Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black, We're brown ambition.
Speaker 2: Hey mana yes to this shirt. It's a dress. I
Speaker 2: was gonna say, this is a frock. It's a frock.
Speaker 3: It's a frock and a half for frock's sake. This
Speaker 3: is from the Target. I'm sony.
Speaker 2: Is this a tap of line? No? Not to you right? No?
Speaker 3: No, no, not tabsline. This is from one of their
Speaker 3: capsule collections. It's a black designer. I want to say
Speaker 3: his first name is Chris. Okay, but every once in
Speaker 3: a while I see a beautiful black woman in the
Speaker 3: wilderness wearing their shirt, and I just dress and I
Speaker 3: just want to be like Target. No, but it's just
Speaker 3: no one wants you to just run up on them
Speaker 3: and talk about Target.
Speaker 2: It's really cute. The frock is crocking you. Hey, you
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 3: You know. I do what I can. I do what
Speaker 3: I can. Hew you doing on this Monday.
Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 1: Actually had therapy this morning, so I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I'd go like, oh no, but it was good,
Speaker 1: Like it was always good. Honestly, Doctor Green is always amazing.
Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes you just don't feel like dealing.
Speaker 2: With like like the stuff you have to deal with.
Speaker 3: My therapist called me out. She's like, if you're going
Speaker 3: to cancel the night before, you know, let's let's let's
Speaker 3: make this a twenty four hour and advance thing. So
Speaker 3: I'd be like, my, I don't think I'm gonna want
Speaker 3: to talk tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she called me out.
Speaker 3: Sorry, doctor Laura.
Speaker 1: No, it just was like yeah, because sometimes and I
Speaker 1: honestly was thinking, I'm like maybe I should cancel.
Speaker 2: I'm like, do you want to cancel? Why? Why?
Speaker 1: You just don't feel like talking and dealing with the real,
Speaker 1: the real deal. That's okay to say it, but you're
Speaker 1: not canceling. And I didn't, and I'm glad that I didn't,
Speaker 1: because you know, really a really good therapist gives you
Speaker 1: something to think about. And said, huh, I never thought
Speaker 1: about it that way for sure.
Speaker 3: But it's like we don't want to save money. Sometimes
Speaker 3: I want to like go to brunch and not save money.
Speaker 3: And then I'm like, that's the therapy financial emergency fund. Thing,
Speaker 3: Like therapy is the emergency.
Speaker 2: Fund for y'all brain.
Speaker 3: It is do your tithing, do your contributions, show up
Speaker 3: if you don't want to show up. But thank you
Speaker 3: for that transparent moment. No, I've been in a this
Speaker 3: has been a day of sewing for me. Man.
Speaker 2: So whenever I like have a.
Speaker 3: I to be here with the needle and thread with
Speaker 3: whose free time? Nah, No, just whenever I have a
Speaker 3: busy day. Now, I go back to that analogy of
Speaker 3: like you're in your season of sewing that you talked
Speaker 3: about before, and I'm like this, I was sewing today,
Speaker 3: so so just a bunch of a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 3: but exciting stuff. I had to look at my calendar
Speaker 3: and I do like a pep talk for myself, like Okay,
Speaker 3: we can get through this. Also, let's look at the meeting.
Speaker 3: This is exciting stuff. This is like interesting stuff, you know.
Speaker 3: But you reminded me that I didn't even remember today
Speaker 3: was a holiday. It was Amazon stock split day.
Speaker 1: Girl, Okay, the girls are going up in the in
Speaker 1: the in the group chat.
Speaker 3: So I have a group around in any good group chat.
Speaker 1: And my sister's girl like, you know, if we don't
Speaker 1: keep it like it's literally just me and my four sisters.
Speaker 1: And so my sister Karen was like, don't forget today
Speaker 1: Amazon had their stocks split.
Speaker 2: What is it twenty to one. It's huge, so you can.
Speaker 3: Get a share of Amazon, right, I mean this is Monday,
Speaker 3: we're taping this, and obviously stocks change, but what's it
Speaker 3: that like one twenties one something right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like one twenty four?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, well in the one twenties, because to
Speaker 1: your point, it is and who even knows. It's literally
Speaker 1: like fluctuating all over. But maybe we should explain what
Speaker 1: a stock split is.
Speaker 2: Can you explain it?
Speaker 3: Because I feel like I don't always understand entirely other
Speaker 3: than it's just like, oh, it's more affordable for people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's not the same less you're the No,
Speaker 1: you're not getting less money or more money. Ye, it's
Speaker 1: literally let's just say you have a two to one
Speaker 1: stock split and you have one hundred dollars worth of
Speaker 1: stock of like we're just saying, you know, Brown Ambition stock,
Speaker 1: because why not? Right, So if one hundred if one stock,
Speaker 1: you have one stock of Branhambision is worth one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: If we did a two to one stock split, then
Speaker 1: you would have two stocks, each worth fifty dollars a piece.
Speaker 1: So you still own one hundred dollars worth of stock.
Speaker 1: It's just split into two separate sections. So there's two reasons. Well,
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons why companies like to do this
Speaker 1: is that one Amazon was in the thousands. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what it was, and I should have checked them
Speaker 1: what it was before the two to one's the twenty
Speaker 1: to one stock split. It was literally five figures for
Speaker 1: one Amazon stock, which is a lot of money, right,
Speaker 1: And so one of the reason why they do a
Speaker 1: stock split is that now people who could not afford
Speaker 1: mostly everybody you know, to buy stock for one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars plus can most more likely afford to buy a stock,
Speaker 1: you know, for one hundred and twenty something dollars. So
Speaker 1: you're not getting like a bigger piece of the company.
Speaker 1: It's basically just like you're getting a fractional share you know,
Speaker 1: of this company you know. So that's one, and then two.
Speaker 1: What it allows is that if more people you know,
Speaker 1: how stocks and anything that you sell works is that
Speaker 1: the higher the demand, the more valuable thing becomes. Now
Speaker 1: people who normally were like, I can't buy Amazon are
Speaker 1: rushing to buy Amazon. And the hope is that the
Speaker 1: stock will go back up and creep back up from
Speaker 1: one to twenty something to two hundred to three hundred
Speaker 1: and beyond. So Amazon is going to be worth more
Speaker 1: money in the end, and like you to be able
Speaker 1: to get in on the groundish level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like giving everyone another shot.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Literally, it's like, so, yeah, so you know that obviously
Speaker 1: you have to do your homework. We're not here to
Speaker 1: say go buy Amazon. That's not what this is at all.
Speaker 1: It's just to know that there is a stock split,
Speaker 1: and at the very least it's a great opportunity for
Speaker 1: you to do a little studying and say, ooh, let
Speaker 1: me see how you know this is cute? So it's
Speaker 1: one twenty something today. So if we say this is Monday,
Speaker 1: the what is it the six mandy?
Speaker 2: When is the sixth?
Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am right, so June one of the sixth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: By the time you listen to this, where's the stock now?
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, why don't.
Speaker 3: You tweet us?
Speaker 1: You know, we give use some tweets, just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: the stock price is this today? At what is it?
Speaker 1: DBA podcast on Twitter BA podcast, And so why don't
Speaker 1: you tweet us and say to you know, the stock
Speaker 1: price when I when I check today is thought. Matter
Speaker 1: of fact, let's mark the time exactly what it is,
Speaker 1: because I think that'll be really interesting to say, like,
Speaker 1: you know, day to day what the stock is looking like,
Speaker 1: because we get to practice like understanding, like you know
Speaker 1: how stocks go up and down.
Speaker 2: Let me see Amazon. Well, actually it's called alphabet. It's
Speaker 2: not Amazon, right, No, that's Google. You know that's Google.
Speaker 2: Look at me. Meanwhile, girl, I'm like, may let me
Speaker 2: make sure actually brought Amazon.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be crazy if I bought.
Speaker 3: To Wait, who's the sister who helps you before you
Speaker 3: press this?
Speaker 1: It's like, so it is one twenty five, one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five dollars and forty cents. That's what it
Speaker 1: is right now, A hundred twenty five cents. Let us
Speaker 1: know the day you listen, whatever day you're listening, say
Speaker 1: I just checked the Amazon and it's now currently this.
Speaker 2: I think that'll be exciting to see, like the shift.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean this is I will tell y'all
Speaker 3: point blank, I am not the one to give you
Speaker 3: specific stock advice. I'm the dumb dumb who bought Peloton
Speaker 3: like in the pandemic and because you know, we had
Speaker 3: Terry on Terry Agioma from she what's her name? Trade
Speaker 3: and travel. We had her on and we I got
Speaker 3: so excited, and she's like, again and again, if you don't,
Speaker 3: you don't, don't trade stocks without having a plan and
Speaker 3: how important your plan is and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I never had no plan. It was very apparent to me.
Speaker 3: I still have those shares of Peloton. They are probably
Speaker 3: worth like, I don't know, four dusty fruit loops from
Speaker 3: the bottom of my purse right now, that's probably what
Speaker 3: they were. Yeah, I'm still an index I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: an index fund gal. But I am like to your point,
Speaker 3: I'm I feel like at a certain point I will
Speaker 3: be ready. I'll be d need to put together a plan.
Speaker 3: I need to like get my crap together. But in
Speaker 3: the meantime, I'll watch you spend your money and sounds.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean because honestly, the last time I
Speaker 1: purchased the stock split let me see what it was,
Speaker 1: it did really well because I listened to you know, my.
Speaker 2: Gurroom aka Carol. Yes, I was like, I always ask Carol,
Speaker 2: so what do you do? Tesla stockspood? What it was Tesla?
Speaker 2: And also was it Google? It might have been Google see.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm like, how do I even check? I'm such
Speaker 1: a but it was honestly, I'm not as well. It
Speaker 1: didn't do, you know, Like I mean, obviously everything is
Speaker 1: down now, but I had purchased Tesla. Yeah, so when
Speaker 1: I purchased Tesla, it was they had a stock split
Speaker 1: and it was still pretty pricey. It was four hundred
Speaker 1: and forty four dollars and eighty nine cents when I
Speaker 1: purchased Tesla during their stocks wood, and now Tesla is
Speaker 1: seven hundred and ten dollars, you know, because Tesla's on
Speaker 1: the up and doub we'll see because you know, Elon
Speaker 1: just be talking when I mess on Twitter, So go down,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I will say because I purchased it
Speaker 1: during the stock split, you know, like basically, it's back
Speaker 1: where it was before. And then at the time it
Speaker 1: was something else. It wasn't Amazon was oh it was Apple.
Speaker 1: Apple did a stock split around the same time, and
Speaker 1: I purchased Apple at that time for one twenty seven
Speaker 1: And now Apple is so not a tremendous jump up,
Speaker 1: but still so. But I because the time I could
Speaker 1: not have afforded whatever Apple was at that time.
Speaker 2: I think the Apple was four.
Speaker 1: To one, and I want to say Tesla was two
Speaker 1: to one then that they split basically like you know,
Speaker 1: the stock split was half and half, I think, and
Speaker 1: I think you know Amazon was like in the Amazon
Speaker 1: Apple was four to one. So yeah, So the thing
Speaker 1: I like about stock splits is that most financial folks
Speaker 1: will tell you that typically a company is going to
Speaker 1: split stocks only when they're feeling optimistic, because usually don't
Speaker 1: find failing companies do so. So it might be an
Speaker 1: indication that they're feeling like things are going good, maybe
Speaker 1: they have something new that's coming out, and you know,
Speaker 1: so it's a but here's the thing, like, we know
Speaker 1: how men are with their optimism. That doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 1: anything just because someone is optimistic, but just keep that
Speaker 1: in mind that, like you know, someone a company can
Speaker 1: feel optimistic, but that doesn't mean that it ends up
Speaker 1: panning out. But just know that usually it's a sign
Speaker 1: of optimism, which might be a sign that the company
Speaker 1: is is feeling strong and good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that, and thanks for reminding me that there's
Speaker 3: a bright side. I did get some Apple stock and
Speaker 3: my husband and we got Apple and some Tezzi even
Speaker 3: though oh teslah elon Musk I just want just let
Speaker 3: me enjoy my car. Just let me enjoy my good
Speaker 3: contribution to the environment and feel smug at stop lights
Speaker 3: when people try to raise me and I beat him
Speaker 3: every time because that car is damn fast.
Speaker 2: But Elon is ugh.
Speaker 3: I can't even keep track of the bs or reach
Speaker 3: coming out of his his his world, his tweets. So
Speaker 3: for the and for those of y'all who who who
Speaker 3: have I think we've every time we kind of mentioned
Speaker 3: Tesla every once in a while, get like a DM
Speaker 3: to Brian Ambisson podcast on ig plug about the fact
Speaker 3: that the company has been accused of racism in a
Speaker 3: couple of ways. So they've been hit with like severaldiscrimination
Speaker 3: lawsuits and even potentially being flagged by the whole state
Speaker 3: of California for you know, in their I don't know
Speaker 3: what the status is of that, but it's some problems
Speaker 3: over there. And that was like back in February twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, just.
Speaker 2: To light after reading about that's one. But when it
Speaker 2: came to light, basically.
Speaker 3: When it came to light, yes, of course, So this
Speaker 3: has been the experience of workers potentially for years. But
Speaker 3: then he's just like trying to buy Twitter. And then
Speaker 3: what pissed me off the most was last week when
Speaker 3: he sent out that was it a tweet or an
Speaker 3: email that his staff has He's like, get back to
Speaker 3: the office or else minimum of forty hours per week
Speaker 3: and what he said something about like or.
Speaker 2: Pretend to work someplace else, Yeah, which I'm like, what
Speaker 2: a douche.
Speaker 3: While you pretend to work while you're just tweeting out
Speaker 3: of your anus. Girl, Like, uh, I don't want to
Speaker 3: get back my tussle, y'all?
Speaker 2: Do I have.
Speaker 3: No? But it's just like I feel like another toxic
Speaker 3: you get when you create these deities, these demigods. I
Speaker 3: feel like in the corporate world, this is what happens.
Speaker 3: And I mean you've got Jeff Bezos flying off on
Speaker 3: a dick shape rocket to the moon, you know, spending
Speaker 3: billions of dollars on it. And now you've got Musk
Speaker 3: swinging it around on the Internet and just making a
Speaker 3: fool of himself. And we sort of give them these
Speaker 3: platforms to do it on, you know, by just treating
Speaker 3: them like they are, yeah, deities on this earth, and
Speaker 3: we create these giants and then they get to swing
Speaker 3: and do whatever they want to do and cause chaos
Speaker 3: and create turmoil, and you know, I think we're reaping
Speaker 3: what we.
Speaker 1: So I get Yeah, honestly, my husband for buying his memoir,
Speaker 1: he bought Elon mus has a memoir.
Speaker 3: All right, that's not entirely true. I bought him the
Speaker 3: memoir for his But.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing you can again, I'm further problem.
Speaker 1: No, you can learn from different people. I don't even
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of business men and women
Speaker 1: who I might not agree with all their philosophy or whatever,
Speaker 1: but there's something to still be learned sometimes is to
Speaker 1: learn how not to do that and how not to
Speaker 1: be that way, so that I don't think like you
Speaker 1: know that's and you're right. You know, when you have
Speaker 1: wealth and power, you know, the rules don't apply. I
Speaker 1: remember reading an article about this person became a wealth
Speaker 1: planner on purpose just to see the privilege that the
Speaker 1: uber wealthy have. So he became, like, you know, a
Speaker 1: wealth planner, and sometimes they, like he said, he remembers
Speaker 1: like one of his first weeks on the job, his
Speaker 1: boss was like, we have to fly to Switzerland to
Speaker 1: meet with one of our clients. You can come with
Speaker 1: us so you can see how you know, we interact
Speaker 1: and he gets to the private plane that's what they're
Speaker 1: flying out of. He said, oh my god, I forgot
Speaker 1: my passport. I have to run back home. And his
Speaker 1: was like, you don't need it. He's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're flying to Switzerland. I name my passport and he
Speaker 1: was like, no, you don't need it. You'll see there's
Speaker 1: no checks, no balances, no nothing. They landed, nobody asked
Speaker 1: for his passport. Nobody asked for anything. Those rules don't
Speaker 1: apply to the uber ro key. Imagine flying to a
Speaker 1: whole other country from the United States and flying back
Speaker 1: and not being asked for your passport. All these arbitrary
Speaker 1: rules they come up with for us, they don't apply
Speaker 1: to the uber wealthy. And that's why you see them
Speaker 1: behave like children, because it's like, you know, your two
Speaker 1: year old is like, the rules don't apply.
Speaker 2: It's it's who you're talking to. I run this.
Speaker 1: You know, like children don't have the same rules as
Speaker 1: adults do, and therefore they act out but their children.
Speaker 1: And I feel like people are some of these uber
Speaker 1: wealthy folks are out of them, out of touch the
Speaker 1: way regular people have to navigate life, and so they
Speaker 1: think that they can say whatever, and it changes literally
Speaker 1: the landscape of the economy. Like Elon Musk can tweet
Speaker 1: something about remember he tweeted the thing about like those
Speaker 1: corn you know, he sent us something on snel about
Speaker 1: doge coin and it's which is a cryptocurrency, and it
Speaker 1: made that coin shoot up in value and so and
Speaker 1: he doesn't care. He thinks it's funny and so to.
Speaker 2: Just go yeah high.
Speaker 3: He also has this thing about and there is something
Speaker 3: that I learned about Elon actually learned from him that
Speaker 3: to point, but he has this this feeling. You can
Speaker 3: tell from what he says that he has this moral
Speaker 3: high ground because he's created Tesla, which is an electronic
Speaker 3: electric vehicle, and like solar panels, and you know, has
Speaker 3: done so much for climate change. And he pitched a
Speaker 3: hissy fit on Twitter because have you heard of socially
Speaker 3: responsible investing or esg's And wait, what does it stand for?
Speaker 3: ESG funds? So there are these this yeah, this class
Speaker 3: of we got when we opened Rio's brokerage brokerage account,
Speaker 3: we gave him a socially responsible like ESG. I think
Speaker 3: we invested in him in that particular fund. And it's
Speaker 3: basically like we talk about index funds and ETFs, which
Speaker 3: are basically like a little menu of not a little
Speaker 3: but sometimes they can be every company or the top
Speaker 3: five hundred companies. With ETFs, it can be tied to
Speaker 3: a certain sector. So with ESG funds, you have investment
Speaker 3: firms trying to come up with like a list of
Speaker 3: companies who have socially responsible policies, good environmental impact, you know,
Speaker 3: are basically have some kind of like moral fiber and
Speaker 3: goodness about them, and it's all very arbitrary, and there's
Speaker 3: been controversy about them in the past, like is this
Speaker 3: actually a smart way to invest? Like do these companies
Speaker 3: actually perform better? And as investors, you know, who want
Speaker 3: to feel good about what they're buying, like me, I
Speaker 3: want to get my son something that I can be
Speaker 3: proud of, and I just kind of blindly say, oh,
Speaker 3: this must be the good companies to invest in. But
Speaker 3: you know, it's actually been found that they don't perform,
Speaker 3: Like these actual funds are not now that we have
Speaker 3: some historical data, are not performing that great compared to
Speaker 3: other even potentially lower cost, lower fee funds.
Speaker 2: And I did learn that.
Speaker 3: Because ELI pitched a hissy fit because they Tesla got
Speaker 3: kicked out of one of these funds. And that's what
Speaker 3: it's like, just because your your product does some good.
Speaker 3: I feel like the the idea that now you are
Speaker 3: not responsible for what happens at the company that creates
Speaker 3: your product, that to me is where we need to
Speaker 3: hold them accountable. Yes, so I'll be very very interested,
Speaker 3: and I will be watching and I may hit the
Speaker 3: refund button or exchange button on the car. Who knows,
Speaker 3: depending on how these lawsuits turn out, because that's just
Speaker 3: not I don't I don't want to condone that, and no.
Speaker 2: Good, no good. Oh.
Speaker 1: I do have like a little update because a few
Speaker 1: of you hit me up. I had like the last
Speaker 1: of my calls with like some of my former employees
Speaker 1: and they just went really well, I have to say
Speaker 1: I have the same Yeah. So it just you know,
Speaker 1: it was like it was hard for sure, but ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, that's why the things I'm learning with doctor
Speaker 1: Green is like girls say the hard thing now says,
Speaker 1: so you can live, you know, because I walk around
Speaker 1: like is it have you ever watched Charlie Brown?
Speaker 3: I mean I'm familiar.
Speaker 1: I know, right, there's like there's one character is that Lionus.
Speaker 1: There's a character that walks from with like a cloud
Speaker 1: over his head. I don't know the character.
Speaker 3: That can describing E or is that ere either welln't
Speaker 3: even winning the Pooh whatever, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know right one of these characters, I'm a most
Speaker 1: positive in Charlie Brown that walks around with like a
Speaker 1: cloud over his head. But I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: cloud of dirt either way. There's a sadness cloud that
Speaker 1: there's an anxiety cloud that I will live with because
Speaker 1: I'm trying to avoid having, you know, the hard conversations.
Speaker 1: And I am now finally saying I don't want to
Speaker 1: live with that cloud.
Speaker 2: No, I'm all, I don't what.
Speaker 1: And so I've been it feels so good like she
Speaker 1: gave me a really good activity and this is for
Speaker 1: you to try as well. Well you don't have the
Speaker 1: hard trouble with the hard conversations. But one of the
Speaker 1: things she said, she said, how do you feel now
Speaker 1: pre conversation about the situation.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what level of anxieties are
Speaker 2: giving you?
Speaker 1: And I said probably you know ten being the highest
Speaker 1: one being I'm chill, I said probably a seven, like
Speaker 1: it was really like making me like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And she said, so, how do you anticipate feeling when
Speaker 1: you have the conversation even if it doesn't go as
Speaker 1: well as you'd like or whatever, like and maybe you're
Speaker 1: still sad about it, whatever, Like what level of anxiety
Speaker 1: do you think you're likely to carry based upon historical
Speaker 1: data of how you navigate? I was like, uh, I
Speaker 1: probably get down to maybe like a three or four
Speaker 1: And she was like, well, I like those odds. So
Speaker 1: you're carrying around a seven, and the way to get
Speaker 1: to a three or four is through this door of
Speaker 1: this one conversation, you know. And so it just really
Speaker 1: helped me to visualize, like, have the conversation and you
Speaker 1: can drop from a seven to a four, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you get to dissipate this cloud of anxiety
Speaker 1: that you're walking around with. And so it's just been
Speaker 1: like I've really been not just what I told her
Speaker 1: today during therapy, I was like, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to just hear the good advice. I want to
Speaker 1: put it to work and put it to use, Like
Speaker 1: what is the point of all of this? Like I
Speaker 1: have to practice the things. And so that's what I've
Speaker 1: been doing is really practicing like oh it's hard, it
Speaker 1: sucks practice anyway, And when I tell you, I am
Speaker 1: just that much closer to what I deem to be free,
Speaker 1: meaning like not carrying around the baggage of things past.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that things have not happened. There hasn't
Speaker 1: been trauma or whatever, but I'm not carrying around.
Speaker 2: The weight of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that, I'm like able to acknowledge this
Speaker 1: is the thing that has happened, this is how I
Speaker 1: felt about it, but I've done something about it, and
Speaker 1: I'm able to move forward, and so like it just yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like really because I know I was really emotional
Speaker 1: during that time, and thank you guys for like you're like,
Speaker 1: you know, writing back and you know, offering me.
Speaker 2: Like support and things like that.
Speaker 1: But I just was like it was just me venting
Speaker 1: because I think it's good to also see like that
Speaker 1: part of entrepreneurship that's not you know, like sunshine and lollipops,
Speaker 1: that it's hard, but then look on the other side,
Speaker 1: you know, you do the hard thing and you get
Speaker 1: this feedback that was like, you know, it was just
Speaker 1: really great to hear from folks and let them know
Speaker 1: that I hear and feel them and to offer up
Speaker 1: any condolences that I can.
Speaker 2: So I feel good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as a friend, that makes me very happy because
Speaker 3: I just yeah, I mean you can tell And if
Speaker 3: you guys aren't you want the whole backstory, go check
Speaker 3: out that episode. It was a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I think the actual title was the Other Side of Entrepreneurship. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you're always so candid like and it's a
Speaker 3: gift to you work through certain things. But closure is
Speaker 3: always good. Yeah. It doesn't always work. It doesn't my
Speaker 3: whole like bull in a China shop thing, like talk
Speaker 3: about it right now.
Speaker 2: Because I'm ready.
Speaker 3: It doesn't always go over so well, just ask my husband.
Speaker 3: But when both people are willing to talk and you
Speaker 3: can like come together and get through it, that's a
Speaker 3: beautiful freaking thing.
Speaker 2: Beautiful.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad what you brought up for me when
Speaker 3: you talked about how Elon Musk is like a toddler
Speaker 3: was Oh man, I was laughing so hard at the
Speaker 3: royal family they had like the I don't know some
Speaker 3: part for the Queen this WEEKA did you see the
Speaker 3: videos of what's the baby? Uh? Prince William's son Louis
Speaker 3: or Lewis whatever, where he is legit. I I mean,
Speaker 3: take the hat and the fancy dress off of Kate Middleton,
Speaker 3: put her in some ath leisure and a top nott
Speaker 3: and she could have been any mom and mom in
Speaker 3: the world trying to shut her kid up.
Speaker 2: She's looking at him and the look, you know, like
Speaker 2: the purson lips that you give and that.
Speaker 3: Look of like I see what you're doing him. I
Speaker 3: know she was like, you want to time out?
Speaker 2: And he's like he made this face. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what that is. Because kids were so smart, They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: we had a fancy place.
Speaker 1: The strange she's using her we're outside voice, the power lace. Yes,
Speaker 1: but it's just, honestly, it's nice to just see that.
Speaker 1: No matter, I don't care how much money you have,
Speaker 1: how much influence, how much whatever. Yo, Toadler is gonna Patler.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I've never felt and honestly, and he didn't,
Speaker 3: and he stopped showing up.
Speaker 2: Two events had the baby comely.
Speaker 3: I want to endear the royal family to the world.
Speaker 3: Just let Kate Middleton be a struggling momb Yeah in
Speaker 3: heels at an event, trying to keep her kids in line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Levity also.
Speaker 3: Shout out to the Queen. I guess she's, you know,
Speaker 3: a great lady, crazy white.
Speaker 2: I guess I.
Speaker 3: Am like, Yeah, I'm just glad, you know, Mega Markle
Speaker 3: got out of there, and you know, her babies are cute,
Speaker 3: and I'm happy for her. She showed up. She put
Speaker 3: a hat on for them. You know, that was more
Speaker 3: than she ever had to do. And and we we
Speaker 3: wish her. Well, that's that's all I want to say.
Speaker 3: All right, Well should we take a quick break and
Speaker 3: come back with brown booth brown break? Yes, all right,
Speaker 3: we are back. It's not a boost a.
Speaker 2: Break right now. It's time to boost up. Break up,
Speaker 2: boost up, break up. Boost ah break oh boomoo to break.
Speaker 2: What you're gonna do? Man, you gonna boost?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm feeling a boost a mystic today. I want
Speaker 3: to boost. I could, I could have done a break,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna do the positive side. I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: a boost. For the jobs report that came out on Friday,
Speaker 3: the Labor Department release some job numbers and they were
Speaker 3: extraordinarily good. And I say this to all the people
Speaker 3: who have been anxious and reading, you know, choice headlines
Speaker 3: about how they have been layoffs recently. We've seen them
Speaker 3: at CNN Plus and we've talked about Peloton earlier that
Speaker 3: was early better. We've seen them at like payment app Klarna,
Speaker 3: and how these layoffs are hitting tech especially hard. But
Speaker 3: nearly four hundred thousand jobs were added in May, and
Speaker 3: unemployment continues to be really really freaking low, like three
Speaker 3: point six percent, which is among the lowest rates we've
Speaker 3: had for decades now. So I say all this to
Speaker 3: say we going to be all right, right. There are, yes,
Speaker 3: there are layoffs, there are some hiring freezes, but the
Speaker 3: job market is definitely still healthy. And I also feel
Speaker 3: like there's and I hear this from clients all the
Speaker 3: time too, you know, everyone's talking about how there's so
Speaker 3: many jobs and how you know companies can't find anybody.
Speaker 3: But then why am I not getting calls back? And
Speaker 3: why am I not getting through these interviews and or
Speaker 3: finding the job that I want to find? And I'm
Speaker 3: like everyone, like the people's standards for what we want
Speaker 3: out of employers has risen as it should have risen
Speaker 3: so so high that those jobs with the with the
Speaker 3: benefits and the hybrid work schedules, with the flexible work schedules,
Speaker 3: you know, with the unlimited PTO. Those are not that
Speaker 3: they're necessarily fewer further between, but more people want them
Speaker 3: now because now they see how the other half is living.
Speaker 3: They're on hashtag career talk on TikTok and seeing right.
Speaker 3: So it's more competitive and it will continue to be competitive.
Speaker 3: So I think you just have to like adjust your
Speaker 3: expectations the job. There are jobs out there, but think
Speaker 3: about like your particular industry and which jobs you are
Speaker 3: going after, and then like adjust your mindset to maybe
Speaker 3: have to hold on, you know, and push through and
Speaker 3: stay optimistic even if it feels like, Okay, the job
Speaker 3: that I want so badly and that everyone's telling me exists,
Speaker 3: hasn't you know, come yet. They're out there. They're really competitive,
Speaker 3: but largely this whole you know, this whole storyline about
Speaker 3: how I know that we are, you know, edging toward
Speaker 3: recession and all of that, but the job's numbers were
Speaker 3: extremely optimistic.
Speaker 1: So and if you're needing help, hello, we have our
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Speaker 1: an eye, Mandy Money not spell my name. Then worry listening, Well,
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Speaker 1: Mandra money dot com. No, No, but for real, if
Speaker 1: you're like, especially now more than ever, you really want
Speaker 1: to hone your like skills about how to negotiate, how
Speaker 1: to find the right job.
Speaker 2: That's why we have Mandra. That's what she'd be doing.
Speaker 2: That's why we have Manda. Go get you some.
Speaker 3: I'm so damn grateful to be doing this. I feel
Speaker 3: so good about like, I know I'm doing what I'm
Speaker 3: supposed to be doing, the women that I'm helping, the
Speaker 3: feedback that I'm getting, it's just all it's all happening.
Speaker 3: And I feel like too. I get to be optimistic
Speaker 3: because I see the success happen every day. I see
Speaker 3: the struggles. But then I get to see people succeed too,
Speaker 3: So that's why I'm always like, I know, I've seen
Speaker 3: people struggle. I've also seen what happens when you just
Speaker 3: keep at it and you keep working and do not
Speaker 3: settle for less, you know, career wise.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so if you want some tuppy bird Andy
Speaker 1: money dot com and then it'll be in our show
Speaker 1: notes her her website, just in case you forget how
Speaker 1: to spell her name. Yeah, I wouldn't do two quick boosts,
Speaker 1: so boost number one.
Speaker 2: So one the other day was like, well, your skin
Speaker 2: is looking great.
Speaker 1: Tip two black owned skincare businesses that save my skin.
Speaker 1: So y'all know, Well maybe you might not know because
Speaker 1: you're new, But I came back from Jordan like less
Speaker 1: than a month ago, and.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was sunburn because I don't know
Speaker 1: what sunburn feels like. But I had floated in the
Speaker 1: Dead Sea, which was amazing. It's filled of it's thirty
Speaker 1: percent or thirty three percent salt, so you can't you
Speaker 1: can't sink because it's so buoyant.
Speaker 2: Everyone floats.
Speaker 1: And then what they do is there's like minerals that
Speaker 1: like literally there's the mud it's like clay from the
Speaker 1: dead sea. You're supposed to put it all over your body.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to like rejuvenate your skin.
Speaker 2: Child. I did it, and then I put it on
Speaker 2: my face, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, it's not a little itchy. But I was like,
Speaker 1: that's okay. I was about to be doing it the
Speaker 1: next day.
Speaker 2: I was fine.
Speaker 1: The day after that, I looked like like my worst
Speaker 1: nightmare when I was thirteen. I broke out so badly.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just like literally broke out with pimples
Speaker 1: and I don't get pimples. It was also dry patches
Speaker 1: all over my face because I do get like a
Speaker 1: little bit of eggemund during like transitional season, just a
Speaker 1: little maybe like a little on my arm, but hardly
Speaker 1: any like a little patch.
Speaker 2: My whole face was a patchy, rashy, pimply mess. It was.
Speaker 1: I really was like, what have I done to myself?
Speaker 1: And I didn't know what to do and I was
Speaker 1: so arry.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. What have I done? What have
Speaker 2: I done?
Speaker 3: So when I got out there and you take the
Speaker 3: body water mud and you put it on your face,
Speaker 3: oh my god.
Speaker 2: They say it's funeral.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I got back to the States, and it was
Speaker 1: like two skincare brands that like saved my face. One
Speaker 1: my butter Bar. So I use my butter Bar anyway,
Speaker 1: like just regular day to day. But their stuff is amazing.
Speaker 1: If you can only use one product because it's not cheap,
Speaker 1: it's the melon in, which is like I don't like
Speaker 1: it's like a serum, but it's like, oh so rejuvenating.
Speaker 1: But like I also used they have like an under
Speaker 1: eye like like oil roller thing that's really great. I
Speaker 1: also like their their facial cleanser that's really great. And
Speaker 1: so that was like, you know, that was like my
Speaker 1: base of what you normally do. But then my friend
Speaker 1: of mine, she's got this brand called Puka Poka Puka
Speaker 1: and a Dawn her name is, and she's awesome. She's
Speaker 1: had Pooka for like I don't know, probably like twenty
Speaker 1: something years from now. But so Dawn actually has ms
Speaker 1: and what she notices that she would get flare ups
Speaker 1: and she started to look at the products she was
Speaker 1: putting on her body and she was like, my skin,
Speaker 1: Your skin is the largest largest organ on your body.
Speaker 1: So I am you know, like ingesting these things through
Speaker 1: like lotions and soaps, and so she starts making some
Speaker 1: for herself and then her friends were like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: can I have some? So she made it as gifts
Speaker 1: and then a business was born. But I have to
Speaker 1: say that I went back to using my regular my
Speaker 1: butter bar stuff. But then Puoka is what really like
Speaker 1: reset my skin? They have like this, She's got like
Speaker 1: this shade butter bomb o MG. Literally I would do
Speaker 1: with the kids on I saw this on TikTok. They
Speaker 1: call it slugging, where you like basically coat your whole
Speaker 1: face with vasoline, which I don't know you agree from basoline,
Speaker 1: but basically where you be. You know, you look like
Speaker 1: you're five years old and you're going off the kindergarten.
Speaker 1: Your mother just put all the bacoline on your face.
Speaker 1: But I was using her Puokah shade butter like cream
Speaker 1: to do that. Like every night, I would just like
Speaker 1: coat my face. And after a week a girl look
Speaker 1: at me, Now.
Speaker 2: Look at it, Look at this, Look at this, look
Speaker 2: at this, look at this.
Speaker 1: You can't see but gallowing. Yeah, so thank you. So
Speaker 1: Pooka is Poka go support and then my butter Bar.
Speaker 1: Two black owned women own skincare brands that are amazing
Speaker 1: and I love them, and then a quick boost is
Speaker 1: in my neighborhood. So I live in a similar neighborhood
Speaker 1: to you, Mandy, mostly black and brown folks, little enclave.
Speaker 1: It's called Forest Hill and Newark, New Jersey. It's beautiful
Speaker 1: historic homes and every time a house goes up for sale,
Speaker 1: we all hold our breath to see who want to
Speaker 1: move on in, because honestly, it's the nicest neighborhood in Newark.
Speaker 1: And I have to say eighty to ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the time it's another person of color, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, thank you, thank you. Today I went
Speaker 1: to like not today. Yesterday, my sister and I went
Speaker 1: to an open house down the street, beautiful historic home
Speaker 1: that was built in like nineteen oh eight or whatever,
Speaker 1: and almost everybody who was in there to go see
Speaker 1: the house. We met a couple from Brooklyn and someone else.
Speaker 1: They were all people of color, and they were asking
Speaker 1: me about the neighborhood. I was like, see, I love
Speaker 1: it here. Like I can walk with my black hoodie
Speaker 1: on in my my sweatpants and I don't have to
Speaker 1: be like like if I was walking in Montclair, like
Speaker 1: which is like two towns over but not nearly as
Speaker 1: black and brown. I would be mindful to show my
Speaker 1: face to be like, look, I'm not quote unquote dangerous,
Speaker 1: which is so sad. But in Forest Hill, I don't
Speaker 1: have to do that. I could walk with my hoodie
Speaker 1: on and people are like, hey, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1: Is this and it just feels so good. And I
Speaker 1: just worry that we were going to lose that because
Speaker 1: a lot of homes went up for sale and like
Speaker 1: I said, eighty nine percent eighty to ninety percent at
Speaker 1: the time, it's been another person of color, and I
Speaker 1: just love that that, like, because I want to be
Speaker 1: able to feel safe in my own neighborhood where I
Speaker 1: can be fully black, you know, like when Durell was here,
Speaker 1: he would roll up to the house, you know, playing
Speaker 1: his music and no one's calling the police like on you.
Speaker 1: It's just like where as I'm hearing in other surrounding
Speaker 1: cities that are super nice, but there's an issue. You know,
Speaker 1: there's an issue in the school system where it's like
Speaker 1: your child is being aggressive, which is code for black
Speaker 1: because you're the only black tip in that school system.
Speaker 2: We're here in Newark, Newark has some of the best
Speaker 2: schools in the state of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: And so Alyssa, my stepdaughter gets to go to Science
Speaker 1: High School, what is one of the top schools in
Speaker 1: the state of New Jersey, and she takes physics, chemistry
Speaker 1: all the same time, geometry and trigonometry, and her class
Speaker 1: is full with other black and brown smarties, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I just love that for her, and I
Speaker 1: love that for.
Speaker 2: Us, And so that's just a boost that, like, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't mind.
Speaker 1: The problem with gentrification is that one it devalues the
Speaker 1: current property because the people who live there are black
Speaker 1: and brown, and as soon as you push them out,
Speaker 1: then the property is now worth more by nature of
Speaker 1: quote unquote those people don't live here anymore, let's be real,
Speaker 1: you know. And then all of a sudden, all the
Speaker 1: resource and the money and everything else comes flooding back
Speaker 1: into the neighborhood. And I'm like, no, if folks came
Speaker 1: in and you were able to continue to share in
Speaker 1: the development and the growth of a neighborhood, I would
Speaker 1: have no problem with that. But that's not what happens.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just really glad to know that, Like
Speaker 1: you know, that forest Hill is maintaining. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's level of community, honestly, and I love living here
Speaker 1: and so that was my boost.
Speaker 3: That's so on topic for me because my neighborhood, like
Speaker 3: I talked about, Fred's historically black, and like, there is
Speaker 3: this friction because there have been a lot of some
Speaker 3: developers moving in and fixing up homes and then flipping them,
Speaker 3: and the elders of the community are quite quite protective
Speaker 3: and there's been you know, they're like, I'm I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm in the middle of it right now, kind
Speaker 3: of seeing how how both sides are playing out and
Speaker 3: not like at the same time wanting like loving new neighbors,
Speaker 3: but also understanding their fear and their paranoia. And I
Speaker 3: mean not to diminish it, but no, they're there their
Speaker 3: fear and the protectiveness of the community, yea, and I
Speaker 3: and I get it, and I feel like, man, I
Speaker 3: guess I'm I was one of those Manhattan Nites who
Speaker 3: moved on over here too, in my own little way
Speaker 3: sort of kind of gentrifying. But it's interesting and I'm
Speaker 3: I'm like, I think what they want to know from us,
Speaker 3: the younger people in the neighborhood is just like that.
Speaker 3: We are also committed. So you mentioned like the community
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm hopefully we're going to have like a
Speaker 3: community meeting to talk and to listen to one another
Speaker 3: and to because it's gotten heated sometimes when people are like,
Speaker 3: you know, we had this this this neighborhood lists serve.
Speaker 3: I asked to not be on it. I just it
Speaker 3: was too much. From my husband, there's something juicy and
Speaker 3: Rikuale Dell we but yeah, it's like, oh we saw
Speaker 3: you know, a new family or a new developer, and
Speaker 3: the developer was like a woman, you know, a family,
Speaker 3: not a developer. Yeah, but it's like I get what
Speaker 3: you're saying. It's like to protect the community but also
Speaker 3: have at the same time those yes, those two things
Speaker 3: progress so in conflict sometimes because.
Speaker 1: Literally it's like when people moved to Brooklyn and then
Speaker 1: tried to shut down the West Indian Day Parade, It's like,
Speaker 1: what you know what I mean, that's what I mean, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's so loud. I'm like, yes, yes, that's what it
Speaker 1: sounds like when the parade is here in Brooklyn once
Speaker 1: a year. I just and that's what I'm just that's
Speaker 1: the frustration. It's like to move in and then say
Speaker 1: change to fit me, you know, or to move in
Speaker 1: and say now your house is worth something, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like no, I plus tude. The truth is,
Speaker 2: I'm worried about my safety.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't want to have to worry about walking
Speaker 1: around and having the police called on me, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, because I've seen that with my friends who
Speaker 1: live in like other cities, you know, where they're not
Speaker 1: welcomed and like you can't even walk your damn dog
Speaker 1: and You're like.
Speaker 2: I live right here.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh you're one of the safe ones. Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, bruh. We're not doing that, not
Speaker 1: up in here. And so I'm just like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm excited about, like you know
Speaker 1: that that's happening. Like I said, I welcome other people
Speaker 1: to come and move here, but not to change the
Speaker 1: fabric of like it is safe to be here, it
Speaker 1: is safe to live here. I can be fully black,
Speaker 1: which might mean like we have so many a lot
Speaker 1: of Latina Latino families that live here, and like you know,
Speaker 1: on Saturday, I know, okay, you're gonna play music and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be fake meranking in my house, and no
Speaker 1: one's gonna be unless you take it to three four
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, Mama, then no one's gonna be
Speaker 1: calling the police on you.
Speaker 2: You know. You know that, like you just want that
Speaker 2: feeling of like that. I don't think.
Speaker 1: It's almost like being a woman that men don't understand
Speaker 1: what it is as a woman. You're like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: walking back to my car. Okay, do I have my keys?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Do I have my You know, that's what it's like
Speaker 1: to be black in a space where you know you've
Speaker 1: been made to feel unwelcome. It's like, Okay, do I
Speaker 1: look intimidating? Okay, I shouldn't wear a black hoodie today,
Speaker 1: even as a woman, you know. And I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I prefer not to live that way. I'd like to
Speaker 1: I'd like to feel free and not feel like I
Speaker 1: have to make everyone else feel safe even though I'm
Speaker 1: not doing anything in my own neighborhood.
Speaker 2: And so cause I had considered.
Speaker 1: Moving to like a Montclair or whatever, and I spoke
Speaker 1: to some folks that live there, and when they tell
Speaker 1: me the challenges, I'm like, all that's for a nice house.
Speaker 1: N Nah, I'm good, you know, like I'll stay here
Speaker 1: where Like that's just not the case, you know, I
Speaker 1: could be myself and you know, maybe it's not like
Speaker 1: as fancy as over there, but I mean, like quality
Speaker 1: of life is great here.
Speaker 2: So but here's to safe spaces.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, friends in our heads. We will see
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