She’s an Industrious Gal | New York, Nostalgia & More!

Bows & Company

A lively and nostalgic episode of Bows & Company captures the hosts' reflections on New York City life, personal growth, and work achievemen

Key takeaways

• The host reflects on her first full year in the workforce with pride and emotional depth, noting significant personal growth.
• Nostalgia is portrayed as a present-day experience—felt even while living through current moments.

Main topics

• New York City nostalgia
• Professional growth in a family business

Notable quotes

"I feel like I have my footing. I understand what's going on more."

"It's not even nostalgic, just like sad. She was."

Conclusion

The episode closes with warmth and anticipation for future content, re

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:04) Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Bose and Company. I'm your host, Emily O, and I'm joined by Bitsana, Fanana, Fanana, Fana, Bobana, FeeFive. Hello. Emily Speaker 2 (0:16) O. Fanana, Speaker 1 (0:18) Fana, Bobana. Speaker 2 (0:20) FeeFive, Bobana, Fancy. Speaker 1 (0:24) How are you? What's going on? I am so happy that you're here today. I'm so excited to be recording. We're down in the studio. You look super official. Back to work. I'm like straight off of the office Speaker 2 (0:37) air. The hair is crazy. The blue leg glasses are still on because I can't see out of my right eye. No, you look great. Speaker 1 (0:45) There's just a Speaker 2 (0:45) lot going on here. There's Speaker 1 (0:46) a Speaker 2 (0:46) lot going on. Blazer in Speaker 1 (0:47) full force. Your full fall. That's a... VB sweater. Sweater. Blazer. Sorry. Is that a VB sweater as well though? This is Zara. We're not going to be able to talk to her. This is Zara. Speaker 2 (0:59) Yeah. J. Crew. Veronica Beard. Speaker 1 (1:01) Oh my god. Those are Veronica Beard. When did you get those? Yesterday. From mom. Speaker 2 (1:06) Oh. Speaker 1 (1:09) There's this little known store called Anne's Closet. I'm clocking what's going on because I thought you bought those. I'm like, that's a crazy thing to buy. No, Speaker 2 (1:15) she Speaker 1 (1:15) bought them and they Speaker 2 (1:16) didn't fit her. Speaker 1 (1:17) Oh, so they are yours. So then I Speaker 2 (1:18) shoved my foot in there and I said, they're mine. Speaker 1 (1:21) Give them to Speaker 2 (1:21) me. Speaker 1 (1:22) Did you re-tan last night? No. Are Speaker 2 (1:24) you Speaker 1 (1:24) still Speaker 2 (1:24) tan Speaker 1 (1:24) from New York? I'm still tan from New York and I Speaker 2 (1:26) think it might be peeling off. Speaker 1 (1:27) No, I got to take mine off as well. Well, it looked like fall blew in and corporate. The corporate fall Speaker 2 (1:34) blew in Speaker 1 (1:36) and Speaker 2 (1:36) my regular personality hasn't defrosted yet. Speaker 1 (1:39) It's always like, you know, when you're like editing and then they're like, well, we're going to have to run it by corporate. You look like the woman who shows up to like sign off. Cheryl. I look like a Cheryl. I'm in this crazy pin that mom gave me. It's so fun. You're joining on Speaker 2 (1:55) vid. It's so fun. Speaker 1 (1:55) On vid. On vid. Speaker 2 (1:57) EO. For the pod. You say vid, I say EO. Speaker 2 (2:02) killed the radio star um you know what guys i can't see out of my right eye i have a hard time hearing sometimes when i wear my glasses i can't hear what i Speaker 1 (2:15) got the craziest blue light glasses sent to me i'm gonna put them on for you when we're back at the town home sorry i need to finish the thought they're insane they're like these huge tortoise were you wearing them Speaker 2 (2:24) the other day yeah yeah because i was actually looking for them today to wear to the office because i i think Speaker 1 (2:30) these look crazy on my face. Were you wearing those today? I was. No, I don't think they look crazy. I can give them to you if you'd like. I need them. I have a couple versions of blue light that would be just very tasteful with some looks. How was work today? Work was good. Actually, I'm so sorry. Not the voice crack. Not Speaker 2 (2:47) the vocal cord nodules. I haven't been in the office in a week. Right. Because I worked from home and then we were in NYC. Right. The Big Apple. NYC. Speaker 2 (3:03) So I haven't been in a week. How was it? Super stressful. I got there and I was like, so the building still exists. It's like in one week, I never would have thought the building would still be Speaker 1 (3:14) here. I really thought, guys, when I was gone that you would wrap this up. And we'd be done in this office. And we wouldn't have to do Speaker 2 (3:21) this. I'm like, oh, Speaker 1 (3:22) oh, she's still here. People are like so busy recently. You're always working. I Speaker 2 (3:27) am very busy. It's been one full year of working. I know you celebrated that. How Speaker 1 (3:33) do you feel? I feel great. Speaker 2 (3:34) I feel like I have my footing. I understand what's going on more. Yes. I'm not as blind. And it's been really good. It's just, you know, such a generational business. Speaker 2 (3:51) I'm not laughing because of what I said. I'm laughing because of how I said it. It's a generational business and I just feel like I have learned so much more in this past year than a normal person in just a regular job. Well, you've really matured. Because, you know, I'm being forced to learn more because I lived with my boss and I work with my boss. Right. And my boss is also my father. I don't know. I don't know Speaker 1 (4:17) what's going on. I'm feeling loose today on this show. I'm also feeling like I have some takes that could be hot. But still on you for a second. We've also been wearing watches. Yeah, I really like it. What is this? It's just my watch. I like it. And your watch. Yours is like the bigger version of mine. Yeah. Speaker 2 (4:35) So yeah, the work's been busy. Work's been good. I've closed seven deals this year. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. And brought over 100 jobs back to the city. You have. I Speaker 1 (4:46) don't know why I'm laughing. That wasn't funny. That's true. That's Speaker 2 (4:48) fact. Seven deals of my own. And then I've been on other deals with Claire Connor and dad, like just like helping with like certain little clerical Speaker 1 (4:55) stuff. Nothing important. Okay. But I closed two this week. Oh my gosh. So you've had a lot of closings. You closed two while we were today. I closed one. I'm sorry. Yeah. Before 8 a.m. I closed deals. What did you do? You're sitting here with a pin on your sweater. Looking like a Lorax. Speaker 2 (5:12) I do Speaker 1 (5:13) look like the Lorax. I closed Speaker 2 (5:15) one on Friday. Okay. And then I closed one today. Okay. And how many deals are we closing weekly? Just to give people an Speaker 1 (5:22) idea. Me Speaker 2 (5:23) personally, I mean, I've been at it for 13 months and I've had seven. Most came after six months in the industry. But dad, Speaker 1 (5:32) I mean, it could be six in a week. It could be one in a week. Right. Okay. So I just wanted to know the breath. There's no metric. Got it. It's just a lot. Speaker 2 (5:43) I don't Speaker 1 (5:44) know how many, Speaker 2 (5:45) but there's a lot. I couldn't give you kind of like a calendar, like a weekly. And we're not asking for that, actually. I don't even know why. We're not looking for any sort of table. Speaker 1 (5:57) OK, we got to get this show back on track. We really. I'm trying. I'm talking about work here. No, you. OK, so anyway, I know that it was your first like complete year, 13 months, which really flew by. I'm always comparing my year or where I am in the year to where I was the year prior. Like. always to to the day to the day and I'm always getting these flashbacks I look back at my camera roll like I really take it to heart and I try to be somewhat further along than I was the year before you know the goal is not to go backwards of course of course so we're compared to last year at this time how do you feel do you get flashbacks like I do oh Speaker 2 (6:29) my Speaker 1 (6:29) god Speaker 2 (6:29) oh my gosh okay like every Speaker 1 (6:31) day especially Speaker 2 (6:32) in the fall and I know you're like this too because even at Miami And even in high school, this fall air is so nostalgic. It is. And I don't know what we're trying to go back to because like the nostalgia keeps growing. But this year, I Speaker 1 (6:48) feel Speaker 2 (6:48) nostalgic in the Speaker 1 (6:49) present. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. I sometimes feel nostalgic in the present time as well. Yeah, yeah. Do you feel that way? Like I'm nostalgic right now. Yeah. I think that's the definition of nostalgia. Yeah. Is Speaker 2 (7:00) missing something while you're in the current situation. Okay. Yes. But so today I was feeling very nostalgic and I, I will say, and I know you know this, last week when I hit my one year mark of working, I got like crazy nostalgic. Not even nostalgic, just like sad. She was. And I like don't get sad. I'm not. a very sad person. And I had a busy day of showing in the afternoon. I had like an hour free. And I was so dramatic. I was so, so dramatic. And I had a showing and then I drove to Little Italy and I went to Prestige, which is where dad and I would go for some reason a lot. Like when I interned, we must have had buildings over there at that time. And I got myself one little Linzer, raspberry Linzer. I think that's how you say it. Maybe not. Speaker 2 (7:49) and an iced cappuccino which looked like a milkshake. It did. And I was just reminiscing on like Grandpa Coyne and just like being in the industry and then I was like this is this is way too far Elizabeth. I was like whoa whoa whoa whoa. I'm like not crying but like I could have cried like sitting there having my iced cappuccino and one little cookie and I was thinking like this year of growth has been so exponential and from from thinking back to where I was last year like what was I doing? What was I doing? Yeah, I mean, you seem fine to me. Speaker 1 (8:19) You seem fine on my end. I Speaker 2 (8:21) was Speaker 1 (8:21) just like Speaker 2 (8:21) weird. And I was just like wearing like weird clothes and like not excited about work. I remember that. Every day I'm excited about work. And I was thinking like it would be so nice to now have talked to Grandpa Coyne. Oh, well, that's sad. Right? Like it's not even nostalgic. It's just flat out sad. That's super sad, actually. Yeah, Speaker 1 (8:41) yeah. Tanking the Speaker 2 (8:42) podcast. Speaker 1 (8:44) You're about to experience a roller coaster of emotions. Speaker 2 (8:46) And I was like on the east side when I was getting my iced cappuccino that looked like a milkshake. And I was like, wow, like, you know, I would always hear dad and him talking about real estate. But like if I could have been like, hey, I got a deal. And now I'm like on the Cleveland Parking Association. Right, Speaker 1 (9:04) right. Speaker 2 (9:04) Which is all the parking lots that, you know, he worked on. So it was just a very momentous day. And afternoon, I was like, when I spend too much time by myself, I get very introspective. Yes. And it's bad. I get that. Speaker 1 (9:19) It's almost narcissistic. I think too deeply about my own thoughts. We're the same way. And I need to be with people. Right. Right. Wait, that's actually so sweet because I do feel like you kind of, I feel like you do have like a little bit of a bond with like for sure Grandpa coined through the real estate, but also like sometimes I'll look at you and I'll be like, so our grandma, so dad's, Speaker 2 (9:39) so Speaker 1 (9:39) Terry's grandmother, Speaker 2 (9:41) Terry's mom, I'm Speaker 1 (9:42) sorry, Terry's mom, she passed away, was it three years ago at this point? And then Grandpa Coin was a year ago in April. Speaker 2 (9:50) So but anyway, Elizabeth Speaker 1 (9:51) has a lot of her trinkets in her. And I also have a lot of like the coin characteristics. You are a coin. And sometimes it comes out and I'm like, whoa. It didn't mean to do that. No, you're so coin. And I would love to take a course. Speaker 1 (10:06) on sometimes how to manage. Like, because it's so, it's so specific, the things that you do. And when you do it, you know that it's like coming from dad's side of the family. And you are very similar, dad and yourself in certain ways. In certain ways. Yeah. And I was thinking about this Speaker 2 (10:22) in my introspective afternoon, staring out at the street while I had my one cookie. He's like, I am sensitive. Which by the way, in and of itself was very Mary Coyne. 100 % and I went to Presti's which is where dad went which is where Mary went she actually also went to Corbos um but she loved those Italian cookies and she always had them in the house I find myself becoming more and more like Mary you remind me of her every day and it's getting it's not alarming to me but it's just like where did this come from like I am my mother's daughter you and yes Like in some aspects. But in. You're also your father's daughter. Yeah. And I was thinking about this of like, I am sensitive in some aspects of like being introspective or like being emotional, like on that side. But like, I don't get sensitive. Like if someone screams at me or like says I hate you, I'm like, I hate you too. Like, I am not sensitive in that aspect. If someone Speaker 1 (11:14) tells me their emotions, I'm like, okay. It's really hard sometimes to, I actually like, and I don't mean this in a. me but it's it might come off this way Elizabeth can be very cutting cutting and it's it's you kind of like like I can be okay like you can be very cutting sometimes and that Speaker 2 (11:35) definitely comes from Mary Speaker 1 (11:37) Mary no that's Mary yeah and you're very competitive yeah and dad's competitive and she was competitive and but but so was grandpa I mean he was a postman Speaker 2 (11:49) he was at the naval what was he was at a Nike base he was a captain in the army he was a CPA a lawyer a real estate he owned parking lots like the man didn't stop and I mostly think it's because Mary was Speaker 1 (12:05) screaming to work harder I don't think he I think he was a hard worker yeah but I don't think that he had this I think he wanted to work hard because that's all he knew you get your competitiveness and your cutting-ness from her for sure. Because I feel like she was a wonderful woman, but you can be so lethal. Thank you. And I think as you get, you're taking it as a compliment. No, I am. I'm literally like, thank you. Speaker 2 (12:30) As you get older. You see me. Speaker 1 (12:32) And I see this all the time. You're very misunderstood. Speaker 1 (12:39) And I think dad is very misunderstood as well. Yeah. But I see because I know the lineage that we're working with. And yeah, you don't back down. No, no. Speaker 2 (12:52) Fun fact, I'm always right. I've actually never been wrong in my life. I know everything about everything. And even if I don't know it. You will think that I know it. You don't back down in public. I actually think this summer it's ramped up. Probably because I have to know it for work. So like if I'm at, if I'm going toe to toe with another broker on like negotiations for something, like I have to be cutting because I have to get the better deal. So then sometimes I can't turn that off when I go out in public. And like when we're out at the bar and a boy or a gentleman will come up and like start saying he knows stuff about like the city of Cleveland. Speaker 1 (13:38) Don't, if you ever run into Elizabeth, do not, do not start thinking that because she will. When Speaker 2 (13:45) our friend was talking about Heinen's closing and they were like, oh, they lost this much or they made this much. And I was like, no, they didn't. And it got. pretty Speaker 1 (13:54) uncomfortable you like you like enjoy it and I what I do is I turn it I my body physically reacts to it so like I will actually find the closest person and start physically hiding behind that because yeah but I just know I do feel like it's ramped up recently you not backing down which I do think is a good trait in the long run to have because like no one you you're never gonna get run over but but i know no i'm driving the military tank running you over it's crazy it's crazy i just i do need to calm down sometimes i didn't want to say it but no it's funny i know where you're coming from i just watched a tick tock video it's like i think that people sometimes think that it's okay to like throw daggers at us like in a way to maybe like jabs yeah this guy was like if you are in that position like calling them out is probably the best way to go. I do. We always say this when they're like, when they go low, like you go high. I go Speaker 2 (14:47) subterranean. I'm in a submarine. I'm in a Thrasher series submarine in Speaker 1 (14:52) a U-boat. And I've just taken out. It's so funny because it's like, yes, if someone says something to you, but it's mostly if someone says something about your family. I don't like if someone says something directly to me, I just stare at them. I'm like, what is your problem? By the way, this doesn't happen Speaker 2 (15:07) a lot, but just like in general. Yeah, hypothetically. If someone says something to my family, specifically you, because I feel like it mostly happens like when we're out. Yeah. People, it's like, Speaker 1 (15:17) yeah. I go nuclear. I almost want to say to the person, and this is how I felt growing up with dad. I almost want to say to the person, what you just said is not worth it. Like you trying to throw a jab at me to like bring me back down. And by the way, and I've probably been nothing but nice to you. I'll Speaker 2 (15:33) give you a really great example. We were at our neighbor's birthday party and a man that we had never met comes up to us and starts talking to us great. He turns to our friend Jess and he says, where did you go to school? She says, she goes, went and he scoffed at her and goes, oh, please. OK, I'm done talking to you. I could see red. I went ballistic. Speaker 2 (15:59) I was like, how dare you? Literally, I didn't say that. I just started attacking his school. And then he was like, wait, what? And I was like, that's not funny. And then we left the party. We left. We actually turned around. She was relieving. And we just walked out. And he was in the middle of a sentence. And I said, I'm done. Yeah. And Speaker 1 (16:17) that's what I feel like has ramped up recently. I said, this is Speaker 2 (16:19) unbelievable. I don't know you. Please step Speaker 1 (16:22) away from me. So it's mostly, if you do it to a friend, if you do it to