Joy Hiler – Epicure

Joy Hiler - Epicure Leader Think you're ready for Joy Hiler? No...you're not. But what the heck, it's time to buckle up for a fun conversation with one of the more passionate, enthusiastic people we've had on this show! And wouldn't you know it, she done went and added an opportunity for us all to help a good cause for the area. Hit play, and let's get started down that dusty trail for another adventure to hear Joy talk about how tasty yet healthy meals from Epicure can help our local community raise money for a Mobile Spay and Neuter Clinic, and more! :) Support Joy, her friend Candy Morasch and others raise money for a county Mobile Spay and Neuter Clinic by reaching out at the contact information below! Contact Joy and pickup an Epic Life Collection today – JoyHiler.Epicure.com Or Call - 541-659-1125 Show Notes Epicure Fundraiser for a Local Spay & Neuter Clinic for Josephine County Why We Moved to Josephine County A Ground Floor Opportunity Beyond Pot Lady: What Led Me Into the Self-Employed / Direct Sales Line of Work Lifetime Cookware | Arbonne | Epicure Amazing! Getting to Know Epicure's Quality Food Line Holy Bubbly Cauldron of Extraordinary Cheese Dip! The Epic Life Collection – It's All About Fresh Virtual vs In Home Meetups: How COVID-19 Has Effected Direct Sales Companies No Risk It, No Biscuit: Swinging for Global Director in the Next 12-months I'm a Helpaholic Believe in Your Dreams – The Stories of the Founders of Dutch Bros, Epicure and Arbonne Transcription Joy: Let's be a success story together. That's our inspiration for our family is Travis and Dane because I mean, they had a dream and they didn't let anything stop them. Walt Disney, same thing. Colonel Sanders, same thing. Babe Ruth held the world record for home runs. And what people don't know about Babe Ruth, and he probably still holds the world record for strikeouts because he swung and everything that came down the plate. That's what I do. I swing and everything. You know, what's the worst that could happen? Intro: There's a place in Southern Oregon, filled with gorgeous natural beauty, friendly yet independent people and a mild, comfortable climate. That place is called Grants Pass. These are the stories of the people that live and work Josephine County. These are the movers and shakers that make this place of the best. This is Grants Pass VIP. Brian: Joy Hiler has been with Epicure for two months is partnering with Once Upon a Horse to fundraise for a mobile spay and neuter clinic because they believe in helping with the pet population. Joy Hiler, welcome to Grants Pass VIP. Joy: Thank you. Brian: So why don't you let us know a little bit about who you are and how people might know you. Joy: People might know me because I've been in the community between scouting. We raised our children here we have a bunch of kids here that went through North Valley High School, and I've been a member of the Chamber of Commerce for about 21 years. I sold cookware here in the valley, and I've sold Arbonne here in the valley for 21 years and recently I came across this Epicure. Epicure has become the mainstay for me in passion. I'm so passionate about sharing Epicure with everybody. So my girlfriend Candy, she's sells Arbonne, we've known each other for years, and our friend Audrey, we are talking to Audrey about it too. Epicure has a fundraising program and I was so brand new to Epicure and Audrey is just a couple of weeks in further than me. So Candy said, there's a fundraiser. And we said yeah. So Audrey and Candy and I are partnering and doing this fundraiser and we're dragging other people in with us because we cannot do it by ourselves. The fundraiser is through Epicure. They have boxes pre-made little boxes of it's like a meal plan for a week. And so you get six pouches, five meal pouches, and in the dessert pouch. It's $25 and the organization gets 40%. So we're selling selling selling fundraiser boxes because we need to raise money to buy a mobile spay and neuter clinic for Josephine County. This comes so deep in Candy's soul to help animals. And now she's drugged Audrey and me into it and several more, we have several more of our friends that are on board helping us with these Epicure kits. Because of the pet population you know there's a gal here in town that does a voucher that you can get that will help you with the cost of the spay and neutering of your animals. However, it doesn't cover the cost and the veterinarians are booked so far out. Most people can't get in before they've had a couple more litters of you know, critters. What Candy and I and Audrey are working on are getting this mobile spay and neuter clinic for the Josephine county so that it can go travel where the people are, it can go out to Williams, it can go to Cave Junction and Selma and the outer line communities out here in Merlin and stuff. And help people with their spaying and neutering. In order for us to do that we need deep pockets and long arms, because it's not cheap, it's not going to be cheap to do. However, we're so passionate about it, we know that just because it's never been done doesn't mean that it can't be done. So, you know, we're just taking it inch by inch, because that's how we believe that life is a cinch. You know, if we take it yard by yard, it's going to be hard. So we just keep selling our fundraiser boxes. And we just today found out that Thomas in Hospitality Group bought 10 boxes from us. We love corporate sponsorship. What we're going for now is to find corporations here in the area and even out of the area, it doesn't matter to us, that want to sponsor kits for all their employees for Christmas, because the holidays are coming. So what would be a better gift for your employees than a week's worth of meals? Like you can give them you know, a coffee card or you can give them something but if you give them an Epicure fundraiser kit they're going to eat for an entire week. Now because Candy and Audrey are single gals, they would eat for three or four weeks. Because it's like every pouches four to six servings. And so for the single gals you know or single guys, the Epicure packages are gonna last longer than a week but for a family of four. It's going to be perfect for a week's worth of meals. So wouldn't that be awesome? Wouldn't it be awesome for some of the corporations here in Grants Pass and in outer line committees to sponsor fundraiser boxes for their employees, which would help us so much in raising our funds would help us. Brain: That's fabulous. So what's the goal? What's it going to take to be able to get that? Joy: Well, it's a $250,000 unit, which is why if we could get corporate sponsors to come in with 50,000, you know, we'd be there. Brian: Yeah. Joy: Because our fundraising efforts have just recently begun, we've only been in a couple of months, we've sold hundreds of boxes of fundraiser boxes, about the gearboxes. And people like Dave Thomason stepping up and saying, Yeah, I'll by 10. And then K & L Chem Dry, here in Grants Pass, they bought 10. If we can even sell them by 10s, then that's going to add up rather quickly as well. Anybody that wants to do the corporate sponsorship like that, we would love to have them contact us. And they can buy as many as they want, by 100. If that's what they want to buy, we just feel like it's such an incredible gift to give someone a week's worth of meals, isn't it? Brian: Fabulous. All right. So we're meeting here just to give everyone an idea of where we're meeting in early August to 2021. Here, we're on Joy's property and you said you've been here since 87? Joy: Yep. Brian: Were you already in Josephine County, what originally brought you here? Joy: My husband and I were 20 something and we lived in San Diego. And then we found out we were expecting, and my husband said, I never wanted to raise kids in the city. And he said, Isn't there any way like, do we have to live here? You know, that was just not what our idea was. And we bought our first house when we were 19. I was 19. Donnie was 20 when we bought our first house in San Diego. And so he said, Well, you know, I don't want to live here. Came up to Shasta and we looked at Shasta. And when I was 17, my house burned down and so I lost everything. So when we came up to Mount Shasta, it was too expensive for us because we were just kids, you know, but also I needed to be in a fire district. I felt really strongly that we had to be someplace where there were firefighters. We looked in the San Diego paper and there was property in Oregon $1,000 an acre. And so we contacted the realtor that had it listed. His name is Randy Richardson. He has since retired. However, Randy Richardson said, Well, I can show you some property. So we came up when our son Kenny was a teeny tiny baby. And we carried him all over looking at properties. We finally bought one on Forest Glen. So I think back in 1984, 85, we bought the property on Forest Glen off of Azalea drive. And then we were sitting at home one day, we sold our house, we're sitting in a rental one day, my husband said, It's not enough, five acres is not enough. We called Randy Richardson and we said five acres is not enough. And he said, You'll never believe the piece of paper, because dig that Brian back in the day, the multiple listings actually came on paper. They weren't flash drive and all over the place like they are now. A piece of paper came on Randy's desk, 30 acres $30,000. And so we said well, we'll be there tomorrow. And we had already had another son by then and he was teeny tiny. So we came up here when Kenny was tiny and when Mark was tiny. We said you know, Randy, we want it to buy it sight unseen. ...