WEBVTT - Ep 235 - Day One, or One Day? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, ba fam, we are five years into making this 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.480 podcast that we love so much called Brown Ambition, and 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.440 we could not do it without you. We've gone from 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.960 me and Tiffany sneaking around my old office building trying 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.960 to find places to record, and thanks to you, guys, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.040 we now have one hundred thousand downloads per month for 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:22.200 this little show called Brown Ambition. We would love to 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.320 ask y'all for a small favor as fans of the show. 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The last five years 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.000 have been amazing and it's all things to you. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:15.680 Hey. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:23.679 Hey, Hey, we're back, We're black, We're Brown Ambition. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:30.440 Hey mansa just hands Hey, Happy Monday Recording on this 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.920 beautiful September Monday. Listen, as you were doing the intro, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.680 I was just like kicking myself in the face, which 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.959 I can't physically do, but you know, not literally. I 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.000 can't believe when I was designing Brown Ambition Store and 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.640 brandambisionstore dot com that I did not put that on 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:47.920 one of our new T shirts. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.440 How does it go? We're back, We're black. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:53.760 Shirts. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:55.520 I'm doing it. We have T shirts. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.480 Not only do we have T shirts, s Tiffany, and 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.800 thank you for for for asking about our flag, because 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.080 five years into the show, we finally have some merchandise 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.480 for you guys to rock your Brown Ambition pride everywhere 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.959 in Quarantine on your zoom calls in line six feet 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.360 away from each other at Trader Joe's Rocket. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:16.600 We have T shirts. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.560 We got onesies for the babies out there, Brand Ambish 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.280 and babies, got tote bags and the T shirts. I'm 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.919 pretty proud. Oh, I'm trying to do my part for nature, 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.280 so they're recycled. I will spare you the details on 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.840 the terrible pollution that clothes create. But anyway, check out 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.720 our store, Brownibision store dot com and pick up some 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.160 swag and then you've got to share. We need pictures, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.960 pictures of y'all swag of. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.960 Course, hashtag brownhimbisions BA swag. That's what you should do. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.320 Hashtag BA swag or just hashtag Brown Ambition and tag 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.080 us on Instagram, at Brown Ambition Podcast, on Facebook wherever. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.040 We're all over the place, at Mandy Money at the Budgetista, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.000 y'all know where to find us. 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.360 I'm really really excited. Yeah, So what's the store adjust again, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.880 Brown Ambition store dot com. So easy to remember, so 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:09.639 easy to remember. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:11.679 I will prepare you all though, because I was a 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.680 little surprised by this is my first time setting up 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.000 a swag store, and I mean shocking because it took 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.800 me five years to do that. But anyway, I did it. Okay, listen, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.600 but and I used print full just full disclosure, and 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.520 you can connect that through a site called shopify. So 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.440 I know that you guys, especially those of you who 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.720 checked that our episode with Sandy Smith where we were 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.919 talking about side hustles. So one of the common side 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.360 hustles these days is drop shipping, which is essentially when 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.560 you create you know, you can put your logo or 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.280 create a custom design for a product, but then instead 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.360 of ordering a huge, you know, stock of that product 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.120 and keeping it in your basement until it's sold, you 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.320 can use a drop shipping company to hold the product 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.320 for you and do all of the hard work of 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.520 printing or manufacturing the products and then shipping them out 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.080 to your customers. So we use print full. And I 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.680 was really surprised because, you know, with ambition, I mean, 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.960 let's let's just be real here, our audience is mostly 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.280 women of color, like probably more than eighty percent of 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.560 our audience women of color, and we I was surprised 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.160 that I wasn't able to get a more diverse lineup 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.920 of models on the print full website. And I was 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.960 so surprised that I was like, am I just missing 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.280 the right button? Like is there a button or some setting? 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.960 And you know, it's not like super easy to navigate. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.640 So I went to customer support and I live chatted 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.039 a very nice gentleman and he said, you know, that's 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.280 actually not an option, but if you'd like to go 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.760 to our feature request form and he said, submit every 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.480 request for this to be a future that's added. And 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.640 I went to the future request and it's one of 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.640 those things where you can upvote features that like, if 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.200 you see someone else's requested a feature that you really want, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.000 you can upvote it. So here's what I need y'all 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.240 to do. I'm going to post a link in our 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.760 show notes, and you need to click that link and 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.919 up vote my request for printfual to have more inclusive models, 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.960 because there is no reason we should not be able 0:04:59.920 --> 0:05:02.919 to to have a group of beautiful women of color 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.560 repping our brand, because that is what Brown Ambition is 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:10.680 all about. And I was genuinely surprised, and the guy 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.120 on customer service was like, I think there might be 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.480 a few other requests like this. There were maybe two 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.120 and they each had like four votes, So this is 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.040 where we can make some kind of difference. I'm genuinely 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.120 shocked that I even have to, but you know what 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.679 this is, what is like you think in twenty twenty, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.359 these things, You know you shouldn't have to ask for 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.320 these types of things, but listen, we do, and I 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.159 think I think Brown Ambition Nation can help create some change. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.400 So go to my show notes, go to our show 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.120 notes and click our link to our future request, and 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:44.520 please please please upvote it. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:45.839 Up vote, up vote. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.919 M hmm, let's shame them in our up vote, and 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.200 I like that we're doing that, like use their own process, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.680 and then if we don't get a response, then we 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.760 can take it to Twitter. So don't go you know, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.239 if we don't need y'all to like you, just drag 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:58.920 them on Twitter. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.960 Just yes, you know, Twitter, it's my go to girl. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.320 Like I was like, why did I someone remember we 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.359 told a young woman to like to go to Twitter? 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.280 She's like, girl, it worked. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.479 Yeah out Like me, I mean remember my washing machine saga, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.480 my dishwasher saga eighteen nineteen. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:16.840 I was like, tag me, girl, we gonna go back 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.880 and forth and be like disgusted in open court. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.360 And they were like, how can we help you? 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.640 I was like, I thought, so right, well, let's see, 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.720 I would like to give them. I think giving them 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.799 a chance to do the right thing first and foremost, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.840 because it's not like they don't have diverse models. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:30.240 They do. 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.760 It's just that you know that you can't quite you 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.760 can't like select, it was just luck of the draw. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.000 So then I couldn't even pick like women. You know, 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.200 it was like I think there was like a guy, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.599 like different guys, different women, different hairstyles whatever. But you know, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.120 so they just need more customization. I think of the models, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.200 but it's got to be hard, you know, to their defense, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.400 it's got to be hard to do that in a 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.919 way where you know, you wouldn't have the opposite happening, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.880 like brands being like, mmm, like we just want only 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.640 white people to buy our products, which I can't imagine 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.840 why because you're really luting lots of money that way exactly. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.160 But uh, anyhow, what the hell else is going? Oh 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.200 my god, the world's ending. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.080 Yes, but I was. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:12.240 Having because we are focusing on the listeners and we 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.360 basically have a mail bag episode Mailbag. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.840 All about you guys. So we've had Gusts the past 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.119 couple of weeks and they were two of my favorite shows, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.120 kind of back to back, but we had just freight 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:26.600 saying from minority mind. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.600 How I feel about that? So Le's not. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.840 Even I'd never heard of him, and it was actually 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.480 really embarrassing from. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.360 It was my favorite. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.520 But yeah, no, And if you hear the salivation through 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.440 the through the mic. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.080 I don't, like I said, it's not just free himself physically. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.920 It's just like, oh, I just love other financial educators 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.440 and he's one that hasn't been in the brown mix 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.840 as much as like, cause we know basically everyone and 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.200 we're super cool and friends with everyone. So to find 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.440 a new one, someone who really focuses on education is 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.520 so good. But yeah, no, I'm excited for the mail bag. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:02.920 Have you. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.200 I don't know, like, does the baby watch like Elmo 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.920 and like Sesame Streetya? 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.280 He really loves Elma. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:10.960 I don't know if I can say he watches it, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.320 but he's delighted by it about twenty seconds. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.240 Cause you know, there's like I when I seach preschool, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.800 we would watch it in the morning as the kids 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.240 that were coming in, and they would be thing. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.320 It'd be like, Elmo has mail, Elmo has mail, Elmo has. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.840 Mail, And I feel like, this is what's happening right 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.239 now that Ba has mail? 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.920 Are you sending me things? Oh? 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.080 No, I was just I was hitting the save button. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.280 I think my computer makes fun clicking noise back. Wait, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.800 but is this a new setting that I just take 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:41.880 a screen shop? I'm just trying to save? But okay, whatever, Yes, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:42.800 BA has mail. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:43.600 BA has mail. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.320 BA has mail? So do we ever? 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.520 We have email? We have Instagram messages. I dug through 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.080 them all and tried to get a nice little group 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.880 of them, But that does not mean that we're never 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:55.960 gonna take y'all's questions again. In fact, we were trying 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.800 to come up with even more efficient ways for y'all 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.040 to get your questions on the show. In the meantime, though, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.120 hit us up Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.360 Old School, or holler at me on Instagram. We are 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.959 at Brown Ambition Podcast on ig Yes we are. Before 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.520 we get to the mail bag, can we just do 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.520 a quick, quick, quick? I know there's so much. I mean, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.920 the news is just trying us. And I've been thinking 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.480 so much about doctor Eimani's advice room last week, which 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.920 was like limit yourself to fifteen minutes of news a 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.280 day and just read it on your like news app 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.120 and then stop, because I've turned into that, Like I 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.760 just constantly am asking Google to tell me the news, like, hey, Google, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:34.320 what's the news? 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:34.840 Even if it. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.720 Hasn't changed, something about it just comforts me. But this 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.920 weekend it was all about RBG. Yeah, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.080 the second woman to ever hold a Supreme Court seat 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.520 and such a champion of equal rights for women in 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:52.400 her story is just so powerful and she's gone on. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.520 I know, I just want to take I mean, I'm 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.920 power else if you're out there, you know at one 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.320 of her memorials are all happening all over the country. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.800 I get people are stressed because, you know, this was 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.000 the fear all along. We were all just praying for 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.719 RBG to survive, you know, Trump's term, so that he 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.320 wouldn't have an opportunity to replace her with someone even 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.680 more conservative. And you know, right before the election she 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:23.920 passes away. So I don't it's it's sad, but it's 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.920 also just a reminder one of the things that I 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.439 was sort of surprised by. I guess it was a reminder, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.480 but also it's like I didn't realize, I mean, it 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.319 makes sense so we can decide how many justices sit 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.680 on the Supreme Court. And I follow bon Dair Jones, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.120 who's a very exciting congressional candidate. He's he's running for 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.160 office in the district we live in New York, and 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.600 he's you know, he's a he's a black man, and 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.360 you know, he's he's very he's just awesome. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:52.080 He's a progressive. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.240 All that he was posting on the GRAM and kind 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.640 of talking about how like, you know, this could be 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.199 a case for increasing the number of justices on the 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.280 Supreme Court, like if the Republicans pushed through their own 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.760 nominee for the Supreme Court, even though that seems like, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.920 I mean, I want to believe it's unlikely. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:10.720 But like let's say it happens. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.480 Yeah, you know what we could do if Biden wins 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.520 is like ask for more justices. And part of me 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:22.240 feels like this is a level of like widespread conversation 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.760 and households that just wasn't happening before, like the economic 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.000 like the what do you call it, civic government level 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.040 of conversation we're having, like people need to understand, we 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.960 need to go back to basics, like here are the 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.280 three branches of the government. Here's how they work. And 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.320 I think it all comes back to how important it 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.640 is for people to vote for their elected officials in Congress. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:49.120 President great, but like Congress even more important when it 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.520 comes to like making laws and deciding how things are structured, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.320 like the judicial branch. So that's my little Civics lesson 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.560 for the day, and dot dot dot, I'm just gonna 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:00.000 leave it there. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.160 Isn't there there's a movie based upon her life, right, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.280 what's the movie? Called Netflix. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.640 I don't remember what it's called, but yeah, it has 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.160 the same ath. I was just remembering, what's the actress's 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.400 name she was in She was in that thing and 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:15.480 that movie with that guy. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.280 Oh yeah, the thing, the movie the guy Got It. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.559 I haven't watched the I haven't watched the film. But 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.320 there was also a documentary. It was like the Year 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.040 of RBG was a couple of years ago, and there 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:29.040 was a documentary and then the movie. I downloaded her audiobook, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.800 her memoir or her biography more like from audible, and 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.120 it's good because it's not quite like a traditional memoir. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.480 She's reading speeches and she's reading like dissenting because she 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.400 was famous for her her dissenting opinions, like writing really 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.040 you know, eloquent justifications for why she wasn't, you know, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.880 voting against something or not voting ruling against something. But yeah, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.360 so I recommend her her audiobook if you're wanting to 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.720 do you know, wanting to like bask in the glory 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.600 of her story, but also voting helps vote, it does. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.520 Please vote, and don't just vote for president and come back, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.080 come back, come back and vote in the midterms. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.679 Because that really means the most because here's the thing. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.520 Your local government is what controls your local life. So 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.080 you want to make sure that you're really voting for 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:20.840 like what's going to actually happen in your town. That 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.240 not to say, obviously the presidency doesn't have a huge 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.120 effect on your life, but you know who sits on 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.720 your you know, education board, the mayor, your assembly woman, 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.400 those things are super important as well. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.360 Yeah, one percent, you know what I mean. Not to brag, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.960 but I emailed my Parks and rec Department today to 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.479 tell them one of the swings at the local playground 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.600 was busted. They replaced it and sent me a picture 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.720 within a few hours. So you know, government working for 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.400 the people. Yes, beautiful. It's just little things like that, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.880 you know, make a difference. But I do feel like, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.760 I mean, I'm going to beat this into Rio's head. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.959 We'll not beat it into but I'm going to make 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.960 sure that he understands it's real when it comes to 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.920 like you're like Congress, your elected officials, your localft officials, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.760 they really really matter. And so many of them have 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.360 just been serving in this office for decades, years and 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.760 years and years and getting re elected and getting reelected 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.840 and getting reelected because nobody knows any different, and like, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.679 no one really knows who they are in the first place. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.560 And yet they're the ones who are going to be 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.640 deciding whether or not Trump is able to appoint a 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.680 new Supreme Court justice to take Rbg's place. Like they're 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.120 the ones who supported Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.560 They are the ones who decide if legislation around immigration, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.680 you know, ultimately gets past Like yeah, the President can 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.240 ultimately veto it, but then it can get kicked back 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.600 to Congress and then they need what a two thirds 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.960 majority and they can override it. So it really really matters. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.920 And I just hope that this momentum and education, this 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.400 moment that we're at, you know, continues for people. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.520 Yeah, I agree too. Youp oh my. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.400 God, what's going to happen to the Affordable Care Act? 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.560 Oh my gosh. People are saying it's a done deal. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.280 Honestly, I just I was talking to my sister about it, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:11.000 and it's so important that you look towards yourself. You 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.720 are the superhero you're waiting for. You're going to have 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.800 to save yourself. We need to get you know, Like, honestly, 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.440 all the stuff that Mandy and I have been talking about, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.080 which I love your comments when you guys reply like, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:21.920 oh my gosh. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.480 You know I'm saving more, I'm investing more. I'm you know. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.560 And Mandy, I just sent Helen of my mentee Eacy 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.200 just signed up with Helen because because she was telling 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.080 me about a financial advisor who was like, yeah, he's 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.720 only gonna charge two percent, and he also wants this 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.880 fee and that Field was like, yeah, no, you know. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.400 I was like, here are three of my faves, Helen 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.640 being one of them, Angelie who's my financial planner, my 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.640 certified financial planner, and there's another woman named Amy Irving 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.840 whoeverally like as well. And so I was like, you know, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.920 because you want to interview more than one interview three 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.960 She loved Helen and I was like, yeah, rightfully so, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.080 because Helen is dope. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.320 But basically, you have to be your own superhero. I 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.200 mean you have to. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.000 There's some things that are beyond your control, but the 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.720 things that are within your control stocking up, making sure 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.400 you have enough savings, making sure you're investing for the future, 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.920 taking care of you and your family, because it's just 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.560 I don't know what else we could do. It's scary times, honestly, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.040 and if you don't, if you're waiting on something to 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.240 save you, it's not coming. You are going to have 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.080 to save you. You are going to have to look inward. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.400 And we're going to have to look inward as a 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.680 community to build things up for ourselves, to create safe 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:36.360 spaces for ourselves, to create opportunities to make income, to 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.040 support our families, for ourselves. So that's why we're here. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.120 That's what Brown Ambition is really all about. It's like, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:46.360 you know that the ambition part is like growth, it's success. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.000 It's living the life that you're wanting to live, and 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.600 us trying to provide examples and encouragement and support and 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.720 suggestions on your way on that journey. So yeah, you 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.840 got to lean into Brown Ambition now more than ever. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.600 So what you're saying is we should pool our resources 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.720 Brown Ambition Nation and buy land and then create a 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:10.120 community called Brown Ambition. We be Brown Ambition Topia. Did 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:10.720 you hear about that. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.359 Georgia, Yes, I en Georgia, I do. I'm trying. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.399 The number nineteen is coming to mind. Is that nineteen 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.240 people or nineteen thout acres or whatever, But a lot 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.360 of people decided to buy lots of land and they're 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.880 planning on building what like a No. Eight, like basically 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:30.439 the Waconda of Georgia. Sounds magical. Yeah, that sound magical. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.919 Mean whether or not that goes anywhere, that concept, I 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.040 was just I was explaining to my little brother because 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.679 he was thinking, you know, he owns his own condo 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.160 and something. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.800 Whatever, society whoever. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.680 He had gotten this impression that like owning real estate 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.600 or being a landlord was like something bad or had 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.720 like a negative connotation to it. And I was like, listen, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.080 that is that is what we need. Property is everything. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.520 Property is what was stolen from our ancestors. Property is 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.679 what's so hard to attain today. And if you've got it, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.160 we've got to hold on to it and make sure 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.400 that others who look like us can achieve it. And 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.160 that's why I love that story out of Georgia, that community, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.000 you know, whatever they decide to put there, at the 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.040 end of the day, black people own it. Black wealth 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.840 is being created. I love that a beautiful thing. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.400 Okay, are you ready for questions? 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.600 I'm ready to dump out my mail bag. And before 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.320 we do that, let's take a quick quick. 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:55.639 Break and we are back. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:01.320 Let me take up that mail bag shake. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.040 Chic does the things on the internet rattle and shake. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:03.840 I thought that's true. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:08.240 Our mail gage would be oh just all over the place. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:08.760 Yep. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.480 So once again we're a brownibisionpodcast at gmail dot com 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.640 or at Brianabission podcast on IG. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.800 Yes, and remember that we are your financial friends, not 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:23.040 your financial guru, not your financial planner, not your financial advisor, 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.840 which is financial friends that are just talking amongst each other. 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.520 And this is not meant to be substitute for advice 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.719 from your personal financial advisor. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.400 Oh thank you for reading that fine print so well said. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.199 In other words, to your grandma, not us. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.560 Yeah, financial gurus, not your your financial girlfriends, not your gurus. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:43.920 Kay. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.720 And shout out to the brown Ambison listener who sent 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.639 me like like probably a few thousand words in this 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.199 email and literally had gone back and she listens. 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