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Speaker 2: so the people can see. Welcome to Brown Amission. Question Answers,
Speaker 2: where you have questions? I have some answers. Although I
Speaker 2: am not your attorney, your doctor, your lawyer, your mama,
Speaker 2: but I can't be your internet bestie or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just a smart brown black girl that knows some things.
Speaker 2: But we want you to lean into the people that
Speaker 2: you pay for that official professional advice. Okay, So first question,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna answer that. Actually I'm gonna answer a quick
Speaker 2: financial question and then a deeper, longer question that so
Speaker 2: many young people in entrepreneurship meaning young, not age young,
Speaker 2: but like in entrepreneurship young ask me. But first question anonymous,
Speaker 2: Anonymous said, I would like to remain anonymous.
Speaker 1: Got you.
Speaker 2: We're gonna call you Custodio. Okay, okay, Custodio. I've been
Speaker 2: catching up on the podcast from the beginning. Love that
Speaker 2: for you and for us. I'm up to episode one
Speaker 2: ninety nine. You said, Tiffany, you opened up a custodio
Speaker 2: wrath iray, which I don't think I said wroth but anyway,
Speaker 2: which is something I thought about opening for my kids.
Speaker 2: When I looked into it. It says that the child
Speaker 2: has to have earned income. Can you please tell me
Speaker 2: how you were able to open yours? Also, are there
Speaker 2: any other accounts I can open for them? Besides that
Speaker 2: are regular savings? Thank you for your time. So I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if I said custodio wroth which the thing is,
Speaker 2: any child can have a rawth ira if they have
Speaker 2: earned income, meaning like they have to work. Because a
Speaker 2: wroth ira ira is an individual retirement account meaning in
Speaker 2: order to say for retirement, you have to be working.
Speaker 1: You have to have money coming in.
Speaker 2: So my sixteen year old bonus daughter, Alyssa, she's got
Speaker 2: an ira because she works for me. She does my
Speaker 2: tiktoks once she gets a chance, so she can have
Speaker 2: a retirement account. I mean, your two year old can
Speaker 2: have a retirement account they're working, you know, like maybe
Speaker 2: they're like a model for like gap or something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, Now, if I said I opened a custodio
Speaker 2: wroth iray, that I missspook that I opened a custodial
Speaker 2: account period an investment account. So you can have a
Speaker 2: custodal a custodial investment account, an account where the money's invested,
Speaker 2: but it's not for retirement, it's just for investment purposes.
Speaker 1: So for myself personally, I have.
Speaker 2: Retirement accounts, I have a WROTH, but I also have
Speaker 2: just regular investment accounts. Now, there are no tax benefits
Speaker 2: like with a roth, iray or any kind of like
Speaker 2: retirement account that you get with the retirement account, but
Speaker 2: I still I mean, these are investment accounts because you
Speaker 2: can only set aside, but so much money. Does a
Speaker 2: cap on how much money you can set aside for
Speaker 2: retirement accounts because there are tax benefits and the government
Speaker 2: is like, we're not trying to have you have all
Speaker 2: the tax benefits, so there's a cap. So for my
Speaker 2: niece Amelia aka mem, my nephew Roman aka row Row,
Speaker 2: my niece Lillian aka A Lily, and Alyssa, they all
Speaker 2: have custodial accounts that I'm the custodian of. But these
Speaker 2: are just regular investment accounts. But because they're all under
Speaker 2: the age of like eighteen twenty twenty one, that I
Speaker 2: am the custodian of and if something were to happen
Speaker 2: to me, then actually, like I now put it into
Speaker 2: my trust. Well, it will just be held for them
Speaker 2: until they reach a certain age if something were to
Speaker 2: happen to me. So yes, So if you're interested in
Speaker 2: opening up an investment account for your kids, you could
Speaker 2: just open up just a regular custodical investment account. You know,
Speaker 2: you can make the metaficiaries depending on how much is
Speaker 2: in there, or you can make the trust the beneficiary
Speaker 2: if you have a trust or you're looking into one,
Speaker 2: and then inside the trust it tells the trust what
Speaker 2: to do with that money, right, I mean you could
Speaker 2: also consider like a five to twenty nine plan, which
Speaker 2: are not really my favorite. So five twenty nines are
Speaker 2: these accounts that you could set aside for education for
Speaker 2: your kids. So they do have a tax component where
Speaker 2: like you know, moneys are allowed to grow like kind
Speaker 2: of like tax free, and you're allowed to use that
Speaker 2: money for an educational event, so typically college. But more
Speaker 2: they have more leeway now where they allowed you allow
Speaker 2: you to even pay for it like sometime for like
Speaker 2: childcare or maybe your child goes to like a private school.
Speaker 2: The only thing I don't like about five twenty nine
Speaker 2: is that you really have to use it for an
Speaker 2: educational event, and if you don't, you know, then the
Speaker 2: tax the tax benefit that you got can be rescinded.
Speaker 2: And so I don't really that's why I didn't open
Speaker 2: up five twenty nine because I don't know the kids,
Speaker 2: like Amelia is five, I want to say, Lily is
Speaker 2: three or four, and Women is seven. They're still so young.
Speaker 1: I don't know what college is gonna look like when
Speaker 1: they get older.
Speaker 2: So I didn't want to pigeonhole their money specifically for education,
Speaker 2: just in case. I wanted them to be able to
Speaker 2: use their money to purchase a home, you know, to
Speaker 2: start a business, or to go to school or whatever.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Custodio. I hope that answers your question.
Speaker 2: So yeah, wait, before we do our next question, which
Speaker 2: is going to be a really good.
Speaker 1: One, let's take a breaking break. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and I'm back in black. Question number two for you.
Speaker 2: So second question actually came from so it's not just
Speaker 2: my producer your money, but I get this question a lot,
Speaker 2: a lot, a lot a lot. If you guys know
Speaker 2: that I am a mental so I have this Patreon,
Speaker 2: which is this like online place where people can like
Speaker 2: they pay like a little bit of money every month,
Speaker 2: they have access to like whatever you're sharing. And so
Speaker 2: for me, I mentor specifically black women in business because
Speaker 2: I get so many questions, are there some men and
Speaker 2: things there? Yes, there's everybody black there, not necessarily, but
Speaker 2: that's my sweet spot because guess what, I am a
Speaker 2: black woman in business and I've been in business for
Speaker 2: over fifteen years, and man, any successful businesses.
Speaker 1: I cracked the code if you will.
Speaker 2: I've got the Budgetista multimillion dollar business. I got Literature
Speaker 2: Academy multimillion dollar business. I had a marketing business at
Speaker 2: one point that was like multi six figures a year
Speaker 2: Brown ambition.
Speaker 1: You know. Successful.
Speaker 2: When I say successful, the means we're in the black.
Speaker 2: You know, we make more than we spend. And I
Speaker 2: feel like I had another one either way that my
Speaker 2: businesses be doing good. But the Budgetissa was my original,
Speaker 2: and I learned so much that ends the upstebs and downs,
Speaker 2: and I worked really, really, really hard, sometimes too hard.
Speaker 2: But as a result of that, I've learned so many
Speaker 2: lessons that I continue to learn because I still have
Speaker 2: three of the for my businesses, and they all do well.
Speaker 2: And over the last I want to say, really, since
Speaker 2: I've made well over thirty million dollars in business, not
Speaker 2: as take home, but like in business gross especially in
Speaker 2: the last I'm want to say that thirty most of
Speaker 2: that thirty million probably make within the last five or
Speaker 2: six years.
Speaker 1: So the girl is doing good over here, and it's
Speaker 1: only getting gooder. As my niece would say.
Speaker 2: So I see all that to say that I get
Speaker 2: questions a lot about entrepreneurship, and lately you guys have
Speaker 2: made Oh sidebar, if you want to be a pay
Speaker 2: if you want to be a mentee, you can go
Speaker 2: to my mentor Tiffany dot com.
Speaker 1: It's ten bucks a month. I mean, girl, like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Ten bucks? You get all the.
Speaker 2: Resources and matter of fact, tonight, I mean, by the
Speaker 2: time you listen to it, you'll catch the replay. I
Speaker 2: am doing this ten step plan of how I made
Speaker 2: my book Get Your Money, a New York Times bestseller,
Speaker 2: a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and how I got to
Speaker 2: sell over two hundred and twenty thousand copies if within
Speaker 2: two years, which is unheard of. Most books sell about
Speaker 2: two thousand in a lifetime. I told two hundred thousand
Speaker 2: plus in two years. So I'm doing this ten step
Speaker 2: plan which I wrote. Took me three hours worth of notes.
Speaker 2: But that's the kind of stuff we do. A Patreon
Speaker 2: at my mentor Tiffany dot com. It's not too late.
Speaker 2: You can always catch our replays. It'll be pinned to
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 1: Anyway. A question I get.
Speaker 2: All the time from my mentees and the producer imani
Speaker 2: Are a producer. Young sister asked me this question. I
Speaker 2: get it a lot, is Tiffany. I've heard you say
Speaker 2: you're in your soft Girls shah Day era of business
Speaker 2: where you have pulled back.
Speaker 1: You are no longer in your Beyonce.
Speaker 2: Era of like Go Go Go, I'm an icon, I'm
Speaker 2: a legend, whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: That's cute for you, millionaire Tiffany. You know sidebar.
Speaker 2: I closed on my house and I don't know if
Speaker 2: I tell y'all, I bought it and I bought a
Speaker 2: cash I know so though that I've been talking to
Speaker 2: you all about bought it. So cute for you that
Speaker 2: you could take a step back. But what about us
Speaker 2: on the come up? What about us who are working
Speaker 2: tour trying to get to where you are. I cannot rest,
Speaker 2: I cannot sit back, I cannot shy day. I got
Speaker 2: the Beyonce gota gotta got it? And I say, do
Speaker 2: you because I know you look at me and you're like,
Speaker 2: but you got here as a result of on your
Speaker 2: Beyonce era, and I say, that's actually not true.
Speaker 1: Come closer.
Speaker 2: I got here despite being in my Beyonce era, because
Speaker 2: the Beyonce era almost took my life. Like if you
Speaker 2: listen to our podcast prior to this one. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure when this is going to come out, but we
Speaker 2: have a podcast with Kadeen and daval Ellis. They have
Speaker 2: a new book called We Over Me, New York Time bestseller,
Speaker 2: and Deval talks about how last year he passed out
Speaker 2: on set and he lost fifteen pounds in three days.
Speaker 2: His blood pressure was so low he thought he was
Speaker 2: having a heart attack. And they do very very very
Speaker 2: very very well in business, and yet all of the
Speaker 2: work that he was putting in for his family and
Speaker 2: for all this money almost took him out.
Speaker 1: And I have been there.
Speaker 2: I did well despite my Beyonce eerr because I created
Speaker 2: this goal for myself and just goals in general, and
Speaker 2: I would hit the goals and then fly past them.
Speaker 2: I want to make a hundred thousand dollars a year
Speaker 2: in business, freu past it. Barely even looked at it
Speaker 2: when I hit it. I wanna get make a million
Speaker 2: dollars a year, fru past. I want to be making
Speaker 2: million dollars in a month, free past it, And like,
Speaker 2: how much more did I need? That? Like? I was
Speaker 2: overworking and overwhelming myself into the most unhealthy I'd ever been.
Speaker 2: I had gained like thirty pounds. My blood pressure was
Speaker 2: through the roof. I never had high blood pressure. I
Speaker 2: was not sleeping just a few hours a night. I
Speaker 2: thought five hours was a lot of sleep. Overwork and
Speaker 2: overwhelmed to what end?
Speaker 1: To what end?
Speaker 2: And it took for I knew something was wrong, like
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and I goten a business coach,
Speaker 2: and I got in a therapist to try to undo
Speaker 2: some of the things I've done, you know, because I
Speaker 2: had painted myself into an entrepreneur corner where I had
Speaker 2: such a huge staff of thirty people that I had
Speaker 2: to work as hard as I was working in order
Speaker 2: to maintain everyone's salaries. I had to That's what I
Speaker 2: told myself in that space you start to create. I
Speaker 2: have to keep going at this pace in order to
Speaker 2: maintain I and you're right, in order to maintain the
Speaker 2: toxic thing you created, you do have to go that hard.
Speaker 2: But the alternative is I can undo the toxic environment
Speaker 2: I've created for myself. I can say I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to let some of these people go. I can say
Speaker 2: I actually don't need as much money.
Speaker 1: I don't. I can say, you know.
Speaker 2: What, like like I don't need to be on every show,
Speaker 2: on every you know, morning.
Speaker 1: Show, on every whatever. I can say that.
Speaker 2: I can say the goalpart post is here, girl, not
Speaker 2: past here, and I could stop right here. I can
Speaker 2: understand and absorb what it looks like to have enough,
Speaker 2: because if not, your body will sit you down.
Speaker 1: If you don't sit down.
Speaker 2: And then for what for what if you have a stroke.
Speaker 2: I had a friend Marie Antoinette. We went to Kenya together. Well,
Speaker 2: I met her in Kenya. Now I consider her like
Speaker 2: you know my Booski, right, she is beautiful, healthy, like
Speaker 2: just if you were to look at her like she's
Speaker 2: forty five, look at twenty five, just beautiful, fine, amazing woman.
Speaker 2: She had multiple strokes a few months ago and I
Speaker 2: could share that because she posted it on social multiple strokes.
Speaker 2: What the hell is going on with us? That we
Speaker 2: are working ourselves to literal death? What will it take?
Speaker 2: Will it take for you to have a heart attack?
Speaker 2: That's what you're looking for? What will it take it
Speaker 2: took for my husband to die to say your Nextif
Speaker 2: the hell? All the things I told myself were too
Speaker 2: impossible to shift because I have to.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 2: I gotta pay this, I gotta get this my mom
Speaker 2: and my dad. It took for my husband to die
Speaker 2: for me to say, who told me that? Like, I
Speaker 2: don't have to? And so I shifted everything. And now
Speaker 2: you see me like I created space that was there already.
Speaker 2: That's not even true. I didn't create it. I acknowledge
Speaker 2: the space that was there. I no longer working March
Speaker 2: August or December. Now, first, I was nervous to say that,
Speaker 2: even for the podcast. I was like, Oh, what we
Speaker 2: gonna do? So the key is determine the space that
Speaker 2: you're wanting in your life. I don't want to work Fridays,
Speaker 2: I don't want to work pass five, I don't and
Speaker 2: adjust your life accordingly. I told everybody March August December.
Speaker 1: I'm out.
Speaker 2: I'm out, and guess what we tape extra podcast episodes.
Speaker 2: Mandy will do some taping on her own.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: The team already knows what they have to work on.
Speaker 2: I'm going to Egypt next week, okay, and guess what.
Speaker 2: You won't see me post about it on social you know,
Speaker 2: maybe six month now. I am determined to live well
Speaker 2: now and you can if you are on the come up.
Speaker 1: Does it look like hard work for success? Absolutely? I
Speaker 1: still work hard. I just don't overwork. I integrate the
Speaker 1: rest into the work.
Speaker 2: It's a weave, you know, Like think about like a
Speaker 2: like a blanket that someone's weaving together, your grandmother's crocheting
Speaker 2: a new color in.
Speaker 1: You have to add that color of rest into the work.
Speaker 1: I'll give you example.
Speaker 2: One of my mentees, aka my sister Tracy, she started
Speaker 2: her business. She's a publicist. She's my publicism. So the
Speaker 2: beginning I was her first client. First year, she was
Speaker 2: a walking zombie because she lived with me and seven
Speaker 2: days a week, all day, all night.
Speaker 1: She was going to.
Speaker 2: Pass out and I was like, girl, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: I just you know, it's just so much work, I said,
Speaker 2: it's too much.
Speaker 1: You have to.
Speaker 2: You have to draw a line in the sand and
Speaker 2: say I'm going to stop working at this time. But
Speaker 2: it's so there's always going to be a lot of
Speaker 2: work to do. You have to adjust your schedule accordingly.
Speaker 2: You have to say, if the work is not done
Speaker 2: by this time, I will just push it to the
Speaker 2: next day. Or do I even really need to do
Speaker 2: these things? Because not everything yields results. I was doing
Speaker 2: stuff that took me ten hours to buy one hour.
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Not everything yield results, So you need to discern what
Speaker 2: actually is going to yield the results and put your
Speaker 2: energy toward that. I promise she's probably about eighty percent
Speaker 2: of the stuff that you're doing is not really really
Speaker 2: doing much. It's the twenty percent that's making the biggest results.
Speaker 2: And that eighty is yielding twenty percent. It's not that serious, right.
Speaker 2: And so then because living with me, she saw I
Speaker 2: had Wednesday's light. I don't take no calls on Wednesdays.
Speaker 2: I have Fridays off. She started to take Fridays off,
Speaker 2: which is crazy to think about for a brand near
Speaker 2: new year two business taking Fridays off.
Speaker 1: She takes Fridays off.
Speaker 2: She gets her hair done, she gets her nails done,
Speaker 2: she gets in massage, a facial. I see her come
Speaker 2: back in the house like, hey girl, and I was like,
Speaker 2: and yet business ain't slow down. She's got more clients
Speaker 2: than ever. And I asked her, how did you do it?
Speaker 2: She said, you were right. If I take Fridays off,
Speaker 2: in my mind, I'm like, I gotta get this thing
Speaker 2: done between Monday and Thursday, and I do. You will adjust.
Speaker 2: Those of you who are parents, You have one kid?
Speaker 2: How will I manage just one kid? Then you have
Speaker 2: to you adjust, you know, force rest into the space
Speaker 2: that you're in. Even Beyonce and all her Beyonce, if
Speaker 2: you watch her Homecoming special that was on Netflix, did
Speaker 2: you hear what she said?
Speaker 1: I caught it.
Speaker 2: She said, doing that Homecoming special and doing like that
Speaker 2: that concert and all of the you know videos, and
Speaker 2: it nearly broke her. She said, it almost killed me.
Speaker 2: That never worked so hard. It was, that was the
Speaker 2: hardest thing she ever did. And she said, I'm never
Speaker 2: doing that again. Beyonce said that I'm never doing that
Speaker 2: again because she understood.
Speaker 1: It's too much. I don't deserve to.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't have to give people my life
Speaker 2: in order for what so I could be an icon
Speaker 2: the hill. She said, I'm never doing that again. And
Speaker 2: guess what we're our visuals for renaissance. They hear because
Speaker 2: Beyonce and all her Beyonce okay. And so I want
Speaker 2: you to understand that rest is not something that you deserve, like,
Speaker 2: oh I got to earn it. No, it is your birthright,
Speaker 2: meaning like you don't got to do something to deserve rest.
Speaker 2: By nature of you being a human being, you get
Speaker 2: to rest. It's part of life.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 2: We live in the East Coast, right, I live in
Speaker 2: the East Coast. The trees have been resting the last
Speaker 2: few months because even nature says, lay down, Lee's fall.
Speaker 1: Because you're stressing out the trees.
Speaker 2: They need a moment to relax and recover. Trees recoop,
Speaker 2: relax and recover. The birds don't do all that all
Speaker 2: year long. Bears be chilling, squirrels be chilling.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Why are you not taking a moment to recoop, relax
Speaker 2: and recover. Like you might say that, I know people
Speaker 2: who are like you know, like I just want my
Speaker 2: biggest goals. I want to buy this one house. They
Speaker 2: buy the house and then oh, I want to be
Speaker 2: a second one.
Speaker 1: Girl.
Speaker 2: Have you even luxuriated in the fact that you got
Speaker 2: this first thing because you keep pushing the goalpost and
Speaker 2: stressing yourself the hell? Oh? I want you to integrate
Speaker 2: some rules into your life until you become to embody
Speaker 2: the thing. One of the things I learned in therapy
Speaker 2: is that in the beginning, when you're learning to shift
Speaker 2: your behavior, you incorporate these rules, rules and regulations. If
Speaker 2: I do this, did I do this? If I do this,
Speaker 2: then I do this.
Speaker 1: And after a while.
Speaker 2: The point is that after a while, the rules become
Speaker 2: a part of you and you don't need them anymore
Speaker 2: because you begin to embody the person that does that. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, like if I was a smoker, I choose
Speaker 2: my Nicorett gum, you know, because it helps me not smoke,
Speaker 2: and then one day you're just a non smoker. I
Speaker 2: don't smoke, so I got to worry about that Nicorette gum.
Speaker 2: That's so that's where we're all moving toward embodiment. So
Speaker 2: when you're listening, Okay, now, in the beginning, I want
Speaker 2: you to put these things in.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take my Wednesday's light. I'm just making
Speaker 1: up stuff for you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take my Fridays off after every major accomplishment,
Speaker 2: I will not start a new project for one month,
Speaker 2: two months, three months after. I want you to put
Speaker 2: these rules in place for yourself, because it's a new
Speaker 2: way of being. You put these rules in place for yourself,
Speaker 2: and over time, if you adhere to these rules for yourself,
Speaker 2: you learn to start to embody and become a person
Speaker 2: who's just like that. I no longer have these rules about,
Speaker 2: oh I don't work on Wednesday. I have a call
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, like tomorrow, you know, And oh I don't
Speaker 2: work on Fridays. Sometimes I do stuff on Friday because
Speaker 2: I embody a person that does not overwork and overwhelm.
Speaker 2: So although I might still I might do something on
Speaker 2: Wednesdays and Fridays. Now, when I had this rule in
Speaker 2: place before, I don't do stuff past three typically I'm
Speaker 2: going on for a whole month in a week, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. I embody someone who lives within
Speaker 2: the harmony of not too much not too little, and
Speaker 2: I still make hell of money, you know, And so
Speaker 2: I'm wanting that for you that, like you know, for
Speaker 2: those of you who are coming up and you're building
Speaker 2: your business and you're working toward greatness or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Integrate the rest, Integrate the time to yourself, Integrate the
Speaker 2: moments of absorbing you know, the goal that you've reached.
Speaker 2: Integrate that to your thing. Now, get your tracing on.
Speaker 2: You don't got to wait, you know, fifteen years like
Speaker 2: me to finally get a break.
Speaker 1: The hell no, we off that.
Speaker 2: Integrate that into the process now, and so it doesn't
Speaker 2: become a thing that you have to kind of like
Speaker 2: dig your way out of. It's like, no, no, I've
Speaker 2: always been on the zen, you know, like m you know,
Speaker 2: I got to the goal and the dream while also
Speaker 2: feeling well rested and cared for and centered and happy
Speaker 2: and whole.
Speaker 1: You can do both at the same time. It's out
Speaker 1: there for you. Now. Might the journey be a little slower.
Speaker 2: It might Might the journey not be slower, because sometimes
Speaker 2: we tell ourselves if we do that, we won't get
Speaker 2: there as fast.
Speaker 1: You'd be surprised.
Speaker 2: I overworked so much that I actually wasn't as I
Speaker 2: wasn't as focused because I was so tired. I wasn't
Speaker 2: as thorough because I was so overworking, overwhelmed, I succeeded
Speaker 2: despite the fact that I was running myself ragging, not
Speaker 2: because I was running myself raggon that it's in rest
Speaker 2: now that I'm smarter, that I'm sharper, that I do
Speaker 2: less work because I don't have to work as much
Speaker 2: because I'm just like, oh, actually, I can see more
Speaker 2: clearly the problem and the solution versus doing all the things,
Speaker 2: And so you might find that you actually do better.
Speaker 2: You know, you likely will find you'll do better well rested,
Speaker 2: you'll do better doing less. My motto is deep versus wide.
Speaker 2: What am I currently doing and how do I do better?
Speaker 2: Versus like adding all these new random things to the plate.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, that's for Emani, That's for all my
Speaker 2: mentees are always asking me. That's for my sister, that's
Speaker 2: for young Tiffany. I wish I could have told her that,
Speaker 2: you know, but I grew up in an era where
Speaker 2: hustle was heralded that more was more. And I'm here
Speaker 2: to say it's a lie, because I promise you when
Speaker 2: I tell you I know some of your favorite brown
Speaker 2: blue check people, brown mean and black people and brown
Speaker 2: people who have their blue checks, the ones that you admire,
Speaker 2: the ones you look at you what I tell you,
Speaker 2: I know some of your fa favee face, and they
Speaker 2: stay in my inbox and on my phone and hitting
Speaker 2: me up to tell me how how overworked, overwhelmed and
Speaker 2: miserable they are despite their accomplishments.
Speaker 1: I said, miserable.
Speaker 2: Now, you, with your happy spouse or partner and your
Speaker 2: two cute kids and the dog, you wish that you
Speaker 2: could make what they make and do what they do. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: they wish they could be home like you, like you, like,
Speaker 2: don't give all that up for a fake fake life
Speaker 2: on social media. Social media will have you feeling bad
Speaker 2: about a good life, a good regular life that allots
Speaker 2: you time and energy and freedom really more than them,
Speaker 2: and so like, yeah, like there's not too many brown
Speaker 2: blue check people that are like quite honestly like settled
Speaker 2: in a good space, and so I aspire not to
Speaker 2: be that, you know, like they.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many.
Speaker 2: Have made the pilgrimage to Newerk so we could have
Speaker 2: lunch and I could pour into them the way I'm
Speaker 2: pouring into you now that like you actually don't have
Speaker 2: to do all of that. You get to turn away
Speaker 2: and say no, rest is resistance I am going to
Speaker 2: take my rest because it is my birthright to do
Speaker 2: so I can integrate it into my goals and dreams.
Speaker 1: I don't have to overdo it. Who said that? Who
Speaker 1: said that? It's a lie?
Speaker 2: Hopefully Baqa was helpful for you today and for real,
Speaker 2: I really mean that. I want us all to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, navigate from a space of like joy and
Speaker 2: wholeness and happiness and connectedness as well as the success,
Speaker 2: because I am currently living both. I got hell of money,
Speaker 2: but I also got hell of friends and love and
Speaker 2: time and energy and travel and excitement. I have all
Speaker 2: the things, you know. The only thing I'm missing is
Speaker 2: my is my direll, you know. And even then he's
Speaker 2: still here in some ways. And so I want that
Speaker 2: for you. I cannot want for myself and not want
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Speaker 2: bucks a month, although it might go up this year.
Speaker 2: I don't know, not for the current mentees. I always
Speaker 2: keep prices the same for like people who are current,
Speaker 2: but it might go up.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 2: But yeah, my mentor Tiffany dot com. And yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: see you next week. Oh actually not me though, because
Speaker 2: I'm be in Egypt, but you'll see somebody next week. Okay, bye, y'all.
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