1 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black, We're brown ambition. 2 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: Hey mana yes to this shirt. It's a dress. I 3 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: was gonna say, this is a frock. It's a frock. 4 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 3: It's a frock and a half for frock's sake. This 5 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 3: is from the Target. I'm sony. 6 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 2: Is this a tap of line? No? Not to you right? No? 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 3: No, no, not tabsline. This is from one of their 8 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 3: capsule collections. It's a black designer. I want to say 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 3: his first name is Chris. Okay, but every once in 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 3: a while I see a beautiful black woman in the 11 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 3: wilderness wearing their shirt, and I just dress and I 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 3: just want to be like Target. No, but it's just 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,599 Speaker 3: no one wants you to just run up on them 14 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 3: and talk about Target. 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: It's really cute. The frock is crocking you. Hey, you 16 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: very much. 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 3: You know. I do what I can. I do what 18 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: I can. Hew you doing on this Monday. 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good. 20 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: Actually had therapy this morning, so I was like, you know, 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: sometimes I'd go like, oh no, but it was good, 22 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: Like it was always good. Honestly, Doctor Green is always amazing. 23 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes you just don't feel like dealing. 24 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 2: With like like the stuff you have to deal with. 25 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 3: My therapist called me out. She's like, if you're going 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: to cancel the night before, you know, let's let's let's 27 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 3: make this a twenty four hour and advance thing. So 28 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 3: I'd be like, my, I don't think I'm gonna want 29 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 3: to talk tomorrow. 30 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, she called me out. 31 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 3: Sorry, doctor Laura. 32 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: No, it just was like yeah, because sometimes and I 33 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 1: honestly was thinking, I'm like maybe I should cancel. 34 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 2: I'm like, do you want to cancel? Why? Why? 35 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: You just don't feel like talking and dealing with the real, 36 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: the real deal. That's okay to say it, but you're 37 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: not canceling. And I didn't, and I'm glad that I didn't, 38 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: because you know, really a really good therapist gives you 39 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: something to think about. And said, huh, I never thought 40 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: about it that way for sure. 41 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 3: But it's like we don't want to save money. Sometimes 42 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 3: I want to like go to brunch and not save money. 43 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 3: And then I'm like, that's the therapy financial emergency fund. Thing, 44 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 3: Like therapy is the emergency. 45 00:01:58,960 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: Fund for y'all brain. 46 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 3: It is do your tithing, do your contributions, show up 47 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 3: if you don't want to show up. But thank you 48 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 3: for that transparent moment. No, I've been in a this 49 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,679 Speaker 3: has been a day of sewing for me. Man. 50 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 2: So whenever I like have a. 51 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 3: I to be here with the needle and thread with 52 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 3: whose free time? Nah, No, just whenever I have a 53 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 3: busy day. Now, I go back to that analogy of 54 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: like you're in your season of sewing that you talked 55 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 3: about before, and I'm like this, I was sewing today, 56 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 3: so so just a bunch of a bunch of stuff, 57 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 3: but exciting stuff. I had to look at my calendar 58 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: and I do like a pep talk for myself, like Okay, 59 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 3: we can get through this. Also, let's look at the meeting. 60 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: This is exciting stuff. This is like interesting stuff, you know. 61 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 3: But you reminded me that I didn't even remember today 62 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 3: was a holiday. It was Amazon stock split day. 63 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: Girl, Okay, the girls are going up in the in 64 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: the in the group chat. 65 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 3: So I have a group around in any good group chat. 66 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,399 Speaker 1: And my sister's girl like, you know, if we don't 67 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: keep it like it's literally just me and my four sisters. 68 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: And so my sister Karen was like, don't forget today 69 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: Amazon had their stocks split. 70 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 2: What is it twenty to one. It's huge, so you can. 71 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 3: Get a share of Amazon, right, I mean this is Monday, 72 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 3: we're taping this, and obviously stocks change, but what's it 73 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 3: that like one twenties one something right now? 74 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, like one twenty four? 75 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, well in the one twenties, because to 76 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: your point, it is and who even knows. It's literally 77 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: like fluctuating all over. But maybe we should explain what 78 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: a stock split is. 79 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: Can you explain it? 80 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,839 Speaker 3: Because I feel like I don't always understand entirely other 81 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 3: than it's just like, oh, it's more affordable for people. 82 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's not the same less you're the No, 83 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: you're not getting less money or more money. Ye, it's 84 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: literally let's just say you have a two to one 85 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: stock split and you have one hundred dollars worth of 86 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: stock of like we're just saying, you know, Brown Ambition stock, 87 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: because why not? Right, So if one hundred if one stock, 88 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: you have one stock of Branhambision is worth one hundred dollars. 89 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: If we did a two to one stock split, then 90 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: you would have two stocks, each worth fifty dollars a piece. 91 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: So you still own one hundred dollars worth of stock. 92 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,679 Speaker 1: It's just split into two separate sections. So there's two reasons. Well, 93 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: a couple of reasons why companies like to do this 94 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: is that one Amazon was in the thousands. I can't 95 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: remember what it was, and I should have checked them 96 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: what it was before the two to one's the twenty 97 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: to one stock split. It was literally five figures for 98 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: one Amazon stock, which is a lot of money, right, 99 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: And so one of the reason why they do a 100 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: stock split is that now people who could not afford 101 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 1: mostly everybody you know, to buy stock for one thousand 102 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: dollars plus can most more likely afford to buy a stock, 103 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: you know, for one hundred and twenty something dollars. So 104 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: you're not getting like a bigger piece of the company. 105 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: It's basically just like you're getting a fractional share you know, 106 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: of this company you know. So that's one, and then two. 107 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: What it allows is that if more people you know, 108 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 1: how stocks and anything that you sell works is that 109 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: the higher the demand, the more valuable thing becomes. Now 110 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: people who normally were like, I can't buy Amazon are 111 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: rushing to buy Amazon. And the hope is that the 112 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: stock will go back up and creep back up from 113 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: one to twenty something to two hundred to three hundred 114 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: and beyond. So Amazon is going to be worth more 115 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: money in the end, and like you to be able 116 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,239 Speaker 1: to get in on the groundish level. 117 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like giving everyone another shot. 118 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. 119 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 1: Literally, it's like, so, yeah, so you know that obviously 120 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: you have to do your homework. We're not here to 121 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: say go buy Amazon. That's not what this is at all. 122 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: It's just to know that there is a stock split, 123 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: and at the very least it's a great opportunity for 124 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: you to do a little studying and say, ooh, let 125 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: me see how you know this is cute? So it's 126 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: one twenty something today. So if we say this is Monday, 127 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: the what is it the six mandy? 128 00:05:58,520 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 2: When is the sixth? 129 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am right, so June one of the sixth, twenty twenty. 130 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: By the time you listen to this, where's the stock now? 131 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, why don't. 132 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 3: You tweet us? 133 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: You know, we give use some tweets, just be like, hey, 134 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: the stock price is this today? At what is it? 135 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: DBA podcast on Twitter BA podcast, And so why don't 136 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: you tweet us and say to you know, the stock 137 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: price when I when I check today is thought. Matter 138 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: of fact, let's mark the time exactly what it is, 139 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: because I think that'll be really interesting to say, like, 140 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: you know, day to day what the stock is looking like, 141 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: because we get to practice like understanding, like you know 142 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: how stocks go up and down. 143 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: Let me see Amazon. Well, actually it's called alphabet. It's 144 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 2: not Amazon, right, No, that's Google. You know that's Google. 145 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 2: Look at me. Meanwhile, girl, I'm like, may let me 146 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 2: make sure actually brought Amazon. 147 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: Wouldn't be crazy if I bought. 148 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: To Wait, who's the sister who helps you before you 149 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 3: press this? 150 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: It's like, so it is one twenty five, one hundred 151 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars and forty cents. That's what it 152 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: is right now, A hundred twenty five cents. Let us 153 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: know the day you listen, whatever day you're listening, say 154 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: I just checked the Amazon and it's now currently this. 155 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: I think that'll be exciting to see, like the shift. 156 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean this is I will tell y'all 157 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 3: point blank, I am not the one to give you 158 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 3: specific stock advice. I'm the dumb dumb who bought Peloton 159 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 3: like in the pandemic and because you know, we had 160 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: Terry on Terry Agioma from she what's her name? Trade 161 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: and travel. We had her on and we I got 162 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 3: so excited, and she's like, again and again, if you don't, 163 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 3: you don't, don't trade stocks without having a plan and 164 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 3: how important your plan is and all that kind of stuff. 165 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 3: I never had no plan. It was very apparent to me. 166 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 3: I still have those shares of Peloton. They are probably 167 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: worth like, I don't know, four dusty fruit loops from 168 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 3: the bottom of my purse right now, that's probably what 169 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: they were. Yeah, I'm still an index I'm gonna I'm 170 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 3: an index fund gal. But I am like to your point, 171 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 3: I'm I feel like at a certain point I will 172 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 3: be ready. I'll be d need to put together a plan. 173 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 3: I need to like get my crap together. But in 174 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 3: the meantime, I'll watch you spend your money and sounds. 175 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean because honestly, the last time I 176 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: purchased the stock split let me see what it was, 177 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: it did really well because I listened to you know, my. 178 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 2: Gurroom aka Carol. Yes, I was like, I always ask Carol, 179 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 2: so what do you do? Tesla stockspood? What it was Tesla? 180 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 2: And also was it Google? It might have been Google see. 181 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: Yes, I'm like, how do I even check? I'm such 182 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: a but it was honestly, I'm not as well. It 183 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: didn't do, you know, Like I mean, obviously everything is 184 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: down now, but I had purchased Tesla. Yeah, so when 185 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: I purchased Tesla, it was they had a stock split 186 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: and it was still pretty pricey. It was four hundred 187 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: and forty four dollars and eighty nine cents when I 188 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: purchased Tesla during their stocks wood, and now Tesla is 189 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: seven hundred and ten dollars, you know, because Tesla's on 190 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: the up and doub we'll see because you know, Elon 191 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: just be talking when I mess on Twitter, So go down, 192 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: I mean, but I will say because I purchased it 193 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: during the stock split, you know, like basically, it's back 194 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: where it was before. And then at the time it 195 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: was something else. It wasn't Amazon was oh it was Apple. 196 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: Apple did a stock split around the same time, and 197 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: I purchased Apple at that time for one twenty seven 198 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: And now Apple is so not a tremendous jump up, 199 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 1: but still so. But I because the time I could 200 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: not have afforded whatever Apple was at that time. 201 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 2: I think the Apple was four. 202 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: To one, and I want to say Tesla was two 203 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: to one then that they split basically like you know, 204 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: the stock split was half and half, I think, and 205 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: I think you know Amazon was like in the Amazon 206 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: Apple was four to one. So yeah, So the thing 207 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: I like about stock splits is that most financial folks 208 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: will tell you that typically a company is going to 209 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: split stocks only when they're feeling optimistic, because usually don't 210 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: find failing companies do so. So it might be an 211 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: indication that they're feeling like things are going good, maybe 212 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: they have something new that's coming out, and you know, 213 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: so it's a but here's the thing, like, we know 214 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: how men are with their optimism. That doesn't necessarily mean 215 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: anything just because someone is optimistic, but just keep that 216 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: in mind that, like you know, someone a company can 217 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: feel optimistic, but that doesn't mean that it ends up 218 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: panning out. But just know that usually it's a sign 219 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: of optimism, which might be a sign that the company 220 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: is is feeling strong and good. 221 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 222 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: I love that, and thanks for reminding me that there's 223 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 3: a bright side. I did get some Apple stock and 224 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 3: my husband and we got Apple and some Tezzi even 225 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 3: though oh teslah elon Musk I just want just let 226 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 3: me enjoy my car. Just let me enjoy my good 227 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 3: contribution to the environment and feel smug at stop lights 228 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 3: when people try to raise me and I beat him 229 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 3: every time because that car is damn fast. 230 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 2: But Elon is ugh. 231 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 3: I can't even keep track of the bs or reach 232 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 3: coming out of his his his world, his tweets. So 233 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 3: for the and for those of y'all who who who 234 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 3: have I think we've every time we kind of mentioned 235 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 3: Tesla every once in a while, get like a DM 236 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 3: to Brian Ambisson podcast on ig plug about the fact 237 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 3: that the company has been accused of racism in a 238 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 3: couple of ways. So they've been hit with like severaldiscrimination 239 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 3: lawsuits and even potentially being flagged by the whole state 240 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 3: of California for you know, in their I don't know 241 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 3: what the status is of that, but it's some problems 242 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 3: over there. And that was like back in February twenty 243 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 3: twenty two, just. 244 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 2: To light after reading about that's one. But when it 245 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 2: came to light, basically. 246 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 3: When it came to light, yes, of course, So this 247 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 3: has been the experience of workers potentially for years. But 248 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 3: then he's just like trying to buy Twitter. And then 249 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 3: what pissed me off the most was last week when 250 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 3: he sent out that was it a tweet or an 251 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 3: email that his staff has He's like, get back to 252 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 3: the office or else minimum of forty hours per week 253 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 3: and what he said something about like or. 254 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 2: Pretend to work someplace else, Yeah, which I'm like, what 255 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 2: a douche. 256 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 3: While you pretend to work while you're just tweeting out 257 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 3: of your anus. Girl, Like, uh, I don't want to 258 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 3: get back my tussle, y'all? 259 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: Do I have. 260 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 3: No? But it's just like I feel like another toxic 261 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 3: you get when you create these deities, these demigods. I 262 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 3: feel like in the corporate world, this is what happens. 263 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 3: And I mean you've got Jeff Bezos flying off on 264 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 3: a dick shape rocket to the moon, you know, spending 265 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 3: billions of dollars on it. And now you've got Musk 266 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 3: swinging it around on the Internet and just making a 267 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 3: fool of himself. And we sort of give them these 268 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 3: platforms to do it on, you know, by just treating 269 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 3: them like they are, yeah, deities on this earth, and 270 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 3: we create these giants and then they get to swing 271 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 3: and do whatever they want to do and cause chaos 272 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 3: and create turmoil, and you know, I think we're reaping 273 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 3: what we. 274 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: So I get Yeah, honestly, my husband for buying his memoir, 275 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: he bought Elon mus has a memoir. 276 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 3: All right, that's not entirely true. I bought him the 277 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 3: memoir for his But. 278 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 2: Here's the thing you can again, I'm further problem. 279 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: No, you can learn from different people. I don't even 280 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of business men and women 281 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: who I might not agree with all their philosophy or whatever, 282 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: but there's something to still be learned sometimes is to 283 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: learn how not to do that and how not to 284 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: be that way, so that I don't think like you 285 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: know that's and you're right. You know, when you have 286 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: wealth and power, you know, the rules don't apply. I 287 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: remember reading an article about this person became a wealth 288 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: planner on purpose just to see the privilege that the 289 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: uber wealthy have. So he became, like, you know, a 290 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: wealth planner, and sometimes they, like he said, he remembers 291 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 1: like one of his first weeks on the job, his 292 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: boss was like, we have to fly to Switzerland to 293 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: meet with one of our clients. You can come with 294 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: us so you can see how you know, we interact 295 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: and he gets to the private plane that's what they're 296 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: flying out of. He said, oh my god, I forgot 297 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: my passport. I have to run back home. And his 298 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: was like, you don't need it. He's like, no, no, 299 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: we're flying to Switzerland. I name my passport and he 300 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: was like, no, you don't need it. You'll see there's 301 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: no checks, no balances, no nothing. They landed, nobody asked 302 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: for his passport. Nobody asked for anything. Those rules don't 303 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: apply to the uber ro key. Imagine flying to a 304 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: whole other country from the United States and flying back 305 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: and not being asked for your passport. All these arbitrary 306 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: rules they come up with for us, they don't apply 307 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: to the uber wealthy. And that's why you see them 308 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: behave like children, because it's like, you know, your two 309 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: year old is like, the rules don't apply. 310 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: It's it's who you're talking to. I run this. 311 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: You know, like children don't have the same rules as 312 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: adults do, and therefore they act out but their children. 313 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: And I feel like people are some of these uber 314 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: wealthy folks are out of them, out of touch the 315 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: way regular people have to navigate life, and so they 316 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: think that they can say whatever, and it changes literally 317 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: the landscape of the economy. Like Elon Musk can tweet 318 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: something about remember he tweeted the thing about like those 319 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: corn you know, he sent us something on snel about 320 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: doge coin and it's which is a cryptocurrency, and it 321 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: made that coin shoot up in value and so and 322 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: he doesn't care. He thinks it's funny and so to. 323 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,359 Speaker 2: Just go yeah high. 324 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 3: He also has this thing about and there is something 325 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 3: that I learned about Elon actually learned from him that 326 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 3: to point, but he has this this feeling. You can 327 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 3: tell from what he says that he has this moral 328 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 3: high ground because he's created Tesla, which is an electronic 329 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 3: electric vehicle, and like solar panels, and you know, has 330 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 3: done so much for climate change. And he pitched a 331 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 3: hissy fit on Twitter because have you heard of socially 332 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 3: responsible investing or esg's And wait, what does it stand for? 333 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 3: ESG funds? So there are these this yeah, this class 334 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 3: of we got when we opened Rio's brokerage brokerage account, 335 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 3: we gave him a socially responsible like ESG. I think 336 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: we invested in him in that particular fund. And it's 337 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 3: basically like we talk about index funds and ETFs, which 338 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 3: are basically like a little menu of not a little 339 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 3: but sometimes they can be every company or the top 340 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 3: five hundred companies. With ETFs, it can be tied to 341 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 3: a certain sector. So with ESG funds, you have investment 342 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 3: firms trying to come up with like a list of 343 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 3: companies who have socially responsible policies, good environmental impact, you know, 344 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 3: are basically have some kind of like moral fiber and 345 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 3: goodness about them, and it's all very arbitrary, and there's 346 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 3: been controversy about them in the past, like is this 347 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 3: actually a smart way to invest? Like do these companies 348 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 3: actually perform better? And as investors, you know, who want 349 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 3: to feel good about what they're buying, like me, I 350 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 3: want to get my son something that I can be 351 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 3: proud of, and I just kind of blindly say, oh, 352 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 3: this must be the good companies to invest in. But 353 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 3: you know, it's actually been found that they don't perform, 354 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 3: Like these actual funds are not now that we have 355 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 3: some historical data, are not performing that great compared to 356 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 3: other even potentially lower cost, lower fee funds. 357 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 2: And I did learn that. 358 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,479 Speaker 3: Because ELI pitched a hissy fit because they Tesla got 359 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 3: kicked out of one of these funds. And that's what 360 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 3: it's like, just because your your product does some good. 361 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 3: I feel like the the idea that now you are 362 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 3: not responsible for what happens at the company that creates 363 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 3: your product, that to me is where we need to 364 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 3: hold them accountable. Yes, so I'll be very very interested, 365 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 3: and I will be watching and I may hit the 366 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 3: refund button or exchange button on the car. Who knows, 367 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,479 Speaker 3: depending on how these lawsuits turn out, because that's just 368 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 3: not I don't I don't want to condone that, and no. 369 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 2: Good, no good. Oh. 370 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: I do have like a little update because a few 371 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: of you hit me up. I had like the last 372 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: of my calls with like some of my former employees 373 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: and they just went really well, I have to say 374 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 1: I have the same Yeah. So it just you know, 375 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: it was like it was hard for sure, but ultimately, 376 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: you know, that's why the things I'm learning with doctor 377 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: Green is like girls say the hard thing now says, 378 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: so you can live, you know, because I walk around 379 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: like is it have you ever watched Charlie Brown? 380 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 3: I mean I'm familiar. 381 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: I know, right, there's like there's one character is that Lionus. 382 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: There's a character that walks from with like a cloud 383 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: over his head. I don't know the character. 384 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 3: That can describing E or is that ere either welln't 385 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 3: even winning the Pooh whatever, I don't. 386 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: I don't know. 387 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: I know right one of these characters, I'm a most 388 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: positive in Charlie Brown that walks around with like a 389 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: cloud over his head. But I feel like it's a 390 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: cloud of dirt either way. There's a sadness cloud that 391 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: there's an anxiety cloud that I will live with because 392 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: I'm trying to avoid having, you know, the hard conversations. 393 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: And I am now finally saying I don't want to 394 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: live with that cloud. 395 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 2: No, I'm all, I don't what. 396 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: And so I've been it feels so good like she 397 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: gave me a really good activity and this is for 398 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: you to try as well. Well you don't have the 399 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: hard trouble with the hard conversations. But one of the 400 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: things she said, she said, how do you feel now 401 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: pre conversation about the situation. 402 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 2: I was like, you know what level of anxieties are 403 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 2: giving you? 404 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: And I said probably you know ten being the highest 405 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: one being I'm chill, I said probably a seven, like 406 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: it was really like making me like, oh my gosh. 407 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: And she said, so, how do you anticipate feeling when 408 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: you have the conversation even if it doesn't go as 409 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: well as you'd like or whatever, like and maybe you're 410 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 1: still sad about it, whatever, Like what level of anxiety 411 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: do you think you're likely to carry based upon historical 412 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: data of how you navigate? I was like, uh, I 413 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: probably get down to maybe like a three or four 414 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: And she was like, well, I like those odds. So 415 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: you're carrying around a seven, and the way to get 416 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: to a three or four is through this door of 417 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: this one conversation, you know. And so it just really 418 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: helped me to visualize, like, have the conversation and you 419 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: can drop from a seven to a four, you know, 420 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: and then you get to dissipate this cloud of anxiety 421 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: that you're walking around with. And so it's just been 422 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,959 Speaker 1: like I've really been not just what I told her 423 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: today during therapy, I was like, you know, I don't 424 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: want to just hear the good advice. I want to 425 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: put it to work and put it to use, Like 426 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:05,719 Speaker 1: what is the point of all of this? Like I 427 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 1: have to practice the things. And so that's what I've 428 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: been doing is really practicing like oh it's hard, it 429 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: sucks practice anyway, And when I tell you, I am 430 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: just that much closer to what I deem to be free, 431 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: meaning like not carrying around the baggage of things past. 432 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that things have not happened. There hasn't 433 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: been trauma or whatever, but I'm not carrying around. 434 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:27,360 Speaker 2: The weight of it. 435 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that, I'm like able to acknowledge this 436 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: is the thing that has happened, this is how I 437 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: felt about it, but I've done something about it, and 438 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: I'm able to move forward, and so like it just yeah, 439 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: I'm like really because I know I was really emotional 440 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: during that time, and thank you guys for like you're like, 441 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: you know, writing back and you know, offering me. 442 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 2: Like support and things like that. 443 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: But I just was like it was just me venting 444 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: because I think it's good to also see like that 445 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: part of entrepreneurship that's not you know, like sunshine and lollipops, 446 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: that it's hard, but then look on the other side, 447 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: you know, you do the hard thing and you get 448 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: this feedback that was like, you know, it was just 449 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: really great to hear from folks and let them know 450 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: that I hear and feel them and to offer up 451 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: any condolences that I can. 452 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 2: So I feel good. 453 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, as a friend, that makes me very happy because 454 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 3: I just yeah, I mean you can tell And if 455 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 3: you guys aren't you want the whole backstory, go check 456 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 3: out that episode. It was a couple of weeks ago. 457 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 3: I think the actual title was the Other Side of Entrepreneurship. Yeah, yeah, 458 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 3: I mean you're always so candid like and it's a 459 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 3: gift to you work through certain things. But closure is 460 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 3: always good. Yeah. It doesn't always work. It doesn't my 461 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 3: whole like bull in a China shop thing, like talk 462 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 3: about it right now. 463 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 2: Because I'm ready. 464 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 3: It doesn't always go over so well, just ask my husband. 465 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 3: But when both people are willing to talk and you 466 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 3: can like come together and get through it, that's a 467 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 3: beautiful freaking thing. 468 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 2: Beautiful. 469 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 3: So I'm glad what you brought up for me when 470 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 3: you talked about how Elon Musk is like a toddler 471 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 3: was Oh man, I was laughing so hard at the 472 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 3: royal family they had like the I don't know some 473 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 3: part for the Queen this WEEKA did you see the 474 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 3: videos of what's the baby? Uh? Prince William's son Louis 475 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 3: or Lewis whatever, where he is legit. I I mean, 476 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 3: take the hat and the fancy dress off of Kate Middleton, 477 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 3: put her in some ath leisure and a top nott 478 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 3: and she could have been any mom and mom in 479 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 3: the world trying to shut her kid up. 480 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 2: She's looking at him and the look, you know, like 481 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: the purson lips that you give and that. 482 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 3: Look of like I see what you're doing him. I 483 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 3: know she was like, you want to time out? 484 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 2: And he's like he made this face. I don't even 485 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 2: know what that is. Because kids were so smart, They're like, oh, 486 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: we had a fancy place. 487 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: The strange she's using her we're outside voice, the power lace. Yes, 488 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 1: but it's just, honestly, it's nice to just see that. 489 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: No matter, I don't care how much money you have, 490 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: how much influence, how much whatever. Yo, Toadler is gonna Patler. 491 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I've never felt and honestly, and he didn't, 492 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 3: and he stopped showing up. 493 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 2: Two events had the baby comely. 494 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 3: I want to endear the royal family to the world. 495 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 3: Just let Kate Middleton be a struggling momb Yeah in 496 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 3: heels at an event, trying to keep her kids in line. 497 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Levity also. 498 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 3: Shout out to the Queen. I guess she's, you know, 499 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 3: a great lady, crazy white. 500 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 2: I guess I. 501 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 3: Am like, Yeah, I'm just glad, you know, Mega Markle 502 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 3: got out of there, and you know, her babies are cute, 503 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 3: and I'm happy for her. She showed up. She put 504 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 3: a hat on for them. You know, that was more 505 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 3: than she ever had to do. And and we we 506 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 3: wish her. Well, that's that's all I want to say. 507 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 3: All right, Well should we take a quick break and 508 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 3: come back with brown booth brown break? Yes, all right, 509 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 3: we are back. It's not a boost a. 510 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 2: Break right now. It's time to boost up. Break up, 511 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 2: boost up, break up. Boost ah break oh boomoo to break. 512 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 2: What you're gonna do? Man, you gonna boost? 513 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm feeling a boost a mystic today. I want 514 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 3: to boost. I could, I could have done a break, 515 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 3: but I'm gonna do the positive side. I'm gonna do 516 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 3: a boost. For the jobs report that came out on Friday, 517 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 3: the Labor Department release some job numbers and they were 518 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 3: extraordinarily good. And I say this to all the people 519 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 3: who have been anxious and reading, you know, choice headlines 520 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 3: about how they have been layoffs recently. We've seen them 521 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 3: at CNN Plus and we've talked about Peloton earlier that 522 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 3: was early better. We've seen them at like payment app Klarna, 523 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 3: and how these layoffs are hitting tech especially hard. But 524 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 3: nearly four hundred thousand jobs were added in May, and 525 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,360 Speaker 3: unemployment continues to be really really freaking low, like three 526 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 3: point six percent, which is among the lowest rates we've 527 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 3: had for decades now. So I say all this to 528 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 3: say we going to be all right, right. There are, yes, 529 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 3: there are layoffs, there are some hiring freezes, but the 530 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 3: job market is definitely still healthy. And I also feel 531 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,199 Speaker 3: like there's and I hear this from clients all the 532 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 3: time too, you know, everyone's talking about how there's so 533 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 3: many jobs and how you know companies can't find anybody. 534 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 3: But then why am I not getting calls back? And 535 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 3: why am I not getting through these interviews and or 536 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 3: finding the job that I want to find? And I'm 537 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 3: like everyone, like the people's standards for what we want 538 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 3: out of employers has risen as it should have risen 539 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 3: so so high that those jobs with the with the 540 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 3: benefits and the hybrid work schedules, with the flexible work schedules, 541 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 3: you know, with the unlimited PTO. Those are not that 542 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 3: they're necessarily fewer further between, but more people want them 543 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 3: now because now they see how the other half is living. 544 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 3: They're on hashtag career talk on TikTok and seeing right. 545 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,959 Speaker 3: So it's more competitive and it will continue to be competitive. 546 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 3: So I think you just have to like adjust your 547 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 3: expectations the job. There are jobs out there, but think 548 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 3: about like your particular industry and which jobs you are 549 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 3: going after, and then like adjust your mindset to maybe 550 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 3: have to hold on, you know, and push through and 551 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 3: stay optimistic even if it feels like, Okay, the job 552 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,959 Speaker 3: that I want so badly and that everyone's telling me exists, 553 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 3: hasn't you know, come yet. They're out there. They're really competitive, 554 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 3: but largely this whole you know, this whole storyline about 555 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 3: how I know that we are, you know, edging toward 556 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 3: recession and all of that, but the job's numbers were 557 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 3: extremely optimistic. 558 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 1: So and if you're needing help, hello, we have our 559 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: very own career coach manadrab right here. 560 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: Get you some They want to hire you, Mandy, How 561 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 2: could they hire you. Mandymoney dot com. 562 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,479 Speaker 3: You know I've had and I turned my baby business 563 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 3: turned one this weekend. 564 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 2: Okrat, that's a booze girl. I forgot about that. I was. 565 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 3: I wrote it down. Yeah, I turned one. Bandy Money 566 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 3: turned one. I cannot believe that's from the day that 567 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 3: I got my LLC. 568 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: Mandy with an Eye. Just you know, so Mandy with 569 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 1: an eye, Mandy Money not spell my name. Then worry listening, Well, 570 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: you know they might be new people. They put a 571 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: Mandra money dot com. No, No, but for real, if 572 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 1: you're like, especially now more than ever, you really want 573 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: to hone your like skills about how to negotiate, how 574 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: to find the right job. 575 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 2: That's why we have Mandra. That's what she'd be doing. 576 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 2: That's why we have Manda. Go get you some. 577 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 3: I'm so damn grateful to be doing this. I feel 578 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 3: so good about like, I know I'm doing what I'm 579 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 3: supposed to be doing, the women that I'm helping, the 580 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 3: feedback that I'm getting, it's just all it's all happening. 581 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 3: And I feel like too. I get to be optimistic 582 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 3: because I see the success happen every day. I see 583 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 3: the struggles. But then I get to see people succeed too, 584 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 3: So that's why I'm always like, I know, I've seen 585 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 3: people struggle. I've also seen what happens when you just 586 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 3: keep at it and you keep working and do not 587 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 3: settle for less, you know, career wise. 588 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, so if you want some tuppy bird Andy 589 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: money dot com and then it'll be in our show 590 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: notes her her website, just in case you forget how 591 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: to spell her name. Yeah, I wouldn't do two quick boosts, 592 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: so boost number one. 593 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 2: So one the other day was like, well, your skin 594 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 2: is looking great. 595 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 1: Tip two black owned skincare businesses that save my skin. 596 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 1: So y'all know, Well maybe you might not know because 597 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: you're new, But I came back from Jordan like less 598 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: than a month ago, and. 599 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. 600 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: I don't think it was sunburn because I don't know 601 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: what sunburn feels like. But I had floated in the 602 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: Dead Sea, which was amazing. It's filled of it's thirty 603 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: percent or thirty three percent salt, so you can't you 604 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: can't sink because it's so buoyant. 605 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 2: Everyone floats. 606 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: And then what they do is there's like minerals that 607 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: like literally there's the mud it's like clay from the 608 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: dead sea. You're supposed to put it all over your body. 609 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: It's supposed to like rejuvenate your skin. 610 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 2: Child. I did it, and then I put it on 611 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 2: my face, and I was. 612 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: Like, it's not a little itchy. But I was like, 613 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: that's okay. I was about to be doing it the 614 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:13,719 Speaker 1: next day. 615 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 2: I was fine. 616 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: The day after that, I looked like like my worst 617 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: nightmare when I was thirteen. I broke out so badly. 618 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: And it wasn't just like literally broke out with pimples 619 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: and I don't get pimples. It was also dry patches 620 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: all over my face because I do get like a 621 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: little bit of eggemund during like transitional season, just a 622 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: little maybe like a little on my arm, but hardly 623 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: any like a little patch. 624 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 2: My whole face was a patchy, rashy, pimply mess. It was. 625 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: I really was like, what have I done to myself? 626 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: And I didn't know what to do and I was 627 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: so arry. 628 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. What have I done? What have 629 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 2: I done? 630 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 3: So when I got out there and you take the 631 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 3: body water mud and you put it on your face, 632 00:29:58,960 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 3: oh my god. 633 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 2: They say it's funeral. 634 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: Anyway, I got back to the States, and it was 635 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: like two skincare brands that like saved my face. One 636 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: my butter Bar. So I use my butter Bar anyway, 637 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: like just regular day to day. But their stuff is amazing. 638 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: If you can only use one product because it's not cheap, 639 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: it's the melon in, which is like I don't like 640 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: it's like a serum, but it's like, oh so rejuvenating. 641 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: But like I also used they have like an under 642 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: eye like like oil roller thing that's really great. I 643 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,479 Speaker 1: also like their their facial cleanser that's really great. And 644 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: so that was like, you know, that was like my 645 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: base of what you normally do. But then my friend 646 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: of mine, she's got this brand called Puka Poka Puka 647 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: and a Dawn her name is, and she's awesome. She's 648 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: had Pooka for like I don't know, probably like twenty 649 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: something years from now. But so Dawn actually has ms 650 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: and what she notices that she would get flare ups 651 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: and she started to look at the products she was 652 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: putting on her body and she was like, my skin, 653 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: Your skin is the largest largest organ on your body. 654 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: So I am you know, like ingesting these things through 655 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: like lotions and soaps, and so she starts making some 656 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: for herself and then her friends were like, oh my gosh, 657 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: can I have some? So she made it as gifts 658 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: and then a business was born. But I have to 659 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: say that I went back to using my regular my 660 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: butter bar stuff. But then Puoka is what really like 661 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: reset my skin? They have like this, She's got like 662 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,719 Speaker 1: this shade butter bomb o MG. Literally I would do 663 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: with the kids on I saw this on TikTok. They 664 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: call it slugging, where you like basically coat your whole 665 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: face with vasoline, which I don't know you agree from basoline, 666 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: but basically where you be. You know, you look like 667 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: you're five years old and you're going off the kindergarten. 668 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: Your mother just put all the bacoline on your face. 669 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: But I was using her Puokah shade butter like cream 670 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: to do that. Like every night, I would just like 671 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: coat my face. And after a week a girl look 672 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: at me, Now. 673 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 2: Look at it, Look at this, Look at this, look 674 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 2: at this, look at this. 675 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: You can't see but gallowing. Yeah, so thank you. So 676 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: Pooka is Poka go support and then my butter Bar. 677 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: Two black owned women own skincare brands that are amazing 678 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: and I love them, and then a quick boost is 679 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: in my neighborhood. So I live in a similar neighborhood 680 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: to you, Mandy, mostly black and brown folks, little enclave. 681 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 1: It's called Forest Hill and Newark, New Jersey. It's beautiful 682 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: historic homes and every time a house goes up for sale, 683 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: we all hold our breath to see who want to 684 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: move on in, because honestly, it's the nicest neighborhood in Newark. 685 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: And I have to say eighty to ninety percent of 686 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: the time it's another person of color, and I'm like, 687 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, thank you, thank you. Today I went 688 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: to like not today. Yesterday, my sister and I went 689 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: to an open house down the street, beautiful historic home 690 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: that was built in like nineteen oh eight or whatever, 691 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: and almost everybody who was in there to go see 692 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: the house. We met a couple from Brooklyn and someone else. 693 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: They were all people of color, and they were asking 694 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,600 Speaker 1: me about the neighborhood. I was like, see, I love 695 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: it here. Like I can walk with my black hoodie 696 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: on in my my sweatpants and I don't have to 697 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: be like like if I was walking in Montclair, like 698 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: which is like two towns over but not nearly as 699 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: black and brown. I would be mindful to show my 700 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: face to be like, look, I'm not quote unquote dangerous, 701 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: which is so sad. But in Forest Hill, I don't 702 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,720 Speaker 1: have to do that. I could walk with my hoodie 703 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: on and people are like, hey, good morning, good morning. 704 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: Is this and it just feels so good. And I 705 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 1: just worry that we were going to lose that because 706 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: a lot of homes went up for sale and like 707 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: I said, eighty nine percent eighty to ninety percent at 708 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: the time, it's been another person of color, and I 709 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: just love that that, like, because I want to be 710 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: able to feel safe in my own neighborhood where I 711 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: can be fully black, you know, like when Durell was here, 712 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 1: he would roll up to the house, you know, playing 713 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: his music and no one's calling the police like on you. 714 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: It's just like where as I'm hearing in other surrounding 715 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: cities that are super nice, but there's an issue. You know, 716 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: there's an issue in the school system where it's like 717 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 1: your child is being aggressive, which is code for black 718 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: because you're the only black tip in that school system. 719 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 2: We're here in Newark, Newark has some of the best 720 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 2: schools in the state of New Jersey. 721 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: And so Alyssa, my stepdaughter gets to go to Science 722 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: High School, what is one of the top schools in 723 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 1: the state of New Jersey, and she takes physics, chemistry 724 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 1: all the same time, geometry and trigonometry, and her class 725 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,239 Speaker 1: is full with other black and brown smarties, you know. 726 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: And so I just love that for her, and I 727 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: love that for. 728 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 2: Us, And so that's just a boost that, like, you know, 729 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 2: I don't mind. 730 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: The problem with gentrification is that one it devalues the 731 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: current property because the people who live there are black 732 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,359 Speaker 1: and brown, and as soon as you push them out, 733 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,840 Speaker 1: then the property is now worth more by nature of 734 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: quote unquote those people don't live here anymore, let's be real, 735 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: you know. And then all of a sudden, all the 736 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: resource and the money and everything else comes flooding back 737 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 1: into the neighborhood. And I'm like, no, if folks came 738 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,239 Speaker 1: in and you were able to continue to share in 739 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: the development and the growth of a neighborhood, I would 740 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: have no problem with that. But that's not what happens. 741 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: And so I'm just really glad to know that, Like 742 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 1: you know, that forest Hill is maintaining. You know, it's 743 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 1: it's level of community, honestly, and I love living here 744 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: and so that was my boost. 745 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 3: That's so on topic for me because my neighborhood, like 746 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 3: I talked about, Fred's historically black, and like, there is 747 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 3: this friction because there have been a lot of some 748 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 3: developers moving in and fixing up homes and then flipping them, 749 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 3: and the elders of the community are quite quite protective 750 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 3: and there's been you know, they're like, I'm I feel 751 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 3: like I'm in the middle of it right now, kind 752 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 3: of seeing how how both sides are playing out and 753 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 3: not like at the same time wanting like loving new neighbors, 754 00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,040 Speaker 3: but also understanding their fear and their paranoia. And I 755 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 3: mean not to diminish it, but no, they're there their 756 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 3: fear and the protectiveness of the community, yea, and I 757 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,360 Speaker 3: and I get it, and I feel like, man, I 758 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,359 Speaker 3: guess I'm I was one of those Manhattan Nites who 759 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 3: moved on over here too, in my own little way 760 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,919 Speaker 3: sort of kind of gentrifying. But it's interesting and I'm 761 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 3: I'm like, I think what they want to know from us, 762 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,239 Speaker 3: the younger people in the neighborhood is just like that. 763 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 3: We are also committed. So you mentioned like the community 764 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 3: and I'm I'm hopefully we're going to have like a 765 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 3: community meeting to talk and to listen to one another 766 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 3: and to because it's gotten heated sometimes when people are like, 767 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,480 Speaker 3: you know, we had this this this neighborhood lists serve. 768 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 3: I asked to not be on it. I just it 769 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,360 Speaker 3: was too much. From my husband, there's something juicy and 770 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,359 Speaker 3: Rikuale Dell we but yeah, it's like, oh we saw 771 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 3: you know, a new family or a new developer, and 772 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,240 Speaker 3: the developer was like a woman, you know, a family, 773 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 3: not a developer. Yeah, but it's like I get what 774 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 3: you're saying. It's like to protect the community but also 775 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 3: have at the same time those yes, those two things 776 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 3: progress so in conflict sometimes because. 777 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,239 Speaker 1: Literally it's like when people moved to Brooklyn and then 778 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: tried to shut down the West Indian Day Parade, It's like, 779 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,759 Speaker 1: what you know what I mean, that's what I mean, Like, oh, 780 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: it's so loud. I'm like, yes, yes, that's what it 781 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 1: sounds like when the parade is here in Brooklyn once 782 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: a year. I just and that's what I'm just that's 783 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,959 Speaker 1: the frustration. It's like to move in and then say 784 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,839 Speaker 1: change to fit me, you know, or to move in 785 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: and say now your house is worth something, you know. 786 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 2: So I'm just like no, I plus tude. The truth is, 787 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,320 Speaker 2: I'm worried about my safety. 788 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,959 Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't want to have to worry about walking 789 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 1: around and having the police called on me, and like, 790 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: you know, because I've seen that with my friends who 791 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 1: live in like other cities, you know, where they're not 792 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: welcomed and like you can't even walk your damn dog 793 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: and You're like. 794 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:48,759 Speaker 2: I live right here. 795 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh you're one of the safe ones. Nah, 796 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, bruh. We're not doing that, not 797 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,240 Speaker 1: up in here. And so I'm just like, yeah, I 798 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm excited about, like you know 799 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: that that's happening. Like I said, I welcome other people 800 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: to come and move here, but not to change the 801 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: fabric of like it is safe to be here, it 802 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 1: is safe to live here. I can be fully black, 803 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,319 Speaker 1: which might mean like we have so many a lot 804 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 1: of Latina Latino families that live here, and like you know, 805 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: on Saturday, I know, okay, you're gonna play music and 806 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be fake meranking in my house, and no 807 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:29,839 Speaker 1: one's gonna be unless you take it to three four 808 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, Mama, then no one's gonna be 809 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:32,879 Speaker 1: calling the police on you. 810 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 2: You know. You know that, like you just want that 811 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 2: feeling of like that. I don't think. 812 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: It's almost like being a woman that men don't understand 813 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 1: what it is as a woman. You're like, Okay, I'm 814 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,240 Speaker 1: walking back to my car. Okay, do I have my keys? 815 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 2: Okay? 816 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,840 Speaker 1: Do I have my You know, that's what it's like 817 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,640 Speaker 1: to be black in a space where you know you've 818 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 1: been made to feel unwelcome. It's like, Okay, do I 819 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,280 Speaker 1: look intimidating? Okay, I shouldn't wear a black hoodie today, 820 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,919 Speaker 1: even as a woman, you know. And I'm just like, yeah, 821 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 1: I prefer not to live that way. I'd like to 822 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,839 Speaker 1: I'd like to feel free and not feel like I 823 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,799 Speaker 1: have to make everyone else feel safe even though I'm 824 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 1: not doing anything in my own neighborhood. 825 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 2: And so cause I had considered. 826 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,279 Speaker 1: Moving to like a Montclair or whatever, and I spoke 827 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 1: to some folks that live there, and when they tell 828 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: me the challenges, I'm like, all that's for a nice house. 829 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,400 Speaker 1: N Nah, I'm good, you know, like I'll stay here 830 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,239 Speaker 1: where Like that's just not the case, you know, I 831 00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,640 Speaker 1: could be myself and you know, maybe it's not like 832 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,080 Speaker 1: as fancy as over there, but I mean, like quality 833 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 1: of life is great here. 834 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,080 Speaker 2: So but here's to safe spaces. 835 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 3: Yes, all right, friends in our heads. 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