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Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education Good morning and welcome to the grind I'm your host

extraordinaire Mr Eric James The grind Simply put the grind is a half hour conversation that speaks to local business

entrepreneurs and explores their take on where our local economy is heading and asks them to tell us

their own story of the sacrifices and work ethic that it takes to have a successful business Good morning

good morning good morning Yes this is your host Eric James and you were listening to

the grind I have some special guests in the studio today We had 3 guests so I'm a little

sad that my 3rd guest is out sick for us because I had a powerhouse lineup of 3 incredible ladies

to introduce you to today for Women's History Month that's starting in March So we're down to 2

But these two ladies are going to knock it out the park I have no doubt about that

They have big personalities and even bigger business acronmens and so they're gonna hold it down

for us today and make this the show that you're gonna remember Now keep in mind this is only

our second show but we feel like we got a little handle on this thing and we're we're gonna

keep this thing rolling and make sure that we we we keep giving you quality information

and quality entertainment So keep in mind as as The intro says The Grind is a show about business entrepreneurs

business owners uh people in the industry or people that are making a difference politicians

or just people with a business a mindset that are making a difference in this community So I want

to bring in people talk to them about their story you find out a little bit of background and

also allow you to reach out to them if they have you have a question or

if you feel like they're giving you some good information And maybe you want to follow up with them and

really connect with them on a business level and there's nothing wrong with that because

you know we all got our own grind we all have our own hustles and we all want to find

a way to keep ourselves moving forward in a crazy economic environment So I'm gonna introduce these two ladies and

then we're gonna uh get into a little bit of their background I got some great

questions that I want to ask some answer to answer them today and we're gonna make this happen so First

I'm gonna start with Ms Lonnie Reed Ms Reed can you tell me a little bit about yourself Yes

thank you Eric Um I was born and raised in Minnesota and moved all around the country spent

some time in Europe um during my college years uh landed in Arizona where I sold real

estate for 15 years and then relocated here to Las Vegas Uh I'll be 8 years this

summer My husband and I did And at that point um didn't know the lay of the land didn't know

a soul that lived here so selling real estate I wasn't sure because I was lucky I could find my

house um not knowing where I was going so I got into um the title

business and um work at Drigg's title agency as a marketing rep So my job consists of working with

realtors and lenders and helping them grow and build their business All right so now I'm

gonna get into more questions Ms Lenny because she has a special talent that most people

don't know about Well if you know her you know about her talent but most people on the outside don't

and we're going to dive a little more into that but I want to introduce

my second guest uh next um that way she gets a chance to to uh you get a chance to

get up some of her information and then we're going to dive into some of both of their talents Now

our third surprise or special guest has just shown up you know young Buck he's running

a little late on that now so we're gonna chastise him a little bit because we keep it

real here on the grind But um he has he's an incredible young singer He has a song

out on social media on the different platforms and we're going to give you just a

little taste a little sample of that here in a moment But next I want to introduce Miss

Lisa Shin Lee Miss Lee tell me a little something about you and your and what's your grind My

grand is uh currently real estate I've been doing this for almost 3 years We're

from uh I'm so nervous We're all family This is about family fun and a little little little

hustle so don't be nervous you know just tell us about who you are Transplanted here from

California Sorry to talk over you I do that sometimes I came in 3 years ago couldn't find

a house lived in the Paris Hotel Pal Station and um the other casinos all 4 or 5 casinos We

lived there for 60 days with a dog and with two dogs and my husband looking for

a house We had sold our house brought the cash ran over tried to buy a house worked with 3

realtors on Zillow and I hated them Sorry I can't I don't want to wait you're

a realtor If you hate other realtors I can't be mad at you It was

it was the hardest time because um the first realtor didn't show up She had us sitting in front

of the car in front of the house for an hour and then told us

oh I can't be there and then it was just awful Second realtor my husband

was not happy with her because she pushed us too hard to buy first before we even saw the house

We didn't know the area Nobody would tell us what area would work for us and we ended

up off of Cheyenne and me I don't know if you guys know that In a

beautiful cul-de-sac little house um smallest house I've ever been in in my life 1100 square feet and um

not my dream house but our starter house But mind you for 20 some odd years like 22 years we

were in California living in a 3600 square foot house to to go from that to 1100

square feet was hard So yes I'm from California I lived there for 47 years 18 years in the garment

industry and uh yes I've sold Hello Kitty I think people love Hello Kitty and it sells

itself but little kids' furniture is not my thing because I don't have kids I used

to be in that cult I'm not in that cult anymore so I don't know I

have a question for you Because you said you were stuck in a hotel room with 2

dogs but your bio says you have 1 dog and 11 cats Wait a minute because I'm

trying to understand this You started off with 2 dogs and I'm a dog person I'm

not a cat hater I've had a few cats along the way but I I right now I

have 3 dogs But how do you go from 2 dogs to One dog did the

cats kill off the 11 cats kill off the other dog What happened Literally she's she was 17 years old

I got my got my real estate license brought it home and then she literally had a

heart attack in my arms and passed away the day I got my license I went to

pick up my license came home It's like she waited for me and then Yeah crying and

crying So for a month I was I couldn't do anything and everybody was telling me

you need to go out and grind I can't do it I need a little time off Nobody

understood the loss of a dog that I've had in my life Funny story to that is every

time my husband has a dog they name it Nicky So we were in Nicky number 6

Nicky #6 passed away and Oreo had just happened Oreo came and rescued me and she was the best

cuddle bunny The cats happened because Oreo made friends She made friends with a little

kitten Kitten brought mom and dad that's 3 And then one night it became 5 and 11 Now I

don't know how to I don't know how to you know not feed the neighborhood cats OK well

sounds like a special special animal but way to kill the mood Lisa you got people

over here swelling up in tears Everybody's feeling bad about the about the the puppy but 11

cats that sounds like a lot of work in in itself but That's a really

cool or interesting fact How many cats do you think total you'll be able to take care of

because it sounds like this is a growing addiction or problem we got to work through We might have to

have a cat intervention uh uh next show Let me tell you how we bought this house is I wrote

a letter It was a bidding war for the small house The grandmother that lived

there had like 10 cats She had dementia opened the door and let all her cats out Now each

cat had a special little heart with her name on it So I've been looking for these

cats the first year because I promised I would feed these cats laid out food

for a year and nothing happened So I threw the food out wrote a letter saying that I think

we're done one year of trying to feed your cats that are gone it's done but these cats

happened last August Everything happens in August The little uh my dog Oreo found one kitten brought brought

her to the door fed her fed her some salmon or chicken or something and

And then bought mom and then dad and all their friends came and you know the the what

what I think happened the cat went on social media and said yo we got a good

setup going over here This lady got come on over y'all She invited the family the cousins the nephews the

nieces They sent the word out on the internet and they all showed up at

your house There might be more Eric She said she's at So we're gonna switch

up because we do want to quickly uh do two things first because I was

reminiscing at the start of the show I want to say happy Valentine's Day to all the ladies and all

the fellas too because uh Valentine's Day is not just a a woman's holiday so the ladies need

to remember that get uh take care of your men as well and he'll take care of you

We we brought some small presents for the ladies here today uh Leah my assistant if

you could just give the ladies a little bit of uh uh Valentine's Day love just let

them know that they're appreciated and that we honor and respect the women in our lives and in our

community and in our businesswomen And we want them to know that they are appreciated and valued in in in

in in the community Now Ms Lonnie again we talked about it You are known

for one specific thing and anybody and everybody that knows you knows you for this one unique talent set now

again I am remiss because I went to a meeting with Ms Lonnie and I

figured I was going to get up and kill this this little skill set I figured you know I I

I can say it because it's my show so you know who's gonna tell me not to

I got a big butt I got a big butt and I cannot lie you know little mix

a lot for all your old school folks but um I got a big butt and I

thought I was going to knock this out of the park She can hula hoop with the best of

them She has a series of hula hoops She just told us about some New

hula hoops that she has and I'm like I didn't really know that there was that many versions or

uh different types of hula hoops but apparently there's a hula hoop uh uh uh designer group around there coming

up with new hula hoops but I cannot hula hoop and I don't know what happened I

think I got a little bit of rhythm still left in these bones but I I start and I kept

missing and the hoop wasn't hooping like it's supposed to hoop and I only got a half a hoop

or a quarter hoop and it wasn't hoop and hooping hula hooping but Miss Lonnie can throw it down with

the best of them Don't let her let her fool you she comes off mild mannered and professional but

when it comes to getting down on that hoop she's all about it Miss Lonnie tell

us a little bit how did the hula hoop thing come into play and how to

use it to marketing because again this is a business show that all that we're always gonna

get back to the business aspect of things but we do want to have a little fun Tell me about

this hula hoop Exactly a little bit of fun That's why I threw that in there Um when I

moved here Uh again I did not know a soul so as a marketing rep how am I gonna meet

people and meet agents so I had to be creative and think outside the box So

I spent a lot of time at the association here but to get people to come up to

me I would wear and I still do um I have jackets that light up with LED

lights in them I wear sparkly glittery clothes So right now she is in a

red a red sparkly I don't wanna it's not bedazzled because again I'm a man

so I don't know the the exact terms so I don't want to mess it up

but it's a red sparkly jacket She has the white white shirt that's sparkly and it

says firecracker in red on it which fits her personality to a T and the firecracker sparkly boots that she

keeps kicking our table with but she is dressed the part So that's uh then to loosen

up CE classes and get people involved and have some fun I thought you know what

let's hula hoop And I used to hula hoop when I was a little girl so

I bought some hula hoops and the very first class that I had uh there was a

broker um of a company here and I pushed the tables away and I said let's get up and

hula hoop and it started from there and it continues on and if I go

to classes and I don't bring my hula hoops people want to know where they're

at but I always carry them in my car in my truck So you became known

to have you gotten a nickname associated with it yet No no I have not That's a good point I

have not but people expect that And if I don't come in glittery clothes or clothes that have

money pattern on the point was this was for people to remember me and it stood out They

they go Oh that's right So now this year I'm like I've got new versions

of hula hoops They're waited for exercising and so it's just it's just to have

some fun and be silly now uh hula hoop queen The hula hoop uh goddess and we gotta come

up with a good nickname because if you're known for this own it use it market it

you're the marketing queen uh you gotta put it out there throw it on social media because uh it

is and I I had to admit I when I first I went into the first meeting I

said OK this is unique idea but it really works It's like telling a joke when you wanna

break the tension with a group And so people get into it Allows them to relax and they let themselves

uh kind of uh get involved or get into it and it really sets the

tone for the meeting and makes it much more fun and not just your normal business setting

meeting and you work with a lot of realtors mortgage reps lenders and they're not always

the most social people because they work sometimes in isolated basis or singular basis as

opposed to like an office setting So I I get it and I was uh very Impressed with

how you go about things and that's one of the reasons why I wanted you on the show

because some of your marketing techniques and the way you approach marketing is very unique and again I've got

of just one show Again my name is Eric James I own a State Farm Insurance Agency the last

negotiating to purchase a uh home inspection company so I do multiple things myself in the industry I'm

a serial entrepreneur so I am never one to think I'm arrogant enough not to learn from other

individuals and Lonnie I love picking up little tips from you or little nuances from you that you do that

seem so natural but I don't see other people do it So I want to give you credit for that

So before we forget our third guest because he's sitting over here patiently I want

to introduce him but then I'm gonna get back to my ladies and pick their brains because I

got some really good questions uh for them that I haven't had a chance to get to Sir I want

you to introduce yourself Mr Fate Kent I have that right correct Yes And so

I I have had the chance to listen to your song I've had a chance to listen to

your your song online your your your reps or your people sent it to me and it's a song to

veterans Um how did that and me being a veteran myself so most people may not

know that my father was in the Air Force um as a firefighter and I

was a army paramedic and I see Lonnie raising her hand because I have not forgotten that your son

is also in the in the armed forces as well and we're gonna talk about him He's a

pilot if I remember correctly um her and I've had several conversations so um Ms uh Ms Li

uh I don't know if you have any connections to that but we all respect uh what our veterans do

Uh thank thank them for their service And so Mr Kent how did this song

come about or how what is your connection to the armed forces and what's what's the the tone

behind this song that uh that you I mean it's fabulous online and so we gotta make sure

we we we get it out to you folks Thank you Well this song came

about um in the midst of I was a military brat I was raised in England and you know

traveling a lot with my uh with my dad and stuff But the thing about

it the song is actually the dead speaking to the living reminding the living that everything you did was for

your country It was for America It was for red white and blue It wasn't political

reasons behind it So it's actually the dead speaking to the living reminding them that

you did everything because you love deeply Well so did you write the song or

OK How many how long have you been in the music industry I've been singing professionally and writing my songwriters

since I was like 8 I enjoy music Music is a way that we can commit we can communicate to

the world We can reach everybody That's the language that everybody speaks Now I don't

want to put you on the spot but since you're a performer I'm gonna ask you to give us

a little sample a little teaser a little something to whet the appetite of our audience out there and again

Uh uh we're in a radio studio so we're not in a a sound studio sound booth but I've heard

this young man's uh he's not a young man I'm just an older man but I've heard

this young man's uh uh uh uh sound and his tone and his pitch is phenomenal So

I wanted to give you guys just a little bit of taste of that but keep in mind being

an entertainer is a grind among itself I mean you see the competitions on TV The Grind The

Voice American Idol it is hard to make it to a level where one you can you can

afford to feed yourself or feed your family let alone be successful or be a star Then

you've got to figure out how to stay in there and reinvent yourself constantly because people's appetites change people get

bored so quickly with social media Everybody wants something new something different the next big thing So Just getting to

the level where people know you and appreciate your music and what you do as a passion is

one thing but then trying to translate that into a career or to become an

idol you know in that sense So what is your driving passion and then I

want you to give us a little sample of what you do and maybe give something to

the ladies for Valentine's Day if you have it If not we want to hear your song to the

veteran I would say with me everything is motivated God keeps me in line Um I just left the inspirational

gospel label that I've been with for about 4 and 54 to 5 years and now I'm

singing I I write everything but I don't wanna just get stuck in a box anymore So as you're

speaking about the ladies right now I um I actually just wrote a song called Flowers that's out

on all the platforms right now You can look that up That's giving all the women their

flowers while they're still alive I I have another song for the ladies also called Woman's World So

these songs Woman's World should be out either today or tomorrow something like this We're waiting

for them to get it out there on what platforms where can we can we find this Oh you

can go on YouTube um my Facebook um Instagram Uh all the all the um platforms

CD Baby all this stuff like that Spotify it's out there So if I were to sing something right

now with the way the world is in a crazy place right now I um

God first for me and everything I do that's where my blessings come from um I would

say something like I was born by the river in a little tent and just like the river I've

been running ever since It's been a long Oh a long time coming but I know Oh change has

come now just in the heart of where we're at in everywhere in America right now it's

kind of crazy but as long as we keep ourselves centered everywhere has a storm but there's always

a a calm in the middle of that storm and as long as we remember to

be that calm that we we'll get through anything that's what I believe and music is that motivational force It's

the vehicle To help people get to that next level right now you're gonna think I'm I'm I'm I'm

lying about this Sam Cooke that song is my favorite song of all time and it's just

random We didn't discuss this We didn't rehearse any of this That is my all time favorite

song and it's an older song very few young folks have heard it because it it hasn't you

know passed down or been remade or remixed a lot into other things but that is my favorite song of

all time so I appreciate you Uh giving us a little bit of that I don't know what CD Baby

is and so you know you need to tell us old heads uh you know where we

can find certain things but um uh all the other platforms I'm gonna make sure that you know we we

make sure folks reach out to you and make sure give you a little bit

of love So thank you for coming in today That was a great uh A sample of what you do

so more of him on your social media platforms Fai Kent is the name so I'm assuming just like most

folks it's at Fay Kent All right ladies we're gonna get to these questions because we're we're we have

about 10 more minutes left to the show It goes by fast and so I

wanna get to get to some of these questions now Ms Lisa You are from

South Korea It's one of the countries I have not visited I've done a lot of traveling probably

about 40 countries but I have not been to South Korea Tell me a little bit

about your upbringing because the transition from growing up overseas to moving uh to Southern California had

to be an enormous uh uh emotional uh uh transition for you to now moving being living in Las Vegas

and to being a business owner Or businesswoman has to have been a journey that what what could take

up a half an hour show all of itself but give me a little bit about some of your journey

I'm gonna be honest with you I am a um Asian woman that grew up in in actually we were

we moved from Korea to Hawaii for a couple of years learned the worst way to

speak English is to speak Pidgin which is everything is faster slurring a Southern drawl So

when I first learned how to speak English coming from Korea was um Was uh was

the hardest transition of my life because everything was foreign It's a mixture of every

Asian nationality put into English and then when we moved to California it was another situation because we

moved to the valley the San Fernando Valley where everybody was like oh my gosh

I'm a valley girl and you get that twang into your into your body so I

went from Korea to Hawaii to learning pigeon to Southern California to the valley And uh

they made me hold off in in in uh English class for one year because I had to relearn

my English and then the southern thing was from a neighbor's influence and so I'm trying to relearn how

to talk and it's been like this throughout my whole life sometimes I talk fast

sometimes I borrow an accent and it's just a way to survive it's a way to um accommodate

the people that you work with and so yes Korea Hawaii Southern California Went to

a fashion design school where your parents always tell you don't do anything stupid just go to a

normal business school be a nurse teacher something in the profession I went against the grain went

to FIDM Fashion Institute of Design and merchandizing got a marketing and fashion design degree And then um from there

you know my claim to fame was I made those t-shirts that had princess jewel um angel

hottie all the glitter that just falls off to your table those shirts that you cannot wash

OK because I did that personally for myself because I thought I was the biggest princess So I did that

spend money on royalties got paid really well was able to buy my own first car with the money

that I made off these t-shirts But wait wait how does that translate into a real

estate career There had to be some that you said I'm done with Hello Kitty I

want to bet on myself and become an entrepreneur and go into the real estate grind The real estate grind

in California is probably the toughest market to be part of and so I've always had my eye on

it I'm really good at reading contracts I'm I'm that weird personality where I'm very emotional

but I love looking at contracts and finding the details and finding out different ways to look at

a warranty Why do I need that additional $10 a month uh warranty that you get a Best Buy

or Costco or whenever you buy an appliance So I'm really good at that But at

the same time I had my mom um buy a house every 2 years because

she wanted to upgrade always better our life There was no way for her to really make money unless

we bought a house lived in it for 2 years and bought another house and we did that every single

the contracts herself not being able to um read English spoke spoke well and got along but she wouldn't

be able to read enough at McDonald's to order a Happy Meal OK so us kids there's

that and that turned into hey some someday you're gonna be a uh you should be a realtor and

someday I woke up and I was over 50 I had just turned 50 and

when is that someday gonna happen So I threw myself into real estate hubby and

I came over literally we Ate gambled and slept We had a baby schedule We woke up

around noon went and got lunch we gambled and made $100 came home and we

slept and that was our grind for the 1st 6 months Now what's the name of your company

that you you're with The company that I'm with is with Colindo Group Real Estate It

is run by Josh Galindo I've met him Oh you have Awesome So what how where

can people find you if they wanted to uh uh get a hold of you

Um my website is called Lisahinle because you'll never forget me now Lisa Lee is a porn star When I

got married I Google Lisa Lee and it came up as a porn star She's

a beautiful black lady but she's not but I want you to repeat where can they get a hold

of you because you didn't give them a phone number or anything So me at Lisa

Shin Um where else can you find me My phone number is 702-577-0747 Repeat that

because we're getting a little close on time Tell me a little bit about Saint Cloud Minnesota Now I I

know that the mask local mass Go is Blizzy T the the husky I did my homework

on you We checked out because that's a small town and you did something that I wish I had

done when I was a young individual You left a small town and explored the world You

said uh in your body it says that you traveled Europe and North Africa as an

exchange student at what age I was 18 years old 1819 Now again say cloud I know

it's a middle middle medium size you know city but where does a 18 year old girl just say I'm

gonna branch out and just go see the world at that age I was uh always like

the wild child and still am in life so I just decided the university I went to had a program

in Europe and so I went on that program and lived Aalborg Denmark and then traveled around Europe

Northern Africa for six months It was amazing OK so how do we get from Saint Cloud

to Las Vegas and get into the title business Uh short version I when I went back to Minnesota

after seeing the world I said I've got to see more So I packed my little car and

I moved down to Fort Lauderdale Florida I didn't know where I was gonna live who what

I was gonna do um stayed down there Um met my husband um at the time and moved

back to Ohio from Ohio went down to Arizona and was there for 17 years before moving

to Vegas All right so where what company are you with again I'm with Driggs Title Agency and how can

people find you if they want more information If you're buying a home you gotta have

a title company so go with the best and you get some hula hoop lessons

along the way Absolutely um my number is 623-533-26 36 Could you repeat that Yes

change the show to an hour show but we're running out of time Wes is over there uh giving me

the evil eye because he wants to make sure we don't go over So I'm gonna just

tell you my name again again Mom your host Eric James if you want to talk

to me some more reach out to me at my office at 702-836-0953 Again 702-836-0953 I wanna thank my guest

today again wishing them happy Valentine's Day and remind everybody out there stay on your grind stay on your

grind stay on your grind Thank you Thank you Thanks for listening to the grind again My name is

Eric James We hope that today's show was two parts entertaining with a dash of education

Feel free to reach out to me at my office at 702-836-0953 and remember to always stay on

your grind