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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Manjer, how you doing? Hi?

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Speaker 2: Goudgeous? If this is how you look in a room

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, lord, hey did you even you didn't

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Speaker 2: notice too? I have on my T shirt? Can you

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Speaker 2: Is that y'all say? It's Oh my god. If she

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Speaker 1: From Where did you get that from?

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Speaker 2: I made it?

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Speaker 1: You know what, at the time, we don't even have

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Speaker 2: People to what I'll tell you. I'll tell you off.

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Speaker 2: I was going through it okay, and it makes me happy.

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Speaker 2: And did you know you can make custom T shirts

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Speaker 2: I didn't go ahead. Welcome to the b a q A. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yes, where you have questions, we might have the answers,

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Speaker 1: although we are not you a doctor, your attorney's financial minds,

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Speaker 1: pay for information from. Okay, Okay, so you're granny, not us.

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Speaker 2: What have we got today? Some many questions? So this

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Speaker 2: Are we doing this as a two parter?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because we've got to split her into two parts?

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Speaker 2: So like yeah, so okay, like magicians. Okay, let's go.

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Speaker 2: Tanya says, Hi, ladies, I love listening to your show

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Speaker 2: and I have learned so much along the way. I

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Speaker 2: so I think that's like one part of this. So

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Speaker 2: Going bankrupt cannot be the solution here. It's either you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I would just say Tanya that I just

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Speaker 2: I buy? Do I need to buy? What you need

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Speaker 2: that way. So thank you to Tanya for your question,

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Speaker 2: and Tiff, thank you for sharing your experience in BA FAM.

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