((PKG)) FEMALE PAINTER
((TRT: 04:56))
((Banner: Women in Business))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Adapted by: Philip Alexiou))
((Map: San Diego, California))
((Main character: 1 female))
((Sub character: 1 female))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
I was painting at a high rise, not so great apartment
building, actually right in this neighborhood. And I
was working alongside this cleaner and she was
crying. She was like, “How are you able to do this?”
Because we make a lot more money than cleaners.
“You know, it's a man's job. I wish I could do this and
all these things.” And I was really moved by that.
And I was like one day like I'm going to get my
contractor's license so I can hire women and they can
make more money, you know. And so, that's what I
did.
((NATS))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
I was in contractor license school and I was like nine
months pregnant. I was the only woman and I was
like wobbling in there. I was really uncomfortable.
((NATS: Kelly Forbes and her daughter))
Can you wave at the camera? Hi.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
It's very masculine. It's very sexist. It's very ageist as
well. So, I was just young, and I was a woman, and I
just generally got paid much less than other people.
Like I was going in people's houses, doing the whole
entire job, was making 14 dollars an hour and the
foremen were making 25, 30 dollars an hour.
((NATS))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
Well, I created my own company when I was 16 years
old as soon as I learned to paint a room. I just came
up with the name Love Painting Company because I
love love and I love the word love. But I started a
physical, real like live company that has a contractor's
license and all of those things in 2017.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((NATS: Kelly Forbes and Jennifer, Employee,
LOVE Painting Company))
I'm also impressed that you know that painters wear
white.
Well, a lot of it's to hide like plaster and product
instead
Yep.
of landing on the clothes.
Yep.
and white matches everything and so any paint
splattered
Yep.
on your clothes it matches.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
You’re carrying like five gallon [19 liter] buckets of
paint. They're extremely heavy. You're carrying
heavy ladders, going up and down and up and down
all day. So, it's pretty physically demanding.
((NATS))
((Jennifer, Employee, LOVE Painting Company))
So, I think that's a common misconception in society
that like women can't do these like hands-on jobs that
might take physical labor. And I think that, you know,
women can do anything a man can do.
((NATS))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
Like, we hire men as well. It’s not a sexist thing or
people who identify as somewhere in between both
genders, like we're very encompassing. But also, a
lot of women, people really trust them. And they
come in their home and they feel people with families
or say like an older woman who lives alone, like they
feel very comfortable with that. And women are really
great painters as well.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
It's just, it's a feminine process in general. You're like
coating unique things. It's not like carpentry where
like carpentry you're cutting wood and it's like a
measurement and it's like a straightness and it's very
exact, whereas like, so it’s like a very feminine, like
finesse process to paint things. And then there's like
the intuitive color consultation side.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
This yellow and this purple will not be in the home on
the walls. It's a palette for them to work off of, to add
art and accents, throw pillows, blankets, stuff like that.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Courtesy: LOVE Painting Company))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
And I was just there one day by myself like working
and I was like I'm just going to raise the pay for
everyone to 20 dollars an hour. When you walk onto
the company, you're going to make 20 dollars an hour
((Courtesy: LOVE Painting Company))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
because anything less than that is a joke in San
Diego. If people don't want to pay that, then that's
fine. They can work with other people that take
advantage of people and pay less but that's not what
we're going to do.
((NATS: Kelly Forbes and her daughter))
Going to make you a little fort right over here. Get in
your secret fort. We're not going to tell anyone you're
in there. She loves painting. Maya, do you like
painting? She loves painting.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
There are weeks when I have projects where I feel
like I don't see her. And then I'm on my phone a lot or
those things. But I hope that what she sees is like
anything that she wants to do like she can do it, you
know. And I think kids mirror what they see more
than anything. So, I hope that that's what she sees,
you know.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((TRT: 04:56))
((Banner: Women in Business))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Adapted by: Philip Alexiou))
((Map: San Diego, California))
((Main character: 1 female))
((Sub character: 1 female))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
I was painting at a high rise, not so great apartment
building, actually right in this neighborhood. And I
was working alongside this cleaner and she was
crying. She was like, “How are you able to do this?”
Because we make a lot more money than cleaners.
“You know, it's a man's job. I wish I could do this and
all these things.” And I was really moved by that.
And I was like one day like I'm going to get my
contractor's license so I can hire women and they can
make more money, you know. And so, that's what I
did.
((NATS))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
I was in contractor license school and I was like nine
months pregnant. I was the only woman and I was
like wobbling in there. I was really uncomfortable.
((NATS: Kelly Forbes and her daughter))
Can you wave at the camera? Hi.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
It's very masculine. It's very sexist. It's very ageist as
well. So, I was just young, and I was a woman, and I
just generally got paid much less than other people.
Like I was going in people's houses, doing the whole
entire job, was making 14 dollars an hour and the
foremen were making 25, 30 dollars an hour.
((NATS))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
Well, I created my own company when I was 16 years
old as soon as I learned to paint a room. I just came
up with the name Love Painting Company because I
love love and I love the word love. But I started a
physical, real like live company that has a contractor's
license and all of those things in 2017.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((NATS: Kelly Forbes and Jennifer, Employee,
LOVE Painting Company))
I'm also impressed that you know that painters wear
white.
Well, a lot of it's to hide like plaster and product
instead
Yep.
of landing on the clothes.
Yep.
and white matches everything and so any paint
splattered
Yep.
on your clothes it matches.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
You’re carrying like five gallon [19 liter] buckets of
paint. They're extremely heavy. You're carrying
heavy ladders, going up and down and up and down
all day. So, it's pretty physically demanding.
((NATS))
((Jennifer, Employee, LOVE Painting Company))
So, I think that's a common misconception in society
that like women can't do these like hands-on jobs that
might take physical labor. And I think that, you know,
women can do anything a man can do.
((NATS))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
Like, we hire men as well. It’s not a sexist thing or
people who identify as somewhere in between both
genders, like we're very encompassing. But also, a
lot of women, people really trust them. And they
come in their home and they feel people with families
or say like an older woman who lives alone, like they
feel very comfortable with that. And women are really
great painters as well.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
It's just, it's a feminine process in general. You're like
coating unique things. It's not like carpentry where
like carpentry you're cutting wood and it's like a
measurement and it's like a straightness and it's very
exact, whereas like, so it’s like a very feminine, like
finesse process to paint things. And then there's like
the intuitive color consultation side.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
This yellow and this purple will not be in the home on
the walls. It's a palette for them to work off of, to add
art and accents, throw pillows, blankets, stuff like that.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Courtesy: LOVE Painting Company))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
And I was just there one day by myself like working
and I was like I'm just going to raise the pay for
everyone to 20 dollars an hour. When you walk onto
the company, you're going to make 20 dollars an hour
((Courtesy: LOVE Painting Company))
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
because anything less than that is a joke in San
Diego. If people don't want to pay that, then that's
fine. They can work with other people that take
advantage of people and pay less but that's not what
we're going to do.
((NATS: Kelly Forbes and her daughter))
Going to make you a little fort right over here. Get in
your secret fort. We're not going to tell anyone you're
in there. She loves painting. Maya, do you like
painting? She loves painting.
((Kelly Forbes, Founder, LOVE Painting
Company))
There are weeks when I have projects where I feel
like I don't see her. And then I'm on my phone a lot or
those things. But I hope that what she sees is like
anything that she wants to do like she can do it, you
know. And I think kids mirror what they see more
than anything. So, I hope that that's what she sees,
you know.
((NATS/MUSIC))
