Speaker 1: Hey, hey, Hey, we're back. We're on ambition.
Speaker 2: Hey, mandral Hey remember last week when I said that
Speaker 2: I had an immaculate immune system and that I definitely
Speaker 2: wasn't going to give COVID.
Speaker 3: It was funny.
Speaker 2: During the course of that episode, I felt my lymph
Speaker 2: node swelling, and by the time that afternoon came Homegirl
Speaker 2: was positive. So but at this point it's been a week.
Speaker 2: I am on the other side of the COVID cave.
Speaker 3: Y'all.
Speaker 2: Yes, good, But thank y'all for all of your kind
Speaker 2: words and shout out two daycares who still make the
Speaker 2: baby stay home for ten days and even if you're
Speaker 2: sick too, there's no there's no sick notes for parents.
Speaker 2: They don't give you emergency daycare.
Speaker 3: Nope.
Speaker 2: But Homeboy is going back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And I cannot wait.
Speaker 2: They had Home Life if I needed a reminder, the
Speaker 2: stay at home mom life is just not meant. It's
Speaker 2: not my calling, it's not what the Lord has intended
Speaker 2: for me. That's true.
Speaker 1: Well, you look great despite the COVID.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it also feels like I've got major deja vu
Speaker 2: because I don't know deja vu. For the third time,
Speaker 2: it feels like this is what our third or fourth
Speaker 2: recession in the past ten twelve years of us Well,
Speaker 2: I feel like in our show, we've had a couple
Speaker 2: of recessions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, Oh no, I didn't.
Speaker 2: We're podcasters, we better it.
Speaker 1: I was just talking to one of our producers, Dais
Speaker 1: about that. They're like, why does everybody walk run around
Speaker 1: like when the chicken with their head cut off? Like,
Speaker 1: didn't we just go this literally like a year or
Speaker 1: so ago, like the fire drill. We've had this fire
Speaker 1: drill before, like go to the exits, y'all.
Speaker 2: I guess this time people are just like, wait, but
Speaker 2: there's not a pandemic to blame, so what could it be?
Speaker 2: And it's even like a little bit scarier, I guess,
Speaker 2: And it may not feel as if you're in Like
Speaker 2: in the pandemic, it was like no one's fault. It's
Speaker 2: just this virus and you know, it's out of control.
Speaker 2: And businesses, of course, they have to change.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: It's like we're reaping what our businesses are reaping what
Speaker 2: they've sewed, and the they're just you know, making changes
Speaker 2: and cutting costs in the wake of the pandemic. There's
Speaker 2: the economy has been through it. She's tired, she's she's
Speaker 2: creaking and cranking, and also she's been yanked and stretched
Speaker 2: and that all these different directions, the FED going that
Speaker 2: way you know, one minute.
Speaker 1: And this way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know they are elected officials and the policymakers,
Speaker 2: and you know they are doing what they can to
Speaker 2: manipulate things positively, but there are repercussions, you know. I
Speaker 2: think it's if I could go back, I feel like
Speaker 2: my econ teacher who was so happy to almost give
Speaker 2: me a CE in that class. But I bet he
Speaker 2: and his Hawaiian shirt would be so excited for what's
Speaker 2: happening because it is just like a little fun economic
Speaker 2: experiment with you know, livelihoods at stake, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to diminish that at all. But let's see what
Speaker 2: happens when you give people a bunch of stimulus. And
Speaker 2: let's see what happens when Russia goes to war with
Speaker 2: Ukraine and the oil supplies are you know, are are
Speaker 2: suddenly shortened, and then gas prices get enormously high, and
Speaker 2: inflation like an.
Speaker 1: Industry to raise, and the housing market gets crazy, and
Speaker 1: you know, so there's this interesting article that I read
Speaker 1: the other day. We were chatting about it prior because
Speaker 1: me and Mayday our friends in real life. But I
Speaker 1: was like, Manda, did you see this thing about Amazon?
Speaker 1: They had this internal memo that was the leaked I
Speaker 1: saw this unfortune and the New York Post and that
Speaker 1: Amazon could run out of people to hire in the
Speaker 1: US by twenty twenty four. That's what this like this
Speaker 1: memo said. So not everywhere, but so what happens is
Speaker 1: that Amazon, when they enter and they build like a
Speaker 1: warehouse in particular areas, they do some recon you know,
Speaker 1: they go into the area, they see how many people
Speaker 1: live here, un totalalty, they see, you know, they look
Speaker 1: at like level of education, they look at household income,
Speaker 1: they look at all of these demographic components, and then
Speaker 1: they from that they say, okay, of the I'm just
Speaker 1: making of a number one million people that live in
Speaker 1: this area, there's about one hundred thousand people that could
Speaker 1: potentially work for Amazon. And that's how they decide, yes,
Speaker 1: we can build a warehouse here because you know, we
Speaker 1: have we have the ability to hire enough people to
Speaker 1: sustain the warehouse. Well, because of the old pany, you know,
Speaker 1: Amazon has grown tremendously and literally you can order something
Speaker 1: now and get it today. So Amazon has like really
Speaker 1: experienced rocket ship growth. That is a pun because you know,
Speaker 1: they went to the moon or no, they went to
Speaker 1: the moon to Mars. Either way that went outside space.
Speaker 2: Wait, no, it was both of them.
Speaker 1: M it was both.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Bezos.
Speaker 2: You right, you're right, You're right, soire.
Speaker 1: So because of like this, like you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: of course Amazon was already growing, but I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the pandemic just put it into overdrive. That even
Speaker 1: though they've done the math for some of these areas
Speaker 1: that they are literally running out of people to hire,
Speaker 1: they suspect that they'll by twenty twenty fourth that be
Speaker 1: the case, which is only you know, like less than
Speaker 1: two years away. So I just thought that was so fascinating.
Speaker 1: So they're doing everything from giving people upwards of like
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars signing bonuses, giving people twenty two dollars
Speaker 1: an hour. They're even rehiring sometimes people that they let go.
Speaker 1: Before I saw I saw this in like a I
Speaker 1: was on one of these like a like a like
Speaker 1: a Reddit or whatever, one of these community forms where
Speaker 1: an Amazon manager was like I've been a manager for
Speaker 1: a number of years. They are before things they used
Speaker 1: to tell us to be strict about. They're like basically
Speaker 1: like don't worry about it, you know, and literally bringing
Speaker 1: back people like I said that they let go of before.
Speaker 2: It's just really fascinating, like warehouse roles, Like what types
Speaker 2: of jobs are they? They're mostly wear copper Amazon right.
Speaker 1: No, it's not corporate Amazon so much. I think it's
Speaker 1: really warehouse position. So like pickers, I think, you know, drivers, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So for example, lets me think about all the unions
Speaker 2: that have been like union, right, and how Amazon's trying
Speaker 2: to squash all these unions that are trying to form,
Speaker 2: like in New York and other other states are trying
Speaker 2: to form unions now. And if you know, and I
Speaker 2: think this is also a really good case of it
Speaker 2: may seem and the headlines would make you feel like
Speaker 2: every place is laying off and every place is having
Speaker 2: you know, hiring freezes and all of that. But where
Speaker 2: there is demand and short supply, like I think you
Speaker 2: will still continue seeing great job growth and not just
Speaker 2: job growth, but like in cases where there's not enough labor,
Speaker 2: increase wages, the question is do people want those jobs?
Speaker 2: You know? I just wonder how much of it is
Speaker 2: like Amazon, you know, not people not necessarily being physically there,
Speaker 2: or enough people being there, but just not wanting to
Speaker 2: work for the big you know, the big box, mega
Speaker 2: retailer Amazon, who used to be like this disruptor, hipster disruptor,
Speaker 2: and it's not like the big corporate bad guy and
Speaker 2: apparently not the best place to work according.
Speaker 1: To Well and which is kind of crazy. I'm like,
Speaker 1: look out, look out, the worm has turned. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if that's the right the word. Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like there's like the phrase that
Speaker 1: says the worm has turned. But I'm like, I'm so
Speaker 1: much like my dad. He never gets those phrases right.
Speaker 1: I'm like that, that's not how you say that. He
Speaker 1: was like yeah, yah, yeah, yeah, so so so. Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos was once quoted I'm saying that that Amazon was
Speaker 1: willing to tolerate higher turnovers at its facilities because they
Speaker 1: fear that employees who are with the company for too
Speaker 1: long would grow complacent. So he basically was like, let them,
Speaker 1: let them most fight. And now he's like, wait, we
Speaker 1: want them back, you know, thinking like it's it's good,
Speaker 1: like you know, that's why, you know, like they weren't
Speaker 1: so worried about like no, and people are mad because
Speaker 1: we don't want to do a union. Oh well they
Speaker 1: can leave, and now it's like we we need you,
Speaker 1: and so like, how can we tie this back though
Speaker 1: into like people who are like OURBA listeners, who actually
Speaker 1: have businesses, Like, what are some lessons here that folks
Speaker 1: can learn?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think, first and foremost, it's I think, when,
Speaker 2: when you get down to it, if these economic pressures
Speaker 2: are impacting your business. So if you're, for example, if
Speaker 2: you own a construction company, you've been hurting and struggling
Speaker 2: for years now because you know, talk about the lack
Speaker 2: of building homes and how there was it was impossible.
Speaker 2: When we got our deck built last summer, it took
Speaker 2: forever for the parts to get shipped over. And I
Speaker 2: feel like if you're a business owner, being understanding what
Speaker 2: economic factors are at play right now and what is
Speaker 2: driving you know, changes in different industries and how that
Speaker 2: could be impacting your business, and what pivot do you
Speaker 2: need to make to your business models that you can
Speaker 2: make up for it now. Retail, I know there's a
Speaker 2: lot of talk about tech layoffs and we have seen
Speaker 2: massive layoffs at several tech companies. One of my favorite
Speaker 2: sites that I've used to track layoffs is called at
Speaker 2: layoffs dot fyi, and it mostly tracks layoffs at tech startups,
Speaker 2: and it's anyway, it's a great little source there. So
Speaker 2: we have seen a lot of tech layoffs. It's true.
Speaker 2: Some of the biggest ones even on here are in
Speaker 2: the retail sector. And when you think about why, you know,
Speaker 2: people were getting stimulus checks for a why and they
Speaker 2: were highly popular and I know a lot of families
Speaker 2: needed them and with that extra cash they were using it.
Speaker 2: You know that I think there was a lot of
Speaker 2: saving that first year of the pandemic. And it's twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, it was like, oh, okay, things are pretty good,
Speaker 2: so we're gonnactually start spending this stimmy money. We've been
Speaker 2: hoarding all that spending, you know, increased demand on retailers
Speaker 2: all of that, But then there's a shortage of just supply,
Speaker 2: you know, because there's just all these like shortages and
Speaker 2: like what do you call it, supply chain issues because
Speaker 2: of the pandemic. So retailers have been hit really hard.
Speaker 2: And now that you know, retailers are having to like,
Speaker 2: we've seen even big box stores like Target announcing sales
Speaker 2: because they're like, we got all this stuff and people
Speaker 2: are not spending as much and they're not coming here
Speaker 2: to shop anymore, so we need to now decrease. So
Speaker 2: if you have like a retail product specific kind of business,
Speaker 2: I feel like the takeaway is okay. So what other
Speaker 2: lines of business or streams of business income revenue can
Speaker 2: I generate to be well diversified so that I can
Speaker 2: be more resilient in the face of these these economic pressures.
Speaker 1: I still be a Target, don't target, don't worry.
Speaker 2: I still be there.
Speaker 1: But I was also thinking too, because you know how
Speaker 1: I always tease you when you know you're like, where
Speaker 1: are my millions? I'm like, Mandy, you are literally one
Speaker 1: year in two days in just like you know. So
Speaker 1: I think this is also to me. It's a really
Speaker 1: good lesson for business owners who are running that rocket
Speaker 1: ship growth that sometimes growth can almost be a detriment
Speaker 1: if done in such a way that you can't manage
Speaker 1: what the growth requires, because because all growth requires some
Speaker 1: sort of foundation to keep it and maintain it. And
Speaker 1: so Amazon, despite how big and how amazing it is,
Speaker 1: you know that you know it's growth, it's almost hindering
Speaker 1: it because unless they you know, they have for some
Speaker 1: places like I saw it's like in California, Arizona. Those
Speaker 1: are some of the major places where they have huge
Speaker 1: warehouses that you know that growth could potentially put it,
Speaker 1: you know, in a really bad spot. We know that
Speaker 1: Amazon the stock just split twenty to one, and I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if this, you know, this article or this revelation
Speaker 1: about them not being able to find as many employees
Speaker 1: as they need and maintain them, that might affect the stocks.
Speaker 1: I just checked ahead of time, so I checked on
Speaker 1: a Robin Hood. Right now, Amazon is one oh eight
Speaker 1: trading at one o eight, so it's up a little.
Speaker 1: At its lowest, it was like one oh one. Of course,
Speaker 1: because I don't listen to my own advice, I bought
Speaker 1: it when it was one twenty, even though I'm like, No,
Speaker 1: one twenty four, even though I'm like Tiffany, do not
Speaker 1: buy when the stock splits, Do not buy right away,
Speaker 1: do not by write it says that. My brain says that,
Speaker 1: and my hands are like, girl, I can't. I gotta
Speaker 1: get in. So I've lost four hundred something dollars. That's fine,
Speaker 1: it's fine, But I just think that one of the
Speaker 1: lessons learned is that it's not just enough to grow.
Speaker 1: You have to create a foundation to support that growth
Speaker 1: or else that growth will actually sink you. So for
Speaker 1: those of y'all with small businesses of your own, you know,
Speaker 1: considering that like all growth and good growth, you know,
Speaker 1: making sure that you're growing in a way that you
Speaker 1: can actually sustain and maintain.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can tell you from the types of
Speaker 2: questions we've gotten on BAQ and A, from our listeners
Speaker 2: on ig and even just like people hitting me up
Speaker 2: in my email because I still do my weekly newsletter
Speaker 2: made Money all career tips, and people are worried like
Speaker 2: what does this mean for my career? What does it
Speaker 2: mean for my job? And so like flipping it. On
Speaker 2: the other side of businesses that are having to make
Speaker 2: these pivots because of what's happening in the economy, there
Speaker 2: are human beings, Like there's people who the reality is,
Speaker 2: you know, when recessions happen, people lose jobs, even people
Speaker 2: at these companies like Tessel's probably gonna be laying off
Speaker 2: a lot of people, these big, big companies, And I
Speaker 2: always go back to what I have said so long,
Speaker 2: which is, no job is stable, no job is secure.
Speaker 2: We have to stop thinking of ourselves. We have stopped
Speaker 2: thinking of our jobs as being stable and secure in
Speaker 2: ourselves as being our own career stability. Like, what is
Speaker 2: it about you that creates a resilient professional? What is
Speaker 2: it about you that will make it possible for you
Speaker 2: to bounce back and pivot and move and you know,
Speaker 2: jump and jive when you need to be flexible when
Speaker 2: things happen in the economy. Is your skill set that
Speaker 2: you have today things that employers are going to want tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's like probably one of the biggest driving factors of
Speaker 2: even if you were to lose your job, well, could
Speaker 2: you get another one somewhere else? And I was thinking
Speaker 2: a lot about, you know, like the twenty two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight, two thousand and nine recession when baby Mandy,
Speaker 2: like I went to I know, Tiffany, had you had
Speaker 2: your own crazy you know recession story. I had just
Speaker 2: moved to New York and I lost my job three
Speaker 2: months after moving here. And I was a journalism graduate,
Speaker 2: like I studied actual print, like how to write on paper.
Speaker 2: That no, not even a thing anymore. And it was
Speaker 2: the same situation, like everyone telling me this is a
Speaker 2: wrong career, you won't make any money, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: but this is my skills. And I eventually had to
Speaker 2: sit down and say, like, Okay, what are the facts. Yes,
Speaker 2: people are saying the industry is changing, people are using
Speaker 2: their jobs. Those were facts, but they were still jobs.
Speaker 2: They were just very different. They were digital jobs. I
Speaker 2: had to learn some digital skills. I had to learn
Speaker 2: how to write for the web, and I had to
Speaker 2: work my way up in that. And I understood from
Speaker 2: that experience that my core skills still made me employable
Speaker 2: and know the jobs, that job that I envisioned didn't
Speaker 2: exist when I got out there into the market, but
Speaker 2: a version of that job did, and I could use
Speaker 2: my skills, you know, in a new and different way.
Speaker 2: And because I was able to be flexible, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'd carry that throughout my career. That's why I'm always like,
Speaker 2: how are you investing reinvesting in your skill set, learning
Speaker 2: new skills, changing with your industry and not being stagnant
Speaker 2: or not being not being so stubborn that you're not
Speaker 2: willing to always be learning and trying new things to
Speaker 2: make yourself more attractive, you know, to hiring manager. So
Speaker 2: that's I feel like the key message for people who
Speaker 2: are working and just wondering, you know, should I not
Speaker 2: be making career moves? Should I be freaked out? Am
Speaker 2: I going to lose my job? That's not a big
Speaker 2: enough question. The bigger question for me is what is it?
Speaker 2: How is your how strong is your professional brand? How
Speaker 2: strong and needed are your skill sets? And then what
Speaker 2: can you do to strengthen those two things so that
Speaker 2: you're resilient, like individually and no matter what's happening in
Speaker 2: the economy, you'll find a way to float at the
Speaker 2: end of the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like, if you bring excellence to the table,
Speaker 1: space is always made for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes you got to like roll up to
Speaker 2: the table and like squeeze it. You know, you can't
Speaker 2: excuse me, Yeah, you can't. Sometimes you got to tell
Speaker 2: people you belong at that table and you know, and
Speaker 2: that's that's part of the branding too. It's like not
Speaker 2: just not just being excellent, but then how are you
Speaker 2: telling people about that excellence? Yes, so that you're not
Speaker 2: just a secret you know. Yeah, and you're just like
Speaker 2: a lot of us ladies turn creately awesome.
Speaker 1: It's secretly awesome. I mean it's like no, no, no, be
Speaker 1: awesome out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oprah was always awesome, but she had to get
Speaker 2: a mic and a TV show, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like I mean, and that's why I call I call
Speaker 1: it actually illustrate your Oprah. Like you know that you
Speaker 1: you illustrate your values so well that's like's undeniable like Oprah.
Speaker 1: So I always tell people, you know, got to learn
Speaker 1: to illustrate your Oprah.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, And you can take that and you can
Speaker 2: take control of the narrative too, your own professional narrative.
Speaker 2: I mean, I at the end of the day, if
Speaker 2: like if you're if you're in an industry that's really
Speaker 2: hurting because of the recession that we're heading toward or
Speaker 2: in I don't know is it official yet, then yeah,
Speaker 2: have some you know, be a realistic so maybe they'll
Speaker 2: be layoffs. Okay, but what then? So what can you
Speaker 2: do today? What can you control? You can't control whether
Speaker 2: or not they're going to let you go. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can even people who are greatly valuable, you still
Speaker 2: make it laid off, right, m So what can you
Speaker 2: do now? Can you start you know, checking out your resume,
Speaker 2: making sure that it's beefed up, make sure that you're
Speaker 2: really demonstrating your impact. Can you start, you know, warming
Speaker 2: up your network and letting them know what you've been
Speaker 2: up to. Can you start posting on LinkedIn about the
Speaker 2: excellent work you've been doing. Can you write some articles
Speaker 2: about your thoughts on your industry and add your perspective
Speaker 2: to add some thought leadership content. Some thought leadership always
Speaker 2: goes a long way, I think toward helping people establish
Speaker 2: their brand and get noticed by potential hiring managers or colleagues.
Speaker 2: In other places, you just never know who's reading. These
Speaker 2: are the things that you can control. Yeah, that'ret money.
Speaker 1: That's like the medium, like those you know, like the
Speaker 1: medium articles that have blown up from people who've written,
Speaker 1: you know, like on LinkedIn. You're like, oh wow, because
Speaker 1: you're right, how do you media? Which is that you
Speaker 1: were just thinking about medium?
Speaker 2: I always forget about medium until something blows up and
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn medium.
Speaker 1: So all of this has been helpful to you, whether
Speaker 1: you have a business or whether you are an individual.
Speaker 3: There are you making business changes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well here's the thing. Because we were born out
Speaker 1: of the recession, We're like, chill time, baby, you know so,
Speaker 1: and so this is like our third one actually, so
Speaker 1: there are certainly some pivot Here's the thing, here's the secret.
Speaker 1: You want to know why I have been in business
Speaker 1: for fifteen for fourteen almost fifteen years, because I pre pivot,
Speaker 1: like I we have been in the middle of a
Speaker 1: pivot for like even before the pandemic and everything hit,
Speaker 1: we had already been pivoting because I'm always pivoting because
Speaker 1: I don't want to, like, I don't want the market
Speaker 1: to tell me, girl, get on it, because by then
Speaker 1: it's too late. Because some pivots take two or three years.
Speaker 1: So like I like to what my business coach calls
Speaker 1: time travel, So I will mentally time travel forward and
Speaker 1: say what are some of the hiccups of the hang
Speaker 1: ups that can happen? And then I'll come back to
Speaker 1: the present and I'll say, what, how can we start
Speaker 1: making changes now so we could do so less frantically.
Speaker 1: And so there are some huge pivots that we're making,
Speaker 1: Like with the literature Academy, I cannot wait. It is
Speaker 1: awesome and amazing, And if we had just started now,
Speaker 1: this has been a pivot for about two and a
Speaker 1: half years in the making. That's going to transform our
Speaker 1: business and make us even more sound. But if I wouldn't,
Speaker 1: if I had to do that now, you know, it
Speaker 1: would just be either stressful to try to get it
Speaker 1: done in six months to a year or you just
Speaker 1: can't get it done in six months to a year,
Speaker 1: and you you know, I would just be trying to
Speaker 1: hold on for dear life until we could get it done.
Speaker 1: So that's really the key is that, like in all
Speaker 1: things that I do, like look at my my mentoring
Speaker 1: with that my you know, my mentor tiffany right dot com.
Speaker 1: So that is a pre pre pre pivot like low key,
Speaker 1: high key low key. I started my mentor Tiffany because
Speaker 1: I was like, hmm, is this a pivot that I
Speaker 1: can into consulting that I can make Let's see if
Speaker 1: I even like it. Not only just that with my mentees,
Speaker 1: I get to test out different marketing theories that I have.
Speaker 1: I get to I get to see like if I
Speaker 1: do want to do write another book, you know, like
Speaker 1: what's hitting with y'all, what's not hitting? But do you
Speaker 1: see like I likely won't use some of the things
Speaker 1: I'm learning with my mentees for the next three to
Speaker 1: five years. But I don't have to be in a
Speaker 1: rust because I pre pivoted. And so when you first
Speaker 1: start your business, work on the business. But as you
Speaker 1: start to get like a nice little rhythm growing, then
Speaker 1: like you start to you should start to think about that, like,
Speaker 1: what are some things as I'm doing my normal everyday business,
Speaker 1: let me set aside twenty to thirty percent of my
Speaker 1: energy to time travel forward and to start working on
Speaker 1: what's headed and what's coming. So yeah, so it was
Speaker 1: a blessing kind of like growing up during the the
Speaker 1: that recession in twenty nine ten, because it allows me
Speaker 1: to think think in this way. And so yeah, like we.
Speaker 2: Are also speaking from panicking as much because yes, have
Speaker 2: some experience to know that there will be a return
Speaker 2: to normalcy.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's going to be a dip, like literally,
Speaker 1: you know, we probably will like we went in our
Speaker 1: peak ten million dollars a year for one of our companies,
Speaker 1: and then maybe we will make five or six. But
Speaker 1: that's part of the pivot, you know, because I knew.
Speaker 1: I was like, this pivot is going to allow us
Speaker 1: to potentially grow to fifty million. But if we don't
Speaker 1: make these changes. We can't and the changes that are
Speaker 1: going to require us to take talent away from our
Speaker 1: day to day operations into this, and so we don't
Speaker 1: have to take this temporary l maybe for two years,
Speaker 1: maybe three, but I think we can do it in
Speaker 1: two where it's going to look like a little business
Speaker 1: really slowed down. It didn't. It's just transformed. And then
Speaker 1: this new way that we do business that we've introduced
Speaker 1: will allow us to maintain the growth that we seek
Speaker 1: versus like, because we were doing what Amazon was doing well,
Speaker 1: not really because Amazon I was huge, but we were
Speaker 1: doing this rocket ship growth, but it wasn't as sustainable
Speaker 1: as I would like, and it's very stressful to grow
Speaker 1: very quickly in that way. I was like, Hey, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do business like that anymore. How do
Speaker 1: we do business that it is slow and steady, but
Speaker 1: something that's sustainable. So I'm excited, like for what that
Speaker 1: kind of looks like. And I have like a I
Speaker 1: have a couple of other things that we're working on
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm like, let's see, because here's the thing
Speaker 1: too that I like to do. I like to practice
Speaker 1: when it's safe. So in the mentee. Like with my mentees,
Speaker 1: I get to practice, and if it doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, you know it didn't work out, Like
Speaker 1: I don't need the mentorship money in order to run business,
Speaker 1: and so I will practice a thing and see, well,
Speaker 1: how many people sign up to be my mentee?
Speaker 3: Well what if I do this?
Speaker 1: Okay? Well what if I do that? Okay? And so
Speaker 1: I like to practice with like kind of these side
Speaker 1: projects to see what works and what doesn't work, so
Speaker 1: I can if it doesn't work out, you know, that's fine,
Speaker 1: But if it does, I can take that lesson I've
Speaker 1: learned and then put it toward the business that our
Speaker 1: core business that we really don't have time to be
Speaker 1: practicing with. So honestly, that's why I mean I I
Speaker 1: business is just fascinating to me, like second to financial
Speaker 1: education is the thing that I'm really enjoyed, Like the
Speaker 1: business of business, like how do you get here? How
Speaker 1: do you stay here? How do you market? How do
Speaker 1: you you know? And so, yeah, it's just it's stressful, certainly,
Speaker 1: sometimes not as many much as it used to be,
Speaker 1: but it's just you know, if you're fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: get to a place where you can do and make
Speaker 1: these sort of choices. It can really It's just really
Speaker 1: fascinating to see like what's capable, you know, and what
Speaker 1: you're capable of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my, it's my I just had my
Speaker 2: first year in business, and I feel like everything I
Speaker 2: did last year that I just did, you know, we
Speaker 2: didn't wait till it was perfect, but just started doing it.
Speaker 2: Just started doing career coaching before I had a website,
Speaker 2: just started, you know, coming up with ideas for articles
Speaker 2: I could write for different outletes and outlets and pitching them,
Speaker 2: and started building the Mandy Moneymakers program and built it
Speaker 2: as I went, and it wasn't perfect to start with,
Speaker 2: and have made each cohort better and better. I think
Speaker 2: that that was one of the smartest things I did
Speaker 2: as a as a baby entrepreneur, was getting the stuff
Speaker 2: done and not waiting for it to be perfect. Because
Speaker 2: I've had I've I've done things thoughtfully and as carefully
Speaker 2: as I could. I wasn't like all out there willy nilly,
Speaker 2: and I did you know so much, like so much
Speaker 2: focus grouping and like asking people what they wanted and
Speaker 2: all of that. It's very thoughtful, but I still I
Speaker 2: got out of my own way in a sense, so
Speaker 2: that I can actually get stuff done. So now I
Speaker 2: have the infrastructure to I think, be even more successful
Speaker 2: during this recession. I think y'all question if I'm a
Speaker 2: good career coach. No one has actually questioned that. I
Speaker 2: think I'm great.
Speaker 3: I think y'all have been supportive.
Speaker 2: Y'all been listening to me talk about it for seven years.
Speaker 3: But I love I'm excited about.
Speaker 2: The opportunity to help people, help women navigate this situation,
Speaker 2: like navigate this economy in your career. I'm the best
Speaker 2: person for it. I've done it myself like two or
Speaker 2: three times and still manage to do all that I've done.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like, damn yes. So it's not just
Speaker 2: that I'm doing what I want to be doing, but
Speaker 2: the time as now, like that the moment has come,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like when the timing is right,
Speaker 2: and sometimes when you're building it, it may not feel like, Okay,
Speaker 2: the demand is there, maybe there is some demand, But
Speaker 2: I'm excited to be ready for the moment. You know,
Speaker 2: if I had waited, I may not have been ready
Speaker 2: to meet the moment. I may not have had enough.
Speaker 2: My business, my business structure. Yes, foundation there. I wasn't
Speaker 2: ready for the twenty twenty. I remember thinking, you know,
Speaker 2: huge brands were born in twenty twenty, you know who
Speaker 2: built started building audiences then. And I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I was, I was in I was in a different journey.
Speaker 2: I just have had a baby and I was righting
Speaker 2: that wave and all of that, and I'm like, yes,
Speaker 2: you know this is this is like the business version
Speaker 2: of financial business double Dutch. And I'm finally ready to
Speaker 2: get in there and find my rim, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: I don't call a baptismal fire, you know, like people
Speaker 1: are they're born through the fire. Like it's like we're
Speaker 1: about to go through this recessional fire and out will
Speaker 1: come these amazing especially financial brands, because people are going
Speaker 1: to be leaning into folks like you, you know during this time.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited.
Speaker 2: It seems to be able to help, to feel like
Speaker 2: we can help. And I'm like, dang, this is probably
Speaker 2: what you've been feeling like all this time too. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: mission service all aligned with what people are wanting right now.
Speaker 2: That feels good. I mean, I'm not necessary, I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to I'm I'm accelerating some plans that I had,
Speaker 2: and I'm definitely like, Okay, it's going to be a
Speaker 2: busy ass summer. So how can I ask for the
Speaker 2: help that I need to get this special work done?
Speaker 2: And just recognize that I've been I've been able to
Speaker 2: really have a decent schedule for a while. But not
Speaker 2: only is more work coming, I'm planning, you know, lots
Speaker 2: of webinars and lots of you know, additional group coaching programs,
Speaker 2: and it's all really exciting. So it's going to be
Speaker 2: I think, I just want to seize the opportunity, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So I see the next six
Speaker 2: months being busy or busier, busier than ever, and trying
Speaker 2: to figure out, Okay, so what resources do I need?
Speaker 2: You know, what help do I need? Because I know
Speaker 2: I can't do it alone and I don't want to
Speaker 2: be I don't want to be silly enough to think
Speaker 2: I can, So figuring out how to hire some help
Speaker 2: is on my plate for sure. And I had asked
Speaker 2: you too, you know, in the influencer space, I think
Speaker 2: as influencers, we have we being mindful of what happens
Speaker 2: when there's recessions. I think, for what could go down
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. Is potentially
Speaker 2: the amount of marketing dollars that you know, partners have
Speaker 2: to spend on folks like us and using us as
Speaker 2: advertising and your relationships are longer and deeper and all
Speaker 2: the kind of thing. I'm a newbie, so and in
Speaker 2: that case, you know, brand partnerships is a piece of
Speaker 2: my business, but it's not the whole thing. I've got
Speaker 2: like six or seven different income streams and I love
Speaker 2: that because I don't feel like I'm going to be
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be ended, you know, because a
Speaker 2: partnership won't work out.
Speaker 1: You want to be cure other I would say, like, brand
Speaker 1: partnerships definitely take up more now than they ever have
Speaker 1: before for me, only because I charge way more now,
Speaker 1: you know. And so so it's definitely a bigger piece
Speaker 1: of BUDGETISA than they were. But because I was I
Speaker 1: was intentional, just like you. I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be like I don't want to be the
Speaker 1: brand partnership girl, and then I'm not the hot girl
Speaker 1: no more and they move on. But something that you
Speaker 1: should consider too, that I have found that people are
Speaker 1: paying a lot of money for is more and more
Speaker 1: speaking engagement, so like positioning yourself. So if you're if
Speaker 1: you're an influencer and you're listening and if it makes sense.
Speaker 1: So I have a lot of brands now who are
Speaker 1: coming to me, not necessarily to you know, be like
Speaker 1: a like a hey, post this thing on your social media,
Speaker 1: but honestly I'm getting a lot of Tiffany, can you
Speaker 1: come to speak to our people? And so and so yes,
Speaker 1: And I love it because because what they're seeing is
Speaker 1: this thing that I just had a call. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm allowed to send well, let's just say
Speaker 1: don't break the NDA. No, there's no DA That's what
Speaker 1: I'm just. I don't know if to say aitherway. It's
Speaker 1: a big HUQO, huge multi yeah. We just it's a
Speaker 1: huge company that you know, maybe your parents took you
Speaker 1: there when you were little, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: when you were good. Anyway, So I just had a
Speaker 1: call with them and I'm doing like a speaking gig,
Speaker 1: and that's.
Speaker 3: What it's for.
Speaker 1: It's not to share the world like you know, where
Speaker 1: your ears you know that it's invented like we want
Speaker 1: to change, it's.
Speaker 3: Where is ticket Disneydies.
Speaker 1: Yes. So it's like this huge, you know, like multi
Speaker 1: national global company and they're they're knowing that we're shifting
Speaker 1: into this space, and they're wanting the employees to give
Speaker 1: them like a holistic I guess, like holistic perspective on
Speaker 1: what they can do to prepare and see their way through.
Speaker 1: And honestly, when I tell you, there are like one
Speaker 1: of five that I've done in the last month or so,
Speaker 1: and it's the same thing over and over. We want
Speaker 1: our employees to be okay, we want to like they're
Speaker 1: looking at it as partly as their wellness program. Like
Speaker 1: one company, like it shocked me because I thought like
Speaker 1: they wanted me to talk about finances. She's like, no,
Speaker 1: I saw your IG live where you said you were
Speaker 1: back ish and how you talked about how you're actually
Speaker 1: taking a step back. And I was like wow. So
Speaker 1: it was with this big financial company and they didn't
Speaker 1: want when you talk talked to them about money. They
Speaker 1: wanted me to talk to them about about what is enough,
Speaker 1: not overdoing and not overworking, creating work life balance. I
Speaker 1: was like, what, So I just say all that to
Speaker 1: say that that there are ways to shift even within
Speaker 1: your space. Like, Okay, it's not just hey, Tiffany, tell
Speaker 1: them that our secure credit card is so great, but hey,
Speaker 1: can you come internally and talk to our people about
Speaker 1: preparing for oversession or like, you know, like what does
Speaker 1: it look like to use their money as a tool
Speaker 1: toward their overall wellness goals? And so I found out
Speaker 1: to be interesting and great. So there are you know when,
Speaker 1: like I said before, when you do and you bring
Speaker 1: excellence to the table, people will seek you out. Like
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't pitch myself. I haven't had to
Speaker 1: just yet. You know, it's been fifteen years I've never
Speaker 1: pitched myself. And as a result, but if you show
Speaker 1: up and to Mandy's point, to be visible, get that micro.
Speaker 2: You share your story, Yes, someone who can saying you know,
Speaker 2: and thenslated and opportunities followed exactly.
Speaker 1: So I just it's exciting times, you know, Like you know,
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be a lot of hard times
Speaker 1: for a lot of folks. But you can you can
Speaker 1: decide that you are going to see what you can
Speaker 1: do to leverage this to push you to the next level.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, those are the two options. You can be down,
Speaker 2: You can be pessimistic, You can think that this is
Speaker 2: like the end, or that things are going to you know,
Speaker 2: change and they're going to be worse, or you can
Speaker 2: think this is opportunity, this is when this is when
Speaker 2: stars are made, This is when opportunities are born. And
Speaker 2: what do you want your story to be? And I
Speaker 2: feel like my story has always been door number two
Speaker 2: in that equation, and I feel like Tiff two, And
Speaker 2: I feel like if you're a part of the BA fan,
Speaker 2: you gotta choose door number two. Yeah, we gotta seize
Speaker 2: this moment. Whatever that moment means for you. It may
Speaker 2: it may feel scary right now, but keep rocking with us.
Speaker 2: I just feel like we've always never failed in that
Speaker 2: level of realistic optimism because we just know that there's
Speaker 2: going to be these lulls and there will be great
Speaker 2: rises at the same time. I'm and will you be
Speaker 2: ready for that? I think you will and.
Speaker 1: You I would love to know some of the pivots
Speaker 1: that you guys are going to make with this upcoming recession.
Speaker 1: You can tweet us at the BA podcast. That's your homework.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start giving you weekly homework. Okay, tweet us
Speaker 1: at the BA podcast and let us know my pivot.
Speaker 1: My BA pivot is going to be x y z.
Speaker 1: We would love that. Your Mandy Money on Twitter as well, Right.
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I don't even really use Twitter.
Speaker 2: IG's where it's at, Mandy Money on IG. I do
Speaker 2: check BA Twitter at the BA podcast. We're at Brand
Speaker 2: Ambission podcast on IG. Where else can you find us?
Speaker 2: Follow us on TikTok, y'all, we're all at on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Run Emission podcast is on TikTok, and we were early
Speaker 2: enough to actually get our handle.
Speaker 1: Who finally, everybody else like with their one followers that
Speaker 1: talk about I'm Brian ambition, y'are.
Speaker 2: Not that.
Speaker 1: I know? Yeah, yeah, tell us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, career money, pivot, business pivot.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'd love to all of it.
Speaker 2: And if you don't have one plan, just listening to
Speaker 2: this episode, I hope that you're thinking of what is
Speaker 2: it that you can control and what is it that
Speaker 2: you can do to meet this moment that we're in
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, meet your moment.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a little commercial break and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be back with brown Boots. Brown break almost forgot. I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, what do we come back with? It
Speaker 1: and we're black and back. It's brown boost and brown break.
Speaker 1: Do you have that boost? Do you have a break?
Speaker 1: I have like a really quick break, I mean really
Speaker 1: quick boost. Let me see if I can find the
Speaker 1: name of this. So I have been eating, so this
Speaker 1: is where it is, Okay, I have been eating so
Speaker 1: much better. So I don't know, like as I've gotten older,
Speaker 1: like I finally like start to listen to my body whatever.
Speaker 1: And you know, I uind out rub me a long
Speaker 1: time ago because child no. And then I realized that
Speaker 1: chicken ain't really my friend a whole black girl. And
Speaker 1: the level of bloat, the level of bloke that I
Speaker 1: get when I have chicken and seafood. I can still
Speaker 1: do like you know, salmon and things. But when I
Speaker 1: was vegan, that's honestly when I was my healthiest.
Speaker 3: But I ain't going.
Speaker 1: Back, Like I'm not going back to vegan, like I
Speaker 1: already can't have dairy just because lactos and toler I'm like,
Speaker 1: give me something to live for. So so, but I
Speaker 1: have been trying it. So I would say I am
Speaker 1: seventy to eighty percent vegan during the week because like
Speaker 1: you know, so I mostly because I don't eat chicken,
Speaker 1: you know hot I know, and I don't eat my
Speaker 1: I don't eat red me. I can't have dairy. But
Speaker 1: there has been this really great black owned, women owned
Speaker 1: restaurant in Bellefue, New Jersey's Jersey. And even though I
Speaker 1: know something y'a don't live in New Jersey, sorry for you,
Speaker 1: but I really wanted to shout her out. Her name
Speaker 1: is Nikki, and she owns this restaurant called Sell Power
Speaker 1: Cel Power p O w w er Sell Power Cafe.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, she is single handedly keeping
Speaker 1: me like joyful with food because the food is really healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean like she's got this curry chick people with
Speaker 1: quenewa and and you can get kingwa the curry chickpeas
Speaker 1: tomato and what is that spinach? It is so good.
Speaker 1: She's got this this like salmon bowl, her salmon wrap,
Speaker 1: her shrimp wrap. I mean everything it's I've been eating it.
Speaker 1: And like when I'm like I can't have another salad
Speaker 1: or whatever it is I'm eating, like that's what I
Speaker 1: order at least like once or twice a week. Her
Speaker 1: her smoothies are amazing. Honestly, I have to just shout
Speaker 1: to Nikki because she said that one she's a she's
Speaker 1: a fairly new entrepreneur. I think it's only I don't
Speaker 1: know if they've been open for a year. She said,
Speaker 1: this is how she always cooked for her family, and
Speaker 1: her friends were like, basically, girl, this could be a
Speaker 1: restaurant and it's doing well, and I just love to see,
Speaker 1: like when I go in there, we talk business, we
Speaker 1: talk finance, and she's slaying. And to see her daughter
Speaker 1: work there too, and to see this black woman with
Speaker 1: this it's not a it's not a restaurant restaurant, like
Speaker 1: it's one of these like you know, like I don't
Speaker 1: want to call it like a sandwich lunch, like you
Speaker 1: maybe like a few two or three people could sit
Speaker 1: in there, but you know, I order your uber eats.
Speaker 1: Nikki be knowing me. She's like, I can always tell you.
Speaker 1: I'm always like, can you switch out the ground vice
Speaker 1: for King? And can you see I'm the Queen of swap.
Speaker 1: I'm like a tiff And she's like, I know, but
Speaker 1: they are so good. Sell Power Cafe. They're just just
Speaker 1: just amazing. Like so if you go to sell POWERLLC
Speaker 1: dot com c e l L the word power LLC
Speaker 1: dot com that is that is their website. And I
Speaker 1: just want to say, like, she's just so dope. Like literally,
Speaker 1: I've called her being like, oh, the Uber eats guy
Speaker 1: stole my smoothie because that's happened, and she's been like,
Speaker 1: you know, yes, because she's like I gave her smoothie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well girl, he didn't give it to me,
Speaker 1: and so she will drive and like drop off a smoothie.
Speaker 1: She's just I just love to see small businesses that
Speaker 1: really take pride and like, how can I delivered the
Speaker 1: best value, the best service, the best food, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: just shout to Nikki and to sell power and that's
Speaker 1: my that's my boost. I just love to see us win,
Speaker 1: winning out here and making sure that you know I
Speaker 1: do I keep I snatched it and keep it together
Speaker 1: with my veggies.
Speaker 2: You're gonna make me want to order lunch now, damn.
Speaker 1: So well, next time you gome visit, we're gonna eat
Speaker 1: some cell power. You gonna d it.
Speaker 2: I had a bag of soggy apple jacks that Rio
Speaker 2: just damed to give me on the way home from
Speaker 2: the park, So yeah, mommy, I'm done with these. Let
Speaker 2: me do a quick brown boost. I'm gonna do a
Speaker 2: brown boost because I'm so excited. I mentioned I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be doing more webinars. I want to talk to the pioble.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to the people about their careers,
Speaker 2: and I want to shout out a free, free webinar,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent free. It's gonna be like two hours long.
Speaker 2: I always pack so much into these webinars. It's going
Speaker 2: to be me talking to you guys about how to
Speaker 2: recession proof your career. I've done it, you can do it.
Speaker 2: It's okay. It's going to be like all about how
Speaker 2: to stay resilient, score new opportunity, and thrive no matter
Speaker 2: what the hell is happening in the economy We've been
Speaker 2: talking about. I'm talking about everything like how the economy
Speaker 2: is actually going to impact your career. I'm going to
Speaker 2: do an industry by industry breakdown because we're going to
Speaker 2: fight fear with facts. That's what we do. We like
Speaker 2: to actually look at what industries are actually being are struggling,
Speaker 2: what skills people are really hiring for. Because I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: I'm still getting coaching clients who are getting huge paydays
Speaker 2: and exciting career opportunities, like in spite of what's going on.
Speaker 2: And I'm huge on talking about professional brand so I'm
Speaker 2: going to do a whole mini workshop of what I
Speaker 2: do for Mandy money Makers on professional branding and help
Speaker 2: you stand out on LinkedIn. So we're going to drop
Speaker 2: a link to register. I register in the show notes
Speaker 2: for BA, but join me. It's going to be Monday
Speaker 2: or sorry, Tuesday, June twenty eighth. Please dear Lord, tell
Speaker 2: me I got the date right, yes, So that is
Speaker 2: you guys listening to this on Wednesday. That's just tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So you guys got like six days to register for
Speaker 2: the Recession Proof your Career webinar hosted by Yours today,
Speaker 2: and I hope y'all come out June twenty eighth at nine.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a late night, nine. I got to
Speaker 2: get the baby down nine pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna ask you all day.
Speaker 1: Is there is there a maximum amount of people that
Speaker 1: can come?
Speaker 2: I don't think so I got the I got the
Speaker 2: expensive version of webinar jam okay, ye should be good,
Speaker 2: all right, and actually get a couple hundred. But I'll
Speaker 2: be excited if y'all.
Speaker 1: Come will they be able to get, like get the
Speaker 1: replay afterwards.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, of course, So the replay will be available
Speaker 2: for like forty eight hour seventy two hours afterward. But
Speaker 2: you definitely want to show up in person because I
Speaker 2: got a little for an extra freebee, an extra freebee
Speaker 2: kit that I'll tell you guys more about if you
Speaker 2: register to get all the details on the freebie that
Speaker 2: you're going to get. I have not done a free
Speaker 2: webinar like this since March, and before that it was
Speaker 2: like December. But like I said, I'm ready to meet
Speaker 2: the moment, y'all, So please.
Speaker 1: Name of the episode me meet the moment, the moment.
Speaker 3: No, I love that.
Speaker 1: So you'll get the link for a Andy recession proof
Speaker 1: your career, which I love now more than ever. That's
Speaker 1: a re important. That link will be in the show notes.
Speaker 1: We'll put the cell Power LLC in the show notes too,
Speaker 1: so you can go ahead and show. Well, that's if
Speaker 1: you live in this area.
Speaker 3: Sorry, if you don't.
Speaker 2: She's gonna be like, uh, we don't deliver to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: She will go tell her Tiffany. She doesn't even know
Speaker 1: me as a budgety, I don't think. Just be like, Yo,
Speaker 1: Tiffany sent me. Well, you can say Tiffany the Budgetissa,
Speaker 1: but I don't think she knows me. She's just be
Speaker 1: like Tiffany, that girl that orders every damn day I
Speaker 1: have herself. Well, I'll be like Nikki when you put
Speaker 1: my she what I know, she's so annoying with me,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, but yeah, so that's awesome, Maddie. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. Maybe I'll be there till you know. I
Speaker 1: need to send it to my sister Lisa, because Lord
Speaker 1: only knows.
Speaker 3: We hope you meet your.
Speaker 1: Women and you enjoyed. And if you did enjoy, and
Speaker 1: especially with this looming recession, please tell a friend if
Speaker 1: you want to see your way through. You've got myself,
Speaker 1: You've got Mandy. We are here to come and listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast because honestly, it's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: great space for you to understand what business is going
Speaker 1: to look like, career, even in your personal life, because
Speaker 1: made a nice year too. The struggles that we're having
Speaker 1: and like what like how we're making do and so
Speaker 1: just you know, bring bring your friends on over, your
Speaker 1: people's on over, so we can work through these things together.
Speaker 1: You are not alone and as you navigate on this journey.
Speaker 2: So like a Branda vision front porch, Well, come on,
Speaker 2: come on up to the front porch, honey, that's what
Speaker 2: I feel like we're saying. Yeah for like boomer podcasters.
Speaker 2: Oh it's your first recession, come on up here back
Speaker 2: in my day. Let me pour youus of lemonade and
Speaker 2: tell you about the last two three processions we survived.
Speaker 2: Oh no, we're not boomers, all right, ba fam Well,
Speaker 2: I'm so excited, and I know I feel a little
Speaker 2: bit guilty that I am so excited, But it's all
Speaker 2: about meeting the moment, right, that's what we're here for.
Speaker 3: See y'all next week.
Speaker 1: Friday, B A p A b A q A.
Speaker 2: Oh dang, yeah, check us out on Friday, B A
Speaker 2: and A question.
Speaker 1: Yep. If you could have questions, you know, you can
Speaker 1: send us a question via Insta via our website Brownhamision
Speaker 1: podcast dot com and we answer them every Friday. So
Speaker 1: there's that Friday. B my mind.
Speaker 2: By Friday. Then hey, ba fan, we could not do
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Speaker 3: It's edited by the.
Speaker 2: Wonderful Emani Crosby and produced by Tanya Bustos. Dennis Stimplinsky
Speaker 2: is our in house tech guru, and I am Bandy
Speaker 2: Woodrid Santos your co host, and I will see y'all
Speaker 2: next week