Gospel Unfiltered
Gospel Unfiltered is a one-hour weekly podcast that goes beyond the pulpit to create space for honest conversations, real stories, and Kingdom truth. Hosted by author, motivational speaker, and community advocate Cornell Bunting, the show explores faith as it is lived—not only on Sunday mornings, but through life’s struggles, relationships, healing, leadership, purpose, family, and service.
Each episode features authentic conversations with pastors, ministry leaders, authors, entrepreneurs, community advocates, and everyday people whose testimonies reveal the power of God at work. No masks, no judgment, and no polished religious performances—just meaningful discussions about the victories, questions, failures, lessons, and faith journeys that shape us.
Listeners will be challenged to grow spiritually, confront difficult truths, strengthen their relationship with God, and turn their faith into action within their families and communities.
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From Captiva Island to Entrepreneurship: Kelly Daley’s Journey of Growth and Leadership
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On the latest episode of the Stories to Create Podcast, Cornell Bunting sits down with a longtime friend of more than 20 years, Kelly Daley. Their friendship goes back to their days working together in the hospitality industry on Captiva Island, where Kelly gained experience in nearly every part of the restaurant—from chef to server to recreation staff.
Kelly shares her journey from growing up in Northeastern Pennsylvania to building a life and career rooted in hard work and determination. Today, she is the owner of her own insurance company, balancing the responsibilities of entrepreneurship while also being a wife and mother of two daughters and leading a team of insurance agents.
In this heartfelt and nostalgic conversation, Cornell and Kelly take a walk down memory lane, reflecting on their early days on Captiva Island, the fun experiences they shared, and the lessons that helped shape their paths.
Tune in for a story about friendship, growth, and the journey from hospitality to entrepreneurship.
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Yes, yes. Welcome to another episode of Stories to Create Podcast. Right here at Yas Club, I'm your host, Cornell Buntin. I'm excited today. Yes, welcome me back. Of course, you guys know I was in Connecticut. Back in the building, it's a beautiful thing. And today I have a guest on the show that, of course, some of you would say, Cornell, you in season seven. Why she haven't been on like one of the seasons before? Listen, she is here at the right time when she's supposed to be here, okay? So stop yelling at me, people. Just saying. Listen, we go so far back, it's early 2000. It could have been 2001. We're gonna verify that in a little bit here. But listen, young lady here in Southwest Florida, family-oriented, insurance business, all these other businesses, or little philanthropy stuff that she does. We are gonna talk to none other than Kelly Daily. How are you, love?
SPEAKER_00I'm good, I'm good. Oh, thank you for having me. And you are right, it's about time.
SPEAKER_01This is true. This is true. It's about time. Let's see, got it. I gotta tell you guys. Her husband is like one of my longest running friends. I mean, we've been friends from like It's been since 2001. Yeah, 2001. So it's been a little bit. But so what I want to do, because we definitely gonna touch on, you know, some of those stories from the island. But what we want to do, we want to treat our guests to a tale where you take them back to the early years. Where were you born? Where did you grow up?
SPEAKER_00Not Florida. I am definitely not a native. However, I've been here for 25 years, so I might as well be originally from Northeast Pennsylvania, born and raised in Marshalls Creek, East Strasbourg.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Graduated from East Strasbourg High and went to school in Center City, Philly for my culinary art degree.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Pull up for a minute now. The culinary art degree. So you were doing some serious cooking.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's how we met on Captiva. All three of us. My husband, Cornell, and I worked on Captiva back in the early 2000s. And back then I was in the kitchen cooking up a storm. I did everything in hospitality, front of the house, back of the house, managing, serving, you name it, I've done it. Spent 25 years in food service. But yeah, I'm obviously not doing that now, as Cornell said. I'm doing a little bit of insurance, but that's my stomping ground. I came down here for my internship back in 2001. Yes. And was on Captiva from 9-11 to Hurricane Charlie.
SPEAKER_01Yes. We gotta stick a pin. Because I'm telling you guys, Captiva was like The shit. It was like the it was it was so much fun. It was so much fun. And I, you know, I've had other, you know, co-workers or friends. I said, dude, bring us on the show. I know some of you guys are upset right now. Kelly's on the show, but you hey, it's only right, right? It's only right. It's only right. Listen, listen. But yo, if for the for the listeners, help them just get a little understanding of what kind of life it is on Captive Island.
SPEAKER_00Well, now it's completely different. Actually, Anton and I went out there last weekend just to see our old stomping grounds. Employee housing is all gone.
SPEAKER_01Oh, they moved it.
SPEAKER_00No, it's gone. It's gone. They have a whole brand new water park for guests on the resort itself, but no one else can go in it. So any of the timeshare people, anyone else that's on and near Captiva can't utilize it. Right. But then they did that after Charlie 2, they made it all inclusive.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00But when we were there back in the 2000s, it was the bomb. We saw so many stars. In fact, what is that? Sweet Home Alabama was even filmed on Captiva when we were there. So we saw ins and outs, ups and downs. We have stories that probably will have to stay buried with us. Because if not, we'll you know, it'll be scary.
SPEAKER_01You know, as you say that I was remembering when Steve Martin was there, and I think the mouse, he had just had the moon, the mouse movie out, or whatever it was. He was so disappointed, people, that no one was coming up to him and asking him for an autograph. I'm like, dude, you're a regular person. This he's like, that makes me feel terrible. I'm like, no, we just we chill over here.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_01We have fun and it's a beautiful thing.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01So the the the the cooking environment that you was in over there, because you did pretty much most of what a lot of individuals that work in a restaurant don't necessarily get to do. Which era would you say you enjoyed the most?
SPEAKER_00Well, again, a lot of things had changed. Like I said, I went back there last week to see the old something grounds, and everything's changed. All the restaurants are have modified. But I was at Chadwick's and I loved being in the buffet pit, just serving our patrons and our guests and even our colleagues because they came down for lunch and dinner. Yes. But just communicating with the guests in the community is I've always been a people person, so don't put me back in the kitchen, you know.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00Dug into the back of the house, put me in the front, and hospitality has always been the way it's gone.
SPEAKER_01Oh my goodness, that is so cool. Because Ed Dad got okay, but he was in the servant area there for a little bit.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's how we met at Chadwick's.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00He and his best man walked in together asking for our general manager at the time, and they were just staring at me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Just eye-goggling me, and I'm like, okay, what do you want? Stop looking at me. What do you need? How can I help you?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And they asked for the GM, and the rest is history. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's a beautiful thing. It was locked in.
SPEAKER_00More ways than one.
SPEAKER_01Like, that's my wife right there. It's a beautiful thing. Um, now, growing up, or you know, the early years in Pennsylvania, what was that like with mom and dad?
SPEAKER_00Well, I was an only child, and with all my preliminary health issues growing up, it was more so just concentrating on studies and extracurriculars and getting my grades up. And I mean, other than my neighbors, I didn't really have a connection because I didn't have siblings. Right. So I didn't get into trouble. Although I probably couldn't because my mom knew everyone in the city.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00So but no, I mean, they my mom was in public relations and advertising for 45 years. My dad was in tobacco and candy sales for 50. So sales and customer service is like in my blood. Right. So it's just, I don't know. Coming from the country to coming here to Fort Myers, just I don't know. It's kind of a nice switch, but definitely love the beach. Don't like the cold anymore for sure.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, I had I had a great life up there.
SPEAKER_01Basically, she's telling you guys she was fully spoiled, people. Fully. It's a beautiful thing. I love it. But for a lot of individuals that don't necessarily understand what uh Did did you ever culture shock when you came when you went to Captive Island?
SPEAKER_00No. No, actually I think it was more Anton when you guys came up here. Yeah, yeah. I I I mean, back in the 2000s, even in the late 90s, like I was born and raised here. So it was different for me. I understood the, you know, the economy. I understood the economic features. Now, coming down from Pennsylvania, having to have a vehicle and you know, driving 30, 40 minutes to get anywhere.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Well, same thing here on Captiva, you know, to get to get to the mainland. It was 30, 40 minutes and it's 20 miles an hour. And you know, it just it wasn't a culture shock in the sense that I didn't know who and what and where and when. Right. It was more like, okay, well, I'm on Captiva. I'm working on a resort. I have everything I need. And I my backyard is the beach.
SPEAKER_01So that's you can't beat that right there. I I gotta say, I think they had people from every single part of the world that was interning there. Yep. You know, the Jamaica community, boop, boop, was uh whole lot going on there, you know. So we had a whole lot. We brought the vibe, people. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, we brought the vibe, Wagua and everything, Chris. But, you know, one of the things too that you got to ventured into a little bit was recreation.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Yes. Yeah, that was after that was after Ian. Well, no, not even. Way back, Charlie.
SPEAKER_01Way back, way back, Charlie, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00The other big storm.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Although not as big as Ian.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00No, so yeah, I was I was on Captiva from 9-11 to Charlie, and I did about a year and a half in restaurant and hospitality. And then when Charlie, I guess I was probably already in recreation before Charlie.
SPEAKER_01Before Charlie, yeah.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, I was able to get a year-round tan, a farmer's tan, because I was at the main pool, I was on the beach, I was doing the towels, umbrellas, chairs, putting everything out, breaking it down, and just again, customer service with the patrons.
SPEAKER_01You had a girl at work with you, man. What's her name? Stella.
SPEAKER_00Stella. Well, she she was more in uh the specific recreation with like dealing with the kids and even boat docks with with Cortland and Right, right.
SPEAKER_01So just yeah, man, a nice little unit of people.
SPEAKER_00I miss Captiva.
SPEAKER_01Hey, listen, I she's not allowed people. I do miss Captiva too. I've did I did some riding on some trees over there. C B. If you guys see a C B on a tree. Yeah, I'm just saying, it's a beautiful thing. So now you guys have three beautiful kids.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_01Don't don't change the channel. Hey, and Todd. Don't change the kids. No. You gotta do it, bruh.
SPEAKER_00No, we're done. We are done. We do not have the patience. You're the one that's got the five children. No, we do not have the patience or the mentality in our 40s to deal with any more young babies.
SPEAKER_01Listen, I'm only playing people, so she has two beautiful daughters. That's just amazing.
SPEAKER_00They're a hot mess, but yes, they're they're our heart. They are heart.
SPEAKER_01Now, you've got into the networking space now in the later years, being in, you know, Fort Myers era, Cape Coral, Summer Naples. What what would you say pull you to, you know, wanting to get into even insurance space?
SPEAKER_00Well, I was working Ford's Garage in Astero when Headhunter found me in my former career with American income.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00They they called me up and they're like, Well, being in hospitality, being in food service, we think you would be a great fit.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00They called me in for an interview, and my director at the time was looking over my resume, and he's like, Well, Kelly. And then he gave me a scenario at Ford's Garage, and I was his server. And he hired me to do insurance sales with him and his team right on the spot because I remembered my people.
SPEAKER_01That's beautiful.
SPEAKER_00That was back in 2014, and I've never looked back. I had gotten pregnant with my second child while I was working with them.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00And our territory did so well that he and his now wife got promoted to open up Alabama and run Alabama.
SPEAKER_02Amazing.
SPEAKER_00So the state general agent of the company at the time, after I went on maternity leave, said, Well, if you can't be in the field, you don't have a position. So Colonial Life found me at that point. So I've been doing insurance sales since 2014. My oldest was already a year and a half at the time.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00So I was able to be mom and hustle and still be home. So that was what I needed and wanted.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's that's so cool, man. And to be grounded the way you got to be grounded with your family, for a lot of females that are watching and listening is struggling to do that. So definitely do a walkthrough and help them understand how you managed to do that out, the type of mindset you had to kind of gear up to know that family is still important as much as, you know, the business or the work that you try and do.
SPEAKER_00Well, family is definitely important. Family's number one under God. With that being said, insurance has given me the life that I thought culinary was gonna give me being able to work and be mom and be home and just have that work-life balance. But now I'm a district training manager. In fact, I'm hiring for a Spanish rep. I need a bilingual Spanish rep to help join our team, to help get in the Spanish demographic because they need it and just don't understand it. That's the biggest pain point I see, you know, on the insurance side. But yeah, no, I'm able to pick my girls up at the bus stop, bring them home, do snacks, extracurriculars, and home with them nights and weekends.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Wow. That's a beautiful thing. Now, you know, you got the cooking stuff down, but can you match up to Anton's cooking?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I make better food than he does.
SPEAKER_01Whoa! Whoa, Anton.
SPEAKER_00He knows that. He knows my cooking's superior to his. He has no patience. He burns his jerk chicken, he burns his curry shrimp, he burns everything. He burn even burns his eggs in the morning.
SPEAKER_01You can never burn your jerk chicken. I'm just saying. Oh my goodness. Wow.
SPEAKER_00He turns he has no patience whatsoever. He turns the pot on high, and every morning he's smoking us out. And not in the good way.
SPEAKER_01He's like, listen, I gotta get it done. I gotta go. Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_00No, but no, I I joke that I do make better jerk chicken and everything than than he does. He did not really surprise me, but with the girls and Regan being frickin' an energizer bunny everywhere she goes, we can't really go out.
SPEAKER_02Right, right.
SPEAKER_00So for my birthday dinner this past December, he actually made dinner at home.
SPEAKER_01Come on.
SPEAKER_00And went back to his roots, although he had to call his mom for the recipes. I'm like, really? Like you forget? Like, come on. But no, he he made some bomb cabbage and rice and some jerk chicken and burn it. He didn't burn it. It was a little rubbery. But the flavor was there.
SPEAKER_01There you go.
SPEAKER_00But no, I tell him, I'm like, if you're gonna do it, you gotta marinate the protein for like 30, 40 minutes minimum, if not 24 hours. Yes. So the flavor and the juices get into the chicken, and then chicken cooks in 12 minutes. You don't have to be burning it for 20.
SPEAKER_01Listen, just so you know, guys, she is very rare because not a lot of white people talk about marinating any food with any type of seasoning.
SPEAKER_00Come on, I come from the culinary hot background. This is true.
SPEAKER_01This is true.
SPEAKER_00You gotta take care of your food.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00You gotta have pride.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes, yes. You won't get to hear that from a whole lot. I'm just saying. But this is this is so cool though. Like the amount of friends over the years, you know, from when we started at CapTeam with a now that still get to interact with you. What does that have been looking like?
SPEAKER_00Well, you need to come over more often.
SPEAKER_01She is right, she is right, people. She is right.
SPEAKER_00I think you haven't even seen the house yet.
SPEAKER_01I have not seen the new house yet. Yes, this is true. So I gotta see the new house in a couple of weeks. I I I'm gonna make it happen. I'm just saying. This is true, this is very true, but we we do have like a nice little niche of people that still check in and we do.
SPEAKER_00Anton goes to Cortlands probably every Sunday, if not every other Sunday after he gets his massage.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. And listen, I gotta tell you guys. Maybe one of these times I'll bring Anton on the show. But that's one dude right there. If I ever have any issue with my air condition at the house, and I don't want to bother the people that's managing, you know, that community or whatever, I call him and he's he's there. If he's not tied up with anything, he's there. That's the coolest dude, man. Cool, cool.
SPEAKER_00He's on call 24-7. That's okay. He was putting out fires yesterday, too. He was, huh? He didn't get home until 11 last night.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, man. That's a hard working dude out there.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_01Yo. So, you know, that's one of the things, too, that I like with what you guys do as well. When you do your little birthday parties for the little ones, you you include your friends sometime.
SPEAKER_00All the time. Now, whether they show up.
SPEAKER_01That's another thing, yeah. It's a beautiful thing.
SPEAKER_00We go back 25 years, people. I can call him out.
SPEAKER_01This is true. She can, she can, she can, she can, guys. This is true. You know, for a lot of people that never necessarily understood a lot of what on foul on Captiva, like even with uh Captiva Cruz. You know, it can you think of any time like that was a memorable moment where you're like, yo, this was so dope.
SPEAKER_00I think just all the memories. I mean, like I said, we went back out there last week or the week before, just see things, and we ran into Carly. Oh. We had lunch at Green Flash and just saw the sights and drove by Tween Waters, and that's where he proposed. Yes, yes. So just again, just the memories.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, it's amazing. That is amazing. You know, right now, with a lot of, you know, what's unfolding, you know, the show trying to stay away from the politics and the religion stuff, but there's so much happening right now that people are like, yo, we're not getting the information, you know, it's it's not happening. How how do you feel society is handling a lot of what is unfolding right now?
SPEAKER_00Well, to be fair, like I told someone else yesterday, I don't even follow the news. Right. I don't follow politics. I don't, I mean, do I vote? Yes, but in the same breath, it's like peace of mind.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00You know, I won't say out of sight, out of mind, because it does affect all of us, but his family's still in Jamaica.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00And I get all like the scared voodoo vibes from my mother-in-law on a regular basis, so I try not to even watch anything because she scares the crap out of me. She's like, Kelly, Florida's gonna go in the pot. Like, she's it's gonna, we're gonna drown. I'm like, calm down. Calm down. It's okay. It's okay.
SPEAKER_01It's okay. We're fine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00God willing, nothing happens to Florida.
SPEAKER_01This is true. This is very true. Now, you have kind of learned a little bit of the language.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I know too much.
SPEAKER_01You do.
SPEAKER_00I I I I know way too much. I know more than I want to. And it wasn't even between you and Have and Cortland and Anton. It was Dion who told me.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. Dion was terrible though. Dion Dion.
SPEAKER_00She was a troublemaker.
SPEAKER_01She taught you bad words.
SPEAKER_00Oh sh well, no, she taught me the word so I could understand you boys when you were talking crap around me. Talking about Punanis and Pitnies and everything else. And yeah, no, I remember those movie days, those bell tower runs.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Doing the five movies in one.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that was serious. Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_00You guys got me in trouble. They can't you can't do that anymore. You can't movie hop because the movie theaters have them staggered where you can't. And then they don't even name the the movies on the Headings anymore.
SPEAKER_01They don't? No. Oh, they took them out. Oh, yeah. We was terrible. Like, we're not paid for those other movies. No. We pay one time, people.
SPEAKER_00Yep. One movie and spent 10 hours in the theater.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. We just. Yeah, let's go. Movie hops. It's a beautiful thing. I'm just saying. Most of you guys do it. Don't judge us.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, don't say you don't. But yes. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just the memories.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So now you traded a lot of individuals to kind of get into that space to help different families. What is that been looking like?
SPEAKER_00Well, I do have two under me. I have one of my youngest friends' mom in study mode. Hopefully she'll be testing this month to come on board in April. But yeah, no, it's just educate at the end of the day, what I do is educating businesses, educating HR directors about the importance of security for their people.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00I mean, without employees, you can't run your business.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00And if they jump ship to go to another company because that company has better benefits or any benefits, you want to protect and reward and keep your quality employees.
SPEAKER_02I love that.
SPEAKER_00So educating companies, educating it individuals just on the importance and the benefit. And at the end of the day, I'm pr doing, you know, God's service. I'm protecting people. I'm making sure if crap happens, the individual family and companies are protected.
SPEAKER_01Right. Some would say companies don't necessarily care about their employees. And you know, and I know that.
SPEAKER_00I know a few of those.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you know a few of them.
SPEAKER_00I know a few of them. Wha why you think companies struggle like that to even show, you know, like Well, I think it's sometimes being naive. Uh-huh. I think sometimes it's arrogance. Right. Now, I want to s clear something up. Yes. Everyone knows health insurance, right?
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00Yes. It's the biggest cost outside of your mortgage and or your car payment that you'll ever pay in your lifetime. Yes. And a small mom and pop company, anywhere between five employees to 20 employees, their overhead might not be able to warrant protecting their employees with health insurance.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Number one, because the employer has to fund 50% of the plan.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00So if you take even on the lowest plan, 400 a month per employee times 20 employees times 12 months. That's a big overhead.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_00I work with Colonial Life and Southwest Florida area. So what we do is we actually come in, educate the business owner, educate the HR decision maker. Pretty much the yes, the yes man, the yes lady. Our benefits cost the business nothing. Our benefits cost the business nothing.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_00So if they have high overhead, high out-of-pocket costs, high payroll, high workmen's comp, we come in, implement it as an employee-funded pre-tax basis for W-2 N1099 employees.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00It costs the employee. It's payroll deducted. So now you're reducing your taxes by 8%. You're reducing your workmen's comp by 8%. You can retain your employees longer because you're offering benefits that are portable for them. And they can cover themselves, their spouse, their children, their entire family, and they own the actual policies.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00So not only are we rewarding retention, we're covering employees, we're reducing the company's out-of-pocket costs, and it costs them nothing. So we're saving 10% on average a year for back office bottom line.
SPEAKER_01Come on. Wow. I mean, with that, right? You gotta have a lot of people be jumping on board with with what that looked like.
SPEAKER_00You would think.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Not so much.
SPEAKER_00Well, I mean, yes, we do well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We do very well, but there's still so many businesses out there that have five employees, 10, 15, 20 that don't have any insurance whatsoever.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_00No dental vision, no on and off the job accident, no on and off the job paycheck protection. I mean, you've in your past, you've been out of work for health reasons.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00If your your businesses at that time had paid you your income while you were recuperating in and out of the hospital, you would your bills would have been paid.
unknownRight, right.
SPEAKER_00But no, you were out for 30 plus days, not getting an income. Right. That's who we are.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's what we do.
SPEAKER_01You step in and make sure that area is covered.
SPEAKER_00Because if you're injured on the job, not great, but great, workmen's comp pays out.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00They drag their feet. They take a month to two months to pay out, and then bills still accumulate.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Well, with our income protection, we cover day one for accident and day seven for sickness.
unknownThat is pretty dope.
SPEAKER_00So if you're in a catastrophic instance where you were, where you were out, we would have paid your month-to-month income for a minimum of six months to protect yourself and your expenses.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00And you wouldn't have missed to beat.
SPEAKER_01I love that. That's a beautiful thing right there. Wow. But you guys pull away from the work world a little bit and just decide to go in the vacation mode. Where do you guys go?
SPEAKER_00Last year we went on a cruise to the Bahamas.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00The year before, Anton and I went somewhere, just us. And then after Ian, we spent Christmas to New Year's in Jamaica.
SPEAKER_01Come on. It's amazing. You gotta love it. Did you did you like the experience?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I'm fine with whatever. It's the girls that didn't like it.
SPEAKER_01They didn't?
SPEAKER_00No, because of course his parents don't have central air.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00And now it's different because we're rebuilding from Melissa, but it's back then it after Ian, they don't have they didn't have four solid walls. Right, right. You know, they had gaps in their floorboards. So the mosquitoes and everything love the girls' blood. Oh yeah. But now we're rebuilding from Melissa, and we already have like three-quarters of the house done.
SPEAKER_02So beautiful.
SPEAKER_00We're investing in our future too because it'll be the kids. It'll be, you know, for Maya and Reagan. It'll be for little Dana Lee, because she's Reagan's age.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00His sister started all over.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00She started all over.
SPEAKER_01She did.
SPEAKER_00She's her youngest and middle are like ten years apart.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_00She was done. Yeah. She started all over.
SPEAKER_01And then she just went ahead and just hey, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_00She got her baby girl. So she is done now.
SPEAKER_01That's good.
SPEAKER_00And no, we're not shooting for the boy. Sorry.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00Nope, we're done.
SPEAKER_01Hey, I tried.
SPEAKER_00No, he doesn't want it either.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00No, his father wants it. He no, we again, like I said, we have no patience as it is.
SPEAKER_01I could I could imagine this dad too be like, listen, man, you gotta get you one of them boys so they can carry on the name.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_01Gotta tell Maya whenever she gets married, she gotta keep her last name.
SPEAKER_00I told I did. I'm hyphenated.
SPEAKER_01Oh, look at you.
SPEAKER_00I'm hyphenated. Okay, all right. Because I'm the only child, too, so I had her be.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And you got wonderful parents, because you still involved with them. They still come and hang out with you.
SPEAKER_00My mom's watching the girls right now, so I could be here.
SPEAKER_01Come on, look at that right there. It's a beautiful thing. Yep. Well, does your mom ever just say, hey, you don't have to cook today. We got this. We're gonna cook for you.
SPEAKER_00No. Not with my culinary art degree now.
SPEAKER_01She's like, you need to go to school to learn this and we go cook. That will never happen.
SPEAKER_00No, no, no. They will cook for us, like we went over a few weeks ago or whatever, and had dinner with them. But no, they're, God bless them, my mom's 75 and my dad's 80. They're not they're not cooking.
SPEAKER_01They fully grown. They are grown-ups. They are grown-ups. That is amazing. When last did you go back to Pennsylvania?
SPEAKER_00Actually, thanks. That's Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Thanksgiving, we took the we God help us. We took a road trip with a seven and a 12-year-old, never doing that again.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's right.
SPEAKER_00Never, never, never doing that again.
SPEAKER_01That was a terrible idea.
SPEAKER_00With no bathroom. We took his truck and just drove up and stayed with a high school friend of mine. And we missed snow by 24 hours.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, we we were up for Thanksgiving. We took the girls into New York.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Saw the Statue of Liberty, saw Ground Zero, saw Rockefeller Center.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's beautiful.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, we missed, it was 30 degrees and we missed snow by 24 hours. We left Saturday morning and it's no 12 hours. Saturday morning we left and it snowed Saturday night.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Wow. That is wild right there. What is the relationship now with Maya? Because you know, she's she's going into the Oh, she's so tween. The the big girl face now.
SPEAKER_00She is so tween.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00She is such a tween. She like one minute she'll be, can I say boss bitch? And then the next minute she'll she'll just be like, I don't want to do nothing, and revert back to like her seven-year-old age. But yeah, she'll be 13 on April 10th.
SPEAKER_01Come on. And she's tall as well.
SPEAKER_00Oh, she's taller than me.
SPEAKER_01Come on, man. Wow. The crazy thing about her two people, she does look like her face got like a six-year-old look. It's hilarious. She just looked tall.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. She's she's getting there. I can I can show pictures later, but yeah, no, my mom took her to get oh we dad curly cut hairstyle the other day, and my mom sent me a picture of her hair all full out like Diana Ross.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And people were like, oh yeah, she's like 15, 16. No.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01Still baby.
SPEAKER_00No. She's 12. She's still 12 people.
SPEAKER_01Still pay still baby people. Yes.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01You know, I gotta say, you know, with, you know, having a because I, you know, I didn't even know if you guys were gonna have another another child after Maya, to be honest with you. I thought you guys was done the way you guys were functioning. And then you guys, I was like, what? She's pregnant again? Okay then. This is beautiful.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. We did, we did try for a while, because we did want Maya to have a sibling, uh a partner, a criminal partner. And trust me, when the two of them get going, like literally they're oil and water and two peas in a pot at the same time.
SPEAKER_02That's beautiful.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, no, there's there's times where Maya will go to bat for Reagan and vice versa. But yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00I wish we had them closer in age for sure.
SPEAKER_01What's your favorite music growing up?
SPEAKER_00I'm a little bit of everything.
SPEAKER_01Ooh.
SPEAKER_00I think mainly RB, but I'll listen to a little country, I'll listen to hip hop, I'll listen to heavy metal and rock and just as long as the as long as the song's good.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00Prefer the non-cursing ones.
SPEAKER_01I like that.
SPEAKER_00But I mean, I go way back to like the Will Smith hip-hop.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Because he can he can rock it, but he doesn't curse.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Unlike some of these guys today.
SPEAKER_01So if you was to pick a Luther Vadros Keith Sweat, who would you pick?
SPEAKER_00Luther, because I don't know who Keith Sweat is. I probably know his songs.
SPEAKER_01Keith.
SPEAKER_00I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, bro. Hey, she didn't know. I'm just saying. But yeah, Luther is dope though, so I I could get that.
SPEAKER_00Luther is the bum.
SPEAKER_01I could get that right there.
SPEAKER_00Again, I Luther 80s and 90s, baby, you know?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00The old school stuff. The old school stuff.
SPEAKER_01In the 80s. Was you a fan of the Jerry Curls?
SPEAKER_00I had the Jerry Curls. You should have prepped me for what you were gonna ask. I could have had like blackmailed pictures to show. I had the Jerry Curls. I was, I mean, I my hair's up for a reason. But no, I was I was the blonde Shirley Temple. I had ringlets everywhere.
SPEAKER_01That's hilarious. Did you do the spray?
SPEAKER_00No. Oh no, but no, I did, I did have the mousse, and it was well, I I was when I started doing my own hair, it was the late 80s. Right. So it wasn't like the high afro poof, but yes. Although I did have an I high afro poof, and I was called apparently the chia pet, the pottery that grows in in middle school and high school. Because I did have that afro.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And can I say that? I'm white. I don't know if I can say that. I'm married to a black man, so I don't know if I can say that. We're getting 100% completely politically correct knots.
SPEAKER_01Hey, listen, listen.
SPEAKER_00We're not we're not politically correct here.
SPEAKER_01It's okay. It's alright. It's a beautiful thing. I I knew it was gonna happen anyway. So hey, you guys are welcome, just said. For you know, single moms out there. And I know, you know, you don't have any experience in this world or in this field, but you could speak to those, you could speak to those ladies and you know, getting um driven, you know, wanted more because they feel hopeless not having a partner. How would you speak to them just letting them know it's okay, even though you're not gonna be able to do that?
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's a hundred percent okay. Enjoy your single life. It takes work. No, I'm joking. Yeah, my my husband is a dedicated driven man, and he provides very well for us, so but yeah, no, I want to kill him sometimes, and I'm sure he wants to kill me too. Uh-huh. But that's just that's marriage, you know. After marriage 23 years.
SPEAKER_01Come on.
SPEAKER_0023 years of marriage. We were. I was 19 and he was 24.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_00Yep. So July is, will be, because we're not in July yet. July will be 23 years.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, wow. That is amazing. That is amazing. You know, a lot of people, when they listen to this show, they listen for, you know, any type of encouragement they could get to just get them out of their comfort zone and and get into something that's uncomfortable or whatever. But a lot of people are still not okay with the uncomfortable.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's scary. It's scary, but anything new is scary.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00But you have to leap. I mean, unless you're physically jumping out of an airplane, everything else is gonna be cakewalk. You just have to put one foot in front of the other and and just do it. But and that's my motto at work, and that's my motto at life, because at the end of the day, opportunity is unlimited. I mean, we live in a country that anything you want to do, you want to be an influencer, yes, you can be an influencer.
SPEAKER_01This is true, this is very true.
SPEAKER_00But do it with faith, do it with passion, do it with drive, and if you fail, pick yourself up and do it again. Like that's I love that.
SPEAKER_01Pick yourself up, people.
SPEAKER_00Keep keep going.
SPEAKER_01Yes. I like that. That I like that. That's a beautiful uh way to sprinkle that a little bit there. You guys are welcome with that as well. You are like a big fan of all music. How often I'd uh just push you to just listen to a reggae music or just be like, hey, that's what we do, right?
SPEAKER_00Again, he's been Americanized.
SPEAKER_01You know what? You are right.
SPEAKER_00You are very He I don't remember the last time he turned on Jamaican music on YouTube.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_00Or even on Alexa.
SPEAKER_01He probably don't even know what uh the latest reggae music is.
SPEAKER_00He might. I mean, I I don't know. I'm not with him half the day, so I don't know. But like when he's home on the weekends, what's playing on his mus on his radio in his truck is not reggae.
SPEAKER_01What happened?
SPEAKER_00He's been Americanized. I tell him all the time. He Maya's yelled at him. Maya has been telling him for the last like year to speak patois.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_00Because the girls do not speak patois.
SPEAKER_01They don't really know, no.
SPEAKER_00And I've told him multiple times, and of course, his parents are still there, so their accent's even deeper.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_00And they don't know what they're saying.
SPEAKER_01They do crave that accent. Carter would have got him a Jamaican girl for a little bit there.
SPEAKER_00Good for him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, I don't know if they're still rolling, but you know, he was fascinated with the language there for a little bit.
SPEAKER_00You don't speak it at home either?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I do.
SPEAKER_00So then why is he fascinated?
SPEAKER_01Well, because he a lot of times he's like, Dad, we we don't really know what you said. We just agree because we don't want you to get mad at us. Oh, it's hilarious. It's it's hilarious. I'm like, dude, you can't agree to something you don't understand.
SPEAKER_00You don't know what you're saying yes to.
SPEAKER_01If you say yes to me, listen, I don't care that you didn't understand. You said yes.
SPEAKER_00That is hysterical.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, yeah. We got we gotta get it done.
SPEAKER_00Well, it it is funny when Anton speaks it, and Maya Maya can hear it. Yeah, a little bit understands it.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00But then when she tries to talk back, it's I wish I could record it. It's hysterical.
SPEAKER_01It's funny, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And then she's like, What what what'd you say?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So but no, they're I wish I could have a video camera on my wall just to like the records the comings and goings. It's it's a hot mess in our house.
SPEAKER_01It's beautiful. Now you have an event coming up. What is that looking like?
SPEAKER_00Well, I have a couple of them.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00The 28th, I will be sponsoring one of the sponsors for EHL Fragile X Foundation. Okay. That is an awareness nonprofit that brings awareness to Fragile X, which is one of the symptoms, chromosomes, ailments that causes autism and other autoimmune disorders. I'm sponsoring that. That'll be on the 28th in Cape Coral off of Lafayette Street. So past Cape Coral Parkway.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00We're taking about five blocks, and I'll be there doing some kid giveaways. And essentially, if you're a business owner or you work for a company here in Southwest Florida, I'm gonna have a QR code that you can scan and register your business for a courtesy breakfast or lunch on my own time.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00To come in and educate the businesses, the HR directors, the employees about what it is I actually do.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00And feed everyone.
SPEAKER_01Lovely.
SPEAKER_00So you get a complimentary breakfast or lunch on me and education.
unknownOkay. Okay.
SPEAKER_00That's on the 28th. So that's Saturday, last Saturday of the month. Uh huh. And then on Tuesday, the 31st, ABC Supply and Astero, I am hosting a lunch and learn again for all business owners, HR directors, decision makers, trades, attorneys, any company. That does or does not have benefits.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00They can register for that lunch and learn. I am catering Jamaican food.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00So come get yourself some curry goat and well, curry chicken.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Sorry, jerk chicken, curry goat, and rice and peas.
SPEAKER_01Look at you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, my my group with that was like, well, there's this place and this place and this place. I'm like, but I love Mexican and I love Hispanic food, but that's not me.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00I'm married to a Jamaican. That's me. That's my that's my background. That's my that's my home. So a little piece of me, a little piece of our family nationality and camaraderie. And yeah, so I'm gonna be hosting that. And any businesses that register and come, they also will be entered to win a courtesy two-day pass to a spotlight, to a oh my god, what is it called? I'm a part of Master Networks as well. So I'm a part of that. And then our CEO and COO of Master Networks is hosting a mastermind, if you will.
SPEAKER_02Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00So it's training and coaching and camaraderie with other businesses, and it's a two-day event on April 20th and 21st. Okay. So I am giving away, raffling off a two-day ticket for that event, which is Matt these masterminds are like thousands of dollars. Right. And with masters, your four first day is free, and your second day is $100. And again, I have that second day pass that I can gift you.
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_00So you come, listen to me speak, register your business for courtesy, breakfast, or lunch, and you'll be entered to win that two-day spotlight mastermind pass.
SPEAKER_01That's beautiful right there. For people that are curious on how to find you, what are all the areas or platforms that they can find you?
SPEAKER_00Mainly Facebook. I do post on LinkedIn and my Twitter, my Instagram is attached to my Facebook.
unknownUh-huh.
SPEAKER_00But pretty much Kelly Daily Insurance on Facebook.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00You'll find my website, my everything about colonial, everything about my business, who, which accounts I'm opening, what my genre is, and you'll find the flyer to scan the QR code to register for that lunch and learn too.
SPEAKER_01Oh beautiful. Wow. Okay. You guys heard it. I mean, we need more. You guys could get so much more, but listen. We're gonna keep a hole out of it. Uh yeah, you gotta do it.
SPEAKER_00No, Tiffany's on.
SPEAKER_01Tiffany, what's up?
SPEAKER_00My director. Oh, she is.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's awesome.
SPEAKER_00I just saw her page on it.
SPEAKER_01But listen, guys, there is so much that is unfolded. There's so much that you guys offer the wealth of knowledge, the benefits for your guys' companies to get involved with what that look like. What is it looking like for the next year for Kelly and what you're doing right now?
SPEAKER_00Well, personally, the family.
SPEAKER_01One more baby.
SPEAKER_00No, we're done. No more children. That's for you, Clifford. No more children. We are done with children. Kids, on the other hand, apparently they're goats. So we can't say kids.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Because kids are goats.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Personally, just paying down some out-of-pocket expenses. Yeah. Getting well for the summertime, getting the girls into summer camps. Yeah. Helping my little one get well versed with her language because I think Anton might have been talking a little patois to her when she was younger because she has this lips lisp that she's when she was four, five, and six, couldn't really enunciate and pronounce words. Right, right. So she's finally coming into her own with that.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Getting her English a little bit better so she can get a little bit better grades in school on that. But she is only seven, so she's not eighteen. She's not, you know, she's not leaving the house just yet.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00He wants to go down and see the family in November again, too. So hopefully that trip is there. And then business, just build my team at least five to seven deep.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00And have the wealth of knowledge out there to help more businesses and help the community and help the employees.
unknownI love it.
SPEAKER_00But yes, Spanish rep, please. Anyone send them to him and he'll send them to me. Yes. I need a Spanish rep, bilingual Spanish rep to help communicate the need and the importance to the Spanish community.
SPEAKER_01Wow, this is amazing. I'm so excited that we got to bring you on the show today. You did so wonderfully. Proud of you. And Todd, proud of you too, bruh. This beautiful thing. Listen, so you might see her at the show again. Because, you know, there's stuff we didn't even touch on. But sometimes that's how we do it. So you guys get to want to know who she is. So you can go find her. You know, she got a lot of platforms. Just find her, hang out with her, see how cool she is. It's a beautiful thing. We want to thank you for being on the show today.
SPEAKER_02I'm grateful.
SPEAKER_01So listen, guys, there you have it. Until another episode where we have another decorative guest right here at ES Club. Thank you. Ya ha.
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