Welcome to the Carpool podcast with Kelly. You know, whenever I do these consults, they're like,

I'm looking for my next car, like I want to keep it 10 years. And I'm always just like, why?

Why do you want to keep it for 10 years? Because for all the reasons I just told you, we're either

going to have to probably go way bigger than maybe what you're expecting,

or you're going to have to make some concessions because it's really hard for one car to meet every single need that you're going to have.

And Liz, your mom time off starts now.

Welcome back to the Carpool podcast with Kelly.

It's just me today, guys.

And we weren't going to do an episode, but I don't know. I just

kind of felt like doing one. And I'm kind of into like making like really like cornerstone pieces

of content, like just like really juicy pieces of content that like people can refer back to

whenever, especially because all of like the social media platforms are becoming so much

more searchable these days. I kind of talked about this recently. Like people are now going

on like Instagram to search like, you know, Grand Highlander. So I want to just make sure I'm like

making way more specific content. Like in the past, I feel like I've just always relied on

YouTube to kind of be like that's where our content lives.

Everything else is just for fun. But I'm realizing that people aren't really going to YouTube as much. So that's the scenic route to tell you that today's episode is going to be all about like

what I think families need to know before starting the car buying process. You got to remember I do

these consultations every single week. And I see so many of the same situations over and over again. And since I'm so limited on the amount of consultations I can do a week, I thought like, I'm not trying to gatekeep anything. Like let me tell you everything that I think about the carbine process for families, the mistakes I see, what they need to know before starting the process, what they need to keep in mind during the process to ultimately make the best selection for their family. My biggest fear is that people

buy a car and get buyers remorse because one, what a yucky feeling. Two, a very expensive

mistake to make. And three, that makes me then worry that maybe your kids aren't as safely installed in the car as they possibly could be.

Because something I see is like, you know, if a car doesn't make it easy, a lot of families will just move kids to the next phase before they're ready.

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