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Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Holly Fry, host of Stuff You Missed in

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Speaker 1: History Class, and as a woman podcaster, I know how

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Speaker 1: important it is to amplify women's voices in this space.

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Speaker 1: That is why I am so excited to be talking

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Speaker 1: with a woman who is on her way to be

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Speaker 1: one of tomorrow's leading voices in podcasting. She's one of

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Speaker 1: the ten winners of Seneca Women to Hear search for

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Speaker 1: the Next Great Female Podcasters, created in partnership with PNG

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Speaker 1: and The Card by Seneca Women, Howard by MasterCard and Deserve.

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Speaker 1: After six weeks of training at the Seneca Women Podcast Academy,

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Speaker 1: she'll be launching her own show on the Seneca Women

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network with My Heart. I am delighted to get

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Speaker 1: to sit down with Samantha Mittman Beznov and I want you, though,

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Speaker 1: although I've already said your name, Samantha, to tell us

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Speaker 1: a little bit about yourself. Introduce who you are and

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Speaker 1: why it is that we are sitting here today. Thank you, Holly. Um,

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Speaker 1: as you said, my name is Samantha Mitman. Best of,

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Speaker 1: I'm a certified public accountant um actually known as your

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Speaker 1: financial maven um. That is actually my my podcast. I

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Speaker 1: came across the opportunity, and I thought, why not, Um,

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Speaker 1: I am trying to grow my financial education empowerment. Uh,

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Speaker 1: not just for my tax clients or business clients, but

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Speaker 1: also for our youth. Um. We're finding today that our

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Speaker 1: youth really need some more financial literacy. And I figured, Hey,

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Speaker 1: April's Financial Literacy Month, why not apply and see what happens.

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Speaker 1: And I was blown away when I got the email

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Speaker 1: that I made it as one of the finalists. I

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Speaker 1: am so excited that you were, because we all need

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Speaker 1: this information. You have been a c p A for

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Speaker 1: a long time, You've worked in accounting for more than

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Speaker 1: two decades. At what point did you think you know,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to have a podcast, Like, how does that

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Speaker 1: transition happen? You know? I guess at some level, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. I've been on my own a solo preneur

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Speaker 1: for almost nine and a half years, and I have

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Speaker 1: two kids there twenty and seventeen, and in talking with

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Speaker 1: them over all these years, I thought, hey, I can

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Speaker 1: talk to other people about this. And I do a

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Speaker 1: seminar here at one of the local colleges for college

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Speaker 1: kids talking about taxes, and it kind of said, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, I can do a podcast or a blog

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Speaker 1: or write about this and it just has been developing

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years and I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love being able to to give my knowledge out

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Speaker 1: to everybody and provide something that I think people kind

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Speaker 1: of know about but don't really know about when it

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Speaker 1: comes to money and finances. You mentioned that you were

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Speaker 1: blown away when you found out that you were selected

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Speaker 1: to be part of Seneca Women to Hear, But I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a really cool program. We're creating a situation

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Speaker 1: where this underrepresented portion of information that can come from

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Speaker 1: women and be about women is finally getting a voice.

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Speaker 1: What did it feel like to know that you're one

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Speaker 1: of those voices? Well, again, blown away? I love you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I applied. I figured, okay. I gave

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Speaker 1: a variety of different of my work, you know, some

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Speaker 1: of it was older work, some of it was work current,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, all right, I'll try. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that do talk about finances,

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Speaker 1: do talk about literacy with the financial world, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: why not. Um, and I just I think I had

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Speaker 1: to pinch myself. Um. I read the email, I made

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Speaker 1: it unread, and I came back to it, you know,

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Speaker 1: middle tax season, going no, no, no, this didn't really happen.

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Speaker 1: I'm belarious. I've been working for ten twelve hours and

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Speaker 1: I read it again. I read it to my husband

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Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, this is I'm still kind

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Speaker 1: of walking on cloud night. I think this is wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I think the program Seneca Women and and having this

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Speaker 1: opportunity is amazing and I appreciate it and I'm glad

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Speaker 1: I'm a part of it. And this whole setup is

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Speaker 1: really unique and that it's it's basically like your crash

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Speaker 1: course but with experts in the field. So I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: for you coming into it, what are you hoping to

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Speaker 1: get out of it and learn from Seneca Podcast Academy.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping to learn, I guess all sides of how

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Speaker 1: kind of a podcast work. UM. Like you said, I

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Speaker 1: kind of just jumped in and started doing podcasts, but

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot that can go into it,

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Speaker 1: UM and and also just you know, different techniques how

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Speaker 1: to really reach your your you know UM audience, and

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Speaker 1: and working with others. I would love to be able

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Speaker 1: to do an interview and work with other people and

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Speaker 1: have not just you know, a five minute podcast is saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: your taxes are do on this date and just a

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Speaker 1: reminder kind of thing. I really want to be able

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Speaker 1: to grow and expand my knowledge UM, because it's important.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, our youth are young adults. They

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Speaker 1: really need to hear these things because you'd be surprised

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Speaker 1: what they don't realize that they've got a file taxes,

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Speaker 1: or they should have a budget or you know. UM.

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Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that the Academy can bring me UM

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Speaker 1: the ability to really grow and expand and and not

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Speaker 1: be afraid to do it. You know, sometimes I get

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Speaker 1: nervous about doing my podcast. Oh no, one's gonna listen

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Speaker 1: to it. Listen, feel the fear do it anyway, Samantha,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for spending time with me today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Holly. I really appreciate it. It's been fun.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to listen inspiring words from one of

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Speaker 1: the winners of Seneca Women to Hear Search for the

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Speaker 1: Next Great Female Podcasters. So excited to hear her podcast,

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Speaker 1: launching later this year alongside nine other amazing podcasts from talented,

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Speaker 1: up and coming female voices, with support from PNGNG, founding

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Speaker 1: a more equal world where we see equal, choose equal,

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Speaker 1: and here equal. To learn more about the inaugural class

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Speaker 1: of the Seneca Women Podcast Academy, visit Seneca Women dot com.