WEBVTT - Take a Dream Job At a Shady Company or Nah? 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.360 Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're brown. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.639 Hey, mandra, hey to how's it going. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.640 It's going excellent? Actually, well, I mean I don't know. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.200 I'm in a good mood even though, like you know, 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.200 everything's falling down. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:32.760 But you know, hey, I mean I'm alive. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.680 You did the whole. Don't tell the universe it's going good. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.800 No, I don't know. I am in a good mood. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.080 Maybe today. I had a good nap today. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.440 So when I've got a good nap day, you know, 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.560 I feel like I could take on the world. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:46.600 And oh, I've got the tub. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.560 Oh well, it's the little things, isn't it. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.160 Because it's hard because you know, Superman is sixty six, 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:58.400 so my plumbing starts soon and my contractors like, you 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.600 really need to find a tub. And I didn't want 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.240 a tub that was gonna like because our bathroom is 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.319 a good signe but it's not a huge bathroom. But 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.200 I wanted to stand alone tub and to find one 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.160 that could fit him but not also like dwarf the bathroom. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:11.680 So we found one and it's really great. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.319 And people tell you to stay away from acrylic because 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.160 the krylic cracks and there's just so many things to 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.559 learn so we got a stone stone resin tub. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:19.319 Have you heard of those? 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:24.840 I did not choose our tub, but yikes, I do 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.440 know about Like there's different floor materials. I don't know. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.160 I woke up in a cold sweat. This is what happens. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:30.600 I woke up in a cold sweat, and I was like, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.920 our bathroom floor tile is too slippery. We're gonna break 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.000 an elbow. Like we're gonna slip. We're gonna break an elbow. 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.000 It's gonna be a whole thing. It's like my fear 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.360 is falling into like slipping in the bathroom, you know. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.480 And I'm like it's too slippery and it's too late 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.880 because it's been delivered. I mean, I got over it, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.480 but I'm definitely at the stage where it you make 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.720 all these decisions. But the thing is, the project takes 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.760 so long and you have so much time to like 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.480 second guess yourself, which is the it's killing me. I'm like, wait, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.600 did we choose to fright shower tile? Like we really 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.920 do we really need? Do we really need two windows there? 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.240 But they're already put in the walls. Like it's you know, it. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.880 Is it is very very near racking because it's definitely, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.160 like especially when it comes down to doing like the 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.639 big things, like cause framing is. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.720 Pretty easy because literally you can be like, you know what, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:13.560 I changed my mind. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.280 I want it to be a little bit bigger, and 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.960 they can take down the wood and put it back up. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.720 But like plumbing and electric, it's like, oh we're here now. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.679 Yeah, they're starting to patch up walls now, so it's 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.840 getting real serious. We did, we did have our We 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.960 haven't had too many like oh god, we found this 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.639 and now it's going to cost you know, so much 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.079 more money to fix it. We haven't really had any 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.400 of those experiences, but we had. So we have a 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.840 deck that we are expanding and I noticed there was 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.799 this big patch that I was seeing because you could 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.440 see the bottom of the deck through our kitchen ceiling now, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.880 and I noticed this big patch of like dark rotted 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.760 wood and I was like, oh, snap, what is that? 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.760 And it turned out to be a leak And it's 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.680 going to cost us fifteen hundred dollars extra just to 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.680 patch this little like two foot by two foot section 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.920 of our deck, which which sucks, but honestly, I mean 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.200 still knock on food because anything could happen. But we'll 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.280 have to dip into our contingency fund for that, which 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.080 makes me kind of I feel like we started dipping 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.400 into our contingency fund for things that weren't quite contingencies, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:17.320 but more like I really would like a central light fixture. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.360 Let's add that to the electrical plan. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:19.920 Hmm. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.640 I know exactly what you mean, but like, we've had 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:28.280 like contingency fund things where I'm like, so we're definitely 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.200 using We probably use about half our contingency fund already. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.280 I'm just like, I'm hoping because everything's open, so I'm like, well, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:36.320 we should be good now. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.200 Right, because we've already seen everything. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.920 And then at one point the boiler wasn't working, but 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.760 now it is, so I think we're we're rocking around 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.840 in My sister's already, like, so can I move in? 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.480 I'm like, we're not even finished renovating it, and you 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:50.840 already want to take this ver bed and. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:56.480 She's like, I want to work on my dreams. It 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.280 looks like we already have a roommate. But yeah, the 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.320 things are going good other than that house. Lie, what 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:02.880 did you do this weekend? Oh? 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.680 You know, picked up some toilets, normal stuff, got a 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.080 little I made some decisions around holiday spending. I think 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.800 we're gonna do We're definitely not doing gifts for each other, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.560 but I think my siblings and I, since we're not 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.400 going to be together this holiday season, I think we're 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.480 gonna end up doing the whole secret Sanda thing again 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.120 and just sending each other a gift because I could 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.120 pull the whole I'm doing a home renovation. I don't 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.400 have money for that thing, but I did just spend 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.680 fifty dollars on a tolet paper holder, so maybe I 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.960 can afford to get my sister. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:37.200 A little how much as. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.640 I don't know what it slipped through. I don't know 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.840 how it happened, but there was a long list of things, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.000 and I just said, okay, okay, it slipped through. But 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.520 if you think about how many times will you use it? 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.880 I mean, when you're like renovating, so many things go 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.400 out the window, and I guess it's like planning a 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.320 wedding where you're like, I would never spend that amount 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.320 of money, and then it happens and you're like, but 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.520 I mean, don't we all need a twenty five hundred 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:57.039 dollar tab? 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:58.840 And I was like, what am I doing? What? 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.440 Life but anyway, but no, this this past weekend, I 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.480 did the Texas Women's Conference. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:06.880 Oh okay, so yeah, that was. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:08.920 Well, there's a women's conference. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.960 I think it like uh, it like floats around the country. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.719 I think it goes to like five different locations and 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.880 they're pretty big. So the one in Texas it's the biggest, 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.599 the big biggest women's conference in Texas. It was seventy 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.560 nine hundred women and doctor Brene Brown, who I love, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.720 was there and then also Reese Witherspoon. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:26.680 They were both keynotes. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.839 So I did a breakout session just like seven ways 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.440 to Live a Richer life, just the basics like budgeting, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.280 credit whatever. But there were just so many women. Honestly, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.200 it was really awesome. The energy was awesome. Usually I'm 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.159 not really like someone who like loves conferences because sometimes 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.359 they don't seem so useful, you know. But I have 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.120 to say, this is my second women's conference, like with 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.720 it's literally called like the Women's Conference, So I think 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.080 the last one I did was in Pennsylvania, I think. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.760 But I liked them because they really insist that you 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.240 give actionable steps, so you really leave feeling like, oh 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.200 I took this, you know, breakout session or whatever, and 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.240 I left with some actionable items and steps to do. So, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.200 like I said, I have to say it was. It 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.720 was a really good weekend. And I got to meet 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.720 this woman named Jessica. I'm gonna mess up her last name, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.600 but she like changed my life. So she was just 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.359 telling me about a business she owned. It this is 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.720 how you just never know about folks. She was telling 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.000 me about a business she owned that she started. It's 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.919 a social enterprise. And for those of you who don't know, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.280 social enterprise is a business that really the it's Honegger, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:36.400 that's her last name. It's a business that the purpose 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.159 comes before the profit. So you know, of course you 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.560 want to make money, but really there's like a you know, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:48.279 like a the mission is really purpose driven versus profit driven. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.960 And she started this have you ever heard of Noonday Collection? No? 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:52.520 I haven't. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.000 So she like buys. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.120 Jewelry from what she calls vulnerable populations, so populations where 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.560 folks really don't have access to the market, but they make, 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.280 they make their artisans and they make beautiful things. And 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.760 she started it as a fundraiser because she wanted to 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.360 adopt a little boy from Rwanda. Her and her husband. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.680 Then the recession hit and they were in real estate. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.480 They lost everything, so they purchased some I think some 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.920 jewelry from his village or I think she purchased it 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.800 from Uganda, and she sold it to her friends and 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.080 to say, hey, I'm doing this. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.040 Fundraiser so we can you know, bring my son home. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.640 And then it started to do really well, and then 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.360 her friends were like, hey, I want to sell jewelry 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.160 and help people in another country, but also make money too, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.800 And I was like, oh, wow, that's really nice. And 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.679 then she was telling me how they grossed eighteen million 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.080 dollars this year or last year, and I was like, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:40.400 wait what. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.840 So it just wasn't really speaking with her was a really. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.280 Great reminder of how, like, you know, you can do 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.040 good work, help good people, and make good money. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.600 So that was just like the most inspiration. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.080 I just happened to be sitting next to her and 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.160 she was just sharing that she's also the fastest growing 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:03.119 privately held company direct sales, and so I just thought, wow, 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.680 it was just such a great example that, you know, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.600 because that's what I'm wanting to do. I'm wanting to 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.400 make sure that we run a company that is integrity 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.600 above all else people and purpose above profit. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.119 But it doesn't mean you don't want to make profit. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.440 So just to see that she was navigating that successfully 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:21.560 was really inspirational. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.720 How do you feel about I mean, I know that 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.200 you speak at conferences and stuff, but I wonder, like 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.640 our listeners, are there conferences that you guys attend, like 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.760 as attendees, like outside of stuff that you might do 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.160 for work. Because I've like I've gotten I just got 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.440 an invite to like the World Business Forum in New 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.959 York City, which is meant to be for business leaders 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:40.840 to come together, and then you hear from people like 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.280 Seth Godin and Ariana Huffington and it's focused. It's less 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.360 of like this will help me as an editor and 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.360 more this will help me, you know, like as a leader. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.559 And some of these tickets are really expensive, like I'm 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.080 getting because I'm with the media, I could you know, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.720 get a comp ticket or whatever. But like if you're 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.160 out there and you're listening and you guys like you 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.800 purchased tickets for conferences, I just wonder, like, what are 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.240 your favorite ones? You know, what ones have really helped 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.600 you that you would go to on an annual basis. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.200 Maybe it's Essence Fest or I don't know. I went 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.720 to one that was hosted by Meeker Brazhenski, Like from 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.400 that show on MSNBC. What can I think of it 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.320 right now? The know your Worst Tour? Did you speak 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:21.760 at that tour? 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.280 Yes, okay I did when it first came out. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.080 Yeah, you make the rounds. But like, there were so 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.800 many women at that conference. I remember Elizabeth Warren spoke. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.559 She was one of the keynotes at that conference, and 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.840 like the crowd was crazy. I'm just thinking, like, who 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.800 are these women who aren't getting free tickets, who are 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.000 actually spending money to go to these conferences. Yeah, I 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.319 don't know. I just I'm curious if you guys email 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.440 us at broad Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com dot com, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.920 if you have a conference that you like, or anything 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.960 to say about conferences that have helped you or in 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.959 your business or personal life. Just just curious. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:56.520 No, that's awesome. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.240 Yeah, I wonder if you were at the same one, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.679 because I was there when Elizabeth Warren's books. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.280 I'm like, I want if we were in the same room. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.320 I think we were. I I covered it because I 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.360 was I was at Yahoo Finance then I was a 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.120 reporter and I was doing a story on Mika's new book, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.560 Know Your Value, and then she tried to she like 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.920 launched it into a mini tour. So I was there. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.960 I interviewed Hoda and I interviewed. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.920 Yes, I was there. That's so crazy that we were 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:19.600 in the same room. 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.120 Yeah, and Andre Leon Talley, who was really sweaty and 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:30.839 hot and he is very, very very That is the 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.840 visceral memory I have of that interview. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.040 But no, that's awesome. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.199 So yeah, because you know, there are definitely some conferences 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.720 where you're like, why did I come? 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.120 Oh, yes, spill the tea on the ones that you 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.480 didn't think were worth your time. It's also like the 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.160 end of your time, and I know I'm I'm about 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.400 to Like deadlines are if you're like leadership institutes or 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.280 trainings out there, a lot of their deadlines are in 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.800 the fall. I have to submit an application for a 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.520 I'm trying to do. Last year, I did an leadership 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.560 institute for or young or diverse I think it was 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.520 diverse editorial leaders at the Pointer Institute, And I'm doing 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.880 I'm going to apply for another program that's focused on women, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.680 but same similar thing. Women leaders in journalism, and it's 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.080 through the Online News Association. It's like a one week 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.719 accelerator program. And I'm going to try to keep doing 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.360 at least one of these a year. And if your company, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.640 you know, would reimburse you for something like that, then 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.280 you know, see what deadlines are out there, if there's 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.319 anything that interests you for twenty nineteen, because some of 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.360 them have deadlines now. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.200 So I think to consider I feel like I feel like, 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.000 you know, extended learning is always you know, it's always 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.440 a good thing. So if you can, you know, if 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.120 you can sign up for something where you know you're 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.800 actually going to take something away. I always think to 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.679 myself like it's less to me about like the woman 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.840 on the stage or the man on the stage or whoever. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.480 And I really try to make it my business to 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.440 connect with the person sitting next to me because you 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.560 never know, like look at Jessica Harr. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.000 I'm gonna say her name wrong. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.920 But you know, like look who I met. You know 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.440 that wasn't she just was sitting next to me. Honegger, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:07.680 Sorry Jessica. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:12.480 Oh what Honegger? H O n E g g E 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:19.600 r hoenegger mm hmm a dry So yeah, So I'm like, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:20.679 you know, I just think that. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.000 I think sometimes a lot of times when people go 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.079 to conferences, they think like you know, or they're wanting 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.600 to connect with the person that's speaking, which is obviously 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.560 you know, dope, But sometimes the people who are sitting 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.480 next to you are like way doper and just turning 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.079 to the lesson to the right and asking questions and connecting. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.720 So yeah, I'm not a huge conference fan, only because 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.560 sitting sometimes, unless like the speaker is really dynamic, I 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:44.560 get like bored easily. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.480 But but when. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.559 It's a really good speaker and I get some actionable 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.480 things to do, then I'm all for it. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.920 Cool. Cool. What else is happening in the world. California 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:57.480 is burning? 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.920 Trump is tweeting, Yeah, what you know, we do have 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.560 the house, So there's that. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.679 But is that your response to California's burning? 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.040 I got a house. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.440 No, No, I didn't meant the half I met like 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:11.520 the Democrats got the house. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:17.599 Oh, I was like, no way that. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.640 I thought that was off personality, I mean off brand 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:22.960 for you, off brand. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.320 Now I met that, like you know that. Politically, Yeah, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:28.720 some change happening. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.480 I have been on like tenter hooks. Who I've never 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.960 used that in a sentence, tenter Hooks. I'm so, you know, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.640 it's a good word because what's happening in Georgia right 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.000 now with the I think last week even on the show, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.880 we talked about the election results, but at Stacy Abrams 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.240 and Brian Kemp, there's still not a declared winner. Like 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.960 it's like a week later, it's not a declared winner, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.160 and they're recounting every single vote, and I'm just like, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:52.920 it's nail biting right now. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.080 Sometimes you know, I plug in and I see what's 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.880 going on with the world, and other times I'm like, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:57.480 you know what. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.280 I gotta plug out. I can't do I can't do it. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.800 But you know, I mean, definitely the midterm election. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.440 What it did make me excited for was to see 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.240 just how many people participated. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.400 It felt like we were voting for president. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.320 Like I'd never seen that many people out for midterm, 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.480 So that's always a good thing. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.520 Did you see that Starbucks is laying off five percent 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.480 of its workforce? No, why, I don't know. I guess 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:22.720 business is not booming. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.880 But millennials killing coffee too, because you know, they blame 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:26.520 you off everything. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:27.040 Yeah. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.360 I read a story this week that millennials are killing 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.880 the pet food industry because they're shopping for fancy dog 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.520 food and the bad like the cheap stuff that like 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.840 my cat ate when not dogs, but pets in general, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.880 the cheap stuff like what did my cat eat? Like 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.080 parina or like kibbles and bits or whatever. Like, millennials 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.600 are spending twice as much as they were on dog food, 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.600 like the organic y Yeah, like just spending so much 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.320 money now that the yeah, the ones who make the 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.960 cheap stuff aren't doing so good, which. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.640 Seems so weird because it's like at the same time 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.560 they're like millennials are broke, you know. They tell you, guys, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.760 everything but a child of God. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.280 When it comes to pets, people are just not It's nonsensical. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.640 Yes, somebody posted in my on Facebook you don't have 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.200 the DreamCatcher group, And somebody posted, you know, I'm really 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.840 struggling with my finances. I'm really thinking about giving up 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.400 my dog, like you know, like you know, either giving 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:18.560 it to a friend or whatever. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.880 People were livid. I couldn't believe it. I had to 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.440 turn off the comments. They were like, would you give 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.440 your child to your friends? And I'm like, oh no, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.640 she could that's a human, I know. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.360 And it wasn't like she wasn't saying like I'm going 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.760 to leave my dog outside, you know, and walk away. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.720 She was just like, you know, you could tell she's 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.040 like I obviously I love my dog, but it's to 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.760 the point where I can't afford my life and I'm 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.960 trying to figure out what what do I do? You know, 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:46.880 what do you guys think? And so I just was 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.160 just reminding folks, you know, to keep it kind. But 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.120 you know, I mean, yeah, I had to turn off 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.720 the comments because people were really angry, like how yeah, 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.280 how dare you even consider like leaving your dog who 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.440 was clear a human with your friend or you know 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.760 or whatever that Like, Like I said, it wasn't like she 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.120 was gonna euthanize her dog. She just was like I 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.000 just can't afford And someone was like, well, be homeless 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.400 with your dog. I'm like, you know what, block black 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.680 crazy lady. So yeah, so I just thought, like, you know, 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.040 people are very, very very attached to their animals. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.120 I don't have any animals. I have them as a kid, I. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.160 Do in my dreams. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:26.920 I don't want a dog. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.200 I don't in my in my imagination all the time. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.840 I'm like, I'm gonna steal that dog. I haven't done. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:37.000 Just so many dogs are so stinky. Sorry, people with dogs, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.480 I'm sorry. I'm half my friends with dogs, I'm like, oh, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:40.520 I know you have a dog. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.200 You know I don't want to fight with you. Right now, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.800 it's the holidays almost, let's not let's not start talking 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.280 trash about dogs, who are just God's gift to the world. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.560 I mean, I can live with the you know, cats, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.880 I could deal, you know, but I mean, and honestly, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.520 I don't. I actually like dogs, but let's not pretend 0:16:58.560 --> 0:16:59.720 like they don't come with a little bit. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.600 Of I mean, some of them more than others, is true. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.080 Everyone loves Corgi's. They stink and they shed like a mother. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.359 I need to know though, from our listeners. Another question 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.840 for the listeners. Email us and tell us what is 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.000 like an embarrassing amount of money you spent on your pet. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.919 I know people out there who've gone to debt for 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.040 their pets. They take out these credit cards to pay 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.120 for their pet at the veterinarian and end up paying 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.639 those cards off for years, no joke. So if you, 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.160 I mean, this is a safe space you can be anonymous. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.520 I want to know your pet. I want to know 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.919 how much you spent on your pet and what crazy 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.000 things you've purchased for them. M Grandomission Podcast at gmail 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.160 dot com dot com. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.439 All right, are we going to take some question on 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:43.200 I do. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.359 I have a question from an anonymous listener who is 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.560 torn between two job offers. First of all, what a 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.920 nice place to be just the first and foremost. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.920 Okay, that is a nice place, but she can't. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.080 Decide which is the right opportunity, so let's hear from her. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.840 She says, I'm currently evaluating two job offers. One is 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.320 a very exciting it's with the company that I'm not 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.040 sure about, though they specialize in debt collection. 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