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Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, hey guys, It's me Tiffany and it's Mando.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Hey, we're back. We're black, We're brown and

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Speaker 1: bit shan. Hey, Mando, do I sound like I'm in

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Speaker 1: a different background, Mandy?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, are you on the beach or somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Are you in some form of paradise that I will

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Speaker 2: be jealous of?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean kind of. I'm in my designer, her office,

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Speaker 1: Rihanna of remain home because my internet is trash. The

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Speaker 1: storm left me. The storm we had last week left me,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, just without a strong internet home. And

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Speaker 1: so she's housing me. So I'm in her office right now.

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Speaker 1: Her office is everything in a bag of chips. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'm not mad at it. So

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Speaker 1: I like being here. So I live here now.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's nice that you have someone close by you

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Speaker 2: can go to. Yeah. That storm that came through just

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Speaker 2: like knocked everyone on the East Coast power out except

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Speaker 2: for my street. We felt really good about ourselves because

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Speaker 2: we were the only street in our entire neighborhood slash

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Speaker 2: county that seemed like it didn't lose power. And it

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Speaker 2: was the same week, like last week, I was going

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Speaker 2: to get my first haircut in nearly a year, and

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Speaker 2: then also my first head shots and nearly when did

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Speaker 2: you and I do our headshots for the show five

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Speaker 2: years ago? And of course both of the people who

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Speaker 2: were doing you know, those services, their power went out

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Speaker 2: and I had to reschedule and all this. But and

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Speaker 2: then a little did we like on Friday we lost

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Speaker 2: power while they were fixing whatever, we lost power, and I,

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Speaker 2: you know, it screwed my whole day up. But I

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Speaker 2: just feel like lack of internet should be a crime. Yay,

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Speaker 2: it should just but I'm glad that you have a refuge. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we've got like weather, it cannot be what we start

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Speaker 2: talking about. We have got to talk about Kamalama.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, yes, that's how do you feel?

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Speaker 1: I feel both excited but that also scared because I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh God, like, are people gonna, you know, like, are

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Speaker 1: people going to vote like for a black woman? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I could take four more years. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: So that's the only guy. I was both excited but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the emotions everyone is feeling because it's

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Speaker 2: and you know, you get caught up your My initial

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Speaker 2: reaction was, I truly felt this sense of relief and

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Speaker 2: fear that someone will ruin us for us. It's very

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Speaker 2: odd and I'm struggling. I'm not the kind of person

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Speaker 2: I usually avoid Twitter because I am afraid that my

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Speaker 2: super optimistic. I'm so freaking happy that Biden picked a

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Speaker 2: at that. Kamala Harris is everything that I think conservatives

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Speaker 2: You know, can you imagine Trump ever like lifting up

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Speaker 2: against anything he had done in the past. But Biden

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Speaker 2: enough to say, you know, forget about this you know

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Speaker 2: this sick burn that you levied against me in the debate.

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Speaker 2: You're someone that I can learn from who won't be

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Speaker 2: afraid to challenge me. And I'm just putting words into

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Speaker 2: and I I'm free. I mean, her nomination is historic,

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Speaker 2: yeah it is. But if she's elected first black VP,

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Speaker 2: the fear I feel is just like, please don't dig

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Speaker 2: this from I was like, I want to be hopeful

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Speaker 2: that I have to believe. I guess now that America

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Speaker 2: wants someone like this in office. We have got to

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Speaker 2: come out, you guys and vote. You've got to, you know,

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: Yes, even though they're trying to defund the UH.

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Speaker 2: I just it's kind of terrifying.

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Speaker 1: It is. I just it's like someone I was watching

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Speaker 4: When did he go into the koma like before, like

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Speaker 4: you know, like like two years prior or whatever, But like,

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Speaker 4: so can you imagine someone waking up and being like

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Speaker 1: Here's a virus going on, it's killing people. People are

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Speaker 1: fighting to go outside anywhere, Like can you just imagine all?

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Speaker 1: But it just sounded so crazy. So yeah, I just

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to temper my hope because I was hopeful

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Speaker 1: last time and we see where that got us. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just but it's at the very least it was

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Speaker 1: very this. You know, we're celebary. That was going to

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Speaker 1: be actually my wien for today, like Colala Camela, Camela,

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Speaker 2: Can't wait till the end of the show to talk

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Speaker 2: about this. What I mean, I get it. You know,

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Speaker 2: there may be whenever you said hope, I thought about

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Speaker 2: memoir the audacity of Hope, and I have I you know,

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Speaker 2: it's just I don't know what it's been. Maybe it's

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Speaker 2: cynical lately, but I have felt more hopeful and optimistic.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe I just survived that crazy few months at

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Speaker 2: just like, nothing can kill me, you know, I can

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Speaker 2: do anything. I choose optimism, I choose hope. I think

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Speaker 2: it really is a choice. And I don't not saying

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Speaker 2: that if that's not where you're at right now, not

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Speaker 2: you personally, but anyone listening. If today is not the

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Speaker 2: day when you can feel optimistic and hopeful, and that's okay.

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Speaker 2: But lately I've just felt this. I've felt grateful in

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Speaker 2: a lot of ways for the changes that I've seen

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Speaker 2: the last few months in our country, the way that

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Speaker 2: we're talking about systemic racism, the seismic shift I think

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Speaker 2: in those conversations, the fact that my mother for my

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Speaker 2: business out of Chicago, owned by a black woman called Glamorina.

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Speaker 2: And is it Chicago now now I'm not sure, but anyway,

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Speaker 2: it's called Glamorina. Like my mom did that, she went

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Speaker 2: out of her own way to find a business owned

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Speaker 2: be meaningful to me, Like who is my mother? My

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Speaker 2: mother voted for and I know she listens to the

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Speaker 2: first of all, she also listens to the show. Now

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Speaker 2: also another change, and she listens to it and doesn't

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Speaker 2: like get angry. I think at what she hears, you know,

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Speaker 2: when she's she voted for Trump in twenty sixteen, and

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Speaker 2: I choose to you know, I think that I have examples,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I hate I mean, it would destroy me,

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Speaker 2: time around, if he who must not be named were

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Speaker 2: to win this election again. But I can at least

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Speaker 2: say change, Like, there has been good that has come

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Speaker 2: there have been great moments, there have been conversations that

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Speaker 2: of the devastation that he has wrought, I think that

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Speaker 2: there has been there has been goodness. And that's just

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Speaker 2: kind of what I'm trying to focus on. And I

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Speaker 2: think we and whatever you need to hear. I just

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Speaker 2: want to like motivate anyone to you know, just try

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Speaker 2: to be hopeful and encourage people that you know who

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Speaker 2: who yes, they absolutely do, or people who don't think

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Speaker 2: that there's a point in voting because oh, Trump's just

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Speaker 2: going to win. Like we can't. We can't let those

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Speaker 2: think that that is what it's going to take. It

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Speaker 2: will be a tight race. I'd be shocked if it weren't.

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Speaker 2: Every vote is going to count. There's too much on

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Speaker 2: the line. That's how I feel here. I mean, not you,

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Speaker 2: I'm just imagining.

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Speaker 1: I'm usually Sydney, and I'm not like saying I guess

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Speaker 1: I'm just like just the emotion of it all. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna live somewhere in the

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Speaker 1: middle so I can manage my emotions. But no, no,

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Speaker 1: but I can understand honestly, to your point, the the

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Speaker 1: fact that Black Lives Matter has become quote unquote mainstream

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Speaker 1: is like tremendous enough. Like Patrice, one of the Black

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Speaker 2: Like that's the beauty of their story. It shows you

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Speaker 1: But what I will say is that even if it's

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Speaker 1: not eight years to retirement. Even if it's not, you know,

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Speaker 1: like being able to move to Portugal. What I will

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Speaker 1: say is that there is better available to everyone. And

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Speaker 1: that's what I hope that you take away from Eman

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Speaker 1: and Christina, that like, because I mean, look at me,

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Speaker 1: I mean I in the last I mean totally in

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Speaker 1: total over the last ten years, I mean, my business

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Speaker 1: has grossed, I don't know, will be fifteen million dollars.

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Speaker 1: And although I guess I am financially free, I guess

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Speaker 1: you know, I still work like a damn dog, you

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Speaker 1: know who, like building a bunch of these, because I

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Speaker 1: have other things I want to accomplish, you know. And

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Speaker 1: so certainly it helped me look at myself and say, huh,

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Speaker 1: you know, like what is the desired outcome? That's what

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Speaker 1: it helped me look at because you have enough, I guess,

447
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Speaker 1: Tiffany technically, but I'm not working for the money. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to share that that the for me,

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Speaker 1: what I hope listeners got from their story is not

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Speaker 1: that hey be like me. It's more so that better

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Speaker 1: is available and here is an here's an avenue, one

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Speaker 1: of the avenues that you can take. And so I

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Speaker 1: hope you just internalize that because you know, like Mandy's

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Speaker 1: story to success is one that I mean, you didn't

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Speaker 1: grow up with money, Mandy. You know, your mom raised

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Speaker 1: you and your your siblings and it was hard, you know,

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Speaker 1: and from what we know, you were a rebellious young woman.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I stood up for myself. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Specifically, and so right, and then but then look where

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Speaker 1: Mandy is now despite you know, not growing up with

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Speaker 1: a silver spoon. And then look at me two immigrant parents,

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Speaker 1: and you know, yes, I grew up in a two

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Speaker 1: parent household. But my dad was an accountant, my mom

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Speaker 1: was a nurse. These are professions that you know, make

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Speaker 1: decent money. But my dad worked for a nonprofit. So

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Speaker 1: let's be real, like my mom made more, quite honestly.

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Speaker 1: And I'm one of five girls, and I was a

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Speaker 1: preschool teacher and that was my plan up until age

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. And now look, so there is there are

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Speaker 1: so many different paths, so to me, the destinations are

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Speaker 1: not the same, but the path should be always to

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Speaker 1: better and that's what we hope to illustrate with our show.

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Speaker 2: Could not have said it better myself.

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Speaker 1: Thank you tell me now, look, we're trying to we're

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Speaker 1: starting to trade.

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Speaker 3: Y.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then again, go check out our show, our

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Speaker 2: interview with Christina and Iman. And if you listen to

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Speaker 2: it first and you felt some type of way about

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Speaker 2: it and you didn't leave there feeling excited, listen to

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Speaker 2: it again after hearing us, because you know, it's like

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Speaker 2: Tiffany said, there's not just one verse. You have to

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Speaker 2: They inspired me to find my own version of freedom,

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Speaker 2: whatever that looks like. And I feel like I'm at

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Speaker 2: the point now where I've ticked off some boxes and

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Speaker 2: now you know, they it just they came at the

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Speaker 2: right time. One of the listeners who message just said

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Speaker 2: one of the things that was most apparent was that

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Speaker 2: Nandy really needed to hear this story, and you need

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Speaker 2: to hear from Christina and Iman. And I guess I did,

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Speaker 2: you know? I think when you know there's there's this

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Speaker 2: point now where okay, it's level up. It's like level

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Speaker 2: up your money and really start to grow wealth and

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Speaker 2: decide how you want to do that. And am I

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Speaker 2: going to you know Christina and im on they're transparent

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Speaker 2: about how they built their wealth. They side hustled, but

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Speaker 2: they had great careers in government, Christina went back to

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Speaker 2: law school. They flipped houses in the Bay Area. I'm

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Speaker 2: not I have decided like real estate's not my way

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Speaker 2: to wealth. I don't have the tolerant, like the risk

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Speaker 2: tolerance for it. But but I'm excited to find my

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Speaker 2: own way there. And and you know, hearing their story

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Speaker 2: has given me, of course has given some ideas. But

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Speaker 2: if you look at people's story and say, well, they're

506
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Speaker 2: just saying that I have to do it that way,

507
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Speaker 2: then you're not really listening. Yeah, and you've got to

508
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Speaker 2: you know, take your inspiration, but then be just be

509
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Speaker 2: excited to find your own way to to to wealth

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Speaker 2: and wellness. And you know, Tiffany and I I can

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Speaker 2: feel like with this show. We are talking about wealth

512
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Speaker 2: building a lot more on this show, and it's something

513
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Speaker 2: that I think we should really be intentional about because

514
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Speaker 2: look how far we've come in the five years since

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Speaker 2: we've done this show, and we have to acknowledge our

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Speaker 2: longtime listeners. They've grown too. Yeah, Like the questions we

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Speaker 2: got back then are a little bit you know, are

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Speaker 2: different than the ones we're getting now. And if y'all

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Speaker 2: have specific questions, you know, scary technical investing wealth building questions.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to tackle them. I think we should, you know, really,

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Speaker 2: you know, embrace those types of conversations. So you know,

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Speaker 2: what is y'all's plan to build wealth? What questions do

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Speaker 2: you have around stock market investing, investing outside your four

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Speaker 2: to one k and if you know, and for those

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Speaker 2: of you who may think, well, I can hardly imagine

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Speaker 2: investing outside my four to one K because that's all

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Speaker 2: I've gotten so far, and I'm not ready for that.

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Speaker 2: Like listen anyway, because the hope is that one day

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Speaker 2: you will be ready to invest beyond and to grow

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Speaker 2: your wealth, you know, beyond those standard those standard wealth

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Speaker 2: building practices. And I hope that we can help y'all

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Speaker 2: think bigger, bigger than even we have on the show

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Speaker 2: so far.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that was good.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Usually I'm not really a super fan of guests, not

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Speaker 1: to say all of our guests are great. That's what.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a ton of guests because or what

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Speaker 1: not be you know, well, just because I like our

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Speaker 1: conversations together and sometimes you guys are like, I don't

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Speaker 1: need a guess, But we're fortunate that all of our

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Speaker 1: guests have been amazing. That's because we pick you know

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Speaker 1: wisely and we don't overwhelm y'all with guests. But no,

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Speaker 1: that was honestly one of my babe bab baits. And

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Speaker 1: like I said, now I'm tessively stalking them on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: So they're my new besties.

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Speaker 2: New besties, And we were just real quick for people

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Speaker 2: who were looking for because I wasn't. I had dabbled

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Speaker 2: in YouTube, but I usually was looking at recipes. Not dabbled,

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Speaker 2: but I watched a lot of YouTube, but it was

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Speaker 2: usually a recipes or I don't know just how to

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Speaker 2: train your dog not to bark at the mailman. I

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Speaker 2: wasn't looking for financial advice there. But now that I

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Speaker 2: have started looking, there's a lot of great content out there.

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Speaker 2: So Tiff and I we share some faves. Do you

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Speaker 2: want to for anyone who's looking for like some YouTube channel?

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Speaker 2: What do you call them? People I don't chan to watch?

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Speaker 1: Yeah t channels to subscribe to. So we actually have

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Speaker 1: two of our new paves. Like, I didn't realize that

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Speaker 1: you watch my fave all time fave is Minority Mindset

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Speaker 1: with Jos brit sing he is. It's not sex, it's

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Speaker 1: not seek I Alush. I always say sek, but he's like, no,

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Speaker 1: it's called sex. I think it's sex. I think that's

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Speaker 1: the way you're supposed to say it. But yeah, he

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Speaker 1: is awesome sauce. First of all, he is fun, he's engaging.

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Speaker 1: He's in an attorney but like so like he's super smart,

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Speaker 1: but he knows how to explain it's he literally explains

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Speaker 1: the economy, so it's almost like taking an economics class

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Speaker 1: with him. It's not so much like there's personal finance

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Speaker 1: things there, but especially his more recent things are really like,

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Speaker 1: this is what's happening in the economy, and let me

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Speaker 1: explain it to you in a way that you're gonna

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Speaker 1: understand when I tell you, I listen. I watch his

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Speaker 1: videos every single morning. It's one of my go tos.

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Speaker 1: He posts a video about six days a week, and

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Speaker 1: you can sign up for his free emails, which I

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Speaker 1: don't get a chance to read as much. But I

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Speaker 1: watch his videos every day. And then you and I

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Speaker 1: both like investing with Rose Light.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, investing with Rose. She's super I love her. She's

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Speaker 2: you're talking about being a good teacher. She has a

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Speaker 2: really nice Yes, she has a I don't know, I

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Speaker 2: just something about her tone and her approach to talking

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Speaker 2: about finance. She's someone that my husband and I could

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Speaker 2: both look at and listen to and get educated. And

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Speaker 2: he and I were we were bickering back and forth

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Speaker 2: because he was like, no, you're defining index fund wrong. No,

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Speaker 2: I you know, I was like, no, you and index

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Speaker 2: when it's a type of mutual fun. He's like, but

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Speaker 2: it's also an exchange change of fund and I was like, no,

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Speaker 2: it's not. So we watched Investing with Rose and settled

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Speaker 2: the argument, and I think I forget now who was right.

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Speaker 2: I think we're both a little bit right. But she

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Speaker 2: really helps, you know, explain things to you in a

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Speaker 2: way that makes it, you know, easy to understand. And

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Speaker 2: one note about just just Bree and minority mindset. I

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Speaker 2: signed Enrique up for his newsletter yesterday and without asking

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Speaker 2: him because I knew his newsletter is great. I love it.

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Speaker 2: It is between that and he's got a whole I mean,

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Speaker 2: he's kind of like building a whole brand in a

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Speaker 2: whole mediacast. He has a whole team, you know, like.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the they have a free curriculum like a kid

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Speaker 1: could full out, Like if you want to teach your

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Speaker 1: kids financial literacy curriculum just be had a curriculum need

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Speaker 1: And I was just like, I mean, he I don't

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Speaker 1: even know. He's like such a sleeper. I'm like, why

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Speaker 1: hasn't anybody picked up on this dude. He's amazing, funny,

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Speaker 1: like just super intelligent, but like bracings down in a

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Speaker 1: way in full fledged. Like you said, he's a straight

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Speaker 1: media company, So.

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Speaker 2: Watch out for him. And I love and his show

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Speaker 2: Minority Mindset. When I first because I'm in brown ambition mode,

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you know, minorities like brown people.

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Speaker 2: But he means I love about it. When he says

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Speaker 2: minority mindset, he means, you know, building true wealth, the

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Speaker 2: minority of people are able to achieve it, and here

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Speaker 2: are the skills, and here's what they understand about the

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Speaker 2: world and how it works to achieve that type of success.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's a great channel. Investing with Rose is

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Speaker 2: the other one. Who else are you? Are you loving?

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Speaker 2: I know our friends his and her money. They have

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Speaker 2: a really successful channel on YouTube a Lot and I

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Speaker 2: forget now tal and Tie into a Lot. Talent, Tie

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Speaker 2: into a Lot. Thank you to have them on the show.

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Speaker 2: We're supposed to have them on the show a while back,

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Speaker 2: but that never happened.

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Speaker 1: It. Who else is my listening to? That's yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that is. Yeah, that's like my go to right now.

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Speaker 1: There's a few things like sometimes things will pop up

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Speaker 1: and I'll watch like but as far as like who

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Speaker 1: I like my go to to actually go and watch

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Speaker 1: on purpose? Those are my on purpose watchers.

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Speaker 2: You guys, tell us send us an email, Brown Ambition

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Speaker 2: Podcast at gmail dot com. Hit us up. We never

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Speaker 2: talk about Twitter anymore, but that's the thing. Hit us

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Speaker 2: up at the BA podcast on Twitter, or of course

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Speaker 2: our beloved home Instagram at Brand Ambition Podcast on the Gram.

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Speaker 2: Who are y'all listening to or watching on YouTube? Like?

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Speaker 2: What channels do you binge on the weekends? Like the

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Speaker 2: money nerds that we know and love, let us know,

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Speaker 2: maybe we'll shout them on the show. Maybe we'll have

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Speaker 2: more of them on as our guests or vice versa.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be awesome, awesome sace.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's take a quick break, shall we and come

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Speaker 2: back and dive into some questions.

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Speaker 3: Yes, let's do so.

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Speaker 2: Brandanbision Podcast. Let's Die Then, this question is near and

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Speaker 2: dear to my heart because I recently decided to cut

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Speaker 2: this expense from my budget and I want to talk

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Speaker 2: about why. So this question comes from listener Ranata. She says,

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Speaker 2: what are y'all thoughts on pet insurance? I've had insurance

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Speaker 2: for my nine year old dog for the past three years.

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Speaker 2: It started out at thirty dollars and every year the

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Speaker 2: price increases. It's now at forty five dollars and I'm

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Speaker 2: beginning to question if it's worth it. It doesn't cover

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Speaker 2: any routine visits, only emergency visits, with which we rarely use.

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Speaker 2: Knock on wood, I've had four months of emergency savings

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Speaker 2: saved up. Working your way up to six months. I'm

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Speaker 2: contemplating canceling the insurance and putting that forty five dollars

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Speaker 2: per month into a separate bank account instead to save

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Speaker 2: up for any of her medical emergencies. What are your thoughts, Well.

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Speaker 1: I will say, I mean, I don't know how long

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Speaker 1: dogs usually live for, but I know that my friend

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Speaker 1: Cabral has a little shit to Bentley, and Bentley is

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Speaker 1: like death now. He's like half blind, and he's been

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Speaker 1: in and out kind of like I know he's been

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Speaker 1: in and out of the hospital for just because he's

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Speaker 1: at that age. And one of the things Cabrel said

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Speaker 1: that he wished he'd gotten was pet insurance. So I

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Speaker 1: guess it. I don't. I mean, I don't. I've never

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Speaker 1: had I mean I had a cat, but she ran away.

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Speaker 1: But whatever, we know the way the cat who lived across.

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Speaker 2: Who lived across the street went on to a better life.

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Speaker 2: But it's just like they feed me on the regulars exactly.

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Speaker 1: Not that cheap stuff that that high school or next

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Speaker 1: door feeds these They feed me real food. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's one thing that he said. He was like,

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Speaker 1: I guess with all of bet news, like you know,

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Speaker 1: medical conditions, he kind of wishes he because he's like

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Speaker 1: some of the things he knows that's his baby, so

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Speaker 1: he's like some of the you know, that's his last

691
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: bill was like three hundred dollars, and so he's like,

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Speaker 1: I wish I would have had insurance for Bentley. So

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Speaker 1: I can only speak from someone who you know, who's

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Speaker 1: going through it now with their pet and trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out I think I think I think Bentley's like

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Speaker 1: twelve or twelve or thirteen years old. So yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that's that can only speak to that. But I know

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Speaker 1: you have do you have insurance or you had it? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So with Mollie, yes, we got her when she was

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Speaker 2: just over a year old, and I forget when maybe

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Speaker 2: a few months in. I mean we probably had a

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Speaker 2: few hundred dollars of vet expenses right out the gate

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Speaker 2: for her. You know, she had to have an annual

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Speaker 2: Even though they come when you get them through a shelter,

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00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: they become neutered or spade or whatnot when they have

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Speaker 2: some of their shots, but you know, there's additional things

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Speaker 2: that you have to go. All of a sudden, it

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Speaker 2: was like she needs a blood test and a fecal

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Speaker 2: exam and I walked out of that that, you know,

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Speaker 2: hundreds of dollars poorer and feeling like, what just happened

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00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 2: to me? What is this dog costing me? And I

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Speaker 2: actually did. I shopped around and I got pet insurance.

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Speaker 2: It's about thirty bucks a month, thirty five something like that.

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Speaker 2: And you definitely should shop around, you know, the same

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Speaker 2: way we've talked about shopping for life insurance policy sites

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Speaker 2: like policy Genius and Value Penguin. You can compare pet

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Speaker 2: insurance policies pretty easily online these days. And she's right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they don't cover a lot of that routine

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Speaker 2: healthcare because that's actually what comes up in the first

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Speaker 2: few years of their life. And that's the shitty thing

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Speaker 2: about it. I'm not gonna lie, but to Tiffany's point,

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Speaker 2: you have to think about the breed of dog that

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Speaker 2: you have and what are the you know, what health

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Speaker 2: issues complications do they tend to deal with later in age,

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Speaker 2: and do some research and find out what maybe some

726
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 2: of the treatments might cost for something like that, and

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00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 2: see if you'd be willing to come out of pocket

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Speaker 2: for those expenses. Pet insurance, unfortunately, it is one of

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Speaker 2: those types of insurance you know it does. It's not

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Speaker 2: covered in Obamacare sadly, so that means that pre existing

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Speaker 2: conditions can sometimes exclude coverage. So like your dog can

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Speaker 2: be denied coverage because they might even just be a

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Speaker 2: type of breed that you know tends to have certain conditions,

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Speaker 2: or you know, if you get insurance later in life,

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Speaker 2: they can they can deny you a policy or charge

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Speaker 2: a lot more depending on like what types of issues

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Speaker 2: a dog has already had. If you've got the space

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Speaker 2: in your budget, it could make sense to have pet insurance.

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Speaker 2: But really what they'll cover is treatment that are accidents,

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Speaker 2: like accidents. Why am I talking like that? Accidents or

741
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: you know, unexpected like injuries, you know, hippick. I hate

742
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 2: to say these things. I don't want to put that

743
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: energy out of the universe, but you know, anyway, they

744
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 2: get really sick, they have a virus, whatever. I recently

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Speaker 2: decided to stop putting or stop paying for help or

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Speaker 2: pet insurance. And I decided it for the same reasons.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like you're you're thinking about renata, which is,

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Speaker 2: you know, I could just put money aside and have

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Speaker 2: some money set aside for if something were to happen

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Speaker 2: and at least then the money is staying in your

751
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: bank account and not going to some insurance company. So

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Speaker 2: I came up with a number that I felt comfortable with,

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Speaker 2: and it's a few thousand dollars, which is just and

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Speaker 2: you know, and I have it in a savings account,

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Speaker 2: and I have it, you know, earmarked for Molly should

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Speaker 2: anything ever happen to her. And I'm continuing to contribute

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00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 2: a little bit to it each month, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I hope I never have to use it, but I'm

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00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 2: okay with that. But to your point, or to your question,

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Speaker 2: you say that you have three to four months of

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Speaker 2: emergency savings already saved up with you yourself and your partner,

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Speaker 2: and it sounds like you would be potentially dipping into

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Speaker 2: that savings fund if something were to happen to your dog.

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Speaker 2: And in that case, I don't know, I would caution

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Speaker 2: you because you don't want your dog to bankrupt your

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00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 2: emergency savings. You know that you don't want to like

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00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 2: put your financial security at risk like that. So maybe

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Speaker 2: pet insurance, you know, makes sense for now, And and

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Speaker 2: once you get once you get more comfortable with where

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Speaker 2: your emergency savings is at, you can start a separate fund,

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00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: you know, for your pet as well. It took me

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Speaker 2: a while to get here to where I had a

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00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: separate savings account for my dog. And I waited until

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00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 2: I got a dog, you know, for a reason, not

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Speaker 2: just because of the yard that I wanted to have

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00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: for the dog, but also I wanted to have you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's difficult. I don't think anyone ever regrets having insurance,

779
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's that's how insurance works. Then that's the

780
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: dumb realization I had about life insurance. And I asked

781
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: my financial advisor. I was like, so, I just spend

782
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars a month and like, if I don't die,

783
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: it just goes away. I don't get the money. She's like, yeah,

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00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 2: that's how insurance works.

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00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 1: Like, guess what on the side, you get to live

786
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Speaker 1: if you do die.

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Speaker 2: You know, your family will love the money, Like I

788
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 2: don't get to enjoy it because I'll be dead. Yeah

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Speaker 2: that hm. Anyway, so it's a I'm sorry, I can't

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00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: give you like a straight yes or no, but I

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00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 2: could see the argument either way, and yeah, it's all

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Speaker 2: I got. Tiffany, why don't you have a pet what's

793
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: what's happening? Doesn't Supergirl want a dog?

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Speaker 1: She wanted one first, hot second. But if you know Supergirl,

795
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: like I know Supergirl, she doesn't like outside, she doesn't

796
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: like bugs, she doesn't like this, she does I'm my girl,

797
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: do you know, like if that's a whole animal, she's

798
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: not prepared. And so she wanted one, just like as

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Speaker 1: a little kid when she was like steven or eight,

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Speaker 1: for like a good three months, and then she realized, wait,

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Speaker 1: I don't like any of the things that go along

802
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Speaker 1: with an animal. So yeah, I don't see her ever

803
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: getting an animal. And I wouldn't mind necessarily a cat,

804
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: I guess. But to me, dogs are a lot of work.

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Speaker 1: I mean, my Rihanna, Who's house I'm taking over right now?

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Speaker 1: She's got a dog, a big French bulldog named Henry. Henry.

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00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 2: Wait, French bulldogs are a little.

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00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: Oh well, maybe it's a.

809
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 2: The library ones like an English bulldog.

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00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, English bulldog, that's what it is. I got my

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Speaker 1: regions mixed up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like all the frenchy lovers are like, how daring.

813
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: I know he's huge and we call him Handhand and

814
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I love Hanhand from Afar and it's

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Speaker 1: a lot. So yeah, like I said, I could see

816
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Speaker 1: myself maybe with the pet I don't know, cat scratch

817
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: things up. I don't have the patience for the scratchy

818
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Speaker 1: scratchy so.

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Speaker 2: Catch Yeah, just wondering. All right, awesome, Well, thank you

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Speaker 2: for that question. Let's get to another one. How much

821
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 2: time do we have to When is your free office expired?

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00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 2: We could take one more, all right, sabulus. This one

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00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 2: is from someone in wants remain anonymous. Mysterious. All right,

824
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 2: but this is an interesting question. This listener says, I'm

825
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 2: currently struggling with contentment. My fiancee and I were going

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00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 2: to quit our jobs and move out of state after

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00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 2: we got married this summer, but then our wedding was

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Speaker 2: canceled due to the COVID situation. Now we'll be in

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Speaker 2: our current place for another year, and I don't really

830
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: want to stay at my job, but they've been so

831
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Speaker 2: great to me. Back in March, they laid off twenty

832
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 2: percent of the company, and my boss asked me if

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00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 2: I could scale back in my current role and work

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Speaker 2: in a different one. At the time, I didn't mind

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Speaker 2: because I was so gracious to even have a job,

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Speaker 2: especially when we initially plan on moving in a few months.

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Speaker 2: But now it's six months later and I'm still working

838
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Speaker 2: in the other role, and I feel like I'm not

839
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 2: advancing in my career skill wise or financially. Would it

840
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 2: be crazy to get another job knowing I'd be there

841
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: for only a year? Or should I just tough it

842
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 2: out at my current place and be grateful? So many

843
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: people don't even have jobs right now.

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00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: There's a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Emotions yet it is good quote, but this is probably

846
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 2: this is a great question because a lot of people

847
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 2: probably like, if you weren't at a it's kind of

848
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 2: like you're stuck. Even people who like broke up right

849
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 2: before the COVID pandemic and ended up still living together

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00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 2: because you know, they couldn't just like leave during a pandemic,

851
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, man, I hate you, but I'm

852
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 2: just stuck with you in this apartment or whatever. You're

853
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 2: like stuck in a job that you don't like, but

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00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 2: it's a job that you feel grateful to have, and

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Speaker 2: you're wondering, should I just be grateful and stay here,

856
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 2: or you know, would it be crazy for me to

857
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 2: move on despite how good they've been to.

858
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: Me, I'm learning that. I mean, it's a job, and

859
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: so I think that you should do what's best for you.

860
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: I know it's hard. I mean I don't think that

861
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: you should not think about, you know, the company they

862
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: work for, especially if they've treated you well. But I

863
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: do think that ultimately you have to do what's best

864
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: for you and try to lighten the blow as much

865
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: as you can for the company. So you might, you know,

866
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: stay on two weeks to help train somebody or whatever

867
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: that looks like. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't stay in

868
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: a place where I'm unhappy because the company. You know,

869
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: you feel like, oh, you know, they kept me on

870
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: because guess what, there are twenty percent of people that

871
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,439
Speaker 1: they didn't keep on. They did what was best for them.

872
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: As by way, those those twenty percent, you.

873
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 2: Know, just laughing on the babies are very wild here.

874
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 2: Socials dinner in that up. So a good point.

875
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 1: So that's what I just say, like, you know, because

876
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: I mean I've been struggling to have a decision that

877
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: I have to make it I'm like, ah, I'm this closed.

878
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: I was this close to making a decision for what's

879
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: best for the other, like group involved and I was like, well,

880
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: so you're gonna make a choice that could affect you

881
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life because you're like, I

882
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: don't want somebody to be disappointed in me. I want us,

883
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: especially as women, to like break out of that habit

884
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: because it's not helpful. And the truth is whatever that

885
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: other person or organization will, they will rebalance and they

886
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: will manage. And so it's your responsibility to take care

887
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: of yourself. It's not someone else's responsibility to take care

888
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 1: of you. And so that's yeah, I think that's really important.

889
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: That's something that's a lesson that we all need to learn.

890
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, I have to take care learn to

891
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: take care of myself now, not doing so in a

892
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: way that's purposely harmful to others, you know, but to

893
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: do so, like okay, well, what is it that I

894
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: need to be happy, to be joyful, to be successful

895
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: and work toward that with integrity, and that's all that

896
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: can be asked of you.

897
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you've given them six months, and I

898
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 2: think the gratitude goes both ways. You stayed with them,

899
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 2: they should be grateful for you that you're willing to

900
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 2: switch jobs. Essentially is what it sounds like and do

901
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 2: something different to feel the need that they have given

902
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 2: that they had to lay off a fifth of their company,

903
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 2: so they should feel gracious toward you. And of course

904
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: I feel the same way. I'm grateful to have a job.

905
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 2: But at the same time, you should like treat this

906
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 2: like a relationship, a healthy one anyway. I know there's

907
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: some toxic relationship behaviors, but one of the things you

908
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 2: have to do is that other person is not a

909
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 2: mind reader, right, so you know, if you like, I

910
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: would tell your boss in a way that you feel

911
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: comfortable doing. You know, tell them, Hey, it's been six

912
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,919
Speaker 2: months you asked me to kind of pivot and take

913
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 2: on this different role. Is there any chance you can

914
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 2: get back to doing what I was doing? Or can

915
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 2: we Is it now okay for us to talk about

916
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 2: the next step for me, because I do want to advance,

917
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 2: and would I would play I would be transparent and

918
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 2: tell them honestly where you're at and where you want

919
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 2: to be. And I recently did this and I have

920
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 2: done at ut jobs before where you have a frank

921
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 2: discussion and it doesn't have to be you come to

922
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 2: the table with the perfect vision of what you want

923
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: to achieve written out, but you come to the table

924
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 2: because you want to express to them, Hey, I want

925
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: to if I'm going to stay here for a while,

926
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 2: I would like to know that there's opportunities for me

927
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 2: here that I can continue to advance. And I think

928
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 2: it's been long enough in the pandemic. Although it probably

929
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 2: depends on your industry and even where you're at geographically,

930
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 2: you know how your company like, what the prospect is

931
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 2: looking like or the future is looking like for them.

932
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 2: But for a lot of businesses now I feel like

933
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 2: the light at the end of the tunnel is approaching

934
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 2: or they can see it, and they're starting to think

935
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 2: past this crazy time and they may be open to

936
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 2: having that conversation. And at least at that point you've

937
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 2: laid your cards on the table, and if you want

938
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 2: to start looking for another role somewhere else, then you

939
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 2: can start doing that. The timing of it, because she

940
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 2: says basically like they'd still want to move out of

941
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 2: state after they get married, and if she were to

942
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 2: take a different job right now, she'd only be there

943
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 2: for a year because their plan is still to move.

944
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 2: And do we think that's crazy. We actually recently took

945
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 2: a question about this similar like what happens if I

946
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: start a job and then quit it very quickly after starting?

947
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 2: That's tricky. Yeah, taking a job knowing that you're about

948
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 2: to leave within a year, I mean, yang, that's not

949
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: the best. And would it be a job that you

950
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: could work remotely at? I don't know.

951
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: Yes, I would still look because you're right, it might be,

952
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,399
Speaker 1: especially with what's happening now, like the opportunity to get

953
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: a job remote a remote job is way higher. Also, too,

954
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: you might take a job as like a contract job,

955
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 1: which it is a year, So I wouldn't. Every job

956
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: is not expecting you to stay on for thirty years,

957
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, So I wouldn't take it off the table

958
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: because you're like, I'm only gonna be here for a year.

959
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: But not necessarily because to Mandy's point, it might be

960
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: a job that's really flexible that you can live wherever

961
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 1: in order to do so. So I would at least

962
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: look and look for something within the parameters. What would

963
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: make you feel like it's fair, Like, Okay, you know what,

964
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look for a contract work where it is

965
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: a year's worth, and or I'm gonna look for a

966
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: job that I can take with me, so you know,

967
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,240
Speaker 1: just keep your keep your your options open and definitely

968
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: look all.

969
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 2: Right, Well, thank you very much for your questions, and

970
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 2: that's a wrap for the question segment. You're gonna boost

971
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 2: a break? Wait, I saw your intro, you do it?

972
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: Are you gonna boost or are you gonna I'm actually

973
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: going to deferm my my boost to you because my

974
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: boost was gonna be Comela since I'm short on time,

975
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 1: so that's my boost if I'm Kamala.

976
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,280
Speaker 2: But okay, that's fine. At least you didn't say kampala,

977
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 2: which is also trending on Twitter. Do better, y'all. I

978
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: don't know if it's autocorrect or what is happening. Maybe,

979
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 2: like she, I don't know, people are writing kampala. Yeah,

980
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 2: I want to do a brown boost for one for

981
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 2: the Brian Ambish and listener Stacy, who reached out to

982
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 2: me because she saw I was a woman in need

983
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 2: and she guessed correctly that she and I live in

984
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 2: the same neighborhood almost kind of in the same town,

985
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 2: and she offered to do my hair for me, and

986
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 2: little did she know, but I was really having a

987
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,359
Speaker 2: hard time finding a natural hair salon where I live.

988
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: In the suburbs outside of New York City, and she

989
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 2: was fantastic, and so Hugh was shout out and thank

990
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 2: you to Stacy. I paid her. She did not do

991
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 2: it for free for those who were wondering. And I

992
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 2: sat there with her, and I had actually been going

993
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 2: to I had been going. I went one time to

994
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 2: a hair salon in the last well not even the

995
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 2: last year. It was before I had the baby, and

996
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 2: she it's a curly hair salon, but you know, it's

997
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 2: owned by a white woman, and her clientele is a

998
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 2: lot of like I saw a lot. I saw several,

999
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 2: you know, women of color walk through and get their

1000
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 2: hair done or at least coming through to talk to

1001
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 2: her while I was there, And honestly, I felt some

1002
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 2: kind of way, especially in the last few months, thinking

1003
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 2: about trying to promote or not promote, but like, you know,

1004
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 2: vote with my dollars and take my money to more

1005
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 2: black owned businesses. So when I was when I was

1006
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: rebooking an appointment with that salon, I was kind of thinking, like, man,

1007
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 2: I wish there were a black owned, like a natural

1008
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: hair salon near me that I knew of. And so

1009
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 2: Stacy's message came at the exact right time, and I

1010
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 2: was so glad to get to work with her. And

1011
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 2: also the I found a great photographer out here just

1012
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 2: by posting in our my local you know, Moms of

1013
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 2: my town Facebook group looking and I just like asked

1014
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 2: for what I was looking for. Hey, guys, I really

1015
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 2: want to get some headshots done. I'd love to work

1016
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: with a woman of color. Do you know anybody? And

1017
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 2: her name came up and it was a really great experience.

1018
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 2: So it took a little bit of extra Googles or

1019
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 2: searching or whatnot. Well, actually none in the case of Stacy.

1020
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 2: She just fell into my lap. But you know, if

1021
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: y'all are out there wondering, you know, where are the

1022
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 2: black owned businesses If they're not easy to find for

1023
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 2: whatever reason, I think just raising a hand, asking your

1024
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 2: circle and trying to go find them, you know, it

1025
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 2: matters in some small way. So that made me feel good.

1026
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:19,879
Speaker 1: But I will pull all the apb out if any

1027
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: of you guys know an illustrator. I want to build

1028
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,760
Speaker 1: up Molly Moore's my children's book.

1029
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 2: Have we even talked about Molly Moore in a while?

1030
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: Yeah? So we've sold like ten thousand books isn't that crazy?

1031
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 2: What know, it's not crazy, but that's exciting.

1032
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's just so, yeah, we sold I'm printing

1033
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: like another ten thousand a month or so because there's

1034
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: maybe like fifteen hundred if that book's left at the distributor.

1035
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: So for those of you who are new, I wrote

1036
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: a children's book called Happy Birthday Molly Moore. I did

1037
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: a Kickstarter where basically I asked people to purchase a

1038
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: book and put a little extra s thank on it

1039
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: because for every book purchase, I was able to then

1040
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: print a second book to donate. So we were able

1041
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: to get I think just under three thousand books purchased

1042
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: and donated, so the donation unfortunately, they're still sitting at

1043
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: the warehouse separately because the schools have not been opened,

1044
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: because we're donating them to like in mass, to specific schools.

1045
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: But anyway, saying all that said, yeah, we sold like

1046
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: ten thousand books and we're printing another printing. I remember

1047
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: when I was printing ten thousand, the distributor was like,

1048
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: are you sure we don't people don't typically sell that many,

1049
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: and I was nervous, like, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong,

1050
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 1: but sure enough in like two and a half months gone.

1051
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: So you can find Molly Moore at Mali mollymore dot com.

1052
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: It just teaches age appropriate financial education to your little ones,

1053
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: ideally ages three to seven, but certainly younger and certainly older.

1054
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: It's just about a little girl to her birthday and

1055
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: she has to learn the lesson of like what really

1056
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: mattered most.

1057
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 4: Family, a lot of very generous friends, yes, family and

1058
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 4: friends or gifts instead.

1059
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,879
Speaker 1: And so I say all that to say that I

1060
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: like I have. I've been having all these other projects

1061
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: that I've been working on, and I've kind of neglected

1062
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: Molly as far as like what I've been wanting to do.

1063
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: So I want to I have the molly More YouTube channel.

1064
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: There's nothing on it though, but I would love to

1065
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: start to do an animated series that can start teaching

1066
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: specific lessons. And I'm looking for an animator who can help.

1067
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Speaker 1: Obviously I'm paying. So if you know an animator, if

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Speaker 1: you're an animator yourself, if you can go to the

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Speaker 1: budget Lesta dot com and just click contact me and

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Speaker 1: just type in like the subject line like animator and

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Speaker 1: then yeah, or maybe you know someone send me their link.

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Speaker 1: If you're you have like a website, send that or whatever. Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're allowed to attach your portfolio, but

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Speaker 1: you can certainly send a link to things and we

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Speaker 1: might request a portfolio or well, I'm assuming if you're

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Speaker 1: an animator, you'll have a link to your work. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I just I'm excited because I feel like there's

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Speaker 1: something special with Molly Moore and I, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just want to see it all the way through. So

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Speaker 1: I just, yeah, that's my app I'm just reaching out for.

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Speaker 1: I would prefer a black or brown animator, but it's

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Speaker 1: not a deal breaker if they're awesome. Like to me,

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Speaker 1: it was a deal breaker. The illustrator had to be

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Speaker 1: black or brown, and he was Jazz is African American,

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Speaker 1: because that was just really important to me that when

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Speaker 1: you open the book and you see my picture, and

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Speaker 1: you see Jazz's picture, and you see Rihanna, who was

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Speaker 1: our art director, when you see their picture, it's animated picture,

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Speaker 1: but still or illustrated picture, but still it was important

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00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: to me that those pictures were black and brown people,

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Speaker 1: just because I knew those books were being the hand

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Speaker 1: of hands of little children who might not have ever

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00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 1: seen that. But for animation, it's different. You don't get

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Speaker 1: to see who's drawing it. So I'm open to receiving

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Speaker 1: animation requests from a wide range of people, although I

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Speaker 1: do have a preference. So yeah, that's it. Get you

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Speaker 1: a book if you haven't already. Molly Moore m A

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Speaker 1: L M R E M.

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Speaker 2: A love it. Okay, Well that's fine. I mean, I've

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Speaker 2: struck my husband always rolls his eyes when I specifically

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Speaker 2: say I would love this person this role to be

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Speaker 2: filled by a person of color. It does not mean

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Speaker 2: that we're taking like it's not like we're saying no

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Speaker 2: to candidates who are not people of color. It is

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Speaker 2: about it is about making sure that the people that

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Speaker 2: you have at the table, in the pool of potential candidates,

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Speaker 2: that you're at least seeing a diverse group of candidates

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Speaker 2: so that people have a chance.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's a little uncomfortable for people to hear

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Speaker 2: that kind of thing, but I don't think there's anything

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Speaker 2: to be shy about when you when you specifically intentionally

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Speaker 2: say you're looking for this type of person. I mean

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Speaker 2: Biden for of reasons that he was going to look

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Speaker 2: for a woman. It's okay, exactly, and I think that

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Speaker 2: that is, we have to dig and we're comfortable with it,

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Speaker 2: or else we're never going to fix, you know, those issues.

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Speaker 2: But that's a whole different I'm just starting a whole

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Speaker 2: new show here. Well, thank y'all for participating in another

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Speaker 2: episode of Brand Ambition. As we said on last week's show,

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Speaker 3: Yes,