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By Peter Corbett, FBN
ilver Airstream trailers are unmistakable symbols of America’s wanderlust, traveling the nation’s roads and nesting in campgrounds since the 1930s. The iconic American brand with tens of thousands of shiny aluminum
trailers still on the move has gained popularity in recent decades with their retro design and reputation for longhaul reliability. Indeed, your uncle’s “silver bullet” trailer is now a hip home on wheels. This has spawned a niche business for Flagstaff Airstream Renovations LLC, incorporated in 2021 by owner
Lance Reynolds. He’s a longtime restaurateur, consultant for US Foods and part-time musician with the Las Vegas country band Cash Presley. The trailer odyssey began as a hobby in 2015 when Reynolds started renovating his own Avion trailer. Avions are similar but squared off more than the rounder “shoulders” of an Airstream. “In 2020, when the world shut down and I wasn’t traveling for business, I
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had some free time,” Reynolds said. “I decided to kind of accelerate the hobby a little bit. We had some people who had come into our life that were very, very, very handy and out of work. So, I actually started the company to help them.” The plan was to renovate two or three trailers per year to make enough money to pay them and provide health
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Restaurateur Shifts Gears to Revive Airstream Trailers Retro trend has renovation crews busy
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Keeping Your Spirit Young Dr. Ronda Beaman teaches executives, students and athletes to live as playful, healthy, imaginative, resilient leaders just a little bit, so your soul can breathe while your body goes in to work,” she says in her TEDx Talk. Beaman believes that at some point in our hen Ronda Beaman, Ph.D., learned about the science of neoteny – the phe- youth, we were discouraged from being joyful, playful, passionate beings so that we could be nomenon where an organism retains “adulted” into society. juvenile characteristics into adulthood – she was “We don’t inherit fear. We don’t inherit inspired to write the book, “You Only Live Young boredom and passivity. We are socialized toward Twice” and create the TEDx Talk, “Die Young as them. We accept them,” she says. “We fall in line Late as Possible,” suggesting that most of us age like a bunch of lemmings, as that’s the kind of beourselves from the inside out. havior that we’re supposed to do as an adult, as a Dr. Beaman is the creative force behind much grownup, as someone of aged numbers of years.” of PEAK Learning, an international research and She says neoteny is the practice of maintaining consulting firm based in San Luis Obispo, Califorchildlike qualities throughout our entire lives. “It’s nia. She also is a clinical professor at the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State what we inherit on the day we’re born. They are things like awe and wonder, joy and singing – the University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). As an things that make us inextricably and fantastically internationally recognized and award-winning human.” expert on leadership, resilience, health and wellShe asks, “Did you know that even people ness, education and coaching, Beaman teaches who hum live like seven years longer than people families, students, athletes and executives how to who don’t? We’re meant to be these amazing, increase creativity, performance and resilience, beautiful, extraordinary machines and most of and perhaps even extend their lives. “Gallup did an international poll involving 149 us don’t even tap a tenth of it because of the way countries and found that over 70% of us are disen- we’re socialized, because of the way we’re raised, because of all kinds of reasons.” gaged at work. That means when you leave your car in the morning, you leave the windows down Continued on page 31
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Through a globally televised fitness program, executive coach and best-selling author Ronda Beaman teaches the joy of movement to individuals with special needs in more than 80 classrooms around the world. Courtesy photo
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