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NIRVC\u2019s Angie Sieverts Morell is a fascinating woman.<\/p>\n
In the span of a dozen years, she has transformed from a busy stay-at-home wife & Mom to three children, to the award-winning National Sales Director for National Indoor RV Centers, and NIRVC\u2019s YouTube Superstar.<\/p>\n
Many of us first encountered Angie as the dynamic spokesperson for NIRVC on YouTube. Whether you were searching for a brand-new or used luxury motorhome, looking for information or a walk-thru of a certain brand or model, or trying to learn how to RV in general\u2026<\/p>\n
There she was, with all the details and technical information, answers and reassurances to your RV questions and concerns. Always fresh and personable, exquisitely dressed, often in a skirt and heels \u2013 explaining power systems, diesel engines, chassis details, motorhome tire protection and fire safety.<\/p>\n
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When we first bought our 2016 Entegra Aspire 40P (from another dealer, not knowing about NIRVC at the time), we quickly discovered Angie on YouTube and in our Entegra Owners Facebook Group.<\/p>\n
Honestly, her terrific four-part series of RV 101 beginner videos on YouTube got us on the road to living, working, and traveling full-time around the country in our new-to-us motorhome.<\/p>\n
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(As an aside: Two years later, I still use Angie\u2019s super-easy & quick Instant Pot Shredded Pork recipe from Part 2 of the series for Travel Days! I wrote it down as best I could from the video. As an added bonus, Angie sent me the actual recipe, which I\u2019ve included below. Enjoy!)<\/p>\n
I have to admit, when we finally met Angie IRL \u2013 In Real Life \u2013 at the Florida RV SuperShow in Tampa, my husband and I were both starstruck and so thrilled to meet
NIRVC Angie! She is just as lovely, super smart, fun and genuine in person.<\/p>\n
We then spent two weeks with Angie & NIRVC at the AIM Club Rally: California Dreamin\u2019 in San Diego<\/a>, and the FMCA International Convention & RV Expo in Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n We saw her frequently at both events: Going, going, going, 9am to 9pm (and working much earlier and later on text, email and follow-ups, I\u2019m sure) \u2013 always looking great, full of energy.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/NIRVC_Angie-and-Sherri.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n NIRVC Angie & Sherri at FMCA Tucson – March 2022<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n I had the great pleasure of \u201cgoing to work with Angie\u201d on the last morning of the FMCA Tucson event. We had a chance to sit down for a few minutes, so I could interview her for this article. To ask All The Questions\u2026<\/p>\n #1 \u2013 How does she do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n As NIRVC\u2019s National Sales Director, coordinating five locations across the U.S., attending NIRVC events, including AIM Club Rallies, Brand, and other RV association events, and keeping up with the industry, producing videos\u2026<\/p>\n Angie travels. A lot.<\/p>\n She typically travels (by airplane\u2013 it\u2019s a lot faster!) three weeks out of every month, and enjoys one week at home in Texas.<\/p>\n (I still don\u2019t know how she does it!)<\/p>\n #2 \u2013 RV Life & Family Time<\/strong><\/p>\n Fortunately, NIRVC locations and travel coordinate with family time on occasion, with her three kids, all grown up and living in different states: Tennessee, Utah, and North Carolina.<\/p>\n In fact, when I talked with her recently, she was \u201cworking out of Nashville,\u201d and enjoying time with her brand-new grandbaby (May 2022), with her son, Sam, and his wife, Aubrey, a singer\/songwriter, at their home in Nashville.<\/p>\n Angie\u2019s youngest daughter, Shea, recently graduated from college in Utah. Shea is staying in Utah, launching her career in marketing with an innovative women\u2019s health and supplement company. (Shea sounds a lot like her mama, with her ambition and enthusiasm.)<\/p>\n Angie\u2019s daughter, Madison, and her husband, Austin Corbett, currently live in North Carolina, with Angie\u2019s first grandson, now 18 months old. (They are expecting a little sister, due in September!)<\/p>\n We talked about the convenience of RV travel and grandparenting, as a means of keeping up with adult children and grandbabies. When you can visit and spend time with grandchildren and their parents, with everybody still having their own space: Win\/Win.<\/p>\n While Angie and her husband, Mark, are not quite on the grandparent caravan yet (with plenty of access to beautiful RVs, but no time to travel in them), they are excited about eventually having more time for RV travel, for grandparenting, and for tailgating(?!). Not only is Mark an avid fan of college football\u2026<\/p>\n Angie & Mark both look forward to tailgating in the future, following Madison\u2019s husband in his career with the NFL. They were thrilled when Austin played for the L.A. Rams in SuperBowl LVI this year (they won!), along with the entire NIRVC family and cheering squad. Austin went to the Carolina Panthers after the SuperBowl victory.<\/p>\n Lots of tailgating (and grandparenting) ahead!<\/p>\n #3 \u2013 Angie\u2019s RV Background?<\/strong><\/p>\n Like many of us: None. (Look at her now!)<\/p>\n In the early 2000\u2019s, Angie was a busy stay-at-home mom with three young children. She was active in her family, schools, community and church. She found time for \u201clittle\u201d outside projects, like interior design and staging homes for sale for local real estate agents. She also loved running, for physical fitness and activity.<\/p>\n Brett Davis was a neighbor, family friend, and fellow church member, her son\u2019s scoutmaster. Back in the day, Angie and Brett were in a running group together, and ended up as running partners, out early every morning.<\/p>\n On their early morning runs, her neighbor, friend, and running partner started thinking aloud, sharing his Big Idea and plans: RVs, indoor storage and service, and his vision of customer service.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t long before Angie got pulled in\u2013<\/p>\n #4 \u2013 Indoor RV Storage???<\/strong><\/p>\n By 2009, Brett had an enormous, empty building in Lewisville, Texas. Angie found herself helping out: marketing, advertising, and selling storage space.<\/p>\n \u201cTrolling the boat docks,\u201d as she says, to sign up storage customers \u2013 any type of large storage \u2013 to fill Brett\u2019s huge, empty building. (The very first National Indoor RV Center facility, outside of Dallas.)<\/p>\n #5 \u2013 From Selling Storage to Staging RV Interiors<\/strong><\/p>\n Five years later, the Lewisville storage was full of big, beautiful motorhomes. The second indoor storage facility was built and opened in Lawrenceville, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta.<\/p>\n NIRVC started selling RVs \u2013 a partial line of Newmars.<\/p>\n As it turns out (I didn\u2019t realize \u2013 wow!), selling different brands of recreational vehicles and luxury motorhomes \u2013 RV dealership \u2013 is a very competitive and complicated business, with licensing locks and territory restrictions. What you\u2019re allowed to show and sell, where\u2026<\/p>\n That\u2019s all to say, in 2014, Brett started selling RVs and asked Angie to use her interior design skills and experience to stage brand-new motorhomes for sale, in Dallas & Atlanta. The traveling begins\u2026<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n *OG noun \\ \u014d-\u02c8j\u0113 \\<\/span><\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Early in 2015, at a sales training meeting, Brett Davis overheard a salesman refer to a client as a \u201c50-pounder,\u201d meaning a sale where the salesman had made more than $50K in commission.<\/p>\n Brett was horrified at common sales tactics in the industry, realizing that these were the very things that resulted in salesmen \u201cducking and hiding\u201d from those same customers in the future, after the customer felt ripped off or taken advantage of.<\/p>\n Brett started NIRVC with a strong business ethic and customer service commitment to make \u201cCustomers for life.\u201d He had visions and ideas from the beginning about rallies and \u201chomecoming\u201d events where customers would come back to NIRVC, as a family, for all of their RV needs: education & community, maintenance & service, storage, trade-ins and future sales.<\/p>\n He believed then, and now: \u201cIt\u2019s much easier to teach someone product than character.\u201d<\/p>\n So he fired the entire sales staff, and convinced Angie to \u201ctry\u201d sales.<\/p>\n Of course, she was a natural. Within two years, she was earning industry awards from brand manufacturers and chassis makers for breaking sales records.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t easy, at the time, for a woman to break through in the traditionally male-dominated RV industry. Angie recalls the \u201cBig Freeze\u201d from male sales reps at the manufacturers. She credits Entegra\u2019s Ted Cook with always answering the phone and helping her work through questions to build product knowledge.<\/p>\n Angie truly is NIRVC\u2019s \u2018OG\u2019 RV Lifestyle Specialist (designated job title for sales at NIRVC).<\/p>\n The NIRVC approach to sales and service is entirely the opposite of what happens at typical auto and RV dealerships. Instead of predatory tactics and making the sale (with expensive add-ons) at all costs, NIRVC is focused on customer service, listening to their clients, building relationships, and earning customers \u2013 and friends \u2013 for life.<\/p>\n #6 – NIRVC Family – Myths & Legends<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDid you sell your first RV to Tommy & Bonnie Townsend?\u201d<\/p>\n (I never know what to believe with Tommy Townsend, the President of NIRVC-sponsored AIM (All-Inclusive Motorhome) Club! Tommy has a fantastic and mischievous sense of humor, as well as a big heart and willingness to help anybody and everybody, anytime.)<\/p>\n Angie laughed and didn\u2019t actually answer directly. (So it may or may not be true?)<\/p>\n She did tell me about NIRVC\u2019s very first Entegra Rally in May 2015, after she had just started selling motorhomes. NIRVC stepped in as sponsor to the event when another RV dealer backed out unexpectedly. It was held at the Buckhorn Resort in Kerrville, Texas.<\/p>\n Angie met Tommy & Bonnie at that event. The Townsends have been friends, Angie\u2019s support team, and practically family, ever since.<\/p>\n Angie fondly recalls a core group of at least a dozen RVers-who-became-friends at that first Entegra Rally. And how, through subsequent sales and referrals, those long-term relationships served as a foundation for her career.<\/p>\n #7 – NIRVC National Sales Director<\/strong><\/p>\n Obviously, with her success (and growing YouTube fame ;-), NIRVC needed to clone Angies, to keep up with demand.<\/p>\n As NIRVC\u2019s National Sales Director, Angie has done just that. She travels and works closely with her team of 50 RV Lifestyle Specialists over the 5 NIRVC locations.<\/p>\n Her role now is to instill in them her own (and NIRVC\u2019s) work ethic and customer service philosophy:<\/p>\n It is refreshing to talk with Angie and hear her genuine love and respect for customers \u2013 her friends & family. She appreciates every customer, and whatever they\u2019re spending to follow their dream. Whether they\u2019re looking for an economical Class B campervan or a million-dollar Class A luxury motorhome, NIRVC Lifestyle Specialists are going to make the most of the experience for the customer.<\/p>\n As Brett Davis says: \u201cWith Angie, you don’t become a customer. You become a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n #8 – NIRVC YouTube SuperStar<\/strong><\/p>\n We have to step back a bit, to 2014, to talk about YouTube.<\/p>\n When Brett brought the idea up, none of the salespeople at the time wanted to do it. Angie was willing to step up.<\/p>\n With \u201czero\u201d experience or training in video, completely unscripted, she jumped right in.<\/p>\n Angie has produced model year demo and walk-thru videos since 2015: Entegra, Newmar, Winnebago, Jayco and many others. Every year.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0IRde7oEZtw” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Beyond the annual new model demos, which are impressive, she produces factory tours, basic maintenance, RV safety and new product & accessory videos.<\/p>\n NIRVC has 64.4K Subscribers and 141 Videos on their YouTube Channel.<\/p>\n While Angie hasn\u2019t starred in all of those videos, you can bet most of those subscribers know and love NIRVC Angie.<\/p>\n She is amazing: knowledgeable, technical on every aspect, inside and out. She talks as much about operational and maintenance details as she discusses decor and interior amenities. Never boring.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8x7Q4t_u7DA” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YyD10Erobpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Always put-together: hair, make-up, jewelry and heels, well-dressed, usually in a beautiful dress, unless she\u2019s doing a very technical video (like the RVing 101 series: packing, driving, setting up and breaking down camp \u2013 all on her own).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t2JVPlnWyd0″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RHlw3Hqu7x4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n I can\u2019t remember exactly when Angie came into our lives via Youtube. My husband, the RV researcher, found her first, before I realized what was ahead of us: Full time RV travel. What?!<\/p>\n He wisely won me over to the idea by showing Angie videos: Her walk-thru of the 2016 Entegra Aspire 44B. Those incredible RVing 101 videos.<\/p>\n BONUS – Pulled Pork Recipe!<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Angies-Sweet-Pork-Recipe.jpg” title_text=”Angie’s Sweet Pork Recipe” url=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9hdHRhY2htZW50Iiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjE5NTIifX0=@” url_new_window=”on” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _dynamic_attributes=”url” _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n \u00a0#9 – What are you most proud of, in your career with NIRVC?<\/strong><\/p>\n #10 – What are your plans for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cStay with NIRVC, a company I truly believe in, with a job I love that doesn\u2019t feel like work. Lots of fun and exciting things ahead with NIRVC!\u201d<\/p>\n While we were talking in a corner of the NIRVC tent that day, a confetti cannon went off just outside, gently showering the area with fluttering strips of brightly-colored paper. This is how NIRVC celebrates a new RV buyer at the FMCA Rally, with all appropriate excitement and fanfare.<\/p>\n Angie excused herself and ran over to celebrate and welcome her new best friends into the NIRVC family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.nirvc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/NIRVC-Sherri-Blog-Bio.jpg” alt=”National Indoor RV Centers blogger Sherri Caldwell profile image” title_text=”NIRVC-Sherri-Blog-Bio” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||on||||||” text_text_color=”#848484″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” text_font_size=”13px” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Sherri Caldwell is the founder of <\/span>BooksAndTravelUSA.com<\/span><\/a> – Full-time RV Travel Blog & Book Club\/U.S. Literacy Project. With her husband, Russ, she is currently living, working, and traveling full-time in their 2016 Entegra Aspire: <\/span>Charlie-The-Unicorn RV<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NIRVC\u2019s Angie Sieverts Morell is a fascinating woman….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-expert-angie-morell"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNIRVC Angie: 10 Things You Want To Know!<\/h3>\n
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Slang – originally a gang term for \u201coriginal gangster\u201d<\/em>
Now defined by www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/OG<\/a> as:
: someone or something that is an original or originator and especially one that is highly respected or regarded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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