49. Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast featuring Cari McGee Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast with Paul Casey

Michelle Oates:
A promise tomorrow is worth a lot less than trying today. I am Michelle Oates and I'm a Tri-Cities influencer.
Paul Casey:
But really this is the core philosophy of what I teach in time management, and that is manage your time around your values and vision. This is your foundation for everything else in time management.
Speaker 3:
Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington in Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast. Welcome to the TCI podcast where local leadership and self-leadership expert, Paul Casey interviews local CEOs, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit executives to hear how they lead themselves and their teams, so we can all benefit from their wisdom and experience. Here's your host, Paul Casey of Growing Forward Services, coaching and equipping individuals and teams to spark breakthrough success.
Paul Casey:
Thanks for joining me for today's episode with Cari McGee. Cari is a realtor with Keller Williams and I asked for a fun fact about her. She has very vivid dreams that she still remembers, but Cari, you're going to have to tell the story.
Cari McGee:
Okay. Well, a lot of grownups forget their dreams or they think of childhood is when you really have your dreams. But here I am as an adult having pretty vivid dreams. The other day I had a dream that I was married to my accountant, and that's kind of funny, but what's really funny is that I wasn't married to my accountant. Instead of being married to my husband, I was married to my accountant in addition to being married to my husband, and he just liked being married to me. He traveled a lot, I understood in the dream. And he said that when he was home, he just liked to be married to me.
Cari McGee:
In the dream, I'm thinking, I'm like, "Okay, this is pretty serious. And if I get caught, how am I going to explain this?" Like, sometimes if somebody gets caught in a crime syndicate or whatever, they can say, "Oh, I was brainwashed or this..." Nothing like that happened. Like, why was I married to two people at once? I have no idea. So thankfully I woke up.
Paul Casey:
Thankfully I woke up.
Cari McGee:
And that was not my reality.
Paul Casey:
That's a good T-shirt message as well. Thankfully, I woke up.
Cari McGee:
Yes, totally love that.
Paul Casey:
Especially in these trying times that we're in, maybe we're all going to get to put that on our shirts.
Cari McGee:
Oh, right, right. That's a good message.
Paul Casey:
Well, we're going to dive in after checking in with our Tri-City Influencer sponsor.
Preston House :
Hi, my name is Preston House and I'm the local owner of Papa John's Pizza right here in Tri-Cities.
Jesus Melendez:
I'm Jesus Melendez, vice president and commercial lender with Community First Bank and HFG Trust.
Preston House :
When I moved here in 2009 with my family from Boise, Idaho, I knew I wanted to move from a franchise to a local business owner. I've been working with Papa John's since I was 16 years old. So when it came time to open my own location here in my own community, I knew I needed some financial guidance from an organization who understood my needs as a small business owner.
Jesus Melendez:
Small business owners often have a lot on their plate, employment and retirement plans, payroll, bills. Our mission is to become your financial partner for life and is motivated by providing people in our community like Preston, with all the information and support they need all under one roof.
Preston House :
It's really simple. No matter what I need, all it takes is one phone call, no automated prompts, no call waiting. It's just a local business, serving another local business.
Jesus Melendez:
For more information, how Community First Bank and HFG Trust can help you get back on track. Visit wwwcommunity1st.com. That's www community one st.com.
Paul Casey:
Thank you for your support of leadership development in the Tri-Cities. So, Cari, I think we met years ago, our children