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Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect

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Speaker 1: podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Welcome to an all

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Speaker 1: new episode of Reasonably Shady. I am Jazelle Briants, What's up?

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Speaker 1: What's Up? And I am Robin Dixon, and we are

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Speaker 1: so happy that you're here with us. Yes once again

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Speaker 1: and okay, so like, thank you so much again. We

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Speaker 1: have to always say for watching the Real Housewives of Potomac.

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Speaker 1: We are on Sunday nights at eight p m. Eastern

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Speaker 1: Standard Time on Bravo TV. Thank you for watching. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Ye it's kidd juicy, I mean

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Speaker 1: the juice is a spilling. Okay, all right, So as

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Speaker 1: per normal, we gotta give our reasonably shady moments of

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Speaker 1: the week. Okay, So, oh my gosh, moving, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: this ring moving. Moving sucks. So my reasonably shading moment

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Speaker 1: just goes to the whole concept of moving, of packing, moving,

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Speaker 1: of unpacking. Like, what part do you of moving do

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Speaker 1: you think is the worst? I think the packing, not

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Speaker 1: the unpacking. No, No, because packing, like you can just

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Speaker 1: literally just grab stuff, throwing in boxes and you know,

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Speaker 1: kick the box up and whatever. But unpacking when you

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Speaker 1: have to try to figure out where the stuff is

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Speaker 1: going or you know what I'm saying, because it might not.

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Speaker 1: It's like the house you moved to is not the

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Speaker 1: same configuration. You might not have the same drawers or cabinets,

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Speaker 1: or you might realize I don't need this, or we

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Speaker 1: might say like okay, I don't want all this stuff. Right,

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Speaker 1: It's just so did you purge before you packed? Half

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Speaker 1: and half? So I packed my closet, like my personal stuff,

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Speaker 1: so I was I purged that stuff. But like I

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Speaker 1: and then moving, the shady part goes to my movers

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Speaker 1: call him out. I don't really want to call them out. Alright, fine,

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Speaker 1: we won't, but I paid for a pack and move,

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Speaker 1: like a full house pack and move, and the movers

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Speaker 1: show I was like three men and they were like,

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Speaker 1: um yeah, most people. Most people just their boxes are

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Speaker 1: already packed and we just picked their boxes up in

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Speaker 1: the little tracks like we've never packed a house before.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like what what Okay, listen at that point

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Speaker 1: they need to be fired, right And I'm like what,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, w t F. So my you know, one

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Speaker 1: requiring too and it's so weird because I'm like, the

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Speaker 1: last time I moved, which was like four years ago,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't like it wasn't this much. Okay, So what's

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Speaker 1: the So you came from what square footage and you

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Speaker 1: went to what square footage? Do you know that you know?

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Speaker 1: I really don't know. I think the townhouse was like

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Speaker 1: square feet and then my new house, you know, the

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Speaker 1: basement and all that is probably like five thousands square feet.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, so like so up to the east

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Speaker 1: side sky. But it was I mean at first, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: why do I have so much stuff? Right? Why? Like

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like when when you

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Speaker 1: are unpacking, that's when you realize like how much stuff

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Speaker 1: you have and you don't need. I feel like i

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Speaker 1: sure the boys have accumulated a lot of just stuff.

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Speaker 1: The boys, I mean me want like all of us.

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Speaker 1: It's just all right. Well, I was doing some traveling

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Speaker 1: over the past week or so, and I was in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, very excited. I took my kids there because

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Speaker 1: they had never been, and they were like, you know,

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Speaker 1: down Rodeo. We want to be in Beverly Hills, we

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Speaker 1: want to We're important. Anyway. My point is every restaurant

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Speaker 1: like they were Every restaurant was snatching my plate up

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Speaker 1: and I was still chewing my last bite. L A restaurants,

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Speaker 1: y'all a shady. I don't know what is going on.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all all have a mandate like

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Speaker 1: my plate alone. Wow. Yeah, that's frustrating. I definitely feel

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Speaker 1: like the restaurant in the street with the pandemic is

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Speaker 1: like you said, they're like trying to get you in

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Speaker 1: to like save all my food. So let me say that.

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Speaker 1: Did they even let you order dessert? One place? He

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Speaker 1: Excuse you, sir, I need to see the dessert menu.

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Speaker 1: I am not done. She not done? Did you ask

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Speaker 1: them like, what is that with this? No? I just

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Speaker 1: you know you would have called them out, but it

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Speaker 1: was every restaurant. Every restaurant was like literally they weren't.

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Speaker 1: They weren't being rude about it. They were just snatching

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Speaker 1: my plate on my last bike. I think they're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to get as many people in and out

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Speaker 1: and and what's every restaurant like Super booked Oka they

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Speaker 1: I just I didn't like it. Um l a restaurants,

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Speaker 1: y'all are shod and leave me alone the end the end? Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: but so much is happening in the world robbing since

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Speaker 1: been underboxes for test a couple of weeks. Okay, when

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Speaker 1: do you think you'll be done on patching? Okay? So

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Speaker 1: like to my liking, I need another full week, and

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Speaker 1: I like and I don't want to leave. You know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's like you move. First of all, moving is

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Speaker 1: like giving birth. So it's like you you know, when

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Speaker 1: you do it again, like you know, you you kind

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Speaker 1: it again. So I feel like moving is the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I know, moving sucks, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give myself another week, so I apologize, and look,

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Speaker 1: I have all these emails that have been neglected, and

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Speaker 1: Probably probably all right. Well, one thing that struck me,

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Speaker 1: um news wise was that you know, okay, you know

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Speaker 1: iced tea and cocoa, yes, like cocoa, saying she is

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Speaker 1: But I don't think I didn't. God, I think it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's insane. If the baby can pull your titty out

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Speaker 1: the way nasty. Now Icy did come out and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: is not the way y'all might live your lives and

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Speaker 1: do not. Um, but I think that you're setting your

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Speaker 1: child up for let's see, um booby envy. Maybe. Now wait,

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Speaker 1: now why does she explain? Like why she alright, first

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Speaker 1: of all, like how often is it? Like, like why

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Speaker 1: like I breast fed for like, um six months my kids,

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Speaker 1: And if you can do it, like cocoa, I think

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Speaker 1: out loud and all these what happened to the COVID,

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Speaker 1: all my way here and I've heard a news repoint

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Speaker 1: Lalla Palosa. So imagine if they have those two hundred

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Speaker 1: lot about dealing with customers going like above and beyond,

423
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,400
Speaker 1: you know, so it's like okay, whenever, So first shoe,

424
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, if someone asked for once, you you

425
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: go back and come back and bring them for yes,

426
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: or you know, when you're checking them out, like don't

427
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: hand in the bag across the counter. You gotta walk

428
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,439
Speaker 1: around the counter and hand them the bag. Yeah, they

429
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 1: do do that. That's all we were We were taught

430
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: to do that. Yes, that's part of the customer service things.

431
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 1: So so working in or from almost spoiled me when

432
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 1: I would go to other stores because I'm looking for

433
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 1: that same type of customer service and you're not getting it.

434
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: I'm not getting it. And if I go to a

435
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: northstroom and like the sales people don't walk up to

436
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,160
Speaker 1: me and say like hi. So first of all, they're like, okay,

437
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,239
Speaker 1: if someone comes in your department, walk out to them

438
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: and say hi, could I help you? Walk away? Like So,

439
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: I'm as a customer who has worked at North Room,

440
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: when I walk into a North Room, I'm expecting the

441
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 1: salesperson to greet me, like right away. I'm expecting them

442
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: to like walk around the counter to hand me my bag,

443
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: like I'm expecting the stuff. So I will now today

444
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: as a shopper, if I walk into a section in

445
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 1: North Room and they don't greet me, I'm taking my

446
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: purchase to the next part, Like I'm going to walk across,

447
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, to another department and I'm just waiting whoever

448
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: the salesperson is that's going to like, you know, go

449
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: out of their way to say hi, do we then

450
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: you get my sale. I'm just but I'm sure you

451
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 1: don't have that problem now, I mean, you're you walk

452
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: in as Robin Dixon and it's not an issue. I

453
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 1: mean I still see it. I Mean I'm like always

454
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: amazed that like people who really just want to stand

455
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: behind the counter and not do their job, you know,

456
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: but working in the shoe department at North Room So

457
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: I work in Towson Town Center and the shoot department

458
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 1: was two levels, so it was like you had to

459
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: go upstairs, up and down. I literally I would come

460
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: home from work and I'm like, I'd work that job

461
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,360
Speaker 1: mostly throughout my time in college. I can't remember how

462
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: many different years, at least like over the course of

463
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,719
Speaker 1: probably three or four years. Oh, I felt like an

464
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: old person, Like I was literally a college student and

465
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: I was literally because you had to walk up and

466
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 1: down the stairs. It was it was work NonStop, back

467
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: and forth, up and down all around. That was hard work.

468
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,239
Speaker 1: Um let's see. So I worked, so that was like

469
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: all throughout college. Um. Then I would say my first

470
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: job out of college was for Otis Elevator. What the

471
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: hell is that Otis Elevator. Yeah, when you get on

472
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: the elevator, you look down and says Otis, Like, all

473
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: the are you selling elevators? What are you talking about?

474
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous, right right, that's real cute, right. I

475
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: mean I had a I saw, I had a business degree.

476
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,239
Speaker 1: So my I was working in the sales department for

477
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: the maintenance plan of elevators. So like you know, they

478
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: sell like service plans, you know, they like, okay, if

479
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: you have an elevator, you wanted to be serviced every

480
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: you know, quarter or whatever. So I worked in that department.

481
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: Now this was I can't remember what year it was,

482
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: but I didn't really enjoy that job. Okay, okay, and

483
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 1: Aliyah died in a plane crash. Okay, and like the

484
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: next day I went back to work and I was like,

485
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: um Alia died in a plane plane crash, and life

486
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: is too short. I quit, Like you should just told

487
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: them that you quit. Not blame it on Aliyah, who

488
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: you don't know and her death, this is the worst.

489
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: But I was so like I was distraught by her

490
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: her death, like like I was so messed up from that,

491
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: and it was like damn because she's she pretty much

492
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: were like the same age and so seeing her, she

493
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: was so beautiful, so talented, and just seeing her gone

494
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: like that, like it was just like I just really,

495
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: I'm like life is too short, Like I'm not I

496
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: cannot sit here, life is too short. I cannot work

497
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: for y'all normal because I really don't like this job.

498
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: I hate this job, but I'm not going to do

499
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 1: something that I hate. Okay. That was like Jesus Christ

500
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: was about nine months. I stayed it for nine months. Okay, okay,

501
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: then did you get a job after that? Well? I

502
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: worked for my mom. Okay, very good. And your mom

503
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: has that printing Yeah, so my mom has her own business.

504
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,959
Speaker 1: She does like printing promotional products, anything that's like you know,

505
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: printed um banners, programs, inc. Pins. You know, anytime you

506
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: have like you know, you go to a bank and

507
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: the bank the name of the bank is on a

508
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: pen like stuff like that. Yes, if you ever need

509
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, this is like a collecial. Yes, a plug

510
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: for my mom if you ever need a printed material

511
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: to promote your business, your church, whatever, your organization. How

512
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: at my mama? Yes, what's the name of the business.

513
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: So the name of the business is Specialty Marketing and Printing.

514
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: And what is her Instagram page? I'm just sending on

515
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: to her instagram? Well, I mean g G. Bragg at

516
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: gg Bragg is her Instagram page? Is my mama? How

517
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: about at mrs Bragg? Yes, who is no nonsense out

518
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: here in these streets? Okay, so we're we're gonna we're

519
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: gonna find out your favorite job. Favorite let's hone this

520
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: in gosh, I mean okay, so all right, I work

521
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: for mom. I like working for my mom because I

522
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 1: can do what I want, clearly. But she didn't really

523
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,959
Speaker 1: pay me that much. So she gave birth to you.

524
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: That was payment enough. That's what I tell my kids.

525
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: Y'all have food. I will be honest, Like, I liked

526
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: working in Nordstrom really, and I think that the fact

527
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: that I have an online business and you crims business

528
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: and I'm selling stuff, I think that like I think

529
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: it's like tied together. Like I like to sell stuff,

530
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: So I think that it once you get em balancet

531
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: your hats in north Stroom, that's like total full sure

532
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: is Yeah, so we got to make that happen. Yes, absolutely,

533
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: So none of your jobs prepared you for where you

534
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,479
Speaker 1: are today. Um, I would say they all prepared me,

535
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: David didn't prepare you for the real house. While tell me, okay, no, no, no,

536
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: nothing prepared for that. I got like a couple more. Okay, alright,

537
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead. I worked at under Armour. Okay

538
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: that I remember that, in the corporate office at under Armour.

539
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: And um, I'll tell you why I worked there. So

540
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: Woma was in the NBA. He played for the Wizards.

541
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: I really didn't need to work. But I wanted to work,

542
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And I wanted to get

543
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: like I needed like a break from him, you know,

544
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: a break from the boo. Yes, I just needed to

545
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: be like our house. I wasn't like always available, right,

546
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: So I went and got me a full time job

547
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: on the armor working in their sales department for like

548
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 1: their big box store. So like I would do like

549
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: the reporting for like, oh, how many units were sold

550
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: at Dicks. And the one thing that frustrated me about

551
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: that job, like I would do all the reporting. I

552
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: would gather the data and I would give it to like,

553
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: you know, the managers or whatever, and then they would

554
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: have these big meetings, big sales meetings, and they would

555
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: never include me, and I just I felt like, if

556
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm putting these reports together, it would be nice to

557
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: know how they're being utilized, you know, and so that

558
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: I can you know, maybe improve upon the reports or

559
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: so I can learn something. And so, yeah, I quit

560
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: that job. Robin was not included in the meetings. So

561
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: she quit, y'all. This this is this is a recurring

562
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,479
Speaker 1: theme here. That was like eight months. That's the one thing.

563
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: If I don't you, I didn't eight months. Okay, So

564
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: now eight nine months is like your threshold. After that,

565
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: that's when I'm like, it's not working right, right, right,

566
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: right exactly. So then I spent you know, we got married,

567
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: and I spent a number of years as a housewife.

568
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: I didn't work. I did Oh, this is probably my

569
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: favorite job working for the PR company. Yes, you know,

570
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: I did work on a contractual basis or a project

571
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: basis for a PR company, like doing event planning, which

572
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Like that was probably like

573
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: that did not feel like work to me, but it

574
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: was a lot of work, you know. Yes, my friend

575
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: Aba owns a very like respectable, accomplished, successful PR agency,

576
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: luxury PR agency in d C. And so she would

577
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: have some of the most you know, top of the

578
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: line clients and we would throw some of the most

579
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: fabulous parties and stuff. So I but didn't invite me

580
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: to any of these parties. But that's not the point

581
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: of the story. Yes, okay, So do you feel like

582
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: all of that, all of the year jobs have taught

583
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: you something? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I mean just from like

584
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: I said, from Norston with the customer service element, from

585
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: the jobs that I quit to know, like what didn't

586
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: work for me or what I would want more from

587
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: a job. The PR job, it's like you're balancing so

588
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: many moving parts at one time, working in events and

589
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: PR and having so many clients, and you know, I

590
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,719
Speaker 1: remember one time I had like six major major events

591
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: in like the same month, and it was like I

592
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: was like pulling my hair out because it's just so

593
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: many moving parts. And so now it's like I'm more

594
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: like my own boss, but I am juggling so many

595
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: different things. But you've done that before, so you know

596
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: how to get that done right exactly. That's nice. My

597
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: dad told me, like I think I was like probably

598
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: a baby, that his money was his money, and um,

599
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: I didn't have any money until I got a job,

600
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: so um, I had to get up out there and

601
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: get like now, mind you, I don't want to like say,

602
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: my parents didn't like ted toe like give me everything

603
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: under the sun, similar to you. I like, you know,

604
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: I had everything I wanted, but my dad was like, yeah,

605
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: this is my money. So um. Which was fifteen. So

606
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: I decided to get a job at like fifteen. But

607
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: that was like the best thing he could have ever

608
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: like taught me. And I try to instill that in

609
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: my kids, but they'd be getting over I'd just be

610
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: behind him everything. Um but anyway, so at fifteen, I

611
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: went out and got a job at heart Ease. That

612
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: was my first job, best eating up in town, up

613
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: and down all around. I think that's the slogan. I

614
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: don't know I made that up. So um, they realized

615
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: I was fifteen, like after the first week and they

616
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: were like, girl, you're too young. You can't work here

617
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: because it was like some child labor law. I thought

618
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: I could. They were like your fire And I got

619
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: fired from my first job in like five days. Okay.

620
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: So then um, I worked at chest Peake Bay seafood House,

621
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: which was like all you can eat spot. So it

622
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: was like they don't have these anymore, I don't think,

623
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: but like you pay a certain price and you can

624
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: get everything on the in you and so like you

625
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: had the waitress has to like run back to the

626
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: to the kitchen every eight seconds. Oh my god. And

627
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: people used to ask me, like, our your shoes comfortable

628
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: because you're gonna be running the night gairl are yousues comfortable?

629
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: I said, now I can't do this. I quick right

630
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: after that was about four days okay. So then I

631
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: started working for Postal Pizza, which was like equivalent to

632
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: like a domino. Okay. So I was the girl that

633
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: answered the phone. I was like, hello, Postal Pizza, can

634
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: I help you please? And I would take their order okay, okay,

635
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: and then the drivers will come and get the pizza

636
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: and drive it out. So I would literally have five

637
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: phones in front of me and they would all be

638
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: ringing at the same time, and I was the only

639
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: girl there to answer, and I'd be like, Postal Pizza,

640
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: can you hold on please click pst Pizza? What you

641
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: need post Pizza? Postal Pizza. It was a mess. So

642
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: sometimes my dad would like prank me. He would call

643
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: and he'd be like he talked real slowly, Giselle, she'll Dad,

644
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: So I've been on a hole for thirty five minutes

645
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: and I don't understand why I have to wait this long.

646
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Dad, leave me alone, Leave me alone. Yeah,

647
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: he was like, I just wanted to hear you say

648
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: supposed to pizza. Gne please. My dad is the worst, Okay.

649
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: So I stayed there like throughout high school and and

650
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: out there, you know, and if I had to leave

651
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: for a month and come back. They would let me

652
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: do it. They were like cool. Then I worked at

653
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: Bridges Great Outdoors for Women. Remember Bridges. Bridges was like

654
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: a clothing store and they had several lines, so like

655
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: there was the Bridges for Men, which was like high end,

656
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: and then they had the Great Outdoors, which was like polo,

657
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: and then they had the women's line. And I worked

658
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 1: at that store and they were like, oh my gosh,

659
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: you're amazing. Can you like not go to college and

660
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: like stay here and run run this little store? No, bitches.

661
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: I got an education, I got to get like no,

662
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: but they also let me like come back for college

663
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: and work there like over um Christmas break and you know,

664
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: whenever I had breaks. Okay. So then my dad was

665
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: like all right, Gezel. You know he thought I was

666
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: going to be like, um super smart and um be

667
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: like a doctor or something. I don't know what do

668
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: you So he was like, I'm gonna get yourself some internships. Okay.

669
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: So one of the internships was when I told you

670
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: all before I was doing autopsies yeah, on dead bodies,

671
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: which was insane, Like why am I doing this? Like

672
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: this is this is not even fit. I am like

673
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: a cute girl. Okay, what am I doing cutting up bodies? Okay?

674
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: That was a hot mess. Um, So I stopped doing that.

675
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: And then eventually when I got out of college, I

676
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: worked for the Double A CP and I started doing

677
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: their events. So I like you, I understand like how

678
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: you have eight hundred balls in the air for events,

679
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: but they all like have to come together and it's

680
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 1: not like it's hard, but you have to do everything

681
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: or else the whole thing to fall apart. Yeah, it's

682
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: a lot. And so then that's where I got to

683
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: meet like President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and because we

684
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: I had to interface with politicians and corporations and it

685
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: was like that was a great job, Like I love

686
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: that job and it was like not work for me exactly,

687
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: so that that was fantastic. And then I um did

688
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical sales. Okay, so I was like paid drug dealer.

689
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 1: Oh and those doctors love to see you in the door.

690
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: There was like zails here is that this is a thing.

691
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: All of the pharmaceutical sales reps are good looking, all

692
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: of them, like p that's I think the criteria. Yes,

693
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pay you well. We got paid well,

694
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: like our car um things aren't like they used to be,

695
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: because like I used to be able to take my doctor,

696
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: like one I had a doctor. She was like real crazy.

697
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: She was like, let's go to the strip club, right.

698
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: I used to take her to the strip club. I'll

699
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: probably get me or the fece men there was men dance.

700
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: I would take her to the strip club. And at

701
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: the strip club, you could get a receipt. Because I

702
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to get reimbursed. You can get a receipt

703
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: that's blank, so at the top it doesn't say it's

704
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: it's very generic. What the name is like restaurant exactly,

705
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: and then you know that way. And because clearly I'm

706
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: not the only person get trying to get reimbursed, and

707
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: they've done this before, they know how to do this.

708
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: So I would ask for the special receipt, and um,

709
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: they knew exactly what I was talking about. And I

710
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 1: used to take doctor. That was her name. I shouldn't

711
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: make that. Shouldn't have said that. It was a lot

712
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: of doctor. Yeah, we would go to the strip club.

713
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: We would have a ball. Okay, I'd be like, Drake

714
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: saw me where to strip us that let's get the dollars.

715
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: Let's make it rain. This is before to make it rain.

716
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 1: So you're the reason they cut back on that, because

717
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: I know they cut all that mess back. Oh they

718
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: don't do that anymore. Yeah, this I was a pharmaceutical

719
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: rap in the good old days when you could literally

720
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: like take your doctor anywhere and it was fine. You can,

721
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: you can just like write it off. So they quit

722
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: that because I I ruined it for everyone. I had

723
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 1: a job running um like the meetings, the dinner meetings

724
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: for pharmaceutical um companies. Yes, and they hired out. They

725
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: hired this company that I worked for for compliance reasons

726
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: because the reps would be like so out of control.

727
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: So I would be there um just kind of like

728
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: making sure everything was above board. Oh wow, it was

729
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: like the wild wild West back then. But if you

730
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: knew a drug wrap and let's say you needed drugs, right,

731
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: you know, over the counter drugs, you would just you

732
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: would swap out like he had. I was orthor McNeil.

733
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: If you had a five A rap, you swap out

734
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 1: some drugs. I saw birth control pills. Everybody was looking

735
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: for me because everybody wanted birth control pills for their girlfriend.

736
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 1: So you know, it was definitely wrong what we were

737
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: doing right, but we have fun. Yes, yeah, y'all ruined.

738
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: Y'all ruined it for everybody. Y'all have ruined it. Now

739
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: they're like so strict, so you can't you can't do anything.

740
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: And then I got married and I helped my husband

741
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: build his business, which was you know, the church. And

742
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: then um My last like job that I really liked

743
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: was when I was making like cookies and cupcakes. I

744
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: had sweetches out. It was such a a little bakery

745
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: at the spot or something. Yes, I would sell it

746
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: at um Lord, I forgot the Timothy Dean Timothy Dean, Yes, yes,

747
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: and I was Timothy Dean had a has a bistro

748
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: and I would sell like the cupcakes and cookies at

749
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: the b stro So I would make everything there. It's

750
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: very labor intensive, but I loved it. Yes, I feel

751
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: like you should get back into that. I think so too,

752
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,439
Speaker 1: when I get a little bit more time on my hands. Yes, yes,

753
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 1: but I can say that all of that helped form

754
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: who I am today. I really got to thank my

755
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: dad because my dad was like I didn't get it

756
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: at the time, but he wanted to make sure that

757
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: I had all of these things under my belt. It's

758
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: just like resources that I can pull from, and now

759
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: I know I can do anything. I can do any

760
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:13,439
Speaker 1: job that you give me, because I've done a million things. Absolutely.

761
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,760
Speaker 1: I want to talk about side hustles that I picked

762
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: up because and this might be helpful for people listening,

763
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: like if you're looking for some extra money, because I

764
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: definitely went through a time when I literally had like

765
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: fifty million side hustles because you know, while and I

766
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: were going through our financial troubles and I was just

767
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 1: trying to find any of every way to make money.

768
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: So one of them was, um focus groups. What is that?

769
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: Focus groups? Like? There are you can sign up for

770
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: focus groups. I literally got paid and this is like

771
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: you know, I got paid like two dollars for someone

772
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 1: to come and watch you make a salad because like,

773
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: you know, they're doing their research. So this is so

774
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: companies have focus groups to do research on like consumer

775
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: behavior or never heard of this? Yeah, girl, So if

776
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: you're looking at like I still I keep unsubscribing to

777
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: these emails, but I still get the emails of you know,

778
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: these companies that are looking for people to participate in

779
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: their focus group about yes yes, yes, yes yes, Okay

780
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: now I know exactly what you're talking about, right, so

781
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: they can figure out the best way to sell their

782
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: products exactly. Yes, whatever it is. Yeah, I would do

783
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: multiple focus groups. You know, you get a quick hundred

784
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: hundred dollars here, two hundred there, you know. So for

785
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: for people who are like you know, trying to find

786
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: you know, little small ways to make extra money, just

787
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 1: google focus groups. Like and you were selling your clothes,

788
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: not selling your clothes, but you were doing so assignment. Well, okay, eBay,

789
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: I had a I had a boom in eBay business.

790
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: We sold I had want We had so much Louis

791
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: Vuitton luggage. And the good thing about that stuff is

792
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: that it holds its value, you know. So I made

793
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: a lot of money on eBay. So but even not

794
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: even you know, you don't have to just sell like

795
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: you know, designer stuff on eBay or consignment places. You

796
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: can sell like little Nike, your your kids, it's closed whatever, shoes, everything,

797
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: So that right there is a hustle in itself. Yes,

798
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: another one. My friend Carly and I okay, Carl, Carly

799
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: is always here with us, Okay. Now she's director of Operations,

800
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: Yes she has a title. She demanded to get a title.

801
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: She's the director of operations. And don't you get it twisted? Okay, yes,

802
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 1: what about Carly? So Carly and I we sold jewelry.

803
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, and we literally have it. Like we

804
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: we would go to the jewelry shows and buy jewelry

805
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 1: from different jewelry vendors, and we would host jewelry parties.

806
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: So or we will go, you know, if there's like

807
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: an event, we would get a tape me because I've

808
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: never been invited to a jewelry party. I guess you

809
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: know what we may not have been. This is rude.

810
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

811
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe I thought you weren't interested in that.

812
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: You know what the fashion jewelry. Me and Robin are

813
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 1: breaking up. You know, it's like a little forty Robbin

814
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: is shady. But I'm telling you those type of businesses

815
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: if you can like so jewelry. I honestly there's times

816
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: when I'm like, I wanna, you know, have a jewelry website.

817
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: I want to like start selling jewelry again, because that

818
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: is like such an easy sell. Like we would go

819
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: to a jewelry party and make like two dollars and

820
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 1: one night. Yes, yes it was. Let's start this back

821
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: up again. I want my cut. I want it right.

822
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: So if it's so, we you know, we would be

823
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: vendors at events and stuff like that. That was actually

824
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed that. So I like to sell stuff.

825
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, so don't be surprised if I sell jewelry

826
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: one day. But I'll be doing it too with Robin.

827
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: Rom ain't gonna cut me out of this. This is

828
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: good stuff, all right. So I so the I guess

829
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: the purpose and the what we really want to get

830
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: across to you guys is that whatever your job is today, like,

831
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: you never know what tomorrow is gonna bring to you.

832
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: You never know if this you might hate it and

833
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: quit it in nine months like Robin does, but that

834
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: still is gonna give you some umpen in a toolbox

835
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: for like the next job exactly exactly. Or you know,

836
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: you can have a job that you love but it's

837
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: like running you rag it, which is fine because you

838
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,919
Speaker 1: love it, but you're still growing from it. I always say,

839
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: I always think, like you know, when there's jobs that

840
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: you love, maybe at some point figure out how you

841
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: can venture out and be your own boss doing that,

842
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, if you're working for a company, really like it. Um,

843
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Speaker 1: I think the next step up is to like venture

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Speaker 1: out and be your own boss. I got one more job.

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Speaker 1: I worked for our house furniture for like two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I was as I'm mad at there might not because

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm still waiting for me to come. The furniture

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Speaker 1: is beautiful. I worked there for two weeks, like I

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Speaker 1: like it, literally like two weeks of training, and then

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Speaker 1: we started filming the real house. I was of atomic

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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh I quit. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm busy, and at the same time I was working

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Speaker 1: my pr event job. I was doing my like I

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Speaker 1: would get my huston clearly us clearly. So sorry our

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Speaker 1: house for quitting after two weeks of training. And I

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Speaker 1: guess that's the purpose of our story. Get your hustle

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Speaker 1: on word. Yes, yes, yes, so that is our episode today,

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Speaker 1: your side hustles, because we would like to share them

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