Speaker 1: Mandra, Do you know what I need? I need to
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Speaker 1: what I'm really looking forward to? First of all, be
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Speaker 2: Hey, Hey hey.
Speaker 1: We're back, We're black, We're Brown Ambition.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey came to eat you a lot.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, when you're like so tired, you're like delirious.
Speaker 1: So that's where I am right now. I am in delirium.
Speaker 1: It's been a very big day.
Speaker 2: That is a feeling that I think for sure I
Speaker 2: know deeply what's going on. A tour, A tour EXTRAORDINAI
Speaker 2: well said, Tiffany.
Speaker 1: Today's a Today was a good day. Well, no, today
Speaker 1: I dropped the cover. So I don't know if I
Speaker 1: mentioned it on BA with BA fan. But I've been
Speaker 1: writing a book for the last I don't even know
Speaker 1: what is it, like, you know, since twenty twenty, so
Speaker 1: how many twenty years? Because twenty years fits into this
Speaker 1: twenty year? Well, yeah, I signed a big book deal
Speaker 1: with Penguin Random House earlier this year, and I got
Speaker 1: to writing, and I already had an idea of something
Speaker 1: that I call financial holeness. It's like these ten key
Speaker 1: components that you need to achieve, almost like financial well,
Speaker 1: I call it financial holeness. Like so it's like it
Speaker 1: helps you to live your better life, achieve your biggest goals,
Speaker 1: and to really live a richer life. Because I feel
Speaker 1: like financial freedom is is a big fat lie. And
Speaker 1: I never felt comfortable preaching financial freedom to my dream
Speaker 1: catchers because I knew damn well that most people were
Speaker 1: not going to attain financial freedom, which most people define
Speaker 1: as having enough money. Well, I don't have to work
Speaker 1: right now, you know, so they don't even I don't
Speaker 1: think people think of like retirement as financial freedom. They
Speaker 1: think on financial freedom as like a pile of money.
Speaker 1: I ain't got to work. I'm thirty, you know. And
Speaker 1: that's cool for some people. But I felt like it
Speaker 1: felt exclusive and elusive, and so I came up with
Speaker 1: financial wholeness, which everyone can achieve, whether you're a mechanic,
Speaker 1: a doctor, a teacher, NBA player, That it's ten components
Speaker 1: that you just have to get under control and you
Speaker 1: can be okay financially. And so I wrote a book
Speaker 1: about it called Get Good with Money. I posted it
Speaker 1: on my socials. You're my ig. You should see it today.
Speaker 1: I mean it'll be up there, like you know, indefinitely.
Speaker 1: I'm just really proud of it, Mandra and today it
Speaker 1: just oh so. What I'm really proud of too, is
Speaker 1: that I created a quiz because some people are like, well,
Speaker 1: how do I know what percentage of financial holeness? I am,
Speaker 1: so I created this quiz where you take it. It's
Speaker 1: two minutes, ten questions, and by the end you will
Speaker 1: know what percentage of financial hollness You've already accomplished. And
Speaker 1: I sent you like a little freebe a checklist to
Speaker 1: see like what you have left to do? And then
Speaker 1: you know in March twenty twenty one when the book
Speaker 1: comes out, I can help you on that journey if
Speaker 1: you want to take that.
Speaker 2: Can your quiz? Tell me what wholeness means? From my horoscope,
Speaker 2: we should align with quizes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I'm like, what Potato are you? I
Speaker 1: always take those bud Fees quiz. It's like what Disney
Speaker 1: Princess are you? If you like this house? But if
Speaker 1: you want to take the quiz. The book is called
Speaker 1: Get Good with Money and so the website is GGW
Speaker 1: money dot com forget Good with GGW money dot com.
Speaker 1: Take the two minute quiz and honestly tweet us like
Speaker 1: or igs, I would love to know your financial homeless percentage.
Speaker 1: Screenshot it, share it, tag us ba podcket, What are
Speaker 1: we on?
Speaker 2: I do again? Just look up Round Ambition Brown Ambition
Speaker 2: podcast on ID and Man's Present. But I just hear
Speaker 2: the racket happening.
Speaker 1: Upstairs on the Bunjanisa and Mandy's Mandy Money. So tag
Speaker 1: us we would love to see we're percentage of financial
Speaker 1: homeless that you've achieved. But when I tell you the
Speaker 1: level of you know how you just work so hard.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like the night of the play.
Speaker 1: You know, you've worked for months and months and months
Speaker 1: and months and and costume and makeup and this and
Speaker 1: that and today is showtime, and so I'm just well, I.
Speaker 2: Know, I mean, you talked about this, you know, off air,
Speaker 2: but it definitely seemed like such a labor of love.
Speaker 2: And I'm so proud of you and I'm happy for
Speaker 2: this to be out in the world. When does it
Speaker 2: come out again? Is it next? Bring?
Speaker 1: So it comes out March twenty twenty one, the end
Speaker 1: of March twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to get that book and my vaccine
Speaker 2: in the same shopping trip. That's my plan. They're both
Speaker 2: supposed to come out in the spring. Yeah, I just.
Speaker 1: I think that, like you say, wait, you say you're
Speaker 1: going to get that book in your vaccine.
Speaker 2: Yes, I wondered if you caught that. Wasn't that funny?
Speaker 2: I was gonna be like Kelly, I made a joke
Speaker 2: and tippy four minute mark? Can you cut that out
Speaker 2: so people don't hitty me?
Speaker 1: No? Are you only got to get vaccine? I'm nervous?
Speaker 2: Oh up at the vaccine? I mean I I'll I'll
Speaker 2: take Kamala Harris's line from the vice presidential debate when
Speaker 2: she said, you know, if the scientists say it's okay,
Speaker 2: then I'll take it. We did have another what was
Speaker 2: it moderna today, and already Pfizer have released preliminary results
Speaker 2: from their trials and they've been over ninety percent successful.
Speaker 2: And all of the podcasts that I've listened to, news
Speaker 2: and politics podcasts that have had scientists, you know, or
Speaker 2: political or like scientific reporters talking about it have all
Speaker 2: been like blown away by that figure ninety percent. So
Speaker 2: I mean it sounds pretty good. But even if you
Speaker 2: want to be first, I don't think you will be
Speaker 2: unless you are like a first line you know, like
Speaker 2: a nurse or someone operating, you know, on the front lines,
Speaker 2: as they say, of the pandemic. I mean I would
Speaker 2: like to get one, or at least I'm definitely open
Speaker 2: to it. Yeah, I believe in science, i'd be down.
Speaker 2: Plus by then we'll have a different president and I'll
Speaker 2: trust some stuff again.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's no joke though. I mean, well, I don't
Speaker 2: want to take the shine away from none of your book, girl.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you I am just one of
Speaker 1: those days where we put in so much work. The
Speaker 1: team and I were scrambled like up until the last minute,
Speaker 1: like when you guys take the quiz, if you just
Speaker 1: knew how much work and went into it, because I
Speaker 1: really wanted to give people like a real scope of
Speaker 1: like what is it that you need to do as
Speaker 1: an adult to be okay? You know? And so I
Speaker 1: mean I must have rewrote that quiz like fifty eleven times.
Speaker 1: It was like vetted by everyone on the team and
Speaker 1: taken again and again and again and again and again Andy,
Speaker 1: where did it? Just the level of work that we
Speaker 1: put in. And then today, you know, like when it's
Speaker 1: showtime Synergy the it's like everyone's doing even more work.
Speaker 1: So I and tapped out, but I got just random aside.
Speaker 1: Someone texts me and said, Tiffany, you know you I
Speaker 1: had an awakening. I heard what you said about, you know,
Speaker 1: looking for your therapists using a therapist finder, and it
Speaker 1: just it hit me and I realized, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been avoiding finding a therapist, and I too don't
Speaker 1: experience super highs or super lows due to some trauma,
Speaker 1: and I want to boom beyond it. And I just
Speaker 1: thought like that's so beautiful and so and then the
Speaker 1: therapist finder, Stephanie, reached out. She's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: my friend told me that, you know, you talked about
Speaker 1: me on your podcast, and just like thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And it was just like such a lovey dovey day.
Speaker 1: And remember I talked about my friend Christina Aguilera and
Speaker 1: you were like, oh, her name right, But I don't
Speaker 1: know if the young woman that is a you know,
Speaker 1: the the paralegal that was mistreated where she was. Christina
Speaker 1: was like, girl, tell her to reach out to me.
Speaker 1: So paralegal, who set your question? And we answered it.
Speaker 1: Christina is like, yo, let me help you. She is
Speaker 1: wide open to help. So isn't that awesome news?
Speaker 2: That was a lot. Well, let's see so one last
Speaker 2: week's show, just to just to I'm following the thread,
Speaker 2: but I'm trying to help yell out. It's been a week.
Speaker 1: But I'm manic right now, so my bad.
Speaker 2: It's okay. I am here to fill in the gaps there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So last week we had a question from listener Sandra,
Speaker 2: and we actually got so basically, her issue was that
Speaker 2: she had been let go from her law firm after
Speaker 2: just a couple of weeks and was asking and really
Speaker 2: felt like she was discriminated against because she was black.
Speaker 2: She's from Saint Louis, Missouri, and she was basically asking like,
Speaker 2: if you know anybody who needs a paralegal or something
Speaker 2: like that in my area, let us know. And I'm
Speaker 2: glad that you know your friend reached out, Tiff, because
Speaker 2: we also got i think two or three two or
Speaker 2: three messages from other listeners offering to help Sandra, which
Speaker 2: is not her real name, I think we changed it
Speaker 2: for the show. So if you're listening, Sandra, you know,
Speaker 2: you know what your real name is, and hit us
Speaker 2: up on Brown Ambitions, Instagram and the DMS, and I
Speaker 2: will try to connect everybody and shout out to our
Speaker 2: listeners for being so awesome and help y. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: that's beautiful. I do feel like they're thinking about spring,
Speaker 2: like thinking about March. I'm just like yes, because you know,
Speaker 2: it's getting dark at like four fifteen pm here now,
Speaker 2: and winter is coming and damn, what is going on
Speaker 2: with this pandemic? Like I just it's it's pretty scary.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I feel like we have a bit
Speaker 2: of a responsibility. You know, the majority of our audience,
Speaker 2: I know are you know, our black women, and this
Speaker 2: this disease is truly coming for black and brown communities.
Speaker 2: So I just want to say, you know, when it
Speaker 2: comes to the holidays and you know, what's this time
Speaker 2: with family that I know, you know, this is the
Speaker 2: time we won't want to gather and be together. If
Speaker 2: there's any way you can scale back your holiday plans. Personally,
Speaker 2: I'm walking the I'm walking the walk. My my little
Speaker 2: brother who was so excited to come for Thanksgiving, which
Speaker 2: is also falling on Rio's first birthday. He's canceled his trip.
Speaker 2: My mom was supposed to come for two weeks. She
Speaker 2: tries to come here every few months to help. She's
Speaker 2: canceling her trip, and his first birthday is going to
Speaker 2: be it's I'm still gonna make it fun. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get balloons and I'm gonna make a cake and we'll
Speaker 2: have just our you know, maybe four relatives, grandparents, and
Speaker 2: then his uncle and aunt here with us. They're living
Speaker 2: with us, they're quarantine with us anyway. But anyway, I
Speaker 2: just just if you're thinking about it, don't be just
Speaker 2: just cancel or down you know, downsize your your gathering,
Speaker 2: because this is really going to make her break. I
Speaker 2: think the next few months and you know, really lives
Speaker 2: are at stake, and it's getting really scary. It is
Speaker 2: getting really scary, truly.
Speaker 1: I mean a friend of mine had it really really
Speaker 1: bad where she was texting me like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm going to make it my girl, please don't
Speaker 1: see that she had COVID really bad, and so she
Speaker 1: thinks she got it from her best friend that had
Speaker 1: gotten to that went to a restaurant because she my
Speaker 1: friend actually doesn't go anywhere. You know, she's been really
Speaker 1: careful at home, but her best friend came to visit her,
Speaker 1: and her best friend had been to a restaurant before,
Speaker 1: you know, before then she thinks that that's where she
Speaker 1: got it from. But she was really scared, and honestly,
Speaker 1: there were there were for for a good week and
Speaker 1: a half, two weeks. We couldn't even like I would
Speaker 1: call and she's like, I can't speak because that's how
Speaker 1: much she was coughing and had a hard time breathing.
Speaker 1: You know, she's young, and so I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I was terrified, Like.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, I'm like good because
Speaker 2: she's got a.
Speaker 1: Child and a husband, and it just really hit home
Speaker 1: because I've had a couple of friends I've had it,
Speaker 1: but for sure, she was the one that I was
Speaker 1: most worried about because for her not to be able
Speaker 1: to speak because of the coughing and her inability to
Speaker 1: breathe was like terrifying. And so yeah, I called my
Speaker 1: mom and I said, what are we gonna do for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: She said, not a damn thing. She's like, she said,
Speaker 1: I love y'all. But I'm gonna be right here in
Speaker 1: this house. And I said, you know what, I understand
Speaker 1: honestly because my dad is sex seventy seven. You know,
Speaker 1: my mom is in her late sixties, and she's just like,
Speaker 1: it's just not worth it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Of course we're gonna miss you guys, but we want
Speaker 1: to be able to see you like a vengance. So yeah,
Speaker 1: like so my husband, honestly, we're just gonna it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be us in the house and whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: stovetopped stuff.
Speaker 2: Again, take that.
Speaker 1: I mean you can get it catered. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: probably still am because you know, youdad, can you make
Speaker 1: a dinner for three? You know, support your.
Speaker 2: Local restaurants and order in if you you know, that's
Speaker 2: not a because of course, the other side of this
Speaker 2: is the fact that restaurants and these businesses are really
Speaker 2: hurting right now. But I just like, lives are what's
Speaker 2: really important, and it's a damn shame that, you know,
Speaker 2: our government can't get it back together and put together
Speaker 2: another stimulus package. So I know that people will hurt
Speaker 2: in other ways, but yeah, I'm glad to hear that
Speaker 2: you'll you're scaling back things too. M hm.
Speaker 1: Remember what was the last time I had a huge Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: First Thanksgiving at the house, it was like forty people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean, aren't you glad you celebrated when
Speaker 2: you had the chance. Yes, That's how I feel about
Speaker 2: everything I did last year. I'm like, damn, I'm glad
Speaker 2: I had a big baby shower party because that was
Speaker 2: the last time I had a party. Yeah. Well, we
Speaker 2: hope you guys are staying safe and well. If you
Speaker 2: have any you know, tips or stories on how you've
Speaker 2: made your virtual celebrations this past year fun and enjoyable,
Speaker 2: let me know, because I'm trying to. I really want
Speaker 2: to make his first birthday because I know what means
Speaker 2: so much to my you know, he's the first grandchild
Speaker 2: for all of my all of our parents, and the
Speaker 2: first niece and nephew for my siblings and every niece
Speaker 2: and nephew. What first nephew for my siblings. So, if
Speaker 2: y'all have any tips on how to make a virtual
Speaker 2: you know, birthday celebration like fun and not weird, I
Speaker 2: was just going to put the laptop on the kitchen
Speaker 2: isle and just let them watch all day. Oh, just
Speaker 2: like froll on Truman show. Let me know because we'll
Speaker 2: try and you know, make the most of it. But
Speaker 2: I hope you guys are staying safe.
Speaker 1: And I always think that's so crazy that poor babies
Speaker 1: that they get like watched all the time. So my
Speaker 1: sister says, Carroll, one of the two kids the investment, like,
Speaker 1: you know, Guru, she grew not really, but she she
Speaker 1: was like that, you know she she still has her
Speaker 1: the baby monitor even though the kids are five and three,
Speaker 1: and like when they're acting up, she is a whispering wait, wait,
Speaker 1: mommy's watching. I think it's hilarious. They're like, Mommy, are
Speaker 1: you watching? She's like, you know what. I just think
Speaker 1: that that's so crazy that kids are. Like they're like,
Speaker 1: before we throw another toy out of the windows screen
Speaker 1: that we've ripped open, let's let's see.
Speaker 2: If she's wait they the window open, Oh.
Speaker 1: My god, the screen like and they started with just
Speaker 1: playing and now there's a little hole there. So every
Speaker 1: time I go to visit, like in on the ground
Speaker 1: and in front of her apartment because they'll know the
Speaker 1: ground floor, there's all these toys and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: is this. She was like, oh, these kids when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, My mom used to say something that
Speaker 1: had never got to I got older, and she would say,
Speaker 1: you guys don't like anything nice. And it's not as
Speaker 1: I'm older that I look at my niece and my nephew.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is what she means. You don't
Speaker 1: like anything good? Why are you throwing your favorite toys outside?
Speaker 1: And so now when I go over there, they're like
Speaker 1: yum yum and moo moo. I'm like, what's that. There
Speaker 1: are two stuffed animals they have the city dump and
Speaker 1: I'm like what. So apparently my sister says when they
Speaker 1: throw stuff out the window, She's like, I'm taking it
Speaker 1: to the city dump. So the kids are delighting in
Speaker 1: the fact that both their favorite stuffed animals are apparently
Speaker 1: having a party at the city town.
Speaker 2: I just waited, Okay, he's a listen. He's already a
Speaker 2: handful like four grown adults right now, or can you
Speaker 2: hear them? They're having trouble wrangling him. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: good times, good times ahead. People. I know that I'm
Speaker 2: supposed to say. I don't believe he's a year old,
Speaker 2: but I'm like, listen, every last one of these three
Speaker 2: hundred and something days I have felt from twenty four
Speaker 2: hours of these days, I have felt it, and I'm
Speaker 2: really really excited and it's it feels like such a
Speaker 2: big milestone. So I just want to make it special
Speaker 2: for him and everyone who survived it along with me.
Speaker 2: That's all I have to say about the holidays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the holiday. Have you put up your tree yet?
Speaker 2: So this is a bit of a controversial situation of
Speaker 2: my family right now. You can't say the tea word
Speaker 2: because the grandparents are the lessen. The grandmothers. Let's be real.
Speaker 2: Abuela and Nana are super not happy with the fact
Speaker 2: that I've decided not to do a traditional tree in
Speaker 2: the house. My master plan is we're going to go
Speaker 2: to a Christmas tree farm and we're gonna cut down
Speaker 2: a big ass tree and we're gonna put it in
Speaker 2: my front yard.
Speaker 1: That's why you said that.
Speaker 2: And light it all up because I don't feel like
Speaker 2: chasing a toddler around the house, you know before you know,
Speaker 2: and preventing him from knocking down the tree, which he
Speaker 2: most certainly will do. Child climbs on everything. So I'm
Speaker 2: excited about it. We're gonna I'm taking next week off
Speaker 2: and I think we're gonna go like during the weekend,
Speaker 2: get to chop down our tree.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, I mean do you do it yourself?
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, do you bring your own what
Speaker 2: do you? How do you? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've never had a I've never had a real because
Speaker 1: it seems like a lot of work. So we always
Speaker 1: have like like the last tree had honestly was like
Speaker 1: our prettiest tree. Yeah, I thought it was a fake tree.
Speaker 1: We got like a nine footer because our ceilings are
Speaker 1: nine feet, which probably wasn't the best idea. Probably should
Speaker 1: have got seven foot because I didn't think about life,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Theo ago did you have to cut off a trunk
Speaker 2: of it on top.
Speaker 1: Bent it back? I was like whatever, But it was
Speaker 1: just it was so beautiful and I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see about and I think it was even
Speaker 1: pre pre lit, which I love. And I just put
Speaker 1: like some you know, like decorations out of whatever. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I got a lot of stuff last year
Speaker 1: because I'm not gonna lie. I'm nervous to go out
Speaker 1: there in these streets and I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: get sick.
Speaker 2: I really want to go to home goods and do
Speaker 2: my whole like two hour shopping excursion around the holidays.
Speaker 2: But it just seems now, it.
Speaker 1: Seems like very decadent now, like ooh should I go outside?
Speaker 1: Ooh living dangerously? You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, it's fine.
Speaker 1: For my favorite part of this show questions put, isn't
Speaker 1: that hoy san Spanish pragunta? Se Wait real quick question.
Speaker 1: I saw this post on IG and that's a huh.
Speaker 1: I thought it was unique because it said everyone had
Speaker 1: an English teacher that completely changed their life, and I
Speaker 1: did have one, and I thought, well, is that normal?
Speaker 1: Did you have an English teacher that changed your life?
Speaker 1: Mine was Kate Strauss.
Speaker 2: You know when people like thank their teachers at award
Speaker 2: ceremonies or they talk about it someplace, They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I love thank you so and so for your you know,
Speaker 2: for believing in me or whatever. I don't remember any
Speaker 2: of my teacher's names, like, and I know that's terrible.
Speaker 2: I do remember my seventh grade English teacher's name, Lorie Cunningham,
Speaker 2: I believe, but yeah, I But other than that, no,
Speaker 2: And it's just because I'm a terrible person and remember
Speaker 2: no one's name I always loved my English teachers. That
Speaker 2: was my best subject, but can't remember their names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just the only reason because Kate. I remember
Speaker 1: it was like my I think it was junior year
Speaker 1: and she was I was taking AP English Advanced Placement English,
Speaker 1: and she was a super young teacher. She was like
Speaker 1: twenty one or twenty two something like that, and she
Speaker 1: just graduated from Princeton, so you know, she was full
Speaker 1: of like all the like energy and you know, and
Speaker 1: Westfield where I grew up was like largely white and
Speaker 1: I was the only black person I believe in my
Speaker 1: in my AP English class, and she just took such
Speaker 1: a shine to me. I remember at first, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: what does she want? But she cause I was pretty shy.
Speaker 1: I know you can't tell, but I was pretty shy
Speaker 1: in high school. So I just used to be really
Speaker 1: really really quiet. But then I would, you know, turn
Speaker 1: in my work and stuff. And I remember we did
Speaker 1: like a poetry unit and I really shone through. And
Speaker 1: she's really like I used to write like so much
Speaker 1: poetry back in the day. My poet my poet name
Speaker 1: was poetic empress. Get into it spoken word, I make
Speaker 1: that up? I did.
Speaker 2: I just I remember you telling that story.
Speaker 1: Yes, But what I really liked about her is that
Speaker 1: she was like, you know, share some of yours. She's satifically,
Speaker 1: you should have a recording of some of your poems,
Speaker 1: and so, like, you know, during breaks or whatever, like
Speaker 1: we would go to the library and like record like
Speaker 1: me reading my poetry and then reading my angel and
Speaker 1: reading and I still had them on video, and she
Speaker 1: said you should keep it because you know, you it
Speaker 1: would just be something that you can look back on
Speaker 1: and whether or not this you know, you take this
Speaker 1: into turns into something else, or whether you just have
Speaker 1: it as an amazing memory. And it just was so yeah,
Speaker 1: I just really loved that because it made me feel
Speaker 1: like someone saw me and saw something special to me
Speaker 1: when I didn't see that in myself because I'm one
Speaker 1: of five kids and I'm going to this big old
Speaker 1: high school and I don't look like anyone here really,
Speaker 1: And then it was like, here's a teacher that really
Speaker 1: saw me. And honestly, it gave me a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence that I did not have. I was super self
Speaker 1: conscious like most high school girls. So yeah, Kate Strauss
Speaker 1: shout out to you. Actually googled her and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think she's an administrator now for a college. But yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to you, Kate Strauss. She made a huge
Speaker 1: difference in my life.
Speaker 2: That's lovely. You know. The teacher I remember was my
Speaker 2: not my English teacher, but my fifth grade teacher, missus Parks,
Speaker 2: because after my parents split up, we had to move
Speaker 2: to a whole different county and the way that it
Speaker 2: works in Georgia is that you just go to school
Speaker 2: wherever you know you live, in your zip code or whatever.
Speaker 2: So that meant we had to leave school in the
Speaker 2: middle of the school year. Miss Parks was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm going to commute all the way to pick you
Speaker 2: up from your uncle's house and take you to school
Speaker 2: and back home every day. So she took my little
Speaker 2: brother and I to and from school for like the
Speaker 2: last couple of months of the year, which was just
Speaker 2: so far and beyond. And she used to get me
Speaker 2: McDonald's French fries. I'll then I forget that, and.
Speaker 1: I remember how your dad is, Oh my god, wedding.
Speaker 1: Your dad was like, my little Mandy, what was the
Speaker 1: story and how much you loved the French fries?
Speaker 2: Listen, my dad did give a speech at my wedding,
Speaker 2: which apparently he prepared an advance and decided to tell
Speaker 2: an anecdote about how I used to eat French fries
Speaker 2: and not give him any as a child. Yes, and
Speaker 2: I was not. I was a very rude little girl.
Speaker 2: I was like, miss Parks, can we get the big
Speaker 2: size fries? You know, a supersized letter?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, honestly.
Speaker 2: What was what much she have been thinking? She was
Speaker 2: probably in her early twenties too, but you know, everyone
Speaker 2: seems so like, you know, old and mature at that age.
Speaker 2: But she was probably her first teaching job. Anyhow, yay,
Speaker 2: love to teachers, love them.
Speaker 1: What are we doing now?
Speaker 2: Questions? Right? Okay, right, well I don't. We were like
Speaker 2: pragunthas and then we were reminiscing about school days. This
Speaker 2: is fine, but.
Speaker 1: It was still a nice reministion. It's time for temple,
Speaker 1: time for questions in espanel.
Speaker 2: Yes, you should be on Sesame Street actually one day,
Speaker 2: because I've watched a lot of that lately, and that
Speaker 2: was very on Brandy. Well, let's take a question from
Speaker 2: a listener, will keep her anonymous. This one is This
Speaker 2: one's tough, but I think it's truly indicative of, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why Congress really needs to get
Speaker 2: us act together and do something about the situation for
Speaker 2: families who are struggling. But this is this is a
Speaker 2: question from a listener. We'll call her. Danielle. Daniell says, Hey, ladies,
Speaker 2: So I'm having trouble saving. This has been for a
Speaker 2: few years now. I'm originally from New Jersey and I
Speaker 2: relocated to Savannah about five years ago. Between my significant
Speaker 2: other and I we make about sixty five thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a year. But still I'm having trouble saving. Right now,
Speaker 2: we're paying six hundred dollars for the mortgage, Utilities are
Speaker 2: about three point fifty, and we have a car note
Speaker 2: which is about four seventy five. Thanks to coronavirus, are
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars a week. Daycare bill we're no longer paying,
Speaker 2: but groceries have gone up about three hundred dollars a
Speaker 2: month because we're home all day. I see people giving
Speaker 2: their tips on how to save, but these people are
Speaker 2: making way more and never have kids. Is it possible
Speaker 2: for me to save? Or should I be realistic and
Speaker 2: realize saving is just not possible at this time, thank
Speaker 2: you for your help. Essentially, really having trouble saving doesn't understand,
Speaker 2: you know, where she's supposed to get the money to
Speaker 2: save when there's just not enough.
Speaker 1: And I think that it's okay to say I don't
Speaker 1: have it to save. I mean, I know people don't
Speaker 1: want to say that. There's always a way. Yes, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's like it's food. It's not I'm not getting my
Speaker 1: nails on, I'm not getting my hair done. It's food,
Speaker 1: it's shelter, and I'm even late on that. So one
Speaker 1: of the things I did when I was like at
Speaker 1: my Brokes broke Is Brokes, when I honestly didn't even
Speaker 1: have money for regular bills, is that I would, you know,
Speaker 1: like if I had like fifty cents, if I had,
Speaker 1: I would put it in a you know, in a
Speaker 1: in a jar and say like, okay, every month, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna save at least something. And I would put it
Speaker 1: like in a but it was more I mean, I
Speaker 1: would take it out later, but it was more ceremonial.
Speaker 1: So I reminded I didn't get out of the habit
Speaker 1: of setting aside something. But there are moments in life
Speaker 1: when you just don't have it and and it's not
Speaker 1: because you're being frivolous. It's because things are hard, and
Speaker 1: that's okay. I don't savings is ideal, but it's not
Speaker 1: always realistic in whatever situation you find yourself in. And
Speaker 1: I would say, if there's not enough money, you have
Speaker 1: one of one or two issues. Usually it's like it's
Speaker 1: a don't make enough issue or spend too much issue.
Speaker 1: Everyone's issue. Who's not saving is to spend too much issue.
Speaker 1: Most people, that's the default. I don't have enough money,
Speaker 1: you spent too much. Not always, sometimes I'm not making enough.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I would really focus on. Instead
Speaker 1: of stressing yourself out and making yourself feel bad that
Speaker 1: maybe you're not able to save, it's asking yourself, are
Speaker 1: there ways to make additional income so I have a
Speaker 1: little bit more room? Can I ask for a raise
Speaker 1: or promotion? Is there something I can do on the
Speaker 1: side to bring some more income into the household. So,
Speaker 1: but also you know, being easy on yourself. Not being
Speaker 1: able to save is not a condemnation of your character.
Speaker 1: It's just a it's just your current situation. But it
Speaker 1: won't always be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if I have anything, you know,
Speaker 2: to add on to that other than to say I
Speaker 2: definitely identify with your grocery bill going up. It's really insane,
Speaker 2: you know how much, And because going to the grocery
Speaker 2: store is like the big excursion, you know, it's like
Speaker 2: the one safeish place you can go now and I
Speaker 2: personally comfort myself with food and anyway, So it's it's
Speaker 2: it's really easy, especially when you have kids. I also
Speaker 2: feel like I see what you're saying when it's about you,
Speaker 2: when you talk about you know, looking and listening to
Speaker 2: other people who give advice and like they don't have children,
Speaker 2: there is some good helpful advice out there, you know,
Speaker 2: from people for example, Christina and Aman from Our Rich Journey.
Speaker 2: You know, they have two tween age girls and they
Speaker 2: talk a lot about the ways that they've saved. So
Speaker 2: if you haven't checked out their YouTube channel, we've had
Speaker 2: them on the show before. I think it was episode
Speaker 2: I mean two thirty and one to thirty one, I
Speaker 2: think a few couple of months ago. You can go
Speaker 2: back and listen to that. They have a really great
Speaker 2: YouTube channel, great advice on finding side hustles, especially which
Speaker 2: was one way that they brought an extra income when
Speaker 2: they were saving for early retirement, and they really got
Speaker 2: the kids involved too, and their little girls have this
Speaker 2: channel called our which what is it called.
Speaker 1: Are Young Rechard something. But it's really good.
Speaker 2: I know, I feel like Junior is in there somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's really cute and adorable. So maybe it's you know,
Speaker 2: it sounds what kind of the tone I get from
Speaker 2: the email is that you feel like you're in this alone.
Speaker 2: So I feel like if you get the family involved,
Speaker 2: in your husband or your partner, I'm sorry, you know,
Speaker 2: talking about ways that you guys can bring an extra
Speaker 2: income as a family or reduce you know, spending as
Speaker 2: a family. But I agree with tiffany times are really
Speaker 2: tough right now, and a lot of people aren't saving
Speaker 2: what they think they should or that what they want
Speaker 2: to be saving. And there's so many goals that have
Speaker 2: been set aside because of what's going on right now,
Speaker 2: you know, in our economy and with our healthcare crisis,
Speaker 2: and I think we've all just got to like lower
Speaker 2: the bar a little bit for ourselves and take it easy.
Speaker 2: You know, it sounds like you're making making ends meet,
Speaker 2: which is right now. You know, all you really need
Speaker 2: to do. I do wish that there was some form
Speaker 2: of you know, help, you know, another stimulus or whatnot.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately, for the time being, we are all our heroes,
Speaker 2: you know, asking for help, looking for resources in your area.
Speaker 2: That's really all that you can do right now. But
Speaker 2: best of luck to you and to your family and
Speaker 2: y'all if you have any you know, I think a
Speaker 2: lot of our listeners have kids. If there's anything y'all
Speaker 2: are doing, you know these days, to you know, bring
Speaker 2: an extra income or you know, adjust your goals and
Speaker 2: expectations because of what's going on, you know, feel free
Speaker 2: to share.
Speaker 1: We'll share on the showily, like don't be afraid to
Speaker 1: lean into like services, you know, like is are there
Speaker 1: food services that you might qualify for? Are their rental
Speaker 1: services like in your municipalities, especially now during the time.
Speaker 1: I like Newark actually has some like rent assistant services.
Speaker 1: They have places where that deliver or that bring food
Speaker 1: every every afternoon, like especially where their children, like where
Speaker 1: you can pick up lunch or dinner. So lean in,
Speaker 1: lean into those services if you need them. I've certainly
Speaker 1: been in that position before as well. Sorry to cut
Speaker 1: you off, Mandy, I just want to put that out
Speaker 1: that I was just thinking of that.
Speaker 2: No, that's great. I was just going to say, hit
Speaker 2: us up brand Ambition podcast on Instagram or brannd Ambition
Speaker 2: Podcast at gmail dot com if y'all have any tips
Speaker 2: or stories you want to share. All right, Danielle, thank
Speaker 2: you again for your question. Let's take another one. This
Speaker 2: is This is an interesting one from listener named Lauren,
Speaker 2: and she's a homeowner wondering if she should go ahead
Speaker 2: and use a loan that she took out or sit
Speaker 2: on the cash for a while. All Right, Lauren says,
Speaker 2: I'm a homeowner of eight years and the main level
Speaker 2: of my house desperately needs repairs. I'm talking floor cracking,
Speaker 2: paint peeling, desperate. It's a long backstory, but basically, the
Speaker 2: person I purchased a home from was kind of shady
Speaker 2: and didn't do work properly. Now there's a lot that
Speaker 2: will have to be done in order to do the
Speaker 2: job right. My plan is to sell the house within
Speaker 2: the next year or so. I know that in order
Speaker 2: to do that, I need to make the repairs. But
Speaker 2: to be honest, even if I don't sell right away,
Speaker 2: I'm just tired of the way the house looks. It's
Speaker 2: seriously depressing. I've gotten estimates ranging from ten thousand to
Speaker 2: eighteen thousand dollars for the work, and I took out
Speaker 2: a twelve thousand dollars home equity loan for the repairs
Speaker 2: right before the RONA shut everything down and holding on
Speaker 2: to the money in my savings because we're in the
Speaker 2: middle of a pandemic and recession, so I wanted to
Speaker 2: have a cushion. I highly doubt I'll be out of
Speaker 2: work anytime soon, but of course you never know. So
Speaker 2: what should I do. Should I go ahead and get
Speaker 2: the repairs done now, or should I continue to wait
Speaker 2: it out. I'm so torn about this, and I just
Speaker 2: need another opinion or two, because I am all cabs stressed. Okay,
Speaker 2: So twelve K in the bank. It's a home equity loan,
Speaker 2: which is for those who want to back up real quick.
Speaker 2: A home equity loan is when you tap into the
Speaker 2: equity of your home and the bank gives you a
Speaker 2: loan based on that equity and you owe. Let's say, well,
Speaker 2: there's a home equity loan, there's a home equity line
Speaker 2: of credit. Home equity loans a lump sum. So it's
Speaker 2: like a personal loan, you know, the same way that
Speaker 2: a personal loan works. You just get the lump sum
Speaker 2: and you're in your bank account and you can use
Speaker 2: it for whatever you want to use it for. And
Speaker 2: then a line of credit is when you it's basically like,
Speaker 2: you know, same amount of money, but instead of getting
Speaker 2: in a one line some you can use that line
Speaker 2: of credit as you need it. You don't have to
Speaker 2: use the whole thing if you don't want to, kind
Speaker 2: of like a credit card. But anything you do use,
Speaker 2: you'll you'll eventually end up owing it back. All right, Well,
Speaker 2: thank you for indulging me. In my definition, that's.
Speaker 1: Good because you know, a lot of people would be like,
Speaker 1: say what now, But my concern is I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you actually use it to improve
Speaker 1: the quality of the home, or you will have taken
Speaker 1: money out of a house that you have not invested
Speaker 1: back into. So you're end up almost like it's almost
Speaker 1: like double owing. You know. I can understand about like,
Speaker 1: you know, not you know, wanting to have some savings.
Speaker 1: Although you didn't say what she didn't say what she
Speaker 1: did for a living, But she seems pretty confident she's
Speaker 1: not going to lose her job. I don't know what
Speaker 1: work needs to be done in the house, but you know,
Speaker 1: like around here where I live, I certainly see that
Speaker 1: people are actually working because you know, you want to
Speaker 1: maintain and be safe. But you know there are farms
Speaker 1: and things that are still you know, they're using safety
Speaker 1: precautions and are working on people's homes. And that's honestly,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get work a little bit
Speaker 1: cheaper because you know there are people who are not
Speaker 1: wanting to, you know, renovate right now because of all
Speaker 1: that's going on. So you might find people who I
Speaker 1: wanted to give you a better deal because they need
Speaker 1: to work. So keep that in mind too. I just
Speaker 1: think taking money out of a property that's meant to
Speaker 1: be used to like enhance the property, you just don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't want you to not to use it
Speaker 1: to enhance the property. And now you've pulled money out,
Speaker 1: you own more, but the property is not worth more.
Speaker 2: So that's just my biggest concern. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 2: sounds like pretty, you know, it's not like she's talking
Speaker 2: about interior design, like the floors are cracking, paint is peeling.
Speaker 2: Like I think if you like maybe you could scale
Speaker 2: back what you were planning to do and just do
Speaker 2: the bare necessities, especially with like winter coming up. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, it's not a bad time to
Speaker 2: do a project like this, Like Tiffany said, people are
Speaker 2: probably looking for work, and if it's interior work, that's
Speaker 2: a bit more appealing the twelve thousand dollars that you've
Speaker 2: got sitting in your bank account. You know, not I
Speaker 2: can't think of any necessarily downsides to not using it.
Speaker 2: But if it's I mean, if you've got stable income,
Speaker 2: you don't mention if you've already got you know, a
Speaker 2: little bit of savings set aside, or a lot of
Speaker 2: bit of savings hopefully you know, if you were to
Speaker 2: lose your job, then you know, I don't see any
Speaker 2: harm in it. But like I'm like making a mental
Speaker 2: pros and cons list. If you want to sell the
Speaker 2: house and you know you need to do the repairs,
Speaker 2: then I would say, Okay, that's that's a reasonable use
Speaker 2: of funds that you've taken out against the equity in
Speaker 2: your home. That makes a lot of sense. A lot
Speaker 2: of people, like I feel like that's the most popular
Speaker 2: reason for taking out a home equity loan. And if
Speaker 2: you feel, you know, relatively stable in your job. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't see a huge problem with that personally from
Speaker 2: my experience doing home improvement projects. It's that it doesn't
Speaker 2: all happen at once, and you may be able to
Speaker 2: you know, spread the workout over several months so you
Speaker 2: don't have to fork over the entire twelve thousand dollars
Speaker 2: right away, and that may help, you know, hedge against
Speaker 2: some of the risk. So if you don't have to
Speaker 2: spend it all, you know, you can be saving on
Speaker 2: the back end, you know, trying to replenish your savings
Speaker 2: as you you know, use those funds to fund your
Speaker 2: project and then feel a little bit more you know,
Speaker 2: confident moving forward. And then worse comes to worse if
Speaker 2: something bad happens, you know, you lose your job or
Speaker 2: a source of income or whatnot, then you may not
Speaker 2: have used all of the funds and just a portion
Speaker 2: of it. So if you're going to be working with
Speaker 2: a certain company or contractor, you know, ask how they
Speaker 2: would like to be paid and how many installments and
Speaker 2: over what period of time, and that can give you
Speaker 2: a better sense of you know, how far you can
Speaker 2: spread the payments out. Whoof I really dug deep for that.
Speaker 2: So I hope that was helpful. And again Tiff and
Speaker 2: I are you know, they adjust our ideas. Ultimately, you
Speaker 2: got to do what works you know best for you.
Speaker 1: And that's that.
Speaker 2: On that, on that, how you feel? One more question?
Speaker 2: Or should we boost and break? Break? All right, let's
Speaker 2: do this and lesson an hour or for the first
Speaker 2: time in a long time.
Speaker 1: And now it's time to boost a break or boost uber.
Speaker 1: You can boost Landy, are you gonna break?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a boost because I feel like I
Speaker 2: need a mental boost and I have a double boost
Speaker 2: you right. First boost is for those of you who
Speaker 2: want to get COVID tested, but you have been seeing,
Speaker 2: like we've been seeing in our area, really long lines
Speaker 2: outside of urgent carres that do it, like rapid testing.
Speaker 2: Whatever the line is for, it's very long. We've found
Speaker 2: this company called Pixel Lab. This is not an endorsement.
Speaker 2: I just use this company twice. You can order your
Speaker 2: vaccine not your vaccine, whoa no, not a vaccine. You
Speaker 2: can order your test kit for COVID online. They mail
Speaker 2: it to you overnight. You do a little nasal swab,
Speaker 2: put it back in the little tube and you ship
Speaker 2: it off to them again overnight and I got my
Speaker 2: results back and maybe three business days from after I
Speaker 2: mailed it, so it's pretty fast and you didn't have
Speaker 2: to leave the house. It's really safe. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to drop a link to Pixel lab Core in the
Speaker 2: show notes because I have found friends and family don't
Speaker 2: want to get tested because it's a hassle and with Pixel,
Speaker 2: I just and maybe there's other companies besides Pixel, but
Speaker 2: this is the place that my family has used a
Speaker 2: few times now, and you can order kit. I've ordered
Speaker 2: two kits and although it says it's one hundred and
Speaker 2: nineteen dollars at checkout, if you put your insurance information in.
Speaker 2: You know, thanks to the one piece of legislation that
Speaker 2: was passed this year, it made COVID testing free, so
Speaker 2: you should be able to get a free COVID test
Speaker 2: through Pixel. So that's my boost for that, and I
Speaker 2: promise a double boost. The other side of my boost
Speaker 2: is have you had Tiffany? You're so busy, but I
Speaker 2: wanted to shout out. I know you probably haven't watched
Speaker 2: it yet, but there is a black Andy black, black
Speaker 2: black Netflix movie Christmas movie called Jingle Jangle. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: It looks so good. I'm saving it for this weekend
Speaker 2: because I want to, like, or whenever we get our
Speaker 2: Christmas tree, I want to like watch Jingle Jangle? Who
Speaker 2: is it? Having? It has? What's the guy from the
Speaker 2: Last King of Scotland forest would occur? I believe Keegan Michael.
Speaker 2: Wait what's that? I always get them confused, Keegan Michael,
Speaker 2: Peel or no Key and Peel, the tall one, the
Speaker 2: non horror movie one. He's isn't it? And I feel
Speaker 2: like it's a musical or something. I don't know. It
Speaker 2: looks amazing and I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Now that I've been hearing some people who are honestly
Speaker 1: like not into someone said there, like I don't even
Speaker 1: like musicals, but girl, this musical gave me life. So
Speaker 1: I'm actually really excited to watch because you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you need like a freaking mental break, you know.
Speaker 2: Yes, we need this collectively. Yes, you should definitely watch
Speaker 2: it for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, my boost other than go ahead on and take
Speaker 1: the financial Homeless Squiz, It's only two minutes and ten
Speaker 1: questions at GGW money dot com. Is there is I
Speaker 1: have a new fave IG page. I'm trying to find him.
Speaker 1: His name starts as Neil. Let me find him. So
Speaker 1: Neil qatal any a l k a yl. He is
Speaker 1: a Supreme Court lawyer, a law professor, an extremist centrist,
Speaker 1: and a former US Acting Solicitor General. I don't know
Speaker 1: all that things. And so oh he argued forty one
Speaker 1: cases in front of RBG. Wow, So anyway Neil's officiale okay.
Speaker 1: So Neil has been doing something called court Side with Neil,
Speaker 1: a discussion of the post election litigation attempting to reverse
Speaker 1: the election results. And when I tell you, Mandy, life,
Speaker 1: because you have this man who is one, he's like
Speaker 1: really like, you know, down to earth. I don't know
Speaker 1: how he manages to explain law in a way that
Speaker 1: like anyone can understand. But any anxiety that you might
Speaker 1: have felt post elections saying well, I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna feel good until you know president electorsworna and girl,
Speaker 1: I don't feel no anxiety because Neil has broken down
Speaker 1: all the tea with the light. So he is like.
Speaker 1: What I love about Neil's that clearly he's like genius,
Speaker 1: super smart, you know, super accomplished. But he's also slightly shady,
Speaker 1: so he adds all that together, which is the.
Speaker 2: Shadiness.
Speaker 1: Love it. But what I really like about Neil is
Speaker 1: that since the election, he's really like broken down, Like
Speaker 1: so current president has lost twenty twenty I guess whatever
Speaker 1: lawsuits that he's brought forth, and how none of them
Speaker 1: have gone through, and how even in Arizona they're not
Speaker 1: saying this, but his own lawyer said, no, we don't
Speaker 1: think that there's fraud because in order for you to
Speaker 1: bring fraud to a court, to the court, you have
Speaker 1: to come with proof. But he just breaks down everything.
Speaker 1: So if you're feeling any anxiety about post election, even
Speaker 1: though you're like, I'm pretty sure we're good, go head
Speaker 1: on to Neil katal n e A l KA t
Speaker 1: y A L and watch some of his court side
Speaker 1: Like IG shows there like three or four minutes long.
Speaker 1: It's just, like I said, super smart, a little bit
Speaker 1: of shady, but very entertaining.
Speaker 2: Oh I love that. I'm going to need because I've
Speaker 2: been feasting on Prete. Burarra's the former what's it called
Speaker 2: Attorney General for New York. He was fired by Trump
Speaker 2: and a tweet like everyone else. He has a podcast
Speaker 2: called cafe cafe something, what's it called preet Burarra. We
Speaker 2: can LinkedIn and then show notes, and he had only
Speaker 2: one episode and I was like, give me more, give
Speaker 2: me more rational thinking, legal minds about what is because
Speaker 2: I don't know how this all happens. And I feel
Speaker 2: exactly like you were saying, Tiff, like I want to
Speaker 2: be excited, but like court stuff, I don't know how
Speaker 2: this works, litigation. What love it? So his name is Neil,
Speaker 2: we'll link it in the in the show notes. That's
Speaker 2: that's dope. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think like, yeah, like I said, it
Speaker 1: was just I mean, it was actually h Questlove from
Speaker 1: the Roots crew. So he like shared I didn't even
Speaker 1: know I was following Questlove, but he shared one of
Speaker 1: his videos and I watched it. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: and so now he posts on something almost every day.
Speaker 1: It's just really honestly, what I like about it too,
Speaker 1: is that it's it's very like, it's not just entertaining,
Speaker 1: it's very informational from like and you know, just someone
Speaker 1: who has not just studied law, but you know, practice
Speaker 1: laws for a long time. And then you're like, oh
Speaker 1: and then when then when you watch I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: When you watch like Fox and the News, you're like,
Speaker 1: this is really bad they are. They are reporting in
Speaker 1: such an egregious way that you're like wow, because none
Speaker 1: of what they're saying is actually happening. They're like straight lying,
Speaker 1: and you kind of know that, but to hear from
Speaker 1: a legal perspective, you're like, this is really really bad.
Speaker 2: So I mean, like I said, enjoy love it all? Right, Well,
Speaker 2: one more week until wait, two more weeks until things.
Speaker 2: Give me what's happening next week? I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: on vacation next week. I cannot wait. I can't wait
Speaker 2: to just be one thing. All I gotta be is
Speaker 2: Mandy the mom during the week. That's gonna be really nice.
Speaker 2: We'll still take our show, but I'm really looking forward
Speaker 2: to taking some time off, and I just if you haven't,
Speaker 2: I feel fortunate. I feel a little guilty because I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people are struggling, and I feel
Speaker 2: very fortunate. It's like the survivor's guilt that I have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to take paid time off. I got to
Speaker 2: figure out some way to get back, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to try try to at least with some of it
Speaker 2: and take a load off because it has been a year, yes,
Speaker 2: and several years in one, like you said. And if
Speaker 2: you haven't, even though holidays are kind of lowercase ce
Speaker 2: canceled this year, still take your time off, even if
Speaker 2: it's just to sit around and watch Jingle Jangle on
Speaker 2: repeat on Netflix a million times. I think if you
Speaker 2: have the opportunity and the blessing to have some time off,
Speaker 2: take it, enjoy it in whatever way you can. Let's
Speaker 2: make the most of this. Yes, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 1: Now is really the time to really dig into what
Speaker 1: you're truly, truly thankful for and lead into that more
Speaker 1: than anything else.
Speaker 2: And if you have gift ideas, let me know, because
Speaker 2: I don't know what to get anybody. I'm like but
Speaker 2: dazzled face masks, like what do you get people? All right,
Speaker 2: y'all take care and we will see y'all next week,
Speaker 2: next week,