Here’s the second half of our chat with Josh Juneau and Emily Seils. Check out the first half here.
What are your favorite neighborhoods in New York City? And what makes them appeal to you.
J: We’re huge West Side people.
E: West Side, best side.
J: It’s our nitsch. We hang out a lot in Midtown West, which is where I live.
Hell’s Kitchen Area?
J: Yeah. Honestly, Emily’s got my end-goal neighborhood, the West Village.
E: Josh actually helped my roommate and me find our apartment in the West Village this past summer and it is my favorite neighborhood, by far. I don’t ever want to live on not the West Side.
J: Honestly, the Upper West Side all the way down to TriBeCa, there’s such charm and energy in the air that you don’t really get anywhere else.
E: Also, my commute to work is probably 12 minutes and I am not a morning person.
J: My walk to work is 12 minutes.
Do you have a dream apartment in those neighborhoods?
E: There’s an apartment in Soho I’ve been eyeing. Tyler doesn’t think it’s worth the price it is, so for the past however many months we’ve been TripleMint instead of Suitey, Tyler and I have played a game where he sends me different options around the same price range to get me to admit he’s right. I have yet to do that. He sends me good options. There’s also a $40 million West Village apartment Josh and I have talked about buying together. We just need to come up with the remaining $39.99 million¦
J: .. and the remaining debt payments after the down payment. Just the semantics. I’m a serial dater when it comes to apartments. Unlike my real life dating, one day I love an apartment in the West Village and the next day I’m in love with an Upper East Side townhouse, even though I sometimes swear I will never move to the Upper East Side.
E: We actually discussed this when we were convinced that we were going to win the $1.5 billion PowerBall. We weren’t talking “if we win,” we were talking, “when we win.” We wrote a contract in happy hour about how we would split our winnings.
J: Including signing with our hand prints.
E: But we didn’t win the powerball the next day. Which was tough. Because we planned to ride tigers that day.
So close!
E: So that’s how we talked about what apartments we’d buy. I told him we are not moving into an Upper East Side townhouse.
Great! So what do you guys like to do in your free time – besides plan out PowerBall winnings.
E: Yeah unfortunately we haven’t had time to do that in a while.
J: We actually spend a lot of our free time together. We both like to be outdoors and hate being inside especially on days off because the last thing I want to do on a day off is just be inside and not do anything.
E: We spend most of the summer in Sheep’s Meadow.
J: We’re huge park people. We also favor happy hour.
E: Anytime time someone needs happy hour advice, I always recommend a place for margaritas. Every single time.
J: If we’re not at a park or happy hour, we’re eating on my couch.
E: We eat on his couch a lot.
J: We don’t cook. We don’t know how to cook.
E: One of Josh’s favorite things to say is, “You know what’ll be really fun tonight? Instead of going out to eat we should just go to the store get a lot of stuff and make tacos and have taco night at home,” and I’m like, definitely, let’s do it.” And then we get back home with all the ingredients to make tacos for a small army and Josh sits on the couch while I make the tacos.
J: Right, but if it weren’t for me being there overseeing the entire process, it would have never gotten done.
It’s delegation
J: Yes, I delegate to one person. I’m the czar of taco night.
What are each of your own funniest stories with TripleMint
E: Everything funny happens.
J: It’s hard to pin down because our job is just fun in general. We get to work with so many people that it’s hard to pick out the funniest moment. There are so many stand out moments.
E: You’re such a politician.
J: Wow I’m trying to buy us time.
J: Emily has a very funny story. Before she was an agent, she was the Client Experience Manager and she worked with Austin. Austin says a lot of crazy stuff so for a full year¦
E: No, it wasn’t a full year. We’ve written about this before. Austin is just a ridiculous human that we love so much and kind of hate. Don’t write that. Actually write it.
J: Let’s think of another question. I don’t really have a funny story. You know what’s funny about TripleMint, we always find clients a good home.
E: I think that everything that happens here is funny. That’s why I like Josh so much. I mean look at him, he’s funny. I laugh at everything. But this company especially. I came from such a different company and I was mostly alone so there’s no way of picking. I’ve attended TripleMint events in penguin and crab outfits. We really like sea creatures.
J: Costuming. We do a lot of really fun events with a lot of college kids. It’s a very young energy company.
J: Oh, I’ve thought of a funny story. Finally. After one of our Lazoni events, we decided to continue a night of drinking by doing karaoke. We get to karaoke and we’ve only been there for about 20 minutes and at this point we’re sitting there and everyone is choosing songs and Emily decides to spend the entire karaoke happy hour not even singing into the microphone, but sitting on top of the table singing every single song in her head. She wouldn’t hand the mic off.
E: In my mind I was so nervous that the next song that came on would be what I wanted to sing, so I would not give up that mic.
J: So she was saving her voice for a song that never came.
Tell us something that many people might not know about you.
J: Emily and I are both very athletic even though most people might assume otherwise. Emily is actually a competitive skier.
E: I was. I’m not any more.
J: Just from looking at her, she’s a small, 5′ 4″…?
E: Wow, thank you so much. More like 5′ 1″, 5′ 2″ maybe.
J: Blond little¦ thing. So you don’t assume she’d throw on the snow boots and shlolom down.
E: Josh is actually learning to ski with me next weekend and he’s convinced that he is going to be a child prodigy who didn’t have the opportunity to blossom as a child, but he knows he’s going to be good.
J: It’s valid though. Had I begun as a child, I would have been a prodigy. And I’m still a prodigy. Where you stand mentally in some places, can also allot to whether or not you are actually a prodigy.
E: A little known fact about Joshua is that he’s actually really good at spinning a situation in his favor, like “child prodigy” at the age of 25. Which is very unlikely.
J: I’m sorry my mom told me to believe in miracles. And here I am. Getting to know Emily and me, you’d assume we’re very sessile beings, but we really do seize the day. We’ll go out until 4AM, then wake up at 6AM or 7AM and go do stuff.
E: Maybe 8AM.
J: Okay 8AM. But we’re always ready to go outside and do something fun.
E: And be active.
J: We have a huge case of FOMO. We’ll be the first one’s to say, “we’re not going out tonight.”
E: Every single company event ever. At our ping pong event, we were the first ones there and the last ones to leave. We ended at McDonald’s with Mike DeSena and Eric Rivera. I don’t even like McDonald’s.
Well thanks for talking with us guys.
E: Can you take the embarrassing stuff out?
No.
