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Speaker 1: onto our show. Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black,

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Speaker 2: Welcome Black Mandy, Happy Grand Ambition Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I know, first of all, I'm feeling not as black

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Speaker 1: as usual because we have guests they're coming on today

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Speaker 1: that know how to do a thing that I never learned,

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Speaker 1: but you learned it. I'm jealous of you.

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Speaker 2: Does this mean I get to keep my black card temporary?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Y'are always trying to come from my black card. You

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Speaker 2: cannot have it. You cannot have it as sot as

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Speaker 2: people meet my dad though they're.

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Speaker 1: Like yeah, no. Honestly, I was like, oh, Mandy's black Black.

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Speaker 1: I love your father. But he was like, I remember Mandy,

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Speaker 1: she just loved her some French frog. I said, that

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Speaker 1: is a black father right there.

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Speaker 2: I don't let the name and the Midwestern accent whatever

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Speaker 2: fool you, Okay from this, I'm from Atlanta anyway. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: in today's episode is lit. I'm so excited. I don't

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Speaker 2: and we've already talked to the couple. They're amazing, Yes,

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Speaker 2: and we are so excited to introduce you to all.

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Speaker 2: This show is also really special because we don't typically

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Speaker 2: have small business owners on the show really talking about

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Speaker 2: building their business, let alone how they weathered the storm

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Speaker 2: of last year's pandemic and the ongoing pandemics. And this

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Speaker 2: is sort of like a This is a free thirty

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Speaker 2: minute masterclass in how to become a resilient small business.

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Speaker 2: And I love I love the tips and all the

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Speaker 2: ups and downs that they share. So tell us, tell

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Speaker 2: us about our guest Tiffany.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know how to double dutch, but these

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Speaker 1: two people do, along with Mandy, and they're all leos,

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Speaker 1: which I was like, Okay, it's a lot. Yes, it

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Speaker 1: was a lot, but it was awesome. So we are

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Speaker 1: interviewing today Michelle Clark and Sean Clark. Michelle Clark is

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Speaker 1: a double Dutch world champion. She's been double dutching since

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Speaker 1: she was four years old. And I believe she said

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Speaker 1: she's one like she does like street double dutch, but

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Speaker 1: she all so does like technical skill double dutch, which

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Speaker 1: is awesome. And Sean Clark is a master double Dutch

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Speaker 1: aerobic instructor and they're their owners of Double Dutch Aerobics,

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Speaker 1: which combines double Dutch with an assortment of aerobics exercises

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Speaker 1: the ropes. And that's not all. They've also included professional

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Speaker 1: competition combinations combinations along with street style jumping. And they've

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Speaker 1: anyone how to jump double dutch in less than one minute.

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Speaker 1: I improved positive when I met them some years ago.

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Speaker 1: Within literally one minute, I was in the rope and

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Speaker 1: I was jumping. I mean it wasn't graceful, but I

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Speaker 2: I thought I knew how to double dutch, but now

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Speaker 2: I'm sweating. I did not know that was the thing.

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Speaker 2: You could become a world champion in you know, I

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Speaker 2: just thought I had to be you know, let's Tosha

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Speaker 2: their energy so infectious in their business. Not only did

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Speaker 2: including every skill set they've ever had. I know Sean

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Speaker 2: Absolutely without further ado, let's take a quick break and

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Speaker 2: we will be right back with our conversation with Sean

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Speaker 2: and Michelle from Double Dutch Aerobics. And don't forget to

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Speaker 2: go to the show notes because they have links on

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Speaker 2: about how to attend one of their classes in the

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Speaker 2: Atlanta area, how to become a Double Dutch certified instructor

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Speaker 2: yourselves so you can have your own Double Dutch biz

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Speaker 2: let's get right into our interview with Shawn and Michelle.

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Speaker 2: We're so excited to have Michelle and Sean Clark from

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Speaker 2: Double Dutch Aerobics from Atlanta in the house with us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining Brown And.

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Speaker 1: I remember what was the year that? What was the

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Speaker 1: So I met Shawanna Michelle in Colorado at the Girl

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Speaker 1: it helps black women get moving. To say they have

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Speaker 1: remember being like, what they people that you never think

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Speaker 1: how to the double dutch. I felt that was like

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Speaker 1: my shame I moved away from my black neighborhood just

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Speaker 1: and so I was like, I can't do it, you

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Speaker 1: like you can. And so yes, Mandy knows how to

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Speaker 1: double dutch. So I'm jealous of her.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now that was twenty years ago. I'm so excited

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Speaker 2: about y'all's business. I think Tiffany knew y'all first. I

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Speaker 2: think I might have slid into y'all's DMS or likewise,

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Speaker 2: know I'm from Atlanta and double dutch is just such

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Speaker 2: a nostalgic activity for me, you know. When I was

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Speaker 1: We had the.

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Speaker 2: Best time, you know, with like the littlest amount of equipment,

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Speaker 2: and I just loved the concept of this business. But

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Speaker 2: the energy and enthusiasm that y'all bring to you know,

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Speaker 2: pandemonium as a pandemic the last year. Right, how have

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Speaker 3: Slapped us in the face.

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Speaker 6: And it's funny because twenty twenty it was our best year,

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Speaker 3: So what certification weekend is where we certify instructors to

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Speaker 3: We took a year off from certification, not from work.

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Speaker 3: Well, y'all, y'all here, and then the world said stop

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Speaker 3: I don't care about no pandem and you're not going

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Speaker 6: We're still doing it. We were still still going. You know, right,

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Speaker 6: let's just keep going.

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Speaker 3: Keep going, stop us until they put us to like

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Speaker 3: lock the doors. You tell us that you cannot leave

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Speaker 3: your house until.

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Speaker 2: Keisha Land's bottom shows up at the door, to get

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Speaker 2: till Keisha Land's bottom shows up in person at the door.

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Speaker 3: Door. I was like what, I was devastated. I was

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Speaker 2: What did it mean for y'all financially? Like paint the picture,

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Speaker 2: I mean, did y'all have reserves? We talk a lot about,

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Speaker 2: you know, personal financial rainy day funds, but for small

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Speaker 2: How were you guys financially?

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Speaker 6: So we we we had a we had a little

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I went to acting school. I did musical theater,

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Speaker 3: teaching I was teaching with different teammates off and on,

438
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 3: but they couldn't stay consistent, which was understandable because this

439
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 3: was my you know what I mean, this was my passion.

440
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 3: So Sean was like, well, man, sure, you have to

441
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 3: continue to teach me everything. And I was like, okay. Now,

442
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,680
Speaker 3: Sean's one of those people, like we have the studio now, guys.

443
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 3: He put in the lights, he done, did the what

444
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 3: do you call those things? He put up the designs

445
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 3: in here. He's a YouTube learner, right, so he learns

446
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 3: things really fast. So I was able to teach him

447
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 3: everything and then he enjoyed. Well, you can say what

448
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 3: you enjoyed. He actually began to enjoy.

449
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

450
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 6: So so that I did was to get the business

451
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 6: off the ground, get it rolling, and then I would

452
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 6: jump out like no pun intended.

453
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 5: But what happened. What happened was I started enjoying it.

454
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 6: Because it's like, so if you ever took one of

455
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 6: our classes, it's bigger than double Dutch. So it's like,

456
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,719
Speaker 6: like I said, we build communities in here, it's like

457
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 6: we're trying to build like little love pockets around the world.

458
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 5: Like when you come to our class, there's no judgment.

459
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 6: You know, it's high energy, it's all love, and that's

460
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 6: what people get, you know. So I started enjoying that

461
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 6: because that's like, that's my ultimate goal in life, you know, Like,

462
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 6: I know it sounds corny, but to change the world

463
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 6: through love.

464
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 5: I know it's corny, but I get a chance to

465
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 5: do that here.

466
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 6: And then couple with the fact that I get to

467
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 6: be with my wife twenty four hours a day. He

468
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 6: likes me, which is done Like that doesn't work for

469
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 6: a lot of people, I guess, but that's that's really

470
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 6: the biggest thing Michelle and I have in common is

471
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 6: that we like to be around each other all the time.

472
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 6: Like we like to be around each other all the time.

473
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 6: And this gives us the opportunity to do that. Because

474
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 6: when I was younger, you know, I always knew I

475
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 6: wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I didn't. I didn't

476
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 6: want to work hard enough to where I didn't have

477
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 6: enough time for my family. Because it's for me, it's

478
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 6: family first always, because that's what makes me the most happiest.

479
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 6: So this this gave but this gave me the opportunity.

480
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 6: I was like, oh wow, we could like be together

481
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 6: and build and rock out and you know, like show

482
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 6: the world with love is like and you know, like

483
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 6: this is this is amazing.

484
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,719
Speaker 3: And then the classes, the classes were going really well.

485
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 3: And then after we got married in twenty thirteen, we

486
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 3: both we didn't really have a conversation, but we both

487
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 3: were like, Okay, well we'll be gone because we're not

488
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 3: staying here exactly. We knew we didn't want to be

489
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 3: in New York anymore. So our members when we decided

490
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 3: to move, first it was La Then we decided to

491
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 3: move to Atlanta, and so our members were like, well

492
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 3: where are you going? And so like like what are

493
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 3: we going to do? And so that's when we created Certification.

494
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 3: And part of the reason Certification is so successful because

495
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 3: Sean and I coming from different different perspectives. During certification,

496
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 3: I've been jumping my whole life, so I don't really

497
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 3: remember what it's like not to know how to jump.

498
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 3: And I also know how to transfer street jumpers into

499
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 3: to teach them double Dutch aerobic style double Dutch because

500
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 3: I know where they're coming from Sean is coming from

501
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 3: not learning since he was a kid, so his perspective

502
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 3: is different in terms of how we teach those people.

503
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 3: So combined, we're really able to relate to anybody that

504
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 3: comes into our classroom or into certification weekend. Now, to

505
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,719
Speaker 3: get back to the whole pandemic, So sorry, we'd been

506
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 3: going to a million tangents, but to get back to

507
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 3: the whole pandemic life after, yeah, I was getting I

508
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 3: was getting a little depressed after you know the excitement

509
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 3: of Okay, we're home, let's take advantage of that. I

510
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 3: was getting kind of like I don't know when this

511
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: is really going to be over, Like I couldn't see

512
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 3: the ending, and so that put me in a sad place.

513
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 3: And being Sean's wife, I hate being that like downer

514
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 3: because he's mister happy, so it feels like, oh, I'm

515
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 3: being too sad for him. And he actually lost someone

516
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 3: really close to him. So then I had guilt about

517
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 3: being so down because he's the one that lost someone

518
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 3: really close to him, you know what I mean. So

519
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 3: I was like, Michelle, you got to pick yourself up

520
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 3: to be there for yourself and for your kids and

521
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,239
Speaker 3: for your partner. So then I started to meditate. I

522
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 3: did the abundance meditation. I started to journal more. I

523
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 3: had to like look outside of myself to get some

524
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 3: kind of you know what I mean, some kind of

525
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 3: hope or just out of the slump. And so what

526
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 3: happened after you mindus meditation, I like to relate to

527
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 3: mindes meditation. We got we got the thing from Bill Gates.

528
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 5: We got to do well before that. So so that

529
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 5: was October.

530
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 6: So before that, the summer was ending, right and I

531
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 6: was like, you know, Michelle, obviously it's you know, it's

532
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 6: gonna get cold. We can't continue to have classes. We

533
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 6: need a studio. The thing was, how do we get a.

534
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 3: Studio and how does the bank account?

535
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 6: And because the way our bank account is said, I

536
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 6: don't know, I don't know if that's gonna work, but

537
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 6: you don't, you know, It's it's like we always say,

538
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 6: you don't have to know the how, you just got

539
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 6: to know what you want.

540
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 5: And so I went online every single day.

541
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 6: I was online for hours, right hours, looking at places.

542
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 6: I was like, okay, this, you know, because for us,

543
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 6: a studio is very specific. You know, we need we

544
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 6: need a lot, we need super high ceilings.

545
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 5: We need, you know, the space to be a certain side.

546
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 6: It's like it's just a whole lot because and then

547
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 6: the floors, we can't turn on any floor, so it's

548
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 6: just it's a whole lot.

549
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 3: And while he's looking for the studio, mind you, this

550
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: is what I learned after being with him for twelve years.

551
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 3: We call Sean the visionary. Sometimes he sees things and

552
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 3: I'm like, what the mother, what are you talking about?

553
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 3: How we gonna get a studio? What are you talking about?

554
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 3: But I learned being his partner, not to do that

555
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 3: anymore because some of the things he sees has come

556
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 3: into fruition. Even when I didn't believe, right, just let

557
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 3: me go, let me go.

558
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 5: Put me in.

559
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 3: Coach's writing in my diary like my husband is crazy.

560
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 3: But bab I got you back like a jacket. You're

561
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 3: looking at a studio. Okay, we're gonna get it. So

562
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: we're gonna get it.

563
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 6: So we actually looked at maybe two other studios before

564
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 6: this one actually went around the corner from where we

565
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 6: are now. And then I came to this studio that

566
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 6: we're at now by myself. The minute I walked in,

567
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 6: I said, oh, this is it, and Michelle is gonna

568
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 6: like it.

569
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 5: Now.

570
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 6: That's very important because Michelle and I we don't agree

571
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 6: on a lot of things.

572
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: No, we don't.

573
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 6: I mean we we agree on a lot. We agree

574
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,239
Speaker 6: on most things, but there are there are things like

575
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 6: a studio.

576
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 3: And he's still a leo, so he's stubborn.

577
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, but with both leos.

578
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: So I know he didn't. You know, he's like, he said,

579
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: you tried it, because we're both the same, right.

580
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 6: So I walked into the studio. I was like, Oh,

581
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 6: Michelle is gonna love it. I literally, I drove home,

582
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 6: picked up, I called that s Michelle. I found the studio.

583
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 6: I know you're gonna like it. Here's the price, this

584
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 6: is what it is. I'm coming to get you. I

585
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 6: got Michelle. She walked into the studio.

586
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 5: She was like, that's it. We're both like immediately.

587
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 3: And here's here's where faith comes in. Because after doing

588
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 3: the medicine, sometimes meditations and journalis helps you see the

589
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 3: clear picture. Like if you're still living, there's always hoping,

590
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And sometime if you let

591
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 3: things get you down, you'll start to lose that perspective.

592
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 3: So you gotta straighten yourself out. So I was starting

593
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 3: to have faith again, you know what I mean. And

594
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 3: so we looked at the studio. We met the landlord,

595
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 3: and this is where crazy stuff is crazy. We had

596
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 3: looked at some hood spots, you know what I'm saying,

597
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 3: because we were just looking and they was asking for

598
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 3: every bit of paperwork. I'm talking about what I did

599
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: when I was two, you know, like just paper, paper, paper, paper, paper, security. Right,

600
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 3: So we made this amazing landlord.

601
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 5: We literally have the best lamb and he.

602
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 3: Was like, what's your name? Did he ask? I don't

603
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 3: even know, like you guys. Yeah, It's like, okay, well

604
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 3: we like you, all right, let's sign the papers.

605
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 6: He didn't look at any financial no, no financials.

606
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: Is this when you guys did that? I know you

607
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: did a kickstartunu oh.

608
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, wend oh we're about to mention that.

609
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, old inspired.

610
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 3: By Molly Moore because I was like, listen a bunch

611
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 3: of honing And I even asked you I had d

612
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 3: m D and asked you were like, because I knew

613
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 3: you staid you don't do nothing by the fly, you know, you.

614
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: Know, I had study for like three months before.

615
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 3: When you said that, I was like, Sean we have

616
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 3: to like, well, because Sean didn't want to do a kicks.

617
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 6: Well, the thing was so my cousin he's a filmmaker

618
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 6: and he he does like gofund mes all the time.

619
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 5: And I thought about it, but I was like, nah,

620
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 5: I can't do it. I don't. I don't have it

621
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 5: in me to ask people. I can't. I can't.

622
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 6: I can't do it. And there's nothing wrong with me.

623
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 6: But it's it's nothing. I'm sorry, there's nothing wrong with it.

624
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 6: It's just that with anything in life, I always try

625
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 6: to find a way to figure it out. Like I'm like,

626
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 6: all right, if we don't have it, let me figure

627
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 6: out a way to do it.

628
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 5: But that was the way to do it.

629
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 3: And this is where his wife comes in. His wife said,

630
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 3: all right, Dade, okay, you got to you got to

631
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 3: be a little more realistic. Let's ask our community. You

632
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 3: know what I mean, A pandemic happened. It's not like

633
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 3: we were irresponsible, you know what I mean. Like, it's it's.

634
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 2: Different now, just to just to jump in really quick,

635
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: it's hurt y'all. Y'all are like a conversational double Dutch.

636
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: And I was just like when when am I supposed

637
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 2: to anyway. But y'all mention, So the kickstarter, y'all did

638
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 2: this to raise money for the business.

639
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 5: Yeah?

640
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: Is that right?

641
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 3: Okay? Already wait has a question I have.

642
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 2: I so I want to know about the kickstarter, but

643
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: I also want to know we're y'all able to get

644
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 2: any of the government fundings. I know there was so

645
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,719
Speaker 2: much drama and confusion for small business owners around the

646
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 2: paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Disaster Relief program. Did

647
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 2: any of that come in handy for y'all or was

648
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: it immediately that y'all knew you had to, you know,

649
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 2: do a kickstarter to get money your own way.

650
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 3: We filled out every of those yo, Michelle, check this out?

651
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 3: Oh check this out?

652
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: Yo?

653
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, not you guys, No no, no,

654
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Speaker 3: really okay, any of them and we filled out how.

655
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Speaker 5: Many you did the work? I did the work?

656
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 3: God, we didn't get none of them. So we had

657
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 3: gotten the space and he everything worked out, the paperwork,

658
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 3: Everything was perfect. But mind, it was just a space, right,

659
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 3: so we needed we needed more to make the space

660
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 3: double Dutch aerobics, you know what I mean. And so

661
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 3: that's when at first Sean was saying no, and I

662
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 3: was like, let's let's do this, and finally he said yes,

663
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 3: and then to me, he put together the best video.

664
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Speaker 3: I thought it was fabulous, so no, it was good.

665
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 3: So he put together a video and it made us

666
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 3: very emotional because watching people support us when we know

667
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: that everyone was having a hard time. Am I just

668
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: like the needs to said, Tiffany, you Tiffany right. We studied,

669
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 3: so Sean said. We started to watch all the videos.

670
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Speaker 5: I watched a thousand videos.

671
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 3: How long should it be? How much you asked for?

672
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 3: We looked at zillions of zillions of kickstarter campaigns.

673
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 5: Like what shouldn't be in it? You know what you.

674
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 3: Should put in your bio? It took us. We pulled

675
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 3: all nighters. Yes, we pulled all nighters doing it. And

676
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 3: then we put it up and we prayed, and we

677
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 3: send it out to our We send it out to people,

678
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 3: and it was very emotional because overwhelming. He didn't expect

679
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 3: as much love as we got, and it was like, oh,

680
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: people really care about us.

681
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 6: I mean I mean like, oh my god, I mean

682
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 6: even the people who never met us before ever enlightened, right,

683
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 6: they were donating to our kickstarter and I was just

684
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 6: it really was emotional.

685
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 3: It really was emotional at that moment.

686
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 2: Especially it sounds like Sean, you had a little bit

687
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 2: of trouble getting over having to ask for help in

688
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: the first place. Yeah, just I relate to that in

689
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 2: a big way. And I think it's that moment when

690
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: you you're you're just afraid that it might it might

691
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: not happen, and it's it's it must be humbling when

692
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 2: you finally get that, when you see that you will

693
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 2: get it in return. You know what you've been giving

694
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 2: for so long.

695
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 5: So what was it?

696
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: What was the outcome? Did you guys make?

697
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 3: Man?

698
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: I know you made it, but like much more than

699
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: you asked for?

700
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 3: What was we doubles?

701
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:04,919
Speaker 5: Yes?

702
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 6: Yes, ten? So you initially we asked for ten and

703
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 6: then what happened?

704
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 3: Twenty thousand?

705
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, we got twenty I think it was twenty one

706
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 6: thousand over twenty one one.

707
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: Four hundred dollars. I'm on the Patriot now from two

708
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty five two hundred and eighty five backers.

709
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

710
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 3: That was so much.

711
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 2: So that gave you the money that you needed to

712
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,439
Speaker 2: put up the big mirror, get the ropes, like, yeah,

713
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 2: all this stuff, okay, Yes, and the mirrors are not

714
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 2: those mirrors are not cheap.

715
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 5: I was looking for lie.

716
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: I was looking just for like.

717
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: A tiny one for my little peloton, you know, nook

718
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, it was thousands of dollars.

719
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 3: And now yes, And what's so fun is so we

720
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 3: opened in September and we weren't going to wait, so

721
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 3: we did the studio because hello, the pandemic still knocked

722
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: us out right, So we started with the studio white,

723
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 3: and we used to say, so, this is where the

724
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 3: mirror is gonna be.

725
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, we would tell we would tell our students that

726
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 6: face the imaginary mirror.

727
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 3: And so what's so fun is that they got to

728
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 3: watch us grow from like a white studio to what

729
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 3: the studio is now and it's still and it's still growing.

730
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 3: Like we just got our nice little bitch was so cute, y'all.

731
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 3: You know, the studio was painting. Now, we got the

732
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: words up, we got signs, we got our desks, you

733
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So it's fun because when they

734
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 3: come and they're like, oh, so they get to actually

735
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 3: watch us and process just.

736
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 6: To watch, like, you know, new people come in and

737
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 6: they're blown away by the studio. They really love the

738
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 6: studio because outside of teaching our classes, we rent out

739
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 6: our studio.

740
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 5: That's to other people. They love this studio, they love it, and.

741
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 6: So and that and that, and that's important to us

742
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 6: because I felt like we had a responsibility. You know,

743
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 6: you guys gave us twenty one thousand dollars. Right, No,

744
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 6: this is going to be the best studio in Atlanta.

745
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, because trusted you.

746
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, let me ask this, what is the

747
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: what is your like ten twenty year plan, like what

748
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, what's your big bull dream for Double Dutch Robus.

749
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: What can you see it becoming?

750
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 6: Well, so they're a couple of things, right, we definitely

751
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 6: want other studios in other cities. So we already have

752
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 6: the cities in mind that we that we want, yeah,

753
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 6: you know Double Dutcherobics like you know, Chicago and DC.

754
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 6: And then also to grow out, like to certify more

755
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 6: people across the country.

756
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 3: So that Double Dutch Robus is accessible in every state.

757
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 3: So it's not just you don't have to travel to

758
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 3: get to us, right or to get to a Double

759
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 3: Dutch Robics class. It's like as available as spind classes, Okay,

760
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 3: or you know what I mean.

761
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so just really create like as far as

762
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 6: like certification too, I just wanted to add that Double

763
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 6: Dutch Aerobics is a formatic class, right, so it's kind

764
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 6: of like uh Bill grim yoga with the twenty six

765
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 6: twenty six postures. So there's like eleven steps to our program. Yes,

766
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 6: that we do every single day, every single class. And

767
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 6: so that's what we teach in our certification. And so basically,

768
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 6: like Michelle said, if you're in DC, the class is

769
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 6: going to be exactly like the class in New York

770
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 6: or Atlanta or Detroit, you know some of the places

771
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 6: where we want Double Dutch Aerobics to be. And so

772
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 6: that's that's the goal, to to certify more people.

773
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 3: And it's funny, you know, this whole subject was like

774
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 3: how did we survive on our pandemic? And we're still

775
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 3: recovering from the pandemic right right, so where but it

776
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 3: feels like the other side is is we're on the

777
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 3: you know, we're getting over the hump, you know what

778
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 3: I mean. And now it's like when I think about

779
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 3: when I was thinking, oh my god, this is over,

780
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 3: I think the thing that got us through is that

781
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 3: we kept hope and that we kept moving. So now

782
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 3: on the other side, I feel like we're gonna be

783
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 3: even bigger than we were because we have a space

784
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 3: now that gives us access to do more than we

785
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 3: were doing in the beginning of twenty twenty. And it's

786
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 3: like that was our biggest year. But now through the

787
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 3: sadness and through all the you know, the knockout that happened,

788
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 3: we're gonna be bigger. On the other side of it

789
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 3: was we kept pushing through.

790
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Speaker 6: And then also just simply getting through a pandemic. Being

791
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 6: a fitness brand makes you a whole lot stronger, so

792
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 6: everything else seems like a breeze. I mean, you got

793
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 6: through a pandemic, and then you know, at the top

794
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 6: of the year, Michelle gets a commercial.

795
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Speaker 3: Right, oh, I did that on my this meditation again,

796
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 3: so matter because I'd be like, I told you we

797
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: bringing magic, right, where.

798
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: Can we find this meditation? It's like, you know, what's

799
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: them prayer to get you around?

800
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 3: So abundance meditation. The first time we did it, we

801
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 3: got a random call. First shown said, no, we're supposed

802
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 3: to a favor for We're supposed to a favor for somebody.

803
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 3: My mother. He was like, miche, I don't know if

804
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 3: we could film it yet, right, we're supposed to film

805
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 3: some audition video. We was like, okay, we'll film it.

806
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 3: We filmed. We didn't know what it was for.

807
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 5: We had no idea, idea.

808
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 3: Then they're like, you're chosen. Wait, chosen for what? What

809
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 3: do you mean chosen for what?

810
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 5: They just like we didn't We didn't know what it

811
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 5: was for.

812
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 3: Then they were like, we gotta fly you to New York.

813
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 3: I said, I'm not bringing these to heres to New York.

814
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 5: I'm tired.

815
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 3: We're not going to So then they said, okay, well

816
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 3: we'll come to you.

817
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 2: Well, okay, what and you still don't know who's coming?

818
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 3: And we still don't know.

819
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 5: This is the question.

820
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: Sorry, no, no, we didn't know who comes you. So

821
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: when you said we're not going to New York, they

822
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: still didn't tell you who was coming. No, like what

823
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: it was for.

824
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:09,959
Speaker 5: Okay, wow, okay.

825
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 3: Because we had to we have we have a four

826
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Speaker 3: well he was three at the time for three year

827
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 3: old and.

828
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Speaker 5: Uh, did you see like that were production?

829
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 6: If you when you when you auditioned it for like

830
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 6: television shows and movies, you never really know like the

831
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 6: real title of the movie because they probably don't even

832
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 6: have it yet.

833
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 5: But so yeah, that's that, that's what was happening.

834
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Speaker 3: That's what was happening.

835
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 5: You didn't know what we were auditioning.

836
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 3: What we were auditioning for, and so they said, we'll

837
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 3: come to you. So I'm gonna say, Okay, well, we

838
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 3: gotta deal. And then we didn't find out who it

839
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 3: was a couple of days before the shoot, uh huh.

840
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 3: And so what happened was called it was called meal

841
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 3: time conversations. Uh. Bill Gates was interviewing families to see

842
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 3: how they were over meal time. So we ended up

843
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 3: having a meal with my parents. They filmed it in

844
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 3: their house and then they just told our story of

845
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 3: the pandemic and they paid us, which help, right, And

846
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 3: it was so random.

847
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 1: So it was with bi you had like virtual dinner

848
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: with Bill Gates.

849
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 3: No, No, we filmed. They filmed and it was for

850
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 3: their their foundation like it was they did. It was

851
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 3: really interesting families around the world.

852
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 5: So we represented the United States, we represented wow, okay,

853
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 5: uh huh.

854
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 6: And so they had yeah, they have people, you know,

855
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 6: from families from other countries and everybody told their story,

856
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 6: you know, from the pandemic, from the the pandemic.

857
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 2: Yes, is this your the Walker and Clark families?

858
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, cute.

859
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 2: Okay, you know I'm here on the Googles, just in

860
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 2: the background, getting on the links ready. Well, just to

861
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 2: round out the conversation, I wanted to just from my

862
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 2: you know, listening to y'all story, it's so inspirational and

863
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 2: I think so universal. You know, not everybody owns a

864
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 2: double Dutch studio. Sounds like y'all are the only ones,

865
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 2: but everybody, you know, if you're still standing today, you

866
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 2: had to make it through the pandemic in some way

867
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: or fashion. And the one thing that I've been like

868
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 2: hearing in y'all story is how many different streams of

869
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: income y'all, y'all have managed to squeeze out of this business,

870
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 2: which I think is so smart and probably a huge

871
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,919
Speaker 2: reason why you've been able to survive. You know, I'm

872
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 2: counting like, I don't know how many, at least five.

873
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 2: It seems like you got the ropes that you're selling

874
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 2: the classes themselves, outdoor classes, teaching certifications. It sounds like

875
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 2: you're still on your grind when it comes to the

876
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: entertainment opportunities. That's I mean, can you talk about you know,

877
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 2: beyond that diversification, just that you know what what reflecting

878
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 2: besides the abundance meditation on what made y'all such a

879
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 2: resilient business in the face of such a huge challenge.

880
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 5: Well, I think I think it was.

881
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 6: It was even before the pandemic, we knew the potential

882
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 6: of the business. I think that's what made us so

883
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 6: excited in the beginning because we were like, oh, we

884
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 6: could do this.

885
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 5: We could Oh, we could teach the school programs and

886
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 5: you know, summer camps. Oh man, we could do team

887
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 5: building events, we could do corporate events.

888
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 6: Like we just kept going and going, and there were

889
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 6: so many possibilities.

890
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 5: And then even during.

891
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 6: Class, like after class, people will come to us with ideas, right,

892
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 6: they're like, you know what, you guys should that happens

893
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 6: all the time. And when you talk about like stream

894
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 6: of revenue, right, it's like this, it's a good problem.

895
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 6: But there's so many different avenues we can take with

896
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 6: double Dutch aerobics.

897
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 3: And we even started two things we also did this

898
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 3: year we got pregnant. I don't know how that happened,

899
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 3: but we got pregnant number three.

900
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, Oh my goodness, congratulations, Thank you.

901
00:45:53,560 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 3: So we actually got uh commercial the Apple commercial. Another source. Now,

902
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 3: something that we do too is so you ever see

903
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 3: big long lines and people they're not doing anything, but

904
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 3: it's just on their phones. So Sludy began was having

905
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 3: a what was it. It wasn't a grand opening, it

906
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 3: was an event. They were given out free Yeah, someone

907
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 3: sponsored her and they were giving out free burgers during

908
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 3: the pandemic to everybody. So all you had to do

909
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 3: was get online. The line was eight million years long,

910
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 3: and so Sean was like, let's go and turn and

911
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 3: so we end up turning there meeting everybody, and it's

912
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 3: just like we realized how much joy even in just

913
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,439
Speaker 3: all those environments, how much joy because we can teach

914
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 3: anyone in less than a minute, how much joy that

915
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 3: brings everywhere. And what was cool about that is Pinky

916
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 3: got to see us do that, and then she recently

917
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 3: referred us for the Shakeshack event and it was a success.

918
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 3: They are meaning sometimes we see things like a grand

919
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 3: openings that what whatever, people are just I guess standing

920
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 3: just gathered time. Robus is also good to have because

921
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 3: it allows people to a communicate while they're standing. So

922
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 3: people are they start talking, right, we start, it's just.

923
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, I mean and so yeah, just just

924
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 6: going back to basically, we knew before the potential busines

925
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 6: business had yes, and so when it was time to

926
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 6: activate it, right you know, i e. The pandemic, we

927
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 6: were like, all right, so now we could do this.

928
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 6: Oh we can't we can't teach out. I mean, we

929
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 6: can't teach at an event, but we could sell ropes

930
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 6: because people at home, you know, we could sell I

931
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 6: mean the ropes were flying off the shelf.

932
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 5: Yes, you know. So it was like, all right, let

933
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 5: me learn the stock market.

934
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 6: Like we just we just I don't know, we just

935
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 6: knew what we can do, and we just, like I said,

936
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 6: we just activated it.

937
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 5: That's what you know, That's what we did.

938
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 3: And then also something that Sean and I do, we're

939
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 3: constantly looking for inspiration. Like even Tiffany, I always watch

940
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 3: your lives and you're you're you're so inspirational or just

941
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 3: how even like I was just telling my mother how

942
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 3: you said you had to go back home and you

943
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 3: were in your middle middle school room and you were like,

944
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 3: this is not you know what I mean, I have

945
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 3: more money when I was in middle school, meaning even

946
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 3: in a down time. It's just like what I realized

947
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 3: with people who are successful is it's not the environment

948
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 3: or it's not what happens to them, it's who they are. Right,

949
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 3: So even through going through that, you found your way

950
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 3: out of it into major success. And if you hear

951
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,919
Speaker 3: we constantly watch people's success stories, yes, because the one

952
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 3: thing that's always true is that they're successful. Right. So

953
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 3: they may have a time of being down, but it's

954
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 3: like that can't define you. You have to still. It's

955
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 3: like a winner always wins.

956
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 5: I don't know you said it, so it's it's it's

957
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 5: the person.

958
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 6: It's like, if you took all the Bill Gates money today,

959
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 6: he would make a billion dollars again next month, Yes,

960
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 6: because he just he can do it.

961
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 5: Same thing with tip.

962
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 6: You know, if if if if we, if we took

963
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 6: all your money today right right right.

964
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 5: To it, don't make it today.

965
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 6: You you now have the tools to get it right

966
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 6: back to you. It's yeah, Michelle and I we talk

967
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 6: about that. We talk about this all the time. Actually

968
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 6: it's you, it's the person, and it's not right. So

969
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 6: that's why I was biggest. My biggest thing is it's

970
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 6: not only the meditation, but it's making sure that.

971
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 3: While bad things happen, I still have to be up,

972
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.

973
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 6: Right, because you can't you can't control the events that

974
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 6: happened in your life. You can and control the way

975
00:49:56,040 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 6: you deal with it. And so that's that's the biggest

976
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 6: out of it, That's what you're saying.

977
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 3: It's being resourceful so that we can The reason why

978
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 3: we can make double ut your role bits successful is

979
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 3: because our goal is to become resourceful, you know what

980
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 3: I mean. The reason the reason you can make budgeting,

981
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:17,760
Speaker 3: so you know what I mean, the budgetista, is because

982
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 3: you are a resourceful person. And so once you are resourceful,

983
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 3: you can turn almost anything you love into success. You understand.

984
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I always think that, Like, like the weekend

985
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: before last, I told my sister come drive with me

986
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: through some of these fancy neighborhoods where every house is

987
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: a million dollars plus. I said, because within five years

988
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: I'll be in one of these. And you know, I mean,

989
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: like I could be in one now, but I don't

990
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,439
Speaker 1: want a mortgage. I'm talking about in it, like here's

991
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: the money boom. It's nothing, you know. And so because

992
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: one of the things I learned and this is just

993
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: for anyone listening, is that it's like it's this this

994
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: thing that almost every like African parent tells their kid.

995
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: When you bring home a B and you tell them

996
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,919
Speaker 1: that somebody else in class got an A, he said, ah,

997
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: so does she have two heads?

998
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 3: Meaning like if.

999
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: A's were being given, why don't you have one? The

1000
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: only explanation that you could have for not getting an

1001
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: A when someone else is able to get an A

1002
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: is that person must have two heads, therefore two brains. Therefore, okay,

1003
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: she got you on that. But so I drive, I

1004
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: drive through those neighborhoods because I am resetting my expectation

1005
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 1: of like, yo, there's not one house here, two houses.

1006
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: There's like fifty houses in just this one neighborhood, and

1007
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: then another fifty, another neighborhood another, meaning yo, there are

1008
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: people who make enough to make this life happen. What's

1009
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: so special about them? What is so special? And this

1010
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: is nothing exactly and it's not a little bit of

1011
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: people were talking about just this one neighborhood here, and

1012
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: then you go another town over, and then another town

1013
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: in another state and another There are so many people

1014
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: that are successful. Why not you do they have two heads. No, No,

1015
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: they figured it out. Now you gotta do to your children,

1016
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: they'd be like, Sean ju is gonna be like, I

1017
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: gotta be a b Would anybody get a do that?

1018
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: Do that have to head for? It's a very African

1019
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: thing to say, but I say that to say that

1020
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: basically that you are human. Therefore, what is accessible to

1021
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: to one human is there is great potential for it

1022
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: to also be accessible to you. And we all understand

1023
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: that there are limitations and racism and and and and sexism,

1024
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: and we know that, but you know, we also know

1025
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: that people find a way. And if one person has

1026
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: found a way, that is that is cause for celebration

1027
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: because that means the way has been found. You know,

1028
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: you too can have access to that. So once you

1029
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: start to understand that, then there's nothing. I mean, we're

1030
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: not talking to about you go into the moon for

1031
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: the first time. Those people have to figure it out

1032
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: from scratch, you know, we're not talking about that. Like

1033
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: when people say, oh, I don't know how to invest,

1034
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, people don't figured it out and

1035
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: wrote books and do YouTube videos about it.

1036
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 3: YouTube you know right now?

1037
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: Yes, Like you know, you know people have successful businesses.

1038
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 1: You know, people have podcasts at work and you know,

1039
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: so there are folks that have figured it out. And

1040
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: so I'm so glad that you came on today because

1041
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: it's I think it's important for our audience to hear

1042
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: that there are so many ways to express success in business.

1043
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure people thought a business based upon

1044
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: double Dutch, how's that going to work? And now you're

1045
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: over here laying it. It can work, you know, like

1046
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: a business based upon budgeting what and now here we

1047
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: are and so like I hope those of you who

1048
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: are you know ba Faan that's listening you get to

1049
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: see that it is possible to grow a business from

1050
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:57,479
Speaker 1: just about any idea. It's possible to do so while

1051
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: still having this amazing family. You hear the joy they

1052
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: have speaking with each other and connecting and staying connected.

1053
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: It is possible to do so with children because how

1054
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:06,439
Speaker 1: old is your oldest baby?

1055
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:07,240
Speaker 3: Four? Five?

1056
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: Four child? Cheez? You know, like because I know people like,

1057
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: well I got a baby, okay, you know, it is

1058
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: possible to do those things. IM not gonna say it's easy,

1059
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: because I know it's not easy.

1060
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 5: No, you know, we're talking about.

1061
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: Possible I'm talking about possible but not easy. But yeah,

1062
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: so we just want to thank you for, like you know,

1063
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: illustrating like even the hard like you still here to

1064
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 1: join you guys's voice. I love that that, like you know,

1065
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: these lessons taught you some valuable lessons that you learn

1066
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: to be resourceful, just like as you said, Michelle, and

1067
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: you learn that like to pivot. I think that was

1068
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: a huge lesson learned here. And you learn to also

1069
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,919
Speaker 1: that if you really believe in your idea, you'll find

1070
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: a way and it doesn't mean that you might not

1071
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: take a step back. And also too, you learn to

1072
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: ask for help. Yeah, and so all those things combine,

1073
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, and consistency and not giving up resulting where

1074
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: you are now and now that we're coming out on

1075
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: the other side, it's only bigger, bigger and better for y'all.

1076
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for y'all.

1077
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 3: And that's consistency. I just want to stay warm. Thing.

1078
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 3: Just as a reminder, is there when we first started,

1079
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 3: we had empty classes and Sean would look at me

1080
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 3: and be like because I'd be like, maybe it's not

1081
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:19,280
Speaker 3: going to work.

1082
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 5: And I would be like, isn't this amazing? Isn't this

1083
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 5: an amazing idea.

1084
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 6: This is gonna work because the thing is, I realized

1085
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,720
Speaker 6: that it's not because we didn't have a good idea.

1086
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Speaker 6: It's just we're not promoting it right. So we just

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Speaker 6: have to fix it.

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Speaker 1: I was going to call that illustrating your Oprah.

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00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, but for real, when I used to like, is

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00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 3: it a good idea, yeah, I would be No.

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00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, this is a good idea.

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00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: If someone doesn't want to pay me, I have not

1093
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: illustrated my opera. Meaning if Oprah, if we got a

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00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: call right now and Oprah said, I will do a

1095
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: one on one with y'all, but I need ten thousand dollars.

1096
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: You have ten ten hours to come up with it,

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00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: we will come up with that money so fast because

1098
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: we're like child is Oprah. Because Oprah's value is so

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00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: clear that we will find the funds. And so if

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00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: someone's not willing to pay me just yet, I have

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00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: not illustrated my value. So and definitely that they will

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00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: find the funds because now I've illustrated my Oprah. So

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00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: when I tell somebody, oh no, no, no, my keynote is

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00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: forty thousand, they find the funds, you know, And so

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00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: I think that too, because it's very easy to say, well,

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00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: my idea is not good or it's not the right

1107
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: market or time. No, it's l likely you just have

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00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: not illustrated your oprah.

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00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 5: And that's okay, Yes it is, Yes, that's right, Yes,

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00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 5: you know exactly.

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00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: Just got to figure it out. How do you make

1112
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: it that your value is so clear that people will

1113
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: find the funds just to have you in the room because.

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00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 5: It took took it took them a little while to

1115
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 5: respect us.

1116
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 3: I got cursed out charging people for double Dutch. This

1117
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 3: man cursed me out. He wanted us to come out

1118
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 3: to his event. Oh he cursed me out. What is

1119
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 3: that I'm taking advantage? I said, certain, you could have

1120
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 3: ropes there. I didn't say you couldn't have. If you

1121
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 3: want me to physically show up and show my expertise,

1122
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 3: If you want me and my husband to show up

1123
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 3: her specific time and date and to literally do what

1124
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 3: we do, you have to pay us. I didn't exclude

1125
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 3: you from double dupe. But you want us there because

1126
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 3: you saw what we do.

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00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 6: And I was Michelle was a little bothered by him.

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00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 6: I was crying after I got out there. But but

1129
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 6: but I was upset that she was upset. I was thinking,

1130
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 6: why why are you letting this stranger get you so upset?

1131
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 6: We know, we know our worst, our wors, we know

1132
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 6: our value, and that's it.

1133
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 3: It's like you think Kevin Hard to come and tell jokes,

1134
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 3: but your cousin can tell jokes at the party, stopped jokes.

1135
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 3: If you want Kevin Hart to come and tell you jokes.

1136
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 6: But the thing is, though, like like I get it,

1137
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 6: I get why.

1138
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 5: Because you know, double Dutch has been free for one

1139
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 5: hundred years. You know, people you.

1140
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 6: Know, stop the telephone truck, got the wires, you know,

1141
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 6: and jumped outside to the till the street lights came on.

1142
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 5: I get it.

1143
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 3: But I'm a world champion.

1144
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 6: But the thing is, when Michelle and I come to

1145
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 6: your event, if there's a million people at your event,

1146
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 6: a million people will be jumping, which is different, you know.

1147
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 6: So it's like we because we could teach anybody how

1148
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 6: to jump. So that's the thing. So like if you know,

1149
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 6: if you want our expertise, then you have to pay us.

1150
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 6: But it's it was really simple for me. I couldn't

1151
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 6: even understand why she was so because it's.

1152
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: Hard because you know, you feel you don't want you

1153
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: feel like, wow, am I what does that say about me?

1154
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: We know we tend to internal why with people, but

1155
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: it's not. It just means I'm okay now because I

1156
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, it took me a while too, because Mitchelle,

1157
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: I would have cried like, oh my goodness, am I right?

1158
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: Because mean if they could google budget and I said,

1159
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: well then why don't they like even now what it

1160
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: took me? A girl, it's like year twelve for me.

1161
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: I not bothered. I'm sorry when someone hits me back

1162
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: and says that's too expensive, I'm like, oh, okay, okay

1163
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: for you because I just got paid that last week.

1164
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: But okay, and that's okay. And here's the thing. I

1165
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: give a lot away for free. You could. I do lives,

1166
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: I have social posts, We've got emails, We've got you can.

1167
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: You can partake in all the free because I do

1168
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: believe in, you know, providing service to my community. But

1169
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: you know, if you're wanting, you know, a specific service

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00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: that I charge for, that's for the cost. And if

1171
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: you don't have the budget, and that's okay, it just

1172
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: me you have to find somebody that fits within that budget.

1173
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: Because it's so funny when you know when you first start,

1174
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: nobody wants to, you know, like nobody wants to take

1175
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: you on the moment you blow up. Now you want

1176
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: to you want to pay me the first starting budget,

1177
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: like you you called me for a reason, right, you

1178
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: know you hit me up because you saw the New

1179
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: York Times bestseller?

1180
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 3: Did you think that was that?

1181
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 1: Did you think that was gonna come for nothing? So yeah,

1182
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: but we can talk for everybody, Mandy, any any final

1183
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: things you want to see with our Yes, this is.

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01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 2: Just thank you. Yeah, thirty minutes ago, I bought the

1185
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 2: Ropes website. I can't wait, and I'm gonna go. I

1186
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 2: didn't even not I didn't even know double dutch was

1187
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 2: a thing you could become a world champion in. So yeah,

1188
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 2: it's a sport.

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01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 5: I love it.

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01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. So thank y'all, Thank you, thank you so much

1191
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 2: for sharing your story and sharing your energy and your

1192
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 2: your truth because y'all were honest about the ups and downs,

1193
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 2: and we appreciate that. I think our I hope our

1194
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 2: audience loves this conversation as much as as much as

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01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 2: I did.

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01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 5: I thank you, Oh, thank you. People.

1197
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,919
Speaker 2: Find y'all ware. Now, where's the best place to find

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01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 2: everything people need to know about Double Dutch.

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Speaker 3: Find on Instagram, Double Dutch Arobics, Facebook, Double Dutch your Arobics.

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01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 3: If you forget everything, you can google Double Dutch Aerobics

1201
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 3: and find us everywhere.

1202
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:56,439
Speaker 2: I got that SEO game on point.

1203
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good to know.

1204
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 2: Yes, well, thank y'all so so much. We can't wait

1205
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 2: to hear more from Double Dutch Aerobics. Thank y'all, Sean

1206
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 2: and Michelle for joining us.

1207
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 5: Thank you appreciate it, Thank you.

1208
01:01:09,080 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 2: It's amazing. I feel so warm and fuzzy.

1209
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:53,919
Speaker 1: And now weak back for a booster breaker, booster booster break.

1210
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: I always feel like I'm, like, you know, doing I

1211
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: don't know, like an orchestra, like you know, I feel pretty.

1212
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 2: Really good jazz. You know, you never know. It kind

1213
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 2: of sounds like it's not all gonna go together, but

1214
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 2: somehow you just tie together at the end. Yes, six

1215
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 2: years of listening to your little jingles.

1216
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 1: I love so a'll we gonna well, I know, we

1217
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: both agree we're gonna do a boost.

1218
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 2: We're only boosting today. Ye, no breaks allowed, and they've

1219
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 2: got to be a small biz boost. So this is

1220
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 2: a special in light of our small business themed episode today.

1221
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 2: And again, wasn't that interview with Shawn and Michelle amazing?

1222
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,439
Speaker 2: I already bought their ropes. They were only like twenty bucks.

1223
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 2: I got the ropes. I cannot wait. I think I

1224
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 2: can still double Dutch. We'll find out. But I love

1225
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 2: that conversation and I.

1226
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: Want to do this often enough.

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Speaker 2: But let's I wanted to highlight minority owned businesses, just

1228
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 2: a couple that we find inspirational right now and use

1229
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 2: our boost to kind of highlight the work that they're doing.

1230
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 2: So I got to shout out my little brother real quick, Alex.

1231
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 2: I know you're listening, my little brother who is a

1232
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 2: multi hyphen it and you know, I ever really know

1233
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 2: what it is that he's got going on. He's always

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01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 2: got something going on. He's a property owner. The man

1235
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 2: just bought land in Atlanta to build a house on.

1236
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of him, and he on the side.

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01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 2: Even though he's in sales in Atlanta, he and his

1238
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 2: business partners, they have a production company called Pineapple Cut Productions.

1239
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 2: So this is like a double boost for them. But

1240
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 2: he's the one who turned me onto this small business

1241
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 2: owner because through Pineapple Cut his production company, they actually

1242
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 2: do a lot of like vignettes for small businesses, and

1243
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 2: he specifically focuses on black and brown owned businesses in

1244
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 2: Atlanta and he'll tell their stories through video. And he

1245
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 2: highlighted this one business which was founded by a man

1246
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 2: named David Walker, who's an attorney, and it was just

1247
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 2: so unique and interesting that I thought, why not talk

1248
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 2: about it here. So David's company is called star Walker Industries.

1249
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 2: So the purpose of star Walker Industries is to reduce

1250
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 2: the amount of plastic being dumped in landfills and to

1251
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 2: build a sustainable clothes, closed loop bottled water recycling plant

1252
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 2: right in Atlanta. And I know, especially you know, Flint

1253
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 2: feels like it was just yesterday, but it's been a

1254
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 2: few years now since the Flint water crisis. And to

1255
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 2: think that a black man in Atlanta is really creating this,

1256
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 2: you know, all in one bottled water business where Atlanta

1257
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 2: owns its own you know, water supply from bottled water,

1258
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 2: I just think it's awesome, and not only that, it's

1259
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 2: good for the environment too. So it's a minority owned

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01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 2: company fled by an engineer and a corporate attorney that's David,

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01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 2: and they offer fully integrated bottle water solutions including manufacturing, distributing,

1262
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 2: and reclaiming and recycling the very bottles that they produce.

1263
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 2: So when they say closed loop, it's like they create

1264
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 2: the bottle and Alex don't yell let me if I

1265
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 2: mess this up. They create the bottle, They find the

1266
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 2: water from wherever they get it from. I hope not linklineer.

1267
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 2: If you're in Atlanta, you know what I'm talking about.

1268
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 2: They get the water, they fill the bottle with the water,

1269
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 2: you drink it, you bring the bottle back, they take

1270
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 2: it back and it all goes back into the system

1271
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 2: versus into landfill. So thank you David for your amazing work.

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01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 2: And I'll put a link to his business star Walker

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01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 2: Industries dot com and the show notes and check him out.

1274
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 1: I love it. Yes, well, my boost is going to

1275
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: be a gentleman. Really, it's a family. But his name

1276
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,479
Speaker 1: in particular is caer Gains. That's k I E R

1277
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: g A I n e S. And that's his Instagram

1278
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: as well. But he is a husband, a girl, dad,

1279
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 1: and a therapist. So what I love is that I

1280
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: want to say maybe last year is when I was

1281
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,479
Speaker 1: introduced to him because I kept seeing this like young

1282
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 1: brother that you know, would be walking and talking, but

1283
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: helping to really normalize what therapy and therapeutic healing look

1284
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: like for black men, and you know, making it okay

1285
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: for men to seek help and to say that they

1286
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: don't know and to say that they feel vulnerable. And

1287
01:05:57,120 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: he's just doing amazing, amazing, amazing work. And so I

1288
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: just want to shout him out that, like it's ker

1289
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: again gaines k I E R g A I.

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Speaker 3: N E s.

1291
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: If you're not following him already. He doesn't just talk

1292
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: about therapy for for for men, but I especially think

1293
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: because the way he talks about therapy and and actually

1294
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 1: helps you with solutions, you know, this might be the

1295
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: first time your guy ever heard about someone talking about

1296
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, hey, like he used, for example, it was

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Speaker 1: on his ig earlier. He used Martin and Gina a

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Speaker 1: fight that they were having on Martin you know, the show,

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Speaker 1: and he used it to explain what he calls, oh

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Speaker 1: what is it called? He called it like it's like

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Speaker 1: some therapy, like a something about like a non winnable

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Speaker 1: fights or something like that. And and the reason why

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Speaker 1: you fight in that way is because you have suppressed

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Speaker 1: anger and emotions from from maybe some from childhood or

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Speaker 1: even just previous fights with your partner, but he explains

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Speaker 1: how to navigate that. I just it's it's so healthy

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Speaker 1: to see people that look like you talking about things

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Speaker 1: that might not be familiar to you but ought to be.

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Speaker 1: And so go ahead and check out here and his

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Speaker 1: wife and their beautiful daughter. They're pretty awesome.

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Speaker 2: I love it all right. Well, and we'll put the

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Speaker 2: link to both those businesses in our show notes. If

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Speaker 2: y'all have any businesses that y'all think will be worth highlighting,

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Speaker 2: or just want to share the story of how you

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Speaker 2: have dealt with the pandemic the past year as a

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Speaker 2: small business owner. There's people who've just launched businesses during

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Speaker 2: the pandemic because you know, they need to be scrappy

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Speaker 2: and find a way to put food on the table.

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Speaker 2: And those stories are so inspiring and we'd love to

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Speaker 2: feature some of those on the show someday. So leave

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Speaker 2: us a note. You can reach you on Instagram. You

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Speaker 2: can email us Briandambission Podcast at gmail dot com, or

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Speaker 2: check our ig page and check the show notes for

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Speaker 2: the number where you can actually call us and leave

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Speaker 2: a voicemail for us with your story or your questions.

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Speaker 2: We'd love to hear from y'all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we would all really well.

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Speaker 2: Happy Brand Ambition, a very happy Brown Ambition Wednesday, to you,

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Speaker 2: miss Tiffany.

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Speaker 1: And to you as well.

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Speaker 2: All right, we will see y'all next week

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Speaker 1: Al right, next week