 Welcome back to Geeks Are Sexy. I'm Jason LaDuke, your host on the fourth Friday of every month talking about business and how to be successful with your business here in Las Vegas. Our next guest is Sheetoya Stressing. She's a Las Vegas native and she knows all the ins and outs of business and working in Las Vegas. And it's a much different environment than you might think if you haven't been here very long or you're watching from somewhere else other than Las Vegas. So she's going to tell us all about the business she has with her partner called K&B Communications and how they can serve you and your business. So Sheetoya, welcome. Thanks for being here with us today. Yes, I'm Jason. Thank you for having me. I'm pretty excited about being on the show today. I'm glad you were able to make it. We actually had another guest schedule had an emergency. I wasn't able to comment. Sheetoya was gracious enough to join us at the last minute, so thank you very much for pulling my ass out of the fire a little bit and not having to roll an old video like I do in the past. But tell us about growing up here in Las Vegas and how you and your partner met and how you decided to start a business together. Of course. Thank you. We were born here in Las Vegas. So as a child here, Santa Fe station in the Rancho station or area was actually the only thing out here for this. And then Kevin and I actually went to the same elementary school. So you guys have known each other that long. I didn't know that part of your story. This is fascinating. Go on. So we actually went to the same elementary school. And then also actually we met after high school. We ran back into each other. I was actually a cocktail server in a bar. So we ran back into each other when I was like 21. So and then we hit it off from there. Nice. Very nice. And then we decided to go into business with each other. And with that we just decided to, I actually got introduced to another company. And that company actually showed me, okay, I don't want to clock in for a living. So it did teach me, hey, Sheetoya, let's go ahead and get it yourself into a business. So Kevin actually seen the same opportunity. But with him, he thought, you know, let's take K and B communications to the next level. His father was retiring. So we decided to go ahead and do that. And so and then with my marketing skills and my computer skills, I ended up joining the force with him. Okay, cool. So tell us about what does Kevin do for the company and what do you do for the company? So with Kevin, Kevin's more of like the technical side. He makes sure all the technicians are, you know, his job is their jobs done correctly. Yeah. He's like your lead engineer, right? He goes, he, Kevin goes and I'll look at the, look at the facility and he'll kind of go, okay, this is kind of what we want. This is the install we want to do. And then he'll line up all the texts, right? Exactly. And then I'm actually the one out there marketing or, you know, the social media website kind of stuff. And then also I'm out there networking. That's how we met is we ran into each other at a number of different events over the last year. So we've known each other for a little while. It's been nice. The last few guests we've had on the show, including Lucera, people I've known for a while and it's nice to give your friends a boost and give them an opportunity to come on TV and talk. So what does KMB Communications do and how do you, how do you serve the community? How do you help people in the community and other businesses? Well, KMB Communications is a low voltage company. So we specialize in installation of data, telephone, security cameras and surround sound installation. We also work with companies to help provide our customers with competitive quotes when it comes to their brick and mortars for their telephone and internet pricings. We make a difference in our clients' lives by providing them with what they need when it comes to pulling out fires. So let's say their internet comes down or anything like that, we'll, you know, make sure we go in there and get that internet back up. Okay. So you guys have like a, you guys will go to the install and you'll provide that regular maintenance, but you've got like an on-call service as well it sounds like. So, so, and so tell me about that. Tell me how you, how you provide that service. The online services? The on-call. Yeah. Tell me about like, tell me, tell me how you've helped the client who is really in a crisis mode. Okay. Well, let's say, as I said before, if a customer's services are down, you know, we'll come and, you know, make sure that they're back up or we actually had a customer whose telephone services and their wireings were all, you know, jacked up. Your department came in and said, Hey, if you don't fix this wiring, you're going to have to shut down. Okay. And you guys didn't do that wiring, right? No. Somebody else did that. They didn't have to go in and fix their own mistake. They had to go in and fix somebody else's mistake. Exactly. Someone thought that they could do it themselves. So we were actually able to go in and actually reinstall it and make sure that it was up to code. Okay. And how long, how quickly were you able to get that company up and running again? Um, that quick. Um, Kevin was actually the one that dealt with the customer, um, so I don't know exactly how. Okay. Sorry. But it wasn't, it wasn't weeks or months. No, it was. It was hours to days, right? Exactly. Yeah. So, so if you're, if you think you might have a problem, they can help you out today. Exactly. So now we were talking over coffee yesterday. It's very different being a business owner than it is being an employee. And I learned that when I came out of the Air Force, I learned that it's very different being a business owner that is being in the Air Force. So it's very different being an employee. Tell us some of the lessons you've learned from making that change of working, corporate, working for somebody else, and then what you've learned by about being a business owner and how different that is. Gosh. So many. Yeah. We've only got four minutes left. So, you know, pick your, pick your top three or something, but. Right. Um, so in the beginning, um, as I would tell everyone, mistakes will happen. Um, it's just something that you kind of have to get through. Um, and, um, you know, let the learning process happen. And another thing that, you know, learn from your mistakes. Um, and then also what I, the mistake I actually made was I quit my job too soon. Um, so, you know, make sure that you have that consistent income coming in before you just quit your job when it comes to running your business. Um, and another thing, um, is your loved ones may not support you. Um, so, you know, just don't. Yeah. That's, that's a really good one. It's not that what I have found working, uh, and this isn't my own example, but working with, with other businesses, it's not that your loved ones don't typically support you. So they don't, they don't want you to get hurt. They don't want you to be disappointed in life, right? And that's a good friend of mine talks about that too a lot, Jordan. Um, your, your loved ones don't want you to be disappointed. They don't, they don't want to see you fail and not everyone understands that to get to the good stuff, you kind of do need to fail a little bit. You need to learn from your mistakes. And so don't be too hard on your loved ones as a like, I don't know if you should do this. Maybe you should go back to school. Maybe you should have a fallback position, you know, don't, don't be too hard on your loved ones. They're, they're really just looking out for you. Hey, Kyle. Glad you're watching. Checking into C. Shea Toya. So Kyle from, from your networking group is here and that brings me to another question. So one of the things that we've learned together as business owners is how important networking is to business. How do you use networking to help your business and how can our audience, our business owners, watch and how can they use networking to help grow their businesses? Well, to me, um, networking is a huge and critical, um, for us to build our business. Um, this is actually how I met Jason, um, was through networking. Um, so for us to build our businesses, we need to be out meeting people and being out in the forces and talking to other business owners so we can meet them as you never know who they know. Very true. You never know, you never know who that person's going to be who says, Hey, I know exactly who you need to be talking to you or I've got someone I've got to introduce you to because it may not be a business lead, but it may be a great personal connection or a social connection or a strategic partner for you in the future. And speaking of that, you guys are branching out a little bit K and B. Make some of your marketing know how and you're going to help other businesses with that under that, kind of under that K and B umbrella, but you're going to spin that off a little bit in the future. Right. Tell us about what you're doing there and how you're helping other businesses with their marketing. All right. Um, thank you. Um, Jason. Um, so pretty much what I'm able to do for other people is help them explain their businesses, um, through video, um, sometimes with video or with your business, you might have issues expressing it so I can actually help them and help them with expressing their videos. Okay. All right. So you do, you do explainer videos. So, so we've got a little bit of time. If you were to do an explainer video for this show, what would we be talking about? Um, it depends on what exactly, what is it? I feel like every business or every year show would be different. Um, so it depends on what you would like to get the point across. Okay. So I mean, if you're looking just to market the time and date, then of course I would explain that either animation or, um, you know, using your little bit of videos. Okay. That makes sense. So I wanted to say, well, there's a couple things I want to do because of my, with this show, I like to market my own business. I like to get my own brand out there. I like to, but what I like to do is tell my story through telling other people's stories, right? Because we've got so many great business owners who are working hard to grow their businesses in Las Vegas. And that's what, that's the, those are the stories I want to tell because I think those are interesting stories. So how could we frame that up in a video? Um, so with the videos, um, so just depending on what we can, um, so with the video, um, you'll, we would just show people that exactly what is it that you're offering. Um, and then, you know, do it a quick, um, video. Okay. So I can, you know, just show you guys real quick. Okay. Very cool. Very cool. Well, we got a few, we got not quite a minute left. Tell us, tell our audience, tell all these people are watching on Facebook live, although we know a bunch of them already, but tell them how they can reach you and Kevin. All right. Well, guys, um, our, to contact us, it's, um, our phone number, office number is 702-952-2010. Um, and then if you would like to email me, it's S-S-T-R-E-S-I-N-G at K-A-N-D-B-C-O-M dot com. Thank you. Okay. And we're going to have that up in the show notes. You guys don't have to remember that. You guys will be able to, you guys will be able to click on that. You guys have a, you guys have a webpage. You guys, are you guys on social media? Uh, yes. We are on LinkedIn, Facebook. Yeah. All that. So find them there. Search K and B communications in Las Vegas on social media. I'm Jason Leduke. We'll be right back with Michelle Davis.