Speaker 1: Earth is ghetto. Hey, hey, we're back.
Speaker 2: We're black, We're brown ambition in the new year.
Speaker 3: Hey a man, Welcome to twenty twenty one, where everything
Speaker 3: is exactly the same or worse than it was last year.
Speaker 3: We're your hosts, Mandy and Tiffany.
Speaker 1: Yes, what is that?
Speaker 3: What is that? Little diddy? You were singing? Oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: smile on your face. It sounded like it's delightful.
Speaker 1: Would you like to just hear like a you know,
Speaker 1: just like maybe just twenty seconds of it. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just it's just this beautiful song written by this
Speaker 1: beautiful woman who said, is scatto?
Speaker 4: I want to leave? Can you be? I'm mad on
Speaker 4: the street by a ca on the store? You know
Speaker 4: the one I gotta write cha on?
Speaker 1: So easy to see? How delightful? Right, Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 3: It's like, I know this was probably written in earnest
Speaker 3: and she probably has seen some things in her life.
Speaker 3: But I can just like see myself like looking out
Speaker 3: the window at nothing in the cold, dark world and
Speaker 3: just kind of singing this song.
Speaker 1: No, you have to listen to it, like I encourage everyone.
Speaker 1: Her name is well, it's on YouTube. It's Nikiah n
Speaker 1: I k K I A Aaliyah, So no, no Nikki Aliyah,
Speaker 1: so n I k K I A and then Aliyah
Speaker 1: A l I A l I A l I A
Speaker 1: H sorry, So yeah, Nikki Aliyah. I think that's her
Speaker 1: name on I G as well, so it went like
Speaker 1: viral on I G. But the full song is on
Speaker 1: her YouTube. And when I tell you, Mandy, get ready
Speaker 1: to cackle and then be like, oh damn that's true,
Speaker 1: but then cackle some more.
Speaker 3: Wait it's that tire song.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's very much like yes, Like I'm like.
Speaker 3: Either shows extremely sincere about this or this is meant
Speaker 3: to be hilarious, because my first instinct was to laugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I definitely laugh. It's she's like, basically Earth
Speaker 1: is Ghetto, come get me. Uh you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: out here by the corner store. She literally says, I've
Speaker 1: got five on the gas if you need me to
Speaker 1: cans of you. But honestly, but at the same time
Speaker 1: you listen, you're like, damn true. But it's it's just
Speaker 1: it's been like my delight these last few days, so
Speaker 1: you know when that's helped me fire That is twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: One listen, not that I expected anything to change, but
Speaker 3: I didn't exactly expect it so quickly to unravel after
Speaker 3: the new year. But I mean it, I do feel
Speaker 3: I feel a little bit disappointed, but also relieved that
Speaker 3: we didn't tape a show last week because to have
Speaker 3: the time it took me to process. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: still processing what happened at the Capitol on January sixth,
Speaker 3: of the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty one, which
Speaker 3: will be in history books. It's my rage has subsided.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I was yelled. I would I would.
Speaker 3: I would call people I hadn't talked two in weeks,
Speaker 3: just so I could have a fresh pair of ears
Speaker 3: to like to talk to, to to just riff on,
Speaker 3: because oh man, you.
Speaker 1: Know, it's so crazy. I felt like when I first heard,
Speaker 1: I actually wasn't even I remember, it took me a
Speaker 1: while to realize how lack like, how like My reaction
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, sounds about white, you know. And
Speaker 1: then when the when the world started to really be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, insurrection bah blah blah blahdah, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's why it is a big deal. But I'm not shocked.
Speaker 1: I was not shocked. I was not shocked by the
Speaker 1: police's reacting or did you see the woman that they
Speaker 1: helped guide down the stairs like she was on her
Speaker 1: coitillion hold on terror, Yeah, we don't want you to
Speaker 1: trip your little feet. Now, I'm on, Miss Mary. Insurrectionists
Speaker 1: this way Literally, the police waving folks in opening doors.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just one of the mill.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: And you know what's so crazy, it's the people who,
Speaker 1: like I guess, grew up in DC. Their reaction on
Speaker 1: social media has just been so enlightening because you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I obviously I know, like you know, these
Speaker 1: federal buildings are supposed to be so well protected, but
Speaker 1: they are like people who grew up are like, I
Speaker 1: don't think y'all understand, Like the fact that they got
Speaker 1: within feet of the building. The people in DC are
Speaker 1: just flabbergasted because they're like, that's literally impossible, let alone,
Speaker 1: to be allowed to break windows, scale walls, go with weapons,
Speaker 1: to lay down pipe bond pipe bonding Newsess, these nasty
Speaker 1: people literally took doodoos and smear it on the wall.
Speaker 1: I mean the level of nasty.
Speaker 3: They had not read that I know someone has in
Speaker 3: a congressman's office or nearby oh, definitely. My blood boils.
Speaker 3: How we have to be I was so stunned. I
Speaker 3: don't know where you were on January the sixth, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one, but I had just gotten off of a
Speaker 3: work call and I was sitting in the living room
Speaker 3: and CNN is kind of on in the background, and
Speaker 3: I start to see the mob happening, and they're starting
Speaker 3: to cover it. But it probably it took me a
Speaker 3: few days, I feel like two, and I really really
Speaker 3: wanted to absorb what had happened from every angle. I mean,
Speaker 3: I tried to find every video so I could see
Speaker 3: it was a very different story from like the east
Speaker 3: side of the Capitol to the west side of the Capitol.
Speaker 3: But very quickly I was like, how how insane? How
Speaker 3: how insane?
Speaker 1: And how?
Speaker 3: And then immediately the fury because I didn't want to
Speaker 3: jump to conclusions about the police, you know. I think
Speaker 3: one of the first images I'd seen on social was
Speaker 3: the one of a police officer taking a selfie with
Speaker 3: one of the rioters was one of the terrorists, sorry,
Speaker 3: one of the domestic terrorists, And I was like, wait
Speaker 3: a second, is that legit was that today? I don't know,
Speaker 3: and and everything I thought like everything that was being
Speaker 3: shared was actually something that had happened, and I was
Speaker 3: just so in so much disbelief, and then the shock
Speaker 3: of the level of hypocrisy. Yes on display, on display,
Speaker 3: and and just and and and it's almost like I've
Speaker 3: been grieving without like I can't. I have not been
Speaker 3: able to stop running through my mind this this scene
Speaker 3: where that was a Black Lives Matter protest, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm grieving the the lives I know would have been
Speaker 3: lost of dozens, there hundreds that would have been massacred
Speaker 3: by police had they been black. And I'm I'm just
Speaker 3: grieving for what if it had been us and we.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't even gotten that clote.
Speaker 3: I just know they would have taken the threat seriously
Speaker 3: when we were posting about it for weeks and weeks.
Speaker 1: You know what makes me like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I would I actually part of me is so happy
Speaker 1: because it's like these people have been despoiled terrible bracts
Speaker 1: that though you know, have to pretended when other people
Speaker 1: come around, they're on their best behavior like oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I would never never. They didn't realize Okay, you have
Speaker 1: shown your whole ass. The world has now there is
Speaker 1: no more. Oh if it was us, get over the election.
Speaker 1: You guys, these riots are you literally have shown your
Speaker 1: whole entire ass and I'm here for it. Somebody said
Speaker 1: it best when, like the I guess the night before whatever,
Speaker 1: when the Proud Boys were fighting, the police shout out
Speaker 1: to dustin ross of the friend zone. He said, let
Speaker 1: them holds fight, And I say, you know what, Dust
Speaker 1: not agree?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know what you have they have. They
Speaker 1: have discredited folks who literally were marching to say, please
Speaker 1: don't kill us while we sleep. Please don't kill us
Speaker 1: while we walk, Please don't kill us while we run.
Speaker 1: Please don't kill us while while we patronize other businesses.
Speaker 1: This is what the marching was about. But I'm honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what exactly are you marching against? Your marching
Speaker 1: against a line? I just think he did not. I mean,
Speaker 1: because here's the thing, and I just wish just a
Speaker 1: little bit of research would unveil it, because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: The reason why the Trump had lost every court case
Speaker 1: except for one is because when asked fully, like, because
Speaker 1: when you know people can say whatever you want on TV,
Speaker 1: you know you can say whatever garbage you can say
Speaker 1: I'm a Martian, Okay, whatever, But when you step into
Speaker 1: that courtroom and the judge asks, has there been proof
Speaker 1: of election fraud? Has there been proof of what you're saying?
Speaker 1: Every single one of Trump's attorneys, including ruly Fuliani, has
Speaker 1: said no. Because you want to know why, Because if you,
Speaker 1: as an attorney, step foot into a courtroom and lie,
Speaker 1: you will lose all your licenses. So this is why,
Speaker 1: this is why he's lost every battle in court, because
Speaker 1: when they go to court, they tell the truth because
Speaker 1: they must or risk losing their license and their ability
Speaker 1: to practice law, and their ability support to support themselves
Speaker 1: and their family. So they lie on TV, but they
Speaker 1: don't lie in court because the justice systems does not
Speaker 1: play that. That's why they've lost over and over again.
Speaker 1: And I just the fact that Donald Trump is willing
Speaker 1: to burn this country to the ground on his way
Speaker 1: out because he's mad that he lost. It's literally the
Speaker 1: equivalent of a kid saying, well, if I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm out, I'm taking my ball and I'm going home,
Speaker 1: and not just I'm taking my ball, I'm going home.
Speaker 1: I'm popping the ball, I'm burning the ball, I'm stepping
Speaker 1: on the ball, so no one could ever play with
Speaker 1: this ball again. Like what in the entire hell country
Speaker 1: Kenya had a little key key which how you even
Speaker 1: met at Kenya, Kenya? Key key girl. Ken You put
Speaker 1: on their national newspaper, Who's the Banana Republic now? And
Speaker 1: pictures from the insurrection?
Speaker 3: Listen, well deserved America And this is what I know.
Speaker 3: We talked for a little bit over the holiday. I
Speaker 3: feel like one of the most infuriating soundbites that I
Speaker 3: keep hearing is this is not what America stands for.
Speaker 3: This is not America. This is America. It is And
Speaker 3: that is the truth. That is the ugly truth that
Speaker 3: those thousands of people, that angry mob, blood thirsty mob,
Speaker 3: silent mob of thugs, of rioters, of insurrectionists, of these
Speaker 3: domestic terrorists, these people are exactly It's like when you
Speaker 3: finally look under the rug in your house, or you look,
Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of house y'all got, I
Speaker 3: mean under the rug, But when you kick over like
Speaker 3: an old moldy log in the woods and you see
Speaker 3: all the gunk and the critters and the filth that
Speaker 3: has been festering, that's what this is. This is yeah,
Speaker 3: to take America, good, bad, and ugly, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of ugly and we cannot heal until we reveal
Speaker 3: this ugliness and we call it what it is and
Speaker 3: we react to it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, call a thing a thing, Call a thing
Speaker 1: a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I kind of agree with you without sounding
Speaker 3: too I don't want to be flipping at all. And
Speaker 3: I mean, this is this was in insane. I mean
Speaker 3: this is this is a democracy. These are elected officials
Speaker 3: doing their constitutional duty to certify an election. And that
Speaker 3: was free and fair, in spite of all the reasons,
Speaker 3: in spite of all of the threats against it over
Speaker 3: these you know, these past months and years. It was
Speaker 3: free and fair. It had been proven, like you said,
Speaker 3: in our court system dozens of times. It was free
Speaker 3: and fair. And these people were there to certify this
Speaker 3: election and and and and go along with the will
Speaker 3: of the American people. And it just makes zero, zero
Speaker 3: sense why these people had to do what they had
Speaker 3: to do. But I am grateful that we witnessed it.
Speaker 3: I'm grateful that we're in a digital age where there
Speaker 3: is video. And you said they showed their asses, they
Speaker 3: also showed their faces. They put their driver's license on their.
Speaker 1: Dudes who took the podium, the gall the audacity, the caucasidy.
Speaker 1: This man took the podium. Now here's the thing. It's
Speaker 1: one thing to be seen inside the Capitol building with
Speaker 1: the podium, because the assumption is by the time this
Speaker 1: man gets to the door, they're gonna be like, bro,
Speaker 1: put that podium back. Oh no, no, he wasn't stop.
Speaker 1: That man took that podium home. Put it on eBay.
Speaker 1: Mandy put it on em left.
Speaker 3: Oh lord, can you.
Speaker 1: Imagine the cavity as of caucast because do you understand
Speaker 1: what kind of level of privilege that you know, I
Speaker 1: can wave at the camera, take this home, put it
Speaker 1: on eBay. Because I'm thinking to myself, they ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do nothing. I'm doing the president's bidding and will I
Speaker 1: just will chap with the moles fight.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Trump is hiding behind the resolute desk just and
Speaker 3: I know I know he was thrilled. I know he'd
Speaker 3: loved every second of this, every second. It gave me
Speaker 3: so much satisfaction that social media finally took away his
Speaker 3: his bankie, which is his platform. That the same time
Speaker 3: interest in I was like, yeah, where y'all been? We
Speaker 3: we be, But do you also feel I think what
Speaker 3: was hardest for me was and the reason I was
Speaker 3: so emotional this past week is all this rage, all
Speaker 3: this action that's being taken. You know, they're going to
Speaker 3: try and impeach him again. Cabinet members are resigning, there's
Speaker 3: calls for because it believed me. For me, it's not
Speaker 3: just Trump. I want every GOP elected official who enabled
Speaker 3: this guy for years to do what he has done
Speaker 3: and to fly in the face of everything this country
Speaker 3: stands for for so long. I want them all to
Speaker 3: go down. And for me, it's also this rage that
Speaker 3: like why now, Like why did it take this? Why
Speaker 3: didn't Twitter and Facebook take away his microphone so long ago?
Speaker 3: Would we even be dealing with this today had they
Speaker 3: done it? And I think part of me is like, yes,
Speaker 3: finally we're seeing, well we still have. We have yet
Speaker 3: to see what the true consequences will be. He's still
Speaker 3: the president somehow, some way. But you know, why why
Speaker 3: did it take this for people to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: we got problems.
Speaker 1: But you know what the to me, the the Karmac
Speaker 1: glee that I get is that Republicans who were like
Speaker 1: Key Key and they thought that this was hilariously funny
Speaker 1: because of course they all knew he's an idiot, right,
Speaker 1: so they thought that it was hilariously funny. Had had Democrats. Look,
Speaker 1: we've got this raging, uninformed like mob. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying like we're not because I know people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the olive Garden set. No, a lot of
Speaker 1: these people were wealthy, still stupid, but wealthy, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people are affluent. But anyway, this raging, uninformed
Speaker 1: mob of folks that have been supporting this present and
Speaker 1: they thought it was delightful because they said, ha ha,
Speaker 1: look at this, this mob of Republicans. We had. What
Speaker 1: they didn't realize. I was looking on Twitter and someone said, Republicans,
Speaker 1: you're mistaken. We're not Republicans were Trumpsters, and Republicans quickly
Speaker 1: realized that on July sixth, that weight you are not sick.
Speaker 1: January sixth, you are not safe either.
Speaker 3: No, they were calling from Mike Pence's head. They were
Speaker 3: like Mike girls, Mike Pence, even.
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham got attacked at that at the airport like
Speaker 1: that was like, you know, Trump's little lat boy. And
Speaker 1: they were like, oh what we heard what you say Trader.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my mama, how the tables have time?
Speaker 3: That is like the kind of it's like one Scar was,
Speaker 3: you know, move Simba didn't just attack Scar at the end,
Speaker 3: he fed him to the hyenas his own pack pack
Speaker 3: that he created. You know, That's kind of what I
Speaker 3: feel like needs to be happening. They need to reap
Speaker 3: what they sewed. They allowed this to happen. They can't
Speaker 3: get away scott free. And yes, Trump is this is
Speaker 3: the is the symptom, but I think the disease is
Speaker 3: truly these these spineless legislators and lawmakers who who were
Speaker 3: who would not stand up to the greater good because
Speaker 3: of their own political ambitions, which is disgusting to me,
Speaker 3: purely disgusting. Where do we go from here? There's still
Speaker 3: a pandemic. I was talking to Tiff like, before this
Speaker 3: all this is happening, and you know, I have had
Speaker 3: some family members who have who have gotten COVID, but
Speaker 3: it feels like on the other side of Thanksgiving and Christmas,
Speaker 3: the numbers the case. I mean, we just had record cases,
Speaker 3: record deaths this week. And I was supposed to have
Speaker 3: my my cousin Anna, she was supposed to come here
Speaker 3: to New York Friday to live with us and be
Speaker 3: my in home care taker. Lord knows I need someone
Speaker 3: to help with the baby. And she came down with COVID.
Speaker 3: She was living with an aunt and her aunt got sick,
Speaker 3: and then she got sick, and I'm just like, oh no,
Speaker 3: and there's this this stronger wait wait is it more more?
Speaker 3: What's the word contagious strain? That's going around? And cases
Speaker 3: are just going up, and it's not like any one region,
Speaker 3: it's all over the country. Cases are going up, and
Speaker 3: I just feel I just want to. If I didn't
Speaker 3: want to before, I truly have have had trouble not
Speaker 3: wanting to just like bury, dig a little cave, just
Speaker 3: take my baby and my husband than maybe the dog,
Speaker 3: if you know, and just hide, just hide until until
Speaker 3: it's all all over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, honestly, I don't know where we go
Speaker 1: from here. I mean, this is someone said what I
Speaker 1: would not kill for some presidented times?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like I.
Speaker 1: Just would love the president at time? Can you imagine
Speaker 1: that we we when remember when Bill Clinton, when the
Speaker 1: biggest drama was like, oh my god, he lied about
Speaker 1: getting a DJ in the over office, Like that's why
Speaker 1: he got mph right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine not? Oh you you you you asked
Speaker 1: your your your group of Mary Marry men to to
Speaker 1: desecrate a federal building and people came really to kill people,
Speaker 1: had zip ties. They did kill people.
Speaker 3: They did. They trampled one woman, They killed the police officer,
Speaker 3: another police officer committed suicide. Was it over the weekend?
Speaker 3: Capitol police officer after the right? I mean they have
Speaker 3: blood on their hands. I mean, who's who's who? Why
Speaker 3: haven't they caught the people who have who murdered that
Speaker 3: police officer?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Like what was so blue lives remember? Because you know,
Speaker 1: where's all these blue lives matter? People? Blue lives only
Speaker 1: matter when they're harassing black lives. Got it? Well, I
Speaker 1: have not heard one person say, oh my gosh, they
Speaker 1: killed this police like. I haven't heard them say that.
Speaker 1: I have not heard like if that was black lives matter,
Speaker 1: that they would be burning black churches down as a result.
Speaker 3: Oh, we better believe it.
Speaker 1: And that's yeah, it's just they hit him in the
Speaker 1: head right with the fire extinguisher.
Speaker 3: Can imagine that that is a that to that's an
Speaker 3: intimate way to kill someone? Yes, And I you know,
Speaker 3: and I know that the officers, you know, there was
Speaker 3: even the officers who were there, you know, they weren't supported,
Speaker 3: Like they weren't given the backup. I mean, you saw
Speaker 3: that black officer like being chased up the staircase by
Speaker 3: the rioters and by himself with like a little a
Speaker 3: little baton in his hand, and I'm like, man, they
Speaker 3: let him down, and listen. I I've got family who
Speaker 3: are law enforcement. I've always you know, I respect law enforcement.
Speaker 3: I definitely think there needs to be police reform and
Speaker 3: defunding of police and more funding for social services to
Speaker 3: prevent these types of interactions from happening. But the lack
Speaker 3: of the bias that went into the decision not to
Speaker 3: take these threats seriously enough to call in reinforcements, that is,
Speaker 3: those offenses will not soon be forgotten. And you've seen
Speaker 3: I think it was the chief of the Capitol Police
Speaker 3: has stepped down, like he said no to National Guard resources,
Speaker 3: like the day before he said, no, we're good. It's
Speaker 3: white people, we're good. And one of them and they're
Speaker 3: my homies. Like it's.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: But it's like you said, there's three, it feels very
Speaker 3: much like there's three Americas. There's the there's the Republicans
Speaker 3: or the Conservatives, there are the Liberals and Democrats, and
Speaker 3: then there's Trumpsters. Trump He's formed this whole new faction
Speaker 3: and they cannot be negotiated with. They cannot be There's
Speaker 3: no such thing to me. I think all these calls
Speaker 3: for understanding and negotiating across the aisle bump that I
Speaker 3: am so tired and I am so done waiting for
Speaker 3: lawmakers to do something for American people, real working American people,
Speaker 3: people who have been suffering all year long, and even
Speaker 3: before that, from inequality, from job loss. You know, my
Speaker 3: dad still has not gotten his unemployment check, and you
Speaker 3: know he's he's he's I'm just and you know he
Speaker 3: still hasn't even gotten his seculent his second stimulus check.
Speaker 3: And I feel and especially and listen, Georgia, we haven't
Speaker 3: even talked about Georgia. Georgia amazing. I'm so proud of
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yes, Thunder was just, but listen, every one
Speaker 3: of y'all is my hero, the one who went out
Speaker 3: and voted in that election and turning Georgia purple, bluish purple.
Speaker 3: That being said, though, I if I have to hear
Speaker 3: one more Democrat, just thank black people, oh, thank you,
Speaker 3: like black people really really saved us. Black women saved
Speaker 3: us in the general election. Now it's black people in
Speaker 3: Atlanta saved us. And yes they did, they truly did
Speaker 3: you know? We showed up for them in Georgia. But
Speaker 3: where is the policy to say thank you? Like I'm
Speaker 3: tired of lip service, like I and I think you know,
Speaker 3: I've I've been listening really closely. Like it's it's hard
Speaker 3: to balance the instincts, which is, we want revenge against
Speaker 3: Trump for what he he what he incited on our
Speaker 3: nation's capital. But I also want Biden in his administration
Speaker 3: to get relief for people, to make good on promises
Speaker 3: that were made, and to serve Black America because clearly
Speaker 3: we have been under served for so long and continue
Speaker 3: showing up to vote, calling us in to save you know,
Speaker 3: another election and what that. But like, where is the
Speaker 3: actual gratitude. I would like to see true, true political reform,
Speaker 3: and I need Senate to just you know, the House,
Speaker 3: Senate to be working overtime. I want boths. I want
Speaker 3: Trump out. I want GOP lawmakers you know, to be
Speaker 3: punished in some way for their complicitness in this whole
Speaker 3: administration and also want reliefs to economic relief for working
Speaker 3: Americans and especially relief and black communities. It's it's time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree, it is time. And but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just like, I just what Honestly, I love
Speaker 1: that Georgia. Truly what happened was the legacy of the
Speaker 1: great John Lewis, you know, his pastor and his intern
Speaker 1: you know, are now representing him in Georgia and in
Speaker 1: his work and the Georgian people obviously, and so it
Speaker 1: just it just felt so good. I was just like,
Speaker 1: look at look at good you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because you know she's still around God up there, right.
Speaker 1: We had a rough but you know, I just what
Speaker 1: it just shows. What it shows is that even in
Speaker 1: the world where you know, the dumpster fire is burning,
Speaker 1: that there is still light at the end of the tunnel,
Speaker 1: and that there are still more people who want good
Speaker 1: than those that do not. I think that's what all
Speaker 1: of this has shown, even though it's the race is
Speaker 1: definitely too tight, but there's still more people who won't
Speaker 1: get than those that do not.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a thin margin, it's too thin, but it's there. Nonetheless,
Speaker 3: and yes, I think we've got to continue. You know,
Speaker 3: It's funny how when I started talking on the podcast
Speaker 3: about this kind of stuff to like, honestly, I've been
Speaker 3: dealing pretty okay this past week. Like, yes, I've been
Speaker 3: angry and talking and stuff, but you know, I throughout
Speaker 3: the day, like throughout my day, I'm genuinely finding pockets
Speaker 3: of joy and taking walks and hanging out with my
Speaker 3: son and talking to my family and trying to find
Speaker 3: you know, these moments. And it's I sat down to
Speaker 3: do the podcast and I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm fucking outraged.
Speaker 3: I forgot. Like it's hard. It's hard to handle all
Speaker 3: these different emotions and carry that throughout the week. So
Speaker 3: you know, for anyone who's just it's like you're feeling
Speaker 3: the emotional whiplash of this year and honestly four years,
Speaker 3: it's exhausting. But nonetheless, I feel the need to say,
Speaker 3: you know, do what you can to take care of yourself.
Speaker 3: We have to hold our elected officials accountable. We do
Speaker 3: so call them, you know, send your emails, post whatever
Speaker 3: you got to do. But you know, ultimately the fight
Speaker 3: is not over, and we've got to stay strong, stay healthy,
Speaker 3: wear your masks, take care of one another, take care
Speaker 3: of your community, and you know, let's continue to try
Speaker 3: and just survive.
Speaker 1: The best we can. M Yeah, no, truly, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't even know, you know, you're just like I
Speaker 1: just it just can be all too much. But they're there.
Speaker 1: You know, there's just is a lot of good, no
Speaker 1: matter what. I just remind myself there's a lot of good.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good. There's a lot of good.
Speaker 1: Not to grow weary in the you know, and while
Speaker 1: doing the good work. And yeah, so I mean that's
Speaker 1: all we can do.
Speaker 3: There's good here at Brand Ambition.
Speaker 1: There is.
Speaker 3: We had to purge the demons from this past week.
Speaker 3: But let us know how you guys are feeling. I
Speaker 3: did get I was going through the inbox and were
Speaker 3: about to jump to questions, and I saw a couple
Speaker 3: of emails come through, and I know that our listeners
Speaker 3: really wanted us to call out the hypocrisy of the
Speaker 3: comparisons between that riot and BLM protests. And I got
Speaker 3: to say, I I don't know why, I think I'm
Speaker 3: a masochist, but I went to a couple of friends
Speaker 3: Facebook pages who I know have Trump leanings just to
Speaker 3: see you know what are they saying in their circles
Speaker 3: to defend what had happened. And you see these like
Speaker 3: infographics comparing the number of people who were injured at
Speaker 3: blm rallies versus the riot, and how there were hundreds
Speaker 3: of BLM rallies versus one capital riot, like those are
Speaker 3: you know? Those are equitable things? And yeah, so we
Speaker 3: hear you, our listeners, and the hypocrisy is there, and
Speaker 3: this tap for me, this this this not that we
Speaker 3: needed any source of justification or we needed a reminder
Speaker 3: that it was. It was understandable and the least we
Speaker 3: could do to hit the streets that the way that
Speaker 3: we did in the in the wake of George Floyd
Speaker 3: and Breonna Taylor this past spring and summer, those protests mattered.
Speaker 3: They continue to matter. We have got to keep we
Speaker 3: have no we have every right to keep doing it.
Speaker 3: And uh so, anyway, just wanted to acknowledge that from
Speaker 3: our listeners. And if you see that stuff on I
Speaker 3: just I should I really, I really need to stay
Speaker 3: away from those people's pages because it's quite it's quite
Speaker 3: baffling to me how quickly they can find a rationale
Speaker 3: for even this extreme nonsense.
Speaker 1: I mean anything can be rationalized, right, I mean for
Speaker 1: real anything, And so once you start to see that,
Speaker 1: you realize, like, why am I even going back and
Speaker 1: forth with you? You clearly you know common sense is
Speaker 1: not what you're thinking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I honest, I'm taking a break from even trying
Speaker 3: to comment or trying to talk to people who I
Speaker 3: think you know, are supporting the other side. Like I
Speaker 3: just I got no words. I think you know all
Speaker 3: everyone has the same education act. Well that's not true.
Speaker 3: Everyone has access to the Internet, and you know, you
Speaker 3: choose to believe what you choose to believe, and if
Speaker 3: you don't take advantage of the educational resources and truth
Speaker 3: and facts out there, then that's on you, not my
Speaker 3: responsibility to educate everybody.
Speaker 1: I know that was a lot, but I hope you
Speaker 1: got a chance to woo saw. And let's go into
Speaker 1: my favorite part of the show, question question.
Speaker 3: Happy twenty twenty one to all of our lovely listeners
Speaker 3: who sent questions. I am catching up. I took a
Speaker 3: little bit. I'm continuing to take like an Instagram break
Speaker 3: specifically for the new year, but I dug back in.
Speaker 3: I broke my Instagram fast to go and check questions there,
Speaker 3: But we also got a couple from email. Sly oh,
Speaker 3: I have there's one from our email. They want to
Speaker 3: be writing. They want to remain anonymous, but they have
Speaker 3: a question about side hustles, Tiffany, specific to you. All right.
Speaker 3: They listened to a recent episode and said, Tiffany, you
Speaker 3: mentioned in one episode that when you were trying to
Speaker 3: pay off your debt, you used to have side hustles,
Speaker 3: and one of them was taking surveys. You didn't really
Speaker 3: get into how you did it, But my question is,
Speaker 3: did you ever have a privacy concern doing online surveys.
Speaker 3: I recently found a great survey website where you speak
Speaker 3: your thoughts out loud and they record your screen and
Speaker 3: voice while you review website surveys, et cetera. It's not
Speaker 3: big money, but it's a nice chunk of change that
Speaker 3: I didn't have before. My only concern is that with
Speaker 3: some side hustles, it feels like you are selling your
Speaker 3: soul in privacy. Sometimes they want me to turn on
Speaker 3: my video for facial expressions and authentication, which would be
Speaker 3: the same thing as going in person. So I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if it's really a big deal, but it does
Speaker 3: feel weird do well.
Speaker 1: I'll have to say that when I was doing surveys
Speaker 1: were really like, I didn't do as many surveys as
Speaker 1: I did studies, meaning like I basically went to a
Speaker 1: place and I was like, every Monday, I come and
Speaker 1: wash my hands with this soap and be like, it's dry,
Speaker 1: it feels silky. I like it. I don't. So I
Speaker 1: did way more of those. I did, like a sleep study.
Speaker 1: I remember the sleep study was the best because they
Speaker 1: paid like twenty two hundred dollars. So I was like,
Speaker 1: ooh wait, really yes.
Speaker 3: But it was go to like a sleep institute type
Speaker 3: and sleep. Yeah, it's so weird and mean, but it is.
Speaker 1: I was like, but look, I wanted that twenty two hundred.
Speaker 1: It was like I remember it was me and A
Speaker 1: but of my roommates we were like, so who fit
Speaker 1: to sleep? So but it was twenty two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: And honestly, rent at the time was five hundred bucks
Speaker 1: a month, so you can imagine that was like four
Speaker 1: months worth of rent. So it was worth it to me.
Speaker 1: So I will say that that I did way more
Speaker 1: studies than I did surveys, but even that, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a sleep study. They put like things, you know,
Speaker 1: and we're like, hey, let's see if you sleep through
Speaker 1: the night. So it is a little invasive because they're
Speaker 1: wanting to know your reaction to help them gauge what's
Speaker 1: going to be the reaction of the end user eventually.
Speaker 1: So I mean you you will have to decide, you know,
Speaker 1: just how comfortable you feel. But there are other I
Speaker 1: mean it's a little it's harder now because we're you know,
Speaker 1: because of social distancing and staying inside. Where before I
Speaker 1: used to always be able to babysit someone always had
Speaker 1: a baby that they wanted an ex preschool teacher to babysit.
Speaker 1: I mean, because who doesn't want an ex preschool teacher
Speaker 1: to babysit a baby? You know, So I could always
Speaker 1: easily make money doing that.
Speaker 3: I guess you to ask you why you're an ex
Speaker 3: you know?
Speaker 1: Oh yea yeah, yes exactly. That's children, that's true. No,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Like if I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: my preschool shut down, you know, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, looking for you know, other means
Speaker 1: of work, people are like I mean people will literally
Speaker 1: call me and say, what are you doing this? Weekend girl,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking they want to hang out and they're like,
Speaker 1: can you watch the baby? So there's that no, So
Speaker 1: I would just say, so it's hard. It's a little
Speaker 1: harder now, but certainly leaning into what do I have
Speaker 1: my degree in that's first and foremost, and what do
Speaker 1: I have experience in? And how can I monetize that?
Speaker 1: So you might right now if you're super organized, you're
Speaker 1: good at answering email. I can't tell you how many
Speaker 1: people that I know are looking for admins. There are
Speaker 1: Facebook groups that are filled with entrepreneurs. So I would
Speaker 1: look for entrepreneur Facebook groups. If you are so inclined
Speaker 1: and you know admin work is you know, you're not
Speaker 1: how to use Google, Google Calendar, you know how to
Speaker 1: answer emails? I mean, you can really make some good
Speaker 1: money being someone's admin. Are you a good writer? People
Speaker 1: are looking for copywriters all the time? You know, are
Speaker 1: you do you can you edit? So leaning into what
Speaker 1: you went to school for and what you have experience
Speaker 1: in and is there a way to monetize that? If
Speaker 1: you feel uncomfortable, which I can understand doing surveys and such,
Speaker 1: there are other ways. I highly suggest working with these
Speaker 1: new entrepreneurs. There are so many news, especially women, especially
Speaker 1: black women, entrepreneurs that are looking for book keepers, accountants, support, staff,
Speaker 1: customer support. I mean, so I would lean into that
Speaker 1: if I felt uncomfortable doing surveys.
Speaker 3: You know, that's an amazing coincidence because I was going
Speaker 3: to save this question, but it's related to what you're
Speaker 3: talking about. This question comes from a listener who doesn't
Speaker 3: reveal their name, but anyway, she's an entrepreneur just like
Speaker 3: you're talking about. And she had a question about hiring
Speaker 3: a VA virtual assistant, which is basically an admin. Right,
Speaker 3: so let's seg way really quick. So they say, I'm
Speaker 3: seeking help with hiring a VA and working with brand
Speaker 3: ambassadors slash influencers. I found a VA and she understands
Speaker 3: HOWE run my business. I know that Tiffany has a
Speaker 3: team as an entrepreneur, so I'm wondering how she did
Speaker 3: the onboarding process. Did you have them sign an NDA
Speaker 3: or a contract? How do you pay them? My VA
Speaker 3: will be full time. I'm also looking to hire someone
Speaker 3: who will be part time to work on SEO slash
Speaker 3: Facebook ads. So this is like, okay, cool, find somebody,
Speaker 3: but like, how do you protect yourself when you know,
Speaker 3: do they sign a contract and how do you pay them?
Speaker 1: So everyone signs a contract, everyone, whether you are a
Speaker 1: consulting contact worker or full time or part time employee
Speaker 1: with me anyway, everyone signs an NDA, and everyone signs
Speaker 1: a reasonable non compete, like meaning like while you're working
Speaker 1: with me, you're not also going to be simultaneously working
Speaker 1: with a business that does the same thing and passing
Speaker 1: our stuff from business to business. So we do that,
Speaker 1: I mean well within reason. If say, if you are
Speaker 1: you're someone who does websites, then no, there's not this
Speaker 1: noncompete because it's not. But if you are our CFO,
Speaker 1: then yes, you know there's a non compete certainly, So yes,
Speaker 1: you want to have your VA sign an NDA, sign
Speaker 1: a noncompete. And then if they are a full time employee,
Speaker 1: then you're going to want to There should be some
Speaker 1: sort of HR onboarding and you can you can do
Speaker 1: some contract like hourly like HR person to help you
Speaker 1: to make sure that you have them fully aligned with
Speaker 1: you know, whatever your state is, and making sure that
Speaker 1: they're getting the benefits they're supposed to and getting, you know,
Speaker 1: like you're paying the proper taxes and things like that,
Speaker 1: So you want to you know, having someone who does HR.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be full time. We hire someone
Speaker 1: when we need them. But as far as the actual
Speaker 1: onboarding of like to do the work, if you've had
Speaker 1: a virtual an assistant prior, then you can help have
Speaker 1: them help train. Like for example, I've got this amazing
Speaker 1: like Leah on my team used to be my admin.
Speaker 1: So did Sylvia on my team. She used to be
Speaker 1: my admin. They were so awesome, And I always like
Speaker 1: for people to work where they feel like most joy
Speaker 1: and Leah really loved finance and she did bookkeeping at
Speaker 1: her church and things. So Lee is now on the
Speaker 1: finance team. Sylvia really she's amazing at managing our community,
Speaker 1: our dream Catcher community. So Sylvia moved on to do that.
Speaker 1: But when we onboard a new executive assistant or virtual assistant,
Speaker 1: those two women helped to train her as people who
Speaker 1: did a good job at it already. If you don't
Speaker 1: have someone, then you will have to train them because
Speaker 1: you I'm sure we're your own admin ahead of time.
Speaker 1: So that's for that person now for the SEO and
Speaker 1: things like that, like that person will already come with
Speaker 1: the skill set, so you might be helping to onboard
Speaker 1: them as far as like maybe some company culture stuff,
Speaker 1: but they should know how to do the thing you're
Speaker 1: hiring them for. Like when it came to my CFO,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to train you how to be a CFO.
Speaker 1: You have to come with that knowledge. But certainly there's
Speaker 1: some onboarding when it comes to like we actually have
Speaker 1: like video where like this is like the Unicorn way,
Speaker 1: So I call my my my team the Unicorn Squad.
Speaker 1: We literally have like this video and in a set
Speaker 1: of like series of like many classes almost to understand
Speaker 1: the culture of what you're coming into and depending on
Speaker 1: the position. We also have sps, which are scopes of well, no,
Speaker 1: what does the SOP stand for project? Yeah? Oh no, no, this.
Speaker 3: Is scope of project And I thought I nailed it.
Speaker 1: I know. No, Basically, an SLP just basically said this
Speaker 1: is how we do this thing right, and so like
Speaker 1: so when somebody else comes in, they know they can
Speaker 1: see through video and written word how how something is done.
Speaker 1: So that takes time to build those things. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I would just.
Speaker 3: I would stands operating proceed Yes, there it is.
Speaker 1: I always just call them SOPs. I just I always
Speaker 1: forget what what they were, go what they meant. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so when someone comes in, yes, we're like, here's a SOP,
Speaker 1: here's a unicorn way.
Speaker 3: I love an sp Oh my god, I live and
Speaker 3: die by sps. Listen, I have SOP from everything. You're
Speaker 3: just going to call it an SOP folder and now
Speaker 3: I call it resources folder. But everyone asks me questions
Speaker 3: and I'm like, yeah, there's a doc for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Here. It lives here because you use it for transitions, yes,
Speaker 3: and for training. Do not said, do not skimp on
Speaker 3: training time to one week or two weeks for training.
Speaker 3: Don't think they're going to be ready for the jump,
Speaker 3: like you need to teach them the ways of your work.
Speaker 1: Yes, and just know that that takes time to build
Speaker 1: up your SOPs. It takes time to get those things together.
Speaker 1: But the sooner you start to build like kind of
Speaker 1: like that back end part of your business, because that's
Speaker 1: the real part of business, Like making money is the
Speaker 1: front end of your business. And don't you know obviously
Speaker 1: that's that's important, but if you want to sustain and
Speaker 1: be here for years and years and years, it's that
Speaker 1: back end stuff that the reason why so many businesses
Speaker 1: fail because they fail to do SAP SOPs, They fail
Speaker 1: to do trainings, they fail to adhere to understand that
Speaker 1: there's a company culture that they have to actively cultivate.
Speaker 1: They fail to understand like girls, should I be an
Speaker 1: LLC partnership sole proprietor should I be an escorp? Should
Speaker 1: I be a seat corp? What do those things mean?
Speaker 1: And I have four? Should be a you know A
Speaker 1: five or one C three? Like, they fail to do
Speaker 1: the foundational things and so they build, but they build
Speaker 1: on a shaky foundation. So yeah, lean into those foundational things.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take time if you're not going to do
Speaker 1: it in one year, two year. We still work on
Speaker 1: those things every day.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean the blueprint for your processes is exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean, it saves you so much time for one thing,
Speaker 3: because the time it takes you to train people is
Speaker 3: going to be cut drastically down if you have documents
Speaker 3: that they can read and be trained on and then
Speaker 3: doing we even do like I kind of treat my
Speaker 3: team as a I don't know, like like they've they've
Speaker 3: been certified in a certain skill set and then every
Speaker 3: you know, depends on what we're talking about. But every
Speaker 3: like at least a quarter we have a training, some
Speaker 3: kind of training to revisit something, a tool, a process,
Speaker 3: you know, a certain skill that we're trying to emphasize.
Speaker 3: So you know, I think as a good leader, you're constantly,
Speaker 3: you know, dusting off those procedures and making sure that
Speaker 3: they still make sense, people still know how to do it.
Speaker 3: We're looking for inconsistencies and oof. Yes, especially the bigger
Speaker 3: but your bigness, bigger your bigness kits, the bigger your
Speaker 3: business gits, the higher the stakes are from when mistakes happen.
Speaker 3: So you've got to make sure that people know, you know,
Speaker 3: how we get from A to Z. And ooh, I'm
Speaker 3: glad I know what that's called. Now, Tiffany, thank you
Speaker 3: because you know SOPs. Yes, all right, cool, Well that
Speaker 3: was fun and unexpected those questions. But thank you Tiffany
Speaker 3: Entrepreneur in residence for your insights there, all right, and
Speaker 3: thank y'all for your questions. Shall we pause there and
Speaker 3: we'd right back with our brown boost, brown break.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's do it, lovely, and now its time full
Speaker 1: of the boost or break or boost or are you
Speaker 1: going boost Mandy or are you going to a break.
Speaker 3: I'm going to boost against all odds, I'm going to
Speaker 3: find some things to boost. So one of I sounded
Speaker 3: so valuate there. So oh, I'm sorry for your ears
Speaker 3: at home. Please don't unsubscribe because of that. Anyway, I
Speaker 3: did something that I'm going to make well. Listen, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to start pressuring myself to make this a
Speaker 3: certain routine, but I have over the past year, you know,
Speaker 3: being stuck at home all day has really helped me
Speaker 3: see where we need to be trimming in terms of stuff.
Speaker 3: So this past week I am really the past like
Speaker 3: two weeks, and especially with Christmas. Listen the number of toys. Listen,
Speaker 3: if you're listening and you're my family, don't get this
Speaker 3: child anymore toys. He doesn't have the space for them.
Speaker 3: I don't have the space for them. Where do you
Speaker 3: think we're going to fit a child sized Maserati? Talking
Speaker 3: to you, Grandpa, we have a child trike and we
Speaker 3: have a child BMD what it was a BMW. We
Speaker 3: have like three cars. Oh, I love more cars than
Speaker 3: we do. There's no garage for these cars and on
Speaker 3: time he's got anyway, so many toys. So we did
Speaker 3: a huge excuse me like a big I've gone one
Speaker 3: minute of time and just tried to get rid of something,
Speaker 3: you know, get rid of if it's five things or
Speaker 3: ten things, or organize things, and I feel it's so
Speaker 3: satisfying to me. So I wanted to kind of list
Speaker 3: a resource that I've been loving lately. I know, last
Speaker 3: year or the year before, it was all about Marie Condo,
Speaker 3: and I still do ask myself, especially in the closet,
Speaker 3: you know this this spark Joy before I get rid
Speaker 3: of some things, But what's been helping me with the
Speaker 3: parts of the house that you know aren't really like
Speaker 3: a joy, like you know, the silver word drawer, you know,
Speaker 3: the the utensils that you need, but they don't like
Speaker 3: spark Joy. But you know, every once in a while
Speaker 3: you got to pick up something hot, so you need
Speaker 3: a spatula or you know, tongs or whatever. But I
Speaker 3: have been using the Home Edit, which is they're like
Speaker 3: this big Instagram kind of what do they called. They
Speaker 3: have a Netflix show now and they have a blog
Speaker 3: and they they just know how to organize stuff and
Speaker 3: it's so satisfying. Listen, my stuff's never going to be
Speaker 3: as beautiful as what the Home Edit people do, but
Speaker 3: they have inspired me, and I've learned the power of containers,
Speaker 3: like the power of just getting a bunch of little, shallow,
Speaker 3: little trays and putting them in my drawers and then
Speaker 3: putting like stuff together and mentally, I just feel so
Speaker 3: much better. So that is my That is my boost,
Speaker 3: I guess for organization and for purging stuff and just
Speaker 3: kind of trying to create more breathing space for life
Speaker 3: in general. So that's yeah, that's my boost.
Speaker 1: Oh lovely boost. I was also going to boost because
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, the whole first segment was breaking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: No, I'm I have no regrets. My boost is going
Speaker 1: to be I think, well one is one the sidebar.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna get a peloton. We'll talk about it, but.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, Hell, I'm not happy for you.
Speaker 3: You don't get all me and I'm just happy for you.
Speaker 3: But you would love the peloton, power walking, the guided walks,
Speaker 3: they're great. I did one today, Okay, okay, come by, Chase.
Speaker 1: It's part of my boost in that I am well
Speaker 1: always trying to lose ten fifteen pounds off, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've been talking about it for like five years, right,
Speaker 1: just always just like.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, I only have to lose ten, but yeah, I continue.
Speaker 1: So I just said, you know what, Sidney, you are
Speaker 1: forty one years old, and I don't want to live
Speaker 1: the next ten years like always be like if you would,
Speaker 1: only if you would, only if you So instead, I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's make what I have. I call
Speaker 1: it my health checklist, and it's about twelve things that
Speaker 1: I aspire to and my job is to try to
Speaker 1: do at least six of them. So I'll give you example.
Speaker 3: I'm need to see my health checklist. Is this every day?
Speaker 1: But it's like I'm telling you, the things are not
Speaker 1: like I told myself, you are not major like I am. Purpose.
Speaker 1: I have some white things and I have some like
Speaker 1: heavy things. So okay, I found it. Okay, so health checklist.
Speaker 1: So here's some of the things. Right, stretching, thirty minutes
Speaker 1: of exercising, whether that's a walk or otherwise. Apple like
Speaker 1: taking apple side of vinegar. I try to take that
Speaker 1: like once or twice a day. Taking a nap because health,
Speaker 1: you know, having at least a full sized serving of
Speaker 1: raw vegetables like a salad or whatever. Meditate, start start
Speaker 1: eating after noon, I do intermittent fasting when you know
Speaker 1: the mooth strikes me, So not to eat until noon
Speaker 1: and to stop eating after six thirty, having lemon water
Speaker 1: only water, no juice, no soda, no takeout, candy, flash cookies.
Speaker 1: If you know me, that never happens, but you know
Speaker 1: it's on my list.
Speaker 3: No, no takeout?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, meaning like that day right, and then sleeping
Speaker 1: at least seven hours at night. So what I do
Speaker 1: is like I'll give you an example for today. Did
Speaker 1: I stretch today? Now? Did I get thirty minutes of
Speaker 1: exercise or walk?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But you know what though, if I don't get it in,
Speaker 1: I on a treadmill before I go to sleep and
Speaker 1: just walk on a treadmill and like, you know, watch
Speaker 1: like Netflix, So I'll get that in later apple side
Speaker 1: of vinegar. I'll have that later tonight. I did take
Speaker 1: a nap, So did I have a serving of raw vegetables? No,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to have a salad after this. Did
Speaker 1: I meditate this morning? Yes? Did I start eating after
Speaker 1: twelve noon? I did? Did I stop eating after six thirty?
Speaker 1: It's about six thirty is now I'm going to have
Speaker 1: a salad, So no, did I have lemon water all day? Yes,
Speaker 1: did I have any juice today? No? But do you see, like,
Speaker 1: how's it's way less pressure about like loses ten pounds.
Speaker 1: It's more so, here are some things that like attribute
Speaker 1: to a healthier lifestyle for you. Let's try to get
Speaker 1: some of them in. And it's like, honestly, it's made
Speaker 1: the journey less. I don't know, because you know something,
Speaker 1: you're just so hard on yourself and so.
Speaker 3: Feel that you know so like deeply.
Speaker 1: Yes, because so it's twelve things, but my goal, honestly
Speaker 1: it's not the twelve because honestly the twelve will be
Speaker 1: doing too much. Instead, Tiffany, can you get to six
Speaker 1: of these things? And the usually there are like three
Speaker 1: things that I really think like would make the biggest difference,
Speaker 1: like the exercise, the raw veggies and then not even
Speaker 1: eating after six thirty. So I try to get at
Speaker 1: least two of those three core things in. But ideally,
Speaker 1: like so it's made it so much easier. So I
Speaker 1: look sometimes I'll look and I say, oh, I only
Speaker 1: did three things today. But you know how quickly I
Speaker 1: can get down and stretch knock that out. You know
Speaker 1: how quickly I can have my apple side of vinegar. Okay,
Speaker 1: now you've just gotten two things done in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: And so it's just made the process of like living
Speaker 1: your healthier lifestyle less I don't know, less shamefield and
Speaker 1: less guilt filled, and just more so like I am
Speaker 1: holistically trying to live a healthier life. And so it's
Speaker 1: just honestly it's and because of that, honestly many because
Speaker 1: of this. I have walked almost six days this week
Speaker 1: for almost an hour every day. Because it's not about
Speaker 1: did you get your exercises in, Tiffany, come on, you
Speaker 1: know you put on that five pounds. It's more so,
Speaker 1: you know, let's look at our list. Did you get
Speaker 1: your walk in? You know you like walk? Oh you
Speaker 1: know I didn't. You know what, I'm gonna call a
Speaker 1: friend while I walk today. And so I just encourage
Speaker 1: you that if you're working on something to take away
Speaker 1: like the I don't know, like the shame of it all.
Speaker 1: And my health checklist has just really helped in the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. And I stepped on the scale today
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, look, I lost three pounds,
Speaker 1: but I haven't felt you know, I lost the three pounds,
Speaker 1: but not in the way like I normally do, which
Speaker 1: is like I only drink water and I only had salad,
Speaker 1: and then the moment I look at a pizza and
Speaker 1: it's like, well we're back, and so yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: So my boost is my health checklist. It's really helping
Speaker 1: to change the way I look at living a healthier lifestyle.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I got addicted to endorphins again this past six months,
Speaker 3: and I'll take them anywhere I can get them, a
Speaker 3: nice brisk walk. I love a good dance party. Sometimes
Speaker 3: I'll go down to the Zenden, which is not quite
Speaker 3: zeny right yet, but it's zen enough, and we have
Speaker 3: a speaker down here and I just play some music
Speaker 3: and maybe I'll be like three minutes. But I love
Speaker 3: a little dance breakout, just something to move and get
Speaker 3: the blood flowing. And it just the endorphins. Baby, They're
Speaker 3: so good. But that's right. I mean, I personally have tried.
Speaker 3: I was talking to my therapist about this. I was like, look,
Speaker 3: what can we do here, Lora, Like, what can we
Speaker 3: do here to make it so that I don't have
Speaker 3: to spend another year looking at pictures from last year
Speaker 3: and being like, man, why did I think I did?
Speaker 3: Look good, I look great. I'm so tired of that, Like,
Speaker 3: why can't I just think I look good now? Yes,
Speaker 3: So I have been trying to Uh, I have been
Speaker 3: trying to do that, and I feel the same way
Speaker 3: you do. I'm just sick of it. I'm just it's
Speaker 3: just such a it's a broken record. It is like
Speaker 3: I remember being eight years old. My sister and I
Speaker 3: were dieting, running circles around the house to lose weight
Speaker 3: when I was eight. That means for like nearly three decades,
Speaker 3: I have been obsessed with weight, and oh my god,
Speaker 3: I'm just over it. I'm like, I choose, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to choose that anymore. I don't want
Speaker 3: to choose that sacred record lifestyle alcohaie.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm honestly, I'm excited about Peloton. So
Speaker 1: you man, do you have the new new one. There's
Speaker 1: like some new new one and then they have like
Speaker 1: the other one. The difference isn't other than like, well
Speaker 1: the I think the new one honestly seems like it's
Speaker 1: just like a larger screen. I'm like, who's paying five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars extra for this larger screen?
Speaker 3: Okay? I don't know what I have. I have the
Speaker 3: one that I got in I ordered it in June
Speaker 3: and I got in August. So listen, I think Peloton's
Speaker 3: still having really like slow delivery times because of the
Speaker 3: ten weeks. They said ten weeks. Yeah, so you have
Speaker 3: to it's a it's definitely, you know, a long wait
Speaker 3: to get one. It's not the kind of impulse purchase
Speaker 3: where you're gonna get satisfaction tomorrow. But the app is
Speaker 3: really great, even without the actual bike, and they had
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're getting the treadmill or the bike,
Speaker 3: but for me, the app, it's it's awesome, and I
Speaker 3: just started to use. They have amazing meditations. They have
Speaker 3: tons of different meditations. I love that. I love their
Speaker 3: little five minute or ten minutes guided stretches, so I'll
Speaker 3: do some of those sometimes. And I recently started to
Speaker 3: use the guy walks. And I never knew I needed
Speaker 3: a walking you know buddy. Well, I mean I always
Speaker 3: knew I needed a walking buddy, but you know, I
Speaker 3: don't have one because COVID. But I've loved, you know,
Speaker 3: having someone kind of in my ear coaching, and I
Speaker 3: probably won't follow every you know, guideline, like walk faster
Speaker 3: here because you know, I have my dog with me
Speaker 3: and she runs me ragged, but it's it's nice and
Speaker 3: it gets me walking longer than I might have and anyway,
Speaker 3: but I'm I'm I'm one hundred percent of proponent for it,
Speaker 3: but I'm also you know, I'm also proponent for the
Speaker 3: free the free high of those endorphins and just because
Speaker 3: just moving because it makes you feel good and not
Speaker 3: because of the scale, because it truly does make you
Speaker 3: feel good.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you know I love that you said. That's
Speaker 1: exactly how I felt like. I don't know that I'll
Speaker 1: do the guidance walk only because I I had gotten
Speaker 1: the Nike app, and all of a sudden, the walk
Speaker 1: that I used to enjoy so much became like this
Speaker 1: thing that I didn't like because I'd be like, okay,
Speaker 1: well then you got to do far more minute, No,
Speaker 1: you got to and I'm like, you used to love walking.
Speaker 1: So I turn off all that stuff and I do
Speaker 1: one of three things when I walk. Now, I phone
Speaker 1: a friend or like a family member, like talk to
Speaker 1: my mom or my bestie or my friend Cabrella Rihann whoever.
Speaker 1: I listen to a podcast, shout out Brown Ambition, or
Speaker 1: I listen to an audiobook. Those are my three favorite
Speaker 1: things to do on a walk. And I live next
Speaker 1: to a park, and so I play this game with myself,
Speaker 1: like are we gonna do the city or the country today, Tiffany,
Speaker 1: Like the country is like walking the park, like because
Speaker 1: the park has really great walking trails, or like am
Speaker 1: I gonna like? I love where I live and new
Speaker 1: because the houses are so historic, so you see these
Speaker 1: really beautiful Georgian mansions and Victorian this and the So
Speaker 1: I choose every day like what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: And it's been such a joy. Like literally I will
Speaker 1: walk for an hour and won't even have noticed it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I walk longer because the chapter I'm listening to
Speaker 1: is so good. What audiobook are you into right now?
Speaker 1: I'm into this audio book called Small Giants. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: it's like so good companies that chose to be great
Speaker 1: instead of big.
Speaker 3: Concept. I haven't heard of that.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, because for those of you
Speaker 1: I've shared this like openly that I'm not, I don't
Speaker 1: I would like to step away from being the CEO
Speaker 1: of the Literature Academy, like still obviously owner and still
Speaker 1: you know, like being on the board and you know,
Speaker 1: giving advice and stuff. But I want to instead just
Speaker 1: focus on Budgetista. But I with the Academy, the aim
Speaker 1: is to grow bigger. But I just was like, while
Speaker 1: reading this book, it's like, well, who said that's what
Speaker 1: you have to do for the Academy. That's fine, But
Speaker 1: I'm realizing I don't necessarily want that for Budgetista. Instead,
Speaker 1: I think I'd like to keep it relatively small and
Speaker 1: just do great work and you know, and make enough
Speaker 1: money to continue to do that great work. And so
Speaker 1: I've just been just exploring what that might look like.
Speaker 1: And yeah, but it's been such a great book because
Speaker 1: it's a lot of case studies of these amazing companies
Speaker 1: that have done this and this amazing work while not
Speaker 1: being you know, Apple and Facebook, and it's like, you
Speaker 1: don't need to aspire to do that. You know, you
Speaker 1: could just be Amazing and Newark and change hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of lives and you know, make enough money to
Speaker 1: retire yourself and build even build generational wealth while still
Speaker 1: maintaining like smallness as relative obviously. But so I've just
Speaker 1: been exploring that, and I've been reading like before that
Speaker 1: I was, I read like I loved Joonah Burger's books.
Speaker 1: He's got this book called The Catalysts and Contagious. They're
Speaker 1: all marketing books and they're really good. There's also a book,
Speaker 1: The Effective Executive that's up next for me. So I've
Speaker 1: just been reading. When it comes to audiobooks right now,
Speaker 1: I'm really into like business books. But then I also
Speaker 1: read Lead from the Outside or Listen to Lead from
Speaker 1: the Outside by Stacy Abrams and so and after this,
Speaker 1: I also wanted to read this book called I think
Speaker 1: it's called The Vagabond How to Travel This World or
Speaker 1: something to that effect. So I was a big reader
Speaker 1: as a kid, and life got quote unquote in the way.
Speaker 1: And so, just like walking, I forgot how much I
Speaker 1: loved reading, and that I've just been enjoying reading and
Speaker 1: walking one of my two favorite things.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love that. I'm actually I've I like to
Speaker 3: keep several books going. I have my audio books for
Speaker 3: when I'm doing something where I can't hold a book.
Speaker 3: And then now that you know homeboy is sleeping more
Speaker 3: regularly during the day, he's down to one nap and
Speaker 3: I can kind of like, I know I'm going to
Speaker 3: get that little break, which is nice, and I picked
Speaker 3: up I have like a hardback book. So recently I
Speaker 3: read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, good one, and I also
Speaker 3: read Outliers. I gobbled up Outliers real quick. I love
Speaker 3: that message. I love the message and Outliers from and
Speaker 3: I think that's a good It's a really fast read,
Speaker 3: and it's also kind of a case study. I was
Speaker 3: kind of like, I felt some type of way about
Speaker 3: how all the outliers he chose was white man, but
Speaker 3: I'm like, aren't. I'm sure there's even more encouraging stories
Speaker 3: from people who weren't white. But anyway, it's just a
Speaker 3: good message in the sense that it's a good message
Speaker 3: for people who think, you know, greatness is something like
Speaker 3: you were born great, and that's what you're great.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It really acknowledges certain inherent privileges and also just the
Speaker 3: how how a stroke of luck the time you were born,
Speaker 3: the decades were born the day you were born and
Speaker 3: can have can have ripple effects for what happens the
Speaker 3: rest of your life. So I really enjoyed those And
Speaker 3: then oh my god, I'm looking at my audible and
Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, I have a lot of books. So
Speaker 3: I finished Hunger by Roxanne Gay. That's a memoir speaking
Speaker 3: of which Hunger. You know Roxanne Gay, she's she's morbidly obese,
Speaker 3: and she's really open about talking about that journey. But
Speaker 3: Hunger is a memoir of her body. It's literally about
Speaker 3: you know that her her uh being young as a
Speaker 3: young as a young girl she was she was raped
Speaker 3: by a group of boys in her neighborhood and how
Speaker 3: that manifested itself into an eating disorder. And it's a
Speaker 3: really beautiful you know, it's pretty dark, but as a
Speaker 3: person who struggled with her weight your whole life, I
Speaker 3: found it very it was it was a good book.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed it. And then, my goodness, I have all
Speaker 3: the Harry Potters. They're my fun and the meaning of Mariah.
Speaker 3: I was listening to Mariah Carey's memoir and she sings
Speaker 3: sometimes in it, and it's fun.
Speaker 1: I can see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is her voice. I knew I wanted to
Speaker 3: listen to her voice. Watch. Yes, it's uh yeah, So
Speaker 3: reading for joy, I'm I think the Blink that Malcolm
Speaker 3: Gladwell were as like workish business you related as I've
Speaker 3: been because I like to escape. But that I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: getting back into some reading, trying to rediscover the time,
Speaker 3: you know, I can save when I'm not scrolling through
Speaker 3: the gram getting mad and all my friends who are
Speaker 3: doing things they shouldn't be doing, like being a public.
Speaker 1: Or just you know what, you could just not post
Speaker 1: it so we can.
Speaker 3: Just you know, you know what, you cannot post it.
Speaker 3: I would be so ashamed. I mean I would be
Speaker 3: so ashamed to be posting the mo these pictures. I
Speaker 3: got so mad on It's like, why don't people care?
Speaker 1: Like what are they like, hey, look at me, get
Speaker 1: it covid or spreading it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, I'm one of the Bahamas. I
Speaker 3: don't care anymore. If they don't care, I don't care.
Speaker 3: My sister talk me down, but yeah, anyway, find your
Speaker 3: pockets of joy anywhere can Yes, it has been we're
Speaker 3: turning the corner onto a year of this pandemic life.
Speaker 3: And I don't know what that means other than the
Speaker 3: fact that it has been a long ass time and
Speaker 3: this has been a marathon and we all like we
Speaker 3: have to acknowledge that we have been through something and
Speaker 3: we need to yeah, try to find those pockets of
Speaker 3: joy and grace and you know, keep on going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just thank you guys for being here with us.
Speaker 1: We truly, truly, truly appreciate y'all.
Speaker 3: Likewise, I'm glad to be talking to you again. TIF.
Speaker 3: I know we back, we back, all right, We'll have
Speaker 3: a good rest of your night. Enjoy your greens, all right,
Speaker 3: thank you. It's almost seven though. You better run, I know.
Speaker 1: But you know greens. I feel like, you know, you
Speaker 1: get a little you know, you get a with greens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, okay, take care of Sesme Street would say
Speaker 3: that's good. Anytime snack you can tell you have a toddler, Tiffany.
Speaker 3: The the willpower it takes me not to break out
Speaker 3: into any of the sesame Street songs. Is I need
Speaker 3: to go because I'm about to.
Speaker 1: Do wait wait wait wait no no, no, we have
Speaker 1: to we I want to like just like I want
Speaker 1: the song to take us out. But Earth is ghettos
Speaker 1: like we might as well just let that play out
Speaker 1: as we are. We willing to pay for this.
Speaker 3: We go ahead now, No.
Speaker 1: Earth is scared.
Speaker 4: I want to leave your bab me up. I'm mad
Speaker 4: on the street by the corn on the store, you know,
Speaker 4: the one fifteenth I gotta write on so easy to see.
Speaker 2: I've been down and stranded and definitely I can't reach
Speaker 2: my planet, but I need to let you should see
Speaker 2: these people.
Speaker 1: It's hard to bully, how they tread e j other,
Speaker 1: it's hard to conceive, O.
Speaker 2: Esca.
Speaker 1: I want to leave bowl all right there, right, okay, bye,
Speaker 1: let me know when you get the rocket ship.
Speaker 4: I'll be there.