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Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of The Black Effect

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Reasonably Shady. I'm your Girl, Jazelle Bryant and I

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Speaker 1: am Robin Dixon. Thank you again for being here with

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Speaker 1: Yes indeed, yes, indeed, and you know what we we

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Speaker 1: would be remiss if we didn't say that the Real

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Speaker 1: Housewives of Potomac premiered and anybody who did not watch

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Speaker 1: it is a loser. I mean, I think everybody watched it.

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Speaker 1: There's no losers in the world because everyone watched it.

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Speaker 1: And we're on episode two now, yes, yes, into two

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Speaker 1: episodes and enjoying and having fun and unfortunately we can't

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Yes, we're not gonna talk about it,

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Speaker 1: but we just appreciate all the love we got, so

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Speaker 1: much social media love. Um and y'all are like here

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Speaker 1: for Potomac this season, So we just want to say

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Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, yes, yes, thank you, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: and of course thank you for listening to reason Reasonably Shady.

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Speaker 1: Yes that means you just could not get enough of us,

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Speaker 1: all right, So we have our reasonably Shady Moment of

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Speaker 1: the week. Do you have one? Because you forgot I think,

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Speaker 1: yes I do. So I had one that I was

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Speaker 1: going to share last week and I forgot it, so

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Speaker 1: now I remembered it, so I'm just gonna share it.

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Speaker 1: So my reasonably shady moment went to my scale, as

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Speaker 1: in your what you would you stand on to determine

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Speaker 1: your weight? Oh lord, oh lord, you stand on? So

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Speaker 1: I usually weighed myself every day, but when I went

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Speaker 1: out of town, I was gone for like a whole

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Speaker 1: seven days, and I didn't weigh myself for those seven days.

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Speaker 1: So then when I came home and I stepped on

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Speaker 1: the scale, the scale was like, bitch, where you been

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Speaker 1: at because you weigh because you are six pounds heavier. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So the shale escaping all the food you ate shade

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Speaker 1: the scale shady? Okay, Okay, the scale is shady because

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Speaker 1: it missed me and it was like just trying to, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, get in my head. So, yes, I was

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Speaker 1: six pounds heavier when I got back from vacation. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I mean, are you doing anything about it or

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Speaker 1: do you care? I'm like down three down three okay,

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Speaker 1: So do you swear by the scale? Because I heard

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Speaker 1: you're not supposed to live by the scale. So I

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Speaker 1: weighed myself all the time. And I know people say, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know you don't want to go by that because

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Speaker 1: you could, like you know, your muscle could weigh differently,

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Speaker 1: right whatever, Yeah all that, but no, I like every

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Speaker 1: day after I eliminate in the morning, and I want

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Speaker 1: you all to know I'm probably probably too much information.

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Speaker 1: Robin has a whole elimination plan and schedule daily. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm very regular, and if it gets interrupted, I'm very angry. Yes,

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Speaker 1: um so I think one time she was angry at

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Speaker 1: me and I don't know how I interrupted that, but okay, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: so the scale, So yes, I get on the scale

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Speaker 1: like every day, just so I know like where I am.

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Speaker 1: And if I see it like creeping up, I'm like, oh, shoot,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do something. You gotta tailor back. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: gotta push back from the table, as my father would

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Speaker 1: scale shady scale, shady scale. Al right, so my reasonably

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Speaker 1: shady moment. And I normally don't do this because this

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Speaker 1: is not what I'm into. I really am not into

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Speaker 1: negativity on social media, right, yeah, yeah, you kind of

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Speaker 1: just mind your business. You keep it moving, keep you

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Speaker 1: post pretty pictures and you and you and keep it pushing,

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Speaker 1: keep it moving. Yes, yes, yes, However, um, this one

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Speaker 1: in particular, Oh, I was on I was on the

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Speaker 1: Instagram and my d M. Okay, and this one in

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Speaker 1: particular was like, this is not only shady, this might

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Speaker 1: be valent. This might be I need to go to

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Speaker 1: c I A and you need a restraining order. I

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Speaker 1: might need a restraining order against this said person. Okay. So,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, y'all people out there who are

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Speaker 1: just trolls and hated y'all funny to me. I get

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Speaker 1: a good key keyp I crack up, crack off, and

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Speaker 1: then you say like, well you did you really spend

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Speaker 1: your time to like type my name in write something

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Speaker 1: really mean and nasty like you don't like me, but

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Speaker 1: you're here, yes, very strange. Okay. So I'm gonna read

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Speaker 1: it to you all because this person is shady slash psychotic. Okay.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not even gonna tell you who they are

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Speaker 1: because we're not gonna give them any energy like that.

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Speaker 1: But just know that this is what's going on in

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Speaker 1: or this. Okay, are you already Okay, your soul is

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Speaker 1: so ugly. You're a dumb old, dry bitch home who

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Speaker 1: need to be beat within an inch of your life. Damn,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do me how you do those? First of all,

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Speaker 1: where's your grammar? Okay, but that's the whole other story. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do me how you do those other women,

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Speaker 1: because I would put you in a coma bitch girls,

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Speaker 1: she told you. Listen, y'all, people that define the time

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Speaker 1: to write this nonsense. Y'all funny to me. Just know,

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Speaker 1: like you're not hurting our feelings. No, you're making us laugh. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but you Instagram stalk control. You are my shady moment

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Speaker 1: of the Yes that yes, that's scary. That's psycho. That's

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Speaker 1: not even shady. That's psychotic. That's psychotic. But you know,

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Speaker 1: y'all can have at it, you know, if y'all want

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Speaker 1: to send more feel free. But y'all, y'all got problems.

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Speaker 1: Y'all got issues. Has anyone ever made you feel like

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Speaker 1: you wanted to send a message like that? Never? Like,

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Speaker 1: not even Donald Trull like never. Okay, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: All right, so we've got so many hot topics this week.

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Speaker 1: We've got hot topics. We've got our business guru who's

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Speaker 1: here with us. So we've got a whole lot going on.

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Speaker 1: Because the title of this episode is get your hustle on. Okay,

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Speaker 1: get your hustle on. We know about that, yes, So

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Speaker 1: before we start talking about getting your hustle on, okay,

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Speaker 1: a couple of things, A couple of things robbing and

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Speaker 1: this is like when I saw this in the news,

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Speaker 1: I thought about you immediately, all right, um, because you

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Speaker 1: know your your your boots wan and wanted to play

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Speaker 1: basketball and you know he's a coach and blah blah blah. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So the US Olympic team, right, they are currently scrimmaging

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Speaker 1: the basketball team. Yes, yes, the US men's basketball team

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Speaker 1: is currently scrimmaging and getting in my right to play

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics to represent the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: And they suck. They've lost several games. I know what

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Speaker 1: they lost to Nigeria, yes, okay. And I understood that

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Speaker 1: they lost Nigeria because they lost a brother. They lost,

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Speaker 1: they lost like some other brothers. Have never in my

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Speaker 1: life heard of Nigeria having a good basketball team. Was

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Speaker 1: it Nigeria or Jamaica? I think it was Nigeria. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: but they kind of game a pass Nigeria. You don't

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Speaker 1: get a pass for losing to Nigeria. You don't like that.

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Speaker 1: No offense to Nigerians. But like Nigeria has in my

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Speaker 1: like as far as I've never had a strong national

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Speaker 1: basketball team. How many Nigerians are in the NBA? Probably

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Speaker 1: not one? Yeah, but I mean right that Sergey Goop

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Speaker 1: Is he like Cameroon? Let it? Let her? Now? I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for him, okay, I'm looking for who I think

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Speaker 1: is sexy, like a nice draft, nice piece of chocolates.

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Speaker 1: Yeahs type pants? Yeah right, but how do you know

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Speaker 1: he wears type hands? Anyway? I look at packages and

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Speaker 1: the package is right, okay, be delivered to my house?

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Speaker 1: Package good? All right? And then the second time they

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Speaker 1: lost was to austra Australia. That's when I was like,

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Speaker 1: y'all done, y'all good play. That's the thing Australia I

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Speaker 1: understood more than I understood Nigeria, Like Nigeria was like

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Speaker 1: what the that was? W tf? Australia understand there are

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Speaker 1: actually a number of good professional Australians. Okay, yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but still that should not be happening, not

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Speaker 1: when you have the likes of like Kevin Durant, Bradley Bill,

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Speaker 1: not okay. It's not okay. And I'm here to say

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Speaker 1: y'all right now, the US men's basketball team is being

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Speaker 1: shady and y'all better reasonably get it together before the

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Speaker 1: big starts. You know, they're they're gonna get it together.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like, I mean, are we saying, like,

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Speaker 1: something like worse, they need braun Bron, they need Lebron.

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Speaker 1: They might even need to get people that have have

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Speaker 1: think it's telling of just where the game of basketball

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Speaker 1: it's just showing you that basketball is becoming the talent

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Speaker 1: level is becoming a little more like even the field

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Speaker 1: is even and out um so well, maybe it's a

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Speaker 1: sign of the times. But if y'all don't get it together,

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Speaker 1: we know that Stephen A. Smith will talk about you

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Speaker 1: are really bad. And I'm bringing him up. And he's

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Speaker 1: the commentator on ESPN because he was backlash demolished. Everybody

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Speaker 1: came for him because he talked about the Japanese guy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so there's a Japanese baseball player. I can't remember who

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Speaker 1: he plays for. I'm gonna say to doctor place in

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Speaker 1: the MLB. Okay, yes he's in. He plays baseball and

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Speaker 1: he can't speak English. Oh okay, but the he's like

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Speaker 1: be a translator. And Steven A. Smith's position is like, look,

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna rally behind somebody. We rally behind Bryce

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Speaker 1: because he's an American boy and he can do press

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Speaker 1: and we can get behind that. So Stephen A. Smith

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Speaker 1: So he's pretty much saying like so this player is

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Speaker 1: never gonna give him any He's saying he can't be

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Speaker 1: sounds very racist, And maybe he was coming from an

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Speaker 1: aspect of like, you know, when it comes to a

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Speaker 1: marketing standpoint, you know where those players are. You know,

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Speaker 1: you have the Lebrons who are you know, they're the

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Speaker 1: the ads and media appearances and stuff. I think he's

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Speaker 1: maybe coming from that standpoint versus like just letting his

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Speaker 1: play speak for itself. It's like almost like two different things.

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Speaker 1: But I don't kind of I don't even understand, Like

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Speaker 1: why does steven A even have to say this exactly? See,

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Speaker 1: I need to read more about this. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to sound I just want to say that he always

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Speaker 1: is borderline. I'm wrong. So he got backlash, Yes, huge,

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Speaker 1: I guess it's okay, let's let's flip it. If we

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Speaker 1: couldn't speak Japanese, how would the like with that play?

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Speaker 1: But he was the best player in the league, you

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Speaker 1: probably feel certain kind of way. I see that, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? I don't know, like I I

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Speaker 1: we we're on a fence on this, when y'all we're

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Speaker 1: on a fence on this. But I can't say that.

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Speaker 1: We're always quick to like jump down people's throats for

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Speaker 1: like saying what sounds to be politically incorrect stuff. But

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Speaker 1: that song with Kirk Franklin, that gospel song with Kirk

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Speaker 1: Franklin for Space Jam love it that. I do love that,

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Speaker 1: and you know I'm a Kirk fan. See that our

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Speaker 1: reaction was different. I think it's like we put it on.

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Speaker 1: We were like, oh, it's a new song, and we

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Speaker 1: put it on me like next, Yeah, it was positive

425
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Speaker 1: and uplifting, Rob, I don't want to hear that. And

426
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Speaker 1: your kids don't want to be positive and uplifted. They

427
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Speaker 1: want to hear shake your booty, that booty fatty fatty

428
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Speaker 1: pop that booty fatty. Okay, my kids do not want

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Speaker 1: to listen to the aut alright, alright, we digress. Okay,

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Speaker 1: We've got some serious business happening on this episode, and

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Speaker 1: it is called the business of Business. So wait, before

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Speaker 1: you keep talking, I want to say. We got a

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Speaker 1: comment one day that was like, you know, we we

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Speaker 1: we we like to have fun, laugh, joke. We talked

435
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Speaker 1: about all different types of stuff and someone was like,

436
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Speaker 1: you all need to talk about stuff of substance, like

437
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Speaker 1: business and this and that another. And I'm like, damn,

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Speaker 1: like can you be patient? Started here? Yes, this is

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Speaker 1: episode what eight whatever? Next a minute, we're gonna we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about a variety of things, some being fun

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Speaker 1: and trivial, right right. That was like the first twenty minutes, yes,

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Speaker 1: and some being actually use useful for your life. And

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Speaker 1: I want to say, also, I want to read this

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Speaker 1: one comment that I got, but I've had people say

445
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: like thank you for you know, just brightening my day. Right,

446
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: So if we can just write in someone's day by

447
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: being ourselves and being silly, then that's what we're gonna do.

448
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Speaker 1: Mission accomplished. Mission. But I'm sorry, it's okay to the

449
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Speaker 1: It's okay, yes, the topic because the topic is get

450
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Speaker 1: your hustle on, and we're gonna talk about the business

451
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Speaker 1: of businesses and being an entrepreneur and just getting your

452
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Speaker 1: grind on. So we have an expert with us today. Yes, um,

453
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Speaker 1: we have somebody who actually knows a whole lot more

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Speaker 1: about business than Robin and I do, which speaks of

455
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Speaker 1: volumes because we got our business hustle on. Are you

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Speaker 1: going to introduce her? Yes? Okay, Will Okay. So, first

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Speaker 1: of all, Vicky Irvin is my friend. I actually met

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Speaker 1: her on a business level. You probably actually if you

459
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Speaker 1: go back to season three where she was pre isn't

460
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Speaker 1: during my entrepreneurship event, my My She Is Empowered event

461
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: where I was talking about entrepreneurship and women and all

462
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Speaker 1: that good stuff, Because I myself was very interested in

463
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Speaker 1: being an entrepreneur and I kind of sought out Vicky

464
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Speaker 1: for help and advice, and I thought, oh my gosh,

465
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Speaker 1: so many other women want this same advice. So um,

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Speaker 1: Vicky has been a great resource for me when it

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Speaker 1: comes to business. Um, so I'm gonna read her bio

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Speaker 1: real quick. Vicky Irvin is a business consultant and expert

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Speaker 1: marketer for six and seven figure business owners and entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 1: Her very first entrepreneurial endeavor created a multimillion dollar business

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Speaker 1: within twelve months. Vicky has consulted with over two thousand

472
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Speaker 1: people and celebrities on how to increase their own wealth,

473
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Speaker 1: boost their profits, and employee marketing strategies that few have

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Speaker 1: been exposed to. The success of Vicky's consulting business is

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Speaker 1: built on her targeted focus of dream client attraction, sales conversion,

476
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Speaker 1: and branding. She teaches both online and direct mail marketing

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Speaker 1: using a diverse array of cutting edge advertising methods. She

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Speaker 1: is the creator and founder of the s w L

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Speaker 1: Cosmetics Collection, a full service cosmetics company in Line that

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Speaker 1: has sold worldwide and caters to women of color. So everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome Vicky Irvin to the stage. Vicky, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us, Thank you for having me. You

483
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Speaker 1: have been such a valuable resource to me, um, whether

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Speaker 1: it's just motivating me to start my business. You've been

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Speaker 1: very helpful with my Facebook ads. It's like anytime I

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Speaker 1: have a question about business, I'm like calling Vicky, like

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Speaker 1: what should I do? You know, what do you recommend? Um?

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Speaker 1: She's been an amazing resource for me. So thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here. Yeah, so Vicky's about to drop some

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Speaker 1: knowledge people, So get your pen in your paper, get ready.

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Speaker 1: I know we have a list of questions, but I

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Speaker 1: think the first thing to say, like, first of all,

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Speaker 1: there's I would assume with our listeners there are a

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Speaker 1: number of people listening. One there's people who are not

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs but would love to be one or would always here.

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Speaker 1: You know this talk about having multiple streams of income

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Speaker 1: and you might have your nine to five, but they

498
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Speaker 1: might have dreams to start their own business. So we

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Speaker 1: have those types of people. We have other people who

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Speaker 1: do have their own business and you know, hopefully they're

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Speaker 1: successful flourishing. But as a business owner, I can say myself,

502
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Speaker 1: you're always looking to learn more and you're always looking

503
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Speaker 1: to be like motivated, re energized. And then you might

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Speaker 1: have people who are entrepreneurs but are struggling. So how

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Speaker 1: do you how what advice would you give for somebody

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Speaker 1: who's they have their nine to five but they want

507
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Speaker 1: to start their side hustle, but they're scared to like

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Speaker 1: jump out there and take that leap. First, let me

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Speaker 1: say this, like, I think there's a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: for people to be entrepreneurs today, and every body doesn't

511
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Speaker 1: have to be an entrepreneur. It's like with social media,

512
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Speaker 1: is like everyone has their own business and you're looking like, well,

513
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Speaker 1: what's wrong with me? But you don't have to be

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. I think sometimes people kind of put this

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Speaker 1: slant on it where if you're not an entrepreneur, then

516
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Speaker 1: you're like failing in life, and that's not so. Some

517
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Speaker 1: people really enjoy what they do at work in the

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Speaker 1: nine to five in their job, and that's fine. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of people sometimes feel pressure for that. But

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Speaker 1: for the person who does have that, you know that

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Speaker 1: curiosity like what can I do? I want to do

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Speaker 1: something else? Or I hate my job? What can I

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Speaker 1: do a lot of times most entrepreneurs end up getting

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Speaker 1: into a business that they're kind of already have some

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Speaker 1: type of expertise, and they don't really say, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: I want to be at this. I want to be

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Speaker 1: at that. They already have some type of skill set

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Speaker 1: of background. Is something. Even if you're like an accounting network,

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Speaker 1: you might want to start your own accounting business. It

530
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Speaker 1: usually pops off from there, right, So if someone's looking

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Speaker 1: to do something different, is it first starts with what? What?

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Speaker 1: What are you good at? Because you have to be

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Speaker 1: good at something or I feel like you have to

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Speaker 1: feel it. You have that passion. Yeah, I have a

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Speaker 1: passion for it because you're gonna work hard. You're gonna

536
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Speaker 1: work hard than you're nine o five as an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: Like all this stuff about or making money in my

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Speaker 1: sleep and all this stuff, A lot of that is

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Speaker 1: just marketing because think about it, nine o five, you

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Speaker 1: can shut off at five o'clock. Entrepreneur never all. So

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Speaker 1: there's a reality to it, and you have to be

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Speaker 1: able to distinguish like the fantasy and the marketing hype

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Speaker 1: of entrepreneurship versus the real hard work that it takes.

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Speaker 1: And if you fail and you have nothing else to

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Speaker 1: fall back on, you know that that check is not

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Speaker 1: coming every week like you're nine five. You know you

547
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: might be eating beans one week, right, So you have

548
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Speaker 1: to be really realistic about um putting in the work

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Speaker 1: and the grind that it takes the start of business.

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Speaker 1: But I would definitely say to think about what you're

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Speaker 1: already good at. That's the greatest starting point. To think

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Speaker 1: about what you already have a skill set, and how

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Speaker 1: can you build a business around that, versus just randomly saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: I think I want to do this, or I think

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Speaker 1: that I know a lot of people say that they

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Speaker 1: get the fear sets in yes when they feel like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I have to have X amount of

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Speaker 1: dollars to start my business. I have to have like

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Speaker 1: this huge number, right, And so that fear sets in,

560
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Speaker 1: like I'm never gonna have that number to start my business.

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Speaker 1: But I always say like just start yeah right, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So okay, here's a little reality on that. You are

563
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Speaker 1: gonna need some coins, right, You're gonna need your points.

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Speaker 1: But my thing is this, like stay at your nine

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Speaker 1: to five and fund your business with the money that

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Speaker 1: you're getting from your nine to five. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people say, oh, just step out there and go for it.

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Speaker 1: You don't need a plan B. There's never a plan

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Speaker 1: B for me. It's only eight. I'm like, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: more like to keep your plan. B. When I started

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Speaker 1: my first business, I was I stayed at work. I

572
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Speaker 1: was making so much money. I was still showing up

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Speaker 1: to work, and I had all these radio ads coming

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Speaker 1: on like because I was I was teaching will to

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Speaker 1: stay investing at the time, but I was still showing up.

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Speaker 1: One day, my boss came and it was like, you

577
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Speaker 1: don't think I hear you all a little. He's like,

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Speaker 1: why are you still working here? And I'd like, freeze

579
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Speaker 1: me because I think we all, you know, we're bred

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Speaker 1: to go to work and stay there and you know,

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Speaker 1: get your pension and your security. I was, I was

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Speaker 1: scared to leave, even though I was making more money

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Speaker 1: in a month that I was all year. Right, but

584
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: it's still a way to fund your business. So I

585
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: don't quit. Don't say I'm going to use my life

586
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Speaker 1: saving support into this new thing. Be smart about it,

587
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Expand your nine of five

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Speaker 1: and gradually build that right and and some um. When

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00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: I give advice, which I'm not an expert, but one

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Speaker 1: thing that I like to tell people is don't start

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Speaker 1: a business and then think like, oh, I'm just going

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Speaker 1: to be making so much money right away, Like actually

593
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Speaker 1: start like really small goals for yourself. Like even if

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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I just want to make two hundred,

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Speaker 1: and then you make that two hundred and the okay,

596
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Speaker 1: now I want to make two dollars. And I think

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's like we get caught up in seeing people

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Speaker 1: on social media and they're like, oh, I started my

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Speaker 1: business and I made a million dollars and they're like

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Speaker 1: showing you screenshots like their account. It's a it's a

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Speaker 1: right for that. For that, I always say, you know,

602
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Speaker 1: grow as you go, yes, and the money that you

603
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: get always invested back, put it back into the business,

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00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: right and then just grow as you go, and you

605
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: don't have to remember this with every Hugh Like, you know,

606
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Speaker 1: we had to decide how many excus we were going

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Speaker 1: to start, and that's expensive. You know, if you want

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Speaker 1: to start with um, ten items that you're going to

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Speaker 1: sell at one time, where you have to get all

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Speaker 1: ten of those made manufacturer distributed, it costs a lot

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Speaker 1: of money. So you know, the thought was like we'll

612
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Speaker 1: just grow as we go and add more to the line. Um.

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Speaker 1: That's that's one way to do it, because yeah, don't

614
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Speaker 1: get caught up in the social media lie game, and

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Speaker 1: it was a good What you were saying, Robin is

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Speaker 1: good because you need to see what's possible. If it's

617
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: just two hundred dollars, it gives you the confidence to say, wow,

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Speaker 1: like somebody bought my thing they really wanted, and that

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Speaker 1: motivates you to keep So just those small winds go

620
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Speaker 1: a long way and keeping you going forward. Right, So

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Speaker 1: what industry do you feel like people should stay away from?

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Speaker 1: And then what do you think would be great for

623
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Speaker 1: them to start a business. And I don't necessarily think

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Speaker 1: there's any particular industry you should stay away from. My

625
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: biggest thing is like a lot of people always say, well,

626
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Speaker 1: the market is so saturated, there's so much competition, But

627
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Speaker 1: if you do the numbers, we only need a certain

628
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Speaker 1: amount of customers to make our own money. Like everyone

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Speaker 1: you know with the cosmetic line, Like you know, everyone

630
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to buy Finty, everyone doesn't want to buy Mac,

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Speaker 1: everyone doesn't want to buy the big ones. People say, oh,

632
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: everyone has a cosmetic company, but when they find the

633
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: one that they love, they're gonna stick there. And I

634
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: don't need the same amount of customers as Rihanna. You

635
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: know what, I mean, and so don't worry about market

636
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: competition because no one person can service everybody in the world.

637
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: That's why we always see McDonald's and Burger King by

638
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: each other, like my we we don't say, oh the

639
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: god are so many Burger Kings. It's saturated, you know

640
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: what I mean. There's competitions so many restaurants because no

641
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: one restaurant can service all the people, you know what

642
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean. So actually, if you think about it, if

643
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: you see an industry that's saturated, it's saturated because there's

644
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: money to be made there. So it's actually good to dream. Okay,

645
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,719
Speaker 1: Vicky Droppings some knowledge. So for people who okay, so

646
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 1: say someone has a product idea, um and they're looking

647
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: for manufacturers, I feel like that is where people a

648
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: lot of people might stop because like where do you

649
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: find manufacturers? Where do you how do you know which

650
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: ones are reputable and trustworthy? And you know that. To me,

651
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: it's like I have tons of ideas of products that

652
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: I would like to, you know, do or get into,

653
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: but I'm like I don't. I just don't even know

654
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: where to go, you know, like like is there a

655
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: trick or is there a resource or something people have

656
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: for different industries. Like I see out there people you

657
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: see people selling like their vendorless and stuff like yeah,

658
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: and I I don't know there's like vendorless Like say

659
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: you want to go into selling, like like you want

660
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: to open air or hair? You know the hair here, Well,

661
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: where do you get the good hair front? You know

662
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: what avengers that you go to who you know are

663
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: already tested, improven. So a lot of times people who

664
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: are already established, we'll sell their vendor list and you

665
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: know that you can see that they're already a good

666
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: business that's going on, and they'll give you their vendor

667
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: list for that's good. Yeah, okay, and that makes it.

668
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: I always felt like the whole manufacturing process was just overwhelming. Right,

669
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: you can get so stuck and being overwhelmed that you quit, Yeah,

670
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: that you quit. Yeah, And so what we can't do

671
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: is entrepreneurs and it's and it's hard. It's to struggle.

672
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: Of the time is let like a little hang ups

673
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: shut you down, because there's always going to be something

674
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: where you're like I don't get that, I can't get that.

675
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: I don't get that, and it will stop you. You'll

676
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: get distracted and you'll go do something else. But you

677
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: just have to push through those things. Um, you know,

678
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 1: it's it's not the end of the world. It's not

679
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: the hardest thing you're gonna have to face in your business.

680
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: You can find a freaking manufacturer, right, But people are

681
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: actually they are. They're selling their vendor list and they

682
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: already are in business using these people, and it's it's

683
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: kind of a way to find like it's like a

684
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: referral almost. It's like I didn't know anything about one

685
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: a long time ago because I thought I wanted to

686
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,240
Speaker 1: open a clothing boutique and so I opened a vendor

687
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: list of clothing manufacturers. Yeah, but I've never did anything

688
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 1: with it. Okay, So you have businesses that are seasoned,

689
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: they've been around for a while, how and they're they're

690
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: stuck in not being able to grow. What what advice

691
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: would you give? Yeah, So that's the phase where you're

692
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: trying to scale up and that's a doozy. I'm not

693
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: gonna laugh because you know, we talked about putting the

694
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: money back in the business, and then what happens is

695
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: like you've reached this point where the demand gets higher

696
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: and you're not used to putting out that much money.

697
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: To get the product back in, and you're like, I

698
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: want to fulfill the demand, but where is the money

699
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: going to come from? You get stuck in this cycle, right,

700
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: And so that's where people start to look at getting funding,

701
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, getting funding or partnering with people. Okay,

702
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: that's a good way to grow. It's a good way

703
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: to grow otherwise, and if you don't like take the

704
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: plunge and fix that problem, you're gonna stay stuck in

705
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: a circle. So it's it's always the push pull of

706
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: oh my god, people want this stuff, demand so high,

707
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: but I can't keep the product coming in as much,

708
00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: and you're not have talked about this definitely yea, And

709
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: I feel her on that. It's like, I don't want

710
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: to order like a million of this, even though you

711
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: know good and well the trick on the sellout every time,

712
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: they're still cling to this thing. But what if I don't,

713
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: I'm stuck with this in and then when I don't

714
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: have inventory, I'm sitting staggered and you're missing out on sales,

715
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: and you're missing out on sale. So you're basically telling

716
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: Rob and she needs to partner with someone or get

717
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: some funding, or get some funding or or get some

718
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: help or or or take the plunge and just like

719
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: put all the money over there. Because you've been that,

720
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: like with your hat business for a while. You know

721
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: how you're stuff. You have a little bit of um,

722
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: you know, data to tell you how your stuff is

723
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: gonna flow. And you know like, Okay, if I if

724
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: I spend more to get more product, and I know

725
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: I'm going to sell this because when I keep doing this,

726
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: I sell out and then I'm not making any money

727
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 1: and everyone's mad at me because I'm sold out. They're

728
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: sitting waiting like I always sold out, and then you

729
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: lose customers. Yeah, I call that sales prevention. Yeah, I definitely,

730
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: I've definitely been in that hamster wheel. I'll say. Um.

731
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: But I guess another issue for people who are stuck

732
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: in their businesses is the marketing aspect or you know,

733
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: getting the word out or get or getting new customers.

734
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: So you know, they might have the product sitting or

735
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: they might have you know, they if they're offering services,

736
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: like they're waiting for someone to call them. So what

737
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: do we do in that situation? So marketing is like

738
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: to me, a business owner entrepreneur needs to spend the

739
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: majority of their time on marketing. Already know you have

740
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 1: a great product, We already know people want it, it's good.

741
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: But how you're gonna let you know more people know

742
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: about it? Right? So that's where you need to put

743
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 1: most of your money is and client attraction and building

744
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: your clients. But what does that look like is that

745
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 1: social media? That's then that's paying for advertising ads on

746
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: Facebook and social media platforms. Um, that's probably the biggest

747
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: thing that people are doing right now is actually paying

748
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: for ads. And that's the whole and and so you

749
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: also need to invest in yourself to learn those things,

750
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: to learn how to do them because again, as an entrepreneur,

751
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: you need to spend the majoy of your time generating sales, right,

752
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: And how do you do that? You run ads? Well,

753
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: are you gonna pay somebody to run the ads for you?

754
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: Are You're going to learn how to run the ad yourself? Right?

755
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: And you have to make sure that ads are quality

756
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: that people are going to look at. Yeah, and that's

757
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: a whole learning what ads work because there's data out there.

758
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: Like the people who teach how to run Facebook advertising,

759
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: they know what works. I mean, they're always testing, right,

760
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: because the ads have something they call ad fatigue. And

761
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: you can run an ad that's a hit for a

762
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: week and it's just boom and it's just hitting it,

763
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: and then after a week it stops working because people

764
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: have already seen they've seen it reaches a point where

765
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: fatigue sale. You got to change the Sometimes it's the headline,

766
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: sometimes it's the picture, sometimes it's the copy. All those

767
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: things get played with all the time. And Facebook advertising,

768
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: and so I tell people, like, everyone's not going to

769
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: be able to do just organic sales, right, that'd be

770
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: great if you could just start an Instagram and just

771
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 1: close up or whatever, you know. And everybody doesn't have

772
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: a platform of TV either, right, And I think sometimes

773
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: we see other celebrities on social media and their promote

774
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: stuff and the boom, but they have a platform and

775
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: their average person as an entrepreneur is not gonna have

776
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: a platform. So we're gonna have to pay. Or you

777
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: can partner with those, you know, people on social media

778
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: who do have a following, influencer marketing and stuff like that,

779
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: as well as as white you know of doing that

780
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: as well for advertising. That's another big thing people are

781
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: doing Facebook advertising and partnering with influencers who have a

782
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: proof and track record of, you know, pushing sales. What

783
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: else gonna say about Robbins embellished is that it was

784
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 1: ingenious that she has the satin inside to have, right,

785
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: that was like ingenious. Nobody's ever seen that before. It's

786
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 1: so necessary and needed expressly for black women and her hair.

787
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: So I was amazing, But that that was something that

788
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 1: wasn't out there in the market, and you feel that need.

789
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: Earlier today I was talking to Vicky and she was

790
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: telling me something that she's working on that's not out

791
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: there yet, and so she's filling a need. So a

792
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: lot of times I feel strongly about um people feeling

793
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: a need that is not already in the market. When

794
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: you're thinking about starting your own businesses, You're exactly right,

795
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: you want to fill a void. You kind of look

796
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 1: out there and you say, well, what's missing? Like there

797
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: may be a million hat companies, right, but what's missing

798
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: from hats for black women? We're so crazy about protecting

799
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: our hair from getting dry. I might add a satin

800
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: line that one little thing well differentiate you from everyone

801
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: else who's selling hats, and that becomes your hook or

802
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: your unique selling proposition called the usp that becomes your

803
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 1: thing and that is what you know pushes you out there.

804
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: And when we were talking about I was telling them

805
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: launching a company called Black Women Lifestyle. It's like a

806
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: supplement company with like meal replacement, protein shake. You know,

807
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: you range your reds, but there's nothing out there that

808
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: caters to the needs of Black women particularly. I was

809
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: telling her, we're deficient in vitamin D as a culture

810
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: Black people, right, and so if people to G n C,

811
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: they're just gonna have the normal amount of vitamin D.

812
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna add to that. I know our culture is

813
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: deficient in add more vitamin D to our stuff and

814
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: have something called supplement coming their caters to the needs

815
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: of Black women and things that we're deficient in. We

816
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: don't need all the sugar they put in G and

817
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 1: C because we're really supposed to diabetes and all that stuff.

818
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: So we were talking about how that feels a void

819
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: because I don't think anyone's ever done that from what

820
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: I see, cater specifically to the bodies are made up

821
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: so different. Things like that, You're exactly right, can help

822
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: when you enter the market do something different. And one

823
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: of the best things says, find out what everybody else

824
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: is doing and do the opposite, because anybody looks like

825
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: it's like the phone book, maybe yellow something, date myself,

826
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: but it's like pick a plumber, Like you open yellow,

827
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: it's like you need a pumber, Like how do you

828
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: know what you want to call? They all look the same,

829
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: and that's how it is. But now everybody's the same.

830
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: And when you get in business, you tend to look

831
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: at what everyone else is doing and you say, okay,

832
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: this is what I should be doing too, And everybody

833
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: does that, so they all look the same. So the

834
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: person who dares to do the opposite is the one

835
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 1: who's going to stand out and agree. And I feel

836
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: like us as black people were so creative, like we

837
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: make ship and kitchen all the time because we can't

838
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: find that at the store. Say whatever you want about

839
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian, but when I was younger, I remember cutting

840
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: my pantyhose or whatever because that had a slit in

841
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: my dress. And so you know, she just happened to

842
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: come out with it, you know, her skims shapewear. But

843
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: that's like the one, the one with the one that

844
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: done it. They've done it right now, why've done that

845
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: was a need? So you know, I want to encourage

846
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: anybody who's at home. You're you're creating your own thing,

847
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: You're making your own thing and your mama's kitchen, you're

848
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: about to burn it down. Whatever it is that you

849
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: can copton, you know you're probably using it for you,

850
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: but it also can feel a need for so many

851
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: other people. So get your business on. Absolutely, you gotta

852
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: start thinking that way like and then move with it.

853
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: Move with the idea because if you want somebody else

854
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: will can always be on your heels. You're gonna be

855
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: like I could have been. Vicky is saying that there

856
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: isn't anything in gn C that is specific for the

857
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: black community, is like, that's like mind blowing because it's like,

858
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: why why hasn't anything been created for us when it

859
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: comes to our vitamins and what we need, especially with

860
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: you we were talking about earlier, especially with COVID, so

861
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: you know, we we we saw what we were lacking

862
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: when it came to COVID and in the majority of

863
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: the people in hospital dying were black. So you know,

864
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: if we can always get vitamins and nutrients and things

865
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: that are going to help us up front, then that's

866
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: that's half the battle. Absolutely. I love it when it's

867
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: the launch on that. I don't know. I don't know

868
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: I'm right speaking those formulas to get it just right,

869
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: but I just you know, it's it's you know, we

870
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: have to pay attention to our bodies, our culture, what

871
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: runs in our genes and our genetics, and create products

872
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: that are healthier for the culture. Yeah. And I always

873
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: want to encourage people like feel don't feel like whatever

874
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: you're coming up with is stupid? Right, People always like, oh,

875
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: this is stupid our own nobody's gonna buy it, are

876
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna waste my money. No, it's not stupid

877
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: unless it really is stupid. I think what happens is

878
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: you think it was like no, it was a no

879
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: brainer for you, and so you don't think anyone else

880
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: is gonna recognize. I mean, how many times if you

881
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: had a great idea and you think it's stupid and

882
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: people are like, oh my god. You know. So you

883
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: have to step outside of yourself. That's why it helps

884
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: to talk to other people you can bounce stuff off of,

885
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: because if we stay inside our own head, yeah we'll

886
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: go now. Yeah, now, what is your advice? For for

887
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: people who want to just you know, they get excited,

888
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: they're ready to be an entrepreneur. They got their little

889
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars that investing in their little business that

890
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: get their business up and running, and they just don't

891
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: want to ask anybody for help. They don't want to

892
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: rely on anybody else. They don't want to you know,

893
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: they have decided that they're gonna do it all on

894
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: their own. What is your advice for those people? Yeah,

895
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people like that. Know, I know,

896
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't do it along there's asked. There's

897
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: many entrepreneurs who tried and they realize that they need

898
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,439
Speaker 1: help from from getting the idea out of your head.

899
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: I mean, there's always something that you're not good at

900
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: in business. You may be the brains behind it, but

901
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: there's gonna be other aspects of the business that you're

902
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: not good at, whether it's the marketing that that. So

903
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: you have to bring other people in the fold to

904
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: execute everything right. You're not going to be the great marketer.

905
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: And I created the product, and I did the formulas

906
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: and I did that. Nobody does all them right. And

907
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: I think sometimes people don't even know where who to

908
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: go to or where to add like you know where

909
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: to ask for help. But sometimes it's like, okay, what

910
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: if you just go on your Facebook and put out

911
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: a post and say, hey, I have an idea of

912
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: you know X y Z. Is there anyone that can

913
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, I can talk to you about. So it's

914
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: like sometimes it's like where they say clothes mouths don't

915
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 1: get fed. So it's just as simple as going to Facebook,

916
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: making a post and see you might have one person respond,

917
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: but that one person might point you in the right

918
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: direct shade. So open your mouth and ask I see

919
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: it out of people sometimes say I have a business

920
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: and my friends, my family don't support me, and you know,

921
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: I get so much support from stronger yes, but I

922
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: can't believe my friends don't support me, my family and

923
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: I'm so angry and they're so in That kind of

924
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: disappoints them to the point where it, you know, makes

925
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: them shut down. Yeah, like shutting down because they're looking

926
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: for the people around and support them. That's huge. It's huge.

927
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: Having coached people for so many years, it's like one

928
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: of the number one things they talk about, the lack

929
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: of supports from a spouse. Typically a lot of the

930
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: times from a spouse, people tell them that they're silly,

931
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: don't leave your job or whatever, and that you know

932
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: it does a lot of people will never get started

933
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: or they'll give up because of that. So I always

934
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: tell people this, everyone's not going to get support and

935
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: it is what it is. You can't make anybody support you, right, Yes,

936
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: so you have to be your number one cheerleader, you

937
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You have to be a number

938
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: one and strangers will egg you on and and and

939
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: and push you before the people who you think are

940
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: supposed to but people you think are supposed to the

941
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: kind of don't want to say ahead, they hate and

942
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: they're fine if if they're here and you're here, right,

943
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: you have the potentially go here, right, they don't then

944
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: let you blow up and then they're trying to want

945
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: to be alone. Just take you, just take people lest Yeah,

946
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: you know, I think, yeah, I think you just have

947
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: to keep it moving and you have to focus on

948
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: those that support you. And you know, if people don't

949
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: support you like you, just don't let that stop you

950
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: and get and you know, cause hang ups and stuff.

951
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: Don't let that stuffing at all. Yeah, all right, So

952
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 1: Vicky We're about to wrap this up, but I would

953
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: love a couple of tips just for anybody who's a

954
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: wants to give up, be doesn't understand how to grow,

955
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: or if like you, you you are the bomb dot

956
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: com and you your business is booming, Like, what would

957
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: you tell those people? Yeah, so the people's businesses are

958
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: booming and they want to go to the next level,

959
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: invest in scaling up, you know, core capital. If you're

960
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: find yourself stuck in a cycle, that's for sure the

961
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: person who wants to um you're just starting out. Consistency,

962
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: staying at it, and understanding that it does not happen overnight.

963
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: No matter what you see on social media. Social media

964
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: is a fantasy land. Have the people saying their entrepreneurs

965
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: still got jobs that you just don't know they're going

966
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: to work every day, you know what I mean, Or

967
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: that they're living in their mom's. Yeah, so you have

968
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: to understand, like looking at other people can really make

969
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: you feel like you're so far behind the eight balls

970
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: everyone else is balling. Understand that what you're looking at

971
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: isn't true, right, that's number one. So you just have

972
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: to stay consistent at the things that are going to

973
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: grow your business and understand and have the expectation that

974
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: it's not real. Businesses don't flourish overnight. Every once in

975
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: a while somebody gets lucky and blows up overnight. Anything

976
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: else is going to take time, so we have realistic expectations.

977
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: That's the biggest thing that you can do. Inconsistency is

978
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: just the key. There's gonna be aspects of your business

979
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 1: that you cannot stand doing, but usually things you can't

980
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: stand doing are the ones that are going to grow

981
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 1: your business. Right but unfortunately right So, I mean I

982
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: can say just you know something Viggie that you would

983
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: talk to me about. It's like I have to talk

984
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: about my business like all the time. I should be

985
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 1: talking about embellished all the time. I should be posting

986
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: on the time. I should be you know, making little videos.

987
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 1: And for me, it's just I'm the type I'm like, oh,

988
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 1: I don't want to get on people's nerves. Yeah yeah,

989
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: your Instagram, but you're you're building, you have a following

990
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: in your building and you're engaging with people. And I

991
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: used to tell people all the time they were like

992
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't want to sell anything, you know,

993
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: or speakers, they get on stage and they speak and

994
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: they have the crowds clapping her hands, but they didn't

995
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: want to sell a product. But then when they get

996
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: off the stage, all these people run up to them

997
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: and go, do you have anything I can buy? Do

998
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 1: you have a product? In a book? There? Like, oh

999
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: my god, I felt so stupid because if you if

1000
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: you have something and people like you know what you're

1001
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: talking about, they're going to want to invest in what

1002
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: you have. Absolutely, and so you sit there some people

1003
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: are like, I had no idea. So it's your job

1004
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: as a business owner to promote your business. It's absolutely

1005
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: your job. It's not about bragging or people thinking, oh, like,

1006
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: those people are gonna talk about your regardless. You've got

1007
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: to let everybody know about that, right, yes, yes, of

1008
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: course you heard. You heard my shady moment, that that

1009
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: direct message that I read. So those people are always

1010
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: gonna hate on no matter what you do, right, they

1011
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: don't care. And you can't give strangers and haters that

1012
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: much power to shut you down, all right, money, that

1013
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: sounds kind of ridiculous. Somebody you don't know, through social

1014
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: media was able to shut your coins. Now, and my

1015
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,439
Speaker 1: number one takeaway from what you've said, is like, you

1016
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: definitely have to be your number one fan, your number

1017
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: one supporter because in the journey of whatever business you're

1018
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: trying to start and and roll with, people gonna tell

1019
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: you know all the time, and you have to be

1020
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: your fan fan of yourself enough to keep yourself motivated

1021
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: to keep going because the nose are coming like fullforcement,

1022
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: and the supports from others isn't guaranteed. It's right if

1023
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: you have it, but everybody doesn't have it. Right. When

1024
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: you believe and you have that feeling in you're good,

1025
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: you're going to get you'll get more nose. But when

1026
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: you get that one fact that yes, it's going to

1027
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: be all that you ever needed. A couple of things

1028
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: before we go, because I know you said marketing is

1029
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: really big. What would you say, what percent of someone's

1030
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: budget just to give people an idea, do you think

1031
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: typically should go towards marketing sixty to eighty much as

1032
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: you got hot, Yeah, because you have to spend money.

1033
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: You have to. It's like lead acquisition, like the cost

1034
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: of a customer. And as you get data, you start

1035
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: to learn how much does it acquire for me to

1036
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: get a customer in my business? And then you know,

1037
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: and then how much do I have to charge? And

1038
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: then how can I make my average order value higher? So,

1039
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: you know, with the cosmetic line, I don't want people

1040
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: to come and buy one lipsticks and put together bundles

1041
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: and you know, to make people buy more than one,

1042
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: right to make the marketing dollars pay off. Right, So

1043
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: if I spent, if I spent a certain amount of

1044
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: money to market, I don't want you to come that

1045
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: one person to come and buy one lipstick because I'm

1046
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: not really gonna profit from that. But if I can

1047
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: push them and get them to buy something of higher value,

1048
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: that's when you profit and make your money back from

1049
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: the marketing. That yeah, that's awesome. And for people, you know,

1050
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: I used Shopify for my business, and I can say

1051
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: Shopify as an awesome platform because they offer so many resources, yes,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, so many as we have, yes, but

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Speaker 1: but they have so many like tutorials and webinars and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So just as a business owner, like

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Speaker 1: seek information, you know what I mean, So as much

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Speaker 1: time as you spend creating your product or whatever, like,

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Speaker 1: you need to spend that much time also just doing research,

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Speaker 1: seeking research and seeking information and understand that and getting

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Speaker 1: new customers is something you always have to do, but

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Speaker 1: also getting people to become repeat customers because it's just cheaper,

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Speaker 1: more cost effective to keep the same person buying back

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Speaker 1: because they already trust you and no one like your product,

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Speaker 1: versus having to start all over again with wooing somebody

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Speaker 1: new to come in the door because it costs money

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Speaker 1: to do that. That was key, and that was optimizing

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Speaker 1: your website and making your website to the point where

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Speaker 1: it's it's doing things to make the customer actually carry

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Speaker 1: all the way through the check out. There's things that

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Speaker 1: you can do to optimize the website to make sure

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Speaker 1: you're getting as many people as possible to actually purchase

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Speaker 1: all the way through, right, and you can you can

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Speaker 1: check the back into your website to see how many

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Speaker 1: people drop off in the middle of itself because they

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Speaker 1: probably got frustrated because I had to click too many

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Speaker 1: too many times. So you have to arrange things on

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Speaker 1: your site. So there's always ways to optimize and squeeze

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Speaker 1: more money and get someone to carry all the way through. Yes,

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Speaker 1: before we go, Vicky, um, can you please tell everyone

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Speaker 1: where they can find you? What you know? I know

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Speaker 1: you have a lot of information and people might be

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Speaker 1: reaching out to you. Absolutely. Yeah. You can find me

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Speaker 1: on all the social media platforms at vicky irvan v

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Speaker 1: I c K I I r v I N I

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Speaker 1: love it to love it. So that's Facebook, Instagram and

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Speaker 1: the Twitter twittery well, thank you so much. This has

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Speaker 1: been a wonderful business episode of Reasonably Shady. And all

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Speaker 1: I can say is, you know, in this next week,

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Speaker 1: live your life either reasonable or shady. Yes, yes, and

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Speaker 1: send us your questions at what up at reasonably Shady,

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Speaker 1: Send us your business questions, whatever your advice questions, whatever

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Speaker 1: to reach your shady comment, we might and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: last yes indeed, alright, see you next week. People's Reasonably

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