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Speaker 1: I'm a hustle bit. Her name is Reggi Raja, Reggi Roja.

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Speaker 1: The previous gig was acting. She came out here, moved

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Speaker 1: to Los Angeles in twenty sixteen to try and pursue

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Speaker 1: her dream. A lot of people do that to be

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Speaker 1: an actor and actress. So she did that and it

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Speaker 1: didn't go well. She then did not have a place

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Speaker 1: to live. She met her husband, his name is Mel,

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Speaker 1: and she was navigating through depression and anxiety because they

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Speaker 1: could not afford therapy, and they created something called affirmation

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Speaker 1: cards and followed through with actions it would help uplift

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Speaker 1: them mentally and emotionally, and then she made it her business.

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Speaker 1: Love affirmation Darling, Good morning, Regi Roja. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I am actually so good. Thank you for having me well.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on being our hometown hustler.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. It is an honor and it's

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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 1: No pressure. We're gonna make it easy. I do want

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Speaker 1: to talk about so many, including myself, moved to Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles to pursue a dream of being in the entertainment business.

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Speaker 1: Mine was broadcasting, yours was acting. Doesn't work out for everybody.

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Speaker 1: It didn't for you, but you pushed through it. Tell

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Speaker 1: me about pushing through that depression and that tough part

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Speaker 1: of your life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, my husband and I and our little dogs,

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Speaker 2: we moved to la for acting in twenty sixteen. But

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Speaker 2: you know, California is really very affordable to live in.

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Speaker 2: Huh No, our quick our living situation just quickly like

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Speaker 2: fell apart, forcing us to live in our car for

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Speaker 2: two years. And during those two years we had to

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Speaker 2: navigate through depression and anxiety on our own. So just

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Speaker 2: put an afford a therapist or a life coach, so

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Speaker 2: to navigate our failing mental health. We would just declare

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Speaker 2: these customized affirmations and follow through with actions that would

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Speaker 2: just help boost ots aroductivity and also like have us

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Speaker 2: distracted from you know, quitting on life in general. And

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Speaker 2: so this helped us uplift us mentally and emotionally. And

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Speaker 2: then this positive mindset just coupled with faith is how

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Speaker 2: we were able to transition out of homelessness. And ever

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Speaker 2: since then, I've always wanted to use my story to

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Speaker 2: make a difference for the underserved, disadvantaged young adults facing

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Speaker 2: homelessness and mental health issues like us. So, yeah, in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty after we were laid off due through COVID,

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Speaker 2: I launched Affirmation Darling and today we're in eight countries,

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Speaker 2: over seventy stocks and donated over eight hundred products and

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Speaker 2: nonprofits including Conent House.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Affirmation Darling dot com. To see these mental health

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Speaker 1: cards and positive stationary products, give me an example of

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Speaker 1: what's on a card.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the first one that I wrote was do not

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Speaker 2: worry or be anxious about things you cannot change or control.

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Speaker 2: And I wrote that first because we realized, my husband

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Speaker 2: and I that getting out of the situation was near

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Speaker 2: impossible at that moment. So how can we make this

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Speaker 2: work enough favor rather than against us? And that's this

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Speaker 2: is this forceful adaptation of this mindset is honestly what

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Speaker 2: helps us get out of it at the end.

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Speaker 1: It's simple things like this that we do need to

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Speaker 1: reinforce and you almost need to reinforce it every single day.

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Speaker 1: Can be different ways of saying it, but you need

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Speaker 1: we as humans, you need this every single day because

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Speaker 1: you want to stay on track. Yeah, I think it's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Just your whole story is what struck me and I

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Speaker 1: loved it. Reggi Raj of Affirmation Darling at Affirmation Darling

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, and mel was your angel to come into

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Speaker 1: your life. You could do this together with your husband.

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Speaker 1: So congratulations on being our hometown hustler.

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Speaker 2: Oh it totally is well. It was just a one

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Speaker 2: woman show, but I realized I needed to tap his

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Speaker 2: bank account to expand my product lines. I mean, so

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Speaker 2: I didn't want the.

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Speaker 1: Big hugs to you, REGGI thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 1: If you want to nominate somebody to be the hometown Hustler,

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Speaker 1: go to kissfm dot com keyword hustler. Tell us your

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Speaker 1: story or somebody that you really think a lot of

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Speaker 1: and will try and get them on in that segment.