I do love telling a story, and I've gotten an opportunity to go around the country and speak and things like that. I find myself back in a world that I do love. Then months after that, I'm a part of the pilot that they're filming for HGTV. Then the next thing you know, I get this crazy opportunity because I meet this guy at a gas station and months later after meeting him, I'm building furniture for his wife. I was just doing what I really wanted to do. Again, that was just a great opportunity for me to just do something that. Then we moved to Waco and I actually volunteered with Habitat for Humanity for a few months. I was like, "I'm just going to disappear for a while and just sweat inside this shop and build stuff." Because I think there was a part of me that needed to go away and just be creative and try something new and try something that really that I was actually passionate about, and I did that. When I stepped into that garage, that was my way of saying goodbye to the world for a little bit. She and I both decided this is where we're going. There was a part of me that at that point, I was like, "You know what, I'm going to just disappear," and going into the garage with the blessing of my wife. I loved being on stage, and the sales world was another stage. You're the main attraction, and you're trying to get people to jump on board with you.īefore that, before I was doing sales, I was a musician and I sang and played the guitar, and I was in plays. In the sales world also, what are you doing when you're in sales? Well, you're putting yourself out front. When I stepped away from the medical field and the sales world, it was me realizing that was not my thing. Those are such special memories, and we're just continuing to make more. She is incredible, and for her to look at me and go, "I trust you. She's one of the best in the entire world. and I don't want to put any stain, varnish, poly, anything on it, and it's going to be really cool. There was one that really stood out where I had this old wood behind the shop and I said, look I. Jo was always really good to just let me run with it, and there were so many projects like that. Joanna was like, "Let's do it for the show." Then the rest is history. It was just a dumpster fire of a house, and we had just bought it from the owners for $10,000, which we didn't have, but a bank was kind enough to loan me, and Joanna was like, "What are you all going to do?" She was like, "Well, we're going to clean it up because our shop's right next door to it, and we just want to make it presentable so that cleans the neighborhood up and people aren't afraid to come to our shop," and all this stuff.
#DRONE STATION CLIFF EMPIRE CRACK#
Joanna runs into Kelly one day in a parking lot outside Target, and we had just bought this crack house, literally. Fast-forward to me sitting on the floor there with Chip and Jo and Kelly, and we're eating sandwiches and "Fixer Upper" is not even really a thing yet and then next thing you know, it is a thing and that blows up. Then when we moved to Waco, because Kelly's going to get her master's degree, and she gets an opportunity at Baylor, we're not even thinking about television.
We didn't even know where we were going to move. Of course, we had no idea how that was going to work out. I had quit my job in Houston and decided with Kelly to do that, and we had decided to start our own business. They were going forward in their own way. The kids were playing and eating and whatever and the four of us were just sort of sitting there, and it was kind of like, "Okay, I guess we're all going for it here." Kelly was there with me, and they had their kids, and we had our kids, and I think Chip picked up some sandwiches from our local sandwich shop here that we all love, Schmaltz's, and we were sitting there in my shop and in the back, the garage door was open, and we were just looking out to the back of my shop and this grassy field. Well, I can remember the days of sitting in my shop and Chip and Jo came over one day.
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