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Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Hey, you know I add a little extra,

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Speaker 1: you know, because you know.

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Speaker 2: Tiffany.

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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, Happy Brian and Vision Wednesday. Officially it's Mandy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh anything new coming up? Oh you're gonna miss

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Speaker 1: me in a minute, Mandy, I'm gonna be gone for

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Speaker 1: two whole weeks.

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Speaker 2: How would you deal?

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Speaker 3: I know, I think that we're going to be okay.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we love you and the show would be

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Speaker 3: nothing without you obviously, But like I said, we've got

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Speaker 3: some really good guests lined up for the next couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks. Next week, we're going to have our fairy

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Speaker 3: fairy money godmother herself, Lynette Califani Cox joining the show

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Speaker 3: and we'll talk about all kinds of fun stuff. I

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Speaker 3: think her biggest episode with us so far has been

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Speaker 3: about the power negotiating and she gets real real like

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Speaker 3: first of all, like talk about life experience. She has

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Speaker 3: the most amazing stories about actual times she has gotten

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Speaker 3: more of herself, not to mention launching, you know, running

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Speaker 3: this huge business that she has as the money coach,

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Speaker 3: which she's had for like a decade now or more so.

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Speaker 3: Lynette will be on next week, and then we have

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Speaker 3: our fave Sandy Smith from Yes I Am Cheap joining

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Speaker 3: the show, and Sandy has made a name for herself

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Speaker 3: with all the side hustles and showing how you can

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Speaker 1: I love them both, honestly, they're so dope. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: like Lynette, you know, she was like one of my

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Speaker 1: it's only recently like that folks have been talking about

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Speaker 1: the difference between mentor and sponsor. Have you been like

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Speaker 1: listening to kind of like that not debate, but that

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Speaker 3: No sponsor, like I just thought of like alcoholics anonymous

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Speaker 1: No, So apparently like your mentor is a person that

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Speaker 1: and I really think that Mandy deserves this race, Mandy,

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Speaker 1: you know, like, for example, Lynette, I didn't realize I

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Speaker 1: used to call Lynette my mentor, but honestly, she was

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Speaker 1: I first met Lynnette. I was at this Black Enterprise event.

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Speaker 1: We were following each other on Twitter, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, She made a phone call right

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Speaker 3: I've done pix eleven. I don't know where they broadcast.

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Speaker 1: And that's a sponsor. A spot gives you more than advice,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Randy, when I tell you I literally

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Speaker 4: No jail time.

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Speaker 2: Ha ha ha.

437
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Speaker 4: Well, people quickly.

438
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Speaker 3: Reminded him that just a few years ago, he himself,

439
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Speaker 3: with Jimmy Ivine, donated some seventy million dollars to USC

440
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Speaker 3: to start a new academy for arts and evasion like that,

441
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,280
Speaker 3: which is great, which is awesome, but that's more of

442
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Speaker 3: like the sanctioned way to get your kid into college.

443
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because are they really going to tell you, hey,

444
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Speaker 1: thank you for your seventy million, but your daughter can't.

445
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Speaker 3: Come here, right, I mean, that was an investment in

446
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Speaker 3: his daughter's education, I might say, yeah. And then apparently,

447
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 3: like the Internet found an old post from his daughter

448
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Speaker 3: that said that then she was complaining about her dad

449
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Speaker 3: pushing her to apply to USC and she didn't really

450
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Speaker 3: want to go.

451
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Speaker 1: Like, come on, guys, yo, Honestly, the Internet is undefeated.

452
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 1: Like the FBI could sit back and just take lessons,

453
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Speaker 1: Like they know who shot AFK black Twitter? They're like,

454
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Speaker 1: girl by like Twitter undefeated. If you borked on Twitter

455
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Speaker 1: ten years ago, they're like, oh, you know, Burke, are

456
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Speaker 1: you sure?

457
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Speaker 2: Screenshot?

458
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Speaker 4: What would MLK have tweeted?

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Speaker 1: About I know, Oh my gosh, it's just it's very

460
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Speaker 1: hard to live your life out loud. So just be mindful, folks.

461
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Speaker 1: But I mean, I feel you, doctor today. But yees,

462
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Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars is I don't think.

463
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Speaker 4: It was million?

464
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Speaker 2: Million? Oh yeah, million. Now you know, I'm not calling

465
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Speaker 2: it a bride, but it's a bride.

466
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Speaker 1: No, but but yeah, either way, congrats see your daughter.

467
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Speaker 2: That's cute. But you know they weren't going to tell her.

468
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Speaker 3: Now That's why I love Lynette because she's like, you know,

469
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Speaker 3: for for regular parents, she has the best advice on

470
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Speaker 3: how to get just She's gotten her kids like hundreds

471
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Speaker 3: of thousands of dollars in grant and scholarship money and

472
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Speaker 3: aid money for colleges and her kids. Her kids go

473
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Speaker 3: to awesome schools without the uh, the shadiness.

474
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Speaker 4: So sit down, doctor dre please.

475
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Speaker 3: And then I think we were talking a little bit

476
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Speaker 3: like a while ago about you know, both of us

477
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Speaker 3: are thinking about motherhood and and especially for people in

478
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Speaker 3: the workforce, there's that constant question when is the right

479
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Speaker 3: time to leave the workforce? And then what's going to

480
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Speaker 3: happen to my career if I leave the workforce. This

481
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Speaker 3: is one of the reasons I'm excited we're going to

482
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Speaker 3: have for a new Sturabbie on the show in a

483
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,680
Speaker 3: few weeks from now to talk about the motherhood penalty

484
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Speaker 3: as it were, and what happens when you leave. But

485
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Speaker 3: just just to you know, get us all excited about

486
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Speaker 3: that episode.

487
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Speaker 4: Here is a recent.

488
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Speaker 3: Stat that I read about really the cost of having

489
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Speaker 3: a child in the workforce today, So it can cost

490
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Speaker 3: sixteen thousand dollars a year and lost wages for mother

491
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Speaker 3: working mothers. And that's according to census data that was

492
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Speaker 3: recently analyzed by the National Women's Law Center. And also

493
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Speaker 3: we all know about like the wage gap, but I

494
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Speaker 3: never thought about the mother wage gap. And so women,

495
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Speaker 3: I think, where we at eighty cents or ninety cents

496
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Speaker 3: to the dollar a man makes.

497
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, if you're not a woman of color, but yeah.

498
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Speaker 3: Yes, women in general, mothers are at seventy one cents

499
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Speaker 3: for every dollar through male counterparts make.

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Speaker 2: And can you imagine if you're a brown mother.

501
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Speaker 3: Right exactly, it's like the double penalty. And it's not

502
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Speaker 3: just the fact that you lose your wages, and you know,

503
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Speaker 3: and people say, what does that mean you know, losing

504
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Speaker 3: sixteen thousand dollars earning less. I think it comes down

505
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Speaker 3: to a couple of different factors, one of which is

506
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Speaker 3: accounting for the time away from work and the reduction

507
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Speaker 3: and wages from that. So, if you're not a salaried

508
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Speaker 3: employee and you're you know, you're earning an hourly wage,

509
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Speaker 3: you're missing out on your payment while you're you know,

510
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Speaker 3: on maternity leave. And then in some cases, even if

511
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Speaker 3: you are salary, you're not getting paid one hundred percent

512
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Speaker 3: of your salary like to be on maternity leave. It's

513
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Speaker 3: it's like you either get disability or you get like

514
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Speaker 3: a fraction of your salary if you get paid at

515
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Speaker 3: all to be off. Yeah, and on top of that,

516
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Speaker 3: it's like, you know, I've had girlfriends even now who

517
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Speaker 3: have decided to leave their job because they couldn't, you know,

518
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Speaker 3: either childcare was so expensive and they weren't getting paid

519
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Speaker 3: enough to really make the math work out, or just

520
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Speaker 3: couldn't justify working someplace where they weren't feeling fulfilled and

521
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Speaker 3: the payment was off and decided to just you know,

522
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Speaker 3: set their career aside for a while while they took care.

523
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Speaker 4: Of their children.

524
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Speaker 3: Like those are real choices, Yeah, choices that people are

525
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Speaker 3: making in this day and age.

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Speaker 1: And I just feel like, I mean, one of the

527
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Speaker 1: things I wish I would have thought of of like earlier,

528
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Speaker 1: is that like and this is like something I'm telling

529
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Speaker 1: like my younger sisters. Is that like, because you know,

530
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Speaker 1: sometimes you're like, I don't know if I want to

531
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Speaker 1: have kids. That's what I remember. When we first started

532
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Speaker 1: Brown Ambition, I was very like fifty fifty.

533
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Speaker 2: You know.

534
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Speaker 3: It has been years since then, though, like we've.

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Speaker 1: Loved yeah, you know, but I wish even then, I

536
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Speaker 1: wish I would have liked you know, but I'm like, okay,

537
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Speaker 1: even if there's an inkling.

538
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Speaker 2: Like what would that look like? You know what I mean?

539
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Speaker 1: Because there's so much pre prep work if you're wanting to,

540
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Speaker 1: you know, make sure that you can maintain your income,

541
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Speaker 1: if you're you know, like to just even just physically

542
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Speaker 1: to make sure am I even able? Should I freeze

543
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Speaker 1: my eggs? There's so much There are so many financial

544
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Speaker 1: decisions and just deciding if you want to and so

545
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Speaker 1: like what I would have told like Tiffany, like you know,

546
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Speaker 1: early Brown Ambition days is you know, well, even if

547
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Speaker 1: you're not sure, like if you are sure, like, you

548
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Speaker 1: know how like Jenny mie On on the Real if

549
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 1: you guys watch, she's very adamant. She doesn't want it,

550
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Speaker 1: like she's like, I'm very clear, I always have always

551
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Speaker 1: known that. Then that's one thing.

552
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Speaker 2: But if you're kind of like, I don't know, maybe

553
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Speaker 2: so then like.

554
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Speaker 1: Really asking yourself and start looking at what would need

555
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Speaker 1: to be done financially and otherwise it's if you did,

556
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Speaker 1: because there's just so much I mean, there's so much

557
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Speaker 1: pre work that I've done, and I'm like, dang, I

558
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Speaker 1: wish I would have at least looked into the pre

559
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Speaker 1: work earlier, just because I you know, I was never

560
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Speaker 1: a definite no, and I wasn't not one hundred percent

561
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Speaker 1: yes until like recently, you know that I wish I

562
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Speaker 1: would have done that a little bit earlier, because I'm like, oh,

563
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Speaker 1: there's so many things like like working for myself. I

564
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Speaker 1: you know, I was like, wait, so wait, how am

565
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Speaker 1: I gonna pay for a baby? If I am the

566
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Speaker 1: Budgeanista and the Budgeanisa is a speaker, and if I was,

567
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Speaker 1: I don't eat and so like, you know, so that

568
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: was something, you know, It's one of the reasons, honestly,

569
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Speaker 1: that it forced me to or push me to start

570
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Speaker 1: the Live Richer Academy because I said, I still want

571
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Speaker 1: to teach, I still want to help, but I want

572
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Speaker 1: I have to create an avenue where I could do

573
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Speaker 1: this without having to get on a plane and be somewhere.

574
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Speaker 1: And so the Literature Academy is born in some other

575
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Speaker 1: kind of like side businesses. But yeah, that's what I

576
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Speaker 1: would suggest now that if you are, you know, in

577
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Speaker 1: your twenties, in your thirties, and you're just like, I'm

578
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Speaker 1: not sure, I'm kind of ambivalent, at least look into

579
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: it so that way, when you do make a decision,

580
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: you're ready either way one way or the other, almost

581
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 1: like you have to make your teach art. Like if

582
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Speaker 1: I do have a kid, what does that look like?

583
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Speaker 1: You know, do I have insurance?

584
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Speaker 2: Do I have this? Do I have that?

585
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Speaker 1: Should I freeze my eggs? Because I'm thirty two and

586
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Speaker 1: I might not. You know, I'm not with anyone seriously

587
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: that i'd want to have a kid with, or you

588
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: know whatever that kind of looks like, you know, do

589
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: your prep work because that work is going to have

590
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Speaker 1: to be done anyway. And if you do decide that

591
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Speaker 1: you do want to have children. You're going to wish

592
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: she started that sooner, because I know I did, no.

593
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Speaker 3: One hundred percent. I mean, and as far as like

594
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 3: people who are working nine to five are working for

595
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 3: other people. It also impedes your decisions like around or

596
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 3: influence your decision around will you leave your job if

597
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 3: you're unhappy? You know, will can you start a new

598
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 3: job and then become pregnant quickly after that? And the

599
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 3: fear around being judged or being perceived as less of

600
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Speaker 3: a hard working individual or as a liability. I mean,

601
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Speaker 3: as much as companies will say that they don't discriminate

602
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Speaker 3: against working mothers, it happens.

603
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Speaker 4: All the time.

604
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean it's the smallest things from

605
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 3: having inflexible work schedules, from not offering you know, working

606
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 3: mothers things like work from home privileges if they need

607
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 3: to ease back into you know, work life even after

608
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Speaker 3: maternity leaves over. I was talking to a friend of

609
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 3: mine from a former place I worked at, and I

610
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 3: was so surprised she was, you know, she came back

611
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 3: from maternity leave and they you know, granted they have

612
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 3: a generous policy of like sixteen weeks paid maternity, but

613
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Speaker 3: you know, even she was realizing how difficult it was

614
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Speaker 3: to leave her child at forem months to go back

615
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 3: to work, and she felt so afraid to ask her

616
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 3: manager for time for you know, a different schedule where

617
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 3: she could come in earlier and leave earlier. And I

618
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 3: was like, how can this be, Like, just go ask,

619
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Speaker 3: But it was the fear around the perception, and when

620
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Speaker 3: I was this is the same company, I think it's

621
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Speaker 3: just a wider culture there. When I worked there, you know,

622
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Speaker 3: several years ago, there was a perception that if you

623
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Speaker 3: were male and had children, that they would be likely

624
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Speaker 3: they would be not penalized socially if they were to

625
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 3: ask off because of a sick kid, but that the

626
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 3: mothers on my team would complain that they felt like

627
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 3: they were judged more harshly when they asked to leave

628
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 3: early or take time off for a sick kid. So

629
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Speaker 3: it's like not just a financial impact, it's also the

630
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Speaker 3: workplace experiment.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And it's crazy because like I looked like one

632
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: like my sister she just had a baby, well, yes,

633
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: Lily is six months and you know she had her

634
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Speaker 1: maternity lead and it just made her look at her

635
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: job like you know what, this is not really a thing,

636
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: you know, like it really opens up my My sister

637
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: is like a genius. She has a whole how to

638
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: get a job system. She actually I had her teacher

639
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: class in the academy because she had this whole like

640
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: like she has. She's super organized, like the opposite of me.

641
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: And she has this whole intricate how to interview and

642
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: get the job and find the right job. And she's

643
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: never she's never gone from level to level. She either

644
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: super levels up or at minimum is getting like a

645
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: five to ten thousand dollars raise, you know, from job

646
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: to job. So she it made her really look at

647
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: her current job. She just hit me the other day

648
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: and she was like we were just talking like, oh,

649
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: how's Lily. She said good, Oh, she said, did I

650
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: tell you have a new job. I'm like, of course

651
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: you do, because that's what you do. And she was like, yep,

652
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 1: it's closer to the house. The hours are more flexible

653
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: because they were not trying to I guess wherever her

654
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: whole place was was not an alignment. And she was like,

655
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: and I think it's like, you know, it's a significant raise,

656
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: like you know, a five figure raise on top of

657
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: what she was already getting paid, and I was like, wow,

658
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,719
Speaker 1: only you and so so. But but the thing is

659
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: she had prepared because I guess, you know, you don't

660
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: get your insurance right away, you know, like there's like

661
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: that like moment where you're on Cobra or whatever, you're

662
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: kind of like gap insurances. So she had saved for that,

663
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: and so there's like I said, that's that pre kind

664
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: of planning. But now she's like, I'm happier. I feel

665
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: like this job is more in alignment with where I

666
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: want to go, you know, in my career, but in

667
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: alignment with who I want to be as a mom.

668
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: And I'm making more.

669
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: And so it's just you know, those opportunities are out there,

670
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: just might not be at your current job.

671
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I definitely felt the pressure to move into

672
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 3: Like so for example, where I am now, I feel

673
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 3: in a really good position to start a family here.

674
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 3: And you know, I think, like anyone in my business

675
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 3: right now, there's just so many jobs out there. I'm

676
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 3: always recruiting for a reason. People are coming from my people,

677
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 3: They're coming to poach them. We're all approaching each other's people,

678
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 3: which is good because it means you know, the job

679
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 3: market's really hot, and if you're you know, in my business,

680
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 3: then you are.

681
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 4: It's more competitive.

682
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 3: It drives up wages, it drives up salaries, all that

683
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 3: good stuff. But it's definitely made me question is now

684
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 3: the right time to leave? Because of the I'm planning

685
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 3: a family. I decided no, I'm gonna stay put for

686
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 3: a while, you know, even if and I have to think, well,

687
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: so far, it hasn't been like a huge opportunity come

688
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 3: my way that I was.

689
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 4: Really I think if.

690
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 3: It were the huge opportunity with lots of upside, it

691
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 3: would be hard to like turn it down. But I

692
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 3: would have to give myself pause, I think, like anyone else,

693
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 3: and just really question is this the right thing? You know,

694
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 3: starting a new job when you have a child too,

695
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 3: it's like of all that, like you have so much

696
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 3: new in your life to also change your employer.

697
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: You know, it's a lot.

698
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: I have people though, I will say this, and I

699
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: wish somebody would have told me this, and I guess

700
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: they probably did, but I wasn't listening. That you can

701
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: you can always as a woman, can always have a business,

702
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: You can always have a job, but you can't always

703
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: have a baby. There are physical limitations to giving birth.

704
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: Now you can adopt, you know, at any age obviously,

705
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: but I mean physically giving birth, you are limited at

706
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: a woman of when that can happen, and so you

707
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: know that to be mindful of that because I really wasn't.

708
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 2: I was like, ah, I had it out. I mean,

709
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: people getting knocked.

710
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: Up every day, and I'm like, yikes, you know, like

711
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: all the fertility trouble that you know I've been having.

712
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, I mean, who knows.

713
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: I mean I might have had fertility trouble when I

714
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: was twenty one, you know, I don't know, because it's

715
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: not like I was checking trying to have a kid.

716
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: But it's just I'm just being mindful of that now,

717
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: Like Okay, that like that's why now I'm not playing.

718
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: I mean I've been turning now. I just turned down

719
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 1: like a very lucrative contract because I was like, no,

720
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: just kind of interfere with my with my you know,

721
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: like all that I'm doing to have a baby, and

722
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: they're i mean, like you know, even just like big

723
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: like media stuff.

724
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I'm not flying out.

725
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: Nope, nope, nope, Like you really are not going to

726
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: catch me like on like a plane, you know, unless

727
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, a family thing or whatever. But

728
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: this year it's just not happening because everybody get kick rocks.

729
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to look back and be fifty

730
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: and be like I'm so good but out of Colorado

731
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: just peak at that thing, and then it's that's a

732
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: whole white man. But you know, no baby for me,

733
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: there's no way. I don't care people. I mean there

734
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: are people who are let upset with me, like Tiffany,

735
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: but we really wanted you to come. I mean actually

736
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: canceled the tour and I was like, yeah, I'm so sorry.

737
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: I did the first leg, but I'm not doing the rest.

738
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: What I'm like, yeah, keep your mindy, I can't even

739
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: refund the first money. It's that's how important it is

740
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: to me that I'm making it priority number one, two, three, four,

741
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: am five. Everything else means nothing because I don't want

742
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: to look back and be like, you didn't even really

743
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: give it a try.

744
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 2: I can always work.

745
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: Always it's not going anywhere, but I cannot always give birth.

746
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: And so like I'm making that like my super priority,

747
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: like my team. As I know they listen, hey guys,

748
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: they're like they even they know, they're like Tiffany, it's

749
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: like operation give Tiffany's base to have baby. Everybody knows,

750
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: like you know, like it's just that, you know, taking

751
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 1: things off my plate, and I'm usually like, for ten

752
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: years I've been doing a budgetista and I actually enjoy working. Well,

753
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm a workaholic, but I in a way that like

754
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: I love it. I love waking up early, I love

755
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: going to bed late, I love putting in the work.

756
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: But like in the last couple of months, I'm like, yeah,

757
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: I don't love it anymore because hindering me from like

758
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: what I truly want because at the end of the day,

759
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, I want a family, and so just being

760
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: mindful of that, which I would have thought of that,

761
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, but I mean, you know, hindsight

762
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: is twenty twenty. But yeah, it's just so you know,

763
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: when y'all hit me up and you're like, how come

764
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: you're not at the such and such because I'm home having.

765
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 3: A baby, I'm grateful for your candor because I feel

766
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 3: like you and then you're not the only person who

767
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 3: has been older than me and told me the exact

768
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 3: same thing. So that's honestly how I got over myself

769
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 3: and my you know babies. That's so you know, I'm

770
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 3: so above that right now, not starting a family. Yeah,

771
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 3: I mean so, yeah, thanks for being honest about that,

772
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 3: because I think it's something that people in their mid twenties,

773
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 3: because you have time to start planning ahead.

774
00:34:59,760 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: Now.

775
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 3: Well, of course there's like the stigma of a woman

776
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 3: trying to plan ahead for her, you know, having a child.

777
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 3: Someday people want to call that woman desperate, or call

778
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 3: her you know, you know, I don't know, just just

779
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 3: someone who has no career and has no career ambitions. No,

780
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 3: that's just a smart ass woman. Yes, it is like

781
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 3: you would plan ahead to say, for a wedding, you know,

782
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: or for your retirement. I think parenthood is also something

783
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 3: that you should start thinking about when you're laying the

784
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 3: steps in the groundwork for your career in your mid twenties,

785
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 3: you know, for you're going to be five years from

786
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 3: now when you might want to have a child, and

787
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 3: then setting yourself up to be in a place where

788
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 3: that can be something that is not as hard.

789
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 2: Also, so I just think that we.

790
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: I know so many people who are doing really well professionally,

791
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, great business, great career, great, job, great, whatever

792
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: that does not. Professional success is not personal success, and

793
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: it takes people a long time to realize that. Even me,

794
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, you know, you work so

795
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: hard you don't even think about it, and then one

796
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: day you quote unquote kind of arrive. And I feel

797
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: like lately I felt like like this sense of arrival

798
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: ten years in and I'm like, oh wow, like it's

799
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: not a matter of me asking for opportunities. I mean,

800
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: they're being I can't even I can't even hold the

801
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: opportunities that are coming my way. So there's a sense

802
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: of like, you did it, bitch, you did You don't

803
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: even curse like that, right, But and I'm like, okay,

804
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: like you know, I guess you know, you work so

805
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: hard and not that I thought that success was going

806
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: to bring this like sense of like euphoric automatic like happiness,

807
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: you know. But you know, I guess just like you know,

808
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, like, you know, once I arrived,

809
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: that's all my dreams. And I realized that's not all

810
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: my dreams. Like I'm super gassed and geeked. Yes, I

811
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: professionally have felt like I.

812
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 2: Arrived, but.

813
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: I you know, I have partially quite honestly neglected my

814
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: personal success, you know, and I worked really hard, like

815
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: especially the last year, I've worked really hard to like,

816
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, like spend time with friends. I see my

817
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: niece and my nephew all the time, like just the

818
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: like you know, just the babysit, you know, hang out

819
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 1: with Superman more So, I have really in the last

820
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: year been really conscious of like working on the personal

821
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: success of like you know, like and I hate the redbalance,

822
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: but like harmony in life, Like do I speak to

823
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: my parents regularly?

824
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 2: You know?

825
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: When Drina, my best friend, and I talk on the phone,

826
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: are we just talking about because she's my publicist? Are

827
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: we just talking about the budgets? Are we just like

828
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: how's Gabe? That's her her son and my god my godson.

829
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: You know, when's the last time I went to the

830
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: movies with a girlfriend or just walked in the park.

831
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: And so I really I feel like this part of

832
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 1: my life now, I'm really turning my gaze more so

833
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: towards my personal success because I feel lopsided that like

834
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: there's a statistic it says something like less than one

835
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: percent of women owned businesses will ever make over a

836
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. I mean we've blown that out

837
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: of the water. I mean, like, you know, probably collectively

838
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: the businesses of one business I have now mixed double that, double,

839
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: nearly triple that. And so it's like, yeah, you know,

840
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: you reach what less than one percent of women run

841
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: businesses or owned businesses will do. And it's still kind

842
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: of like, okay, so what you know, like I really

843
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: like I cannot. I mean, like, I'm just sharing this

844
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: now because I know there are folks who are listening

845
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: who are giving everything they got to like their professional success.

846
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that you shouldn't, but I'm not.

847
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, don't lose sight that that's not the

848
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: only thing that's going to make you feel fulfilled, you know,

849
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm at a position where I can

850
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: say every dream that I've ever really kind of had,

851
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: except for the whole you know, sitting on Oprah's couch,

852
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: but other than that, everything that I've ever thought how

853
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: much I want to make being able to help my parents,

854
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, being debt free, owning home, like everything that

855
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 1: I ever thought kind of like professionally that I've ever

856
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: wanted to do, I've done that.

857
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 2: Plus some and I'm still.

858
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: Kind of like, uh, I mean, it's cute over here,

859
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: and I know it's because of the personal side that

860
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, Tiffany, you have to put the effort into

861
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: that as well. So I'm talking to Tiffany, but I'm

862
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: also talking to you Brown and mission listeners, who from

863
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: someone who came from not having any professional success really

864
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: to like having all of the professional success I could

865
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: ever dream of and and kind of arriving and saying,

866
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess and I'm like, what like or

867
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: I should be geeked, and I'm like, and I know

868
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: why I'm not, But I'm working on the profess the

869
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: personal side, just keeping that in mind. I just you know,

870
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: like I said, I wish, I wish somebody could have

871
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: pulled me to the side, like in your quest for this.

872
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: Don't forget about this piece here. I'm fortunate that I'm young,

873
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: I'm still in my thirties. That you know, I'm turning

874
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: the boat around to say my focus is, yes, I'm

875
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: still recognized the Budgetista and the other businesses and stuff,

876
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: but I'm placing my personal success and I'm giving it

877
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: more more attention than my professional success because you know

878
00:39:54,840 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: that's what's important to me now preach and people are like, oh, honestly,

879
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: I feel like brown and missing listeners like love when

880
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: we're like super transparent like that. You know, I don't

881
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: want anybody to think like it's timpany, unhappy.

882
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 2: No, not at all.

883
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: Honestly, it's just very eye opening of like oh, because

884
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: I kept waiting to feel like this, like oh, moment

885
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 1: you did it, you did it, and I'm like yeah,

886
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: and it feels great. But still I'm like, dang, what's

887
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: the last time i want to date with Superman?

888
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 2: Poor Superman. I'm always like I'm taking with Mandy, I'm

889
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 2: doing a live you know.

890
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm part of the problem. Okay, but you.

891
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: Know, but I'm like, I don't want that. You know,

892
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 1: we were just talking about this morning. I was like, Babe,

893
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,919
Speaker 1: let's have it. I'm actually gonna surprise because we both

894
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: love comedy shows, so like there's like some comic coming

895
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: to like New York. So I'm gonna surprise him with

896
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: tickets because I'm like, Babe, we always said we want

897
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: to have regular dates, and even though we hang out

898
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: a lot at home, we're not like dating each other

899
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: like i'd like to you know, and so like that's

900
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: something that like I'm adding that to my professional my

901
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: personal success. Like, you know, are you going on regular

902
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: dates with Tuberman? Although you guys hang out, you know,

903
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: we talk every day. We like he's, you know, my

904
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: best friend, but you know we weren't like dating, like

905
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: oh you look cute.

906
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: With your alpha on.

907
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: You know, we're like home and like our grungy clothes,

908
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: like so pizza or Chinese, you know, and so like that,

909
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: like you know, like how often am I seeing my.

910
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 2: Niece and my nephew?

911
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: You know, they acted like up strangers because you know,

912
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: when you when your niece and nephew are like two

913
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: and three, if you're not there enough, they're like who

914
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: are you again?

915
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 4: That's the worst feeling when they forget who you are.

916
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: You know, Like am I going to see my parents regularly?

917
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have to go see my dad more

918
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: and like cause my dad is in his seventies, you know,

919
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: and every day is a blessing.

920
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: That's true.

921
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know I was complaining about not being able

922
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 3: to take a vacation, but it's only because I've used

923
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 3: all the rest of my points that I have on

924
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,439
Speaker 3: my Chase account for two trips, one to Saint Louis

925
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 3: to see my mom, my sister, and my brother, and

926
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 3: then one to go to Atlanta to see my dad

927
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 3: for his birthday, which I haven't done in Like, I

928
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 3: don't know if I've been with my dad and his

929
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 3: birthday in ten years.

930
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 2: Maybe. Oh, I know he was happy.

931
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess he'll yeah, he'll probably be happy.

932
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 2: He'll grumble, Oh, oh you haven't Oh you haven't gone yet.

933
00:41:59,360 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 2: Oh you use it?

934
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 3: That okay now that yeah, coming up in April. So

935
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 3: that's my Those are my travels.

936
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 2: No, you're right.

937
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 4: I mean I think what you're just, what you're just.

938
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 3: Spouting is the wisdom that comes with you know, being

939
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 3: in the business for a long time. So, I mean,

940
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: I think that's why people like Gail King and other

941
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 3: people who are in their sixties and seventies say how

942
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 3: amazing it is older you get, because everything just becomes

943
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 3: more clear.

944
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 2: Yeah you hope. Yeah.

945
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm happy for you too, because I the way

946
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 3: that you're talking about everything, it just feels like you've

947
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 3: got the sense of clarity and then that you know,

948
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 3: you're a few years ahead of me.

949
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 4: So I always feel like Tippy's got it.

950
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 3: Go okay, I'll be fine, and you, I feel like

951
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 3: you will let me just keep rubbing her shoulder.

952
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: And so you have a good sense of like, I

953
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: feel like you've got a good sense of harmony going on,

954
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: you know, in your life.

955
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 3: So listen, if my dog makes a really good poop,

956
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 3: then it's just my whole day is made.

957
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, the fact you got a dog, that's

958
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: that's the point in your in your your personal success column,

959
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, when you say.

960
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 2: You got a dog, I was like, man, that's exactly

961
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 2: what I mean. You know what I mean.

962
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with like I got a

963
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: raise or like I'm a new such and such supervisor.

964
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 2: Like you know, that dog gets a sense of joy

965
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: And I just love think.

966
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 4: Here who I am. She's like, you got the treats,

967
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 4: you got the cucules.

968
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 2: I love that. Ah. So we don't have a clear transition.

969
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 2: So we just go say, hey, guys, do you have

970
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 2: any questions for us?

971
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a couple of good questions. You guys,

972
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 3: send us your questions. We're hitting springtime is happening?

973
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 4: What's going on? Wedding season?

974
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: Oh? Man?

975
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 4: People sending their kids off to college the right way.

976
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 4: We hope.

977
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 3: Send us your questions about anything, financials, career, investing, saving, taxes,

978
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 3: you name it, all of it. Hit us up at

979
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 3: Brannbision podcast dot com, hit ask us anything, or you

980
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: can email us directly at Brannibision Podcast at gmail dot com. Okay,

981
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 3: I always say that for people like me who don't

982
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 3: trust those forms, you know, like, it's my email really

983
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 3: going to go to you guys.

984
00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 2: So it does.

985
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 3: Couple of quick questions from our audience, let's see. First

986
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 3: one from listener Paulettes. I don't know if you heard

987
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 3: about this new Apple credit card that just launched yesterday.

988
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 3: Apple is launching its own credit card, and the internet

989
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 3: was all of us, and listener Paulette wanted to know. First,

990
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 3: have we heard about it? Yes, we have, well half

991
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 3: of us has. And what are our initial thoughts? I

992
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 3: guess I'll share mine along with the same lines as so.

993
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 3: She's also looking for information about the City Double Cash

994
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 3: credit card that Mandy has.

995
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 4: Yes, I have talked about that.

996
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 3: Card and I love it. Is the City Double Cash

997
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 3: card better than the Apple card? Worse than the Apple card?

998
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 3: Just wanted to pick y'all's brains as I continued to

999
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 3: search for my next credit card.

1000
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:38,720
Speaker 4: Good question.

1001
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 3: So I actually went to the chief credit card industry

1002
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 3: analysts that works on my team here at lending Tree,

1003
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 3: and he's.

1004
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 4: Given this a big meh, meh, meh. Not that exciting.

1005
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 3: You know, Apple's foray into credit cards is kind of

1006
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 3: as underwhelming, I feel like, as all their software and

1007
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 3: hardware updates have been lately. Yes, yeah, this card is

1008
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 3: offering what is it, two percent cash back on Apple

1009
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 3: Pay transactions, three percent cash back if you're making purchases

1010
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 3: on Apple products, and just one percent on purchases made

1011
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 3: with the actual card, which, if you're talking about rewards cards,

1012
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 3: is not that all exciting unless you shop at Apple

1013
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 3: every day, which now they don't have food exactly, no

1014
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 3: or groceries there. So if I were if I were

1015
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 3: between the two options, I would definitely say the City

1016
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 3: Double Cash Card is one of the better cards on

1017
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 3: the market for every day spending. I was a huge

1018
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 3: fan of it, like I said, during the renovation, because

1019
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 3: we were making all these purchases that didn't fall into

1020
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 3: any really lucrative rewards category like travel or restaurants that

1021
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 3: I'm used to. So the way City Double Cash card

1022
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 3: works is it will give you one percent cash back

1023
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 3: on purchases and then another one percent when you actually

1024
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 3: pay your balance off, So it's potentially going to give

1025
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 3: you two percent cash back on all purchases. So this card,

1026
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 3: I would say, beats Apple, which only gives you one

1027
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 3: percent cash back on purchases Apple, you know what. The

1028
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 3: positive side, The Apple card is a no fee, a

1029
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 3: no annual fee card, so good at least if you

1030
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 3: were to get it and say, use it only for

1031
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 3: your Apple products purchasing, then it wouldn't necessarily hurt you

1032
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 3: to have it, but I wouldn't run out and scoop

1033
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 3: it up.

1034
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, because every time you know you you apply for

1035
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: a line of credit, you potentially lose points on your score.

1036
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: So you're right unless you're an alcoholic where I mean,

1037
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,439
Speaker 1: how many computers can you get in a month?

1038
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

1039
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: So, yeah, it doesn't sound like it's a even though

1040
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard of it. I've been like under a roilug, but.

1041
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 3: It was only yesterday, don't worry. Okay, it's also the

1042
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 3: fancy it's made out of titanium or something.

1043
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 4: It's like the fans. Everyone's about metal cards now listen, are.

1044
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 2: I do feel fancy? Would I have had my what's

1045
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 2: that Chase go everywhere that you always.

1046
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 4: Chase a good time card?

1047
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 2: My Chase ning car. You're like the Venture or some

1048
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 2: far I don't know it.

1049
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 4: It's the Chase Reserve card.

1050
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 2: Yes, ye, And so that card is metal and I'm

1051
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 2: not gonna lie when I take it out. Someplaces people

1052
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 2: are like, who you.

1053
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 4: Let it click on the table make a noise.

1054
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 3: We actually wrote a whole story about metal cards, and

1055
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 3: if there's anything particularly special about them, it's all about

1056
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 3: that status. Feeling a little bit extra went into it. Meanwhile,

1057
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 3: I totally lost my Chase Reserve card. But thank god

1058
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 3: for Apple Wallet. Do you guys use Apple wallet wallet?

1059
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 3: You don't have an iPhone? I mean yeah, you have

1060
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 3: like an Android?

1061
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 2: Right?

1062
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 4: Is there a version of like a mobile wallet for

1063
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 4: the Android?

1064
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know. I don't think so, I mean maybe.

1065
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 4: It's well the Apple Wallet.

1066
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 3: I basically loaded my credit cards onto it, and and

1067
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 3: a lot of places now do Apple pay or Android

1068
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 3: pay where you can scan your phone and like through

1069
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 3: your phone pay for stuff. And I honestly lost this card.

1070
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 3: It's not somewhere. People have stolen it clearly, or else

1071
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 3: I would have canceled it. But it's probably in my

1072
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 3: house somewhere. But I haven't had a problem making purchases

1073
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 3: because I just whip out my Apple wallet and just

1074
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 3: pay my phone everywhere. And I'm like, oh, this is

1075
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 3: the future.

1076
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 4: Who need it? There sounds so neat right now. They're like, listen,

1077
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 4: this has been around for years and this is not news.

1078
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: You're not repetenting millennials properly or like, you know, like

1079
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: if you're for the rare few of you like me

1080
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: who still goes to the bank, you know, you can

1081
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: like access your money via code and you don't have

1082
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 1: to have your card anymore, which is nice.

1083
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, I haven't been to the ATM, and.

1084
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: I know, I was like, I don't even want to

1085
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: say that, because I just knew the millennials are like

1086
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: a bag, what's that?

1087
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 2: What's the big chat?

1088
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 4: Like, you know, you'd be surprised.

1089
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 3: I'm telling you young millennials and like gen z yeers,

1090
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:35,760
Speaker 3: I think they're the ones who have the big banks

1091
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 3: because it's what their parents use and they just haven't

1092
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 3: come to the level of the older millennial young you

1093
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 3: know gen x Land yet because they're just Yeah. I

1094
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 3: was talking to my editorial assistance. She's, you know, first

1095
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 3: I out of college, and she's like, yeah, I finally

1096
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 3: closed my Wells Fargo account and got an ally account

1097
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 3: because I've been harassing her for a while.

1098
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,240
Speaker 4: The youth man must lead.

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Speaker 3: Them, alrighty, So thank you for your question, Paula. And

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Speaker 3: let's see the second question from listener Enid. I hope

1101
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: I said that right. She has a question for Tiffany.

1102
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 3: I heard the tip works at home. Yes, that's that's

1103
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 3: a rumor that we can confirm despite multiple attempts to

1104
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,479
Speaker 3: do you pay rent at a coworking facility of some kind?

1105
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 2: I do?

1106
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 4: But I mean yeah, but you were from home.

1107
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 3: So Enan says, I've heard tiff works at home and

1108
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 3: she's massively successful, and I'd like to hear some tips

1109
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 3: on working from home and making it financially viable. Also,

1110
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 3: how do you, Tiffany hire and maintain quality staff who

1111
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 3: work virtually. I am always challenged to get reliable support

1112
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,399
Speaker 3: for short, short term projects. Thank you Enan for your question.

1113
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: So working from home I mean well, I mean for me,

1114
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: I tried to work in an office because at first,

1115
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't that productive working at

1116
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: home because I was like why.

1117
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 2: Work when you can nast, you know.

1118
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: And then I tried to go into the actual office,

1119
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: like I have a I share office with my I

1120
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: was Drina, but I found it to be really restrictive

1121
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: because I don't like to wear pants, and so I

1122
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: was like, okay, so what I what I ended up

1123
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: doing was like Tiffany, So I had to basically create

1124
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: a schedule for myself at home, Like I still had

1125
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,399
Speaker 1: to approach working at home as if I was going

1126
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: into an office, like I wake up at a certain time,

1127
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,240
Speaker 1: you know. In the beginning, like like I was like, okay,

1128
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: you wake up, you know, brush your teeth whatever, take

1129
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: a shower, and do.

1130
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 2: Yoga whatever is I was going to do in the morning,

1131
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: and they eat.

1132
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: But then I would have a kind of like start

1133
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: at this time type of like a schedule in the beginning. Now,

1134
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: like I'm pretty good at self regulating where I don't

1135
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: have to have like like really tight strict schedule, but

1136
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: I had a schedule like you know, by nine o'clock,

1137
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: you're sitting in front of your computer. The first hour

1138
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,359
Speaker 1: is emails, the second hours phone calls. So creating like

1139
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: a schedule for yourself and scheduling in you know, a walk,

1140
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: scheduling in lunch, don't be afraid to like if you're

1141
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: cause some times I can get really stagging in at home.

1142
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: So I actually ended up buying this like portable what

1143
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,399
Speaker 1: is it called. I don't have the battery in front

1144
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: of me, but I have this like portable battery. It's

1145
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: like the size of a I want to say, like

1146
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 1: a big a really if a if a cell phone

1147
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: was like twice as big, and it's that. So I'll

1148
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: take it with me and I'll actually like work in

1149
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: the park or like sit in the car in the park,

1150
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: just to change it up if I because sometimes you know,

1151
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: working at home, you're you're not as productive. So I'm

1152
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: typically more productive at home, but if I'm feeling just

1153
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: really like kind of like stuck, I'll take my portable

1154
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: battery with my laptop and I'll find someplace else to work.

1155
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: But creating a schedule for yourself until you can kind

1156
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: of stuff regulate. So now, because of the way my

1157
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: business is run, I've got standing meetings typically like you know,

1158
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 1: like during the week, so it helps to kind of

1159
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 1: regulate me too.

1160
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 2: Like I know, on Tuesday, always have our marketing meeting.

1161
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 2: At ten, I have.

1162
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: My meeting with my with one of my not one

1163
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: of my my only business owner co owner for one

1164
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: of my businesses, Jabrill. That's Tuesday at nine thirty. On Mondays,

1165
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: I have my lead team calls individually with a teep

1166
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,399
Speaker 1: on the team. So those calls also help to kind

1167
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: of like regulate how my day goes. But that's what

1168
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: I would just say, create a schedule, stick to it.

1169
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: You don't have to get all dressed up. I mean,

1170
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: that's the benefit of working from home. You can get

1171
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: to look crazy. But the kind of like the con

1172
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: of working from home. And sometimes I don't know when

1173
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: to stop. So you know, like I might have started

1174
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: working at like eight or nine, and like at ten,

1175
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm answering email still, So even creating a

1176
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: stop time for yourself is really going to be important

1177
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: and letting folks know, like Okay, I close my laptop

1178
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,439
Speaker 1: of like five or six or whatever, I'm still working

1179
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,840
Speaker 1: on that component. I'm just speaking to the clouds on

1180
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: that one because I'm not good at that part.

1181
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 2: Because you know, working from home is so convenient.

1182
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: It's just really easy to be, like, let me open

1183
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 1: up my laptop one more time. What I think I'm

1184
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: actually gonna do is I think I'm actually gonna get

1185
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: a second cell phone just for family and friends, because

1186
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: what will happen is my best friend, my other best friend,

1187
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: Linda will call me, but I'll see I have an email,

1188
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: and I look and before you know, and I open

1189
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: my laptop back up again. And so I think that

1190
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: also having kind of like separate kind of like technology

1191
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: for like work and personal will be helpful because it's

1192
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: hard for me not to address an issue. You know,

1193
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: if I see something on my my laptop might be

1194
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: closed with my phone is like it's not even like

1195
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: it's a mini computer. And so that's like the next

1196
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: kind of like a productivity tool that I'm gonna I

1197
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: think I'm just gonna get like a new phone number

1198
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: and just get a phone so when I pick it up,

1199
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,959
Speaker 1: I'm not reminded of work, which is what's happening now.

1200
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: And as far as finding really good people to work

1201
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: with you, so it's practice. I mean I was terrible

1202
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: at it up until like three years ago, and I've

1203
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: been in business for ten years. So for like the

1204
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: first five, you know, six seven years, I wasn't that

1205
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: good at it, but I was learning. So one of

1206
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: the ways that so I found one really good person.

1207
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: And once you find someone that's really dope, then it

1208
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: sets the tone for like, you know, and that person

1209
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: I found I found randomly. I think I posted on

1210
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 1: social media, Hey, looking for interns, and she started off

1211
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: as a intern and then I brought her on as

1212
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,720
Speaker 1: my admin. But she helped to set the tone. So basically,

1213
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: what I just would say is like, kind of you

1214
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,240
Speaker 1: have to interview and work with multiple people to see

1215
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: like what it is that what does excellence in an

1216
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 1: employee or contractor look like to you? Because I didn't

1217
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 1: know until she came. And then when she came, I

1218
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: was like, okay, so she's self directed, she's smart, she's quick,

1219
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 1: she's fun.

1220
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:42,760
Speaker 2: I mean I needed.

1221
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: Somebody who were like I was also going to enjoy

1222
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 1: and like working with. So once I found kind of like,

1223
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: she became the template and helped me to set the

1224
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: tone for now when I interview somebody, I can quickly

1225
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: tell if there's gonna be a fit or not. So

1226
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: once I found her, then it was easier to like look.

1227
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: So I typically we use social media to look for

1228
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: folks or what I do is on the team itself,

1229
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,479
Speaker 1: because our team is pretty big now for a small

1230
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 1: business is I'll ask team members. So I might say, like,

1231
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: for example, we work with this woman named Latrice who

1232
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: is a genius.

1233
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 2: La Trese is amazing.

1234
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: She's our tech support and Latrese knows how to fix

1235
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: and do everything when it relates to like tech. But

1236
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: we found Latrese through Tamra. Tamra is our amazing literature

1237
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: academy manager. And so I found Tamra through the initial

1238
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: person that I've hired, like that first template person, and

1239
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: so my template person found Tamra and like, and then

1240
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: Tamra is like amazing. And so when I said, hey,

1241
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: I'm looking for some a tech person to help us

1242
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: on the team, does anyone know anyone? So typically I

1243
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 1: look inward because if you deliver excellence, hopefully the people

1244
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: that you know will deliver excellence too. And so they

1245
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: all know the company culture and the expectation inside the company.

1246
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: So it's important for you as the leader that you

1247
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: set the vision of this is how we navigate. And

1248
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: so Tamra found Latrese and Latrese was a perfect fit.

1249
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: And so I just say all that to say, if

1250
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: we need another tech person, I would go to Latrese

1251
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: and say, do you know someone you know that you

1252
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: know now that you know us as a as a

1253
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,879
Speaker 1: team and a family, do you know someone that's going

1254
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: to fit. So I just say that you find your

1255
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: one template person and you build upon them. But it's

1256
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,240
Speaker 1: critical as a leader, you have to set the tone

1257
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: and the vision. People work for the budgeties. I mean,

1258
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: we pay decent, but I don't pay like amazing. I'm

1259
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: not gonna like us. We're still growing, you know, but

1260
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 1: they work for the company. And this is just feedback

1261
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: for my team because of the mission and the vision.

1262
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: You know, we've got an amazing company culture where we

1263
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: really look after each other and the fact that we're

1264
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 1: serving other women that are like us. So creating Like

1265
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: especially women and I suspect maybe men too, is that

1266
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: it's not going to be just money that's going to.

1267
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 2: Attract people to you.

1268
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: You have to create a culture that's going to attract

1269
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 1: top tier talent. Like my team goes so hard. There's

1270
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: times when I'm like, honestly go to sleep. They're like

1271
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: you first, and I'm like, you know what, because they

1272
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: go so hard because of the culture that's been created,

1273
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: and that is your job. Like if you just make

1274
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: your company a job, then that's how they're gonna treat it.

1275
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:13,879
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in and out, give me my money,

1276
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: let me go. And then when someone offers them more money.

1277
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: People try to poach my team all the time. When

1278
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: someone offers them more money, they're gonna be out because

1279
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: they're they're just to get a paycheck. People are not

1280
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: at the budgetista just to get a paycheck. My team

1281
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: is there because of like the energy, like yo, we

1282
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: love on our team members, Like they have meetings about me,

1283
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: like how do we give Tiffany this opportunity to have

1284
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,479
Speaker 1: this baby? Like for real, they always have a secret meeting.

1285
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: We're always having like secret. I feel like Logan is overwhelmed.

1286
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 2: What can we do? I feel like Tamlin needs a

1287
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 2: fruit basket, someone send it to her.

1288
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: I feel like like we're always it's a family, and

1289
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: so create go ahead.

1290
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 3: Ooof that was an epic, Yes, Tiffany, Like sometimes I

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Speaker 3: just have to just t bone you to get a

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Speaker 3: word in Edgeway. But I wanted to excellent tangent. However,

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Speaker 3: so she wants to know about reliable support from virtual workers.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like that's also something that I am

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Speaker 3: challenged with too, because half my team might feel like

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Speaker 3: a staff in the office here, and then I have

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Speaker 3: a bunch of people who are full time staff, but

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Speaker 3: they are remote for me, like not in my office.

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Speaker 3: And then we have like one hundred freelancers who are

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Speaker 3: writing and editing for us. So one thing that I've

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Speaker 3: been challenged by is how do you judge productivity? And

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Speaker 3: then how do you yeah keep tab some people when

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Speaker 3: they're all over the place and virtual.

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Speaker 2: Well, we use asana, that's a very like a great.

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Speaker 4: Foot I love a sauna. We use Trello. I've talked

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Speaker 4: about Trello before, Big Fan.

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Speaker 1: And that we also use this thing called t sheets.

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Speaker 1: Actually we just switched to something else, but that was

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Speaker 1: what we were using before. But T sheets is a

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Speaker 1: virtual time clock. So someone has to punch in, say,

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Speaker 1: I am like when we first started, because all my

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Speaker 1: team is virtual, you know, like Sylvia she lives in

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Speaker 1: Arkansas and she runs all the Facebook like social media

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Speaker 1: platforms for us, and so well most of them, and

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Speaker 1: so Sylvia will punch in and be like, you know,

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Speaker 1: she might put a little note. Because we have multiple companies,

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Speaker 1: so sometimes people work. She might be like working on

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Speaker 1: something at the academy side, so she might put a

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Speaker 1: note saying, you know, like you know, doing something for

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Speaker 1: the literature Academy as she's working. And then if she

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Speaker 1: punches out and then punches back in for the BUDGETESTA side,

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Speaker 1: she might put a little note. So T sheets helps

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Speaker 1: tremendously because with T sheets you can also kind of

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Speaker 1: like link that to like your payroll company typically, so

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Speaker 1: then you can pay someone, you know, T sheets will

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Speaker 1: download and say, Sylvia work ten hours this week and

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Speaker 1: her her you know, her pay rate is whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: And if you have questions, because sometimes what happens is

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Speaker 1: someone will punch into T sheets and forget to punch out,

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Speaker 1: So then you can manually override and fix it, you know.

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Speaker 1: But that's another tool that we use T sheets to

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Speaker 1: kind of keep track of, so of like where people

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Speaker 1: kind of like are and are they doing the work.

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Speaker 1: And then what happens is as you get to like

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Speaker 1: trust people more, then I start offering flat pay. So

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Speaker 1: in the beginning, when you first come on everyone's hourly

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Speaker 1: you know, you're like, oh, you come on, you're hourly

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Speaker 1: punching the T sheet and I know I usually know

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Speaker 1: kind of like how how much time something takes.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 1: We had at one point someone who was taking time.

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Speaker 1: We have to look that person go a while ago,

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Speaker 1: because it was like, you're punching in but the thing

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Speaker 1: you're saying you're doing doesn't take that long. And so

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Speaker 1: T sheets helped to alert us to that, and so

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Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, this person is not a fit.

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Speaker 1: And maybe I wouldn't have known that had we not

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Speaker 1: had T sheets and asana in place to kind of

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Speaker 1: be like, hmm, it's only one task. One task doesn't

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Speaker 1: take ten hours.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you know.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, those are so those are some of the

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Speaker 1: but like I said, it's also to creating an amazing

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Speaker 1: environment to work in, because if you don't have a

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Speaker 1: ton of money to pay people, and even if you

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Speaker 1: do have a ton of money, money is not what

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Speaker 1: keeps really great employees. And it's not what attracts really

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Speaker 1: great employees. I mean likecers.

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Speaker 3: Though, that's all they care about. No, you mean sprit persaries.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes there are some, cause there are some people

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Speaker 1: who we work with are that are just straight freelancers.

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Speaker 1: But if you're building like a team team, but like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what, Like I feel like this too. If

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Speaker 1: you treat people well, you know, we find people that

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Speaker 1: will give us like they might be charging another client this,

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Speaker 1: but I found a lot of people who are like,

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Speaker 1: I want to be part of this team because it's

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Speaker 1: so amazing. I'm going to give you like kind of

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Speaker 1: like the I want to be a part of the

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Speaker 1: team discount. So that's possible, you know, depending on like

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Speaker 1: what kind of business you have. So creating that work

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Speaker 1: environment but then also having like a clear structure and

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Speaker 1: everyone should kind of know, like we love everyone, but

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Speaker 1: we're watching. That's what t sheet is and that's what

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Speaker 1: asana is, and you know, that's what those regular check

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Speaker 1: ins are too. Like you should be checking in weekly

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Speaker 1: with the people on your team to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they're in alignment with what they're supposed to do, and

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Speaker 1: be quick to let folks go when it's not a fit.

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Speaker 2: I'm terrible at it.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've kept people for years and so if

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Speaker 1: it's not a fit and you notice they're taking time

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Speaker 1: or you're notice they're not they're not productive then it's

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Speaker 1: okay to be like, you know, I'm slow to hire permanently.

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Speaker 1: I might give you three months of like, and I'm clear, like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're going to try to test you out for three

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Speaker 1: months and see and if we two it's not fitting.

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Speaker 1: I'm good at saying it's not fitting now and then

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Speaker 1: I'm getting better and letting go much faster when someone's

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Speaker 1: not a fit.

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Speaker 2: So that's something that you have to work on too.

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Speaker 3: It's not easy, yeah, and especially with in my two senses,

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Speaker 3: because we do have so many freelancers in our network,

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Speaker 3: writers and editors who we constantly need.

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Speaker 4: We are our work.

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Speaker 3: Our workload tends to fluctuate like any content team, and

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Speaker 3: every month isn't always the same, the same amount of

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Speaker 3: work isn't always there. But we have we try to

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Speaker 3: maintain a good network, in a loyal network, like you said,

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Speaker 3: to make that make it nice to work with us

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Speaker 3: to you know, pay competitively, but then also you know,

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Speaker 3: keep lines of communication open, give them their own Slack channel,

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Speaker 3: and give them their own trainings. You know, every month

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Speaker 3: will do or every few months will do a training

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Speaker 3: with our freelancers to remind them of what our standards

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Speaker 3: are and just have interface with them and communicate with them,

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Speaker 3: and I think that goes a long way, especially if

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Speaker 3: you're looking to staff like ongoing projects where you need

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Speaker 3: virtual workers or remote workers freelancers. It helps to have

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Speaker 3: those relationships. You can, you know, pull from the person

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Speaker 3: that you worked from a few months ago, or have

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Speaker 3: someone that you are throwing a few things to each

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Speaker 3: month just to keep them warm and just to keep them,

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Speaker 3: you know, on your on keep the year, keep yourself

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Speaker 3: on their radar so that they are more likely to

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Speaker 3: drop everything and maybe come help you out. Because it's

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Speaker 3: such a it's so annoying to have to go out

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Speaker 3: and recruit for every new project. Yeah, I've been there,

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Speaker 3: and it's the same thing like social media LinkedIn I

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Speaker 3: and you know, we posted we had three different editor jobs.

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Speaker 3: We needed freelance, just part time freelance for a few months,

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Speaker 3: and we posted it on our main job site. Five hundred,

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Speaker 3: six hundred applications came in.

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Speaker 4: It's thrediculs. I feel you.

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Speaker 3: And if I didn't have help from staff just to

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Speaker 3: go through the resumes and to you know, get referrals

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Speaker 3: and stuff, I don't know where we would have been.

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Speaker 4: So that's why I worked really hard to not have

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Speaker 4: to recruit.

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Speaker 3: And just go back to the same freelance team that

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Speaker 3: I've built over the last three years and.

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Speaker 1: The create like if you are kind of looking and

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Speaker 1: you're like getting a flood like we have, we'll say

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Speaker 1: something like, you know, send us three sentences and then

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Speaker 1: well we'll vet from there, like well if you send

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Speaker 1: five or six or seven, you know, it just helps

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Speaker 1: to vet. And I like to pull from our audience,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I feel like my audience, you know,

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Speaker 1: we call them the dream catchers, and I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's one less thing I have.

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Speaker 2: To explain to you.

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Speaker 1: So I would I venture to say eighty five percent

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Speaker 1: of the people that work for the team were a

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Speaker 1: DreamCatcher or are dream catchers, meaning.

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Speaker 2: Like they were in the audience.

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Speaker 1: They were like, you know, taking the literature challenge or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and so I didn't have to explain this is what

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Speaker 1: a DreamCatcher is, this is what the budget needs to do.

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Speaker 2: So it makes life. That makes life easier. But not everyone.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna come from that pool.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't think latse knew what you know, like

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Speaker 1: the budget needs to but now she educated herself on it,

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Speaker 1: and now she's you know, killing it, But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's really team building is very difficult. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: it took me seven years to get it semi right.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm you know, I'm good at it now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not great at it, but good at it. But

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Speaker 1: you have to actively work on it and really be

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Speaker 1: open to critique from your team. And so I really

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Speaker 1: try to be like, if I'm doing something wrong, how

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Speaker 1: do you guys feel about this? It's it's okay to

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Speaker 1: tell me that, Like I'm sucking right now or what?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: What would you have liked if I have done something differently?

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Speaker 1: Because you want to get better, you know, you want

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Speaker 1: to create a dope environment because a dope environment yields

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Speaker 1: to dope results.

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Speaker 4: Excellent. That's probably more than you bargained for. I don't know,

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Speaker 4: that was awesome.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like right before, right before we went on,

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Speaker 1: like Maddy, I was like, I'm so tired.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm like, this is what you do.

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Speaker 4: Spread the wisdom.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for your questions again, you guys, hit us up

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Speaker 3: Brandonbision podcast at gmail dot com with your questions or

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01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 3: go to Brandnibision dot com. Sorry, Brandimission podcast dot com

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Speaker 3: and click ask us anything to send your questions to us.

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Speaker 2: Yes, stuck out. So now it's time for a booster,

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Speaker 2: have break or a boost to have break?

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Speaker 4: Slow jam style?

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Speaker 2: What you fin to do? Boost to break?

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Speaker 4: I don't know what I should boot. I'm gonna call

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Speaker 4: it a boost.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a boost for adjusting your tax withholdings,

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Speaker 3: which is the single most like I don't know, cringe

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Speaker 3: worthy sentence ever, because no one wants to look at

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Speaker 3: their withholdings and just the word taxes may people want

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Speaker 3: to cringe. However, now that people are getting their tax

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Speaker 3: returns filed and they're getting the news on whether they

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Speaker 3: owe or are getting a refund, I think it's the

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Speaker 3: perfect time for you to look back and see how

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Speaker 3: you can adjust your withholdings. For twenty nineteen, I personally

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Speaker 3: adjusted mine a little bit. I feel like I've been

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Speaker 3: calibrating them over the past couple of years since we

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Speaker 3: got married and now we have the house and our

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Speaker 3: incomes have been changing. So I went in and actually

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Speaker 3: changed my allowances this time around because I haven't. I'm

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Speaker 3: trying to get to that place where I don't actually

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Speaker 3: get a big refund because in my mind that means

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Speaker 3: that I'm not giving the government money throughout the year

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Speaker 3: that they don't need. And this year we got. Last

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Speaker 3: year we were way out of whack. We owed a

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Speaker 3: bunch of money.

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Speaker 4: This year we net.

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Speaker 3: We came out kind of net a little bit even.

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Speaker 3: We ended up owing I think net negative three hundred

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Speaker 3: dollars to federal when we took into account our refunt

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Speaker 3: from state. So I met with my accountant and I

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01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 3: was like, how do we get this? How do we

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Speaker 3: get to a place where we're just like net zero?

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Speaker 3: And he had me, you know, do another tweak to

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Speaker 3: my withholdings and it literally took me two seconds in

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Speaker 3: my you know, in my employers withholding area, and also

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Speaker 3: the IRS has a withholding calculator which is it's actually

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Speaker 3: pretty simple to use, considering it to IRS. And I'll

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Speaker 3: put a link to it in the show notes. So

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Speaker 3: if you're wondering, you know, what should my withholdings be

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Speaker 3: based on my current situation. It's a really handy little

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Speaker 3: tool to use, and it sometimes is the answer to

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Speaker 3: whether you're owing or getting too much of a refund

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Speaker 3: to how you actually fix it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and oh, these taxes, these taxes, right, I'm going

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01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 1: to do like equal boost and break, so a boost

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01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: to well. Yes, So for those of y'all, like if

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01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 1: you follow me and then you don't realize that I've

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Speaker 1: been relaunching the Literature Academy. I don't know if it's relaunching,

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01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: but we're like the prices of the Academy are going up,

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01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 1: so by the time you listen to this, it'll be

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01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: too late. But I just want to share, like the

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01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:47,599
Speaker 1: level of work that it took to let as many

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Speaker 1: people know as possible that we're upgrading the Academy and

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Speaker 1: as a result, it's going from nine dollars and ninety

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01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 1: nine tens a month to twenty nine ninety nine a month.

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Speaker 2: But I wanted to make sure that anyone that was wanted.

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01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 1: To lock themselves in it didn't feel cheated, like what

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01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 1: if I would have only known my team has been

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01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:06,160
Speaker 1: going so hard. I'm sure you're sick of seeing my

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01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: fac me timeline. But the boost is just like you know, launching,

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01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: and you just learned so much. It's like all things

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01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: business and like a week and a half span, I

1541
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: mean everything from marketing to budgets to just it's been

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01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: an amazing experience.

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01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:26,120
Speaker 2: But I also a break because it is so exhausted.

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01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 1: We've been working double digit hour days and so today

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01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: is the last day. By the time you listen to this,

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01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 1: it'll be too late. So I'm not pushing the academy

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01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: because the registration will have been closed.

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Speaker 4: But just like, keep that Drake album.

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01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 2: What's the Drake album?

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Speaker 3: I think, isn't it called if you're listening to this,

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01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 3: it's too late?

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01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. Ah yeah. So so you know,

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01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 2: like our one of the.

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Speaker 1: Things I like to do for the audience is that,

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01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:55,679
Speaker 1: like I tell them, you know that if you're investing yourself,

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01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 1: I'm not penalizing you for you know, being loyal. So

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01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 1: like if if you lock yourself in at ninety nine,

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01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,800
Speaker 1: if you have locked yourself in at nine nine tens

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01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 1: a month, that's like where you stay for life. And

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01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: so so Tuesday today was the last day to kind

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01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:12,560
Speaker 1: of lock that in because we tried our best to

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01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 1: make sure that everyone within the sound of our.

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01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 2: Digital voice would know.

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01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,679
Speaker 1: But just like I said, the boost is just whoop

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01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: the team and how successful the launch was and letting

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01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: as many people know as possible. And the break is

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01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: child launching is back break like mentally breaking labor.

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Speaker 2: It's so there's so many things, maybe everything.

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01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 1: The day that we opened the doors of the data

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01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,719
Speaker 1: we kind of like launched, that's the day that Facebook

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Speaker 1: and Instagram were down.

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Speaker 2: The whole day. We were like, oh that's great.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, yes, And when I tell you, everything that

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01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: we've used has broken. I was doing this business webinar

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01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 1: where I was like doing kind of like a sneak

1576
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:53,720
Speaker 1: peek into like this is kind of what you get

1577
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: into the academy, and we like broke webinar jam or

1578
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: whatever we were using. It just was anything that could

1579
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: have broken broke. So it's just been a trial to

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01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: not get discouraged. And I'm just really proud of my team.

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01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 1: They are amazing, Like everyone is deserving.

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01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 2: Of like you know, just like a bonus rage or

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01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 2: something like that, you know.

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, just I cannot wait to take my

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Speaker 1: two weeks of like USA, I see now why Carlos,

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01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: my accountant, after February fourteenth, he always takes like the

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01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,799
Speaker 1: next two weeks off because he's like leave me alone,

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01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:28,840
Speaker 1: like once I do your taxes, and so I feel

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01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: like this is my tax season that you know, once

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01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,960
Speaker 1: the launch is done, I'm like everyone leave me alone.

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01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: I just want to like lay quietly someplace and just

1592
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: like Usa.

1593
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,160
Speaker 2: So that's it for me.

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01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:45,480
Speaker 3: Who sah, it's like champ yess.

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01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:48,839
Speaker 2: You know, Michael Jackson stole that mama saying Mama Sama makusa.

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Speaker 3: I mean I didn't think he made it up. Isn't

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Speaker 3: that some sort of African language?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I think it was like a singer or something like

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Speaker 1: that had it. Like I was listening to this other

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Speaker 1: podcast and they were talking about IP intellectual property and

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01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and it was like some

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Speaker 1: other musician. But you know, Michael Jackson was like, Michael Jackson,

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Speaker 1: what are they gonna do? Well, they sued him and

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Speaker 1: they successfully won.

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01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's just a little We.

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Speaker 4: Don't want to end the show on the Michael Jackson past,

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Speaker 4: do we, because.

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Speaker 2: Thinking about the other I was just thinking of but.

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Speaker 3: Like everyone probably is now, just think about Mama, don't

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Speaker 3: think about the other.

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Speaker 2: Stop.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if we're allowed to say that anymore,

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Speaker 3: No kidding.

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01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:33,679
Speaker 1: But yes, I'm gonna miss you guys. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be tuning in. I'll have one without me.

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Speaker 3: We'll miss you, but I'm happy for you and you know,

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Speaker 3: all of the relaxation. I hope that you actually relax so,

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01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 3: I know, because otherwise, why are you leaving us for

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Speaker 3: if you're not gonna actually relax.

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Speaker 1: I have been on the show a social media break too.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to take a social media.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to hear from you.

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01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 3: I don't want to see the Instagram ads.

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01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.

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01:12:57,400 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 1: I do have a team, so you'll likely see like,

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Speaker 1: got me here, hey, Sylvia. That's like the social media

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01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 1: posting team. So if you see that, you know, you

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01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: might see them doing that. But as far as me personally,

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01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm really going to try to take a social media

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01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: break so it won't be like because usually I do a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of my social media myself.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm gonna take a break from that because

1634
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:19,759
Speaker 1: the system needs like more naps in her life.

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01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 3: Yes, and then I like you just started thinking about

1636
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 3: what you'll do in August when I'm also away for

1637
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 3: two weeks, because that is my life goal for this

1638
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 3: year is to not be here when everyone else is

1639
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 3: gone in August.

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01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 4: Oh all right, well, enjoy your break. Thank you guys

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01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:36,719
Speaker 4: for listening.

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01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 3: I'm back next week with Lynette CALIFORNI Cox, ask the

1643
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 3: money coach, send us your question, send questions for Lynette.

1644
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:44,720
Speaker 3: I got to keep her busy. And then the week

1645
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 3: after that we'll have Sandy Smith from Yes I Am Cheap.

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01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a fun couple of weeks, y'all.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed,