WEBVTT - Earn Your Leisure ft. Troy Millings and Rashad Billal 

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, ba fan, Mandy here or Mandra you can call

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<v Speaker 2>Hey hey, hey, oh we are back. We are black

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<v Speaker 2>extra black. You're gonna see why in a minute.

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<v Speaker 1>Back in blacker than ever.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, and we're broad Ambition. Hey Manja, are you excited

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<v Speaker 2>about today's show? Like I'm excited about today's show?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, when you get a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>y chromosomes in the mix, you know that aren't related

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<v Speaker 1>to you, you might like, put a little extra, something extra,

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<v Speaker 1>put a little messcar on, get all excited. Yes, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>excited because I feel like these guys from Earn Your Leisure,

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<v Speaker 1>where the hell did they even come from? I know

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<v Speaker 1>it was like we were out here, you know, doing

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<v Speaker 1>Brown Ambition, doing our thing, and then all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like wait, or eyl is everywhere everywhere and they

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<v Speaker 1>have blown up and it's been I almost thought, where

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<v Speaker 1>have I been? These guys must have been around for years,

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<v Speaker 1>but no, they've only been around for a couple of years.

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<v Speaker 1>Eyl is everywhere and Tiffany, they're on the show today.

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<v Speaker 1>You're going to talk about some investing. We're going to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about some very important questions such as which of

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<v Speaker 1>these guys is single.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you guys asked, don't act like you wasn't in

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<v Speaker 2>my DMS. Some of you, I'm not going to name names.

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<v Speaker 2>We're in my DMS asking.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's been very lonely, lonely in this virtual world

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<v Speaker 1>for a lot of people. So we'll try and help

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<v Speaker 1>me all out. But how is book launch week going? Wait?

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<v Speaker 1>This is book? This is two week two week one? Whatever?

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<v Speaker 2>Well this is like almost like basically the completion of

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<v Speaker 2>the first week.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, you're still standing and we are sitting you look

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<v Speaker 1>for listen for having just launched an international bestseller.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just like, it's a little bit of makeup. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not gonna lie no, but honestly, I have to say

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<v Speaker 2>I feel really good because and I'll be able to

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<v Speaker 2>share because I think it's you know, aside from like

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<v Speaker 2>you know, this is not even book promotion, but it

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<v Speaker 2>would be nice maybe if we had a show to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about, like what does it look like? So I

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<v Speaker 2>like write a book and put one out because there's

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<v Speaker 2>so many things that we learn and I have to

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<v Speaker 2>say my I'd asked my agent, Heather, you know, to

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<v Speaker 2>give me some numbers, like what is good as far

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<v Speaker 2>as first week, what is great and what is unicorn?

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<v Speaker 2>And Heather doubled what unicorn was because I mented it

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<v Speaker 2>today to Penguin. I was like, okay, so I hear

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<v Speaker 2>these are our numbers. This is really great. Heather told

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<v Speaker 2>me that's unicorn, that that good is five thousand, greatest,

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<v Speaker 2>ten and twenty is unicorn. She's like, no, ten is unicorn.

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<v Speaker 2>Hardly anybody does that in the first week. I'm like yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but but she's like, yeah, Heather motivated you. And we've

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<v Speaker 2>done more than that. And it's been and I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have a concept what's the lot? And all of my

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<v Speaker 2>friends in the book world are like, uh, Tiffany, because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, well, that doesn't seem like that much considering

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<v Speaker 2>how side the audience are like, no, people don't buy

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<v Speaker 2>books like they used to, and money books especially, they're

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<v Speaker 2>not exactly you know, people would like to beat fantasy

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, honestly, romance novels are still killing it

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<v Speaker 2>children's books, but money books not so much. So we've

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<v Speaker 2>unicorned out and my team is amaze balls. And I

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<v Speaker 2>will know very soon actually today when this podcast comes out,

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<v Speaker 2>I know by the end of the day whether or

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<v Speaker 2>not I've hit specific lists that I was six, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to drink you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know what list or no list? It is. So I

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<v Speaker 1>got my book by the way, finally, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>why it took forever. I was like Amazon, where are you?

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<v Speaker 1>But what there was and I've seen it, like I'm

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<v Speaker 1>looking at the cover right now behind you that beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Michael's portrait at your book cover. But there

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<v Speaker 1>was something when I held it and I just felt

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<v Speaker 1>that and this is so good. This is like I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, Tiff, I don't know. I think when you

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<v Speaker 1>told me you were writing a book, I didn't really appreciate.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean at the time I was like, of course

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<v Speaker 1>you are, you've done. You're like, yeah, it's like a book,

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<v Speaker 1>but there's something about whole I don't know, it just

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<v Speaker 1>really hit me. I'm just so I'm just gushing. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>so happy.

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<v Speaker 2>No same. I think it's like when you do a thing,

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<v Speaker 2>it's like I knew that you were gonna because where

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<v Speaker 2>you work now was like my dream bank. Like when

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<v Speaker 2>they first opened, I was like, oh, it's like the

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<v Speaker 2>bloodgates opened, like you know, a sizeable bank that actually

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<v Speaker 2>like it was good to people and had a great

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<v Speaker 2>customer service, like it was my dream bank and now

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<v Speaker 2>here you are with a C in front of your

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<v Speaker 2>your title. It's like, wait, what a minute ago it

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<v Speaker 2>was Hi, my name is Mandy, would you up? I

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<v Speaker 2>would love if I could interview you for business. Inside,

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, I don't know who she is, but

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<v Speaker 2>it's a theo to be here with you. Honestly, it's

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<v Speaker 2>it is. I just love to see our growth together, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, like, yeah, yeah, it's a privilege, it is it.

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<v Speaker 1>There's just it just feels like I don't know my

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<v Speaker 1>experience seeing you grow and seeing you always talk about

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<v Speaker 1>the acorns? Is that the kind of tree that you plant?

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<v Speaker 1>And then it's like, you know, you grow whatever analogy

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<v Speaker 1>that was that Proverbs? You know, I feel like I

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<v Speaker 1>was I got to see the acorn planted and how

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<v Speaker 1>you tended to it, and I'm gonna I don't My

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<v Speaker 1>gardening knowledge is not that. But you like watered it

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<v Speaker 1>and you gave it fertilized.

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<v Speaker 2>Let the sunshine sign. But yeah, yes, yeah, podcast. Remember

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<v Speaker 2>I told you, like, I'm just so used to because

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<v Speaker 2>I've known you for so many years now, and we

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<v Speaker 2>get out here, we chit chat, and it didn't hit

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<v Speaker 2>me just how big our reach was until I was

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<v Speaker 2>in Chicago a year was it two years ago? Two

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<v Speaker 2>years ago for Lovey's wedding, and it come downstairs my

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<v Speaker 2>African garb ready to go, and someone said and I

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<v Speaker 2>was like yeah, and he he meanwhile said abission. I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, wait what He was like, I don't he

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<v Speaker 2>didn't know me from any other place. He was like

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<v Speaker 2>from bran ambishon is manny with you? And it like

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<v Speaker 2>it was like the first time that I realized, yo,

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<v Speaker 2>what we've built this thing? You know that like and

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<v Speaker 2>then after that, everywhere I was going, like I went

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<v Speaker 2>to I was at home depot buying plants and so

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh my god, tifp me from b

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<v Speaker 2>bish Tiff. So I know you don't like hugs, but

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta give you one and give one to Mantua.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was just like yeah, because we like, I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like I feel so low key about what we do.

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<v Speaker 2>But the number of lives that we've touched, we have

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<v Speaker 2>been consistent for for over five years, and Dawn, it's

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<v Speaker 2>not easy for a podcast to.

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<v Speaker 1>Do, no, but it never I mean there's obviously some

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<v Speaker 1>days it felt like work. Yeah, but from like ninety

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<v Speaker 1>five percent of the time. It's a joy. I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just it's a joy. So and I and I

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<v Speaker 1>am just I am just dancing in the sunshine, all

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<v Speaker 1>this glitter spark around you. I'm just at the party.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just here whatever. So, but congrats on all the success.

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<v Speaker 1>Get It with Money dot Com, y'all. It's not too late.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not too late to buy your book. And are

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<v Speaker 1>you doing I mean where you're I feel like you're

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<v Speaker 1>everywhere and that you're on the Today Show today or

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<v Speaker 1>you were if people are listening to the show now.

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<v Speaker 1>But what are you doing a like a live event tour?

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<v Speaker 1>Where are people gonna like? Where is this going?

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<v Speaker 2>Well? I do have so I did like a like

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<v Speaker 2>a I guess like we did a virtual like launch

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<v Speaker 2>like the day of on the thirtieth. I'm not gonna say,

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<v Speaker 2>I know, Lovey did like you know, six events. I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, the way my I want to stay married

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<v Speaker 2>is set up, plus I want to sleep, So not that.

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<v Speaker 2>But what we are going to do is we're doing

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<v Speaker 2>a virtual summit. So it's gg WM Virtualsummit dot Com

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<v Speaker 2>for Get Go with Money. So we're doing a virtual

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<v Speaker 2>summit with.

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<v Speaker 1>Them have all the domains.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, with about I think it's six of them six

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<v Speaker 2>five oh five of the of the women that I

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<v Speaker 2>that I interview as for their expertise in the book

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<v Speaker 2>are are going to be speakers at the summit. So

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<v Speaker 2>that will be really awesome if you want to join

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<v Speaker 2>us GGWM Virtual Summit dot com. I don't know, like

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<v Speaker 2>I'm actually taking six weeks off. I can't wait.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean I'm excited for you. I'm also excited

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<v Speaker 1>for BA because you're gonna got some special guest co hosts.

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<v Speaker 2>Because Sis needs to bring. If y'all know me, I

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<v Speaker 2>have not taken a true, true break in so long.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is as a result of doctor green shout

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<v Speaker 2>out to her. She's like, I think I want you

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<v Speaker 2>to take a month. I was like, oh, I can't

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<v Speaker 2>do a month. She said, oh, you're right, six weeks.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, wait what because she was like, no.

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<v Speaker 1>No, you have to put on your French. They do

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<v Speaker 1>it all the time.

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<v Speaker 2>I know. But plus two wild good behavior. You know

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<v Speaker 2>what I told Doctor Greeny the other day, like, I

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<v Speaker 2>remember when we had our rich journey on what.

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<v Speaker 1>Their name Christina and Aman, Yes, and.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember the level of joy they were emoting, we were like,

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<v Speaker 2>what are you guys on?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, I had the same reactions as we

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<v Speaker 1>talk later on the show with Ernier Leisure and their

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<v Speaker 1>friend Ian, who was like, I want to hang out

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<v Speaker 1>with y'all because I just want to be just some

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<v Speaker 1>of that to rub off on me. So yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So but I told doctor Green when I first started

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<v Speaker 2>working with her that I wanted that whatever they were on,

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<v Speaker 2>and it wasn't because of money, it was they had

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<v Speaker 2>created the life that they truly loved. And I told

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<v Speaker 2>that to doctor Penne and she reminded me of that

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<v Speaker 2>when I spoke to her last and she said, you

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<v Speaker 2>were sounding closer and closer to that the way you

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<v Speaker 2>described to me, and it just made me feel really

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<v Speaker 2>happy because remember before I was like, I'm not crying,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not happy, and that said I cry away more now,

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<v Speaker 2>which is great, not in a bad way, but like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, just like in a feeling I'm feeling.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I just you know, I try to be

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<v Speaker 2>transparent here for y'all. So it's because I don't believe,

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<v Speaker 2>like I love the way Mannie you were so transparent

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<v Speaker 2>about the struggles with being pregnant and what does that

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<v Speaker 2>look like? And how we couldn't do the podcast because

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<v Speaker 2>it's so overwhelming. And I think it's important for people

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<v Speaker 2>to see as much as we've achieved these markers of

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<v Speaker 2>external success, that it's hard, you know, and what it

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<v Speaker 2>looks like to try to readjust to recalibrate. And you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want you to look at my life and

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<v Speaker 2>think it's perfect, because I'm always trying to make things

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<v Speaker 2>better and sometimes quite honestly, it sucks and I'm trying

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<v Speaker 2>to realign so I could be happy again. But I'm

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<v Speaker 2>feeling like that more and more. But yeah, I'm just

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<v Speaker 2>like I said, I'm just proud of us over we've

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<v Speaker 2>really grown up together. I feel like we're just like

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<v Speaker 2>these like real real grown ups, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, yeah, and that we're achieving joy. And I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I at this point, I feel like

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<v Speaker 1>life is icing, you know. I've been blessed in so

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<v Speaker 1>many ways and I just wake up. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to pinpoint when when was the shift. Probably

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<v Speaker 1>when the baby started sleeping through the night, when I

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<v Speaker 1>started to feel this sense of I was like I

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<v Speaker 1>made it through something and now everything is icing. And

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<v Speaker 1>if we can. I just got my first dose of

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<v Speaker 1>the vaccine today. I've never been My arm is so sore,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm so happy because I know it's working. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just like I wanted it to be sore, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>like just let me know. Like when you put your

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<v Speaker 1>fancy face stuff on and it stings, it's like, yes, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's wurky, but I just so grateful. It just yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm grateful.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's how you're on social I'm like, oh, Mandy

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<v Speaker 2>is living her best.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm living. I don't know what it is. I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>I love myself, I love my family, I love this

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<v Speaker 1>body that I'm in. I love I don't know, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I guess I'm just tired of not I'm tired of

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<v Speaker 1>being the reason I'm not in a good mood, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what I mean? Or I was. I mean, there's

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<v Speaker 1>obviously some things that you can that you're out of

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<v Speaker 1>your control and all that kind of thing. And I

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<v Speaker 1>have been dealing with mental health, and I will say

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<v Speaker 1>shout out to zoloft and all of my my psychiatrist

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<v Speaker 1>and my therapist and all that. But yeah, I just

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<v Speaker 1>I choose joy, do you know what I mean? Like

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<v Speaker 1>I just I try to choose it every day. My

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<v Speaker 1>husband's like, why don't you choose joy more when you're

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<v Speaker 1>yelling at me for like washing the car for five

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<v Speaker 1>hours on a Saturday. Anyway, anyway, just more of this, please,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm more joy is good for everyone. But yeah, first

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<v Speaker 1>dose of the vaccine. Have you gotten your vaccine yet?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think we've talked about that, because yeah, honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>I was afraid of being down, and I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't you know, I don't have the two days

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<v Speaker 2>to be so Thankfully in newer now anybody can kind

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<v Speaker 2>of walk up. So I'm looking into the go next week.

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<v Speaker 2>But I do have to because I even pause the

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<v Speaker 2>IVF because you know, we have our one good embryo left, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>and I did not. My husband's like, but I thought

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<v Speaker 2>we were gonna say I was like, honestly, the level

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<v Speaker 2>of although it's exciting, it's still very stressful. I did

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<v Speaker 2>not want to try to battle like book launch and

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<v Speaker 2>then also like doing my shots and everything else. So

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<v Speaker 2>now that like the heaviest of the heavy lifting is

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<v Speaker 2>for the most part over, So I'm going back to IVF,

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<v Speaker 2>so I have to check, like what you know, like

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, like when can I do

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<v Speaker 2>IVF and the shot? Do I have to if I

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<v Speaker 2>do this shot this month or I have to wait?

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm actually checking in with my with my doctor

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<v Speaker 2>this month. So who who wished me look on that?

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<v Speaker 2>I just feel and also too, I really feel just

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<v Speaker 2>on a better spot space where like, you know, because

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<v Speaker 2>you want if you're trying to have a baby, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you hope that you're able to do so from a

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<v Speaker 2>place of calm, enjoy and happiness. Doctor said it best.

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<v Speaker 2>She said joy is a creative space, that it's fertile

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<v Speaker 2>ground for creativity, it's expansive and so I just feel,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I feel just really like really good and

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<v Speaker 2>blessing to your point, life is certainly certainly icing. Speaking

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<v Speaker 2>of icing, we're about to have our interview with the

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<v Speaker 2>boys and we have the icing is Ian?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, yes, Ian Dunlap. Who who you know? When you

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<v Speaker 1>like see someone after a while, you're like, where do

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<v Speaker 1>I know you from? Because when we first got on,

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<v Speaker 1>I was like Ian, uh huh, Ian, Yeah do you

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<v Speaker 1>want to know you?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>You're with them? Okay, now I know who you want?

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, Ian from what is that market? Monday's the podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>They're they're huge podcasts. So yeah, well we are. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>without further ado, let's yes, let's let's let's let the

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<v Speaker 1>people have what they want, which is a conversation with

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<v Speaker 1>the earn your Leisure Gentleman Rashad bi Lal, Troy Millings

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<v Speaker 1>with special guest Ian Dunlip. This was one of my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite uh DA hosted video guest interviews ever, So I

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<v Speaker 1>hope you guys enjoy all Right, we are. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>even tell you, guys how how long this has been

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<v Speaker 1>in the making in my own dreams, but it hasn't

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<v Speaker 1>been that long since I was like, Tiffany, do you

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<v Speaker 1>know do you know Troy and Rashaw? Can you can

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<v Speaker 1>you them on? You know, Tiffany's friends. I'm always trying

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<v Speaker 1>to just like weasel my way in there, but I'm

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<v Speaker 1>so excited to have you guys on the show. The

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<v Speaker 1>Biggest can we say the Biggest business? Okay, Ian's got it.

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<v Speaker 1>I do you want to do.

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<v Speaker 4>Then leisure platform?

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<v Speaker 5>There is.

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<v Speaker 1>Platform, there is.

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<v Speaker 4>And trug gonna be humble. You know they went to

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<v Speaker 4>church yesterday.

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<v Speaker 5>I didn't.

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<v Speaker 6>The Biggest.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me finish. Let me finish for those of you

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<v Speaker 1>you may be living under a rock, but I have

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<v Speaker 1>a feeling if you're listening to Run Ambition, you must

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<v Speaker 1>have seen Troy and Troy and Rashad's podcast Earn Your Leisure,

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<v Speaker 1>which is so much bigger than a podcasts. They have

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<v Speaker 1>a podcast network. Some of our friends around that network.

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<v Speaker 1>We've had Cash Cash on the show before. We are

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<v Speaker 1>so thrilled to have you guys here. So welcome, first

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<v Speaker 1>and foremost to Troy and Rashad, Welcome to them an Ambition.

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<v Speaker 3>I want to thank you for having.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the girls room. This is like the Girls done.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, you're ready.

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<v Speaker 2>We have a handful of dudes that listen house plans

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<v Speaker 2>we do. We always teach them like we're not talking

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<v Speaker 2>to you right now, but you can listen. No, it's

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<v Speaker 2>so excited for you to be here because everywhere I go,

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<v Speaker 2>everywhere we go people we go, people are like, have

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<v Speaker 2>you heard of Earned your Leisure? Or they're like, you know, Tiffany,

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<v Speaker 2>I heard you on Earn your Leisure? You know, and

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<v Speaker 2>so you have transformed the culture as it relates to

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<v Speaker 2>personal finance, and so for that we are appreciative because normally,

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<v Speaker 2>like you know, our audience is typically women, right, Mandy

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<v Speaker 2>would say, like I said, we've got guys, but.

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<v Speaker 1>We got some guys, right, But yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, but our mission when we started was

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<v Speaker 1>to you know, this was six years in the making,

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<v Speaker 1>this six years ago that we were starting to make

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<v Speaker 1>the show, and our mission was there's no black women

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<v Speaker 1>talking about finance and career and investing in all of

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<v Speaker 1>all that and all that, and that's why we That

0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.280
<v Speaker 1>was really the audience we were speaking to. And I

0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:23.040
<v Speaker 1>feel like y'all have just exploded. And also, you know, y'all,

0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.880
<v Speaker 1>y'all are helping normalize black and brown black people, black men,

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<v Speaker 1>especially talking about finance and business.

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<v Speaker 2>And I never have more men slip into my DMS

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<v Speaker 2>in a respectful way than when I'm on yourself for real,

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<v Speaker 2>because nobody knows I'm married my husband sixty six. You

0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.399
<v Speaker 2>don't want it and he's from there. But I love

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<v Speaker 2>like queen. I think you want what l.

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<v Speaker 6>Queen.

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<v Speaker 1>Gentlemen gentlemen, So no, yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So welcome, welcome, welcome. So we're not going to we

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<v Speaker 2>want to maximize your awesomeness. I am going to me

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<v Speaker 2>and Mandy, well, well, we'll shoot and fire away at

0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.080
<v Speaker 2>some questions. Well, and I'd like to know some like

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<v Speaker 2>origin stuff before we get into like actual like technical questions.

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<v Speaker 2>So like how did this all begin? Because you guys

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<v Speaker 2>have had like an like a shot like shot of

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<v Speaker 2>rise to like start them honestly, So how did it?

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<v Speaker 2>How did it start?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, for sure, I'll give you the whole story. So

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<v Speaker 7>we started. Me and Troy been friends all our lives

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<v Speaker 7>pretty much ever since like middle school, so you know

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<v Speaker 7>we always was friends, always talking about you know, sports

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<v Speaker 7>and rap and all that kind of stuff. And me,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, being a financial advisor after I got finished college,

0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.879
<v Speaker 7>and Troy being a teacher. You know, he brought me

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<v Speaker 7>in the classroom and he started teaching financial literacy to kids,

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<v Speaker 7>and that was really the start of it. And then

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<v Speaker 7>from there that kind of blossomed to me, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>developing an Instagram page, and you know, from there that

0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.080
<v Speaker 7>that led to people asking for a podcast, that led

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<v Speaker 7>to you know, starting of Earning Your Leisure, which you know,

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<v Speaker 7>we started off talking about you know, backstories of entrepreneurs

0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.880
<v Speaker 7>and the backstories and different businesses things of that nature,

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<v Speaker 7>and then that kind of transformed into deep dives into

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<v Speaker 7>different industries that transformed it's like a domino effect. Then

0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.960
<v Speaker 7>that transformed and to where we have now, which is

0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.600
<v Speaker 7>a platform so earn your leasure, not just the podcast

0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.080
<v Speaker 7>as a platform. So like we have Inin on with

0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.800
<v Speaker 7>us right now, our partner on market Mondays, and that's

0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.119
<v Speaker 7>the first show that we actually like executive produced, if

0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.800
<v Speaker 7>you would say, Umbrella and Now's the stock Show, And

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<v Speaker 7>that became one of the top investment shows on the internet.

0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.240
<v Speaker 7>So one domino kind of led to the next. But

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<v Speaker 7>it really all started in the classroom and then from there,

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<v Speaker 7>which I know you can appreciate, Tiffany, you being a teacher,

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<v Speaker 7>a former teacher, and then that from there that just

0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.199
<v Speaker 7>kind of led to what we do now, which I

0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.480
<v Speaker 7>still feel like is a form of teaching, just in

0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.840
<v Speaker 7>a different variety and not in a classroom, but you know,

0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.200
<v Speaker 7>on the internet for the whole world to see.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean there's so many similarities. And from what

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<v Speaker 3>we were doing the summer internship program. Kids would come in,

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<v Speaker 3>we would interview them and they would tell us about

0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.480
<v Speaker 3>the future aspirations, and then we would go out in

0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.240
<v Speaker 3>the community and try to pair them up with that

0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:04.720
<v Speaker 3>future aspiration, whether it be a pediatrician, electrician, an architect,

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<v Speaker 3>and so they would get the six weeks of experience

0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.080
<v Speaker 3>of being what it's like, seeing what it's like to

0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.199
<v Speaker 3>be in that profession. And so if you think about it,

0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.000
<v Speaker 3>that's kind of what we do now. We just we're

0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.840
<v Speaker 3>actually showing people the professions, whereas the kids were going

0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:17.920
<v Speaker 3>to see it and they will report back to each other.

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<v Speaker 3>And two things I always say that can happen from

0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.000
<v Speaker 3>an internship. You can say, yeah, I really like this,

0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.359
<v Speaker 3>I want to pursue this in the future, or no way,

0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.439
<v Speaker 3>this is too boring, I never want to do this.

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<v Speaker 3>But you're getting that experience at fourteen, whereas most people

0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.879
<v Speaker 3>are getting that after they've graduated from college, which is

0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:33.600
<v Speaker 3>going to cost you a lot of money. And so

0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:35.439
<v Speaker 3>that was our goal. And now we're doing that to

0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.800
<v Speaker 3>the world. Right We're introducing them to so many different

0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.040
<v Speaker 3>careers so they can say, you know what, I want

0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.879
<v Speaker 3>to pursue this, and they might be doing it at sixteen,

0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:43.359
<v Speaker 3>they may be doing that at fifty, but they have

0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:45.600
<v Speaker 3>their eyes open to so many different fields now.

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<v Speaker 1>So it started from an internship program, correct.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So at the end of the internship, the kids

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<v Speaker 3>were going to get paid like five hundred dollars, and

0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:57.840
<v Speaker 3>so it was their first time at fourteen, it's your

0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.679
<v Speaker 3>first time coming in contact with money. I knew that,

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<v Speaker 3>and I said. He was like, you said, he was

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<v Speaker 3>on his financial advising career. And I'm like, I think

0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:06.640
<v Speaker 3>you should come and teach these kids about money.

0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:06.800
<v Speaker 1>Man.

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<v Speaker 3>It's probably vital that they know what the value of

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<v Speaker 3>it is, what they should do with it, because most

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<v Speaker 3>of the kids at fourteen's like, all right, that's back

0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.080
<v Speaker 3>to school shopping. I'm buying the new Sniggers. I'm buying

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<v Speaker 3>some jeans. And they didn't realize after they bought the

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<v Speaker 3>singers and the jeans, they had more money left.

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<v Speaker 1>That's like half an AirPod? Why are they so expensive?

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<v Speaker 5>Will you'll?

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<v Speaker 2>Girl just lost? I'm like, you've got your pop money.

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<v Speaker 2>She actually does, because she's like, I work for you,

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<v Speaker 2>so I send you.

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<v Speaker 1>The Metro North still has one half of my AirPods,

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<v Speaker 1>and I will be not forgotten. Speaking of the Metro North,

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<v Speaker 1>I was going to work this in do y'all Are

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<v Speaker 1>y'all from Westchester?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>I read them right.

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<v Speaker 6>I live.

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<v Speaker 3>To the town.

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<v Speaker 1>I live in Greenberg.

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<v Speaker 3>No you don't, I do, I do.

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<v Speaker 1>I just moved here a few years ago. Yeah, my

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<v Speaker 1>husband's from Manhattan. Y'all are from the Bronx.

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<v Speaker 6>Right, originally born in Where do you go when.

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<v Speaker 1>You're from the Bronx, either Westchester or Jersey me and

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<v Speaker 1>up going to Chester.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not to late for Jersey. You can come on.

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<v Speaker 6>It's an interesting dynamic because it's like your your husband.

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<v Speaker 1>He's black, he's Dominican.

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<v Speaker 6>Dominican. Okay, so he's black my book.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, we have those discussions, but we'll continue.

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<v Speaker 1>This isn't about that.

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<v Speaker 6>But that's a different that's a different conversation.

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<v Speaker 7>But now, you know, growing up, that was the thing,

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<v Speaker 7>like you know, if you if your parents did decent

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<v Speaker 7>for themselves, like you said, and where we're from, Greenberg

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<v Speaker 7>is actually one of the only towns in America where

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<v Speaker 7>it's like a suburb, but it's like ninety percent black.

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<v Speaker 6>Yes, it's a black like middle class That is what

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<v Speaker 6>we loved about it.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, working class suburb, which is an interesting dynamic because

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<v Speaker 7>what's justter County, like where we come from, is very

0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:48.119
<v Speaker 7>segregated place and you know, majority of it is like

0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:51.080
<v Speaker 7>very well to do white neighborhoods, but then you have

0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:55.800
<v Speaker 7>pockets where it's all black, Like we're from Greenberg, Mount Vernon,

0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.880
<v Speaker 7>South Yonkers Peak Skill. So it's interesting. That's an interesting

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<v Speaker 7>study in geography. You know, it's kind of off topic

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<v Speaker 7>a little bit, but we're still talking about finance where

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<v Speaker 7>it's like, you know, segregation is still alive and people

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<v Speaker 7>just don't realize exactly. It's like they just are forced

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<v Speaker 7>to move to certain neighborhoods, or they move to certain neighborhoods,

0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:17.960
<v Speaker 7>and it's like, it's just interesting that this small town

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<v Speaker 7>that we live in twenty minutes outside the Bronx and

0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.040
<v Speaker 7>ninety percent of the people migrated from the Bronx and

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<v Speaker 7>it's all black.

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<v Speaker 6>They could have moved anybody.

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<v Speaker 3>Crazy, many is that in that in the program, we

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<v Speaker 3>actually did a project on the segregation of our town

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<v Speaker 3>because it's tool.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to read it. I love the history. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to know everything about it.

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<v Speaker 3>It's very interesting, especially when you break it down to

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<v Speaker 3>the school districts. So yeah, we'll talk, we'll talk after this.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well we talked about this on the show, just

0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:48.800
<v Speaker 1>like you know, as an investment home ownership being this

0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:51.280
<v Speaker 1>you know pathway too. We're gonna talk about investing home

0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:54.560
<v Speaker 1>ownership being this traditional form of wealth building in black

0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:58.280
<v Speaker 1>and brown communities, and seeing why I had to reckon

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<v Speaker 1>with the fact that, oh, I could afford a house here,

0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:04.520
<v Speaker 1>because unfortunately it seems like home values have been yes, increasing,

0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:07.040
<v Speaker 1>but not as you know, not as expensive as other

0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:09.399
<v Speaker 1>areas in Westchester, and you have to think about, oh, well,

0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:10.600
<v Speaker 1>there's racism.

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<v Speaker 7>And the homes don't appreciate the same level where we're from.

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<v Speaker 7>Like any other place in Westchester, the homes appreciate much higher,

0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:21.960
<v Speaker 7>but ironically, for some reason, in the Black neighborhood, the

0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.879
<v Speaker 7>homes don't appreciate the same value as anywhere else in

0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.880
<v Speaker 7>the county. So it's an interesting study. I actually would

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<v Speaker 7>like to hit Ian's perspective on that too, because.

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<v Speaker 2>I was going to say, I would like to, like,

0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:35.359
<v Speaker 2>I think, because having Ian here is special as well,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'd love to hear some of the background, like

0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:38.800
<v Speaker 2>how did you get here? How did you link with

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<v Speaker 2>your leisure? You know, but how did you even get

0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:43.600
<v Speaker 2>to the space where you knew? Like honestly, like my

0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:45.920
<v Speaker 2>sister loves you know, everybody knows on the on the show,

0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:48.160
<v Speaker 2>they're always like, bring care along. That's my sister who

0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.760
<v Speaker 2>gives us all of our our stock tips. Who she's like, now,

0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm good, but she you are one of the few

0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:56.720
<v Speaker 2>people that she's like, Yo, he's dope.

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<v Speaker 6>You know.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I'd love to know. How'd you get here, how'd

0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:06.439
<v Speaker 2>you learn what you learn? How'd you connect with her?

0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:07.000
<v Speaker 2>Your leisure?

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<v Speaker 4>It came out of pain. So I went to Indiana University.

0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:12.800
<v Speaker 4>I'm from northwest Indiana. I grew up twenty minutes from Chicago.

0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:16.480
<v Speaker 4>In nineteen ninety nine and two thousand, my dad gave

0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:19.640
<v Speaker 4>a guy some money because he was in construction, got

0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.920
<v Speaker 4>lost all the money lost one hundred and fifteen thousand

0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.720
<v Speaker 4>on like three months doing option trades. And there was

0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.960
<v Speaker 4>a guy's first three months with the firm literally told him, hey,

0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:32.840
<v Speaker 4>it just happened. And my dad was like, what do

0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:34.560
<v Speaker 4>you mean, It just happens, like there was no care,

0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:38.680
<v Speaker 4>no compassion. So that was my first introduction. Second introduction

0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:43.080
<v Speaker 4>Indiana University. I'm walking from Valentine. Kudos Andy Shiftman, he's

0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:45.000
<v Speaker 4>an agent now in the NBA, and he was like, Yo,

0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:49.600
<v Speaker 4>Cuban made this crazy trade with Yahoo, which crazy enough.

0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:53.760
<v Speaker 4>EYL went to interview him about, you know, fifteen years later,

0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:57.240
<v Speaker 4>but Mark Cuban had She's so broadcast dot Com to

0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:00.800
<v Speaker 4>Yahoo and then got the stocks and then shortened it

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<v Speaker 4>as a FELLO took that money and then invested long

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<v Speaker 4>term into the market. So I had an exposure to

0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:08.160
<v Speaker 4>what happens when things don't go well and then this

0:26:08.200 --> 0:26:10.520
<v Speaker 4>other side of like, even when the market goes down,

0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.160
<v Speaker 4>you can make money. So one of my buddies worked

0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:15.480
<v Speaker 4>for JP Morgan in two thousand and seven. He worked

0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.040
<v Speaker 4>for a big firm. He told me everything to invest

0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:20.840
<v Speaker 4>in the recession. Guess what I did did not listen.

0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:23.440
<v Speaker 4>He called me four months later and he was like, Okay,

0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:25.800
<v Speaker 4>I'm about to retire. He was thirty five. He was like,

0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:27.640
<v Speaker 4>you can liquidate everything that I told you to get

0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:29.720
<v Speaker 4>and I was like, loqu what He was like, no,

0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:32.120
<v Speaker 4>I'm about to retire. He was like, you didn't buy

0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:36.439
<v Speaker 4>what I told you. And he was already rich. But

0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:39.199
<v Speaker 4>he still retired to this day from two thousand and

0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:41.679
<v Speaker 4>eight from those investments. And I was like, see what

0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:45.639
<v Speaker 4>had happened? Was I was going to I went on

0:26:45.680 --> 0:26:49.560
<v Speaker 4>a day too, And that was my first lesson of like,

0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:54.200
<v Speaker 4>these recessions and huge crashes are immense opportunities to us.

0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:57.560
<v Speaker 5>We panic, but for other people, they end up profiting

0:26:57.560 --> 0:26:57.840
<v Speaker 5>from it.

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<v Speaker 4>So from that point on, I was like, I'll never

0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:02.280
<v Speaker 4>get called not knowing what a recession is and how

0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:04.359
<v Speaker 4>to take advantage of it, and I will post on

0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:06.520
<v Speaker 4>Facebook and share stuff with my friends for free. And

0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:09.520
<v Speaker 4>then one of my friends Jury introduced me to Troy

0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.600
<v Speaker 4>Rashott and then of course, you know, they didn't know me,

0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:14.520
<v Speaker 4>and it's so many we all know this. We see

0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:17.760
<v Speaker 4>people people who post online who act like they're the greatest,

0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:20.080
<v Speaker 4>but they're not good at their craft. So it took

0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:21.720
<v Speaker 4>them a while to like warm up to me. But

0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:24.840
<v Speaker 4>after we connect and did episode seventy end up being

0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:27.240
<v Speaker 4>a classic. And then from there goes to the Power Partnership.

0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:30.399
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, hey, we should do a podcast together because

0:27:30.440 --> 0:27:33.119
<v Speaker 4>I like working with other people, but in particularly I

0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:36.760
<v Speaker 4>like working with us, because let's be honest. In twenty ten,

0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:39.400
<v Speaker 4>when I was talking about investing and using rap references

0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:42.159
<v Speaker 4>in basketball references, it was looking down upon it, like,

0:27:42.200 --> 0:27:44.399
<v Speaker 4>no one wants to hear that perspective of the market

0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:48.720
<v Speaker 4>from Alanovs, you know, And I'm like, but my people

0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:50.639
<v Speaker 4>in the barbershop get that they don't understand what a

0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:53.120
<v Speaker 4>derivative is or a synthetic instrument.

0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:55.199
<v Speaker 5>They're like, oh, what is that? A beat machine?

0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:55.320
<v Speaker 2>Like?

0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:58.960
<v Speaker 5>What's that? So making it plain made it fun.

0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:00.959
<v Speaker 4>And I think we should in a wave to make

0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:03.359
<v Speaker 4>it acceptable for us to be us and invested in

0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:06.080
<v Speaker 4>the market. And last year I think our growth was

0:28:06.119 --> 0:28:09.320
<v Speaker 4>the biggest in investing in this entire history.

0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:14.160
<v Speaker 1>So who can I ask y'all a question going back

0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:18.960
<v Speaker 1>to your origins? What I know? So Rashad financial advisor?

0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:21.840
<v Speaker 1>I and you also worked in wait, JP Morgan or

0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:22.840
<v Speaker 1>is that a buddy No, that was.

0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:24.560
<v Speaker 5>My buddy mom. I'm an investor. I just didn't learn

0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:24.800
<v Speaker 5>how to.

0:28:24.800 --> 0:28:27.919
<v Speaker 1>Do it on my own d y investing. So Troy

0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:30.639
<v Speaker 1>educator teach? What did you teach?

0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:32.719
<v Speaker 3>I taught health science and physics.

0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:35.360
<v Speaker 1>So I was like, coach Troy, you can call coach

0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:39.440
<v Speaker 1>exactly right. But but y'all, I mean, and I know

0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:42.000
<v Speaker 1>Ian you kind of shared some of your early financial inspirations.

0:28:42.040 --> 0:28:44.440
<v Speaker 1>But for Troy and Rashad, I mean, who was it?

0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:47.040
<v Speaker 1>How did you end up here? I think for personally,

0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:50.720
<v Speaker 1>you know, I accidentally ended up in personal finance, you know,

0:28:50.800 --> 0:28:53.160
<v Speaker 1>kicked on my butt as a millennial in the Great Recession,

0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:57.000
<v Speaker 1>Tiffany's story. I think it's very well known about, you know,

0:28:57.040 --> 0:29:00.080
<v Speaker 1>a similar comeback story after the recession. But yeah, what

0:29:00.440 --> 0:29:03.840
<v Speaker 1>what what what drives y'all? What's your inspiration financially? Who

0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:06.400
<v Speaker 1>or what is your inspiration? What was that moment for y'all?

0:29:07.040 --> 0:29:09.760
<v Speaker 7>I mean for me, I think my dad was definitely

0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:12.800
<v Speaker 7>a major inspiration for me. Like I grew up in

0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:16.240
<v Speaker 7>the household. Like my mom is a teacher and she's

0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:20.600
<v Speaker 7>like very you know, ultra paycheck, Like she has no

0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:22.600
<v Speaker 7>heart to be an entrepreneur, like she needs to have

0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:26.240
<v Speaker 7>a paycheck. She's not feeling an entrepreneur life. And part

0:29:26.280 --> 0:29:28.800
<v Speaker 7>of that is that, you know, my dad's entrepreneur's whole life,

0:29:28.800 --> 0:29:31.680
<v Speaker 7>but you know, being an entrepreneur's ups and downs. So,

0:29:31.760 --> 0:29:33.360
<v Speaker 7>you know, I grew up in the household where you know,

0:29:33.520 --> 0:29:36.680
<v Speaker 7>I saw like, you know, financial issues, like you can see.

0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:38.760
<v Speaker 6>Like you know what I'm saying. As you get older,

0:29:38.800 --> 0:29:39.560
<v Speaker 6>you start to you.

0:29:39.520 --> 0:29:41.600
<v Speaker 7>Know, realize what's going on, and you know, you see

0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:44.600
<v Speaker 7>fights and arguments and it's like you said this last time,

0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:45.200
<v Speaker 7>I'm not you're not.

0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:46.120
<v Speaker 6>Borrowing more money from me.

0:29:46.160 --> 0:29:49.080
<v Speaker 7>DA, So it's like you start to see, like there's

0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:51.720
<v Speaker 7>good months and then there's bad months, but that's the

0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:54.920
<v Speaker 7>life of an entrepreneur. But I always appreciated that, you know,

0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:57.640
<v Speaker 7>he didn't have to work for anybody, and you know,

0:29:57.760 --> 0:30:01.000
<v Speaker 7>he he always had that that like do self mentality,

0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:04.000
<v Speaker 7>and that's something that I always wanted to do. I

0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:06.200
<v Speaker 7>never really wanted to work for anybody. I never was

0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.400
<v Speaker 7>good at following orders or following directions. It's something I

0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:11.120
<v Speaker 7>never never was good at. So I always knew I

0:30:11.120 --> 0:30:12.880
<v Speaker 7>wanted to be an entrepreneur my whole entire life. I

0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:15.760
<v Speaker 7>just wasn't sure exactly what direction I wanted to go in. So,

0:30:16.080 --> 0:30:18.160
<v Speaker 7>you know, business is something that I always fell in

0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:20.280
<v Speaker 7>love with, Like even when I was young, I loved

0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:22.840
<v Speaker 7>the stock market, like just movies like Wall Street and

0:30:22.880 --> 0:30:24.920
<v Speaker 7>Barbarians at the Gate. Like I was watching these movies

0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:26.360
<v Speaker 7>when I was twelve years old. It was just something

0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:28.600
<v Speaker 7>about I wanted to be a corporate takeover artists. It

0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:30.560
<v Speaker 7>was just fascinating to me, Like you know, growing to

0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:32.160
<v Speaker 7>Wall Street when I was a kid and just seeing

0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.800
<v Speaker 7>everything move so quickly, it just was like fascinating to me.

0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:38.000
<v Speaker 7>So I always wanted to be involved in the stock market.

0:30:38.080 --> 0:30:42.520
<v Speaker 7>I always wanted to, you know, be in the industry.

0:30:42.440 --> 0:30:46.440
<v Speaker 1>But you're different. You weren't like most twelve was. Do

0:30:46.440 --> 0:30:49.240
<v Speaker 1>you think it was because living in Manhattan, you know,

0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:51.080
<v Speaker 1>Wall Street was so close but so far. Do you

0:30:51.080 --> 0:30:52.240
<v Speaker 1>think that was part of the allure?

0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:54.960
<v Speaker 7>Nah, not really, because most of the people that I

0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:57.040
<v Speaker 7>grew up with didn't share the same ambition or the

0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.760
<v Speaker 7>same passion for business or stocks that I had. So

0:31:00.280 --> 0:31:02.080
<v Speaker 7>I don't know, I don't I don't know what it was,

0:31:02.240 --> 0:31:04.160
<v Speaker 7>but I guess. You know, sometimes in life, you just

0:31:04.320 --> 0:31:05.959
<v Speaker 7>you know, you can just see a kid and you're like,

0:31:06.520 --> 0:31:11.960
<v Speaker 7>he's going to be like that help too, yeah, seeing it,

0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:14.720
<v Speaker 7>Yeah for sure. But even now, I mean, I have

0:31:14.760 --> 0:31:16.920
<v Speaker 7>siblings and they're not entrepreneurs. They didn't they didn't go

0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:18.960
<v Speaker 7>down that route. And they're older than me, so I'm

0:31:18.960 --> 0:31:21.360
<v Speaker 7>the youngest. So you know, I just think sometimes you

0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:23.720
<v Speaker 7>just have things that's just wide in your brain. And

0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:25.920
<v Speaker 7>like I said, I always had an issue with authority,

0:31:26.000 --> 0:31:27.440
<v Speaker 7>like you know, even playing basketball player.

0:31:27.440 --> 0:31:37.720
<v Speaker 2>But no, you don't really me and Mandy ben hard headed.

0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:41.560
<v Speaker 7>I think that you know that that's a gift that

0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:43.240
<v Speaker 7>the courage, but more of a gift, more of a

0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:45.720
<v Speaker 7>gift because it forced me to figure out you know,

0:31:45.760 --> 0:31:47.560
<v Speaker 7>I never really had a real job. So I had

0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:49.640
<v Speaker 7>a job one time at Target for two weeks when

0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:50.440
<v Speaker 7>I was in college.

0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:53.760
<v Speaker 6>I got fired. I got fired after I think like

0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:56.200
<v Speaker 6>ten days you just left kind of. I got fired

0:31:56.200 --> 0:31:56.640
<v Speaker 6>at me.

0:31:58.360 --> 0:32:02.880
<v Speaker 3>Like a two hours un I feel like.

0:32:01.840 --> 0:32:03.320
<v Speaker 6>Like a two hour lunch. But they're like, look, this

0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:04.040
<v Speaker 6>isn't gonna.

0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:05.960
<v Speaker 5>Work out the thirty minute lunch break trash though.

0:32:07.000 --> 0:32:09.640
<v Speaker 3>You know that's a true story. That's a true story. Yeah,

0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:12.200
<v Speaker 3>I came home from college. He's like, what I'm gonna do?

0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:14.040
<v Speaker 3>He's like, Yo, you think I could teach. I'm like,

0:32:14.080 --> 0:32:15.320
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if that's gonna be fair.

0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:21.240
<v Speaker 1>Wait so rashad. Okay, so you're this like budding entrepreneur

0:32:21.640 --> 0:32:24.600
<v Speaker 1>very you know, it sounds like you're very risk tolerant.

0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:27.000
<v Speaker 1>If we can use some you know, investing speak. So

0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:31.959
<v Speaker 1>Troy public Education, I'm sensing maybe you were. Well, you

0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:33.840
<v Speaker 1>tell me your story, because y'all.

0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:39.040
<v Speaker 3>The my parents, I'm first generation. My parents are from Jamaica,

0:32:39.200 --> 0:32:42.280
<v Speaker 3>and so we would you know, we would exactly exactly.

0:32:43.480 --> 0:32:45.720
<v Speaker 3>I mean they installed hard work, hard work, hard work,

0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:50.520
<v Speaker 3>and they instilled like being a certain profession, and teaching

0:32:50.560 --> 0:32:52.320
<v Speaker 3>wasn't one of them. I kind of just stumbled upon

0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:54.040
<v Speaker 3>it because I naturally had to work at kids. Our

0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:56.440
<v Speaker 3>first job was working at a community center as counselors,

0:32:56.480 --> 0:32:58.560
<v Speaker 3>and so I always worked with kids, and I love sports.

0:32:58.600 --> 0:32:59.959
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was gonna play sports, and so my

0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:03.040
<v Speaker 3>biggest inspiration with athletes and rappers like straight up like

0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:06.080
<v Speaker 3>Jay and Puffer with inspirations for me, obviously, Michael Jordan

0:33:06.160 --> 0:33:08.680
<v Speaker 3>was an inspiration, and I thought like, you know what

0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 3>if I can't play sports, I want to be around

0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:11.920
<v Speaker 3>it at least, and so I initially wanted to be

0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:15.240
<v Speaker 3>a physical therapist, and very quickly I was like, why

0:33:15.240 --> 0:33:17.440
<v Speaker 3>am I doing this? I hate science, Like this is

0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:19.840
<v Speaker 3>just too many science courses. I'm not going to make this,

0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:22.240
<v Speaker 3>and so I just put the two natural things that

0:33:22.240 --> 0:33:24.160
<v Speaker 3>I knew. I knew working with kids, I knew sports,

0:33:24.400 --> 0:33:26.080
<v Speaker 3>and so I said, I'm going to teach his head.

0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:28.200
<v Speaker 3>So my biggest inspirations with that. And once I knew

0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:30.360
<v Speaker 3>that I wasn't going to make money from sports, I said,

0:33:30.440 --> 0:33:31.840
<v Speaker 3>let me find a professional in sports that I can

0:33:31.960 --> 0:33:33.840
<v Speaker 3>make money. So sports medicine became a thing, and then

0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:37.600
<v Speaker 3>obviously it fell out, But you know, my inspirations are

0:33:37.600 --> 0:33:40.360
<v Speaker 3>around me my friends. Like I said, I've know Shotty

0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:43.280
<v Speaker 3>pretty much my whole life. He's been an entrepreneur most

0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:46.000
<v Speaker 3>of my entire like since i've known them, right, And

0:33:46.080 --> 0:33:48.160
<v Speaker 3>so our other partner, Mike, is an entrepreneur as well.

0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:50.480
<v Speaker 3>And so imagine the text messages as I'm going to

0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:54.760
<v Speaker 3>work and they're just waking up. But I was thinking,

0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:57.320
<v Speaker 3>they're like, look, man, you know what, You're not going

0:33:57.400 --> 0:33:58.600
<v Speaker 3>to be doing this for long, And I'm like, now,

0:33:58.640 --> 0:34:00.880
<v Speaker 3>I really love this. You know, like when you when

0:34:00.880 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 3>you're working around kids and you see your purpose and

0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:05.080
<v Speaker 3>you realize how different you are in the education field,

0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:06.680
<v Speaker 3>and you know there's not going to be anybody that

0:34:06.720 --> 0:34:08.719
<v Speaker 3>replaces if you leave, you become more passionate. But I've

0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:11.400
<v Speaker 3>always had the entrepreneurial mindset, and I think we had

0:34:11.440 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 3>an argument once. He was like, yeah, you got a boss,

0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:14.480
<v Speaker 3>and I'm like, no, I don't have a boss. I

0:34:14.520 --> 0:34:16.799
<v Speaker 3>work for myself. Do the real bosses of the kids

0:34:16.880 --> 0:34:20.600
<v Speaker 3>that I'm so those kids were my boss because they

0:34:20.600 --> 0:34:22.040
<v Speaker 3>would be able to tell me how I was doing

0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.560
<v Speaker 3>on a daily basis, whereas the principal, I know more

0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:26.920
<v Speaker 3>about this profession that I'm doing than he does. And

0:34:26.960 --> 0:34:29.040
<v Speaker 3>so if I do my job, I look good and

0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:30.600
<v Speaker 3>so to see and if he does his job, we

0:34:30.640 --> 0:34:32.200
<v Speaker 3>all look good. And so we work in this together.

0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:35.239
<v Speaker 3>I always looked at everybody as my colleague, and they were like, yeah,

0:34:35.360 --> 0:34:36.680
<v Speaker 3>sounds good, but you got a boss.

0:34:38.120 --> 0:34:40.799
<v Speaker 2>People always hating on teachers, but you know, like sure,

0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:44.120
<v Speaker 2>you know, like when you teach, you are literally equipped

0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:48.000
<v Speaker 2>to do just about anything, anything anything, because like you're

0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:50.960
<v Speaker 2>like a psychologist, You're a CEO of that classroom. You're

0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:54.440
<v Speaker 2>the CFO. You got to deal with teacher social work,

0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:56.799
<v Speaker 2>and then every year it flips and you got to.

0:34:56.840 --> 0:35:01.759
<v Speaker 4>Learn and readjust the relation skills a great every kindness

0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:03.840
<v Speaker 4>like you two are too, the kindness like we're shouting

0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:06.560
<v Speaker 4>out rough that authority thing. We'd be like, all right,

0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:08.760
<v Speaker 4>like we're shouting failed in just fail.

0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.040
<v Speaker 5>You guys are a lot more patient, like you're gonna

0:35:12.040 --> 0:35:12.279
<v Speaker 5>get it.

0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:13.040
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:16.120
<v Speaker 3>When he came into the classroom, I know, joke, when

0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:18.680
<v Speaker 3>he came in and he credit to him because he's

0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:21.000
<v Speaker 3>gotten a lot better with actually being in from the classroom,

0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:23.799
<v Speaker 3>he would get their attention like all right, all right,

0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:29.440
<v Speaker 3>all right, all right, and like going to work, I'm like,

0:35:29.520 --> 0:35:30.879
<v Speaker 3>now we got to ease it. We got to ease

0:35:30.880 --> 0:35:32.520
<v Speaker 3>it in. Then we got to ease this this thing again.

0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:35.719
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, me so, And this is something that I

0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:37.279
<v Speaker 3>want people to realize, Like I don't come from a

0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:39.960
<v Speaker 3>business background. My business comes from watching my brothers and

0:35:40.000 --> 0:35:43.279
<v Speaker 3>watch my friends be entrepreneurs and learning that. And so

0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:45.440
<v Speaker 3>it's encouraging because it's like, look, you can do this.

0:35:45.640 --> 0:35:47.520
<v Speaker 3>It takes a lot of research, it takes a lot

0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:49.480
<v Speaker 3>of homework and touches a lot of discipline, but you know,

0:35:49.560 --> 0:35:52.040
<v Speaker 3>anybody can do it if you put the right the

0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:52.920
<v Speaker 3>right amount of time in.

0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:56.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well we're coming up on well, we've already passed

0:35:56.680 --> 0:36:00.840
<v Speaker 1>the one year pandemic adversary, which is seems dumbed to

0:36:00.840 --> 0:36:04.839
<v Speaker 1>even call it that because it's such a traumatic, traumatic year,

0:36:04.920 --> 0:36:07.600
<v Speaker 1>especially for black communities, especially for black and brown communities.

0:36:08.160 --> 0:36:10.680
<v Speaker 1>But let's talk about the market, because I know a

0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:13.080
<v Speaker 1>year ago markets were down. Were they down? I don't

0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:15.799
<v Speaker 1>know if I'm getting it's April now, what is even time?

0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:18.640
<v Speaker 1>It was a scary time for some people, but to

0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:21.120
<v Speaker 1>your point, Ian, it was also a time of opportunity.

0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:25.600
<v Speaker 1>How do you think people So let's say let's say Ian,

0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:28.160
<v Speaker 1>people you know, had a year like you did ten

0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:29.960
<v Speaker 1>years ago when your friend told you to invest and

0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:31.560
<v Speaker 1>they were like, I'm not going to do it. I'm

0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:33.799
<v Speaker 1>a little too afraid. So they feel like they've missed

0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:36.719
<v Speaker 1>the boat. Now we're a year post pandemic. What what

0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:38.880
<v Speaker 1>message do you have to people who were like, damn,

0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:41.080
<v Speaker 1>I didn't get hurts. I didn't people.

0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:42.960
<v Speaker 2>When she means people, she meets me. I was like,

0:36:43.440 --> 0:36:46.120
<v Speaker 2>my sister was like me walking over the wired I

0:36:46.120 --> 0:36:49.360
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I invested me. I have a wealth group.

0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:51.040
<v Speaker 2>Carol was like get this, get this. I was like,

0:36:51.239 --> 0:36:53.560
<v Speaker 2>h tell me how it works out. She's like, I'm

0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:55.640
<v Speaker 2>up a thousand percent. What about you? I'm like, I

0:36:55.680 --> 0:37:01.359
<v Speaker 2>mean I'm up a thousand percent and business. So yes, Ian,

0:37:01.640 --> 0:37:04.000
<v Speaker 2>how can I stop up my tears and be ready

0:37:04.000 --> 0:37:04.680
<v Speaker 2>for the next time?

0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:07.239
<v Speaker 5>For me, it took me twelve years to get ready

0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:07.840
<v Speaker 5>for this moment.

0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:09.880
<v Speaker 4>But I would tell anyone that missed out use that

0:37:09.960 --> 0:37:13.600
<v Speaker 4>as motivation to never get caught in this again, because like, imagine,

0:37:14.520 --> 0:37:15.040
<v Speaker 4>so I.

0:37:15.040 --> 0:37:16.960
<v Speaker 5>Looked like I visited Westchester's nice.

0:37:17.000 --> 0:37:18.920
<v Speaker 4>When I looked at the houses, I'm like kind of

0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:21.959
<v Speaker 4>pricey because I'm in Houston, So like five hundred thousand

0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:24.040
<v Speaker 4>get us a mansion. I'm like, gotta wait to move

0:37:24.080 --> 0:37:27.600
<v Speaker 4>out there, right, But imagine if houses out there that

0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:31.560
<v Speaker 4>are the prices now they dropped eighty percent, we would

0:37:31.600 --> 0:37:33.759
<v Speaker 4>be like, girl, we got to go get get all

0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:37.239
<v Speaker 4>friends and go buy as many houses as possible. Last

0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:39.439
<v Speaker 4>year happened in everyone panics and so in real time

0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:41.440
<v Speaker 4>I was telling people how far the market was going

0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:43.640
<v Speaker 4>to drop and want to buy. So last year we

0:37:43.719 --> 0:37:45.600
<v Speaker 4>did the collaboration with stock Club. Like at one time,

0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:49.720
<v Speaker 4>I was like by Apple, Microsoft's Maderna Tesla AMD and video,

0:37:50.400 --> 0:37:55.280
<v Speaker 4>Microsoft Shopify jkhy in five nine clouds. So on average,

0:37:55.400 --> 0:37:56.960
<v Speaker 4>for those who got into stock Club last year, they

0:37:57.040 --> 0:38:00.560
<v Speaker 4>have like five hundred and thirty five percent indexes and right,

0:38:01.440 --> 0:38:03.360
<v Speaker 4>and if you missed out, it's like, damn, I should

0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:04.799
<v Speaker 4>have took advantage of it. But the great part is

0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:08.400
<v Speaker 4>the market drops every month. It's just as sure as

0:38:08.440 --> 0:38:10.279
<v Speaker 4>the sun is going to shine, rain is going to come.

0:38:10.680 --> 0:38:12.879
<v Speaker 4>We have to take advantage of those moments. But when

0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:15.640
<v Speaker 4>those big drops happen in quality companies, and Rashad said

0:38:15.640 --> 0:38:17.880
<v Speaker 4>that what we're doing market money is like do you

0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:22.080
<v Speaker 4>think eighty percent of value of Boeing left just because

0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:24.520
<v Speaker 4>the market dropped with fifty percent of Apple actually left.

0:38:25.080 --> 0:38:28.840
<v Speaker 5>No, those are the greatest times to buy.

0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:32.200
<v Speaker 4>Of course, do your research if you're super serious about investing.

0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:33.920
<v Speaker 4>I'm telling everyone to read one hundred pages a day.

0:38:33.960 --> 0:38:35.640
<v Speaker 4>If you're beginning to start with ten pages a day,

0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:39.200
<v Speaker 4>you'll be surprised the attraction that you can cover, and

0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:41.680
<v Speaker 4>you will be able to beat ninety nine percent of people.

0:38:41.719 --> 0:38:44.080
<v Speaker 4>But if you just buy every single month and when

0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:47.320
<v Speaker 4>we have fifty percent drops, if you buy quality companies,

0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:50.400
<v Speaker 4>like top ten companies, you'll go to My formula is

0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:53.440
<v Speaker 4>two index funds and then two technology companies. That's all

0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:56.920
<v Speaker 4>you need, equally weighted. So if you have ten thousand dollars,

0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:59.680
<v Speaker 4>split the money up amongst the four and you'll be fine.

0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:02.279
<v Speaker 4>But those opportunities when the market crashes, I'm going to

0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:05.279
<v Speaker 4>be very honest, those of us that are investors were

0:39:05.320 --> 0:39:05.840
<v Speaker 4>a smile.

0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:07.120
<v Speaker 5>And ear to ear and be like, thank you God.

0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:08.160
<v Speaker 5>I appreciate you.

0:39:08.840 --> 0:39:11.440
<v Speaker 1>In a sad way though, because you know for some

0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:14.960
<v Speaker 1>well also too, but I have so many questions, but

0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:17.279
<v Speaker 1>for me, so for example, I got a call from

0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:20.160
<v Speaker 1>my cousin Tilla and Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta originally, even

0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:26.680
<v Speaker 1>though I wrapped the burg. Now, I don't know any

0:39:26.719 --> 0:39:28.439
<v Speaker 1>young people around here, so I'm just like an old

0:39:28.520 --> 0:39:29.200
<v Speaker 1>married lady.

0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:29.200
<v Speaker 5>With a.

0:39:32.120 --> 0:39:32.479
<v Speaker 1>The burg.

0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:41.840
<v Speaker 3>Well, Greenberg one of those. I'll bring it to your house, y'all.

0:39:42.880 --> 0:39:45.200
<v Speaker 1>But really, when we find out we live two streets

0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:46.600
<v Speaker 1>away from each other, that's going to be the real

0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:50.040
<v Speaker 1>because green is tiny. All right, mom, brain, where was

0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:50.439
<v Speaker 1>my question?

0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:50.799
<v Speaker 2>All right?

0:39:50.840 --> 0:39:53.640
<v Speaker 1>Listen my cousin Tiya, that's right, she calls me, and

0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:57.799
<v Speaker 1>listen as Rishad and especially in Ian probably too. You

0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:00.120
<v Speaker 1>know that you can't just like give I have so

0:40:00.160 --> 0:40:02.640
<v Speaker 1>many cousins, you know, some of my couple of my

0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:04.880
<v Speaker 1>siblings too, who you want to just like give them

0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:06.959
<v Speaker 1>a financial advice, but they have to come to you.

0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:08.840
<v Speaker 1>You know. I have learned people don't want you preaching

0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:10.800
<v Speaker 1>to them. They need to come to you. So finally,

0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:13.400
<v Speaker 1>after years of like text me whenever you got a

0:40:13.480 --> 0:40:16.520
<v Speaker 1>question to you, she finally text me. She's a preschool

0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:19.520
<v Speaker 1>or preschool teacher in Atlanta, really hurt by their recession,

0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:22.600
<v Speaker 1>and she's like, hey, my coworker was talking about game Stop.

0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Should I buy some? And my first reaction was like, no,

0:40:26.760 --> 0:40:30.239
<v Speaker 1>this was not when GameStop was this was when it

0:40:30.280 --> 0:40:32.040
<v Speaker 1>was in the news to the point where you know,

0:40:32.120 --> 0:40:34.400
<v Speaker 1>my cousin was hearing about it. But I like what

0:40:34.400 --> 0:40:37.040
<v Speaker 1>you said about education because for me, I wanted to

0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:39.600
<v Speaker 1>be like, yes, you know, buy some stock. But for me,

0:40:39.840 --> 0:40:42.840
<v Speaker 1>I hesitated because I knew that she didn't have the

0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:45.360
<v Speaker 1>education part down. Like it's almost like you need to

0:40:45.440 --> 0:40:48.520
<v Speaker 1>read and be educated so that you can take someone's

0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:51.520
<v Speaker 1>advice and you can you know, make an educated decision

0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.200
<v Speaker 1>about investing. So what would you say to and you

0:40:54.239 --> 0:40:56.600
<v Speaker 1>know Tiya When I when she came to me and

0:40:56.640 --> 0:40:58.840
<v Speaker 1>asked me about that, I was like, do you have

0:40:58.840 --> 0:41:01.080
<v Speaker 1>a four to one K? And she hadn't, and she

0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:03.640
<v Speaker 1>was like leaving a match on the table. So for

0:41:03.760 --> 0:41:06.520
<v Speaker 1>people who are maybe they haven't you know, they're not

0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:08.799
<v Speaker 1>ready for the moment quite yet. It's not their time.

0:41:08.840 --> 0:41:10.680
<v Speaker 1>We call it financial double Dutch. It's not their time

0:41:10.719 --> 0:41:15.000
<v Speaker 1>to just jump in, you know, just quite yet. Backing

0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:17.840
<v Speaker 1>it up, I mean, do you feel like you know,

0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:20.840
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter just jump in any way, or because

0:41:20.840 --> 0:41:22.400
<v Speaker 1>I tend to be more risk averse, or do you

0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:25.319
<v Speaker 1>feel like some people should just start with you know,

0:41:25.480 --> 0:41:27.920
<v Speaker 1>four one K start with I or Ray start with

0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:31.600
<v Speaker 1>emergency fund first and foremost before.

0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:33.839
<v Speaker 2>And I'll piggyback on that question, like, and then what

0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:36.360
<v Speaker 2>does someone start to read? Like if someone's like, okay,

0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:39.440
<v Speaker 2>I want to prepare, you know, like you know, what

0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:42.239
<v Speaker 2>what books would you suggest someone start with and start

0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:46.000
<v Speaker 2>to accumulate that kind of knowledge. To piggyback on Mandy's question, well,

0:41:46.000 --> 0:41:46.640
<v Speaker 2>if they want.

0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:48.279
<v Speaker 5>To be financially whole, they should probably get your book.

0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:51.040
<v Speaker 1>I mean with money, can we take any in the

0:41:51.040 --> 0:41:53.359
<v Speaker 1>camera and just a little bit it's.

0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:57.040
<v Speaker 2>Always but seriously, like, I have a fourteen year old

0:41:57.080 --> 0:41:59.799
<v Speaker 2>step daughter and I want to because she's making like

0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:02.359
<v Speaker 2>money from me and everybody else that she's been working with,

0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.960
<v Speaker 2>and I want, you know, she knows how to budget,

0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:07.839
<v Speaker 2>she knows how to save, but I'm like, I want

0:42:07.880 --> 0:42:10.200
<v Speaker 2>to sit down with her to be like, let's let's

0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:12.880
<v Speaker 2>invest together. So I'm like something that's simple enough that

0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:15.239
<v Speaker 2>I think if a fourteen year old can start, then

0:42:15.280 --> 0:42:16.640
<v Speaker 2>anyone can. So I'd love to know.

0:42:16.719 --> 0:42:18.839
<v Speaker 7>I'm going to let Ian answer this, but I think

0:42:18.880 --> 0:42:22.400
<v Speaker 7>that first we have to get out of the the

0:42:22.520 --> 0:42:26.360
<v Speaker 7>thing of like what books to read, because as a teacher,

0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:29.040
<v Speaker 7>you understand that there's seven different I think seven different

0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:33.280
<v Speaker 7>learning styles. Everybody learns differently. Everybody does not learn by reading.

0:42:33.360 --> 0:42:35.960
<v Speaker 7>Like me, like, I don't really read that many books.

0:42:36.200 --> 0:42:37.680
<v Speaker 7>If I read a book, it's going to be I'm

0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:40.560
<v Speaker 7>listening to the book on audio. I can remember something

0:42:40.640 --> 0:42:43.759
<v Speaker 7>a lot better than reading something like my brain is

0:42:43.760 --> 0:42:46.440
<v Speaker 7>not working that manner. And I feel like I feel

0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:49.279
<v Speaker 7>like you know, even now in this generation, people are

0:42:49.360 --> 0:42:51.960
<v Speaker 7>learning differently, so we can never discount the value of

0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:54.719
<v Speaker 7>how someone learns. So one of the best ways to

0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:59.640
<v Speaker 7>learn is podcasts are do.

0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:01.600
<v Speaker 1>You know any investing podcasts?

0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:03.640
<v Speaker 5>People should.

0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:06.000
<v Speaker 6>Podcast?

0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:10.440
<v Speaker 7>YouTube? Even instagram you learn. You can learn if you

0:43:10.480 --> 0:43:12.760
<v Speaker 7>follow the right the right pages and the right people.

0:43:13.040 --> 0:43:15.240
<v Speaker 7>So that's the first thing because I feel like just still.

0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:17.600
<v Speaker 7>I remember I was telling my cousin before. He was like,

0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:19.799
<v Speaker 7>here were books you reading. He was in jail at

0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:22.440
<v Speaker 7>the time, so you know, in jail like they reading scrolls,

0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:25.439
<v Speaker 7>like they're reading everything. Like I'm like, you know, I'm listening.

0:43:25.480 --> 0:43:27.440
<v Speaker 7>He's like you listening to an audio? Like he was like,

0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:30.520
<v Speaker 7>you know, like that's not learning. I'm like, wow, the

0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:34.240
<v Speaker 7>same thing. What if I'm listening to somebody tell me something,

0:43:34.360 --> 0:43:37.200
<v Speaker 7>or if you're reading it, what's different about it? So

0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:39.160
<v Speaker 7>that's the first thing. I feel like, you know, in

0:43:39.200 --> 0:43:41.399
<v Speaker 7>the age of information, there's so many different ways to learn,

0:43:42.040 --> 0:43:46.080
<v Speaker 7>and me personally, I learned better from listening to podcasts,

0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:50.600
<v Speaker 7>watching videos, and actually even you know, buying courses than

0:43:50.680 --> 0:43:53.800
<v Speaker 7>buying books. I'm not going to read a book this

0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:54.840
<v Speaker 7>big I ain't gonna do it.

0:43:55.880 --> 0:43:58.319
<v Speaker 3>If you send him a long text, you're not reading.

0:44:00.320 --> 0:44:02.200
<v Speaker 2>And that's good, thank you for because you righte the educated.

0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:04.800
<v Speaker 2>To me, it's like you're right because there are differentiated

0:44:04.840 --> 0:44:09.040
<v Speaker 2>learning says that, like, you know, everybody absorbs knowledge differently,

0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:11.120
<v Speaker 2>and you ought to find the way that you best learn,

0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:13.560
<v Speaker 2>you know. So no, that makes total sense.

0:44:13.719 --> 0:44:15.640
<v Speaker 4>And then for me two things. We need to stop

0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:17.839
<v Speaker 4>saying that investing is hard. It is not for us

0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:20.239
<v Speaker 4>because the greatest risk that we will take is not

0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:22.239
<v Speaker 4>being able to have our money work for us. And

0:44:22.320 --> 0:44:24.200
<v Speaker 4>I've been saying this in twenty ten then last year

0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:27.120
<v Speaker 4>hitting everyone's like, maybe you had a point, because what

0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:29.319
<v Speaker 4>if I was talking to a guy to day who

0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:31.759
<v Speaker 4>came to put a desk together for me. He has

0:44:31.840 --> 0:44:35.040
<v Speaker 4>a friend that is working with businesses to automate eighty

0:44:35.080 --> 0:44:38.480
<v Speaker 4>percent of employees out of businesses. It's a business owner,

0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:41.799
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, what's the automation? The other side of me,

0:44:41.880 --> 0:44:43.840
<v Speaker 4>I'm looking at them like, well, my aunts, my cousins,

0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:46.600
<v Speaker 4>my relatives, they're going to be out of work. So

0:44:46.760 --> 0:44:49.080
<v Speaker 4>if we're not putting our money into the possession of

0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:51.319
<v Speaker 4>these companies, and you're actually buying a part of a

0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:54.640
<v Speaker 4>business which we already know what to wants to invest in,

0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:57.359
<v Speaker 4>I think the greatest risk is not investing in them.

0:44:57.400 --> 0:44:59.200
<v Speaker 4>My favorite book is Money Master the Game. It is

0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:02.000
<v Speaker 4>that thick. So what if I sat you down with

0:45:02.480 --> 0:45:07.279
<v Speaker 4>Drake Tupac Lee or whomever in the music industry and

0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:09.719
<v Speaker 4>that was their bible, which you read it. I think

0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:11.320
<v Speaker 4>a lot of times people don't know what the outcome

0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:13.040
<v Speaker 4>is going to be. That's why they don't want to read.

0:45:13.440 --> 0:45:16.319
<v Speaker 4>But I'm like, hey, if you invest one thousand dollars

0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:18.280
<v Speaker 4>a month, you should probably end up with a minimum

0:45:18.320 --> 0:45:21.520
<v Speaker 4>of five hundred thousand. That would entice people a hell

0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:23.239
<v Speaker 4>of a lot more. I think we were more than

0:45:23.280 --> 0:45:24.400
<v Speaker 4>capable of being.

0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:25.160
<v Speaker 5>Able to invest in the mark.

0:45:25.200 --> 0:45:27.279
<v Speaker 6>I think they still I think they still won't read it,

0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:27.920
<v Speaker 6>I think, and that.

0:45:29.520 --> 0:45:30.200
<v Speaker 5>Which is sad.

0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:32.600
<v Speaker 1>But the thing is also you don't need to read

0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:35.280
<v Speaker 1>a book to know how to just in a target

0:45:35.360 --> 0:45:37.680
<v Speaker 1>date fund, you know, and that's what you're talking about.

0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:42.000
<v Speaker 1>It's not for us often it's like the the literature,

0:45:42.160 --> 0:45:44.920
<v Speaker 1>the written tips about investing. It makes it feel like

0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:46.920
<v Speaker 1>and my cousin Tia, all she had to do was

0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:50.840
<v Speaker 1>go to her you know HR website. Often they automatically

0:45:50.880 --> 0:45:52.920
<v Speaker 1>put her in a target date fund. And you know what,

0:45:52.960 --> 0:45:55.120
<v Speaker 1>if that had happened ten years ago, she would have

0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:57.560
<v Speaker 1>been ready without reading a book, you know what I mean.

0:45:57.760 --> 0:46:00.320
<v Speaker 1>I was ready for this recession because baby man Mandy

0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:02.640
<v Speaker 1>at twenty two or twenty three open a four to

0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:05.880
<v Speaker 1>one k in twenty eleven, you know, and I just

0:46:05.960 --> 0:46:09.080
<v Speaker 1>put in my fifteen percent however much a month since then.

0:46:09.160 --> 0:46:12.040
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, we always send that message. And I think

0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:14.200
<v Speaker 1>where Tiff and I kind of you know, are always

0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:17.200
<v Speaker 1>kind of towing that line is for some people, that's good,

0:46:17.480 --> 0:46:19.520
<v Speaker 1>like you're doing it, you're investing, you know, if you

0:46:19.600 --> 0:46:21.440
<v Speaker 1>got a four to one k in Ira. But then

0:46:21.440 --> 0:46:24.080
<v Speaker 1>where you guys are more comfortable playing and as the

0:46:24.120 --> 0:46:28.040
<v Speaker 1>individual stock picking and things like that, that I think

0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:31.480
<v Speaker 1>that is the point where I'm like, probably read a book.

0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:33.640
<v Speaker 7>I think you have to meet people where they're at

0:46:33.840 --> 0:46:36.160
<v Speaker 7>and that's one of the things that our platform has grown.

0:46:36.200 --> 0:46:37.719
<v Speaker 7>It's not like we're the first people to ever talk

0:46:37.719 --> 0:46:41.880
<v Speaker 7>about investing or real estate, but we have created a platform,

0:46:41.920 --> 0:46:45.759
<v Speaker 7>probably the first platform of any real you know, stature,

0:46:46.120 --> 0:46:48.359
<v Speaker 7>that delivers the information in the language that the people

0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:52.239
<v Speaker 7>can understand, and it's very it's very digestible. So we

0:46:52.320 --> 0:46:54.080
<v Speaker 7>understand that people have a lot of stuff going on,

0:46:54.239 --> 0:46:57.320
<v Speaker 7>so you know, they might not want to invest in reading,

0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.680
<v Speaker 7>and hey, that's that's their prerogative. Now they can just

0:47:00.719 --> 0:47:03.200
<v Speaker 7>tune us in and they can listen and yeah, no,

0:47:03.320 --> 0:47:06.440
<v Speaker 7>we start with the basics before you actually should invest.

0:47:06.680 --> 0:47:06.759
<v Speaker 5>Me.

0:47:06.840 --> 0:47:09.480
<v Speaker 7>I'm a financial advisor, so my whole background is basics

0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:12.440
<v Speaker 7>as far as you know four one k's iras that

0:47:13.160 --> 0:47:15.759
<v Speaker 7>all of these things, emergency savings. I was talking about

0:47:15.760 --> 0:47:18.279
<v Speaker 7>that stuff way before we had an investment show, like

0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:21.560
<v Speaker 7>you should have three months minimum, six months recommended, twelve

0:47:21.600 --> 0:47:24.600
<v Speaker 7>months maximum. As far as emergency savings, this stuff is

0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:27.359
<v Speaker 7>not really sexy and nobody really wants to talk about that,

0:47:27.400 --> 0:47:30.080
<v Speaker 7>but you know, Tiffany does a great job of explaining

0:47:30.120 --> 0:47:33.880
<v Speaker 7>that in great detail. And that's that's the fundamentals. When

0:47:33.920 --> 0:47:36.440
<v Speaker 7>I used to play sports, you know, learn the fundamentals.

0:47:36.440 --> 0:47:38.680
<v Speaker 7>You can't shoot a half caught hook shot before you

0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:40.120
<v Speaker 7>can make a layup, like you know what I mean.

0:47:40.440 --> 0:47:42.040
<v Speaker 7>Like you try to skip the basics and you're gonna

0:47:42.080 --> 0:47:45.200
<v Speaker 7>hurt yourself. You try to jump into cryptocurrency before you

0:47:45.239 --> 0:47:48.320
<v Speaker 7>actually have done anything, and you're going to lose everything

0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:50.919
<v Speaker 7>because it's not based off of information. I always say

0:47:51.200 --> 0:47:53.759
<v Speaker 7>investing is a game of knowledge. Gambling is a game

0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:56.680
<v Speaker 7>of chance. You co mingle the two when you don't

0:47:56.680 --> 0:48:01.120
<v Speaker 7>have knowledge, so you can gamble by investing if you

0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:03.760
<v Speaker 7>just a lot of people's research is with somebody told them.

0:48:04.320 --> 0:48:06.839
<v Speaker 7>So if my research is what Troy told me, no

0:48:06.840 --> 0:48:09.240
<v Speaker 7>matter how knowledge you could research, no matter how knowledge,

0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:14.719
<v Speaker 7>I'm still relying on for somebody information. Right, that's like

0:48:15.239 --> 0:48:18.480
<v Speaker 7>a game of telephone. So we have to we have

0:48:18.560 --> 0:48:22.239
<v Speaker 7>to start at the basic levels. And it's not complicated.

0:48:22.239 --> 0:48:24.640
<v Speaker 7>But it's just a matter of just doing some investing

0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:28.320
<v Speaker 7>in yourself. Investing in yourself and investing yourself could just

0:48:28.360 --> 0:48:30.919
<v Speaker 7>be time, like just taking an hour out your day.

0:48:31.600 --> 0:48:33.800
<v Speaker 7>And I feel like, now there's so much information now.

0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:37.560
<v Speaker 3>So easy gonna add to that. A lot of times

0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:40.440
<v Speaker 3>we and I did this too, right, especially in education,

0:48:40.600 --> 0:48:43.120
<v Speaker 3>you get your summer reading log and it's a bunch

0:48:43.120 --> 0:48:44.520
<v Speaker 3>of books that you don't want to read, and since

0:48:44.520 --> 0:48:46.600
<v Speaker 3>you didn't read them, that didn't count. And I used

0:48:46.600 --> 0:48:48.239
<v Speaker 3>to think to myself, like I don't read enough. I

0:48:48.239 --> 0:48:50.440
<v Speaker 3>don't read enough. And I started discounting myself because I

0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:53.759
<v Speaker 3>didn't realize like, wait, I'm reading the daily News every day.

0:48:53.880 --> 0:48:57.560
<v Speaker 3>I'm reading ESPN magazine every day. What I'm reading is different.

0:48:57.680 --> 0:49:00.479
<v Speaker 3>It's not a book on literature. It's actually your book

0:49:00.520 --> 0:49:03.080
<v Speaker 3>on sports or I'm learning something from it. So that

0:49:03.160 --> 0:49:06.600
<v Speaker 3>led me into reading websites, like going to websites every morning. Right,

0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:09.360
<v Speaker 3>So when we started, I had like fifteen publications I

0:49:09.360 --> 0:49:10.960
<v Speaker 3>would read every morning, so I would wake up at

0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:13.560
<v Speaker 3>like five o'clock and read them. I had CNBC Business Insider,

0:49:14.719 --> 0:49:18.680
<v Speaker 3>Fox Business. I mean like literally every morning. This was

0:49:18.719 --> 0:49:21.479
<v Speaker 3>what I was reading and finding articles and learning. Every

0:49:21.480 --> 0:49:24.080
<v Speaker 3>time I read, I learned something new and that just

0:49:24.080 --> 0:49:24.920
<v Speaker 3>became a habit.

0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:25.160
<v Speaker 6>Right.

0:49:25.200 --> 0:49:26.600
<v Speaker 3>So I know they say if you do something for

0:49:26.640 --> 0:49:29.319
<v Speaker 3>thirty days, it becomes a habit. Tried doing that for

0:49:29.360 --> 0:49:32.520
<v Speaker 3>like two years, right, So the amount of information that

0:49:32.560 --> 0:49:35.240
<v Speaker 3>I'm learning again, I told you, like, education is my background.

0:49:35.280 --> 0:49:37.840
<v Speaker 3>But now business is my life, and so it becomes

0:49:37.840 --> 0:49:39.960
<v Speaker 3>that because I'm learning every time I read. I don't

0:49:39.960 --> 0:49:41.600
<v Speaker 3>want people to discount the things that they read. Yeah,

0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:43.440
<v Speaker 3>you may not have read Money Masters a game, but

0:49:43.520 --> 0:49:45.400
<v Speaker 3>you can go to CNBC dot com. You can go

0:49:45.400 --> 0:49:47.120
<v Speaker 3>to your leasure, or you can read two pages of

0:49:47.120 --> 0:49:48.680
<v Speaker 3>this here an article.

0:49:48.719 --> 0:49:50.920
<v Speaker 7>But we have to stop looking past our institutions. Like

0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:53.800
<v Speaker 7>a lot of times, we we have the answers in

0:49:53.840 --> 0:49:56.560
<v Speaker 7>front of us and we make it more complicated. Like

0:49:56.719 --> 0:49:58.560
<v Speaker 7>so the question is like where to start? Get that

0:49:58.640 --> 0:50:02.319
<v Speaker 7>question a lot. So like Tiffany has several books, that's

0:50:02.360 --> 0:50:05.040
<v Speaker 7>a starting point. Earn your Lisia has over four hundred

0:50:05.160 --> 0:50:08.120
<v Speaker 7>videos on YouTube and three posts on Instagram a day.

0:50:08.280 --> 0:50:10.719
<v Speaker 7>That's a starting point. Market Monday is the starting point.

0:50:10.840 --> 0:50:13.160
<v Speaker 7>We have Eyo University. That's a starting point. Red Panda

0:50:13.440 --> 0:50:16.960
<v Speaker 7>stock Club that's a starting point. So before before I

0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:20.279
<v Speaker 7>lead people to any other direction, I'm gonna lead them

0:50:20.280 --> 0:50:22.520
<v Speaker 7>to where we actually started, because this is a language

0:50:22.560 --> 0:50:26.400
<v Speaker 7>that we speak. I personally don't read the Wall Street Journal.

0:50:26.480 --> 0:50:28.680
<v Speaker 7>Of course, the Wall Street Journal is very valuable.

0:50:28.680 --> 0:50:29.680
<v Speaker 6>It's a highly.

0:50:29.360 --> 0:50:33.359
<v Speaker 7>Respected newspaper, but I don't read it, so I can't

0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:34.759
<v Speaker 7>recommend something that I don't do.

0:50:34.800 --> 0:50:37.759
<v Speaker 5>Myself, but you are executing on the part.

0:50:38.800 --> 0:50:42.040
<v Speaker 7>I listen to market Mondays because I'm on market Mondays.

0:50:42.320 --> 0:50:44.920
<v Speaker 7>I know I was trusted. I do watch CNBC from

0:50:44.960 --> 0:50:46.640
<v Speaker 7>time to time, so I can't recommend that. But other

0:50:46.680 --> 0:50:49.680
<v Speaker 7>than that, I don't really think like we have. That's

0:50:49.680 --> 0:50:51.920
<v Speaker 7>an issue. We always look like the holy grail of something.

0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:55.280
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, what's the one thing I can read every day?

0:50:55.800 --> 0:50:57.600
<v Speaker 1>And it's a lot of pressure. I like what you

0:50:57.640 --> 0:51:00.120
<v Speaker 1>said about you know, you put too much press. I

0:51:00.520 --> 0:51:03.080
<v Speaker 1>don't read enough. You know, if you're waiting for the

0:51:03.120 --> 0:51:04.719
<v Speaker 1>one thing you're going to read that's going to change

0:51:04.719 --> 0:51:07.000
<v Speaker 1>your life and be waiting a long time. It's more,

0:51:07.480 --> 0:51:09.799
<v Speaker 1>it's the it's the sum of everything that you've read,

0:51:09.960 --> 0:51:12.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, and it takes time. And you're right, people

0:51:12.080 --> 0:51:48.040
<v Speaker 1>don't want to hear that. Let's talk about the network.

0:51:48.480 --> 0:51:50.759
<v Speaker 1>E y L is not just one podcast. How many

0:51:50.800 --> 0:51:51.799
<v Speaker 1>shows do you guys have? Now?

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<v Speaker 6>Four?

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<v Speaker 3>Four?

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<v Speaker 1>Four shows?

0:51:54.360 --> 0:51:55.879
<v Speaker 6>Okay? Okay? Five?

0:51:55.880 --> 0:51:59.360
<v Speaker 7>We got five okay, name them, name them, Market Monday's

0:51:59.480 --> 0:52:03.120
<v Speaker 7>Inside the Vote, Social Proof Podcast, and then we have

0:52:03.320 --> 0:52:07.439
<v Speaker 7>dream Nation, dream Nation and we have in a Wealth

0:52:07.480 --> 0:52:10.439
<v Speaker 7>podcast and Wealth. Those two are coming, they're coming Okay.

0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:13.879
<v Speaker 7>One is a mental health podcast, one is a real

0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:18.359
<v Speaker 7>estate podcast. And then we're doing a limited limited edition

0:52:18.480 --> 0:52:20.640
<v Speaker 7>podcast with John Henry, our friend John Henry.

0:52:20.640 --> 0:52:25.440
<v Speaker 2>That's I know who you're talking about episode that's the.

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<v Speaker 1>Guy from that show that sounds very vague.

0:52:27.960 --> 0:52:34.080
<v Speaker 2>No, there was a show. He's light skinned with glass.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, entrepreneurs like MTV but anyway, he's like vice, Okay,

0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:47.840
<v Speaker 1>thank you, yeah, MTV? Whoa anyway that you don't know

0:52:47.840 --> 0:52:51.680
<v Speaker 1>what that is today? What's the vision? Because and also

0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:55.560
<v Speaker 1>helped me understand. So y'all have been around for only

0:52:55.600 --> 0:53:00.520
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years now two years? Right, how did

0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:03.279
<v Speaker 1>you get this far so quickly? Is this full time

0:53:03.280 --> 0:53:05.120
<v Speaker 1>for you guys? Because I and listen, I you know,

0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:06.800
<v Speaker 1>Tip and I had done the show for six years.

0:53:07.480 --> 0:53:09.920
<v Speaker 1>It's not our it's not our sole focus the podcast.

0:53:09.960 --> 0:53:12.759
<v Speaker 1>We each have our own things. But but for people

0:53:12.800 --> 0:53:14.400
<v Speaker 1>who are looking at y'all and saying like, oh, they

0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:16.920
<v Speaker 1>have a podcast, they made it. This is their empire.

0:53:17.680 --> 0:53:20.040
<v Speaker 1>Talk about where you guys are at. Is this is

0:53:20.080 --> 0:53:22.359
<v Speaker 1>this your sole venture now? Or if y'all quit your

0:53:22.400 --> 0:53:24.960
<v Speaker 1>day jobs and this is it y'all putting all the

0:53:24.960 --> 0:53:27.160
<v Speaker 1>cards on the table and what's the vision, what's the

0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:29.759
<v Speaker 1>vision for for eyl Yeah, I.

0:53:29.680 --> 0:53:32.480
<v Speaker 7>Mean I'm still I'm still a practicing financial advisor, but

0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:35.160
<v Speaker 7>that takes up less and less on my time these days.

0:53:35.480 --> 0:53:37.600
<v Speaker 7>And you Alidia takes up probably ninety five percent of

0:53:37.640 --> 0:53:38.040
<v Speaker 7>my time.

0:53:38.880 --> 0:53:42.239
<v Speaker 3>And Troy, Yeah, Andrelius is my life, my life. Yeah,

0:53:42.280 --> 0:53:44.840
<v Speaker 3>So I don't work for I always. I still educate.

0:53:44.880 --> 0:53:48.640
<v Speaker 3>I just educate in a different medium now, Coach Troy, Yeah,

0:53:48.640 --> 0:53:51.360
<v Speaker 3>I don't. I don't belong to a school district. I

0:53:51.400 --> 0:53:52.040
<v Speaker 3>belong to the world.

0:53:52.120 --> 0:53:54.000
<v Speaker 7>But how we how we was able to grow so fast,

0:53:54.000 --> 0:53:57.719
<v Speaker 7>it's a couple of different things. Teamwork, you know, we

0:53:57.800 --> 0:53:59.920
<v Speaker 7>have a strong team. Shot to Mike's shot out to Ban,

0:54:00.080 --> 0:54:02.319
<v Speaker 7>shout out to Jamal, shout out to everybody that's a part.

0:54:02.360 --> 0:54:04.640
<v Speaker 7>It's not just us. People see us, but it's more

0:54:04.680 --> 0:54:08.200
<v Speaker 7>to it than that. And then we learn. We learn

0:54:08.239 --> 0:54:10.120
<v Speaker 7>a lot. You have to learn very quickly in this

0:54:10.160 --> 0:54:12.040
<v Speaker 7>world that we're in right now. Things move so quickly

0:54:12.040 --> 0:54:13.440
<v Speaker 7>that you have to pick up the information to be

0:54:13.440 --> 0:54:15.359
<v Speaker 7>able to process it on the go. So just being

0:54:15.360 --> 0:54:17.720
<v Speaker 7>around so many entrepreneurs, our friends and things of that nature,

0:54:18.160 --> 0:54:21.800
<v Speaker 7>and we established strong relationships. So like you know, even

0:54:21.920 --> 0:54:23.839
<v Speaker 7>you know, we could have just probably did a stock

0:54:23.920 --> 0:54:26.480
<v Speaker 7>show ourselves, but it's like that's a lot of work.

0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:29.160
<v Speaker 7>So it makes sense for us to partner with Ian

0:54:29.360 --> 0:54:32.480
<v Speaker 7>where he obviously does this all the time, like you

0:54:32.520 --> 0:54:33.799
<v Speaker 7>know what I mean, this is what he does. So

0:54:34.160 --> 0:54:37.560
<v Speaker 7>now it's less work as far as for us just

0:54:37.640 --> 0:54:40.840
<v Speaker 7>making a whole nother show just by ourself, but we

0:54:40.920 --> 0:54:43.360
<v Speaker 7>just we're still a part of it. So that's a

0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:47.200
<v Speaker 7>strategic alliance. And a lot of times, you know, people

0:54:47.320 --> 0:54:50.200
<v Speaker 7>look at like they want to do everything themselves. They

0:54:50.200 --> 0:54:52.840
<v Speaker 7>want me to start everything. They want everything, Like you

0:54:52.840 --> 0:54:54.239
<v Speaker 7>know what I'm saying, You're only going to go so

0:54:54.320 --> 0:54:57.200
<v Speaker 7>far that by yourself, No matter what, you're only going

0:54:57.280 --> 0:54:59.080
<v Speaker 7>to go so far by yourself. You go a lot

0:54:59.160 --> 0:55:01.000
<v Speaker 7>further with it a team, and you go a lot

0:55:01.040 --> 0:55:03.160
<v Speaker 7>further by helping people too. That's you know, we try

0:55:03.160 --> 0:55:05.520
<v Speaker 7>to even with the podcast net Worry, that's us helping people.

0:55:05.680 --> 0:55:08.400
<v Speaker 6>The only person that had a podcast already was Dave Chance.

0:55:08.680 --> 0:55:11.120
<v Speaker 7>Shout out to him, but you know, Ash Cash, he

0:55:11.960 --> 0:55:14.160
<v Speaker 7>wanted to come because he's like he sees the value,

0:55:14.560 --> 0:55:16.600
<v Speaker 7>you know, like you know what I'm saying, he didn't

0:55:16.640 --> 0:55:17.320
<v Speaker 7>have a podcast.

0:55:17.360 --> 0:55:18.799
<v Speaker 4>I was the first one, I was like, hey, uh

0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:22.920
<v Speaker 4>for y'all take off from I've never tem like hey man,

0:55:23.120 --> 0:55:24.560
<v Speaker 4>before we get busy.

0:55:26.320 --> 0:55:26.440
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:55:26.520 --> 0:55:28.879
<v Speaker 7>I think that's important for entrepreneurs to keep in mind

0:55:28.920 --> 0:55:30.960
<v Speaker 7>that the more people. It sounds cliche, but it's true,

0:55:31.239 --> 0:55:34.560
<v Speaker 7>the more people that you help, the further that you

0:55:34.640 --> 0:55:34.920
<v Speaker 7>will go.

0:55:36.320 --> 0:55:39.880
<v Speaker 1>Was the message that really hit me when y'all were celebrating.

0:55:39.960 --> 0:55:42.839
<v Speaker 1>What was it, did y'all get number one of business wait?

0:55:42.960 --> 0:55:44.160
<v Speaker 1>Number one of all podcasts?

0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:46.480
<v Speaker 3>Y'all head business business podcast?

0:55:46.560 --> 0:55:48.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Knocked that on that other guy d R. I

0:55:48.680 --> 0:55:50.279
<v Speaker 2>don't we don't even know him around here.

0:55:50.320 --> 0:55:52.240
<v Speaker 1>I don't know right out.

0:55:55.880 --> 0:55:58.680
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, he's not our favor over here. He's so

0:55:58.920 --> 0:55:59.479
<v Speaker 2>just yeah.

0:55:59.680 --> 0:56:02.920
<v Speaker 1>So that was But but what you said real quick,

0:56:02.960 --> 0:56:04.680
<v Speaker 1>what you said during your IG live that night, which

0:56:04.719 --> 0:56:07.600
<v Speaker 1>I was tuning into, is exactly that it was. You

0:56:07.640 --> 0:56:09.759
<v Speaker 1>had your friends on and you were talking about how

0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:12.080
<v Speaker 1>we didn't do this alone. And it struck me because

0:56:12.560 --> 0:56:16.400
<v Speaker 1>I was talking to a fellow podcaster and she and

0:56:16.440 --> 0:56:17.919
<v Speaker 1>I was telling her because Tiff and I have signed

0:56:17.920 --> 0:56:21.040
<v Speaker 1>with a new network shout out to Westwood One in February,

0:56:21.080 --> 0:56:23.279
<v Speaker 1>and that was a big step for us. And I

0:56:23.280 --> 0:56:25.240
<v Speaker 1>remember telling her that we were signing with a network,

0:56:25.320 --> 0:56:28.640
<v Speaker 1>and the vibe was very much, oh you souldow I

0:56:29.000 --> 0:56:31.120
<v Speaker 1>want to keep doing this. I just really want to

0:56:31.120 --> 0:56:33.520
<v Speaker 1>own everything. And I was like, yeah, we've done that,

0:56:33.640 --> 0:56:35.439
<v Speaker 1>and I would also like some help.

0:56:35.480 --> 0:56:35.640
<v Speaker 2>Now.

0:56:35.800 --> 0:56:39.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I didn't take maternity leave hardly at all when

0:56:39.600 --> 0:56:41.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, when we did the show and Tiff and

0:56:41.360 --> 0:56:43.879
<v Speaker 1>I have just been grinding. But yeah, I would love

0:56:43.920 --> 0:56:46.239
<v Speaker 1>to talk a little bit more about that. So what

0:56:46.280 --> 0:56:50.440
<v Speaker 1>do you think you have gained, like you know, specifically

0:56:50.480 --> 0:56:54.880
<v Speaker 1>from those partnerships. Is it? Is it the amplification of exposure?

0:56:54.960 --> 0:56:57.279
<v Speaker 1>Is it? Is it just bigger dollars because now you

0:56:57.320 --> 0:57:00.480
<v Speaker 1>have more minutes of podcasting that you can sell ads on,

0:57:00.600 --> 0:57:03.719
<v Speaker 1>Like how does the how does that translate into what

0:57:03.800 --> 0:57:07.879
<v Speaker 1>people really want to know, like money, revenue and all that.

0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:10.640
<v Speaker 7>I mean for us, more so than our business model

0:57:10.719 --> 0:57:13.239
<v Speaker 7>is a little different than most podcasters because most podcasts

0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:15.360
<v Speaker 7>they make the majority of their money off of ads

0:57:16.000 --> 0:57:18.120
<v Speaker 7>and things of that nature, where you know, ads and

0:57:18.240 --> 0:57:22.200
<v Speaker 7>more like supplement income. For us, we have different like programs,

0:57:22.240 --> 0:57:24.800
<v Speaker 7>products and different things of that nature. How we you know,

0:57:24.920 --> 0:57:30.440
<v Speaker 7>we we attain revenue. So for us, you know, brand exposure,

0:57:30.680 --> 0:57:33.240
<v Speaker 7>you know, and adding value. Once again, it might sound corny,

0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:35.840
<v Speaker 7>but it's true. I feel like the more value that

0:57:35.880 --> 0:57:39.440
<v Speaker 7>we can add, the more valuable we become. So you know,

0:57:39.520 --> 0:57:42.280
<v Speaker 7>everything is not about you know, just making money upfront

0:57:42.360 --> 0:57:44.480
<v Speaker 7>and then there's always there's always money on the back

0:57:44.600 --> 0:57:47.240
<v Speaker 7>end that with a big, big payday come. But for

0:57:47.440 --> 0:57:49.560
<v Speaker 7>us to be completely honest with you about it, we're

0:57:49.560 --> 0:57:52.080
<v Speaker 7>not making a bunch of money off of our podcast network.

0:57:52.200 --> 0:57:53.400
<v Speaker 6>Our podcast network was.

0:57:53.400 --> 0:57:56.920
<v Speaker 7>To grow our brand, to add more value, to grow exposure,

0:57:57.320 --> 0:57:59.760
<v Speaker 7>and to really build those relationships with people. Because we

0:57:59.760 --> 0:58:01.440
<v Speaker 7>feel like, all right now, if we do have a

0:58:01.480 --> 0:58:05.000
<v Speaker 7>strong four or five shows, now, that's that's something that's

0:58:05.080 --> 0:58:07.720
<v Speaker 7>valuable down the line. And you know, how that comes

0:58:07.720 --> 0:58:11.240
<v Speaker 7>to fruition is still to be determined. But it's like,

0:58:11.640 --> 0:58:14.520
<v Speaker 7>if you never try something, you never know. What I'm saying,

0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:14.960
<v Speaker 7>you never know.

0:58:15.000 --> 0:58:16.320
<v Speaker 3>I think that's one of the biggest things with us.

0:58:16.360 --> 0:58:18.600
<v Speaker 3>It's like there is no fear of any type of failure.

0:58:18.680 --> 0:58:21.480
<v Speaker 3>Failure never comes into our mind. We're just like, we

0:58:21.520 --> 0:58:24.080
<v Speaker 3>want to do something that can help creatives expand their brand.

0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:26.480
<v Speaker 3>Let's do it. We want to see everybody win. And

0:58:26.480 --> 0:58:28.640
<v Speaker 3>it's kind of where when we come into spaces and

0:58:28.640 --> 0:58:30.959
<v Speaker 3>people are like, wait, y'all don't really want anything else,

0:58:31.000 --> 0:58:32.480
<v Speaker 3>and like, nah, we just want to see you win.

0:58:33.320 --> 0:58:34.960
<v Speaker 3>You win, we win, you know what I mean. And

0:58:34.960 --> 0:58:37.840
<v Speaker 3>when we talk about community, that's what we're building, a community.

0:58:38.000 --> 0:58:40.360
<v Speaker 3>I know, somebody told us, like, a school's only as

0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:42.720
<v Speaker 3>good as as as students that graduate from it, right,

0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:44.880
<v Speaker 3>And so when we look at it, if ash cast

0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:47.080
<v Speaker 3>does well, then the next person who wants to start

0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:49.760
<v Speaker 3>our podcast is like, that's the place to go, right,

0:58:49.800 --> 0:58:51.840
<v Speaker 3>And if Dave Shan does well, that you know what

0:58:51.840 --> 0:58:54.960
<v Speaker 3>I mean. Market Monday's is doing well, we become the

0:58:55.000 --> 0:58:57.200
<v Speaker 3>place to go. And everything that we do is to

0:58:57.240 --> 0:58:59.720
<v Speaker 3>support each other, right, So, like the goal is to

0:58:59.800 --> 0:59:02.720
<v Speaker 3>like build a brand, help everybody else who was trying

0:59:02.720 --> 0:59:05.800
<v Speaker 3>to build theirs. Expertite that because we've been through it

0:59:05.840 --> 0:59:08.040
<v Speaker 3>for two years. We hit number one, so we know

0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:11.520
<v Speaker 3>what it takes. We're gonna you're gonna you're not gonna

0:59:11.560 --> 0:59:13.360
<v Speaker 3>make the mistakes because we're gonna give you the game.

0:59:13.480 --> 0:59:14.400
<v Speaker 5>Right, we become.

0:59:14.320 --> 0:59:18.640
<v Speaker 3>Mentors in essense. So yeah, I mean we saw a

0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:22.520
<v Speaker 3>brand build non podcasts and then a big payday game.

0:59:22.600 --> 0:59:22.720
<v Speaker 5>Right.

0:59:22.720 --> 0:59:25.040
<v Speaker 3>So when he's like, yo, we're not talking about upfront money.

0:59:25.080 --> 0:59:26.080
<v Speaker 3>We're talking about the long game.

0:59:26.160 --> 0:59:30.560
<v Speaker 2>Yes, please, let's talk that long Because as someone when

0:59:30.600 --> 0:59:33.120
<v Speaker 2>I started Budgetista, everybody was like, I don't get it.

0:59:33.200 --> 0:59:35.760
<v Speaker 2>So these things are free? Yes, so you do all

0:59:35.760 --> 0:59:37.560
<v Speaker 2>these lives for free? Yes, so you do all this

0:59:38.000 --> 0:59:41.520
<v Speaker 2>like nobody could like wrap their mind around why. Well,

0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:44.880
<v Speaker 2>because my intention, just like any teacher's intention, was to teach,

0:59:44.960 --> 0:59:48.160
<v Speaker 2>to transform, to make my community better. And I understand,

0:59:48.160 --> 0:59:50.320
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know I was gonna make money. I was like,

0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:52.160
<v Speaker 2>you know, I mean, I did speaking engagements here and

0:59:52.160 --> 0:59:54.840
<v Speaker 2>there the supplement, but I wasn't really sure about how

0:59:54.840 --> 0:59:57.840
<v Speaker 2>I was gonna monetize. But I knew that if you

0:59:57.880 --> 1:00:01.360
<v Speaker 2>build something great, you can and now I will. And

1:00:01.400 --> 1:00:03.160
<v Speaker 2>I told you, guys, I think this before when I

1:00:03.160 --> 1:00:05.560
<v Speaker 2>first came on Earned your Leisure, we had, like I

1:00:05.600 --> 1:00:07.680
<v Speaker 2>felt like, the real talk was after we hung up,

1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:11.080
<v Speaker 2>and I told you, I'm like, please, like you will

1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:12.920
<v Speaker 2>get to a space in a place because of the

1:00:12.960 --> 1:00:16.360
<v Speaker 2>way you're building that The money is the easy part easy,

1:00:16.800 --> 1:00:19.200
<v Speaker 2>you know, Like it took me probably five or six years,

1:00:19.800 --> 1:00:23.120
<v Speaker 2>you know, but now I can do something and I've

1:00:23.160 --> 1:00:25.960
<v Speaker 2>done this and make seven figures in a weekend, So

1:00:26.040 --> 1:00:28.200
<v Speaker 2>I don't worry about like, you know, but that's when

1:00:28.200 --> 1:00:30.960
<v Speaker 2>you build the way you're building. You're building this solid foundation,

1:00:31.080 --> 1:00:34.080
<v Speaker 2>you're building off of network, you're building off of making

1:00:34.080 --> 1:00:36.880
<v Speaker 2>sure that everyone is good, that the money will will

1:00:36.920 --> 1:00:38.680
<v Speaker 2>be like the you'll be able to flip a switch.

1:00:38.960 --> 1:00:46.560
<v Speaker 2>I was telling my sister Tracy, my publicist, Ian's.

1:00:42.640 --> 1:00:52.400
<v Speaker 5>I feel fresh pricks.

1:00:53.640 --> 1:00:55.560
<v Speaker 2>Because she's building her business and I was telling her

1:00:55.560 --> 1:00:58.680
<v Speaker 2>She's like, oh so much. I was like, yo, Sis, Honestly,

1:00:59.400 --> 1:01:01.080
<v Speaker 2>you will get to point where you realize you are

1:01:01.160 --> 1:01:03.680
<v Speaker 2>the bank. At any moment, I could tap into myself

1:01:03.720 --> 1:01:06.880
<v Speaker 2>and make money, produce, you know, Like, so not to

1:01:06.960 --> 1:01:09.000
<v Speaker 2>worry so much about that part if you're willing to

1:01:09.000 --> 1:01:10.800
<v Speaker 2>do the work. But I guess my question is, and

1:01:10.800 --> 1:01:12.240
<v Speaker 2>this is a question that I get and I still

1:01:12.240 --> 1:01:15.800
<v Speaker 2>struggle with the answer, is what's the desired outcome? Like

1:01:16.120 --> 1:01:16.440
<v Speaker 2>what are you?

1:01:16.440 --> 1:01:16.480
<v Speaker 5>Like?

1:01:16.480 --> 1:01:18.920
<v Speaker 2>I would love to hear from youw Ian Troy Rashad, like,

1:01:19.760 --> 1:01:21.760
<v Speaker 2>how do you where do you see this going? Today?

1:01:21.760 --> 1:01:24.760
<v Speaker 2>I had a meeting with my business coach, Shout Out Design.

1:01:25.640 --> 1:01:28.240
<v Speaker 2>I've got several coaches, but he's like my executive business coach,

1:01:28.360 --> 1:01:30.000
<v Speaker 2>and he said, just so you know, you're sitting on

1:01:30.080 --> 1:01:33.080
<v Speaker 2>a billion dollar business and Zion's not wanted to just

1:01:33.080 --> 1:01:34.920
<v Speaker 2>be blowing smoke up yere behind. And that was just

1:01:34.960 --> 1:01:38.240
<v Speaker 2>like yeah, He's like no, I have speak spoken to

1:01:38.400 --> 1:01:43.200
<v Speaker 2>the SEO guy behind Voldemort and he helped him grow

1:01:43.280 --> 1:01:46.000
<v Speaker 2>to four hundred and fifty million dollars a year. And

1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:48.400
<v Speaker 2>he was looking at your stuff and was like, oh, easy,

1:01:48.440 --> 1:01:50.560
<v Speaker 2>we could we could get her there. And I was

1:01:50.680 --> 1:01:53.640
<v Speaker 2>like what so, but it depends on what is it

1:01:53.680 --> 1:01:55.480
<v Speaker 2>that I'm wanting. So my question for you is like

1:01:55.520 --> 1:01:58.120
<v Speaker 2>what is it? You know, like, what's the big mission

1:01:58.200 --> 1:01:59.760
<v Speaker 2>five years, ten years from now? What would you love

1:01:59.800 --> 1:02:00.280
<v Speaker 2>to see?

1:02:01.920 --> 1:02:04.520
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I mean for us, there's a few different things

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<v Speaker 7>that we're working on. You know, we have an education platform.

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<v Speaker 7>I mean the world is run by education and media.

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<v Speaker 7>If you really think about it, you know, we're controlled

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<v Speaker 7>by media what we see and we're forced to learn.

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<v Speaker 7>Education is something that's not even optional. Like if you

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<v Speaker 7>don't go to school as a kid, you can get

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<v Speaker 7>arrested in truancy cops. They have cops like just to

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<v Speaker 7>make sure kids go to school. Before COVID. Now COVID

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<v Speaker 7>everything changed. But so I say that to say that's

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<v Speaker 7>like really really the most important parts of life. So

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<v Speaker 7>we have an educational platform called Eyo University. And with

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<v Speaker 7>Eyo University, we really just like kind of made that

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<v Speaker 7>it's not like specific, it's not a real estate school,

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<v Speaker 7>it's not a stock school.

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<v Speaker 6>It's everything. Everything.

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<v Speaker 7>Every single week is different classes, it's a book club,

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<v Speaker 7>it's a movie club, it's a real estate course. Inside

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<v Speaker 7>of it, we have investment conversations, all kinds of stuff.

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<v Speaker 7>So we really wanted to give like every single thing

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<v Speaker 7>that you can really you know need as far as

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<v Speaker 7>personal finance investing and grow that. So now that community

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<v Speaker 7>has well over like nine thousand people something like that.

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<v Speaker 7>So we want to make that like a Phoenix University,

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<v Speaker 7>like bigger than Phoenix University and make that you know,

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<v Speaker 7>rival any any university out there, make it, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>a huge, huge, huge platform, over one hundred thousand students

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<v Speaker 7>with graduations and all kinds of stuff like that, you know.

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<v Speaker 7>So that's something that we are really excited about. We

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<v Speaker 7>want to continue to grow that. And of course the

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<v Speaker 7>media side, you know, for Early Legion, look at Early

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<v Speaker 7>Leasion as a podcast. You know, we have a podcast network,

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<v Speaker 7>but even bigger than that we're a media company, so

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<v Speaker 7>you know, we want to keep growing as a media company,

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<v Speaker 7>produce other shows, and you know, have strategic alliances and

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<v Speaker 7>things of that nature. So now we have a corporate

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<v Speaker 7>for our media division, we have you know, our educational division,

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<v Speaker 7>and then of course there's a bunch of other ancillary stuff.

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<v Speaker 6>We just got, you know, a truck that was.

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<v Speaker 1>Dope, you got a truck.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but they're wrapped on like what's the name truck?

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<v Speaker 7>Like a freight truck. Yeah, So you know stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 7>You know, it just comes up randomly. So yeah, the

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<v Speaker 7>other side businesses, opportunities, things to that nature. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 7>those are those are like the also on the immediate

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<v Speaker 7>vision board for us. We don't really have a goal

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<v Speaker 7>to be like the top podcast or something. I mean

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<v Speaker 7>that's cool, but they do.

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<v Speaker 2>Well you already did it anyway, so it's done.

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<v Speaker 4>That's like what Jordan one or third ring here like,

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<v Speaker 4>oh yeah, it means it's.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like you know, like I used to say, like

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<v Speaker 2>I want to go into Target. You get to go

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<v Speaker 2>to Target one day and you see like I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know a mug and it says like budget needs to approved,

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<v Speaker 2>Like I want to reach that level of like when

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<v Speaker 2>you put your name on something and moves mountains, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>because people have come to trust you that much. I

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<v Speaker 2>just was wondering for you, like, what does that look like?

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<v Speaker 2>What's that kind of like pie in the sky?

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<v Speaker 7>And before I'm gonna let you in, because I'm sure

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<v Speaker 7>he has a crazy vision for what he has going on,

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<v Speaker 7>but I want I want entrepreneurs to be valued the

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<v Speaker 7>same way as sports entertainment things. That's something about something

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<v Speaker 7>that I think is very, very obtainable, and that's something

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<v Speaker 7>that not just for celebrity status, but I think it's

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<v Speaker 7>important because especially in our culture enough forget. We was

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<v Speaker 7>talking to somebody that was extremely high up in the

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<v Speaker 7>music business and he was saying that, you know, he

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<v Speaker 7>used to work at a major, major record label, and

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<v Speaker 7>he was saying that he doesn't let his kids listen

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<v Speaker 7>to rap.

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<v Speaker 6>He's black.

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<v Speaker 7>He doesn't let his kids listen to rap, and he

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<v Speaker 7>used to work at a record label. So why don't

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<v Speaker 7>you let your kids listen to rap? He was like, because, like,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, white kids, the kids listening to rap, they

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<v Speaker 7>know it's entertainment, like they listen to little fill in

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<v Speaker 7>the blank, but they do and they want to do

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<v Speaker 7>for you know, medical school, and then when they graduate

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<v Speaker 7>and it's like, you know, that's just a fat that's

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<v Speaker 7>just a moment in their life. Black kids is listening

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<v Speaker 7>to that, and they think it's a career option, a

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<v Speaker 7>viable career option, and it's hurting a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 7>It's hurt a lot of people. So it's helped a

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<v Speaker 7>lot of people too. But it's also hurt a lot

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<v Speaker 7>of people because there's only so many people that can

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<v Speaker 7>become professional athletes or professional rappers, but anybody can become

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<v Speaker 7>an investor, stock trader, real estate agent or whatever like

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<v Speaker 7>you know. So I feel like it's important for us

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<v Speaker 7>to champion that. And it's also unproportional, like Rolling Stone

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<v Speaker 7>is big, but forbus it is also big, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>Like you know, Donald Trump was a celebrity, no matter

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<v Speaker 7>how you feel about him, he was a celebrity our

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<v Speaker 7>Cuban and celebrity. Like, where's our celebrity entrepreneurs that has

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<v Speaker 7>nothing to do with sports entertainment. It's not really there.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we're looking at them, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 7>So that's that's that's on the vision board too. To

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<v Speaker 7>kind of push that wave to the point where now

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<v Speaker 7>we have more than just sports and entertainment.

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<v Speaker 3>Yea, I'm gonna take thirty seconds because I know you're

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<v Speaker 3>gonna go. So one of the other things is that

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<v Speaker 3>we come across a lot of businesses and we just

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<v Speaker 3>had this conversation last week about, you know what, becoming

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<v Speaker 3>a holding company for a lot of businesses, right because

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<v Speaker 3>if you look at Shark Tank, it's very similar to

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<v Speaker 3>what we're doing. People are coming in, they're telling us

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<v Speaker 3>our businesses, and we be foolish not to take advantage

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<v Speaker 3>of saying, you know what, let's invest in this and

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<v Speaker 3>eventually potentially, you know, taking out our company public. That's

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<v Speaker 3>something that it crossed my mind with the past mother,

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<v Speaker 3>like when have we ever seen that? How many people

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<v Speaker 3>that we know that look like us have done that

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<v Speaker 3>and you can actually talk to them, And so that's

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<v Speaker 3>something that is heavy on my mind right now, and

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<v Speaker 3>I know it's on shots as well. It's something that

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<v Speaker 3>we're looking definitely to doing in the future.

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<v Speaker 6>EYL private equity.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what about you, what's your what's your big big

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<v Speaker 2>goal over the next five years to help two billion people?

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<v Speaker 5>Whether you.

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<v Speaker 4>Think about it like this when you wake up or

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<v Speaker 4>go to bed, you're either thinking about how to make

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<v Speaker 4>money or how to retain it.

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<v Speaker 5>Number one reason people get divorced. Fellows.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm sorry, if you're cute, great, but my grandmother used

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<v Speaker 4>to tell me there's no romance for not finance. Baby,

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<v Speaker 4>you're cute, but you got to get your money, It's true.

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<v Speaker 4>And then also how to keep that's a big thing.

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<v Speaker 4>So even with what they're building at the network, I

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<v Speaker 4>know if I can get them to trust on the

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<v Speaker 4>investment in then how to be disciplined, they'll listen to

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<v Speaker 4>a relationship mental health because the money is just one

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<v Speaker 4>part the thing we were talking about, like even on

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<v Speaker 4>CETA and I'm like, I just want peace. So for

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<v Speaker 4>like me, I have like my golden rules. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 4>don't interrupt me when i'm Wxander my family and friends,

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<v Speaker 4>time is off, Like I don't care what the deal is.

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<v Speaker 4>If I'm w Wasander, that's my too, because I know

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<v Speaker 4>there's going to be a time where he doesn't want

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<v Speaker 4>to be around me. He's going to even now he's

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<v Speaker 4>six and he's like on Easter, he's like, Dad, you

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<v Speaker 4>can't kiss me.

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<v Speaker 5>It's inappropriate. I'm like, I'm your dad, what do you mean?

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<v Speaker 5>So I'm like at nine, I'm like.

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<v Speaker 4>I can't even go with you to the park at

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<v Speaker 4>that point, So I'm like, I want to have all

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<v Speaker 4>those moments. But let's be honest, like corporate was designed

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<v Speaker 4>to take us away from our family and control our time,

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<v Speaker 4>so we wouldn't have time to think about how to

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<v Speaker 4>build our own thing. Not anti corporate, I'm not anti school,

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<v Speaker 4>but even the way people are taught to communicate it

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<v Speaker 4>is a non wealth based strategy. So I would just

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<v Speaker 4>want to help as many people as possible, because let's

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<v Speaker 4>be honest, Like COVID posed the way that we work wrong,

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<v Speaker 4>the way that we picked our relationships wrong, because a

1:09:04.760 --> 1:09:08.040
<v Speaker 4>lot of people decided, Hey, John, who I'm with now?

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<v Speaker 4>John Henry, kudos guy, But John that I'm with, I

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<v Speaker 4>don't like him as much because now that I'm spending

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<v Speaker 4>five hours a day with him, I don't like him

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<v Speaker 4>as much. And then we need more time with our kids,

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<v Speaker 4>more times with our friends and family. So that same

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<v Speaker 4>thing that Rashad was saying, and me being around my

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<v Speaker 4>dad and having that kind of freedom, you know, I

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<v Speaker 4>know Dame Dash gets beat up for how he delivers,

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<v Speaker 4>but my dad was like that, and so was my

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<v Speaker 4>granddad because he was in the military. My dad was like,

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<v Speaker 4>your number one goal has to be freedom. Everything else

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<v Speaker 4>is an illusion. If you have a bunch of time

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<v Speaker 4>and no money, what difference does it make. So that's

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<v Speaker 4>my goal to be able to help structure that and

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<v Speaker 4>help people to get better returns in the market.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's interesting that leisure is in the title of

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<v Speaker 1>the show. I don't feel like y'all know how to

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<v Speaker 1>take us like it sounds like y'all work real hard.

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<v Speaker 5>Alcoholics.

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<v Speaker 1>How leisure?

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<v Speaker 7>I feel like, I feel like, you know, I'm a

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<v Speaker 7>very appreciative person and as far as like little things

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<v Speaker 7>in life, like just being able to wake up whenever

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<v Speaker 7>you want, you know, that's a blessing, and it's like,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, we you know we I was with my

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<v Speaker 7>son yesterday in scallops and lobster. You know, we really

1:10:12.479 --> 1:10:15.559
<v Speaker 7>blessed to be able to eat scallops and lobsters and

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<v Speaker 7>clans and things of that nature, and we really are

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<v Speaker 7>like little things like that. For me, that's that's leisure

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<v Speaker 7>because I know people that are starving and some people,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, have to wake up at four point thirty

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<v Speaker 7>in the morning and they work until you know, one am.

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<v Speaker 7>So for me to be able to wake up whenever

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<v Speaker 7>I want, go to sleep, whenever I want, travel whenever

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<v Speaker 7>I want, you know what I mean? Like that thing,

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<v Speaker 7>Little things like that, they don't get lost on me.

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<v Speaker 7>And sometimes it's just like we have to be appreciative

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<v Speaker 7>of the things that we have because you know, we

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<v Speaker 7>work so much and we compare all live to somebody else,

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<v Speaker 7>and it's like, all right, of course it would be

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<v Speaker 7>great to you know, buy island and do all of

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<v Speaker 7>these things. But you know, coming from, like I said,

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<v Speaker 7>working class environments where you see people that you know,

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<v Speaker 7>work their whole life for they have fifty thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 7>and trying to work it out, trying to figure out

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<v Speaker 7>what they're going to do, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 7>So to be able to have a level of financial

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<v Speaker 7>freedom and to be able to provide for your family,

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<v Speaker 7>we earned that, you know, that's earned, that's earned your leisure.

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<v Speaker 3>That's it right there. I mean what he said is

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<v Speaker 3>one thousand percent truth. For sixteen years, that was me

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<v Speaker 3>waking up, going to school doing the same thing, being

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<v Speaker 3>stubborn about, you know, my financial freedom. And I tell

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<v Speaker 3>it now because obviously I have a bunch of colleagues

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<v Speaker 3>who's still practicing in education, still teaching, especially in COVID,

1:11:26.760 --> 1:11:29.960
<v Speaker 3>which is extremely difficult. I told him I wouldn't trade

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<v Speaker 3>this for anything, right, The amount of leisure that I

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<v Speaker 3>have now, the ability to wake up and take my

1:11:36.160 --> 1:11:37.880
<v Speaker 3>kids to school, it's something that I never was.

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<v Speaker 5>Able to do, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>Being able to make parent teacher conferences now it's something

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<v Speaker 3>I never was able to do, picking them up from school,

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<v Speaker 3>you know what I mean, being super involved. It's just

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<v Speaker 3>like these little things that you miss out on that

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<v Speaker 3>I wouldn't have been able to do it had I

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<v Speaker 3>not earned it this time. So the money is great.

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<v Speaker 3>The ability to have some of these luxuries I call

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<v Speaker 3>them luxuries because not every parent is able to do that.

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<v Speaker 3>It's incredible. And my wife as well, like you know,

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<v Speaker 3>to see her be really frustrated at work and into

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<v Speaker 3>one day say look, you don't have to go back tomorrow.

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<v Speaker 4>That's all the flex to say, baby, don't And can

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<v Speaker 4>we be honest. Look at our grandparents, Like my granddad

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<v Speaker 4>was in the military. When my grandmother moved from Midway,

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<v Speaker 4>Alabama to Chicago, Indiana, she had to sell pop bottles

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<v Speaker 4>and coat hangers to make money.

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<v Speaker 5>What we're doing is not hard. We're not making steel.

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<v Speaker 4>Like our family that worked in the steel mill still

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<v Speaker 4>there today, the stuff that they go to work in

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<v Speaker 4>the sixteen hour shift. But I took that blue collar

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<v Speaker 4>mid West to work ethic and it just applied it

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<v Speaker 4>to white collar stuff.

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<v Speaker 5>How hard is.

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<v Speaker 3>It to hop on live and talk?

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<v Speaker 5>We like this is like barbershopping beauty songs. Talk like we're.

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<v Speaker 4>Getting paid and getting the chance to influence like so,

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<v Speaker 4>but even like watching them and learning, like even with

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<v Speaker 4>he told you, like, Bro, you got to relax and.

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<v Speaker 5>Travel like COVID. I wasn't. I'm like, I'm not getting

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<v Speaker 5>the virus.

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<v Speaker 6>I was doctor.

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<v Speaker 5>I got the mask on in the house. I'm not

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<v Speaker 5>going anywhere like.

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<v Speaker 3>Bro, you gotta travel like I want to go in

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<v Speaker 3>the house.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a balance of everything, but to have the time

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<v Speaker 4>to be able to spend. I've been an entrepreneurs since

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<v Speaker 4>I was in college, so before it was popular, and

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<v Speaker 4>then even when you were like because in four or

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<v Speaker 4>five it was like your entrepreneur can't get a.

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<v Speaker 1>Job said nothing.

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<v Speaker 4>That was a perception, but the world kind of caught

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<v Speaker 4>up O seven. Then once again, what we're doing is

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<v Speaker 4>now hard. It does take a lot of effort. But

1:13:30.120 --> 1:13:32.040
<v Speaker 4>what I will say about what I think about their

1:13:32.080 --> 1:13:35.640
<v Speaker 4>growth outside looking in because I was a fan of

1:13:35.680 --> 1:13:39.240
<v Speaker 4>them first. The work ethic is insane, Like Allison, the

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<v Speaker 4>message wouldn't get a reply. And then I met them

1:13:41.080 --> 1:13:42.840
<v Speaker 4>and I was like, oh, I see why, and I'm

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<v Speaker 4>a workhorse. There's never a time that I talked to

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<v Speaker 4>them there. I'm like, hey, what y'all do. I'm in Miami.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm like, I know y'all getting up with calid Or.

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<v Speaker 3>I said on the show.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm like, we do best come up. I know them.

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<v Speaker 4>Rashad's like me too, Rashad luck because we that authoritarian things.

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<v Speaker 4>Whenever someone tells us we can't do something, and it's

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<v Speaker 4>like does this you're in trouble, It's like that next

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<v Speaker 4>chess move is coming right.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all are proof positive of that expression. You know, you're

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<v Speaker 1>the average of like the five people you spend the

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<v Speaker 1>most time with. I was telling my cousin that, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>you need to really be picky. You know, quality over quantity.

1:14:18.560 --> 1:14:20.160
<v Speaker 1>You spend the most time your time with.

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<v Speaker 2>So because they normalize excellence, or they normalize mediocrity, or

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<v Speaker 2>they normalize failure like yeah, you know. I'm like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I was doing something until I spoke

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<v Speaker 2>to well, I don't know if you can put her

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<v Speaker 2>financial business out there so I won't say her name,

1:14:34.680 --> 1:14:36.759
<v Speaker 2>and she was like, yeah, I try to make fifty

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<v Speaker 2>million this year.

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<v Speaker 5>I was like, what those conversations are different when yeah, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Was like say what while I was like no, Si,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we crossed over ten and she was like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh this. I was like that's cute. And I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>can we talk every week? What you doing on Thursdays?

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<v Speaker 4>The first time I heard that you needed sixty months

1:14:54.760 --> 1:14:57.439
<v Speaker 4>of revenue to be safe and you need a minimum

1:14:57.520 --> 1:15:00.120
<v Speaker 4>twenty eight streams of revenue, I was like what.

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<v Speaker 5>He was like, get there?

1:15:02.880 --> 1:15:05.599
<v Speaker 4>But he opened his phone, hopped and chase and showed

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<v Speaker 4>me and this business and personal it blew my mind.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, and it stands. And a lot of them

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<v Speaker 2>look like you and so. And what I love is

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<v Speaker 2>that that's why burn your Leisure shows me that they

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<v Speaker 2>look like me and they sound like like my husband

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<v Speaker 2>because he was born and raised in projects like you know,

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<v Speaker 2>brick City for life. But I love the fact that

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<v Speaker 2>he can look and be like, oh, because he's like,

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<v Speaker 2>what are you listening to? Because you know the rest

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<v Speaker 2>of the stuff he's I want want, want, want, But

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<v Speaker 2>he's like, oh, okay, I could do that, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just like, yeah, five more years we need that insurance.

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<v Speaker 2>So but I love that because it never would have

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<v Speaker 2>appealed to someone like him, you know. But he's just like, yo,

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<v Speaker 2>they sound like me, they look like me, like this

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<v Speaker 2>is possible, this is doable. And to see him translate

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<v Speaker 2>that for his boys, because like I'll talk to my friends,

1:15:54.640 --> 1:15:57.680
<v Speaker 2>but his boys don't listen to me, you know. So

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<v Speaker 2>to see him like, nah, yo, because you guys said

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<v Speaker 2>something for he was like I heard him tell his

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<v Speaker 2>best friend, now you gotta let your assets pay for

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<v Speaker 2>your assets. I was like, oh, where you get that from?

1:16:10.080 --> 1:16:11.439
<v Speaker 2>He was like, oht know that show you'd be having

1:16:11.520 --> 1:16:14.479
<v Speaker 2>to listen. I just thought that was so dope because

1:16:15.520 --> 1:16:18.400
<v Speaker 2>you know New Jersey drive like Newark used to be.

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<v Speaker 2>That was him for years old, like just like stealing cars.

1:16:24.160 --> 1:16:30.439
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, just literally used to go to school and

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<v Speaker 2>then on Fridays he said, we didn't steal cars during

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<v Speaker 2>the week because we had to go to school, but

1:16:35.280 --> 1:16:37.600
<v Speaker 2>on the weekend it was on we were like local celebrities,

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<v Speaker 2>like the old people will bring their tears downstairs and

1:16:39.800 --> 1:16:42.320
<v Speaker 2>just watch us. Like through Newark zip zip and jar.

1:16:42.400 --> 1:16:44.439
<v Speaker 2>We would cut gates to know like okay, if we

1:16:44.479 --> 1:16:46.280
<v Speaker 2>do get caught, we could slip through this gate. So

1:16:46.320 --> 1:16:48.559
<v Speaker 2>to hear him tell his wild stories, to see him

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<v Speaker 2>this forty year old man who was like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>working our investment property, talking to our investment like our

1:16:54.439 --> 1:16:57.360
<v Speaker 2>certified planner about like our like our our stocks and things,

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<v Speaker 2>and yeah, you just I just thank you guys what

1:17:00.200 --> 1:17:04.160
<v Speaker 2>you're doing, because I don't know that these men out

1:17:04.160 --> 1:17:05.800
<v Speaker 2>here that need to hear it. But it's not going

1:17:05.880 --> 1:17:07.599
<v Speaker 2>to be for me that they're gonna like it's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>land or certainly not from everybody else that's out there.

1:17:10.360 --> 1:17:12.840
<v Speaker 2>They have this opportunity to hear it from y'all and

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<v Speaker 2>being like if they can do it, so can I.

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<v Speaker 2>So we just thank you for.

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<v Speaker 3>That, and we definitely listen to you.

1:17:21.479 --> 1:17:23.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm kind of sitting here like yeah, yeah, but also

1:17:23.600 --> 1:17:26.840
<v Speaker 1>they need to listen they let's normalize listening to Tiffany

1:17:27.720 --> 1:17:30.519
<v Speaker 1>some toxic masculinity I'm sensing here, but you know, we'll

1:17:30.520 --> 1:17:33.880
<v Speaker 1>get we'll get there. But Thank y'all so much for

1:17:34.000 --> 1:17:38.719
<v Speaker 1>sharing your positive energy and your passion with us because

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<v Speaker 1>it means a lot. And congratulations on all the success

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<v Speaker 1>we wish. I mean, I wish nothing, but I want

1:17:45.280 --> 1:17:45.760
<v Speaker 1>to see y'all.

1:17:47.760 --> 1:17:52.160
<v Speaker 5>I want to see Tip.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna come in the back. I'm just gonna

1:17:53.800 --> 1:17:55.680
<v Speaker 1>be in the window of your house next time you're

1:17:55.680 --> 1:17:58.160
<v Speaker 1>on Today Show, just anytime of the day, just pop up.

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<v Speaker 1>Should be on some TV network.

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<v Speaker 2>Care promise, but I am going to be on Today's

1:18:01.920 --> 1:18:05.240
<v Speaker 2>Show on Wednesday when this comes out, and if you know,

1:18:05.400 --> 1:18:07.240
<v Speaker 2>I can keep it concise with you know, that's not

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<v Speaker 2>my thing. But one other thing they asked me was

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<v Speaker 2>one of my favorite podcasts, and let's just say, you know,

1:18:13.840 --> 1:18:16.519
<v Speaker 2>two of them are right here. And I literally just

1:18:16.560 --> 1:18:18.479
<v Speaker 2>text a producer like, no, this is the this is

1:18:18.520 --> 1:18:21.000
<v Speaker 2>the picture. This is the picture to you, so we'll

1:18:21.040 --> 1:18:22.479
<v Speaker 2>see if you know, because you know how it is

1:18:22.479 --> 1:18:27.840
<v Speaker 2>a TV shows. I believe in that too, that you know,

1:18:27.920 --> 1:18:30.120
<v Speaker 2>like as you go you bring along and so you

1:18:30.160 --> 1:18:33.439
<v Speaker 2>know that's critically important. But yeah, this is this has

1:18:33.479 --> 1:18:35.280
<v Speaker 2>been awesome. I think our audience is going to be like, yeah,

1:18:35.320 --> 1:18:38.080
<v Speaker 2>so where can people find you? What's your social media handles.

1:18:38.439 --> 1:18:40.640
<v Speaker 2>What products and services do you have out how they

1:18:40.640 --> 1:18:42.280
<v Speaker 2>can how can they continue to connect?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah for sure.

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<v Speaker 7>Thank you again for having us, both of you guys.

1:18:46.080 --> 1:18:48.760
<v Speaker 7>Thank you for your advocacy and the work that you do.

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<v Speaker 6>Earn A. Lisia.

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<v Speaker 7>You can find us on all social media platforms YouTube,

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<v Speaker 7>Earnalisia dot com.

1:18:56.040 --> 1:18:57.400
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, earn Alisia podcast.

1:18:57.439 --> 1:19:00.920
<v Speaker 7>Also Market Mondays, which is a live show on YouTube

1:19:00.960 --> 1:19:03.800
<v Speaker 7>at eight o'clock easton Standard time every Monday. Also it's

1:19:03.840 --> 1:19:05.840
<v Speaker 7>on you know, the playback is on YouTube and also

1:19:05.840 --> 1:19:08.519
<v Speaker 7>the playback is also on podcast Networks. At e y

1:19:08.640 --> 1:19:12.160
<v Speaker 7>L University, that's our educational platform which has over one

1:19:12.200 --> 1:19:18.360
<v Speaker 7>hundred webinars, real estate investment course, monthly financial Planning, calls,

1:19:18.400 --> 1:19:20.240
<v Speaker 7>a bunch of stuff. So all that information is on

1:19:20.320 --> 1:19:23.240
<v Speaker 7>e y L University dot com. But the mothership is

1:19:23.280 --> 1:19:25.160
<v Speaker 7>Earning your Leisure dot com. And once again thank you

1:19:25.160 --> 1:19:26.519
<v Speaker 7>for having us. We appreciate it.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you so much. This was a dream when brought in.

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<v Speaker 2>Where can they find you?

1:19:31.280 --> 1:19:34.800
<v Speaker 4>Instagram? My tag is the Master Investor. You can find

1:19:34.800 --> 1:19:36.559
<v Speaker 4>me my name Ian. Don't lamp on any of the

1:19:36.600 --> 1:19:39.320
<v Speaker 4>social and then join Red Panda dot com is my

1:19:39.400 --> 1:19:41.240
<v Speaker 4>site if you want to join the stock club. That's

1:19:41.280 --> 1:19:42.960
<v Speaker 4>my primary product. I tell you where to get in

1:19:43.000 --> 1:19:44.760
<v Speaker 4>and where to get out, what companies are good, what

1:19:44.840 --> 1:19:49.439
<v Speaker 4>companies are bad. So tiya if you need some help.

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<v Speaker 1>My cousins are like, stop, get your other names out

1:19:53.160 --> 1:19:53.720
<v Speaker 1>of your mouth on that.

1:19:54.200 --> 1:19:57.960
<v Speaker 2>Because my girlfriend touched me. She's like, Tiffany, is anybody

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<v Speaker 2>single ready to mingle? Because you know we have our ladies.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I know, I know, Troy, you are taking.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm taking.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, don't kill me.

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<v Speaker 5>Don't.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean like loky. We know they all asking about

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<v Speaker 2>We're just.

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<v Speaker 1>Talking about hypergamy, any hypergamas?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Are you single ready to mingle? Or is this

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<v Speaker 2>going to be mad if?

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<v Speaker 6>I no, No, I'm single single?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, well don't hey, those are his d M. Don't

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<v Speaker 2>ask me no other questions.

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<v Speaker 3>I can't believe.

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<v Speaker 2>I got like play. I got literally like ten. DM

1:20:38.720 --> 1:20:40.160
<v Speaker 2>was like, you have an earn your leisure on no

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<v Speaker 2>money questions. I know nothing. I know Ian's taken. I'm like,

1:20:45.400 --> 1:20:47.160
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, this is a question. You can get

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<v Speaker 2>your whole financial life.

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<v Speaker 5>Listen.

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<v Speaker 4>One time I thought Troy said, uh, hello to my wives,

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<v Speaker 4>and you said.

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<v Speaker 5>I was like, bro, it's this when.

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<v Speaker 3>You get off set. You know what, I went upstairs.

1:21:00.920 --> 1:21:04.599
<v Speaker 3>My wife was like your wives, really, I'm like, there

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<v Speaker 3>won't be another show ever.

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<v Speaker 5>Project.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, when you see us in Greenberg, you know you

1:21:11.760 --> 1:21:12.880
<v Speaker 3>can act like you know, it's okay.

1:21:13.080 --> 1:21:16.880
<v Speaker 1>When I see that, I'm jumping it. Just look, it'll

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<v Speaker 1>be the hair first to see in the glass all

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<v Speaker 1>the time. No, but no, we definitely should chat because

1:21:22.360 --> 1:21:25.040
<v Speaker 1>whenever COVID is over, it would be great to meet

1:21:25.120 --> 1:21:27.640
<v Speaker 1>up and talk about Geberg. I want to see that

1:21:27.680 --> 1:21:30.720
<v Speaker 1>project that Troy. You had a project you said something

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<v Speaker 1>Greenberg History.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's it's a very enlightening, uh, information that you

1:21:38.120 --> 1:21:40.200
<v Speaker 3>will learn about a town and how it was built

1:21:40.200 --> 1:21:41.920
<v Speaker 3>and how it was designed and redlining and all that

1:21:42.280 --> 1:21:44.360
<v Speaker 3>I had. I actually had fourteen and fifteen year olds

1:21:44.400 --> 1:21:48.160
<v Speaker 3>do it and what they found was pretty interesting. I

1:21:48.640 --> 1:21:49.760
<v Speaker 3>would love to tell you about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I'm my day job, I'm chief consumer advocate

1:21:53.520 --> 1:21:56.720
<v Speaker 1>for Ally Financial, So I'll definitely keep y'all in mind

1:21:56.720 --> 1:21:59.040
<v Speaker 1>if I because we're I just started a couple of

1:21:59.080 --> 1:22:01.560
<v Speaker 1>months ago. But Tiff notes, I'm looking for all the

1:22:01.600 --> 1:22:06.840
<v Speaker 1>ways that I can spend their moneycers. So yeah, I

1:22:06.880 --> 1:22:09.400
<v Speaker 1>can't wait to meet you guys hopefully one day in person.

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<v Speaker 1>But thank you so much and Ian, thanks for joining.

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<v Speaker 1>That was a bonus.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, it was.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm honor to I'm happy to be here, and thanks

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<v Speaker 4>to the guys for inviting me.

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<v Speaker 5>We shot. I'm gonna pray for you. They hit me too.

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<v Speaker 5>Let's tell what you got like.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a photo of my brother if he's in the background,

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<v Speaker 1>b A. Listeners are all over.

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<v Speaker 2>Her brother looks exactly like Drake, exactly like.

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<v Speaker 1>Drake, but it's so annoying but thirsty, and it's a pandemonium.

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<v Speaker 5>The pandemonium.

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<v Speaker 3>We appreciate you.

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<v Speaker 2>All, and it's time to boost break Boost Break. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>really got a high from that interview. It was just honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>it was just awesome and awesome and awesome. We need

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<v Speaker 2>definitely more male energy around here for our well, not often,

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<v Speaker 2>because you know, we like it. We like it here

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<v Speaker 2>with the girls.

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<v Speaker 1>You know it's good. It's good energy, positive male.

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<v Speaker 2>So not to be a Debbie downer, but I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>break today. So what are you going to do.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna boost.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, well, do you know what I'll go first because

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<v Speaker 2>we like to end on a high note.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, go ahead, bring us down, and I'll bring.

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<v Speaker 2>Us So did you hear about the drama with Rachel Hollis? No,

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<v Speaker 2>so Rachel House is that woman ever like girl wash

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<v Speaker 2>your face a girl? Oh yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So lately, you know, the non brown social media streets

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<v Speaker 2>have been coming for her and some brown as well,

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<v Speaker 2>because she I guess she must have she must have

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<v Speaker 2>been doing a live or whatever, and someone in the

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<v Speaker 2>comments said to her because she had a cleaning lady,

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<v Speaker 2>was like behind her and someone said, oh, wow, you

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<v Speaker 2>have a cleaning lady, and she said, yes, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you know that's my cleaning lady. And then the woman

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<v Speaker 2>said something while you don't you realize you're really privileged

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<v Speaker 2>as a result, right, And Rachel said, yes, I am.

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<v Speaker 2>And then she was like, well you're really unrelatable as

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<v Speaker 2>a result, and that exchange in itself like I don't believe. So,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, I have a cleaning lady, Juliana.

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<v Speaker 2>She's really awesome. But the way Rachel describes her cleaning lady,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think I'm surprised she didn't understand that people

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<v Speaker 2>were like, no, one's upset about you having a cleaning lady.

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<v Speaker 2>People have cleaning ladies, but she kept referring to her

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<v Speaker 2>cleaning lady as the woman who washes my toilets. Like

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<v Speaker 2>it was almost like, is she purposely trying to be

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<v Speaker 2>demeaning and dismissive. She was like, Yeah, that's the lady

1:24:45.240 --> 1:24:48.040
<v Speaker 2>she cleans my toilets. She cleaned my toilets. She kept

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<v Speaker 2>saying that. People were like and then she was like,

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<v Speaker 2>she did a video to address the woman who I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if she's a woman of color or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>And she's like, cis which I'm like, oh, which in

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<v Speaker 2>a positive way? Okay if not? She's like, what would

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<v Speaker 2>make you think that I'm trying to live my life

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<v Speaker 2>to be any way relatable. This is her video. If

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<v Speaker 2>you get a chance after we jump off, Mandra.

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<v Speaker 1>How do you have news nuggets? You've been in book

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<v Speaker 1>launch mode. I'm like, I've not been watching the news,

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<v Speaker 1>like Tiffany has given me news alerts.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I saw someone and posted like on Facebook like

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<v Speaker 2>I never liked her, and I was like, who I

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<v Speaker 2>knew about Rachel Hall? So I looked and I went

1:25:28.000 --> 1:25:30.760
<v Speaker 2>to look and I saw lovey Rachel Carlisle all my

1:25:31.360 --> 1:25:35.680
<v Speaker 2>brown face, Nicole Walter. It's like in addressing it, I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, wait, what so I couldn't believe with her

1:25:38.240 --> 1:25:41.599
<v Speaker 2>own mouth, this is Rachel's explanation. She's explaining, so what

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<v Speaker 2>if I have a woman who watches my toilets? We're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>once again, and she's like, what make you think I

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<v Speaker 2>would want to be relatable to you? I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh once the two and then it just was really bad.

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<v Speaker 2>And then she was like then she listed all these

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<v Speaker 2>women that she claims are not relatable in her in

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<v Speaker 2>the the comments of her thinking, as if to say,

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<v Speaker 2>somehow she's at that level. Let me list some of

1:26:05.680 --> 1:26:09.920
<v Speaker 2>the women Harriet Tubman, because Rachel Hollis is clearly hurt

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<v Speaker 2>the actual.

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<v Speaker 1>No white lady. She's a white lady.

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<v Speaker 2>You know she is. No shout out to the white ladies.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just saying, but yes, no, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Mean she listed Harriet's context.

1:26:20.800 --> 1:26:30.040
<v Speaker 2>She listed Marie Curie, I mean, Amelia Earhart frieda callo, like,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean literally she said, all unrelatable, Oprah Winfrey.

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<v Speaker 1>Oprah Winfrey, Susie who was shot in the head.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, people are like, are you are you comparing

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<v Speaker 2>yourself to these women? Like it is? It is so

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<v Speaker 2>and the fact that she's still up there, still up here,

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<v Speaker 2>So then what she did was even worse. Instead of saying,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, what mistake is mine, she blames her team.

1:26:53.560 --> 1:26:55.080
<v Speaker 2>She's like, oh, I made a mistake because my team

1:26:55.080 --> 1:26:58.320
<v Speaker 2>told me. And I'm like, yeah, so it was really

1:26:59.520 --> 1:27:03.120
<v Speaker 2>it was real, really bad. And so my break is

1:27:04.200 --> 1:27:06.800
<v Speaker 2>for I mean, I don't you know, like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>cancel culture, you know, honestly enough, and I don't you know,

1:27:10.400 --> 1:27:13.200
<v Speaker 2>like needing obviously for her to be canceled. But I

1:27:13.240 --> 1:27:15.679
<v Speaker 2>do think it is important, just like remember what happened

1:27:15.680 --> 1:27:18.360
<v Speaker 2>with my mentee, and I said, you're gonna have to

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<v Speaker 2>take your lumpsys. I'm not throwing you out the window.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you know, I know that you made a mistake,

1:27:23.960 --> 1:27:26.880
<v Speaker 2>and you know you compounded that mistake by doubling down.

1:27:27.320 --> 1:27:29.679
<v Speaker 2>But I still message her, we still talk, I still

1:27:29.720 --> 1:27:33.439
<v Speaker 2>counsel her. But when you mess up, you have to

1:27:33.479 --> 1:27:36.760
<v Speaker 2>stand in it and say I messed up, not oh my,

1:27:37.479 --> 1:27:40.280
<v Speaker 2>you know my you know, my team messed up. Or

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<v Speaker 2>I don't see what the big deals about me having

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<v Speaker 2>a cleaning lady. Oh something else that she said too,

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<v Speaker 2>which I don't even Sometimes people are so wrapped up

1:27:47.200 --> 1:27:51.040
<v Speaker 2>in their own as people will say they're feeling themselves.

1:27:51.439 --> 1:27:54.040
<v Speaker 2>She said, yes, I have a cleaning lady, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>lucky to be able to have one. But most of

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<v Speaker 2>I work my ass off. I'll wake up at four

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<v Speaker 2>o'clock in the morning and I'm like every mother I know, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>what do you say? It was? It was this like

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<v Speaker 2>almost like this condemnation of like if you would have

1:28:05.760 --> 1:28:08.120
<v Speaker 2>worked as hard as me, maybe you'd be here, not

1:28:08.160 --> 1:28:11.400
<v Speaker 2>mentioning that she's married to a Disney executive who is

1:28:11.479 --> 1:28:15.880
<v Speaker 2>very wealthy, but this this this indictment of women that

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't work hard, that's the lefe you get.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just not true, Like you can work really hard

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<v Speaker 2>and do all the things, and I don't know, it's

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<v Speaker 2>just like remember I said, like I was telling telling

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<v Speaker 2>a man that I work with that he had some

1:28:30.439 --> 1:28:32.479
<v Speaker 2>unconscious bias, and he said, no, I don't. I said,

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<v Speaker 2>it's unconscious. That's the way it works.

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<v Speaker 1>I love how you said that, because I told someone

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<v Speaker 1>at work that I felt like they steamrolled me in

1:28:42.720 --> 1:28:45.880
<v Speaker 1>a conversation because I was presenting something and they just

1:28:46.080 --> 1:28:47.880
<v Speaker 1>talked over me. My hair is crazy. I don't like

1:28:47.920 --> 1:28:53.000
<v Speaker 1>being on video. I'm like my proof is on anyway,

1:28:53.600 --> 1:28:57.120
<v Speaker 1>and the response and we still haven't talked, hope anyway, whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna say it. I didn't say any names.

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<v Speaker 1>And response was while you caught me off guard about that,

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<v Speaker 1>and your your comeback with amazing unconscious Yes that means

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<v Speaker 1>that doesn't it make sense that you don't know you did?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I'll yes, I'm putting high conscious so it's clear

1:29:14.400 --> 1:29:16.960
<v Speaker 2>that she so, I just, you know, a break on

1:29:17.200 --> 1:29:21.120
<v Speaker 2>that kind of judgment, especially amongst women. You know that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sure that woman has a name she you know,

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<v Speaker 2>is she is a you know, your housekeeper or and

1:29:28.760 --> 1:29:31.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure she has a title, not your toilet bowl cleaner,

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<v Speaker 2>because like, what does that even mean? You know? And

1:29:34.400 --> 1:29:36.479
<v Speaker 2>you working hard is not the only reason why you

1:29:36.520 --> 1:29:38.840
<v Speaker 2>are where you are, because lots of people work hard.

1:29:39.040 --> 1:29:42.200
<v Speaker 2>Lots of people work hard and they have not been

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<v Speaker 2>met with the same privileges as a result of life,

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<v Speaker 2>just like you know, I know, I've grown up with privileges.

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<v Speaker 2>The fact that I have both my parents, the fact

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<v Speaker 2>that my father taught me financial education at home, privilege,

1:29:51.720 --> 1:29:54.639
<v Speaker 2>the fact that at thirty I actually had a bedroom.

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<v Speaker 2>To go back to, the fact that I could live

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<v Speaker 2>on my sister's house. These are all privileges, and I

1:29:58.920 --> 1:30:02.720
<v Speaker 2>can acknowledge that and know that, you know, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>these are these are some of the legs up I

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<v Speaker 2>was able to get, you know, to get to where

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<v Speaker 2>I am now. So yeah, that was just a break

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<v Speaker 2>for that kind of like toxic positivity, if that's even

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<v Speaker 2>a thing. Yeah, yeah, so there it's away from Sunday.

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<v Speaker 1>God, I miss everything.

1:30:17.840 --> 1:30:19.519
<v Speaker 2>When I'm missing in a video, Manda, You're gonna be.

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<v Speaker 1>Like stuffing Easter and Easter eggs and blowing up balloons.

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<v Speaker 1>I started reading a new novel. Actually, that's where I've been.

1:30:27.520 --> 1:30:29.720
<v Speaker 1>I haven't been on my phone very much. I've been

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<v Speaker 1>reading The Parable of the Sewer by Octavia Butler, which

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<v Speaker 1>is a Yeah, I had heard of her, but I

1:30:36.800 --> 1:30:39.080
<v Speaker 1>hadn't read these books ever. But she's a she's one

1:30:39.120 --> 1:30:41.680
<v Speaker 1>of the few. She's what what was one of the

1:30:41.720 --> 1:30:46.559
<v Speaker 1>first black female science fiction writers. But anyway, it's like

1:30:46.600 --> 1:30:50.000
<v Speaker 1>a it's a female protagonist book. But it's amazing to

1:30:50.040 --> 1:30:51.920
<v Speaker 1>your point about reading fantasy, that's where I wanted to

1:30:51.920 --> 1:30:53.800
<v Speaker 1>go with my books. But hey, I got good with

1:30:53.840 --> 1:30:57.040
<v Speaker 1>money too, get good with money audio and a book

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<v Speaker 1>form because I like to be able to switch between

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<v Speaker 1>the two. But no, that's a I just feel like

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<v Speaker 1>people once people stop being so defensive. And I was

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<v Speaker 1>actually talking about the same thing with someone in my

1:31:09.640 --> 1:31:14.519
<v Speaker 1>family on a smaller scale, about how recognizing someone else's

1:31:14.560 --> 1:31:17.720
<v Speaker 1>pain it doesn't necessarily it doesn't negate your pain or

1:31:17.760 --> 1:31:20.040
<v Speaker 1>negate your story. And some people react from a place

1:31:20.080 --> 1:31:23.760
<v Speaker 1>of defense and defensiveness because they get so caught up

1:31:23.840 --> 1:31:26.000
<v Speaker 1>they don't want to acknowledge someone else's pain or someone

1:31:26.000 --> 1:31:29.479
<v Speaker 1>else's story because they are only thinking about themselves and

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<v Speaker 1>almost as if, oh, but if I have acknowledged that,

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<v Speaker 1>then that takes away something that I've earned, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>just not true. There's space for everyone's story and everyone

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<v Speaker 1>so it's it's a scarcity mindset. Again. I feel like

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<v Speaker 1>that's scarcity, and it's just manifesting itself in someone not

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<v Speaker 1>wanting to see their own privilege. But AnyWho, let's let's

1:31:49.240 --> 1:31:52.679
<v Speaker 1>be brought us down. Even though I will, I will

1:31:52.720 --> 1:31:54.519
<v Speaker 1>be catching up on that. After we got this call,

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<v Speaker 1>I had the tap open. I wanted to do a

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<v Speaker 1>quick boost because I saw that thing. And you know

1:32:00.479 --> 1:32:03.720
<v Speaker 1>the actress Sandy Newton, she was in I know her

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<v Speaker 1>from Crash. But I think she was also in UH

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<v Speaker 1>but the West World West Wing, no.

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<v Speaker 2>West, something with the West. I do know what you mean.

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<v Speaker 1>It's with the robots and the Western and I did

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<v Speaker 1>not watch it, obviously, but she's gorgeous. I know her

1:32:16.840 --> 1:32:19.000
<v Speaker 1>daughter was in the live action remake of Dumbo. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know why I know that, but it's the thing

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<v Speaker 1>that I know. Sandy Newton she UH recently decided she's

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<v Speaker 1>going to start spelling her name the way that her

1:32:27.600 --> 1:32:31.400
<v Speaker 1>parents spelled it when she was born. So I actually

1:32:31.439 --> 1:32:34.400
<v Speaker 1>don't know how to pronounce it. So Sandy has a

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<v Speaker 1>W at the end. It's done. I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>say it wrong, but it's Zimbabwe, and I think is

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<v Speaker 1>the origin of it. I had it open and then

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<v Speaker 1>when we were talking to the ern.

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<v Speaker 2>Making you call me by my African name, maybe.

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<v Speaker 1>Well that's why I wanted to bring it up, because

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<v Speaker 1>not because of you specifically, but you're not the You're

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<v Speaker 1>not the first person I've met who has gone by

1:32:52.400 --> 1:32:55.599
<v Speaker 1>a different name of my One of my best friends

1:32:56.000 --> 1:32:59.080
<v Speaker 1>immigrated here from Vietnam when she was a baby and

1:32:59.160 --> 1:33:02.680
<v Speaker 1>her name is not her birth name. So and it's

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<v Speaker 1>an interesting time too. I think, you know, I can't

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<v Speaker 1>believe it was only just a couple of weeks ago now,

1:33:07.360 --> 1:33:11.000
<v Speaker 1>but there was a shooting in Atlanta where six Asian

1:33:11.040 --> 1:33:16.880
<v Speaker 1>American people were murdered, and several of them in the news.

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<v Speaker 1>When they were reporting on it, they actually weren't putting

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<v Speaker 1>their full names out there. They were or they were

1:33:22.800 --> 1:33:24.599
<v Speaker 1>they were putting their full names out there, but because

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<v Speaker 1>they weren't recognizable to I don't know, a Western like

1:33:28.280 --> 1:33:30.840
<v Speaker 1>an American point of view, they were flipping the names

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<v Speaker 1>backwards or referring to them as only one part of

1:33:33.200 --> 1:33:35.120
<v Speaker 1>their name when it's really important to have all of

1:33:35.160 --> 1:33:38.080
<v Speaker 1>them together, treating a middle name as if it was

1:33:38.080 --> 1:33:40.120
<v Speaker 1>a middle name when really it's part of the full

1:33:40.200 --> 1:33:44.840
<v Speaker 1>name anyway. So yeah, I wanted to boost you know,

1:33:44.920 --> 1:33:47.960
<v Speaker 1>Thandy for standing in her her truth and going back

1:33:47.960 --> 1:33:49.600
<v Speaker 1>and saying this is who I am. I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>reclaim my own name and kind of get your thoughts

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<v Speaker 1>about it from a you know, being Nigerian American and

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<v Speaker 1>you've talked about, you know, choosing your name of Tiffany

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<v Speaker 1>and kind of get your take on that.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I think that's great. I actually did this podcast

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<v Speaker 2>with with Lovey the other day with for NPR where

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<v Speaker 2>we talked about that, like how our names define where

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<v Speaker 2>we were in life? You know. Then if you call

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<v Speaker 2>me Adochi and you're not family, then I'm like, you

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<v Speaker 2>knew me before sixth grade? And I'm like, wait, what

1:34:18.160 --> 1:34:21.599
<v Speaker 2>do we meet? You know? And if you call me Tiffany,

1:34:21.600 --> 1:34:23.519
<v Speaker 2>obviously you know me now. But if you call me

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<v Speaker 2>Tiffany Alice Smith, you know, then it's like, oh, you

1:34:26.840 --> 1:34:28.880
<v Speaker 2>knew me post marriage. So how our names really helped

1:34:28.880 --> 1:34:32.479
<v Speaker 2>to define I think that that's beautiful. I tried to

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<v Speaker 2>reclaim my name in college, but I'm not gonna lie.

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<v Speaker 2>It was brutal to hear people take Adochi so with

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<v Speaker 2>the Nigerian inflection is Adochi. So my dad would say

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<v Speaker 2>Adoci like so ado Chi Alice right, So even Adochi

1:34:45.520 --> 1:34:51.800
<v Speaker 2>is okay, But I uh, dough Chi. That's it people

1:34:52.080 --> 1:34:55.880
<v Speaker 2>Adu Like, Honestly, it hurt my heart. And for me,

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<v Speaker 2>my name is precious. It literally means gift from God.

1:34:59.600 --> 1:35:02.880
<v Speaker 2>And not only is it precious, it's precious because it

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<v Speaker 2>is also indicative of the dialect of my region or

1:35:06.320 --> 1:35:12.120
<v Speaker 2>we're from. Because Agochi is it's the same as Adochi.

1:35:12.200 --> 1:35:15.559
<v Speaker 2>But if you're from my region. It's said Adochi I

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<v Speaker 2>actually met and another I've like Harley. I probably met

1:35:18.080 --> 1:35:20.280
<v Speaker 2>two Adochies in my whole life. Someone messages me from

1:35:20.280 --> 1:35:22.040
<v Speaker 2>Because of them, we can shout out to the unique.

1:35:22.479 --> 1:35:26.040
<v Speaker 2>She owns that platform which like showcases black excellence. Someone

1:35:26.160 --> 1:35:29.879
<v Speaker 2>emailed me and her or she messaged me on Facebook.

1:35:29.880 --> 1:35:33.280
<v Speaker 2>Her name is Adochi. I was like, shut up. She's like, hey, Tiffany,

1:35:33.360 --> 1:35:35.519
<v Speaker 2>I love you. I'm like, your name, your name is adoch.

1:35:35.960 --> 1:35:37.840
<v Speaker 2>My name is Adochi as well. She's like, what, I've

1:35:37.840 --> 1:35:41.960
<v Speaker 2>never met another Adoji. Like literally, I've met one other Adoche.

1:35:41.960 --> 1:35:43.960
<v Speaker 2>But I was like her last name, and so to

1:35:43.960 --> 1:35:46.960
<v Speaker 2>meet someone not only because look how special names are.

1:35:47.320 --> 1:35:49.680
<v Speaker 2>Not only because because her name is Adoche. One I

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<v Speaker 2>know she's Nigerian. Two I know she's evil, and three

1:35:52.200 --> 1:35:54.800
<v Speaker 2>I know the region that she's from because her our

1:35:54.880 --> 1:35:57.920
<v Speaker 2>name is dialect based and so I just think that,

1:35:58.160 --> 1:36:01.120
<v Speaker 2>like for Thandy, I'm going to look to see how

1:36:01.120 --> 1:36:04.599
<v Speaker 2>to say her name properly. It's super important because even

1:36:04.720 --> 1:36:08.080
<v Speaker 2>like my my financial planner, her name is Angelie and

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<v Speaker 2>when I first met her, Angelie is this Indian. When

1:36:10.439 --> 1:36:12.679
<v Speaker 2>I first met her, I was calling her Angelie because

1:36:12.680 --> 1:36:15.080
<v Speaker 2>that's what that's how it looks spelled. And she allowed it.

1:36:15.720 --> 1:36:19.080
<v Speaker 2>And it wasn't until I was interviewing her for the

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<v Speaker 2>in Shorance chapter of the book and I was just asking, like,

1:36:22.920 --> 1:36:24.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, like what's your name, like can you say it?

1:36:24.720 --> 1:36:27.120
<v Speaker 2>Just because we were recording it, and she's like Angelie.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, wait, Angelie, how did you say your name?

1:36:30.200 --> 1:36:33.120
<v Speaker 2>She's like, well, it's like, uh like underrated Angelie. I'm like,

1:36:33.720 --> 1:36:36.000
<v Speaker 2>since it's been two years, She's like, oh, everybody does it.

1:36:36.040 --> 1:36:39.400
<v Speaker 2>I said no, No, from Adoti to Angelie, We'll be

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<v Speaker 2>saying your name correctly.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And it was funny because when I take that NPR

1:36:43.920 --> 1:36:48.920
<v Speaker 2>podcast with Lovey, the producer's name was what Angelie, and

1:36:49.400 --> 1:36:51.280
<v Speaker 2>she was like, you said my name right. But because

1:36:51.360 --> 1:36:54.320
<v Speaker 2>if Angelie did not correct me, then she will too

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<v Speaker 2>be Angelie and I will go through life not making

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<v Speaker 2>the effort, not knowing like this is your name.

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<v Speaker 1>It's special.

1:37:00.439 --> 1:37:01.800
<v Speaker 2>And so no, I just say all that to say

1:37:01.800 --> 1:37:03.559
<v Speaker 2>that I think Fandy doing that is going to allow

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<v Speaker 2>other people to step forward and save me too, especially

1:37:06.640 --> 1:37:09.160
<v Speaker 2>people from the region of the world that she's from.

1:37:09.760 --> 1:37:12.040
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I mean she's doing it at a. She's

1:37:12.040 --> 1:37:15.000
<v Speaker 1>obviously very successful as an actor and all of that.

1:37:15.280 --> 1:37:17.600
<v Speaker 1>But I think you know, when we decided what to

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<v Speaker 1>name our son Rio, Rio Francisco. I know, my husband,

1:37:22.360 --> 1:37:24.960
<v Speaker 1>Enrique Raphael, he was like, you know, I don't want

1:37:25.000 --> 1:37:27.040
<v Speaker 1>He really did not like the name Rio. He did

1:37:27.080 --> 1:37:29.040
<v Speaker 1>not want to and he's like, I don't want him

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<v Speaker 1>to be penalized. And to your point, you can tell

1:37:31.400 --> 1:37:34.400
<v Speaker 1>a lot about about someone by their name sometimes, which

1:37:34.479 --> 1:37:37.320
<v Speaker 1>is not a good thing in some in some circles.

1:37:37.360 --> 1:37:39.519
<v Speaker 1>And I was just like, I'm going to name him

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<v Speaker 1>for the hope the world I hope will exist when

1:37:42.560 --> 1:37:45.400
<v Speaker 1>he's when he's adult, which is that wherever he's going,

1:37:45.680 --> 1:37:48.000
<v Speaker 1>people will be thrilled to see Rio Francisco on a

1:37:48.040 --> 1:37:50.920
<v Speaker 1>resume or whatever. Or forget a resume, he won't need

1:37:50.960 --> 1:37:53.080
<v Speaker 1>one because he'll have his own thing, or you know.

1:37:53.280 --> 1:37:57.200
<v Speaker 1>But I understand that. I completely understand why you know,

1:37:57.640 --> 1:38:00.360
<v Speaker 1>you chose your name, and why others I know have

1:38:00.560 --> 1:38:03.840
<v Speaker 1>have decided to not hide that part of themselves, but

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<v Speaker 1>to shield it, to shield it, yeah, and protect it.

1:38:08.720 --> 1:38:10.479
<v Speaker 1>And I like the way that you even explain that

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<v Speaker 1>to protect it, you know, so that it was yours

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<v Speaker 1>and no one could could touch it. I've known your name,

1:38:16.800 --> 1:38:18.519
<v Speaker 1>I've known your real name since you told me you know,

1:38:18.600 --> 1:38:21.280
<v Speaker 1>years ago, but I still don't feel like I don't

1:38:21.360 --> 1:38:25.920
<v Speaker 1>know adoci something about it. It because I've only known

1:38:25.920 --> 1:38:28.880
<v Speaker 1>you because I knew you as Tiffany first. It feels

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<v Speaker 1>like I don't know if I'm allowed to go.

1:38:31.880 --> 1:38:34.240
<v Speaker 2>If you can say it right, and you will, then

1:38:34.439 --> 1:38:37.360
<v Speaker 2>yes you are, because I love it means God's gift.

1:38:37.720 --> 1:38:40.240
<v Speaker 2>Like literally, think about what you're saying to me. This

1:38:40.360 --> 1:38:43.120
<v Speaker 2>is why we're named in this way, Like, think about

1:38:43.120 --> 1:38:45.720
<v Speaker 2>what you're calling me When you say that, you're literally saying, hey,

1:38:45.720 --> 1:38:49.120
<v Speaker 2>God's gift. Like how beautiful is that? So when someone

1:38:49.240 --> 1:38:53.320
<v Speaker 2>says it incorrectly or mistakenly, so fine, but like really

1:38:53.400 --> 1:38:55.200
<v Speaker 2>kind of wantonly is not wanting to fix it. I'm like,

1:38:55.240 --> 1:38:57.120
<v Speaker 2>you're not going to take my name, which means God's

1:38:57.120 --> 1:38:59.719
<v Speaker 2>gift and call me anything else other than God's blessing,

1:38:59.720 --> 1:39:02.400
<v Speaker 2>God's gift. If you can't just say Tiffany, that's fine.

1:39:02.680 --> 1:39:05.080
<v Speaker 2>Tiffany is fine, you know what I mean, which is fine,

1:39:05.560 --> 1:39:07.960
<v Speaker 2>And you know I mean, you know it wasn't really

1:39:07.960 --> 1:39:09.800
<v Speaker 2>my choice, had nine my father made that choice for

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<v Speaker 2>us and knowing what I know now, would I do that?

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<v Speaker 4>Now?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, you know, but you know here we are.

1:39:15.840 --> 1:39:19.439
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it's sometimes it's protective message because, like you'll hear,

1:39:19.560 --> 1:39:22.559
<v Speaker 2>Love's name is actually not Lovey. That's a nickname you

1:39:22.600 --> 1:39:25.120
<v Speaker 2>know that she took on because her real name. She

1:39:25.280 --> 1:39:28.320
<v Speaker 2>found it. She too wanted to protect it and knew

1:39:28.320 --> 1:39:31.360
<v Speaker 2>that the kids and the teachers whatever they were, they

1:39:31.360 --> 1:39:34.640
<v Speaker 2>were verbally abusing it. So she was like, no, you

1:39:34.640 --> 1:39:35.719
<v Speaker 2>can just call me Lovey.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, well to anyone out there, well you can.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't call me Amanda though, because I don't. I don't.

1:39:42.479 --> 1:39:44.120
<v Speaker 1>I feel like I'm in trouble when someone calls me.

1:39:44.960 --> 1:39:50.080
<v Speaker 1>But these parts man, and I know where you know

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<v Speaker 1>me from. If you call me a Mandra.

1:39:52.800 --> 1:39:55.360
<v Speaker 2>You did a podcast I love when someone said can

1:39:55.360 --> 1:39:56.800
<v Speaker 2>you tell me Andra? I could tell they try to

1:39:56.840 --> 1:39:57.439
<v Speaker 2>be in I'm.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, I get it all the time. No one called

1:40:00.160 --> 1:40:02.640
<v Speaker 1>me Mandy. It's either well honestly, it's either Mandy with

1:40:02.680 --> 1:40:06.679
<v Speaker 1>a wire or Mandra, So it doesn't just it's all good,

1:40:07.280 --> 1:40:09.920
<v Speaker 1>all right, Tiffany, Well, I wonder I was like, I'm

1:40:09.960 --> 1:40:12.840
<v Speaker 1>just imagining the book cover adoce A. First of all,

1:40:12.840 --> 1:40:21.400
<v Speaker 1>it sounds so good together. Adoce ad adoce a like, yeah.

1:40:20.439 --> 1:40:22.920
<v Speaker 2>It's so like no, And I honestly, I was so

1:40:22.960 --> 1:40:25.320
<v Speaker 2>excited to have Alicha on the cover because my dad

1:40:25.320 --> 1:40:28.920
<v Speaker 2>didn't have any sons, and he always you know, in

1:40:28.960 --> 1:40:31.400
<v Speaker 2>my mind, I thought to myself, it was really important

1:40:31.400 --> 1:40:34.519
<v Speaker 2>to me that like alich was. Like, I remember thinking,

1:40:34.640 --> 1:40:36.200
<v Speaker 2>I hope I get married. I hope I get married

1:40:36.240 --> 1:40:38.200
<v Speaker 2>after I write my first book. But I was this

1:40:38.240 --> 1:40:39.360
<v Speaker 2>is what I was saying when I was little, when

1:40:39.360 --> 1:40:41.120
<v Speaker 2>I realized my dad was not gonna have these sons

1:40:41.240 --> 1:40:43.400
<v Speaker 2>because having sons and that during culture huge because your

1:40:43.479 --> 1:40:45.720
<v Speaker 2>name is carried on. And I thought, because even if

1:40:46.080 --> 1:40:48.519
<v Speaker 2>I can't carry his name on, at least the book

1:40:48.560 --> 1:40:50.400
<v Speaker 2>will have a leech on it and it'll carry on.

1:40:50.479 --> 1:40:53.360
<v Speaker 2>So it's like, you know, like the consolation prize I

1:40:53.360 --> 1:40:54.320
<v Speaker 2>guess for not having a son.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen, he's fine. I hope your dad knows he's fine.

1:41:00.160 --> 1:41:02.519
<v Speaker 2>My dad teaches his friends who have sons, like what

1:41:02.560 --> 1:41:05.200
<v Speaker 2>are your sons doing for you? Did they pay off

1:41:05.360 --> 1:41:08.559
<v Speaker 2>your house? My daughters bring food to me every single week.

1:41:08.960 --> 1:41:11.240
<v Speaker 2>My dad will text me like from Humba eats. I

1:41:11.280 --> 1:41:15.719
<v Speaker 2>would like, so my dad.

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<v Speaker 1>Please tell me that they are so gassed, like so

1:41:18.280 --> 1:41:20.679
<v Speaker 1>geeked out about your whole work, like they have not.

1:41:20.920 --> 1:41:21.559
<v Speaker 6>My mom says.

1:41:22.040 --> 1:41:23.840
<v Speaker 2>She says, she is the president of my fan club.

1:41:24.520 --> 1:41:26.800
<v Speaker 2>Told me I'm the president of your fan club. I'm like,

1:41:26.800 --> 1:41:30.080
<v Speaker 2>I don't have one. You have one. I was like, oh,

1:41:30.160 --> 1:41:32.720
<v Speaker 2>She's like she has decided that all the sales are

1:41:32.720 --> 1:41:34.800
<v Speaker 2>as a result of her. You know, I've told everybody,

1:41:34.800 --> 1:41:36.280
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you have sales. I mean not to say

1:41:36.320 --> 1:41:37.040
<v Speaker 2>it's me, but it's me.

1:41:38.800 --> 1:41:41.040
<v Speaker 1>My face hurts. I feel like I've been smiling for

1:41:41.080 --> 1:41:43.920
<v Speaker 1>two hours, just like between you and the earl, I'm

1:41:43.920 --> 1:41:47.360
<v Speaker 1>like massaging my es like that's so.

1:41:47.800 --> 1:41:49.320
<v Speaker 2>We are we going to share this video? Are we

1:41:49.320 --> 1:41:50.400
<v Speaker 2>going to do a little I don't know.

1:41:51.120 --> 1:41:53.240
<v Speaker 1>I would fix my hair if we are, because I

1:41:53.360 --> 1:41:56.680
<v Speaker 1>just keep looking. I'm just falling apart. I'm sure we're

1:41:56.720 --> 1:41:59.160
<v Speaker 1>going to share it, yes, on our YouTube page, but

1:42:00.040 --> 1:42:01.720
<v Speaker 1>probably exists. I will find out.

1:42:02.439 --> 1:42:05.040
<v Speaker 2>We should do bonus like bonus bonus, because I feel

1:42:05.040 --> 1:42:07.320
<v Speaker 2>like some of sometimes it's just it's just worth it

1:42:07.360 --> 1:42:08.960
<v Speaker 2>to have, like the little bonus video. So you guys

1:42:09.000 --> 1:42:10.439
<v Speaker 2>can go check it out.

1:42:10.840 --> 1:42:13.759
<v Speaker 1>You can see the zen Den and Tiffany's beautiful little

1:42:13.760 --> 1:42:17.519
<v Speaker 1>corner of her fabulous office. Every glimpse into your house,

1:42:17.520 --> 1:42:19.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm just like I wish I want.

1:42:19.640 --> 1:42:21.360
<v Speaker 2>No, No, this is the one place. So you'd be like,

1:42:21.479 --> 1:42:23.679
<v Speaker 2>this is I this is the only this little box.

1:42:23.800 --> 1:42:27.640
<v Speaker 2>Everything else is trashed, but house is gorgeous. I'm always like,

1:42:27.640 --> 1:42:29.760
<v Speaker 2>whoa more please, I'm like, weal move so I can

1:42:29.840 --> 1:42:30.639
<v Speaker 2>see these cabinets.

1:42:34.600 --> 1:42:38.559
<v Speaker 1>Well, when we are back open, we're all vaccinated. You

1:42:38.600 --> 1:42:40.200
<v Speaker 1>and the earn your leisure guys will have to have

1:42:40.240 --> 1:42:45.320
<v Speaker 1>a little party in Giberg. Yeah all right, my dear,

1:42:45.800 --> 1:42:49.000
<v Speaker 1>all right, go forth and keep killing it. I can't

1:42:49.000 --> 1:42:50.840
<v Speaker 1>wait to see you on all the things.

1:42:51.200 --> 1:42:53.080
<v Speaker 2>You as well, man, all the things.

1:42:53.360 --> 1:42:57.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I'd be out there all right. Seriously, my

1:42:57.920 --> 1:43:18.280
<v Speaker 1>face hurts time. H