Imagine transforming a neglected house into a warm home, not just for profit but as a heartfelt mission. That's the extraordinary journey of Justin and Stephanie Jones of Busted Cribs, who join us to unveil the interplay of their personal reinventions and their passion for house flipping. Stephanie's bold shift from a television executive to a home design sage, alongside Justin's construction acumen, has crafted a tale of triumph and faith. They don't merely renovate spaces; they create hope and foster communities, sharing how each property flip generously supports their philanthropic work.
We're not just talking about slapping on a new coat of paint and calling it a day. The Joneses walk us through the grit and joy of turning the most forlorn properties into stunning living spaces, all while weaving in their commitment to giving back. Their anecdotes range from upcycling forgotten treasures to confronting complete rebuilds, underscoring the belief that their financial success is a means to enrich lives through their nonprofit efforts. It's a candid look at how they balance their public persona with a private dedication to their cause.
The essence of this episode, though, lies in the stories—those of houses with untapped potential, and of people whose lives are uplifted through strategic philanthropy. Justin and Stephanie highlight the symbiotic relationship between their for-profit flips and nonprofit missions, along with the art of storytelling that galvanizes community support. It's a testament to the idea that a strong narrative can resonate profoundly with an audience, compelling action and engendering lasting change. Chuckle along as they recount funny behind-the-scenes moments and share insights on the challenges and surprises of working together as a married couple in the unpredictable world of house renovations.
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Imagine transforming a neglected house into a warm home, not just for profit but as a heartfelt mission. That's the extraordinary journey of Justin and Stephanie Jones of Busted Cribs, who join us to unveil the interplay of their personal reinventions and their passion for house flipping. Stephanie's bold shift from a television executive to a home design sage, alongside Justin's construction acumen, has crafted a tale of triumph and faith. They don't merely renovate spaces; they create hope and foster communities, sharing how each property flip generously supports their philanthropic work.
We're not just talking about slapping on a new coat of paint and calling it a day. The Joneses walk us through the grit and joy of turning the most forlorn properties into stunning living spaces, all while weaving in their commitment to giving back. Their anecdotes range from upcycling forgotten treasures to confronting complete rebuilds, underscoring the belief that their financial success is a means to enrich lives through their nonprofit efforts. It's a candid look at how they balance their public persona with a private dedication to their cause.
The essence of this episode, though, lies in the stories—those of houses with untapped potential, and of people whose lives are uplifted through strategic philanthropy. Justin and Stephanie highlight the symbiotic relationship between their for-profit flips and nonprofit missions, along with the art of storytelling that galvanizes community support. It's a testament to the idea that a strong narrative can resonate profoundly with an audience, compelling action and engendering lasting change. Chuckle along as they recount funny behind-the-scenes moments and share insights on the challenges and surprises of working together as a married couple in the unpredictable world of house renovations.
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Colin, how are you doing today?
Outro:I'm good man. How are you?
Heredes:I'm great man. It's another episode, it's another week, it's another season and it's a special, special episode. It's our is it our? Most busted episode. Yet it's about to be, it's about to be right, about to be. Why? Because, with us.
Collin:We're going to be the creators of Busted Cribs, a home renovation show. We take rundown houses and fix them up to make them a home.
Heredes:So yeah, I'm super excited. Please welcome Justin and Stephanie Jones Say hello, hello. Good morning guys, good morning.
Justin Jones:Good to have you guys.
Stephanie Jones:Busted. We are nine out of ten times busted ourselves. Yes, we are.
Justin Jones:I went and got a haircut. She curled her hair so, like they were not they were not Looking good, Looking good yeah we're happy to be here.
Stephanie Jones:Thanks for having us Check out the clips.
Collin:But yeah, man, I'm so excited to get into this and talk with you guys about it and so just want to hear maybe you start out by just hearing a little bit of your story when did you know? Where did you guys start? How did you get to where you are today? Tell us the busted crib tale.
Stephanie Jones:You want to tell it.
Justin Jones:You tell it better than I tell it.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, but you're short, and concise, you should.
Justin Jones:Just, I'm really really short, like if you want a reader's digest version, if you want the full detail.
Heredes:That's me.
Justin Jones:We'll do a director's cut link here to the full story. I'll let Stephanie handle that one. Mine will be just short and sweet. But there's a lot of nuggets in the story, from our marriage to business, to her leaving her executive job. You know there's a lot in there. I'll let her. I softballed that up for you. Come on, that was a Tia.
Heredes:Come on For the whole brand.
Stephanie Jones:So how did we become busted cribs?
Collin:Yeah.
Stephanie Jones:Okay. So yeah, there is a long story. Justin and I got married we had a couple of people previously and we had busted lives Got totally restored and renovated us, which was amazing, and so we came into a marriage both whole people, instead of two broken half people, praise God. And I was working at a television network at the time. I on television I'll just say it because I was, you know, I was there. I don't know you would call it, I was the head designer, but they would send me out to talent shoots so I'd go to New York and Toronto, which is so funny because I don't really know anything about the technical side of it, I'm just the creative side. So they were having me lead these, you know multi-million dollar shoots and it was total imposter syndrome. But I loved it and for the longest time before I was set free, I didn't love my job. It was like very taxing for me. It was really. You know, I was like always like, oh, I just want to leave and find another job.
Stephanie Jones:But when I got restored and when I got set free, I was always a Christian. But when I was set free, the Lord just really gave me a love and passion for things in general and my job became one of those things where it was like a mission field and it was really beautiful and I really enjoyed working there. And so, fast forward, justin. I get married and about probably what, like four months into our marriage, he says I need you to leave your job. And I was like what, what Lord, I don't want to do that. I finally love it. It's really. It's really awesome. He's like I'm taking you into a new thing and so, just being faithful in that we I left my job and he was kind of like what are you doing, right?
Justin Jones:You were not okay with it. Is she a gold digger? Yeah, let's reenact that.
Heredes:Let's reenact that real quick. Let's cue the music and go, go ahead, yeah.
Justin Jones:Yeah.
Outro:Kick it, jamie Foxx, yeah.
Justin Jones:No, she, she came to me and she's like listen, you know, I think Lord's telling me like leave my job, like there's something that's you know coming, there's something that's more for us. And I'm like okay, like your executive level salary, like it was a good salary, like it was a sweet gig, like I got to go to some of the events and I'm like this is this is awesome. You know, and as an, as an entrepreneur, you don't get to go to all those executive type things that corporations big multi-million, if not billion dollar corporations get to put on. So me, I'm showing up my blue collar self and I'm like man, this is awesome, you know, got some steak instead of you know hamburgers. And I was like don't leave this job, this thing's, this is a good gig.
Stephanie Jones:So yeah, and so I left and it was really hard. I stayed on for two months just to help them transition, and again I was kind of holding on for dear life because I loved it, but I wanted to be obedient and faithful and that's. That's pretty much been our whole. Our whole guide is just listening to Holy Spirit and just allowing him to lead us and just really relying on his voice, cause otherwise we could end up in so many different places. So once I quit, I found out I was pregnant like a month later, and then we you know, it's always the best time, that's exactly when you want to find that out.
Stephanie Jones:And Justin owned a construction company. So I would just kind of ride along with him, cause I'm now don't have a job and I was like this is weird, I don't love this, I'm not that type of person that enjoys not working. And so I would ride along with him and just found that I was really good at the design side of things and so when he would meet with clients, I would really help them walk through things and give them ideas. And he's like you know what, let's do a flip. That'd be really fun If we did a flip. We have some extra cash and let's put it into a flip.
Stephanie Jones:And so we did our first flip when I was super pregnant with my first son. And I remember I have a picture and I'm like really pregnant and I have a hammer in my hand and I was building a bench seat or something for this like little kitchen nook. And I just remember telling him I'm like I really feel like this is where we need to be, like this, us together, doing this restoring homes, just like God restored us, is just such a beautiful testimony of our lives. And so, lo and behold, we'd start doing it more regularly. And then you know, we just randomly started filming it.
Stephanie Jones:I don't remember why, even I think we just were like, hey, I want to document this cool thing that we're doing. And our kids were growing up Like I now then had a newborn and I got pregnant. Right after two months after I've had my son, I was pregnant again. So you know, we're now going into what now is for kids, and so we started doing it, like let's film it. It'd be really fun to document it because they were coming along with us Now tell us about that.
Heredes:So did you flip a phone open? Did you bring a whole production crew from your production years?
Justin Jones:And I can go into that, yes, I can go into that. So for me, I would flip up a cell phone and good to go. And she's like no, the audio, no the video, the angle, the light, and I'm like and they're going just to shoot this thing. Let's go, let's roll, let's do this, let's get to the next line.
Stephanie Jones:We're not coordinated enough to do that.
Justin Jones:I mean just because I'm from that background.
Stephanie Jones:I mean, I wouldn't even know how to do that. I mean I'd have to like really figure it out.
Justin Jones:Yeah, so she's so backtracking just a little bit. So she's pregnant the first time she's riding with me. Like she said, she's not working for the company anymore and there's the emotions that go into having a pregnant wife too.
Heredes:So we're riding along and she might Well tell us more. That could be a whole other episode. She might be like Go deep into detail on that.
Stephanie Jones:No, no, no. We won't do that today. No, no, no, no.
Justin Jones:So we're rolling up to client's house and she's like you know, with all the beautiful emotions that come along with pregnancy and I'm like, oh my gosh, like this is.
Justin Jones:so it was a challenge, but the coolest part, I will tell you the coolest part was when we would roll and we'd started to flip open a phone and she would post something Everybody's like we want to see more of that. We want to see more of what you guys are doing, we want to see more of you guys interacting and stuff like that. So we were just kind of just kicking it around and we grabbed a guy from from church and said, hey, can you come just film this, let's see what it looks like. And he came out there and he filmed one and it happened to be like the day that he came out to start filming, there was a not a lice infestation. What was it?
Stephanie Jones:It was a flee flee infestation. That's our flee house.
Justin Jones:So he's walking around filming.
Heredes:And I'm sure you staged this right. You put the flee there for the drama of the movie. So that's no, you staged.
Justin Jones:It would be that would have cost a lot less if I would have hired somebody to hey bring the fleas and then leave with the fleas. No, no, no, no.
Stephanie Jones:So we're actually walking through filming and there's fleas coming up our legs and I mean it was thick, you guys, it was thick, it was like an inch thick of fleas. Just the ground was moving. It was so nice. And I had my newborn with me in my arms and I'm like yeah, it was something else, so we started posting that content.
Justin Jones:People are like man, that's awesome. You know this is really cool. And then go into what she said about let's start capturing more of this Like art. I know how quickly kids grow up. I've watched my 16 and a 14 year old. I've watched how quickly I was like let's film this. You know, from that perspective, more of like a documentary type, just watching the kids grow up, watching the process of the house, the time capsule really of the journey.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, it is.
Justin Jones:It is, and it was. It was more of a passion project. There's not a lot of money, you know, that goes into like we're not getting paid for this content, we're not influencer stars or anything like that, so we just put it out there. But our lives lived, you know, naturally and in front of the camera is exactly the same. So you have faith. You have the marriage aspect, you have the entertaining aspects of watching a married couple navigate through challenging projects that were happening every single day. Then we think it's totally, totally different.
Stephanie Jones:So different.
Justin Jones:She's a creative and I'm like let's just get this done, yeah, yeah, you know. So there's that aspect of it and it just made for creative TV Content.
Outro:Yeah.
Justin Jones:That's totally organic. It's all natural. There's nothing at stage.
Stephanie Jones:We do not script anything. That was one thing that we told our producer. We're like we do not want to script anything and so and that was great, because he loves working in that way too. So we would literally just show up on the day at the prop property and we're like they action I love that, and then they edit a lot and do a lot of magic behind behind the scenes because it's in a post.
Heredes:Well, tell our listeners about the show Busted Cribs. It's season season three at the moment, yeah, so right. I've caught the first time actually saw it was a thumbnail on the provider. I think it pure flicks was the provider on season one and I got to see it. It's like wait a minute. I think it was kind of this cool catch moment of like nice and then got to explore it on YouTube as well.
Heredes:Tell us why the name Some? It's obvious to some, to some maybe not, and what exactly do you do? Break it down for the listener who hasn't seen it's about to Check out the episode question.
Stephanie Jones:You can answer that.
Justin Jones:Yeah, busted cribs we, when we were starting to try to figure out a name for this. I'm born in the 80s, she's born in the 80s. So, coming into the 90s, what was popular?
Outro:MTV.
Heredes:They say Buster, I'm snow, never mind. So MTV cribs was popular, you know and we're like man MTV cribs.
Justin Jones:But man, these are busted and we're, and it just kind of.
Stephanie Jones:It was late at night, yeah, cuz we had gone over. We're trying to like really come up with some meaningful names that really show, because we're not just flippers right, we're not your average flippers.
Collin:What are some of the names that didn't make it in the list?
Stephanie Jones:I'm here and, you know, joined at the flip. We really loved that one.
Outro:But then when?
Stephanie Jones:we looked it up like HGTV had already owned it and so we had to. We actually started promoting that because we had no idea that it was and they're not using it currently, but you know that was owned by HGTV, so we had to change it and we just were sitting there one night and we're like, you know it's like hey, welcome to my crib, come on in. It's busted. And he's like, oh, let's do busted cribs, boom. That was it.
Justin Jones:So, yeah, so there was some more names on there, like we had a bunch. We were kicking them around to other business owners, family members, and finally we landed on busted cribs and we're like man, that just sounds good. So what we do is we we go in and we're real estate investors. So we'll buy properties, we'll go in, assess them Stephanie designs them. I'll go through my construction background, figure out what needs to be done to it, pull the permits, renovate them yeah, put them on the market, sell them and then move on to the next one.
Heredes:Yeah, that's how you. You said you're not the average flipper.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah why, well, the whole purpose behind what we do is like, immediately when I walk into a property, I don't see it for what it is, I see it for what it can be and I've always had that gift of being able to see the end result and people, and then properties and furniture. I used to flip furniture to and jewelry. I would remake jewelry and stuff like that.
Heredes:So I always can see Flip furniture. Let's get that clear, because my kids flip furniture at the house.
Stephanie Jones:Oh yeah, my dude too. Not that tight, not that okay, just make sure. Yeah, ours flip that furniture, can I?
Heredes:make money off this. Is that good. They're wrestling. Wait a minute. Is there a business there?
Stephanie Jones:No, I would take, um, you know, see something on the side of the road, a piece of furniture, and I would paint it or renovate it and sell it for a profit and, um, it was fun for me and it was, you know, never anything like profitable, super profitable, but I just have always been able to see something not for what it is but what it can be, just like kind of how God is for us, like he Sees us, for who he's created us to be not all the junk, right, not all the clutter, all the hoarding, because we've walked into some crazy busted houses and People always ask me, like how do you?
Stephanie Jones:I mean, I could never have envisioned it looking like this in the end, and I was like I guess I can just look at it through like God's eyes, like how he looks at us, and so I just have this really beautiful relationship in that way.
Stephanie Jones:So to me, flipping is like a dirty word, it's it's just a business where this is like a transformative Ministry, I guess, and so I guess that's kind of where the show even makes sense for us. I wouldn't keep doing it if there wasn't that, that heart behind it, because to me it was never about fame or getting our name out there or being Any kind of anything other than just giving God the glory for what he's done in us and what he can do in these properties and just showing that tangibly, because when people see these houses, they look neglected, they look like they don't belong and they look like they're trash right. I mean, we've seen some crazy houses and Just being able to take that and make it into something that's beautiful and worthy and desired for a new homeowner is just a really beautiful. I don't know faith in action or like a, I don't know, but you can see it tangibly, yeah right.
Stephanie Jones:I I he's like we just make money, yeah, no it's not about the.
Justin Jones:There's more purpose than profit. That's what I tell everybody. There's more purpose in what we do, and Then money aspect of it. There's obviously a lot of money in real estate, so the profits come along with that, and obviously when we're out there shooting from start to finish, everybody always wants to know what would you put into that property, what'd you make on that property, what this, what's that? Everybody always wants to know the numbers and it's like okay, so we share some of the numbers and then some of the numbers we decide not to share.
Heredes:Yeah, talk to. That's an intersection. That's important, because sometimes we don't talk about it right, so so people don't know, so that there's assumptions made. I love it that it's. It's the cause, it's a purpose, it's a lifestyle. That's just an overflow for you guys. So this is not something you manufactured.
Heredes:No to for the profit. The profits important though, because I think you got right. You got kids to feed, you got a legacy to. You know to move and continue. Yeah, that purpose and that cause. So the business model, because talk to us about a little bit about that. You know some of its standard, whether it's the flipping or remodeling, the renovations, some with the actual show and a strategy there, whether it's traditional or modern marketing television media. Give us a little insight on how that's played out and how it's going Well.
Stephanie Jones:So, to go back a little bit, the more money we make on the property, the more we can give, and that's like, really, when we get excited is, if we make more money, then we're like, oh, we can give more, and I know it's such a weird backwards way of thinking, but that's just our heart in it and we don't really share this with a lot of people. Even doing the podcast, we're like, oh my gosh, we don't. We don't want to share that side of it, like our giving, because we don't want, you know, we don't want to boast and brag, but to us it's really exciting.
Stephanie Jones:The more money we make, the more we can give to nonprofits, and so that's a big thing for us with um, with the nonprofit side of it is.
Heredes:And, by the way, we've met just they. You know we've met and seen you guys in action, giving back and being the generous Couple you are through the show and through your life. So I know you're not asking for that, I know. Um so so that's how we've interacted, that's how we've gotten to connect Um in the past couple of years. Yeah, so so I've seen that and you don't have to, like I said.
Stephanie Jones:but we're not good at hiding it, babe. No, no, no, no, no. And.
Heredes:I think it's. It's even more than it's just more in your presence and you're.
Collin:I think it just comes through.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, it does. It's our life and that's that's the thing. It's not contrived, it's not like us trying to be something. It's just we recognize that our money is not ours, it's gods, and so we just operate in that way in every facet. So when we say we make a lot of money and we do make a lot of money on the flips, but it's exciting to us when we make a lot of money that we can then Give more, you know I want to continue the cause.
Heredes:A lot of times they're good ideas, folks with good heart. If the business model doesn't match and there's not a sustainability factor Right, then the mission's over.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, and then?
Heredes:nobody wins right. So there's a there's a tension there that I think it's important to.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, and then you can talk more about the business model. You're the business guy, I'm just making things pretty business model side of things.
Justin Jones:What's really interesting is prior to us getting married I was and I owned a company heavenly foundations for 12 years prior to us getting married. So I had marketed, I had a name, I'd been around, it was profitable, there was 13 to 17 employees, so the marketing was pretty much already out there. People knew who I was, so there was no issues with that. When Stephanie came along and I started bringing her to these properties, it just elevated the process, because a lot of times a contractor will go out there and they'll look at a project and it'll be like, okay, it's gonna cost this amount of money to do it. And then the customer's like, okay, well, when do we get started? When we go get tile? When do we go pick out kitchen?
Stephanie Jones:And.
Justin Jones:I'm like I don't do that part.
Stephanie Jones:It's like you're going your own you want the, you want the pretty.
Justin Jones:You need to go get a designer.
Justin Jones:So, Stephanie comes along, she's like, oh, I'll go do that with you. And all of a sudden this kind of natural progression of business is born from that side of things. So people already knew who I was in Pinellas County and in the surrounding areas. So when we came and started marketing for busted cribs it was just another extension of of who we were. And then we had a little bit of overlap in it to where some of these houses I'd come across I like, wow, this thing is pretty Busted up. Well, real estate investors naturally don't want really, really busted houses. They look for more of like a lipstick type or can I get in? Can I get out?
Stephanie Jones:And that's like where you just like put little minor changes because a lot people don't know the term but, Lipstick flipping is when you like, just you know. Change out some cabinets or paint the walls A little refresh, we end up we end up, we end up getting the fire sales.
Justin Jones:Man, the termite eaten to, caught fire to, I mean just the nastiest of nasties that you can think of. Those are the ones where we're like, we're like, yeah, we're gonna buy this one and people love it.
Heredes:random question have you ever gotten into a situation where it's you know what? It's full demo here?
Stephanie Jones:We can't have you gotten into, you have to tear the whole thing down almost basically yeah, but sometimes we've bought them knowing that it needs to go down. It was a risk.
Justin Jones:And I'll share this story One over in St Pete off of Taylor and we shot a whole thing on it. It was new construction. We couldn't walk all the way around the property because it was just so overgrown. It was so nasty and you couldn't walk kind of through the property because it was overgrown and disgusting To jungle this house, yeah, so we ended up buying it, I don't remember for how much $500,000 or something like that Like we got to get a deal on it.
Justin Jones:And when we had the clearing company coming in and start clearing around, we realized that there was a tree that had fallen on the house, on the house.
Stephanie Jones:We didn't know you can't make this up.
Justin Jones:And there's a whole video on it and we walk out and we're like, wow, I didn't see that.
Heredes:Is this an episode Season one?
Stephanie Jones:It is, yeah, it is, what did we call that one? Oh new.
Justin Jones:New beyond the block.
Stephanie Jones:New beyond the block.
Outro:Like I don't know why. It was like step by step man we're good New house on the block.
Heredes:You're 90s kids.
Stephanie Jones:90s kids, because that was our first new construction home, gotcha, and so it was like our new, beyond the block, the new house on the block.
Heredes:I would have called it a UD house.
Outro:Yeah, it was crazy. We have a tree house.
Stephanie Jones:Oh, yeah, we do Well, not only that because we were like, OK, we can rebuild that, but the window remember, when we were doing some demo Underneath the windows outside, I mean there was like there was nothing there. Termite poop was holding it up. There was nothing.
Justin Jones:You couldn't see this stuff because it was so overgrown around it and I look at Stephanie and she's, like you know, like kind of like the tear in her eye because she wants to restore everything, whether it's a puppy a piece of furniture.
Collin:Like she's just showing up at stuff Tell us about puppy restoration. How do you, you know, think of the bust of this puppy? She'll come home with that. We used to have one, we used to have one From pimples to poodles.
Outro:We got you right, we got you, doesn't matter. Busted pups, here we go Listen.
Justin Jones:So we end up looking at each other and we're like, yeah, this thing, this thing's not going to make it and it was only like 700 square feet, so it was more expensive to rebuild that and kind of tie into than it would be to just level it, start now.
Justin Jones:So we ended up hiring, you know, demo company. Comes out there, you know, three and a half hours later this whole house is scraped and it's gone and I was like man, we really need to think about doing some new construction too. And the market was starting to shift at that time. Where our houses are, you know, pricing on houses is going through the roof. Well, when prices start going through the roof, it limits the amount of properties obviously you can buy because stuff is getting more expensive. So we happened to make a pivot into doing more new construction than renovation. And of course, she could care less about new construction and I'm like this is extremely profitable.
Outro:You know this is great, it's simple.
Justin Jones:It's easy. I'm not having to worry about termites and all this, I can just come in. And so we've built, I think, six new ones or something like that to date, and I love it. But she's like, yeah, I'm not interested.
Stephanie Jones:I'm not super excited about it, but the Lord did give me this beautiful vision over it that sometimes you do have to go all the way to the foundation and build backups from scratch, and so, once it made sense in my heart to do it, then I was behind it. But yeah, at first I was apprehensive. But you do make good profit on it and unless we have to tear something down, we do not.
Justin Jones:That's very true, and I'm working on one right now Nice, that should have been torn down.
Outro:Uh-oh yeah.
Justin Jones:And this one, and the guys are out there working and they're like no bueno, hefe no bueno hefe, muy malo, muy malo.
Heredes:Every. For those of you that don't speak Spanish, that is no good, no good.
Justin Jones:No good, scrape this one and I'm like no boys like Black, make it happen. Yeah, the boss said we're not.
Stephanie Jones:Esposa.
Justin Jones:Say bueno.
Stephanie Jones:No, I mean, I'm fine with it if we needed to, but then we'd have to go all the way through the permits again because we just we waited so long for these permits. Let's be honest.
Heredes:Because I would be fine with it. She's the one. Ok, tell us about this. We've got leaders in nonprofits and doing different types of you know causes or serving different kinds of people. Your skill set slash gifting, slash calling lends itself to flip the camera. The dynamics are there. It's kind of what there's a sometimes that exists in organizations too. We're like you know what, if they just flip the camera here, they can capture the tensions, capture the beauty, sometimes the mess, sometimes the tensions Speak to that. What changed when the cameras came on? What was? Some pros and cons, some challenges of you know, and I know you film tons and tons of hours and have to reduce that to a few minutes of an episode and encourage because I think we're encouraging some of the folks to, hey, document, archive this for the sake of legacy time capsule but also to promote your cause, your mission, your vision, especially if it's connected to eternal purposes, like we talked about.
Heredes:Right, If it's going to impact someone with the gospel and point them to Jesus, it's like, yeah, leverage all of it. Talk to us about that.
Stephanie Jones:Yes, we're actually talking to one of our friends that owns a nonprofit and because we don't just help out financially, we like to come alongside of nonprofits and help them with business and help them, you know, just really gear up. And hey, maybe you didn't think of this before. Have you ever thought of X, y and Z? And we had told them that, like, I mean, this is such a beautiful thing you're doing, you need to record this, like, and you need to get this out there, because when people see it, they want to get behind your message, they want to get behind what you're doing, because all the nonprofits are so good, especially that we're a part of, and if we never saw it or we never, you know, experienced it firsthand, like you don't get behind it in the same way.
Stephanie Jones:You know, I mean, I know for you too, it's like once you see it and you can really you see the heart, you see the people they're working with, you see the day to day, like the heart and the good. And you know, we were just talking to a missionary. They stayed with us a couple of months ago and we were like you need to document your day to day life because we want to see the challenges you have. We want to see the things that you're doing, like it doesn't have to be pretty, it doesn't have to be professional. You don't have to have a camera crew, a production crew, like we do, but just flip on your camera and show it and he's I mean, he's gotten so many more.
Justin Jones:He's crushing it. They're based out of. Honduras.
Justin Jones:They're based out of Honduras, so third world country aspect, they live on a dollar and a half a day down there. Well, flip open your iPhone, or whatever that it might be, and just capture these situations, capture anything and everything that you can and then figure out where you're going from there. So he started building out his nonprofit and getting some land and getting some opportunities. When I came alongside him and partnered up with him on a lot of just the 10,000 view of just looking like what this needs to look like, he started going through and actually putting action behind it and I said do it this way or do it that way, crushing it.
Justin Jones:Absolutely crushing it, Because the money that we would put in here whether it be a hundred dollars or a couple hundred dollars really isn't a whole lot, but down there a hundred to $200, that feeds people for three months. That goes a really, really long way. So now he's filming the houses that are being built and then I shot a whole video on it down in Honduras and I don't know where that ended up, but it's about a three minute video, Just kind of going through that entire process, and it encouraged him to just keep this going and he has. He's kept it going. Now he's adding in aquaponics, he's adding in solar, he's adding in a whole entire logging facility down there.
Outro:Cause down there, it's all raw wood.
Justin Jones:There's not two by fours and stuff like we have here. Down there it's like you get raw wood right off the tree.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, their main ministry is building houses because people are living in the dump, like on trash, legitimately and then another example here.
Justin Jones:So we were just on a podcast on two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and the question that they asked was like what are your thoughts? Like why did you get behind and champion this mission? Because I could literally see what you guys were doing. And they're in the exploitation and human trafficking.
Stephanie Jones:Just restoring women's lives?
Justin Jones:Yeah, mm-hmm To the jails and from my perspective, it was like this to make sense. And I can get behind it To my wife. She's like this is amazing and all those, but for me it's just like this just makes sense. There's boots on the ground, they're going in the Tampa, they're getting this done. I'm gonna come alongside you and back you up on this one.
Stephanie Jones:Well, for you, it was the stories. It's hearing these people's stories, the women, the survivors, the ones that were in the jail and were reached by their ministry, that really made you finally get behind it. You know, and I think that's why it's so important for nonprofits or anybody in ministry or that's doing the work right.
Stephanie Jones:This amazing work for the community and for their area, like they need to show it Because people, you can kind of write it as much as you want, you can talk about it as much as you want, you can try and fundraise as much as you want, but till you see it and you hear the stories and you see the good that's being done and the challenges, so that hey, oh, there's a need here, I need to fill it. And being hyper-focused on the need, like we were telling the missionary, like you need to do a video about, hey, $100 will do this, $5 will do this. You know, just show these.
Heredes:Really be very authentic, be very Practical connect the dots right.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, cause people want to know. Oh, I can do that, that's easy.
Justin Jones:I love it.
Stephanie Jones:Oh if I just cut out coffee once a week, I can donate, I can give you know. It's like practical I'm not cutting out coffee.
Heredes:There's some sacrifices that are just too. Before you go, colin, one thing, just a good reminder on the vision casting on the story branding that we do. One is now you guys with busted cribs have had offers, have gotten distribution, exposure and multiple seasons. It didn't start that way. It's not like somebody showed up with a multimillion dollar contract. Would you like to? You know, and yeah, sign your souls away? No, it didn't start that way and you guys haven't signed your souls away. Don't do it.
Heredes:We never will, but it's just the importance for brands for non-profits organizations. You can start. Start where you are. There are multiple platforms out there for you to use free of charge, and it's just take some intentionality, some creativity and capture, Capture the essence of what you're doing, and that's vision casting, that's getting the mission statement, the purpose, the cause, the call to action. How do they join? How do they participate? Where do they sign up? As simple as that. Leverage the storytelling and the powerful medium, video photography, sometimes good writing right.
Heredes:Just all the creative elements coming together and helping you know.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, it's 100%.
Collin:Yeah. So what are let's get maybe a little more practical what are some of like the insights you guys have that you guys have now, after years of doing this to help a non-profit who's saying, like I hear what you're saying, I wonder how do I do that? Like, what are some insights of creating a compelling story that people want to listen to and want to see? Like, what have you guys found in that Cause you're, you guys, you're taking houses, inanimate objects that you know but but you're creating these really compelling and beautiful stories out of them.
Collin:Give us a little more insight there.
Justin Jones:Yeah, absolutely so. I'll touch on that one when we do. I'll give example Jeff Ford man up and go. Fantastic guy, fantastic man of God, and when we looked at his organization and and started coming alongside him whether it be through CBMC or whatever that it ended up, you know. However, we ended up just kind of connecting all those dots. He would do these these things that like sports bars and all these different fun raisers and trying to raise capital. Thank you for putting a name to that.
Heredes:There's these things.
Justin Jones:For for him I was like, hey, like we do these inspections through the business and let me just give you the inspection fees. You know, let me come in and you know, come alongside you and champion. And then we started doing that amongst the company and it kind of caught on. And it caught on with some other, some other Companies, and he's really kind of taken that and grown through you know Florida legislature and stuff like that. He's doing amazing things. But that was just one small example that a for-profit company can come through and do. And then, when it comes to answering your question, like storytelling storytelling is Extremely important and I don't read like I'm not a reader. They always say leaders are readers. I'm like, give me a video and just let me watch that and I'll go ahead and replicate it or whatever needs to be done. So I'm watching the video and I might read the closed captions. That's about all the reading. That.
Heredes:I'm doing that off, man, I turned that off. Storytelling is amazing.
Justin Jones:So when Jeff really started sharing that story and and he does great video content through emails and he has multiple people that are up there, multiple businesses and these aren't nonprofits, these are for-profit companies that are coming alongside him and champion with him, and I think nonprofits have a great, great stage if their storytelling is good, it's compelling and they can get other businesses, the champion, beside them. It makes little work for many, many people, yeah, and I'm a firm believer in that. I know he has ignite chiropractic, raul Serrano, and he has a couple other guys, you know, amongst his board that will come alongside and champion that and I think it's really, really important. But I think other nonprofits can really take advantage of hey, get these Businesses that want to come alongside, because I think deep down inside, a lot of for-profit companies Want to do something.
Justin Jones:Yeah but the excuse comes in why I don't have the time.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, I have a family, I have this, I have that or like which one, like which there's so many Support and help. You know what?
Justin Jones:do I get behind? And naturally, you know, being in the trades, I'm like, well, maybe there's a trade organization I can get behind. Okay, well, the trade organization is filled with guys that are hurting, broken, and I'm like, okay, well, that used to be me, so let me come alongside them, whether it be with discipleship, leadership, training, whatever that it might be, and that's action and it takes time and it's not just investing my money into that, but it's investing my time and it's you have to end up finding something that you can really come alongside. But you're gonna be dealing with people, whether it's nonprofit for profit, whatever that it is, and if you have a heart for that, then I think the sky's the limit on that.
Stephanie Jones:So really cool story that when I was working at Ion they had these team building things and it was always so like corporate based and so kind of selfish. And at the time I was working with a I was working, not working with but I was kind of partnering with them and work, doing a lot of events with them, called feeding children everywhere, and they do these packing events and it was so fun and so cool. And I went to the my boss at first and I said, hey, I think we should do this as one of the you know corporate building team building events or things. And they're like, well, what does that look like? And I was like I just think it'd be really cool. And so they, they kind of brought it up the ladder and talked about it and they're like, yeah, let's do it.
Stephanie Jones:And so that was before. I mean, obviously I was, I was after, I was kind of set free and I was really loving my job at that point and just really bringing just God into my workplace. And they are still to this day doing that event, even though I'm gone. They still are now Giving back in that way.
Outro:Love it.
Stephanie Jones:So I think sometimes when you have this dream or this vision, like, oh, I really love this, this Non-profit, then you can bring that into your workplace and say, hey, can we do a team event or can we, you know, raise funds for this, this group, or however that looks like. If you're not a non-profit and you're wanting to get involved, that could be a really cool way where I didn't personally have enough money to do a packing event on my own, but it was a really cool team building thing. They they make it really fun and that was a really practical way to then start getting them. Now this really huge and it keeps growing every year and it's just really cool. How one little thing of me just being like, hey, we should do this as a team building instead of our normal luncheon, you know, instead of putting our money there, let's actually help people love it like let's still team build, but in a really practical, helpful way.
Collin:Yeah, that's amazing. So we've talked about Kind of specifically for profits partnering with nonprofits. So for a nonprofit leaders who are, you know You're looking for it's nonprofit, but you need money.
Stephanie Jones:Money.
Collin:So, like what makes a good Non-profit partner for a four part? Like what is a for-profit business looking for? Like what when they're you know If I'm leading a nonprofit? It's like what do I need to be so that I you know, so that I make these people Actually want to partner with me, want to be a part of of what we're trying to do?
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, I mean for me. I think it's if I really believe in what you're doing, right, like I want to know that you're passionate and that Passion then spills over to me and I get excited. So if you're excited about what you're doing whether it be exploited women or helping you know the homeless, or you know doing something you know in the library, whatever that looks like if you're passionate about it, you're naturally gonna be able to get people on board with you, because that passion then just naturally spills over. And Every nonprofit we've been a part of, if they're not in that place of like excitement, we come alongside of them and help them get excited about again because it's really hard.
Stephanie Jones:Nonprofits are hard, like it is not a fun, it's not for the weary, it is really difficult and we know that because we're friends with a lot of people that are in that grind right and so just kind of Even sharing that like this is hard and I need support in that way too, like just someone coming alongside of me, like they need to show all of it, but I want to know that they're really passionate about it, like that they and I want to see that, like You're saying, like in that media in that content like show me how excited you are have someone follow you for a day, just a day in the life of a nonprofit. You know a day in the life, what, what we do, you know, even if you have to blur out faces, like, whatever that looks like, show us, so we see your struggle.
Stephanie Jones:We see your, your joys, we see those beautiful moments, because if you don't see, you really can't believe, you know. And so, and I had to show my company eye on, I had to show them videos of these packing events and how much good it does and the back end of it, like this, is who it's going to? These are not, it's not going out of the country. These are people that are hungry here. These are children that are not getting fed in the United States. And so once I was passionate, obviously, and the company is passionate, so I'm now bringing it to them and they're like I want to get behind this. This is cool, you know what I mean, and so I think you gotta have the story telling down.
Justin Jones:It doesn't matter what you're doing, whether you're creating a podcast or creating whatever that you are. You got to have a compelling story that naturally, good-hearted people are gonna want to come alongside, and for me, I like seeing the numbers. That's what it is for me. For her it's different.
Outro:I'm like.
Justin Jones:I'm like how many people did it help? Right seeing the impact?
Justin Jones:Yeah that's what I want to know. I want to know, like, when I give ten dollars, if nine dollars of it's going out in the field and dollars going to leadership, or however that goes for me. I just like knowing the numbers and I'm not like everybody, but I want to see what is it doing? How is it impacting who's? So? To answer your question like, how do they go out and find these people? When they're championing it and they're putting it out there, they're naturally gonna start networking in areas that people are gonna come there.
Justin Jones:Sure, looking for something, yeah as well. Whether it be a luncheon or it be a dinner or be the Rotary Club or that it be, doesn't really matter. It could be at church, could be wherever, but you have to have a compelling story and get it in front of them, yeah. Or when it's your turn to stand up and you give an elevator speech, and you get up and you go. Man, my organization helped save three kids last night from being exploited. I'm like, oh, tell me more.
Collin:Yeah, that was five seconds. How can I get that to five? Yeah, how can I be part of that? Yeah.
Justin Jones:Yeah, hey, we did that through the help of this many donors. If you're interested, Get me afterwards.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, I'm like yes, please, it's short, that was eight seconds and I'm going.
Justin Jones:I Can help save more kids. Yeah, from what? Tell me more. Yeah and all of a sudden, I'm vested.
Collin:So we've talked a lot about how important is to share your story and what. What do you think that is the barrier To orgs not doing that Like? Why do you think there's maybe less orgs that aren't taking a bit like?
Stephanie Jones:honestly, it's a lot. You're in the grind. I mean I can understand, because we that's why we hired a production company I'm like we're not gonna be able to film this, I'm not gonna mentally be able to do that and my job period like I'm just not gonna be able to do both. So if they just come alongside of us and they film it, that's great. If they don't have the money to do that, they can get a volunteer and they literally just come alongside of them and film it. I think it's just it's overwhelming to think of all the steps and people like I don't even know what to do with that video or partner with a production company or a marketing company or you know um social media Networking people I don't know what they call those and you know what I'm saying, like those companies that do that.
Stephanie Jones:That way, you yourself aren't taking on that burden. It's another burden, it's another cost, it's another thing you have to fundraise for. So I think it's it's overwhelming and I think for some they're like oh well, the payoff is not gonna be there, so why would I put that money into it? But to me it's like you need to do that and put that money in. It's kind of like with us when we hey, we need to get more clients, we need to promote ourselves. Right, it's the same with a normal business you need to promote yourself in order to get more business, in order to get more funding, and so that money spent, or that time spent, it needs to become part of their daily workflow. But I think they don't do it because they're just in the grind. It's a lot, it's a lot and you're just in it every day. I mean the part of a lot of the nonprofits that we've worked with.
Stephanie Jones:They're just, they're all in and so there's no time and I don't think they have the capacity right, I don't know about it.
Justin Jones:I'm gonna just say something that isn't, that's not gonna be popular.
Heredes:Bring it on. Drum roll, please, drum roll. We've been waiting for it.
Justin Jones:It is not gonna be popular. But if you are in charge like you're the boss, you're the CEO, whatever you wanna call yourself, put your title whatever that you wanna be. If you're not the best fit for that position, you need to get out of that position and put somebody else in.
Justin Jones:And it's not popular and it might be hard, especially as a man, to lower my pride and be like hey, I'm not the best for this position, and when I had to do that and step out of that position, that was the best thing that I could have done, because a lot of times leaders are getting in their own way. Whatever that it might be, whatever they might be going through, whatever they might not have the same heart as when they first started, they might not be as hungry. You put whatever you want in that blank, but you step out of that position. Put somebody in there that's gonna come in there and really run with this thing, because then you will find people that wanna come alongside and, naturally, run with that new person that's in charge.
Heredes:That'll preach. Listen if that's for you. You're listening right now. We're gonna put Justin's phone number right here on this podcast episode. Give him a call. Give him a call. You may need to go work for Buzz and Gryff starting, but it's a healthy thing to do, I agree. I agree it's a healthy for the organization, for yourself, for the long play, for the long term of your emotional, physical, spiritual health, of what God's gifted you to do and the calling and the priorities that sometimes we invert right we just sit on the throne that we've created, like, wait, what am I doing here?
Stephanie Jones:Well, I just think about like we were reading this is a random thing to say, but we were reading about Moses and God asks him to do this really hard thing and he's like we'll bring Aaron with you and Moses had Aaron running alongside of him and it strengthened Moses. So if you don't have that person that's there with you to help, like, be the voice, because Aaron was the one kind of that, was the voice and, okay, encouraging and really pushing Moses along because he was scared, truthfully, moses was like I can't do this.
Stephanie Jones:What are you talking about? He's like I have Aaron to go alongside with you. Find your person that's really gonna be there, like what you're saying, if you, you know you don't necessarily have to step out, but find that person that's gonna help you bring it back to life again and bring that passion and that excitement.
Heredes:Yeah, I'm a big believer that people follow people, people buy into people and relationships before they buy into brands. You guys have demonstrated that, I think, and you have displayed that and broadcasted that, which I love. Talk to the leader, who's like you know what? I just I don't wanna be out there, I wanna put my face out there, I don't want my name, and there's this, and sometimes there's a humility that's like is it true humility, is it not? That's we're not questioning motives, but are you leaving something on the table?
Stephanie Jones:Go ahead. Oh yeah, we did not wanna film.
Heredes:That is.
Justin Jones:Stephanie Jones. I will put her phone number up here. If you wanna talk to somebody who has imposter syndrome. Yes, stephanie Jones.
Stephanie Jones:I was like we're really gonna film this. Like I'm not I don't even know what I'm doing. Like I'm not a flipper, I'm not a designer, I have like a graph design background.
Outro:I did not wanna film.
Stephanie Jones:I didn't. It's so funny because we were doing it for fun. And then, when PureFlix reached out to us to buy our episodes, I was like, oh my goodness, now a lot of people are gonna see this. This is awkward, this is embarrassing.
Outro:Is it real?
Stephanie Jones:now yeah because again, we weren't like going out to do that. So it just I was really awkward behind the camera.
Justin Jones:first effort, I will just say, my wife is actually an introvert.
Stephanie Jones:I'm totally an introvert.
Justin Jones:She's naturally introvert and I'm naturally an extrovert, so when you put both of us together, she described it best one time. I have five coins that I can give out throughout the day, whether it be kids, you, the business, whatever that it is, I have five coins.
Outro:And I start my day with I like when this is going.
Heredes:And.
Justin Jones:I start my day with no coins as an extrovert, and what do I try to do?
Heredes:I'm collecting coins. I collect coins all day, like Mario.
Justin Jones:So I'm going this way, she's coming that way, and naturally, what's gonna end up happening is people are gonna wanna talk to her.
Heredes:People are gonna wanna meet with her. The kids took all your coins already, so you're done, oh yeah.
Justin Jones:And there's no real way other than to encourage her just keep loving on her to really give her more coins. Hey honey, I got five or six coins, let me try to give you one more. Get you through whatever it is that you might be going Get me in front of Jesus and we're good. There you go.
Stephanie Jones:Give me that space, I'm good.
Justin Jones:Not my coins, but Jesus and me.
Heredes:Those are bills, those are dollar bills.
Collin:Jesus, is it? That's it, the blank check.
Justin Jones:So she naturally doesn't. She naturally doesn't really want the exposure, she naturally doesn't wanna platform, she naturally doesn't want any of that kind of stuff. So she will just kind of sit in the sideline. She does it at church too, like she's a fantastic. She's fantastic at everything, mother, wife. But she can stand in the back of the auditorium and she's got a beautiful voice and when people hear it they're like why aren't you up there on the stage? And she's like nope.
Heredes:Out of coins, don don't? She's like God has me.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, if he told me to go, I would.
Justin Jones:But yeah, she would be the one that would be in the back. She's the one that's in the rear with the gear. Let's get this going, let's do this. And I'm the one that's just pony out front just rocking and rolling, collecting coins all day long. But she does that really, really well. And a lot of people, when they do meet us and they do talk with us, they're like, oh my gosh, like I need to film this, like you guys are the same in person.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, as you are, I think we're like doing something different as you are on camera like this is the.
Justin Jones:You guys are real, you know, and it's unauthentic. But it's also very encouraging to us to know whether we're on camera, off camera, filming a podcast, whatever that we might be doing, it's gonna come off authentic because that's just who we are.
Stephanie Jones:You get what you get. I think some stuff gets cut out. Really crazy stuff gets cut out.
Heredes:We're gonna wrap soon here, but I wanna talk about bloopers soon and just about stuff that did not make.
Outro:There's lots of those Didn't that air.
Stephanie Jones:And then Pure Flix mates us cut it down even more because they've come across stuff that are like this is not acceptable.
Collin:Yeah Well, maybe along those lines. I got one last question for you. You guys, you've made a living out of renovating houses. Most marriages don't make it past one house renovation.
Outro:Yeah, how do you guys do?
Collin:How do you guys? What's the secret there? Cause you guys obviously have found the secret.
Stephanie Jones:Jesus.
Collin:Okay there, yeah, maybe that's it, but you know you get Just a default answer.
Stephanie Jones:No, the minute we I think I knew it would agree, like the minute we started understanding that we are different and that he offers something that I can't offer and I offer something he can't offer. It's a beautiful partnership at that point. But when we were trying to butt heads at the beginning, it was really hard, cause I was like why can't you just see it the way I see?
Outro:it.
Stephanie Jones:Why, why, why. And I'm like I just had to really understand like he is gifted in a beautiful way, that I'm not gifted and I'm gifted in a way that he is like he cannot see a house until it's done. Like I'll be, like, oh, it'll be so cool. And he's like I don't understand what you're saying, but cool, we'll do it, and so His mold is getting in the way of yeah.
Stephanie Jones:But he has this really cool business mind where he can see the big picture of all the numbers and you know, just being able to see a project through all the steps. But me, I just can see it visually. So it's just a really cool Once we finally did that. And we still have our challenges on our job site.
Justin Jones:It's a lot of fun To answer your question, like when Mary To put the camera down sometime.
Collin:Yeah, oh, I don't know if you guys saw that, but he actually threw a sledgehammer at me one time.
Stephanie Jones:He's like the power of Thor and he threw it and that wasn't staged. You guys Like. This is the kind of stuff that happens. If the camera's on or the camera's off, like this is just who we are and that's how he is and he's like, look, catch, cause we think it's funny and we just live our lives.
Heredes:I thought it was special effects of the entire time. Like no, they must have added that own later.
Stephanie Jones:I'm like you did not just throw a sledgehammer at me.
Justin Jones:Married couples going through renovations. First off, a little majority and I'll just speak broadly on this don't go through too many renovations in their life, just in general. Okay. Now you take the aspect of being married, potentially having kids, pets, anything and everything that's in a home. Okay, that they love, cherish a door.
Justin Jones:Now you're having all of these strange men, strange women come through their home around their kids around their pets around all these different things, and if it's not stressful enough trying to get kids out the door, get kids to eat their breakfast, and I've seen this, so I'm speaking from experience.
Justin Jones:Now I'm going. Hey, mrs Jones, mrs Smith, hey, how much longer until you're out of here, cause I gotta start working on this. It creates another level of stress and as a married couple you don't get to get away from it. You go to the office, you come home and your house is destroyed. There's a level of stress that goes into that that you're not prepared for. You don't learn about it in school. You don't learn about it in trade school, college. You don't learn about anything. You don't learn about it in marriage counseling Right before you get married. They don't tell you.
Justin Jones:Do not renovate your house Just don't go there.
Outro:The leading cause of divorce we tell people that.
Collin:Buy a new one.
Justin Jones:The only thing that you can do is you can sit down and you can look at your partner and go listen, we are gonna get through this. This will be for a very short period, but we are gonna absolutely love this kitchen. We're absolutely gonna love this bathroom. It will get stressful and I'm the one that sits there and I go after doing thousands of these and I go listen, guys, you guys are not gonna like me at the third week and you're not gonna like each other.
Justin Jones:You are gonna think that I was sent from.
Stephanie Jones:Down Under.
Outro:We're not talking.
Justin Jones:Australia.
Heredes:We're not talking Australia. Is that why they pay up front, just to make sure that? That's why we get deposits?
Justin Jones:Yes, that's why we get deposits, and if you can come alongside your wife, your husband, and have that authentic conversation and go, we will get through this. This will just be like a phase and then we'll be out of there. The other thing that you really need to do is hire a good contractor, a contractor that understands people, not just profits, not just hey, I gotta get these subs in there, but a good contractor that understands, that can walk alongside you. And the other thing is, too, is a lot of homeowners and I made this mistake up front they wanna know what's happening.
Justin Jones:Meanwhile it's all playing out in my head but, I, didn't put a lot of stuff down on paper, Put a schedule out there. Hey, here's one we're gonna be over for the next week or two. Here's when you're not gonna have power. Here's when you're not gonna have plumbing. That way, Mrs Jones isn't planning on making spaghetti that night and she doesn't have any water. There's things that can be done ahead of time that just aren't done ahead of time, and then again it just creates an added stress, an added stress, an added stress.
Stephanie Jones:And we don't have to really deal with that on our business side for the most part, other than like we become a marriage counselor to some of our clients.
Heredes:Because again we're trying to hold them together.
Justin Jones:Yeah, that's a whole, nother podcast, that's a free benefit, by the way, if you want to sign up. We'll put the link here, Not getting that with most.
Collin:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stephanie Jones:Because it isn't. It's not easy working with your spouse, but I think it's really beautiful and it's a gift from God. Truly, we really we went through a lot of counseling and therapy. We're not ashamed of it because we did. We did come into a marriage and we're two different people and we needed to really figure out how to work together in that, and once we did, we then were able to play to each other's strengths and weaknesses a lot better.
Heredes:Well, it's obvious in the episodes. I highly encourage you to watch and click watch all of them on replay. And then, what's next? What's next for Busted Cribs? What's in the works? What episode is in the making? Anything you can leak Anything you can leak right now.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, well, we're in season three right now, finishing up season three, but we don't know what's going to happen with Pierflex. They just got bought out and so they haven't signed us on for two and three, like they were supposed to, because they got bought out. So they're kind of on a freeze and we're just kind of waiting to see what the Lord does.
Stephanie Jones:We're going to maybe reach out to a couple more networks, but yeah, just as long as they keep our show, our show, that's been really big for us because we got approached by a major network, probably about what, two years ago, a year ago, and they were like, hey, we'd like to film a pilot with you. And we kind of, you know, asked, well, can we still do this? Can we like? Because that's us like, and they're like, oh no, and your filming schedule is going to be, you know, you have to do eight houses and you know set X amount of weeks. And I'm like, oh, that's not us.
Stephanie Jones:That's very good, because it's not. That's not us and we don't want to portray something we're not. So I don't know what's next, I don't know what's coming and it's a really weird place to be in, but our business is still thriving. We're just maybe not going to film it for the season, I don't know.
Justin Jones:There's one house that I really want to film. I think we're going to do more social, like those little one minute clips, their shorts and stuff like that. I think we're going to start doing more of that and getting back to like the grassroots of like people seeing like what we do on a daily basis and then we'll throw in some of the interactions that me and her do. But I think we're going to stick with more short form content than long episodes.
Justin Jones:I kind of see us going going that route and just keep encouraging people.
Stephanie Jones:Our production crew just started filming all the time, like on the off time, and we didn't even know that they're filming half the time. But they'll, kind of like subtly, keep the camera on and that's where they capture all those really funny moments, because we're just being ourselves like in between bloopers.
Justin Jones:Yes, there's yeah, there's so many bloopers when we're going through and doing that and it's the funniest one that people still come up to me this day and they're like, hey, did you fart? And I'm like, I'm like what?
Outro:No, dude, I did fart, like we're at church, like what are you talking about? Did you fart and it's like.
Justin Jones:And then they're like. And then they just start laughing and I'm like what in the world? And then they're like don't you remember? Like you farted, like on the camera and like the whole world saw it. Yeah.
Stephanie Jones:He thinks it's so funny to get our whole crew in a small bathroom and then just let one go and it's so awful for all of us.
Outro:but they can't do anything about it.
Collin:So they're stuck Because we have to keep rolling. Clearly clearly we're on the same page. We're like that's all there.
Justin Jones:I don't care, I don't care who you are. That's some team building right there, when the cameraman is like like wedged up in the tub of this little small five bite bathroom.
Collin:It's a little bit bigger than this table.
Outro:He can't get out and I wait. I wait for that perfect opportunity.
Justin Jones:And I'm just like, and then he's like, and he can't say nothing because he's got to stay quiet. And then I'm like, all right, we got to go now. And I shut that door right behind me. He's like he's like man, I just absolutely love you. One time I was I had to go pee. Well you're like so you're mic'd up and a lot of people don't know this, but you're mic'd up the entire time, Like I'm not going to turn the mic on.
Stephanie Jones:And we're in the middle of a scene, me talking about the plan. Like man, I really got to pee.
Justin Jones:I peed for at least three and a half minutes. And these are all just bodily functions, I guess.
Stephanie Jones:I found that just absolutely hilarious.
Justin Jones:The episode teaser here by the way, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah, so, and then just interactions between me and her. So a lot, of, a lot of the bloopers too, like Stephanie can see, like the house, like it's already done, but if I have, just like a slab there, Stephanie's like oh yeah, unlike where the wall's at.
Stephanie Jones:I don't like what is this? I can't see what it is.
Justin Jones:So the crew knows that about her. So they messed with her. They're like hey, hey, I'm going to shoot you real quick, Tell us where everything's at.
Heredes:Can you do a?
Justin Jones:walkthrough and it's just flat Like. It's a slab, like this.
Stephanie Jones:It's just open block house, no walls. Oh, I think the kitchen's here.
Justin Jones:Here Like she has no idea.
Heredes:And then she's looking over at me like save me and I'm just like it's all you so do you lock those in.
Collin:At that point it's like, well, she said it was yeah the kitchen in the bathroom right. Like you know, they're one. Yeah, there's, there's, there's, I'm sure there's more funny moments.
Justin Jones:Obviously, the the, the crowd pleaser, just kind of opening up a door as she's trying to walk through a small hallway, and you know the little, the little things like that that, like the married couples, can get away with.
Stephanie Jones:So I love it. Yeah, it's just us being us. I love it Truly. It's what it is.
Justin Jones:Yeah, holding character, holding character.
Stephanie Jones:Oh yeah, I'm like what character am I holding? I'm barely being myself, right now Stephanie.
Justin Jones:Stephanie is like if she hears a plane going over.
Heredes:She's like yeah, squirrel, there's no ignore. Right, there's a fire truck.
Justin Jones:There's a fire truck Five blocks over and and the camera guy's like if I tell you to stop then you stop then you stop. If not, we keep rolling because, you got to reshoot the whole scene over again. You know, and it's it's not staged.
Stephanie Jones:We don't like stage it, so like oh, were we talking about?
Justin Jones:So then it's like, oh man, what were we talking about? Get back in like the standing positions and stuff. So of course, after like a long day of filming, I'm like you got to be kidding me. Bring me a professional.
Stephanie Jones:I like you need to hire someone else. Thanks, I'm not a professional.
Justin Jones:That's right, sure.
Heredes:Well, bussacribscom, anywhere else they can find you guys and anything else you want to promo or plug.
Stephanie Jones:Yeah, Season one and two are on YouTube on our on our YouTube channel, Buster Cribs channel, and then Pierflex has season one. Still Wait, wait and to see if they do season two and three. Hopefully two and three, yeah.
Heredes:And if they want, if they look and someone's got either the funds or the need for some help to renovate, they've got the property they want to get rid of or get your eyes on. How do they reach you?
Outro:Yeah for sure.
Heredes:Yeah.
Justin Jones:Just give us a. Give us a call, go online. My phone number is 727644016.
Stephanie Jones:Oh, you're giving out that phone number. Zero. Okay, it's on the internet.
Justin Jones:Yeah, you can give us a call if you get an unwanted house or something got given to you. You know through probate or whatever that it might be and it's like they house this for some reason turn into burdens for people, whether they want to move away, they're going through divorce, there's just too much renovation. It turns into a burden and if you're starting to feel like that burden in the house, then just give us a call.
Justin Jones:We'd love to we'd love to figure out a way to help you out, and a lot of times we don't buy every single house, because some of the times it's like, well, let's just do this, get it on the market, it'll sell for more, or maybe it might be in an area where I'm, like I know, an expert in that area. So, utilizing us as a resource, to not just to be like, oh well, they'll buy it, you know. So utilizing us for a resource, feel free to just give me a call and you know if we can help move that burden along.
Stephanie Jones:And on bussacryptscom too, we have like a form someone can fill out, and we also give a finders fee. So if people send us a good referral for a house that we buy, we give them a referral fee.
Heredes:I want to send you Collins house, yeah, yeah.
Collin:As long as you're planning to upgrade, that's you know are you renovating right now?
Stephanie Jones:No, we're not.
Outro:No, no, we're good when we are.
Collin:We're fine.
Justin Jones:That's why we want to keep it that way. He's like how do I get through?
Collin:this that was a very selfish question yeah, we're going to talk off air that the tears will flow then.
Heredes:He's going to title this episode dear in his wife, just listen to this one, exclusive one, just for you, well thanks for having us guys.
Stephanie Jones:This was fun. Thank you so much for coming on.
Collin:Thank you also for listening to the nonprofit Renaissance. We'll see you guys on the next episode.
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