The Magic of Your Dream Job, Team, & Community All at Once
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
How can combining your entrepreneurial spirit and a love for your community launch a business to overwhelming success? Gina Schaefer moved to the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington DC when it still had boarded-up homes and no public services. After being laid off from several tech startups, she decided she needed a change. What better change to make than to step up and improve your own community? She opened a hardware store down the street next to an addiction recovery group that became a safe haven for people. Her business has succeeded and she now owns multiple stores in the area. She joins us today to tell the amazing story of how she got that first location and what she's learned from her many employees over the years.
October is National Fire Prevention Month. Our friend Steve Kerber from the Fire Safety Research Institute joined us again this year to share the latest fire stats and ways to protect your family and your home in our headline segment. Then we answer Jason's question about saving for a college education in a 529. He isn't sold on the idea and we offer our thoughts. And Doug will share his trivia.
You'll find show notes for this episode at www.stackingbenjamins.com/Gina-Schaefer-1265.
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| 0:00.0 | I guess you should have called. |
| 0:02.0 | I did call earlier when using the phone. |
| 0:05.0 | Earlier, when was that? |
| 0:07.0 | Or later, when then I left a message. |
| 0:11.0 | A message? What number did you call? |
| 0:14.0 | Two, four, nineer, five, six, seven, eight. |
| 0:18.0 | I can't hear you, you're trailing off. |
| 0:20.0 | And did I catch a nineer in there? you're calling from a walkie-talkie? |
| 0:23.7 | No, it's cordless. |
| 0:24.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:30.1 | Live from Joe's Mom's Basement, it's the Stacking Benjamin Show. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.6 | Oh! The Stacking Benjamin Show. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and are you helping your community or making money? |
| 0:56.1 | Today, to let you in on how you can do both, we welcome the founder of nearly a dozen Ace Hardware stores in the Washington, D.C. area, Gina Schaefer. And, oh boy, it's Evaluate Your Life Day. |
| 1:03.6 | You know, I usually save evaluating my life for 3 a.m. after a few seasons of Gilmore Girls, |
| 1:09.0 | my third run to the convenience store for a box of Chardonnay and an ugly cry. By now in life, I thought I'd be announcing at Lennel or, you know, at least somewhere on NBC. Heck, I'd even take CBS. I'd have some witty banner with the host to, it'd be great. Ah, well, in our headlines, it's fire prevention month. Want the best insurance? |
| 1:28.2 | Practice safety. |
| 1:29.5 | Steve Kerber from the Fire Safety Research Institute joins us. |
| 1:33.3 | Plus, we'll throw out the Haven Lifeline to Jason, who's trying to figure out how to pay for college while in retirement. |
| 1:39.5 | I think you did that backwards, dude. |
| 1:41.6 | And then I'll share some trivia. |
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