WEBVTT - Ep. 18 — 'Live Richer' in 2016 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.439 Hey, hey, hey, and we're back. You guys know you 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.640 missed that. Hey hey, hey, Mandy specifically requested. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:22.560 That I brought it. Did I bring it back? 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:26.840 It's not Brown aditiongot but hey, hey, hey, and. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.600 We're back back back back, back back back. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.320 So this is the last show of twenty sixteen, I 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.080 mean fifteen. Whoa, whoa. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.199 So you're dropping the gun there. Wow, that's crazy. So 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.720 how long how many months has it been? I feel 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.000 like we've been doing this for like forever and then 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:44.600 not forever at the same time. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.680 For four it's been four months. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.880 Wow, we're so young. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.720 We're going to go into the new year stronger than ever. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:54.640 I believe that. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.160 Thank you guys so much for sticking with us. And 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.440 before we get the show started, I wanted to do 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.880 a special since everyone has resolutions, I feel like Brown 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.600 Ambition Podcast, this is a great time for you to 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.560 give us your feedback so then we can make the 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:13.160 show even better in twenty sixteen, right, twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.280 because we've sort of been flying by the seat of 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.720 our little brown pants. Yeah yeah, and just sort of 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.240 like feeling things out and trying to get a structure, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.240 and we want to know what you guys like and 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.959 what you don't like. Yeah, sure, so send us your thoughts. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.840 Tweet us at the BA podcast, email us at Brown 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.120 Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com. Let us know what 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.520 you like, what you don't like. Do you want more interviews? 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.240 Do you want more certain kinds of tips? I don't know, tip, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:39.839 what do you think? 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:41.959 I mean? 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.280 You know, I think we're rocking socking, but I mean, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:45.920 if you have things that you'd like us to do, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.320 you know, like, for example, I forget the THEBA listener 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:50.800 that said, you know, I'd love for you to share 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.000 like your favorite books when feasible, and so I think 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:55.160 that's a great, you know tip. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.440 So we're always open to doing better. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.760 But the theme for today's show may get to it anyway. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.520 For the tip section especially, it's going to be all 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.559 about getting your money right in twenty sixteen, which ties 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.440 in perfectly with Tiffany's new venture, well not new old 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:15.840 new venture, yeah, which he'll tell us all about later. Yup. So, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.880 without further ado, let's talk about what's buzzing buzzworthy. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.440 Well, I kind of want to crack it open with 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:29.359 so Japan apparently denied women they were championing, or they 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.880 were fighting for a law to be able to maintain 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.360 their surname, basically their last name, just like here in America. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.280 You know, if I get married a superman, I'd be 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:44.840 Tiffany Smith. In Japan, they're saying no, that couples must 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.320 keep must have the same last name. I mean, to 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.040 be fair, they don't say that the women has to 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.960 take the man's name. The man can take the woman's name. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.720 But we all know how that goes down. So what 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.560 do you think about that? About changing your name? Because 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.280 I know, you know, Mandy's newly engaged. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.560 What do you think? What are you gonna do? You decided? 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.120 You know what surprised me is, Yeah, well, I know 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.480 it would be weird saying my last name with my 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.959 fiance's last name together, So I'm not down with the hyphenated. Okay, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.440 there's nothing that goes with Woodruff really, It's kind of 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.640 like it's like one of those weird colors. It matches nothing. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:19.600 But you know what, I'm a writer and I've been 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.920 writing with under Mandy Woodruff for how many years now, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.160 almost a decade, So I feel like I'm definitely gonna 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.200 keep my name professionally I honestly haven't figured out what 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.080 I'm going to do. I don't even know if it's 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.840 important to my fiance what I do, but I have 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.680 I've talked to my girlfriends who have gotten married, and 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.000 some of them said that their husbands cared more about 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.520 them changing their name on Facebook than they did like 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.280 doing it on their license and so you know what 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.320 I mean, like the real stuff that they were just 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.520 they cared about their friends knowing and like seeing that 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.280 they hyphenated or changed their last name. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.880 But okay, yeah, I never thought about that, because you're right, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.040 because since both of us do things that require you 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.440 know that so publicly, and we're known for those things, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.920 I likely will keep my last name or at the 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.920 very least hyphenated, just because by then I've built a 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.320 whole brand around my name, you know. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.560 Yeah, And I think that I feel like especially women 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.240 in America, I think that we're so we just think 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.240 differently about the importance of having you know your spouse's 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.000 last name. I mean, maybe, if you're doing it, it's 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.839 like for romantic reasons or I mean, honestly, it's your choice, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.120 but I don't see the need necessarily at least, and 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.719 I think it can even hurt you professionally in some cases, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:28.480 especially if you're building a brand. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.640 Mm hmmm. I agree for sure. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.640 Cocacoola wouldn't change its name if it marries PEPSI. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.880 Yeah, I mean, but look at Beyonce Beyonce card Knowles. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:42.359 But she's Beyonce. And Plus I was like, I'll do 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.560 this for you Jay, just say, you know what I mean, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.200 Like she was probably doing it for him. She didn't 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.120 need his last name. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.560 To like, look at Kim Kardashian, people don't really call 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.400 her like, it's not like Kim really West, you know. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.440 I mean, and that's the hyphenated thing too. It's not 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.520 like she's changing. I think what really matters is what 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.080 you know, the kids are probably going to have the 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.039 husband's last. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.400 Night, Oh for sure, Yeah, for sure. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.400 I think that's what you're right, That's what really matters, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.480 Like for most men, I would assume. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.440 Plus, it's a pain in the butt to like change 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:12.520 your last name. Yeah, my mom's been divorced like more 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.440 than once. I'm not going to call her out, but 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.960 it's just like, damn it again. Sometimes I still call 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.840 her by my dad's last name, which has been like 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.240 how many years eighteen years. I'm like missus Woodruff. Good boy. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.679 You know I changed my name when I was nine. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.960 My name is not originally Tiffany. I picked Tiffany. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:31.160 Did I ever tell you that? 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:31.719 Yeah? 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:32.000 You have. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.040 We talked about that. Well, no, we should. Yeah, I 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.400 talk about it a little bit because that's common among 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.200 a lot of immigrant families, right, you come to the 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:39.920 US and you change. Yeah. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.240 So I was born here in America, but my father 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.600 and mother thought that they were going to raise us 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.600 in Nigeria. So I had a Nigerian name on my 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:51.520 birth certificate. It was Adochi. So my name was Adochi Alice. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.320 And then after staying here for a number of years 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.239 and Nigeria just was not doing well, so my father 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.479 was like, you know what, actually, we'll just stay here. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.040 And so we were moving to a town with hardly 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.960 any brown people. So we were living in like kind 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.480 of like a multicultural town in New Jersey. And then 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.040 we were moving to a town that was largely like Jewish, 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.360 and he was like, you know what, in the effort 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.600 to fit it in, fit in, how about you go 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.279 ahead and pick yourself an American name. And at the 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.880 time I didn't realize the significance. All I thought at like, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.960 I think was I nine year? Like nine, was like, whooo, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:24.440 I get to pick my name. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.160 And so first I kids dream, I feel like I 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.039 know it is. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.360 So I was like, ooh, I totally want to be Jenny, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:31.920 can you imagine? 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.640 And he was like yeah no. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.200 And then I was like what about Renee and he 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.120 was like yeah. And then I've always liked the name Tiffany. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.640 Actually it was between Tiffany and Symphony. Why Symphony? 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:44.520 Why? Thank god? 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:45.279 Symphony? 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.000 Yes, just because I'm nine. I mean I'm nine. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.720 Sounds like a princess's name. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:50.360 Yeah, I can see. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.920 And so Tiffany was a go. And literally it took 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.120 me two years to get acclimated to the new name. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.840 People would call me and I'd look at them like 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:58.680 who are you talking to? 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.680 Oh? Right, that's me. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.280 People would call the house and my mom and my 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.839 dad and my sisters would be like, there's no Tiffany here. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.320 Oh that's right because we all changed our name. So 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:10.520 it was a very confusing time. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.320 But yeah, you like, forget your sister's name, new names 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:14.200 for sure. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.000 So when someone called me adochi, Like if I'm like 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.360 out in public and someone says Hey, Adochi. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.720 I know, like, whoa, you really know me? 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.080 You've known me before I was nine, So it's strange 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:25.960 when someone calls me that, because even my dad called 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.760 me Tiffany now, which is weird, Like this has been 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.480 the last few years, you know, because I just grew 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.720 up being called Adochi by my family and friends. So yep, 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.000 that's my name change story. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.360 I didn't know I had a lot of African friends. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:38.640 I knew I had a lot of black friends, but 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.880 not like of Africa, you know, moved here from Africa 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.000 until I got to college and like like, oh hi Simeon, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.000 Oh no, no, I don't go by Simon anymore. My 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.280 name is Obina or something like that. I'm like, oh, okay, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.240 they all dropped their American names when they got to college. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:55.000 I tried that. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.400 I'm not gonna lie. I tried A girl was too hard. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.000 Everybody was messing up Adochi like crazy succi ado I 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.559 was like, you know what, actually, just call me Tiffany again. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.400 I tried to go back to Africa as well. I 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:06.160 remember that time. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.320 Well, your name is so important, and I feel like, yeah, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.280 whether you keep your lot, your husband's or your wife's surname, 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.960 or whatever. It has to work for you. But it's 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.080 unfortunate that people in Japan don't even have the choice, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.880 you know, yeah, it is. Well, I saw something else 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.680 that was pretty interesting, I think from overseas well and 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.560 also America. Remember how there's been all this like controversy 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.880 over how black women in the military. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.160 Wear their hair, Yes, I remember, so recently. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.400 The Marines have made it possible. I don't know what 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.880 legal is the right term, but now female Marines can 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.160 wear their hair and locks and twists, which is huge. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:43.840 You know, this is a this is a huge one 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.120 I think for women in the military and just for inclusiveness. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:46.320 You know. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.000 Yeah, that's so dope because you know, I have locks 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.880 that I've had locks for like it's been seven years, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.439 maybe a little bit longer, and so I love that 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:55.920 and just just so beautiful. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.560 What's beautiful, too, is just the photos. I'm looking at 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.680 this article on huff Post and it's nothing but like 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.800 photos of badass black woman with locks and dreads and 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.840 like twists and braids after another doing like amazing. You 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.920 never see these kind of images of like black women 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.000 in combat. This is awesome. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:13.560 Ooh, I have to go look. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.800 But Verines you know, in alignment with that. Have you 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.280 heard about the She's missed Jamaica or missus Jamaica. I 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.200 never know how it starts when it comes to the 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.199 beauty contest. So she's in line to be Miss World. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.679 I guess that's the or Miss Universe? Is it Miss World? 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.760 No Miss World? So she's going to be in. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.160 That competition, and she has locks, and she's like the 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.479 first contestant to ever have locks in the Miss World competition, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.679 and she is dropped dead gorgeous. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.679 I feel like we could call twenty fifteen the Year 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.160 of the Locks at this point, because we had has Zendaiya, Yeah, gorgeousness. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.959 What was that the Golden Globes with the Grammys or 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.680 something like that, where she came out with the locks 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.520 and all that all that press for the e entertainment 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.319 like host too called her out for the dreads or whatever, 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.160 like all that bad press for that entertainment. Host it 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.640 wonders for Zendia, I feel like it did. And then 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.200 we had Ava Duverne's Barbie Dolls. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.000 Yes, yes, beautiful hair. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:07.920 Now the military is rising up. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.800 Exactly, and now we have this Missworld contestant rocking her locks. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.280 You're right, it is the Year of the locks. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.960 It is. Maybe I should re examine the lord ones. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.120 I need help because I'm in a bad situation right 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.160 now with my transition. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.840 Oh my god, that transition is serious. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.839 I'm so glad I'm half that stage because my locks 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.200 just make my life so much easier. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.800 I don't have to do nearly as much work as 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:29.720 when I had my hair out. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.840 I'm giving myself one more year, and if it doesn't 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.640 work out by then, I'm just like, I don't know 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:34.280 what I'm gonna do. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:36.880 You can always buzz it. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.480 No, that would look crazy. Well no, because I know 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.840 some girls who like they look amazing with like the 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:43.320 buzz cut. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:44.120 Oh my gosh. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.840 You know, hair is really important. When we've talked about 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.920 this before, hair and also just like how you present 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.440 yourself in the workplace. And I feel like calling this 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.840 year the locks. All the more people see images of 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:59.520 women with locks, braids, whatever twists, natural hair, the more 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.600 accepted'll be and they won't ever be a question of 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.480 like you know that young girl who was kicked out 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.800 of school and Mosada, Yeah, that won't happen because people 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.960 will be used to seeing it. Ah. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.280 The joints of being a brown girl with natural hair. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.680 And lastly, well, just to go to the last sort 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.000 of topic, it doesn't really have like, you know, a 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.240 money slamt, but I feel like every brown woman can 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.840 relate to this. So apparently Mark Jacobs has a line 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.319 of makeup, like as every major brand does, and they 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.480 sent this prominent beauty blogger like a kit of all 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.400 their new foundations and it was kind of it's comical 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.880 but then also sad. But it's like twenty two different 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.640 shades of foundation, and two or three of them are 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.880 for anyone, you know, a shade a shade or too 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.640 darker than like lily white. Yeah, and definitely not for 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.240 anyone who's dark skinned. And people were sort of you know, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.040 people were rightfully so I think calling them out, but 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.680 I know I shouldn't be surprised because this is obviously 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.760 a well known issue that there's just not enough variety 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.800 of color. But I feel like even now, like come on. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.679 Yeah, And the thing is, you know what's so crazy 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.640 as a designer, like if you had any sense, you 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.840 know that women of color really buy so much, like 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.280 they spend so much money. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:13.960 In the beauty in the streets. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.560 Yes, I mean like, so even if you're just like, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.280 you know what, it's a financial thing. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.760 I mean, hello, Like. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.440 It's just so crazy to me because you're right Like 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.360 I used to when I first started wearing makeup, like 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.200 in high school, like going to like you know, writing 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:27.960 or wherever. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:29.160 It was just like so. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.360 Cause I'm brown, I'm not like, oh, you know a 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.720 little bit coco. No, No, I'm just straight brown. So 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.280 it's difficult to find things that were my shade. Even 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:37.160 now it's difficult. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.040 No, I'm looking on Sephora right now, the darkest shade. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.680 The two of the last three dark shades are the 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.240 only ones that are sold out, the only ones that 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.480 tells you that people are hungry for this, Like why 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.360 you this is a bad this is bad marketing upon 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.520 or not marketing, but like business strategy upon upon their 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.160 uh their they're what am I? What word am I 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:57.640 looking for? 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.240 I don't know, Like whoever made these chorices? A plague 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:01.880 upon their house? 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:03.839 Drinking some mold wine? Right now, I think it's getting 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:04.080 to me. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.040 Yeah, I'm just gonna say, a plague upon your house, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:12.080 mark your foundation, kids, Yes, a plague upon your founday. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.880 You have Russia's and xits for us. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.960 So hopefully, like you know, I'm sure, just he better. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.720 Just hope black Twitter doesn't get a hold, because you know, 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:26.280 Mark doesn't want to get dragged. So that's it for Buzzworthy. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:40.120 Right now, It's time for breaking time. It's breaking time. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.720 Break it down for me. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.720 Yes, it's breaking time. You it's breaking time. Say what, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.320 it's breaking time, Say what. It's break break break, breaking time. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.640 Somebody is gonna get on me like Tiffany, stop it. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:55.120 I don't care. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:56.960 It's a little sh had a long day I did. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:57.880 How long day? You guys? 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.680 I am loopy and it's the only thing keeping me up, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.320 So bear with me. You'll be fine. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:05.640 No sanity, hate mail. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.160 Well, it's the holiday season. Obviously. I cannot believe Christmas 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.559 is only five days away. I know, but I can 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.480 believe how much in pain I am from my credit 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.840 card bill. Break. Yeah, I'm taking a brown break from 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.560 my credit card. This happens every year, though I need 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.320 to take a little break, even though I save up 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.000 for Christmas every year, just the actual act of racking 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.160 up all those charges, you know, because I spend more. 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.000 I spend more money in the month of December than 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.240 I do at any other time during the year for 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.480 the holidays. So for January, I'm going to go on 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.200 a little like you know, you'll do detoxing or like 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:39.960 a body cleanse. I'm going to go on. I'm going 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.040 to go on a money cleanse. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:42.520 I like that. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.840 I'm just gonna leave the plastic at home. I'm going 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.400 to get back to cooking in the kitchen. I've been 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.080 so busy. I've been ordering seamless, you know, using my 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.160 meal service and stuff. So I'm just going to get 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:57.680 back to back to basics and hopefully recover slowly. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.720 Take the IVY out of your the credit card IVY 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.280 out of your arm. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.520 I will be taking my rewards points though those are 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:05.960 coming handy, Oh. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.960 Yeah for sure, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't honestly if 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:13.600 you aren't using your credit card and not getting rewards honestly, honestly, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.040 I'm like looking at the screen, like, honestly, stop, like, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.360 don't have a card and not have rewards, whether it's 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.440 cash back, whether it's flight miles, gas. If you're gonna 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.640 use your card, you might as well make money on money. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.680 That's like shopping online and not using like like a 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.520 yeah yeah, not using groupon or not at least checking 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.360 like a retail me not or not shopping through portals 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.520 like you promise to say, hey can I get cash back? 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.960 Like it doesn't make sense honestly now not to shop 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.560 with kind of like this added edge when those edges 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:46.040 are free. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.560 You know, you know a lot of credit card companies. 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.840 When I first got my very first credit card in college, 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.360 there was no crazy reward programs like there are today. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:55.960 But I went back and I was like, do you 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.520 have can you upgrade me to the next level or whatever? 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.880 And they're like, oh, yeah, ease. They tried to yes, 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.440 you know, a cash rewards card just because I asked, 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.200 And there was no credit check, no, none of that 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.080 kind of stuff. So it's easy, but just be careful 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:09.320 with those, Like I would say, this is the time 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.040 of year where there's a lot of bonus offers. You know, 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.600 sign up now, I'm go'll give you fifty thousand miles. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.440 I don't have to do is spend two thousand dollars 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:17.160 in the next month. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:18.520 No, I don't do those. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.800 I just say, like, like you said, Mandy, same thing. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.160 Like I had a car since I was eighteen. I 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.880 didn't know like that I could have been getting like, 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.480 cause you're right, they had none of these rewards. And 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.080 then maybe like two or three years ago, like I 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.280 was talking to them on the phone about some charge 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.440 and then she casually mentioned, like, you know, we can 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.680 make this a travel card. And I was like what, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.040 I tried to get all this stuff retroactive. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:40.600 And she was like yeah. Now. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.080 Meanwhile, I'm like, what I had I spent enough money 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.840 in ten years to get like, you know, so many 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:46.520 different flights. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.560 But yes, if you have an old card, go see that. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.520 If they are rewards attached to it, they're not taking 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.720 advantage of because you might have some money sitting there, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.440 or you might could just transfer it over and make 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.200 it a travel card, a travel or a rewards card. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.440 So yeah, that's good. To take a brown break. I'm 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.600 like the opposite of you. So I'm taking a brown 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.159 break just from Christmas shopping, which is strange because I 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:06.960 have yet to do it. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.560 Oh, we're just trying to avoid the problem. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:12.560 Yes, honestly. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.760 So I took off Tuesday, which is what two days 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.600 before Christmas, the day before Christmas E And I'm like, 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.560 I'm gonna go Tuesday morning and I'm dreading it. I 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.320 hate Christmas shopping, So I'm not gonna lie about three 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.840