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Speaker 2: Is what you all being waiting for.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh, you're tapped in the way up with Angela yee.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's good is way up with Angela yee? And

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Speaker 4: Happy Wealth Wednesday. It is the day before Indigenous People's

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Speaker 4: Day or some people celebrate Thanksgiving. And today we got

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Speaker 4: a special guest joining us, are De Miller.

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Speaker 2: She is the CEO of My Melanin. My Melanin.

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Speaker 4: Actually, when you've seen these amazing gift wraps and travel

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Speaker 4: It's the first black owned brand in the gift wrap

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Speaker 4: category at Sam's Club Lows and at Hallmark Mahogany. It's

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Speaker 4: amazing the work that she's been able to do. But

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Speaker 4: the wrapping paper is fire. So we're gonna hear her

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Speaker 4: full story of how this all got started, and of

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Speaker 4: course we're going to start the show off with some

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Speaker 4: love and some positivity. Let's shine a light eight hundred

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Speaker 4: Let us know who you want to shine a light on.

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Speaker 4: It's way up, Luck up a.

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Speaker 3: Turn your lights on, y'all. Sauce bread, love to those

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Speaker 3: who are doing greatness.

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Speaker 2: Shinn the light on, shine the light on.

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Speaker 3: It's time to shine a light.

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Speaker 2: On what's up?

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Speaker 4: His way up with Angela yee and Happy Wednesday, Happy

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Speaker 4: wealth Wednesday, eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty.

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Speaker 4: Call us up, Let us know who you want to

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Speaker 2: All of us professional nanny what we do is not

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Speaker 2: easy to take this. You are so right, and.

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Speaker 5: Let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. It is so hard.

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Speaker 4: My friends who have been looking for nannies, when you

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So I just want to sign a light on all

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Speaker 2: For y'all streams.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that is so important. And them kids be loving

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Speaker 4: their nannies. Boy, and I know you love the kids too.

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Speaker 4: As a nanny you get a great attachment.

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Speaker 2: But it is so important. So thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for calling.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, y'all have a great davy all.

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Speaker 2: Right, you too, Hey, keV, how are you good?

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Speaker 5: Andrew?

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Speaker 2: The morning of the murder? Good morning, Who do you

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Speaker 2: want to shine a light on?

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Speaker 7: Man?

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Speaker 1: I gotta shin a lining the white Michelle, my daughter's

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Speaker 5: My grand daughter Jail just set a first child.

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Speaker 8: Three women for women, man, I gotta shin the light.

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Speaker 5: On a baby.

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Speaker 2: Well, shout out to them and thank you for calling.

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Speaker 5: No, thank you, you do what you doing?

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Speaker 2: All right? You too?

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Speaker 9: Well?

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Speaker 4: That was shine a light eight hundred and two ninet

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Speaker 4: when we come back, we got tell us a secret

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Speaker 2: This is a judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 4: Its way up at Angela yee and the number is

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Speaker 4: time for you guys to tell us a secret.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Anonymous? Call it? Tell us your secret.

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Speaker 6: My secret is on semany functions. I'm always in charge

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Speaker 4: Oh we're gonna learn how to cook together.

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Speaker 6: How are you hi?

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Speaker 7: Hey?

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Speaker 2: You want to tell us a secret?

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Speaker 9: Yes?

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Speaker 6: My secret is I'm having affair with my best.

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Speaker 2: Friend, hug baby. How long y'all been best friends?

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Speaker 6: We did best friends for about that?

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Speaker 6: I told her man about it or whatever. We end

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Speaker 4: Maybe so wait, that's still your best friend after you

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Speaker 6: I mean, I got my favorite. That's how I feel

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Speaker 2: This don't sound like best friend behavior, you know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm to sit her in our friends.

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Speaker 2: Do you want her husband?

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Speaker 5: No? I do not.

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Speaker 4: Hey, that was tell us a secret eight hundred and

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Speaker 2: It's way up better.

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Speaker 3: Dream of wealthy and I don't mind sharing my wealth.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 4: His way up with Angela Yee on our Wealth Wednesday

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Speaker 9: Happy Wealth Wednesdays, everybody, and boy, do we have gifts

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Speaker 9: for you today and we are wrapping them up beautifully

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Speaker 9: because we have our Dean Miller Marbley, who's the founder

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Speaker 4: And you know, we all need gift wrapping paper. This

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Speaker 7: My kids growing up constantly purchasing wrapping paper for them

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Speaker 4: You have to do your research before you got this done.

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Speaker 4: You have to get a manufacturer, do all of those things.

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Speaker 7: That's really deep with me, because what made me overcome

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Speaker 7: it was understanding the need for it.

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Speaker 2: Our bank brand just blew up.

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Speaker 7: We also a partner with Lows through a contest and

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Speaker 4: Our dar Milan Marblay is here with us, the founder

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Speaker 2: We have more with her when we come back.

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Speaker 7: It's way up kind of dream of wealthy and I

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Speaker 7: don't mind sharing my Wealth dogs.

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Speaker 3: Getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This is Wealth

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Speaker 3: Wednesday on way Up with angela ye.

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Speaker 2: What's up his way?

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Speaker 4: But the ante the yea happy Wealth Wednesday. We have

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Speaker 4: us today. Dean Mela Marblay is here. She's got the

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Speaker 4: Sam's Club, Lows and Hallmark Mahogany. First of all, I

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Speaker 2: And like I just can't believe space.

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Speaker 4: It's such a simple but amazing idea, you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean, Like, that's shocking to me that that didn't

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so we actually have backpacks as you mentioned, apparel, pillows,

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Speaker 7: we have shirts and teas, and we have beautiful Santa sax.

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Speaker 7: So we are not only just a Christmas brand, we

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Speaker 7: Ones Mahmelanin dot com as well as Sam's Club.

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Speaker 9: This is perfect as we're kicking into that holiday shopping.

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Speaker 2: Holiday shopping is coming up.

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Speaker 7: The advice that I would give is to be intentional

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Speaker 2: You're right about that.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I totally agree, and as small black businesses, we

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Ardian, it was a pleasure to have you,

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Speaker 4: and congratulations on all of your success and so much

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Speaker 9: To usher in the holiday season, and everybody go to

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Speaker 9: Teamwealth Wednesdays dot com. There's a feature on our Dean

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Speaker 4: You can watch that for interview on my YouTube channel.

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Speaker 4: Way Up with Ye, And when we come back, we

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Speaker 3: It's way up, whether it's relationship, for career advice, Angela's

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Speaker 2: This is ask ye. What's up?

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Speaker 4: Its way up at Angela Yee and it is time

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Speaker 4: up Stumach, what's your question today? For ask Ye?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm in a better position and financially more

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Speaker 4: Okay, So people that are close to you or asking

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Speaker 8: I've needed help before, you know, if people have been

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Speaker 4: You always have the right to say no, now this

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Speaker 4: To set them down to Sometimes the more you do

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Speaker 8: That's as far as like their appreciation part.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to all well, it feels like if

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Speaker 4: I would like that, because sometimes if people don't know

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Speaker 2: That's right, Well, good luck. Continue to be a good person.

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Speaker 8: No, definitely, I appree.

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Speaker 4: of course y'all are going to have the last word too,

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Speaker 4: because this is your show.

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Speaker 2: It's way up.

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Speaker 7: Take up the phone, Tapian to get your voice heard.

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Speaker 3: What the word is?

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Speaker 2: He is the last word on Way Up with Angela?

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Speaker 1: Yee?

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Speaker 2: What's up as Way Up with Angela?

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Speaker 9: Yee.

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Speaker 4: I hope y'all had a great day with us today.

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Speaker 4: And you know, the holiday season is upon us. Tomorrow

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Speaker 4: is Indigenous People's Day, It's for some people. Thanksgiving. Friday

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Speaker 4: Just think really hard whatever you can do to make

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Speaker 4: I love nothing more than a gift wrapped present that

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Speaker 5: I want to shed a light on my wee beautiful

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Speaker 1: I was with Angela Yee