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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, Hey, it's me Tiffany, Hi and Mandy and we.

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Speaker 2: Are tired and this is brand Ambition and she's tired.

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Speaker 2: Brown Ambition needs a nap.

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Speaker 1: I've got two words. I think it's six syllables. Wakanda forever?

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Speaker 2: Did you see it?

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Speaker 3: I did? Did you see it? God? Oh yeah?

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Speaker 2: I have my tickets like a month ago. It was phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening, I mean we're talking about it. You

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Speaker 1: had the whole weekend to get your stuff together. You

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Speaker 1: really had longer than that. They've been talking about it forever.

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Speaker 1: So if you don't want to hear spoilers, oh well,

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Speaker 1: you you know, I feel like the Black delegation. I

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Speaker 1: checked in and they said that as of Monday evening

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Speaker 1: not twelve pm Eastern Standard time, then we are well

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Speaker 1: within our rights to discuss the full movie, which is happening.

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Speaker 3: Agreed, Yes, so let's talk about it. So did you

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Speaker 3: go with with Husbye?

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Speaker 2: I took Husbye. He gets to come on all my adventures.

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Speaker 2: I just I just buy tickets and send him calendar invites.

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Speaker 2: That's what I do. He's like, yeah, where are we going?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: He actually loved it.

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Speaker 3: Really because everybody was like eh, it was all right.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. I looked at him like, are

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Speaker 1: you know what. He well, first of all, one, he's

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Speaker 1: he was like it was good. But he's like, I

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Speaker 1: guess all the hype pipe hype pipe pipe, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And I was just like, are you kidding me? So

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Speaker 2: But I was like, what, he's a comic book fan.

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Speaker 2: So has he read the actual comics.

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Speaker 3: Some of them? I don't know if he's read the

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Speaker 3: Black Panther comics, but he's.

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Speaker 2: Definitely what I meant, yeah, the Black Panther ones because

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Speaker 1: I heard, Yes, probably, but whatever. I was like, like,

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Speaker 1: are you crazy? Like my life is no longer the same.

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Speaker 1: I belong to Wakanda now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's fine to have an opinion.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 2: I guess, but like, can he just be quiet about

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Speaker 2: it because we need to keeek out of it?

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Speaker 3: Did you?

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Speaker 1: First of all, he didn't notice that because I knew

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Speaker 3: I'm like whatever, dude, Like I'm in it. Okay, what

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Speaker 3: did you wait?

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Speaker 2: What did you wear? Did you wear like a full on?

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Speaker 1: No, I wore all black. I just wore like, you know,

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Speaker 3: Want, like literal black panther, Yeah, beret. I did.

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Speaker 1: Actually I had a but right like, my sister got

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Speaker 2: Just to like soften it a little bit. So no

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Speaker 1: But you know, I went to go see it in

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Speaker 1: Super Black Newark. Surprisingly, people were quiet during the film.

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Speaker 3: When did we go? I think we went on No,

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, I loved it and I was like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's everything. I mean, let's just talk highlights. So,

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Speaker 1: What I love is that the is it the dope

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Speaker 3: What I loved is that one. They were so fierce

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Speaker 1: And what I also love is that they weren't overly

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Speaker 2: And it really just felt like, no, they're just straight

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Speaker 1: And I just love how the default was of course

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you speak on that because I'm feeling it,

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Speaker 1: And then the diaspora presentation, like so there were Africans,

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Speaker 3: It just I just was like I can't with all

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Speaker 2: You know, he's going to be reaching to people that

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Speaker 2: And as soon as this starts happening more, we just

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Speaker 2: where the real change happens. And that's what's so freaking

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Speaker 2: exciting about Black Panther. And hopefully, like I hope everyone

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Speaker 2: in this movie just goes on to make more movies

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love because you see Ryan Coogler of his

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I just feel like, uh, as far as a

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Speaker 1: like Brown, you know, Brown Break, Brown Boost, I just

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Speaker 1: feel like everything is, everything is will Coomba. I just

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Speaker 1: don't have an out.

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Speaker 2: I do have. I have a little thumb some I

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Speaker 2: wanted to give a shout out just real quick. It's

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Speaker 2: not financial related, so let me just stay it quick.

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Speaker 2: But you know, we've all been I think you know

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Speaker 2: there there was that shooting last week on Valentine's Day

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Speaker 2: in uh in Florida at that high school, and I

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Speaker 2: feel I'm tentatively starting to feel like this one might

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Speaker 2: be a little bit different, like the reaction that we're getting.

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Speaker 2: The way that these kids at this school have decided

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Speaker 2: to take action. You know, they went to their state

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Speaker 2: Assembly in Tallahassee and they took it. They rented a bus.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who organized it, but the hundreds of

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Speaker 2: kids from this school have gone to call on the

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Speaker 2: local representatives to enact gun gun control restrictions in Florida.

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Speaker 2: It's just amazing. And you know, you're starting to see

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Speaker 2: things like Oprah and George Clooney are making these half

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Speaker 2: million dollar donations to a march about gun violence. And

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Speaker 2: I mean I always I was always in the camp

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Speaker 2: of like, okay, well of twenty six child children, you know,

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Speaker 2: and Sandy Hook couldn't like if we wouldn't do anything

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Speaker 2: after that, then you know, probably nothing's ever gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: But I'm I feel bad now because I think what

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Speaker 2: we always needed, or apparently what is working, is when

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Speaker 2: the youth, when the kids are standing up and shaming

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Speaker 2: the adults, you know, for not stepping up and really

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Speaker 2: just you know, living in their own power and and

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Speaker 2: and getting their voices heard. It's just been really, it's

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Speaker 2: been phenomenal, so that's that's my boost, not financial, I know,

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Speaker 2: but I.

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Speaker 3: Know that's great.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to. I feel like we had to

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Speaker 2: be said, had to be said.

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Speaker 3: No, I totally agree. And my brown boost is what

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Speaker 3: kind of forever? No? No, you know what my boost is.

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Speaker 3: That handshake is everything. Slap slap, snap, pull back, X

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Speaker 3: over your heart what.

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Speaker 1: Like's if I see you, Mandy. That's what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna practice until we get it right.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I'm gonna start watching YouTube. I'm just glad

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Speaker 2: to have another use for that emoji with the crossed arms.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that belongs to work.

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Speaker 1: Do we have any amazing questions from our amazing listeners?

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Speaker 2: As ever, you guys have sent us some great questions.

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Speaker 2: If you want to get your question answered, I did.

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Speaker 2: I got a question from someone who's like, why didn't

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Speaker 2: you answer my question yet? I'm sorry. They're fair and

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Speaker 2: fair enough well played. I will say, we don't we

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Speaker 2: usually do a one or two per show. Maybe we'll

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Speaker 2: do Maybe we should dedicate a show to answering some

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Speaker 2: questions in the next in the coming weeks, because we

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Speaker 2: did get a couple of I was reading your your

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Speaker 2: survey responses PS if you want to do the survey,

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Speaker 2: it's still on our Facebook page. Go fill it out

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Speaker 2: listener survey. So I was reading some of the comments

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Speaker 2: people left in a couple of them and asked for

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Speaker 2: more questions, more answers.

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Speaker 3: So, okay, I love that.

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Speaker 1: Email us at Brown Ambition Podcasts at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 1: Or they can just go to Bronambition podcast dot com

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Speaker 1: and click uh, ask what does it?

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Speaker 3: Ask us anything?

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Speaker 2: Ask us anything?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got.

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Speaker 2: It, you're doing it. Thank you because I'm struggling today. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Today's question comes from Danique. Donique has oh I'm going

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Speaker 2: to read that. She gives me a short and a

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Speaker 2: long version. I got to go with the short version.

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Speaker 2: Donique says, I love you guys, Thank you. I have

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Speaker 2: a medical bill that has been placed in an office

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Speaker 2: for collection. It's eight hundred and sixty five eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty seven dollars for an emergency room visit. What

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Speaker 2: should I do? I don't want to pay it because

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Speaker 2: I believe I shouldn't have been billed for the visit.

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Speaker 2: Then she goes on to explain a little bit more

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Speaker 2: of the background which I read and essentially she's gone.

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Speaker 2: She had gone back and forth with the hospital and

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Speaker 2: the insurance company saying, no, I don't owe eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty seven dollars. This should have been covered by

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Speaker 2: the insurance and then eventually she just stopped talking to

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Speaker 2: them and cut to now she's got a letter in

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Speaker 2: the mail from a Collection's what she's saying is a

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Speaker 2: collection's office saying that she still owes this eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty seven dollars for an emergency room visit.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so got it.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that your emergency room visits are at least

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Speaker 1: partially covered by your insurance. That's what your belief is,

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Speaker 1: which sounds right, you know, because many insurance options give

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Speaker 1: you some sort of emergency room coverage to a certain extent.

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Speaker 1: So I would I mean, I know sometimes it's a

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Speaker 1: to reach back out to the insurance company and get

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Speaker 1: a clear understanding of like just ask the basic question

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Speaker 1: of if I go to the emergency room, how much

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Speaker 1: do you cover and get that answer and ask if

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Speaker 1: you can get that in writing in some way from

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Speaker 1: the insurance company. Yeah, because I've had emergency room visits

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Speaker 1: and where I wasn't insured, you know, I was like, yikes,

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Speaker 1: And then I've had where I was insured, and so

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Speaker 1: sometimes there's some stuff lost in translation. So the insurance

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Speaker 1: company might say we cover a percentage, or it might

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Speaker 1: be an actual dollar amount, so understand what that is.

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Speaker 1: So let's just say it's a dollar amount and what

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Speaker 1: the hospital saying is minus that dollar mouth, this is

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Speaker 1: what you owe us. But you seem pretty sure that

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Speaker 1: you're like, no, it should be covered, which, like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's not crazy. I just went to the emergency room

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Speaker 1: post surgery because I had like a really bad pain

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Speaker 1: in my back and it.

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Speaker 3: Was covered fully. So, like I said, that's not uncommon.

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Speaker 1: Also, what I'm hoping is because sometimes hospitals they don't

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Speaker 1: actually send it to full on collections. They send it

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Speaker 1: to hospital collections, which means that it hasn't left the

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Speaker 1: hospital atmosphere, which is a good thing because there's still

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Speaker 1: space and room. So I want to jump on it

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Speaker 1: quickly because if they find that, oh, it was a mistake,

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Speaker 1: the hospital still owns the debt, because what I don't

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Speaker 1: want them to do is to actually have sold it

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Speaker 1: just yet, because that's going to be harder to get

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Speaker 1: the because the people who bought it, they're not going

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Speaker 1: to care about you know, your insurance companies at whatever.

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Speaker 1: They're like, well, my name's Bob, I bought your debt.

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Speaker 3: You owe me yep. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the fact that this is the first bill she's

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Speaker 2: gotten outside of those first initial bills, I feel like,

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Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that this is just a hospitals collections. They're

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Speaker 2: in house collections. ARM reaching out to her, and you know,

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Speaker 2: she goes on to ask, you know, should I should

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Speaker 2: I ignore it?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Yeah, you just answered your own question.

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Speaker 2: Don't ignore it. If you do, it will only get worse.

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Speaker 2: And here's one thing I'll say, because you know, I

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Speaker 2: actually just got a bill. I went to an allergist

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Speaker 2: a couple months ago. You know, I just had a

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Speaker 2: feeling I was didn't get a crazy bill because they

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Speaker 2: were in network. It was preventative, but I still went anyway.

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Speaker 2: Ended up getting a bill for one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: five dollars Billy and she mentions that her insurance company

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Speaker 2: told her that the hospital must have put in the

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Speaker 2: wrong billing code. This happens like all of the time. Okay,

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Speaker 2: billing codes can be put in improperly, and it may

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Speaker 2: sound crazy, it may seem really really annoying. It's a

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Speaker 2: hassle for you. Now you have to go back to

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Speaker 2: the hospital and ask them about the billing code, or

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Speaker 2: you have to talk to your insurer and ask them

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Speaker 2: to talk to the hospital about the billing code to

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Speaker 2: get it all worked out. It feels like, God, why

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Speaker 2: do I have to do this? Like why is it

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Speaker 2: my job? Sadly, this is just reality and a lot

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Speaker 2: of in for a lot of people in the US

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Speaker 2: right now with the way that the healthcare system is

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Speaker 2: set up. It's a pain in the ass and you

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Speaker 2: really do have to stay on top of people, and

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Speaker 2: you can't like drop the ball. You got to keep calling,

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Speaker 2: keep be banging in that drum until you get whatever

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Speaker 2: relief you're supposed to get. And if you drop the ball,

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Speaker 2: what happens is what's happening now, which is they'll just

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Speaker 2: keep putting it through the system and you know your

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Speaker 2: credit can be at risk. Here my sister is going

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Speaker 2: through something similar right now where she's having like you

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Speaker 2: really have to be your own advocate. It's not like

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Speaker 2: the insurance company and the hospital are best friends and

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Speaker 2: they constantly chat and like know each other. I mean,

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Speaker 2: these are thousands and thousands of employees at the insurance

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Speaker 2: maybe thousands at the hospital. You know, one person putting

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Speaker 2: in the wrong code can just mess up your life.

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Speaker 2: But and it's gonna take it's gonna take a lot

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Speaker 2: of work for you to get those two, the insurance

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Speaker 2: company and the hospital, to like get on the same page.

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Speaker 2: Which may sound a little harsh, but it's I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm just just seeing what my sister's gone through, having

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Speaker 2: gone through it myself. Is it's it's nuts. But you

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Speaker 2: gotta you just got to keep doing it, like you know,

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Speaker 2: make it, like set a reminder when you get off work, okay,

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Speaker 2: call or during lunch or whatever, just call the insurance

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Speaker 2: company again, even if you haven't heard anything from them.

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Speaker 2: Call them once a day, just checking in on this,

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Speaker 2: you know, call the hospital, just checking in on this,

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Speaker 2: to show them that you are engaged and that you

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Speaker 2: want to get something resolved, and that will at least

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Speaker 2: prevent it from from them continuing to try to push

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Speaker 2: you through the collection system.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, I agree, because you don't want to be

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Speaker 1: pushed inside. Like it's just but hospitals typically take their

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Speaker 1: time with that, So yeah, get.

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Speaker 3: On it now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's adult thing is never quite fun

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Speaker 1: unless we're going on vacation or like Supergirl said, we

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Speaker 1: were at Whole Foods going food shopping and she said

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Speaker 1: I can't because she kept picking out things where I was.

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Speaker 3: Like, nope, nope, nope, nope.

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Speaker 1: She said, I can't wait. I get to be the

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Speaker 1: doc about whatever I want. And I'm like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: it is pretty fun.

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Speaker 3: That's that's all time.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, adult think it'd be pretty hard.

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Speaker 1: But we want the best for you, so definitely get

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Speaker 1: on it and advocate for yourself because you would hate

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Speaker 1: for this to balloon into something bigger.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely excellent. Thank you so much for your question, Donnique,

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Speaker 2: and you guys, like Tiffany said, hit us up at

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Speaker 2: Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com, or go to

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Speaker 2: Brown Ambition Podcast dot com and drop us a line

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Speaker 2: at the ask us Anything tab.

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Speaker 3: Dot com. I know I'm like two lines late.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I barreled right over your opening.

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Speaker 3: My bad. It's sad. I it's all right. So it's

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Speaker 3: time for win.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna give away a little a little self congratulations.

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Speaker 1: I got a little feature in entrepreneur dot com. I'm

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Speaker 1: entrepreneur and it was so dope because it was alongside

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Speaker 1: had an article about African American women on Entrepreneurs and

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Speaker 1: it was Kathy Hughes, like the super just like successful

652
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Speaker 1: women who started TV one, Jessica Matthews who started this disruptive,

653
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Speaker 1: amazing company called Uncharted Play. I don't think it's called

654
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Speaker 1: on trying to play anymore, but basically, I don't know

655
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Speaker 1: if you ever saw the young woman who started a

656
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Speaker 1: company where she's like, how can we bring energy to Africa?

657
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Speaker 1: And she figured out a way how to collect energy

658
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Speaker 1: in a soccer ball that kids use and then use

659
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Speaker 1: that energy that you could take that ball at the

660
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Speaker 1: end of the day back to your village and then

661
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Speaker 1: you can light the house with it.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, So she's so and just like just some

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Speaker 1: other just amazing women who are on the list.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I was like, how are you're here? Girl? But

666
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Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna take.

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Speaker 2: It, take it, run with it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it was just really awesome and so yeah, just

670
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Speaker 1: a little like sometimes i I'm trying to learn how

671
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Speaker 1: to stop drop and say, you know, something good has happened,

672
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Speaker 1: acknowledge it, and you know, be happy for it, and

673
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Speaker 1: then you know, of course, you know, don't stay stagnant.

674
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Speaker 3: But I never stopped to.

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Speaker 1: Really acknowledge it. I'm always barreling through to the next thing.

676
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Speaker 1: So that's my win.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, I did share it. I did share it on

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Speaker 2: the install. Think that you guys. You guys know that

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Speaker 2: I'm treating The Brown Ambition Podcast Instagram as my personal

680
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Speaker 2: Instagram now since I'm still locked out.

681
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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

682
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's like I'm a like a prisoner of war,

683
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Speaker 2: like Day thirty one. They are playing me, though, you go,

684
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 2: so just I was kicked off Instagram, I guess I'll

685
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: make my win our fabulous Instagram page now that I'm

686
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Speaker 2: forced to update it because I have no other Instagram outlet.

687
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Speaker 2: They still won't let me back in. But the thing

688
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: is they're playing with me. They keep sending me these

689
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 2: emails like, oh hey, Mandy money, see what you've been

690
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: missing on Instagram. Like it's like I've chosen not to

691
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Speaker 2: be on That is really weird. It's totally messed up.

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Speaker 2: But no, the Brown Ambition Instagram podcast page is lit.

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Speaker 2: Please go follow us. I'm sharing just all the Brown

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Speaker 2: magic I'm seeing on the Gram and we're at what

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Speaker 2: are we? Oh god, oh at Brown Ambition podcast shocker

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Speaker 2: on the Gram and oh I have an I have

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Speaker 2: another quick win for you. I have a copy. We

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Speaker 2: are officially trademarked Brown Ambition. I have the copy of

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Speaker 2: the trademark letter with a little gold seal and everything.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that's awesome, exciting.

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Speaker 2: So don't take it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, don't. It's trademark, it's owned.

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Speaker 2: Brand Ambition TM. How do you add that to your

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Speaker 2: Instagram name?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm sure it's possible.

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Speaker 2: All right, don't come from us. Get a season desist

707
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Speaker 2: letter one. I'm going to google one.

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Speaker 1: I have definitely had to send a couple of them.

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Speaker 1: I remember somebody was like, I forget what the named

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Speaker 1: their thing. It was like budget, Nissa something or the other,

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00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, you know, just so you know,

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Speaker 1: this is trademarked, and please you know, I you know,

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Speaker 1: I asked you to take it down or you know,

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Speaker 1: or I said something like next steps would be for

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Speaker 1: me to, you know, send a legal request to take

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Speaker 1: it down. They got so mad, and I'm like, They're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you came at a hard and hot you could have

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Speaker 1: just said, I'm like, did I?

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Speaker 3: I felt like I was nice. It was so pissed.

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Speaker 1: They insulted me in every way possible, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, they have three followers. Let's just back

722
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Speaker 1: up because I don't have time to fight anybody in

723
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Speaker 1: the streets.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I do have a request for.

725
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Speaker 1: Listeners, so I am disorganized.

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Speaker 3: Do you have it?

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Speaker 1: I can ask you too, Mandy. I need a project

728
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Speaker 1: management tool. Not for like I mean just for like life.

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Speaker 1: I mean definitely I want to add like business, all

730
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Speaker 1: the kind of stuff. But I ideally would love if this

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Speaker 1: is how, if it was in person, how I'd use it.

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Speaker 1: It would be like a bulletin board with like long

733
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Speaker 1: sheets of paper with the name of the basic project

734
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Speaker 1: name on top of these like strips of paper and

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Speaker 1: underneath the task that I need.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I got it. I got to use Trello.

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Speaker 2: That's what I use, That's what we use at work. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's amazing Trello.

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Speaker 1: Really, because I've been I've been hearing about Trello and

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Speaker 1: a sauna. Have you ever used a sauna.

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Speaker 2: I've heard it. We looked at a sauna, but we

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Speaker 2: just we wanted Trello and I'm a fan. I think

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Speaker 2: they're both good.

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00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna fry because I have an I have

745
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Speaker 1: an assauna account, and I was like, eh, it's not

746
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Speaker 1: as intuitive as I would like.

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00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna super easy. Okay, We're super easy.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, and I think it's free.

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Speaker 2: I don't think yeah, I have a special corporate account.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, I think it is.

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Speaker 1: I think it's up to a certain amount of people

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Okay, So I'm definitely gonna because I just

753
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 1: feel like there's so many things that like I forget

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Speaker 1: because yep, you know, and I'm just like, oh I forgot.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's not even just business.

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Speaker 1: I would like just the place where because as it

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Speaker 1: is right now, I'm like the handwritten notebook girl. And

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Speaker 1: if I can't find my notebook, I'm like just me.

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Speaker 2: And that's good for you, But like, what about the

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Speaker 2: other people who need to know what's happening?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: Well, well, the team we have like everyone, like we

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Speaker 1: use Slack and we do have like project management stuff,

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Speaker 1: but like sometimes like for example, I meet with the

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Speaker 1: core team members on Mondays, and sometimes I'm like there's

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Speaker 1: projects and I'm like, oh, I have to remember to

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Speaker 1: tell Tamra to do this or did it? So when

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Speaker 1: I give it to them, they included into we use

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Speaker 1: project management tools that but I just none of them.

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Speaker 1: I don't like Slack is okay, but I needed something

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Speaker 1: that was like a Tiffany board where it's a mix

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Speaker 1: between don't forget to go food shopping and oh your

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Speaker 1: molly More edits are due, you know, and so yeah, so.

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Speaker 2: Everything for that too. That's how we use it actually,

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Speaker 2: because we have six different websites for doing content for

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Speaker 2: and like six different people, well actually ten different people

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Speaker 2: kind of in that process man like handling those different

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Speaker 2: categories of content, and so each person as a board.

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Speaker 2: So everything you need from this person's on their board,

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Speaker 2: and you know, Chris's board has that his assignments, and

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Speaker 2: Christina has hers. But another way you can use it

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Speaker 2: is you could just create, like make the board the

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Speaker 2: name of the project, like you said, that's what I'd like, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: like I don't know, budget needs to live, ritual challenge,

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00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 2: and then everything underneath that board. Yeah, it's really really

786
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Speaker 2: easy and then you can like add people to the

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Speaker 2: board so whenever something happens to the board, they're alerted.

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Speaker 2: Hashtag Trello free advertisement. It's good stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pay Trelo if you like the sponsor.

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00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 2: Is that shout out to organization though, because you know

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00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: it's it's something that they don't teach you. There should

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00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 2: just be a class, you know, for new managers on

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Speaker 2: how to be organized, because everything that you did as

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00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 2: an individual employee does not work when you're managing a

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Speaker 2: team at all, does not is not they don't accept

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Speaker 2: your currency here in the other side, then I get.

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Speaker 3: Out of here with this with your petty pennies.

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, you just want to stare at your computer

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Speaker 2: and be in your mind all day. Nope, it's not

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Speaker 2: gonna work.

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Speaker 1: It's just so many things. Like today, I was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I've hit capacity. I had like a call and I'm

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Speaker 1: on the call and for the first minute, I'm like

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00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: confused about why is she talking about my children's book project?

805
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, that's this is not the the

806
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: other call all.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh my gosh, Tiffany.

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00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: Because there's just so many you know, you know what

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Speaker 1: I would really love more than anything. Remember this is

810
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: so random. I know' was supposed to be wrapping up.

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Speaker 1: But remember in the Harry Potter movie where Dumbledore was like,

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Speaker 1: hats a.

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Speaker 3: Lot on his mother pencis what.

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Speaker 1: I would love one of those where I could just

815
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: pull thoughts out and put.

816
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 3: It into a little bowl and dive in when I'm ready,

817
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 3: just to relieve my mind.

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Speaker 1: That's what i'd like. I mean, let's get that invented.

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Speaker 1: Until then, I'll try trello.

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Speaker 2: That's what I need to go to sleep at night,

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Speaker 2: Like if I could just take the thoughts out of

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Speaker 2: my brain, Like I'm tired of dreaming about my boss.

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00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 2: Like and it's not even the interesting dreams. It's just

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Speaker 2: me at my desk at work, just editing things. The nightmare.

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00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: It is not a good dream. It's just a work day.

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Speaker 2: I'm just living a work day in my in my

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Speaker 2: safe is what's happening. That's a sad state of affairs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, you know what. That's so crazy because

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Speaker 3: that's what I do too.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, or I'll get excited because I don't

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Speaker 1: think I have completed a task, and I'm like, that

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00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: wasn't my dream?

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00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll be dreamed about your TrailO for it pretty soon.

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Speaker 3: On that note, it's been great chatting with y'all.

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Speaker 1: Connect with us, hit us up on social media everywhere,

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Speaker 1: find us out Brown Ambition, and.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you next week. Let us know what you

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00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 3: thought about my mom My mom Black Panther. We'd love

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Speaker 3: to hear too,