WEBVTT - Healthy Roots

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<v Speaker 1>This season, we're bringing you stories about people finding their

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<v Speaker 1>a new idea, or landing the perfect job doing something

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<v Speaker 1>you'd never before even considered. Today reporter Otis Gray travels

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<v Speaker 1>to Detroit to meet a young woman undertaking the challenges

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<v Speaker 1>of being a self made entrepreneur. It's just twenty four

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<v Speaker 1>years old. Eliza Jean Charles is in the thick of

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<v Speaker 1>getting her startup off the ground and fielding innumerable tasks

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<v Speaker 1>that come with it starting her business, Healthy Roots, just

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<v Speaker 1>out of college. Eliza's and goal is to change the

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<v Speaker 1>world one doll at a time. Here's Otis. So I

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<v Speaker 1>spent a day in the life with Eliza Jean Charles

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<v Speaker 1>and her job. Well, she does a lot, so I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's just best to start at the beginning. First,

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<v Speaker 1>she wakes up at seven, she does yoga, and before

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<v Speaker 1>she leaves the house she has her makeup and hair routine.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm very much a fashion over person. She's got a

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<v Speaker 1>big day and she wants to look good. So I

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<v Speaker 1>have to go check out the performance service um and

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<v Speaker 1>then I have mentor meetings all day and like a

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<v Speaker 1>happy hour with mentors, so I like to look presentable

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<v Speaker 1>for that to people can see that I'm a professional.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's what I That's what I'm getting ready for now.

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<v Speaker 1>Elitsa's company is called Healthy Roots. It's a toy company

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<v Speaker 1>that teaches hair care to young girls of color with

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<v Speaker 1>black dolls that Elsa has designed herself. I'm gonna do

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<v Speaker 1>setting sprint and I'm gonna try to do isline it

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<v Speaker 1>really quick. We do have to go in like five minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>But also people in Detroit drive really crazy. Oh is

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<v Speaker 1>that the cap? I've been looking for this? At around eight,

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<v Speaker 1>we're out the door to start the day. Unlike a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of young people who apply for work at big

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<v Speaker 1>places where they might find stability, Eliza has gone out

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<v Speaker 1>on a limb to start her own toy company completely

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<v Speaker 1>from scratch. I still don't know my way around your Troy.

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<v Speaker 1>Pitching a business like this and making it work is

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<v Speaker 1>not easy, but twenty four years old, Eliza is exceptionally

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<v Speaker 1>good at it. Hi. My name is Elitsa Jean Charles.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the CEO and founder of Healthy Roots. Healthy Roots

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<v Speaker 1>is a toy company that creates dolls in storybooks that

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<v Speaker 1>empower young girls of color through hairplay. I created Healthy

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<v Speaker 1>Roots because I never had a doll that looked like

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<v Speaker 1>me growing up. And I also didn't learn how to

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<v Speaker 1>do my hair until I was twenty. And that's crazy

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<v Speaker 1>because I have really great hair, and there's lots of

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<v Speaker 1>little girls with beautiful girls that don't know it yet.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's why we made Zoe the first of all

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<v Speaker 1>that teaches natural hair care. She's our first healthy roots

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<v Speaker 1>all and she's really cute. So it's a good elevator

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<v Speaker 1>bit that seems practiced and perfect. I mean part of

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<v Speaker 1>it is practiced, but people ask me what do you

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<v Speaker 1>do all the time? So as to tell them something.

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<v Speaker 1>In the last four years, Aulitsa has taken the doll

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<v Speaker 1>from an idea to an actual product. She secured some

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<v Speaker 1>funding and is now in the process of getting more

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<v Speaker 1>dolls out into the public. After a successful first holiday season,

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<v Speaker 1>of startups like this fail so Eulitsa has completely devoted

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<v Speaker 1>her life to her company and is currently working out

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<v Speaker 1>of a startup accelerator here in Detroitrophone. In a world

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<v Speaker 1>with a lot of reliable, stable job paths, we follow

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<v Speaker 1>Eliza as she forges her own. Did you have a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of dolls when you were a kid? Didn't have

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of dolls when I was a kid. Uh yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>My mom would only buy me gifts if I did

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<v Speaker 1>something good or if she did something bad. Only times

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<v Speaker 1>I got dolls I had this giant bin. Um. I

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<v Speaker 1>had like so many different versions of Barbie had swan

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<v Speaker 1>like Barbie. I had the Barbie ware you could pull

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<v Speaker 1>hair out of her head and cut it. Um. I

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<v Speaker 1>had tons of my scene dolls. Um, they had the

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<v Speaker 1>coolest fashion. Then there were the Brat's Betty Spaghetti. Um. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I had a lot of dolls, A lot of dolls.

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<v Speaker 1>Elitsa is of Haitian descent. She's first generation, but like

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of kids growing up in America, most of

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<v Speaker 1>Eliza's dolls growing up were white. In a recent video

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<v Speaker 1>that Elitza made for her website, it shows her walking

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<v Speaker 1>through a toy aisle at a big store just to

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<v Speaker 1>show how much lighter skinned dolls vastly outnumbered dolls with

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<v Speaker 1>darker skin. Elita remembers one Christmas when she and her

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<v Speaker 1>cousin were kids, a family member noticed that most of

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<v Speaker 1>their dolls didn't look like them. He noticed we didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have any black dolls, and he bought us some and

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<v Speaker 1>I like unwrapped it and I started crying something. I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't want this one. This is ugly, and like I

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<v Speaker 1>said that, and they were like, you said it was

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<v Speaker 1>ugly because it was a black doll, not because it

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<v Speaker 1>was a black doll, but because it was a black doll,

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<v Speaker 1>because it was like to me, the doll that like

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<v Speaker 1>they always show in the commercials, was like the white one.

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<v Speaker 1>So let's say that they had Rapunzel Barbie, they do

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<v Speaker 1>white pun Barby, they do black. They got me the

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<v Speaker 1>black one, and I didn't want that one because I

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<v Speaker 1>want the one that is the popular one, which is

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<v Speaker 1>always the white one. Yeah, unfortunately, you lead to this

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<v Speaker 1>experience is not at all unique. There's been multiple studies

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<v Speaker 1>done where young black kids sit down in front of

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<v Speaker 1>two dolls. One is white, one is black. Then they

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<v Speaker 1>asked some questions. It's called the doll test, and there's

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<v Speaker 1>videos online that you can watch just like this one

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<v Speaker 1>which the doll is the nice doll. The young boy

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<v Speaker 1>in front of the camera points over to the white doll.

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<v Speaker 1>Which doll is the bad dog? Now, one after another,

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<v Speaker 1>the kid's point to the black doll. Which doll is

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<v Speaker 1>the ugly doll? A young boy touches the black dog.

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<v Speaker 1>Why is that all ugly? Black? Which doll looks most

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<v Speaker 1>like you? Which one looks like Okay? She points to

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<v Speaker 1>the black doll. The videos can be pretty hard to watch,

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<v Speaker 1>but they're a big part of why you leads it

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<v Speaker 1>does what she does it all because her mantra is

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<v Speaker 1>that young black kids need to see themselves represented in

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<v Speaker 1>a positive way because that hasn't been the case for

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<v Speaker 1>a long long time. And he leads his experience. A

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<v Speaker 1>lot of that had to do with her parents coming

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<v Speaker 1>to the US to give her a better future and

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<v Speaker 1>encouraging her to just be successful. They were just like,

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<v Speaker 1>do whatever you gotta do to to learn to grow

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<v Speaker 1>to be successful. And for a lot of people that

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<v Speaker 1>looks like whiteness, like assimilating or like acting white, I

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<v Speaker 1>actively participated in anti blackness as a kid. I like

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<v Speaker 1>didn't always play with the black kids, or like, I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't listen to certain music because I thought that's what

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<v Speaker 1>black kids listened to. I didn't watch certain things and

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<v Speaker 1>I thought that's what black kids listened to or watched.

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<v Speaker 1>And I um did those things because I didn't want

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<v Speaker 1>to get treated like them, because I saw how they

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<v Speaker 1>got treated and it wasn't And then it wasn't till

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<v Speaker 1>I got older that I learned how problematic that was.

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<v Speaker 1>So as a teenager, Elita straightened her natural curls to

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<v Speaker 1>appeal to the kind of European standard of beauty, straight

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<v Speaker 1>long hair. But there was a pivotal moment in college

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<v Speaker 1>when she was an illustration major at Rhode Island School

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<v Speaker 1>of Design. It was when a friend of hers, who

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<v Speaker 1>was also black, made a pretty big decision. Um she

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<v Speaker 1>had really big hair. She had cut off all her hair,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was like, yo, what are you doing? And

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<v Speaker 1>she was like, you know, I've just never seen my

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<v Speaker 1>natural hair. And I was like, wow, I too have

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<v Speaker 1>never seen my natural hair. So this experience started really

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<v Speaker 1>feeding into Elita's artwork. And at one point she was

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<v Speaker 1>taking an illustration class and a teacher assigned them all

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<v Speaker 1>fairytale characters to read create. Elitza was assigned Rapunzel, and

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<v Speaker 1>I redesigned her and turned her into a little black

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<v Speaker 1>girl with kinky, curly hair, because I wanted to show

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<v Speaker 1>black girls that where princesses were beautiful, we don't have

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<v Speaker 1>to change the way that we looked to be these princesses.

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<v Speaker 1>And everyone was like, this looks like a doll. This

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<v Speaker 1>looks like a doll. Have you thought about making a doll?

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<v Speaker 1>I took that conversations Facebook and like over a hundred comments. Later,

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<v Speaker 1>I realized that there was a shared experience for a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of black women where they didn't have products that

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<v Speaker 1>look like them when they were growing up, specifically talking

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<v Speaker 1>about dolls or like sharing pictures of the black dolls

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<v Speaker 1>they did have, and realizing there was an opportunity there,

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<v Speaker 1>she came up with the name Healthy Roots and started

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<v Speaker 1>doing heavy research into the psychological effects of toys on kids.

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<v Speaker 1>And I ultimately learned that toys have a huge influence

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<v Speaker 1>on children. They influence how you think, act, and see yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>So when little black girls can't find dolls that look

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<v Speaker 1>like them and negatively impacts their self esteem. And so

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<v Speaker 1>when I created Zoe, I made her more than just

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<v Speaker 1>a brown doll. She has hair that girls can style

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<v Speaker 1>just like their own and learn how to not only

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<v Speaker 1>love their hair, but take care of it properly. Zoe,

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<v Speaker 1>the doll that you lead to design, stands about eighteen

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<v Speaker 1>inches tall. Um. Zoe has these big, beautiful chocolate brown

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<v Speaker 1>eyes and these really cute little like pink lips, and um,

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit of blush, and she has this very round,

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<v Speaker 1>adorable face. And um, she's these big beautiful curls that

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<v Speaker 1>frame her face. We've developed a personality for her which

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<v Speaker 1>is like a little sassy um and very um strong wills.

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<v Speaker 1>She's like very confident in herself and will not let

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<v Speaker 1>people talk badly about her or the way that she looks,

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<v Speaker 1>which happened sometimes, but she can handle herself. In addition

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<v Speaker 1>to giving her a great personality, Elitz has also written

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<v Speaker 1>a whole backstory that makes Zoe even cooler. Her story

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<v Speaker 1>is actually that she went through the big chop, which

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<v Speaker 1>is um what we call it when you cut off

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<v Speaker 1>all your hair, because she went she went to the

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<v Speaker 1>salon with her mom and she saw another woman there

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<v Speaker 1>with like these big, beautiful curls, and she was like,

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<v Speaker 1>why doesn't my hair look like that? And so her

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<v Speaker 1>mom helped her learn how to take care of her

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<v Speaker 1>and they did all these hairstyles um which are featured

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<v Speaker 1>in the Big Book of Hair, which is our illustrated

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<v Speaker 1>guide to teaching natural hair care. Her end goal with

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<v Speaker 1>Zoe is to fight for positive racial representation, starting with

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<v Speaker 1>when kids are formulating their ideas about the world, which

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<v Speaker 1>is why it's called healthy. With we're getting to the

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<v Speaker 1>root of the problem. Um, you can you can stop

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<v Speaker 1>problems by stopping it with the youth, and as long

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<v Speaker 1>as we teach them, we can fight against it. That's

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<v Speaker 1>what I built healthy with. Yeah, this cute doll is

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<v Speaker 1>a tool to destroy racism. So an amazing idea, But

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<v Speaker 1>that was just the beginning. She ended up launching a

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<v Speaker 1>Kickstarter campaign to fund the making of the first doll.

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<v Speaker 1>Her goal was to raise thirty dollars, and she ended

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<v Speaker 1>up raising I asked her what she remembers feeling now

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<v Speaker 1>that this idea of hers was about to come to life.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't remember being excited. I think I remember just

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<v Speaker 1>being like, oh crap, this is real, This is really

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<v Speaker 1>really real. This like weight came down on me and

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<v Speaker 1>I realized just how much work I had signed up for.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll get back to the story in a set. I

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<v Speaker 1>our story. Since the beginning, Elitsa has spearheaded every task

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<v Speaker 1>that goes into starting a business from scratch. You start

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<v Speaker 1>with your idea, check your idea valid data of developing

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<v Speaker 1>your product, defining your customer, defining your go to market strategy.

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<v Speaker 1>I get figuring out how to build your product, your

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<v Speaker 1>cause during your like financial projection, then looking at funding,

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<v Speaker 1>look and building your team, thinking about your sales funnel

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<v Speaker 1>and your marketing strategy. And on days like today, she

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<v Speaker 1>tries to split that up in the meetings with mentors,

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<v Speaker 1>communicating with the people that are managing our accounts, communicating

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<v Speaker 1>with my factory, and tying up any loose ends they're

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<v Speaker 1>dealing with the insurance policies for those factories, organizing meetings

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<v Speaker 1>with people for fulfillment. She spends a good portion of

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<v Speaker 1>the day working on social media and marketing, and then

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<v Speaker 1>the rest of my day is design work and illustration,

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<v Speaker 1>which doesn't get done often because it gets pushed and

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<v Speaker 1>pushed and pushed. Uh So that's my day to day.

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<v Speaker 1>That is kind of the standard day to day for her,

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<v Speaker 1>but now that she's part of a startup incubator here

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<v Speaker 1>in Detroit that comes with all sorts of new tasks

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<v Speaker 1>and opportunities. Like today, she's part of a startup speed

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<v Speaker 1>dating kind of event where her and other startups in

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<v Speaker 1>the office go around and meet with successful entrepreneurs and

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<v Speaker 1>business owners who can give advice and maybe even help you, Liza,

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<v Speaker 1>with their business. It's kind of like a rapid fire

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<v Speaker 1>shark tank situation to give me like the cell. Hi,

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<v Speaker 1>my name is Elza Geane Charles, I'm the O and

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<v Speaker 1>founder of My name is Steve. I've been doing engineering

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<v Speaker 1>for ten or twelve years. Hi, I'm Elitsa. So. I

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<v Speaker 1>have a toy company. It's called Healthier on the You

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<v Speaker 1>have a company called Integral. We're a product consulting company.

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<v Speaker 1>We work with our I think you'll be a great resource,

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<v Speaker 1>um so Ulitsa. I have a company it's called Healthy Roots.

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<v Speaker 1>We make dolls that teach natural hair. I personally don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what it takes to start a business from scratch

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<v Speaker 1>like Elsa, but being a freelance producer, I know the

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<v Speaker 1>feeling of constantly pitching and feeling kind of like you're

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<v Speaker 1>making up your own job as you go. Do you

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<v Speaker 1>ever get jealous of people with normal jobs all the time,

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<v Speaker 1>all the time. Happiness for me is stability. I value

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<v Speaker 1>stability over all else, which is funny because the most

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<v Speaker 1>unstable thing you can do is trying to start a business.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's what happiness is for me. It's like knowing

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<v Speaker 1>where knowing what I'm gonna eat, knowing where I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to sleep. Um, consistency and balance and like There'll be

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<v Speaker 1>people who would reach out to me and they're like, girl,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking about quitting my job, and I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>don't you quit that job. That's steady income, you got benefits,

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<v Speaker 1>You've got insurance. You know what it's like to have insurance.

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<v Speaker 1>That's great, Go get your teeth clean. Um. Being a

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<v Speaker 1>person who has quit a stable job before to do

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<v Speaker 1>what I love, I know the liberation and empowerment of

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<v Speaker 1>being independent and forging your own way, like Eliza, But

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<v Speaker 1>I also know that the grass can always look greener

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<v Speaker 1>on the other side. And while you make this big

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<v Speaker 1>decision to go off on your own journey, you sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>really miss the camaraderie of a normal kind of work environment.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you ever feel like kind of like a like

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<v Speaker 1>a lone wolf and what you're doing always I did

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of this by myself. Um, not to say

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<v Speaker 1>that I haven't had um mentors helped me or team

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<v Speaker 1>members at the beginning. That's helped me, But a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of it falls back on you when somebody can't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>So it is very much, very lonely. Doing the work

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<v Speaker 1>that I do is like a slow burn. But then

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<v Speaker 1>there's also this this chart about entrepreneurship where it's like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>this is awesome. Oh no, this really sucks. Oh look

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<v Speaker 1>it's good. Wait, oh my, we're doing amazing. Okay, we're

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<v Speaker 1>doing just okay. So it's like these crazy ups and downs.

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<v Speaker 1>There's always highs and lows, And what gets me through

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<v Speaker 1>my lows it's my end goal, which is like empowering

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<v Speaker 1>young girls of color. That's my angle. As long as

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<v Speaker 1>I'm doing work to get to that point, it's fine.

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<v Speaker 1>Eulitza admits that because she's constantly in the trenches of

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<v Speaker 1>starting this business, she can sometimes forget that childlike wonder

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<v Speaker 1>that her company is all about. But after a long

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<v Speaker 1>day at the incubator, Elitsa got an email. It was

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<v Speaker 1>this video that was sent to her by a young

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<v Speaker 1>social media influencer. This little insanely cute black girl named

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<v Speaker 1>Jade Robinson who has tons and tons of followers. Jade

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<v Speaker 1>just got her Zoe doll in the mail from Healthy Roots,

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<v Speaker 1>So describe what we're watching. We are watching one of

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<v Speaker 1>our little influencers, do you and on boxing? But she's

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<v Speaker 1>so tiny, she's so cute. I'm boxing today this box

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<v Speaker 1>key and having open I'll be an get all day,

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<v Speaker 1>David saying no. From Healthy oh, govery because I'm a open.

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<v Speaker 1>This a little bit for me, but I'm a big guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Her name, so he should pretty much just look like this,

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<v Speaker 1>so she pretty much looks like me. Yeah, it's really cute. Wait,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to focus right now. Oh my god. Four

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<v Speaker 1>years after you leads illustrated the first sketch that would

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<v Speaker 1>become Healthy Roots. Here it is. It's real, it's alive,

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<v Speaker 1>it's an actual business. It's a tangible thing that she

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<v Speaker 1>created that's now in the hands of a young girl

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<v Speaker 1>that she always hoped she can inspire. I asked her

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<v Speaker 1>if when she sees this, does she finally think I've

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<v Speaker 1>made it. No, I don't think anything. I'm just like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like watching a puppy. It's like, what are you

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about this. Just your brain is sparkles and rainbows,

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<v Speaker 1>like it's just it feels good. It's just yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think about anything. I'm just like, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>this is so cute. This is so cute. This is

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<v Speaker 1>so cute. That's it. That's all I'm thinking. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not thinking like, oh my god, another girl has

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<v Speaker 1>gotten our doll and she's going to become a strong,

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<v Speaker 1>independent woman. Like no, I'm just like, wow, she looks

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<v Speaker 1>really cute. I don't see that and go I did it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm successful with this. I'm like, oh, she looks

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<v Speaker 1>really happy. I want to make more happy kids. That's it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it, yesterday. Yes. You can find out more about

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<v Speaker 1>Eliza at www dot Healthy Roots Dolls dot com, where

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<v Speaker 1>you can also see pictures of Zoe and order a

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<v Speaker 1>doll today. Healthy Roots of story is far from over

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<v Speaker 1>and Eliza is just getting started. You can also see

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<v Speaker 1>this amazing unboxing video over at Express pros dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>Slash podcast for On the Job, I'm Modus Gray. Thanks

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