How can I bring people to work with me
and show them the process and what we do?
Can you walk everybody through the show
if they haven't caught up with it
or they are not that into it yet,
or if they're thinking about renovation,
they've ever daydreamed about a farmhouse
or that type of life, tell them what you want people
to get out of the show and the process of the show.
Yeah, well it's, you know when I was 20
and could leave my parents' house
I immediately went to the country, bought a farm
and it's was just something that was in me as a kid.
And to live on a farm and just experience
that life is just so relaxing and so rewarding.
It's so different, right?
Yeah.
You can really go outside and find peace.
Exactly. And see stars.
Exactly
And smell like truly fresh air.
And it gives people such joy to live on a farm.
Yeah, so that, it was just, you know,
this was things I did was renovate houses
and I would put it on my social media
and people were really curious like, do you really do this?
Like, is this real?
So I was like, how can I bring people to work with me
and show them the process and what we do?
So, you know, five, six years later I landed up with HGTV.
Isn't that great?
And it's just amazing. (audience cheering)
Can we talk about what meaning that's brought to your life
to see so many dreams coming true all at the same time
and how they overlap but are so different at the same time.
Yes, I love that you brought that up.
It's, I always say new kids is totally different
than renovating people's houses
but it's really the same to me.
It's doing an art and bringing people joy.
I mean, right when I see these homeowners walk
into their houses when they're like
I don't know what to do.
Like, it's just so overwhelming to them.
And then they just turn it over to us.
We go in, do exactly what they want, make it beautiful
and they walk in and just start crying.
And then that's when I start crying.
(audience cheering)
So it's, it's so rewarding.
You can read on your face how much joy all
of these elements of your life have brought to you.
Yes.
So do you do your own home on the show as well?
I actually did
A renovation that's private to you?
It was, or the more than a renovation.
Okay, okay.
It was a, I have 10 acres at my house
and we're only allowed one house.
So me and my husband wanna build a little bit bigger house,
new construction, which is, bothers me.
Oh, I know this.
I live in the country.
New construction or too much you do not wanna put together.
So we had the original house from the farm
and we can only have one house on the property.
So I had a company jack it off the foundation,
roll it across the field, across the street
and plop it in a brand new location.
(audience cheering) It was, it was amazing.
I mean, it was a house, It was built
in like the late 18 hundreds.
And the only other option was to tear it down.
So was it on a slab?
No, it was on like an old rubble foundation.
Typical, old.
So did you put in a cellar or a slab
or something to move it to the new location?
Oh yeah, brand new basement.
Wow. Yeah.
That is amazing.
But now the problem is, I moved the house over there
next to my house and now my family's all fighting
on who's gonna move in there
because I just did it for love and it really no foresight
as to who's actually gonna occupy this home.
So, you know, my family every, they're like
nobody's moved in there yet.
Like, what's happening?
So what are you gonna do?
Are you gonna play a card game for it or flip coins?
I don't know.
I mean, primarily I just wanted a place
where my family could come up on weekends.
Exactly.
And experience what I have and just de-stress
And have the joy of being together.
So yeah.
(audience cheering)