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Speaker 1: Being waiting for. Oh, you're tapped in the way up

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Speaker 2: What's up his way up with Angela yee? My girl

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Speaker 2: Selina Hill is here.

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Speaker 3: With me back again.

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Speaker 4: Yes, good morning, y'all.

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Speaker 2: And we got a special guest joining us today. Marjorie

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Speaker 2: Mezidor is gonna be here. She is a founder and

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Speaker 2: visionary officer of Mezzador PLLLC. It's an employment and workplace

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Speaker 2: discrimination law firm, and there is so much going on

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Speaker 3: Sometimes you have a question like did that was that

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Speaker 5: Was right?

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Speaker 6: Was that harassment? Was that discrimination? Do I need to

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Speaker 2: So she's gonna fill you in and also give you

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Speaker 2: is off at right following your intuition. Yeah, so that

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Speaker 2: should be interesting. Plus there's a lot going on today,

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Speaker 2: but you know how we do. We always started off

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Speaker 2: with some love and some positivity and we want to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's way up.

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Speaker 1: Shine turn your lights on, y'all, spreading love to those

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Speaker 1: who are doing greatness. The light on them, Shine the

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Speaker 1: light on them. It's time to shine a light on them.

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Speaker 3: All right, way yup? But Angela, Yeah, I'm here with Selena.

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Speaker 2: Hill, hey y'all, and today we should shine a light

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Speaker 2: on this brand called Honefa. It's a black woman on

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Speaker 2: luxury label and the founder is Anifa Mavoemba.

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Speaker 3: And I know you saw what happened with.

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Speaker 6: Her, yes, yeah, so she she's been experiencing production delays

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Speaker 6: TikTok Instagram saying that they never got their orders. Apparently

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Speaker 6: she did a Hudna Friday. I think around on Black Friday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, November and November, and.

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Speaker 6: Folks like, well it's February going into March. Now, we

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Speaker 3: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: It was pre orders, right, but now everything has finally

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Speaker 3: But she also was pregnant and gave birth in December.

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Speaker 4: Just a lot, she's doing a lot, and she.

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Speaker 2: Felt like, she said, that things ended up not being

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Speaker 2: but people felt was real. What we had to fix

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Speaker 2: was real too. You can hold someone accountable without being cruel.

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Speaker 2: And I guess she's saying that being a black woman

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Speaker 2: so we're not sure how she's going to move forward.

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Speaker 3: But she said they were nice.

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Speaker 2: She was sobbing in one room and then going in

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's a lot.

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Speaker 6: And it also remember we had the tariff, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: But nobody know hers. There's just write their stuff. They

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Speaker 3: Right now, Chris, who do you want to shine a

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Speaker 2: I want to sign my hairstyle with her name is Tianae.

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Speaker 1: Where are you'all from Detroit?

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Speaker 7: For you want three ninety seven nine the RB.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: And now talk about your hairstylist, Tiana and why you

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Speaker 8: Christie is the most amazing person ever and she always

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Speaker 3: Well, how can we find Tiana online too?

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Speaker 2: If there's people listening and they're like, I need to

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Speaker 5: Can find her on Instagram and it's a sammed by

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Speaker 2: Now, Tianna, make sure you still keep them appointments open,

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Speaker 2: But you know you always got to be taking care

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Speaker 3: All right? With the thank you for calling, you are

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Speaker 3: so loving you, thank you, take care I see you.

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Speaker 2: So that was shining light eight hundred and two nine

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Speaker 3: Somehow Jamaine Dupree got in the mix. We got it

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Speaker 2: It's way up, so it's in the rooms from industry

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Speaker 1: Angela's feeling that yet.

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Speaker 3: It's way up. But Angela, Ye, it's me and Selena Hill. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I want to say everything that Teddy Riley is doing

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Speaker 2: read this book. Yeah, because I have this book and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, it's at home. I'm gonna read it this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Because he's been doing a ton of interviews and there's

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Speaker 2: He was on the WIE in Miami podcast Shout Out

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Speaker 2: to Them, and he was talking about not getting paid

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Speaker 2: working with Keith Sweat.

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Speaker 1: Like Keith Sweat myself.

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Speaker 9: Do you know I never got paid for the album

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Speaker 9: when my name is on there, right, so somebody gonna pay?

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Speaker 3: What happened like that? You holler at him like YO

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Speaker 9: I did, and he told me he never got paid neither,

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Speaker 9: which is I find it hard to believe.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't believe it. Why you say, I find it

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Speaker 2: After this went viral, Jermaine Dupre weighed in online, and

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Speaker 10: Never got paid from that album is almost impossible unless

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: We gotta find out. We gotta get Teddy up here.

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Speaker 2: And you know, he also went viral for talking about

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Speaker 2: working with r Kelly and saying everybody deserves a second chance,

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Speaker 2: Everyone deserves to repent it. Everyone gets forgiven by God

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Speaker 2: when you come to him. So that was an interview

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Speaker 2: he did in the LA time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but he also walked back those comments. Yeah, she apologize.

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Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: This has been like all these Teddy righty, I'm a

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Speaker 3: Of Teddy Riley. Yeah, it's just funny seeing him going

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Speaker 11: Now.

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Speaker 2: Ever, since all of this, he also walked back what

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Speaker 9: I want to take this moment to speak from the heart.

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Speaker 9: There was a post that went out that talked about

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Speaker 9: me not being paid on to make it Last Forever album,

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Speaker 9: and that is true. But it's also true that Keith

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Speaker 9: Sweat did not get paid either. We are in the

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Speaker 9: same situation. Doesn't have anything to do with publishing. I

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Speaker 3: And his family and his family.

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Speaker 4: The sun is so dramatic.

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Speaker 2: It was I was like, oh you did, was say,

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Speaker 2: I think he didn't get paid right all right, now,

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Speaker 2: justin Timberlake is taking legal action. He does not want

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Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty four, according to TMZ, they filed

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Speaker 2: of personal privacy. The harm from public expose it's your stigma, harassment,

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Speaker 6: So now we really want to see now something to hid, Like,

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Speaker 3: I feel like when you do that too, it makes

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Speaker 4: Makes it because you're just adding more attention to it.

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Speaker 3: It's like, who do you think you are? We're going

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Speaker 2: And speaking of lawsuits, Cardi B wants Tashak to show

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Speaker 4: Yes, she has to do it.

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Speaker 3: You're like, I'm a journalist and I know that you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well Tasha does have a bankruptcy case

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Speaker 2: in Florida, so maybe that's like we said, bankruptcy is

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Speaker 3: That's true. All right, that is your yee t.

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Speaker 2: And when we come back, we have about last night

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Speaker 3: I had a great night last night.

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Speaker 4: Can't wait to hear you day now you went out,

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Speaker 4: Well my plans got canceled. Well we could talk about

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's way up.

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Speaker 1: So about last night, yes, said went.

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Speaker 2: Down all right, his way up for Angela yee, And

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Speaker 2: I'm here with Selena Hill.

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Speaker 3: What'd you do last night? I know you had all

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Speaker 4: So I was supposed to so London on the track.

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Speaker 6: He debuted his first high end jewelry collection a few

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Speaker 6: weeks ago during Grammy Week, and I was supposed to

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Speaker 6: see it first hand, feel the jewels, hopefully take something

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Speaker 6: home at this exclusive dinner event. But they moved it

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Speaker 6: to Miami. So they were like, well, we'll let you

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Speaker 6: you know what, I'd rather do it in Miami anyway.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow. They moved it to Miami the day of.

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Speaker 4: Well, they kind of forgot to let me know.

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Speaker 3: You would have been there, Like where's Jerry? All right?

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Speaker 2: Well, I was at a really amazing event yesterday and

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Speaker 2: shout out to National Cares to Mentoring Movement and Susan Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Taylor is legendary. Yes, icon, yeah, icon, She was the

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Speaker 2: also her eightieth birthday.

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Speaker 2: But to see all of the different mentors that were

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Speaker 2: We want to hear about your workplace experiences with harassment, discrimination,

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Speaker 2: Please believe that what's up his way up at Angela Yee?

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Speaker 3: She is known as the harassment Slayer.

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Speaker 2: And I know a lot of us have stories in

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Speaker 2: Me and Selena want to hear your office story about

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Speaker 8: And then crazy thing is I didn't see. I was

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Speaker 13: Well, I recently got let go after I wrote my

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a shame that they fire you simply because

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Speaker 2: When we come back, we got your yet, and let's

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Speaker 2: talk about Bernice Burgos.

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Speaker 3: You know, people have been in love with Bernice for

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Speaker 2: But now she is getting some reverse work done and

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Speaker 1: She's like to talk like they am Jealie Jean, like

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Speaker 2: What's up? His way up at Angela Yee. And you know,

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Let's get into this yet.

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Speaker 2: So Tyler Perry got another show coming to Netflix and

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Speaker 4: That man does not sleep, it's just show and production

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Speaker 3: Not rest well. Tyler la Play is going to be

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Speaker 2: Mike Merrill from Straw and the Blackhampton's my guy Da

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Speaker 2: Vinci is going to be on there as well.

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Speaker 3: So get excited for that.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that sounds good.

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Speaker 3: They're filming now. In Atlanta, of course.

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Speaker 2: All right, Bernice Burgos is getting rid of her BBL

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Speaker 2: and she is documenting that whole journey. She's in recovery

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Speaker 2: He's been doing this body conjering since two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 2: And here's what he had to say.

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Speaker 10: What we're going to do with her is really fight

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Speaker 10: gravity and cheaper, voluptuous shape and almost create that legging

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Speaker 1: We're doing that with great and frequency quantum tightening. Your

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Speaker 6: I just want to say shout out to her and

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Speaker 4: I'm here for it.

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Speaker 3: Come back home, y'all.

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Speaker 2: But listen, at the end of the day, it is

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Speaker 2: Like he said, gravity and so when you have like

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Speaker 2: But like you said, you can't just take it all

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Speaker 2: Okay, imagine just boopp right, you can't do that, all right?

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Speaker 2: so I know this is going to be interesting to watch.

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00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,919
Speaker 2: She went from a single food truck to having lines

448
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Speaker 2: wrapped around city blocks. I remember my first time having

449
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Speaker 2: Slutdy Vegan when I was in Atlanta.

450
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Speaker 4: Oh, it's so good. Shout out to Pinky.

451
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Speaker 6: I can't wait to see this on fold and Real

452
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Speaker 6: Housewives of Atlanta because she's always been very transparent about

453
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Speaker 6: being a business owner, so I'm sure she's probably gonna.

454
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Speaker 4: Talk about this.

455
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Speaker 2: And she's been doing these pop ups everywhere, and so

456
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Speaker 2: she's been really bringing Slutdy Vegan just as a pop

457
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Speaker 2: up to different major cities. But she did a post

458
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Speaker 2: this morning and she posted what people think happens after

459
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Speaker 2: you filed bankruptcy, And it's showing like a woman with

460
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Speaker 2: a bunch of suitcases walking out of a house.

461
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Speaker 3: Right, So, bankruptcy a lot of times is just.

462
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Speaker 2: A restructuring tactic that people use, and so she is

463
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Speaker 2: attempting to restructure her business. She went through a lot

464
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Speaker 2: where she lost control, then brought it back. Now she's

465
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Speaker 2: filed for bankruptcy. She's restructuring. So we are sending our

466
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Speaker 2: to our girl, Pinky.

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Speaker 6: Com Yeah, she's also franchising, so we'll see what's next

468
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Speaker 6: for Pinky Cole.

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Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we have your under

470
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Speaker 2: the radar. These are the stories that are not necessarily

471
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Speaker 2: headline stories. They are flying under the radar, but you

472
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,399
Speaker 2: definitely need to know about them. We are going to

473
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Speaker 2: talk about whether or not when you work at an establishment,

474
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Speaker 2: you have the right to not serve somebody if they

475
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Speaker 2: have on a Trump hoodie.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll tell you what happened. It's way up

477
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Speaker 3: the news.

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Speaker 1: News. This in the news that relates to you. These

479
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Speaker 1: stories are flying under the radar. What's up?

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Speaker 2: His way up with Angela Yee and I am here

481
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Speaker 2: with my fact checker journalist's friends Selena Hill. Hey, y'all,

482
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Speaker 2: make sure you check out. He'll rise if you need anything.

483
00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,280
Speaker 2: And if you're an upcoming journalist or an entrepreneur, absolutely

484
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Speaker 2: she can help you out. But let's get into these

485
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 2: under the radar stories. So Smoothie King has issued a statement,

486
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Speaker 2: and this is all because two of their employees refuse

487
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Speaker 2: to serve a man and his wife who had on

488
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Speaker 2: The man had on a Trump hoodie m h and

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Speaker 2: they just didn't want to give him no smoothie.

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Speaker 3: Here's what happened.

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Speaker 13: We were just wanting a smoothie and you literally looked

492
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Speaker 13: at us and I asked you if everything was okay.

493
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Speaker 13: You said, we don't feel comfortable serving you because of

494
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Speaker 13: my husband's hoodie. That is discrimination.

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Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with us wanting a smoothie.

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Speaker 4: You you don't own this.

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Speaker 3: Well, both of them did lose their jobs.

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Speaker 2: This is an ann arbor Michigan and Smoothie King did

499
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Speaker 2: put out a statement. They said, as a brand, Smoothie

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Speaker 2: King is committed to ensuring our stores or a place

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Speaker 2: free of discrimination of any kind, where every guest and

502
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Speaker 2: team member is treated with care and respect. Following an

503
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Speaker 2: investigation into an incident involving a guest, it was refused

504
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Speaker 2: service at a franchise location in Michigan yesterday.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm not mad at the employees.

506
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Speaker 3: They they were like, bye, have a good day.

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Speaker 4: They stood on business.

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Speaker 6: They were like I think at one point they said, well,

509
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Speaker 6: Trump discriminates against us.

510
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're going to discriminate against you. And you

511
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Speaker 4: know what they took one for.

512
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Speaker 2: They were like, let me go get a job somewhere

513
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Speaker 2: else and guess what, somebody else will hire them. The

514
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Speaker 2: only thing is when we were discussing this, right, because

515
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Speaker 2: this isn't necessarily illegal, but they can't go the employees

516
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,119
Speaker 2: can't make up those rules.

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Speaker 6: Right, right, So a private employer can fire you for

518
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Speaker 6: doing something that breaks workplace policy.

519
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Speaker 2: But the the policy was no Trump supporters, then they

520
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Speaker 2: would have been okay if that was like the policy,

521
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Speaker 2: if it happened to be a policy.

522
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Speaker 6: But if they're like, you can't say you cannot refuse

523
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Speaker 6: to serve our customers based off of this. But like

524
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Speaker 6: the people who aren't server saying it's illegal, I'm not

525
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Speaker 6: sure it's quote unquote illegal, right, but it's still it

526
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Speaker 6: wasn't nice.

527
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, you know it's not nice to us.

528
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Speaker 2: And you can negotiate your hospital bill to save money.

529
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Speaker 2: Did you know that whether or not you have health insurance,

530
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Speaker 2: all you have to do is ask for an itemized

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Speaker 2: bill with a line by line breakdown of procedures services

532
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Speaker 2: and medication. So you need that detailed documentation and get

533
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Speaker 2: everything in writing. And you can always if somebody says

534
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Speaker 2: no when you call in whatever representative, you can call

535
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Speaker 2: back speak with the supervisor. And if you reach an

536
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Speaker 2: agreement or you're giving a discount on the bill, make

537
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Speaker 2: sure you get that confirmation.

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Speaker 4: You know what, I didn't know that was negotiable. Now

539
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Speaker 4: that's good to know.

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Speaker 3: Because them hospital bills be crazy.

541
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Speaker 4: You were like, all I did was going right, get

542
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Speaker 4: a little band aid or something.

543
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, that is you're under the radar, and

544
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 2: don't forget. We got the way it mixed for you.

545
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: At the top of the hour, plus, we have Marjorie

546
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Speaker 2: Mezzador joining us today and she is the founder and

547
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Speaker 2: chief visionary officer of Mezzador PLLLC, known as the Harassment Slayer.

548
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: So if you're facing any type of workplace discrimination, she

549
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 2: will make sure that you get your just due, but

550
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 2: also let you know how to identify that and what

551
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 2: are the steps you need to move forward.

552
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Speaker 4: Yeah, looking forward to that conversation, me too.

553
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Speaker 3: It's way up T.

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Speaker 1: Of course she came with receipts. It's time to spill

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Speaker 1: that e T.

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Speaker 2: What'sapp is way up with Angela. Yee, I'm here with

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Speaker 2: my girl Selena Hill. Yes, yeah, did you ever watch

558
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Speaker 2: Game of Thrones?

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Speaker 4: I never got into it?

560
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, you're not going to cure then, because

561
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Speaker 3: they have a movie in the works.

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Speaker 2: No, I meanlar City either, but I know it's so popular,

563
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Speaker 2: but they have a prequel script they have, so I

564
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Speaker 2: guess we could start there and then go watch.

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Speaker 4: You know what, I'd rather watch a movie than the

566
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Speaker 4: whole series, so I'll probably sit through.

567
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Speaker 3: That all right now.

568
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Speaker 2: Jack Harlow has shared his new album teaser with Taylor Rooks,

569
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Speaker 2: and it's to sit down Conversation. It's three women, one man.

570
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Speaker 2: That what that man is Jack Carlow? And here they

571
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Speaker 2: are talking about men saying I love you.

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Speaker 13: I think that in a way that we say women

573
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Speaker 13: who start power when they have sex, I think men

574
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Speaker 13: feel like the loose star power when they.

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Speaker 4: Say I love saying all said I love you. They'll

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Speaker 4: say it like so quickly.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, they do all say it, but.

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Speaker 1: Then it always.

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Speaker 4: I do think that that's something that might feel scary for.

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Speaker 3: Ye I see Is that true? Do men lose their

581
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Speaker 3: power when they say I love you.

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Speaker 4: By being vulnerable?

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Speaker 6: No? I would I think that, you know, vulnerability is

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Speaker 6: something that you need in a relationship.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that is a conversation that like, who

586
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Speaker 2: said I love you first? You know, they're a big

587
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Speaker 2: deal for a guy to come forward and say that.

588
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Speaker 2: So it's just a we men usually say it first anyway.

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Speaker 3: They do, and usually when they're drunk.

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Speaker 2: And ray J's mother has gone on social media because

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Speaker 2: you know, there's been a lot of talk about ray

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Speaker 2: J's health.

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Speaker 3: Is he taking this?

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Speaker 13: Is it real?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: His mother is coming to his defense and clearing up

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Speaker 2: what's going on with him in the heart condition that

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Speaker 2: he has.

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Speaker 3: Here's what she said.

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Speaker 11: So they determined that he had cardiomyopathy, a serious heart disease.

601
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Speaker 11: It was so scary and serious that every other word

602
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Speaker 11: that was explained to us was this is life threatening.

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Speaker 2: Well, and the blood flow to his heart is only

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Speaker 2: at fifteen to twenty percent and that's the condition that

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Speaker 2: he has.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know what he can do about it.

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Speaker 3: But I am definitely always praying for Raize.

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Speaker 2: I would hate to get any bad news about him,

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Speaker 2: but yes, they have heart disease.

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Speaker 3: It's like the number one killer for black people. So

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Speaker 3: we also have to pay attention to our body.

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Speaker 4: Yes, take care of our bodies all right?

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Speaker 3: Well that is your yet and when we come back.

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Speaker 2: We have asked Yee eight hundred two ninety two fifty

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Speaker 2: one fifty menus Selena here, any question you have?

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Speaker 3: We got you back.

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Speaker 1: Its way up with it's relationship with career advice. Angela's

618
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Speaker 1: dropping facts.

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Speaker 3: So you should you should know this is a SD

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Speaker 3: what's up? Its way up with Angela Yee?

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Speaker 2: And I got my girl Selena Hill with me today

622
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Speaker 2: and we have a listener who is about to lose

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Speaker 2: her mind and I can't blame her. She left a

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Speaker 2: voicemail about her daughter ended up sleeping with her employer,

625
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Speaker 2: but then later on found out it was a bet.

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Speaker 7: I just learned that my daughter, she is twenty two,

627
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Speaker 7: just had her first.

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Speaker 14: Relationship with a thirty year old man who is in

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Speaker 14: a position of power as her supervisor. She gave her

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Speaker 14: her virginity and have learned that her boss people on

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Speaker 14: the corporate level manager supervisor. It was a bet as

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Speaker 14: to who could take her v card. I would like

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Speaker 14: to know is there.

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Speaker 7: Any type of lawsuits or some type of guidance because I'm.

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Speaker 14: Ready to hurt someone.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready to hurt somebody for her.

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00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you're now disgusting, that is, and you

638
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: know what, Your daughter, first of all, should not be

639
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Speaker 2: ashamed or embarrassed, because the people who did this to

640
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Speaker 2: her should be ashamed or embarrassing. And the fact that

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Speaker 2: people in upper management nobody was like this is awful,

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00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 2: This is wrong a young girl. Here's a couple of

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Speaker 2: things I want to say. A person in a position

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Speaker 2: of power having sex with one of their employees is

645
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 2: always a no no in the workspace. And then now

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Speaker 2: it's a hostile work environment for her. She's not comfortable

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Speaker 2: at work. There are other people who have kind of

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Speaker 2: conspired to do something like this, and this is something

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Speaker 2: that I feel like would be a ClearCase of sexual harassment.

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Speaker 2: It feels like this is unlawful, So I would first

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Speaker 2: consult with an attorney.

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Speaker 3: Right, what do you think, Selena?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so there's no federal law prohibiting office romance, but

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Speaker 6: like you said, sexual harassment and discrimination can definitely apply.

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Speaker 6: She should also go back to an employee handbook because

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Speaker 6: if there's a policy against office romance, and then her

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Speaker 6: supervisor is in clear violation and could be held accountable

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Speaker 6: or even fired.

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Speaker 3: But this don't feel like a romance.

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Speaker 6: Well, he may have tried to court her, he may

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Speaker 6: have manipulated her. We don't know what he did to

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Speaker 6: get her in bed, but it did happen, and now

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Speaker 6: she feels a shame, like she's like a laughing stock.

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Speaker 2: There's a psychological impact that comes along with this. Number one,

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Speaker 2: The first thing for her to understand is that she

666
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Speaker 2: did not do anything wrong. Something wrong was done to her.

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Speaker 2: And if she's got to talk to a therapist, and

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Speaker 2: if you need help finding one, hit us up in

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Speaker 2: the email and I can see who we can refer

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Speaker 2: you to. But I definitely think she needs somebody to

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Speaker 2: talk to about this, definitely out of get out of

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Speaker 2: that space and out of that work environment. But also

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Speaker 2: I would definitely consult with an attorney and see what

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Speaker 2: legal rap I can go.

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Speaker 6: They prayed on her, And to your point, I kind

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Speaker 6: of sound like a lawsuit to me. I'm not a lawyer,

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Speaker 6: but I'm like I would definitely like you said about

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Speaker 6: with someone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like abusive power, misuse of authority, manipulation. Yep,

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Speaker 2: you know all of those things. So girl go out

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Speaker 2: and own that company. Yes, why guys own that company.

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Well that was ask yee eight hundred and two ninety

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Speaker 2: two fifty one fifty All right. Well, we have Marjorie

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Speaker 2: Mezadora joining us when we come back, and I think

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Speaker 2: after everything that we just heard about, I think this

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Speaker 2: is going to give people valuable information on what they

688
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Speaker 2: can do with harassment and discrimination in the workplace.

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Speaker 3: She is known as the harassment.

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Speaker 2: Slayer and she's an advocate for employees facing discrimination, harassment, retaliation,

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Speaker 2: and systemic misconduct.

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Speaker 3: So we'll be talking to her. It's way up for

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Speaker 3: me here we go upgain.

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Speaker 1: This is way up with Angela ye what's up?

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Speaker 2: His way up at Angela yee and my girl, Selena

696
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Speaker 2: Hill is hanging out with me yep yep. Journalist extraordinaire

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Speaker 2: and we're really excited. We have so many questions for you.

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Speaker 3: Today. We have Marjorie Mezador here.

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Speaker 2: She is the harassment Slayer, but you're also the founder

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Speaker 2: and chief visionary officer of Mezzador p LLC, which is

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Speaker 2: a workplace discrimination law firm employment and workplace discrimination law

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Speaker 2: firm dedicated to advancing justice, equity, and accountability in the workplace.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us. Today.

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Speaker 12: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting in this.

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Speaker 2: DNA's that we're in right now, a lot of things

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Speaker 2: have been unprecedented. A lot of things have been rolled back.

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Speaker 2: How has your job and what you do for people?

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Speaker 2: What are the shifts that you've seen?

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Speaker 12: Right, So, unfortunately I'm busier than umber. Right what people

711
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 12: are doing is they're taking this new anti DEI stance

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Speaker 12: and they're using that to bolster their already existing prejudice

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Speaker 12: and discrimination. So what we're seeing is things like six

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Speaker 12: hundred thousand black women have been completely disenfranchised out of

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Speaker 12: the workplace last year. Statistics say that black women are

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Speaker 12: the most educated demographic in the United States.

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Speaker 4: I cannot tell you.

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Speaker 12: How many women who I've counseled who have received letters

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Speaker 12: that have literally said, the political climate has shifted in

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Speaker 12: regards to your blah blah blah, and therefore we are

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Speaker 12: going to be expending resources and X, Y and Z

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Speaker 12: on other day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the most unqualified people work in our government. Yes,

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Speaker 2: crazy at that part, because I think they make it

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Speaker 2: seem like DEI means it's unqualified people in positions.

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Speaker 12: The only thing that DI really means is that you're

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Speaker 12: going to be taking a look at. Yeah, you still

728
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Speaker 12: have to meet all the criteria for the job. It

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Speaker 12: just means that you're otherwise going to take a look at.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm here with Selina Hill and we're talking

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Speaker 2: to Marjorie Mezzidor aka the harassment Slayer. I want to

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Speaker 2: ask you this too, because here's another thing in the

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Speaker 2: work that I do and seeing what people have to say.

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Speaker 2: Civil cases where people are, you know, trying to get

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Speaker 2: a settlement for a cent amount of money or get paid.

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Speaker 2: People also tend to look at that as this person's

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Speaker 2: just trying to get a payday. So I want you

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Speaker 2: to break that down to because I feel like there's

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Speaker 2: a misconception about why people file civil cases.

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Speaker 12: First, right, So not everything that is discriminatory or harassing

741
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Speaker 12: is criminal. So criminal has one standard beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Speaker 12: That's the standard for criminals. So that's high civil that

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Speaker 12: standard is more likely than not forty nine fifty one. Okay,

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Speaker 12: So if you have to prove your case seventy five

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Speaker 12: eighty five versus forty nine to fifty one, which one

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Speaker 12: you're gonna go for. You're gonna go for the forty

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Speaker 12: nine fifty one because it's easier, particularly if it's a

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Speaker 12: he said, she said type of thing. The other part

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Speaker 12: of it with the civil prosecution is you have an

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Speaker 12: opportunity to resolve it and nobody even know about it.

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Speaker 12: That's good for the person who's been attacked and the

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Speaker 12: person who who's allegedly did the attacking. The other part

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Speaker 12: of it with the civil prosecution is you have an

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Speaker 12: opportunity to resolve it and nobody even know about it.

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Speaker 12: That's good for the person who's been attacked and the

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Speaker 12: person who's allegedly did the attacking.

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Speaker 2: Marjorie Mezzador is here, the founder and chief visionary Officer

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Speaker 2: of Mezzador PLLC, widely known as the Harassment Slayers, is

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Speaker 2: an advocate for employees facing discrimination, harassment, retally and systemic misconduct.

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Speaker 3: We have more when we come back. It's way up.

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Speaker 1: You're tapped in a way up with Angela Yee.

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Speaker 2: What's up as way up with Angela Yee. It's me

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Speaker 2: and Selina Hill and we're talking to Marjorie Mesidor. She

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Speaker 2: is the harassment slayer. Even us thinking about everything, like

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Speaker 2: with Diddy, people wait years, decades to come forward, and

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Speaker 2: I always see people say why didn't they say something

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Speaker 2: when this happened.

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Speaker 12: Fear of retaliation, fear of not being believed, which is

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Speaker 12: actually a bigger fear than retaliation. Your word is enough,

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Speaker 12: but not everybody gets treated like their word is enough.

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Speaker 12: There are people who believe that unless they can get

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Speaker 12: two or three to back up what they're saying, that

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Speaker 12: their word is not enough.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes legally it's also say you sue for harassment

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Speaker 2: and you don't win, then people think that means you're

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Speaker 2: you were lying and it didn't happen, when a lot

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Speaker 2: of times it just means you couldn't necessarily prove that legally, right.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 12: And the thing is, and that's another thing too, is

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Speaker 12: that in most often in cases where there's sexual harassment,

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Speaker 12: it is almost always a he said, she said, she said.

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Speaker 5: She said.

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Speaker 12: But that's what juries are for, right, and the jury

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Speaker 12: can decide.

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Speaker 3: I believe you and I don't believe you.

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Speaker 12: The idea that you need additional proof than your word

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Speaker 12: is not true. It's helpful, don't get me wrong. I

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Speaker 12: cannot understate that if you have a recording, a text,

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Speaker 12: or anything right that supports you in any way, it's

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Speaker 12: gonna be helpful awaitness. But I tell clients who sit

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Speaker 12: across me all the time, your word is enough evidence.

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Speaker 12: You're gonna be sworn under oath, just like they're gonna

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Speaker 12: be sworn under oath, and the jury is gonna believe somebody.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm here with Selina Hill and we're talking

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Speaker 2: to Marjorie Mezidora, aka the harassment slayer.

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Speaker 6: I'm so glad you said that your word is enough

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Speaker 6: because in my mind I was like, if it's not documented,

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Speaker 6: I you have a witness, I would never want to

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Speaker 6: come forward because it's like you said your word against another.

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Speaker 4: But in the flip right, another scenario I have. I

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Speaker 4: know somebody who felt.

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Speaker 6: Retaliated against they were they had a workplace romance that

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Speaker 6: ended poorly and then he felt like the woman retaliated

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Speaker 6: by claiming that she was forced to do certain things

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Speaker 6: because he was in a position of power and it

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Speaker 6: really hurt him. And again it was his word against hers,

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Speaker 6: and there was context, right, there's nuance, it wasn't they

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Speaker 6: were in relationship. So in those type of circumstances, you know,

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Speaker 6: how do I don't want to say, how does the

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Speaker 6: person in power be protected?

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Speaker 4: But what happens as with.

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Speaker 12: Anything if you want to protect your perspective, you always

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Speaker 12: want to document it in some way. If you want

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Speaker 12: to protect your no document your no, if you want

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Speaker 12: to protect their yes document there yes.

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Speaker 11: Right.

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Speaker 12: Overwhelmingly people do not make up, you know, sexual harassments

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Speaker 12: and discriminatory claims, and overwhelming that is not the norm.

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Speaker 12: But we cannot ignore that that exists. So that's why

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Speaker 12: there has to be a legal process. That's why there

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Speaker 12: has to be a proof, and that's why a jury

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Speaker 12: gets to decide who's telling the truth and who is not.

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Speaker 12: There are attorneys who will not take cases that is

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Speaker 12: only blased on their client's word, no matter how good

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Speaker 12: they think that it is, and that's where people get

826
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Speaker 12: the messaging that their word is not enough, right, because

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Speaker 12: the more I'm able to establish what you said with

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Speaker 12: something other than your word, my risk goes down.

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Speaker 2: Normally, when we come back, we would have last word,

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Speaker 2: but instead Selena and I are having such an amazing

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Speaker 2: conversation with Marjorie Mezador.

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Speaker 3: We have more for you.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk more about these discrimination, harassment, retaliation, systemic

834
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Speaker 2: misconduct lawsuits that Marjorie has had to handle and let

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Speaker 2: you know what you can do it's way up.

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Speaker 1: You're way up with Angela Yee. Please believe that.

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Speaker 2: What's up his way up with Angela Yee and Selina

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Speaker 2: Hill and I are talking to Marjorie Mezzador.

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Speaker 3: She is the harassment slayer.

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Speaker 4: An employer of mine.

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Speaker 6: This isn't a past. There was a person in power

842
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 6: who hit on me. I dismissed it off, kept it moving.

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00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 6: He did the same thing to a colleague.

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Speaker 4: She reported it because she felt unsafe and harassed.

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Speaker 6: When is it actual harassment Because for me, I kind

846
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Speaker 6: of felt like, let me just brush his joker off.

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Speaker 4: But she reported it and then did face some retaliation.

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Speaker 12: You really have to trust your instincts and intuition. That

849
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 12: doesn't mean as soon as you think something's wrong that

850
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 12: you go runningto HR. You have the autonomy to decide

851
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Speaker 12: what you are comfortable with and what you are not.

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Speaker 12: So when it comes to discrimination and harassment, there are

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Speaker 12: two parts that the law looks at. It looks at

854
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Speaker 12: objectively if it's harassing, and then they look at subjectively

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Speaker 12: if it's harassing. Let's look at the subjective part. As women,

856
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 12: we get hit on a lot, and if you are

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Speaker 12: comfortable standing your ground and saying no, it may not

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00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 12: offend you that somebody even tried, but there are others

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00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 12: who think this is the workplace and it's completely inappropriate

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Speaker 12: because of this power dynamic for you to ever even

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Speaker 12: approach me, and that person has the right in the

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Speaker 12: autonomy to do that too. What makes it actually harassment

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Speaker 12: is the lack of consent.

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Speaker 3: The fact that she was.

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Speaker 12: Hit on and complained that wouldn't have made it harassment,

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Speaker 12: because if he asked the question and she said no

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Speaker 12: and he accepted her no, then it's not harassment, right.

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Speaker 12: But it's the retaliation that came after she told him

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Speaker 12: to know that made this a wrong issue. She cannot

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Speaker 12: even be punished for reporting it legitimately. But getting it wrong,

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Speaker 12: Let's say he wasn't even really hitting on her, and

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Speaker 12: she got it wrong completely complained to HR. They did

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Speaker 12: an investigation and he said, oh, I wasn't hitting on her,

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Speaker 12: and they found out he really wasn't hitting on her.

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Speaker 12: But then he's like, but oh, you're gonna complain to

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Speaker 12: me to HR, I got your number. That's still retaliation

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Speaker 12: so long as the person had a good faith belief

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Speaker 12: that what they were complaining about was legitimate.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm here with Selina Hill and we're talking

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Speaker 2: to Marjorie Mezadora aka that harassment slayer.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate this guy.

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Speaker 2: I feel like this was a great empowering conversation for

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Speaker 2: people who are listening. We've had so many people call

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Speaker 2: in just to talk about things that have happened in

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Speaker 2: the workplace what should I do? And felt like there's

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Speaker 2: nothing that they could do, but to know that these

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Speaker 2: are the steps you could take. And one thing I

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Speaker 2: want to say that I got from all of this

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Speaker 2: is document, document, document, What is that app again?

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Speaker 3: Receipts, work, receipts period.

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Speaker 4: One of my biggest takeaways is your word is enough.

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Speaker 6: So hopefully that will encourage people if anything is happening,

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Speaker 6: speak up. You know, how can they get in contact

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Speaker 6: with you or maybe somebody a local lawyer or attorney,

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Speaker 6: Like what type of help of resources are out there

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Speaker 6: for people who only have their word.

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Speaker 12: Fortunately, a majority of employment discrimination attorneys are contingency based,

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Speaker 12: which means they will take your case without you having

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Speaker 12: a paying money up front.

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Speaker 3: Good to know for everyone listening, And most.

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Speaker 12: Of the time consultations are free for us, particularly at

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Speaker 12: Mezodor Poc.

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Speaker 4: I may not take your case.

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Speaker 12: Because I have six attorneys at my firm, we can't

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Speaker 12: take every case right. But I'm not going to just

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Speaker 12: decline you and leave you high and dry. You're gonna

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Speaker 12: walk away with resources. You're gonna walk away with more

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Speaker 12: information on how to how to pursue this yourself. You

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Speaker 12: may even walk away with information on how to speak

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Speaker 12: to the next attorney about what it is that you

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Speaker 12: have going on. What's the point of being a black

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Speaker 12: woman attorney?

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Speaker 2: If I get key, hopefully people who are listening, if

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Speaker 2: there's something that you've been contemplating, or some first steps

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Speaker 2: you know you need to take, this is your sign

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Speaker 2: to go ahead and make those first steps. And I

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Speaker 2: appreciate you for sharing all of this invaluable information with us.

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Speaker 12: Thank you for having me. Thank you ladies for shedding

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Speaker 12: a light on this.

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Speaker 3: And you're gonna continue to be a resource for us

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Speaker 3: on Way Up. Absolutely watch that.

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Speaker 2: Full interview on my YouTube channel Way Up with Ye Selina.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being here two days in

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Speaker 2: a row. Of course, thank you for having me all

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Speaker 2: this pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Girl.

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Speaker 4: Look, anytime y'all need me, I'm here.

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Speaker 3: Well you guys have an amazing day. We will see

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Speaker 3: you tomorrow. It's way up.

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Speaker 1: We see you, Queen, taking over the world, one day

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Speaker 1: at a time. We're going way up for the ladies

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Speaker 1: with Angela Yee