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Speaker 1: Black Market, and welcome back to the eighty flap stuf

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Speaker 1: show Black's Business Spotty Lights. We're in here today were

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Speaker 1: two lovely black ladies, black women, black girl. Imagine. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: how y'all doing today? I got my girl Tasia, you

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Speaker 1: know I actually did you know? We got Tiger into

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Speaker 1: how toy. We were just sitting here talking about names

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Speaker 1: and how I was trying to make sure that didn't

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Speaker 1: mess them up. Make sure you're on your toes. What's

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Speaker 1: going on? Nothing? I mean, we're excited to be here,

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Speaker 1: So welcome to the trap. Thank you for having us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's nice looking at you like having us. Know what's up? Man?

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Speaker 1: We wanted to invite y'all for our black excellent spot Like,

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Speaker 1: we know y'all have a lot of nice things going

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Speaker 1: on and things of that nature, So we wanted to

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Speaker 1: use our platform to invite some black business. I love that.

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Speaker 1: So introduce your products and yourself. So my name is

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Speaker 1: toy Um and I'm one of the co owners of

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Speaker 1: for Cultures. So it's basically a vegan neil lacquer that

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Speaker 1: me and my sister's open. So it's actually four of

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Speaker 1: us that opened up the veganail lacquer. And so when

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Speaker 1: we say vegan, that doesn't mean you can eat anything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: not like that. Well I'm glad you said that because

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Speaker 1: we're living in the time right now with people using

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Speaker 1: really blue and I'm so glad you said don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you're not supposed to eat it. You might have

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Speaker 1: to start putting one. And let I know, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's not site it is it is. I Mean we

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Speaker 1: had the whole privacy nos all that type of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But what vegan basically means is that it's non toxic.

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Speaker 1: So that means that it's cruelty free, is not tested

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Speaker 1: on animals. So, um, we wanted to get into like

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Speaker 1: a business that promoted clean beauty. Um. Being girls and

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Speaker 1: growing up in a house full of girls, Um, we

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Speaker 1: played dress up like all the time the time. It

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Speaker 1: was always painting nails, do your hair. So we came up,

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Speaker 1: you know, to a product that we wanted to all

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Speaker 1: that we all like to come up with together, and

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Speaker 1: we just noticed like in the industry there wasn't a

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Speaker 1: lot of clean beauty products to me, and that you know,

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Speaker 1: most products had more toxins that we're being in other countries.

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Speaker 1: So we're wondering, like if they're being in other countries,

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Speaker 1: like why are we so far behind? So we want

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Speaker 1: to develop something that was safer, cleaner, especially for black

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Speaker 1: women because we are fed more synthetic chemicals and our

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Speaker 1: products and most people who brought into the table to

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Speaker 1: be like we're spending too much money on thinking that

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Speaker 1: produce or like what is the idea like sparked from

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Speaker 1: the Yeah, I mean, I just remember sitting at the

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Speaker 1: table one day and we were just like, well, for one,

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Speaker 1: one of our big goals is to open up our

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Speaker 1: own black nel salon where we stay at in you know,

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Speaker 1: South Florida where we are. There weren't that there aren't

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Speaker 1: that many you know, black owned nel salons. Now Atlanta

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Speaker 1: is a different story, you know, it's the black mercha,

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Speaker 1: but we want to be represented, and so we were

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Speaker 1: just saying, I think did we come home. No, I

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Speaker 1: think we came home was like, um, we just want

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Speaker 1: to make more money. I think I think we just

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Speaker 1: wanted we wanted to find a business to make and

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Speaker 1: that we were passionate about. But you know, we just

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Speaker 1: didn't want to come out with anything. We wanted to

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Speaker 1: do something we're passionate about. And I think at that time,

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Speaker 1: like all of our sisters were in some form in

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Speaker 1: the you know, beauty, health, wellness, and so we try

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Speaker 1: to like come to ye and it's like what all

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Speaker 1: four of us would have like a common love for,

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Speaker 1: and so we just kind of like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we all get our Nelson, Like that's one of the

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Speaker 1: things that we just you know, religiously are into. And

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Speaker 1: so we were like okay. So then we started our

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Speaker 1: research and started real eyes, and like a lot of

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Speaker 1: big brands were more toxic, and I mean there was

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Speaker 1: just like a lot of health concerns that most people

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Speaker 1: I would want to come out with a different type

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Speaker 1: of product that put health at the forefront and not

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Speaker 1: just as an after thought. So, well, how many palettes

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Speaker 1: or colors. Do y'all have we got seventeen right now?

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Speaker 1: I didn't even realize at what age do girls started

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Speaker 1: painting them? We five, like yeah, polished, Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: we're we're the whole revolution right now. We're me and

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Speaker 1: as far as they bauted secrets and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, as far as with the social media and

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Speaker 1: ship a lot of yeah, I mean, like even like

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Speaker 1: the buying power like with women that are black women.

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Speaker 1: And beauty is like over one trillion dollars, so we

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of money beauty products. That's what I

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Speaker 1: was getting into. Like, do you have any more products

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Speaker 1: that you're launching as far as on the line, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we do. I mean it's a couple of things we've

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Speaker 1: gotta work. Like, um so our bread and brother is

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Speaker 1: our vegan nail like a line. That's like where we started,

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Speaker 1: and then we kind of moved into like press on

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Speaker 1: nail sets. So like when COVID hit, and all of

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Speaker 1: these songs were closed. You know, we know how to

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Speaker 1: pivot real quick, and so people aren't going to a

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Speaker 1: those ones. And then we started working with other black

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Speaker 1: nail tech artists who were like out of work and

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Speaker 1: giving them opportunity to do some sets and sell them

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Speaker 1: on a platform. So then we start doing press on

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Speaker 1: those sets on covid and now we're working. Then we

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Speaker 1: launched our Clean Beauty subscription boxes, which is like all

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Speaker 1: full sized products of clean Beauty, everything around health and wellness. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then from there, I think we're about to launch

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Speaker 1: some other projects. Took out of all your colors, what

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Speaker 1: would you say, both of y'all, what's your favorite shade

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Speaker 1: or I mean, right now, I'm being real risky because

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Speaker 1: this is one of our new colors, but I'm more

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Speaker 1: into like the red breezy Okay, yeah, but my favorite

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Speaker 1: colors are red tones. Um yeah, that's me. I'm like

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Speaker 1: my change. I feel like it depends on the season,

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Speaker 1: we had like this um forever young yellow color that

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Speaker 1: I kind of tone it down. So like my favorite

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Speaker 1: one it's called cupping season. We gotta get together on something.

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Speaker 1: I gotta hold. That's the finest part. Like, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: had like copping season. That's my favorite with some church

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Speaker 1: lady red, my shity blue. I mean that trapped girl green.

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Speaker 1: See we did a rich one when I need to change. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you should have a whole line of

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Speaker 1: just like Scammer shade scamra ship, just like shades for Scammer.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what colors were those money cream? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Chase David card blue? These are these I need to

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Speaker 1: write this down and those are the real Scama collection

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Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, some real quick that could just be

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Speaker 1: a random color. What colors? That girl is just something

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Speaker 1: real quick? I like that. Okay, we need to collabor.

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Speaker 1: I just want to do the names. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: need clearly, Like that's how hard it's probably coming up

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Speaker 1: with names, like and it's four of us. So it's

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Speaker 1: like if somebody don't like a name and like I

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Speaker 1: and forth, Like what's that process like being in Like

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Speaker 1: so you got all your sisters involved in this, you know,

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Speaker 1: like you got a process, now what is it? You

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Speaker 1: know that's that's the working project, that's the working process.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think that. I mean we've been getting better. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there have been sometimes where it's just like closed to

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Speaker 1: dum calls. But we got a problems, all of us.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, have y'all split up the whole business? Like

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Speaker 1: you do this? You do this? We had to. I

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Speaker 1: mean I got the point. Sometimes it's like okay, I quit,

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Speaker 1: the in the role of sisters, and then like in

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Speaker 1: the role of the business, like what's your I would say,

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Speaker 1: I'm more Media relations PR because I actually done my

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Speaker 1: everyday job, so I do it and bring that part

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Speaker 1: of it to the business. I'm like PR toys more

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Speaker 1: like UM social media design, creativity, social media, and then

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Speaker 1: all those sisters Ties she's more social media creative design.

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Speaker 1: And then my other sister Tiana, she is UM finance accounting.

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Speaker 1: She's gonna make you all the money, right, we can

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Speaker 1: come up like cool ideas and she's just pulling out

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Speaker 1: the books like not it don't make sense, like so

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Speaker 1: mean what has been that that moment where it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: and go. Um. But one of I think our biggest

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Speaker 1: that just like Skyrocket like our such candy. You know

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Speaker 1: other like you know, black businesses that were posting on

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Speaker 1: this post. But you know, she reached out to us,

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Speaker 1: let's do this. So that was gonna be my next question. Like, say,

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Speaker 1: for instance, somebody may be watching this and they you know,

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Speaker 1: they at that moment where they're like, man, fuck it,

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Speaker 1: Like what words of encouragement or you know, lesson would

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Speaker 1: you give them try to stay in there and keep

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Speaker 1: going and keep pushing, because everybody need those mores affirmation

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