Q & A Episode 26 - Little Builders with Big Dreams: You Won't Believe Their Answers!
Episode #26 | Q&A with Mark D. Williams | Little Builders with Big Dreams: You Won't Believe Their Answers!
In this fun and heartwarming kids edition of The Curious Builder Podcast, May, Simon, and Tate share their adorable and creative business ideas, who they’d love to work with, and the books that inspire them. The episode kicks off with Mark announcing an exciting wellness retreat. Join us for a dose of youthful imagination and community spirit!
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Mark D. Williams 00:00
Before we get started, if you've been tuning into the show for a while, you realize that I love wellness. I love celebrating business owners, and really want to celebrate their health, their wellness, so that they can operate in the businesses that they have support the families that they work so hard for, as well as their trade partners and their clients. And with that in mind, we are going to have a half day retreat at Lake minnewasha in Minnesota on january 24 from one o'clock to five o'clock, Dr Mel Krug is going to lead 60 people through somatic breath work in the lodge. Then we will go down into the water, you cold dip anywhere from 10 seconds to three minutes. Then you'll go into the sauna and then rinse and repeat. At the end, we're going to have a Mediterranean wood fire grilled meal together as a community, and that's it. So if this is something that you want to do to kick off 25 center your New Year's resolutions around some new objectives, new communities and challenge yourself. Sonic camp is for you all. The details can be found at cures builder podcast.com, you
May Williams 00:53
all right, welcome to the curious builders podcast. Kids edition. I'm May Williams your host, Mark's daughter, and I'm in third grade, and I am eight. I go, Simon,
Simon Williams 01:19
hello. My name is Simon, and I am six, and I am. I'm dad, and I'm four years old.
Tate Williams 01:38
My name is Tate, and I'm in pre-school.
May Williams 01:42
All right, so our first question is, what business would you start? And why? Simon,
Simon Williams 01:49
what? What business I would start was maybe an ankle shop or maybe a Pokemon shop, because, all right.
May Williams 02:01
Tate, what would you start? And why?
Tate Williams 02:04
Um, I would start, um, a builder. So, so so I can, so I so I can, like, so I can, like, um, I can, I can build people's houses that the people that doesn't have houses,
May Williams 02:25
yeah, all right, second, oh, and I, I really like building, and there's not a lot of girl builders, and I would like to support that. And, um, I don't know what I do yet, because it might go lean back and forth. So, yeah. And our second question is, um, who would you work with, and why Simon? You may pick five people to work with, and why would you work with them?
Simon Williams 02:53
I would, first, I would work work with Decker.
May Williams 02:58
Who's Decker.
Simon Williams 02:59
He's my friend Ian at burdos,
May Williams 03:02
all right. And All right, any others that you'd like to work with,
Simon Williams 03:07
I would like to work with win Zach and some new is that all mine? Yeah, all right. One more, yeah, sure. And I will also, and I would also work with Owen.
May Williams 03:32
Owen, that's great. All right. Tate, go ahead.
Tate Williams 03:36
I would work with dad. Oh as Yeah, I would work with Mark. March, that's one, and I would work with my number three, and I want to work with Bodhi number four is I want to work with Nolan and number five I Want to work with. I want to work with each
May Williams 04:23
All right, all right. I would work with my some of my friends at school, because they are very helpful, and they always help me. And I can't name them all right now, so I'm just gonna say some of my friends. And our last question for today, are there any books that inspire you. Go ahead. Tate,
Tate Williams 04:44
what does inspire means?
May Williams 04:46
It means like, like, like, are encouraging like,
Tate Williams 04:54
what does encouraging me,
May Williams 04:55
it kind of means like that that makes you want to do some. Thing, like, um, I'm, I'm, wait, there is kind of all right, just go ahead. What are some books you like I like?
Tate Williams 05:10
Number one is I like a Bible book? Yeah, I like the Bible.
May Williams 05:15
Why?
Tate Williams 05:16
Because? Because I like the Jonah and Samson in it,
May Williams 05:22
yeah, all right, Simon.
Simon Williams 05:25
My favorite books are Ninjago and Pokemon.
May Williams 05:31
Great. My favorite book is, I just love a lot of babysitter club books, and I really like um Reyna tag gamer book, they're like, I really like graphic novels, so I do graphic novels, I'll read. All right, thank you for coming to the kids edition, curious builder podcast. I hope you come back adios
Tate Williams 05:58
Dad I didn't....
Mark D. Williams 06:00
Thanks for listening to the curious builder podcast. If you like what you listen to, please give us a five star rating and write us a review. It really means a lot. It's a great way for us to just understand what you like about the podcast and what we can keep doing. So like and review and please share with your friends and family. Find out more at curious builder podcast.com you we're excited to announce that the curious builder collectives are going into three other states. For those not familiar with what the collective is, it lives between what the contractor coalition is and a builder 20 group. What we do in each state is we have a group of 25 to 30 builders that get in a room, and you break up into groups of nine. You spend 45 minutes talking about a set topic, whether it's branding, marketing, contracts, whatever that set topic is for that day. And then you talk for 45 minutes. You get up, you mix up the groups, and you do it again, and you're out of there, you'll be out in under three hours. We're going to be going to Phoenix, Arizona. Brad Levitt is going to be leading a curious collective in Phoenix, Arizona. We are going to San Antonio. We've got David and Angela Penske from Penske homes, leading a group down there. And we have Brad Robinson and Vince Longo in Atlanta, Georgia, also leading a collective as well as obviously me in Minnesota as well for our second annual collective. So if you're interested in collaborating with other builders, if you really want to dive deep on your business in a person to person relationship, ask a lot of questions. The collectives are for you. We also have in Minnesota interior design collective as well as the architect collective. Check out the Events page at the cures builder podcast.com
