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Speaker 1: Standing not two weekend breakfast small business check in.

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Speaker 2: At nine minutes before eight o'clock.

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Speaker 3: At the top of the hour, we'll get you very

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Speaker 3: latest hourness news at eight. But first time for us

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Speaker 3: to look at a new to look at a small

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Speaker 3: business in our small business Chicken this morning, or speaking

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Speaker 3: about Latita Spa, it's found it was founded and owned

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Speaker 3: and is owned by Gorgetzo Monreale Go Getta chos us

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Speaker 3: on the land this morning to tell us about your business.

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Speaker 3: Go get a very good morning too.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Bogs, good morning, thanks, how are you well?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: How are you that great? Thanks you yourself?

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Speaker 2: Good good, Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 3: So tell us about where the idea for Latita spar

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Speaker 3: came from.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to all the listeners. Well, La Tita Star

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Speaker 1: came to me in a dream. It was in my

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Speaker 1: early twenties and it was a gift that my late

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Speaker 1: mom gave me. So in the dream, I it was

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Speaker 1: a very beautiful spa, you know. So every time when

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Speaker 1: I would walk into a beauty salon or maybe a

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Speaker 1: spa that people would somehow come back to my mind,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'd be like, oh, if this was

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Speaker 1: my place, I would have done this, I would have

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Speaker 1: fanned this and then long story shorts. Then I decided,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let me just put this thing into

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Speaker 1: action and see rage meets me. So that's how Latita

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Speaker 1: spar came up.

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Speaker 2: And so what do you offer at Latita Spa.

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Speaker 1: We offer full body massages, aroma therapy, hotstone and now

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Speaker 1: we've just started sports massage. We also offer pedicure, food

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Speaker 1: scrubs and soon to be we'll be adding food peel

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Speaker 1: as well as waxing, so waxing, full body wags under

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Speaker 1: arm everywhere. So yeah, those are the three services that

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Speaker 1: we try to offer at the moment.

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Speaker 3: And of course one of the things that makes Latita

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Speaker 3: Spa special is that it is a mobile spa.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, during COVID, I realized that it did not

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Speaker 1: start off as a mobile spa. But during COVID it

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Speaker 1: started a year before COVID, so I noticed that most

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Speaker 1: people were working from home. They were fatigued to to

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Speaker 1: to the lockdown, you know, staying at home and not

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Speaker 1: doing basically anything, not being able to move around. So

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Speaker 1: that's when I saw a loophole and decided, you know what,

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Speaker 1: they may just bring the convenience to the clients, bring

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Speaker 1: the relaxation to the clients. And yeah, that's how I

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Speaker 1: fell in love with being mobile. So yeah, And what.

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Speaker 3: Would you say have been some of your successes in

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Speaker 3: the time that you've run Latya Spa.

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Speaker 2: What have been some of your highlights as a business owner.

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Speaker 1: My highlights will always be my client's being happy, you know,

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Speaker 1: getting feedback, positive feedback all the time, and retaining clients

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Speaker 1: because I'm very much passionate about people, you know, I

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Speaker 1: you know, when I offer good service to your clients,

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Speaker 1: then my days made. That's the I believe that's the

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Speaker 1: core growth of Latita Stars. So my highlight is actually

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Speaker 1: making my clients happy and retaining my clients.

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Speaker 3: And I mean any business, all businesses have challenges moments

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Speaker 3: where you know, running the business trading is tough. What

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Speaker 3: have been some of the challenges you've had to overcome

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Speaker 3: in the time that you've been running Latita Spa.

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Speaker 1: Transportations, you know, having to go as far as where,

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Speaker 1: having to meet where the client is. You know, it

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Speaker 1: sometimes become a challenge to most clients because some of

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Speaker 1: them don't understand that I mean, coming to you, you

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Speaker 1: need to pay that bit of extra you understand for transports.

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Speaker 1: Also the setbacks you know, sometimes winter seasons, winter seasons

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Speaker 1: take tends to take a huge toll. But other than that,

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Speaker 1: it's just challenges with transportation and seasonal you know. And

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's a thing of I need to meet the

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Speaker 1: client halfway, the client also has to meet me. But

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Speaker 1: other than that, yeah, it hasn't been major major, It's

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Speaker 1: just those small setbacks that you're able to pick up

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Speaker 1: yourself and go with it again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you are operating in quite a competitive space, that

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Speaker 3: sort of holistic wellness kind of space. What do you

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Speaker 3: think is the thing that sets you apart from other

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Speaker 3: you know, you know, the bigger brands that have multiple chains,

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Speaker 3: And what is it about the work that you do

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Speaker 3: and how you do it that you think sets you apart?

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Speaker 1: As life being mobile, I only run on specials. So

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Speaker 1: I've noticed that pappering yourself becomes quite expensive at times,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I want to I want to give

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Speaker 1: a ceiling. I want to give a client a ceiling

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Speaker 1: way when they think of pampering themselves and they land

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Speaker 1: onto our social media pages. There's a variety of specials,

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Speaker 1: you know. And now that I also have a kiddy,

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Speaker 1: spar So it's a whole family package. You know, mom, dad,

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Speaker 1: and the kids can can get pampered into their space

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Speaker 1: of comfort. So I'd like to believe that is what

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Speaker 1: sets me apart apart from being mobile, I also run

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Speaker 1: on specials only and I have a kidding star, so

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Speaker 1: that is like Kids Mobile Spa. You know, the whole

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Speaker 1: family gives to experience being pampered in their space of comfort.

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Speaker 3: Because that was going to be my next question about

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Speaker 3: the La Kids Mobile Spa. Tell us about that and

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Speaker 3: how the response to that particular product has been.

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Speaker 1: That's what is made well. Most clients book me during

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Speaker 1: holiday season, so as I mentioned earlier that I run

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Speaker 1: special so I would run maybe a holiday treat for

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Speaker 1: the kids, but mostly they would invite me to their

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Speaker 1: birthday parties. So maybe your daughter or your son actually

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Speaker 1: is maybe they decide to have a pamper party. Then

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Speaker 1: that's when I come with my goal and we give

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Speaker 1: them a full experience of going into the stock but

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Speaker 1: at this space of their counfort. So that is fairly new.

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Speaker 1: It's it's just a company to La Tita. I'm working

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Speaker 1: hard towards it the growth of it actually, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: mostly parents invite us when it's holiday treats or when

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Speaker 1: it's birthday parties, when it's birthday celebration.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so which parts of seven or two land

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Speaker 3: does Le Tita operate in?

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Speaker 2: And I guess i'm la kids as well.

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Speaker 1: So can you please repeat that?

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Speaker 3: Which parts of seven or two land a party in

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Speaker 3: Johannesburg and the surround does your business operate in?

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Speaker 1: Because a mobile the east to the west south of Joburg. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so everyway and basically everyway.

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Speaker 3: Does the client then get charged for lack of a

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Speaker 3: better words like a call out fee or a fee

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Speaker 3: of some sorts for you to come and do so

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Speaker 3: be the cost of the treatment. Is there an additional

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Speaker 3: cost for the fact that it is a mobile.

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Speaker 2: About Spa that you're using.

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Speaker 1: Yes, definitely. There is a call out c I charge

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Speaker 1: per kilometer too and from the destination. But it's not

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Speaker 1: that bad. That is there is a call out sea

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Speaker 3: And so if someone's looking to get in touch with

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Speaker 3: you guys or look at your menu, your product offerings,

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Speaker 3: where can we go to find out more about Latita Spa.

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Speaker 1: We do have our Instagram page. It is called Latita

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Speaker 1: Spa with double a at the end and the kiddy

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Speaker 1: spar Is La Kids. It's La Underscore Kids Spa and

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Speaker 1: for bookings you can contact us on zero seven eight

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Speaker 3: Go get almost. Thank you very very much for giving

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Speaker 3: us your time this morning. It's much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, good for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: That is the founder and owner of Latita Spa, a

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Speaker 3: mobile spa business from right here in seven oh two Land.

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Speaker 3: In a short moment, we'll get your very latest Eyewitness

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Speaker 2: Have your weekend breakfast with good so Shung. Let's walk

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Speaker 2: the talk