Episode 19 - Rylen Windholz - Jr. Entrepreneur & Founder of Out of This World Creations.

In today’s extra special episode, I’m joined by the love of my life, my daughter Rylen!  We’re toasting with sparkling cider (kid wine, as she calls it), and sitting down for a heartfelt, funny, and wise conversation about business, kindness, big dreams, and what it’s like growing up alongside a busy, passionate mom.  

Rylen may be nine (almost ten!), but this kid is wise beyond her years. From launching her own business (Out of This World Creations) to learning how to negotiate deals, take custom orders, and even hire her first employee, she’s already making moves in the entrepreneurial world. But beyond the bracelets and bead magnets, Rylen has learned how to make people feel seen, valued, and heard, whether it’s a customer at a craft market, a friend who’s feeling nervous, or a lonely senior in need of a hug.  

Rylen speaks from the heart, shares wisdom far beyond her years, and reminds us that whether you’re nine or ninety, you can be generous, brave, and wildly creative. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to raise a mini mogul or want to encourage your own kids to dream big, this episode is for you.

Get ready to laugh, learn, and maybe even tear up a little. Cheers to empowering the next generation! 

Thank you for listening! Connect and collaborate with Realtor Rashelle on any of her social media platform pages > https://linktr.ee/RealtorRashelle

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Welcome to the Realtor Who Wines podcast. I'm Rashelle Newmeyer, your hostess with the most as a student of life, a connector, a passionate wine enthusiast, and your local favorite guide. Join me as we explore the vibrant Pacific Northwest. Savor the finest wines and champion the spirit of entrepreneurship. Each episode, I'll sit down with inspiring guests, supporting business ownership and uncovering the stories that make this community unique. So grab a glass of wine, settle in, and let's embark on a journey of discovery and connection together. Cheers. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the realtor who whines. I'm Rachelle Neumeyer, your realtor who signs. Today I'm joined by the most important person in my life, the love of my life, my daughter. I'm very excited to have her on the podcast today. Cheers to you Rylan. Thank you for being on. Okay, go ahead and put your glass down. We're drinking sparkling water so don't come for us in the comments, okay people, even though what we do like what Rylan calls kid wine and it's really just sparkling cider, but she loves it. Why don't you introduce yourself? My name is Rylan. I am nine years old currently but I'm about to be ten. My birthday's in like two weeks. It's next week. Yeah, basically. So yeah. I like to read. I play a lot of sports such as volleyball, basketball, softball, dance, such as hip hop and ballet. I have my own business called out of This World Creations. It's at first Friday's at Coldwell Banker. What is out of this world creations like what kind of business is that like I sell Julie NASA sell magnets that go on your refrigerator, but they're kind of different because they're made out of beads. Yeah. And you are at markets like you mentioned here in Newburgh at Coldwell Banker Professional Group. We participate in what's called First Fridays. And so the first Friday of every month, different artists and, entrepreneurs that don't have a storefront get to come in and set up at the different shops here in Newburgh. And so Rylan tends to set up there. But then you also do like sometimes like Love at Lavender Festival or other things like that. What made you want to start your own business? I wanted to make more money and I always have liked making bracelets and necklaces. So yeah, and you just wanted to share it with the people. You said you wanted to make more money. What are you trying to make money for? I want to make money for when I'm a grown up and I sometimes don't really spend it because I'm saving it for when I'm in college. Oh, you're saving money for college right now? Nice. Lucky mommy. Yeah. What kind of things have you learned? Having your own business? I have learned how to, like, be more better at, like, counting money, giving deals. And what do you mean by giving deals? Like, sometimes you're like, I want this bracelet and this bracelet, but I only want to pay, like $5 when the actual thing would be like $6. Sometimes they're. I just like, give them a deal. You negotiate with them. Sometimes because I think everyone should have the chance to have that stuff. Like okay if you buy one I'll let you get one for free. Yeah. You are very generous at your booth. What else have you learned. What about like how to greet customers or to talk to people? I would just, like, act like they're another friend of mine. I'd be like, hi, my name is Rylan. I'm selling this. This and this. Yeah. And you just pretend that they're there, that they are your friend. Yeah. Like I just pretend you make them feel comfortable a long time. Yeah. Do you think that's important when you're selling stuff to make people feel comfortable? It should be a very important because some people like, I just like I do want to pay for this, this, this, this, this. And then they'd be like, you know, provide good service. Yeah. You want people to. Hi. What do you like? Like what are you interested in? I have these things, but if here's one I have, like, a buy one get one thing. Yeah. You've done some custom orders too, for people. Like when they've had stuff, they're wanted things that you didn't have. But you like to put that customer first. Yeah. Like I normally just. And like, just call my mom and give her your order and I'll make it for you. And you should get it in, like, the first month or two, if it's a big order. Yeah. Depending on. We've had people order like bracelets for their whole business team before. So that's taken us all them. Yeah. Like one time. So my daughter like ten like bracelets and they're like, I shouldn't be that. I didn't have. And I was like, So we had day. Yeah. And we got them like we give it to them on the first two months because I had to make all ten. And like she said, she plays a lot of sports, so she's busy. So we had to make time for it. What would you tell another kid that's thinking about wanting to start a business and is like, nervous about it or thinks they can't do it because they're a kid? Anyone can do it because, like, all you need to be able to do is be able to make jewelry. Like, all you have to do is be able to draw like it's really easy. All you have to do is be able to make something and like, say hi, do you want this? In this I label my prices cause a lot of people like it better when you labels. Yeah, when you have it clear what your stuff cost. But like, what if they're like, I'm not good at art, but I want to start a business. What would you tell them? Well, you also could sell stuff that like you've had for a while, like a garage sale. Could sell old things like that. You might not be good at art but about they could start a business like doing like pet sitting or baby sitting at a time like, oh sorry. Like you also could have something, I don't know, I just forgot, like, what other kind of businesses could I could do. Oh yeah. I just got it like you could. Maybe if you're good at writing, you could, like, write some really small stories. Maybe you're really good at singing. Maybe you could sing songs. That pleases you. Yeah. There's, there's normally like one person who does music there. Yeah. What is something you would tell Grown-Ups that sometimes are shy or get in their own way when it comes to like helping clients. I would say just like think of them as one of your friends and then like, you kind of feel more comfortable if you just like, feel like you've known them for a long time. Yeah. Then it doesn't feel strange and then it feels like you're serving them instead of selling to them. Because I made my own business, I haven't had any employees or something, but I might be getting someone who can do. Cashier oh that's exciting. You're going to get your first employee. Maybe if they qualify. If they qualify, you're going to interview. Yes. And you're going to be interviewed. What kind of questions are you going to ask in this interview? Well, like of course you have to be able to know, like your money in mass to do stuff like, yeah, that's also like listed on there. But sometimes if you don't know your money, you don't know what to give them like kind of account change. And also if you're like, someone else like another kid in a business always paying extra money for you, do something. Oh. For change. Yeah. Like, test sometimes. Like someone's buying something like $12, but they'd give me a $20 bill and, like, okay. And and I have to give them the extra change. Yeah. For sure. How are you going to pay this employee. I'm going to give them $15 an hour. Wow. Money maker. Yeah. Well how did you come up with that amount. I was like some people do 20, some people do $10. 15 I didn't know. How do you figure out then how many bracelets are you going to have to sell to be able to pay your employee? Probably like one payment would be like four bracelets if they were $3. Yeah, I am prepared. For what? If you don't sell any bracelets, you still got to pay your employee. I still have enough money. And also I said that only if you want to do this. She's, My employee is that I might get. Is like, one of my best friends. And she said she was going to get a job. I'm like, are you? She is like, yeah, I'm interested in getting a job. I'm like, well, I'm my own business. So you want to get interviewed on my birthday? Okay, she's coming to my birthday party and you want to get into it. She's like, shit, there you go. Oh my gosh I love it. Are there any other businesses or jobs that you want to do in the future? I there's like I might be a librarian part time. I might for sure I'm going to work at Disney when I'm in college part time. She wants to do the like internships that Disney does at during college. We just got back from Disney World. So Disney is fresh on the brain for sure. Just last night slash this morning at 12 we got home at 1230. Yeah. So speaking of that, a lot of times some people give mommy a hard time because of how busy you are and how busy I am and how we're always on the go. And sometimes people make comments like, for Rylan, you just take her around everywhere. Like you just drag that poor baby everywhere. No, that is not it. I actually have learned so much from it, from traveling and going to stuff. You get to learn like some different people have to like negotiate like talk with them to be like their friend. Like when I was like a like, I mean, seven, like, sometimes my mom would take me in, they would have kids. I'm like, okay, kids, whatever room. Like, what set out thing? Do you want to like showings? Yeah, I would like literally like, help them plan out the whole house. Just the kids, me and then the parents would be like, wait. And then, like, the kids would be like, mommy, I want this room, this one, this one, like the kids would be like that. And they said, I clean it and I want this, Larry, this. They're this they're. Yeah, they're claiming their rooms. Yeah. Rylan used to have to work a lot of open houses with me, especially during the pandemic because school was closed and daycare was closed. But real estate was still essential. So we would be at open houses and she would come with me. And when she's talking about it as well, I was talking to the parents. She really she just came up with this on her own. I had no influence on that. But she was like, let's play a game called Choose Your Room. And so she would have kids get really excited and choose a room, and then the parents would be like, man, our kids must really love this house because they haven't chosen rooms at any other house. So she actually helped myself quite a few houses because she got the kids excited. But then you've also gone to because mommy does like Women's Council Realtors and Women to Women network and like Tony Robbins and yeah, all that stuff. You've gone to a lot of conferences or like a keynotes ago like you and me went to a conference that like kids, I actually go to a lot of conferences. Kids are allowed to go because I'm a good kid. And like, I normally like quiet and like read or something during the whole time and help out, like set it up. They normally just let me go. Yeah, because you're quiet. But you also listen. So the conference that you're talking about is what was that one about? There is a money one like two months ago. And like it said, if you save your money correctly, you actually can make, like $1 million and, like a few years, it's like 30 years. But it was all about how if you invest early and how to teach our youth how to invest early so that they're planning, because a lot of us don't think about retirement or planning for the second half of our lives until we're approaching them. And so it was all about how to help set up your kids so they can easily buy houses when they're ready, or have at least$1 million in their retirement account. And if they start now, even putting like$30 a month away now at Rylan's age, she could have at least a million to maybe a million and a half by the time she's retiring. That like it's just sitting there and she could stop investing. The whole point was, if you started investing now, you could stop investing in like 15 years. And the way you invest it would just grow and grow and grow. But yeah, she likes to go do those kinds of things. Do you think it's important for kids to go do stuff like that, like learn about different things? I would say yes. Because you get to learn how to be like an entrepreneur at some of that stuff. You also get to learn how to, like, really spend your money, like how to keep it like, calm with your money and save up a lot. And you also get, like know like how real to like where it's like my mom sometimes like, you have an interest in a house, but then you find another house that you like better. So like, you close the thing that just happened to my mom twice while you're on vacation. So we did have two transactions terminate while we were on vacation. But it happens. That's part of the the part of the gig. It's a big it's a big purchase. Some people are allowed to, like, make a different decision, but also like you've learned about communicating, being at these different things, like how to have conversations, how to understand your feelings. Talk about that a little bit. Yeah. I also have learned like how to be friends with like people way older than you that don't normally be like, oh, this is a little kid. Like I don't care, right? Not interested. Yeah, but I actually I've made friends with a few teenagers I know most, like, my cousins are older kids, and, like, one of them is Wyatt. He's 14 right now, and he's not even my height. But he we're still, like, best friends. Yeah, because you know how to communicate with him. But also, does it help you like when you're feeling frustrated or overwhelmed? Yes. Because you've gone to a lot of these things where it's teaching grownups how to understand their emotions. Yeah, I feel like you're very emotionally mature because you've just been exposed to a lot of even when I was like six, like I did one, he popped in and I feel like I was in front of like 200 parents on a stage dancing. I was so nervous because it was like they said, it would be like the opposite of how we did it out. Our rehearsal and stuff, and we're like, oh my. But it turned it out to be okay. Yeah, some of us were like switching sports nonstop because we were in the wrong spot. Being flexible. What? Sometimes you have a hard time being flexible, like change one. Plans change. How do you get over that? I'm more I'm like you like a strict schedule. I know it's because I like to know what's going to happen, because then sometimes you would feel like, oh, if this is happening, it takes this long around, then you would probably have this much free time in your schedule. But then sometimes, you know, it changes. And I don't like that as much as sometimes that I have less freedom. Yeah. What about how important do you think it is to have a good relationship with your parents? Now, that is very important, cause a lot of teenagers, they don't really hang out with their parents as much as they used to. Like. They're more like some teenagers are like, mom, get out of here. I'm going to the mall. They don't want you to come. I just want to be with my friends and me, my mom. I really connected, like my mom is one of my best friends. I had amazing time with her. I always have her back and she knows it. Definitely. She is my writer diet for sure. But you're also really close with your dad mom and that's important too. And I stepbrother him. You're pretty close, close relationships and then being there for each other. And you do make comments sometimes that you hope that we're always close. But one way that you think that we can always stay close, even as you're becoming, a teen and then a grown up. Definitely think I would love to go shopping with you when I'm older, like I have already. And like, we already like going shopping. It just. I don't always like going shopping as long as my mom right now, but she's an in and out kind of girl. And then what? What do you need? And then leave? Yeah. Unless I see something like crazy cute, then I'm like, I need this. And then I like, I would like, try to get it and leave. Otherwise I'd be like, let's get out of here. I want to go watch TV and relax. Yeah. What is, something that you look forward to about becoming, like, a teenager or a grown up? I look forward to being able to, like, text my friends more. Yes. We're not. I don't have a cell phone. I not allowed that. I'm okay with it because I get I have a tablet and I have a watch that I can text. Actually, I have it on it now, see them and I can text people like, I can text my mom, I can text my dad, I can text my grandparents like it's really good. I even can text my mom. One of my mom's best friends. Her name is Tina. Yeah. But so yeah that's the only thing I know all the things you can do when you're a grown up and a teenager, it's texting. No it's more like I probably want to say later behind my friends more and I probably want to like go to spend my more. I'd spend my money more. Yeah. Probably. So yeah. Back drive and drive, drive, drive. Yeah, yeah, driving is pretty cool. But what do you need to have to be a good driver. Let me talk about this every day. You have to watch your surroundings, which I'm still learning a little bit now. I'm, like, really good at watching other people. Sometimes I don't watch for, like. It's really important when you're driving, for sure. Oh, for sure. People all the time. Yeah, but I don't really watch for like the post things like sometimes, sometimes they walk in their things. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like there's things that support like a building. Sometimes I walk into those pillars. I'm not like paying attention. Yeah, yeah. Now I actually read the signs on the road to like, tell when, how close we are to, like, the airport and stuff. Yeah. You're so funny. And speaking of money, we were talking about money just a second ago. And you mentioned about having money. What about giving back? You like to volunteer like mommy does and you like to give back talk. If there's any kids listening about the importance of, like, giving back and volunteering, it is very important because some people can't afford as much. And if you can, you are very, very lucky. Like me, my mom, I'm very lucky. We're very grateful for what we have. Yeah. But like, what have you learned about. We've gone before and like, filled backpacks for students that need school supplies or we've donated things. We've worked at shelters, like what have you learned by doing some of that stuff? It is important to give what people can't get because they weren't as lucky right now in life. Yeah, well, it's just a kind thing to do. And how does that make you feel when you get to help? It feels good. Good. Like, it doesn't even matter if they're not as good as a kid. Well, they're just having a hard time because they have a hard time. They probably don't have as much like they probably don't have as many blankets as we do, as many stuffies, as many toys. So I donate toys, books, school supplies because they send you home with all your school supplies at my school. So sometimes we give away the old stuff and new stuff. And then also sometimes I just donating our time. Like, sometimes people are just lonely and want more friends. Like, we've gone to the children's hospital and hung out. We've gone to senior centers and hung out. Yes, we have, the seniors love your crazy curly hair. They all call you. Who do they compare you to all the time? Do you remember her name? No. Shirley Temple. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, but it feels good to make people feel important and seen, don't you think? It is? It feels way better than, like, other stuff. Like, sometimes, like you're just having a good time, but, like, there's a spark in you that, like, just like, turns on when you help someone. Yeah. Freshmen feel amazing. Especially when you see how much it means to them. Yes. Like one time, my mom's boyfriend, like, was visiting his family and one of his, like, his mom or like friend, his grandma was. And grandma was senior home. Yes, in a senior home. And like some of the other people were like, can I have a hug? And I'm like, sure, on whatever. People broke into tears. Yeah, because she said she hasn't got to hug a young person in such a long time. And she just appreciated you talking to her and giving her your time. Yeah, and she was. And it was only like two minutes. I'm like, but that's, that's sometimes that's all that counts as like just giving people a little bit of time to feel important and seen. Some people just feel forgotten. So it's nice to just make someone feel noticed, like, hey, you matter, right? Yes. And a long time ago, like, we got some really bad ice on, like the roads, so you couldn't really go anywhere. So like, I would start watching YouTube and I found, like, a few families, like, just like being really kind or, like, doing some really fun stuff. Like the ninja family, like they called them the ninja kids. A lot of people was and they were doing generous things too. Yes. They have also open like a few ninja obstacle course places. They had, like if they picked 100 kids to go to a thing to like be a new person, they, have donated money. But you've talked about that, like someday when you grow up, if when you shoot some. Sometimes she wants to be a part time librarian, but she always wants to be a CEO or a business person, and she wants to be able to give back. Yeah. Because right now that's like, all I know. Like being a CEO. Like being a realtor. Yeah. My whole life right now. Like, I just know that part. Yeah. Being a librarian at the end of the year, it would suck because you have to scan every single book in the library if you have any. Yes, a school library or any like, books like are gone. I would hate that part. When you're librarian at school is one of your favorite people. I know because she is really nice to me. She is nice to a lot of other people. They have a really hard job. I feel like they don't get enough credit for their jobs. Yeah, yeah, they have to take care of every person in the school. Kind of like someone at Stem. There a lot of schools to stand, but it's so cool. My school does it Stem. You get to learn how to be an engineer. It's math science. Like it's really fun. Yeah, well, I really appreciate you being on the show today. Is there anything else you want to share with anybody before we wrap up? Just remember just stay kind. Yeah. And believe you all. You can do anything you put your mind to. Totally. I love you, honey. Thank you for being on today. Cheers to you. And thank you everybody for listening. We'll see you next time.