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Speaker 1: Scrubbing In with Becca Tilly and Tanya ret An iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, we are scrubbing in.

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Speaker 3: Scrub a dub dub dumb.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited because today we have a guest and we

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Speaker 1: haven't had a guest episode in a minute.

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Speaker 3: We have not.

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Speaker 1: We've given a lot of advice, yes, and we're taking

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Speaker 1: a break.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I turned thirty seven, and I'm like, I

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Speaker 3: have so much wisdom to give, but not this wee

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Speaker 3: but not this week though, because we have somebody much wiser,

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Speaker 3: much wiser.

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Speaker 1: She's accomplished more than many do in this amount of time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean she launched a brand at sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she is a hearing loss advocate. She has her

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Speaker 1: own foundation called Here with You. She is an owner

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Speaker 1: of her own company, GGC Bikinis.

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Speaker 2: It has loungewear, active.

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Speaker 3: Wear, swimsuits, all the things.

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Speaker 2: All the things. And she's only twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a business woman.

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Speaker 1: She's a businesswoman, and we are so excited to have

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Speaker 1: her scrubbing in.

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Speaker 2: So please welcome Cariso Gig. We are so happy to

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Speaker 2: have you here.

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Speaker 3: Well, she came in bringing us gifts.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say she brought us gifts. She brought

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Speaker 1: us swim matching swimsuits. How do you feel about that?

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Speaker 3: So, Gigi, thank you so much for bringing us matching

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Speaker 3: swimsuits because I love matching. Becca. Yes, she does not

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Speaker 3: like to match me, but happy too.

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Speaker 1: But like, do we need to wear this swimsuit on

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Speaker 1: the same day together?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 4: Can you be cute?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So cute.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be super cute.

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Speaker 1: But I'm really I love it so much, so I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to wear it. And it's just so thoughtful

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Speaker 1: and sweet that you brought it. But you shared that

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Speaker 1: this is your first in studio podcast.

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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you for having me. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: We're so honored. For people who don't know you have

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Speaker 1: started your company. How old were you when you started it?

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Speaker 4: I was sixteen when I started it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I have just so many I have so many

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Speaker 3: uessions and I don't even know what order to go in,

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Speaker 3: but I guess we'll start there. Okay, So you're sixteen

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Speaker 3: and you're in high school. Yes, how do you even

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Speaker 3: have the like where the idea came to you?

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Speaker 4: Yes? So I grew up. I have three older brothers,

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Speaker 4: so I'm always being active and we would travel a lot,

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Speaker 4: and we would always be in the water doing water sports.

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Speaker 4: We weren't just like laying out and tanning on the beach,

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Speaker 4: like we're staying on when I was weakeboarding or tubing

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Speaker 4: I actually started cutting up my old Victoria's Secret bathing suits,

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Speaker 4: pinning them, gluing them, and then I took them to

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Speaker 4: my mom and I was like, oh my gosh, look

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Speaker 4: at this, Like this would be so much more supportive

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Speaker 4: surf suits that were available at that time weren't like fashionable,

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Speaker 4: So I ended up putting them all together and then

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Speaker 4: my mom was like, let's bring this to life. She

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Speaker 4: had a little girl clothing line before I was born

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Speaker 4: there and it's grown into an incredible brand that I'm

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Speaker 3: That is so crazy.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm thinking about myself at sixteen, and she was

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Speaker 2: So did it happen?

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Speaker 4: She was, so she was just she was a model,

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Speaker 4: And I think she was just so excited when I

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Speaker 4: But I would go home after school and focus on that,

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Speaker 4: because I always worried like was I going to be

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Speaker 3: And so you did it at sixteen. So you launched

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Speaker 3: this company And was it just swimsuits at the time.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and only black and white. Always said I wanted

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Speaker 4: it to just be classic, timeless pieces.

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Speaker 3: That's so she get sixteen. I would have seen me

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think I wore one.

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Speaker 1: I went on a brand trip to the Bahamas and

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Speaker 1: I wore one of your whites. Oh my gosh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: one of the It was like the one piece that

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Speaker 1: has the cutouts and everyone was like, what is this swimsuit?

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Speaker 1: she's been doing this for a long time, you guys,

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Speaker 2: Was back in I was with Robert twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Long time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy dating men.

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Speaker 4: And our fabric is signature to us. It's our silky scuba.

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Speaker 4: So it's not like heavy, it's really thin and really soft,

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Speaker 4: and it seriously hugs you in all the right places,

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Speaker 4: like when I put our surfsuit on, it just like

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Speaker 4: having like any malfunctions in the water.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love fucking I love when people have find something

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Speaker 2: I love that you found that gap.

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Speaker 3: That you actually like let your mom Like I feel

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Speaker 3: like when I was sixteen and my mom wanted to

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Speaker 3: want to do it myself. It's like Lnice that you

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Speaker 4: And she's still the co founder of the brand. We

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Speaker 4: still work together every day and it's just such a blessing.

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Speaker 4: It's so fun. We're best friends.

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Speaker 3: That is really cool.

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Speaker 4: Five years okay, and then my oldest brother's ten years,

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So your mom was like it's gonna happen eventually.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I just gotta wait. My sister has four boys,

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Speaker 1: like she was always kind of like, I'll probably just

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Speaker 1: just so sweetesty, you know, that's so sweet.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: So you launched this it's GGC and it was just swimwear,

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Speaker 3: and when did you break out into other things?

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Speaker 4: So we got approached by Carbon thirty eight to do

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Speaker 4: a collection with them for sportswear, and so we did

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Speaker 4: a sports for a collection that had our cutouts in

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Speaker 4: And then during COVID there's a whole Boom for loungewear,

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Speaker 4: and so we actually launched our sustainable cashmere collection and

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Speaker 4: long term for GGC is just to continue to tap

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Speaker 4: There's so many things I want to do, like what

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Speaker 4: I would love to just go into, Like, Okay, I

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Speaker 4: I think there's a huge gap in the market for

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Speaker 4: But I really would like to like dive fall into

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Speaker 4: that because I think there's so much you can do there.

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Speaker 2: You're so right that I have the hardest time finding

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Speaker 3: I don't think I have any that I really like,

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Speaker 3: but like they're like, you're right, they're just for the beach,

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Speaker 3: And you can't like wear your cover up to lunch.

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Speaker 4: Or like walking around a town. Like you want something

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Speaker 4: that's covering you but still not like too hot, right,

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Speaker 4: and you can like dress it up with a bag

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Speaker 4: and shoes and sunglasses and like make it a full outfit.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: So that would be my long term goal for the

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Speaker 1: Have you had a person that wore your swimsuit and

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Speaker 1: like Tiger, you just saw them wearing it where you

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Speaker 4: The first like celebrity major person to wear GIGC with

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Speaker 4: Julian Huff and I was freaking out. It was on her.

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Speaker 4: I think it was like her bachelorette or something, And

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Speaker 4: that was probably like my big moment, like oh my god,

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Speaker 4: like other people are loving my product, and that really

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Speaker 4: like gave me the passion to continue with it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: thank you putting out there.

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Speaker 2: Did you go to the Eras tour premiere the movie premiere?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, I met her there? Did I meet?

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Speaker 4: We sat down next to each other.

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Speaker 3: We had plans to see it together, so that was like,

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Speaker 4: And so these little devices, the lyric sits right on

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Speaker 3: That is so wild. So is it like again part

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Speaker 4: I was awake. A doctor has to put it in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so crazy.

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Speaker 3: Right, Like did you have to like sit in the

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Speaker 4: And I think it's so important to have that sense

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like, have you met Daisy from The Bachelor?

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Speaker 1: And it's it was so eye opening during her season

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Speaker 1: So I think that's so important what you're doing and

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Speaker 4: So we definitely are targeting targeting the lower income communities

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Speaker 4: need and yeah it's expensive to have here and need,

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00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,320
Speaker 4: but also just even getting the referral of where do

444
00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,359
Speaker 4: I even go? Like these families don't even know what

445
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,159
Speaker 4: the next step is. Is your baby is given this

446
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,840
Speaker 4: test at birth and say they don't pass it. There's

447
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,639
Speaker 4: not a lot of resources that you're given out a

448
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,200
Speaker 4: hospital for where you should go next. And every child

449
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,199
Speaker 4: is different. There's different levels of hearing loss and so

450
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,960
Speaker 4: you need to go to the right person for the

451
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 4: right support. So we really want to connect with different

452
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 4: organizations that have already started to tap into those families

453
00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,560
Speaker 4: and then give them the referrals they need. I'm working

454
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,320
Speaker 4: on the foundation with my audiologists, and so she has

455
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:35,280
Speaker 4: incredible resources, she's able to test kids. We're actually partnering

456
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,560
Speaker 4: with Parlos Ninos, which is I don't know, have you

457
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 4: guys heard of Carlos. They're amazing, and we're going to

458
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:46,359
Speaker 4: their daycare and we are doing free hearing screenings for

459
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,960
Speaker 4: the parents and the kids there. And that's just the

460
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 4: first step in us just tapping into that community and

461
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,120
Speaker 4: giving them the opportunity to get a hearing tests that's

462
00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 4: for free, and they don't need to figure out a

463
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 4: way to get transportation to the doctor's office or where

464
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 4: do they even go to get the tests, and we're

465
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 4: coming to them. So I'm really excited about that, and

466
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 4: there's just many more things that we can do as

467
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,120
Speaker 4: foundations similar to that. I actually had a zoom on

468
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 4: Friday with an organization called No Limits and they're incredible.

469
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 4: I could have talked to them for hours. But they

470
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 4: bring kids in that don't have a lot of the

471
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 4: resources they need, and they give them speech therapy for free,

472
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 4: and there's this six year old girl, and she hadn't

473
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 4: been able to have speech therapy, and she hadn't been

474
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,719
Speaker 4: able to have the access to hear needs, and so

475
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,400
Speaker 4: she hasn't spoken yet. And she went through a few

476
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 4: months of therapy with them and then she was able

477
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,719
Speaker 4: to say, Hi, my name is and my dream job is,

478
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 4: and this is what I want to be when I

479
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 4: grow up, and I can do it. That's their hole

480
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 4: motto is, I can do it. And so now we're

481
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 4: looking to partner with them and making sure that we

482
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 4: can refer children to them, that we meet up Parlos NEO.

483
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 4: So again it goes back to that sense of community

484
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 4: and working together. There's so many great organizations out there,

485
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 4: but everyone's doing things separate, and we need to bring

486
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 4: them all together and bring together those family and children

487
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 4: so that they know they're not alone. I didn't really

488
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 4: have I didn't know anyone growing up that had hearing loss.

489
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 4: So I felt so alone. I didn't have anyone I

490
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,439
Speaker 4: could talk to that understood it.

491
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 3: I feel okay. So you're like, you know you're older,

492
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 3: you're confident, like you know you are, you are who

493
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,679
Speaker 3: you are, But like when you were younger and you

494
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 3: were going through this was it like did you get

495
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 3: made fun of a lot?

496
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 4: Like?

497
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 3: Do you have like trauma from growing up?

498
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,160
Speaker 4: I think high school, even though I had the lyric,

499
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 4: was probably honestly the hardest four years because of my

500
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 4: teachers not being understanding. And it ended up that my

501
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 4: dad had to sit them down and say you wouldn't

502
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 4: take someone in a wheelchair take the stairs. And I

503
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 4: think that like really hit them again because it's an

504
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 4: invisible disability. They weren't seeing how much I was struggling

505
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 4: sitting in class and couldn't hear them that I needed

506
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,360
Speaker 4: the extra support. Something just wasn't clicking for them. And

507
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 4: so another thing that I would like to do with

508
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 4: here with you is to go and talk to schools

509
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 4: and to sit down with a teachers and to give

510
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 4: presentations and say, okay, this is what you need to

511
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,919
Speaker 4: do if you have someone in your class who is

512
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 4: deaf or hard of hearing.

513
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 3: But would you like on your first day a school,

514
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 3: would you tell your teachers like I'm hard of hearing, yeah,

515
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 3: and then they would just do nothing about it, is which.

516
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 4: I just I don't think anyone what cares them? Yeah,

517
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 4: they don't know what to do. And so that again

518
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 4: goes back to you have to speak up for yourself

519
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 4: and say this is what I need.

520
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's like again at that.

521
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 4: Age, it's so hard. It's so intimidated to a teacher. Yeah, exactly,

522
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 4: ask go to the bathroom, you know.

523
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, I would be so scared to raise my

524
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: hand to go the bathroom. I imagine having to say like, hey, I.

525
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 2: Can't hear hard, can you? You know? Turn around?

526
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 4: Definitely. So there's just so many things I want to

527
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 4: do and I am doing with the Foundation, where really

528
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 4: just sitting down with families and organizations and we're asking

529
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 4: them what do you want from us? I think it's

530
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 4: important to hear from the community and where the gaps

531
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 4: are missing and how we can provide support in those areas.

532
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 4: And then the Foundation isn't just for people who are

533
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 4: deaf or hard of hearing. It's also to bring more

534
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 4: awareness to hearing loss in general. And so even me

535
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 4: being here today and speaking about it and putting out

536
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 4: resources on how you can protect your hearing. All of

537
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 4: us nowadays we're going to super loud concerts, we're going

538
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 4: to football games or where we do that air pods

539
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 4: that are like blasting music yes, but it's damaging your hearing.

540
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 4: Even if you don't have a hearing you go to.

541
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 3: A concert, is it bad? Is it bad for you

542
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 3: with your.

543
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 4: So my lyrics actually act as ear plugs and they'll

544
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 4: automatically shut off when the noise level is too dangerous.

545
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 4: And it's so important for people even without hearing loss,

546
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 4: to know, Okay, you need to wear ear plugs. You

547
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 4: need to protect your hearing because you can damage your

548
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 4: he And there's so many like different fun ear plug

549
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 4: companies now that make them like really cool looking, like

550
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 4: you don't have to wear anything that's really chunky and

551
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 4: other people can see. But it's so important to protect

552
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 4: your hearing and not last music in your ears or

553
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 4: go to these big venues. There's actually an app I've

554
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 4: been using recently where you can test the noise level

555
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 4: and it will tell you if it's too loud. And

556
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 4: I was at a restaurant with my parents on vacation

557
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 4: and it was so loud in this restaurant and my

558
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 4: parents couldn't hear and I was like, hold on, let

559
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 4: me take it out and see, and it was a

560
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 4: dangerous level. So we actually ended up leaving because I

561
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 4: was my brain was going crazy. It was overwhelming for me,

562
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 4: and then they couldn't hear, and I want to protect

563
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 4: their hearing. So it's little things like that that you

564
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 4: can do.

565
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't even think about that at a restaurant.

566
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 3: No, And I think, honestly, hearing is something that we

567
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 3: take for granted. Yeah, like I really do you know,

568
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 3: like you just don't. You don't think about it, Yeah,

569
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 3: like you don't think about protecting it, Like it's not

570
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 3: something that, like, you know, I think come out on

571
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 3: a daily basis.

572
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: I want to talk about your parents because I'm so

573
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: fascinated by well, I'm so impressed by you because you

574
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: come from a known family and your dad's very a

575
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: very well known businessman, and yet you're taking something that's

576
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: been you know, given to you and you're using it

577
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: for so much good and like doing so much and

578
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: starting your own business at sixteen and starting a foundation

579
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: that's like helping people in the community is so impressive

580
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: to me. But I have always been curious about having

581
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: a parent or family member in politics, and I'm curious

582
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: what that's been like for you, because it's like, obviously

583
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: your dad is a successful businessman, he has these beautiful

584
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: malls and businesses. But what was it like for you

585
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: when he entered the political world for your family and

586
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: just you know, it's like, what kind of conversations were

587
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: you having with people?

588
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,959
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it was one of those things

589
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 4: where my brothers and I were all so close and

590
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 4: we were like, we're going to rally behind what i've

591
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 4: my dad wants to, We're going to support him. We're

592
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 4: just that tight knit family and we're all in this together.

593
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 4: It wasn't like he came to us and I was like,

594
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 4: this is what I'm doing. He actually sat us down

595
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 4: and he was like, is this okay? Are you guys

596
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 4: on board? As a family, We're going to do this.

597
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 4: And it was, honestly like such a special time to

598
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 4: be campaigning and going around la I learned so much

599
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 4: about our city just going into different areas and neighborhoods

600
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 4: and meeting different communities and people, and it was so

601
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 4: eye opening and inspiring. It was such a special time

602
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 4: in it. Even I never thought our family could become closer,

603
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 4: but we all became closer because it was we went

604
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 4: through it together. And obviously there were tough days and

605
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 4: tough challenges. It's not an easy time when you were

606
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 4: reading the comments on Instagram, like I had to be like, Okay,

607
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 4: you can't dive into that, you can't read that. And

608
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 4: I feel like I've never gone through that before where

609
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 4: I publicly eve been seeing my dad be attacked, and

610
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 4: so that was really tough. But again, it was us

611
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 4: all leaning on each other and supporting each other. And

612
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 4: you know who you are, you know you your family is,

613
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 4: I know who my dad is, and you just have

614
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: to block that out and stay true to yourself and

615
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 4: stick up for what you believe in. So it was

616
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 4: such an incredible experience and I'm so grateful that I

617
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 4: was able to live through something like that.

618
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, does it make you like, I mean, I follow

619
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 3: you on Instagram and I feel like your Instagram's pretty,

620
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 3: Like what's the word I'm looking for? PG? Like it's very,

621
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like it's very? But do

622
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 3: you ever like second guest things sometimes?

623
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 4: Like of course, yeah, I think in today's world, a

624
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 4: lot of people, right you never you're never going to

625
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 4: please everyone though, and especially on the campaign trail, you know,

626
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 4: I always I was wanting to post about my dad

627
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 4: and wanting to post about my family and what we're

628
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 4: doing and where we're going today and what we believe

629
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 4: in and we're standing up for in politics. But you

630
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 4: can't please everyone in politics. Everyone has their own views

631
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 4: and so that was always tricky. But it just goes

632
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 4: back to being yourself and staying true to who you

633
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 4: are in business, in every day of life, and with GGC,

634
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 4: I always go back to that. I think it's so

635
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 4: important to just cancel out the outside noise and just

636
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 4: be who you are.

637
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: Were there ever times where you were like seeing stuff

638
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: or or there was something that he said or did

639
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: where you all were like you were like having conversations

640
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: with him, like or where you disagreed or there was that,

641
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: you know, conflict, because I feel like if my dad

642
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: ran for anything, we'd be having some conversations.

643
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 4: I think we definitely have fun family dinner conversations, but

644
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 4: it's all like healthy and I think.

645
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 3: It's great that great place.

646
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 4: Each one of my brothers and I like we all

647
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 4: have different views on different opinions, Like it's not like

648
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,959
Speaker 4: we're always gonna agree exactly on the same thing, and

649
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 4: I think that was what made it so special. It's like, Okay,

650
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 4: let me challenge you on this. How do you feel

651
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 4: about this, And we had amazing conversations, but it was

652
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 4: never like we butt heads on anything. It's just like

653
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 4: healthy debates that would happen at the dinner table.

654
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: We need more healthy debates.

655
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, that's such a refreshing place to be at

656
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 3: because I think that politics can like really tear into families.

657
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: You know, it's like very polarizing. So the fact that

658
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 3: you can have like healthy debates is like a great

659
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 3: place to be.

660
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 4: And I think it also we all love the city

661
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 4: so much. We all grew up in La and we

662
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 4: have so many memories in La, and we see it

663
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 4: going in a direction that was really breaking our hearts,

664
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 4: and so we just were so passionate about getting La

665
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 4: back to a safe place where you can feel comfortable

666
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 4: as a woman walking down the street and not be

667
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 4: worried about anything. And so I think that really drove us.

668
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 4: It wasn't oh, I'm going to run and take this

669
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 4: political position like there was a lot of heart behind it.

670
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 4: It wasn't something that was just so I'm getting into politics.

671
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 4: He really saw a need and wanted to help La.

672
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: Did it give you any desire to go into politics.

673
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 4: I will always support him, and I will always if

674
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 4: he decides to run for anything again or go into politics,

675
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 4: I'll always be there. And I have learned so much

676
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 4: through the whole journey and the process of all of it.

677
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 4: But I don't think I would have the strength to

678
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 4: go through it myself. It's really tough. It's a lot,

679
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 4: and it can be very draining. And I think again,

680
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 4: it was the love for the city we grew up

681
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 4: in that made it a passionate experience.

682
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, I mean that knowing where it comes from

683
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: and like the the passion and heart behind it, and

684
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: like what y'all wanted for LA.

685
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 4: But never say never. I don't know. We'll see what

686
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 4: happens in the future.

687
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 3: I'll never say never. Wow, I could see you like

688
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 3: in politics really yeah, but we'll see you're like starting

689
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 3: your own business, you know what I mean? Like I

690
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 3: feel like you have it in you.

691
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, it was such a fun ride. It

692
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 4: was it was amazing. It was a special night. Election

693
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 4: night was a really special night. But I don't know

694
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 4: if I could stand up there and do all the

695
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 4: things he did. I admire him for that.

696
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could never ever, I like say one thing

697
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and I'm like, was that rude?

698
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: You guys?

699
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 3: You know, it's very it's crazy, and I do I like,

700
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 3: I do admire. I admire a lot that you know

701
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 3: that you guys can stand up and say and and

702
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 3: and be and be together and be like a united front.

703
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 3: I think that's really special.

704
00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: Are you dating?

705
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 4: Yeah? I have a boyfriend.

706
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 3: You've had a boyfriend for a while, right.

707
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 4: Yes, we've been dating for over five years now.

708
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

709
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 4: Wow?

710
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 3: How did you meet him?

711
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 4: At USC? He texted me out of nowhere. I didn't

712
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 4: even know who he was. And he sent me a

713
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 4: text and he was like, I know this is far

714
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 4: out of left field, but would you go to invite

715
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 4: with me? And I like, immediately I was in my

716
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 4: doring room. I'll never forget this, right.

717
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 3: What's invite?

718
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 4: Invite is when the fraternities have like a night out

719
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 4: and they usually invite a girl from a sorority.

720
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 3: And wait, wait, wait what fraternity? What's sorority?

721
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 4: Okay, So he was in Sikhai and I was in Kappa.

722
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 4: I had just gotten into Kappa. It was my freshman year.

723
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 4: I probably looked like I think it was like two

724
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 4: weeks after I got into Kappa. And I guess it

725
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 4: was his last invite. So he was a senior and

726
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 4: I was a freshman, and all his friends were like, oh,

727
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 4: like looking at the photo of like the new Kapa girls, like,

728
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 4: let's take the new girls. So he reached out to me,

729
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 4: and I was in my dorm room with a few

730
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 4: of my best friends and we were just immediately like

731
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 4: looking him up, who is he, figuring everything about him,

732
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 4: and he was super cute. So I was like, yeah,

733
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 4: I'll go to invite with you. I was so nervous though,

734
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 4: because I didn't know him, I didn't know any of

735
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 4: his friends. I'm a freshman going to senior invite with

736
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 4: all these seniors. It was intimidating, but we honestly just

737
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 4: hit it off that night and ever since we've been together.

738
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 2: Wow, amazing. Yeah, is he the one?

739
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, that's exciting.

740
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 4: I'm just waiting.

741
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not gonna ask, but maybe she'll

742
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: say I'm just waiting.

743
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 2: Donia also was just waiting.

744
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 3: I was just waiting for a long time. It happened recently, right, Yeah,

745
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 3: it's September of last year, so.

746
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 4: Like gone by really fast. I just saw you posting

747
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 4: about it.

748
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 3: I know honestly, but I was waiting for like two years.

749
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: Do you feel like every trip or special event that

750
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: y'all have that you're like, yes, gotta wardrobe is white

751
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: right now?

752
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: You're literally me that is so funny.

753
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 3: Always I was like manifesting it, and I was just

754
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 3: like always wearing white. Do you know if he's asked

755
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 3: your parents for.

756
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 4: They don't know, and I've stopped asking, like I don't

757
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 4: want to know anything. Like when it happens, it happens,

758
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 4: it will be the perfect right moment. So I'm just

759
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 4: sitting here and like letting it all unfold. My brother's

760
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 4: getting married in two weeks actually, so I think maybe

761
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 4: after moment, which is so respectful of Yeah, is.

762
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 2: That like non negotiable that he asked your parents for permission?

763
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: Of course?

764
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 4: Right? Like yeah, my parents, Like I don't want him

765
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 4: to go to just my dad. I think it's my mom.

766
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 4: I'm so close to my mind. I think he should

767
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 4: set the book down, ye, Like it's good for the

768
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 4: guys to be put in that situation for.

769
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 3: Is I knew when he asked my parents.

770
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 4: My mom she just no, she like told you or

771
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 4: she just couldn't lie to you. If you asked her,

772
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 4: she told me, okay.

773
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, she didn't even have to be prompted, came right out.

774
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,959
Speaker 3: There's no prime. So I was like at that point,

775
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 3: I was like, oh man. And it was months after that,

776
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 3: so it's good that you don't know, because that really

777
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 3: kept me on my toe.

778
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 4: I want to be so surprised, like I want to

779
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 4: be completely caught off guard. Obviously. I want to be

780
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 4: like dressed, and you'll be dressed in your nails put together,

781
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: nails are going to be done for their for a while.

782
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 4: You're not always missing an appointment. Yeah, definitely, everything's white

783
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 4: suit or exact sign.

784
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: You know that works out though, because like after you

785
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 3: get engaged and you're just like always gonna wear white,

786
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 3: and then like in your wedding season, you're just like.

787
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, that's perfect. You could design a like an

788
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: engagement capsule collection.

789
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 4: We actually have so many brides that reach out to

790
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 4: us asking for a white suits, like we've done bride

791
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 4: all edits on Instagram. We get pressed around bride bachelorette

792
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 4: like wear this suit. Like We've had so many bachelor parties.

793
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 4: I'm being tagged in on Instagram and I love it

794
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 4: it's so fun to see. We even had this one

795
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 4: girl did she wore a white suit and then she

796
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 4: had all of the girls behind her wear like this

797
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 4: light pink that we did and it was just so cute.

798
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 4: I love seeing people like enjoying our suits, especially during

799
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 4: such a special time.

800
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is really fun.

801
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, you have a year in advance. They're like,

802
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want this next year with

803
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: the foundation, with the company starting something new.

804
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 2: What does the next year look like with no woman?

805
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 4: Gosh, that's a big question. I would say. In terms

806
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 4: of GGC, just continuing to grow it and like I said,

807
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 4: tapping into those other categories. I would love to just

808
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 4: come out with like a big collection of cover ups.

809
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 4: And I just want to continue expanding the brand and

810
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 4: bringing more awareness to it and doing more activations around it.

811
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 4: We're planning a workout class our fall collection that launches soon,

812
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 4: which I'm really excited about. So just continuing to grow GGC.

813
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 4: In terms of the foundation, I think really just partnering

814
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 4: with more organizations like I mentioned, and my dream would

815
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 4: just to be able to see what we're doing actually

816
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 4: come to life. Like I would love to see like

817
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 4: one kid that I meet and we do screening with them,

818
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 4: and then I'd love to see like the progress of

819
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 4: them Okay, getting their here and it's a progress, and

820
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 4: them going to speak to therapy and learning how to

821
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 4: say words. Just because we do things here and there,

822
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 4: but I don't get to see the full journey of

823
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 4: other children, and so I think it would be so

824
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 4: special to see the full journey of the kids that

825
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 4: we've been meeting with. I've been mentoring this young girl

826
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 4: and she's literally reminded me of myself when I was

827
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 4: She's going to eighth grade, and it's so fun to

828
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 4: be able to share stories and experiences that I've gone

829
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 4: through and like to kind of relive what she's going through.

830
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 4: So I'd love to be able to do that with

831
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 4: other kids.

832
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: I love that that's so special that you are doing that,

833
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: like honestly, as so many people I think would be intimidated,

834
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: feeling like you know why me, and you know why

835
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: did I get this experience? And I feel like your

836
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: perspective on it is so refreshing and so impactable and

837
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: will be impactable for people who have vulnera will go

838
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: through the same thing.

839
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: Did you ever learn sign language? Do you know sign language.

840
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 4: So I took sign language classes in high school. It

841
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 4: was so hard. I don't know why. I just couldnot

842
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 4: pick it up. But I definitely really want to learn

843
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 4: how to do that. I think it would be amazing

844
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 4: to learn. So that would be a goal of mine

845
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 4: for the next year, is to try to learn sign

846
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 4: And it wasn't easy. I've never how do I phrase this.

847
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 4: It wasn't like I was open about my hearing lost

848
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 4: my whole life, Like I went through a lot of

849
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 4: anxiety processing this, and and it only was I think

850
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 4: it was my senior year of high school. I'll never

851
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 4: forget this. I was open to doing an article with

852
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 4: People magazine about my hearing loss, and so I did

853
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 4: the interview, I did the article, and I was with

854
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 4: all my friends in Nantucket and it was summertime and

855
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 4: the article came out and it was an amazing article.

856
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 4: I was so excited about it, and I felt like

857
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 4: that was my first major public talking about my hearing

858
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 4: lost journey. And I was like, I'm not going to

859
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 4: post about it, like I'm not going to bring more

860
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 4: attention to it, Like I'll just let it slide. And

861
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 4: then I was talking to one of my friends Whitney,

862
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 4: and I was like, should I post about it? I

863
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 4: was so nervous. I was like shaking, and I was like, Okay,

864
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 4: I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it,

865
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 4: like I'm going to like talk about this publicly and

866
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 4: like I need to be proud of this, Like this

867
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 4: is a part of me that I just need to

868
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 4: accept and if I talk about it, then other people

869
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 4: will know they're not alone they can talk about it.

870
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 4: And I remember posting that and I got so much

871
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 4: positive feedback. I was connecting and dming with other people.

872
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 4: Yeah hearing loss. There is a girl on my sorority

873
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 4: and she was like, oh my gosh, I have hearing

874
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 4: loss too, and we didn't even know like that, and

875
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 4: it was just it was great. The more you talk

876
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 4: about it, the more you feel less alone. You're helping others,

877
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 4: and then it feel to your confidence and their confidence

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Speaker 4: and it's just so special. And so I'm very grateful

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Speaker 4: to my friend Whitney for like pushing me to post

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Speaker 4: that article and being able to actually like.

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Speaker 3: To hear that and to say yeah, because I think

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Speaker 3: you know you're hearing loss was like an insecurity of yours.

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Speaker 3: And I think a lot of people have different insecurities

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Speaker 3: that they are like scared to talk about, post about,

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Speaker 3: be open about. At the end of the day, there's

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Speaker 3: so much more. There's so many more people that are

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Speaker 3: dealing with those insecurities too, and so it's like almost

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Speaker 3: like you just free it and then you become a

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Speaker 3: part of this community and like that's like the biggest

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Speaker 3: blessing in life exactly, like being in community.

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Speaker 4: And this month is actually Disability Pride Months, So it's

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Speaker 4: all about draining more awareness. Yes, oh the disabilities and

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Speaker 4: a wide range of disabilities and talking about it and

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Speaker 4: knowing you're not alone. So this conversation so cool.

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Speaker 3: I love that is that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I agree? I think it's so true. Like I remember

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Speaker 1: my girlfriend Haley. I remember her talking about when she

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Speaker 1: was like coming out about being gay, and there was

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Speaker 1: just like she was so scared and as soon as

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Speaker 1: she finally released it, it was like she found this

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Speaker 1: community of people. And I feel like, you're so right,

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Speaker 1: Like when you have this insecurity about something that's literally

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Speaker 1: a part of.

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Speaker 4: Who you are and you think nothing to be ashamed of.

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Speaker 3: She always as she's always like your eyes are getting watery.

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Speaker 3: I'm not at all I mean emotional about it.

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Speaker 2: I was like, it is. It is a powerful thing.

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Speaker 1: I know I can make myself cry about it if

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Speaker 1: I need to, but I just think it's such a

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Speaker 1: beautiful thing to take something that that your whole life

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Speaker 1: you were scared to talk about, and then you finally

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Speaker 1: do and it's like you you feel free, and you

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Speaker 1: open up this community of people who were like I've

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Speaker 1: been waiting for someone like you to share something like

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Speaker 1: this so that I didn't feel alone.

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Speaker 2: It's really powerful, it is. I think it's cool that

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Speaker 2: you're using your platform for that you and I think

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Speaker 2: so too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so grateful that you came on and shared

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Speaker 1: your story, and I'm so honored that we were your

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Speaker 1: first person.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Where can people follow you? Where can people buy your products?

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much, and thank you to sprinkle

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Speaker 3: all my engagement dust on you. Thank you, You're welcome.

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Speaker 3: I'm taking powerful stuff.

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Speaker 2: We can't wait to twin in our bikinis. I can't

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Speaker 2: wait to see it, and you're the sweetest. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for Thank you, STO