Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black, We're brown, we're brown,
Speaker 1: we're broad ambition ambitions.
Speaker 2: I can never. I can never join in because you
Speaker 2: be changing the I do the lyrics.
Speaker 1: I never.
Speaker 2: How are you today? I'm doing good? How are you good?
Speaker 2: You see my African sweatshirt? You know, I was the
Speaker 2: first thing I saw. First I saw African, and then
Speaker 2: I saw the lashes, and I'll, yeah, I'll come to
Speaker 2: play today. I did not come to play with the girls.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have see If you watched this on YouTube,
Speaker 3: you would see my lashed out face, you know.
Speaker 2: But you know, some of y'all just not up on
Speaker 2: it yet. Go to YouTube. They're very subtle though. I
Speaker 2: can tell. They make your eyes pop, but they're not
Speaker 2: giving like ru Paul drag queen. Yeah, what's something wrong
Speaker 2: with that? But it's just that's just this day, complete
Speaker 2: time in the place.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is giving mink.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm cute and African for my Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna lie. My skin is glowing, my lips is popping,
Speaker 3: my lash is a property. I'm feeling myself today.
Speaker 2: You got like a side. Whenever you have the side, pony,
Speaker 2: I feel like tips here to like have a good time,
Speaker 2: not side pony tip. Yeah, it's like a little you know,
Speaker 2: a little like to the to the right purpose. It
Speaker 2: is intentional. I know, I know. I'm appreciating it. Oh man,
Speaker 2: oh man, oh man. There's so much going on. Last
Speaker 2: week was intense. Rio was sick all dayn week and
Speaker 2: your girl, I'm trying. I'm not gonna I'm not going
Speaker 2: to and I'm not going to put it into the universe.
Speaker 2: What you're hearing because I know what you're hearing is
Speaker 2: similar to what we started to hear at the end
Speaker 2: of last year when I was like on death's bed
Speaker 2: every day. But I'm just gonna pretend like this is
Speaker 2: not going to turn into a thing. I've got some
Speaker 2: some teas and we're just gonna we're just gonna think
Speaker 2: ourselves out of this virus. What we're going to be doing. God,
Speaker 2: it's like it's so hard though, because and this is
Speaker 2: the argument that me and my husband have all the time.
Speaker 2: Like he works full time. He works with the federal government,
Speaker 2: and he has he has an important job like helping
Speaker 2: put bad people away, and he has to go to
Speaker 2: court a lot, and like he has to be in
Speaker 2: the office every day. He's got a very much nine
Speaker 2: to five or a day like today he's working nine
Speaker 2: to ten, like he'll be in Brooklyn all night doing
Speaker 2: trial prep. So I'm batty entrepreneur and I will I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to brag, but despite leaving corporate and starting
Speaker 2: a brand new business, I still I'm still the breadwinner.
Speaker 2: You know, I still earn more. So I'm not I'm
Speaker 2: a huge I would make a very good contribution to
Speaker 2: our household finances, and yet I am the on call
Speaker 2: parent whenever rio sick. And my job is so flexible,
Speaker 2: you know, or it's seen that way, but it's so hard.
Speaker 2: Like last week, it really killed me because it's just
Speaker 2: really challenging for anyone like it brought me. It just
Speaker 2: brings me back to the dark days of the pandemic
Speaker 2: when I was like juggling, and I mean the brain
Speaker 2: capacity that you have when you when you have your
Speaker 2: kid at home, and yeah, you have your computer and
Speaker 2: you have your apps and stuff, but it's just so exhausting,
Speaker 2: the mental toll on top of already like being pregnant
Speaker 2: on top of that, Like it was so hard and
Speaker 2: really depressing almost because I just felt like I wasn't
Speaker 2: able to give my all all week, and so I
Speaker 2: came and I sat down at my desk this morning.
Speaker 2: I almost got a little emotional. I'm just like, I'm
Speaker 2: so happy, like if Rio's back in daycare, I could
Speaker 2: just focus with one hundred percent of my brain, you know,
Speaker 2: And I sometimes I guess it's just a little bit
Speaker 2: of mourning, like I'm in I'm mourn a little bit
Speaker 2: the time when I not that I took it for
Speaker 2: granted because I used it when I had it, but
Speaker 2: the time when I could just one hundred percent be
Speaker 2: focused on whatever I needed to be focused on, you know,
Speaker 2: and not have to pull myself in a million different
Speaker 2: directions day after day.
Speaker 3: You know, it's crazy because now but like I do,
Speaker 3: because you know, I don't really have to look after anywhere.
Speaker 3: I mean, Supergirl states with me one weekend of the month.
Speaker 3: But honestly, she's sixteen, and a black sixteen is like
Speaker 3: everybody else twenty five. You know, she grown, She's a
Speaker 3: grown woman. I cash out her her money and she's like,
Speaker 3: I'm going to get my own dinner. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: so let's go off. So I don't have to really
Speaker 3: look after anyone, And so I used to think, like, oh,
Speaker 3: if I had all the time and energy to look
Speaker 3: after just I would just be a beast girl.
Speaker 2: The only beast I do is walking.
Speaker 3: Like surprisingly, it's not you know, I'm just I'm not
Speaker 3: using this like time necessarily to like you know, like
Speaker 3: re up on the work, you know, because certainly you
Speaker 3: know I can do whatever whenever. I could travel with
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I don't have to. I don't
Speaker 3: have to navigate around anyone else's schedule. But yeah, it's funny,
Speaker 3: how you know you think, like if I had all
Speaker 3: the time, this is what I would do. It's like
Speaker 3: when I moved out of my parents' house for the
Speaker 3: first time when I was twenty two. I was you know,
Speaker 3: when I move ound, I'm clubbing every night. I'm going
Speaker 3: now I'm gonna be grown girl. I was home Monday
Speaker 3: through Sunday and my buzzy slippers and like, you know,
Speaker 3: the oldest twenty two year old, you know. So sometimes
Speaker 3: you think, like, oh, if I had all the space
Speaker 3: and whatever, you probably would just use it just to
Speaker 3: like wusai anyway. So I mean I just say all
Speaker 3: that to say, I don't know, like today, I'm talking
Speaker 3: to my sister Carol. You know, she's got the two
Speaker 3: little ones of a room in seven and Amelia is
Speaker 3: Mimi's five, And like, I don't know how she gets
Speaker 3: anything done, you know, because like there's times when you know,
Speaker 3: she works for me, she's my efficiency's manager, and there's
Speaker 3: times when I don't know who could be a better
Speaker 3: efficiencies manager than a mom of two little kids, you know,
Speaker 3: because there are times when I'm like, you know, like
Speaker 3: we'll have a meeting and I look at the time
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I know it's pick up. So somehow
Speaker 3: she's outing them to the car, listening on in contributing,
Speaker 3: getting back, and you know, when they get back, Mammy,
Speaker 3: I want this, And I just I don't know how
Speaker 3: y'all do it, honestly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like we can do it, We like do it well,
Speaker 2: but it's the it's the mental tax afterward. And you're right, like,
Speaker 2: and to your point, one of the things that I've
Speaker 2: been trying to work on is not mentally punishing myself
Speaker 2: when after all day, you know, and then it's not
Speaker 2: just like he's at home reading a book on his own,
Speaker 2: he's three years old. He wants me in a certain
Speaker 2: he wants me on the chaise lounge portion of our couch,
Speaker 2: not on they other seat. And if I try to
Speaker 2: sit on the edge so that I can like watch
Speaker 2: what's happening in the air fryer or see if Molly,
Speaker 2: He's like, no, Mama, sit back, and he like shoves
Speaker 2: me to the back of the couch. He wants to
Speaker 2: be in the nook with you know, his favorite YouTube
Speaker 2: show on and that's where he's happiest. And you know,
Speaker 2: so it's not like I can get up and be
Speaker 2: doing things so that, you know, but I'm I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get better about because it's so mentally draining that
Speaker 2: I'm not you know, at the end, when he's in bed,
Speaker 2: I go to bed. I'm not working in the I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to work, you know, to make up for
Speaker 2: the hours that I lost because I would just die.
Speaker 2: And that's okay, And like I so I let that
Speaker 2: go for the week. I'm just like, less's gonna get done.
Speaker 2: Meanings are gonna get canceled and moved and everything. But yeah, there,
Speaker 2: it's it's I'm just like it's it's hard, and it
Speaker 2: does feel good to be especially now that it's like
Speaker 2: the six season, like every day is not promised. We
Speaker 2: have to you know, hang in there. But yeah, thanks
Speaker 2: for the encouragement and for anyone going through the same thing,
Speaker 2: like get your rest, you know. I just I think
Speaker 2: about Homeboy number two is kicking the crap out of me,
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, I feel you in there. I
Speaker 2: haven't forgotten about you.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a nap, okay, Mama, go and take
Speaker 4: a nap. But I know, yeah, yeah, I'm like, I
Speaker 4: literally I just look at I'm just I am always
Speaker 4: in awe of moms because.
Speaker 2: I'm just like houses and I just have the one.
Speaker 3: I just especially when moms of like, you know, multiples,
Speaker 3: Like I look at my mom five.
Speaker 2: Girl, sister, I know, are you crazy for YouTube and iPads? Girl?
Speaker 2: She will have to stay at home.
Speaker 3: Mom Sylvia was a nurse, a full time nurse, and
Speaker 3: I didn't know until later the bread winner to your
Speaker 3: point and cooked every night, you know, and like I
Speaker 3: just I don't know, you know, Like I said my mom, whever.
Speaker 2: I asked her how does she do it, She's always
Speaker 2: like I wouldn't recommend it. I'm like, yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: it's like trauma. You just have to like you just
Speaker 2: go through. You have no choice, you know.
Speaker 3: But honestly, you know, if you have your one wild one,
Speaker 3: you never know because I was a wild one that
Speaker 3: calls all the trouble.
Speaker 2: Seemingly, that's what they say. I don't believe it, but
Speaker 2: look I look after them so well. Now.
Speaker 3: I told my mother the days of struggle and sacrifice
Speaker 3: are over that if you need something or one, you know,
Speaker 3: I send them money every month. I take care of
Speaker 3: whatever the house needs. The house is paid off. I
Speaker 3: paid it off. But if there's anything that you need,
Speaker 3: you know, like, don't hesitate to ask you. You are
Speaker 3: not to struggle anymore.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: You poured into us and we are now here, thankfully
Speaker 3: to be able to pour back into you. And the
Speaker 3: other day, Lisa the Baby sent me a picture of
Speaker 3: my mom. My mom was getting like I don't know
Speaker 3: lately she's been doing photo shoots because why not, and
Speaker 3: she was in full Africa.
Speaker 1: Girl.
Speaker 2: Don't I love it.
Speaker 3: We did like a family one which they're really cute,
Speaker 3: like with jeans and a white shirt and all this
Speaker 3: other stuff she had us do, like when like Thanksgiving
Speaker 3: came because my sister Karen was here from Chicago and so,
Speaker 3: but I guess my mother was like, girl, I need
Speaker 3: my own. So Lisa sent us pictures like because Lisa
Speaker 3: did her makeup. And first of all, my mother I
Speaker 3: was like, I've never seen this African outfit. Clearly it's new.
Speaker 3: She's like, don't worry mine, this is this is where
Speaker 3: the money is going. She looked amazing. I said, this
Speaker 3: is what well rested, soft life Sylvia looks like, you know,
Speaker 3: and I love it for her. When I tell you
Speaker 3: she looked so good. I just such a good idea.
Speaker 2: I want to do that. Yeah, Mom, she'd be so comfortable.
Speaker 2: That's such a good idea. What a great gift. Even
Speaker 2: I know she did do it for herself, which is
Speaker 2: even more badass. But yeah, that's so amazing. You're gonna
Speaker 2: look I mean, y'all are chairs shows pictures too forever? Well,
Speaker 2: should we get into some some buzz? There's a lot
Speaker 2: buzzn't I do wanna? Yeah? So should we should we
Speaker 2: start with some like lighted lighter stuff or should we
Speaker 2: say a word about first? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, well we can't, but I honestly, yeah, that's how
Speaker 3: I want to keep it light with it. I just
Speaker 3: I said, I don't owe this country my trauma. I
Speaker 3: do not owe it in my sadness. And so I told,
Speaker 3: like my friends there, I had a few friends who
Speaker 3: watched the video, and I was like, honestly, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna watch no. And if I did not watch George Floor,
Speaker 3: I refew. Here's the thing that I thought was so crazy.
Speaker 3: Amanda Seals mentioned this, Why the way they share this
Speaker 3: video as if it was a movie coming out.
Speaker 2: Right, it was like a pay per view girling match.
Speaker 3: Yes, literally the way they yes black people down South,
Speaker 3: it became understepacal. That's where the word pick nick came from,
Speaker 3: that you would bring your food to watch a black
Speaker 3: person be murdered. And so the fact that the media
Speaker 3: all haild hands to say we're going to hold the
Speaker 3: video and drop it like it's the hottest new release
Speaker 3: is sickening and disgusting.
Speaker 2: I don't want a description.
Speaker 3: I don't want to know like this poor, poor young
Speaker 3: man whose life was just stolen from him in the
Speaker 3: most violent way. I don't want to see it. I
Speaker 3: don't want to hear you know how it happened. And
Speaker 3: I just am so sick of the United States of
Speaker 3: how they display murdered black bodies for sport, you know,
Speaker 3: And so yeah.
Speaker 2: I want the right people to see it, the people
Speaker 2: who can hold people accountable. But I don't necessarily understand
Speaker 2: why it has to be released publicly. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: wondering with the does the family get to decide? I
Speaker 2: don't know how all that happens. But yeah, I didn't
Speaker 2: watch it either. I spent some time on his and
Speaker 2: it was hard. I mean I spent some time on
Speaker 2: his his website. He has a photography website, and I
Speaker 2: just felt like I knew, you know, like he I
Speaker 2: just felt like I knew him or we would have
Speaker 2: been friends. You know, he's such a not that that
Speaker 2: even matters. He's a human being at the end of
Speaker 2: the day. But you know his about me section on
Speaker 2: his website. I was reading that, looking at his photography
Speaker 2: and pictures of the sunset, like you know, in his
Speaker 2: skateboarding videos. So I mean, it's so it's it's obviously tragic,
Speaker 2: but I think if we learn about him and through
Speaker 2: his parents' voices, I was just trying to find that
Speaker 2: and protect yourselves. Like man, I was trying to watch
Speaker 2: the news this morning, and I was like, I'll turn
Speaker 2: on CBS. They're you know, they're not They're not usually
Speaker 2: so bad, but they showed clips that I really did
Speaker 2: not want to see, and I felt like I had
Speaker 2: been assaulted. Yeah, you know, looking for the remote like
Speaker 2: turn it off. And so I'm going to take a
Speaker 2: little I'm going to take a little break between. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I just want to. Of course, we acknowledge and
Speaker 2: mourn Tyree Nichols and his senseless, tragic murder. We have
Speaker 2: to do better. We have to. It's unacceptable. It's what
Speaker 2: is happening. I know exactly, it's exactly all right. I
Speaker 2: want to talk a little bit about workplace for romance.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had a workplace romance? Tiff girl, Well,
Speaker 2: I know you kind of met your vella at work.
Speaker 2: I was the love of my life.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, Jarrell, no, because I that was
Speaker 3: like my first real job, my first and only real job.
Speaker 2: I was a teacher, and then that was it.
Speaker 3: Maybe some little internships, but I don't remember having I
Speaker 3: mean probably some little non consequential cross or something like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I met Jerell at work. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: had me a little workplace with romance.
Speaker 2: I had it in my head for really like I
Speaker 2: when I started my career in my twenties, like never
Speaker 2: dated coworker, but it was when all the dating apps
Speaker 2: were coming on the scene, and like you would match
Speaker 2: with people at your office, Like I'd be kind of
Speaker 2: scrolling on my launch brit I'd be like Steven, like
Speaker 2: I know that guy for real and no, no, okay,
Speaker 2: keep it know, But I didn't want to talk with
Speaker 2: Amy Roebock and TJ Holmes have officially left ABC, like
Speaker 2: they have been pushed out because of their workplace romance,
Speaker 2: and I just wanted to get your thoughts on it,
Speaker 2: because honestly, I really feel like that was a little
Speaker 2: extra of ABC to like I don't understand what the
Speaker 2: I mean. I know that they were apparently not faithful
Speaker 2: to their partners, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: like their equals on the set, so like why couldn't
Speaker 2: they have a relationship. But I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: think it was that it was.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know about Amy, but like all
Speaker 3: this other stuff came out about TJ with him being
Speaker 3: with interns, there was an intern that he had she
Speaker 3: was twenty four and wo and like a bunch of
Speaker 3: other people who were not his equals. I think the
Speaker 3: intern one might have been the one that pushed you
Speaker 3: because that you know, this young woman who's significantly younger,
Speaker 3: and you are a you know, this well known host,
Speaker 3: and you know she's an intern. So I think that
Speaker 3: I'm not sure why Amy was pushed out because from
Speaker 3: what I understand, her only workplace romance was TJ. But
Speaker 3: TJ had a number of them, and some of them
Speaker 3: certainly there was a power and balance that made it
Speaker 3: not okay.
Speaker 2: They didn't want like a Today Show Matt Lower kind
Speaker 2: of situation, oh okay, but like yeah, it just struck
Speaker 2: me as like a little too much in people's personal lives,
Speaker 2: and it must have been so horribly embarrassing for them
Speaker 2: and for their partners. My god, and TJ's wife was
Speaker 2: like a boss, you know, a high powered attorney. So
Speaker 2: I don't know for all parties involved, that is messy
Speaker 2: and sloppy, But yeah, I think my twenty year old's
Speaker 2: advice still stands like office work warmances just don't that. Plus,
Speaker 2: watching a few seasons of Below Deck last week, I
Speaker 2: know that you don't watch it, but people listening watch it. Okay,
Speaker 2: talk about workplace romance drama. I loves it. Okay, so good,
Speaker 2: all right, how do you feel?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: OSCAR nominations came out I think last week. One of
Speaker 2: the two movies I think I saw in all of
Speaker 2: twenty two need to was Woman King, and there was
Speaker 2: a lot of news about or maybe there should have
Speaker 2: been more. No nominations for Viola Davis for the director. God,
Speaker 2: what was her name. I should have looked it up.
Speaker 2: She's a woman. But none for the supporting cast, like nothing.
Speaker 2: It was just shocking to me because that was like
Speaker 2: watch it did so well? Yeah, I didn't want I mean,
Speaker 2: I watched, you know, forever. I started to watch Woman King,
Speaker 2: but I don't know, these days, I can't stomach the
Speaker 2: violence that I used to be able to stomach before,
Speaker 2: and so I just so I started to watch, and
Speaker 2: then when I realized it was about to get violence,
Speaker 2: I said, uh, maybe later I walk because I definitely
Speaker 2: want to watch it, but I just I just can't
Speaker 2: stomach violence like I used to. You're watching to get home, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's really hard to sit through things all the
Speaker 2: way at home. Yeah, because like if your stomach starts
Speaker 2: to turn, you can turn to a millionaire.
Speaker 3: Channels, yes, and so I like, yeah, I started to
Speaker 3: watch when like the young girl was getting trained to be,
Speaker 3: you know, one of the warriors, and then I just
Speaker 3: did yeah, Like I said, like, and you know, I
Speaker 3: think my inability or just I would say inability, just
Speaker 3: lack of desire to to.
Speaker 2: Watch violence on purpose.
Speaker 3: It is, you know, in the wake of like the
Speaker 3: George Floyd and all these other videos coming out of
Speaker 3: just like mis abused Black Bodies, and I just yeah,
Speaker 3: I just was like, uh, maybe maybe another time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I mean, although I've heard amazing things about it, Yeah,
Speaker 2: for me, I felt like I went by myself actually,
Speaker 2: and for me, it just felt like there was enough
Speaker 2: heart and with Biola, like you're never getting a one
Speaker 2: dimensional character, and the fact that they got this movie
Speaker 2: made and it was like such a strong black female
Speaker 2: cast Lashawna Lynch. Oh, she was so good. So it
Speaker 2: was just you know, I feel like it was a
Speaker 2: slap in the face. I mean, there were I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be a big year because some Asian Americans.
Speaker 2: For the Jesus Michelle Yoh, I think it's the first
Speaker 2: potentially Asian American winner of the Best Oscar for Best actress,
Speaker 2: which is sad and crazy for the everything, which I
Speaker 2: still haven't watched. I haven't listen. You guys don't come
Speaker 2: to us for our movie reviews because I watched movies pizza.
Speaker 2: But I'm here for representation at the award show. Okay,
Speaker 2: But anyway, moving on the Oh so Joe Biden. We
Speaker 2: all have talked about crypto before. See all crypto bros
Speaker 2: better get ready because the Biden administration is rolling out,
Speaker 2: supposedly some new regulations for crypto. So just another way
Speaker 2: that crypto is not actually like the anti bank can't
Speaker 2: be regulated, you know, currency, it's looking very regulated regular
Speaker 2: I still don't have any. Do you still have your
Speaker 2: little bitcoin coins? I do.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna leave with that. I can't even I mean,
Speaker 3: what is that thing? What's that main one called that?
Speaker 3: Everybody it was using?
Speaker 2: It's there.
Speaker 3: It's maybe like less than fifty I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is now, but I think initially I
Speaker 3: put like two thousand dollars in there, and basically so
Speaker 3: I don't know what it's grown to or what it's
Speaker 3: you know, just disappeared to. But you know, at the time,
Speaker 3: I knew that it was risky. That's less than you know,
Speaker 3: like they say you shouldn't have more than five percent
Speaker 3: of your you know, assets and crypto that's not even five.
Speaker 3: That's like a point zero zersers, you know. So I said,
Speaker 3: you know, let me, let me see what the girls
Speaker 3: just talking about. But I never felt comfortable with it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean that's kind of how I feel
Speaker 2: about my tuzzle of stock. I just turned not to look,
Speaker 2: which is not I go back to like when Terry E.
Speaker 2: Gioma was on from what's her class called or what's
Speaker 2: her trade in travel? Right, and like she's like, there's
Speaker 2: no point investing if you don't have a strategy, And
Speaker 2: I'm just like, yeah, you're describing me.
Speaker 3: To me too about when I like that at Q
Speaker 3: And then I'm like, oh, yeah, maybe I should have
Speaker 3: fought that.
Speaker 2: Through, you know, that whole that whole thing that I
Speaker 2: so the simple investing like education is like, well, if
Speaker 2: you're gonna buy some Nike shoes, you should invest in Nike.
Speaker 2: Or if you're gonna buy, you know, a computer from Apple,
Speaker 2: go buy some Apple stock. And I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy a Peloton, so maybe I should buy
Speaker 2: some Pelotons stock is like girl, Literally, they should have
Speaker 2: just given us a whoope cushion in the mail instead
Speaker 2: of like the stock in the company. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: But that's that's the majority of the buzzworthy for this week.
Speaker 2: Did I miss anything? I mean no, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I mean, if there's something you guys want us to
Speaker 3: talk about, please let us know. Yeah, tweet us, yes, tweeting,
Speaker 3: send us an Instagram message.
Speaker 2: I should have finished that sentence. How can they tweet us?
Speaker 2: At the BA podcast on Twitter or d m us.
Speaker 2: I got the sweetest message from our best friend Kevin
Speaker 2: every time we call him out, and he was like
Speaker 2: I went to a conference and I was on the
Speaker 2: I think he was speaking or something, and he's like,
Speaker 2: in my bio. My fun fact was that I was
Speaker 2: a guest on around him. I love so C I
Speaker 2: love it all right, va fan, Well let's take a
Speaker 2: quick breaky break, and we'll be right back with boost
Speaker 2: or break.
Speaker 1: And now it's time to boost up, break up, boost up,
Speaker 1: break up, boost up, break up?
Speaker 2: Boost? Are you going to boost? Are you going to break?
Speaker 2: But what you gonna do? What so you anna take?
Speaker 3: But I thought that's a version of what I usually
Speaker 3: do manage what you want to go for a second,
Speaker 3: how do you want to do a girl?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna do too, because I'm gonna speak when
Speaker 2: And I just got a slack ping a little bit
Speaker 2: ago from my Mandy money Maker's slack community, which, oh,
Speaker 2: slack is the best for, like if you're doing an
Speaker 2: online community, I just think it's so much easier than Facebook.
Speaker 2: But yeah, one of my Mandy money makers, her name
Speaker 2: is Shandria. She just used my negotiation scripts to get
Speaker 2: thirteen k more. I got a job offer. And not
Speaker 2: only that, but she was like, you know, I use
Speaker 2: the scripts and I just felt really she she kind
Speaker 2: of updated me first, She's like, I used the scripts.
Speaker 2: I was really nervous, but at least I felt confident
Speaker 2: going in, which is the whole point of like having
Speaker 2: the script so that like if you can take out
Speaker 2: the guesswork of what do I say? It just makes
Speaker 2: it easier to say the thing, you know, or to
Speaker 2: write it out. So I'm so excited for her. Where
Speaker 2: gonna girls get a script that they want to if
Speaker 2: they want to get the script on? Oh? Right, right,
Speaker 2: So if you go to Mandy money dot com and
Speaker 2: go to my store you can get your scripts. I
Speaker 2: might have a damn it tip. I think I do
Speaker 2: have a U r L for it. I think it
Speaker 2: was like Mandy script something. It must be Mandy moneyscripts
Speaker 2: dot com. Well all right, so we'll put the link
Speaker 2: in the show notes. Thanks, let me just see it.
Speaker 2: I still got that. Oh I do look cute. Yes,
Speaker 2: Mandy money scripts don't good. I was like, girl, get
Speaker 2: that link. I forgot what it was. I know, but
Speaker 2: now I have so many. I'm like, which, what? What?
Speaker 2: Where do I go? I know? Anyway, So shout out
Speaker 2: to her and to anyone else you know who has
Speaker 2: got the scripts. Thank you, thank you. But my my
Speaker 2: first boost was going to be I like to shout
Speaker 2: out like tools and technology that make my life easier.
Speaker 2: And one of my favorite tools I don't know if
Speaker 2: you if you use it for the Budgetista, but called Zapier.
Speaker 2: Are you a fan? I love Zapier. It just it's
Speaker 2: like the it's it connects the dots between apps that
Speaker 2: you're already using so that you can automate things. So
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. One of my biggest pain points,
Speaker 2: like after so I, oh, I host the nail your
Speaker 2: negotiation masterclass like once every five or six weeks or so.
Speaker 2: And when people sign up, I want their email, and
Speaker 2: so I get a zapp that immediately transfers their email
Speaker 2: from the webinar web page to my business's email system
Speaker 2: so that I automatically can start emailing them and I
Speaker 2: have them in like their own little segment. And then
Speaker 2: also even when people enroll in Mandy money Makers, I
Speaker 2: created a zapp. I'm so proud of it. Okay, I
Speaker 2: didn't create it. I told my assistant allowed it to
Speaker 2: create it. Their shout outs allowed it because she us
Speaker 2: a ZAP fan too. I was like, is there a
Speaker 2: way to add people to the slack with then make
Speaker 2: sure that they're in all the channels I want them
Speaker 2: to be in so that no one misses anything. And
Speaker 2: of course there was a way. So if you haven't
Speaker 2: checked out ZAP zapier z A P I E R.
Speaker 2: I'm not getting paid to endorse. I'm just a fan.
Speaker 2: And if you can handle a little bit of like,
Speaker 2: maybe it's something to pass off to your VA if
Speaker 2: you have one. If you're not so good at like,
Speaker 2: it takes some brain power to like figure out how
Speaker 2: to connect the dots and like troubleshoot and stuff. But
Speaker 2: it's so worth it. It's so worth it. Loves it.
Speaker 3: Love that Chickley Papa Mine is just a really quick
Speaker 3: boosy one of our fas that me and Mandy both love.
Speaker 3: Jason vitug what don't even mean to rhyme? So he
Speaker 3: has a new book coming out called Happy Money, Happy Life,
Speaker 3: a multi dimensional approach to health, wealth and financial freedom.
Speaker 3: I'm super excited. First of all, the cover is awesome.
Speaker 3: It's like orange and white and yellow. If you know Jason,
Speaker 3: he is like living sunshine what I also yet he
Speaker 3: honestly just this this guy just we're gonna have Mode
Speaker 3: as a guest.
Speaker 2: We don't know when, but he's coming on. Yeah. So
Speaker 2: this is like his launch week, like you know.
Speaker 3: So if you're listening to this, the book will have
Speaker 3: come out yesterday. But here's what I like about Jason.
Speaker 3: When I first met Jason, Jason was kind of like
Speaker 3: the first person in the financial space that ever met
Speaker 3: that was like making like really good money, like speaking things.
Speaker 3: I remember he was the first person I ever heard of.
Speaker 3: Not to put your business out there, Jason, but it's
Speaker 3: happening where he got paid thirty thousand dollars for a
Speaker 3: speaking engagement.
Speaker 2: I was like, what, I didn't even know that was possible.
Speaker 3: Jason is is Filipino, you know, so I didn't even
Speaker 3: know that was possible. But Jason like always shared all
Speaker 3: this information super kind. He's a fellow Jersey in like
Speaker 3: me from Elizabeth, New Jersey, which is right next to Newark.
Speaker 3: But in the last few years I have seen Jason
Speaker 3: transition from like financial educator expert to like Jason got
Speaker 3: like his yoga, Like I don't even know what the license,
Speaker 3: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: Yogi, yeah something.
Speaker 3: And so what I love most about Jason, and honestly
Speaker 3: he's someone who I look up to and look to,
Speaker 3: is that he has learned to use money to create
Speaker 3: this amazing holistic life. Like if you follow Jason on
Speaker 3: social media, yes he'll post some financial things, but in
Speaker 3: the context of I'm taking a walk today because of
Speaker 3: what I've been able to do. I'm looking after my
Speaker 3: parents because of what I've been able to do, you know, like,
Speaker 3: and so his book is very much in that vein,
Speaker 3: and I love that for him, and I love that
Speaker 3: for us because you know, he's basically like, the key
Speaker 3: is not money, money is just one of the tools
Speaker 3: you can use to live this holistically happy life.
Speaker 2: Let me show you how.
Speaker 3: And I can say I have been watching Jason do
Speaker 3: So for the last few years totally transform his life
Speaker 3: to one of peace and serenity and calm, and honestly,
Speaker 3: he's like we speak more regularly now because he's someone
Speaker 3: who I go to when I'm like, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: how to navigate this spot, you know, because I'm wanting
Speaker 3: the peace, but then what about the business aspects? And
Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm just like, I'm just really happy for him.
Speaker 3: This is his second book. His first book was called
Speaker 3: You Only Live Once.
Speaker 2: It was like.
Speaker 3: Profile in the New York Times. And Happy Money, Happy
Speaker 3: Life is already out. I came out yesterday. If you
Speaker 3: were listening to this, you know when this episode drops
Speaker 3: on Wednesday, So go ahead and cop it. You can
Speaker 3: copy it on on Amazon or just like you know
Speaker 3: any Honestly, typically any of these kind of like indie
Speaker 3: bookstores if you want to support them, will happen as well.
Speaker 3: But if you don't know where to get it, you
Speaker 3: could definitely go to head over to Amazon and get
Speaker 3: you get.
Speaker 2: You a copy of this book. I'm just really proud
Speaker 2: of being Yeah. Yeah, he's such a sweet soul. And
Speaker 2: I got to reconnect with him at finn Con for
Speaker 2: the first time in a long time, like everyone else
Speaker 2: I reconnected with, and he posted the sweetest thing on LinkedIn.
Speaker 2: I had no idea sweetest like, I mean, a long
Speaker 2: post about how when I was at Yahoo Finance, I
Speaker 2: kind of was just featuring, you know, my faves and
Speaker 2: personal finance. I know you were guests on Yahoo Finance,
Speaker 2: you feel a couple of times in Lynette Califani Cox
Speaker 2: was a guest and I had Jason on and I
Speaker 2: kind of forgotten and He's like, that was my first
Speaker 2: kind of media appearance. Maybe I remember her feeling and
Speaker 2: he was like, Mandy made me feel so comfortable, and
Speaker 2: I'm just you know. So he's so so sweet and
Speaker 2: genuine and he's like actually living the way that he
Speaker 2: is encouraging everyone else to live, you know.
Speaker 3: So I wish the best for him. Congress on the
Speaker 3: book launch, Jason, yay. We'll see you students in the
Speaker 3: stew in the stew all, right, I will send money makers.
Speaker 2: This is BA fam. We'll see y'all next week Friday.
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Speaker 2: Dennis Deplinsky is our in house tech guru, and I
Speaker 2: am Bandy Woodrid Santos your co host, and I will
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