Shadowing Practice: Mobile Massage Studio! Full Detailed Walk-through Tour. - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Guys, it is almost halfway through 2025.
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Guys, it is almost halfway through 2025.
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And if you think about it,
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we're in some weird times.
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And to make matters even better,
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I can add to that chaos because we've created something
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that is really exciting for a lot of people to kind of change their lives.
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And it's mobile businesses.
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Let's dive into it.
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So I used to tell people that I converted school buses into tiny homes,
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and that's what I do.
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But now it's also shifted a little bit.
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Now we actually convert shuttle buses and vans into mobile businesses for a lot of different types of people.
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That's what I want to share with you today,
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because we've developed something that we've actually done before.
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So this would be probably our sixth rendition of it.
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And it's great only being 22 feet long because you can just park that thing on the side of the street.
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I mean, think about it.
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There's shuttle buses.
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You see them all day long everywhere.
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And the cool part about shuttle buses that we really like is they're not very big,
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but the interior height of it is like 6'3".
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So that means like Brett Blizzard himself can sign up on this thing.
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So like every bus we get,
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they start off as a Plain Jane school bus,
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or in this case, a shuttle bus.
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It was white, it was dented,
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it was beaten, and we've done a lot to it.
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We painted the exterior, we painted the bumper,
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we did new wheels, got new tires,
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added some lights on the interior and exterior.
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And I'm honestly really excited to share with you guys
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because we've opened up a lot of opportunity for a lot of people.
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We've brought their businesses to your driveways, to your business.
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We've gotten people out of the brick and mortar mindset.
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We've gotten people out of all this overhead.
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You can put all your business in this thing and you can use it wherever you possibly want to go.
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And with the exterior of this thing,
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we wanted to keep it pretty stealth,
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not too flashy, not too over the top.
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So we put a custom rack on the back to hold the mini split compressor.
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We've got a 30 amp shore power, a little water fill.
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We did some new LED lights,
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and then we were able to tuck away the dump valve for the gray tank for the sink that's inside.
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So yeah, let's make our way inside.
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So the aesthetics for this bus are a vibe.
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I mean, they came out real well.
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My wife did a really good job for the interior of this thing.
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It's a massage bus, so it's gotta have a nice mood to it.
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So with the interior of this thing,
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it turned out really well.
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We did a cedar tongue and groove ceiling.
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We kind of spaced it up with this plank in the middle.
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And then my wife did like this marble,
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kind of looks like cement,
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and it turned out real well.
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I'm actually surprised.
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People on our Instagram are commenting,
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asking if we put some it inside the bus.
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No, we did not.
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It is paint and it's worked out great.
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Then she also found these green velvet interior curtains.
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They're all of course on a track so you could bring the outside light in or you can,
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you know what, have privacy because that's what you want in a massage.
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You can block out the outside life being here in your own space.
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One of my favorite parts of my job is like that unexpected experience.
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When people walk into the spaces that we create,
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they have no idea what they're about to walk into because of the outside.
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You think about what a school bus,
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shuttle bus conversion could be or should be.
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And then we, I think,
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a good job of repainting that picture if you look mobile business
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or mobile chiropractor or mobile massage
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or anything mobile these days they are nothing up to this scale they're basically a gutted shuttle bus
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or gutted bus with a table inside and
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while that's totally fine the vision that we have for our clients
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and what they're trying to sell to their clients is entirely
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different we've created a whole new atmosphere inside this 22 foot long school bus
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that she can take to that person's home or that person's work
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and totally have a welcoming spot for them to really want to hang out at
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and hang out in because i know myself like
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if someone said hey i'm going to give you a massage in the back of a bus
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that doesn't sound good but the reality of it is
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if you can wow them with
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that experience of hey this is my presentation of what this bus actually is
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and this is before i even do my craft on you i think
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that sells a lot for you and the client so
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when we
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when we build these for the clients we build them for
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the clients clients we build them for you guys to help generate money
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and generate revenue off the bus that we created
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because you've got this bus
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and this conversion to help make you money help make your life easier
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so we really try to execute on the style
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and i think we did a really good job with that
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so here let's get into it one of the things we did kind of do on this bus
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that we've never made before is instead of building out the wheel well
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and covering the box we actually stripped it down to the bare metal we insulated the underneath
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so it still has insulation but then we also clear-coated the top part
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so it has this like industrial metal look to it
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and i think it pairs really good with this nice dark lvp flooring
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that we did
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so i started using chat gpt as like renderings to be
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like hey what could this space be like could you turn
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this into a mobile tattoo parlor could you turn this into
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a mobile salon could you turn it into a mobile classroom basically anything
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that there is in a brick and mortar you can turn into a mobile
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and when you do it mobile you have the opportunity to make
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that client's life easier oh yeah this client This client has an electric massage table.
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I didn't know they made electric massage tables,
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but they do, and she has one.
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So we needed to put an outlet in the floor for her.
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So that's what we did.
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Has anybody else put a recessed floor inside of a school
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bus for a mobile massage studio going to Ohio for a
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lady to drive around to get massages in the back of their bus?
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Probably not, but we're in the beginning of it.
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So let us know if we can help.
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And one thing we did in this bus that is really massage studio worthy,
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we got a dimmer on these little lights so it can really help set the mood for getting a massage.
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Like bring down the lights,
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bring the incense, get the sounds going.
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You won't even ever think that you're in a bus.
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Yeah, these dimmers, man.
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That's the vibe for sure.
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We've got an 8-inch drawer.
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We've got an 8-inch drawer.
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And we've got a huge 10-inch drawer.
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You can put a lot of stuff in a 10-inch drawer.
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I didn't realize how big that was.
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But yeah, that's 24 inches.
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That's 30 inches.
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36 inches.
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So this is 60 inches altogether.
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This is 18 inches.
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And then, of course, we've got three big shelves.
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One, two, three, technically four, I guess.
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And that's all open.
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We tuck the mini-split stuff nice and smooth behind there so you don't ever think about it.
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I'm so proud of this thing.
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So doing buses and being off-grid doesn't have to be complicated.
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It sounds complicated, but it doesn't have to be complicated.
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So with this system, it's pretty straightforward.
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We've got an inverter.
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We've got a link distributor,
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which is like a bus bar.
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We've got two big batteries.
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We have an on-off switch.
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We've got a Bluetooth dongle thing
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that tells you all the things you need to know about your system as far as battery capacity,
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how much water you're using,
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how much is left in your batteries,
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and all that good stuff.
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So that's all the electrical.
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That runs the mini-split, that runs the lights,
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that runs the outlet, that runs everything you possibly need to use off-grid in this bus.
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So for the further water system,
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we've got two and a half gallons of electric hot water,
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so you can adjust this to the temperature that you want.
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We've got 15 gallons of fresh water.
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We've got a water pump,
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an accumulator, got on-off valves,
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and yeah, very straightforward, very simple.
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When I build these buses,
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I build them with the intention of my wife to do this.
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It's funny, like my wife is involved in me building these buses,
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but she doesn't know all the technical stuff.
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If she were to ever call me,
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can I explain this process very simply for her.
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So I think about that whenever I'm doing these.
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So then when the client calls me,
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I'm like, yes, pull this thing.
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Yes.
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Turn this thing.
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Yes.
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Push this button.
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And we can find out the problems very simply,
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very fast, because if something happens,
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you want to find out the solution as soon as possible.
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So yeah, let's keep it simple.
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In lieu of the coffee bar prep section,
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we've got switch for the wall scotch,
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Atlas right here, floating shelf.
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We've got a 9,000 BTU mini split to keep this thing nice and cool throughout the summer,
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nice and warm throughout the winter.
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Like I said earlier, we've got two and a half inches of closed cell spray foam on this entire bus.
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She's in Ohio, we went heavy on this closed cell spray foam because we wanna make sure that the clients are comfortable.
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Is it a little more expensive to the client?
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Yes, but if it makes her clients' clients more comfortable,
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it's all worth it.
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So let's build for efficiency,
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that's built for functionality, and that's what we do.
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So this is something we've never done before,
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which is like these recessed shelves inside the walls.
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Normally we can do them in the walls that we build as like divider walls,
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but to actually build it inside with the closed cell spray foam,
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they add in the interior.
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It was kind of tricky,
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but we're able to figure it out.
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So she's got nice, three nice big shelves right here.
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We've got an outlet right here,
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so she can add her speaker,
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add her diffuser, add her sense,
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all those things that you might need electricity to.
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You could do that on this shelf,
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then you've got extra space for knickknacks designs and all that stuff.
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Additionally, like any good office, you have a consult.
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You're going to talk to the client about what they're needing,
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what they need adjusting, what they need help with,
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or whether it's a therapist's office,
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it's a chiropractor's office, a massage studio,
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it's whatever you want it to be.
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You need a spot for your clients to sit.
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So we did that here.
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We built it in a nice functional chair for the client.
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And then of course, if you're going to do it,
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might as well make it storage.
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So all of this is interior storage underneath.
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So yeah, I'm just really excited to see what opportunities come up for people to take their business mobile
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and being the guy that can help people do that.
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Because I like creating freedom for people.
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I like creating opportunity for people.
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I like creating life to be easier for people
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and taking your business to the client or parking it at the marina because that's where you want your office to be.
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That's what we can do.
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Like it doesn't just have to be mobile massage students.
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It doesn't have to be mobile services,
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but we've created mobile offices for people
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that they can then pop up their office from day one where they need to be.
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So yeah, I'm excited for it.
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I'm excited to know what you guys think about it.
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Like it if you like it,
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dislike it if you don't.
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If you could subscribe, I'd really, really appreciate it.
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And yeah, we'll see what the next one is.
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- “You can park that thing on the side of the street.” - The use of modal verbs like “can” indicates possibility or ability, a vital structure for making suggestions.
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