WEBVTT - Rich B*tch Mindset Feat. Luz Warrior 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:03.960 M m. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:16.439 H. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.239 Welcome back to Good Mom's Bad Choices. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.800 I'm Erica and I'm Nila, and it's Wednesday. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.079 It's hump Day, bitches. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.600 Another Wednesday. Remember when we used to put our show 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:29.280 out on Mondays? 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:31.400 No, yeah, that never was a thing. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:31.920 Yes it was. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.880 No, we moved our show date. No, the very first 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:36.600 post we have it says hump Day. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:37.720 It was Monday. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.920 I'm going to scroll all the way back to the 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:41.360 beginning just to prove to you. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.200 I'm telling you that we moved it because we realized 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:44.639 that it was not a good podcast day. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.640 I remember, I did not recall that. I remember always 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:48.360 being hump Day. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.680 Do you remember. No, we actually then started calling it 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:53.720 hump day because we're like, oh, this makes more sense. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.680 Do you remember when we were Parental Advisory Good Mom's 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:58.320 Bad Choices. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.200 That was dumb. It was that was a lot of words. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.720 And we only did that because we the Thick Podcast 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.720 had like remember Tabria's podcast, she had a like she 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.440 had like a like a line before the Thick Podcast. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.200 So we were like, this must have us see how 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:14.920 it's supposed to be. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.480 And then we made that long ass email called Parental Advisory. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.000 G NBC at gmail dot com. Please don't email that email, please, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.520 it's not gonna get checked anyway. How are you, darling, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.160 I'm good. It's rainy in La. It's been raining and 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.399 raining and raining, and I love it. Everyone's like freaking out. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.160 I mean, granted, my roof isn't leaking, so you know, 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.400 that's that's the blessing. I think a lot of people 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:38.920 are freaking out because there's a lot of shit going 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.520 on in their backyards and things. But I really like 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.200 the rain. I feel like it's a like a renewal, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.560 renewal and God knows, La needs to. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.320 Be washed washed if it sins, I know, just green, Yeah, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.360 we know, dry as how I like it too. I've 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.720 made every cold season recipe that I know so far. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.840 I've made chili, I made mansa ball soup what Jewish woman. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.400 Sometimes I like luck because too, okay after I've made 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:12.800 mashed potatoes on maltcas. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.520 This is some Valley girl shit for sure, but no. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.440 I enjoyed. I enjoy it watching movies, making hot chocolate. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.519 My immediate like thing is like go to the supermarket. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.600 So I've gone to the supermarket like three times in 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.280 the storm. But the lightsman out at the end of 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.400 the day, it's like this is new for lah. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:30.760 So that's very Costa Rica. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:32.560 That's what I was thinking. I was like, I left 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.320 the jungle to come back to the city jungle. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:34.880 What the fuck? 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:35.440 I know. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.560 Yeah, I've been enjoying. I'm good though, I'm good, I'm 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.720 feeling I'm did meditation today and I was really focusing 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.600 on being like bringing in the joy today because there's 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.360 things in my life that are a little stressing me 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.520 out a little bit. And I was like, no, bitch, 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.400 not today, and not tomorrow and not anymore. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.680 I like that bringing in the joy. I feel like 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.560 that's necessary because as an adult can wake up and 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.480 immediately be with distress. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.720 No, it was so I check my email and I 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.040 was like. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:07.959 I mean, there's a lot of things to worry about, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.480 but there's so much not to worry about. Yeah, I 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.000 let's introduce our guests. I was going to go on 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.080 a deep dive, but let's not keep our wonderful guest waiting. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.520 Welcome to the show again, our favorite wealth witch in 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:28.960 the world, Loose Warrior, the financial educator, author, and I friend. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.200 Welcome back, Loose, Thank you all so much for having 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.200 me back. It's truly an honor to be here with 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:35.680 you all. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.800 We love having you on our show. You are a 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.000 fan favorite for sure, and I'm just so excited to 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.520 have you. You know, this month, we're in March, we 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.480 typically focus on finances, so what better way to focus 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.200 on finances than with loose And you have this new 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.840 book out, a Wealth Warrior, Eight Steps for Communities of 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.720 Color to Conquer the stock market, which you know can 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.040 be really intimidating. I think people hear the word stock 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.360 market and they're like, not for me, I'll figure it 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.680 out later, I know. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.920 And I love that it's like eight steps to heal 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.120 your money, your money wounds, and claim your abundance. Those 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.560 are things we don't hear a lot, but I think 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.600 it's like so necessary to even acknowlogy you have money 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.239 wounds to begin with, to even like start to claim 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:24.000 your abundance. It's a whole like relearning and process. So 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.560 I love that your book addresses all of the things. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.640 Yes, thank you, It's been definitely a labor of love. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.680 I think that my intention with this book is to 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.640 make the stock market a lot less intimidating, something that's 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:45.080 really important and that I think we should really pay 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:50.120 attention to is that the top ten percent, like the 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:55.040 top wealthiest people, own eighty nine percent of the shares 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.880 in publicly traded companies, and a lot of the reason 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.400 for that is because we don't have accessibility to resources 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:07.000 that make sense to us that we can process like. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.320 It is very intimidating. It's like speaking an entirely different language. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.080 And I've been studying it for such a long time. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.720 I've done my absolute best to simplify it, and I've 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.720 seen so much money grow so effortlessly and easily via 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:28.240 the stock market. And we are in such an important 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.479 moment in time right now because we are in a 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:35.200 down market and shares are much more accessible right now 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.040 because they are cheaper. And I think it's for those 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.440 that are interested in the stock market. I think these 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.000 types of resources are so important and we just don't 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:45.839 have enough of them. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.840 I'm curious to know. I already know, But for those 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.480 of you who are just kind of listening and tuning 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.719 in and maybe have never been introduced to Loose Loose, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.080 I would love for you to share, really like your 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.640 journey into stock market, because I feel like people think 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.480 that you know, you have to come in and you 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.479 have to be like super knowledgeable and like maybe you 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.120 come from finance or like these are things that you know, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.120 you like grew up knowing, or you. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.680 Took a college course and then you understood suddenly, Yeah, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:15.160 well you. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.360 Know, I'm going to start with this because I know 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:22.520 we love witchy things and just like finding connecting all 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.920 the dots and destiny and all of that space. So 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.760 I was I want to say, I was seventeen years 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.960 old and one of my high school teachers was taking 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.960 a group of students myself included, to New York and 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.680 I couldn't even afford the trip. My teacher fronted for 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.640 me to go to New York. On this trip, I 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.039 had twenty dollars and we were going to be there 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.240 for approximately seven days, So twenty dollars was supposed to 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.600 like purchase food for me. Granted, there were some meals included, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.239 so from my perspective, I was like, all, just wait 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.880 until the next free meal comes throughout the trip and 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.000 I went, and I was so excited to be there. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.760 They were taking us on all of these incredible tours, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.880 and one of the tours was to see Sally Jesse 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.440 Rafael or to go to the New York Stock Exchange, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.960 and I was like, I really want to go see 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.280 Sally Jesse Rafael, like I want to know what its 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:30.160 studio would look like like that entire TV experience. And 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.880 I got chosen to go to the New York Stock Exchange, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.600 and I remember being so upset, and I'm walking into 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:42.400 this enormous building that is extremely intimidating, and I remember 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.520 walking in and just feeling the energy. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.760 It's extremely masculine heavy. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:52.280 I remember not seeing any women around other than the 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.800 students and the teachers, and we went to ring the 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:00.239 bell in the morning, and I also remember very vivid 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.160 understanding that something really important was taking place in this 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:10.120 building that was impacting not only the United States, but 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.280 whatever was happening was also rippling out into the entire world. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.480 Mind you, at the time, I was not living with 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:19.200 my parents. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.840 I was a teen mom. I had a. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.440 Three year old baby, maybe almost four at the time. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.240 I mean I was It was a moment for me 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.160 to just be in the space coming from where I 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.640 came from, and so I really feel like that moment 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.480 almost gave me a glimpse or maybe foresight or planted 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.520 a seed into what would eventually come in the future. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:45.080 I ended up. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.960 Later landing, you know, a really big position at Netflix. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.920 Big from my perspective, like coming from the hood, being 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.200 a teen mom, all the things. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:56.839 And I was only. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:02.640 The second Latina to be higher in the entire company. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.840 Mind you, we had already launched in all of Latin 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.200 America and they didn't feel the need for like Spanish 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.640 speakers or anyone that understood that territory. So it was 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.440 just like a big deal for me to be there, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.760 just like as a person of color. And I was 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.880 so nervous about the amount of money that I was 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.840 making because it was the first time that I was 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.440 making real money. I was working at a tech job 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:27.480 in Beverly Hills. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:28.600 It was a big deal. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.600 And I remember just like praying for guidance on this 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.040 money that was coming in. And simultaneously, I had this 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.080 white colleague who would come to my desk and pester 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.360 me about buying Netflix stock, and I was like, what 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.800 the fuck would this guy like? You know, I was 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.760 so intimidated by him, and he would just like throw 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.000 this stock market jargon and I think he could tell 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.080 like how I would shrink, like I can't have this 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.720 conversation like and we don't talk about the stock market. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:04.400 That's that's your world, bro, not mine, you know, And 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:09.760 he was just so persistent, and looking back, I realized 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.640 like that he was what I was praying for. Really, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.480 like that's what I was praying for. And he was 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.559 so patient, showed me his portfolio, which I'd never seen, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.440 like a million dollar portfolio like that another human owned, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.520 you know, and very transparent, and started to explain, like, 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:32.599 you're in tech, so you understand you have this unique perspective. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.239 You need to be taking advantage of this and investing 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.840 into Netflix stock. So it took him about, I want 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.840 to say, a solid six months to convince me. I 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.600 finally started investing. I invested two hundred dollars a month, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.600 and after a year, I saw that money pretty much 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.480 double itself in just one year. So I saw, you know, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.280 I mean, it grew exponentially, and I thought to myself, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.680 this is wild. I'm going to double my money. Instead 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.640 of taking two hundred a month, I'm going to take 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.600 four hundred a month, which was a pretty big expense 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.480 for me at the time because the way I was 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.320 calculating it in my head was like, this is like 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.760 a car payment that I'm making into the stock But 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.640 I started to really become a student of our get. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.960 I wasn't tapping him for resources. I just read books 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.160 and really to understand what it is that was taking place, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:30.000 because the way money was growing so effortly and easy 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.160 was something that I'd never experienced. I mean, I come 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:38.840 from you know, immigrant parents that had three four jobs. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.080 Just to sustain the household. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.640 So I computed, you know, you have to work really 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.359 hard to make a lot of money. And what I understood, 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.640 and what the stock market taught me, is that you 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.800 really need to understand how to let go of money 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.200 and invest it in order to make a lot of money. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:59.559 Working more does not equate making more money. So that's 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.520 kind of how this journey started. I invested in and 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.880 around a total of nine thousand dollars, and I watched 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.360 those nine thousand dollars turn into half a million, and 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.320 I felt like I needed to share what I had learned, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:19.400 not be a gatekeeper, and provide like digestible resources. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.400 So that's kind of I mean, oh I got here. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.280 I mean, that's that's so incredible that that a you 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.520 start like to go to New York. First of all 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:35.200 and and A have twenty dollars in your pocket. God 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.840 say yeah, no sorry not Jesse, sorry, Sally, Jesse Rafael, 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.480 it's not going to be this, but kind of give 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.880 you a preview, like a foreshadow, yeah, like into your future, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.200 and like obviously you didn't even have a concept of 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.120 what was to come. And then the prayer and it's 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.079 showing up differently, and then we always talk about that too, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.080 and like your prayers and your manifestations showing up not 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.080 exactly how you think they're going to show up, but 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.600 if you like really listen and if you really have 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.880 your eyes open, you'll I'll be able to catch them. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.560 And a lot of people don't like their prayers are answered, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.480 and they don't even they didn't even catch it. But 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.120 you said something about like letting go of money, like 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.839 not having fear around letting go of money, And I 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.160 think that that's really like I think what for many 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:22.400 people investing in the stock market and crypto and all 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.280 these different things, that's the fear is like it's like gambling. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.640 I mean for me, even like when I Vegas is 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.960 like not my thing, It's never been my thing. The 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.000 idea of like giving my money away in hopes that 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.720 I'm going to get it back. I mean, obviously Vegas 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.679 is a different type of gambling, but even the stock 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.719 market feels like a gamble. I think for a lot 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:45.120 of people where you feel like this is this really 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.000 does this really work? How do I know like what 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.520 to invest in? Or you know, if I give it 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.199 a thousand dollars, like is it just going to disappear? 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.400 And you know, feeling like does my whole life have 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.440 to now be the stock market once I started? And 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.040 I have to check every every day all day, Like 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.800 how does that even work? Do I have to like 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.040 be super invested in order to see my my wealth grow? 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.040 And like when can I take it out? Can I 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.600 take it out? Can I like not take it out 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.400 for two years? Maybe I'll never get it? Or like 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:19.120 it's this like this idea of this like fantasy, untangible world, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.800 because like literally I feel the same way about gambling, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.200 Like I'm not a Vegas bitch. I'm not going to 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.120 go put some money down and hope like no not, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.000 I'm not putting my heart o money and then like 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.560 hoping it triples. But like I think the difference is 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.360 it's like that's a real gamble when this is an 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.760 actual investment, but that they're both feel intangible in ways 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.840 like you may you may feel it, you may not, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:43.000 and so it feels like super scary and like not 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.960 even that, like, you know, Black History Month just passed. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.840 But I took my daughter to she she was she's 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.960 in a dance a dance school shut out to Heart 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.760 dance School, and they asked her to be in this 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.000 Black history lessons in Black History like performance while we 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.560 were in Costa Rica. And I guess the portion of 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.800 the part of this is a long story, just a 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.600 portion of it is they they cover the Birmingham bombings 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.560 and you know, little girls die, like a lot of 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.000 people died. So she calls me, she's like, I don't 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.400 want to be in it because it's scary. And I'm like, yeah, word, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.360 it is scary and I remember learning about it. And 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.160 you know, she's eight, and it's just like such because 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.120 they're on the same age, the girls in the church, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.200 and it's just like this this such dark history and 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.280 that like at some point you have to learn it, 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.360 and you're going to learn it. So we watched this 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.960 entire like two hour dance you know, performance, and there's 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.680 acting and they're singing and they cover like all the 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.760 great like all the great Black inventors, and they cover 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.280 like how we were stolen from Africa, And you know, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.480 midway through, I'm just realizing, like I mean, not realizing, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.560 but it's just a reminder the amount of like complexities 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.720 that it takes for us, for a lot of us 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.000 to be here. And like when you're when you're removed 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.800 from your culture and your language and these your safety 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.160 and money is not even something that you can earn 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.840 and you have no knowledge of it and there's none 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.200 given to you, and like that your power is taken away. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.320 There are so many there's so much energetic complexities that 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.800 come with embracing finances, even in this time, even in 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.680 the freedom. So like a lot of the freedom and 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.920 the ability to get to that place is your mindset 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.400 and the energy around it, you know. And it's just 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.920 like historically when you're an immigrant or when you've had 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:36.160 like generations and generations of just negative energy with finances 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.200 and security, it is a very difficult concept to grasp 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.200 and to understand. And you do say, like someone comes 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:42.640 to your desk and you're like, yeah, bro, that's all 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.200 you you know, like that's what that's your thing, like 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.960 your dad, your daddy did that for you. But it's 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.760 like just understanding that this is also my right and 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.080 this is also something I can I can understand and 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.880 grasp the knowledge of instead of completely writing it off. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.640 You know. It's just like historically it's been something that 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.520 we've been and not included in, so it's easy to 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.280 not include ourselves and just say fuck it, you know, 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:06.600 like this is the money that I put in the 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.639 bank and not even go down the route. But like, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.280 luckily you had the insight and that pestering guy was 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.880 like you're blessing, Like hey, bitch, hey, how about now 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.280 you know? And then you actually taking the advice and 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.800 investing the money and like ending up with half a 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.320 million dollars. That's a huge discovery. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:25.120 It is. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.600 It is, And I think that I want to be 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.520 clear that I do think that the reason it's so 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.400 easy to compare gambling to the stock market is because 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.360 the lack of education that we have. So if you're 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.760 just investing without really having a full understanding of the 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.680 stock market, it is like a gamble. And it's two 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.719 part because you may not fully understand the company that 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.400 you're investing in, which makes it really scary, but also 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.840 you do not know how you are going to react. 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.280 One of my favorite. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.200 Types of investments, or the reason why the stock market 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.760 is my favorite type of investment, is because I feel 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.600 like it is a window into my money wounds. The 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.040 market itself if we look at the way it moves erratically, 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.800 like up and down, that is just collective energy of 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:21.560 the most wealthiest people in the world, where the energy 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:26.480 is generating more money, losing money, generating money, losing money. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.120 It's almost it's not almost. It is a direct reflection 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:35.360 of our emotions. So I find it really interesting for 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.919 me when I was really exploring my money wounds and 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:43.200 my personal money relationship. The reason I loved the stock 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.640 market so much is because it felt like a control 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.040 center where I was able to control my emotions, my 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:53.359 money story, and my narrative in real time versus some 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:59.600 elusive abundant experience where I could see abundant if I 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.600 saw a lot of food on the table, I could 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.760 see abundance, if I had a happy day. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:07.160 I could see. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.200 Abundance in so many different ways, but I was never 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.679 really getting to the root of abundance when it comes 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:18.320 to money like physical money and generating actual money in 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.200 the form of abundance, and the stock market really allowed 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.199 for me to do that, and so it's almost like 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.919 I use it as a let's say, you're trying to 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.240 get spiritually healthy in all facets of your life. It's 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.000 almost like the stock market for me is like my gym. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.000 That is where I go and work out my emotional 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.119 money stories in my relationship in real time, and it 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.639 has helped me tremendously. And I think to go back 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.560 into the topic of being scared to let go of money, 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:54.600 we constantly talk about wealthy people being very greedy, and 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.800 I think what we fail to admit is that greed 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:02.240 isn't something that just exists with wealthy people. Greed is 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.199 something that affects every single person. It's like jealousy. You 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.080 can't escape it, you know, just because like they're just 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.080 because you don't have money, it doesn't mean you can't 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.919 feel freed. We one thousand percent can feel greed, And 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.320 so I think that's a really big misconception and I 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:24.680 think that to flip that not being able to let 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.240 go of money is a form of greed, even if 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.639 that is to invest in yourself. You still feel like 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.120 the money is better held in your hands, and you're 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.800 afraid to invest it in a summit. You're afraid to 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.960 invest in a course, You're afraid to invest in a vacation. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.239 You're afraid to invest in whatever it is it's going 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.960 to improve you in the future. It's still a form 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.399 of greed per se if you can't let it go. 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.880 So it's such a laird topic, right. 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.359 Well, when you said you think, when I think about 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.760 greed and I think about investing in yourself, I can't 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.239 help but think about our even our retreats that we do, 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.119 and how how you know a lot of women are 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:04.679 interested in coming to these retreats. We just did one 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.680 in Costa Rica. We have one in Mexico in July. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.320 And one of the biggest things that we hear is like, oh, 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.800 I can't afford it, or I'll go on the next one, 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.479 or like I just I just can't, I just can't, 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.760 or it's too expensive. And granted, these are all real, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.600