1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: Here's a reminder. We are doing the Brown Ambition one 2 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: year anniversary contest and we want everyone to send us 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: emails and tell us what Brown Ambition means to you 4 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: and you could win a free dinner in New York 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: City with me and Tiffany in September. So send your submissions. 6 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: The deadline, I believe is the end of this week 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: and winners will be announced next week and we just 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: would love to treat you guys. 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 2: Do you want to tell them what they because someone 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: did ask me what date? 11 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: Now that we pick the date, Oh, the date of 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: the dinner would be September sixteenth. 13 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, what time? Like what like seven. 14 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: Fifth or seven pm ish evening time? Ish? It's going 15 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: to do one of those things where we find out 16 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: when everyone's free. 17 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's Friday. That's a Friday. 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: It's a Friday, September sixteenth. 19 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 20 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: At Delicious Popo. 21 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Popo. Honestly that even if you don't 22 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 2: want to see me and Mandy, you want to eat 23 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: that food, the chicken. 24 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 3: Everything, literally everything, It doesn't even make sense. Somebody's grandmother 25 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: is like it's like she must sleep in the kitchen 26 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 3: there and just wakes up and just cooks because the 27 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: food is like poochao, you just gotta love it. So yeah, 28 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 3: so we hope to see you and we want to 29 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 3: you know, hung up on you talk talk, you know, 30 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 3: a brown girl smiles and all that kind of fun stuff. 31 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 3: So definitely email us what Brown Ambition means to you 32 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 3: at Brown Ambition Podcasts at gmail dot com. 33 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 2: Brown Ambition, Brown Ambition. 34 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 3: It sounds like a like threes company, Like remember did 35 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 3: you ever used to watch Three's. 36 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: Company have a knock on my door? No? 37 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: No, take us up? 38 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: That is that's all I all. I think I learned 39 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: that from an episode of Full House possibly it was 40 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: like very meta and never actually watched an episode. 41 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 3: Right, That's like I didn't know until I got older 42 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 3: that like the Brady Bunch was from like years before 43 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 3: I didn't. You know, as a kid, you don't think 44 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 3: about why these kids wearing mail bottoms. You're just like, whatever, 45 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 3: that's true, you know, and you're like, oh, did you 46 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: go you were just in San. 47 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 1: Fran right, yes, Also, welcome to Brown Ambition. If you 48 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: didn't catch it, this is the show you're listening to. 49 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 2: Our Man, Our poor manners, Our poor. 50 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: Man is how how dare we. Yeah, I was just 51 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: an SF. The locals call it SF, so that's what 52 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: I'm going to call it. Oh excuse me, I've been twice, 53 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: so that's what I qualify as. Oh okay, okay, yeah, no, 54 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: that wasn't serious. I'm not a local at all. It's 55 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: it was good. I was like a workation, okay, where 56 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: you work, but then you try to have fun at 57 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: the same time, which was new for me. Yeah. I 58 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: did have a really good time like work. During the day, 59 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: I actually was mooching off my best friend who just 60 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: got a really sweet job at LinkedIn and got to 61 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: go check out their offices, which are I don't know, 62 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: you know. It just makes me like think back on 63 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: my Silicon Valley days at the good old Yahoo because 64 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: just when I tell you this cafeteria, I had the 65 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: best Indian food I've had pretty much anywhere at the 66 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: LinkedIn cafeteria, Like it was delicials. Yeah, they had the 67 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: Poppa Doom, which is like crunchy, like crackery bread type 68 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: thing and like buttered chicken. But then they also had 69 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: a barbecue area. It was just like the Land of 70 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: Riches and like a rooftop area, and then an ice 71 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: cream bar every day at two pm. 72 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: That's just fattening, Like, that's not even right. 73 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: I literally stayed there from noon until four pm. I 74 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: was just like, I guess I'll just stay here, read 75 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: my booth on the rooftop and a nice view of 76 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: downtown and I went. You know, I didn't partake in 77 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: the ice cream social because you know, malactose, but they 78 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: have like Eminem's on tap and just like just nuttiness. 79 00:03:58,480 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: Like I had to get out of there at the 80 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: end of that. I'm like, this is not natural, this 81 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 1: is not okay. I need to go back to reality. 82 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 2: Does everybody overweight? There? 83 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: No, everyone, It's California. Everyone's like thin and like active. 84 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,839 Speaker 1: I'm sure they all like rode their bikes to work. 85 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: I don't know. But what I like the most about 86 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: SP is the weather though, because like it must be 87 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: the most boring job in the world to be a 88 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: meteorologist in San Francisco, because you're just like, well, the 89 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: same as it was yesterday, folks, and that's your forecast 90 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: by like it's the same every day. It's like fifty 91 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: five with the highest sixty two. But we did we 92 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: went out and did something I always wanted to do, 93 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: which was Napa Valley. We went on a wine tour. 94 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 2: Oh aren't you very almost thirty? 95 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: It was very fancy. Well, whenever I like doing tours 96 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: where like you get a driver because it's actually on 97 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: a wine tour, because you don't want to be designated driver. 98 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: You want to enjoy yourself and you don't want to 99 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: worry about directions and that kind of stuff. So we 100 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: did this nice tour through the a dot com which 101 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: I think is owned by trip Advisor. But we're The 102 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: average age of the van was basically like sixty six, 103 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: and me and my friend were like, hella, la la. Yeah, 104 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: it was funny, but we had a great, great time, 105 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 1: very fancy pants. 106 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 2: I like, sanfriend, did you do the trolley? 107 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: Yes? We did? Why is that so exciting? Like, yes, 108 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: we did the trolley. She dragged me this seven dollars. 109 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, why am I paying seven dollars to go 110 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: to First of all, we had to pay two dollars 111 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: to get to the trolley, took the bus to the 112 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: trolley just to hop on the trolley and pay seven 113 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: more dollars just to ride up the hills and the 114 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: opposite direction where we needed to go. That we could 115 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: get off and then pay for an uber back to 116 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: where we needed to go. 117 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 2: So you can say I hit the trolley. I would. 118 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 3: So I'm very touristy, honestly, like embarrassingly, so whenever I 119 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 3: go places, I'm always like, what's the torsy things I 120 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 3: can do? So I did the trolley. In San France, 121 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 3: I had to run a bike and I. 122 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 2: Rode over the Golden Gay Bridge. 123 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: Oh you did, I've driven over. I didn't ride my 124 00:05:58,600 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: bike over it, though. 125 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: It was much windier than I anticipated. 126 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: How did they windy city it is? 127 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: I was like, so I'm freezing every. 128 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: And every corner is a different climate in San Francisco. 129 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 3: Yes, And then like you like, so one we went 130 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 3: to the Pere Fisherman' Dwarf. Well not we, I was 131 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: by myself, but I went to Fisherman's Wharf, which is cool. 132 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 3: It's like, you know, a port or I don't know, like. 133 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 2: Not really a beach, but it's just like a like 134 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 2: the sea, That's what it seems like. But then you 135 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 2: have downtown and then you have beaches. 136 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 3: Honestly, San France is one of my favorite American cities. 137 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 3: I even did the Crookedest Road in America. 138 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: A Lombard Street. 139 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 3: Yes, I was like, oh my god, I'm doing everything. 140 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: It's just I had such a good time. I you know, 141 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 3: they have a Mere Woods which is beautiful redwood forest. 142 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd gone like we did a uh fiance and 143 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: I went a couple of years ago and did like 144 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: the big road trip up the Pacific Coastal Highway, and 145 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,559 Speaker 1: so we hit all we hit all the big stuff 146 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, like during that trip, like we went 147 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: to the Redwood Forest, we did all the the Lombard 148 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: Street and like the pier and that kind of stuff. 149 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: So this time I like to like get all that 150 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: stuff out of the way in one visit. Yeah, and 151 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,119 Speaker 1: then and then come back and just focus on the food. 152 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: They have very very very good food. 153 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 3: I think San France is known for their Asian food, 154 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 3: isn't it like Indian food and Thai food. 155 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god. We had the most amazing We 156 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: were in the Mission District, which is like the Latino 157 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: heavy neighborhood, but we had the best Thai food there. Randomly, 158 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: but yeah, it has like they have Japan towne China Town. 159 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: Really good food, really really good food, and even better 160 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: I didn't pay for my flight because I had points 161 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: points points points. 162 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: I'm actually going away to for my birthday. 163 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 3: I finally booked my birthday trip pre birthday trip because 164 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 3: you know, Superman, we're counting on you to make this 165 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 3: birthday special. 166 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 2: If you know what I mean. 167 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot the other day. 168 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 3: It was like, so at this point, he's given up 169 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 3: on trying to even be like a surprise or anything. 170 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 2: He's like, so send me pictures of rings. 171 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: You like, what come play the charade. 172 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I'll just Sendrina with you. He's like, no, 173 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: I could do it. I'm like, yeah, I will send 174 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 2: with you. 175 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 3: So, I mean, I'm sure it'll be a surprise when 176 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 3: it happens, but at least we're moving in the right direction. 177 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: So I decided to go for your trip. 178 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 2: So I'm going to go to Paris and Prague. Pep 179 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 2: oh cool. I know. 180 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: I'm excited to go to Prague. 181 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 2: Me too. 182 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 3: And so a friend of mine, I've always wanted to 183 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 3: go to Paris. I mean, I've been to France before. 184 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: I've been to the French Riviera, Cannes and stuff, but 185 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 3: I've never gone to Paris. And a friend of mine cool. 186 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 3: She's like my favorite travel partner because we have like 187 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 3: identical travel like emos, you know, like she's very easy going. 188 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 3: She likes walking. I like to do a lot of walking. 189 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 3: She's very like, you know, we can either do a 190 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 3: lot or little. 191 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 2: I don't. She's just a perfect travel. 192 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: Partner, like those are hard to come by, it. 193 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 3: Is, And it's so weird because we live in the 194 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 3: same city and we never hang out. 195 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 2: Like she's like we're friends, like hey. 196 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 3: Girl, hey, but we don't hang out. But when it's 197 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 3: time to travel, I'm like, Madeline, are you ready. She 198 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 3: actually has a company called Traveling Mad where she like 199 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 3: helps kids travel. So she helps like college kids do 200 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: like exchange programs, and she also tries to get kids, 201 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 3: especially in urban areas, like their first passport stamp. 202 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 2: So she's dope. 203 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 3: So she actually went to Paris for her masters and 204 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 3: lived there for a number of years. Speaks French fluently, 205 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 3: and like, so I'm excited to go to Paris with 206 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: her so i can do touristy things, but then I 207 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 3: can also do like, you know, not super touristy things. 208 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 3: And then Prague is a new place for her and 209 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 3: I've never been either so. 210 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun. 211 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 3: We'll be for about a week, like seven days, seven 212 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 3: seven eight full days, so it'll be fun. 213 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 2: I'm excited. 214 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: Oh fun times. That's October. 215 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna I'll be going in the first week, 216 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 3: first or second week of October. 217 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 1: I love it. 218 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 2: Yep. So I'm excited because I was like, yes, finally, 219 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 2: we've been trying to go to Paris for the longest. 220 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 3: We missed out on super cheap tickets round trip from 221 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 3: Newark for two fifty last year, and we nearly cried 222 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: tea years. 223 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: I tell you, it's the worst. 224 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. And I was just like, h and 225 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 3: I really want to go back to Santorini. That is 226 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 3: like like one of my friends. 227 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 2: It was just there. Her name is Amita. 228 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 3: I want to go yeah, ah, Mandy when I tell you, 229 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 3: oh mg, like Santorini is either like perfect for your 230 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 3: girlfriends or perfect for like romantic place for boo. 231 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,959 Speaker 1: I'm working. I'm working on that honeymoon honeymoon fund savings 232 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: fund right now? 233 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: Is that where you want to go? Where do you 234 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 2: want to go for honey. 235 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 1: We haven't decided. We're looking at Europe, but really it's 236 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: going to come down to where do the points take us? Okay, 237 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: but I think I think Europe's gonna happen. We've talked 238 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: about Cuba, but that got put on the back burner. 239 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: I'm thinking Europe. I just want to go somewhere like 240 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: really cheesy, romantical that you'll like, you know, like just 241 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: embrace the like where would Audrey hepburn. 242 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 2: Have you ever been to Paris? 243 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: I have, but when I was younger, not as like 244 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: a grown up, and I'd love to go there, but 245 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: I kind of want something more remote and not so like, 246 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: uh you know, big city like exhausting. I don't want 247 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: to be like exhausted. 248 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: Okay, so like not like I Abizza. 249 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: No, I don't want to like be uts utzing I 250 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: was every night. Is not what they do there. 251 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 3: You know it's so crazy, but because it so as 252 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 3: I said it, Bizza in my mind, I was like 253 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 3: dancing like I. 254 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: Took a No, I don't want to take any pills. Now, 255 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: thinking of the US, did you watch I know I 256 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: know the answer, but didn't you watch the VMA's last night? 257 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: I actually did not. 258 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: I watched Shocker. 259 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 2: Wow, you thought you knew I wasn't gonna watch it. 260 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: I barely knew half the people. I was like looking 261 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: through the slideshow of VMA's like red carpet arrivals barely 262 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: after Beyonce, I was like, and who do what A what? 263 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 2: I know? 264 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 3: I was like, so I figured like I didn't even 265 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 3: realize they were on, and so like I was like, 266 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: what was I doing last night? I think honestly, I 267 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 3: I think I was just like reading like old lady. 268 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 3: And then I happened to look on Facebook and I 269 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 3: was like, oh, the umuz is on. But I'm like, yeah, 270 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 3: I don't care. I'll just watch the clips that people 271 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 3: tell me I should see. So art strategy, right. I 272 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 3: saw Beyonce. Obviously she's played, she did a full concert. 273 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 3: She was amazing. Rihanna was Okay, So let's talk about 274 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 3: Tianna Taylor in that body? 275 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: O my god, is there a personal finance angle here? 276 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: How much money would it cost you to spend on 277 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: a gym membership to get that body? 278 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 2: I mean, this woman had a baby. 279 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 3: A baby, A full human being came out of this 280 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 3: woman's body. 281 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 2: She is like magnificently made. 282 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, this, but you know, she's like just 283 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 3: the perfect size of like not super skinny, not like 284 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 3: overly muscular. She's just like just God was like, We're 285 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 3: gonna give you this thing, and no one else in 286 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 3: the world will happen. 287 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 2: Here. You go be blessed and bless others. And she did. 288 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: And if you missed it last night, and you guys 289 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: are scratching her head. So she starred in Kanye West's 290 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: new video for a Fade. Yeah, and we won't even 291 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: mention the speech, his little speech he gave before. He 292 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: just like he should just hit play on the video. 293 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 3: I didn't even fotch. I was just like, like I said, 294 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 3: I just caught the clips. I watched Beyonce, I watched her. 295 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 3: I didn't even watch Brittany. I heard it was a 296 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 3: little sad to watch, especially post Beyonce, so I didn't 297 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 3: want to do it to myself. 298 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: Brittany came after Beyonce. 299 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: I know, why would they They played her. That's called 300 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 2: the setup. 301 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: You don't have friends, I mean, Brittany just like gotta 302 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 1: know your lane, go back, you know, stay in Vegas. 303 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 2: M I mean, Brittany still don't like. 304 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 3: I mean, I grew up with like, you know, hit 305 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 3: me baby one more time, so you know I'm feeling her. 306 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: She's faded. It's not the same. 307 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not. But did you see Drake Drake profressing 308 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 2: his love for Rihanna? I was like, oh, I I. 309 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: Also didn't watch. I don't know why I even brought 310 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: it up, but no, I didn't see it. 311 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 2: I read. 312 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: I read the headline. Though he loves her, Drake just 313 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: looks too much like my little brother. I have a 314 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: really hard time like looking at him because everyone's like, 315 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: oh my god, Drake, like huh so sexy, but he 316 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: looks exactly like my baby brother, and I can't handle it. 317 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: I can't. 318 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 3: But there's some bran ambish and listeners that are like, so, wait, 319 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 3: so where's your baby brother located? 320 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: Except my brother is smarter, wiser and has beautiful Chris 321 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: green eyes and lady he is newly single. Now that 322 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: I mention it, that's gross. Never mind, I'm not as pim. 323 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: I don't mind around. But he but my my little brother, 324 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: Alex is his name. He he had like a little 325 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: rap career in college and he just like couldn't deal 326 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: with the drake he got, I think, the drake of comparisons. 327 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: And to this day he just walks down the Streeople 328 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: be drake at him. I think it bothered him so 329 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: much he just like put it on the table. But 330 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: he was really talented. It's a little rap hip hop career. 331 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: I digress, just bab but it was it was it 332 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: was cute. 333 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, I I felt like from 334 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 3: what I could understand that the the VMA seemed like, 335 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 3: you know, people enjoyed them, although I did not partake, 336 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 3: but you know, it was cool. 337 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 2: I guess. 338 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: Well, speaking of MTV and youth, actually there's no good 339 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: segue for this. I really want to talk about the 340 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: EpiPen controversy. Have you been following this? Yes, there's those 341 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: yeah for an EpiPen. So and you know what's crazy. 342 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: I you always hear about EpiPens and allergies and stuff 343 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. But I didn't realize how 344 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: many of my friends and family RELI on EpiPens for 345 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: their kids or like for themselves, and how how how 346 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: important they are. And so this company, Mylon, they like 347 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: doubled the price of EpiPens to like six hundred dollars 348 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: and even if you had a coupon, it was still 349 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: like my my cousin's wife said that even with a coupon, 350 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: it was still one hundred and fifty dollars for the EpiPen, 351 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: which is like all that stand between someone in death, 352 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: like if they have an allergy, you. 353 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 2: Know, which is crazy, and. 354 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: There's all this controversy. I even saw Sarah Jessica Parker, 355 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: so apparently her son has a peanut allergy, and she 356 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: was like a spokesperson for this company, and then she 357 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: like posts on Instagram you know, I'm no longer going 358 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: to be affiliated with them, and like denounced it, and 359 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: it looks like today I think I'm pretty sure that 360 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: they decided to lower the price by fifty percent and 361 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: response to like all the controversy. 362 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 3: Because that's just I mean, like you said, this is 363 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 3: life saving medicine, and you're putting someone in a position 364 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 3: to say I'm just going to have to die because 365 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 3: I don't have it like that, doesn't you know what 366 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 3: I mean? Like, how does someone sleep? I was just 367 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 3: talking to him about Superman. I was like about it earlier, 368 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 3: and I'm like this, I bet I get that you 369 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 3: have to make a profit, but how does one sleep 370 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 3: at night knowing that you are sentencing some people to 371 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 3: death because you know, because of profit and I get 372 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 3: that money has to be made, but at what costs? 373 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 2: When does it when does it become okay too much? 374 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: Well, this is this is a really crazy thing, the 375 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: fact that they so they're basically releasing a cheaper version, 376 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: a generic version of the EpiPen in the next couple 377 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: of weeks and response to all this controversy. So it's 378 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: going to cost three hundred dollars versus the six hundred 379 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: dollars for the name brand, but they're still going to 380 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: offer the name brand. And here's what people don't realize, Like, 381 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: so if your insurance covers the EpiPen, like they're there's 382 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: still these these pharmaceutical companies are still offering them more 383 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: expensive one because they know if you don't pay attention 384 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: you're insurance, you'll just put you'll fill the prescription for 385 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: the brand name EpiPen, and your insurance company will pay 386 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: for it and they're still going to get their money. 387 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: So that's why they have these like two different same thing, 388 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: different prices. And this has always like pissed me off, 389 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: But recently I got stuck. So I was picking up 390 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: my monthly supply of Lady Pills. You know what I'm 391 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: talking about. And I went to the drug store and 392 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: I had new insurance for the first time, and they 393 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: told me my prescription was going to be one hundred 394 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: and thirty five dollars and I was like, say what 395 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: to who? What about Obamacare? This should be free? But 396 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: it was like it was like the end of the day. 397 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,959 Speaker 1: I tried calling my insurance company. They were hanged. They 398 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: had closed at six pm, and it was I needed 399 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: to start this new cycle because I'm on you know, 400 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 1: a schedule or whatever. So I was just like, screw it, here, 401 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 1: here's my money. I'll figure it out later. I ended 402 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: up calling and it turns out my doctor messed up, 403 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: so there's I'll just go ahead and say so, of 404 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: course I'm talking about birth control. But there's two versions 405 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: of birth control that I could have been prescribed. One 406 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: is called Yazz, which is like the name brand one. 407 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: The other one created the other one by the same company, 408 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 1: is called Yazmina. And so when my doctor sent in 409 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: the prescription, they mistakenly put Yazz instead of Yasmina or 410 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if they thought yas was short for Yasmina. 411 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: They got confused by the drug company, and so I 412 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: was given the name brand prescription and thought I had 413 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: to pay one hundred and thirty five dollars when all along, 414 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: if they had just put Yazmina the generic, I would 415 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 1: have had to pay zero dollars and by the way, 416 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: would have gotten three cycles for free, like for three 417 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: months supply for free. And I was just so mad 418 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: that that that that drug companies do that, and it's 419 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: it's like for all drugs, you know, there's always a 420 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: more inexpensive generic, but so long as they know insurance 421 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: companies will pay for the more expensive one, they just 422 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 1: continue to market them. 423 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 2: Yep, you're right. And it's just a shame because you know, 424 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 2: I forget who was that guy. 425 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 3: Remember there was a guy who was a super jerk 426 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 3: and he had a number of medicines that he jacked 427 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 3: up the price like seven something. 428 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 2: Ridiculous in sc Yeah, and. 429 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 3: He laughed all his way all like like they had 430 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 3: him like you know, testify before like send it, and 431 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 3: all of a sudden, basically he thought it was a 432 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 3: joke and he laughed and he. 433 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: He's way all the way to jail. 434 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh he's in jail now. 435 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: Yeah he was, oh yeah, he was like it was 436 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: something else. It was he had like misled misled investors 437 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: company or something like that. But yeah, he's well, look. 438 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 3: At God, Look at God. A baby and teenage Jesus 439 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 3: working in our favor. 440 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: Said, yeah, yeah, I think that this EpiPen company just 441 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: saw the writing on the wall. I don't think. I 442 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: think after this whole Martin screlly nonsense. And that was 443 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: for a cancer drug. Yes, I remember that even worse, 444 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: I would say. Anyway, so boo drug companies. I should 445 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: have saved that from my brown Boost. But I digress. 446 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have crazy drug insurance stories out there. 447 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: It is just it's a nightmare. So if you guys 448 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: have questions or stories you want to share, feel free 449 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: to email us at Brian Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com. 450 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 3: And you know, it was funny because I was just 451 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 3: talking to Linda, my best friend, today and one of 452 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 3: my best friends and a friend of mine text me. 453 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 3: He said, hey, Tiffany, he saw my post about my 454 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 3: friend Breathe that passed away from diabetes and how Linda 455 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 3: and I were working on getting her services. And he 456 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 3: was like, one of my friends, his mother has had 457 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 3: a stroke and she needs services. 458 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 2: And I told Linda. 459 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 3: Like we need to create like a because I was 460 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 3: just asking her and passing because Linda went to school 461 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 3: for social work and she's an advocate, and she just 462 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 3: had so many resources of like, oh, girl. 463 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 2: Tell them to call this, tell them to say this, 464 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 2: tell them. 465 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 3: To ask for that. And I'm like, why people you 466 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 3: don't know the stuff? She said, No, they don't, and 467 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 3: they don't know how to advocate. So I'm really trying 468 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 3: to get Linda to like, because she's pretty, like, you know, 469 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 3: chill and quiet, to like speak and share. 470 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 2: So whether I do like some sort of free workshop. 471 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 4: So because if you need help and you're not able 472 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,880 Speaker 4: to provide for yourself of basic health care, there are 473 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 4: all of these resources, like if you can't go food 474 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 4: shopping for yourself, they will send somebody to cook. 475 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 2: For you, food shop for you, drive you around all 476 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 2: of this stuff. But most people don't do it. 477 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 3: And if you don't push and you're not persistent because 478 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 3: you know they don't. 479 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 2: Want to pay for it. But by law, that is 480 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 2: you're right you have access to that. 481 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 3: And Linda was like, girl, like, if you need medicine, 482 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 3: she was like, there are laws in place that you 483 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 3: will you must receive them you have to jump through 484 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 3: some hoops. 485 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 2: But she was like they're in place, and I was 486 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 2: just like wow. 487 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 3: She So I'm trying to get like, you know, I 488 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 3: don't know when I create some sort of spreadsheet or 489 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 3: some sort of like one sheet of things you can do, 490 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 3: because I feel like if more people knew, you wouldn't 491 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 3: especially if you have health issues, borring anything. I don't 492 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 3: know about any major health issues when I As you 493 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 3: get older, you know, your parents are getting older. Like 494 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 3: I'm in my mid thirties now, my dad is in 495 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 3: his mid seventies, and I'm like, okay, Like you know, 496 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 3: I'm grateful that he is he doesn't have any major 497 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 3: health issues, but I mean, how long does that last? 498 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 2: He's in his mid seventies. 499 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I think it's only a matter of time. 500 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: For some it's someone in your life, you know, it's 501 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: something you're touched in some way by a medical crisis. 502 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate that the system isn't set up to 503 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, it is, but only if 504 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: like you come prepared, You've got the insurance, you're prepared. 505 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: If you're in a vulnerable position, it can it can 506 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: destroy you. I mean how many cases of bankruptcy are 507 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: caused by medical debt. I think it's over fifty percent. 508 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: It's bad news bears. 509 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 2: No, yeah, so yeah. I just think knowledge is key 510 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 2: and that's why we do what we do. 511 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: Are your favorite brown boosts, Brown Break. 512 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 3: Yes, ground Break, ground Boots, ground Break, brown Boo Brama 513 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 3: called the BB section. I'm trying to think should I 514 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 3: boost or should I break? 515 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna. 516 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 3: Break, but it's kind of like lighthearted. I'm gonna break 517 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 3: take a brown break from unpaid invoices. 518 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: What's what you heard about your money? 519 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 3: I know, but you know, lighthearted like in a lord 520 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 3: Like every entrepreneur, I know, we have a little key 521 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 3: key gig along, like you know, invoices. 522 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 2: Taking forever or you having to remind companies like hey girl, 523 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 2: so you know you owe me right? And so today 524 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 2: was like. 525 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 3: Invoice day, So I like emailed everyone made some longe 526 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 3: calls with my fake hey girl, hey voice to be 527 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 3: like hey. 528 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 2: Girl, where's my goddamn money? 529 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: No, well, so for real, what is your like I 530 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: think on the house of everyone out there who's like 531 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: isn't getting paid and like wants to know, like what's strategy? 532 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: How do you kindly nudge people to give you your money. 533 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 3: So usually you know, you come up with a strategy 534 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 3: before like the action takes place. So typically if it's 535 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 3: a client that I have not worked with, either I 536 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 3: ask for pre payment or ask for payment after like 537 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 3: right there, so I've spoken today, and if I step 538 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 3: off stage, check. 539 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 2: Is handed to me. So that's usually what happened. 540 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 3: But every once in a while, like I have clients 541 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 3: who I've worked with, so they've paid so before, so 542 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 3: they don't typically have to pay me like right here, 543 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 3: right then, but sometimes they drag their feets because they're 544 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 3: like old clients. So I'm like, girl, you know how 545 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 3: this works. So I if the payment is due on 546 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 3: the first I typically if I haven't gotten payment within 547 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 3: like four or five days, then like I'll send a 548 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 3: reminder email something like very passive aggressive, like hey, do you. 549 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 2: Need anything else from me in order to expedite payment? 550 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: Like do. 551 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 2: You write and versus and so? 552 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 3: And then usually is the right back of they won't 553 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 3: and if they don't within if I don't hear back 554 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 3: via email within two days, then I'll usually will pick 555 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 3: up the phone and call and just say like, hey, 556 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 3: what's going on? And even still sometimes you still have 557 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 3: to a few days later call again or email again, 558 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 3: and it usually doesn't take more than two or three 559 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: emails for a client that's late. I have to say 560 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 3: that I've never. 561 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 2: Not gotten paid. 562 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 3: I know a lot of my clients can't, a lot 563 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 3: of my friends who are entrepreneurs can't say that. But 564 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 3: there was one time that I was dangerously close, and 565 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 3: it was eleven thousand dollars of not being paid. But 566 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 3: I wrote the most sickening letter you have ever read. 567 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: Ooh child, That letter is is stuff of legend. 568 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 3: Still to the client that didn't want to pay, and 569 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 3: they were a municipality, and they were I didn't know, 570 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 3: but they were notorious for not paying. And I did 571 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 3: not know that they had ordered a ton of books 572 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 3: like I myself had to pay three thousand dollars for 573 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 3: the books, like I think they ordered like eight hundred or. 574 00:25:58,520 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 2: A thousand books or whatever. 575 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 3: And then and on top of that, I spoke so 576 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 3: all together they owed me eleven thousand hours. 577 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 2: And I had been emailing them, emailing them, emailing them. 578 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 3: Nothing, and so I ended up writing a letter where 579 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 3: I highlighted every single name, like highlighted yellow every time 580 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 3: I mentioned someone that I had spoken to, I highlighted 581 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 3: and I said, see screen shot below exhibit A, just 582 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 3: to show, like you know, just to show kind of 583 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 3: like the paper trail, and I see Seed, the mayor, 584 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 3: I see Seed, his staff, I see Seed, every council member, 585 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 3: I see Seed, assembly people. 586 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 2: I see see every. 587 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 3: Body in power that I could think of that was 588 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 3: not even related to my payment. 589 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 2: But I just wanted them to know the shame of 590 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 2: what was happening. 591 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 3: And like I said, I bolded and highlighted every name 592 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 3: of the person. It was only like three people who 593 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 3: were kind of responsible for me not receiving payment. And 594 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 3: I laid it on thick about how much I gave 595 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 3: back to the city, how I had. 596 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,479 Speaker 2: Developed and all this other stuff, and how I had 597 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 2: been working in the city for years and how why would. 598 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 3: They do this, and you know, and and then I said, 599 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 3: you know, this is my last ditch effort. I had 600 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 3: even gotten the mayor's actually private email, like I can't 601 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 3: even say where I got it from, because I was 602 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 3: like I had people on the hunt, like go get 603 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 3: his email to make sure he gets this, even though 604 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 3: he didn't have anything really to do with this, And 605 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 3: I said, you know, this is my last ditch effort 606 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 3: to reach out for fair compensation for what I delivered 607 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 3: before I go to the media. 608 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: That was the last line. 609 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: And they had. 610 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 3: Already known me to be on TV sometimes and like 611 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 3: it definitelyly and like major media outlets regularly. 612 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 2: So I made sure to leave that. I left that 613 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 2: lingering at the end, like live Richard. 614 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: Girl. 615 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 2: These are people who had. 616 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 3: Not called me in months, Mandy, I mean, I don't 617 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 3: even think about it. Took three minutes before my phone 618 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 3: was therein you know, my phone was jumping he he 619 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 3: hell up. 620 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 2: I couldn't even decide who to answer first. 621 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, hi, hey girl, Yes, oh that was 622 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 3: inappropriate that email. And I was told that my email 623 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 3: was inappropriate, and then by then I was like living. 624 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 2: I said inappropriate. 625 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 3: I said, why I know I was inappropriate the fact that 626 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 3: I had been messaging you for months and the only 627 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 3: reason why you're messaging me back is because I wrote 628 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 3: that letter. I said, that's what's inappropriate. And the nerve 629 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 3: of you to tell me I'm inappropriate for demanding payment, 630 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 3: And she was just like the girl on the line 631 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 3: was just like after stuttering, and I said, you know. 632 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 3: And then then somebody else called and they said, you know, 633 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 3: we can have your payment to you. 634 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 2: You know, do you want to pick it up or 635 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: do you want us to me? 636 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 3: I said no, I'll pick it up, and they made 637 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 3: the woman who had been shading me bring it and 638 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 3: walk into my car like walk the walk of shame 639 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 3: across the girl I was so shading me while I 640 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 3: was in my gym clothes looking like a bomb. But 641 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 3: I was like, you see me in my nineteen ninety 642 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 3: nine Tolia to Camri, this check is. 643 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 2: Worth more than my car. 644 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 3: And I rolled down the window just enough for her 645 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 3: to slip the check in, and I gave it a 646 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 3: look like it didn't have to be like this, and 647 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 3: I rolled. 648 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: You brought this on yourself. 649 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 3: But what it did teach me was one because I 650 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 3: didn't want to demand payment, you know, like I felt like, well, 651 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 3: but sometimes you have to. You have to stand up 652 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 3: for yourself and don't wait till long. The longer you 653 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 3: wait for your money, the less likely it is that 654 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 3: you're going to get it. Do not let two weeks pass. 655 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 3: So if you don't have it in a few days, 656 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 3: reach back out. Two days after that, reach back out 657 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 3: two days after that reach back out. It's better to 658 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 3: be annoying because if you wait a month, people have 659 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 3: moved on to other things. I once I waited nine 660 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 3: months for a magazine publication to pay. 661 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 2: Me my money. It was like six hundred bucks. It 662 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 2: wasn't even like a whole lot. 663 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 3: Of money, but nine months of bugging them, like, you know, 664 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 3: out of principle, like give me my money. So yeah, 665 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 3: so today's brown break is just unpaid invoices. And I 666 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 3: just there's certain people who I would never ever work 667 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 3: with again. Some people just you know, there was there 668 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 3: was a mistake or whatever. But some people you just 669 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 3: would never ever work with again. 670 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: Good lesson. Yeah, I think a lot of people will 671 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: find that usefuls Like send me that. 672 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 2: Let a girl I need a template. 673 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, my brown boost. I'm gonna do a boost because 674 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: this was super helpful to me. And I know it's 675 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: really awkward when you're traveling or hanging out with friends 676 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: and you're spending it, like especially when you're going on 677 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: like trips with someone like you going on your trip 678 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: with your friend, like when you are like, oh I'll 679 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: get this, and oh I'll get that, and then everything's 680 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: a big fat mess at the end, and you don't 681 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: feel like, you know, one person paid more than the other. 682 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: So I started using this app called try Count TRII 683 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: Count which and there's a couple others like it. I 684 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: think the closest one to this one is called split wise. 685 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: It's not the only app, but it's the one that 686 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: I use, and I like it a lot. And you 687 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: can create a like kind of like create an expense 688 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: report and you put in like who's involved, and then 689 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: you easily just add expenses to it, like Mandy paid 690 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: for this uber. You know so and so paid for 691 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: that dinner, and you say who and if you have 692 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: more than like ten friends or a few friends, and 693 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: like someone goes grocery shopping but only two people eat 694 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: the food, then you can put so and so paid, 695 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: and then so and so benefited from that, or you 696 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: know it was for whoever. And at the end of 697 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: it, it does all the math for you and it just 698 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: easily says you, oh, Stephanie seventy five dollars, Stephanie Oh's 699 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: Chris twenty five dollars, and it just like does it. 700 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: And it's so nice and like democratized and like there's 701 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: no awkwardness you know, it's like, well, trycount said, you 702 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: owe me, so here, you know, give me the money 703 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: and then you could just send a little express Spencer 704 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: report to all your friends at the end and you know, 705 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: venmo or whatever you do to send the money around. 706 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 2: I like that try Count. Okay, it's t ri I. 707 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: CEO n U t coo U NT. 708 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you. 709 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 3: Spell correctly, that's I mean, if you want to get tactical, if. 710 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: You want to find the app, if you're interested. I've 711 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: heard split wise is good too, but like I said, 712 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: that's the only way I haven't used split wise. I've 713 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: only used try count. It's it's basic. It gets the 714 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 1: job done, and it makes everything less awkward, and there's 715 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: no like you know, it just sucks when you have 716 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: to get seventeen checks, you know. Yeah, yeah, just make 717 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: sure your friends are good for it. 718 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 2: No, but that's cool. 719 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 3: I like that because you know, these days, as you 720 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 3: get older, people pay for things and. 721 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 2: You want to make sure you get your payment back, 722 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 2: like I just did. 723 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 3: There was an all white affair like like dinner en 724 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 3: Blanc in my city, and I was like, I purchased 725 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 3: like six tickets and then the people who were supposed 726 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 3: to go, didn't end up going, but we were able 727 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 3: to like get. 728 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 2: Other people to tickets. And I'm still short because you're 729 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 2: just like, ah, you know how. 730 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 3: That works, you know it is, and you're just like 731 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 3: you know, and after a while you're just like, you 732 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 3: know what, forget it, you know, like, I'll just eat 733 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 3: that twenty dollars. But you never know where things come from. 734 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 3: You're like, but I thought, and everyone's like, no, I 735 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 3: paid my money, so we should have used you know, 736 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 3: we should have used Well. The lesson learned is one 737 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 3: paying up front and then less than to try and counts. 738 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: Less than three. Don't hang out with them anymore, don't 739 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: make plans with you know, you go through life and 740 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 1: you know the friends, you know the ones so you 741 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: need payment up front. You love them, but you know 742 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: they need you need retain or security deposit or whatever 743 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: for the movies. Yeah, you all have. 744 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 3: Those persts that you're like girl or the friends are 745 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 3: always like, oh you got. 746 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 2: This for me, and you're like the last prettycot. No, No, you. 747 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: Know they're friends. Doesn't mean you're got to be friends. 748 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: It just means you have to just the way you 749 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: handle things with them. 750 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, It's like the type of friends that make you 751 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 3: swipe your metro car, Like, girl, you got your metro 752 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 3: car and you're like. 753 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: You, that's a lot of money that adds up. It is, so. 754 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not plenty any fingers, but you know who 755 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 2: you are. It's a man the first week. So what 756 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 2: are your what's your win this week? 757 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: I have a win that I've been meaning to say 758 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: and I keep forgetting, but I wanted to give this 759 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: a shout out because if you listen to our show 760 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: on Single Moms and the Amazing Single Mom Keona Harris, 761 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: she took her daughter on a road trip cross country 762 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: over the summer and one of the things they did 763 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: on their road trip was volunteer at different organizations along 764 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 1: the way, because you know, they couldn't be any more perfect. 765 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 1: And she told me about one of the organizations that 766 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 1: they helped out based in Cleveland by a woman named 767 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: Kevenny Gilmore, and she started she basically grew up in 768 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 1: foster care and when she was out of college age, 769 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 1: you know, you age out of the system and you 770 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,320 Speaker 1: have to kind of just like go start your life. 771 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: And she actually ends up having she basically went to 772 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: college because she needed a place to live, and she 773 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,359 Speaker 1: was homeless on her summer, on her winter breaks and 774 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 1: fall breaks and things like that. So she decided, you know, 775 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: a lot of young people when they aged at foster 776 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: care have nowhere to go. So she decided to buy 777 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: a house and turn it into like a halfway house, 778 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: kind of a home for foster children who have aged 779 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: out of the system. I know, it was like a 780 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: great initiative. It was called or it is called hashtag 781 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: foster care with hashtag spelled out. Okay, But then I 782 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 1: was reading on her about Keviny Gilmore and it turns 783 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: out like this. This the house that she had bought 784 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: and was preparing to turn into this little oasis for 785 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: foster kids. It was ransacked and burglarized back in the spring, 786 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: and people had come in and stole like all the 787 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: copper wiring and like the hot water heaters. And it 788 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: was a duplex, so they got double of everything and 789 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: no just thousands of dollars that she lost. So if 790 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 1: you have, you know, I just thought I would give 791 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: her a shout out. I believe there's still raising money 792 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: to help replace some of the things that were stolen 793 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: from the house, and they have a go fund to 794 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: me page up and you can just look up hashtag 795 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: boster Care on GoFundMe and you can probably find your 796 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,760 Speaker 1: way there. We'll put a link on this week's blog 797 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: post with the podcast too. But yeah, I was just 798 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 1: it was like a yay, this is a win, but 799 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: also it's sad when someone's trying to do some good 800 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 1: in the world. 801 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm done. 802 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 3: I'm going to donate just because I you know, it 803 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 3: really is the the duty of those who have to 804 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 3: help those who don't, and not just I'm not just 805 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,840 Speaker 3: talking about financially. I mean, you know, whatever gift that 806 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,760 Speaker 3: you have, you might be like, you know, I'm musically inclined. 807 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,720 Speaker 3: This person needs music in their life. But I feel 808 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 3: like everyone has something that they can contribute, And if 809 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 3: you can contribute to this amazing organization, then just imagine 810 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 3: that. I always think to myself, just imagine like when I 811 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 3: see Superman outside like playing with the kids and buying 812 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 3: them pizza and school clothes, and like like the other 813 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 3: day we got school clothes. Came to the house and 814 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,000 Speaker 3: I'm like, this is not supergirls school clothes color, And 815 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 3: he looked all sheepish. He was like, oh no, that's 816 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,480 Speaker 3: for the girl next door. And I was like, oh, 817 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 3: this is why I love you. Like who just buys 818 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 3: random school clothes. 819 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 2: The little girl next door told him the. 820 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 3: Other day, I have a godfather, but you're my godfather now. 821 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,720 Speaker 2: Which I thought was alive. She knows where the money 822 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 2: comes in from. She was like, yeah, capitalist yes, yes. 823 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 3: She was like, so we've dropped him, just so we're clear, 824 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 3: you're my godfather. And but just imagine if we all 825 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,040 Speaker 3: just took care of like the small circle of influence 826 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 3: that you have, like just around you. Just imagine if 827 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 3: people just did small acts of kindness like that, then 828 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 3: you really could change and shift the world. You don't 829 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,280 Speaker 3: have to do huge overtures if you don't have it, 830 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 3: just something as simple as you know, doing something nice 831 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 3: to someone in your neighborhood and so corner. 832 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,760 Speaker 1: You do a little bit, and that's all this woman 833 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: was trying to do. So So check out hashtag hashtag 834 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 1: foster care. 835 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm definitely on a gam so I don't 836 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 3: have a win, but I do have a book. So 837 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,880 Speaker 3: I am like really really big on like the like 838 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 3: the laws that you've heard about obviously, like the law 839 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:43,400 Speaker 3: of attachment. 840 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 2: Oh, no, the law of attraction, like the law of attachment, 841 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:47,560 Speaker 2: the law. 842 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:53,480 Speaker 5: Of attraction, you know, yeah, let me be wrong, Okay, Yeah, 843 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,880 Speaker 5: So for those of you who've ever heard of The Secret, 844 00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 5: the Secret talks about the law of attraction, which is 845 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,239 Speaker 5: based on it means the things that you think about 846 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 5: you bring about. 847 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 3: And there's all of these other spiritual laws. And so 848 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,880 Speaker 3: there's this great book. I just saw that someone had 849 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 3: posted it on Facebook, and I always wondered, like, you know, 850 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,920 Speaker 3: where could I read more of some of the other laws, 851 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 3: Like there's like the Law of detachment, which I like, 852 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,240 Speaker 3: and deprak Choper actually has a book called the Seven 853 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 3: Spiritual Laws of Success, A Practical Guide to Fulfillment, to 854 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 3: the fulfillment of your dreams. And so I'm excited because 855 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 3: I really want to dig more into these laws. 856 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,839 Speaker 2: You know that because the law of attraction has worked 857 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:36,280 Speaker 2: so well. 858 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,479 Speaker 3: The Law of detachment I love, which just states that 859 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 3: you're supposed to detach yourself from the outcome and just 860 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,839 Speaker 3: do good and just know that good is going to come. 861 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,759 Speaker 3: You don't know specifically in what way we returned to you, 862 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 3: but in some way it will be. So you detach 863 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,440 Speaker 3: yourself from the outcome and that has helped significantly, Like 864 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 3: especially like if I'm going out or you know, like 865 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,640 Speaker 3: maybe I'm going someplace with a friend, and you know, 866 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,960 Speaker 3: you're like, okay, in order for this party to be fun, 867 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,440 Speaker 3: I want to be able to do this, this, this, 868 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,920 Speaker 3: and this, and then if it doesn't happen, you kind 869 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,840 Speaker 3: of feel like, oh, I should have stayed home. But 870 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,839 Speaker 3: if you detach yourself from the specific outcome, you just say, 871 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,520 Speaker 3: you know what, I'm going to go out and enjoy 872 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,960 Speaker 3: myself whatever that looks like. And so that's one of 873 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 3: my favorite laws, detachment of just allowing things to flow. 874 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,719 Speaker 1: The law of low expectations. No, I want to be 875 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: happy in life. Lower It's so true though people don't 876 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 1: want to hear it. But I'm like, lower than expectations 877 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,319 Speaker 1: college graduates. Maybe you won't make one hundred thousand dollars. 878 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 1: How about that lower expectations. 879 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,239 Speaker 3: And so I'm just excited just to read it. It's like, 880 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,719 Speaker 3: for I got it on my kindle. It's apparently not 881 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 3: that long. It's like an hour read, which so I 882 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:43,840 Speaker 3: mean I should be able to go through it. 883 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 2: Pretty quickly if you have any cause I love reading. 884 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,720 Speaker 3: I have a wide range of the type of books 885 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 3: I like to read, Like, I love romance novels, but 886 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,879 Speaker 3: then I also really like books like this the Law, 887 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 3: you know, the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. But I 888 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,319 Speaker 3: also love marketing books. So I'm really like I have 889 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 3: a wide range of what I enjoy. So I would 890 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,600 Speaker 3: love if you have book suggestions of just a good book. 891 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,479 Speaker 3: I don't have any preferences. If you've read a really 892 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,960 Speaker 3: good book, please email us, share it, Tweet me at 893 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,320 Speaker 3: the Budgetista, tweet us is it the BA podcast? 894 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 1: It is at the BA podcast? 895 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,960 Speaker 2: Yes, tweet yes at the BA podcast. 896 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,479 Speaker 3: Tweet Mandy Mandy with an I You're not Mandy Money, 897 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:26,880 Speaker 3: It's Mandy Woodroof on Twitter. 898 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:27,239 Speaker 1: Yep. 899 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. And So, because I'm looking. 900 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 3: Always to I have my Kindle with me always, and 901 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,799 Speaker 3: so sometimes I flips through and say, well. 902 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 2: What do I feel like today? 903 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,319 Speaker 3: So I'd like to always have a ton of like 904 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 3: unread books that I can get to at any moment. 905 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,360 Speaker 1: You too, School's back and sessions, So everyone get on 906 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: them books. 907 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:59,799 Speaker 2: Now you gotta read, honey,