Christine Baines – A Story of Transforming Childcare Through Entrepreneurial Zeal with Twinkle Toes Nanny Agency

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welcome, welcome, welcome to the ready set.

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Collaborate with Wanda Pearson and my guest is going to be Christine Baines.

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It's going to be talking about her twinkle toes I love the title, christine, so I wanted to bring Christine on here to really talk about what she does and how she actually how she created her business.

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So we will talk to Christine in that in a minute, but I'm going to read her bio.

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So, christine, welcome to our podcast.

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I'm so excited to have you here and we met each other just like networking, right.

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Yes, we met networking in our community and you never know who you're going to run into, who you're going to meet and how that will evolve.

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So I'm so excited to be here.

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Yes, yes, definitely, definitely.

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And I love the title of what you do Twinkle Toes Because I said what's Twinkle Toes and it makes sense.

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I wish they had this when our kids were growing up, you know.

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I hear that all the time.

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A lot of folks are like where were?

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You at 10 years ago.

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Where were you?

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when.

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I was like well, we're here now.

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So yeah yeah, you have three kids.

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You have a niece, a nephew.

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Everybody has children or was a child, so you know somebody.

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Exactly, and that's what I love about it, because actually what you do is well needed, you know, and even, like I was just telling you about my niece with Coo mean picking up kids, I was like, wow, this goes hand in hand really, you know, as far as what you're doing.

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So but, uh, but definitely, uh, welcome to the podcast.

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But I'm going to read your bio and then we're going to get this party started, okay.

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So, beginning her career as a teacher in the title one school, christine desired to contribute to the school community and motivate her to build capacity through action research, while holding leadership roles in curriculum development, timing, core alignment and as a professional development facilitator.

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Her action oriented led her to pursue a degree in leadership and policy to impact student outcomes on a larger scale.

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Outcomes on a larger scale.

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While obtaining her master's degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, christine analyzed school structures, examined various contributors to school reform, wrote multiple grants and prepared to be an instructional leader.

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Simultaneously, christine worked as an intern at the Education Trust Midwest and the Jensing Center for Community Service and Learning.

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Christine has since worked for several impressive communities and nonprofit organizations.

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In these roles, christine has piloted, coordinated and executed out-of-school time programs, facilitated professional development across the country and launched holistic change efforts by holding to her social justice and educational equality values.

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I love that Christine is the owner of CEO.

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I'm sorry.

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Christine is the owner and CEO with Twinkletoast Nanny Agency of Cobb County in Northeast Atlanta.

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Well welcome, christine.

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This is a wealth of information you can tell you are definitely well-equipped to what you're doing here.

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Oh, yes, it's been a long road to get here, but I'm here now.

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You're here now, yes, yes, and that's why I wanted to share what you do here.

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So tell us a little bit more about yourself, other than what I just read about your bio.

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So, other than my career, I also am a Georgia.

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I consider myself a Georgia native.

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I grew up here, I've been here since I was about six years old, and so you know I consider Georgia my home.

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But my family, however, is from South America, guyana, so I do have that island upbringing from there.

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But I also have a husband and two young boys, three and five, and we live in metro Atlanta, but really a big part of my life is what I do, the businesses that I own and operate, and then spending time with my family.

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So absolutely love being in Georgia, being able to I always say, being able to give back and serve to my community that I grew up in, which is why I'm so excited to be able to facilitate my businesses in the city, the state where I consider my home.

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Yes, yes, and I tell you, when you said Michigan, cause you know I'm from Chicago, so I guess your parents are from the Midwest.

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Well, no, they're from Guyana, South America.

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Oh, okay, Okay, okay, we ended up there, but I was, I quickly, was like this is not for me and I loved it, but it's just.

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Oh, everybody says that it's true.

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It's too cold.

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I know, girl, I tell you, we moved from, um, actually, I'm from all my family's still in chicago, a lot of them and then, uh, we moved to different areas in the midwest.

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So then we my father was in sales we moved to, uh, new jersey, and new jersey was still cold, right, one cold city to the next.

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So when, uh when, my uh corporate company, ibm, said, well, we, we're going to relocate to atlanta, I said I go.

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You know.

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I told my husband uh oh, by the way, did you want to move to atlanta?

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right, I've already decided we're going, we're going.

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listen, there was a lot of pros than cons, so you know that was that was just a blessing, because you know of course everything is much cheaper here back then than it was there and it was warmer.

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Right, yes, yes.

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Definitely warmer than that weather.

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But I am so excited to get to know more about your business and what you're doing here.

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But I want to ask you a few questions here.

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And we met at a networking event, so how important do you think networking is for collaboration and why?

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Well, you know, networking is so important and it's something that I used to really cringe at when I first was starting in my career not even my career, well, yeah, my career as a young woman because I just felt uncomfortable doing it.

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I think that it can feel that way if you view it in a way where it is kind of laborious, where you're maybe nervous in front of folks, but it is.

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You just got to get past that and you realize that we all you can connect with people in so many different ways.

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There's always something to connect with somebody on.

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So I actually, when I was in grad school at Michigan, I had a professor that made me we had to collect, I think, a hundred business cards over the course of the semester because he was stressing to us the importance of networking.

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We had to read the book how to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and we had to collect a hundred business cards and so through that, the lesson there he was telling us is like you have to get out there and meet people.

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That is how you grow in your life, so it's so important even more so now in my business because a lot of the business I get is through referrals, and those referrals come from, maybe, networking events when I met somebody.

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Now they can speak to not only the business but the person behind the business because they now have a face and a name, and so I would say, like probably 80 percent of the business growth is referral based, which just you know, which means that networking plays a part in that.

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So, outside of just referrals from previous clients, also getting into the community, meeting people, and also I love to do it reciprocally, because a lot of the folks in these networking groups, like you and I were in these community groups they're also have a service or a business that they um, that they own or are supporting, and so I love to do it in a way where I help you, you help me and just help everybody achieve their goals.

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So it's really, really important, I think that, teacher, even though I did not like it at the time, but it helped me realize the importance of getting in front of folks, meeting folks and letting your guard down and just like connecting with people.

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Yeah, yeah, and that really does makes a lot of sense there.

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So can you share an example of a successful collaboration that emerged from networking connections?

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Yes, absolutely so.

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I I actually met network with this through through social media, which is another way to network, which is social media, which also people love it or hate it, but one of the purposes is connecting.

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So through social media I met a mom group called Mesh Mom and we just we messaged on each other's pages, ended up DMing each other and then met for coffee, which turned into a partnership.

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So through that networking we now have a partnership where I'm at their events.

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I've done a couple of webinars with them.

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They're promoting me on their website.

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I'm promoting them to my families for different networking mom events for kids.

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So you know, it was a matter of one identifying just where is the clientele, where is my customer and what are some businesses that I love.

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That I think would be great for my families and my clients and then maybe forming a relationship in that way for my families and my clients, and then maybe forming a relationship in that way and so that has been a successful story so far just through what started as a message on social media now has turned into a great partnership.

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Awesome, Awesome.

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That is so true Because you just never know who your connecting partner is right that you can connect with.

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So how can networking help individuals or organizations across access new opportunities for collaboration, Like what you were just saying?

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How can they actually access those new opportunities?

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So accessing them?

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Yeah, access is so important because you have to know what's there and reach for it in order to take advantage of that opportunity.

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So I would say accessing it really, like you're saying, like how would they know that they can access it?

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Yeah, so how would how?

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Let's see how can networking help individuals or organizations access new opportunities for collaboration?

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New opportunities, Okay, yes.

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Yeah Well, because when you're not networking or communicating you're kind of limited into what's in your purview.

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You only see what you can see, which is great, but it's maybe not.

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You're like the blinders might be on still, because you don't know what's around you.

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You're head down, you're working, you're doing your day to day, but you're missing out on some potential opportunities because your head's in the ground you're working.

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So by networking you are exposing yourself to more opportunities, like even with you and I.

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For example, if I didn't go to that event, I wouldn't have met you and then we wouldn't be here today.

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so when you you know there's so many potential when you have, when you look up and see what's around you and start going to those, that's where the opportunity lies.

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It does take a step outside of maybe, like I said earlier, your comfort zone or your schedule, your routine, but I always try to make it a point like two times a month to go to an event or reach out to somebody.

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I really have to schedule it to make it a priority, but I'm very happy that.

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I did it.

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I am too.

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I'm so glad that we met.

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But yeah, you're right.

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Because I say you're right Cause I say gotta be on my calendar, Cause.

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I was going through so many things, because that's how you get you stay organized.

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You know cause we'd be doing too much, and you know as a woman, we we we make it happen.

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You know, sure, I'm sure you've got something to do immediately after, and so it's like, look, it's all, check it off.

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But if it's scheduled be present, do it and then move on to the next thing, absolutely, absolutely.

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So you know that's.

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That's a great, great way of you putting that there.

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So how did your professional and personal journey lead you to open Twinkertoes Nanny Agency Northeast Atlanta and Cobb County?

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Yeah, so you read my bio so you can tell I've been.

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I have a focus on education, families and children.

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That's always been my like.

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My north star in my career has been working with children, helping families, and so my career started out in the classroom as a teacher and so, from there, working in different aspects of education, in non-profit, out of school time, summertime, learning.

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The nonprofits I work with were associated with children and families, even when I was doing that work with Scholastic for a little bit, which was the publishing company that does a lot more than publishing but teachers, training, educators that they can be the best they can be for children and curriculum.

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So I felt like when it came to Twinkle Toes, it was a natural progression to opening this franchise, because naturally it is a franchise.

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So one thing I always had in my mind was I want to work for myself, I want to build a legacy, I want to build wealth, which you can do with the traditional nine to five.

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But in my opinion I felt kind of limited because you can only earn so much in these jobs.

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You know there's kind of like a glass ceiling and even though you can be the smartest person in the room, you might still be limited by a lot of factors that may be out of your control.

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And so I started recognizing this and I was like I need to kind of get out of this rat race of the nine to five and work for myself.

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And I also had children.

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I wanted to be able to have a more flexible schedule to be there for them, like going on field trips and I just dropped off diapers this afternoon.

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I could just go and do things like that.

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I wanted to play tennis, like just have a life that maybe didn't revolve around work while still making a great income.

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So I heard about Twinkle Toes when I moved back to Georgia in 2015.

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And I heard about them.

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I got a mailer.

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I was like, oh, this is interesting.

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I actually worked for them as a babysitter.

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It was one of my you know many jobs.

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I was one of my side jobs.

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And then over the years I was like you know what I can do.

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This, this is a business that I feel is much needed.

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It kind of aligns with everything I've always done and I can work for myself, and the entry point was something that was affordable for me at the time, and so I decided to invest in this franchise, because or this becoming a franchisee so Twinkle Toes has about 21 locations nationally and so with the franchise, it was giving me the ability to kind of ramp up much more easier because there was a lot of infrastructure in place, so I was able to quickly get in there and start building the business without having to focus on a lot of the other things you might have to do when starting a business from the ground up.

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So, like I said, everything led me to this franchise and I haven't looked back since.

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I just kept looking forward.

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No, that's awesome.

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I really love that.

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I love what you said here, because that's a lot of times with these jobs, I know being in corporate.

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You get looked over and you train and you you know it's just like okay enough.

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So getting your own, that makes it more worthwhile, that you build in the legacy of your business so you can pass on to your children.

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You know getting your own and that was what I really wanted to do was was have something, an asset that you know, my kids see, mommy's got a business.

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And you know, and then it's like there's no ceiling, the earning potential is limitless, because it's really a matter of how much would I decide now I was with that worker that that employee that's like working late, staying up late early.

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I was like I can do this for myself actually let me go ahead and yeah change this around real quick.

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I am so glad you did, because you really you saw the potential, what you can do.

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Instead of working with somebody else, you work for you.

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You have your own business.

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So, in your opinion, what are the benefits and drawbacks of owning a franchise?

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Right.

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So I already started alluding to some of those about the infrastructure.

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So you already have something that's ready, made out of the box.

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You know, I try I always compare it to like a fast food chain you have Chick-fil-A and you have.

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You've got this whole model.

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That is proven, it works and you just have to take it and make it work for you.

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So the same with any franchise, the same with Twinkle Toes, where there already is a tried and true model.

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You just have to follow these steps in theory and you will achieve success.

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So that is a benefit, that can also be a drawback, however, because you are kind of you can be restricted and limited into deviating from that set course that you're required to stay on.

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So if you really do want to, if you're like a super creative and you just want to think outside the box with everything you should, just that would maybe determine which franchise is best for you, because you are really, you know, kind of stay in your lane with how you implement and how you work the franchise.

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However, there is freedom in a framework, so you still or I would still and any franchisee potentially is still responsible for marketing and growing the business and getting the name out there, and you still have a lot of autonomy in that regard.

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So, while you have this ready-made franchise, you are still responsible for growing it from the ground up.

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So with my first location I opened, which was Twinkle Toes Nanny Agency, northeast Atlanta, that was a blank campus that was not existing at all.

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I had to really grow that one by doing a lot of different marketing and networking events, whereas Cobb County, which I just purchased last year, that one had been around already for about since 2016.

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So that one had been established.

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It already had some clients and families and nannies.

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But I had to kind of create to, to infuse my own systems in place and structures and kind of um rebranded a little bit.

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So, while it already had some momentum, it needed a little bit more of a push push yeah, so yeah, so there is.

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I really do think that franchising is a great option for folks who maybe want to get started but are hesitant because of all that goes into it.

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At least you know, with the franchise you have the support of the corporate office, you have training, you have resources and you do have a little bit of a buffer to get started.

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Of course you have to pay for it, but if you have the resources to do that, even sometimes the franchise even offers financing help to get you some finances to get started.

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Oh, that's awesome, that's awesome.

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So tell me a little bit as far as your and then we're winding down here, twinkle Toad.

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So what do you do?

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You hire nannies that drive and we talk about driving too that go and babysit the kids.

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So tell me how it all works.

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So the service model is such that, basically, we do a lot of what we take the responsibility from what families might do if they needed in-home child care, like a nanny or babysitter, and we are screening candidates.

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We refer candidates to the families so they can rest assured that anyone who we present them with has gone through a thorough screening process.

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They apply, they're interviewed, they submit professional references, who we contact and verify.

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They're also background checked, cpr certified and have at least three years of child care experience.

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And we are screening everyone.

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Then we're saying, hey, mom, dad, here's some people that maybe are a good fit for you.

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This person has infant experience and live close to your house.

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Like we're really trying to match potential candidates with families.

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They interview and hire the person they feel is the best fit for their family.

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Or sometimes families just want maybe a date night or they have something work-related event and need child care.

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They can also utilize the service for occasional child care.

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So, instead of maybe going on an app or going on Facebook, spending all the time scrolling and messaging, they just come to us and say, hey, I need somebody on this day, I need a nanny, and we just say, all right, well, we're going to start working on it for you.

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Here's some options in just really saving time and making them more assured that whoever's in their home has gone through a vetting process.

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Wow, I wish it because I mean I used to have to babysit, I mean we call it babysitting, but I wish you were around with my kids, you know, to babysit.

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My daughter is seven years apart, so when she, of course, when she got older, she can babysit.

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But it ended up that the younger one was babysitting the older one, so but no this is great.

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That is great to know.

00:20:07.406 --> 00:20:10.994
So some of your nannies do they have to drive some of the kids somewhere?

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If they have to go somewhere, how does that work?

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Yeah, we really do try to be flexible to the needs of the family.

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So if driving might be a need, you know after school picking up from school, taking activities, maybe dropping off in the morning.

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So we really try to be as flexible as possible because families have different needs.

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So, yeah, I need to get in contact with your previous guests to find out how we might need to partner and network to work together on that.

00:20:34.736 --> 00:20:37.680
Actually, absolutely, and that that's collaboration.

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That's what we call collaboration and you know.

00:20:39.951 --> 00:20:45.792
So I appreciate that, and actually that was my last question to how have collaboration and networking helped your business?

00:20:46.535 --> 00:20:48.986
oh yeah, collaboration is so, so important.

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Networking it's helpful because with collaboration you're exposing yourself to a wider audience.

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You know, when you're collaborating with somebody else, maybe they're bringing some more knowledge, insight, resources, tools that you don't have and also a network that you may not have, based on what their industry or business is.

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And so, more specifically, how it's helped with Twinkle Toes is you know?

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I can think of one example.

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We collaborated with a newborn was it postpartum doula to offer training to nannies about different techniques and things that maybe they just need to brush up on?

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And so they I connected with them and we collaborated to offer a brunch and learn where the nannies went in.

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They had a training where they were going to learn infant safety techniques just refresher, but we collaborated to offer a service that was useful to our clients and also to families, who now know that their nannies have received the certificate showing that they have infant and child certification.

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So I love it.

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Definitely it's key too.

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Yeah, it is.

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And actually what you're saying I mean, as I'm talking to you here and my guest before you, do you definitely what she's in?

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Are you expanding to other states?

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Would you go into other states or?

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Well, I would.

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I mean, I don't know, I just expanded with the Cobb location.

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I think there's other potential, maybe in Georgia, but there actually are locations throughout other states.

00:22:18.453 --> 00:22:25.256
You know, it's possible, I don't know, maybe one day, but there's other, yeah.

00:22:25.817 --> 00:22:27.570
Okay, yeah, because she's in Greensboro.

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So I just, you know Greensboro, north Carolina, but yeah, but what you're doing and she's doing, it.

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It definitely is a collaboration there.

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What?

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does she do?

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Well, she, actually, she's cooper, cooper and she's picking up.

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So when you talk about the babysitting, I think you guys can actually, you know, intertwine that you know like maybe she can become a franchisee too yeah, and look she, she's definitely, uh, interested in all different types of business, so that would be a great one there.

00:22:55.288 --> 00:22:58.676
So, no, definitely, but I really enjoyed talking to you about this.

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This is so interesting and I was like I never heard of Twinkle and I love the title Twinkle Toes.

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So what ages do you go up to?

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When do you start like babies, infants, yeah, a lot of families.

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Most of them are going to be birth to five, because that's before kids go into school.

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When they're in school, you know nanny, so a lot of infants, toddlers, but of course with the after school you have a lot of school age kids that are having to go from school to all the activities.

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So we don't have a limit.

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Again, it's really just based on what the families need, but mostly the younger birth to five age group.

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Okay.

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Okay, that's awesome.

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I appreciate it.

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I mean, this is really.

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I know they're very interesting.

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I'm learning a lot today.

00:23:38.645 --> 00:23:43.498
I tell you Hoover and Twinkle Toll very interesting.

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Like what were you when my kids were growing up here?

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I definitely needed you there.

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So, but no, thank you so much, I appreciate it.

00:23:49.777 --> 00:23:56.910
So tell us about how people can get in touch with you as far as your website, your phone number, social media, and we'll have it in the show notes as well.

00:23:57.230 --> 00:23:59.531
Oh yeah, good so for getting in touch with me.

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I can be reached our website at twinkletoesnannycom and from there you can find the different locations Northeast Atlanta and Cobb County if you're in this area.

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If if you're in this area, if you're in one of the other cities we're in, you can find those two listed there and then our social media handles.

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I think.

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Twinkle Toes Nanny, let's see.

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Let's see what my social media handles are.

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Yeah, and we're gonna have that in the show notes as well.

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But Twinkle Toes Nanny underscore Northeast Atlanta and Cobb County one as well as Twinkle Toes Nanny Cobb.

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So in Georgia, even if you're in town for a wedding or something, we also work with folks when they're just visiting the city and they get hotel care or Airbnb.

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They just reach out and we'll try to accommodate as much as we can.

00:24:48.085 --> 00:24:48.986
Oh, that's awesome.

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That's awesome.

00:24:49.748 --> 00:24:51.250
So where are you in in Cobb County?

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Is there a specific area in Cobb County?

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Did you have a?

00:24:54.473 --> 00:24:57.999
it's actually the whole county, so the entire county.

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We are from North Cobb, south Cobb, east and West the whole.

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So okay, but yeah, we service that entire county okay, because I have to tell my daughter about, because they're in Cobb, because we're the babysitters once a month, you know so yeah so I have to tell her about because she's in Marietta oh, yeah, oh, we definitely are in Marietta, and my mom too.

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She's like I use the service a lot because she's like, well, don't you have a name?

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Where's the nanny?

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It's like mom, but aren't?

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You're right down the street, but no, I totally get it, because I'm like I don't want to burn you out.

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She, she has a lot of grandkids all the same age too.

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Well, that is awesome.

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But thank you so much.

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I appreciate you being on the show.

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So, audience, I mean this is a great wealth of knowledge here.

00:25:42.836 --> 00:25:46.846
Twinkle Toes that actually that provides nanny services.

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So I definitely want you to reach out to Christine Baines and see how she can help you in your nanny needs.

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And remember, this is the young one and I love how you do the training and you also vet everyone who actually becomes part of your company.

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So thank you for doing that.

00:26:01.990 --> 00:26:12.127
So make sure Ready Set Collaborate with Wanda Pearson and you make sure you follow, share, like and subscribe and look at all of these podcasts I have.

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I have such great guests such as Christine on my podcast.

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I would definitely love for you to follow me.

00:26:17.192 --> 00:26:22.007
So, wanda Pearson and Christine Baines, and say bye, christine, bye.

00:26:22.067 --> 00:26:22.931
Thank you, wanda.

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It's been great meeting, speaking with you today, and I really look forward to the folks who are going to tune in and hear this great conversation.

00:26:35.404 --> 00:26:35.949
So thank you for having me.

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I really appreciate it.

00:26:36.412 --> 00:26:36.795
Oh, you are welcome.

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Thank you so much, bye.

Christine Baines – A Story of Transforming Childcare Through Entrepreneurial Zeal with Twinkle Toes Nanny Agency

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