What if real estate wasn’t just about money—but mission?

In this powerful first guest episode of Sugar, Spice & Spirits, we sit down with Wes Foster—pastor, foster parent, community builder, and real estate investor—to talk about faith, leadership, generosity, and a real estate system most agents never learn.

Wes shares how he:

• Transitioned from ministry into real estate investing
• Built over $500,000 in equity without using his own money
• Helps investors and agents scale through off-market deals Views money as a tool—not a taboo

This episode blends real estate strategy, life lessons, and purpose-driven leadership in a way you rarely hear—whether you’re an investor, agent, entrepreneur, or just someone asking “What’s the right way to build wealth?”

🍸 Sip of the Day: Lavender Martini 📍 Filmed at Texas Hideout, Spring, TX– a new community-focused venue

🎙️ In this episode, we cover:

• Why pastors don’t “work one day a week”
• The truth about money, faith, and leadership
• How off-market real estate actually works
• The 6 ways Wes gets paid on investor deals
• Why serving others often leads to abundance

00:00 – Welcome to Sugar, Spice & Spirits

00:25 – Introducing our first Guest Happy Hour

01:20 – Meet Wes Foster: pastor, investor & community leader

03:30 – Sip of the Day: Lavender Martini

06:15 – The reality of being a pastor (myths vs truth)

09:45 – Pastoring, burnout, and carrying other people’s pain

13:10 – Why foster care became a calling

17:40 – “Give everything away” – a life-altering decision

22:10 – What foster parenting teaches about purpose

26:30 – Faith, leadership, and real-life impact

30:20 – Why Wes entered real estate investing

33:10 – You don’t need money to invest in real estate

36:40 – Off-market deals explained

40:05 – The 6 ways Wes makes money in real estate

44:30 – Helping investors win without overpaying

48:45 – Why money is a tool, not a taboo

52:20 – Leadership lessons for agents & entrepreneurs

56:00 – Faith, work ethic, and doing what others won’t

59:30 – What’s next for Wes Foster

1:02:15 – Final thoughts & how to connect

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We didn’t wait until it was perfect — we launched anyway.

From imposter syndrome to hot-tub recordings, this is what real podcasting looks like.

Get a look back when we first launched and sat down at Podcast Movement with Acast for a quick interview, that turned into a raw, honest conversation about what it really takes to launch a podcast - imperfections, self-doubt, messy setups, and all.

We’re Sugar, Spice & Spirits - a podcast about business, life, real estate, and everything in between, served with strong opinions, real conversations, and a cocktail (or mocktail) to kick things off.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Launching a podcast before feeling “ready”
• Why authenticity beats perfection every time
• Building community instead of chasing vanity metrics
• Imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and betting on yourself
• Creating a podcast as a real business — not just a hobby
• Why relatability matters more than studio perfection

If you’ve ever thought about starting a podcast, business, or creative project — this is your sign to start now and refine as you go.

00:00 – Meet Sugar, Spice & Spirits 00:16 – What our podcast is really about 00:41 – Why we came to Podcast Movement 01:18 – Launching brand new (and learning fast) 01:49 – Our origin story (radio competitors → co-hosts) 02:58 – How “Sugar & Spice” became our name 03:52 – Podcast structure & future guest plans 05:06 – Biggest podcasting takeaways so far 06:20 – Connecting authentically with listeners 07:37 – Who our podcast is really for 09:55 – Empty nesters, caregivers & real life transitions 11:09 – Why we chose video + mobile recording 12:40 – Letting go of perfection in business & branding 14:11 – Why chemistry matters more than scripts 15:26 – Imposter syndrome & taking the leap 17:55 – What success looks like for this podcast 20:40 – Managing fear, doubt & growth as entrepreneurs 23:11 – Why starting imperfectly beats not starting at all 24:35 – Final thoughts & encouragement to just begin

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Christmas hits different when you’re an adult — and in this episode of Sugar, Spice & Spirits, we prove it with White Elephant gift chaos, rapid-fire holiday “would you rather” questions, and the kind of stories you only tell after the coffee kicks in.

Natalie’s repping from New York City at Christmas, while Mindy and Kelly bring Texas cheer (and peppermint everything). Then we get into the real fun: the wildest gift exchange moments we’ve ever seen — including a gift that definitely didn’t follow the price limit, a 50-cup industrial coffee maker that should’ve come with an apology, and yes… a LIVE CHICKEN showing up like it paid rent.

00:00 Christmas catch-up: NYC vs Texas holiday vibes 00:46 Sip of the Day starts: Starbucks + peppermint coffees 01:30 The snowman vs snowwoman joke (yes… that one) 02:05 Topic kickoff: craziest White Elephant gifts 02:44 The gift that broke the $50 limit (and everyone fought over it) 03:50 Best Christmas memory: Disney at Christmas 05:42 Natalie’s “what was he thinking?” gift: the 50-cup industrial coffee maker 06:52 The “old closet potpourri” disaster gift (RIP to that invite) 07:46 Firefighter calendar twist + hidden cash surprise 08:39 Someone brought a LIVE CHICKEN to the gift exchange 🐔 09:15 White Elephant vs “Cajun Christmas” rules (set expectations or suffer) 10:50 Rapid Fire: Would You Rather holiday edition begins 12:54 Early gifts vs sleeping in + early guests vs late guests 14:04 Decorated house vs stress-free Christmas (pick your poison) 15:45 Host 20 people vs travel with a layover (holiday survival mode) 17:00 Christmas as an adult: gratitude, traditions, and shifting seasons 19:21 Kids growing up + Christmas priorities changing 21:43 Blended families, loss, and cherishing time together 26:14 Final toast + Merry Christmas

We wrap with a heartfelt “Christmas as an adult” conversation: family traditions, kids growing up, blended schedules, gratitude, and remembering what matters most when life changes.

If you’ve ever hosted the holidays, survived a gift exchange, or wondered why Christmas feels so different now — this one’s for you.

Subscribe for more: holiday laughs, real talk, and friendship with a splash of chaos.

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Welcome back to Sugar, Spice & Spirits, where bold women sip good drinks, have real conversations, and call out the truth with humor, grit, and zero fluff.

Today we’re broadcasting from Bing Pizzeria & Draft House in Alvin, TX - amazing drinks, amazing food, and even better company. What We Cover in

This Episode: The real definition of integrity (and why it matters more today than ever) How overpromising destroys trust Business, leadership & sales examples of ethical vs. unethical behavior Parenting follow-through and teaching integrity at home Real estate stories: craftsmanship issues, syndication honesty & private money integrity Communication breakdowns, paradigm shifts & setting healthy boundaries Why consumers value integrity over price How to rebuild trust after you’ve lost it

Sip of the Day Peach Long Island - smooth, dangerous, and guaranteed to make you tell the truth.

Timestamps:

00:01 – Welcome to Sugar, Spice & Spirits at Bing Pizzeria & Draft House

00:40 – Appetizer: Weekend Recaps (Galveston Ghost Tour, Aggie Game, DIS App)

04:03 – Sip of the Day: Peach Long Island Review

04:53 – Main Dish: What Integrity Really Looks Like Today

05:47 – Why Consumers Walk Away: The Cost of Broken Promises

06:55 – Trust, Follow-Through & Keeping Your Word

09:18 – Overpromising, Underdelivering & Business Burnout

11:15 – Integrity in Investing, Syndications & Real Estate

12:57 – Poor Craftsmanship Stories (New Construction Drama)

14:30 – Saying NO as a Boundary & Integrity Tool

16:27 – Staying in Touch, Friendships & Reputation Capital

17:37 – Authenticity in the Age of AI

19:37 – Tech Fail: The Wind Attack + Mary Poppins Moment

20:01 – Gen Z Expectations vs. Gen X Reality

22:09 – Tangent Tax: Parenting Styles & Follow-Through

23:55 – Parenting Integrity: Consequences, Consistency & Respect

26:21 – Integrity in Friendship & Calling Out Your People

28:57 – Flippers, LLCs & Real Estate Reality Checks

30:37 – Private Money, Due Diligence & Doing Right by Lenders

31:39 – Vulnerability, Used Car Lots & Being Taken Advantage Of

32:56 – When People Lack Integrity (and How to Spot It)

33:36 – Paradigm Shifts & Seeing Through Others’ Lenses

34:49 – Lost Art of Communication & Misinterpretation

38:19 – Friends Who Correct You: Real Accountability

40:12 – Trust, Apologies & Owning Your Mistakes

42:39 – Narcissism, Stubbornness & the Power of “I’m Sorry”

47:14 – Learning to Communicate Better as Adults

48:18 – Conference Story: When Expectations Get Lost in Translation

49:49 – Asking Better Questions & Clarifying Intent

51:00 – Human Empathy vs. Bureaucracy (The Hospital Story)

51:50 – Mattress Mack: King of Integrity in Houston

54:30 – Trust Statistics & Why Integrity Pays

58:19 – Integrity as Your Competitive Advantage

1:00:24 – Who You Influence Without Knowing It

1:00:40 – Sleeping Peacefully with a Clear Conscience

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This episode dives into what integrity actually looks like - in business, marriage, parenting, friendships, and real estate. We discuss trust, communication, boundary setting, overpromising, leadership failures, and how honesty is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Highlights: Why integrity is more valuable than skill How Gen X, Millennials & Gen Z view honesty differently Real estate stories that reveal true character Parenting and follow-through Communication pitfalls that ruin relationships Owning mistakes and rebuilding trust

Location: Bing Pizzeria & Draft House, Alvin TX Follow the show and send us your topic ideas - we love creating episodes inspired by your real-life questions.

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Welcome back to Sugar, Spice & Spirits - the podcast where bold women sip good drinks, tell better stories, and unpack life, business, burnout, whiskey, friendship, and reinvention one episode at a time.

This week, we’re broadcasting across time zones, climates & emotional maturity levels, and yes - it is exactly as chaotic as it sounds.

Mindy checks in from a 50th Birthday Girls Trip in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, complete with whiskey tastings, cabin mornings, scenic mountain views, and roller coasters scheduled for both daylight and darkness. Meanwhile, Natalie and Kelly are holding down the fort in Texas, proving our dynamic does not require one location to stay strong.

Tennessee Legend Distillery - Dirty Cream & Salted Caramel Cream (90 Proof) A “quick stop” for Baileys turned into a full whiskey tasting experience. We compare Dirty Cream to Bailey’s, review the flavor profile, coffee compatibility, holiday drink potential, and whether it’s worth a cross-state road trip to legally - or creatively - bring a few bottles home.

• Whiskey tasting in Pigeon Forge, TN • Tennessee Legend Distillery review • Bailey’s vs Dirty Cream — flavor breakdown • 90-proof Salted Caramel Cream tasting notes • Can you ship alcohol into Texas legally? • Girls trip in the Smoky Mountains • Roller coaster morning vs roller coaster night • Time management for business owners & moms • Task batching vs time blocking • AI for productivity, business planning & budgeting • Outsourcing, boundaries & the power of saying no • Accountability tracking for real progress • Entrepreneur spouse relationship dynamics • Big Rocks analogy — priorities before noise • Healthy self-care habits & rhythm-based work

For anyone juggling work, children, relationships, business, real estate, goals, ambition, burnout, and still trying to have fun - this episode is your permission slip.

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Cheers to time, whiskey, women, and weekends worth remembering.

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In this episode of Sugar, Spice & Spirits, Kelly Williams, Mindy Price, and Natalie Pilkinton are coming to you on location from Bing Pizzeria & Draft House in Alvin, Texas—home of beach volleyball, shuffleboard, and today’s Spicy Pineapple Margarita “sip of the day.”

Between bites of pizza and sips of jalapeño-kissed tequila, we dig into a heavy topic:

What really happens when your personal life detonates your professional life… and corporate decides you’re bad for the brand?

Using the recent shake-up surrounding the Roula & Ryan Show and longtime Houston radio personality Ryan Chase as a jumping-off point (based only on public reports and online chatter), we unpack the bigger picture:

How cancel culture and social media “gotcha” moments impact careers

What happens when private texts and DMs get leaked and go viral

The tension between corporate brand protection vs. loyalty to long-term employees

Why NDAs, morality clauses, and public perception drive so many decisions

Double standards around domestic violence, gender, and power dynamics

The mental, financial, and emotional fallout for families and reputations

Why every professional—radio host, realtor, CEO, or teacher—needs to protect their personal brand

How to respond when your own receipts might come back to haunt you

We also share personal stories about blended families, kids getting married, corporate politics, and why you never say anything in text you wouldn’t want read aloud in a courtroom… or on air.

This isn’t a gossip episode—we’re not claiming insider knowledge, and we’re not here to re-try anyone’s case. We’re talking about the principles:

Is it fair for companies to cut ties based on unproven allegations or old screenshots?

Where’s the line between freedom of expression and professional consequences?

How do you balance integrity, loyalty, and self-protection in 2025?

If you’ve ever worried that one bad night, one bad relationship, or one bad post could nuke your career… this one’s for you.

Timestamps

0:00 – Live from Bing Pizzeria & Draft House in Alvin, TX

2:00 – Sip of the Day: Spicy Pineapple Margarita

5:30 – When personal life collides with professional reputation

10:00 – Online rumors, leaked messages & NDA silence

18:00 – Domestic violence, hacking, and double standards

28:00 – Corporate America: morals or just brand management?

38:00 – Passive income, buying back your life from corporate

45:00 – Final thoughts: think before you text, post, or hit send

Call to Action

If you have thoughts on cancel culture, corporate loyalty, or you’ve lived through your own “personal life vs. professional life” train wreck, drop a comment—we want to hear your story.

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From brass balls to barn doors, we’re diving headfirst into the Southern sayings, family one-liners, and old-school idioms that raised us, roasted us, and somehow still guide our lives and businesses today.

In this episode of the Sugar Spice & Spirits Podcast, hosts Natalie Pilkinton, Mindy Price, and Kelly Williams sip on a “Dirty Dr Pepper” (Malibu + Dr Pepper, thank you Ron Tarr!) and unpack the meaning behind Southern phrases like:

🗣 “Bless your heart”

🗣 “Not the sharpest tool in the shed”

🗣 “His cornbread ain’t done in the middle”

🗣 “You can’t pour from an empty cup”

🗣 “Don’t put the cart before the horse”

🗣 “The shortest pencil beats the longest memory”

🗣 “Ain’t my circus, ain’t my monkeys”

🗣 “If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving’s not for you”

🗣 “Shit in my hat” (yes, we go there)

We also talk about:

- How different generations (especially Gen X) hear and use these sayings

- Why tone matters when you say “to be honest” or “in full transparency”

- How idioms show up in **real estate, business, and leadership**

- Why you *really* shouldn’t air your dirty laundry on social media

- Boundaries, communication, and knowing when “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”

**Sip of the Day:** Dirty Dr Pepper Coconut Malibu + Dr Pepper - inspired by listener Ron Tarr, and the Texas-born classic from Waco’s Morrison Old Corner Drugstore. ---

**EPISODE CHAPTER IDEAS** (Adjust to your real timestamps)

00:00 – Cold open: From brass balls to barn doors

00:36 – Intro: Meet Sugar Spice & Spirits

01:00 – Sip of the Day: Dirty Dr Pepper story

02:20 – Southern idioms that raised us

04:00 – “The shortest pencil…” – dad wisdom that sticks

08:00 – LOL, emojis, and texting gone wrong

11:30 – Burning the candle at both ends & entrepreneur burnout

15:00 – Actions vs words in the age of AI

18:00 – “Ain’t my circus, ain’t my monkeys” & boundaries

22:00 – You can’t pour from an empty cup

28:00 – Confidence, clothes, and “just because you can…”

32:00 – Generational gaps & how we communicate

38:00 – Don’t air your dirty laundry online

41:20 – Your favorite sayings & listener idioms

42:20 – Wrap up & how to connect

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Today we’re coming to you LIVE(ish) from Natalie’s flip house in Spring, Texas, sipping a gin–tequila margarita and talking about how real people build wealth through real estate—without pretending it’s all rainbows and unicorn cashflow.

In this episode of Sugar, Spice & Spirits:

• Natalie breaks down her current flip in Spring, TX (elderly seller, dated house, private money, big upside).

• Mindy and Kelly share the good, the bad, and the “I lost my butt” stories from multifamily investing.

• We talk about passive income, syndicators, IRA investing, and how to avoid getting caught in variable-rate, balloon-payment disasters.

• And yes, we absolutely toast to the trades, meetups, mentors, and the “millionaire next door” mindset.

If you’ve ever thought:

“I want passive income, but I don’t want tenants, toilets, and 2 a.m. phone calls”… this episode is for you.

• Why real estate is so much more than just being a realtor

• How flips, rentals, multifamily and passive deals actually work in real life

• What can go wrong with bad operators and variable-rate debt

• How to vet syndicators and protect your investment

• Ways to use IRA money for real estate (with the right structure)

• The power of meetups, mentors, and local investing communities

• Why “average” people quietly become millionaires through boring, consistent investing

• 00:36 Meet your hosts & today’s gin–tequila margarita “sip of the day”

• 02:30 Why we’re not just a “real estate podcast” and why that label is limiting

• 03:40 Natalie's flip on Lockridge in Spring, TX – elderly seller, dated house, private money

• 05:13 Joke of the day: why the investor brought a ladder to the open house

• 06:12 Mindy’s story: multifamily, mailbox money, and losing money with the wrong person

• 09:18 Kelly’s journey from “clueless about real estate” to profitable investor

• 13:38 Natalie on the multifamily bloodbath: variable rates, balloons, and market shifts

• 14:22 Cost seg, depreciation, and how the right deals can nearly offset your investment

• 17:39 Meetups, education, and how to spot slimy vs. value-driven events

• 19:46 Investor road trips: walking actual properties and learning in the field

• 21:07 Gas station story: why real estate creates freedom to give generously

• 23:54 Book recommendations: Rich Dad Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, Richest Man in Babylon, The Millionaire Next Door

• 25:23 Trades vs. college: why plumbers, electricians & AC techs are quietly winning

• 28:34 How an average guy became financially independent through real estate

• 29:06 Why you need passive income streams before you lose your job

• 30:59 “Spill the tea” show idea & how to send us your stories

• 31:21 Final toast: keep watching, sharing, and stacking that knowledge

Want the exact gin–tequila margarita recipe from this episode? 👉 Go to sugarspiceandspirits.com, subscribe, confirm your email, and we’ll send it in the newsletter.

Questions about real estate, syndicators, or investing? 📩 Email Natalie: nataliepilkinton@gmail.com

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