Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black, we're brown, We're brown.
Speaker 1: Ambition ambitious, ambition, ambis.
Speaker 2: Hey manager, are you doing girl, I'm doing good. I'm
Speaker 2: loving the new little the props behind you. I'm glad
Speaker 2: you're getting this your office together, at.
Speaker 1: Least I am this. Well, you know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the house until well, let's just say I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to do my office until I'm in my
Speaker 1: new office. So I was like, I might slap something up,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just I said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: was doing, uh therapy for Black Girls their podcast, and
Speaker 1: I said, I can't do doctor Joorye like I normally
Speaker 1: do myself. I said, girl, let me put something in
Speaker 1: the background. Oh listen, I shouted you out. I shouted
Speaker 1: you out. I first WoT I shouted brought a bisha
Speaker 1: of course, and her producer loved brand and bish and
Speaker 1: she's like, oh my god, I love she's me and
Speaker 1: my friends are like, that's the She's like, it's the
Speaker 1: chat out that we need. She's like, it's I just
Speaker 1: love the fact that you guys are friends. But then
Speaker 1: also like you break down personal finance, and she's like,
Speaker 1: we just love it.
Speaker 2: So I feel like we're such a good sister show
Speaker 2: to Therapy for my girls. You know, I love that
Speaker 2: show too. Whenever I get a chance to listen to
Speaker 2: something I'm never going for, like financial stuff, that's one
Speaker 2: of the ones that I go to. That and the
Speaker 2: Read but you know the reader, Oh, I love the
Speaker 2: Read for the ok.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they talk about all the time.
Speaker 2: I'm like, dang, I gotta watch Drag Queen, Drag Race.
Speaker 2: I don't watch that whatever. That's dope though. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: it does feel like a little bit of fomo. If
Speaker 2: you go on social media, it feels like not everybody,
Speaker 2: but it feels like a lot of people want to
Speaker 2: see Beyonce in Dubai.
Speaker 1: Everybody and their momel was in Dubai.
Speaker 2: Everybody famous, everybody famous was in Dubai.
Speaker 1: My girl Bozma was there. I said, oh, look at
Speaker 1: both for her birthday.
Speaker 2: I did see her. She looked amazing, God as usually
Speaker 2: turned out. But no girl, and I don't even know
Speaker 2: if anyone knew this was happening. But for those of
Speaker 2: us who are like, where are the visuals? Where is
Speaker 2: the effing tour? She charged Dubai the low, low price
Speaker 2: of twenty four million.
Speaker 1: Ul awesome donas the DeRos.
Speaker 2: Which is like a GDP of some kind of country,
Speaker 2: probably a mid sized country. That's insane. And it looked
Speaker 2: like she used every red scent that they gave her.
Speaker 1: She had Blue Ivy on stage. You want her two steps?
Speaker 1: I say, yes, Blue.
Speaker 2: I wonder if she has to book Blue, like, I
Speaker 2: wonder if she has to contact Blues agent.
Speaker 1: Blue is like not that twenty four twenty is mine.
Speaker 2: Thanks, But yeah, I've been like everybody else on TikTok,
Speaker 2: I can't find any clips of Blue singing, and everyone
Speaker 2: in the comments is like pissed, like there's only clips
Speaker 2: of you see Blue in this gorgeous like how old
Speaker 2: is she anyway? Thirteen twelve?
Speaker 1: I don't think you just maybe ten, looking.
Speaker 2: Like I wish I looked up, you know, thirty five
Speaker 2: in this beautiful red sparkly suit. About just saying brown
Speaker 2: skinned girl, I just want to hear brown skin with blue,
Speaker 2: but looks amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the lesson from Beyonce is the
Speaker 1: they have the coin. Don't let these people tell you
Speaker 1: they don't have coin. They will find the coin if
Speaker 1: you remember, illustrate your oport we're gonna say illustration your Beyonce.
Speaker 1: You know, like if you show up with excellence and
Speaker 1: undeniable excellence, the coin will be will be produced.
Speaker 2: I know you were just talking about like the strategic
Speaker 2: of market the strategy of marketing and how crucial it is,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, Beyonce never just does it one way,
Speaker 2: because I saw some footage of like there's an Ivy
Speaker 2: Park preview show at the Atlanta's Hotel where she was like,
Speaker 2: you know, performing, and she had the Ivy Park logo
Speaker 2: out there and she had the models working by, so
Speaker 2: she's like every brand will be represented. Yeah, shout out
Speaker 2: to anyone who got to see and thank you too.
Speaker 2: Are the real heroes, those of you who flouted the
Speaker 2: rules and recorded clips anyway you even know everyone's supposed to.
Speaker 2: I pray for you. I hope you don't get snatched
Speaker 2: the po posh people. You might need, you might need
Speaker 2: a hide out in a safe house for a while,
Speaker 2: but we thank you for your service. Well, in some
Speaker 2: it feels like the news does not pop in these days,
Speaker 2: kind of like.
Speaker 1: Well, you know it is popping real quick. Did you
Speaker 1: do something with your hair?
Speaker 2: Because it's getting You're asking I did. I accidentally ran
Speaker 2: out of something and then I had to use two
Speaker 2: products in one and I was very happy with the results.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was like, Mandy is serving for the.
Speaker 2: I haven't I needed. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you. That's a small way. Yeah, but did you
Speaker 2: hear there's some okay, a couple what should we talk
Speaker 2: about first, mass tech layoffs or the buffoonery that is
Speaker 2: Florida's governor And they're.
Speaker 1: Just I'm not going to talk about this fool in Florida.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it. So I was reading more into this.
Speaker 2: So Florida, if you guys haven't heard, rejected adding an
Speaker 2: ap so ap is like the super Smart Kids class,
Speaker 2: college level forces in high school, Advanced Placement class for
Speaker 2: African American studies. And they say because it included study.
Speaker 2: They released this like one page, here's why, and included
Speaker 2: in that one pager was because the topics like the
Speaker 2: movement for Black Lives, black feminism, and reparations were on
Speaker 2: the list of concerns. According to Governor Ron, this is
Speaker 2: bah de voltemort number two. I like, what bullshit? You
Speaker 2: know how much of my ap triggodometry I use in
Speaker 2: my everyday life exactly, APUs history ap lit like none
Speaker 2: of that, you know what I use, what I would love.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know that was, you know, a thing
Speaker 2: when I was in high school.
Speaker 1: But I was.
Speaker 2: I think, that's so why why why can't we educate
Speaker 2: you know, young people on them like this concerted area
Speaker 2: of history. You know, it just seems like such a
Speaker 2: no brainer. But also I'm not entirely surprised that of
Speaker 2: all the states, Florida was the one the same it's
Speaker 2: too much for us.
Speaker 1: I mean, I saw that, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: this is what yah, people y'all be voted for, you.
Speaker 2: Know ya president, Like they're saying he potentially could run
Speaker 2: for president one day.
Speaker 1: I know, And I know Donald Trump has been saying
Speaker 1: a lot of things about howd I honestly, personally, one
Speaker 1: thing I do like is to watch let them hose fight.
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying that part because I was like, oh, y'all
Speaker 1: go to Guesst the main man they've been they've been dragging,
Speaker 1: and I'll say, well, like like my friend Deustin Ross
Speaker 1: says of the friend zone, let them hose fight.
Speaker 2: Let them let them destroy each other.
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like this is a second big blow.
Speaker 2: In Florida, they also had that don't say gay bill, Yeah,
Speaker 2: where they don't want you talking about you know, sexuality
Speaker 2: and elementary school Like this is why with all of
Speaker 2: our resources in this country, we still have like all
Speaker 2: these unwanted births. Ro v Wade being overturned. You know.
Speaker 2: STI is running a book like it's just it's sad.
Speaker 2: It really is up to us. I feel like to
Speaker 2: to educate the youths on our own and outside of school.
Speaker 2: But what to say? What to say? There also were
Speaker 2: I mean, on top of like the layoffs, I thought
Speaker 2: I was gonna come on here and talk about Google
Speaker 2: because they lost They let go of twelve thousand people.
Speaker 2: When was this Friday, Thursday or Friday? But it was
Speaker 2: so shitty how they did it because like some people,
Speaker 2: it happened so early. Maybe it was what day is today?
Speaker 2: I can't keep track anyway, I've been up with a
Speaker 2: sick kid all night. But some people just found out
Speaker 2: because they logged into their email and they couldn't get in.
Speaker 2: And even sadder, some people showed up to the office
Speaker 2: and their badge wouldn't work. Oh my god, So they
Speaker 2: just stood outside like and then people would tell them, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: did you read your email? Did you read the news?
Speaker 2: And they would just stand there. Some people on their
Speaker 2: way from New York, you know, on the subway. You
Speaker 2: don't check your email before you get to work. Sometimes
Speaker 2: one girl found out her boss texted her to see
Speaker 2: if she was okay. She didn't know, and she was sobbing,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, these are real lives, and it's sad.
Speaker 2: It is it's very sad. So they're and the problem is,
Speaker 2: I mean, there's lots of problem, but the thing is
Speaker 2: there's tens of thousands of really really talented people. I
Speaker 2: think there's been over seventy thousand to eighty thousand people
Speaker 2: let go from tech just in the first like six
Speaker 2: weeks of the new year. Who just in the first
Speaker 2: month and a little bit before the new year, like
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of people let go. And these are
Speaker 2: highly skilled, excellent people. This was not something and they
Speaker 2: don't lay off people based on you know, merit, you know,
Speaker 2: or performance. And that's why I think it's important for
Speaker 2: anyone who's you know, looking at anyone who's been laid
Speaker 2: let go, like don't judge them don't think, oh, they
Speaker 2: were let go because they were somehow less than or
Speaker 2: they couldn't hack it. Because these layoffs are so there's
Speaker 2: just so uh what do you call it, like blunt.
Speaker 2: They just sort of decide this is a number. You
Speaker 2: guys have to find the people to cut, no rhyme
Speaker 2: or reason, you know, let's go. And it just sucks
Speaker 2: because there's thousands of people flooding the job market at
Speaker 2: the same time in a concerted industry. So if you're
Speaker 2: someone who's been let go and tech, I feel you
Speaker 2: because it is going to be more challenging to run
Speaker 2: out there and find new work. Not that you can't
Speaker 2: do it, but you're competing with everybody, like all these
Speaker 2: other people who have been let go as well. And yeah,
Speaker 2: for anyone who thought big tech was safe, I'll say
Speaker 2: it again, there's no such thing as a stable job
Speaker 2: or an entirely stable industry. And if you're someone who's
Speaker 2: worried and maybe you've avoided getting late let go so far,
Speaker 2: you know, it's never too early. I feel like to
Speaker 2: start dusting off your LinkedIn, you know, warming up those connections,
Speaker 2: starting to get your resume together, just in case, just
Speaker 2: in case, unfortunately it happens to you as well. But
Speaker 2: if I laid off six percent of its workforce or
Speaker 2: about six hundred employees, and I.
Speaker 1: Saw Venmo too, like it was just it's crazy to
Speaker 1: your point. You know, it's one thing, one one company
Speaker 1: to do this, but the market is going to be
Speaker 1: flooded with all of these highly skilled, specifically trained people.
Speaker 2: So y'all know where to go if you need some
Speaker 2: career coaching.
Speaker 1: Mandy Money, I'm just science.
Speaker 2: I'm like an ambulance chaser. Now send him over to
Speaker 2: the Mandy Money. Oh gross, cut that out. I hate myself,
Speaker 2: all right, but no heart, my heart definitely goes out
Speaker 2: to y'all who are who are being let go. I
Speaker 2: hope that severance package is fact, and I hope you
Speaker 2: I saw one TikTok of a girl who got let
Speaker 2: go from Google and she was like, I cried all
Speaker 2: day and then I took myself to Disneyland. More of that.
Speaker 2: To treat yourself, be kind to yourself, you know, whatever
Speaker 2: you need to do in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: and then get to work because it's yeah, it's going
Speaker 2: to be competitive out there. But also self care is important,
Speaker 2: and don't take it personally. I mean as much as
Speaker 2: you can try it to take it personally and don't
Speaker 2: let it kind of destroy your your own belief about
Speaker 2: your talent and you know, your potential in this field.
Speaker 2: It's nothing to do with y'all. It's really just about
Speaker 2: businesses being businesses, you know, and worrying about their bottom line,
Speaker 2: which they're all what you're going to do. Unfortunately, so.
Speaker 1: On more not so great news. I don't know, like,
Speaker 1: what does it take in the US of A to
Speaker 1: pass legislation that so you kill kids, no kill black people, No,
Speaker 1: you kill like high school students, college students, Like, what
Speaker 1: does it take? And you know, we have another mess shooting.
Speaker 1: I just what is it going to take? Is it
Speaker 1: gonna take for people to target politicians? Families?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What is it going to take? You know?
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, honestly, ever since Sandy Hook when
Speaker 2: it was twenty six babies, I was like, that's a
Speaker 2: rap Thanks of America. You know, it's not happening. I
Speaker 2: just saw that. Although so of course we're talking about
Speaker 2: and our hearts go out to the everyone impact by
Speaker 2: the Monterey Park massacre that happened over the weekend on
Speaker 2: at just the beginning of the lunar New Year celebration,
Speaker 2: which is supposed to be this like joyous time. It's
Speaker 2: days and days of celebrating this wonderful start to the
Speaker 2: new year, the Year of the Rabbit. And yeah, ten
Speaker 2: people shot in a mass shooting. And then there was
Speaker 2: another one last night and Baton Rouge apparently, I don't
Speaker 2: know much about that. And then one CNN report says
Speaker 2: there's been three No, there's been thirty six mass shootings
Speaker 2: from the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: Three weeks, three.
Speaker 2: Weeks alone, too many for all the headlines. Yeah, in
Speaker 2: the last three weeks. So I think a mass shooting
Speaker 2: is a more than four thirty six. This is America
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, y'all. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: just like the hormones and the all the fields and
Speaker 2: all the emotions, but it's there are days when I
Speaker 2: drop Rio off to daycare and I have to have
Speaker 2: a little baby cry in the car because I'm like,
Speaker 2: how do I know nothing's going to happen? Know? Or
Speaker 2: I go to a movie theater and I'm like, where's
Speaker 2: the exit? What if something happens? Excuse me, I can't
Speaker 2: be the only one. But that's where I'm just like,
Speaker 2: have my therapist on on text, like I'm having a
Speaker 2: moment with some intrusive thoughts. I know it's you know,
Speaker 2: we have to we have to move forward and keep
Speaker 2: it pushing and all of that. But saying it out
Speaker 2: loud sometimes at least helps like move through that moment
Speaker 2: and and keep going, because sometimes it just feels like
Speaker 2: you just want to hide in your bed and not leave.
Speaker 2: Well maybe we should have faded with the Beyonce news.
Speaker 1: That's okay. We send a prayer up respect, you know,
Speaker 1: for people's families, like because these are you know, hundreds
Speaker 1: of families, if not thousands of families that are affected
Speaker 1: where things will never be the same.
Speaker 2: You know, Oh.
Speaker 1: America, Why why, why why is there anything to make
Speaker 1: people smile?
Speaker 2: No pressure? Well, what's on your shirt?
Speaker 1: It says good vibes, good vibes good just from targets
Speaker 1: from years ago. Well, I'm loving it, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to keep it to myself until like I took look,
Speaker 1: it's like it's some good, you know, hopefully good news
Speaker 1: about like you know this place I'm trying to buy,
Speaker 1: but I saw this other place. And when I tell
Speaker 1: you I feel like Beyonce lives here because it's on
Speaker 1: the eighth before you went in. No, because it's on
Speaker 1: the eighth floor, and it the views. Because so where
Speaker 1: I live in Forest Hill, it's called Forest Hill because
Speaker 1: it's literally on a hill and it's at the edge
Speaker 1: of Newark, so I can see when I go for
Speaker 1: a walk, there's parts of the walk where I could
Speaker 1: just see the whole New York City side skyline and
Speaker 1: it's just beautiful. And so the place where I'm wanting
Speaker 1: to to purchase it is like built even further on
Speaker 1: the hill. So many of the some of the unit's
Speaker 1: not many, but some of the units have the New
Speaker 1: York City these skylines. So the unit that I want
Speaker 1: has a big picture window New York City skyline. Hey girl, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's all you see? No, No, it's just epic. But
Speaker 1: then's something, you know. There's another unit that's for sale
Speaker 1: and the people who live there opened up all of
Speaker 1: the windows and it's like an L shape. Like the
Speaker 1: room is like, you know, a rectangle square, but two
Speaker 1: sides of the room are just filled with windows, and
Speaker 1: then it has like a fireplace in it. And I
Speaker 1: have never in my life Mandy I gasped when I
Speaker 1: went up there because.
Speaker 2: I'm picturing Carrie from the first Sex and Sexy Saxity movie,
Speaker 2: the only one that I will acknowledge because it's never happened.
Speaker 2: It never I or am Big go into the bed.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I get when I say gas. I
Speaker 1: was like, I've never It reminded me of like, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I go to the city to tape something and
Speaker 1: they're like, you're in some building on the twenty third floor,
Speaker 1: and you're like you just like people work in an
Speaker 1: office space where they see all of this. It was
Speaker 1: that and I said, I don't know, I might take
Speaker 1: this unit, but then the rest of the unit really
Speaker 1: didn't it here to the way I live my life.
Speaker 1: Like it wasn't like enough bedrooms. I didn't have like
Speaker 1: a place where I could see half in my office.
Speaker 1: It just it was like, you know, it's a nice unit,
Speaker 1: but like and if I honestly didn't work from home largely,
Speaker 1: I might consider it, but that living I want one day.
Speaker 1: I am going to have a living room like that
Speaker 1: one day, but with all the other things that I need.
Speaker 1: Because it was I mean, you could see New York,
Speaker 1: you see Jersey City, you could see her. I've never
Speaker 1: seen anything like that in real life. I was like,
Speaker 1: how am I loud up here? Yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: a level of luxury and either, yes, okay.
Speaker 2: We manifest you absolutely deserve to be there so that
Speaker 2: I can be the friend who comes.
Speaker 1: Over girl, like I said, the unit that I'm actually
Speaker 1: like hopefully going to get. I'll know by today that
Speaker 1: you know, it is very beautiful and like like it
Speaker 1: it's the way the space is laid out is the
Speaker 1: way that I need to live my life. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: cause I was like, I was so tempted to be like, girl,
Speaker 1: forget that place, but I was just like, no, you know,
Speaker 1: there's like things that you need to live day to day.
Speaker 1: You cannot just live in the living room, although it's close,
Speaker 1: but you never know. But I just wanted to share
Speaker 1: that this. Sometimes it's really nice to go and see
Speaker 1: these epic things because it makes these things like normal.
Speaker 1: There's an amazing I think they're Puerto Rican couple that
Speaker 1: live there and they lived there for the last ten years.
Speaker 1: They got a daughter, and they're just really just awesome.
Speaker 1: We just sat and I just sat and talked with
Speaker 1: them for like owners. Yeah, they were there. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's because it's not quite on the market yet. But
Speaker 1: they heard that I was looking, and so they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: come see my place. And it's like it's beautiful, but
Speaker 1: like I said, is like the other place has a
Speaker 1: really big office, and I really would like a big office.
Speaker 1: It's like it's it's bigger. The other place that I'm
Speaker 1: wanting is like twenty eight hundred square feet twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty eight and this one is like twenty four.
Speaker 1: But that four hundred is the office, you know in
Speaker 1: my house? I know, Mandy, I'm not gonna lie. Where'd
Speaker 1: you come? What I mean?
Speaker 2: Because we're playing with baby. I have a little toy
Speaker 2: I have a little toy house. I feel like I'm pollypocket.
Speaker 2: That's what I feel like. How it's real cute and
Speaker 2: twenty how many Scriffy It's not that many tiff not
Speaker 2: that many. And it's it's I'm trapped the small no
Speaker 2: for really. We went to visit a friend who just
Speaker 2: had a baby and they moved into this gorgeous new
Speaker 2: house and I'm just like, oh, is this what space
Speaker 2: feels like? And you can breathe? And if there's three
Speaker 2: things on the counter. You don't feel like you're living
Speaker 2: in an episode of Hoarders.
Speaker 1: Now, that's what I love about hopefully the place that
Speaker 1: I get that. I like my house is not even
Speaker 1: twenty eight hundred scriffy and I have a decent sized house.
Speaker 1: It's not twenty if you don't include the basement, which
Speaker 1: I don't think they do because it wasn't finished at
Speaker 1: the time. But I like the fat fact that it
Speaker 1: feels almost like palatial, you know what I mean, Because
Speaker 1: I was like, it feels it's giving, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, rich Auntie vibe, so saying pray for me
Speaker 1: that it all goes through. I'm this close, you know,
Speaker 1: to like locking it in. But I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just feel like this morning, I thought to myself, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling a mix of grief, gratefulness, joy, and like excitement
Speaker 1: about like this other half of life. And so it's possible,
Speaker 1: like you know, coding it to doctor Green that to
Speaker 1: hold all these things and hold space for all these things.
Speaker 2: So I just s I feel good good. I hope
Speaker 2: that it's good vibes. You deserve it. We're gonna manifest it.
Speaker 2: And hey, what what is the expression what's for you
Speaker 2: can't miss you exactly. I'm feeling I have a good
Speaker 2: vibe about this. Good oh man. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I have anything else to share. Should we just take
Speaker 2: a break and come back with a round?
Speaker 1: Boost, round break? Let's do booty breaking?
Speaker 2: All right, we'll boost for y'all. Don't worry. Think of
Speaker 2: something real positive to bring to you. All right, we'll
Speaker 2: be right.
Speaker 1: Back and we're back in black. It's time for the booster.
Speaker 1: I cannot boost, you know my memory, baker, booster break,
Speaker 1: our booster breaking. Is you gonna boost? Is you gonna what?
Speaker 1: You don't do? So, Mandy? Are you going to boost?
Speaker 1: What you bet? Because girl, we would break it all
Speaker 1: the buzzworthy, it.
Speaker 2: Was all gone. Yes, yes, I'm going to boost. I
Speaker 2: want to boost Tabatha Brown. And I also want to
Speaker 2: remind her that you said you were gonna come on
Speaker 2: the show girl, Like you know, girl, we her from
Speaker 2: you in a minute. But we're proud of you. You
Speaker 2: have like seventy eleven different lines at target. But I
Speaker 2: just wanted to boost her because I was reading an
Speaker 2: article about her or I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: a TikTok or something, but it was just to think
Speaker 2: about where this woman was just a few years ago,
Speaker 2: and she just launched another like at home goods and
Speaker 2: a vegan food line at Targe, which is like her
Speaker 2: second completely I don't know, like popular sold out line
Speaker 2: at Target, and she has you know, I think, two
Speaker 2: best selling books and an Emmy nominated children's show, tab Time.
Speaker 2: I love that show. I'm trying to get Rio into it,
Speaker 2: but he's He's like, where's the digger, where's the excavator?
Speaker 2: If you're listening, tab Let's get some heavy machinery in
Speaker 2: the mix. But she's iconic, and I feel like it's
Speaker 2: someone who you know how people like they'll get pissed
Speaker 2: at Shade Moisture, these black brands I get bought by,
Speaker 2: you know, white owned companies. I'm not saying that Tabitha
Speaker 2: Brown should not be in her bag and sell to
Speaker 2: whoever she wants to sell to, but it just is
Speaker 2: so phenomenal to see her owning all of this, you know,
Speaker 2: owning all these businesses and partnering with these huge brands,
Speaker 2: and still maintaining what we loved about her from the jump,
Speaker 2: which was her spirit and her energy and her positivity
Speaker 2: and the joy that she brings, so all those bad
Speaker 2: news in the world. I might just take myself to
Speaker 2: Target and just go to the tab brown aisle and
Speaker 2: buy some things that I don't need for the house
Speaker 2: that's too small for everything.
Speaker 1: Also to Target, you know, it's Black History times, so
Speaker 1: they have all the dope black history black creative girl.
Speaker 1: I went the other day. First of all, it was
Speaker 1: too many people online, but I went to peruse and
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. If you've got they have
Speaker 1: the cutest all fit for like these kids. I said, so,
Speaker 1: where's the adult size? I was like, a million can't
Speaker 1: be the only one to enjoyed these things. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just like so many cute things. So I
Speaker 1: might go, like, you know, on an afternoon when the
Speaker 1: people at work. Because I was there on like a
Speaker 1: Sunday evening, I was like, why are you Oh, that's right,
Speaker 1: it's Sunday.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine Target and Newark during Black History Month.
Speaker 2: I bet they have to like have a rope line
Speaker 2: to get No.
Speaker 1: I went to this one isn't Clifton. I don't think
Speaker 1: new Ark has a Target. If they did, it'd be
Speaker 1: a rap.
Speaker 2: But Newark needs to get a target, y'all.
Speaker 1: Got a whole foods dynology.
Speaker 2: What's happening all right, TIF, what's your good vibe boost
Speaker 2: for today?
Speaker 1: So I'm going to boost a young personal trainer named
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Bull. So I was on the interwebs on I
Speaker 1: don't know, Instagram or whatever, and I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I feel like I hit a wall with
Speaker 1: my fitness. You know, I was jumping rope. I still
Speaker 1: do from time to time, but mostly I still walk,
Speaker 1: which I love. You know, if y'all don't know, I've
Speaker 1: lost like thirty pounds, you know, I'm eating rice, skin
Speaker 1: is glowing, drinking my water, just like lifestyle shift. But
Speaker 1: I was just like I just knew that this is
Speaker 1: all I know how to do, Like what's the next step?
Speaker 1: And I've had personal trainers perform and you know, some
Speaker 1: good and some not so good. But I was just
Speaker 1: really kind of like in the space where I'm like
Speaker 1: I need I need somebody, but someone who is going
Speaker 1: to train me in a way, not these weird exercises
Speaker 1: that I can't recreate at home, you know, like things
Speaker 1: that I can actually do. And I ran across his
Speaker 1: page on Instagram and I like that he believes that
Speaker 1: there's like basically these six moves that you do that
Speaker 1: do total body and you actually don't need to change
Speaker 1: the moves. You just increase the weight and you He's like,
Speaker 1: but I think Jeremiah said something like once you get
Speaker 1: over the age of thirty, you start to lose muscle mass.
Speaker 1: And then when you start to lose muscle mass, it's
Speaker 1: harder to keep the weight off because muscle helps to
Speaker 1: like burn calories and fat faster or whatever. And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, so I liked, you know, like what
Speaker 1: I saw that it wasn't this like you know some
Speaker 1: personal trainers, like I said, which is fine, but I'm
Speaker 1: not super coordinated. Just show me the six things to do,
Speaker 1: I wrote him. He was like, I can help. So
Speaker 1: I signed up and today it was my first day.
Speaker 1: And so although I'm like Jeremiah, so I have to
Speaker 1: like do it like so especially for the first day,
Speaker 1: I have to like do like little clips of me
Speaker 1: doing each exercise so he can make sure I was
Speaker 1: doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I said, virtual, what did you sign up?
Speaker 1: Yes? So I signed up. So what Jeremiah does is
Speaker 1: one you. He asked you all these different questions. He
Speaker 1: creates like a I'm really proud of him because his
Speaker 1: name on Instagram is Bull Fitness ninety five, which makes
Speaker 1: me believe he was born I graduated in ninety seven
Speaker 1: high school. He's like, my mom loves you. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's great, Jeremia.
Speaker 2: He almost I know.
Speaker 1: I was like, right, So anyway, so Jeremiah yeah. So
Speaker 1: So the way it works is that sign up with him,
Speaker 1: and you know, you have this kind of like one
Speaker 1: on one talk with him. He figures out your goals
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. He creates like this really great,
Speaker 1: like like toolkit for you, and it's like with fitness,
Speaker 1: like it's food, you know, based upon what you say
Speaker 1: you want to eat, hear my suggestions, here's how often
Speaker 1: you should eat blah blah blah, and then fitness. What
Speaker 1: I like is that he has these short videos all
Speaker 1: under one minute to show you each of the exercises
Speaker 1: with a normal size woman. Well, let me not say that,
Speaker 1: because no matter whatever size you are, you're normal sized.
Speaker 1: But with you know, it's not, it's just it's just
Speaker 1: a woman that you just see walking every day down
Speaker 1: the street. You know, she's not super ripped or fit.
Speaker 1: He's just like, oh, guys, sis you and I we're here,
Speaker 1: and so so I get to see every exercise and
Speaker 1: then like he's like, you know, record twenty minutes of
Speaker 1: you doing like you know, one or two reps, just
Speaker 1: so I know you're doing it in good form. And
Speaker 1: then so then we connect on Slack. So he used
Speaker 1: to slack and each woman has her own private Slack
Speaker 1: channel with him, and so so I upload like my
Speaker 1: video clips like hey, this is what I did, and
Speaker 1: he'll be like, m make sure you don't bet your
Speaker 1: legs so much or and then I upload like you
Speaker 1: upload like you take pictures of like you know, depending
Speaker 1: if your if your weight loss is your thing, which
Speaker 1: I told him maybe like five pounds. I'm not really
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm at the weight I kind of want.
Speaker 1: But he was like, okay, if you feel comfortable, you
Speaker 1: can upload, like this is how I try to weigh
Speaker 1: week like away in week to week to be like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the difference. You upload like you know, your
Speaker 1: your your your menu and your food like what you
Speaker 1: ate today, he said, because I want to know if
Speaker 1: you're not seeing a shift in your body. I can
Speaker 1: look to see like oh this food is not you know,
Speaker 1: like what you're eating is not enough or it is
Speaker 1: too much or whatever that looks like. And I mean
Speaker 1: he does affirmation, So every day I'm like, whatever I
Speaker 1: got to we have to write out these seven affirmation screenshot.
Speaker 1: It's like, I am strong, I am worthy to be fit,
Speaker 1: I am capable of doing hard things. You know, I
Speaker 1: rolled my eyes when I did it, but then at
Speaker 1: the end, I was like, oh I am so honestly,
Speaker 1: it's really I love this, you know, even though he said,
Speaker 1: because what is he? What is he? Twenty eight? Is
Speaker 1: that what it means? He's born in ninety five? Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty yeah, seven, twenty whatever this baby. But it's good.
Speaker 1: He's really motivational. I don't feel judged. It's thorough and
Speaker 1: it's also too. The businesswoman in me is just fascinated.
Speaker 1: How you know this young person. I feel so old right,
Speaker 1: this young person has created this business that adheres to
Speaker 1: how people navigate in this modern space of digital everything.
Speaker 1: So it's like enough digital but enough not in person,
Speaker 1: because I don't even know where Jeremiah lives, you know,
Speaker 1: like enough digital but enough live that I don't feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like handheld but also autonomous. And so
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it, Like I love the fact that
Speaker 1: it's these six core exercises, he said Tippany, he told
Speaker 1: me everything to order, like I have to order some
Speaker 1: weights and things. He's like, it's going to be the
Speaker 1: same sixth exercises. You're just going to continue to increase weight,
Speaker 1: which I love because I don't I'm not coordinated. Don't
Speaker 1: give me seven different things to do new every single week.
Speaker 1: It's like, these are the six now I know how
Speaker 1: to do them. I just continue to increase my weight,
Speaker 1: he said. If I continue like this in four weeks,
Speaker 1: I'll see a huge difference. In three months, I'll hit
Speaker 1: my goal and then it'll just be maintenance after that.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited. Like Jared, so his sol if you
Speaker 1: want to follow him, his Instagram is bull b u
Speaker 1: ll Fitness nine to five. Yeah, shout out to Jeremiah.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, my for you page had
Speaker 1: I never heard of him before. He just he's not
Speaker 1: like you know, like some famous well I mean he's
Speaker 1: got one hundred and sixty nine thousand followers, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he just like I didn't never knew him before. But
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this journey of like really getting fit
Speaker 1: because when you see me in the summer time, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's about to be a rap.
Speaker 2: We know you're just going to be camped out of
Speaker 2: your rich On t penhouse.
Speaker 1: I know, right, you will see me. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be outside more like I'm like, I'm trying, like I
Speaker 1: said me and I went to Staten Island this weekend
Speaker 1: to visit my friend like she had some party or whatever.
Speaker 1: I was proud of myself. So mak him right, I'm
Speaker 1: making my way outside. Mak him my way outside. We'll
Speaker 1: get that. So you know I'm making my way. I'm coming.
Speaker 1: I'm coming to see you. And was it what is that? Worchester? Worchester?
Speaker 2: Not you acting like I live in a foreign country.
Speaker 2: It's just though its outside of Manhattan. Okay, it's not
Speaker 2: that far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm seeing all the friends.
Speaker 2: Listen. No, I'm excited and yeah, I can't wait as
Speaker 2: soon as this baby is out of my body and
Speaker 2: into the world. I want a personal trainer and I
Speaker 2: want to focus on weightlifting because exactly what you said,
Speaker 2: my muscle mass, I just don't feel as strong because
Speaker 2: I was the first time I was pregnant, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: what is it I just don't. I'm weak, and I'm
Speaker 2: like about to sign up for the senior citizen swim
Speaker 2: classes at this point because you know that on my
Speaker 2: joints it's hard doing like, you know, intense exercise. So
Speaker 2: I have been sneaking into a pool that where I
Speaker 2: can get access to this nice hotel because my cousin
Speaker 2: works there, and doing like pool exercises, which has been lovely.
Speaker 2: But I'm coming for the gym or wherever it is
Speaker 2: as soon as this child is in the world. That's
Speaker 2: my plan. And I don't have to hibernate this time.
Speaker 2: You know, it feels to pandemic, bab. Yeah, I want
Speaker 2: to feel good again, for sure, and I I'll get there.
Speaker 2: But excited for you girl. But you look amazing no
Speaker 2: matter what you do.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, Mandra.
Speaker 2: You know all right? Well, I'm glad we ensited it
Speaker 2: on a high note because no matter how dark and
Speaker 2: twisty and the dead of winter it is outside, y'all,
Speaker 2: we gotta find pockets of joy, yes, no matter what,
Speaker 2: no matter what, and hopefully Brown Ambition is one of them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at least the second half of the show. Hey, ba fam,
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Speaker 2: Ambition Podcast is produced by Cumulus Podcast Network. It's edited
Speaker 2: by the wonderful Emani Crosby and produced by Tanya Bustos.
Speaker 2: Dennistimplinsky is our in house tech guru, and I am
Speaker 2: Bandy Windchard Santos your co host, and I will see
Speaker 2: y'all next week.