WEBVTT - Ep. 178 —Big Things Poppin' 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:23.759 Okay, hey, hey we're back. We're black, we're brown. We 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:25.400 got to start like a little ensemble. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.680 I thought we harmonized beautifully. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.720 Right, me me? Right, do we celebrate? Did we share 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.920 that we cracked top two hundred? Did we celebrate that? 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:36.680 I'm all over the socials. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.440 Yeah, but I mean podcast we didn't mention it. Right. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:40.960 We should say hi to are. We have a bunch 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.400 of new listeners lately, So welcome if you're new to 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.319 the show, and thank you for joining us, and thank 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.280 you to everyone who's stuck by us. But yeah, we're 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.880 for some reason magic four year mark. People are paying attention. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.200 But yeah, we cracked top two hundred of all podcasts, 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:57.760 which there's like tens of thousands. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.840 It feels like, oh more, I google to see how 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.760 many iTunes podcaster. It's over half a million. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.200 Oh jesus crazy. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.520 Like when I saw that, I was like, wow, top 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.880 two hundred of over half I think it's like five 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.480 hundred and fifty thousand like podcasts. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.440 Like I was like, what, Well, when we pasted the 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.560 read I was like, that's what we did. Yes, we 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.400 were about well not anymore, you know, we dropped down 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.440 a little bit, but uh, for a minute we were 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.080 we outranked the Read and I was like, what, Crystal 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:26.160 what I. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.080 Know, I love Crystal Kit theory. Honestly, those are my 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:29.640 face I would I would totally geek out. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.600 Yeah, so that was exciting. But yeah, it's top twenty 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.680 in business podcasts, and you know what, like it means. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.800 It means so much to me just looking at those 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.319 images of and you know, it sounds cliche, but our 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.959 brown faces, brown and black faces on iTunes in those 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.840 little square images, when you look at everyone else who's ranking, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.640 I mean it it is powerful and it means something 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.400 to me. So when we see our you know, our 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.520 friends who we don't really know, but some of them 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.800 you know. But like you see the you see the 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.880 dead Ass podcast and the Read and adulting podcasts and 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.920 all these like people of color really killing it in 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.880 the podcast game. Makes me so excited to be a 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.960 part of that, you know, unofficial group. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.480 Yeah, and I just I do love that because you're right, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.440 it's just like you know, I mean, it's just an 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.880 amazing time to like start something because you have the 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.880 ability to speak directly to your audience and you guys 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.880 listen and you someone hit me up the other day 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.520 and they were like, oh, you know what. I was 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.799 interviewed by the Guardian and the young woman I was like, 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.960 how'd you find me? She was like, brown a bithit, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:32.760 I love you and Mandy. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.760 I was like, what, you know? 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.520 I just thought that was so awesome. That happens more 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:37.800 and more. And I love when you guys come up 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:39.000 to me and give me the hugs I don't ask 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.919 for because you know, I'm uncomfortable with hugs, but you 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.320 give it to me anywhere and I love it. And 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:44.880 I love how you give me a hug for Mandy 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.000 And when you see Mandy, you're like, give this to Tiffany, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.000 y give her two hugs. No, you guys are awesome, awesome, awesome. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.920 I just yeah, so yeah, So just thank you, honestly, 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:54.520 thank you. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.760 I love you guys. You make this show happen. Go 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.679 leave reviews if you haven't yet and you're new to 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.320 the show. Reviews really help us get seen more in 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.079 the iTunes environment. So leave reviews if you can, tell 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.560 a friend, and just make sure you subscribe and keep listening. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:11.880 Thank you guys so much. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.720 So what's happening on this rainy day for you? 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.040 Oh so rainy let's see what happened. My dog walker 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:25.120 canceled last minute. It's unfortunate. I'm getting a window into 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.040 just what it is to try. And I mean, my 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.760 friends always tell me you can't compare a dog to 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.280 a child, but I'm like, I really have to keep 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.960 this thing alive. And I have like work to do. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.680 And the last week our dog walker locked himself out. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.080 We've had some dog walker drums, you know, and the 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.560 cost of dog walking is like starting. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:43.880 To add up. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.720 And then she was sick over the weekend and I 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.280 was like, you know, if you're if you're like a 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.760 pet parent, you have that you have that really terrible 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.520 thought in your head, like should I take her to 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.240 the vet? Oh, it's gonna cost money? Is it worth it? 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.240 You're fine? And we had this, you know, and it's 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.000 like an animal. And I was looking at her life 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.360 like you're not that sick, are you, and thinking she 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:10.160 pulled through, you know, fine, it was fine. But yeah, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.480 we haven't gotten pet insurance yet, so, you know, just 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.599 her first round of you know, going for her checkup, 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.520 not even get shots or anything like that, just to 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.320 get like a checkup and a couple of tests run. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.360 I ended up spending three hundred four hundred dollars at 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.599 the event over the course of two days. So out I. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.599 Should probably ped insurance work. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.440 Just like regular health insurance, except without you know, the 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.640 benefit of the Affordable Care Act. You know, pets right 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.640 now can be discriminated against by insurers for things like 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.600 pre existing conditions or yeah, or even like if you're 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.599 a breed that tends to have certain health complications or 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:56.040 is more predisposed to have certain problems, insurers can deny 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.200 you coverage or charge you more based on the breed. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.680 So there's that. But yeah, you just pay it like 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.560 a monthly premium and then you most likely you have 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.280 a deductible whenever you need it. You know, some pet 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.320 insurance covers preventative care. Some it's like catastrophic. So I'm 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.760 thinking about getting a catastrophic policy, which is a lot 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.599 of what a lot of pet owners do, which is like, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.359 you know, if she were to get an act like 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.279 hit by a car, oh god, I hope not, or 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.440 getting a fight with a dog and you know, she 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.880 breaks her arm, or she gets really ill because she 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:30.400 eats something off, whatever, something really dramatic happens, it would 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.120 cover something like that. I'm thinking about that, and then 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.360 I'll just like keep money saving the side for those 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.840 routine you know, preventive care checkups and whatnot. We'll see. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.680 But that's where I think people get in trouble with 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.600 pets is when something really unexpected happens and then it's 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:48.400 a huge bill. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.960 All yeah, because I can't remember I had a So 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.360 I had a cat when I was a I think 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.520 when din't I get it, I had to get it, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.000 like maybe like. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.839 The cat that went to live with your neighbor. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.159 Yeah, send the trader whatever. I'm not even mad at center, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.440 because you know, I couldn't give her the life to 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.000 see deserved. She had to be out. But I remember, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:10.640 like because that was one of the things, like I 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.320 begged my dad for this cat, and he's like, fine, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:13.880 you have to take care of everything, Like I'll drive 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.360 you to the vet, but you have to pay for everything. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.039 And I had, you know, I babysat and and you know, 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.240 I did like kind of little odd jobs around the neighborhood. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.080 And I remember like I took her to the vet, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:24.880 and like I remember, our bill was like one fifty 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.880 and I was like wait and and my dad was 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.279 like mmmm. But I paid it honestly, because you know, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.960 that was my baby. I was like, whatever, whatever she needs. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.640 I remember once I was so scared. I didn't you know, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.320 I was I was young, so I didn't know anything 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.080 about heat, like animals going into heat, and she like, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.919 when cat's going to heat, they do this like arching 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.520 back thing, you know. Basically, yes, they took the day 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.200 backing that thing up, you know, and I didn't know. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.600 I just was like, what's wrong, Oh, you took her 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:55.680 for that? Yeah I did, And of course was like 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:56.960 she's just horny. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.720 My dad of course was giggling me while made me 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.000 waste all my money. I guess you wanted be to 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.000 learn a lesson. I was like, my cat is sick. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:08.599 She's sick, she's back in that thing of like yeah, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.400 and so I had to pay for I got. I 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.520 got her newterd because I was like, she was like 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.120 an outside inside cat, so you know, so I was 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.080 like okay, and and so, but that was not cheap, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.920 you know, and I paid for that out of pocket 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.080 like myself. And so it was just a really good 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.760 learning lesson of like you know, taking care of something 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.520 that needed you and setting inside that money. And yeah, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.800 I was like, now the neighbors have her, the neighbors 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.120 have my kids, maybe me, and while she had everything 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.960 she needed whatever, whatever, Cinder, I hope you enjoyed your life. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:39.480 Thank your name, per cut. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.760 Well, so this is kind of random, but today, uh, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.160 it didn't happen today because of the rain. But so 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.120 the city of Newark, you know how like Detroit still no, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.720 not Detroit, Flint still does not have clean water. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.800 Yes, and just came out. They dropped criminal charges against 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.920 basically everybody involved, which is just inculpable. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.880 And you know, so I didn't fully understand, like, you know, 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.120 like what does it take? So I in Newark there 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.680 was like an expos I don't know. Something happened when 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.080 they were testing water and they found that Newerk, you know, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.200 because New York is a very old city, had lead 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.840 pipes and there was like not every section of newer 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.280 because some sections are newer, but some sections are newer 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.640 were affected with lead in the water. So it was 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.240 like this whole big thing, and I have to say, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.480 I'm really impressed with the way the city handled it. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.040 Like one as soon as it came out, I'm sure 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.720 they knew already, but whatever, but as soon as it 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.960 came out, they handed out like you could get free 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.000 water filters, and then they instantly started like a replacement program. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.040 So one it started, the first phase was getting tested, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.240 like you signed up and it was free. They like 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.440 hired contractors from around local contractors from around the city 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.400 and its surrounding areas to come test. So someone came 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.880 to our house, our new house, and tested our inside 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.600 pipe and luckily it was copper, so copper pipes are fine. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.760 And then then they would test the outside pipes. And 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.199 I mean, you did have to pay, because I believe 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.440 my contractor was telling me that if I had to 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.120 pay to replace the waterline in the street, that's over 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.000 ten thousand dollars. So the City of Newark said the 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.040 maximum you would have to pay to replace the copper 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.040 or to replace your water lines inside and outside the 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.439 house is one thousand dollars, which I don't know why 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.800 you'd have to pay to replace copper lines outside your house, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.719 but whatever, And so I was like okay, so I 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.600 signed up. They came by they said it's copper on 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.040 the inside. And then so that means I just have 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.520 whatever pipes are in the streets. So they're gonna replace 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:37.959 they were supposed to do it today but it rained. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.680 But I just thought, like when I tell you, Mandy, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.439 it was so systematic. It was like, hey, here are 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.840 your your filters? Then too, you know, sign up to 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.280 have someone come by and check check your pipes because 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.960 not everyone is affected. Then three phase three is okay, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.760 we're going like block by block to get you scheduled. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.720 And so our neighbors across the street they got theirs 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.720 done today, like I said, because it was raining, they 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.200 had to stop to do ours. But I just thought, like, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.400 I don't why hasn't this been done, you know what 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.200 I mean. I know it's probably affected more so than Newark, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.360 but just watching the way Newark has handled it, I'm wondering, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.680 like why is this not being handled in that way, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.080 this systematic like approach, like this grid approach to like 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.480 affected areas, you know. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.120 I mean, I wonder if Newark is reacting to the 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.840 crisis in Flint like they don't want the same nightmare. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.400 Absolutely, I mean you can't have. They literally were finding 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.760 like some of the schools had like in the water 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.400 fountains had led like lead, Like that water had lead 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.760 in it. That's how it all started. I don't know 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.280 who tested it at first, but that came out and 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.880 it kind of tumbled out to like it just in 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.400 general that Newark because it was such an old city 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.920 that many of the pipes were still led pipes, and 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.120 so I just was just like really, like, you know, 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.680 like it's disappointing that you know, it took all of this, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.280 but the fact that it's being like, you know, I 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.440 think it's like a two year and like the two yeah, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:57.640 I think it was like two years. That's what I 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:02.920 read that the whole city should be like lead pipe free, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.880 which is great, but it just made me think of 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:10.280 Flint and asking like, are people so busy like trying 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.319 to pass the buck that they're not just doing something 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:12.800 about it? 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.679 You know, Yes, that's what's happening, and uh, low income 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.439 brown children are suffering. I think what happened with Flint 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.319 is a pediatrician noticed it, like a or a researcher 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.680 was looking at data from a pediatrician or youth in 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.800 that area and then saw the patterns because it impacts 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.240 it's really dangerous for children lead poisoning because it could 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.360 just cause all kinds of developmental issues. My dad just 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.000 texted me telling me not to go to the Dominican Republic. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.720 I'm like, great that news has reached the parents of America. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.600 I saw that, Yeah, So like is it all the 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.840 same thing? Because some of it, I like, I was like, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.640 was it somebody attacked or is it just all the alcohol? 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.319 Like I was confused as to like how they were 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.320 aside from it being in the Dominican Republic. Were the 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.800 deaths like related out of that, you know. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.400 So for those who haven't been watching Good Morning America 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.160 like my dad does every day religiously, there have been 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.760 this this spate of just unexplained deaths happening to people 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.280 who are vacationing in the Dominican Republic and Punzakana, where 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.400 you know, my husband's family is Dominicans. So I've been 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.400 to several like Dominican vacations and weddings and stuff, and 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.280 these are all inclusive resorts and they're you know, you know, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.640 they're like a luxury vacation destination. So the fact that 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.920 these tourists have been dying, although the country still says 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.000 that they're not related at all, it is kind of 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.000 it's becoming like suspicious, you know. It's it's a lot 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.840 of people yeah, my and my friends were texting earlier. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.600 Would you go to dr and I don't? I mean, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.320 you know it's I would wait to. I mean I 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.120 feel like I feel bad for people who have booked 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.960 vacations and don't have trip protection. Yeah, because then you're 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.600 just like, well, you know, what are the odds all? 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.160 Go? Right? I know I always think that, right when 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.560 what something is? He like, I mean, is it really 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:05.680 likely to happen to me? 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:11.640 Or yeah? So yeah, I mean you know there's yeah, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.320 low odds, but uh, be careful out there if you're traveling. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.679 Yeah, so this is like also random too. I think 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.120 I'm going to write a traditional book. Well, let me 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.920 not say traditional book because I've written obviously books before. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.640 But I think I'm going to traditionally publish a book. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.000 Right, you're wait, are you traditionally publishing the children's book? 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.160 No, because I don't want anybody to own Molly Moore? 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.960 But why so yeah no, yeah, so a different book 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.240 because a couple of publishers, like big name publishers. If 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:42.680 I would to say that, you'd be like, I know that, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.600 and then they've reached out and it's like other publishers 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.319 have reached out before I just was kind of like, nah, no, no, no, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.600 but I don't know for some reason, like two or 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.320 three in particular, maybe saying hmmm, I might be interested. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.800 But then I said, well, I have to get an 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.240 agent because I don't want to navigate that space alone. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.520 You know. I'm like, I'm wise enough to know now 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.839 that you don't go those things alone. So I reached 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.880 out to a couple of people, and i'd spoken at 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.760 south By Southwest. Gene Chatsky. You've probably seen her on 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:12.960 the Today Is It Today Show? 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.560 Or I think she's the Today Show financial expert. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.240 Yeah, yeah, super nice, and I think I met her 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.320 at Fincon and then I was on her like podcast 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.160 or something like that. She's just a really nice woman. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.640 So she'd asked me to speak at south By Southwest Edu, 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.760 which is like the educational south By Southwest right like 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.480 the day before the regular south By Southwest, and we 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.680 spoke on Time Magazine had like a panel about kids 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.360 and money. So anyway, so she was telling me about 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.480 her new book called I think it's called Women in Money. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.680 She's like, you know, like, and I was like, oh 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.720 my gosh, that's great, and then it like dropped my memory. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.960 I was like, do you have do you have a 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.720 book agent? And she's like, yes, I have a kick 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.800 ass book agent. She's awesome. And so she introduced me 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.120 and she is kick ass. Like, first of all, you know, 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.800 like I'm not a huge curser, but I kind of 0:14:58.800 --> 0:14:59.480 like a people curse. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.720 Yes, we have talked about this, the cursing book agent. Yes, 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:03.640 tell me yes. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.400 So she's like really like I love her, She's great. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.840 And then we were talking about so this book agent 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.560 did the four hour workweek. I was like, hold up, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.400 wait a minute, isn't that awesome? 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.240 Oh that's the famous book by that guy. What's his name, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.760 Tim Ferriss, Yes, Productivity, Yes, correct. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.320 Yes, and so yeah, so I just thought like, well, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.080 she's started her own business. She's not whatever whatever agency 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.280 that she did that through. But I just thought like wow, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.240 it just you know, was like this is awesome and amazing, 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.200 and she honestly super nice. I met her in New 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.920 York and she just gave me like my homework I 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.000 have to do, like my proposals to like a month 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.880 a month or so. But yeah, I'm excited, you know, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.880 like I never really thought about traditionally publishing, but there 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.720 are some benefits because no matter what you know, you're 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.920 obviously like the no one takes self publishing a serious 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.840 obviously as traditional publishing. But for me, I didn't really 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.920 care about that because I was like, well, I'm only 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.600 here to be serious to dreamcatchers my audience, you know. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.800 And so because those books have done really well. And 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.280 plus two, you know, when you publish traditionally, you really 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.160 don't get I mean, if you don't get a good advance, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.400 you don't really make much money on the back end, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.280 you know, right, I mean, you know there's some things 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.640 you could do to negotiate, but still nothing, I mean, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.920 nothing compares to getting seventy percent of your own book 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.880 versus whatever it is. You know that you get traditional publishing. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.040 So I'm excited. So I'm the good thing is but Lynette, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.400 you know our fairy, our fairy financial godmother that we 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.520 all love, Lynette Kaw f Annie Hawks. I think she's 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.280 on Good Morning America. She's the like the go to 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.120 financial expert there. So she was telling me because Lynette 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.640 has a a New York Times bestseller I think a 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.080 couple of them, but she has traditionally published and published 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.320 also self published. She said, the great thing about having 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.960 at least one or two traditionally published books is that 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.680 when people love them, people tend to like buy all 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.440 your books, you know, like, oh my god, I love Lynette. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.440 So she was like, it kind of like gives you 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.040 more sale in where you get more money anyway, which 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:03.720 is you know, the ones that you self published. So 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.560 she was like, you know, she kind of gave me 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.639 like the like the thumbs up, go ahead, like do 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.160 it girl. So I'm excited, you know, I'm I'm still 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:13.800 trying to figure out like what to the book. I mean, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.840 obviously personal finance, but like you know, what to the 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.159 book kind of like be about because I figure I 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.360 feel like I've covered, you know, so many other topics 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.440 and so yeah, I'm just I'm just really excited. And 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.479 it's exciting because that book, Tim Ferris's book before our 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.960 work week, that book I used to read it during 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.840 that time when the kids were asleep when I taught 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.320 preschool for ten years, and it really helped me to 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.520 start the budget Neista. I remember I had like a 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.240 notebook full of notes and like it just really helped 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.960 to like jump start like what I'm doing now. So 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.520 what a full circle moment right, like she played this 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.920 huge role in that and and you know, and that 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.200 really helped that book play the huge role into what 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.160 I'm doing now. So I'm like, look in, look at good. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.880 So you don't know what it'll be about, y'all. I'm 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:56.800 still figuring it out. 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:58.800 Yeah, I mean, I know it's going to be about 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.399 personal finance obviously, but in what realm like for example, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.160 you know, don't have my literature challenge books. I've talked 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.440 about budgeting. I have a budget book, I have a 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.879 savings book, a credit book, you know. So it's kind 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.120 of like, well, what you know, what how about this, y'all? 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.800 Tweet me or like write under my Instagram post like 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.440 what if you wanted a book for me? Like, you know, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.919 what would it be? So I have some ideas kind 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.240 of swirling. I'm gonna save some of them to myself 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.120 when I think, you know, I'll tell you offline, Mandy, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.080 but I you know, but I am really curious as 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.800 that what do people actually need and want? And so 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.320 she gave me some really great idea So I'm kind 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.960 of like doing some research now. We have a few, 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.639 like I'd written a few like social media posts like 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.080 in the past, asking what people really needed help with, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:43.840 so I can get just an understanding of what do 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.000 people really need and how do I deliver that. So 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.760 but you can tweet me at the Budgetista or you know, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.520 post under my Instagram. The Budgetista was like, girl, I 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.240 would love it for you to write about this or 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.400