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

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network and iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of Reasonably Shady. I am josellbe Bryant.

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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? Everyone? This is Robin Dixon. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here with us once again. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: you as always.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, and we're like super excited.

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Speaker 2: First of all, it's March.

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Speaker 3: Hello, March okay, And March is like actually Robin's month

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Speaker 3: again because it's her birthday month, so let's.

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Speaker 1: Get hearn that.

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Speaker 3: And I'm taking Robin out whether she wants to go

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Speaker 3: and not even if I have to kidnap you, like

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Speaker 3: pick you up, throw you over my shoulder.

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Speaker 2: We're going out for your birthday. Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: I have to start mentally preparing because this so this

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Speaker 1: is like a it's like, you know, semi milestone birthday.

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Speaker 1: I'll be turning forty five.

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Speaker 3: Forty five, forty five, this is amazing. Same to me,

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Speaker 3: we celebrating bribing.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just like, okay, do I have to like

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Speaker 1: what do I need to do? It's also the month

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Speaker 1: of March is my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. Wow, which

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Speaker 1: I'm like I haven't planned anything surrounding that either, So

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Speaker 1: we got a lot to do.

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Speaker 2: Missy.

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Speaker 1: We're all just like really low key, like we just

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Speaker 1: don't do you think I just spent you know that?

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Speaker 1: But I'm saying my parents as well, like we're just like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we just don't do like huge celebrations all

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Speaker 1: the time. But I think fifty years of being married.

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Speaker 3: Listen, you spend fifty years with with some shoes or

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Speaker 3: a purse, it is time for some acknowledgement.

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Speaker 2: Okay, right, fifty year is is a long time.

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Speaker 1: Right, Oh my god, speaking of spending years with shoes

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Speaker 1: and purses. I just I have been purging my closet, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for a few months now because I actually built a

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Speaker 1: new closet in my house. I turned one of my

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Speaker 1: guest bedrooms into a closet. But I have got rid

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Speaker 1: of so much stuff, Like it's so crazy how much

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Speaker 1: we accumulate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't you feel good about it?

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Speaker 1: I do, because it's like, I mean, bags and bags

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Speaker 1: and bags of clothes and shoes and handbags. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just like, why do we accumulate so much stuff? Why?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, so how often do you purge.

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Speaker 3: When I just feel like my closet is getting overrun.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, maybe like twice a year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have shoes that you've had for like

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Speaker 1: longer than ten years? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I do?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I mean I have. There's still some shoes

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Speaker 1: and bags and stuff that I can't depart with that

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Speaker 1: I've had for probably damn near twenty years almost. But

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Speaker 1: then there's somewhere it's just like you think about how

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Speaker 1: much money you paid for them. They were designer whatever

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Speaker 1: at the time, and it's like you almost get mad

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Speaker 1: at yourself, like I can't believe I paid much for

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Speaker 1: these shoes and I wore them twice and they've been

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Speaker 1: in my closet for ten years or however long, Like

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Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. It's just so I've been going through

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Speaker 1: a lot of that emotionally, just letting go of stuff

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Speaker 1: that I'm like, I spent a lot of money on it,

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Speaker 1: but I haven't worn it, and it's got to go.

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Speaker 2: Let it go.

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Speaker 3: The exciting part about today is that it's International Women's Day.

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Speaker 3: Today is not the day, but it is happening reasonably.

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Speaker 3: Shady is so excited that we're able to like honor

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Speaker 3: women like, uh yeah, that's what we need to be doing,

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Speaker 3: honoring some women and you know my shady moment, because

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Speaker 3: that's how we always start this episode, has to do

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Speaker 3: it little women call my children?

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Speaker 1: What did they do this time?

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Speaker 3: First of all, they're like money in their little car

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Speaker 3: that they call stink bug. The all change light was on, okay,

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Speaker 3: so I was like, okay, guys, I'll take it in

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Speaker 2: Rout, I take it. And this car is rather old.

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Speaker 3: Right, and they're like, oh man, you we can change

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Speaker 3: the oil for you. But the oil is leaking into

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Speaker 2: It's this, it's that. So I was like, what does

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Speaker 2: that mean to me?

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Speaker 3: And so they were like we I think we need

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's just start there.

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Speaker 3: But I'd rather my kids be safe than sorry. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so just handle it, they said.

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Speaker 2: Cool. I go to the little people.

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Speaker 3: I live with the little women, and I say, hey,

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Speaker 3: your car is not gonna be ready for two more days.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: They fell out like they were like actually like it

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Speaker 3: was an atomic bomb.

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Speaker 2: Their hands were on their heads. There was screaming at

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Speaker 2: the top of their lawns.

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Speaker 3: They were like no, just were like going nuts, like Mommy,

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Speaker 3: why didn't you why did you do this to us?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 2: And I'm like what They were like like.

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Speaker 3: You're supposed to fix all problems, like ma, like why

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Speaker 3: would they need the car for two days?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 3: So Robin I dropped that stupid stink bug off on Thursday. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Monday it was still in there. Yeah, And they said

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Speaker 3: they didn't know when it was.

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Speaker 1: Going to be done.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: I keep forwarding the text message that they send me.

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Speaker 3: I send to them and for whatever reason, it's my fuck.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm like, girls, let's be clear, I'm spending

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Speaker 3: thousands of dollars on this stupid car that y'all call stinker, right,

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Speaker 3: so deal with the fact that y'all need to be

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Speaker 3: appreciative number one. Number two, if you don't.

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Speaker 1: Have a car for five minutes, calm down, be Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's what Uber's for.

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Speaker 3: So Uber your ants around town? Okay, are they working?

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Speaker 3: So that's what they said, Well, we're babysity and we

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Speaker 3: need the car, and you know, a door does the

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Speaker 3: cross now and she's trying out for the team, not

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Speaker 3: that she's not going to make it, and she's like,

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Speaker 3: I have things to do.

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Speaker 2: This is such an inconvenience and mommy, why why would

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Speaker 2: this happen? Why?

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Speaker 1: But they've only been driving this car for how long?

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Speaker 1: They act like? Right?

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Speaker 2: Five minutes? Okay, So these little women need to get.

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Speaker 3: It together, right, Oh my god. Yeah, they have it

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Speaker 3: back now, thank god. But I was just like I

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Speaker 3: couldn't believe their reaction. They just like lost it.

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Speaker 1: So would you because I know, like you went out

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Speaker 1: while you're out of town?

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Speaker 2: No, they don't.

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Speaker 3: They actually didn't want to drive my car because they

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Speaker 3: feel like it's too big and they would definitely wreck it. Okay,

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Speaker 3: So they're fearful to drive my car, which is creat Okay.

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Speaker 3: They will wait for sick buck to be back and

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Speaker 3: stride again, okay, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they wanted to put a band aid on it,

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Speaker 1: and then the band aid would all off and the

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Speaker 2: Now, but everybody relaxed, calm down, it's okay, Okay.

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Speaker 3: So there are some women that I want we need

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Speaker 3: to talk about, especially when it comes to.

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Speaker 2: Contributions that they.

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Speaker 3: Have done in science and in math and there's like

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Speaker 3: some bad ass women out here, and.

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Speaker 2: I feel like they don't get their duke, Robbin. They

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Speaker 2: do not get their duke right.

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Speaker 3: The next time, Robin, that you use your navigation in

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Speaker 3: your car or any navigation software like Google Maps, you

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Speaker 3: can thank doctor Gladys West, who is actually a black woman.

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Speaker 3: He's the inventor of GPS technology. Gladys West. Now have

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Speaker 3: you ever heard that name before? Have you ever like

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Speaker 3: nos that ever been on radar? Like if we don't

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Speaker 3: have navigation, we're scrossing.

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Speaker 1: Right, And I'm just thinking of how significant that invention

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Speaker 1: and convenience is because you think back in the days

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Speaker 1: you know, write down where you were going first. I

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Speaker 1: think when I started driving, that was when like map

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Speaker 1: quests was useful. So was she? Did she contribute to

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Speaker 2: I think what's in our vehicles now?

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Speaker 3: Because she help invent software like Google Maps, So Google

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Speaker 3: Maps is kind of like what's what we use today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's the inventor of GPS technology.

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Speaker 3: Like, right, every day, I use my GPS tech every day,

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean it's amazing. It's like don't you wonder

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Speaker 1: that's even amazing. It's just you can you can get

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Speaker 1: quickest way possible. That's yeah. No, Gladys is the bomb.

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Speaker 1: does she go to college? And what was Like how

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Speaker 3: Maybe she got in there kicking and screaming, or maybe

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Speaker 3: she got in there because somebody, you know, realized that

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Speaker 2: To let her in.

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Speaker 3: I don't know her back story, but like even with

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Speaker 3: the ladies from Hidny Figures.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember that? Do you remember that movie?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, those ladies NASA did not want to use their knowledge.

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Speaker 3: the knowledge. They didn't want any parts of these black women,

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Speaker 3: but because they were so bad what they were doing,

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Speaker 3: they had to acknowledge them.

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Speaker 2: They had to give them the job.

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Speaker 3: They had to find a bathroom for them to use

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Speaker 3: as they're at work doing their job. Like all that

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Speaker 3: kind of stuff is insanity. My dad worked for NASSHA, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and he was just like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these women were real. Harry Dorothy was one of them.

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Speaker 3: And Barack Obama gave the Congressional Gold Medal, which is

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Speaker 3: the highest honor presented by Congress to a civilian, to Darden,

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Speaker 3: who was at that time she was seventy seven and

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Speaker 3: she's now the only living hidden figure. This was back

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty. I'm not sure now there was Catherine Johnson,

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Speaker 3: all of these ladies. I can't even what's crazy is

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Speaker 3: I can't even like put my finger on how smart

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Speaker 3: they are because it's.

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Speaker 2: Like space aviation, yeah, like all of it.

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Speaker 1: It's just like, uh uh it is mind blowing, right.

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Speaker 1: We can't even wrap our head around the just what

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm you know, I worry about putting makeup

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Speaker 1: on and you know, oh, let me watch a makeup tutorial. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 3: Having the same dumb ass conversation like don't you want

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Speaker 3: I don't understand why they are so hell bent about

440
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Speaker 3: not letting anybody else in.

441
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Speaker 2: It's sad.

442
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the easy answer is it's

443
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: a power thing. They want to just maintain power. But

444
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: I think the smart thing would be to realize women

445
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: are huge decision makers in their household. They drive the economy,

446
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: and so it would be behoove everyone to involve women

447
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 1: in the decision making process because we're actually going to

448
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: make sure that things are done right the first time,

449
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: and that it's inclusive, and that it's you know, attractive,

450
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: all of that type of stuff. And so I'm not

451
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: sure want to take away anything from any men, but

452
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: to think that they can do everything without women's contributions,

453
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Speaker 1: it's just ridiculous. And like I said, if not only

454
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Speaker 1: in politics, but across the board, if women were in

455
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: positions of power or leadership, not just in politics, but

456
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: business and whatever else and entertainment, I think we would

457
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: be further, much further along in all of those industries.

458
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Speaker 2: So what one hundred percent?

459
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Speaker 3: But I mean, look how long it took to get

460
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Speaker 3: any woman in the White House.

461
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Speaker 2: Any woman?

462
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it took I don't what, two hundred thousand years.

463
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Speaker 3: You know, we appreciate you sys you got the weight

464
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Speaker 3: of the world shoulder, but like it and it was

465
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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like Joe had his backup against

466
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 3: the wall when he decided to make a woman his

467
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 3: running mate, Like he didn't have a choice in the issue.

468
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 3: I think Jill like them up in the closet and

469
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 3: it's like, this is what you don't do, right, you

470
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 3: don't do the women. But like they thought for.

471
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Speaker 2: That, like it, you know, it's nice.

472
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 3: It makes me feel a sense of comfort when I

473
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 3: know that we're being represented and decisions that affect the country. Yes,

474
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 3: women's thoughts.

475
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Speaker 2: Just at the table, right, like let us let us

476
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: it's okay men, it's okay, right.

477
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Speaker 1: And it's not just because we're making decisions for things

478
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: that pertain to women, like women's reproductive rights and all

479
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: of that type of stuff, like yes, but it's it's

480
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: across the board, like no, we need to contribute everywhere

481
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: in every every segment, technology, infrastructure, whatever, business. I mean,

482
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: it's just but but to think that there are men

483
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: making decisions for women in our bodies and all of that,

484
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: that's just that's listen.

485
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Speaker 3: One of the reasons why I started every year was

486
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 3: because men make make.

487
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: Up right for women.

488
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: Right, I don't know what the hell you're doing.

489
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 3: Think God Finity came along because you know, at least

490
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 3: we know that Rihanna is you know us, and she

491
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 3: understands our skin and she's a woman and she gets it,

492
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 3: but like men should not have any say really in

493
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 3: things that's pain to women.

494
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 2: Do you have a male gynecologist.

495
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: Or female female? Of course? Yeah, of course yes.

496
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 3: I don't want a man down there looking at them stuff, right,

497
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 3: if I have cramps or if I'm not feeling well

498
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 3: going through my pregnancy, all of that. Like she understands

499
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 3: what I'm what I'm feeling, she understands what I'm thinking.

500
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: And she could be my advocate.

501
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: But think about I mean, I know when I was younger,

502
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: I really didn't know if many female gynecologists, And just

503
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: think of so think about how far we've come in

504
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: that field. It was because the medical field was dominated

505
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: by men, and so men could get into the gynecological

506
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: field because it wasn't that many women in the medical

507
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: field period, which was insane, but no, it was we

508
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 1: were I was blessed, my mom was blessed to have

509
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: a female gynecologist, and I just you know, went to her,

510
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: and all of my gynocologists have been females. Yeah. I

511
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 1: saw a post on Instagram recently. It was like a

512
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: tweet and some man, I think he was a politician,

513
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: said something about birth control is not a healthcare expense

514
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: and a woman responded to his tweet, like, birth control

515
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: helps control my hormone issues, you dim with, so it

516
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: is a health expense, Like it is related to my health.

517
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: It's not just about preventing me from getting pregnant like

518
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: it actually is. Like so, it's just like men are

519
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: just making they're they're making statements and they're making decisions

520
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: based on stuff there aren't even informed about. And that's

521
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: just wrong. And that's why we need to continue to

522
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: address the inequality, the gender inequality everywhere. And that's why

523
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,719
Speaker 1: women need to continue to do what they're doing, and

524
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: we need to continue to inspire, and we hope all

525
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,239
Speaker 1: the young ladies that come after us are watching and

526
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: being motivated to act.

527
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Speaker 3: Funny story about your you went to the gnecologists of

528
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 3: your mom's So the lady that helped deliver my children,

529
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 3: they have started to go to her as they're gone college.

530
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: Wow.

531
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 3: Yes, So I'm like, so I told her, I'm like,

532
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: at some point in time, you have to retire, right,

533
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: please don't retire on my kids watch.

534
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: So you might have to like be rolling yourself in

535
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 2: here when you're like one hundred and.

536
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Speaker 1: Two, right, I mean, that is like a very intimate

537
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: person in your life.

538
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, will just bounce from.

539
00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: Colleges to colleges.

540
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: Yes, for sure.

541
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Speaker 1: I did have one. Oh I hated it. I was

542
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: in Toronto, Wan was playing for the Toronto Raptors and

543
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: I was pregnant with Corey and I ended up having

544
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: to go to a It was the only gynocologists really

545
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: up there because they have like free healthcare and so

546
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: things were a little bit different. So it was a

547
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: male gynocologist that I went to because for whatever reason,

548
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: I couldn't find a female and I was so uncomfortable.

549
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: It was I was just like, oh no, like I

550
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,959
Speaker 1: don't want to do this, and like, luckily he was

551
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: traded before Corey was delivered and I just came back

552
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: home to my female gynecologist, thank god.

553
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 2: Right.

554
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, oh no, I don't want this,

555
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: and I'm not.

556
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: I don't you know.

557
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: I know a lot of male gynecologists make a living,

558
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: so I'm not trying to discourage anyone, but it's just

559
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: good to have that option to go to a female

560
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with your reproductive health.

561
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: Yes, and they need to get paid the same Oh okay,

562
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 3: absolutely so do you feel like there's any other woman

563
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 3: in your life that like stands out as like somebody

564
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 3: that has mentored you or helped you through.

565
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: I don't know anything.

566
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially I'm thinking, you know, you were an NBA wife,

567
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 3: and that is like a lot to navigate. I think

568
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 3: of Charise, like, I'm sure Charise was like very very

569
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 3: motherly and mentory to you.

570
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: I feel like in the NBA you have wives who

571
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: it's hard to have your own career if your husband

572
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: is a professional athlete because the husbands, you know, aren't

573
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: in the same city all the time. Like you might

574
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: be in your playing city for eight months out of

575
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: the year and then you go back to your home

576
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: base for four months out of the year, and then

577
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: you might get traded to another city. So it's really

578
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: hard to establish, you know, any type of career or

579
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: business when you're a professional athlete's wife. So I was

580
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: always inspired by the ones who I saw who actually

581
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: had their own business or had their own career despite

582
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: their husband being a professional athlete. So a lot of

583
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: women would get into real estate, you know, because you

584
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: can kind of take that wherever. There would be some

585
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: women who would be teachers, you know, back then you

586
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: still didn't see a whole lot of like entrepreneurs or

587
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: business owners as far as like e commerce and stuff.

588
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: But you know, now, I think if I was, if

589
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: one was in the NBA today and we're in the

590
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: same situation, I would probably establish some sort of e

591
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: commerce business that you know, where you can just sell

592
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: from wherever. But I was fortunate to work for my

593
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: friend Abba Klile, who has a prestigious successful PR firm

594
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: in DC, and we would do PR an event and

595
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: I was able to work remotely. This is actually like

596
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: the first time even I even realized you could do

597
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: stuff like this, so I would work. I was living

598
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: in Portland, Oregon, working remotely on events that ABBA's clients

599
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: were having in DC. So like De Beer's was doing

600
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: a grand opening, what another jewelry store, like we were

601
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: planning really big, nice events, and so working for Abba,

602
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: just watching her work, watching her schmoons. Her business is

603
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: called TAAPR an a male dominated industry in DC, and

604
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: she's an African woman, so a white male dominated industry

605
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: in DC. She's a black African African woman who had

606
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: a very successful PR business. Being able to work for

607
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: her and seeing her navigate that industry with such class

608
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: and such like great execution. I mean her her services

609
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: top notch, her business, her events are top notch. Her

610
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: clients got what they needed out of the PR you know,

611
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: for the in the PR world from her. That always

612
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: inspired me just to see how she was able to

613
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: navigate like such a conservative town in being a black

614
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 1: African woman.

615
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love, I love, and I love you know,

616
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 3: she's always just like a great resource. But yeah, I

617
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 3: never I never thought about I mean obviously, I know,

618
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 3: obviously I know she's a black woman, but I never

619
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 3: thought about how that industry is so male dominated, white

620
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 3: male dominated.

621
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, I.

622
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: Don't be like our inspirational sister up the the I mean,

623
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: her clients ranged like a high end designer Carolina Herrera

624
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: and I said, De Beer's and now she's working with

625
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: the top chefs of the world, the Gordon Ramsey's and

626
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: the Philip Chow and you know, any new restaurant that

627
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: comes to d C, the high end restaurant, that's her

628
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: client almost And so to see her just do what

629
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: she does and look, I always say like, once I'm

630
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: finished with Housewives, I'll just go back and work for

631
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 1: Alba because I actually I was working for her. Season one.

632
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: It was a lot, like we had so many grand

633
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: openings going on. And then season two we started filming.

634
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: It was like two weeks into filming, I was like,

635
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: I have to quit my job because I just didn't

636
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: have the time to devote to our clients and to

637
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: film until I had to quit. And so you know,

638
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: I always I have an open I always have a

639
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: job waiting for me to go back to.

640
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 2: Because you know, I want you to give me like

641
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: into the into the restaurant opening.

642
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, can you give me a reservation?

643
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: Yeah?

644
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: No, I mean it's just been like such inspiration and

645
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: a blessing to watch an actual friend, a close friend,

646
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 1: build her business and be one of the top pr

647
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: agencies in the city of DC.

648
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, I love it.

649
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 3: When I first got married and you know, I married

650
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 3: a pastor and I didn't know what on earth I

651
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 3: was doing, and I was like throw thrown into like

652
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 3: the world of first Lady and whatever that means for

653
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 3: a mega church. I just remember like there were you know,

654
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 3: I always had like Jamal's mom, you know, married to

655
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 3: Jamal's dad, who was a big time bishop at the time.

656
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 3: There's always just women that knew like I'm struggling, help me.

657
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 3: There's like Patrice Ellis who's married to Bishop Neil Ellis.

658
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 3: She's She's been a face to me, like even to

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Speaker 3: this day, Elaine Flake, Joanne Browning, like they would always

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Speaker 3: give me love, check on me and just like make

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Speaker 3: sure that I was okay.

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Speaker 2: And we just kind of check on in with each

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Speaker 3: It's actually sometimes very difficult to be a woman in

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Speaker 3: to check on each other so that you know, that

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Speaker 3: is my advice to all of us, like check on

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. And you know a lot of women

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Speaker 1: look at each other as competitions, so you know, or

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Speaker 1: they don't want to see another woman in their lane

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Speaker 1: doing better than them. And so but I think the

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Speaker 1: only way we really win is if we encourage one another,

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Speaker 1: for everyone to eat.

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Speaker 3: Everybody. Yeah, everybody. We're going to get out of here,

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Speaker 3: but reasonably. Shady is celebrating International Women's Day this week.

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Speaker 3: We are just excited because we're able to honor incredible

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Speaker 3: women at the network and worldwide, and we are.

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Speaker 2: Happy to uplift women any time, any day.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and although International Women's Day is Friday, March eighth,

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Speaker 1: every day should be International Women's So make sure you

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Speaker 1: are doing what you can to honor the women in

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Speaker 1: your life, the women that inspire you, and to push

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Speaker 1: women's initiatives in to close that paygap.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so I don't forget to live your life either

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Speaker 3: reasonable or shady and be the best woman you can't be.

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Speaker 1: Yes or women's supporter all right, bye or both. Ye.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned it all throughout today's show, but the team

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Speaker 1: here at Reasonably Shady is celebrating International Women's Day this week.

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Speaker 1: For more programming honoring the incredible women at the network

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Speaker 1: and worldwide, head over to iHeart Podcasts International Women's Day

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Speaker 1: feed by searching Women Take the Mic. Wherever you look

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Speaker 1: for podcasts, We're featured alongside great shows like Angela Ye's

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Speaker 1: Lip Service, Very Special Episodes with Danis Schwartz, and more.

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