Episode 191: Up Close and Personal with Kasey Compton

Summary

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Episode 191: Up Close and Personal with Kasey Compton

Private Practice Startup Podcast
Date: June 15, 2020
Hosts: Dr. Kate Campbell & Katie Lemieux
Guest: Casey Compton

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Overview

This special "Up Close and Personal" episode steps away from typical business conversations to explore the personal side of Kasey Compton, a dynamic entrepreneur known for rapidly scaling her mental health practice. Listeners sent in questions for Casey, covering her upbringing, family life, quirks, and even her self-care habits. The episode closes with a fun lightning round of rapid-fire questions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Casey's Background and Upbringing

• Grew up in Somerset, a small town in south-central Kentucky, best known for Lake Cumberland.

• Lived in a rural environment with about 5,000 residents in her county.

• After high school, moved to Lexington, KY, and then impulsively relocated to Chicago at age 19 to become a makeup artist.

• Quote:

  "Now I think about, like, how, how was I not terrified? I would never do that now ever. But it was...a cool experience." (07:02)

• Chicago experience taught her resourcefulness and independence. She came home with a "different mentality" that helped when facing career challenges.

Embarrassing Stories

• Recounts a memorable moment at the Group Practice Builder Summit, where her husband Trevor, meant to say "tweak the system," instead told a packed room, "sometimes you just have to twerk the system."
• Quote:

  “He stands up in front of the whole entire audience ...and just as serious as he could be, he said, sometimes you just have to twerk the system. You just have to twerk it. And he had no idea.” (10:25)

• The story became an ongoing joke in her professional circles.

Balancing Business & Family

• Trevor joined her company after the business was established, filling a marketing role (his previous expertise). Their work roles are kept deliberately separate.
• They avoid discussing business at home, which has strengthened their relationship and allowed Trevor to spend more time with their children.
• Quote:

  "If anything, it's probably made our relationship stronger... he hasn’t been back to work since we had Thayer... would have never been able to happen otherwise." (15:10)

Managing Multiple Roles

• Casey has shifted to high-level tasks in her practice, focusing on vision and design, with minimal administrative duties (except for payroll).
• Her consulting business is more hands-on and experimental, using her group practice as a “laboratory” for testing new ideas before introducing them to clients.
• Owns several properties, though this is mostly passive.

Personal Growth from Business

• Business ownership revealed her "control freak" side, especially at the start.
• Eventually learned to delegate and let go of micromanagement for the sake of her sanity and the well-being of her team.
• Quote:

  "I was very controlling... It took me a good two years to let go." (20:01)

Self-Care Practices

• Non-negotiable: Getting away to the water (preferably the beach) several times a year for relaxation and mental reset.
• Daily self-care includes reading and writing—writing comes easier with a glass of bourbon!
• Quote (on writing):

  "I swear if I drink a glass of bourbon, I'm like, oh, I can just write." (24:16)

• Favorite bourbon: Blanton’s; also likes Pappy, Old Pogue, and Mitcher’s.
• Favorite vacation spot: Fripp Island, South Carolina—a quiet, family-friendly resort (26:50).

Aspirations

• Wants to write a book titled "Bigger Than You Were Built For," about resilience for business owners who outgrow others’ expectations (27:50).

Family & Home Life

• Husband Trevor is a “free spirit and a slob,” which is both what she loves and what drives her crazy; she finds it challenging when tasks (like laundry) aren't finished.
• Children’s names:
  • Mamie: Vintage inspiration, liked the name from Mamie Eisenhower.
  • Lennon: Inspired by John Lennon (Beatles reference, honoring her husband’s musicality).
  • Thayer: Originally picked for a boy, chosen because all men in Trevor’s family have names starting with "T."
• Not a “hugger”—prefers distance, likely due to upbringing. Known at work for being a “cactus.”
• Pet peeve: People not doing what they say they’ll do—strong integrity value.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with timestamps)

• On being resourceful in Chicago:

  "It made me appreciate the fact that I didn’t need anybody, that I could always be okay." (07:47)

• On relinquishing control in her business:

  "I can stay like this helicopter mom... Or I can let it go. We have standards, but I stopped micromanaging. Now people make mistakes, but we talk about it." (21:00)

• On writing & bourbon:

  "If I drink a glass of bourbon, I’m like, oh, I can just write...I want to write this book but I don’t want to be an alcoholic." (24:16)

• Favorite bourbon tasting:

  “It’s really sweet on the front end, but it’ll kick you in the behind, like as it goes.” (26:22)

• On Trevor’s impact at home:

  “He will, like, let dishes soak for two weeks…Same with laundry, he'll wash the same load...five times to keep from having to fold it.” (31:19, 32:44)

• On not being a hugger:

  “They tease me at work about being a cactus. I just don't like to be that close to people. It just kind of freaks me out.” (35:34)

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Lightning Round Highlights (38:21–41:52)

• If you had to be quarantined with one celebrity: “A chef.”
• Coke or Pepsi? “Coke.”
• Spirit animal: “Maybe a cat.”
• Weirdest job: “Cooked hamburgers for golfers on a golf course.”
• Superpower: “Order and efficiency, definitely systems.”
• If you could do Freaky Friday with anyone: “Ernesto, so I could dance like him on TikTok.”
• Favorite ice cream: “Butter pecan or rainbow sherbet superhero.”
• Have you ever been skinny dipping? “Yes.”
• Would you take the last piece of pie? “Oh, yeah, for sure.”
• Makes you really nervous? “This.” (the lightning round itself!)

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Memorable, Personal Tidbits

• Writing is a passion—she aims to write a book about resiliency in entrepreneurship.
• Enjoys vintage names and decor; finds calmness in quiet and water settings.
• Not naturally affectionate (doesn’t hug), shaped by her family culture, in contrast to her husband’s expressive family.
• Strong value on integrity—dislikes when people don’t follow through.
• Finds foot rubs deeply relaxing (possibly submitted by husband Trevor!).

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• Guest introduction & Casey’s background: 00:30–07:37
• Impactful Chicago story & lessons learned: 07:37–09:51
• Most embarrassing moment ("twerk the system"): 10:25–13:27
• Relationship with Trevor & business/family balance: 13:51–16:19
• Professional roles & managing multiple ventures: 17:12–19:40
• Personal growth through entrepreneurship: 19:40–22:20
• Self-care and creativity (writing & bourbon): 22:28–25:14
• Favorite bourbon & vacation spot: 25:45–27:33
• Book aspirations ("Bigger Than You Were Built For"): 27:37–28:57
• Family & kids’ names: 29:31–31:08
• Big relationship arguments & pet peeves: 31:08–34:11
• Not a hugger, “cactus” at work: 34:41–36:34
• Lightning Round rapid-fire Q&A: 38:21–41:52

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Tone & Style

The conversation is fun, candid, and filled with laughter and mutual respect. Casey’s responses are honest, self-deprecating, and warm—offering a genuine look behind the business persona. The podcast hosts, Kate and Katie, keep the tone casual and light, encouraging Casey to share personal details and stories.

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Summary Conclusion

This refreshing episode offers an engaging, personal portrait of Casey Compton beyond her role as a successful mental health entrepreneur. Listeners gain insight into her formative years, quirky home life, self-awareness, and the real challenges behind her impressive business growth. The playful atmosphere and storytelling, capped off by a rapid-fire Q&A, make this a memorable and relatable episode for anyone balancing business, family, and authenticity.

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Transcript

[Podcast Host]

Welcome to the Private Practice Startup podcast where we help ambitious private practitioners across the globe to brand themselves and grow their dream practices. We chat with successful private practitioners, business coaches and marketing experts, bringing you tons of practice building Ninja tips. Visit privatepracticestartup.com for awesome resources, attorney approved private practice paperwork, and our signature marketing E course. Here are your co hosts, Dr. Kate Campbell and Katie Lemieux.

[Casey Compton]

Hey, everybody.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Welco. Welcome to the Up Close and Personal podcast series. Kate and I have the pleasure of doing this again. We had done this, I think, back in the summer of 2019 and it was a whole lot of fun. You guys voted who you wanted to most hear from and for us to put down the business chat and get up close and personal with your favorite practice builders and coaches. And on today's podcast, we have Casey Compton as you guys voted her for this round of Up Close and Personal. So I'm just going to share a little bit about Casey. Then we're going to put down all the business talk. We're going to get to know a little bit about Casey and then you guys had a ton of questions for her and we're going to ask her those questions. Not all of them of course, because there's a ton. And then at the end, we're going to be doing a lightning round where Casey has to answer a ton of questions in 90 seconds or less. So sit back, relax, grab your favorite snack, beverage, whatever it is, and let's get up close and personal with Casey Compton. So Casey's a spirited entrepreneur who has embraced many challenges and now finds satisfaction in designing new businesses. She's had an entrepreneurial mind and knew that becoming a business owner was always in the cards. Casey turned her mental health private practice into a thriving group practice, going from one to 12 clinicians in one year and continued to multiply from there. Her and her team took this business from 0 to 3 million in less than four years. And today Mindsight Behavioral Group employs over 80 professionals and is on track to have over 100 employees and 5 million in revenue by 2022. Casey's superpower is helping others develop the strategic systems needed to scale and stabilize their practice. She now works as a small business consultant as Casey Consulting, where she helps people do just that. Welcome, Casey.

[Casey Compton]

Hey, thank you for having me again.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Well, thank you so much for participating. And you know, it's so funny cause it's like, you know, we do this for fun and you know, to put down that business chat and we didn't realize that we totally akin on all your anxieties of like winning or losing and being competitive and then you just like rose to the occasion and put it out there.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah. I so just wanted to just forget I got that email and just pretend it didn't exist. But then the more I started thinking about it, I was like, no, I've got to win. I have to. I can't help it. It's just. I just. I can't help it. But it's been really fun and it's been great to have the support of, you know, so many people. And it's been really scary, too, knowing that they were able to post questions that have to answer. Yeah.

[Katie Lemieux]

And you.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And you don't know what the questions are.

[Casey Compton]

Exactly.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

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[Katie Lemieux]

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[Dr. Kate Campbell]

The story about you. Where did you grow up? Tell us about your family, siblings, all that good stuff.

[Casey Compton]

Oh gosh, this is so hard. You know, business talk is so much easier. I grew up in south central Kentucky. I'm from a town called Somerset. Most people have never heard of it, but we're most known for Lake Cumberland, which is I think the largest man made lake in the United States, I believe. Hopefully I'm not wrong on that. But so we have a really cute, cool little, little emerging town, very small. The city in the town or in the county that I live, I think has about 5,000 people. So it's, it's pretty small. So I was born here and grew up here. Moved off to, went a little. A little north. Whenever I graduated from high school, I went to Lexington and moved there and just realized that, I don't know, I guess I was always this kid that, you know, you know the people that grow up in a small town and they're like, I just gotta get out. I just want to get out. And so that was me. I just wanted to get out. So I packed up on a whim and moved to Chicago and found this really great makeup artist up there that worked with a lot of modeling agencies. And I started working with her. She was teaching me a lot about freelancing and about, you know, just, just doing makeup. And I did that for a while. And then I, you know, the, the bug got me. I just wanted to be back home and I was ready to, just to do something that provided a little bit more stability than, you know, the night, the freelance thing in Chicago. So I moved back and went. Started back to college and finished college. And I think the rest is kind of history from there. I think everyone's heard that story. So finish college and then now I'm here doing mental health counseling and operating businesses.

[Katie Lemieux]

Awesome.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And so did you become a makeup artist? Is that what you did out there?

[Casey Compton]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[Katie Lemieux]

Very cool.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And so how old were you when you went to Chicago?

[Casey Compton]

I think I was. I think I just turned 19.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Okay.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, so. And I had never. I mean, I didn't know anything about Chicago. Everyone's like, did you have family? And I actually did have a cousin that lives like in the northern suburb of the city, but I didn't know anybody. I was just. I don't know. Now I think about, like, how, how was I not terrified? I would never do that now ever. But it was, it was cool. It was a cool experience. It was something that I think made me appreciate my hometown much more than I think I would if I wouldn't have left.

[Katie Lemieux]

What did you learn about yourself during that time when you were like, I gotta get out of here and you left and you were just in this brand new city doing your thing.

[Casey Compton]

Oh, gosh. I learned a lot of things. I learned that, that I'm very resourceful. I didn't have, you know, like my family growing up, we were not wealthy. We could put gas in our car and eat and, you know, that's come pretty close to it. So I didn't have any financial support up there. I think I left, like, I don't even think I had money when I left. I just. Just left and found a job. And it made me appreciate the fact that I didn't need anybody, that I could always be okay. It helped me understand that I was very resilient. It just, it did a lot. I mean, I know that. I know that I terrified my mom when I went. I think she was worried sick every single day. She thought I was going to be murdered. But it just, it really toughened me up. I just came back home with a different mentality that I needed in order to be where I am now. I mean, I can't imagine if I wouldn't have learned the lessons I did moving to Chicago, how I would have handled a lot of the challenges that I faced in my career now really don't.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Nice. And how long were you in Chicago?

[Casey Compton]

I was there. I stayed there about a little over a year, maybe a year and a half. So I endured one winter, like one real winter.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

What's Kentucky?

[Casey Compton]

Winters bad, but not like Chicago, I guess you just get all that. You still get air off the lake here, but I mean, air off of. Oh, man. Going in between those buildings. It was so cold. It was so cold. And I didn't live in the city, so it was like an act of Congress to get me from my apartment down into the city. I had to ride two trains, had to walk, I don't know, probably a couple miles total. It was a big. It was a big adventure.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Yes, I'm sure. I'm from Connecticut, so I understand the cold and I hate the cold. So living in a city and having to be outside.

[Katie Lemieux]

Yeah, I always love this series because it's so fun to be able to read everybody's questions that they send in that they want us to ask and to hear everybody's stories. We all talk business all the time. So to get to know you on a personal level is really fun. We're just going to dive in and one of our questions is, what was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you? We'll put you on the spot right.

[Casey Compton]

Up front there's a lot of embarrassing things. This was kind of embarrassing. I don't know if it was the most. So we were speaking last year at the Group Practice Builder Summit in Chicago, and my speech or my talk was about building a business on purpose and all of the things that go into that. And really, it was a breakdown of the five different core systems in business. And I had the bright idea, like I always do, that I'm going to involve my team in my presentation because they're such an important part of what I do. So there I had, like, three people there with me, and we had practiced this because it's one thing to get up and talk by yourself, but then when you have to pick up cues from other people. And, like, it was just a lot. It was a lot. And so my husband. I don't. You all don't know him personally, but anyone that does will totally understand this. He is just like a free spirit. I mean, he has no sense of time. He's just like, I'm here. And I'm like, let's go. We got. Let's go. Come on. Hurry, hurry. And so we had drilled into him like, trevor, you have this one part, okay? Like, one part of the thing, and you cannot screw it up. So please don't screw it up. You've got to pay attention. You've got to pay attention. Well, we. Our room was packed. Like, it was standing room only. People were around the walls standing up. And, you know, I was. I was nine months pregnant. Yeah. I mean, I could have literally had our baby any day. And we get up there, and I'm like, you know, gearing up, like, giving him the eye. Like, it's almost time for you to talk. It's almost time for you to talk. He gets up there, and we're talking about systems, and he was gonna talk about marketing. And he stands up in front of the whole entire audience, and just as serious as he could be, he said, sometimes you just have to twerk the system. You just have to twerk it. And he had no idea. He thought that was the real word that you use. And I like, okay. In a split second, I had to make a decision. Do I just make fun of him now with everybody, or do I ignore it and pretend that they didn't catch on? Which I know that they did because everyone's face is just, like, went white. They were like. So I had to make fun of him publicly. I was like, twerk it, Trevor. Let's. You know, just giving him a really hard time. And to this day he looked at me and he was like, what do you mean? I said, it's tweak. It's tweak the system. Oh. So to this day we'll be on something live and someone will say, where's Trevor? Is he twerking today? And it's so funny, but it was really embarrassing. I think my face turned so many shades of red, it wasn't even funny. That was up there. That was pretty embarrassing.

[Katie Lemieux]

That's a pretty good story.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

It's so funny because I was so involved in the story, I didn't even remember what the question was.

[Katie Lemieux]

That was. It was the most embarrassing thing. That's a really good, most embarrassing story. More so for your husband Trevor. And this next question leads perfectly into that. How would you say your business has affected your relationship with Trevor?

[Casey Compton]

So I feel like we're pretty fortunate. I hear a lot of horror stories from that. We didn't start the business together, so it was, he had his own job and I was doing my own, you know, the thing with the business. And so that was always very separate. But I always wanted him to be involved because of the flexibility and the freedom that it could provide us with our kids. For a large part of my five year old's childhood, he never, he never took her to school, like never took her to daycare, never took her anywhere because he had to get up and go to work so early and just thought about that a lot. And I thought, you know, he's, he's gonna miss all of these things that she's gonna, these milestones that she's gonna have at school. He's not gonna get to see graduation, he's not gonna get this, you know, he's just not. And he would go into work at like 4 o' clock in the morning. So we made the decision to get in a place financially where we could bring him on. And we knew that he was gonna do marketing because that's what he had done in the past at his other job. And he's really good at it. So we brought him in after the business was already established and the roles in the business were already established. And I think probably because of his personality and mine together, he is a very free spirited person. He doesn't have to be in control. He's not one of these guys that like have to be the boss. You know, he doesn't have an ego, he doesn't have any of those things that I think could have made it very challenging for us. So we just always kept the business part Very separate. Like he had a person that he answered to in the business and it was not me and we left it that way and we just don't talk about business at home. It's just very separate. And I think if anything it's probably made our relationship stronger just because we do have the luxury of he doesn't have to ask off when we want to go somewhere or, you know, it's just he hasn't been back to work since we had Thayer, who's 10 months old. He's been home with the baby and that would have never been able to happen otherwise. So I think it's really been a blessing.

[Katie Lemieux]

That's amazing. Yeah, it's really cool to hear. It makes me think of my own relationship with my husband and I just had a baby five months ago and, and yeah, I can imagine that that's going to be really nice to have him home with the baby.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah.

[Katie Lemieux]

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[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Because even though we put down the business chat, it's hard not to talk about business because people have a lot of questions. And Casey, you do a lot of things. So this is a two part question. One is what are all the things that you do? And two, how do you manage it all?

[Casey Compton]

You mean so what do I do within my role at my business? Yeah, yeah.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And you're professional, all the businesses you have going on.

[Casey Compton]

What all do I do? Okay, so within my group practice at this point, I have a really good team and team that I can depend on. So my role in that business right now is just basically the design, the vision, the design of the company. Trying to be the one that's forward thinking and asking the team, like, hey guys, where are you going to? Where are you taking this? Like, I see what you're doing right now, but what are you working towards and just making sure that everyone is on. We're working towards the same goal collectively. So within the group, within my group practice, that's kind of what I do. I don't, I don't really do any of the day to day operations. The only thing I really do is payroll. And that's because I can't get anyone else to, to do it. Nobody wants to do it, but. So that part's pretty set. Now with the consulting side of what I do, I feel like I'm doing more there. You know, we've beta tested some things, we're getting ready to launch some things. That's kind of the consulting piece of what I do is what's fun to me because I take what I've learned in my group practice or ideas that we've tested or, you know, different things that we thought about doing and then we test them out. So it's kind of like our laboratory. And then if they work, they were like, great, now we can tell people about it. And then so we put together something for consulting. If they don't work, then I say, oh, we need to tell people about this, don't do this. And then so, you know, the group practice is kind of like the laboratory for what I'm doing in consulting, which is more of I do everything there from the ideas, the concepts, the content.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Yeah.

[Casey Compton]

So I definitely do a lot more within that one. And then the property. So we own some properties and that's pretty hands off too. It's just managing the property. Nice.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

So one of the things I really like this question is, you know, one of my favorite things about being a business and entrepreneur is I see it as personal growth. And that's what this question is about. Like, what aspect of your personality did business bring out that you had to deal with that maybe either you didn't know or that you struggled with? I think it's a great question.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, well, I mean, it brought out some good qualities for sure, but some of the bad things that it brought out was my sense of control. Like I, when I first started my business back in 2015, I was very controlling. I mean, it was almost like that first child or, you know, something that you're just super. You're afraid that you're going to kill it if you do something wrong. Like everything that I would filter everything through this lens of. If I mess this up, it's going to fail if this isn't done. We're going to fail, you know. And then of course the emotion that that brings out is ridiculous. So it definitely brought out this sense of like control freak in me that took me a good two years probably to just let go of. And that was, that was a struggle. Like that was really hard because it's, it's yours and it's got your name attached to it and it's got your reputation attached to it. And I just remember at one point thinking, okay, I've kind of got a decision to make. Like I can stay. I can stay like this helicopter mom of my employees. And of course we're probably gonna have a better product, we're probably gonna have a better service. Like that sort of thing is probably gonna be better. But my sanity is going to be gone. My therapists are going to quit because I'm going to drive them nuts. So I just really made a very conscious decision that I was just going to let it go. And we have certain standards that I expect people to follow and to meet. But Bey know I don't. I just, I stopped, I stopped doing all of the micromanaging and all of that stuff. And now people make mistakes all the time but we can talk about it and they know what they're supposed to do and it's just been a much better feeling for me. Well yeah.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And I'm sure your staff too like how liberating, right? I always talk about the illusion of control. It's just an illusion.

[Casey Compton]

It is. Yeah.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

I say it because self proclaimed control freak as well. So I totally get you.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Questions about your own self care. So what's one of your non negotiable self care practices?

[Casey Compton]

That's a good question. Okay, so this is probably not the greatest example but I have learned as in my old age, as I'm getting older that there are certain things that give me a sense of peace and relaxation. And one of those is the beach. I don't know if it's just. I don't even like to swim. I don't even know that I can swim. Honestly. I've probably been in water like twice in my life. I don't like it. I don't want to be wet. I just don't like it. But I love to hear it and I love the smell of it and I just love everything else about it. So for me some non negotiables is if I'm not at the water like at least two or three times a year or More I start having this weird like panic reaction almost. It's like I have to get away. And sometimes, you know, for self care I might not go to the beach because that's kind of a big event for us. But I have to get away. Like I have to just get away from my scenery and get away from my house, get away from my office and just have a good reset. So I think that that's probably the biggest non negotiable for me. And I just, sometimes I just like to be quiet. Like I just like everything to be quiet. And so sometimes even like here we have three kids and they're very loud. And so sometimes I'll just, I'll just leave and just go find somewhere and I'll just sit and it'll just be me and I'm just listening to everything else and not the noise that our life brings sometimes.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Is that something you do like on a daily, weekly basis? Is there another thing that you make sure that you do that really grounds you?

[Casey Compton]

Reading? I mean, that's a big one too. If I'm not reading something at least once a week, I don't feel connected to things going on. That's something I really enjoy and I really also self care for me, I guess probably does look a little different than for some people. But I do love to write. It's hard. I'm struggling right now because I have. I think I get in my own head when I'm trying to do it. But I swear if I drink a glass of bourbon, I'm like, oh, I can just write. So I'm trying to be careful about that because I told my husband, I said I want to write this book but I don't want to be an alcoholic. So I got to figure something out.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Well, here's some validation for you, which I use when I'm trying to write something in any creativity. When we did the not so typical Psychotherapist Summit in May 2019, Laura Long did a whole thing on copywriting. And she said if you actually have a glass of whatever your favorite beverage is, it actually helps you be creative.

[Katie Lemieux]

So there you go.

[Casey Compton]

Oh, that makes me feel so much better. Because it does. Yeah, I tried. I sat down. I actually still have it on my computer. I've not published it. I was writing a blog while I was on vacation and I really didn't feel like drinking anything. So I didn't and I wrote and then the next day I went back and read it. I'm like, this is terrible, I can't write. I Can't publish this. And so, I don't know. I'm glad to know. I'm gonna have to tell her. Thank you for that because that makes me feel a lot better about myself.

[Katie Lemieux]

That's. Yeah, that's pretty funny.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And speaking of bourbon, you and I both love bourbon, and we need to know, what is your favorite bourbon?

[Casey Compton]

Oh, gosh, I don't know if I have favorite. I don't know. But I do love Blanton's. That might be my favorite. I love some Pappy. Have you ever had Pappy?

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

I have not. I've heard of it, though.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, it's. But now that's something like you might drink like once a year. It's very, very expensive.

[Katie Lemieux]

Super expensive.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah. So I like those. I like old Pogue pretty well too. And Uriah got me on to Mitcher's. Have you ever tried that?

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Not yet.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, it's made in Louisville and it's very affordable bourbon. And it's got this weird, like, it's sweet on the front end. And then I said this to somebody the other day. I said, it's really sweet on the front end, but it'll kick you in the behind, like, as it goes. And it's just a different kind of taste. But I guess I'm gonna go with Blanton's.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

All right, sounds good. So a few more questions, kind of on the self care, like, track. Where's your favorite place to vacation?

[Casey Compton]

Oh, that's easy. So we found a little place called Fripp island in South Carolina about four years ago. And we have just. We've gone back every single year, sometimes twice a year. It's like, you know the place where Dirty dancing was filmed, that resort? You know, it reminds me of that, but without, you know, like the dancing and all that stuff. But it's like a little private resort. Nobody drives cars, they all ride golf carts. And, you know, there's just hardly anybody there. You could let your kids go and run around or your animals and no one's gonna snatch them up. Definitely. We love it there. Nice.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And what's something on your bucket list?

[Casey Compton]

I think I may have already mentioned that I definitely want to write a book. That's something I would like to have at least halfway finished by the end of this year.

[Katie Lemieux]

Awesome. What's the topic?

[Casey Compton]

Here's the thing. So I tend to overdo everything, of course. So it's really hard for me to show restraint. So I actually have two ideas right now. There's one that I'm really interested in. Pursuing. But I've got to do some more research. But it's called bigger than you were built for, and it's really based on resiliency in business owners and how sometimes we think that. I remember growing up thinking like, I remember my grandpa saying, why in the world do you want to go to college? You can make $10 an hour and stay in Somerset. And he thought that was like, that was so good. And if I would have listened to that or if I wouldn't have just been that defiant brain in my head, like, wait a minute, you know, it is. It's untelling where I would be right now. So that's, that's where I'm leaning with that one. I just got to get. It's got to be. I've got to come up with a method and some kind of process that people can use when they're. When they're facing adversity or challenges in their business. And that's kind of the missing piece with that one.

[Katie Lemieux]

Yeah, that sounds like a really cool book.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, I'm excited about it.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

I'd love to move on some topics about family.

[Katie Lemieux]

So you shared a little bit about Trevor as your husband.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

How long have you guys been married?

[Casey Compton]

I don't know. Listen, I love numbers, but I'm really bad with dates and time. So we have been married. I think we've been married four years. Yeah, I'm gonna go with four years. Hopefully he doesn't listen to this.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

You could just say it was pre recorded for a different time. Who knows?

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, four years.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And so someone also wants to know, how did you choose your children's names? So I guess, what are their names and how did you choose them?

[Casey Compton]

Okay, so my oldest, her name is Mamie. So M A I M E. And I always love vintage, like old stuff. My house is full of just old stuff. And so Mamie was a very old name and actually heard it, Mamie Eisenhower, who was the first lady. And I loved it. And that's really how. I mean, there wasn't any other reason behind that. And then my 5 year old, her name is Lennon. And I struggled with that one because I wasn't really sure. I didn't know what to name her. We had. I knew she was gonna be a boy and if she was gonna be a boy, I was gonna name her Thayer. But she was a girl. And my husband is just like a big music guy. He's extremely talented. He can play any instrument. He sings like, he's. He's really gifted. He doesn't know it, but he's really, really talented. And so we liked kind of that throwback to the music industry with the Beatles and John Lennon. And so that's kind of how we ended up with her name. And then my 10 month old is named after the name that I was gonna name Lennon if she was a boy, which was Thayer. And we did that because Trevor said if he ever had a boy, he wanted the. The baby to have a name that started with T. He said that ran in his family. So that's really the. The name that stuck with me long time ago. And that's just what we went with.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Cool. And people want to know what are you and Trevor argue most about? What's the hot topic in your relationship?

[Katie Lemieux]

Let's dish it.

[Casey Compton]

This is gonna sound so cheesy, honestly. Okay, so what I love most about Trevor and what drives me crazy the most is the same thing. He is such a free spirit and it drives. He's a slob. Like, he is an absolute slob. And I can't stand it. And I think maybe because where I have so much going on all the time, that if I come home and our house looks like a tornado ran through it, I will lose it. Like, lose my mind. Especially the laundry room. If I walk past the laundry room. This is what he does. So he will. He is a master of procrastination when it comes to. To like, picking up after himself. So he will, like, let dishes soak for two weeks. You know, I'm like, hey, you didn't wash the. Well, they're soaking well, they don't need to soak until the. The stainless turns to rust. They need to get washed. Same with a laundry. He'll wash the same load of clothes like five times to keep from having to fold it or hang it up in the closet. It drives me nuts. So, honestly, if we fight, there's a really good chance that that's what it's about.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Now, are these clothes that stay in the washer or you're talking about. They went to the washer, to the dryer, back to the washer, back to.

[Casey Compton]

The washer, get out.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Really?

[Casey Compton]

Yeah. So he's not allowed to wash my clothes anymore at all. Because he ruins everything. He ruins every single thing I have. So right now. And I don't like to do laundry. So right now I have hardly any clean clothes because I haven't washed my own clothes. And he doesn't wash them. So I just keep wearing everything I can find that's clean until I really have nothing left to wear. But yeah. That drives me insane. He's just a slob. It's just so gross. It just grosses me out. I can't stand it. Sorry, Trevor.

[Katie Lemieux]

Aww. Trevor, there was a few people who asked about your pet peeves, but it sounds like you just kind of talked about some of them.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah. I can't stand it when someone tells me they're gonna do something and they don't do it. That. That just. Oh, it just like sends me over the edge and it doesn't matter if it's in like right now, our landscape. Like we hired a landscaper like six months ago to build a retaining wall for my kids little playground area and he still not showed up. And I've got a big pile of gravel like 4 foot tall out there, a big hole in my yard that someone could die in and it just don't show up. And that stuff just drives me crazy. I think that that's like an integrity thing for me. I don't, I don't like it. If you tell me you're gonna do something, I just expect you're gonna do it for sure.

[Katie Lemieux]

What's something that most people don't know about you?

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Good one.

[Casey Compton]

Oh man. I don't know. I don't know. I'm pretty open about stuff. I'm not sure.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Well, I was gonna say while you're thinking and I was trying to find the question again and I can't, but I saw it. Someone said, how much do you love Trevor rubbing your feet? So this is someone who clearly knows about you.

[Casey Compton]

Oh, that was probably Trevor. Now that's. That's like my favorite thing in the world probably. And we can't, you know, we can't. I don't ever do my nails. Like they look awful. I just don't care. But now my feet. If I could go get a pedicure. I do that every single week. And of course we. Everything's been closed, so we haven't been able to do that. It's really hard for me to relax. Like, it's hard for me just to shut off everything and just relax. But that's, that's one way that will do it. That's gonna drive me crazy that I can't think of something that not everybody would know.

[Katie Lemieux]

It'll probably wake you up at like 2am I know I'll be sending you.

[Casey Compton]

All an email saying, hey, I thought of something perfect.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

We'll use it for the landing page.

[Katie Lemieux]

And it sounds like somebody else knows you, but they said why don't you hug?

[Casey Compton]

Oh, is that the thing? I bet that's Tara. Boston Kemper. I bet I could tell you who wrote these questions. Yeah, they. They tease me at work about being a cactus. I don't know. I just don't like to be that close to people. It just kind of freaks me out. If it's not that I don't like to hug, maybe. Maybe it's just how I grew up. Like, I don't ever remember time where my parents hugged me. I really don't. I can't. I can't tell you that. I'm not saying they didn't, because they probably did, but I don't remember now. My grandparents would, and. And. But, like, our family was just not close like that, and I. That's probably why. Trevor's family is just the opposite. They're very, very much touchy feely. And so, like, if someone hugs me, I don't. It doesn't freak me out. But I'm not gonna go hug somebody. You know, I'm not gonna be the one to initiate the hug.

[Katie Lemieux]

You're not a hugger?

[Casey Compton]

No. There's a really funny picture that was from a couple years ago at slowdown school that I went to, and I met Tara there, and we were out at this restaurant drinking wine, and somebody was getting ready to take our picture, and she grabbed me and hugged me, like, right in the middle of the shot. And my face is like. Like, freaking out in the picture is so funny. And whenever you said that, that's exactly what came to my mind.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

That's interesting you say that, because I know that we were supposed to have the not so typical psychotherapist summit here in May. Right. We're recording this in June. And so I would say, like, be prepared when you come to South Florida. Like, what is very touchy feely.

[Casey Compton]

Really?

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Yeah.

[Katie Lemieux]

We'll have to see how Covid affects everything, because I don't know how huggy and touchy feely people are gonna be, even with handshaking. It's kind of like a thing of the past right now.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's good to know. Thank you for warning me.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

In general, people are very huggy, I.

[Casey Compton]

Would say, outside of COVID Yeah, I'm sure. Like, my. My oldest daughter is just like me. Like, she doesn't take a compliment very well. She's just very shy when it comes to that sort of thing. She's not a big hugger. But now, like, Trevor, if he just meets you, he'll hug you. He's just. He just doesn't have a filter when it comes any of that stuff. My five year old, she's the same way. She wants to hug everybody and she tells everyone she loves them. And like, I mean, she's just, she's so sweet. And me and Mamie, we're just the opposite. Like, we're not like that at all. It's kind of funny.

[Katie Lemieux]

Casey, we've warmed you up. Now are you ready for the lightning round? Because we're gonna fire some questions your way.

[Casey Compton]

Oh, gosh, yeah. Let's do it.

[Katie Lemieux]

You ready? Okay.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah. Okay, I'll let you go first.

[Katie Lemieux]

I'll start it off. If you had to be quarantined with one celebrity, who would it be?

[Casey Compton]

Oh, gosh. Oh, I can't say that. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I don't know exactly, but I'm gonna say it has to be a chef. I want to be quarantined with the famous chef.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Yum. Coke or Pepsi?

[Casey Compton]

Coke.

[Katie Lemieux]

What's your spirit animal?

[Casey Compton]

Maybe a cat.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Favorite sandwich?

[Casey Compton]

Ham and cheese loaf with mustard.

[Katie Lemieux]

Weirdest job you've ever had?

[Casey Compton]

I cooked hamburgers for golfers and would feed them as they would come around through the golf course. I know that's not that weird, but that's about the weirdest job I've ever had.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

What is your superpower?

[Casey Compton]

Order and efficiency. Definitely system that, you know, like making things work.

[Katie Lemieux]

Well, if you could do Freaky Friday with anybody and switch positions with them for a day, who would it be?

[Casey Compton]

Gosh, these are hard. Switch positions with anybody for a day. I'm gonna switch positions with. This is crazy, but I'm gonna say Ernesto because I want to be able to dance. I. And he can dance on TikTok and I can't.

[Katie Lemieux]

I love it.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

That's funny because I was just gonna ask you a favorite. Go to karaoke song or favorite.

[Casey Compton]

Oh, no, neither. I can't. I can't sing. No, no. Can't dance. Trevor taught me how to like do this little thing in the car the other night and he was dying laughing because he's like, that's the most dance I've ever seen you do.

[Katie Lemieux]

Favorite ice cream flavor?

[Casey Compton]

I'm an old. I'm an old one. I like butter pecan or I like rainbow sherbet superhero.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Your most like.

[Casey Compton]

Oh, gosh, I don't know. I'm gonna say. Can I say Wonder Woman? I don't know that many women.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Yep, of course.

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, that's. That's gonna be me.

[Katie Lemieux]

What's something that Makes you really nervous.

[Casey Compton]

This.

[Katie Lemieux]

I love it.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Here's a little like race, you know, racy. One is, have you ever been skinny dipping?

[Casey Compton]

Yes. Yes.

[Katie Lemieux]

Yeah. How are we doing with time? I think we've definitely gone 90 seconds.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And how about this? Would you ever take the last piece of pie?

[Casey Compton]

Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

What is your favorite piece?

[Casey Compton]

I love. I like cobbler. So I can eat some BlackBerry cobbler, some peach cobbler. Definitely one of those. Yeah.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

And someone asked, is Starbucks really coffee? I'm gonna say, of course it is. Like, who's gonna ask that question?

[Casey Compton]

Yeah, sorry.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Big Starbucks lover. Well, Casey, it's been a pleasure. And is there anything that maybe you wanted to share about you that we haven't asked that you think is important for people to know on this Up Close and Personal podcast?

[Casey Compton]

I don't think so. I mean, this has been really fun and I'm really happy that you all picked me to do this. It's been scary. It's been a little anxiety provoking, but no, it's been really fun. I think it's a great idea to put people in more of just a personal look at. Look at them in a personal light, especially with everything going on right now. I think being able to connect with people on a personal level is important. So I can't think of anything else, but I'm really just appreciative of the opportunity to be on here and be at the beck and call of all the people who decided to post a question.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Yeah, and we so appreciate you doing that and really appreciate everyone who participated because they chose you and four or five others that we will be interviewing as we continue the Up Close and Personal podcast series. And if you haven't checked out our previous Up Close and Personal, you might want to do that as well. There we got to interview Ernesto Segiz Mundo, Katie Reed, Tiffany McLean, Allison per year, and Laura Long. And we'll put the link in the show notes page so you guys can go check those out as well. But make sure you guys join us next time for our next guest that you guys voted on so we can get up close and personal.

[Katie Lemieux]

Thanks for being here, Casey. Bye, everybody.

[Dr. Kate Campbell]

Take care.

[Katie Lemieux]

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[Casey Compton]

SA.