1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: Hey, guys. As you know, Season four of Cheeks and 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: Chill is officially over, but there are still some things 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about. That's why over 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: the next few weeks, we'll be revisiting some of my 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: favorite episodes over the last four seasons. I'll be sharing 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: where I am now versus where I was when I 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: recorded the episode, and also talk about how I feel 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: today compared to how I felt then. I want you 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: to think of these episodes as a countdown to something 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: completely new, something coming very soon. Be excited. So let's 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: do this, shall we. Hello, guys, Welcome to Cheekys and Chill. 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: Today we're going to revisit an episode we recorded back 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: in season one called My Relationship with Money. We covered 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: a lot in this episode, including the fact that I 15 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: didn't grow up with money. There were times when all 16 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: we had to eat was cantuna and can green beans 17 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: because that's all we could afford. I recorded this episode 18 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one. At the time, I was 19 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: putting ten percent of my monthly income into a savings account, 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: giving ten percent back to my church, and I was 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: also investing in bitcoin and crypto and today twenty twenty six, 22 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: my relationship with money has gotten a lot better. I 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: still struggle, guys, with buying things that I don't need. 24 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: There are times when I'm feeling sad or my menstrual 25 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: cycle is around the corner, and I just buy things 26 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: I swear they get to my house and I'm like, wait, 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: when did I even buy this? It's just too easy 28 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: to purchase things with our cell phones now. But I 29 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: am a lot more mindful because I am an independent 30 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: artist and I now have the responsibility of investing in 31 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: every aspect in every area of my career. But it 32 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: is a lot of pressure, so I am being more careful. 33 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: I do have an emergency fund now, and that makes 34 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: me feel a lot of peace because since I am 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,679 Speaker 1: self employed, I need to save money. So that's my 36 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: savings account, that's my retirement fund. It's also gaining interest, 37 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: so I just put that money to the side and 38 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: I pretend like it doesn't even exist. I do want 39 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: to get to a point in my life and in 40 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: my career where I could just chill out and not 41 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: have to I guess worry because we've talked about this 42 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: a lot, about what we say and how we express 43 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: ourselves about money and how that will affect the flow 44 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 1: of the money that comes to us. So I am 45 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: very careful with how I express myself about it, but 46 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: I do my best to just shake it off and 47 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: just say everything is going to be okay and money 48 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: you will flow to me, and also doing my part 49 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: and doing my best not to buy things that I 50 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: don't necessarily need, and still asking myself is this a 51 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: necessity or is this just something that I want and 52 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: I'm bored and I'm just buying something Bitcoin and crypto 53 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: is there. I do think it's something that I don't 54 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: even think about. I have some investing in there and 55 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: it's just doing its thing. And I'm still doing my 56 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: philanthropy work, helping in any way that I can. I 57 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: have not been to church in a while, I will 58 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: be honest, do you guys know, I'm very honest. This 59 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: is Cheeky's and Chill Cheeky Sin Philtro as well, So 60 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: I have not been to church in a while. But 61 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: still I'm still giving back in any way that I can. 62 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: But anyway that's that you guys go ahead and listen 63 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: to this episode. I hope that you guys enjoy it, 64 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: and thanks again for being here for a long time, 65 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: especially when I was like in elementary school up until 66 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: like I don't know, oh, fifteen sixteen. You guys, we 67 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: had some pretty tough times financially. I was disinherited. When 68 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: it first happened, I was hurt, but I'm glad that 69 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: it happened that way. One thing that I wish that 70 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: I would have known about money earlier on was the 71 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: importance of saving, because when I was asked to move out, 72 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: the rug was just like swiped right from under my feet. 73 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: What up? What up? Everyone? Welcome to this week's episode 74 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: of Cheeky's and Chill. I'm your host Cheeky's and I 75 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: hope your week is going great so far. Today Mark's 76 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: the last Monday in the month of April. Can you 77 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: guys believe that? And you know what, April is also 78 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: financial Literacy Month, So today that's what we're gonna be 79 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: talking about. Money, finances, my relationship with money, and more So, 80 00:04:52,960 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 1: get ready for another episode of Cheeky's and Chill. He 81 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: is such a heavy topic and it's also one people 82 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: don't really like talking about because it's so personal. But guys, 83 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: that's why we have to start talking about it. So 84 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: many of you know, I didn't come for money. I 85 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: grew up saying a lot because I was the eldest 86 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: of five. So when my mom had me, she was fifteen, 87 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: two weeks before her sixteenth birthday. She hadn't finished high 88 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: school obviously, and she was not with my dad. My 89 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: dad as soon as he found out that she was pregnant, 90 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: he was like, that's not my baby. It's like there's 91 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: a whole story behind that. So my mom had to 92 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: leave my grandma's house because my grandma said, well, if 93 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: you're pregnant, you can't live at the house. Through the 94 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: Tinnesque la la gaza. That's when we lived in the garage. 95 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: It was my uncle Gus's garage, right, And so my 96 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: mom was fifteen fifteen, sixteen years old when I was born. 97 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 1: She was trying to finish school. She was going to 98 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: continuation school and working and things got better. My mom 99 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: was a hustler. That's one thing that like, my mom 100 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: would work, go to school, and then just work at 101 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: Bank of America. Like I always saw her just hustling 102 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: a lot of the times our family didn't know me. 103 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: She was very a proud woman in the sense of 104 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: if she needed help, she wouldn't ask for it, and 105 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:16,239 Speaker 1: she wanted her siblings, her brothers and her parents to think, Okay, 106 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: I'm fine. So for a long time, especially when I 107 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: was like in elementary school, up until like I don't know, 108 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen, you guys, we had some pretty tough times financially. 109 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: We were on WICK. We were on food stamps, and 110 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: WICK is like when you get free food from the government. 111 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: So we would get peanut butter, eggs, cheese, bread. Sometimes 112 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: if we were lucky, we got the milk and we 113 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: got Kicks cereal. Okay, so I grew up on Kicks, 114 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: you guys. I didn't have that fun cereal like Lucky 115 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: Charms and fruity pebbles and all that stuff like that 116 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: wasn't in my house. The funnest it would get was 117 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: Kicks with a little bit of like Choco milanate, so 118 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: it became chocolate like Coco puffs. So I mean, I 119 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: would have to get off and pretend I was Johnny's 120 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: mom because the girls that worked at already knew because 121 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: my mom was already Jennie Rivera, but she wasn't making 122 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: money yet. When I remember in fifth grade I would 123 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: go to school, we didn't have money to buy me 124 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: like new shoes. So I was that kid that would 125 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,119 Speaker 1: go to school and had the old, beat up shoes. 126 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: Sometimes my shoes would talk. They had holes on the 127 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: bottom from how old they were. I would have to 128 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: wear my mom's clothes sometimes because we didn't have money 129 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: to buy me new clothes. And I think one of 130 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: the best things that could have happened to us was 131 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: when they implemented uniforms in school, because it's like all 132 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: of us were just dressed the same. We would go 133 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: buy at three stores my uniforms and stuff like that, 134 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: but my shoes were always just I was wearing my uniform, 135 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: but you could tell in my shoes that we didn't 136 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: have money. So there's a lot of things that I 137 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: grew up watching. But I always saw my mom just hustling. 138 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: She never said, no, we don't have money for that. 139 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: It was just like, you know, you're gonna have to wait. 140 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: I always felt like I had everything I needed. You know, 141 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: we were fine. I mean even if we were eating 142 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: a couple of noodles or cereal or sometimes on mass like, 143 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: we always had food on the table. There was a 144 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: time I remember, like ten eleven years old, where we 145 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: didn't and all we had to eat was canned food. 146 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: I think it was like tuna and green beans, and 147 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: that's what we had to live off of, all of us. 148 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: And again a lot of our family members didn't know this. Anyways. 149 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: I grew up thinking like, Okay, we're fine, but I 150 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: didn't realize that we weren't fine until you start getting 151 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: older and the kids at school talk about it and 152 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: you see the difference between you wearing La gears from 153 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: payless back in the days to like my friends wearing 154 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: felas and nikes and stuff. Because my mom was never 155 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: was like, oh, we're poor. It was just later on, 156 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm working hard. I'm a single mother. You know you 157 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: can have it later. Yeah, I see, you know. So 158 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: I am so grateful because that's I think why I'm 159 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: a hustler, Like I got to do what I got 160 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: to do, no matter what, I'm going to be. Okay, 161 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: now that we're talking about money, that's something that I 162 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: wanted to bring up because I hear certain things and 163 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: i'm you know how big I am on informations. You know, 164 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: the law of attraction, And that's one thing I tell 165 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: myself every day, even if maybe my bank account isn't 166 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: as I don't know heavy as other days. You know, 167 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 1: it's like it's okay, I'm going to be fine. God 168 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: will make it where God will provide, the universe will 169 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: provide whatever you want to say it, or I'm a 170 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: money magnet. Little affirmations like that. It is just like 171 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: really really believing it and saying, no matter what, I'm 172 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: going to be fine. And in my household, that's one thing. 173 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: My mom would wake up early, and like I said earlier, 174 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: she never made it seem like we didn't have a 175 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: lot of luxuries. But I had what I needed, which 176 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: was food and clothes. And maybe yeah, I was my 177 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: mom's clothes, but I had clothes on my back. And 178 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: my mom for a long time, even if she wanted 179 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 1: to buy us what we wanted, what we desired, she couldn't. 180 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: And I think that's why when she started making money 181 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: and she was able to buy us our first house, 182 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: you know, with all of us having our own rooms 183 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: because we would share rooms, all of us when we 184 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: lived in Mikey had his room and then Jackie and 185 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: I shared rooms, but we didn't have restrooms. You know, 186 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: that was a huge thing for all of us. My 187 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: mom would always say, I want to get us a 188 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: house where each of you have your own bathroom. It 189 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: was a goal for her, you know. It was like, 190 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to make that happen. And I think that's 191 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 1: why when her career just started going off, she was 192 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: a great provider. She wanted us to have everything that 193 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: we wanted, and sometimes she would overcompensate because she was 194 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: gone so much that she would not buy our love. 195 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: Because I don't want to say that, it was just 196 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: it would make her happy to be able to give 197 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 1: us the things that we desired. For Johnny, it was 198 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult because Po Machikito. I mean 199 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: like he was born basically in a mansion, but now 200 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: he if it was telling me the other day, like 201 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: you didn't teach me how to manage money and all 202 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: this stuff. He was like yelling, and I'm like, hello, 203 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: wait a second. I had to just go into the 204 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: world and figure it out, because that's what my mom 205 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: would tell me. Figure it out. How do I read 206 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: a check, how do I deposit a check? I don't know, 207 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,599 Speaker 1: figure it out. Ask questions. That's how you learn in 208 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,319 Speaker 1: the world is by asking questions. So it's kind of 209 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: like what I told Johnny, I was like, dude, you 210 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: never asked me. But it's because not that he was 211 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: born with the silver spoon in his mouth, because I 212 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: always did my best to teach him how to clean 213 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: the toilets, to teach him how to pick up after himself, 214 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: to cook. Like I was a little harder on him, 215 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: but he didn't see and live everything that I lived, 216 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: even like Jackie and mike And I don't even know 217 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: if Jackie and Mikey remember those things or if they 218 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:24,839 Speaker 1: were ever made fun of at school because kids could 219 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: be mean. But in reality, Johnny like was born already 220 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 1: being okay, you know. And that's when my mom was like, okay, 221 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: here the way I da Johnny, he's six months and 222 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to go off and work and do what 223 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: I gotta do. And she was the motor. She was 224 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 1: a motor of the family. So now talking about Johnny, 225 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: I was sixteen when he was born, and when my 226 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: mom went back to work, it's kind of like, here's 227 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: your kid, I'm gonna go work, I'm gonna go do 228 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: what I gotta do. I kind of at that moment, 229 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: I think, was when I put my own life on 230 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: hold because I wanted to help my mom and I 231 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 1: wanted her to make her dreams come true. For her, 232 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: it was this is a career. She always saw it is, 233 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: this is the way I'm going to feed my children. 234 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: And yeah, she did real estate, but she was making 235 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: money singing and her career was starting to pop off, 236 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: you know. So I think that's when I started seeing 237 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: the change when Las Malandrina started playing and then like 238 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: all her like hits, like her corridos started like coming out, 239 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: and you know, it started getting better and better. But 240 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: I think that's like the first time when I started realizing, oh, 241 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: my mom is a superstar. She was being at award show, 242 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: she was being awarded for Female Artists of the Year 243 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, you know, selling out shows. She 244 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: was gone almost every weekend, so I started seeing, yeah, 245 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: there's more money coming in, of course, but then we 246 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 1: saw less of her. So I think that's when things 247 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: got a little tough at home, because I felt like, oh, 248 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: I'm sixteen, seventeen eighteen, like I should be out with 249 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: my friends. And when my mom would come home after working, 250 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: she wanted to relax too, you know, and she would 251 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: just kind of like, okay, guys, like here's this, here's that, 252 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: Like she was good at being in a amazing provider, 253 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: and I would tell her, hey, mom, you still have 254 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: to be a mom, and I want to be a 255 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: teenage girl. But now I look back and I thank 256 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: her because I understand, Like she was fifteen when she 257 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: had me, you know yeto ya, no, Carissia, Like she 258 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: still had to live her life. Now I understand it. 259 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: But during that time, it was tough. It was definitely hard. 260 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 1: And my mom, I think because she would come home, 261 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: honestly and she'd have stacks and stacks of cash. They 262 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: would pay her cash back then and I was the 263 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: one that had to manage it all. And I'm not 264 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: going to lie. Imagine a sixteen year old girl with 265 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of dollars in a briefcase, like I 266 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: would hide it. I had really good hiding places. I 267 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: was the one that had to do the groceries. I 268 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: had to go, like buy the groceries. I had to 269 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: pay and make sure everything, all the bills were paid 270 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: at home. And I felt for a long time that 271 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: I was that I deserved it, that I felt a 272 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: little bit entitled, And that's not right to feel that 273 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: way now, I know that, but at that time, I 274 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: felt like, well, I'm the one staying home with the kids. 275 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: I'm the one to care of everything. Everything's being paid 276 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: because I'm paying it, and I would use the money 277 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: as if it was mine. And there were times when 278 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: I would just misuse the money. You know, I'm not 279 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: even gonna lie about that. Like I had cash guys 280 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: in my hands, like I could just go into my 281 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: room and use it. And my mom never asked me questions. 282 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: You know, I think she trusted me one hundred percent 283 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: and I would never lie to her, like if I 284 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: would tell her you know, yeah, I went to the store. 285 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: I bought you because you know, I would dress her 286 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: back then. I bought you clothes, and I also bought 287 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: myself closed and she would have laughed like she knew. 288 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: She said, you need to stop, like you need to 289 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: save money, like for a rainy day, like that money's there. 290 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: Make sure you buy what we need and save the rest. 291 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: That's when I first heard like, oh, we got to 292 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: save money. I was like seventeen, and I did. But 293 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: then my LASTAVAO said there were things that I didn't need, 294 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: not just because I could buy it. It's still not 295 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: my money. It's still not my money to use it 296 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: as I please, you know. And it took me a 297 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: long time to realize that. And I think that that's 298 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: one of the last lessons my mom wanted to teach me. 299 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: When she asked me to move out in March of 300 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, the year that she passed, was because she 301 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: wanted me to go and really see what the world 302 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: was like, because I had been somewhat sheltered, and I 303 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: think for years I was used to us being okay financially, 304 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: that you kind of lose the meaning of what money's for. 305 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: One thing that I wish that I would have known 306 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: about money earlier on was the importance of saving. Because 307 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: when I was asked to move out and my job 308 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: was taken away, which was my job with my mom, 309 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: and I got paid pretty well and I got comfortable, 310 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: the rug was just like swiped right from under my feet. 311 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: It almost felt like I went back to my childhood. 312 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: And this is how crazy it was. I had a 313 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: one bedroom. It was a one bedroom. It was a 314 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: garage that was converted right and it was like a studio, 315 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: so it was like a kitchen and then the living 316 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: room all in one, and then there was a bedroom 317 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: with the restroom, so I made the bedroom my closet. 318 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: This is how crazy and obsessed I was with clothes 319 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: and shoes and purses. And I still am to be 320 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: honest because I converted my garage into my closet now 321 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: and my glamor room. But now I see it different. 322 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: Now I see it as an investment. Now it's like, Okay, 323 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: I come out on television, I do interviews, I perform, 324 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: I need different clothes. And even then I was on 325 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: reality and I would buy an excessive amount of clothes. 326 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: Could I have bought less? Absolutely? But I didn't have 327 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: anything in my savings account. And I wish I would 328 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: have known the importance of when I started working, how 329 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: important it is to save money. Fifty one hundred dollars, 330 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: it could be anything you guys from every check whenever 331 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I have some extra money, I'm gonna 332 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: put in my savings account. It would have really just 333 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: gave me a peace of mind during that time. And 334 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: there I was twenty six years old, thinking, what the heck, 335 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 1: I have nothing in my savings account. All I have 336 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: is literally what's in my checkings, and all that money 337 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: has to go into my business. So now as an adult, 338 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: I do have a savings account. It is important for 339 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: me to have a savings account because I am self employed, 340 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: so I don't have a four oh one k I 341 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: don't have you know what I mean, Like I have 342 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: my life insurance and things like that. But for me, 343 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 1: it is important that I do save ten percent of 344 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: my monthly income goes into my savings account. Or like 345 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: I was telling Johnny the other day, Okay, he's getting 346 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: paid now he's working for my mom's enterprises. I'm like, 347 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 1: from every check, take one hundred dollars and put it 348 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: in your savings account for a rainy day. It doesn't 349 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: even have to be a lot. It can be every 350 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: check fifty dollars, every check one hundred dollars, whatever you can. 351 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: But you have to put it away and pretend it 352 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: does not exist. Like you just have to just put 353 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: it away. It could be like I told him, if 354 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: you want to go on vacation at the end of 355 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: the year, if that's what's going to make you happy, 356 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: if you just want to have it there for your 357 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: retirement plan like I do. Like for me, it's like, Okay, 358 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: one day I want to be able to retire and 359 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: be okay, and I'll have that savings there. It's just 360 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: whatever your personal goals are. I do think it's important 361 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: to have that just for backup, just for safety. But 362 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: for me, it's a ten percent I save and then 363 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: a ten percent that I give back. That's just my 364 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: personal preference. I like to give it either a ten 365 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: percent of my monthly income to a church, to a 366 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: family need to even my grandma like I used to 367 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: send her money all the time, like to anyone like 368 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: I just feel in any way that I can give back, 369 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: it keeps again the functuay and the flow and the 370 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: energy of my finances moving. So that's one thing that 371 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,439 Speaker 1: I do. And I believe it also says in the 372 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: Bible for those of you that are religious, that it's 373 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 1: good to that rudezmo you're offering so that you can 374 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,439 Speaker 1: keep that energy of your finances flowing. So that's just 375 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: something that I do, and I highly suggest especially saving 376 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: some money for whatever it could be, anything for your retirement, 377 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: like I said, for you want to go on vacation, 378 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: like I told John and he was very frustrated, Johnny, 379 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: and I told him that, He's like, what do you 380 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: mean believe me, you're gonna be grateful for that, because 381 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: before you know it, you're going to have like a 382 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: thousand dollars in there. OsO lociente. It's just kind of 383 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: like here every check boom boom boom. And as some 384 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 1: of you may know or may not know, I was 385 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: disinherited when it first happened. When I first learned about it, 386 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: I was kind of like hurt because I felt like 387 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: I had given so much of my life, my energy, 388 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: my youth, to my mother, to my siblings, to her empire, 389 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: to helping her grow into the massive artists that she 390 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: still is today. But I'm glad. I'm glad that it 391 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 1: happened that way because it has put some type of 392 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: fire under my ass or even in my soul to 393 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: say I'm going to make it in life. And I 394 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: think my mom because if she hadn't done that, I 395 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: don't know, you know, like, yes, I took care of 396 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: my siblings like the first few years that she was gone, 397 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: you know, like I said before, Johnny was eleven, Jenica 398 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: was fifteen, So it was a huge responsibility to take on, 399 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 1: but it just felt like it was the right thing 400 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: to do. But it also helped me say, well, I 401 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: got to figure this out. I can't just stay home 402 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: as much as I want to and take care of 403 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,199 Speaker 1: the kids like I also have to show them. I 404 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: want to be an example for them. And that's why 405 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: I went after my dream of being a singer. And 406 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: I really was like, yes, I have my vision board. 407 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: These are all the things that I want to accomplish, 408 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: and now I really have to put in the work 409 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: to make them come true. And that's what I did. 410 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: And I'm so proud of myself for being able to 411 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: accomplish all these things. I was disinherited, Yeah, but I 412 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: thank her. I thank her so much because things could 413 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: have been very different easily, you know, I could have 414 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: gotten comfortable maybe, and instead it just really helped me 415 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: also relearn the meaning of money and the value of 416 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: it and the real value of it, which is what 417 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: I've been telling you. You know, none of my sense 418 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: so te Ga La mass You know, like before it 419 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: was my mom's money that I would use, and it's 420 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: just like I didn't feel it so much because it 421 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: was her money. She was the one working hard for it, 422 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: and I was able to buy as I pleased. But 423 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: the gratification that I have gotten and by being able 424 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: to purchase my own home and this is my second 425 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: home now, it feels great to just say, dude, I 426 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: did this even when I was living in the garage, 427 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: for me to be able to go into my account 428 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: and pay for my own place, whether it was yes, 429 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,719 Speaker 1: it was a garage that was converted into like a studio, like, 430 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: it felt good to say I am paying for my 431 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: own space from my sweat, from the sweat of my forehead, 432 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: you know. And I'm purchasing my own groceries. And it 433 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: made me like, really, say, okay, instead of purchasing a 434 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: name brand dish soap, I'm gonna purchase the store brand 435 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: and little things like that that it really helped me 436 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: manage my money and say okay instead of spending on 437 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: dumb things an unnecessary purse, you know, because I wanted 438 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: a freaking Chanelle purse for so long and I bought 439 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: my first Chanel purse I don't know, I want to say, 440 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: like five years ago and it was five thousand dollars. 441 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: And now I think about it, I'm like, what the 442 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: F was I thinking. I'm not gonna lie, like, yes, 443 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: I still have the person I love it, but I'm like, 444 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: you know what, Like now, it's like, okay, do I 445 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: really need to buy that? Like I don't even use 446 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: my purses as much as I should, you know. So 447 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: it's like now I'm thinking of investing. Now, I'm like, 448 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: how can I make my money multiply. I'm investing in 449 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: crypto and bitcoin and all these things that are just 450 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: gonna make my money grow and not just on things that, yes, 451 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: it's nice I can walk into my closet. I'm like, Okay, 452 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: this is a large part of where my money is. 453 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: It's in this closet and you know, in the shoes 454 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: and the bags and all that stuff. But in reality, 455 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,959 Speaker 1: no munches. That money's not growing, you know what I mean. 456 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 1: It's there, it's just sitting there. I don't use it 457 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: as much. And that's what I told myself this year. 458 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: I'm going to start using my purses and my shoes 459 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: a little more often. I need to go on dates, 460 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: I need to do photo shoots something. Because it's starting 461 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: to bother me. Now I'm like, okay, I'm going to 462 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: invest in things that make me in my health, for instance, 463 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: in buying good quality food for my body and buying 464 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: vitamins like things have changed, My mentality has changed. And 465 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: before I can admit that I would buy things to 466 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: look cool and in reality, like why, you know, I 467 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: want to be healthy. I want to have money in 468 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: the bank to make sure that if something happens and 469 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: God forbid, I have to pay my hospital bill, I 470 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: have the money need to do that. It's like really 471 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: just changing your priorities and you grow up and your 472 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: mature and you're like, okay, like I got to really 473 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: get set my shit straight, you know, and put my 474 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: priority straight and really like stop buying shit that I 475 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 1: don't need. And it took a while to do that. 476 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: And I'm hoping that those of you that are listening 477 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 1: to this podcast can learn a lot faster than I did. 478 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: And I have gone up and down in my life financially, 479 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 1: but I can say that I'm proud. I'm proud because 480 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: I've gotten this bar, but there has been some tough 481 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: ass lessons and I'm hoping that you guys can learn 482 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: from my mistakes and be better than I am. And 483 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: that's what I tell Johnny all the time. You know, 484 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: he's twenty one and he's barely learning now, like the 485 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: value of money and how now he's like, I have 486 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: to save, and I'm like, yeah, you know, instead of 487 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: eating out, Dude, eating out costs so much money. You guys, 488 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: it's better to cook at home. It's better to meal prep. 489 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: And that's what he's doing because with Solaquesta, you know, 490 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: doloquista and you know now that I'm looking at Johnny 491 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: and like, yeah, yeah, like he's he was a little 492 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: frustrated me with me the other day because he's like, 493 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: you didn't teach me this and texes and all this stuff. 494 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, relax, all you got to do 495 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,719 Speaker 1: is ask and I'll help you. And one thing that 496 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,880 Speaker 1: I think I know, because you know, money is sometimes 497 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: a very touchy subject to talk about, especially when it 498 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: comes to money in relationships, and I have always been 499 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: a very fifty to fifty type of girl, like I 500 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: don't expect my partner to take care of me, and 501 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: I don't want my partner to expect for me to 502 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: take care of him, because that can definitely cause an 503 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: imbalance and tension in your love life. I've kind of 504 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: been on both sides of the spectrum, to be honest. 505 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: I had a guy that had a lot of money 506 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: and took care of me and was there for me 507 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: if I needed, if I had a bad day or 508 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 1: if I was having you know, when I'm a he 509 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: would come and he would help me, you know, and 510 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: I wouldn't ask for it and be like, no, I'm 511 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: going to pay you back. He's like no. He always 512 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: wanted to provide, but I always felt like, because of 513 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: what had happened with my mom, there was like strings 514 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 1: attached to it, so I didn't want to take too 515 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: much of his help. But he was always there to 516 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: help me. And then I was in a relationship where 517 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: I had to be more of the provider, which I 518 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: was fine with because I felt like, I love this 519 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: person and he's going through a bad time financially, and 520 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: I want to be there to help him. And I 521 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 1: did help him, and I don't regret that. And I 522 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: feel like, as a partner, we have to have each 523 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: other's back and say, okay, guano, you guys, you know, 524 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 1: I don't think that there's anything wrong with even if 525 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: it's the woman, let's say, going out and being the 526 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: bread winner of the home, you know, as long as 527 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: the man is comfortable with that and secure enough to know, okay, 528 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: that's fine. But sometimes men, especially in our culture, can 529 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: be a little machis. Then it's like no, or they'll 530 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 1: start feeling inferior and inadequate if their woman makes more 531 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: money than they do. And I don't think that should 532 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: be an issue. I just feel like if your woman 533 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: makes more money, that's cool, as long as you're bringing 534 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: in which you can and not just sitting there and 535 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: being lazy. Sitting there and being lazy and expecting, you know, 536 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: your partner to take care of you. That's a whole 537 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: other thing. Like you have to help out. Like I 538 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: feel like if you're the woman that stays at home 539 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: and the man is the one that's out being the 540 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: breadwinner el familia, like you have to be okay with 541 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: cleaning and cooking and making sure that the house is 542 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: taken care of. Like I just feel like you have 543 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: to help each other out. That's my personal opinion. I 544 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: would always say my mom was a husband for a 545 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 1: long time. She was the husband that would go out 546 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: and make the money, and I was the wife that 547 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 1: would stay home with the kids. But I made sure 548 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: the house is clean, the kids were fed, the homework 549 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: was done, clothes was washed. I felt like a very 550 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: good housewife to my mother, and I would take care 551 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: of the bills, and I make sure everything got paid 552 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: on time, and and I would buy stuff that were unnecessary, 553 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: like two thousand dollars shoes. Are you freaking kidding me 554 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: with my mom's money something? If you guys watch the 555 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: reality show, you guys saw that. But I've learned, you guys, 556 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: I learned. I learned. But the house was always taken 557 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: care of. So in relationships, I think it is important 558 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: to have that conversation early on in the relationship and 559 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: be honest and just say, hey, this is my financial situation. 560 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: I can help you with this amount, or I'll pay 561 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: for the food and you pay for this. I just 562 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: think it's a conversation that needs to happen very early on, 563 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 1: you guys, and no one should feel bad if they 564 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: can't or don't make as much money as a partner. 565 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: I pulled up a couple of quotes that I wanted 566 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: to share with you guys, because I kind of want 567 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: to dissect these and kind of tell you and how 568 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: my relationship with money has evolved and how important it 569 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: is to look at money for what it is. For instance, 570 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: this one stop buying things you don't need to impress 571 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: people you don't like. Let me read that again. Stop 572 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: buying things you don't need to impress people you don't like. 573 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,959 Speaker 1: That's crazy, you guys. And I think that happens a 574 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 1: lot now, especially with social media and the facade that 575 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: so many people and the front that people put on 576 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 1: social media that they basically live out of their means, 577 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: and everyone wants to show off their Louisvuitton bag, their rolegs, 578 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: they're this or that like, and people live out of 579 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: their means. They won't pay their rent to purchase something 580 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: that they can just go flex with on social media 581 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: for people that you don't even know, for people that 582 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: you don't even like, and you just want to impress 583 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: and show them like, look I got this, Like I 584 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: am that bad bitch, And you're really just digging yourself 585 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: in a deeper hole financially. That's the worst thing that 586 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: we could do. Like I have told myself plenty of times, 587 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: not just because I can buy it, does that mean 588 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: that I need it, that I should buy it. And 589 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: I've had to bring myself back, you know, because you 590 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: just never know what will happen. But you also don't 591 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: have to be afraid of saying like, oh my god, no, no, no, no, 592 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have enough. I'm not gonna have enough. 593 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: The more you say that, the less that you will have. 594 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: You always have to say, I'm abundant, I'm prosperous. It 595 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: could sound cliche, but it's I really believe in the 596 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: law of attraction, you guys. And if you keep going 597 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: out there, I'm broke, how I ain't got no money and 598 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: this and that, like you are going to be broke, 599 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: like you need to be like, oh you know right now, 600 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: I'm saving. I'm saving. It's just all in how you 601 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: express it and how you say it, especially out loud 602 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: and even to yourself quietly. I always say myself to myself, 603 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: I have more than enough. I have more than enough, 604 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: you know, And I thank God. Always remember the attitude 605 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: of gratitude you guys, which is thank you God, thank 606 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: you that I have made ends meet this month, thank 607 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: you for always giving me more than enough. It's just 608 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: all of that, you know. But that's one big thing 609 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: that I wanted to bring up. Was not just because 610 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: you can afford it, does that mean that you need it? 611 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like I always ask do 612 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: I really need this because of course I like nice things. 613 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: Of course I want to buy those shoes, but I'm like, Okay, 614 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: I already have a pair of white shoes. I don't 615 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: need five. I was that person before. When I like something, 616 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: I would buy it in every freaking color, and I'm 617 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: like okay, Like you know, you have to be a 618 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: little reasonable, janay, like buy the black and the white. 619 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,959 Speaker 1: You don't need the pink, the purple, the red. Like 620 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: I've learned to just say, okay, hey, do I really 621 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: need this? Is this a live with or live without? 622 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: I always ask myself that when I'm shopping too. It's 623 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: just things like that that I feel are important to 624 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: ask ourselves. Am I buying this to impress someone? Or 625 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: am I buying this really because I need it because 626 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: it's a necessity. Here's another one. Success isn't about how 627 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: much money you make. It's about the difference you make 628 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: in people's lives. Look, I feel, yes I get money, 629 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: Yes I'm bringing in money, but I also find ways 630 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: of how can I give back? How can I help? 631 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a stranger. It could be 632 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: a family member, it could be for me. It's like 633 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: you have to make it rotate how it comes. You 634 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: also have to learn to give back pay it forward. 635 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying all of your money, but for 636 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: me it is important, like how can I make a 637 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: difference in people's lives? Can look at persona. It's like 638 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: even when you pass by and you see that person 639 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: in the heat, you know it's super hot outside. They're 640 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: selling flowers. I always like, you know what, I'll buy 641 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: one and then I'll just give him an extra where 642 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: he could just you know what I mean, Like I 643 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: give him extra money so he can keep that ramo, 644 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: you know what I mean of flowers. But it says 645 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: like I'm always constantly thinking, like how can I give back? 646 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: Like it's important not just to think, Okay, the money's mine, 647 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: I worked hard for it. I'm not going to share it. 648 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: Like you can't think that way. Like even with that, 649 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: it's a circle of life, you guys, like, pay it forward. 650 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 1: It's super important. Ooh, this is a good one. Money 651 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: is numbers, and numbers never end. If it takes money 652 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. 653 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: If you got to rewind that, rewind it and listen 654 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: to it again, you guys, But that is the freaking truth. 655 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: There are so many people that I hear that are like, oh, 656 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: money's happiness. Money's this, Yes, it can make you happy, 657 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: it's temporary. It's what are you going to do with 658 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: that money to multiply, to make more, to be able 659 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: to help more people, to do what you gotta do, 660 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: and not be greedy, you guys, don't like that's one 661 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: thing that is just like, greediness is not cute, you guys, 662 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: It's not attractive. You'll have it one day and then 663 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: it'll go away. You just have to get a good 664 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,479 Speaker 1: relationship with money and really ask yourself, why do I 665 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: work hard? Yes, to pay my bills. I get that, 666 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: But also, oh yeah, if money makes you happy, then 667 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, then your heart is not in the 668 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: right place. Like you have to see money as something, yes, 669 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: that we need. And this is one actually talking about 670 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: that money isn't the goal. Freedom is saying Okay, I 671 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,479 Speaker 1: don't have to worry, you know what I mean. Like, 672 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: I just wanted to read those quotes because I came 673 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: across them and I was like, you know, this is 674 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: a topic we're going to talk about today, and I 675 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: just want people to start having a better relationship. Even myself. 676 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: I have to remind myself every so often, like okay, 677 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: I'm okay, Like maybe I'm not doing today as great 678 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: as I was I don't know six months ago, but 679 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: it's okay. Like money will come, it will flow. I 680 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: love going a house of intuition. A house of intuition 681 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: is like a spiritual store, you guys. I don't know 682 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: if you guys have heard of it, but there are 683 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 1: plenty of them, and it spanishly I'm a Botanica's but 684 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: they have candles, money candles, and it's all like, you 685 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: know what, thank you God for what I have. And 686 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: I always say, like there is a pot of gold 687 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: in the sky and I'm going to have more than 688 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: I need. I'm going to have more than enough to 689 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: be able to help other people, you know, to be 690 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: able to bless the world. And I light my candles 691 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: and I let it be. I am not like constantly 692 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: oh what am I going to do? Like it's like no, 693 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 1: bay yeagar And I am abundance and I am worthy 694 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: and I'm prosperous. And I also have a fountain here 695 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: outside my house. They say that if you have a fountain, 696 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 1: whether inside your house or outside your house and it's 697 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 1: not working, that it's better for you to just remove it. 698 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: These are all spiritual things, okay, guys that I believe in. 699 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: You don't have to believe in it, but I'm sharing it. 700 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: So I always make sure that my fountains have water. 701 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: I have three. I have one in my living room, 702 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: one outside, and one right by my bedroom. Because it 703 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: keeps the energy and the functuay moving the enner like, 704 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: so there's no stagnant energy in your home or around 705 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: your home. So it's like it's important that if you 706 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: have a fountain, make sure it's functioning, make sure it's 707 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,400 Speaker 1: flowing every single day, because that also helps just everything 708 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: flow in your life. It helps bring more money into 709 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,799 Speaker 1: your home. Some people like have the elephants with the 710 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: trunks coming in with like I don't know. I see 711 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,359 Speaker 1: it at my grandma's house. She has elephants and she 712 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: puts like a little like dollar or twenty dollars bill 713 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: or fifty dollars bill, and she puts it in the 714 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 1: trunk of the elephant facing inside that way, like you know, 715 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,400 Speaker 1: money flows. I love the Chinese culture. They have a 716 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,320 Speaker 1: lot of things like that, like to have the Buddha 717 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: and you rub the buddhas belly and you leave them 718 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: a coin and you leave them fruit like glakiantinas, suscosas, 719 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: And that's my thing, the fountains and the candles, and 720 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 1: I stage every day because it's just that you want 721 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: to just keep We're energy, guys. We're made up of energy. 722 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 1: Whether you want to believe it or not. It's it's science. 723 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: We are. So it's like keeping the energy flowing and 724 00:34:55,280 --> 00:35:00,359 Speaker 1: believing and telling yourself every day, I promise you, even 725 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 1: if it's mental whatever some people want to say it's mental, 726 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: it's just yeah, it's mental. But it makes me feel better, 727 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, like it's relieve 728 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: stress to just say I know everything's going to be fine, 729 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: and I cast all my worries and fears to heaven 730 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be all right. It helps me well, guys, 731 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 1: as with all my episodes, I hope you've learned something 732 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,799 Speaker 1: from this one. And before we go, here is my 733 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: motivational Monday quote. It goes with what we're talking about, 734 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,720 Speaker 1: of course, and here it is it's not your salary 735 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: that makes you rich, it's your spending habits yep. And 736 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,320 Speaker 1: I'm telling you I've learned that the hard way, guys, 737 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,760 Speaker 1: so make sure that you keep that in mind. Okay, 738 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for listening to today's episode 739 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: of Cheeky's and Chill and I will see you guys 740 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 1: next week. Besitoos. This is a production of iHeartRadio and 741 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 1: Mike Withura podcast Network. Follow us on Instagram at Mike 742 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: Withura Podcasts and follow me Cheeky's That's c h i 743 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: q u y s. For more podcasts from iHeart, visit 744 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to 745 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,720 Speaker 1: your favorite shows.