WEBVTT - Ep. 145 — Real Talk for the Debt Divas Out There 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.360 Yeah, it's been really nice. I would say, like we 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.640 I officially left on Thursday, but it took me maybe 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.120 until like yesterday to feel like I was on vacation. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:28.000 I was. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.479 I was a little tense. I was a little like 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.400 still checking my work email. They were a couple of 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.280 things that I left loosely tied up that just needed 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.600 to be put you know, boson up to Sunday evening. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.600 And then we left Seattle and got to where we 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.720 are now on the San Juan Islands and did some 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.560 whale watching yesterday. And when I saw my first Orca whale, 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:56.160 I was like in vacation mindset, go, no, that's awesome. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.240 The trip, oh my god. I did not even want 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.520 to go on the teen trip because I like the 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.279 same thing. There was so much work, and literally I 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.120 was working all night welcome in the morning. I was 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:07.760 working until like the uber. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.319 Came and finally I was like I did like the 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:11.800 core of like what I had to have to do. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.800 There were still things, like, you know, little things outstanding, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:15.880 but I was like, honestly, I just want. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.320 To stay and finish it. I just but I ended 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:19.840 up having the best time. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.600 I can't, I mean, with ten women when I say 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.520 at a ten, it was a twenty with how much 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:27.280 we got along. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.119 I mean, it definitely helped that we booked a house. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:31.800 The house that we booked was originally when we thought 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.520 we were going to have fourteen people, so it was 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.319 eleven bedrooms. Eleven people came, so basically everyone had their 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.800 own bedrooms. So I'm sure that helped a lot. Yeah, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.360 but it was such a good time. Honestly, everyone is 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.320 so dope and dynamic. It just was a really really 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.080 good time. But like, I don't we could do like 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.440 I know, you want to make this like a Q 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.320 and A episode. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.840 No, I mean this is let's you catch me up, 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.640 but I want to know about your VACA. I'm recording 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:55.680 the people are doing this. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.040 It was honestly, it was it was everything that like 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.040 we needed because we like, well, first of all, none 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.200 of us had not none, but most of us had 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.600 not met before, so it was very much like a 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.720 reunion of like, hey person, I video chat and have 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.480 phone calls with and slack with. So there was eleven 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.519 of us plus Jabri, my business partner, so he was 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.240 the only guy, and then there was we had a 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.680 private chef and he was a guy too, So the 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.320 house was beautiful. Our plans were the first night just 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.239 to kind of hang out, eat and then watched Napoli 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:31.720 Ever after. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:32.480 Have you seen that movie? 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.120 I watched that. I watched about half of it a 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.000 couple of nights ago. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.399 But go ahead. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.400 No, no, no, but no, no no, I think we're getting to 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:46.120 the point now go ahead. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.520 Yeah. I definitely was like, what the hell? 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.880 But you know what, for a group of women like 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.560 having a slumber party, it was a great slumber party group. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.320 Like if I was I would have turned it off 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:00.720 long ago. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.959 I wish. I wish I had ten black girlfriends with 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.880 me when I was watching it too, because my husband 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:06.680 was like, what is. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.760 Let me tell you your brother Feli he was story. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.320 We were like, can't help here was a story after 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.959 like like twenty minutes. So that was the first day 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.920 so that was funny. Plus the chef that his food 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.760 was amazing, shout out to chef m. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:22.040 Todd. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.440 And the second day we just went to Universal Studios, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.520 which was a ton of fun, especially we got kid 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.760 kids because it's so funny how adults all get tired 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.480 at the same time. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.919 Because you should have seen we were walking toward riding 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:33.399 five U tever. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.720 But it was like I'm over it, Like you know, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.480 we're a baby Supergirl and we're like five nor ride. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:40.840 I looked there but his face, I was like you 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.440 want to go there? We're like yes, child, So but 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.040 universal was like a ton of fun. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:46.680 And then that night we went to a comedy show 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.360 and then the next day we did a spy like BarreR. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.640 Who is my executive Adamant. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.320 She and she and Tambor, who actually used to live 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.400 Tamor is the manager of the academy. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.760 She used to live in Florida, so she helped her 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.720 find a really great spy. 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:02.640 Was beautiful like a Dracuzzie steam room, and we basically 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.560 took it over so everyone got a massage and you 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.000 got to pick whether you wanted a peicure or a manicure. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.800 And then we did team building activities. You know what 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.520 we did and Yadale child to you, mama. She was like, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.480 tell Mandy, we finally did the this test. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.280 Oh you did, Mandy. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.039 It was every day can you guess what I am? 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.640 I s what the hell? Yes? 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:31.800 I bet your mama couldn't guess what you are? 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:40.000 But I know, yeah, when we took it Mandy. It 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.039 was so helpful, And yeah, it was so cute because 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:43.880 yat Alice was like, tell Mandy. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.400 Because she listens like religiously to the podcast. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.920 Tell Mandy we finally did this test because she does 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:49.640 it like at her job. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.760 I think, ya, I don't know she does HR, but 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.080 she like does stuff like this for where her full 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.080 time job where she works. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.680 And it was so helpful, Mandy, Oh my goodness, because 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.960 I got to see there's something people you know, like, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:01.719 you're totally a D. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.120 So we don't know. Can you explain what the DISC 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.000 test is again? 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.640 Yeah, So a DISC test stands for it's D I, 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.919 S C, and it's one of these personality tests. But 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.760 DISC is a little bit different because it and the 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.680 way that I've been taught about it is that it 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.240 shows you what your work personality is, how you interact 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.719 in the workplace. And I forget what all the letters 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.280 stand for all the time, but I think, so, if 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.640 you're high D, it means you have a more dominating personality. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.960 If your high I, you're more social. You like to 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.800 interact with people, and S is a it's sort of 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.600 your level of wanting to help others and be service 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.000 in service of others and a C I think is caution. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.760 So this is people who think carefully before they make 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.920 a decision. Yeah, and it's really so. I did this 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.039 at my company and it's it's really cool because you 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.560 get to sort of understand not just how you operate, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.400 but why that person over there is always chatty in 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.479 the morning, how annoying they are. Help helps, you see. 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:02.960 Because it was so crazy because I see now. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.520 I was like ooh, because like, for example, there people 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:06.120 on the team that. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.480 They're like eyes, you know, were really social and chatty 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.360 and I see that, like ooh, she's a D. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.440 So all of this like pre chatting that I've been doing, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.520 I know, shut up, let's get to the thing like that. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.440 So now I know. But it was so. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.560 Helpful because it's like like Yadlis did such a great 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.800 She's the youngest of all the Unicorn Squad members and 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.560 members of the team, and she did such a great 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.880 job really explaining you know, like the different kind of 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.000 like attributes that she gave us like a cheat sheet 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.280 where it's like I can understand, like Jabrill, who my 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.320 business partner, is a classic D. You know, get down 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.360 to the money, get down to brass tacks, let's go, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.800 you know, and it's like, okay, so now understanding like 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.760 what I love is it? We got to see like 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.680 what stresses out a D or an I or c 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.960 R S, what's helpful to them? 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.560 How do they view success? It was just so helpful. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.159 And then one of my friends who used was wanted 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.560 an Academy expert. She came just say she listens Florida, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.719 and she really just gave us some really great outside 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.680 feedback of what she sees for the as the business, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.240 like you know, what are some of our things that 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.400 we do really well? What are some of our areas 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.520 of opportunities? Because she herself is a really amazing business woman. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.960 Her name is Dontec and she teaches folks who have 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.880 ideas and how to transform them into like actual inventions 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.240 that you could like sell a like Walmart, Target or whatever. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.000 So her feedback was amazing and we were like so 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.160 many things that we didn't see that we were like 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.480 I didn't from the outside. Seeing it from another business 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.200 woman's eyes were just amazing. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.560 And then that night we took them out to Not Fancies. Man, 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.000 did have you ever heard of Magiano? No? 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.880 Oh, Magiana's Yeah, I had my I went. I went 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.160 there for prom dinner, like my senior prom. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.640 Yeah, and it was like, so it's like family style. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:47.600 Right, yeah, delicious? 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.520 I remember, Yes, it was so because we were gonna 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.120 go on site, so we stayed at this place called Encore, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.840 which I had never really seen this before, but it's 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.800 like it's a resort, but she looks like you're in 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.920 a neighborhood because instead of like an apartment, like instead 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.280 of like you know, like I guess a hotel room, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.520 it's like these are homes that you can rent and 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.960 so all of the homes are like rented out to like, 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.360 you know, vacationers. And so we stayed at one called Encore, 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.640 and it was really nice except for like their We 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.680 were gonna eat at their fancies, fancy restaurant on our 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:19.160 last night. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.840 But once they saw what we looked. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.440 Like, they were like, yeah, there's no space really really 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:25.440 because we just made the reservation. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.200 Wait what oh well we'll happen. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.880 Yes, we'll have to put you outside at nine flack 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.320 at night. So we were like, yeah, actually we're good. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.520 So they'll be getting all the YELP revis because one 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.439 thing I am when it comes to people treating me 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.480 poor me in service and I am I am social 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.840 media petty. I will write you up on every platform. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.040 Out They're like, yeah, so if you're black, might want 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:45.640 to watch out. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.920 I don't get it. You guys had a reservation and 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.200 they didn't give you a table. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.600 But yeah, they were just like because of the team 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.040 was like, oh, they wanted to go for a walk. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.800 They said, well, let's walk by the restaurant and see 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.760 how it looks. We walked by and they she said, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.920 everyone has stopped and was looking like wait, who were 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:01.880 these groups of like. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.079 Black women and brown women? 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.079 And you know, they just went like, oh, we just 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:06.880 want to see the restaurant because we've been in a reservation. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.120 And they were like, oh, we're really we're booked and 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.640 she's like really because we booked online and it's not 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.600 booked and secondly, we've already booked a reservation. Oh well, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.920 we're not really gonna have space, but we can definitely 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.680 put you outside, I mean outside in Florida at. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.400 Nine, so we could be eating up by mosquitoes. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.080 So we ended up thankfully finding you know the Maggi 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.920 Magiano Maiano. Yeah, yeah, we ended up finding that Mestra 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.040 and it's like an Italian family style, so they were 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.280 just as loud, which was awesome. So we had a 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.560 really good time there. Honestly, Maddie, it was like I 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.840 never realized how important like team building and things were. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.559 Like we were already good, but it just put everyone 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.520 in a state of like just greater understanding of. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.320 Like what our roles are, what we're working toward. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.240 Everyone came back so refreshed, and so the team so Jabrill. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.360 It was his idea, and we paid for everything by 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.840 setting aside two percent of our of our gross income 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.120 from the beginning of We started saving in January and February, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.440 and then when we got enough money saved, we paid 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.600 for flight, we got more, we paid for the house, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.840 we got more, and so slowly but surely we paid 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.120 for it that way, and it just made it easier 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.880 than paying some lump sum and figuring out where's the 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.520 money come from. So yeah, I encourage anyone who has 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.600 a digital team to plan something like that, And even 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.040 if you can't do it in the first year, you 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.200 might save for two years to be able to do something. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.520 And I'm telling you groupon as your friend, because that's 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.800 where you used a lot like it doesn't have to 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:31.200 cost it. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:32.760 It can cost as much or as little as you 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.720 as you wanted to cost. But it was an awesome time. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:36.960 I actually used a group on on our We did 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.960 a whale watching tour yesterday and I didn't really I haven't, 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:42.920 Like I said, I haven't planned. We planned like nothing 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.720 for this trip. So we got to the ferry to 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.760 come to the island and then I pulled up group 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.440 on to see like what well watching tours were available, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.880 and then a lot of these tours, like if you're 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.280 trying to plan last minute on groupon, they have a 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.960 they tell you you can't use it for seventy two hours. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.319 And I was like, oh crap, but I call one 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.199 of the places, one of the I tried to find 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.800 the one that was highly most highly rated, and I 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.320 called them and I told him I wanted a group 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.520 on one of the group on deal and they were like, okay, well, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.120 we'll honor the price over the phone because of you know, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.839 the seventy two hour rule, which I thought was really 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.520 nice of them. So we ended up saving like one 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.120 hundred bucks on our. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:18.720 Wow, that's awesome. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.679 On our whale tour and we saw so many whales 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:22.880 it was awesome. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.560 Going on a whalel tour and not seeing well, I've 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:27.719 definitely done that and I've been like. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.080 So it was whales guaranteed. They said if we didn't 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.160 see any whales, and I would, I got my receipt. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:34.520 I was like, if I don't see a whale, don't 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:35.599 coming back tomorrow. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.880 Whales guarantee. Well, I don't want to San Diego. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.040 And the whales didn't show up, but there were so 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.199 many dolphins and they were awesome, so I was I. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.120 Was, okay, yeah, there were we came. We came in 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.320 a good time because it's like the end of the 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.600 summer season, but it's still whale time. So there were 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.400 humpbacks and Orca whales and some sea lions and it 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.480 was it was cool. I do kind of feel like 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.319 low key I'm like in the beginning of the movie 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.360 get Out because I think we were the only brown 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.160 people on this I think we are the only brown 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.719 people on this island right now. It's very weird. I mean, 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.679 it's not weird if I mean you whatever. I grew 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.679 up in white neighborhoods and you know whatever, but definitely 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.240 definitely no, no, no people of color. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:21.680 I don't know. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.600 I guess they don't come here. Maybe that's maybe Oprah 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.079 is going to start the trend. I don't know where 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.280 are you guys are come to stand Watt Islands. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.040 They need us No, but it sounds good. Have you. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.440 I feel like I haven't seen any You're You've been 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.400 like really good. Not too much social media because I 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:36.800 haven't seen any pictures posted. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.960 I did finally post some whale videos. You know. I 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.240 had to do the Free Willy soundtrack that Michael Jackson 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:50.960 song Dude, I'll think that I'll spare you anyway. That 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.360 was the first movie I saw in theaters Free Willie. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:13:00.319 Shout out to six year old Mandy. I was really 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.839 afraid they make that whale on the big screen. Those 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.840 whales are huge. They're so big, and we got lucky 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.400 because they like surrounded our boat. I guess they we 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.240 can't see what's happening, but they were like eating a 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.160 seal or something. They got really excited and they were 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.760 just having the buffet lunch around our boat and they 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.320 were just like going in and out of the water 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.120 and their tails were up and it was it was 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.480 crazy because you can't plan it. So yeah, it's been 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.600 really nice. But now I feel like, Okay, we did 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.400 a nice hike today and I'm relaxing. But I was telling, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.000 you know, me being off work right now, and we 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.000 are right by a sea airport, so if you hear 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.080 some you know entries in the background, that's probably a seaplane. No, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.360 but being away from work, I had to it probably 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.360 took me all of the last two weeks to prepare 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.920 for being gone for a week. And I in the 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.719 back of my mind, I'm like, I'm really glad that 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.400 I'm leaving now, because one, it's a terrible time to leave. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.920 Like two, I feel like it's also a stress test. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.280 Can I leave and things are fine? And if the 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.440 answer is no, that's bad. Like it's not like I 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.560 feel like i've in the past thought okay, well, you know, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.640 if it's good for people to need me to be there, 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.280 I need to be there to do this and do that. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.400 But it's not good if you know, if I were 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.760 to leave, or Tiffany you were to leave, and budget 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.040 nest would fall apart, or you know, my team falls apart. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.200 And I really had to like force myself to shove 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.760 things off my plate and just fill everyone's plate around me. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.760 And I feel like this is the first time I've 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.640 ever had to do that, and it was really freaking hard. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.680 Took me like two weeks to get ready. But I 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.880 think the next time and the next time I want 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.000 to take time off, it's going to get easier and easier. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.360 And then when I need to take maternity leave, you know, 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.480 I'm going to need to be able to do this. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.760 So it's a good practice for me. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.240 Yes, yeah, it's a crazy that we both kind of 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.040 went away at the same time, but you're right, and 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.520 it was a testament too, like I couldn't have I 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.120 couldn't have done this maybe like a year or so ago, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.520 because I just was doing too much right because sometimes 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.840 you make yourself like I was the bottleneck, like things 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.080 had to everything had to flow through me every day, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.120 you know, and I thought that I was like, you know, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.760 this is I'm being a good boss or I'm being 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:09.840 a good business owner. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.280 But I was holding things. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.000 Up because if I didn't check off on things, they 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.040 it just stopped at me. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.160 So I finally took myself out of a lot. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:22.000 Of like the movement of the company and allowed people 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.560 to make decisions, you know, because I realized that like 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.240 some of it was like I didn't trust people to 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:27.960 make the right choices. So I was like, no, that 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.640 we have to get the right people, and so now 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.680 we've got amazing people and things don't have to flow 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.880 through me. I just trusted the don't make the right choices, 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:37.960 and even if they don't, they know that I'm here 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.360 for challenges and I'm here for mistakes because that's the 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:41.080 way that you learn. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.200 And it's okay. As long as you My rule is 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:44.960 as long as you don't kill anybody, we're good. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.280 They go like, literally, I'm like when someone says, oh, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.280 my gods, should be that new thing that I said 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.760 I was gonna try on Facebook or whatever, it didn't work, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:54.960 and I'm like, well, how many. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.280 People died and they don't. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.960 I'm like, well, girl, it's okay, it's okay. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:05.960 Hey. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.880 Yeah, So I'm excited to answer some question on you 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.720 guys are getting go getting better and better asking really 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.320 to a question, so bring them on mandra Where can. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:22.080 I ask questions? 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.720 You can go to a brandabission podcast dot com and 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.360 click ask us anything at the top too, drop us 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.680 a question, or you can email us directly at Brondambis 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:35.520 podcast at gmail dot com. 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Currently, we have fourteen 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.840 thousand saved in a regular savings account, which yields four 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.600 to five cents worth of interest per month. Oh girl, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.000 So my question is will Ally be beneficial for building 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:23.280 more interest and how has your experience with Ally ben background. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.119 We plan to have the money by October twenty nineteen 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.080 and we're saving about fifty seven hundred dollars a month. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.560 Easy question. Get your money out of that bank right away, 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.440 and it doesn't have to be Ally, but just an 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.359 online savings account. There's a bunch out there, but Ally 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.200 is one of them that has a really good yield. 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.320 We both have used Ally and are happy with it, right, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:46.520 m Do you. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.280 Think that, like, if she, let's just say she's not 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.840