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The Conscious Collaboration Podcast brings together entrepreneurs, changemakers, and thought leaders. We aim to highlight the people who embody the idea of aligned mind, body, and business. Each week, we share, discuss, and learn from the various experiences and ideas of our guest experts. Through our discovery, we find a path to aligned mind, body, and business.
The conscious collaboration brings together entrepreneurs, change makers and thought leaders. We aim to highlight the people that embody the idea of aligned mind, body and business. Each week, we share, discuss and learn from the various experiences and ideas of our guest experts. Through our discovery, we find a path to an aligned mind, body and business.
Emily:What up y'all? This is Emily.
Lisa:And I'm Lisa and we are the conscious collaboration. And here with us today is Cameron Methany. Is it pronounced Methany? I've never said your last name. Methany, but you're Methany.
Lisa:From one Aquarius to the other, but Cameron is my dear rebel friend that I met pre hurricane season here in St. Petersburg and she is, gosh, I don't know, she truly is Aquarian. She's got her hands in so many things from entrepreneurialism to her own podcast, to her own, brand development. So much going on with Cameron. Cameron, expand a little bit on that.
Cameron Metheney:So, yes. Thank you, ladies. Thank you so much for having me. So I am the principal and founder of Cameo Studio Designs, which we focus on collaboration with tile installation in commercial and residential. And then I'm a lighting designer by trade, so I'm known in the lighting industry and the tile industry of fusing those two industries together by creating the brand Cameo Studio, which has LED integration for grout joints, for your pans, for you name it, in luxury bath showers.
Cameron Metheney:I also have a CEU that's called designer dopamine. So it's all about that dopaminergic. Yeah. It's all about that dopaminergic design with how we can entice dopamine through lighting tile designs and bathroom.
Emily:That's
Cameron Metheney:dope. Yes. Right.
Emily:Can I make a dad joke?
Lisa:Go ahead. Was that your dad joke right there?
Emily:That was my dad. That was it. Yeah. With dope dopaminergic.
Cameron Metheney:Dopaminergic, yes. And then, and the host, as you mentioned, of the WOFB podcast, where I bring all things of women entrepreneurs together and we talk about raw and edgy conversations.
Lisa:And it's so much fun to be on your podcast as well too. We'll have to drop all your links so people can take a listen to it. Amazing. But so, Cameron, how are you feeling today post the 2 hurricanes that we've been through since we met?
Cameron Metheney:You know, it's so funny that you ask because I'm gonna I'm going to give an outline before I give you that answer. But the outline is I love it that we met the day of Helene in St. Pete and it was chaotic in the hotel. We, you know, my studio for the my podcast is in the Moxie Hotel. And if you remember, it was kind of chaotic that night.
Lisa:Yeah. It was.
Cameron Metheney:And then it was like, po then it was hurricane. Then it was post. We connected a little bit through, you know, our text messages and jobs and kind of things that were kind of just up in the air. And then we chatted before Milton and things were just kind of like moving again up in the air. And now here we are, we've chatted post Milton, and I've shared that conversation with being in Saint Pete Beach where it feels really chaotic, grocery stores chaotic, gas stations chaotic.
Cameron Metheney:And, I consume a lot of people's energy and spaces walking into a space. So how I feel is I feel fucking chaotic.
Lisa:Do you girls feel like the Tasmanian devil is chasing you around just like picking everything up that you're trying to put your hands on?
Emily:A little bit. I've been actually, like, not during the evacuation piece of things, but in these last 2 weeks in the chances that I've had to be here in the workspace, I've been extremely like obsessively productive, like in a weird way. And I, I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing. It's kind of just like, I have all that chaotic energy, that unsettled energy that we kind of talked about. And if, if I don't apply it to something that needs to be done, it's just going to go like crazy.
Cameron Metheney:I love that you said that because it actually has been a catalyst, almost like a catapult. You know, I've had all of these jobs on my whiteboard waiting, bid, bid, bid, and now everything is converting, converting, converting. So there it I like that you bring that up because there has I feel like that even though it's chaotic, it's not like hamster wheel chaotic for me. It's more like, all right, it's time to get this shit done. Chaotic.
Cameron Metheney:So I love that you bring that up.
Lisa:There's some kind of laser focus clarity that happens when you're in that fight or flight kind of mindset where you're just searing in a wedding.
Emily:Yeah, it can. If you, if you can recognize it and channel it, rather than sort of let it consume you.
Cameron Metheney:Yeah. Yeah. This is true. So all within the last 24 hours, you know, of converting these bids. I've been to Georgia in 24 hours twice.
Cameron Metheney:Woah. Bought a bought a $40,000 box truck and all of this concrete machinery that's being delivered to the house tonight. So I get to fly to Atlanta tomorrow to pick up this box truck that we bought and to bring it back to Florida. So there's some action.
Emily:Yeah. There is.
Lisa:I know some serious action. Yeah. You drove and now you're flying. Oh my gosh. I don't know how you're doing it.
Emily:I kept thinking too, like how, how, how ungrounding this all is. Right. And especially with all the travel and the sporadic movement. And I thought of an interesting metaphor or analogy, I guess, being that you do flooring
Intro:and literally
Emily:work with the ground. Yeah.
Cameron Metheney:Yes. No, that's great. You're absolutely right. And maybe I need to take off my shoes as soon as I get to that job site and just stop. Oh, yeah.
Emily:And totally. Well, watch out for nails and right rusty screws first, do a little perimeter check, and then Yeah. Take your shoes off. Yeah.
Cameron Metheney:I don't think OSHA would like that.
Emily:Right. Right.
Lisa:No. Not at all. Well ladies, what do you say we pull a couple cards and see what's going on on the collective and then we'll continue our conversation as we're doing that?
Cameron Metheney:Great, let's do it.
Lisa:Because I know everybody's time today. Rob and Cameron, you've got all these jobs coming in. Oh my gosh.
Emily:The cards can always zone in on kinda what we need to to know.
Cameron Metheney:Yeah.
Emily:I like that. Like that.
Lisa:So this is interesting.
Emily:You know, you know where my mind's going.
Lisa:I think your mind went to boobs.
Emily:I'm gonna get a left on this one. Pointy boobs. Yeah. The muffin powers, you know.
Cameron Metheney:Well, I won't even tell you the first thing I thought then. Let's hear it. I mean, I'm 1200 cc's each tit. So I was like, oh, there there it is.
Lisa:So the energy is of keeping still right now, which is 52 and it's changing into extended family.
Emily:Kind of the opposite of what we're talking about, keeping still.
Lisa:So collective energy of all of our listeners, not just us who were in the midst of the hurricane. I know everybody else was kinda pulled into our hurricane because all of us work with people internationally. They were kind of disrupted by this too, just watching us. So keeping still talks about the energy of keeping regular periods of rest. And I don't know about you ladies, but my rest has been just a bunch of crazy dreams and loud generators.
Lisa:Yeah.
Emily:It's definitely been disrupted for the last week or so.
Lisa:I think this is a lot of reference, Cameron. This is a lot of reference to going back to grounding, to that grounding energy. It also alludes to considering our spine and alignment, or spine which serves as a switchboard for all the nerves of the body that mediate movement. And when the spine is kept flexible and healthy through proper rest and relaxation, Active movement can be undertaken without strain.
Emily:Yoga, anybody? Learning
Lisa:to act when it's time to act and to be still when it is wise to be still is a key to obtaining the peace of mind that helps you to stay alert and clear focus when it's needed. So I think that is very much what we're talking about too. Yeah, call timeout, relax, take your shoes off and sit a spell and take your shoes off and walk around the job.
Emily:You literally just said that.
Lisa:And meditate just on being. So really being focused in the moment. There's lots of change lines that are happening here. So obviously we know that, everything on every level is changing.
Emily:Yes.
Lisa:So being careful about what you're saying in times of doubt or impatience, be mindful of what you say because you could put others off and thereby miss good times and new companionship because we're moving towards the energy of extended family, which is something that the 3 of us find really important in terms of collaboration, partnerships, finding yourself
Emily:It's our whole community right now kind of having been all the same thing, you know, regardless of the different levels that we've been affected at, we are all affected. So it's kinda like everybody, everybody who's who's in this is extended family to some degree.
Lisa:Yeah. Yeah. Everybody is. Everybody just witnessing it too. At the beginning of a major undertaking, reserve energy by pausing for rest and reflection at the start, taking a moment to chart your course before setting out on an adventure, Cameron.
Cameron Metheney:Do I have an adventure?
Lisa:Yes, supports good timing and brings good fortune. So this is the point in your undertaking when few mistakes have been made and innocence is untainted by ulterior motives. Persevere by staying in balance, staying balanced and you will be able to establish a firm lasting foundation since everybody's had their foundation and somewhat disrupted. So that energy of extended family that we're talking about too, and you can let me know your intuition as it comes in, hexagram 37, which is wind above and fire below. That's really pretty, it's like ferns in the forest.
Lisa:A community thrives and a family and partnership thrives when there's healthy interdependence. So not the codependence, not the complete dependence on other people. Respect for different roles is essential. Again, good to know.
Emily:I mean, right now, especially, yeah.
Lisa:Our harmonious family is a team that symbolizes the idea of human interdependence and has long provided a foundation for society. The healthy family is an embryo of community and the native soil in which ethical values take root and grow. Fertilize the soil and the entire society benefits.
Emily:Yeah, man, that's totally it, isn't it? I mean, that's the one silver lining that you find with these things is, is how you see people come together. And yeah, we're having the, the fights at the gas station and, and all kinds of untoward shit as well. But I mean, the, the heartening stuff that that you get to see is is pretty cool. And, you know, I don't I I think we'd be doing ourselves a big disservice not to acknowledge that.
Emily:And then I love the piece about, you know, taking care of the the land that you're that you're on, you know, because I mean, and we, we kind of had this conversation yesterday when, when you were here working out, like some people there that, you know, a lot of people just moved here, in the last couple of years or, or even sooner from, from other states and stuff. And maybe didn't quite weigh out what it means to move to a hurricane prone place. And then we get the 2 worst storms that we've had since anybody's been alive. And so you have some people that you see are, you know, very, very connected to the land and whose, whose first instinct is to go and clean the beach and go and, you know, clean the homes and, and take care of it versus, you know, you see some people, and I'm not saying this is a bad thing. It's just it's just what what I'm observing whose first instinct is to GTFO.
Emily:Right? Like like, I I I didn't sign up for this shit. Yeah. And that's fair. You know, that's fair.
Emily:But I I love that that that was I mean, I think as usual, the itching is is right on point.
Lisa:Yeah, yeah. And that balance of masculine and feminine energy too is really essential right now. And it's certainly And Cameron, we've been talking about too dealing with people who's elevated, they're frustrated, having that ability to access your feminine and your masculine to navigate difficult conversations, to be able to work together, to solve problems is really a huge asset.
Emily:And balancing rest and action within yourself too, because both are needed.
Cameron Metheney:You know, and I think that that's something that I've been watching. I did an interview with the, Cajun Navy Relief.
Emily:Oh my gosh. I'm from Louisiana. No way.
Cameron Metheney:Yeah. So Jen, she was the executive director. She was on with 2 other women who are actually warehousing all of the Amazon gifts. So everything that's bought. And after I aired that, you know, in the tile community, I'm known as kind of the lighting Barbie.
Cameron Metheney:And so I've worked with an installer. So I was getting bombarded with the need from not only Florida, but the installers who literally are down in North Carolina who are either veterans, who are, you know, trying to do as much as they can. And they're just funneling story after story after story, you know, of everything that's really going on there. And then I saw it even more here after the hurricane. And to your point, Emily, it was like people that were not from here, you know, their house is already up on, you know, it's for sale as is.
Cameron Metheney:Right? A $1,000,000 home. And so, you know, the conversations that I've had with people too, I've had to, you know, draw back a little bit. And as you said, I've had to protect my domain because I have people that are feeling very chaotic, very distraught, trying to tell me what it is that I'm going to do for them. And we've had to have time out after time out after time out.
Cameron Metheney:And for me to say, well, this is a priority when we get to this. This is when I come in and just really reexplain things, but also, you know, just let them know, yeah, I'm a contractor, but you know what? It's gonna be okay. And we're human beings. Human beings are resilient, and we can rebuild anything.
Cameron Metheney:I mean, that's we're we're one of the only mammals that are so resourceful, and we're so resourceful. But there are those resources that are out there for people. It just isn't like Amazon. It's not gonna be here today, and that's what we're so accustomed to as well. Through all of this, we're so accustomed to our accustomed to as well through all of this.
Cameron Metheney:We're so accustomed to our phones, to having electric, to having all of this stuff, and it's not readily available. And so I just feel like that, you know, people just have to step back.
Intro:Mhmm.
Cameron Metheney:Take your breath and get grounded because it will all be there. It's all gonna be there.
Emily:Yeah. It doesn't make it move any faster or smoother or easier if you try to resist the all these elements that are completely out of our control. You know? And I think I think there's still a lot of that, like like fighting it.
Lisa:Yeah. The word that comes to mind is natural order to me. People just wanna skip from here to there and just doing things when it's not intentional can cause so many mistakes. And I've heard you, Cameron, online, you've been navigating some difficult conversations and educating people that it can't be done this, this because it caused this. Really following in that natural order and not screwing with the elements and doing things unintentional is when things are broken, the foundation is not sturdy.
Emily:Mhmm.
Cameron Metheney:Yeah. You know, the other thing that I've noticed too that's really interesting and I go to this place of trauma and I won't go too far down this rabbit hole because I know we're all pressed for time, But I find that people and a lot of people that I've run into, if they've not if they've had trauma in their life and they've been like, you know what? I'll deal with it later. They've set it aside and they've not dealt with it. And now they have this is PTSD for some people.
Cameron Metheney:And all these unresolved issues, all of that stuff starts to come to surface. All of that stuff is like, not only is it fucking sand that's all over the streets, but it's all of these emotions that were never dealt with. I feel like from people, you know, I'm not saying that it's Saint Pete, it's just across everywhere that I'm seeing. Things are not dealt with internally first when stuff like this happens. Oh, Lord, baby Jesus.
Emily:Yeah. It's it's it's really gonna activate the best in people and the worst in people.
Cameron Metheney:Yeah, both. But that's something that keeps coming up and around. So I just had to mention that.
Lisa:Yeah, I think it's wonderful and it's unique that you're also trauma informed. So I think that's an asset in working with all these people to help them to rebuild businesses and homes, extremely valuable. And you do such a good job of harmonizing your masculine energy in terms of being a strong business owner and just getting stuff done, but also the feminine and being able to navigate the discussions and your body language is very good too. And I think that helps people too.
Cameron Metheney:Because I'm not showing up at job site.
Lisa:Well, we don't have the video showing, but I think if we saw a camera, that would be very arresting. But, yes, I love that. The Barbie, flooring Barbie showing up on.
Emily:I do too.
Cameron Metheney:Because I'm so nervous. Well,
Lisa:Cameron, I know that you're getting ready to fly out to your next job, but, do you wanna share with everybody where they can find you easiest, especially during this time?
Cameron Metheney:Sure. So on TikTok, I am boss bitch, cameo, uncut. On Instagram, I am cameo studio designs_led. And then on Facebook, I'm just me, Cameron Matheny.
Lisa:I love it so much. And everybody have to check out Cameron's work. It is amazing. It's gorgeous. It's very fun way.
Lisa:And to Emily's point too, it is very important to have the right flooring and lit flooring just makes me so happy in terms of lighting that path and to illuminating spaces that really need it. I love the idea of having that designer dopamine too. In fact, it's a real thing. So thank you so much for all that you do. We're so honored to have you here in the back end of the hurricane and you are my hurricane sister.
Lisa:So regardless of the weather, that is a blessing.
Cameron Metheney:Well, I would just like to time out for a minute and just say that I'm so thankful of being in Florida now. I lived here whenever I was very young, actually 4 buildings down from the Don Caesar and then left. I would come back every vacation with my kids and my family when they were younger. And I've been here for 2 years. And to be able to hop on your bandwidth and connect with people like the 2 of you, this is really good for me because I love having camaraderie.
Cameron Metheney:I love being able to be like, hey, Emily, hey, Lisa, are you guys down the street? Let's go do this. Let's go do that. So, now that I have both of your numbers, I'll be texting.
Lisa:Yeah. Let's do it again soon. Yeah. This is just the
Emily:beginning, but it's so great. Slice of normalcy, right?
Lisa:Yeah. We really appreciate you and this impromptu guesting, with us here at the Conscious Collaboration and we'll invite you inside of our closed and private Facebook group where people might pop in with questions. And if you're out and about, we may shoot you a text, just to get your insight, but we welcome you to the community and anyone out there listening. If you're not in there, we invite you to hop in there. And it's been fun.
Lisa:It's been real as always and yeah.
Cameron Metheney:Yes, and your podcast airs on our podcast in 2 weeks, so.
Lisa:Yay. Yeah, we'll drop the link there and we can always continue collaborating and keeping those good vibes out there in all the industries and connections that we have with thought leaders and change makers and entrepreneurs. So thank you. Thanks so much, Carrie. Namaste.
Lisa:Namaste. Talk to you in 5.
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