WEBVTT - Episode #1: Healthy Roots

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<v Speaker 1>This season, we're bringing you stories about people finding their

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<v Speaker 1>professional stride by virtue of who they know, whether it's

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<v Speaker 1>breathing new life into an age old profession, taking the

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<v Speaker 1>reins in a family business, forging your own path with

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<v Speaker 1>a new idea, or landing the perfect job doing something

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<v Speaker 1>you'd never before even considered. Today reporter Otis Gray travels

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<v Speaker 1>to Detroit to meet a young woman undertaking the challenges

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<v Speaker 1>of being a self made entrepreneur. It's just twenty four

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<v Speaker 1>years old. Euliza Jean Charles is in the thick of

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<v Speaker 1>getting her startup off the ground and fielding innumerable tasks

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<v Speaker 1>that come with it starting her business, Healthy Roots, just

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<v Speaker 1>out of college. Eliza's end goal is to change the

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<v Speaker 1>world one doll at a time. Here's Otis, So I

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<v Speaker 1>spent a day in the life with Uliza Jean Charles

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<v Speaker 1>and her job. Well, she does a lot, so I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's just best to start at the beginning. First,

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<v Speaker 1>she wakes up at seven, she does yoga, and before

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<v Speaker 1>she leaves the house she has her makeup and hair routine.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm very much a fashion over person. She's got a

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<v Speaker 1>big day and she wants to look good. So I

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<v Speaker 1>have to go check out the performance service. And then

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<v Speaker 1>I have mentor meetings all day and like a happy

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<v Speaker 1>hour with mentors, so I like to look presentable for

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<v Speaker 1>that so people can see that I'm a professional. So

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<v Speaker 1>that's what I That's what I'm getting ready for now.

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<v Speaker 1>Elitsa's company is called Healthy Roots. It's a toy company

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<v Speaker 1>that teaches hair care to young girls of color with

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<v Speaker 1>black dolls that Eliza has designed herself. I'm gonna do

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<v Speaker 1>setting sprint and I'm gonna try to do eline it

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<v Speaker 1>really quick. We do have to go in like five minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>But also people in Detroit drive really crazy. Oh is

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<v Speaker 1>that the cap I've been looking for this? At around eight,

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<v Speaker 1>we're out the door to start the day. Unlike a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of young people who apply for work at big

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<v Speaker 1>places where they might find stability, Eliza has gone out

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<v Speaker 1>on a limb to start her own toy company completely

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<v Speaker 1>from scratch. I still don't know my way around your Troy.

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<v Speaker 1>Pitching a business like this and making it work is

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<v Speaker 1>not easy, but at twenty four years old, Eliza is

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<v Speaker 1>exceptionally good at it. Hi. My name is Eliza Jean Charles.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the CEO and founder of Healthy Roots. Healthy Roots

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<v Speaker 1>is a toy company that creates dolls in storybooks that

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<v Speaker 1>empower young girls of color through hairplay. I created Healthy

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<v Speaker 1>Roots because I never had a doll that looked like

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<v Speaker 1>me growing up. And I also didn't learn how to

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<v Speaker 1>do my hair until I was twenty. And that's crazy,

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<v Speaker 1>because I have really great hair, and there's lots of

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<v Speaker 1>little girls with beautiful girls that don't know it yet.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's why we made Zoe the first all that

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<v Speaker 1>teaches natural haircare. She's our first healthy roots all and

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<v Speaker 1>she's really cute. So it's a good elevator bit that

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<v Speaker 1>seems practiced and perfect. I mean, part of it is practice,

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<v Speaker 1>but people ask me what do you do all the time?

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<v Speaker 1>So as to tell them something. In the last four years,

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<v Speaker 1>Ulitza has taken the doll from an idea to an

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<v Speaker 1>actual product. She secured some funding and is now in

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<v Speaker 1>the process of getting more dolls out into the public.

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<v Speaker 1>After a successful first holiday season, ninety percent of startups

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<v Speaker 1>like this fail, so Ulitza has completely devoted her life

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<v Speaker 1>to her company and is currently working out of a

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<v Speaker 1>startup accelerator here in Detroitphone. In a world with a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of reliable, stable job paths, we follow Ulitza as

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<v Speaker 1>she forges her own. Did you have a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>dolls when you were a kid? Didn't have a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of dolls when I was a kid. Uh yeah. My

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<v Speaker 1>mom would only buy me gifts if I did something

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<v Speaker 1>good or if she did something bad. Only times I

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<v Speaker 1>got dolls. I had this giant bin. I had like

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<v Speaker 1>so many different versions of Barbie, had swan like Barbie.

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<v Speaker 1>I had the Barbie where you could pull hair out

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<v Speaker 1>of her head and cut it. I had tons of

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<v Speaker 1>Mycene dolls. They had the coolest fashion. Then there were

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<v Speaker 1>the Brats, Betty Spaghetti. Yeah. I had a lot of dolls,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of dolls. Eliza is of Haitian descent. She's

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<v Speaker 1>first generation, but like a lot of kids growing up

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<v Speaker 1>in America, most of Eliza's dolls growing up were white.

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<v Speaker 1>In a recent video that Eliza made for her website,

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<v Speaker 1>it shows her walking through a toy aisle at a

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<v Speaker 1>big store just to show how much lighter skinned dolls

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<v Speaker 1>vastly outnumbered dolls with darker skin. Elita remembers one Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>when she and her cousin were kids, a family member

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<v Speaker 1>noticed that most of their dolls didn't look like them.

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<v Speaker 1>He noticed we didn't have any black dolls, and he

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<v Speaker 1>bought us some and I like unwrapped it and I

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<v Speaker 1>started crying because I'm like, I didn't want this one.

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<v Speaker 1>This is ugly, and like I said that, and they

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<v Speaker 1>were like, you said it was ugly because it was

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<v Speaker 1>a black doll. Not because it was a black doll,

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<v Speaker 1>but because it was a black doll, because it was

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<v Speaker 1>like to me, the doll that like they always show

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<v Speaker 1>in the commercials, was like the white one. So let's

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<v Speaker 1>say that they had Rapunzel Barbie. They do white Punzel Barbie,

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<v Speaker 1>they do black Unz. They got me the black one,

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<v Speaker 1>and I didn't want that one because I want the

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<v Speaker 1>one that is the popular one, which is always the

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<v Speaker 1>white one. Yeah, Unfortunately, you lead to this experience is

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<v Speaker 1>not at all unique. There's been multiple studies done where

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<v Speaker 1>young black kids sit down in front of two dolls,

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<v Speaker 1>one is white, one is black. Then they're ask some questions.

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<v Speaker 1>It's called the doll test, and there's videos online that

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<v Speaker 1>you can watch just like this one which the doll

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<v Speaker 1>is the nice doll. The young boy in front of

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<v Speaker 1>the camera points over to the white doll. Which doll

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<v Speaker 1>is the bad doll? Now, one after another, the kid's

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<v Speaker 1>point to the black doll. Which doll is the ugly doll?

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<v Speaker 1>A young boy touches the black doll. Why is that

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<v Speaker 1>doll ugly? Black? Which doll looks most like you? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Which one looks like? She points to the black doll.

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<v Speaker 1>The videos can be pretty hard to watch, but they're

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<v Speaker 1>a big part of why Elitsa does what she does.

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<v Speaker 1>It all because her mantra is that young black kids

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<v Speaker 1>need to see themselves represented in a positive way because

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<v Speaker 1>that hasn't been the case for a long long time.

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<v Speaker 1>And you leads his experience. A lot of that had

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<v Speaker 1>to do with her parents coming to the US to

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<v Speaker 1>give her a better future and encouraging her to just

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<v Speaker 1>be successful. They were just like, do whatever you gotta

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<v Speaker 1>do to learn to grow to be successful. And for

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people that looks like whiteness, like assimilating

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<v Speaker 1>or like acting white, I actively participated in anti blackness

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<v Speaker 1>as a kid. I like didn't always play with the

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<v Speaker 1>black kids, or like, I didn't listen to certain music

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<v Speaker 1>because I thought that's what black kids listened to. I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't watch certain things because I thought that's what black

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<v Speaker 1>kids listened to or watched. And I did those things

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<v Speaker 1>because I didn't want to get treated like them, because

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<v Speaker 1>I saw how they got treated and it wasn't And

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<v Speaker 1>then it wasn't till I got older that I learned

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<v Speaker 1>how problematic that was. So as a teenager, Elita straightened

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<v Speaker 1>her natural curls to appeal to the kind of European

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<v Speaker 1>standard of beauty, straight long hair. But there was a

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<v Speaker 1>pivotal moment in college when she was an illustration major

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<v Speaker 1>at Rhode Island School of Design. It was when a

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<v Speaker 1>friend of hers, who was also black, made a pretty

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<v Speaker 1>big decision. She had really big hair. She had cut

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<v Speaker 1>off all her hair, and I was like, yo, what

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<v Speaker 1>are you doing? And she was like, you know, I've

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<v Speaker 1>just never seen my natural hair. And I was like, wow,

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<v Speaker 1>I too have never seen my natural hair. So this

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<v Speaker 1>experience started really feeding into Elita's artwork. And at one

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<v Speaker 1>point she was taking an illustration class and a teacher

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<v Speaker 1>assigned them all fairytale characters to re create. Ulitza was

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<v Speaker 1>assigned Rapunzel, and I redesigned her and turned her into

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<v Speaker 1>a little black girl with kinky, curly hair, because I

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to show black girls that where princesses were beautiful,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't have to change the way that we looked

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<v Speaker 1>to be these princesses. And everyone was like, this looks

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<v Speaker 1>like a doll. This looks like a doll. Have you

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<v Speaker 1>thought about making a doll? I took that conversation's Facebook

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<v Speaker 1>and like over one hundred comments later, I realized that

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<v Speaker 1>there was a shared experience for a lot of black

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<v Speaker 1>women where they didn't have products that look like them

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<v Speaker 1>when they were growing up, specifically talking about dolls or

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<v Speaker 1>like sharing pictures of the black dolls they did have,

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<v Speaker 1>and realizing there was an opportunity there, she came up

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<v Speaker 1>with the name Healthy Roots and started doing heavy research

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<v Speaker 1>into the psychological effects of toys on kids. And I

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<v Speaker 1>ultimately learned that toys have a huge influence on children.

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<v Speaker 1>They influence how you think, act, and see yourself. So

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<v Speaker 1>when little black girls can't find dolls that look like

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<v Speaker 1>them and negatively impacts their self esteem. And so when

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<v Speaker 1>I created Zoe, I made her more than just a

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<v Speaker 1>brown doll. She has hair that girls can style just

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<v Speaker 1>like their own and learn how to not only love

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<v Speaker 1>their hair, but take care of it properly. Zoe, the

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<v Speaker 1>doll that you lead to design, stands about eighteen inches tall.

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<v Speaker 1>Zoe has these big, beautiful chocolate brown eyes and these

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<v Speaker 1>really cute, little like pink lips and a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>of blush, and she's this very round, adorable face, and

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<v Speaker 1>she's these big beautiful curls that frame her face. We've

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<v Speaker 1>developed a personality for her, which is like a little

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<v Speaker 1>sassy and very strong will. She's like very confident in

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<v Speaker 1>herself and will not let people talk badly about her

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<v Speaker 1>or the way that she looks, which happened sometimes, but

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<v Speaker 1>she can handle herself. In addition to giving her a

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<v Speaker 1>great personality, Elite has also written a whole backstory that

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<v Speaker 1>makes Zoe even cooler. Her story is actually that she

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<v Speaker 1>went through the big chop, which is what we call

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<v Speaker 1>it when you cut off all your hair, because she

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<v Speaker 1>went she went to the salon with her mom and

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<v Speaker 1>she saw another woman there with like these big, beautiful curls,

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<v Speaker 1>and she was like, why doesn't my hair look like that?

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<v Speaker 1>And so her mom helped her learn how to take

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<v Speaker 1>care of her and they did all these hairstyles which

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<v Speaker 1>are featured in the Big Book of Hair, which is

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<v Speaker 1>our illustrated guide to teaching natural hair care. Her end

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<v Speaker 1>goal with Zoe is to fight for positive racial representation,

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<v Speaker 1>starting with when kids are formulating their ideas about the world,

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<v Speaker 1>which is why it's called healthy rights. We're getting to

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<v Speaker 1>the root of the problem. You can stop problems by

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<v Speaker 1>stopping it with the youth, and as long as we

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<v Speaker 1>teach them, we can fight against it. That's what I

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<v Speaker 1>built healthy withs On. Yeah, this cute doll is a

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<v Speaker 1>tool to destroy racism. So an amazing idea. But that

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<v Speaker 1>was just the beginning. She ended up launching a Kickstarter

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<v Speaker 1>campaign to fund the making of the first doll. Her

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<v Speaker 1>goal was to raise thirty five thousand dollars, and she

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<v Speaker 1>ended up raising forty eight. I asked her what she

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<v Speaker 1>remembers feeling now that this idea of hers was about

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<v Speaker 1>to come to life. I don't remember being excited. I

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<v Speaker 1>think I remember just being like, oh crap, this is real.

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<v Speaker 1>This is really really real. This like weight came down

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<v Speaker 1>on me and I realized just how much work I

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<v Speaker 1>had signed up for. We'll get back to the story

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<v Speaker 1>Since the beginning, Ulitsa has spearheaded every task that goes

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<v Speaker 1>into starting a business from scratch. You start with your idea,

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<v Speaker 1>check your idea valid data of developing your product, defining

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<v Speaker 1>your customer, defining your go to market strategy. I guess

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<v Speaker 1>figuring out how to build your product, your cause during

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<v Speaker 1>your financial projection, then looking at funding and building your team,

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about your sales funnel and your marketing strategy. And

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<v Speaker 1>on days like today, she tries to split that up

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<v Speaker 1>in the meetings with mentors, communicating with the people that

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<v Speaker 1>are managing our accounts, communicating with my factory, and tying

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<v Speaker 1>up any loose ends there, dealing with the insurance policies

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<v Speaker 1>for those factories. I'm organizing meetings with people for fulfillment.

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<v Speaker 1>She spends a good portion of the day working on

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<v Speaker 1>social media and marketing, and then the rest of my

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<v Speaker 1>day is design work and illustration, which doesn't get done

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<v Speaker 1>often because it gets pushed and pushed and pushed. So

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<v Speaker 1>that's my day to day. That is kind of the

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<v Speaker 1>standard day to day for her. But now that she's

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<v Speaker 1>part of a startup incubator here in Detroit, that comes

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<v Speaker 1>with all sorts of new tasks and opportunities. Like today,

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<v Speaker 1>she's part of a startup speed dating kind of event

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<v Speaker 1>where her and other startups in the office go around

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<v Speaker 1>and meet with successful entrepreneurs and business owners who can

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<v Speaker 1>give advice and maybe even help Eliza with her business.

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<v Speaker 1>It's kind of like a rapid fire shark tank situation.

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<v Speaker 1>To give me the cell. I, Hi, my name is

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<v Speaker 1>Elita Geene Charles. I'm the founder of Help So. My

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<v Speaker 1>name is Steve. I've been doing engineering for ten or

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<v Speaker 1>twelve years. Hi, I'm Elitsa. So. I have a toy company.

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<v Speaker 1>It's called Healthier. You have a company called Integral. We're

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<v Speaker 1>a product consulting company. We work with our I think

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<v Speaker 1>you'll be a great resource, so, Ulitsa. I have a

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<v Speaker 1>company it's called healthy Roots. We make dots that teach

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<v Speaker 1>natural hair care. I personally don't know what it takes

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<v Speaker 1>to start a business from scratch like Ulitza, But being

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<v Speaker 1>a freelance producer, I know the feeling of constantly pitching

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<v Speaker 1>and feeling kind of like you're making up your own

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<v Speaker 1>job as you go. Do you ever get jealous of

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<v Speaker 1>people with normal jobs all the time, all the time,

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<v Speaker 1>happiness for me is stability, value stability over all else,

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<v Speaker 1>which is funny because the most unstable thing you can

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<v Speaker 1>do is try to start a business. But that's what

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<v Speaker 1>happiness is for me. It's like knowing where knowing what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna eat, knowing where I'm going to sleep, consistency

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<v Speaker 1>and balance, and like there'll be people who would reach

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<v Speaker 1>out to me and they're like, girl, I'm thinking about

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<v Speaker 1>quitting my job. When I was like, don't you quit

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<v Speaker 1>that job. That's steady income, you got benefits, you got insurance.

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<v Speaker 1>You know what it's like to have insurance. That's great,

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<v Speaker 1>Go get your teeth clean. Being a person who has

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<v Speaker 1>quit a stable job before to do what I love,

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<v Speaker 1>I know the liberation and empowerment of being independent and

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<v Speaker 1>forging your own way like Eliza, But I also know

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<v Speaker 1>that the grass can always look greener on the other side.

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<v Speaker 1>And while you make this big decision to go off

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<v Speaker 1>on your own journey, you sometimes really miss the camaraderie

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<v Speaker 1>of a normal kind of work environment. Do you ever

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<v Speaker 1>feel like kind of like a like a lone wolf

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<v Speaker 1>and what you're doing always I did a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>this by myself, not to say that I haven't had

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<v Speaker 1>mentors helped me or team members at the beginning that's

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<v Speaker 1>helped me, but a lot of it falls back on

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<v Speaker 1>you when somebody can't do it. So it is very much,

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<v Speaker 1>very lonely. Doing the work that I do is like

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<v Speaker 1>a slow burn. But then there's also this chart about

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<v Speaker 1>entrepreneurship where it's like, yeah, this is awesome. Oh no,

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<v Speaker 1>this really sucks. Oh look it's good. Wait, oh my,

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<v Speaker 1>we're doing amazing. Okay, we're doing just okay. So it's

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<v Speaker 1>like these crazy ups and downs. There's always highs and lows,

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<v Speaker 1>and what gets me through my lows it's my end goal,

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<v Speaker 1>which is like empowering young girls of color. That's my

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<v Speaker 1>end goal. As long as I'm doing work to get

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<v Speaker 1>to that point, it's fine. Ulitza admits that because she's

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<v Speaker 1>constantly in the trenches of starting this business, she can

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes forget that childlike wonder that her company is all about.

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<v Speaker 1>But after a long day at the incubator, Ulitza got

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<v Speaker 1>an email. It was this video that was sent to

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<v Speaker 1>her by a young social media influencer, This little, insanely

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<v Speaker 1>cute black girl named Jade Robinson, who has tons and

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<v Speaker 1>tons of followers Jade just got her Zoe doll in

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<v Speaker 1>the mail from Healthy Roots, So describe what we're watching.

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<v Speaker 1>We are watching one of our little influencers, do you

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm boxing but she's so tiny, she's so cute.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm boxing today this box and open, so I'll be

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<v Speaker 1>asking my mom get all day and David saying no,

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<v Speaker 1>no from Healthy h govery because I'm my mom. Opened

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<v Speaker 1>it a little bit for me, but I'm a big guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Her name is Zoe. He should pretty much just look

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<v Speaker 1>like this is Zoe guy, so she pretty much looks

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<v Speaker 1>like me. Yeah, it's really cute. Wait, I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 1>focus right now. Oh my god. Four years after you

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<v Speaker 1>leads illustrated the first sketch that would become Healthy Roots.

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<v Speaker 1>Here it is. It's real, it's alive, it's an actual business.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a tangible thing that she created that's now in

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<v Speaker 1>the hands of a young girl that she always hoped

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<v Speaker 1>she can inspire. I ask her if when she sees this,

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<v Speaker 1>does she finally think I've made it? No, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think anything. I'm just like, oh, it's like watching a puppy.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, what are you thinking about? Your brain is

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<v Speaker 1>sparkles and rainbows. Like, it's just it feels good. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just yeah. I don't think about anything. I'm just like,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, this is so cute. This is so cute.

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<v Speaker 1>This is so cute. That's it. That's all I'm thinking.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't I'm not thinking like, oh my god, another

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<v Speaker 1>girl has gotten our doll and she's going to become

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<v Speaker 1>a strong, independent woman. Like no, I'm just like, wow,

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<v Speaker 1>she looks really cute. I don't see that and go

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<v Speaker 1>I did it. I'm successful with this. I'm like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>she looks really happy. I want to make more happy kids.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. That's it, yesterday. Yes. You can find out

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<v Speaker 1>more about Eliza at www dot Healthy Roots Dolls dot com,

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<v Speaker 1>where you can also see pictures of Zoe and order

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<v Speaker 1>a doll today. Healthy Roots of Story is far from

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<v Speaker 1>over and Eliza is just getting started. You can also

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<v Speaker 1>see this amazing unboxing video over at Expresspros dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>Slash podcast for On the Job, I'm Modus Gray. Thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for listening to On the Job, brought to you by

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