E130 – Yeah the Girls! – Hobarts Hottest Netball Team

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Episode:E130
Show Title:YTG!
Cast:Aaron Horne, John McGregor, Mikayla Hall & Taylese Butterworth
Show Length:19 minutes 55 seconds

The Property Pod // E130- Yeah the Girls!

If you thought the Commonwealth Games were the biggest sporting event going on this week, you’d be wrong!… the PCYC in New Norfolk was the epicentre of a mass pilgrimage of support behind one community netball team, YTG!

Find out the origin story of YTG and how this true underdog story of grit and determination inspired what I’m sure will become one day one of the all time greatest sporting tales of our generation. Mikayla & Taylese, Co-Captains of YTG & Property Managers at 4one4 Property Co. join the Property Pod this week for what can only be described as one of the best podcast entries of all time!

(Disclaimer: Those who tune in for property advice or coherent story telling… there is Very little of that on this weeks show 😉 haha)

The Property Pod - E130

Episode Transcript:

Aaron Horne
Can you run us through? I just think this is. And look, there’s lots of unpacking that we could do with it, but I would love to find out more about the time that you were referred to as very similar to home President Obama.

Mikayla Hall
Oh, absolutely.

Mikayla Hall
I think about that day a lot.

Taylese Butterworth
Actually going wasn’t going to one of those. You’re listening to the property call.

Aaron Horne
All right, guys, welcome back to the Property Pod, your weekly engagement into real estate here in the home at Marketplace. I’m your host, Aaron Horn, and I am joined at the desk. John, you’re on my side of the desk. What’s going on over here, my friend? Because you’re in a good holy Molly in an audio format that is going to break someone’s headlines.

John McGregor
I tried to turn away from.

Aaron Horne
But no, look, we’re in the studio today and we are pumped up. We’re excited. You might think the Commonwealth Games are the most exciting sporting thing that’s going on in the world at the moment. But let me tell you something.

John McGregor
Why, T.J., neither I was too busy focused on that at last night’s game.

Aaron Horne
Yes. So last night’s game, deep down in the Valley of Love in New Norfolk, we have some superstars of the sporting arena joining us here on the podcast. So I’m going to throw to the other side of the desk. I have to lease and Mikayla joining us from the team. Yeah, the girls, the co-captains, I believe. Is this correct?

Mikayla Hall
That’s correct.

John McGregor
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Aaron Horne
All right, co-captains, hit us with all the details about who the girls are and what happened last night.

Mikayla Hall
First of all, thanks for having us.

Aaron Horne
Not a problem. Welcome to the studio. Thank you for coming in.

Mikayla Hall
I had a really busy morning with, you know, people wanting to see us after last night’s game, but we’re happy we could be here.

John McGregor
It took me at least 30 minutes to get. Yeah, just to say hello through all the crap.

Mikayla Hall
That was a lot going on this morning on up. Yeah.

Aaron Horne
Yes. No, look, it was exciting. It didn’t make front page news. I think they were covering the Commonwealth Games. But we’re here to cover the really important sporting achievements of I for one for sponsored. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. What? What grade netball do we play.

Mikayla Hall
Well, it’s I agree because they’re not in divisions this roster and you know if we. I agree. I agree. We’re not supposed to be. Yeah.

John McGregor
Yeah.

Aaron Horne
So love that. Totally understandable. So we are here celebrating a victory for the white egg. We’ll have to find out more about why they’re names that. But, yeah, that’ll be fun. Give us a rundown, Mikayla, about kind of where the team started and how we got here into the studio.

Mikayla Hall
So the team started with an idea with Tillis 90 office one day just, you know, one of our 100 conversations or the day we thought, oh, let’s put a team together. 200. So yeah, yeah, I think I played before but on separate, yeah, a separate team. So we thought we might make a team. It was a struggle to get a team.

Mikayla Hall
There was lots of Instagram posts, Facebook posts, harassing people.

Aaron Horne
Oh yeah. So this is reaching out to the masses and saying.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah.

Aaron Horne
Join our team.

Mikayla Hall
Do you want to play on our team?

John McGregor
Sometimes straight up bullying just works, doesn’t it?

Mikayla Hall
Well, that’s what ended up happening. The team that we do have now, we fully put them into play, brilliance, work. It worked well. They love it. Yeah. So we somehow got a team, we’ve actually got nine players I think. I don’t on so we sometimes even we sometimes we sometimes even have a stop. Yeah.

Aaron Horne
Wowsers. So for international listeners, listeners out there, yeah netball has seven players on the field at a time.

Mikayla Hall
On the.

Aaron Horne
Court. On the court. Yes. Sorry. Yes. And that’s broken up into three zones. That’s correct. And you’re only allowed in specific zones. It’s true man. I know my netball.

Mikayla Hall
You do.

Aaron Horne
So international listeners of this Tasmanian podcast just let it be known that’s unopposed played.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah, that’s correct.

Aaron Horne
So the nine of you all come together a weekly to play the sport in, you know, it’s like always or is it played elsewhere always?

Mikayla Hall
It not like.

Aaron Horne
Always and you know folk.

Mikayla Hall
And say what’s over.

Aaron Horne
And can you now let everybody out there know about the for one for I guess the pilgrimage I might throw to Telus. Tell us about the pilgrimage of people that arrived last night wearing this merchandise.

Mikayla Hall
Well, everyone thought that it was the finals. It was a little bit daunting for everyone, including our team and the other team. I feel really bad for them. But it was a it was a huge effort. I love the tops and I cried when everyone walked in. I thought it was great.

John McGregor
Christmas from crying was it was was it crying into happiness or oh god, oh God, yes. It might.

Aaron Horne
So just just to let everybody in, there’d be no victories up until this point of the brand new.

Mikayla Hall
Do you have one? Okay, victory. But that was because the other team forfeited.

John McGregor
A Windsor.

Aaron Horne
Win a Windsor.

Mikayla Hall
Castle and.

John McGregor
Just straight up intimidation.

Mikayla Hall
But last night was our first win from actual effort.

Aaron Horne
Yeah, I’ll take that. Yes. And so it was believed that it was let’s get the the team together and come along because this is our red hot chance to maybe take a big break.

Mikayla Hall
So what happened is we’d watched a couple of games because we have to do scoring for the other teams. And I got a bit confident and I thought, you know, I think think we could maybe win when we play this team. Yeah. Yes. So I thought, oh, I’ll send out an email to the Home Office and just say like, did you want to come along?

Mikayla Hall
And everyone took that really seriously. And yes, there was a calendar sent out 20 minutes after the original email. Yeah. Yeah. So then everyone was, was coming. So I caught quite a bit of abuse from Tilly.

John McGregor
So us what if you got. Yeah.

Mikayla Hall
I was not happy about it. Yeah. It’s not, it happen now.

Aaron Horne
Yeah. So the idea of personalized merchandise was never discussed prior previously to this.

Mikayla Hall
We had no idea and I like to be in, on, in everything and they kept a good secret.

Aaron Horne
They ran a tight ship actually yesterday when we went to pick up the shirt, police came out into the bunker where they were and I was running full distraction on yeah you finding out because no.

Mikayla Hall
To say you wouldn’t I would have no idea a lucky I had my yes.

Aaron Horne
Yeah. And Abby was in the little meeting space and I was just kind of being like look into my eyes, look into my eyes and look anywhere but my eyes. Because if you turn around, you’re going to see your face on a T-shirt. And Abby, just like and the door into that space is actually glass as well. So she went to close the door.

John McGregor
She’s like, This.

Aaron Horne
Isn’t going to work.

Mikayla Hall
I did notice hearing day, but I didn’t pay any attention to what she was actually doing.

Aaron Horne
Yeah. So she was organizing everybody shirts and making. So you would have looked in them, just been like, hey, yeah, my.

Mikayla Hall
Dog on here didn’t notice. I’m so glad I can confirm. We definitely weren’t expecting and we thought maybe some streamers would be as far as everyone would go. But he did ask what color our top square? And I said purple and white light. Half expected for him to turn up. Yes, but we didn’t expect personalized T-shirt.

Aaron Horne
Yeah, I look, I did try and get purple t shirts or purple on the thing, but they ran out. So I went with an alternate which will come out. It looks cool. It pops, it makes your eyes. Yeah. Really sharp.

John McGregor
Yeah, yeah. See, the most disappointing part for me was I did have a shirt, but it got given away. So then we had to do body paint instead.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah. So yeah, that was good. That yeah. So I was, I was playing and I was kind of close to where all the work people were sitting and someone’s like Mikayla. And I looked over and Aaron, Mari and John had their shirts ripped open with body pipe down their chest so deep. Distract me for a second, then you go.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah, yeah, go ahead. The guy you I goes to show you something.

John McGregor
Out of him not giving up after.

Mikayla Hall
That. No.

Aaron Horne
Imagine if that was the breaking point where they were like, yeah, we really thought we were going to win. We thought we were on par. We we felt like we were evenly matched. And then we just saw this bristling chest bursting out. We had an extra red tinge to it.

John McGregor
Absolutely. Freedom. Freedom. That’s what it can do.

Mikayla Hall
Whatever you want. And you know, if it’s Friday, that’s fine.

John McGregor
We’ll see. Yeah. Maybe your other games, you know, when you you’re everyone’s tired you like stuff this you like you couldn’t give up because the chest hair was coming in.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah, it was.

John McGregor
About yeah it was. And all the shirts and the fans were he’s even in the last 5 minutes. You couldn’t let him because he was close like, you know, had a good run, like ten goes out in front. Then I caught right up again. Yeah. So it was, it was.

Mikayla Hall
Kind of had AFL grand final vibes like it was a close game. It was, yeah. I was sitting on the edge of the block, you know, when you’re in the last quarter and everyone’s just got him for their team to win like you’ve got all your mates there. And you said For Grand Final Guy, that’s what it was like.

John McGregor
And we did have a scare to one of your team captain come up to me and just smacked the back of the head on the concrete.

Mikayla Hall
Did she say they knocked herself out? I thought she was concussed. Yeah. She said she can’t remember driving home last night, but she got she got back up for that last 2 minutes and she gave it a roll. She thought she’d lost it. Yeah. So she was having. It was just a snap.

John McGregor
Maybe it’s response. We should send her a couple of something. Yeah, there’s some really obscure gif like. Well, dogs.

Aaron Horne
Look, they often say that. Yeah. When you’ve got the home court advantage, when you’ve got the crowd behind you, they can give you that extra lift to get you over the line. So again, look, shout out to 15 plus partners. I think I got 15 shirts made that obviously all taken up. There was people without shirt.

Mikayla Hall
So literally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Aaron Horne
Exactly. Yeah, sure.

John McGregor
Shirts optional. Yeah.

Aaron Horne
Yeah. Shout out to everyone that showed up and join in for yeah. The girls it’s here, it starts. Yeah. Check check out at at white underscore Nepal on all your socials and you might find milky 94 Yeah she runs that page and she’s all about it Oh.

John McGregor
What gets me as well as that during the the halftime entertainment where all the kids ran out of the court. Yes. Overnight. And we’re not in calling from our office near kids. Well, if you want a competitive family, they’re beating the hell out of it. So straight into it, because then even the kids are bumping the dad. The dad was just like he was having a party.

Mikayla Hall
Right? So it was offering quite a bit of coaching advice.

John McGregor
Oh, she wanted to do that. She wasn’t.

Mikayla Hall
Going to go to the sidelines. Yeah, and I do too. Later I told her, Don’t tell me what to do.

Aaron Horne
This is my team coach. I’ll steer the ship. Yeah, yeah, very, very good. Look, we’ve we’ve spoken about a lot of the fun and guides. I thought we could cover off on some property. If you guys work very hard in the property management department, you guys have kind of come from other businesses and joined the foreman for a family.

Aaron Horne
And it’s great that you’re here and obviously made a big splash in the time that you’ve been here with being able to garner that was only saying before when he came in, he said, we can’t get this many people to like a training session off, but we can get them to midweek Nepal.

Mikayla Hall
You know, if like of all types. Exactly.

Aaron Horne
So you’ve done all right. Can you guys maybe just tell us about kind of your journey into property management, how you how you because you’ve also worked in sales.

Mikayla Hall
Have I’ve done a bit of everything. Yeah, yeah. A bit of an old roundup.

Aaron Horne
Yeah. Can you give us a bit of your property. Probably journey over the over the course and talk us through of how.

Mikayla Hall
I got here. So lutely. So I literally said I would never do property management in my whole life. That was the one thing I didn’t want to do. Okay, so I started out in admin and then I went into sales as a pay. I thought, you know what, I’m never doing rentals. Here I am. I love it.

Aaron Horne
So yeah. How, how do you like obviously you’ve seen it from the outside and been like, oh, I don’t want to be like, that looks hard. That looks horrible. Yeah. And now I know one of your superpowers is kind of chasing a raise and following people up on that. Yeah. How do you kind of make that switch and be like, actually, I’m going to go to the place.

Aaron Horne
I said, I’ll never go down to the dockside.

Mikayla Hall
I don’t actually know how it happened, but I had my daughter Lyla, and then I was coming back off maternity leave and I thought, You know what? I want to do something different. I’ve just had a baby. I’m just going to mix it up a bit. You really want to do what can work back then and go back into sales?

Mikayla Hall
Because I had her. So I went into property management. Yeah, I think I’m coming in five years now.

Aaron Horne
Isn’t that crazy? What, like a what a crazy turn. It’s the same way. It’s kind of me like being a teacher and thinking like, Oh yeah, this is my future. I’m going to be a teacher for the rest of my life at doing it for three or four years and then being like, Oh my goodness, and I want that a in my life, this was horrible.

Mikayla Hall
I just want to talk to netball girls on the podcast. Exactly.

Aaron Horne
Well, I get I get paid to do this. They say come in here and come up with these crazy ideas. Make sure to do silly tiktoks. Like, how is this a real job? I still think I say this all the time. They’re going to come in and tap me on the shoulder like your job is not really. We got to let you go and to lease.

Aaron Horne
I know that you previously worked in property management at other companies. How’s your property journey? Kind of panned out. How’d you find yourself into the world of a being property manager?

Mikayla Hall
Oh, gosh. Well, my. My mum and my auntie. You’ve always worked in real estate. Okay, sort of all on you. And, yeah, I think I’ve been doing it for ten years now and I’m. I’m tired.

John McGregor
I guess that way. Yeah.

Mikayla Hall
There’s I do use Mikayla. She’s an asset to the team so if we come up with a difficult line or a difficult tenant, we throw Mikayla in there. As I listen, we’ve got this. This chick that works for this, she’s great. We’ll get her on the phone and yeah, she sorts amount for us. So that’s been a huge relief.

John McGregor
Well, I tell you, it’s like it’s you know, it saddens me to say, but there’s a lot of conflict in this business. You know, not all the conversations are pleasant. You do need those in the team that are prepared to, you know, get dirty, for lack of a better term. Yeah. And is that do you think that’s always been, you know, a tenacious spirit that you’ve always had comfortable in that space?

Mikayla Hall
Yeah, I think I’ve probably learned over my time in that that you’ve just got to have your own back and you’ve got to just trust what you like, you know, you need to do. Yeah, I had a tenant. Call me some choice words. I got out on the left, swear on the podcast. I can’t say what she called me, but it was it was a vibe.

Mikayla Hall
I’ve never been called anything like it. It was a lot of swear words in one and one of the younger girls said to me, Why are you crying? She just called you that? And I was like, Honestly, like the voice. You’re in it, yet you can’t take it to heart. It is what it is like. You’re only doing your job.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah. You could write a book.

John McGregor
You. Oh.

Mikayla Hall
To be a bestseller. It would be a bestseller. Well, I think a lot of the time I say it’s not property management, it’s people management. That’s what it is. And netball scrapped that. We’ll make a book. Yeah. No book. We could do that. Can we swear it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Aaron Horne
Look, it’s like those diaries of a call girl or like the ones where you’re like, I did this, and I. Yeah, I was a lady of the night. I was a lady of. If there’s anything out there like that, I guess there’s a tick box where people are like, the things you hear that aren’t really about my job.

Aaron Horne
And then they’re pointing to all that.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah, have a property manager.

Aaron Horne
Have like this. John’s got a book. I’ve got a copyrighted book.

John McGregor
Yeah I do.

Aaron Horne
You put it in contact with your publisher.

John McGregor

Mikayla Hall
Get some tips off of you.

John McGregor
Yeah, yeah. Probably not a great idea, but.

Mikayla Hall
We’ve got to start somewhere.

John McGregor
So I did. And it ended up no way.

Aaron Horne
You you have mentioned the make that. Yeah. You got called all names under the sun and you’d never been described that way. I know there’s a property management story that you also have about being described as another human being. Someone saying that you reminded them of a specific celebrity.

Mikayla Hall
I did, yeah.

Aaron Horne
He ran us through. I just think this is and look, there’s lots of unpacking that we could do with it. But I would love to find out more about the time that you were referred to as very similar to home President Obama.

Mikayla Hall
Oh.

John McGregor
Absolutely.

Mikayla Hall
I think about that day a lot, actually. A screenshot of my clothes head and then President Obama. Yes.

John McGregor
I mean, that’s in the book, too, where you’ve just got this poise. Look at the dials and stack it for Obama.

Mikayla Hall
I don’t yeah. I still don’t know why or what happened, but it was I went it was not long after I started, I went to an inspection with Ginia and there was this tenant. And as soon as I walked up to his front door, he said, You’re a mob of President Obama.

John McGregor
Oh.

Mikayla Hall
Okay. And then that didn’t go any further than that. And I was just in shock. The whole inspection, there’s no explanation. None. She didn’t ask why I didn’t get an apology.

Aaron Horne
Maybe it was just the aura or something about it. Just you carry yourself in a way. And if we did write the book and we got him to do the photo book. Yeah, imagine that. Just imagine Obama just being like, Hey, from the story, I then showed up at the house and this young man said, I look a lot like McCain.

John McGregor
Don’t think that’s a very good show. You did a great job.

Aaron Horne
Yeah, that’s a bit better here. I don’t know. I don’t know what president of China looks.

John McGregor
Like.

Aaron Horne
But it is a testament to you guys out there in the trenches because, yeah, there’s times where you’ve been called every night out of the sun and there’s times where you’ve been called one of the greatest names under the sun.

John McGregor
Yeah, yeah. It just swings around a bit.

Mikayla Hall
So obviously why is it self out. Like I say, take the good with the bad indeed.

John McGregor
Well I know it’s been a bit of a fun, fun one for us today because in the end we really wanted to show off you guys if we’re honest.

Aaron Horne
And the good bit is.

John McGregor
A bit of a play for our time that’s away.

Aaron Horne
So we can do.

John McGregor
Whatever we want our.

Aaron Horne
Hearts out. Moving House. I’ll just like free studio.

John McGregor
I like we’ve got we’ve got big boy toys these days because remember we were only saying the other day if we had access to all this stuff right as we did, you know, our teenage years, we probably wouldn’t be able to have professional careers at night. Yeah, sort of worked in our favor that we didn’t get access to these tools until much later.

Aaron Horne
Yeah, I don’t know if you guys are over it and this is like a deep cut for anyone that’s followed us for years, but we had like a jackass kind of crew in high school. So on the weekends we’d go into town and knock over things like, Do you remember the National Geographic Shop? Yeah, yeah. There was like this some like blow up penguin that used to sit at the front door.

Aaron Horne
Remember that guy? Yeah. Yeah, I think John maybe lost his virginity to that.

John McGregor
Dressed.

Aaron Horne
Dressed in an Easter bunny suit. So this video footage of me standing there firmly, John, as he runs around, I think the catch cry at the end of it was a mr. Roux. Once I’m.

John McGregor
Too. Yeah because I mean there was there was two, there’s two mascots out the front. You couldn’t just leave him. Yeah. And then and then. Then we went forward in the pond.

Aaron Horne
Yeah. You know down Salamanca the.

Mikayla Hall
Wishing, the.

Aaron Horne
Wishing pond saying that people sit around and smoke out when they’re at like brick factory. One one day we ran through there and John was yelling out, No. I was like, Stay away from my sister who works with us now and pushed him in the pond. It was the middle of winter. It was freezing. Ridiculous.

John McGregor
Yeah, yeah. Because we ran away, we left. But just. We didn’t actually think about how we’re going to draw these clothes. It was just you.

Mikayla Hall
Just walked.

Aaron Horne
Around town with wet clothes for the for the morning. But, yeah, so if YouTube was a thing back then, we’d be dead perfect now, like we’d be. So you’re lucky to be in the studio with us.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah. Yeah. We thought you guys were lucky to have us in here.

Aaron Horne
I know.

John McGregor
Well, it’s just. It’s just a random luck thing. We’ve got going on.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah.

John McGregor
Yeah.

Mikayla Hall
We’ve got our own talent.

John McGregor
Yeah.

Mikayla Hall
And it is nipple. Yeah. So, yeah, this is just full of spirit. Yeah.

Aaron Horne
It sure is. But yes, thank you for bringing joy to the offices. Thank you for helping out and being such superstars in the offices with your day to day business. But then to be able to get everybody together for a fun event like last night better than the Commonwealth Games. Absolutely loved it and yeah shout out to yeah the girls at white underscore netball underscore New Norfolk slash M.P. 94.

Aaron Horne
If you want to reach out to anyone on their thank you to any money who’s stuck with the property parties like we might have to put a disclaimer but yeah.

John McGregor
Any new listeners after the people that I talked to last week at a investors conference me go back to the previous episode.

Aaron Horne
We simply put that at the start, I reckon. When’s the next game, by the way?

Mikayla Hall
Next Monday. Next Monday, yeah.

Aaron Horne
All right. Next Monday. This one will go out this week. I’ll make sure of it. We will get it out there and we’ll see if the crowd can be just as boisterous next week to get victory number three.

Mikayla Hall
Yeah, yeah. Don’t hold your breath. Yeah.

Aaron Horne
All right, guys, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. No problem. You have been listening to the property, both recorded and edited by 414 media house in conjunction with four one.

John McGregor
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