Hey all, Joe here and welcome to Under the Influence.

I got to tell you that my house is kind of a hot mess right now.

It is. It is. We are switching up the kids' bedrooms and also

doing about four different DIY projects. So everything is all over the place. I'm just,

I'm stepping on crap all the time. But I keep telling myself that it's all going to be worth it. It's all going to look so

good in the end. It is. It is. I just, I have to say it out loud. I really do. Today, I'm talking to

someone who has genuinely changed the way that I look at my home. You might know Casey Finn already.

She is the force behind the DIY playbook on social media, and she's a true inspiration. If you have ever thought that DIY was only

for people with massive budgets and a camera crew, which would be easy to believe after the

massive rise of HGTV, Casey is going to convince

you otherwise. She's been doing this for a long time. You know that I really like talking to

OG content creators because they get it. They get it. They've been here for all the changes,

and they're good at what they do. There's no BS. Casey started sharing home projects back in

2013 before Instagram was even really a big thing. And for the past 12 years, she's been building

DIY Playbook into a trusted space for real honest. And I got to tell you, just just ridiculously

gonzo useful home advice, which I think is something we all truly need.

What I really like about her account is that Casey doesn't just show us the pretty after photos,

but she also shows us the labor, all of the work, the elbow grease, sometimes, sometimes the gross stuff that goes into taking

care of our home. And she also does something that HGTV does not do enough of. She shares the

real numbers about what it costs to change things in your house. And I got to tell you, I'm going to

talk about this on this episode.

I got totally hoodwinked after watching way too many home renovation shows. When we bought this

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