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Speaker 2: On this week's episode. In her Space.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully started making a lot of money relatively quickly. And

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Speaker 3: the more money I made, the more money I spent.

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Speaker 3: And here I am making you a quarter million dollars

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Speaker 3: a year in my late twenties and paying out between

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Speaker 3: was spending so much that sometimes we have to have

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Speaker 4: Welcome to her Space, a podcast dedicated to uplifting women

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Speaker 4: like you. We're your hosts, Doctor Dominique Broussard, a college

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Speaker 5: And Terry Lomax, a techie.

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Speaker 2: And motivational speaker.

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Speaker 6: In a world where Black women are often misrepresented and misunderstood.

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Speaker 7: Lady, if you've been wanting to get your financial house

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Speaker 7: in order, today's guest is here just for you. Constance

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Speaker 7: Carter is the CEO of Catalyst real Estate Professionals, the

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Speaker 7: largest African American owned real estate firm in Northern California.

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Speaker 7: Constance is a best selling author, an investor with a

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Speaker 7: diverse portfolio, a coach, speaker, mentee, and mentor. She's been

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Speaker 7: featured on Black Enterprise, The Huffington Post, and Rolling Out magazine,

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Speaker 7: but her most proudest accomplishment is being a wife and

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Speaker 7: a mother of four beautiful children. Hey, Ms Carter, Welcome,

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Speaker 7: to her space. Thank you for the invitation I allowing

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Speaker 7: me to be on.

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Speaker 8: And grace your podcast today. So thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: You are so welcome.

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Speaker 4: We are so excited to have you here, and so

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Speaker 4: we're going to dive right in. We are going to

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Speaker 4: start off with our quote of the day, and our

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Speaker 4: quote comes from you, missus Carter. When you say things

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Speaker 4: like I'm broke, you're telling the universe to keep you

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Speaker 4: in the state of lack, and you're programming your mind

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Speaker 4: to keep you there. Your words are powerful and prophetic,

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Speaker 4: and what you say becomes real. If you want to

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Speaker 4: have more, you have to speak it into existence. MSUs Carter,

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Speaker 4: I love those words.

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Speaker 8: Oh wow, I really believe them. I really believe them.

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Speaker 3: I believe you know, it's a universal principle. Like whatever

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Speaker 3: you put out there is going to come back. I've

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Speaker 3: seen it time and time and time again. And our

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Speaker 3: words not only shift what happens in the universe, but

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Speaker 3: it shifts our mindsets.

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Speaker 8: That's why like affirmations are so important.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So just whatever you put out there in the universe,

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Speaker 8: And I just I really believe.

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Speaker 7: That now, Constance, I met you a year ago at

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Speaker 7: your Wealth Summit and you, you know, looking at you

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Speaker 7: and where you are today, I mean it's incredible.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's just so incredible to see you, to

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Speaker 7: But when I started to reading your book, I was

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Speaker 7: like what constantly this is where she began Like it

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Speaker 7: blew me away. So in your book, The Secret of

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Speaker 7: Breaking the bro Code, you talk about coming from humble beginnings.

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Speaker 8: Better than what you've seen. So my parents came from Arkansas.

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Speaker 3: Whatever this back credit was, I did not want it

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Speaker 3: You know, the difference between you and a person that

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Speaker 3: I handled money. The credit piece, I was really like

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Speaker 4: And so can you share with us. I know that

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Speaker 4: this information in your books, but can you share with

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Speaker 4: because I think sometimes for a lot of us, it's

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Speaker 4: hard to separate our family patterns because it almost sometimes

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Speaker 4: it may feel like we're this in our family right,

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Speaker 4: like we're saying something negative to break those habits. It's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think for me, even though I

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Speaker 8: You know, life is full of peaks and valleys.

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Speaker 8: Make the decisions that I made.

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Speaker 8: From her macy what says that phone number? I like

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Speaker 3: Everybody says she's so smart, So I believe them, right,

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Speaker 8: It no matter what.

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Speaker 8: Nobody's smarter.

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Speaker 3: She said, You're no more important and you're no less important.

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Speaker 8: So that's what I try to do.

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Speaker 3: Like the stuff that I didn't like with my family,

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Speaker 2: That is so incredible and constance.

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Speaker 7: You've come so far, what does it feel like to

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Speaker 2: What does that look and.

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 8: My god, I don't know, because I think it's I

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Speaker 8: think it's a it's an evolutionary process, right. I don't

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Speaker 8: think you ever get to a place where you arrive.

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Speaker 3: One of my mentors, Lisa Nicholas, she says balance is

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Speaker 3: a myth, but harmony is a musk, right, So you

448
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Speaker 3: can't try to balance give everything equal time, but just

449
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Speaker 3: trying to create that harmony. So I just try to

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Speaker 3: live like the best life that I can every day.

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Speaker 3: That is the only thing I can tell you. And

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Speaker 3: so that's just being conscious about making decisions that's going

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Speaker 3: to just be positive.

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Speaker 8: Like I love to laugh, you guys.

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Speaker 3: Like when I'm at the office, That's what me and

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Speaker 3: Glinda do all day is we laugh. When I come home,

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Speaker 3: I like to laugh and just be open and free

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Speaker 3: and not stressed out about any bs. You know, that's

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Speaker 3: goals for me, is just just being happy and laughing

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Speaker 3: and enjoying life. You know, of course, you know, you

461
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Speaker 3: never get to a place where you arrive. You never

462
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Speaker 3: get to a place where everything is perfect. But I

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Speaker 3: think in the journey, I think being more focused on

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Speaker 3: the journey, right and not the destination, and just lavishing

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Speaker 3: in the journey and you know, the pitfalls yet and flow,

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Speaker 3: all the good and the bad, just languishing it with

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Speaker 3: it as you go and just taking it and rolling

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Speaker 3: with it because I do.

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Speaker 8: There are some you.

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Speaker 3: Know, I don't know if you if you see my

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Speaker 3: video the other day, Like I lost almost one hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars in a building a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, you know, that's that's hard.

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Speaker 8: But I just had to roll with the punches, like, okay, God,

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Speaker 8: what are you doing? I know this is gonna be

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Speaker 8: something greater later. What is it?

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Speaker 3: And then he blessed us to be able to purchase

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Speaker 3: another property that was ten times better. But just trying

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Speaker 3: to find the good in everything. I remember when like

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Speaker 3: earlier on and like I just had to think I

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Speaker 3: had my daughter, I lost my job, my husband lost

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Speaker 3: his job, and we were behind on our mortgage, and

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Speaker 3: like everything was going wrong. And my friend Kesha, she said, dang,

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Speaker 3: how are you still able to maintain to be positive?

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Speaker 3: And I think, I'm like, what twenty four at this time,

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Speaker 3: and she was like, how are you? Like I was

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Speaker 3: still optimistic. I remember having this conversation. Obviously I was

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Speaker 3: still optimistic, but I remember her telling her because I

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Speaker 3: know this is not where I'm meant to be.

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Speaker 8: I know it's going to be better. So just having that.

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Speaker 3: Mentality because and that goes back to my auntie telling

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Speaker 3: me I deserved you know what I mean? So when

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Speaker 3: to deserve more that God is not bringing you anywhere

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Speaker 3: to leave you. When you understand that greatness is in

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Speaker 3: your plan, that you deserve it, then you can just really,

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Speaker 3: like I said, language in the journey and not worry

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Speaker 3: about the destination. So wherever people are, they're where they're

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Speaker 3: supposed to be, you know, don't get weary and well

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Speaker 3: doing stay the course because I'm not goals. I'm not

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Speaker 3: goals for anybody. Your situation is your situation. But just

501
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Speaker 3: be happy in your situation, right, be able to laugh

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Speaker 3: through it and all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: I love that of like telling people, making sure that

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Speaker 4: people really hear that each one of us has our

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Speaker 4: own unique story, our own unique journey, and that we

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Speaker 4: shouldn't be striving to be what someone else is and

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Speaker 4: we should be focused on who we are. And so

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Speaker 4: when I hear that, I think about some of our listeners.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have women of all ages listening, and

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Speaker 4: so we have some women who may be in their

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Speaker 4: fifties or sixties and in their where they are in

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Speaker 4: their journey, they are still trying to figure out budgeting

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Speaker 4: and managing finances. And then we have some young women

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Speaker 4: who are like eighteen nineteen and are just starting to

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Speaker 4: really learn about budgeting and finances for themselves for their

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Speaker 4: journey ahead. And so what does it look like no

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Speaker 4: matter where you are in your journey, and you're saying, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I need to start, I need to start fresh. I

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Speaker 4: need to figure out how to budget, how to save,

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Speaker 4: how to invest. Where would you tell that person to

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Speaker 4: start off?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of times that goes back to mindset, right.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of times people focus on what

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Speaker 3: they can't do or what they don't have. They focus,

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Speaker 3: they and they get stuck there instead of saying, okay,

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Speaker 3: let me just do it, and let me just figure

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Speaker 3: out the resources in order to get there, so you

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Speaker 3: can find you can. First of all, you can figure

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Speaker 3: out anything on the Internet, right a G test Google

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Speaker 3: that Shita.

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Speaker 8: You can get it. I love it.

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Speaker 3: So understand that the answer to your problem is likely

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Speaker 3: on Google. So but it's really just shifting your mindset

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Speaker 3: to say, Okay, I'm going to establish I'm going to

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Speaker 3: establish a goal.

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Speaker 8: This is what I want to do, and I say.

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Speaker 3: Do a brain dump, this is this, these are all

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Speaker 3: my ideas, and then start to put a like put

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Speaker 3: it in a plan, and then begin to execute. But

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Speaker 3: I think the whole thing is stop getting stuck at

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Speaker 3: start just do it right and create a plan around

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Speaker 3: doing it. I think the mindset is what holds us

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Speaker 3: back because we get overwhelmed in what we don't know,

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Speaker 3: and so just starting to do the research and figuring out,

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Speaker 3: you know, because we don't know, we don't know. But

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Speaker 3: start you know, just basic stuff, reading basic books about budgeting,

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Speaker 3: reading you know, understanding what your finances are, how much

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Speaker 3: you have a lotted for whatever it is that you

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Speaker 3: you need, your needs and then worry about you know

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Speaker 3: what your wants are, but you prioritize that, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you got to cut out a lot of the frivolous spending.

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Speaker 3: I know, I was there two hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars a year, frivolous spending. You know, I could have

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Speaker 3: been so much further along today than I am than

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Speaker 3: I am because of my frivolous spending. But I had

557
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Speaker 3: to file bankruptcy making two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: a year, which is crazy, But I was in the

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Speaker 3: same position as a lot of people. Whether you're making

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Speaker 3: twenty five fifty one hundred thousand dollars, if your mindset

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Speaker 3: ain't right, then you're not going to be able to

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Speaker 3: get anywhere. So stepping back, saying, okay, making a conscious

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Speaker 3: decision of this is what I want to do, writing

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Speaker 3: it down, putting it in paper, organizing it in a

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Speaker 3: concise way, and then you know, do whatever research you

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Speaker 3: need to do in order to make a plan of

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Speaker 3: action so that you could execute counsels.

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Speaker 7: We're about to shift up the energy a little bit

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Speaker 7: on our on our interview today. So because we recognize, appreciate,

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Speaker 7: and celebrate the multifaceted woman and believe that it's okay

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Speaker 7: to be classy and ratchet and you can be elegant

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Speaker 7: and still dance to strip club music.

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Speaker 8: I want to.

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Speaker 2: Invite you to the oh when You clash It segment.

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Speaker 2: So do you take on the challenge?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, I'm a little nervous, So.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna go with some of the fun questions.

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Speaker 7: So the first question for you is what song gets

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Speaker 7: you on the dance floor at the club or party?

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Speaker 2: What song?

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Speaker 3: Yes, oh, let's seek big old freak Megan.

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Speaker 2: Oh all right.

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Speaker 4: And so speaking of getting on the dance floor or

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Speaker 4: two steps.

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Speaker 8: Oh oh, it depends on the song. I can do

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Speaker 8: them both. I can do both, and I will do both,

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Speaker 8: and I do do both.

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Speaker 3: So oh so preference, I'll say two steps?

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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, all.

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Speaker 7: Right, now, constant, who is your bad boy or bad

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Speaker 7: girl crush?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Bad boy? Oh shoot, god boy crush.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to make me go look at Instagram?

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Speaker 2: Who's who I'm following?

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Speaker 8: Who is about bad boy crush? Oh my god? Okay, okay,

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Speaker 8: come back to me on that one.

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Speaker 2: Right, we'll come back. You're gonna do a.

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Speaker 4: Little Instagram sir, shifting gears just a little bit. What's

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Speaker 4: your favorite book.

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Speaker 3: I want to say a book that I probably read

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Speaker 3: like five six times was A Millionaire of Mind by

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Speaker 3: t Harbecker.

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Speaker 4: Okay to the show. Note Yes, and what was it

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Speaker 4: about that book? Then, because you said you read it

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Speaker 4: five or six times? So what was it about that book? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: You know, and I always tell my ages to read it,

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Speaker 3: and some are like, yeah, blah blah blah, ain't all

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Speaker 3: that great.

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Speaker 8: But I just think it's just a great because it was.

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Speaker 3: He talks about the mindset of a millionaire, how a

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Speaker 3: millionaire thinks. You know, a poor person thinks like this

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Speaker 3: and here's why they're poor, and a millionaire thinks like this,

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Speaker 3: and here's why they're a millionaire.

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Speaker 8: This is why they're wealthy.

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Speaker 3: And so it really it's really like spring up a

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Speaker 3: bunch of different light bulbs, and it allowed me to

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Speaker 3: like look around at my environment and say, yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: why they ain't got shit, or yeah, this is what

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Speaker 3: I need to do in order to get there. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's easier for you know, like if you have two

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Speaker 3: people that are broke and one was wealthy before, it's

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Speaker 3: easier for the wealthy person to get wealthy again because

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Speaker 3: it's the mindset.

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Speaker 8: They know how to do it. But a poor person

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Speaker 8: is always going to stay poor.

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Speaker 3: Not necessarily, but they you know, they'll be quicker to

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Speaker 3: stay poor because just because they have that poor mindset.

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Speaker 3: So just understanding the difference between a poor mindset and

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Speaker 3: a wealthy mindset is everything that's.

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Speaker 7: So powerful too, because constant, I feel like I always

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Speaker 7: thought that it's all about Okay, I got a budget

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Speaker 7: and saying an investment. It sounds like the first step

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Speaker 7: before you do anything is shifting your mindset.

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Speaker 2: If you feel stuck right now, it sounds like you've

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Speaker 2: got to read these three books.

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Speaker 7: Right, Constance Books and then this Millionaire Mindset book right

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Speaker 7: to really game plan for how you're going to use.

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Speaker 5: Your finances or allocate them in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely okay, And one more question, all right, what's

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Speaker 3: the best compliment you've ever received that I have changed

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Speaker 3: someone's life? That is the best thing that you can

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Speaker 3: tell me. Okay, I'll tell you another one too, So

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Speaker 3: that one, and I'm gonna give you another one that

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Speaker 3: you have prayed for me, Like that's the best thing

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Speaker 3: that you can ever say. You know what I prayed

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Speaker 3: for you. That means you thought about me and you

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Speaker 3: went to God on my behalf.

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Speaker 8: That's huge.

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Speaker 2: That is yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 7: Well, Constance, we just want to thank you so much

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Speaker 7: for spending some time with us and sharing your insights.

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Speaker 8: Yay, it's been amazing. This was so fun.

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Speaker 3: I am honored that you would even consider me so

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Speaker 3: thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: And before we go, can you tell all of our

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Speaker 4: listeners where they can find you?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely so. A couple of things.

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Speaker 3: I am having a weekend of wealth Retreat, which I'm

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Speaker 3: so excited about. I'll be celebrating my forty fourth birthday

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Speaker 3: and that's February twentieth through twenty third in Napa. So

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Speaker 3: we're going to do one in Napa and then we're

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