantastic. But yeah, look them up and go check out Miss Alicia and tell her that Leah and Rhonda sent you Yeah,

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but the interest is 6817 Helen, Tolan Street, Suite 110 Las Vegas, Nevada 89113. So this again, the 6817 Helen Tolan Street, Suite 110, Las Vegas, Nevada can because it's so southwest, it's actually in my I'm not gonna lie. My Google Google didn't know what to do. So I had to call some people because it's in new construction off of mall on the east side of Durango. And you have you really have to look at because it's new, this new construction, sorry, just new construction. And the parking was very easy, because it was a parking lot, because there's really no on street parking, not a lot of on street parking, parking lot. You come out and the candle stores right there. It was an amazing experience. So if you want to find something to do on a Friday night, you can go to your website, I think it's Speak Easy. candle.com

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Speak Easy candle co.com

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speaking right, I forgot to speak easy candle, co co.com. And speak easy, just the way you speak easy candle co.com. You can schedule to come and do the candlemaking experience. And she does them at 12 and seven I think she said from Friday, Saturday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So if you want something to pay, you know, just another experience,

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right? If you have family in town for a holiday, you want something to do something to do. That's something creative, you

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can go make some candles, go laugh joke, have a good night, just have a good time. But holiday season we're buying but we're purchasing stuff, you know, support the small businesses that are out here that they have some amazing products.

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I've seen games, I've seen toys. I've seen all types of beautiful things that some of our fellow business owners have. So make sure you check them out.

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Make sure you check them out. Wow. Well, it's the end of the year. And I know it's almost tax time. I know people don't like to really talk about tax time, but it is almost tax time. What does that mean? Are you ready? Are you ready? Because this year, you might have had some changes in your life. You know, you might have retired, you might have gotten some different investments, you know, are you ready? Right now, I would be just getting my not that I'm pulling the documents together, but I'm just making mental notes and some notes about everything that has happened this year. Did you retire this year? You know, if you didn't retire, you used to get in W twos. Now you're going to get a 1099 R so just start looking for those documents. You know, did you sell your house? Right? Did you sell your house and move Are you a new retiree in Vegas, so your house and move here just a different things you need to have, you know in order you know where there are some life changes that happen to you. You know just what document you need to have in order. I know for us we are accepting clients for this tax season. We are looking forward to it we are gearing up now. And we have like more detail with the client organized but that's a lot more detailed than what we've had in the past because our clientele now is changing. You know it's changing. They're bringing more entrepreneurs, more retirees so we changed the docs a little bit what we're requesting, and look forward to serving you. So if you don't have a tax home and you're looking for one, you can contact us at my name is Lea Crawford, Crawford management group at 702-382-5737. Again 702-382-5737. I can tell you Jenny, Brenda and I are we work very hard, you know, because we're like a boutique type. So we really cater our stuff to you. You're not just a number that we're running through. We sit down we talk to you we get to know you. We send out birthday cards we send out sympathy cards we send you know and Burton them not purchase birthday cards for you. birthday cards for you. Anybody you claim will never return gets a birthday card.

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That's wonderful, you know?

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No, we do a lot so we do a lot of touchy feely and even this year. I think we want to bring Jesse on. But we're sending out his Clean Sweep worksheet. A wonderful so people know people always look at you know, how can I become a better person? And how can I do? What can I do differently in my life? And we it's 100 questions. Well, not really questions, but statements. And it's either answered either yes or no. So yes, you put a one no, you put a zero. And at the end, you can see the number and it's some some no just questions to make you think. So we're also doing that for our clients because we like we want to grow with you. We want to grow with you. And we're finding that if we touch you probably about four to five times per year, you know, opens up conversations because we're not too busy to work with you. But again, Crawford management group, we are located downtown Las Vegas on a corner of sixth and Clark. Yes. And if

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you're looking to put a marketing plan together, put a business plan together, update your business plan, anything you want to do for any changes in the next several years. Smart time consultants can help you with that. Smart time consultants can be contacted at 702-908-9577 If you want to get ready for your your close up and you need some new professional photos. Smart time can help you with that.

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We talked about that too. Why do I need professional? Why do I need professional photos? You always need professional photos all the time. You never know. I mean, it's like I think of it. Well, you told me I like school like school pictures. school pictures every year, right? These are school pictures every year. So professional photos definitely, definitely a must. But I am Lea Crawford,

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I am Rhonda Noemi, you're listening to less talk with Lee and Rhonda at KU envy. And also, we just want to remind all US Small Business Owners. If you are in unincorporated Clark County, and you have a Clark County business license, you may be eligible for the T AP business grant. And that is for companies who are already in business that is for nonprofits. And that's for people who have ideas about a new company they want to start this organization has money for you. And you would just have to go to business and Clark county.com For the full program details. So yeah, if you if you are in unincorporated Clark County, this is for you.

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This is for you unincorporated Clark County. And if you are new here, you'll learn that this you know you'll learn what unincorporated Clark County is if you as a business owner, if you went down to the Clark County Building to get your business license, then your businesses in unincorporated Clark County when you how I can better put it if you didn't vote for mayor, council person or anything like that in his last election, you're probably living in unincorporated Clark County. So you need to understand what unincorporated Clark County is. And this

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is for customers or business owners who are affected by COVID-19. And this is for people who had jobs who had businesses before COVID-19. And for those who started businesses during COVID-19.

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That's a nice was, yeah. Nice. That's nice. That's nice. And it and

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if there are unemployed people out there who want to start their own business, they have money for you too, as well. Oh, that's nice. Isn't that cool? Okay,

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that's real cool. That's

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real. Yeah, cuz I know a lot of people you know, after COVID didn't go back to work to their jobs. So they must have started new businesses. So these are some of the little things that are available to you if you're in that predicament.

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Okay, good. But I want to circle back to the pictures. Yes. Because we went to he loves to do and the funny thing is, I like professional pictures because I'm not a Facebook or I'm not, you know, I don't do Facebook. I don't do the social media. But I like professional. I just like professional I like the process of professional pictures. Let's talk about this process because it's not just you going. If you want this picture to look good. What do I need to do to make I mean, I'm female, I know I'm a man.

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So you as a man you still wants to make sure that you have a great haircut and fresh haircut. You want to make sure your nails are looking good and nice and clean. You know whether you get manicures or not. You want to make sure you look good. You want to make sure your suits are very nice and fit properly. You know, some of us gained a couple of pounds during COVID A couple that we haven't quite gotten off yet. So we may have to get go up a size in a jacket you know to make sure it fits properly so that you look very clean and polished in your photos.

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Because you want to look clean and polished exactly in the photo. So is this fresh air cut beer?

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Yes. All that nice and trim and in order. And if you don't have someone who you know who does those services for you, we do have people who do that that's part of the experience. The executive pack experience they can get you all lined up and ready to go and ready for your

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executive executive package. So you get lined up you get to nails. I mean get your manicures. And for women we depending on what type of hands. You do hair makeup as well for women hair

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Makeup is there. And also, if you're unsure what your look is, we also have a stylists that can come and visit with you and talk about what you're looking at and find out if you have the right garments in your closet for the shoot. And then if you don't have the right garments, we are able to get those garments for you. So you look your absolute best

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able to get an ad. And the thing is, I know we everybody believes that they look good, but having a stylist is huge. Yeah, having a stylist is huge, because they hit they they talk about so many things. I know some stylists do closet audits, and different things like that. And you might not want that yet, right. But just a closet audit is when you actually go through and then you try on all the clothes in your closet. And you make hard decisions about what stays what goes, what can be repurposed for something else, a different way to wear the same thing. So why not get you know, you're not guessing and you always come out looking like your best your best you

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exactly. Because you never know when somebody wants to nominate you for an award. And you have to turn in a photo and a bio, you want to be prepared.

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So with the executive experience, will you also write a bio?

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Yes, if someone needs a bio that can also be included in the executive experience. That's an ala carte item

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aliqua Item. Now, let me ask you about the bio. What do I put in the bio?

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Well, it just depends on how much experience you have. Some people depends on what business you're in how much experience, some people start their bio after college. Some people start their bio after grad school. Some people start their bio based on the experiences of the companies they work for. So it just depends

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Do you cater the bio to the to what you're looking for? Do you have several different bios?

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Yes, you should have more than one bio, you should have a standard bio that tells us who you are and what you what you've been doing. And then you should have a special bio for whatever business that you're in, where you can get a little bit more detail because the people who are reading it understand what you're saying.

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Got it. So you just need to understand what the purpose of the bio is, what is the purpose? What is the purpose, but you should always have a general one to start. So you need to you need to amend it. So if I have a bio, and I say I wrote it like five years ago, how often should I update it.

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If through the career process, you have changed positions in that timeframe, you should update the bio with your new positions. If you're a business owner, and you've made some new requirements, you bought another business, have you started another business, you should include all that information in your bio, because you may have started your business and you opened up with two locations. But five years later, you may have five locations. So you want to if you want to talk about your growth and your business and how you expand it.

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And you don't want to wait until somebody needs it correct order to have so that could be one of your year and things so we talk about some urine things you can do not look through your closet, see what you need and don't need, you know, you know what, your life has changed. So you can sit over the holidays. And like okay, so tax seasons come in, and I gotta head these documents in order. So I know what I'm looking for. Let's get organized so we can get ready for the next year. What are your goals for next year? Exactly? No, now's a good time to write them down. Yeah, look at what you want to do. Like I know people I'm not I'm New Year's resolution, I'm like, but we normally by January 3, we dealt with the new year's resolution. But if you are building a plan, a life plan, and you're constantly reviewing it, it's really not a New Year's resolution. It's just continuing on the life plan. And now we're doing little things in order to grow and you have different plans. So that's right, you know, plan, your

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plan should be included, how you're going to move your business forward, but how are you going to move yourself forward? Personally, Leah always talks about working on the business and working on you. And you have to do both. You have to work on your business, but you have to work on yourself.

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Yeah, I just got just got back from a silent retreat. So yeah, you got to work on you. You got to work on and you have to take the time is very important to take that time because what I find is for me, especially you become more productive and less time you think and process differently. And because I'm still growing a business, it's very important. And because I'm like how do I maintain this lifestyle as an entrepreneur? Well, the lifestyle I have now and when I stopped working and then sometimes I realize I might never really ever stop working, just working less because I love being I love being an entrepreneur.

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Most entrepreneurs are workaholics. They we work every day all day around the clock. But we have to remember to look out for ourselves and our health. Because if we don't have our health nothing

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well you want to know what though but what I love about being an entrepreneur too is that you again, even though I think is baptism by fire When you are able to do different things because you can make your calendar what you know you set your meetings, you can set your workout schedule and you can figure out how to become productive and the better that will when you become more proficient at being an entrepreneur and you learn how to you know not you'll have to do everything but hiring people that can do a job so that you can focus on what you love just being able to be versatile as an entrepreneur and and move and get things done but you got to work on you exactly got to work on you and for

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you workaholics you got to take some time off for yourself, you know, yes, you should be getting a little exercise and every day even if just it's just a walk around the block for 20 or 30 minutes if you can do it, but you also need to put in your plan when are you going on vacation? Vacations aren't yeah to take vacations, it may just be a four day vacation it could be a five day vacation but you got to take some time off for yourself and get away from it all and come back so that's why you got to hire and train great employees so that while you're gone they can keep the business going by you are relaxing you also give

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your employees time off to absolutely your employees need time off to I know for for us what we did was strategically close the office down for two weeks during the year oh that's one week everybody's off and phone goes to voicemail they're like well what and don't schedule not because we're not gonna show up we're not Ford Motor

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Company used to do that. The first two weeks in July they were going to shut down because they were shutting down the plant to make new parts the new cars so everybody went on vacation during that time and so then eight when they come back then boom, we come back and we're ready to start making cars for the next year.

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Well because it also boosts creativity and for us like we do it Thanksgiving and Christmas. So your family because you've probably been working a little bit irritable bit but now it's time for you to look you know deal with your family stuff. Your house, clean your house. Yep, you know or whatever is important for you. Right? This is a time for you to do that. Right and I find that it works

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and people will have to tell you where you get ready to go into your busiest time so there's there's no time off and you're if you're in hospitality, you're going to be extremely busy from now until the top of January and some of you people will still be busy the whole month of January. With all the convention starting up. Vegas has been on fire the conventions came back this year of the rodeo was in town and I missed it. I missed it too but they were in town for 10 days and then there were some other organizations in town so people in hospitality working in the casinos everything had been crazy busy and all the little boutiques hey you know what if you're looking for some gifts, check out some of the boutiques inside the casino you'd be surprised what you'll find in there. I found just some wonderful things for myself and for other people that are unique that are inside the boutiques of all the hotels

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of auto hotels here botanical and well as long as I had to go to districts are sometimes getting to

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say I love going to the strip I know you do. I'm not one of those people I love going to the strip I have no problems I go park my car go in and do whatever it is that you do.

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You know I go kicking and screaming

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what's the you know, I'm a foodie and some of my favorite restaurants are in so

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we need to do that too. We need to look around or outside.

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But okay, I do have some favorite hotels that are outside of the strip too. I mean some favorite restaurants that are outside of the strip to I go I go to both. It just depends on what's going on. See

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I go outside. I will I will No I will go all around town. I have no problem. We will

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drop she will drive for food.

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I will drive for food. I will drive especially for good food. Yeah, for good food for good food. Good food. I will drop because I know we it was fun. You had a girlfriend I came in and this was for Thanksgiving. And she flew in is late at night. And she said I'm hungry. And I'm like okay, so we had to go pick up a pie from someone's house. And I was like what do you want? She said I want Vietnamese food. I said okay, so we go. I said we'll find a bit not not where Summerland not knowing we go to, she finds the place I told her give me directions it ends up being on Spring Mountain. It was a Vietnamese grocery store. When I tell you all the food was fresh. She ordered her food and Vietnamese. So the woman sitting here she's like, Oh my god, I'm like yeah, but this woman speaks like four different languages. Right? Right. And the food looked absolutely it was like absolutely amazing. So me personally, I will drive for food for good food. I will dry and I like fresh food. You know because I I love what I teach Ron because she the leftovers. I'm like I'm good. I'm not

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I am a leftover person. I love leftovers. I never complete all of my my my food. I never eat all my food at a restaurant. I will always have a leftover and sometimes it's it just takes you on the next day. The thing

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about it is bond I tried when I tried to do the leftover thing why I stopped because the fool started growing stuff in it. Because I just being out all the time and all you know, just being out and not being home, right, I would eat I would come home and it would be just a whole bunch of containers and no case it was all going in the garbage. You know, very rarely do I

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eat. See, sometimes it's I know I'm not going to eat it soon. I wrap it up and freeze it. And I just pull it out at another time. But let me ask you a question. Have you been to shacks, new little restaurant? No, where is it? So it's over on Paradise. And it's in a strip mall. And it's a chicken. It's called the Chicken Shack. And it's really very tasty. I went in there and they have he has a chicken sandwich this out of this world where it's on Paradise. And like flow Almost paradise and Flamingo or something like that. It's over in a strip mall. It's over. Okay, you know where CVS is? It's on Paradise. It's a CVS. It's a Hookah Lounge.

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I don't know what cleavers is,

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it's not in that mall. But it's one over

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got it because when you said to chickens to know there's a Chicken Shack on I know where all the food places are there to chicken on Maryland Parkway. That's also very good. Right across, most drive across from from UNLV.

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Right. So it's not that this is a different this is different. One down the street and around the corner. But the food is very good. The people who work in there excellent service was excellent. And it's not just a fast food restaurant because it actually has a bar on TV. So people are in there watching sports, but they're having a great meal and it's not fast. The food isn't that fast at all. The chicken sandwiches are great. And they have some different and some interesting french fries. French fries are very interesting and very different. So So yeah, if you guys get a chance check out shacks chicken check. The food was was good.

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Well, no, it's actually good. And you want to know what I also want to do. And I said I want to do just this Christmas season is the M resort has their Christmas holiday thing going on. And I want to just want to go out just visit just doing stuff in and around the city, the valley, the light festival out at the speedway. That's that that's going on right now. But a lot of different interesting things that you can just go I mean that the Bellagio we walked through the Bellagio through their Christmas scene.

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Absolutely gorgeous art Resorts World had an ice skating rink.

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I need to go because I like I do like that. I do like the need to go

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Yeah, so some fun stuff for you and your family.

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Just you and your family to do you know resorts was all resorts. We're also at the speakeasies, we actually got to go in one it was actually real nice.

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That's cool. Well, listen. Hey, if we don't see you before the holiday, please have a very Merry Christmas Happy, Happy New Year. Happy Hanukkah and, and all that fun stuff. And don't forget to take some time out for you. You've been listening to Let's Talk with Lea Crawford and Rhonda Nolan. I'm Lea Crawford. I'm Rhonda Nolan and it's been fast. Fantastic. speaking with you today, this wonderful, beautiful Saturday. Have a great holiday and we'll see you after the holiday right?

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