WEBVTT - Ep.135 — Essencefest Recap; Bitcoin Woes; Homebuying Tips 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:27.920 Hey, hey, hey, it's me Tiffany the budgeinistall. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.640 Hey, guys, it's Mandy Hope. Everyone's having a nice post 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:30.360 Fourth of July. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.560 Back at work if you're working. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:37.080 And not on vacation somewhere, all right, tell me about 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.800 Essence Fest. I can't wait to hear all about it. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.040 Oh my goodness, so many people gave me double hugs, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:43.640 one for me and one for you. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.440 And although I did want to take pictures, but I 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.559 mean I took a few, but honestly, it was it 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.280 was just so packed. Somebody literally just posted on Instagram 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.920 the perfect description of Essence Fest. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.360 It was. They said Essence Fest both too much and 0:00:58.400 --> 0:00:58.920 not enough. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.080 There were so many pe boom they said that the 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.480 numbers almost doubled everyone even like so whenever you go 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.160 to essence you know obviously you're taking like ubers. All 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.759 the natives were like, yo, We've never in the history 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.120 of all things New Orleans ever seen the crowds like this. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.600 Wow, Like it was so. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.440 Bad, Like I had to walk everywhere, like even though 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.720 like typically like you know, they have like a car 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.360 if you're speaking for a brand will pick you up 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.080 and take you to the to the convention Center. No, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.360 it was just shorter to walk the half a mile. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.000 Can you imagine like full face sweating in New Orleans? Ea, 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.640 like I'll just walk the half of the Yeah it was, Yeah, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.440 it was. But at the same time, you know, the 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.120 food was still amazing. People were so great. There was 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.240 no major incident. It was just girls trip, you know. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:44.840 The Queen Latifa effect. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:46.560 Yeah, for real. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.720 And but like other than that though, you know, essence 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:49.920 Fest was was awesome. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.120 I mean, Mary J. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.200 Blige, that was my favorite day. I didn't I don't 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:54.960 usually go to all the concerts. I usually pick one 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.120 day to like kind of hang out, and I went 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.400 Saturday and Mary like just she performed her heart out. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:02.360 How is she? 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.520 Remember last year when you came back from Essence Fest 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.320 and you were just like, man, I went to this 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.239 session and act like Mary J. Blige spoke and everyone 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:11.440 seems so depressed. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:12.160 How is she? 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.560 He seems more speisty now, like she was just on 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.800 stage like y'all already know what I'm going through, you know, 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.280 all my business anyway, and I'm happy to be rid 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.639 of him. But now he's trying to take me through 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.760 all this other stuff. But that's Okay, so she's like, 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.120 come out of the whole. My life is the worst too, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.600 you know what, You're not gonna steal my joy. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:36.200 We were like, yes day, well, shout out to her 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:37.760 for being so transparent about it. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.880 Yeah, And it was just so funny because she was like, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:41.720 y'all know you know what, y'all know my business, so 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.760 let's just do this. And she literally said that, and 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.280 I was like, look at Mary, and so yeah, she 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.920 seemed like in a better space, like definitely I'm going 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.920 through it, but I'm I'm past the worst of it, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.120 like he's gone, you know. Yeah, so yeah, so, but honestly, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.600 it was just good times. I have to say, like, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.360 you know, Normal is just an amazing city. The food 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.040 is amazing, the people are so so so so so nice. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.800 There's so many things to do and see it Essen inspecially, 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:08.720 you just can't even take. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.880 It all in. Yeah, so you know, it's just amazing times. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:14.480 What were some of you Did you get to go 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.240 into any sessions or were you like all other stuff? 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:19.040 Yeah? 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.040 No, I didn't even Like last year, I think the 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:22.600 major one I really wanted to go to, like I 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.320 wanted to go see Oprah, you know, so because obviously, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.120 I mean it's Oprah. But no, because Thursday when we landed, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.440 Thursday's not I call it like the unofficial day. Friday 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.600 I was like working most of the day, and Saturday 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.920 I worked especially most of the day, and honestly, Sunday, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.600 my sisters and I just wanted to enjoy. So we 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.360 just did the convention center. We went to eat the hotel. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.000 We were saying in the restaurant in the hotel, it's 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.240 called Old seventy seven. That's the name of the hotel. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.160 The chef won a James Beard Award, which is like huge, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.320 you know, and so we wanted to like try it, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.040 and so we just had like an eating day on Sunday. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.680 So no, no real like session other than the ones 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.360 that I I, you know, was speaking. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.320 At where your sister's just running around enjoying. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.920 Yeah, well a lot this time, you know that my 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.000 sister Tracy especially, she wanted to kind of come and 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.120 see like what it looked like behind the scenes, so, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.880 you know, because you it's different, you know, and I 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.839 can honestly I'm not. I have not gone to Essence 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.360 Best where I wasn't a speaker, so she definitely said 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.200 it was a different experience because last year they did 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.080 a lot more kind of like touristy stuff and this year, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:30.839 you know, when you're a speaker. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.200 They're like, go to this room, put on this mic. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.320 Are you ready? Go ahead? 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.320 He's just you know, so it's She's like, it was fun, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:38.719 but it's just a different experience. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.000 So but they said they really enjoyed themselves. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.120 What were some of the panels that you did, Like, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.480 what were what were some of the most interesting things 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.240 people said on the panels you did well? 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:54.080 I did. Probably my favorite panel was for Ford on Saturday. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:54.640 I did. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.800 They really have this big push for black women entrepreneurs 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.239 right now at Ford, and they did a pitch contest 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.480 where some really dope women who had in the amazing 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.599 businesses they pitched to me, which I was like, this 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.839 is fun, and so I have to kind of whittle 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:13.200 them down until three finalists and then the Dreamcatchers and 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:14.880 y'all will see it too, and you guys will get 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.600 to vote and the winner will win a two year 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.880 least for Ford Explorer to use toward growing their business. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.000 And so that was really fun just to see people's 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.400 pitches and be like, oh, like it's hard, it's hard 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.640 because Ford is one of the major major sponsors. So 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:35.599 there's like four I think like McDonald's, Coca Cola, and Walmart, 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.840 and so they're like the four major sponsors. So they 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.279 had huge stages in the convention center. So you like 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.320 we were sitting on the main main stage where like 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.479 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds people are watching. So it 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.440 was definitely nerve wracking, and I was like, oh, better 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:49.960 y'all than me, because I'd be nervous too. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.560 But they all rocked out and so that was probably 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:53.839 the funnest. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.159 And what business can you talk about? The businesses? Like 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:57.720 what some of them? 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:02.040 Yeah, So there's one that you guys might know called. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.200 Her name is Arsha Jones. She has a business called 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.320 Capital City where she makes something called Mumbo Sauce. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.320 Are you familiar? Mandy was like, what mumbo sauce is? 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.200 It's like it's like a yeah, so it's like a 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.039 DC kind of like Maryland kind of Like I don't 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.360 do you know the taste of it. I don't think 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.560 I've ever had it. I've heard it's like a like 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:27.960 a tangy barbecue slash. It's a specific sauce in that region. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.880 Right, But I've never tried it before, but I've heard 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:30.560 of it. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.039 I wonderful has Old Day in it. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.400 It's from Maryland, Maryland, yes, right, but. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.760 It's very like if you're from that area, you know 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:44.400 Mumbo sauce. But she's the first person to to make it, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.200 to like make it into like a business. So she 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.400 bottled it, created her own version of it. And I 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.400 mean it's like in like all of these stores. I 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.400 believe it's in like Target. She's like in big box stores. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:07:00.960 So she owns like some crazy sized warehouse. She like 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.280 you know, ships and bottles her her mumbo sauce. So 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:04.840 it was just a dope business. I was like, why 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.120 is she pitching to me? I need to be sitting 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.360 here pitching her. But that was a dope one. There's 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.680 a young woman named Lola who owns Lola International, I 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.600 believe makeup, so she does celebrity makeup. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.560 She did mine that day. She was awesome. There was 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.640 another woman which I love her. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.680 Her business is called Sanai Apple Sauce, so she I 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.720 guess after doing some research, she found that apple sauce 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.960 is actually really really healthy, but that adults tend to 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.480 think of apple sauce as like a kid treat. So 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.000 she wanted to change it that by creating like an 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.640 adult apple sauce, where like the packaging was adult, it 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.840 was really healthy for you, all fresh ingredients. So that 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.160 was really nice. And then there was a like one 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.200 in particular called the honey Pot, which I thought was 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.760 dope black woman who who found out she had I 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.640 think bacterial baginosis or something was suffered for it for 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.040 a while, only to find out that like you know, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.760 that she could have through like special herbs or whatever, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.920 that you could basically like you know, vaginal health. And 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:06.200 so she created a business to help women, especially women 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:11.560 of color, take care of our you know, our vaginas 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.560 I said, vaginals. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.160 I love that you had to say the word vagina 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.480 like six times in the thirty second period. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:26.840 That was impressive. Vaginal girl, Clean badge Club. That's awesome. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.440 So you can your vaginal health things that you what 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.520 is So what does she sell? 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:32.880 Like? 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.199 It's like, uh, you. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:40.160 Know what I mean, it's literally I know honestly, I 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.400 was like, you know what, more power to her because 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.280 you know, to get up on stage and to share like, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.880 oh hey, I had vaginosis by the way, you know, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:55.240 Like so she sounds like she's it's like this. I 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.120 don't I'm looking at it now. It's like it looks 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:02.079 like this pump where I guess she's wipes, feminine plant 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.480 based care, herbal infused pads with wings. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.520 Oh wow, Okay, I don't know she sold pads. Look, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.600 give me was I paying attention? So she it looks 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.360 like she sells kind of like. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.160 Things to you know, clean your vagina as well as 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.880 like pads to make sure that you know you are 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.520 protecting yourself because a lot of times I never heard that. Well, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.560 I guess I kind of knew that sometimes there's like 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.079 a lot of unsafe levels of chemicals and those pads 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.200 and your vaginas you know, it is an opening and 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.200 so like you know, these these chemicals can can easily 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.800 creep up inside and make for an unhealthy vagina. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.839 Yes, vagina. We could do a whole vagina episode. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:42.280 I love. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.439 I'm loving where this conversation is going. I could talk 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.800 about vaginal health like all day air day. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.079 I know, And honestly, I was like, should I be 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.520 Simon Carroll? Like should I be prola Abdul? Should I 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:53.120 be Randy? 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:53.600 You know? 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.240 But no, honestly, it was all fun and honestly, everybody 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:57.679 rocked out. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.240 So it was more so like me just giving like 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:01.479 positive feedback. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.840 Like Ooh, I love how you you know, shared, how 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.000 you use forward to you know, take your business to 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.480 the next level, or I love that you know so 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.840 many of the women. I just love women because so 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.480 many of them, like their businesses were based in service, 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.160 and if it wasn't naturally inclined to be based in service, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.920 they had somehow we've serviced into their business. And I 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.520 was like, you guys are just amazing, you know. So yeah, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:23.600 it was just a really great time. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.520 Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, what's happening? So 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.000 two things I noticed. One it's like businesses are getting 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.040 rid of straws. Have you noticed this, like the summer 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.360 when everyone realized how horrible straws offer the environment, and 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.000 they're like all Starbucks just announced they're getting rid of 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.959 their plastic straws by twenty twenty. Yeah, and in place 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.080 of it, they're creating an adult sippy cup, which is 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.800 like just imagine like I don't know, they're calling it 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.439 a sippy cup, probably just for the headlines, but I 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.800 think it's more like it's probably gonna be like kind 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.520 of the lids with like a raised opening like you 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.240 get on a coffee cup or something, a disposable coffee up. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.160 Okay, I don't know. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.120 I went to I went to this resort and they 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.160 were anti straw. You had to beg for a straw 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:08.760 to get one there, and if you did, it would 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.040 be like the paper kind of straws. So that's cool 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:13.920 if you want to be you know, do your part 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.240 for the environment, request no straw when you go to 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.240 a restaurant. And then I guess bitcoin is not doing 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.920 too hot because now I'm starting to see bitcoin headlines again. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.600 It's Ben and Wilson's we talked about bitcoin. How is 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.199 your your bitcoin? Don't you have a little stash of 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.440 bitcoin on the side that you were playing with? 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.079 I did. I bought like one hundred dollars worth. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.640 And then, you know, so even though obviously it wasn't 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.160 gonna like break the bank, I'm not gonna lie. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:40.640 I'm I'm a chicken for losing money. 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.320 So after like losing like half of it, I was like, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.319 you know what, I'll take my fifty thousand run you. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.400 Know what, your life. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.760 I couldn't out. I can't take I can't take it. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.520 I can't take it, so because I wanted to just see, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.600 like what's all the bust for what I wanted to see, like, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.280 how do you, like, you know, buy it? 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:57.640 Is it as easy as people say? 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.440 And I also wanted to see what it is easy 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.720 to get your money and honestly as far as like 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.520 when it was when you sold it, and it was, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.280 but I was just like, I am a super late adopter. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.440 So by the time I bought it, it was way 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.040 past its prime and it was like, oh, you should 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.120 have brought me like ten years ago. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.760 So yeah, I'm a proud bit coin deserter. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:17.760 Now. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.520 It's such a it's such a smart way to learn. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.040 I learned the exact same thing. I put one hundred 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.000 dollars into this one company that I thought had really good, 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.840 Like I went to this rushaurant all the time, and 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.360 I just have I was like, man, I just want 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.520 to like buy some stock with the robin Hood app. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.200 So I chose that company. I put one hundred bucks 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.160 in and things were going really well until their next 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.480 quarterly report came out and they announced they were closing 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.360 like twenty stores because they had expanded too rapidly. And 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.440 then the stock I think I've yeah, I think I've 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.560 lost about like forty five of those one hundred dollars 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:47.559 and I'm sitting here like. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.240 What do I do now? 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.440 But it's like, also, oh, yeah, this is why I 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.079 don't invest in single stocks. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.600 Yeah, yeah, honestly I do like Robinhood for that because 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.520 it's a very are you very Like it's kind of 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.440 like safe place to be, like, let me buy this 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.480 one stock and then freak out when I lose my 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:07.079 two dollars. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.560 You know. So I did that all the time. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.400 Like if I get like hot stock tips, I'm like, oh, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.400 I said, buy this one two dollars stock. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.800 Oh you know what, No, I knew it. I knew 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:16.960 it's too much. I can't do this. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.599 Well, do you want to take some Twitter, Instagram and 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.800 Facebook street headlines see what folks are saying. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.439 Sure, let's check the twitters. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.080 You know what I forgot in our last in our 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.559 last episode that we talked about how we met our booze, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.560 people really love that. I said, Oh, y'all, so nosy, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.160 I know, I love it, you know, like, so you 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.439 guys really enjoyed that, and so we got some great feedback. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.000 Let's see Rnell. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.520 This is in on Twitter rnell profit Her Twitter handle 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.800 is Oh she did that. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.840 Oh that's cute. Oh she did that? Okay right now. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.280 She said at to be a podcast episode one thirty four. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.760 I love how you named it. Loved the story about 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.080 house TIF met Superman all the fiels when she talked 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:17.480 about the sweet things he does. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.360 My love language is acts of service, so it spoke volumes. 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.880 I want that too. Oh, dating over forty is a struggle, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:24.880 ah are now? 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:26.040 Yeah? 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.360 Honestly, Like, I mean, you know, I met Superman. We 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.560 started like really dating like mid mid thirties, and that 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.440 was a struggle to a child. So yeah, I mean 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.800 there's no people will tell you, oh, you gotta just 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:37.800 do this, you gotta just do that. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:37.960 No. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.960 I felt hopeless for a long time, like I wasn't 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.720 gonna find anybody. I just decided to open myself up 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.400 to a to love looking differently than what I kind 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.000 of like, what I kind of identified for myself. And 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.240 as a results, you know, I was able to find 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.480 something different but awesome. Anything you found in these Twitter 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.800 ig or Facebook social streets? 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.520 Yeah, on Twitter or what do you call him? 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:08.520 Our follower Amby at Amby sweetheart. Her name's Destiny said 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.560 Shout out to the BA podcast for sharing a list 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.680 of the best credit cards for college students because I 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.320 was struggling. Hashtag per hands, hashtag double prayer hands. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:35.800 Are you ready to break or boost? 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.800 Because I have actually have a break in a boost 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.840 and I cannot wait to rip into my break, especially. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.880 I have a break. I'm break. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.400 I'll go first. Sorry to make you wait to rip 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:48.840 into your to your break. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.360 I'm gonna do a break for stitch Fix. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.000 And I don't mean to call them out, well I do, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.400 because that's only It's like stitch Fix is one of 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.680 these uh clothes subscription services where you fill out like 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.280 a questionnaire about what you like and your sizes and stuff, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.200 and you pay twenty dollars a month and they'll send 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.840 you three to five I think three to five items 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.440 in the mail, and if you like them, you keep 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:14.920 them and you pay for them, and if you don't, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.240 you return them and they keep that they keep that 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.800 twenty dollars and if you end up paying for them, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.920 then they put that twenty dollars toward your purchase. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.840 Basically, and I thought. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.640 It would be great to take like outsource my shopping 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.920 because I hate going to the to the stores. Like 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.480 I used to be able to spend hours at outlet 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.680 stores and the mall and stuff, and now I just 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.320 I cringe anytime I have to do that. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.400 So I thought it was a great idea. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.840 And I gave it like three months. I gave it 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.800 a good try. I found maybe one or two things 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.280 that I liked that I kept. It didn't feel like 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.080 the clothes were different or special or cool or interesting, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.600 and they like kind of were my style, but kind 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.360 of not. And they kind of they make it so 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.600 that you can tell your stylists because you supposedly get 0:16:59.640 --> 0:16:59.840 a style. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.440 You know, it was supposedly well. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.240 It's like, you know, someone sends you a little note 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.439 saying I'm your stylist, and you know whatever. Who knows 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.600 that they're like a bot or what. Maybe they're a 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.120 real person and you give them feedback. But after that 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.399 third time, I'm a little risk averse two and I'm like, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.760 I don't want to keep paying my twenty dollars. And 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.520 then if you if you don't purchase everything, things are 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.280 I think more expensive than they should be. I always 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.639 felt like I was paying like you would save a 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.199 lot more if you bought everything all at once, but 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.320 then I would be buying stuff that I didn't like. Well, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:33.959 you get what you pay for. I guess that's what 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.560 twenty dollars buys me. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:42.560 All Right, you're turn, so I'll do my I'll do 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.240 my break first and then a boostsuince that's nice. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:50.600 So my break is to Tiffany the budget Nista on Instagram. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.240 You little scam artists, So not me, Tiffany the budget LISTA. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:55.560 So there's actually somebody. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.960 So my Instagram handle is at the Budgetisa, but there's 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.960 an Instagram handle where their name is literally Tiffany the Budgetista, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.760 And so they cloned my Instagram page. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.520 They they took they took my picture. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.639 And they actually sent like a friend request to like 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:14.200 all my friends. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.119 People are like when I say all day today, I 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:16.760 must have got. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:23.120 Like fifty texts, emails, Facebook messages, Instagram messages. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.560 Hey Tiffany is this you? Hate? Tiffany? Is this you? 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.320 So at first I was like, well, what's their intent 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.000 because they didn't post anything. So they've been in people's 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.480 inboxes with their very terrible English saying like hello, like 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.359 if you're like hey, and then my friend is like hey, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:36.560 how you do hate tiv what's up? 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:36.840 Girl? 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.679 They're like, do you know there is financial programs for 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:45.600 people with children and parents and women and like the 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.080