Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, we are back. It's episode twenty. I
Speaker 1: miss y'all as well too.
Speaker 2: I talked to you more than I talk to people
Speaker 2: in my family. By the way, it's true, because we
Speaker 2: have a gut standing once a week date.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, I should do that with other people,
Speaker 3: but I just I'm just so sad.
Speaker 1: Sleep But you know, it's so crazy, like I went
Speaker 1: out with the I when I took poetry with a
Speaker 1: good friend of mine who had not seen him forever.
Speaker 2: You're so cultured, I.
Speaker 3: Know, no, but I used to really be into poetry.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, you know, I think you know I
Speaker 1: used to step on a stage or way you did
Speaker 1: spoken word. Yes, I did get a little taste, right,
Speaker 1: So let me see.
Speaker 2: No, we can't phenomenal woman. Every black woman who's ever
Speaker 2: done the spoken word has got no phenomenal women.
Speaker 3: Of course, you may push me down in history with
Speaker 3: your bitter twisted.
Speaker 2: Lass, but I got diamonds at the meeting of my buzz.
Speaker 3: I am a woman, phenomenally phenomenal woman. That's me.
Speaker 1: No, No, but I really did used to be, Like,
Speaker 1: especially in college, I was really into poetry. And so
Speaker 1: there's this young woman named Jasmine Man's who is Dope.
Speaker 3: Tastic if you guys get a chance.
Speaker 1: Jasmine Man's she I don't know, she's like twenty five,
Speaker 1: but she's got this new poem called like Message for
Speaker 1: Kanye or something like that, where it's this poem kind
Speaker 1: of like Kanye, what happened to You? But it's really
Speaker 1: an amazing poem. And she was having a show in
Speaker 1: Newark where I live, and it was like fifteen bucks
Speaker 1: at Symphony Hall, and I was like, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to go, but then you know how it goes
Speaker 1: when you buy a ticket like a week or so
Speaker 1: ahead of time, when you're feeling all optimistic, and then
Speaker 1: the day comes and.
Speaker 3: You're like, I'm sad, I don't want to go, but
Speaker 3: we ended up going anyway. But I realized that.
Speaker 1: So I'm thirty six and most of my friends are
Speaker 1: in their thirties, and I'm feeling there's like this general
Speaker 1: sentiment and I don't know you could tell me this
Speaker 1: because I know you're so in your twenties. If you're
Speaker 1: getting this energy from your friends, everybody feels so stretched
Speaker 1: to the limit and tired, and no one's really taking
Speaker 1: time for themselves.
Speaker 3: Everybody's just in go go, go, go go mode. Have
Speaker 3: you been getting that.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling like I'm in like the go to work
Speaker 2: and come home, go to work and come home for
Speaker 2: dinner and watch the TV and maybe work out and
Speaker 2: then go to work. You know, like that cycle hits
Speaker 2: me down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, Like I feel like the thirty
Speaker 1: year olds and the like the thirty five, thirty six,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty two year olds. I know they've they've
Speaker 1: it's not even like so much go to work and
Speaker 1: go home. It's like everybody has kind of hit like
Speaker 1: the turbo drive because they're just like, Okay, I'm past
Speaker 1: my twenties, I know what I want to do.
Speaker 3: I'm working in my fields.
Speaker 1: I got that promotion, and now it's just like everything
Speaker 1: is going great professionally, but my personal life is totally
Speaker 1: dying that Like it's such a crazy sentiment, but every
Speaker 1: one of my friends has been like, you know, everything's
Speaker 1: going great at work, work or whatever, like business or.
Speaker 3: Whatever I have, but I just I'm dying on the inside.
Speaker 2: Help you are personally?
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, yeah, well me, I've been feeling like that too,
Speaker 1: because it's like like business has never been better at
Speaker 1: the Budgetnista. Honestly, like it has never been better. Things
Speaker 1: are growing at a pace that I cannot even It's
Speaker 1: like warp speed at the budget lista. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I'm like always tired and thankfully like Superman
Speaker 1: is so amazing. Like today, I just came straight home
Speaker 1: from my taping I did and fell asleep and woke
Speaker 1: up to a clean house and breadth and food made.
Speaker 1: And I know you're tired, babe, but I'm just like, dang,
Speaker 1: when's the last time I hung out?
Speaker 3: I'm like just hung out.
Speaker 1: You know, because even when I hang out with my
Speaker 1: friends now, they bring their computers and like we.
Speaker 3: Talk about work.
Speaker 1: Even at the poetry show, me and my girlfriend at
Speaker 1: the intermission who I went with, and we're like talking
Speaker 1: about work, and I'm like, dang, when's the last time
Speaker 1: we were just like, oh my gosh and hey girl,
Speaker 1: and those are cute nails and yeah. So I feel
Speaker 1: like there's just like I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: age that we're in, but everybody's just been struggling to reclaim.
Speaker 1: So one of the things I'm gonna do is I'm
Speaker 1: actually gonna have a vision board party. And so you're
Speaker 1: totally invited, which I actually see it like loud in
Speaker 1: publiccause the people are gonna be like, I want to go.
Speaker 3: Well, by the time it's the years that might be.
Speaker 2: Over, I'll do it for you. But you know how
Speaker 2: I felt about vision boards.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I mean you could keep it in honestly,
Speaker 1: because I think that one of the things one of
Speaker 1: my ways to kind of reconnect is to try to
Speaker 1: like host events where I can hang out with my
Speaker 1: friends and just hang out and let it just be that,
Speaker 1: you know, like, do not you even have to be that.
Speaker 2: You know, I was just talking about relationships and how
Speaker 2: I'm really like trying to focus on that for twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: and I'm telling you that weekend that I spent with
Speaker 2: my friends, we had internet, but we just literally just
Speaker 2: played games, Like we had a few board games and
Speaker 2: we had a TV and we really played old video
Speaker 2: games and we just like we didn't even talk about
Speaker 2: anything like that memorable. We didn't have like discussions that
Speaker 2: changed lives, but it was just being together and just
Speaker 2: like I don't know, it was it was just like
Speaker 2: you turn your brain kind of down and not yeah, weekend,
Speaker 2: it was maybe something like that. It's I think changing
Speaker 2: the environment if you can. I know it can be complicated,
Speaker 2: but getting outside of your apartment or outside of places
Speaker 2: that remind you of work or work, yeah, it is
Speaker 2: really important.
Speaker 1: I think a game night that would be fun, And
Speaker 1: maybe that's why I'm going to commit to that like
Speaker 1: one of my like things for twenty sixteen, cause honestly,
Speaker 1: like I like like planning and putting people together that
Speaker 1: maybe at least like maybe once every other month, I
Speaker 1: plan some sort of like fun night where its has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with anything other than fun, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: game night, you know, everybody bring cards, we have taboo,
Speaker 1: you know, vision board night, we all just kind of
Speaker 1: hang out.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely going to commit to at least like once
Speaker 1: every three months having some sort of just gathering just
Speaker 1: for gathering sake and women coming and lacking and eating
Speaker 1: and drinking together because I just think that we need it,
Speaker 1: you know, we do.
Speaker 2: And it's nice to like you're so stuck in your
Speaker 2: own lane and like what you're doing, and it's nice
Speaker 2: to sit back and remind yourself that people have stuff
Speaker 2: going on too. It is, and I hate that feeling
Speaker 2: when I see, like I just saw one of my
Speaker 2: friends who was like my first almost one of my
Speaker 2: first friends when I moved to New York and I
Speaker 2: saw him for the first time in a year and
Speaker 2: we live in the same neighborhood. For he came for
Speaker 2: dinner the other night and we were just talking, and God,
Speaker 2: I was like, you, you started law school. I forgot
Speaker 2: about that, Like he started law school and I hadn't
Speaker 2: even thought about it, you know, And I felt, I
Speaker 2: don't like that feeling. So it's nice to just yeah,
Speaker 2: because I feel like it makes you a better friend too, when.
Speaker 1: You for sure that every you know you're not feel
Speaker 1: like you said, I love that knock knock knock on
Speaker 1: the mic. You're not the only one with stuff going on.
Speaker 1: People have babies. Oh that's cute about your business. I
Speaker 1: gave births.
Speaker 2: I created a human life.
Speaker 1: Just growing a little a little person inside of me,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Speaking of speaking of babies, I had like four or
Speaker 2: five friends who had holiday babies. Well, four who gave
Speaker 2: birth and one who announced they were pregnant. So it
Speaker 2: is like before the past couple of years have been
Speaker 2: the years of the weddings, and now it is becoming
Speaker 2: the years.
Speaker 3: Of the babies.
Speaker 2: Either way, your budget screwed because there's like a million events.
Speaker 2: I last year's babies, I'm going to baptisms and first
Speaker 2: birthday parties.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is honestly like once you get to a
Speaker 1: certain age, you just have to open up like a
Speaker 1: separate bank account for like life, you know, like just
Speaker 1: things that are happening in your friend's life because you
Speaker 1: just know you're gonna have to put money.
Speaker 2: Out, you really do. But I saw all my friends.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you shouldn't have gotten married five years ago
Speaker 2: when I was broken New York, because now I actually
Speaker 2: have money.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I remember I wrote when I wrote my friend she
Speaker 2: got one of my best friends, she got married three
Speaker 2: years ago. I remember writing her check and I had
Speaker 2: I was like two dollars away from overdrawing my account
Speaker 2: when I wrote that checked her. I think it was
Speaker 2: like seventy dollars some random number that's all I could afford.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I remember when you used to
Speaker 2: write checks with like the fear of God in your heart?
Speaker 1: Yes, like or you write a check with a caveat
Speaker 1: like So I'm kindily.
Speaker 2: Cast this after you after the.
Speaker 3: Fifteenth, between the fifteenth and.
Speaker 1: The thirty, if you cash it after the thirty I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna promise it's gonna be money. But if you
Speaker 1: waited and to that, you're like, girl, just keep your money.
Speaker 3: Ah, those are the days.
Speaker 2: Well let's jump into some headlines just real quick. Yes,
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about some buffoonery that has taken place.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't really watch comics, watch comics, read comics, but
Speaker 2: I do enjoy the occasional movie. So I read not
Speaker 2: only one, but two major comic book publishers, DC Comics
Speaker 2: and Marvel. Marvel is spider Man. Let me not get
Speaker 2: this wrong, so people don't complame me spider Man. Spider
Speaker 2: Man is Marvel and DC Comics is Superman. They both
Speaker 2: made like huge nafoos in the same week. So DC
Speaker 2: Comics put they placed a storyline with Superman and Wonder Woman,
Speaker 2: who I guess are going through some relationship struggles in
Speaker 2: Pakistan for some reason. And there's all this dialogue, you know,
Speaker 2: the little bubbles, and then the bottom there's like an
Speaker 2: editor's note that says dialogue has a an asterisk. Is
Speaker 2: all translated from Pakistanian dot dot dot editor which it's
Speaker 2: funny because Pakistan's a country, but no one speaks Pakistanian
Speaker 2: because that language doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it must be.
Speaker 1: It must be like, you know, like cousin to African,
Speaker 1: because you know, there's not African. There's not a million
Speaker 1: African language, just one language called African. So it must
Speaker 1: be kind of like in that vein that you're just
Speaker 1: not quite.
Speaker 2: Aware of, the saying do you speak yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: do you speak Chinese? Well, there's two different Chinese languages, yeah,
Speaker 2: Or like do.
Speaker 1: You speak American? Like girl, you know on Pakistani it's
Speaker 1: similar to American.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to pretend that I knew what
Speaker 2: the languages in Pakistan were. Actually the main language is Urdu, yes,
Speaker 2: and there's like three or four others, including English that
Speaker 2: are quite common. But all it takes is a Google search.
Speaker 1: My friends, I was gonna say, you know, the Googles
Speaker 1: is open twenty four hours a day, and I've heard
Speaker 1: it's free.
Speaker 2: I bet you can even search Yahoo dot com and
Speaker 2: find an information.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm pretty sure just saying something even being will
Speaker 1: allow you to find them. And you know, we don't
Speaker 1: really bing much, but even being I've heard or it
Speaker 1: can be used for those kind of researches.
Speaker 2: Well, not to be outdone DC Comics or sorry Marvel.
Speaker 2: With Spider Man, they place Spider Man in Cuba. Love Cuba.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. You can go to Cuba now if you're American,
Speaker 2: and it's super easy. They placed him in Cuba. But
Speaker 2: for some reason, they drew the Puerto Rican flag.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you know, flags are all the same, Like you
Speaker 1: speak Spanish, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, you know, Honduras all the same.
Speaker 1: To me, that's funny, Like, you're right. So apparently the
Speaker 1: people were really in the comic book world. The googles
Speaker 1: was they weren't working for them.
Speaker 3: Huh no.
Speaker 2: And you know what's funny is in the article I'm
Speaker 2: reading it from a romescala dot com, which is like
Speaker 2: a blog focused on Latino Latin American news, they write
Speaker 2: that the writer of this comic, the writer is Puerto Rican,
Speaker 2: which is crazy. Yeah, yeah, the writer.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you know, it could be a joke.
Speaker 1: The writer is like, let's see if they get this.
Speaker 2: It can't be a joke. That's crazy, I bet you know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was just a matter of like he's so
Speaker 2: used to saying the Puerto Rican flag. Maybe even if
Speaker 2: you live in New York. The flag is everywhere. Yeah
Speaker 2: that maybe he just saw it and didn't even think
Speaker 2: about it. But how could you forget You're writing a
Speaker 2: comic based in Cuba and then the flag. Maybe he
Speaker 2: wrote it and didn't illustrate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is true. Whatever is it me?
Speaker 1: Or whenever you hear somebody say Puerto Rico, you want
Speaker 1: to say, oh, is that just me?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 3: No, it's not just me. Somebody you tweet the BA podcast?
Speaker 1: Let me know if you don't want to say, oh, afterwards.
Speaker 2: What's happening it? Okay? Long song? Well they failed, and
Speaker 2: I feel like publishers need to be better.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean like, yeah, Google works, and I mean
Speaker 1: I get it because sometimes there's so many like little
Speaker 1: nuances when it comes to putting things out that it's
Speaker 1: things slipped through the cracks, but you're just hoping that
Speaker 1: enough eyes will see things that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Well, let's move along. I don't have anything else to say. Oh,
Speaker 2: real quick, are you playing the lottery?
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna lie. Everybody I know was playing
Speaker 1: the lottery, and I'm like, should I? But I kind
Speaker 1: of want to get my millions from my business?
Speaker 2: But your husband brought home a ticket and I'm like, hmm,
Speaker 2: that was four dollars. I could have got me a coffee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if.
Speaker 1: Back four dollars now, if I'm like Mandy, hello, Hello, but.
Speaker 2: I know you don't want to like you don't want
Speaker 2: to do them too much because they win, they could
Speaker 2: be like, oh you didn't believe in me.
Speaker 1: You can't have this so exactly like so one of
Speaker 1: the so a woman, one of my Facebook friends, she
Speaker 1: had written like, oh my god, I'm so mad. I
Speaker 1: didn't go to work yesterday. Apparently her her pool, like
Speaker 1: you know, she has an office pool. They chipped in
Speaker 1: money and they won whatever it was. It ended up
Speaker 1: being fifty thousand dollars apiece. So you know she's pissed.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, not enough to quit your job,
Speaker 1: but certainly enough to make for a happy New Year.
Speaker 3: She was like, I'm never missing work again.
Speaker 2: I would do an office pool. I don't know. I've
Speaker 2: just I have just feeled some type of way about gambling.
Speaker 2: I just don't like it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, me too.
Speaker 2: Well, not to bring the mood down, but let's talk
Speaker 2: about this lady, this hungarian lady, all who did not
Speaker 2: want not to but seven different versions of blackface as
Speaker 2: an artistic project, she said, to save Africa from going extinct.
Speaker 2: God bless her.
Speaker 4: She thought she could save Africa because you know, apparently,
Speaker 4: you know, it's must be similar to that whole African
Speaker 4: language thing that you know, people just speak African, so
Speaker 4: you can save Africa and speak African apparently.
Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: So I was ready to like be all up in arms,
Speaker 1: and I saw the pictures and there it is blackface.
Speaker 3: They are so beautifully portrayed.
Speaker 1: I can tell that the person who did it really
Speaker 1: came from a place of thinking that they were doing
Speaker 1: the right thing.
Speaker 3: That's what I'll give her.
Speaker 1: Like, you don't look at these pictures and think that
Speaker 1: she was trying to be purposely disrespectful or purposefully.
Speaker 3: Like just ignorant. It does not read like that. It
Speaker 3: reads like she really.
Speaker 1: Thought, Wow, I'm doing something great here. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: a lot of effort and good energy into it. I'm
Speaker 1: just I've just been misinformed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't like a Halloween thing where you're just
Speaker 2: doing it for shits and giggles. Yes, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's terrible makeup, Like she legitimately personified the women and
Speaker 2: other photos. I just don't get why, because she has
Speaker 2: the images side by side with the real women and
Speaker 2: these images which are I mean, they both look great,
Speaker 2: but I'm like, why not just post the pictures of
Speaker 2: the real women?
Speaker 1: Ah, She's like, no, why do that when I can
Speaker 1: do something just way more ignorant?
Speaker 3: But no, Yeah, I mean, yeah, I have.
Speaker 2: A white friend. Just tell them, no, be there.
Speaker 1: For them, Yes, please pull into the side, and there
Speaker 1: are times of need, yes, and just say you know
Speaker 1: what that thing, that black facing you're thinking of, because
Speaker 1: you know, we have to do this every Halloween, even
Speaker 1: though people get ripped and ran over and dragged on
Speaker 1: social media, someone every Halloween thinks, not me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the first white person to be able to do
Speaker 1: blackface and no one's gonna care. People care, stop doing it.
Speaker 1: So that is your PSA announcement for twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: So it's time for brown Break. I like that.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, did we ever get any brown break songs? No,
Speaker 1: no diddies from anywhere?
Speaker 2: We did not?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Where the didties at?
Speaker 2: Dound really worse when I said it out loud.
Speaker 1: I would love a brown break Diddy like brown break,
Speaker 1: brown break you know me there you go, Yes, I can.
Speaker 1: Just because I can sing doesn't mean I should sing.
Speaker 1: And that's one of those things brown break, you want
Speaker 1: to go first or I'm still trying to figure out
Speaker 1: the wording of my brown break, but I could start
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to think like the cohesive, like I'm
Speaker 1: taking a brown break from you know, I'll say I'm
Speaker 1: taking a brown break from uh, people undervaluing what I
Speaker 1: bring to the table. That's what I'll say. That's probably
Speaker 1: the most concise way that I can say it. No,
Speaker 1: not haters, but they're Lately in the last few weeks
Speaker 1: or so, people have kind of like approached me and
Speaker 1: like my business and things that I'm doing, and the
Speaker 1: exchange has been so lopsided.
Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, So.
Speaker 1: For example, this is just I'm just making this particular
Speaker 1: scenario up. But they might say, Hey, Tiffany, I'd love
Speaker 1: for you to do you know, ten thousand dollars of
Speaker 1: work and I'll give you one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: You should be happy with it.
Speaker 1: That kind of like that's what the exchanges have been lately,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, are you kidding?
Speaker 3: Like it's just been so it's not happen.
Speaker 1: It hasn't even been frustrating, honestly, because my answer is
Speaker 1: always you've lost your mind. No, Like, I haven't said
Speaker 1: you've lost your mind, but I'm like, you think, are
Speaker 1: you aware that I know what I bring to the table.
Speaker 1: So no, like, and this has been large brands, it's
Speaker 1: been smallmallern brands. I mean, just approaching me in a
Speaker 1: way that I'm like, are you, like, are you serious?
Speaker 1: So it's just been very it's been insulting, That's what
Speaker 1: it's been. It has not been frustrating because my answer
Speaker 1: is no, quite honestly, I don't need to. I don't
Speaker 1: feel the need to partner or join or whatever with
Speaker 1: anyone because I know that the work that I put in.
Speaker 1: But it's been very insulting some of the offers that
Speaker 1: I've gotten, Like the offers have been something that you
Speaker 1: would get when you first start. But I've been like
Speaker 1: six seven years in of like busting my behind and
Speaker 1: working really hard and to come with offers that just
Speaker 1: seem like either you have not done your research or
Speaker 1: you think that you're going to be able to trick me.
Speaker 1: So that's the part that makes me like slightly just disappointed.
Speaker 1: Is because it's like either you don't care about what
Speaker 1: I'm doing or you think that I'm stupid, because I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what what am I five years?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: This is babysitting money.
Speaker 1: No, So I'm taking a roundbreak for people who undervalue
Speaker 1: what I bring to the table. If you know, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna partner with someone or you're gonna connect with someone, please.
Speaker 3: Do your research.
Speaker 1: And if you don't have, you know, the funds or whatever,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but don't insult people, especially people who really
Speaker 1: work really, really hard, because you know, no one has
Speaker 1: to say yes. That's one thing I've learned, Like twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen for me is a year of no. I have
Speaker 1: no problem with it rolling off my tongue, Tiffany, would
Speaker 1: you like nope, nope, no, no, nope. So I'm practicing
Speaker 1: no and no is a complete sentence. And so I'm
Speaker 1: taking just a brown break from that just because it
Speaker 1: has really rubbed me the wrong way. And I'm just like, wow,
Speaker 1: I guess because I've just been so tired. I've been
Speaker 1: working so hard, and so when somebody steps to you
Speaker 1: it's something that's insulting.
Speaker 3: You're like, not even like remotely, like.
Speaker 1: Oh I could see how No, just straight insulting, like
Speaker 1: let's see if you could trick this girl.
Speaker 3: The answer is now. So that's my brown break coops Mike.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't even want to follow that up with anything.
Speaker 2: Let's just get me this week.
Speaker 1: You can borrow something light or are there any fashion
Speaker 1: trends that you want to take a brown break from me?
Speaker 2: Like fashion trends, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm like, we could do something light.
Speaker 2: Well. I did take a brown break from apps on
Speaker 2: my phone this week, specific apps, apps that suck my
Speaker 2: money dry. I went through, I deleted. I told you
Speaker 2: I was taking like a spending break, but you know,
Speaker 2: just because I feel like I've been spending money on
Speaker 2: things that don't bring me true happiness. And also weddings
Speaker 2: cost money, I've heard, so I deleted all the apps.
Speaker 2: And I don't think people realize how much money flows
Speaker 2: through their phone. And maybe it's for the younger generations,
Speaker 2: but like I pay my bills through my phone, I
Speaker 2: shop through my phone. I was sitting, Okay, I hope
Speaker 2: he doesn't listen. Christmas Eve, we were at we were
Speaker 2: at future husband's parents' apartment and his brother showed up
Speaker 2: and I didn't really realize who was going to be there,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh crap, I didn't get his
Speaker 2: brother a gift for Christmas. Pull out my phone. I
Speaker 2: covertly go on Amazon dot com the Amazon app, buy
Speaker 2: him a gift card, email it to him, delivered at midnight, bam,
Speaker 2: like within two minutes.
Speaker 3: Awesome. But then the.
Speaker 2: Money's gone, and it's like, it's amazing because you have
Speaker 2: that you know, that flexibility or whatever. But it's also
Speaker 2: I checked. I have this. I'm using this new app
Speaker 2: call Level. Okay, what's it called Level. It's a budgeting
Speaker 2: app called Level Okay. I like it better than Mint,
Speaker 2: and I encourage you to check it out before just
Speaker 2: people listening, because it doesn't just you can have all
Speaker 2: your accounts in one place like Mint, which is cool,
Speaker 2: and you can set goals and stuff, but it just
Speaker 2: tells you. It goes through your accounts, sees how much
Speaker 2: you have, looks at your goals, and tells you how
Speaker 2: much you can afford to spend two day.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that? Is it free?
Speaker 2: It's free? Yeah, I just I just found it today.
Speaker 2: It tells you how to how much you can spend today.
Speaker 2: This week and this month the three days.
Speaker 3: I like that level.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, you know, let me text that for myself
Speaker 1: because people always ask me like, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: shade to Men. A lot of people I know love Mint,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the the push back I get
Speaker 1: from because I've never used Men is that it's a
Speaker 1: little bit complicated.
Speaker 2: It's super complicated, and so.
Speaker 1: You know, so a lot of my dream catchers, that's
Speaker 1: the people you know who follow the budgetese. I'm always like, like,
Speaker 1: do you know if any other apps? But because I
Speaker 1: like actually enjoy budgeting, like when I'm stressed out, like
Speaker 1: I budget for fun, so I don't use apps. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm a paper and pencil Excel type of girl, and
Speaker 1: so I'm never able to tell them we'll try this,
Speaker 1: But you know what, I like that level.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the level.
Speaker 2: Ments to pain in the ass because the whole purpose
Speaker 2: of ment and other and not just meant. I've used
Speaker 2: other ones to like learn best a personal capital, and
Speaker 2: I just always test them out. It's because they are
Speaker 2: supposed to track your expenses. But like if you live
Speaker 2: in a city where like you don't go to the
Speaker 2: like name brand stories every day, like if I go
Speaker 2: to the bodega or I take a yellow cab, they
Speaker 2: don't recognize the merchant and so they don't categorize it.
Speaker 2: So you got to go categorize all. Like at the
Speaker 2: end of the month, I have like dozens of transactions
Speaker 2: I have to manually.
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's too much.
Speaker 2: So much.
Speaker 3: Don't want you to have an app show because.
Speaker 1: People ask all the time, like someone hit me up
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, what do you and Mandy think about?
Speaker 1: You know this app or this I feel like we
Speaker 1: should have like not necessarily a whole show, but maybe
Speaker 1: our favorite app of the moment or something like you
Speaker 1: know how we're gonna do our books if we get
Speaker 1: a chance. Oh yeah, you know, just because there's so
Speaker 1: many free like websites or apps or stuff that we're
Speaker 1: using that that's really working that we can kind of share.
Speaker 1: I think that'll be fun.
Speaker 2: Well, let this be the first one.
Speaker 1: Okay, so level let's try and left. I'm excited to try.
Speaker 1: Now I'm like on my phone trying to be likes.
Speaker 2: The best because I mean, you need it's just a
Speaker 2: little reminder, Like I'm looking at it right now. I
Speaker 2: have fifty four dollars left I can spend today, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh great, I'm gonna be fifty five bucks
Speaker 2: ahead tomorrow because I'm not going on tonight. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: to help me not resist the temptation, I deleted Seamless.
Speaker 2: I deleted Amazon's app. I deleted what are the other ones? Uber?
Speaker 2: I deleted which was kind of hard, and Lift. I
Speaker 2: deleted and group on. Oh and I was I used
Speaker 2: to be a group on Attic. I deleted that just
Speaker 2: a little just a little apps for like, you know,
Speaker 2: little bits of money would just disappear. Like I was
Speaker 2: constantly buying books on Kindle on my phone and stuff,
Speaker 2: and so got rid of those. And I'm feeling I've
Speaker 2: been a weekend and I'm I'm feeling okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Another thing you can turn off is that like
Speaker 1: one click Amazon. That thing is the devil honey.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that it was on my phone too.
Speaker 3: What I didn't even want to it is not just that.
Speaker 2: But the id I could I use my finger to
Speaker 2: like buy music or buy something on iTunes and Amazon
Speaker 2: You can use your finger now.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And that means it's whoever convented that clearly genius. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's kudos to you. But I turned off
Speaker 1: my one click option and so like it's it gives
Speaker 1: me a choice one click or now it says like,
Speaker 1: you know, buy it the regular way, because sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: you go through the process and then you're like what
Speaker 1: am I doing?
Speaker 3: What am I doing? And then you'll stop.
Speaker 1: And so now I forced myself to go through because
Speaker 1: now it's not automatically one click because it's just that's.
Speaker 3: Just too much.
Speaker 1: I just I was buying things that I was never
Speaker 1: going to use. Although I did buy a new book today.
Speaker 1: I can't wait till we talk about books because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I bought a new book and I'm excited to share. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe i'll share my other book. But yeah, we'll get
Speaker 1: to that. So your brown break is bringing it on home?
Speaker 1: What is your round brak?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I went on a Tiffany roller coaster. Yes,
Speaker 2: my brown break is the apps that suck my money dry.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're taking a break from someone money sucking dry apps.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: And I'm trying at the level app and again at
Speaker 2: the level L E V E L check it out.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm gonna have level by next week. I'll be
Speaker 3: able to talk to you.
Speaker 2: About it cool. So for tips today, we have a
Speaker 2: really excellent reader question that I wanted to go over.
Speaker 2: I love this question so much on so many different
Speaker 2: levels because I think it personifies a bunch of like
Speaker 2: mistakes that a lot of people make early in their career.
Speaker 2: And thank you Jonita for putting yourself out there for
Speaker 2: us to nitpick. But it's a long emails. Let me
Speaker 2: try and paraphrase. So Jonita just graduated twenty fourteen, so
Speaker 2: just a couple of years ago, like less than two
Speaker 2: years ago. She wanted to work for or a education nonprofit,
Speaker 2: and luckily for me, the education the organization that provided
Speaker 2: part of my college funding, loves me and recommended me
Speaker 2: for a job with one of those nonprofits. I had
Speaker 2: no admin experience, but there I was two months out
Speaker 2: of college, making twenty eight K working as a part
Speaker 2: time office manager for a great organization. Then a year later,
Speaker 2: well it sounds like my first job. I was told
Speaker 2: they were looking to phase me out in order to
Speaker 2: bring in someone who could do my job in addition
Speaker 2: to taking care of other accounting and business needs. She'd
Speaker 2: only studied sociology and didn't have any desire to do accounting,
Speaker 2: So this is awful. So of course she was shocked,
Speaker 2: because I'm shocked. I was disappointed, and I didn't know
Speaker 2: what I was going to do. So this past September, she,
Speaker 2: after submitting a dozen resumes and going on a few interviews,
Speaker 2: she had a job offer. She immediately accepted the job
Speaker 2: on the spot. It was a job doing what she
Speaker 2: wanted to do. It was in my field, and I
Speaker 2: had no other prospect, she said, so why not Shell.
Speaker 2: So you accepted it without even asking what the salary was.
Speaker 2: And then she says, then on my first day of work,
Speaker 2: I discovered why I should have thought harder about this.
Speaker 2: The position was a contract positioned through the end of
Speaker 2: the school year and only paid fifty fifteen hundred dollars
Speaker 2: a month before taxes. She said, I had just taken
Speaker 2: a giant pay cut. So here I am three months later,
Speaker 2: trying to work out my boyfriend and I's budget to
Speaker 2: make sure we can still eat after paying rent, utilities
Speaker 2: an individual and paying out our bills. She lives in Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. Which is super expensive. Yes it is, and
Speaker 2: neither of our parents have room in their homes for
Speaker 2: us to live, so we are stuck so she sang,
Speaker 2: all of this is to ask what should I do.
Speaker 2: I love my job and everyone's great, but I'm at
Speaker 2: the end of my rope. Should I start looking for
Speaker 2: a new full time position? And if so, how should
Speaker 2: I handle putting this position on my resume? I think
Speaker 2: I can totally relate to. First of all, I can
Speaker 2: relate because my first job in New York City, I
Speaker 2: was laid off three months after I After I got
Speaker 2: the job, she was super fun. I didn't even have
Speaker 2: a bed frame or like a mattress. H No, it's okay,
Speaker 2: it's funny now. And not only that, but I left
Speaker 2: that job. I left a job in Georgia, a good job,
Speaker 2: full time as a newspaper reporter. I got that job
Speaker 2: in two weeks later, the magazine in New York called
Speaker 2: me to see if I wanted a job there, and
Speaker 2: so I ended up quitting that newspaper job, solid job
Speaker 2: with benefits after only a month of working there, and
Speaker 2: then move into New York only to then be let
Speaker 2: go three months later. So I can I can tell
Speaker 2: you how to handle like putting a job on your
Speaker 2: resume that we're only there for a short period of time.
Speaker 2: I can handle that and then also that feeling of
Speaker 2: desperation when you lose your job and then you just
Speaker 2: go for the first thing that comes your way. And
Speaker 2: I understand that it can be stressful because obviously you
Speaker 2: have to have a job. You get a job offer,
Speaker 2: and you're so stoked it's in your job field. But
Speaker 2: I think the mistake here was clearly not asking upfront
Speaker 2: the two crucial questions how much does this pay? And
Speaker 2: is it full time? And I feel like the freelance economy,
Speaker 2: like it's so common now for employers to only have
Speaker 2: contract work, which is essentially where you're working on a timeframe,
Speaker 2: you don't get benefits, and your job is up in like,
Speaker 2: you know, three months, six months. I've worked at places
Speaker 2: where people are on a two month contract and they
Speaker 2: just have to get they have to like wait on
Speaker 2: tenter hooks every two months to see if their contract
Speaker 2: is going to be renewed. And it's like not a
Speaker 2: good way to live. So I understand how you found
Speaker 2: yourself in this position, but you can't go back. But
Speaker 2: I would say anyone who's in the position now, like
Speaker 2: don't just take the first off, or you have to
Speaker 2: ask questions and you shouldn't feel you shouldn't feel shy.
Speaker 2: I know she just graduated, you know, less than two
Speaker 2: years ago, so she's just you know, inexperienced. But I
Speaker 2: think in her case, maybe practicing or asking someone who
Speaker 2: is experienced about a job before just kind of jumping
Speaker 2: at it would have been a smart way to approach that.
Speaker 3: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: So moving forward, what do you I mean? I think
Speaker 1: for sure she needs to be looking.
Speaker 2: For Oh, no joke. Yeah, you should absolutely be looking.
Speaker 2: And your job's a contract job anyway, like they they
Speaker 2: should not be. I don't know. I feel like when
Speaker 2: you're when you hire a contractor, I feel like you
Speaker 2: have less you have less right to be upset if
Speaker 2: they leave. Yeah, they leave because you're telling them right
Speaker 2: off the bat, we're not interested in investing in you
Speaker 2: for the long term. So you know, why should you
Speaker 2: be sitting around waiting for them?
Speaker 1: So you should be aggressively looking for a job because
Speaker 1: you don't. It doesn't make sense if you're worried about
Speaker 1: do we have enough to buy food? Don't put yourself
Speaker 1: in that position unnecessarily or stay in that position.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, definitely look for another job.
Speaker 1: So this is something really for you though, Mandy, because
Speaker 1: I have not had to write a resume in so
Speaker 1: many years, and like probably like ten years. So how
Speaker 1: do you how does she handle that on her resume?
Speaker 2: I mean, you put you put it on there. I mean,
Speaker 2: you have a pretty thin resume because you've only had
Speaker 2: two jobs since you graduated. It sounds like and I
Speaker 2: think that your future employer should understand that when they
Speaker 2: hire someone your age who's recently graduated. And I say,
Speaker 2: you tell them the truth. I say, the first job
Speaker 2: you obviously you were laid off, and you don't write
Speaker 2: that on your resume. Of course, I absolutely put the
Speaker 2: magazine where I worked on my resume. I did not
Speaker 2: put that I was laid off. I put all the
Speaker 2: great things I did there, of course, and then I put,
Speaker 2: you know, the few months.
Speaker 3: That I work there.
Speaker 2: If they cared to look at it and do the
Speaker 2: math and find out that I was only three months,
Speaker 2: then maybe they asked. But I can't remember. Like I
Speaker 2: think that we overestimate how much time employers have. Hiring
Speaker 2: managers have to like review resumes, and sometimes they don't
Speaker 2: catch that kind of stuff. But if they do, you
Speaker 2: answer truthfully and you say, okay, well they were looking
Speaker 2: for someone with accounting experience and I didn't have those skills,
Speaker 2: and so we decided to part ways. Make it seem
Speaker 2: like it was a mutual decision, you know. And for
Speaker 2: the other job, since your resume is thin, I would
Speaker 2: say put that on there as well. You you may
Speaker 2: maybe you haven't worked there long, but you are gathering
Speaker 2: skills and experience in your field. If your future employee
Speaker 2: employer asks, you, know, why did you decide to leave,
Speaker 2: you can say it was a contract position and I
Speaker 2: knew that it wasn't full time, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: find something. I wanted to find a place where I
Speaker 2: could work that would fully invest in me the same
Speaker 2: way that I want to invest in that in that place.
Speaker 2: And I think that that should suffice like I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't see I don't see someone digging
Speaker 2: so much into that, and like, you know that being
Speaker 2: a complete deal breaker.
Speaker 1: And plus you're young. You have to understand that. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're under assuming you're under twenty five, they're not
Speaker 1: looking like where is have twenty years of experience, you know,
Speaker 1: So this is part of this your your resume building.
Speaker 1: So it's it's typical for somebody in your age range
Speaker 1: and to have this level of experience. So it's okay,
Speaker 1: we've all made those mistakes and choices and so now
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I've recognized that. So the next time,
Speaker 1: what I'm I'm going to do is this. So just
Speaker 1: put that into perspective.
Speaker 2: But I would say, also, never leave an interview before
Speaker 2: you know, not the first interview, but maybe the second interview.
Speaker 2: You have to talk about numbers, and it can be
Speaker 2: it sounds to me like whoever hired you was really
Speaker 2: incompetent and wasn't experienced, Because as a hiring manager, you
Speaker 2: don't want an employee signing on to a job they
Speaker 2: don't know what the damn salary is like that, because
Speaker 2: you want to give that employee a chance to actually
Speaker 2: agree to what they're getting paid or else, all you're
Speaker 2: gonna get is an eployee's unhappy. Probably, So if they
Speaker 2: don't bring it up, though, if they are inexperienced and
Speaker 2: you know, not professional, they maybe not bring it up.
Speaker 2: You have to ask, you know, you have to say,
Speaker 2: you know, we've had a couple of interviews. I'm very
Speaker 2: interested in this position. I love the company. I wondered
Speaker 2: if we can now talk about compensation.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a great line right there. Women always think
Speaker 1: like it's so crazy, Like when my sister left her
Speaker 1: financial job that she hated and was like looking for
Speaker 1: another job.
Speaker 3: My sister has her MBA in finance and.
Speaker 1: A and she got a it's a duel something like
Speaker 1: finance and marketing something crazy.
Speaker 3: And I'm like and she's like, oh, I don't know
Speaker 3: if I'm like, you have your NBA. Why is that? Women?
Speaker 3: For real?
Speaker 1: Even the place where she was working before her boss
Speaker 1: didn't have her NBA. So I'm just like, it's like
Speaker 1: we women have such a hard time like owning up
Speaker 1: and owning the fact that I'm dope, you know so,
Speaker 1: And I know it's hard, you know, but and it's
Speaker 1: to our detriment, Like you're taking these things that are
Speaker 1: less than thinking, like well, if you.
Speaker 3: Are a man, man you'd be like how much I'm out?
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to look at it this way too.
Speaker 2: First of all, you're working with she says, in some
Speaker 2: ways she works with students. Oh yeah, they in her
Speaker 2: field is working with to give college access to low
Speaker 2: income students. These this is a group of people, these
Speaker 2: young people from hard backgrounds, they're gonna need you to
Speaker 2: give a lot, like emotionally, mentally they're gonna need. But
Speaker 2: how can you expect to give them anything when you
Speaker 2: haven't given yourself anything. You're expecting anything for yourself, and
Speaker 2: you have to make sure that you're getting compensated in
Speaker 2: a way that matches the work you're doing. And I
Speaker 2: feel like women often give, give, give, and they don't
Speaker 2: give to themselves in that way or like don't expect
Speaker 2: to be given what they're actually do. So and again
Speaker 2: she's so young, You're gonna learn, but I mean hopefully
Speaker 2: you learn sooner rather than later, because there's a lot
Speaker 2: of women who, you know, think the same way. Like
Speaker 2: she says, I'd hate to disappoint them, my employer or
Speaker 2: the students I work with, but I'm at the end
Speaker 2: of my rope. Well, listen to yourself, like the students
Speaker 2: and the employer, Like, honestly, they're not paying the bills.
Speaker 2: I mean, well they are, but they're not like they're
Speaker 2: not gonna be there for you five years down their row.
Speaker 2: When you have like no savings. You really have to
Speaker 2: look out for yourself. You need deserve it.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the thing. It is your first priority to
Speaker 3: look after yourself.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am so, miss Jonita. We hope that helped.
Speaker 2: If you have any other questions and anyone else. If
Speaker 2: you have questions, us at Brown Ambition Podcasts at gmail
Speaker 2: dot com. All right, so this week instead of wins,
Speaker 2: we talked about this before we wanted to do trying
Speaker 2: to talk about People have always asked us, you know
Speaker 2: what sort of books help you in your career and financially.
Speaker 2: So this week Tiffany wants to share. Tiffany tell the class, Hey, class.
Speaker 3: So, one of my favorite books of all time. And
Speaker 3: actually I got the suggestion on Facebook.
Speaker 1: I had read so I think we talked about write
Speaker 1: the Alchemist when we talked about books last and I
Speaker 1: told you how much I loved The Alchemist. So I
Speaker 1: wanted a new book, and I wrote, like a year
Speaker 1: or two ago, like, hey, Facebook friends, I love the Alchemists.
Speaker 3: Is there any other book that's like that?
Speaker 1: I kind of has that energy, beautifully written a little
Speaker 1: bit of spiritual, but really just about bettering yourself. And
Speaker 1: someone suggested this book and it sounded so strange. It's
Speaker 1: called Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 2: That's the book title. Yes, I never heard of it.
Speaker 1: It's almost like, okay, it's almost like, don't be fooled
Speaker 1: by the book title. It's an amazing book and I
Speaker 1: have to say it is one of my favorite books
Speaker 1: just period.
Speaker 3: It is so beautifully written.
Speaker 1: And so it's about a seagull, which seems weird and
Speaker 1: at first you're like, wait, what, but it's the seagull
Speaker 1: is a metaphor for the type of person that you
Speaker 1: want to be. So there's a seagull named Jonathan Livingston.
Speaker 3: Seagull.
Speaker 1: Yes, he has pred and he starts off like every
Speaker 1: other seagull like, but he's a little bit different. And
Speaker 1: then the rest of the seagulls are just chasing basic life,
Speaker 1: which is fish flying, but just flying just high enough to,
Speaker 1: you know, to to catch fish, because seagulls kind of
Speaker 1: dive into the water to catch fish. So most seagulls
Speaker 1: are living at a low frequency, like low vibration. They
Speaker 1: don't do any more than what they have to do.
Speaker 1: But Jonathan and Livingston seagull, he starts to see flying
Speaker 1: as a means to take himself to the next level,
Speaker 1: and so he starts to practice to see if he
Speaker 1: can fly faster, and the rest of the seagulls they
Speaker 1: can't get it, so they kind of ostracize him because
Speaker 1: they're like, well, it should be you should be happy
Speaker 1: with just living enough of a life to cover your basics.
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, that there's more to life, and
Speaker 1: I want to chase after that more. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what that more is, so the story kind of
Speaker 1: like follows him. It's really it's a short book, but
Speaker 1: it's so well written, and like I said, it's beautifully written,
Speaker 1: and it actually has you look at yourself and you
Speaker 1: think to yourself, am I like the rest of the seagulls?
Speaker 1: Where I'm doing just enough, just to live, just enough
Speaker 1: to pay bills, just enough, you know, so that way
Speaker 1: I can afford my rent. I'm not really reaching beyond myself.
Speaker 1: And I really suggest that book to anyone who is
Speaker 1: kind of looking for that push to the next level.
Speaker 1: It's really short, when I say really, sure you can
Speaker 1: honestly read it like an hour, hour and a half.
Speaker 1: But it's well written enough to kind of keep you
Speaker 1: engaged because it's a story and it will help you.
Speaker 3: I usually read it once a year.
Speaker 1: It'll really motivate you to think to yourself, I want
Speaker 1: more out of life. I don't want to just make
Speaker 1: just enough or I don't want to just drive just
Speaker 1: enough for like basic life. You know, I want more happiness.
Speaker 1: I want joy I want I want to see how
Speaker 1: far I can push myself, you know, to what levels
Speaker 1: can I really reach? So yep, so just google. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's only one book.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred and twelve pages.
Speaker 1: Yeah, super sure, I'm telling you, Mandy, I think you
Speaker 1: really like it. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I bought it from
Speaker 1: my kindle. I don't always like read. If something's really
Speaker 1: meaty and heavy, I like, I like to get the
Speaker 1: physical book. But if something is like like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it's fun, but something's like a little bit lighter,
Speaker 1: I like to read it on my kindle. And so
Speaker 1: this is definitely a great kindle read like on the
Speaker 1: train or like you know, headed home from work or whatever.
Speaker 1: You'll finish it fairly quickly and you'll think.
Speaker 2: Me, okay, well she seems sure of herself. All right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna check it out. Meanwhile, I read a three
Speaker 2: book crime series and like a weekend, like you know what,
Speaker 2: you read so much and so quickly, like I haven't
Speaker 2: read like that since probably college, where I just like
Speaker 2: devour books in a weekend and then I have this
Speaker 2: like book hangover where I am like where I am,
Speaker 2: I feel tired and dehydrated. But then also I'm just
Speaker 2: like Craven the next hit. I'm like wit and there's
Speaker 2: no fourth book, and I'm just like it's the It's
Speaker 2: the Cormoran Strike novels. This has nothing to do with
Speaker 2: inspiring anybody. It's a crime. It's a it is like
Speaker 2: the fruits of a nice holiday vacation. I just read
Speaker 2: these three books. But it's the cormer In Strikes novels.
Speaker 2: It's Cormoran. It's kind of a weird word. C O
Speaker 2: R O M A N. I'm written by Robert Galbraith,
Speaker 2: which who happens to be jk Rowling, who happened to
Speaker 2: write Harry Potter. I know I'm a Harry Brady.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: But my brother, my little brother got in for me
Speaker 2: for Christmas. And it's so different than I mean, it's
Speaker 2: nothing like Harry Potter. It's a suspense. It's a grown
Speaker 2: up novel. Like there's sex, drugs, alcohol, serial killers, people
Speaker 2: chopping up bodies. But anyway, it was a good book.
Speaker 2: So and you cannot read that in an hour. There
Speaker 2: were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages, but they
Speaker 2: were good. I love a good crime novel.
Speaker 1: And honestly, you know what, I'm not want to you
Speaker 1: know how some people are like, oh, you know, I
Speaker 1: love you know, graphic novels, or I love romance novels.
Speaker 1: I'm like a very you know, I cheat on all
Speaker 1: the genres. Like sometimes I love romance novels when i'm
Speaker 1: into them. Sometimes I love inspirational books, I read business books.
Speaker 1: I don't have a particular genre that I stick to.
Speaker 1: I just like good writing, and I shouldn't.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just I used to be such an
Speaker 1: average I mean, I still read probably more than an average,
Speaker 1: but I used to be like two books a week
Speaker 1: type of reader, like at least, you know, and I
Speaker 1: want to kind of get back to because reading to
Speaker 1: me is really relaxing and I love learning new things
Speaker 1: and taking those new things, even if, like you know,
Speaker 1: I've never been into like the crime because I don't
Speaker 1: like gory, scary things, so they stick with me. But
Speaker 1: I'm definitely into like crime as it relates to like Ooh,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting way to think about stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, maybe I'll read is it really graphic.
Speaker 2: Because I'm like, maybe don't read the third Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: pretty graphic. I mean the third book there's a serial
Speaker 2: killer who drops up women's bodies and puts them in
Speaker 2: the freezer.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, so I'm just gonna stay with Matt.
Speaker 3: But you know when you.
Speaker 2: Read a book though, and it's like a light outside
Speaker 2: in the morning and then it's like dark outside when
Speaker 2: you finally come up for air and you have to
Speaker 2: turn the lights on and stuff like, yeah, like that's
Speaker 2: the kind of deep reading.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all that notes episode Yes, Episode twenty is a
Speaker 1: rap skiz.
Speaker 3: It's been so fun as usual chatting with you, Mandy.
Speaker 2: Thank you for taking your break from you're busy entrepreneur life.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm just like, well, no, honestly, I love this
Speaker 1: is It's brown ambition is like one of the few
Speaker 1: constants in my life, you know, because weekly we do this.
Speaker 1: It's like I make time for this and it just
Speaker 1: feels good to like take a break. Laugh because when
Speaker 1: I'm doing this with you, I can't like do extra
Speaker 1: things on the side. I can't multitask. I have to
Speaker 1: remain present, so thank you.
Speaker 2: I get jealous, so better that way, all right, guys,
Speaker 2: Well you know how to reach us. You can email
Speaker 2: us at Brown Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com, tweet
Speaker 2: us at the BA Podcast.
Speaker 3: Oop.
Speaker 1: Sorry, go ahead now I was gonna say the BA podcast.
Speaker 1: You can sweet if you know that's the one I remember.
Speaker 1: And you can Facebook us or you.
Speaker 3: Know, right on our wall Brown Ambition on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Happy weekend, See you guys next week. Bye,