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Speaker 1: Tiff.

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Speaker 2: You want to read this one from Natasha from Instagram?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Is it? Yes? Okay? Good morning. First and foremost,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to say how much I enjoy your podcast. Well,

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Speaker 1: we enjoy you, Natasha. Thank you, Tasha says, can I

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Speaker 1: my world, we call that high ticket item, okay, and

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Speaker 1: How can I elevate well on a budget? Okay? Okay?

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Speaker 1: How do you feel mandy about like the high ticket

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. I do think that. I think

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Speaker 2: I surely wouldn't spend that much money unless I had

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Speaker 2: Like that's really hard to promise. So I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: Maybe you are more hands on, Like there's there's a

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Speaker 2: don't have to do that. Yeah, there's other lower ticket

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Speaker 1: And so I'll say that. So one of my friends,

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Speaker 1: her name is Christina Aguilera, like not the sayer Christina

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Speaker 1: I want to say, she maxed out her credit cards

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Speaker 1: When she first started, she was like, girl is of

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Speaker 1: it was expensive. I don't know if I'd ever do

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Speaker 1: You know, so you got for thirty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: I put it to work because people be like they

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Speaker 1: you learn the thing.

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Speaker 2: I know, it feels like you've done something. It drives

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Speaker 2: I'm just like, can I creepily email it and be like,

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Speaker 2: what aren't you Dren?

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Speaker 1: You paid his money.

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Speaker 2: I made it for you to use.

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