Speaker 1: We're back and we're black. Well, whoa. I don't know
Speaker 1: where that came from. It just came.
Speaker 2: I was trying to think of something fun to say,
Speaker 2: and I was like, back black heart attack.
Speaker 3: I don't know, let me do the snap. Well, we
Speaker 3: are black, We've been black, You're being black. Welcome to
Speaker 3: the show. Welcome to the middle of August. The halfway slog,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's September. Ever gonna get here? I'm dying.
Speaker 2: Did you see somebody posted that the Farmers are Almanac
Speaker 2: that's that we're going to have a crazy winter, And
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, welcome to Jersey.
Speaker 3: I have a wedding to go to in Montana, and
Speaker 3: I'm like ninety five percent sure I'm not gonna make them.
Speaker 3: I just feel like the flight's not going to take off.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be like a flock of moose are going
Speaker 3: to get loose on the runway and just slip and slide.
Speaker 3: And Montana like, I don't know what happens there. I
Speaker 3: feel like it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But I honestly I want to go.
Speaker 2: One of my friends moved to Montana and I have
Speaker 2: plans to sleep on her couch like I want to
Speaker 2: see big sky country, Like that's on my agenda.
Speaker 3: Girl, dig up your fanciest flannel and your warmest woolen
Speaker 3: socks and get thee think either.
Speaker 1: I will. So, what did you do this weekend?
Speaker 3: This weekend, well, I told you, I told you off
Speaker 3: air my new life's ambition. I don't even care about
Speaker 3: the money. I don't care about retirement. I just want
Speaker 3: to get to a point in my career where I
Speaker 3: can just like peace out for the month of August
Speaker 3: because even though it's my birth month and I love it,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry Leo's but like August is like the armpit
Speaker 3: of the calendar, especially if you're in New York. I
Speaker 3: don't know about the rest of the country, but like
Speaker 3: New York, it's just a festering cesspool of stank and
Speaker 3: uh So this weekend, even though I was sick, I
Speaker 3: was like feverish I had, I was an antibiotics, I
Speaker 3: was sniffling. I got my sick butt on the bus
Speaker 3: and went down to Asbury Park, New Jersey, just to
Speaker 3: get to the beach. Like just that's how bad it is,
Speaker 3: just to get out of this neighborhood. That's what the
Speaker 3: links I went.
Speaker 1: To how long was that bus ride?
Speaker 3: Well, so it was supposed to be. So I wasn't
Speaker 3: even taking the bus to Asbury Park. I was taking
Speaker 3: the bus to my friend's house and she was gonna
Speaker 3: drive us the rest the way to Asbury Park. So
Speaker 3: of course I dragged fiancee boo. But I'm not really
Speaker 3: telling him like how far exactly we're gonna be going,
Speaker 3: because one I don't really know, and two bus schedules
Speaker 3: are weird, and three I didn't I wanted him to
Speaker 3: like be okay with it. You know, we're on a budget.
Speaker 3: So I was like, we're really close to the George
Speaker 3: Washington Bridge. The bus stop is right there. Port Authority
Speaker 3: has like a satellite bus stop. We'll just take the
Speaker 3: train down two stops, hop on a bus and call
Speaker 3: it to day. But of course, like the train schedule
Speaker 3: was wrong on Google Maps and it was totally different.
Speaker 3: When we got there, we missed our train, so the
Speaker 3: next train wasn't for an hour I mean sorry bus
Speaker 3: And we got on the bus finally, and we were
Speaker 3: on it for half an hour, having a good time,
Speaker 3: Like we had a little dunkin Donuts. Next thing I know,
Speaker 3: we're like going the wrong direction. I don't know where
Speaker 3: we are, and we're supposed to transfer apparently, and then
Speaker 3: we get off and we're like in the middle of
Speaker 3: I don't know, something called West New York. I never
Speaker 3: knew there was a West New York.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew there's a East New York, but I
Speaker 1: didn't know this.
Speaker 3: Is that a Jersey thing like the West New York.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. I just know like East New York.
Speaker 3: There was like a lot of candies and a Mandy's
Speaker 3: and a children's place and a dunkin Donuts. That's all
Speaker 3: I know. So we had to put up like a
Speaker 3: flare gun and get rescued by my friend. So she
Speaker 3: drove out and that was That was our bus adventure.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nine. I don't know the bus.
Speaker 2: It's hard, it's very I could do a train, I
Speaker 2: could do a plane.
Speaker 1: I can. The bus is just not my cup of tag.
Speaker 3: When it's right and it's good, it's good, you know,
Speaker 3: like when you do when you get the schedule and
Speaker 3: you get there on time, you get a seat, it's good.
Speaker 3: But it's bad and it's bad. I mean it was,
Speaker 3: it was not good. But anyway, we finally made it
Speaker 3: to the beach and it was really nice. Nature's netty
Speaker 3: pot is what I called it, because I was like,
Speaker 3: all sniffily, but uh clear, mery was that gross?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Cleared me right on up and I'm on the men
Speaker 3: feel much better. It was nice. It was just I'd
Speaker 3: rather be hot on the beach than you know, hot
Speaker 3: and inwood. Sorry inwood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I could see that.
Speaker 3: But you are funky. Oh we have an exciting announcement.
Speaker 1: Oh that's why we do. I was like, we do,
Speaker 1: we do?
Speaker 3: We talked about it before we had sold one plane.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Now I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: You guys come to us for the order and the
Speaker 3: organization skills that we provide.
Speaker 1: You see us. No, yeah, I'm super excited. So we're
Speaker 1: officially one year.
Speaker 2: Oh shoulder shity, whoa whoa eleven months Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, well we're about to We're coming up on one.
Speaker 3: Year, coming up on one year in September.
Speaker 1: This baby we call Brown Ambition.
Speaker 3: I can't believe it's been a year.
Speaker 1: I know, it does not feel like it.
Speaker 3: This will be episode four, dy no, this will be
Speaker 3: episode fifty.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Like, how where has the time gone?
Speaker 1: Just what it feels like to be a parent.
Speaker 3: Who you're asking you're the one.
Speaker 1: Baby baby? No?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I don't know, but it just feels
Speaker 2: you know, it just feels like part of my life now,
Speaker 2: like it just feels natural. It's you know, it's so crazy.
Speaker 2: I can't fully remember before we started doing this because
Speaker 2: it's just like, oh, something that we do every week,
Speaker 2: and at the same time, it doesn't feel like it's
Speaker 2: been that long.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, this is just something that we do.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well, thank you for coming on this adventure
Speaker 3: with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, thank you for like slow, lovely romantic?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna ask me? Are you gonna propose?
Speaker 3: Finally I did when I said, Tiffany, will you do
Speaker 3: this podcast with me? I don't know what I'm doing,
Speaker 3: but I'll figure it out, and you're.
Speaker 1: Like, that's literally that's what I said.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'll see you with my star power. Sure. No.
Speaker 2: I just was like, because you know what, I wanted
Speaker 2: to do a podcast, but I was like, I don't
Speaker 2: have I'm not technically inclined at all. So it was
Speaker 2: just like kind of in my mind like, oh, that
Speaker 2: would be nice, but not you know, I can't possibly
Speaker 2: do like the stuff behind the scenes, and then here
Speaker 2: you came in, and I'm like, oh, even better, because
Speaker 2: who wants to hear you talking to yourself?
Speaker 3: I know, right, you know that happens, But I just
Speaker 3: it feels a good paid off. Like we look, I
Speaker 3: just checked our reviews and I haven't checked it in a while.
Speaker 3: Five star rating on iTunes. You guys, you guys, you
Speaker 3: disittle best five stars, Like there's a lot of great,
Speaker 3: good podcasts out there that don't have five stars. And
Speaker 3: I just feel like the love is genuine, and our
Speaker 3: audience is so like it's so loyal and just like
Speaker 3: loves the show and gets what we're trying to do here.
Speaker 3: So we wanted to find a way on our to
Speaker 3: celebrate our coming up one year anniversary slash birthday, to
Speaker 3: say thank you and to give back a little something
Speaker 3: something to our fans. So we're gonna host a Brown
Speaker 3: Ambition dinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm super, super super excited.
Speaker 3: An intimate dinner with some of our our listeners, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna have a little contest and if you win.
Speaker 3: We haven't figured out all the details yet, because like
Speaker 3: I said, we're queens of planning.
Speaker 1: I was thinking out like, we don't know how many.
Speaker 1: We don't know. We just know that it's going to
Speaker 1: be in New York correct manny New York City? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so you have to be in the surrounding area and
Speaker 1: be able to get here.
Speaker 3: We're willing to you know, get here somehow. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: we'd love to have a small group. We're thinking in
Speaker 3: the five to ten people range. But it's just going
Speaker 3: to depend on what kind of responses we get to
Speaker 3: this contest. TIF, do you want to tell people a
Speaker 3: little bit about it what we're asking them to do?
Speaker 3: It's very simple.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just want you to share with us what
Speaker 2: does Brown Ambition kind of mean to you? How does
Speaker 2: it show up in your life? We just love to
Speaker 2: get to know you better. And this is kind of
Speaker 2: like our sneaky little way of getting to know how
Speaker 2: awesome you are. So yeah, so if you can email
Speaker 2: us at you already know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Lord of Mercy. Maybe by the time we get to
Speaker 3: be a year, she'll have our email address ready, said,
Speaker 3: go email us please at Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail
Speaker 3: dot com. The deadline is September first, September first, that
Speaker 3: is in how many days. What is today? I don't
Speaker 3: know what you have, like two weeks, two weeks, Please
Speaker 3: send an email with your name and yeah, tell us
Speaker 3: what brown ambition means to you and or tell us
Speaker 3: you know, what was the time in your life when
Speaker 3: you feel like you've really just personified brown ambition. We're
Speaker 3: just looking for really genuine, like personal stories because we
Speaker 3: know what brown ambition means to us. But we really
Speaker 3: are doing this for you and like as a way
Speaker 3: to acknowledge the power of literally brown ambition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we just want to get to know y'all
Speaker 1: eat some delicious food.
Speaker 3: The force of brown ambition. Yeah, what are we going
Speaker 3: to eat? I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I think I was thinking, like, remember that restaurant I
Speaker 1: was telling you about, right, Peruvian? Oh so it's a
Speaker 1: Peruvian Okay, Yeah, so good.
Speaker 3: I feel like good food. So the food will be popping,
Speaker 3: the conversation will be amazing.
Speaker 1: It will I'll be exactly So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're super excited, So don't forget send us
Speaker 2: what brown ambition means to you. We're gonna pick anywhere
Speaker 2: from five to ten guests, and we're gonna have Dindan
Speaker 2: in the City, New.
Speaker 3: York and yes we're buying. I know you're thinking, like, I'm.
Speaker 1: My budget, you know, just make your way here, we'll buy.
Speaker 3: So exciting I can't wait. Okay again Brown Ambition Podcast
Speaker 3: at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And I love, honestly, I love when you
Speaker 2: guys tweet us because like I'll totally forget that I've
Speaker 2: said something like on like on the BA podcast, right,
Speaker 2: and then somebody will tweet us or you know, they'll
Speaker 2: tag me at the Budget Easter or Mandy.
Speaker 1: You're not Mandy Money on Twitter, You're Mandy Woodruff.
Speaker 3: I'm Mandy Woodroff on the Twitter US.
Speaker 2: Yes, Mandy with the I Woodruf two fs. And so
Speaker 2: when you tag us and stuff and they're like and
Speaker 2: you give us suggestions or you say like I'm listening
Speaker 2: and I love you guys, or you just sometimes you
Speaker 2: just like you'll just be like I just listened to
Speaker 2: something you said and it made me laugh.
Speaker 1: I love when you do that. So just I'm just
Speaker 1: letting you know.
Speaker 2: If you want to tweet us the BA podcast on
Speaker 2: Twitter and also us personally Mandy with an I Woodruff
Speaker 2: and the Budget Nista. I just love that just to say,
Speaker 2: you know, congratulations, happy anniversary.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Something we said that was funny.
Speaker 3: I don't know, And I know you guys are out
Speaker 3: there and you're not leaving reviews. So this is your chance. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's been a year. We're working really hard. Go to iTunes,
Speaker 3: go to SoundCloud, go to Google Play, wherever you listen,
Speaker 3: and leave us a kind review wherever you listen. It
Speaker 3: just means where people can find us. And I just
Speaker 3: want to say, we've already had five thousand downloads for
Speaker 3: the month of August and we're only halfway there.
Speaker 1: Look at us. We is fancy.
Speaker 3: On fire. Five thousand downloads, you guys, So who are you?
Speaker 3: Who are the people? Oh yes, get to the interwebs
Speaker 3: and find the reviews and review review review.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about these Olympics, can't.
Speaker 3: Doesn't it feel like the world has changed in the
Speaker 3: last week between the Olympics, like before the Olympics after,
Speaker 3: because my whole life has been watching these clips and
Speaker 3: these like live events more than First.
Speaker 2: Of all, mister Bolt, I just want to say the
Speaker 2: level of disrespect now, I'm just saying this in a
Speaker 2: facetious way.
Speaker 1: He is hilariously awesome. Did you see the memes?
Speaker 2: Like when he mid mid run, he turns his head
Speaker 2: and smiles cheekily at the camera.
Speaker 3: No, I haven't watched his race yet.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, many you have to watch it.
Speaker 3: First of all, is here the first thing that popped
Speaker 3: up when I googled his name, like this picture.
Speaker 1: Look at his feet blurry and his face is like
Speaker 1: you see me?
Speaker 2: He honestly, he's amazing. So first of all, so it's
Speaker 2: one hundred meters, so it's a very quick race. And
Speaker 2: so like you see them at the block and you
Speaker 2: see this guy has this huge lead. This man is like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's cute. Clearly overtakes and then just blows past him
Speaker 2: to win the race. And I just was like, he's
Speaker 2: he's honestly just amazing. And what I was reading like,
Speaker 2: you know, more of this, Like I guess more of
Speaker 2: like the what makes him different is that most while
Speaker 2: most athletes or most runners are kind of de instead
Speaker 2: of accelerating, they're just you know, they're they reach a
Speaker 2: point where they accelerate very quickly and they start to
Speaker 2: slow down. When they're starting to slow down, it's really
Speaker 2: when he starts to really kick up, and that it
Speaker 2: takes him longer to decelerate. I don't even know if
Speaker 2: that's a word, but you know what I mean. It
Speaker 2: takes him longer for him to slow down. And I
Speaker 2: just thought, wow, just to watch him run he is
Speaker 2: And I know Jamaica was going crazy. I saw this
Speaker 2: funny meme of this guy like wearing like all Jamaican
Speaker 2: paraphernalia and like flag stuff all over his body, and
Speaker 2: they're like, how Jamaicans are gonna go to work today?
Speaker 3: The wait, wait, I'm still not over the gymnastics, which
Speaker 3: I know it's old news. Now, can we talk about
Speaker 3: the Simone Biles.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, she's just amazing.
Speaker 3: She's just like a little I don't I'd heard so
Speaker 3: much about her. I was almost like, let me just whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like looking her up, like oh, she's
Speaker 3: the next next coming of gymnast god or whatever. But
Speaker 3: then I tuned in and then I actually watched her.
Speaker 3: I don't she's like an alien. She's like a four
Speaker 3: foot eight yes, like teeny tiny, nineteen year old alien
Speaker 3: human being.
Speaker 2: And then do you see, Like I remember her coach
Speaker 2: was like you could just tell her clothes, it's just
Speaker 2: like living. She was like, yeah, what Simone does on
Speaker 2: the balance beam. People can't do on the floor, like
Speaker 2: on four inches, she can't.
Speaker 3: It's like indescribable. I don't know all the terms and stuff.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't just her, you know what, when it
Speaker 3: was it was the entire women's gymnastics team. Like when
Speaker 3: they see all five of them together, they call themselves
Speaker 3: a final five. I don't know all their names. There's
Speaker 3: a really cute little Lori Hernandez.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's from New Jersey. I'm like, oheay, she's from Jersey.
Speaker 3: And then Gabby Douglas of course, who was like the
Speaker 3: Simone Biles before Simone was Siman Biles at the last Olympics.
Speaker 3: She was there and it's just like such a diverse
Speaker 3: group of like young women and they all just loved
Speaker 3: each other and then they kicked ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know the Olympics. What people don't
Speaker 3: realize is you think, you know, these people are where
Speaker 3: like all the American athletes have like Nike shoes on.
Speaker 3: They look very polished and like very like people think
Speaker 3: these people are rich, but they're not like most like
Speaker 3: I think just a small fraction them actually are making
Speaker 3: money off the sport, like Gabby Douglas's mom just filed bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: She she won the Olympic goal. Yeah, she won the
Speaker 3: Olympic gold in London. Her mom has filed bankruptcy because
Speaker 3: that's they They literally give their entire life, their finances, everything,
Speaker 3: everything to this sport. I mean, there's just not like
Speaker 3: a huge because people don't tune in to these sports
Speaker 3: until the Olympics comes around. Like who's watching shot put
Speaker 3: competitions like in you know, off season, you know, and
Speaker 3: giving these people the kind of ratings they need to
Speaker 3: actually bring in those huge advertising dollars and sponsorships and stuff.
Speaker 3: So these people and the ones who lose, Like it's
Speaker 3: not just the ones who lose either, Like I mentioned
Speaker 3: Gabby Douglass, Like these families are broke, so the Olympics
Speaker 3: for them is like everything. And there's this whole conversation about,
Speaker 3: you know, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a whole thing about whether
Speaker 3: the Olympics and this has He's not the first person
Speaker 3: to say this, but like how much money NBC is
Speaker 3: making off this broadcast and like these athletes, I think, like,
Speaker 3: if you don't win, you're not making hardly anything. I
Speaker 3: don't know, that's that's been in the back of my
Speaker 3: mind the whole time when these people when you see
Speaker 3: them crying and you see their parents crying, and you think,
Speaker 3: like they literally are giving they gave their lives for
Speaker 3: this moment and they don't win. You know, it's it's yeah,
Speaker 3: it's humbling and not to you know, now I'm the
Speaker 3: Debbie Downer, but it just brings a whole other element
Speaker 3: of like feels to watching them, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because like you said, like you you give your
Speaker 2: whole life to this, Like it was I mean, this
Speaker 2: is kind of funny, but like somebody wrote, I think
Speaker 2: it was on BuzzFeed, it was hilarious. They were like
Speaker 2: they were talking about the Lussain Bolt meme and people
Speaker 2: were like, oh, I feel like he's you know, he's
Speaker 2: too arrogant or whatever. And he like this person wrote
Speaker 2: just some funny comment where basically he was like, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: You see the guy to the left and to the
Speaker 1: right giving his life, his soul.
Speaker 2: He's dying out here in Nusain Bolt is like, yeah,
Speaker 2: just trampling all over your little dreams, like you know,
Speaker 2: you know, like you worked here and you work eighteen
Speaker 2: years to get here, and he's smiling at the camera.
Speaker 1: Like you see me.
Speaker 3: That's the Olympics.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and some people are just.
Speaker 3: I just read only okay, just for to interrupt you,
Speaker 3: but okay, I just read that gold medal. As an
Speaker 3: Olympic gymnast, they only make twenty five thousand dollars for gold.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And it's not just a year of like that's twenty
Speaker 3: five thousand dollars over and let's just say I started,
Speaker 3: you know, really training four years before that is like
Speaker 3: less than seven thousand dollars a year in annual salary.
Speaker 2: So if you don't get like the weedies, if you
Speaker 2: don't get the endorsements and all the other kind of stuff, yes,
Speaker 2: then you know, and even then like yeah, you get
Speaker 2: the endorsements, it's just say, you get one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollarsand addorsements, but it costs that much for your coach.
Speaker 3: And then what if you get injured, there's no insurance,
Speaker 3: Like you don't get covered. So go support your athletes.
Speaker 3: Stop rolling your eyes. Go to NBC dot com. You
Speaker 3: can watch if you have a cable subscription, you can
Speaker 3: watch the live and post live videos on NBC dot com.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean my weekd was it was definitely some
Speaker 2: high points and some low points. A friend of mine
Speaker 2: actually passed away. Yeah, it was so crazy, because you
Speaker 2: know how you just feel like when someone passed you
Speaker 2: like I just saw them. But it was kind of coming.
Speaker 2: She had diabetes that she'd been struggling with, but it
Speaker 2: was some people's diabetes. I feel like it's really aggressive.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I know people who have diabetes and you'd never know,
Speaker 2: And then I know people who have diabetes and it's
Speaker 2: like breaking them down. And hers was really I guess,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it was breaking her down. And she
Speaker 2: had livered trouble. At one point she was getting dialysis
Speaker 2: and then then she had developed congestive heart failure. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: she's twenty nine, so not like some old woman, you know.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was crazy because like she so she
Speaker 2: she was a poet and also too she did lock
Speaker 2: so I remember she spoke tipically, you never do anything
Speaker 2: with your locks. Come to the shop and I'll do
Speaker 2: them for you for free. Don't even worry about it.
Speaker 2: So I came, and I don't even remember how I
Speaker 2: first met her, just from like I guess, being in
Speaker 2: on the art scene in Newark, but just she was
Speaker 2: a big personality, just super sweet and nice, and she
Speaker 2: often drew my locks. I went and then right before Essence,
Speaker 2: I remember freaking out saying, my hair is too long.
Speaker 2: I need to get it trimmed. So I called her
Speaker 2: and she said, well, I'm not in the shop anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm not feeling so great, but you can come to
Speaker 2: my house. And I said okay, and I went to
Speaker 2: her house and I just remember thinking what happened to
Speaker 2: Brianna to breathe. She she came to the door, like
Speaker 2: it took like nearly ten minutes for her to get
Speaker 2: to the door, and I'm thinking she home. She came
Speaker 2: with a walker, and I mean twenty nine years old, young, vibrant, beautiful,
Speaker 2: and I thought like, well what happened? And she said,
Speaker 2: you know, my diabetes is really taking a toll. And
Speaker 2: I just remember the whole time thinking why are you
Speaker 2: cutting my hair? You should be That's how she was, like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't worry about me, how are you?
Speaker 1: You need to be ready for Essence?
Speaker 2: Just so giving and kind and it's like you can
Speaker 2: feel her aura. She was just one of the sweetest people.
Speaker 2: And so she's cutting my hair, talking and meanwhile I
Speaker 2: complained more about the weather that she complained about her predicament, Like.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, I'm not feeling so great, but I'm
Speaker 2: really grateful that I'm here and I'm happy, and I'm
Speaker 2: just so grateful. And I just remember thinking, you know,
Speaker 2: you have nothing to complain about, Tiffany. But I also
Speaker 2: remember thinking that because she lived with her mom, who
Speaker 2: also has diabetes, and I remember thinking that it looked
Speaker 2: like they were having a hard time as far as
Speaker 2: like getting around, and so I could not shake like
Speaker 2: the feeling of like.
Speaker 1: I have to do something. So I call one of
Speaker 1: my friends who's a social worker and.
Speaker 2: Said, and she's like the queen of advocacy, Like there's
Speaker 2: always a program. So I called her my best friend, Linda,
Speaker 2: and I said, hey, Linda, you know, I just came
Speaker 2: from a friend of mine's house. She looks like she's struggling,
Speaker 2: she has medical issues. Is there something she can apply for?
Speaker 2: And Linda, of course, and Linda fash I've known Linda
Speaker 2: literally my whole life.
Speaker 1: Our parents used to actually be roommates. And Linda always
Speaker 1: knows a program.
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, girl, there's a program where they're going
Speaker 2: food shopping, where they're clean your house for you, all
Speaker 2: of this for free.
Speaker 1: As long as you qualify.
Speaker 2: And so she was like, ask your friend if she
Speaker 2: would mind getting on the phone with me and I
Speaker 2: could walk her through. And so I hit up Brie
Speaker 2: and she said yes, I would love that, and they
Speaker 2: connected and Linda basically walked her through the process of
Speaker 2: applying for these programs that most people don't apply for.
Speaker 1: But then the next day.
Speaker 2: Her health started fading. So this is like maybe a
Speaker 2: month or two ago, and not even a month or two,
Speaker 2: just a month ago. And so she went to the
Speaker 2: hospital the next day. But the plan was when she
Speaker 2: got out, the programs were going to start. But she
Speaker 2: went to the hospital, we went to visit her in
Speaker 2: great spirits, sit doing poetry. She was so awesome, Like
Speaker 2: every time we went, there was always someone. There was
Speaker 2: always people at the hospital visiting her. People don't visit
Speaker 2: their own mom, but they would come see her, you know,
Speaker 2: and just in such great spirits. And so I just assumed, like, Okay,
Speaker 2: she's getting better, she's looking better. And then she took
Speaker 2: a turn and then this weekend she was on a
Speaker 2: ventilator and like I just kept telling Linda something that
Speaker 2: to feel right. I'm calling the hospital, but they're saying
Speaker 2: she's not there, and I just I had called her
Speaker 2: a few days before and she didn't pick up. I
Speaker 2: text her, she didn't text back, and that's not like her.
Speaker 2: And Linda went like found out like she was at
Speaker 2: a different hospital and as soon as she got there,
Speaker 2: they had honestly pulled the plug, like within moments of
Speaker 2: her getting there.
Speaker 3: And I was just like, what, that's awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it.
Speaker 3: Just diabetes is you know, I think people make light
Speaker 3: like light of diabetes, but it can kill my I
Speaker 3: have a huge history, my family history of diabetes, and
Speaker 3: I mean, especially with her about the black community and
Speaker 3: mynes in general, diabetes is a killer.
Speaker 2: It is on a Superman's mom passed away early. I
Speaker 2: mean she was still in like I believe her fifties diabetes,
Speaker 2: and we worry about Supergirl because she is like her
Speaker 2: grandmother's twin and just worrying about like making sure that
Speaker 2: her health is like where it ought to be. I
Speaker 2: mean she's active and she's young, but still and it
Speaker 2: just I didn't realize the extent of like what diabetes
Speaker 2: can do heart, liver, and just so quickly.
Speaker 3: Yes's treatable, and it's you know, but it's like you
Speaker 3: have to have access and the resources, and it just
Speaker 3: has to be like part of the community culture. And
Speaker 3: I feel like it hasn't really hit black communities. Like
Speaker 3: my aunt, you know, Aunt Shirley makes You Rest in Peace,
Speaker 3: passed away about five six years ago, and like she
Speaker 3: had the treatment, she had, had her leg amputato below
Speaker 3: the knee amputating, and like all these drastic procedures and
Speaker 3: yet and yet you go there and they would be
Speaker 3: the orange soda and they would be the pizza, and
Speaker 3: it's it's it's sad, but it's like, you don't know what.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's at the root of that, but
Speaker 3: it was it's sad to see so many of my
Speaker 3: family sort of be taken way too early. I mean
Speaker 3: way too early. My just like Superman's mom, My grandma
Speaker 3: died in her late fifties from complications of diabetes. My
Speaker 3: dad had diabetes until two years ago. And let me
Speaker 3: just give a shout out to Obamacare for this. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I've told you this before, but so
Speaker 3: when Obamacare was enacted, the first thing I did was
Speaker 3: called my dad and I was like, we're signing you
Speaker 3: up since I since my parents. But when I was ten,
Speaker 3: my dad is not as health had health insurance. Ever
Speaker 3: he goes, always goes to the emergency room and waits
Speaker 3: eight hours to be seen for whatever. But he got Obamacare,
Speaker 3: got a good plan, and he went and he got
Speaker 3: gastric bypass surgery and immediately the diabetes went away immediately,
Speaker 3: And ever since then, he's changed his lifestyle, he's eating better. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he invigorated him. And I'm so happy because for the
Speaker 3: longest time, I was like, is my dad next, Like
Speaker 3: he's in this it's almost sixty, you know, this is
Speaker 3: like the danger zone. Not many people in his family
Speaker 3: make it past sixty. So yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 3: I think what you did, and I think we just
Speaker 3: like could reach out to people more, yeah, and help
Speaker 3: them with those issues.
Speaker 2: To me so young though, and honestly this has been
Speaker 2: there was a few like kind of like life lessons
Speaker 2: that I learned.
Speaker 1: One was to, like, like.
Speaker 2: You said, visit your friends, go check on them, like
Speaker 2: not just phone call because.
Speaker 1: On the phone everything seems fine.
Speaker 2: It wasn't till I went to see her, you know,
Speaker 2: and then it's something doesn't feel right, act on it,
Speaker 2: like I wish, you know, I like, just there's so
Speaker 2: many services out there, Like I always tell Linda that
Speaker 2: she needs to start a business called the on.
Speaker 1: Call Advocate, because it doesn't matter where we.
Speaker 2: Go, Like you know, someone could be like, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: I have like you know, left toe pain, and it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a program for left hoe pain.
Speaker 1: So but there's so many programs.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people don't know how to navigate.
Speaker 2: And I always saw she should start a business, you know,
Speaker 2: showing people how to do so. But like you know,
Speaker 2: visit those people that you care about, help them research programs.
Speaker 2: There's so many available to you. And two she with
Speaker 2: despite the fact that I'm sure she was feeling terrible
Speaker 2: as far as physically, the grace and the courage that
Speaker 2: she displayed. I mean, some people, you know, they pay lips.
Speaker 1: He so, oh, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: She was genuinely grateful, just like such a warm spirit.
Speaker 2: I remember thinking, like, how can you not be angry
Speaker 2: or mad? But none of that was there, And I
Speaker 2: just remember thinking that it just reminded me to really
Speaker 2: walk in a space of gratefulness, you know, because here.
Speaker 2: She was grateful for where she was at that moment
Speaker 2: in time, despite things happening, and sometimes I have everything
Speaker 2: and I'm way less grateful at times.
Speaker 3: You know, Well, it sounds like she knew that she
Speaker 3: was loved in the end. Yeah some funds around.
Speaker 1: Yeah so yeah, not coun be a Debbie downer. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Was just like she sh like, just thanks for talking
Speaker 3: about it. I think we it's always good to talk
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So it is time for brown break or brown boost?
Speaker 1: Are you breaking or boosting?
Speaker 3: I always take a break? Well, shoot, I want to
Speaker 3: do both. First. I want to give a boost to
Speaker 3: all the Olympic athletes because obviously that's been my entire
Speaker 3: life recently and you're all amazing. I want to take
Speaker 3: a break.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've been noticing, but there's been
Speaker 3: a little and especially for Gabby Douglas, there's been some
Speaker 3: like it's like somewhat sexist. I'm pretty sure most of
Speaker 3: it's like rooted in sexism, but just like the way
Speaker 3: that announcers and reporters have been like referring and not
Speaker 3: just reporters, but like fans on Twitter and stuff have
Speaker 3: been reacting to these athletes. And I'll just use Gabby
Speaker 3: as an example, because like, people have been dragging this
Speaker 3: poor girl Olympic gold medalist from twenty twelve, like respect.
Speaker 3: You should give her some respect, have been dragging her.
Speaker 3: There's a mouse, give me out in this apartment.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, hold on, they went under the bad tiffany,
Speaker 4: I know, I know, god, it was a baby.
Speaker 3: I thought it was over.
Speaker 1: It's never New York.
Speaker 3: It's never. Oh my ship. Okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 3: we need like that that that like public service announcement.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do. Maybe I shouldave that
Speaker 3: in the show.
Speaker 1: That would be funny at least part of it.
Speaker 3: People are gonna like, I'm sorry, I'm just sorry for
Speaker 3: your ear drums everybody right now. But this is a
Speaker 3: nice emergency. If you know a good exterminator in the
Speaker 3: New York City area, please give me a call. I digress.
Speaker 3: So anyway, yeah, so I was gonna take a break
Speaker 3: from haters on Gabby Douglas. Oh so she did not.
Speaker 3: She deigned to not put her hand over her chest
Speaker 3: during the national anthem while at the Olympics, and people
Speaker 3: just dragged her and said she was unpatriotic, blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: her mother and her finally like, you know, her mother,
Speaker 3: of course, Mama Bear, Mama Bears cannot hold back. So
Speaker 3: her mom, her mom took to the media and was like, listen,
Speaker 3: not only is my father like a two time Vietnam
Speaker 3: War veteran, and we have strong military ties, you know,
Speaker 3: strong family ties to the military. It was highly you know,
Speaker 3: rude and insulting for people to challenge our patriotism and
Speaker 3: like and not just that, but like making fun of
Speaker 3: Gabby's hair, which has been like has been a thing
Speaker 3: since the last Olympics. And I'm just like, what is
Speaker 3: it going to take for like these young women to
Speaker 3: get some respect, you know, like stop trying to take
Speaker 3: stuff away from them, you know, whether it's because she's
Speaker 3: young or black or talented, Like, it's just not fair.
Speaker 3: So on her, I take a break.
Speaker 2: I just I also because she's supposed to be this
Speaker 2: is supposed to be one of the happiest times of
Speaker 2: her life. She's accomplished so much, and it's hard, you know,
Speaker 2: even when you do well, it's so hard to kind
Speaker 2: of like close yourself off from like, you know, people
Speaker 2: doing stuff like that because you're a human being.
Speaker 1: I feel.
Speaker 2: I just wish I could give her big hug and
Speaker 2: be like, Girl, like you don't don't use this amazing
Speaker 2: time in your life to think about those people who
Speaker 2: are being hurtful. Although I know it's hard that you
Speaker 2: are doing something that literally not even one percent of
Speaker 2: the population could attempt, you know, And.
Speaker 1: So just focusing on that and just rocking out. You're awesome.
Speaker 3: And if you're on the Twitter is brandan ambish, just
Speaker 3: do the hashtag we love you Gabby. That's what I
Speaker 3: don't yeah, to show her your love because for every
Speaker 3: hater out there, there's a million people who love you
Speaker 3: who are not on Twitter exactly. And I just feel
Speaker 3: bad that she tries. She works so hard. She's crying
Speaker 3: at the Olympics when it should be just like this
Speaker 3: amazing moment for her. Yeah, people just suck sometimes.
Speaker 2: So Girl was away with her her mom on a
Speaker 2: road trip. I said, Supergirl had like the best summer ever.
Speaker 2: She went to California, she did this road trip. She
Speaker 2: did so many amazing things at nine. Can you imagine
Speaker 2: she's got a better life than nine than I had
Speaker 2: at thirty thirty. So she was away and so me
Speaker 2: and Superman. We were like, it was so nice to reconnect.
Speaker 2: So we were like, well, who are you. My name's Tiffany.
Speaker 2: You know, I got dressed up for like the first
Speaker 2: time and ever. He was like, you look nice, and
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, hasn't been that long. We had
Speaker 2: like a day long date where we hung out in
Speaker 2: the morning, we went to lunch. In the afternoon, we
Speaker 2: took like a nap, and then we went out to dinner.
Speaker 2: We went to a movie, we went to like this pier.
Speaker 2: We stayed out till like two or thre o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning. It was just such a nice, like you know,
Speaker 2: love weekend. So you know, hopefully there'll be a new
Speaker 2: super Baby coming soon.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I didn't like I was on music. I'm like,
Speaker 3: she's not responding to anything I'm saying right now. I
Speaker 3: was like, I was doing that. Let's get it while
Speaker 3: all those are gone. Did you guys put on the
Speaker 3: Barack Obama nighttime playlist for you? God friendly?
Speaker 1: You know what? You know what the music? And we like,
Speaker 1: he likes Drew Hill, the Drew Hill Radio.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's amazing. I feel like like Casey
Speaker 3: and Jojo and boys, tonight comes on. Oh my feah pup.
Speaker 1: Come my god. That song happened Thursday.
Speaker 3: Yo, that song was my was my sexual awakening. Honestly,
Speaker 3: that song on pop up video in the morning before school,
Speaker 3: I was ready to go.
Speaker 1: Yes, drew Hill.
Speaker 2: Radio for those of you who are not to know,
Speaker 2: if you're in your late twenties, thirties, maybe even early forties,
Speaker 2: put do you have a paper and.
Speaker 1: Put on some Drew Hill Radio that will get you
Speaker 1: in the mood.
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, for oh, make love to you like
Speaker 3: you on me like an un ironic way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just honestly, it's like the best radio station.
Speaker 2: It's it's the radio station that just keeps on giving.
Speaker 3: Well, it's nice that you guys took time for your love,
Speaker 3: which I feel like, you know, can fall to the
Speaker 3: wayside in life.
Speaker 1: Are there any questions or do you want to just
Speaker 1: do a quick tip?
Speaker 3: I do have a quick question from a reader, So
Speaker 3: she has an auto loan question and I want to
Speaker 3: answer it. Car loans I feel like more well, I
Speaker 3: don't feel I know. Study show Stata data shows that
Speaker 3: the number of people who are getting stuck with high
Speaker 3: interest car loans is out of control. Car loans are
Speaker 3: easier than ever to get, which is awesome, but people
Speaker 3: often find their way. We've talked about this before, getting
Speaker 3: stuck with like double digit interest rate loans. So we
Speaker 3: had a question from a reader named Ronie and she says,
Speaker 3: I have a car loan of twenty two thousand dollars
Speaker 3: on a twenty fourteen jeep Cherokeree, Cherokee. What am I saying? Cherokee?
Speaker 3: I pay six hundred dollars a month for this slow
Speaker 3: I'm a single mother with two sons. My question is
Speaker 3: how can I pay off or get rid of this
Speaker 3: SUV note? I want to start saving for a home
Speaker 3: for my boys while living and pinked oh. I want
Speaker 3: to start saving for a home, and I'm also working
Speaker 3: on paying tuition for my eighteen year old son. I
Speaker 3: also have a little bit of credit card debt and
Speaker 3: about seventy five thousand dollars worth of student loan debt.
Speaker 3: I mean, this woman could be like the picture of
Speaker 3: America right now, with you know, auto loan debt and
Speaker 3: student loan debt stressing her out even more than the
Speaker 3: mortgage debt. Like, it's a lot going on. And so
Speaker 3: to answer her question, it's difficult. It's hard to answer
Speaker 3: the question. I actually went back to her and had
Speaker 3: to ask, you know, a little bit about her credit
Speaker 3: history and sort of found out their credit isn't too great.
Speaker 3: And when that happens, people are afraid of what like,
Speaker 3: they're afraid of not getting a proofer a loan, so
Speaker 3: they don't go to a bank. They go to the
Speaker 3: car dealership and they walk in and they say, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, my credit's not so good, I probably can't
Speaker 3: or something nice, and the auto dealers like, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: your best friend. We're just friends here like, oh, we
Speaker 3: can get you a great deal in a car. We're
Speaker 3: definitely gonna get approved one hundred percent. We have this
Speaker 3: financing department back here. Sit down with my friend Joseph.
Speaker 3: He's gonna hook you up. And next thing you know,
Speaker 3: you walk out like this woman did, with an eighteen
Speaker 3: percent car note, which is like four times, no, not
Speaker 3: five times more than typical interest rates on car loans.
Speaker 3: So unfortunately, the best, the best advice for people listening,
Speaker 3: if you haven't found yourself in this situation yet, it's
Speaker 3: just like, don't put yourself in that situation. Always shop
Speaker 3: around for a car loan. Yes, never go with a
Speaker 3: dealer's financing unless he's like your godfather and he's say
Speaker 3: he's like, you know, giving you a one percent deal
Speaker 3: or something like that. But it's almost always a bad deal,
Speaker 3: always because they know you're desperate and they know you're insecure, and.
Speaker 2: You don't and you don't have to. Like I'll say this,
Speaker 2: so super super Mom, that's Supergirl's mother.
Speaker 1: I remember she wanted a car.
Speaker 2: Honestly, the car that she has just kept breaking down
Speaker 2: and she was like, oh, I want a car. She
Speaker 2: just got herself in twenty sixteen, Hana or something or other.
Speaker 2: But what happened when I, like when I first started
Speaker 2: dating Superman, you know, we mad actually really like herd
Speaker 2: we're both libras, and we talked about finances and she
Speaker 2: became a DreamCatcher. She started raising her credit score, she
Speaker 2: raised it one hundred points in the last few months,
Speaker 2: and we talked about, like, you know, she really wanted
Speaker 2: a car, and I said, you know, you should make
Speaker 2: sure you join a credit union, come with your own financing.
Speaker 2: And so it took some time, but she was able
Speaker 2: to do so. Now her interest rate is not definitely
Speaker 2: it's not like one or two percent, but it's not eighteen.
Speaker 2: And so she was able to get her financing from
Speaker 2: her from her credit union and bring it to the
Speaker 2: whatever dealership that she desired and was able to get
Speaker 2: her car. And so you don't have to have perfect
Speaker 2: credit in order to do so, you know, should you
Speaker 2: take some time to raise your credits care certainly, but
Speaker 2: even now her credit's not perfect, it's just better, and
Speaker 2: she's better.
Speaker 1: I could just tell she's so proud.
Speaker 2: Of herself, like, and I'm proud of her, you know,
Speaker 2: to like taking the time raising your credit score in
Speaker 2: a few months, doing the research, going to apply for
Speaker 2: a loan responsibly and getting it and then able to
Speaker 2: being able to get the car that you really wanted,
Speaker 2: because she's like, I've always had used cars.
Speaker 1: They're always you know, they're always breaking down, and now
Speaker 1: I'm able to get this car and it's mind.
Speaker 2: So that's what I would say, is that, like, you know,
Speaker 2: start with a credit union, and if you're not a member,
Speaker 2: you should join.
Speaker 1: Everyone should have to me.
Speaker 3: You don't always have to be a member. Oh really,
Speaker 3: you know there are credit unions. Pen fed is one, listen,
Speaker 3: I know. I talk about magnifying money a lot, but
Speaker 3: you have I'm gonna post this in the in the
Speaker 3: blog post on brownmission dot com today, but we have
Speaker 3: an auto loan refinancing tool where you can put in
Speaker 3: what kind of loan you need and how much and
Speaker 3: a lot of the best rates are offered by credit
Speaker 3: unions and you do not have to be a member.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I did not know that it's true, not
Speaker 1: for all of them.
Speaker 3: For many, yes, but not for all. A lot of
Speaker 3: credit unions are lowering their standards a little bit to
Speaker 3: allow more people to to take advantage of their low rates.
Speaker 3: But absolutely totally support hashtag indorse the credit union and
Speaker 3: you can't you may you know, if you have bad credit,
Speaker 3: refinancing may not be a possibility. Because you do it's
Speaker 3: like taking out another loan. So you have to have
Speaker 3: pretty decent credit to get qualified.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes dealers will try and talk you into rolling your
Speaker 3: loan over into a new somebody who wrote, we do trap,
Speaker 3: huge trap.
Speaker 1: Don't don't do it. I said, don't do it, girl,
Speaker 1: don't do it.
Speaker 2: She's like yeah, because I they said we could get
Speaker 2: a better card and I was like, girls, so you're
Speaker 2: gonna owe you'd be paying for one, but owing for two.
Speaker 1: Don't do it.
Speaker 3: It's like just like almost doubling the debt you already have. Yes,
Speaker 3: you can ask to renegotiate. Not very likely it can happen,
Speaker 3: but it's worth a try, and if it comes down
Speaker 3: to it. Sometimes, you know, the experts I talked to
Speaker 3: when I was doing a story on this said, sometimes
Speaker 3: you just want to cut your losses, sell the car,
Speaker 3: and start fresh.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what Superman did. When I first met him.
Speaker 2: He had this huge truck. He loved it, loved it,
Speaker 2: loved it. His his payment was literally rent. I was like,
Speaker 2: who yo, GMC played you brother, And so he ended
Speaker 2: up doing that.
Speaker 1: He ended up.
Speaker 2: He actually went what did he do? Yes, he sold
Speaker 2: the truck. He sold it and just started from scratch over.
Speaker 2: And he actually went to the way he was able
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, these people areking me crazy. Sorry Mandy.
Speaker 3: The opposit tipany hot hotline blaying.
Speaker 2: And what I what I what I had him do
Speaker 2: was he actually went to his credit union, got a
Speaker 2: loan to pay it off while you know, and that
Speaker 2: way at least his interest rate was way lower, and
Speaker 2: then was able to sell it. And so start from scratching.
Speaker 2: As a result, he's debt free. Now you know that
Speaker 2: was really like that in some credit card that which
Speaker 2: he since paid off. So he's debt free as a
Speaker 2: result of making those choice. At first he thought it
Speaker 2: was like evil, girlfriend, look what you're making me do.
Speaker 2: And now his credit score, which was a five something
Speaker 2: when I met him, is a seven.
Speaker 3: Fifty man, and I'm like, he upgraded?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you're welcome. So that means my ring right,
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 3: Picture like a little walm with like a star on
Speaker 3: the end going dang babity bobbity boop, better credit. That
Speaker 3: was the next step though. Yeah, so when you just
Speaker 3: to reiterate, when you sell your car, you're probably gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, use whatever you get from the car to
Speaker 3: pay off a chunk of the loan. Then you'll have
Speaker 3: leftover so you can then apply for a personal loan
Speaker 3: through a credit union, which is an amazing place to start.
Speaker 3: And I'll put another link to our personal loan, Magnified
Speaker 3: Money's personal loan site. And again, like Magnified Money is
Speaker 3: awesome because it's all unbiased advice. We just do all
Speaker 3: the hard work for you. Blah blah, blah, it sounds
Speaker 3: like a sales pitch, but it's awesome and you can
Speaker 3: use that personal loan to pay off whatever balance you
Speaker 3: have and then start free Superman method.
Speaker 1: Exactly where's that credit score?
Speaker 2: And then paying off the truck in full like that
Speaker 2: was one of the things that helps to really significantly
Speaker 2: raise his credit score because he paid down a huge
Speaker 2: amount of debt.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, absolutely absolutely so. If you guys have
Speaker 3: any more questions, feel free to email us at Brown
Speaker 3: Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com. And while you're at it,
Speaker 3: tell us what Brown Ambition means to you and enter
Speaker 3: our contest for a dinner with me and Tiffany.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we're gonna eat at the most yummy place.
Speaker 2: When you have this food, you're just gonna be like,
Speaker 2: where has it been my whole life?
Speaker 3: This chicken will give you life?
Speaker 1: What will give you life? Take it and then reinstate you.
Speaker 3: Yes, she said whatever, whatever, she just said. It's very
Speaker 3: late at night.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. Ah, we had a wild night tonight
Speaker 1: from the phone ringing to the baby mice. It's just
Speaker 1: been listen.
Speaker 3: Let me just tell you, let me update you guys
Speaker 3: in on the operation Mice. The thing this tiny baby
Speaker 3: is still in here somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you're managing.
Speaker 3: People have been coming in and out. I've been putting
Speaker 3: it on mute. There's lots of activity, but I have
Speaker 3: not seen this critter be caught. And where there's a baby,
Speaker 3: there's a mama, and.
Speaker 1: Yes, and other babies.
Speaker 3: To you, guys, my life right now, I don't know
Speaker 3: who I am anymore? Am I an adult? And what
Speaker 3: is happening? I live with my in laws and the
Speaker 3: mice are out of control. Okay, anyway, let's do some
Speaker 3: Let's do some wins.
Speaker 2: Yes, all I do is win when when, oh, well,
Speaker 2: I'll give a well no, I'll wait on that because
Speaker 2: that's like a personal win.
Speaker 1: But I haven't signed the contract yet, so.
Speaker 2: Let me not.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be like, actually, no, well I'll set you
Speaker 1: off it here.
Speaker 3: I love contracks.
Speaker 2: I know. Let me see any wins that I have
Speaker 2: seen on the outside. I mean, I guess my wins
Speaker 2: would have been like Olympics, But you know we already talk.
Speaker 3: Can we cheat and just do the entire Olympics America
Speaker 3: team America?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can do. We could totally do that because.
Speaker 3: I think we can all agree that is the biggest
Speaker 3: one of the week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll say Team America, but then also usaintan
Speaker 2: Ball because he's bananas and amazing and a.
Speaker 3: Win for health and for helping friends who may not
Speaker 3: be you know, willing or may not I feel like
Speaker 3: they can ask for help. Yeah, go out and call
Speaker 3: your friend tonight and ask them how they are you
Speaker 3: may not, they may not be doing well and then
Speaker 3: may be too afraid to say anything and.
Speaker 1: Ask them for real. You know how you do that? Oh, hey,
Speaker 1: hey girl, how are you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm good? No, but like really like, no, sincerely, how
Speaker 1: are you? How are you feeling?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: You know, when people I actually want to know exactly, and.
Speaker 1: So do a little dip.
Speaker 2: That's that's your homework till next time, do a little
Speaker 2: a little bit more of a deep dive with somebody
Speaker 2: that you care about and taking the time to just say, no,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 1: Actually is everything really okay?
Speaker 2: And you know because sometimes, like you said, if someone
Speaker 2: asked me, hey, Tippy, how are you, I always say fine.
Speaker 1: Because I know that's what they mean.
Speaker 2: Like they just it's just a greeting, not that they
Speaker 2: really want to know, not because anything's wrong just because.
Speaker 2: But if someone asks sincerely, how are you really doing,
Speaker 2: then they get a different answer. So I challenge you
Speaker 2: to do that with your friend this week.
Speaker 3: Well, luckily I have resting bitch face, so people always
Speaker 3: think something's wrong with me and just always ask me
Speaker 3: what's doing? Ah, So I have plenty of opportunities to
Speaker 3: event But maybe people out there.
Speaker 1: That's just a b a ba problem. Brown girls, you
Speaker 1: know we're always accused of that.
Speaker 3: So I don't care. It's my face, it's the face
Speaker 3: God gave me. This is my expression. Give me something
Speaker 3: to smile about. It might change, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm done, all right, y'all. We will see y'all next week.
Speaker 3: Uh see y'all next week. Look forward to hearing your
Speaker 3: Brown Ambition contest entries again. Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail, dot.
Speaker 1: Com dot com.
Speaker 3: Hye bye bye. All right, Oh my God, pray for
Speaker 3: me