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Speaker 1: Okay, it's kiss FM. So you know, we are grateful

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Speaker 1: here to be able to do probably the only thing

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Speaker 1: We we shoot for average and that's a win. So

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Speaker 1: M Average not such a bad word. No, we don't

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Speaker 1: shoot for average. Well, I'm not bummed out if we

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Speaker 1: are average. We shoot for excellence ore we do. But hey, wait.

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Speaker 1: The point is if you are going to a job

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Speaker 1: and you think to yourself, gosh, there's a passion I have.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be great to do that for a living?

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Speaker 1: But it's just not realistic. These are stories where people

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Speaker 1: have done it and it's working out for them. So

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Speaker 1: Dominique Brown is our hometown hustler and she joins us

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Speaker 1: in Pomona. So, DOMINIQ, good morning, how are you. I'm

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Speaker 1: doing good? How about you doing well? Thank you? So

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Speaker 1: tell us your store. You pursued your passion of art

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Speaker 1: home decore. How did that happen? What were you doing before? Okay,

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Speaker 1: so before I was working two full time jobs and

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Speaker 1: also I was going to school full time. I was

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Speaker 1: literally just I guess, like since I was seventeen, I've

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Speaker 1: always been working people hard, but I will still have

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Speaker 1: art on the side. Um. So basically, once when the

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Speaker 1: just got my m b A, I had just bought

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Speaker 1: my first home, so like, what's next for me? So

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Speaker 1: I quit my second job and I was like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm just gonna start drawing. I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: posting my artwork online. Um, I'm gonna be creating artwork

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Speaker 1: from my new home at this point, because when I

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Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything. Um. So I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: now it's time for me to create artwork that is,

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Speaker 1: I guess, representation of me. Um. And when I started

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Speaker 1: posting on social media also be starting my own store,

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Speaker 1: domo Inque, people caught on and like the orders started

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Speaker 1: pouring in, and I started noticing that there was other

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Speaker 1: people who are having the same exact problem with me

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Speaker 1: finding artwork that looks like them. So I just just

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Speaker 1: been creating more artwork. Um. And also it kind of

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Speaker 1: just allowed me to create. I guess mcdomalink a lifestyle

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Speaker 1: brand to where I'm selling a Carol, I'm selling puzzles,

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Speaker 1: I'm selling stationary, I'm selling so much. Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make it like a oh sorry,

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Speaker 1: you can tell you know, the law of enthusiasm is contagious.

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Speaker 1: So there's somebody here in this right now because I

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Speaker 1: do have a talent or i do have a love

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Speaker 1: in this world, but I'm just too nervous to really

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Speaker 1: put time into a go for it. What advice would

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Speaker 1: you give him? I would definitely tell them to just

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Speaker 1: go for it. I think for me, like when I

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Speaker 1: first started Domoinque, I didn't have no social media following

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Speaker 1: or anything, so like that was like my first thought.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm not famous, I don't have I

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Speaker 1: don't have investors or anything. But I was like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm just gonna believe in myself of um,

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Speaker 1: educate myself and figure out how am I gonna make

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Speaker 1: my dreams come true in a sense of like just

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Speaker 1: being an artist. So I would give advice, Yeah, just

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Speaker 1: go for it and just let it happen. Well, John

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Speaker 1: Nick Brown go to at and it's d o m

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Speaker 1: O inc dumb inc on TikTok and at Snoop dog

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Speaker 1: Gee d o M on Instagram. Yes, yes, Snoop Doggie dumb. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's a play dog let. It's dog. I've been get it.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's a lot of letters together about of space.

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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to do dumb on Instagram. Great, thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming on. Great for you and you take care, okay,

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Speaker 1: I thank you by right. Never was an artist, never

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Speaker 1: never had a drawing in school that represented much talent.

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Speaker 1: It's very free to paint, to draw. I don't enjoy it. Doodle.

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Speaker 1: I I just doodle. I'm a doodler. But even when

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Speaker 1: you doodle, doesn't that release like doude? Do you enjoy doodling?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I enjoy it, but maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: put these up at auction of somebody. Would I bet

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Speaker 1: you if you were to post something that you do

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Speaker 1: it old on your Instagram, somebody would enjoy it. Tobbs would,

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Speaker 1: but you know, coming next or paying a credit card

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