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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, okay, we back.

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Speaker 2: We black body.

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Speaker 1: Brown ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition.

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Speaker 3: Hey for hate, I love your dress for summer. I

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Speaker 3: was dressed in my cozy. Next, first, all we are

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Speaker 3: clearly live in the same climate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are clearly, because literally I took a look

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Speaker 1: and that I was going to sit the exact thing.

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Speaker 1: I was like, hmm, manages for fall, and I cleared

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Speaker 1: yester summer.

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Speaker 3: Well, I went to a pumpkin patch apple orchard yesterday,

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Speaker 3: So you know, I think I've officially like I'm ready

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Speaker 3: for a little pumpkin spice in my latte. I'm ready.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I can't do the August you know, pumpkin spice,

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Speaker 3: that whole vibe. But I'm here for it. I'm here

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Speaker 3: for it. Now.

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Speaker 1: It's Libra season. My birthday is ten sixteen. If you're

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Speaker 1: trying to buy me a present, I'm an October Libra.

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Speaker 2: The real Libras sorry for you, September Libres. So yeah, honestly, this.

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Speaker 3: Is a leo. I have no idea what your sign means.

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Speaker 3: That's how leo's role.

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Speaker 1: We just leos are what leo's are supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: I've heard that Leo's are very good looking, which obviously.

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Speaker 3: Love talking about ourselves good looking.

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Speaker 4: What does that?

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Speaker 1: I'm I know, I'm just like making stuff up. No,

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Speaker 1: but I also heard leos are like, you're strong. You're

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Speaker 1: the lion, so you're strong, You're like savvy. Jere's Leo

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Speaker 1: so like strong.

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Speaker 3: I know we were almost same beating almost birthday.

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Speaker 2: I know, almost birthday twin what.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any birthday plans?

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Speaker 1: Not on my actual birthday, but I am going to

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Speaker 1: do boy at the end of at the end of October.

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Speaker 1: Oh Dubai. Yeah, I'm going to buy boy. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: that's my fancy way of saying.

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Speaker 3: Tobai dope, like just fak ak.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So a friend of mine, Qina, she does this thing

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Speaker 1: called the Dubai Blackout every year. It's like seven years old,

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Speaker 1: and she brings anywhere from two hundred to like five

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Speaker 1: hundred black people to.

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Speaker 2: Dubai every single year.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, and so they roll out the red carpet

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Speaker 1: for her because it started off because there was one

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Speaker 1: time a fair glitch, like a like an airplane like

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Speaker 1: you know, fair glitch, which made like tickets like one

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Speaker 2: And so I'm proud of this black.

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Speaker 1: Travel group called No Madness that my friend Avita runs.

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Speaker 1: She kind of started the like the face focused like

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Speaker 1: black travel movement with No Madness, and so Keina is

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Speaker 1: a part of it. And so when there was this

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Speaker 1: were like, so, now what, and so Keina was like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: let's just organize something.

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Speaker 2: And she just.

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Speaker 1: Organized a hell of a trip apparently, and so she's

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Speaker 1: been doing it every year and it looks so awesome.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm so excited to go to Dubai Dubai

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Speaker 1: with like a whole bunch of black folks cutting up.

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing my sister. I think cabral might come to

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Speaker 1: my face. So we're gonna have a good time. It's

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Speaker 1: like a week long and yeah, so it's my birthday

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Speaker 3: That's lovely, you know how to do it up. I

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Speaker 3: took a Faerry in Newburgh, New York. That was my

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Speaker 1: I've been trying, you know, the last few years, I've

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Speaker 1: travel with my friend Madeleine. Me and Madeleine used to

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Speaker 1: like she has this company called Traveling mad.

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Speaker 3: I've never heard of her friend named Madeleine, and so

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Speaker 1: Like we went to One year we did Paris and Prague.

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Speaker 1: One year we did Madrid and Morocco. We were into literations.

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Speaker 3: That's annoying. Now she's useless.

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Speaker 1: No, but she actually just hit me the other day.

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Speaker 3: the same way. I'm planning. I'm definitely going on like

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Speaker 3: I decided because I don't know. I just didn't realize

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Speaker 3: I can just go by mindself. Yeah, I told you,

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Speaker 3: I really want to do one of those. I know,

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Speaker 3: I've seen so many. I know you've done, like Sedona,

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Speaker 3: If you guys know, actually someone did send me a

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Speaker 3: I don't have your name pulled up, but I to

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Speaker 3: look into that because I think that would be fantastic.

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Speaker 3: And I have not traveled really well and such a

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Speaker 2: When you travel, like, are you super like.

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Speaker 1: Budget conscious or like what's like, what's your what's your

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Speaker 3: Listen, I like to think that I paid my dues

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Speaker 3: we had CouchSurfing, and I feel like Airbnb killed CouchSurfing.

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Speaker 3: But it was when like just nice people would let

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Speaker 3: like I don't want to struggle, you know, I want

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Speaker 3: that's why I'm like quality over quantity.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Does that makes sense because same as you like I,

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Speaker 1: I didn't travel in my twenties, but my early thirties

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Speaker 1: so CouchSurfing hostels all that, you know, like flying into

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Speaker 2: But now, the way these knees are set up at

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Speaker 3: Sound girls, I'm like, Okay, now now I understand why

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Speaker 1: It's almost like someone posted I thought it was funny.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like I don't eat like the snacks out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I'm such a fan of like paying

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Speaker 3: me thinking like I have a lot of points on

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Speaker 3: It's been a minute since the Chase reserve came out.

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Speaker 3: What's what are the kids saying today about travel cards?

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Speaker 3: Like what's the hot new bay on the street. That's

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Speaker 1: It's still but that Chase was still called the Chase.

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Speaker 1: I never can get chasing your time?

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Speaker 2: What the Chase? I'm going, I'm gonna go to a

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Speaker 2: trick card.

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Speaker 1: So like that Chase Reserve card still a fan favorite.

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Speaker 1: Also too Amx, especially for business. It's a fan favorite.

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Speaker 1: This is because I was just looking for a personal card,

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Speaker 1: because I finally decided to join the big girls of

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Speaker 2: Card to get my points. You know, I've never done that.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry? What so you know how like if.

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Speaker 1: Like so a lot of people, like anybody, if you

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Speaker 1: to you put all your bills on a specific credit

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Speaker 1: During the Great Recession, like honestly, yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: so like, yeah, I just say all that to say

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Speaker 1: that like we would, I mean probably not until like

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Speaker 1: his book comes out in January, so maybe in January sometime.

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Speaker 2: But he was just an interesting chat one. He just

439
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Speaker 2: was really like these.

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Speaker 1: Are really solid, non scamming, he's not selling anything, you know,

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Speaker 1: just like I want us to do better and we can.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just really loving because I've created space for myself.

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Speaker 1: I'm loving having these conversations with just awesome people just

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Speaker 1: for conversation's sake. And so he was just someone who

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, wow, you know, I talked to

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who've made a lot of money,

447
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Speaker 1: but he's the first person that I've talked to that's

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Speaker 1: made it like the slow and steady wins the race

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Speaker 1: way and at this level tradition, yes, you know, attainable.

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Speaker 3: Classic connection suit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I just was like, you know, it'd be nice

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Speaker 1: to have that kind of perspective of like, hey, if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to start some big, big old business,

455
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Speaker 1: what does that look like? Slow and steady wins the race?

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Speaker 1: And like, you know, like I said, he's just a

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Speaker 1: really nice guy.

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Speaker 3: So take a quick break and see y'all in just

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Speaker 3: a minute.

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Speaker 2: So speaking of guess Mandoe.

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Speaker 3: We had like guests, I can't wait to meet here.

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Speaker 3: You've been talking about this. I almost called her a

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Speaker 3: young lady and what am I a boomer? This woman

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Speaker 3: this badass for a while, but tell us about Desiah.

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Speaker 3: Who is this lady? Why is she here?

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Speaker 1: So Dasah is one of my newest mentees, like my

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Speaker 1: real life in person mentees. So I'm at Desa because

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Speaker 1: I noticed that I always checked my numbers for getgre

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Speaker 1: with Money, my book, and I noticed I had this

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Speaker 1: huge uptick and I was just like, this is not

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Speaker 1: It literally was like sales had doubled like two and

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Speaker 1: a half, you know, like I know normally I sell

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Speaker 1: maybe like a eight hundred or thousand. It was like

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Speaker 1: twenty four hundred one week. And I was like, that's unusual.

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Speaker 1: So I searched my socials. I was like, TikTok, I

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Speaker 1: mean not TikTok. I said Instagram, nothing special, there facebook

477
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Speaker 1: nothing special Twitter. But I was like, it's something someone

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Speaker 1: has said something and maybe it's in a magazine or tea.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like if that happened, someone would have

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Speaker 1: tagged me.

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Speaker 2: But because I'm.

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Speaker 1: Old ish, it ended up being TikTok and the only

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Speaker 1: way because I don't I have a TikTok, but y'

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Speaker 1: don't know, I don't be going there. Someone actually shared

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Speaker 1: at the TikTok on Facebook, which is where I found it,

486
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Speaker 1: because that's the only way I was going to see it.

487
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Speaker 1: Ooh girl, this beautiful black woman shouting out get good

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Speaker 1: with money, and.

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Speaker 2: It was such like a great endorsement.

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Speaker 1: I never met her, she had the book and she

491
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Speaker 1: was just saying how awesome it was and how she's like,

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Speaker 1: I have a wroth Ira. Guys, I have a wroth Ira.

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Speaker 1: It was just so awesome and I was like, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh. Then like I saw that it was like

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Speaker 1: you know, had like you know, over one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: fuse all these comments. And so I found her on

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Speaker 1: TikTok and I found her on Instagram as well. I

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Speaker 1: ended up like reaching out to her. It was like,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. If you're ever in Jersey, let

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Speaker 1: me know we can link up. And she was like, actually,

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Speaker 1: Finn to be in Jersey this week. I was like really,

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Speaker 1: And so we ended up like hanging out and she

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Speaker 1: was so dope. I was like, yeah, my new mentee,

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Speaker 1: ye're my newte there's no advance but about it. So

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Speaker 1: we wanted to have Dasia come on because she's also honestly,

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Speaker 1: Dasa doesn't even need a mentor. She's one of these

507
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna win win no matter what, which is like

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Speaker 1: the best type of mentor because I could just get

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Speaker 1: a front row seat to her winning this.

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Speaker 3: She's so funny too. I started following her after we

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Speaker 3: talked about her. Yeah, so Dasa says, so on TikTok,

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Speaker 3: we'll put a link in the bio. I mean though

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Speaker 3: it could be in the bio in the notes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna link your TikTok. So Danja, come on up,

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Speaker 1: she's here with us.

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Speaker 4: Hi everyone, Hi, Hi Danjah. Nice, nice to meet you

517
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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 1: So Dajoah, tell us a little about yourself one, yeah,

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Speaker 1: tell us like you know, like, what do you do?

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Speaker 2: Who are you let the people know?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Well, my name is Dejah Miles Langaine and I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 5: I currently take classes at Northeastern. I own a business.

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Speaker 5: I owned a vending machine for a little while, which

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Speaker 5: was inspired by the DreamCatcher Facebook group. Actually, and I

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Speaker 5: do tiktoks occasionally and shout out people's books as well, so.

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Speaker 3: They use to sorrow or that too. Gods, I'm an

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Speaker 3: old lady. I'm like, tell me what you're studying.

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Speaker 5: Well, I am doing a certification and project management at

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Speaker 5: the moment.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, nice? All right? So business wise is

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Speaker 3: the is the TikTok the business?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 5: So, I did an internship in twenty nineteen in New

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Speaker 5: Jersey called Development and one of the requirements was to

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Speaker 5: create your own business concept. And my business concept was

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Speaker 5: centered around self care. It started off as a skincare brand,

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Speaker 5: but during that same summer I had lost my cousin

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Speaker 5: due to like mental illness as well, so I kind

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Speaker 5: of shifted the direction to more mental health centered. So

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Speaker 5: I create skincare self care products and just try to

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Speaker 5: be a light for people on the internet as much

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Speaker 5: as I can by providing them with products to also

544
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Speaker 5: indulge in themselves or take a moment to like connect

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Speaker 5: with yourself on a more intimate level.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're sorry about your lost date.

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Speaker 1: Can you share what's the name of your your company?

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Speaker 1: Maybe people want to We'll share the show notes, like

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Speaker 1: the link in the show notes.

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Speaker 4: Sure.

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Speaker 5: So my business is called Sincerely Sanguine, which is an actual,

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Speaker 5: real world real word which people don't know. So sanguine

553
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Speaker 5: means optimistic or positive in an apparently bad or difficult situation,

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Speaker 5: and sincerely is like the sign off or also like

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Speaker 5: to me genuine, So you're sincerely optimistic or positive in

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Speaker 5: an apparently bad or difficult situation.

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Speaker 3: See do you make this stuff yourself? Because I thought

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Speaker 3: you were like a booked I was like, Oh, she's

559
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Speaker 3: a book talker, that's like her thing. But no, that's

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Speaker 3: just like on this. Okay, all right, okay nice. Do

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Speaker 3: you make the products yourself?

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Speaker 4: I do.

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Speaker 5: I've been doing it since twenty nineteen obviously, but I

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Speaker 5: do make them myself when I use them myself, so

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Speaker 5: I know that they work.

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Speaker 1: I can see your glow now, like if you guys

567
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Speaker 1: are not watching us on YouTube, your loss because Asia

568
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Speaker 1: is glown on here. She's added to the melanin like

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Speaker 1: display on display between you know, we have every range.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I was going to ask for anyone who's because how

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Speaker 3: old are you? Do you find me asking?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 5: I don't mind at all. I'm twenty four years old.

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Speaker 5: I turned twenty five December twenty fifth of this year.

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Speaker 3: Oh will you be best friends? With my cousin Anna.

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Speaker 3: She's twenty four and she's also really interested in the

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Speaker 3: mental health wellness space. So that's my first question. My

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Speaker 3: second question is for people in their early twenties, what

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Speaker 3: advice do you have for someone wanting to start a business.

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Speaker 3: And it sounds like you've had a couple at a

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Speaker 3: vending machine that also the skincare line, So what interested

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Speaker 3: you in starting a business? And like any advice for

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Speaker 3: young people listening, I.

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Speaker 4: Can give advice.

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Speaker 5: So my initial life plan that I had for myself

587
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Speaker 5: was becoming a teacher. I thought that's what I wanted

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Speaker 5: to do, and then the pandemic hit, so I figured, no,

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Speaker 5: I'm not teaching on Zoom. That just that's not going

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Speaker 5: to be my introduction to teaching. So because of the internship,

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Speaker 5: I had a business. So I figured I will just

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Speaker 5: kind of like jump around from job to job and

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Speaker 5: focus on my business.

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Speaker 4: So that's what I ended up doing.

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Speaker 5: In terms of advice for people that are interested in

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Speaker 5: starting a business, I would say, figure out what industry

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Speaker 5: you would like to get into, and then research people

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Speaker 5: that are doing what you're interested in doing.

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Speaker 4: So I watched a lot of YouTube videos.

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Speaker 5: I also leaned on my resources because there are people

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Speaker 5: who well for Development, they have a business, so I

602
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Speaker 5: would ask them questions. And we also have a cohort,

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Speaker 5: so people in the cohort, I would also ask them questions.

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Speaker 5: So I would just say, do your research, figure out

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Speaker 5: which industry you want to go into, and.

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Speaker 4: Trust yourself.

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Speaker 5: It could be a scary process, especially if you're the

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Speaker 5: first business owner in your family, but if you have

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Speaker 5: a desire in your this is something that you're passionate about,

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Speaker 5: just trust yourself and be willing to do that. Step

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Speaker 5: out on faith and be willing to do that.

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Speaker 1: That was really like, honestly, like I couldn't have phrased

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Speaker 1: it better. That's such great advice for people who are

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Speaker 1: just kind of like starting out, just figuring it out.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I meant to share. That's how I met Dejah.

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Speaker 1: I spoke at Development. It's a nonprofit that helps young

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Speaker 1: black kind of a future or fledging entrepreneurs. And they

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Speaker 1: a friend of mine sits on their board and was like, Hey, Tiffany,

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Speaker 1: could you come and speak And I said sure, and

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Speaker 1: so that's how I met ended up meeting Dasia. So

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Speaker 1: share with us if you don't mind kind of like

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Speaker 1: where are you on your financial journey? You know, like

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Speaker 1: how's that going? So that way someone who might be

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Speaker 1: in your age range can kind of get a gauge

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Speaker 1: of like, oh the good, the bad, the ugly, we

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Speaker 1: don't mind no judgment here.

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Speaker 4: Sure.

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Speaker 5: So, if I'm being completely honest, I'm only ninety percent

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Speaker 5: whole because I haven't finished the last chapter every book.

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Speaker 4: But I've just been like really busy.

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Speaker 5: But I'm pretty sure I have the information that I

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Speaker 5: need at this point with a ninety percent. But I

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Speaker 5: feel like because of your book, I have a good

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Speaker 5: gauge on where I want to see myself financially.

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Speaker 4: You asked me where I see myself in five years.

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Speaker 5: And I said I want to own a house, which

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Speaker 5: wasn't realistic, but I just like said something so realistically,

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Speaker 5: loans are my main priority right now.

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Speaker 4: But due to Biden, where I can get that forgiven?

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Speaker 5: I get twenty percent, twenty thousand forgiven because I did

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Speaker 5: get the pel grant.

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Speaker 3: Oh nice. What does that leave you with? Is that

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Speaker 3: all of it?

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Speaker 4: No, I have four thousand left, but I knocked that out.

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Speaker 3: That's huge. Yeah, you're putting a face to the life changing. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: like impact of that policy. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing.

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Speaker 5: So loans is top priority savings for retirement. You said

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Speaker 5: put a name to your future self, and my future

649
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 5: self's name is Tony Child after Tony from Girlfriends, because

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Speaker 5: that's my favorite show.

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Speaker 2: First of all, the fact that's her future self mean,

652
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Speaker 2: well that's me.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm like, she's like, yeah, I love to watch

654
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Speaker 3: old shows on TV Vintage. That's my Girlfriends period. Pieces

655
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Speaker 3: of being a black woman in America.

656
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Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead. So literally I'm like, damn, okay, go ahead.

657
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Speaker 5: Also progressing in my business, finding a way to be

658
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 5: more consistent. I feel like when I'm consistent, I do well.

659
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Speaker 5: But because I just do so much, it's kind of

660
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Speaker 5: hard balancing everything.

661
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Speaker 4: I didn't say this, but I do taekwondo.

662
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 5: I just recently got my black belt, so that was

663
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 5: taking up a lot of my time.

664
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Speaker 4: So that was taking up a lot of my time.

665
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Speaker 5: So now that I've done that, I still want to

666
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Speaker 5: contribute to my class because they do like this like loyalty.

667
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 5: You have to be loyal to your dojo, so I

668
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 5: have to contribute to that. But I also want to

669
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Speaker 5: put myself first and do what I want to do.

670
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 5: So business loans and just preparing for my future are

671
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 5: like my three main top priorities at the moment.

672
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Speaker 3: Can we get into like what's so where are you now?

673
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Speaker 3: Is this your apartment? You live with your folks?

674
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Speaker 4: I live with my dad currently.

675
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Speaker 3: Do you have like a little like science like lab

676
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 3: where you're concocting skincare stuff there? How do you make

677
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: a skin? How do you do skincare stuff? How do

678
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Speaker 3: you go from the idea to making the product to

679
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Speaker 3: selling it?

680
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Speaker 4: Like?

681
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Speaker 3: What's your whole business look like? I'm curious about that.

682
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Speaker 5: Well, I know that cleanliness is very important, so I

683
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 5: make sure I like sterilize everything, make sure everything's clean. Again,

684
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Speaker 5: this comes in terms of like when you see what

685
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 5: other people do and what you shouldn't do. I've seen

686
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 5: other businesses cleanliness is not the type top priority. So

687
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 5: for me, cleanliness is a top priority. And I make

688
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 5: sure that a lot of my products have the consistent

689
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Speaker 5: preservatives in them so that you're not getting bad batches. Also,

690
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Speaker 5: I make sure I'm on top of the batch type

691
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 5: so that if you're there's something potentially wrong with your batch,

692
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Speaker 5: I understand like which batch it was, and I can

693
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Speaker 5: correct it.

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Speaker 4: I also am.

695
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Speaker 5: Like I do every thing from my room or from

696
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 5: the kitchen, or there's like a space down the street

697
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 5: where I go and just do work there. So I

698
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 5: just try to find spaces that work for me. Because

699
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 5: I'm I'm only one person.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, how do you do it by yourself?

701
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Speaker 3: So was the I mean, I'm assuming the business is

702
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Speaker 3: like small, small now, I mean, and as the plan

703
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: to grow scale like maybe I don't know what comes next.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

705
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Speaker 5: I So when I did the business consulting internship, I

706
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 5: was consulting a business.

707
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: I came back this year.

708
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 5: They asked me to come back and I was the

709
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 5: business that they were consulting. So they gave me feedback

710
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 5: on how to improve and how to scale my business.

711
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 5: So I haven't read the report because I just recently

712
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 5: got it, but I have to read the import and

713
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 5: sit with it and just see what kind of feedback

714
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 5: that they gave me. But one of the feedback was

715
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 5: to get other people to assist me, because it's a

716
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 5: one person job as a solo entrepreneur, and just creating

717
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 5: all the products by yourself, doing customer service, doing your website,

718
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 5: all that stuff by yourself is just not realistic. It's possible,

719
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 5: but it's a lot of work and it's a lot

720
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Speaker 5: I just can't do everything by myself.

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Speaker 1: No, I think honestly, Daija, I think anyone who's listening

722
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: to you is like super impressive.

723
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,719
Speaker 2: And you can see Mandy Whire. I was like, Ah,

724
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 2: you're not mental, no questions.

725
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: Asked, because you just are like you sound like me

726
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: and Mandy now, like on top of your yeah, you

727
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like the fact that you're like

728
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: just for you know, the caveat I'm only ninety percent

729
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: financially whole, I'm like girl, like at your age, the

730
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: average is zero percent financially, you know, like you know,

731
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Speaker 1: and the fact that you've started a business so early,

732
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: you know. So my one of my things that you know,

733
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Speaker 1: I've really been leaning into now is like we're living

734
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Speaker 1: well now, Like, how are you making space for Dasia,

735
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Speaker 1: Like on top of all these impressive things that you're

736
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: checking off your list, you know, what about you as

737
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: a as a as a young woman, as a person,

738
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Speaker 1: how like what does that look like for you.

739
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Speaker 4: In terms of putting myself first?

740
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just like making space, just taking care of myself. Yeah,

741
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: because I.

742
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Speaker 1: Know, like I love that your brand is about mental

743
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: how so it's like, how are you making sure that you're.

744
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 2: Not burnt out, that you're not overworked and overwhelmed.

745
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 4: Uh, well, working out is something that I do.

746
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm really not good at

747
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 5: prioritizing myself or my needs because I have more like

748
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 5: a go mentality and the job is going to get

749
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 5: done regardless. So right now I'm learning or trying to

750
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 5: learn how to put myself first and put my needs

751
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 5: first because I feel like I need to take care

752
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 5: of everybody, not like in a savior, just like I

753
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 5: like to be helpful, and sometimes that can be to

754
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 5: your own detriment. So just trying to find ways to

755
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 5: put myself first, even if that be just staying in

756
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 5: the house and watching TV. Because sometimes I'll just go

757
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 5: see my grandmother. I also that's something I do too,

758
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 5: I go see my grandmother because there's really not much

759
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 5: I can do beside just spend time with her. So

760
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 5: that's a way for me to decomp and just take

761
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 5: time for myself.

762
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 4: So doing things that I love.

763
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 5: Is how I put myself first or try to put

764
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Speaker 5: myself first.

765
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's your why for your business?

766
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 2: Why?

767
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 3: Start a business at twenty four, I'm curious.

768
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Speaker 5: I feel like my business is larger than myself just

769
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 5: based off of what's happening in the world. People are

770
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 5: committing suicide at alarming rates of many different ages, and

771
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 5: I feel like people are.

772
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 4: More willing to have the conversations now.

773
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 5: But it's more so how to create that space where

774
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 5: it's safe and it's comfortable for other people. Honestly, somebody

775
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 5: can say like, I'm feeling suicidal, but if we don't

776
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 5: have the knowledge or language should best support them, there's

777
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 5: really not much you can do. So I just want

778
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 5: to provide people with that space to just know that

779
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 5: I've been through what you've possibly been through, and even

780
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 5: if I have, and I'm just here to support you,

781
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 5: and at least you know that there's a community of

782
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 5: other people that can support you during a difficult time,

783
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 5: or even if you're not having a difficult time, maybe

784
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 5: you could be that support for someone.

785
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Speaker 3: Else's much deeper than just a product.

786
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: Yes, she's just You're just amazing and you are what's

787
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: right with the.

788
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 3: World, you know, and not for real and.

789
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 2: Teach the well do you know that song? I know

790
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Speaker 2: you don't I do?

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Speaker 4: It's like Whitney Houston.

792
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 3: Okay, so that always her from the past.

793
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Speaker 1: We want to thank you so much because I think

794
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: folks who are listening. One, I don't want you to

795
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: feel bad if you're listening, like, oh my gosh, Dare

796
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: is twenty four and she's ahead of where I am.

797
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: That Instead, it's just that you know, like there is

798
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 1: a bright light that all is not lost, And sometimes

799
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: we can get so overwhelmed with what's happening in the

800
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: world that there are dass out there who are out here,

801
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 1: you know, like figuring out how to slay and pay

802
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: it forward, you know. And so I'm just really impressed

803
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 1: by like, you know, eybody, yes, you're driving your focus,

804
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: but really too, like your heart for wanting, like you know,

805
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 1: you saw something you know that affected.

806
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: You deeply and you created a solution around it. You know.

807
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: All my wish and hope for you is as you

808
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: walk on this journey, that you make sure to always

809
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 1: incorporate taking care of yourself, you.

810
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 2: Know, like, because like this is what I tell Mandy

811
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 2: all the time. Mandy.

812
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: You're smart, you navigate with integrity, you work really hard,

813
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: You're consistent, you always gon't have you will always have

814
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: you don't have to like road runner your way through stuff,

815
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: like because you have those things, you're always going to have.

816
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: Will there be times when things are rough and tough, certainly,

817
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: but you're smart, you're consistent, you navigate with integrity, and

818
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: you're hard working.

819
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 2: You will always have.

820
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: But so knowing that part is like in your back

821
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: pocket already making sure that while you go get it,

822
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: you are looking after yourself, because that is not the

823
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: guaranteed part. You know, that's the part. You have to

824
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: make sure that you you know, you prioritize any any

825
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: words you want to last words many you want to

826
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: share with Asia.

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00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that. I mean, I think

828
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 3: you're extraordinary. And I think also when I was younger,

829
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 3: when I started, when I started things, I would sometimes

830
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 3: be really hard on myself about wanting to change my

831
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 3: mind and like learning those lessons. And I feel like

832
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 3: that's the I wish I hadn't resisted that so much,

833
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 3: because that's part of the beauty of like starting things

834
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 3: at all, and starting them young, because you can choose

835
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 3: to go in different directions. Clearly you already are, you know,

836
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 3: exploring many different different opportunities, and I just would say

837
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 3: stay open to new things and stay open to the

838
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 3: lessons and just know that you know, anything that you're

839
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 3: learning from what you're doing now can be applicable like

840
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 3: ten years from now, fifteen years from now. And I'm

841
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 3: just so happy to know you and happy to have

842
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 3: gotten to know you. And yeah, you'll be getting a medtor. No, no,

843
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 3: I'm about to. No, I'm going to set he up

844
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 3: on a play date with my cousin Anna. That's all.

845
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: Now, this is what we like.

846
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 3: Love matching. No, but I love matching women who have

847
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 3: like similar interests but also like at different stages. I

848
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 3: think that's the most powerful thing. So if you want

849
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 3: a new friend, I got.

850
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to that. Yes, that honestly, Like look

851
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 2: at me and Mandy.

852
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: Honestly, we help each other out so much, and so

853
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: like having friends who are working toward which you're also

854
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: working towards in similar ways is always so helpful. So, Daisy,

855
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: if the girls want to find you, where should they

856
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: find you?

857
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: Your business? Share all your stuff?

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00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, my instagram is my name Deja Underscore thirty five.

859
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 5: If you like Muni Spella, it's Dasia Underscore thirty five.

860
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 5: My TikTok is Daja says so, and all of my

861
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 5: information would be in the bio. My business is also

862
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 5: sincerely saying guine on Instagram and all the other platforms

863
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 5: as well.

864
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 4: I have a question for Mandy. Is your name Amandra?

865
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 3: No, my name is Amanda. The joke is that, yeah,

866
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 3: tif yeah, so like my whole life. For some reason,

867
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 3: when people say my name at every graduation, every award ceremony,

868
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 3: when they read my last name Woodruff, they conflate the

869
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 3: end of Amanda, and it's always been Amandra Woodruff and

870
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 3: it happens so often. And then Tip started doing it

871
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 3: on the show and I was she called me Mandra,

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, this is my whole life. This is

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Speaker 3: the name that people have given me. So it's not

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Speaker 3: my actual name. It's what people say when they try

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Speaker 3: to say my full name.

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Speaker 2: And that's what I like to call a man.

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Speaker 5: I only asked because my middle name is Amandra.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a real name.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my middle.

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Speaker 3: Name, Dejah Amandra. Oh see, I'm sorry because in my mind,

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Speaker 3: I'm just like, that's a mistake of thing.

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Speaker 4: No, that is a real thing.

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Speaker 5: I was like, I finally found somebody with that exact

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Speaker 5: name but then that's not even your name.

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Speaker 3: Really, no, it's not unless you're.

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Speaker 2: Saying, oh, we were all like a mandra oh wait,

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Speaker 2: that's your name girl.

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Speaker 3: Man, I thought, honestly, and I thought your she was

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Speaker 3: gonna be like, oh, she's gonna ask me real question

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Speaker 3: because she's just so impressed by me.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, but deja, Honestly, we thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: coming on. You are literally just an inspiration to me,

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Speaker 1: and so many people are going to listen and be like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she sounds awesome. You know, you're like example,

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Speaker 1: like I said, of like the possibilities that are out there, So.

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Speaker 2: Keep on pushing.

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Speaker 1: You're not alone. You know, you can lean into me

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Speaker 1: and Mandy, and then you have a new friend.

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Speaker 5: Yay, thank you, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 5: This is actually my first podcast, and I was a

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Speaker 5: little nervous. My throat was literally I mean my stomach

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Speaker 5: was literally in my throats. But I feel so much better,

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I know, I feel so much better. So

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Speaker 5: thank you for the words of wisdom. And I'll definitely

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Speaker 5: keep this moment near and dear to my heart.

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Speaker 3: It won't be the last time. Okay, this is just

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Speaker 3: your first and each time will get easier and better.

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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: You were an awesome guests. You're welcome, Bye.

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Speaker 3: Dasa, hey ba fam. We could not do this show

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Speaker 3: without your support or the support of our team behind

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Speaker 3: the scenes. The Brown Emission Podcast is produced by Cumulus

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Speaker 3: Podcast Network. It's edited by the wonderful Imani Crosby and

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Speaker 3: produced by Tanya Bustos. Dennis Stimplinsky is our in house

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Speaker 3: tech curu, and I am Bandy Woodchard Santos your co host,

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Speaker 3: and I will see y'all next week.