Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, I'm practicing my tenor. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I if I hate anybody else. You know, I just
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, no, baritone, I don't know somebody. You know.
Speaker 1: I figured the lower range. You know, it's time for
Speaker 1: you guys to see that I do indeed have the range. So,
Speaker 1: you know, just just a little tidbit of what I've
Speaker 1: been working on.
Speaker 2: We never had a doubt. I'm good. How are you happy,
Speaker 2: brunanbish and Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Yes, and we are back. So first things first, I
Speaker 1: need to know dishwasher update.
Speaker 2: Listen, I had. I had very little expectation when I
Speaker 2: was just complaining to you guys about my whole dishwasher saga.
Speaker 2: If you are out of the little you got to
Speaker 2: listen to last week's show. I told you all about
Speaker 2: how LG and Best Buy were conspiring to just try
Speaker 2: and steal a thousand dollars from us for like a
Speaker 2: busted dishwasher. So I went to Twitter. I took Tiffany's advice.
Speaker 2: I haven't used Twitter to complain about a problem with
Speaker 2: the company publicly in a long time, but I went
Speaker 2: to Twitter and I started a thread just telling my story,
Speaker 2: and I asked you guys to retweet me and at
Speaker 2: them and comment and you you came through to like
Speaker 2: a hilarious degree. I loved it.
Speaker 1: We are both the best and the worst.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the worst. I mean to LG the worst, but
Speaker 2: to me the best. Oh my god, I should read
Speaker 2: some of the some of the tweets. It was like
Speaker 2: a lot of people were like, I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: I know which brand I'm never gonna buy again. Yes,
Speaker 2: and Tiffany, thank you for retweeting. So what that? What
Speaker 2: happened was I ended up in a in a DM
Speaker 2: conversation with LG customer support pretty much for two days
Speaker 2: in a row, and then they did not want to
Speaker 2: progress the case at all. Where my husband was getting stymnied.
Speaker 2: Was they kept saying, it's not covered by the warranty.
Speaker 2: We're so sorry, nothing we can do. And I kept
Speaker 2: pushing and pushing, and anytime they would like, you know,
Speaker 2: they would get quiet for a couple of hours, and
Speaker 2: then I would just go find people would tweet, and
Speaker 2: then it would just bring it back again. And after
Speaker 2: day one we got more retweets and it's just like
Speaker 2: they couldn't ignore it. Finally I got a message from
Speaker 2: them saying, we have forwarded your we have forwarded your
Speaker 2: case to our returns department. Here's your order number or
Speaker 2: here's your case number. You should get an answer in
Speaker 2: three to five business days. And I asked my husband, like,
Speaker 2: has that happened before? And he said, no, that's actually
Speaker 2: really good. It means that there's a chance we'll get
Speaker 2: a refund. And so three to five business days ended today,
Speaker 2: so I had husband call them up and they said,
Speaker 2: our refund and our exchange has been approved. Yes, it worked.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it, so I haven't. Actually I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna claim it on Twitter that I've succeeded until I
Speaker 2: get that like new dishwasher in place, because I'm still dubious,
Speaker 2: like because right now, because the thing is, we bought
Speaker 2: it through best best Buy, but it was an LG dishwasher.
Speaker 2: LG is saying that they've approved it for the warranty
Speaker 2: now to be replaced, but that Best Buy is going
Speaker 2: to reach out to us now to arrange like an
Speaker 2: exchange and a new machine or whatever. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: keep waiting before I like call a complete victory because
Speaker 2: I don't know, like I don't know Best Buy, like
Speaker 2: what if they try and play something. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm just a little suspicious. But this is amazing. Thank
Speaker 2: you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my gosh, that is awesome.
Speaker 2: My husband did not believe.
Speaker 3: He did not bel He was like, you dishwasher, I
Speaker 3: am the queen, like, I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 3: you I don't abuse Twitter, but I, you know what,
Speaker 3: this is hilarious.
Speaker 1: But when I found out that, like that whole complaint
Speaker 1: to Twitter thing kind of work is my friend. I'll
Speaker 1: call his name, she won't care. Chee k. So she
Speaker 1: k One time went to Duncan and they wouldn't give
Speaker 1: him extra butter on his bagel without charging more. What
Speaker 1: And so I guess he got a buttered bagel and
Speaker 1: it was like really low on the butter. So he's like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: there's not much butter on here, can have more. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that'll be an extra thirty five cents or something like that.
Speaker 1: So he wrote a tweet like this is outrageous. And
Speaker 1: when I tell you, she got like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I tenn dollar gift certificate. But I remember this
Speaker 1: was probably like five six years ago, but I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: you you got more butter on your bagel via Twitter. Hmm,
Speaker 1: So I use it very rarely, only if the normal
Speaker 1: means don't work, because sometimes and it's definitely not to
Speaker 1: obviously abuse. That's only if like a company has made
Speaker 1: a mistake and they're refusing to acknowledge it, and you,
Speaker 1: I think you have to have like a huge following.
Speaker 1: I did. I've used it, I would say less than
Speaker 1: five times in like five or six years, and without fail,
Speaker 1: I've at least gotten it escalated and you know, so yeah, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: show the shit good news.
Speaker 2: I feel so vindicated. My husband just did not believe
Speaker 2: he was ready. He was ready. He wanted me to
Speaker 2: spend the one thousand dollars in a ditch flasher. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you cannot. I was like, take me off the bench, coach,
Speaker 2: you're tired. You've been dealing with this for two months now.
Speaker 2: So thank you guys, so so very much, and I'll
Speaker 2: keep you posted. I just love when good people win,
Speaker 2: you know, I feel vindicated anyway, I'm not the only
Speaker 2: win in our lives right now. Actually, all we do
Speaker 2: is when when when? So I've I have started to
Speaker 2: tell people some very big personal news for me and
Speaker 2: Husbie we are expecting our first child.
Speaker 1: Let's be screaming in dog pitch. Poor Molly is probably like,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 2: Poor Molly has no idea what's about to happen to
Speaker 2: her life, to her world where Mommy only has her,
Speaker 2: you know, to deal with.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I mean honestly, guys, I knew. I mean,
Speaker 1: but it's still time. I always forget and then I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: Manny's a mom. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've earned that title quite yet. I
Speaker 2: am a vessel of life, though, you know, I do
Speaker 2: have a little like octopus octopus type thing squirming around
Speaker 2: in there right now. That's what I feel like. I
Speaker 2: just feel like there's an alien invasion.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so crazy, the fact that that is
Speaker 1: the most mandy thing. It literally needs to get a
Speaker 1: T shirt. I am mom, not so much vessel of life. Yes,
Speaker 1: literally the mandy thing you've ever said, like ever? So yes,
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: That's all love life. Yeah, so I've started. You know
Speaker 2: what's funny is like I didn't realize how awkward it
Speaker 2: is to tell people, cause a lot of people, especially
Speaker 2: with work and like friends, you don't see everybody all
Speaker 2: the time. So it doesn't like come up a normal conversation. Plus,
Speaker 2: if you start getting round your in the middle of
Speaker 2: no one's going to be No one in their right
Speaker 2: mind is going to ask you. And like, unless people
Speaker 2: are trying to foist, you know, tequila shots on you,
Speaker 2: there's no there's no like natural way to just tell people.
Speaker 2: So I've I've had a lot of really awkward, funny
Speaker 2: conversations with folks, especially when it came time to tell
Speaker 2: people at work, which I started doing a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, and that was a whole agonizing you know,
Speaker 2: when do I tell? You know, we had our review
Speaker 2: process typically happens in June, and I was thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: might as well just wait till after the review, Why
Speaker 2: have that cloud anyone's thoughts about me? But then I
Speaker 2: was like, oh whatever, the reviews got pushed till late July,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is I'm tired of like I'm
Speaker 2: tired of, you know, pretending like nothing's different in my life.
Speaker 2: I'm out for all these doctor's appointments and missing work
Speaker 2: and stuff. So I think I owe it to the
Speaker 2: team to tell them, you know, what's happening. And everyone's
Speaker 2: been so everyone's been really cool about it. And I'm
Speaker 2: the first person in this office here to have a kid.
Speaker 2: Not that there's no people have kids in my office,
Speaker 2: but I'm the first one to like get pregnant here.
Speaker 2: So I feel like, okay, I'm going to set an
Speaker 2: example for what, you know, what's acceptable for a pregnant
Speaker 2: lady to do. And I'm just like, I talk about it.
Speaker 2: It's not a big secret.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I've already started making jokes about occupying our wellness room
Speaker 2: from my pumping you know, when I get back and
Speaker 2: everything like that, and people have been really yeah, supportive.
Speaker 2: So now that everyone knows, I feel it's starting to
Speaker 2: get real. I'm going to have a I'm going to
Speaker 2: have a human to keep alive.
Speaker 1: I know that is so crazy. We're gonna need an
Speaker 1: awesome mom.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Yeah, I'm bout halfway there. I'm at week twenty.
Speaker 2: For those of wonder. People always ask how far and
Speaker 2: long are you? When to do week twenty and do December? First?
Speaker 1: Oh? How did Drake react? Was he like, okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you know your brother, Oh.
Speaker 2: My brother. I have the funniest video. I should share
Speaker 2: it with you guys. Is now that people know oh yeah.
Speaker 2: All the videos of our parents finding out are my dad,
Speaker 2: my yes, my dad, and my husband's mother. Their reactions
Speaker 2: are like so hilarious. But my brother was actually more
Speaker 2: shocked than my dad was. I was surprised. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was like and he's been really funny and just you know,
Speaker 2: he loves the idea of being an uncle. He's excited.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm spending all my money on your child.
Speaker 2: I'm like, great, awesome.
Speaker 1: No, Honestly, the first like when like, so my sister
Speaker 1: Karen was the first to have and plus we're all girls,
Speaker 1: and so her her first baby was a boy. It
Speaker 1: was a rap. It was when I say a rap,
Speaker 1: I'm like, King Roman, what do you you tell me
Speaker 1: at three months? Like, I'm just here to listen to you. Honestly,
Speaker 1: there's nothing. And now she's got a Millia and then
Speaker 1: my sister Karen has Lily. But it's just like it's honestly,
Speaker 1: there's nothing more fun than being an auntie or an
Speaker 1: uncle because like I'm like, of course you can't have
Speaker 1: ice pops for breakfast? Are you crazy? I don't care
Speaker 1: what your mother says, you know, like you can do
Speaker 1: whatever you want. They're just the best. Honestly, being an
Speaker 1: auntie uncle is it's awesome because you get all of
Speaker 1: the you know, all of the love, none of the
Speaker 1: major responsibilities because I'm like, okay, time to go home,
Speaker 1: Roman and to mess up your own house because Aunty's
Speaker 1: taking a nap. So yeah, yeah, just like, honestly, I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna really you're gonna see like a different
Speaker 1: inside to your siblings. So you're gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: so clearly you love the kids more than me. Like
Speaker 1: I will literally call my sister and I'm like, can
Speaker 1: you put Amelia on the phone please? Thanks, Just like Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm like, so, how was your day? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: how was that girl at school? It's just the messing
Speaker 1: with you? Hi? Hi? Hi? You she can't even speak
Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, so it was great, girl.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come by tomorrow tell your mother to have
Speaker 1: you ready. So yeah, your siblings are gonna be in
Speaker 1: love with your baby. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I already feel neglected just walking cause like for me,
Speaker 2: i've been there's so much focus on like baby stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, of course the child is important, it's not
Speaker 2: here yet, though, I'm also important, and you know what,
Speaker 2: nothing fits me anymore and I need new clothes. So
Speaker 2: why why when I go to stores that have maternity
Speaker 2: where Why is the kids section three times as big
Speaker 2: as the maternity section?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: H and M? Why Old Navy? And also it's nothing new,
Speaker 2: it's all like stuff people have returned. I guess like
Speaker 2: Old Navy and H and M don't sell. They only
Speaker 2: sell what people return at a discount though, so that's
Speaker 2: that's like the best fit. But I've been like having
Speaker 2: a shop online for stuff. I finally broke down and
Speaker 2: uh yeah, it's so far just trying to find things
Speaker 2: that fit. I'm like, can I get some attention and love?
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, you're right. I'm the first one of
Speaker 2: my siblings to have a kid, so I do feel like, oh,
Speaker 2: I get you know, this kid's gonna get all the
Speaker 2: attention because there's not like my siblings don't have kids
Speaker 2: to like distract.
Speaker 1: Yal I totally destroyer, rotten to the core. They were like, Manny,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no one's speaking to you. I'm speaking to baby.
Speaker 1: Hey baby, how you doing? Oh? Speaking of baby? So
Speaker 1: this is a perfect segue. I'm talking about baby and work.
Speaker 1: So I would say about ninety five percent and maybe
Speaker 1: even ninety seventy percent of the folks that work for
Speaker 1: budgets to enterprise. So I would call that like the
Speaker 1: budget eseiself, my literature academy, my marketing company, my foundation.
Speaker 1: So like it's mostly all women. Shout out to komone
Speaker 1: on my team. She just recently had a baby, but
Speaker 1: I want to say that in the last two years,
Speaker 1: we've had one, two, three, four, four babies in the
Speaker 1: last two years, so a lot of baby's going on
Speaker 1: at Bungetessa Enterprise. And it's kind of come up that
Speaker 1: there's like a struggle with how do we because we
Speaker 1: work digitally and a lot of the moms actually stay
Speaker 1: home with their children. And if you've ever baby, said
Speaker 1: anyone under the age of four, you know just how
Speaker 1: hard it is to get work done and to care
Speaker 1: for your child. And so we came up with a
Speaker 1: solution that I'm hoping will really help and work, and
Speaker 1: I just want to share it and I would love
Speaker 1: to know, like at your jobs, what solutions do they
Speaker 1: have if they even help with child care. So here's
Speaker 1: a solution that we've come up with. So, as you know,
Speaker 1: the Budgetessa, we have a large audience is about eight
Speaker 1: hundred thousand women worldwide. And so what we decided is
Speaker 1: We're actually going to do some sort of like almost
Speaker 1: like budget theese babysitting, where I'm going to reach out
Speaker 1: to the audience, share the basic vicinity and state where
Speaker 1: the women who have children who are looking for childcare
Speaker 1: on my team, the Unicorn Squad, the women who have
Speaker 1: children that are looking for child care, We're gonna look
Speaker 1: for dream catchers in those areas, vet them so and
Speaker 1: you know, I used to be a school teacher myself,
Speaker 1: So vet them, background check all of that, and then
Speaker 1: that way the women on the team can have access
Speaker 1: to at least three or four different dream catchers that
Speaker 1: you can you can hit up if you need childcare assistance.
Speaker 1: So if you're like, oh my gosh, major meeting and
Speaker 1: I know the baby's gonna cry, I know I can
Speaker 1: hit up you know, Georgia, Thelma, Luise or Sharon. And
Speaker 1: then too, we as a company are planning to offer
Speaker 1: like a childcare credit to help. So I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: at what the numbers can dictate. So let's just say
Speaker 1: we set aside two percent of our gross income toward
Speaker 1: childcare credit and that ends up being I don't even know,
Speaker 1: like what two percent of our gross income. Just say,
Speaker 1: for the sake of ease, it's thirty thousand dollars. And
Speaker 1: so we've got say like five women, So thirty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars of out of by five women, that would be
Speaker 1: what is that six thousand dollars thirty times five, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars. So then that would be the credit
Speaker 1: for the year that you could use toward childcare. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of.
Speaker 2: Our that's huge, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it.
Speaker 2: To cover like two hours of daycare. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: At least something is no.
Speaker 2: That's like at least half a year's worth based on
Speaker 2: the estimates we've got, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I just want because one, you know, when
Speaker 1: you because you know, I don't have children yet. But
Speaker 1: it's so it wasn't an issue that I was experiencing,
Speaker 1: and so it's so important that you're talking to your
Speaker 1: team because it totally you know, that goes over my my,
Speaker 1: That went over my head. I used to I remember
Speaker 1: when Carol first went back to work, I used to
Speaker 1: babysit Roman every Tuesday and Thursday for like half a day,
Speaker 1: and I remember how top that was with just him,
Speaker 1: and so because that's not my life now, it's not
Speaker 1: an issue that I would have paid attention to until
Speaker 1: it was brought to my attention. And now I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: how do we make it that you are able to
Speaker 1: to you know, like work efficiently but also live life efficiently.
Speaker 1: I really because I told my team what's really important
Speaker 1: to me, more than anything else, truly is them. I
Speaker 1: want to run a heart centric company where the focus
Speaker 1: is you, the individual, the woman. And we do have
Speaker 1: some men, but specifically because you know, we cater to women,
Speaker 1: and so it's really important to me that the women
Speaker 1: who who work on the team feel supported, not just
Speaker 1: professionally but personally and so and to work from that
Speaker 1: angle first, So personal, honestly first, and because I know
Speaker 1: once we get your personal together, the professional because I
Speaker 1: hired you because you're dope, I'm not worried about your
Speaker 1: capability of doing the work. You're here already. People kind
Speaker 1: of like vet themselves out, so that's not the component
Speaker 1: that I worry about. I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that everybody is okay. I've got this. Don't know if
Speaker 1: it's like a libra thing or impact thing. I've got
Speaker 1: this really big thing about that I need the people
Speaker 1: around me to be okay or I can't feel okay.
Speaker 1: Like if you're my sibling, if you're not okay, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: what do we need to do? Significant other? Whoever? Like
Speaker 1: if I think that there's something that's wrong, not like
Speaker 1: like something lightly you're like, oh, you know, I had
Speaker 1: a bad day at work, but I'm talking about like
Speaker 1: something that is like fundamentally wrong. I can't rest with it.
Speaker 1: And so knowing that people were struggling in that way,
Speaker 1: I was like, what, why did you guys not tell me?
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this. We need a solution.
Speaker 2: How did it come to be? Because I feel like,
Speaker 2: what's great about what you're doing? Like in order for
Speaker 2: you as a leader, you're uh, obviously as the owner
Speaker 2: of your you know, budget needs to ink. You have
Speaker 2: the power to make these types of changes, but you
Speaker 2: can't you don't know to make them unless people tell you.
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of women probably feel like
Speaker 2: they don't like they need to hide their struggle or
Speaker 2: it's just part of their you know, just managing childcare
Speaker 2: with their work. It's something they have to do on
Speaker 2: their own, and they can't tell their employer, they can't
Speaker 2: tell their manager because it'll be seen as them being
Speaker 2: week or not contributing like other team members. And I
Speaker 2: feel like the fact that you, you know, like as
Speaker 2: a manager, you need people to feel comfortable enough and
Speaker 2: confident enough telling you. So, yeah, how did you guys
Speaker 2: start that? Like, how did you first know it was
Speaker 2: an issue?
Speaker 1: It was just a member of my team. It was like, honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm drowning and I don't like she didn't want to say,
Speaker 1: but she was like, I'm literally at capacity and it
Speaker 1: was showing, and I think that she was just like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's now starting to cross over where I can't get
Speaker 1: this work done and it's not It wasn't like her
Speaker 1: not to get work done. So it was just, you know,
Speaker 1: it just she didn't want to say because she felt
Speaker 1: like it was a personal situation, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I wish I would have known. So we actually added
Speaker 1: they were actually just a six point plan I called
Speaker 1: our pivot plan to pivot toward that not being an
Speaker 1: issue anymore. So one of the things that I meet
Speaker 1: with my lead team on Monday, it's for women and
Speaker 1: we used to meet we meet women Monday mornings and
Speaker 1: Thursday mornings, but Monday was getting a little redundant it
Speaker 1: because they're so efficient. It was like, well, we kind
Speaker 1: of work everything out on Thursday. We don't even need
Speaker 1: these Monday morning meetings. So instead we are changing those
Speaker 1: Monday morning meetings to our mental health check in Monday
Speaker 1: morning meetings. So on Mondays, instead of talking about business,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about business at all. I am checking
Speaker 1: in with you as a person. So we get on
Speaker 1: the call. What's happening, Like, you know, the baby's not drinking,
Speaker 1: this one has the flu, you're tied, whatever that looks like,
Speaker 1: that is your opportunity. I want to just talk to you,
Speaker 1: like as a woman to woman, I could say, you know,
Speaker 1: IVF is like a struggle, I'm tired, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: about this, Like I want all of that out on
Speaker 1: the table, and because that will really get it'll help
Speaker 1: me to understand, like what are you really going through
Speaker 1: and how can we support you in your personal life
Speaker 1: and not just you as a lead team member, but
Speaker 1: you meet with your teams and to have mental health
Speaker 1: check ins with them weekly too, so you can bring
Speaker 1: that to the Monday meeting, whereas maybe you're like, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: but you know what, one of the customer service young women,
Speaker 1: she's really struggling and so but I wouldn't know because
Speaker 1: I don't speak to her regularly. And so that's really
Speaker 1: important to me to like, yes, to be in the
Speaker 1: know professionally like oh, marketing is down or whatever, but
Speaker 1: more importantly for me to be in the know personally,
Speaker 1: because sometimes people are really struggling or they're going through trauma.
Speaker 1: If you're going through trauma, why are we sending you
Speaker 1: a blog post? Write? No, that's all we do here,
Speaker 1: you know, like if I find out that something is happening,
Speaker 1: we all stop and secretly we're like, okay, nobody send
Speaker 1: work to such and such because I just found out
Speaker 1: that her uncle passed away. And she'll be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: is there any work? Then nope, there's no work. Are
Speaker 1: you sure? Because nope, we're actually good today. You actually
Speaker 1: could take the rest of the day. And just like
Speaker 1: and it doesn't reflect in your pay, it doesn't reflect
Speaker 1: in the level of responsibility. You don't get penalized for
Speaker 1: being a human being. I want to run a different
Speaker 1: type of company where you can bring your whole self,
Speaker 1: your wife, your your mother, your your your significant other, self,
Speaker 1: your your you know, whatever self that encompasses you. You could
Speaker 1: bring your whole self to this company and it's embraced
Speaker 1: and it's part of the whole. I don't want it
Speaker 1: just for you to like, this is not just work
Speaker 1: for me. This is life. You know. You spend so
Speaker 1: much time here with these people, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it has to mean more than that. And so like
Speaker 1: I feel like someone one of my saving graces is
Speaker 1: I never worked in corporate America, so I don't really
Speaker 1: have them. I don't have to unlearn those things. So
Speaker 1: I'm really this is the approach that happens when you
Speaker 1: teach preschool, honestly, and I feel like that's what I'm
Speaker 1: bringing to the table because Miss Charlene, when I taught preschool,
Speaker 1: this is what we did. She was my co teacher.
Speaker 1: We talked about our life and how you doing, girl,
Speaker 1: And oh, you have cramps, Well you know, I'll take
Speaker 1: the kids outside. How about you lay down on a
Speaker 1: cod Oh like you and your boyfriend broke up. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come by this weekend and I'm gonna we'll watch
Speaker 1: movies and So that kind of like care for each
Speaker 1: other as women in the workplace is what I experienced
Speaker 1: when I taught preschool for ten years, and I think
Speaker 1: that it made us better teachers. It made us just better,
Speaker 1: you know, it just just made us better. And I
Speaker 1: want to bring that to the company and we just
Speaker 1: like I said, we have some some pivot points that
Speaker 1: we can do to make it better. So I'm excited,
Speaker 1: especially for the childcare credit to roll out and to
Speaker 1: finding you know, childcare options for the people who need it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we got so many great stories from our
Speaker 2: listeners on their childcare experiences. But you're right, it's not
Speaker 2: just about like the financial burden. It's also how you
Speaker 2: how your employer wherever you work, startup independent, you know
Speaker 2: how you're treated at work when it comes to those issues,
Speaker 2: and like get into it because as a parent, I
Speaker 2: think you need to build up that confidence in opening
Speaker 2: up to your employer. And any good manager, whether you
Speaker 2: are you know the budget needs to or you work
Speaker 2: for a company, any good managers having a one on
Speaker 2: one check in at least bi weekly with their direct reports,
Speaker 2: and you need to use that time tonight, And I'm
Speaker 2: constantly harping on this to my people, it's like it's
Speaker 2: not and I and I make a point. I'm not
Speaker 2: the best at small talk. Sometimes I'm like very much
Speaker 2: like goal oriented just when I get to the point,
Speaker 2: but I force myself to, you know, learn about each person.
Speaker 2: Not that I have to force myself, but you know how
Speaker 2: it is when you're just like focused on the work,
Speaker 2: but open up about myself. And I think by talking
Speaker 2: about my pregnancy and not making it some big secret
Speaker 2: saying I do need time off every few weeks to
Speaker 2: go to the doctor for the morning, like and and
Speaker 2: not making it something that's I should be ashamed about
Speaker 2: because I'm not so that they feel when they're ready
Speaker 2: to start a family or they need to ask out,
Speaker 2: you know, time off for their kid being sick. Believe me,
Speaker 2: I'm cash all the all the flexibility I've given my
Speaker 2: team when it comes to childcare for their kids, I
Speaker 2: will be granting it to myself as well. And good
Speaker 2: and uh yeah yeah, And it's not just about the money.
Speaker 2: But that's that's amazing. I think that that it will
Speaker 2: make a huge difference and just show where you where
Speaker 2: your values are, you know, for your team, and that'll
Speaker 2: trickle down awesome.
Speaker 1: Yes on the brain right, this is such a warm
Speaker 1: im like I feel like we're like like the whole
Speaker 1: ba you know, like listenership is like slowly, we're like,
Speaker 1: come in for the hug. You know. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big hugger, but at this moment in time, I want
Speaker 1: you to lean into the hug. Okay, hug, hug, hug Okay.
Speaker 1: Squeeze let gouted.
Speaker 2: December second, and childcare wise, we were fortunate because my
Speaker 2: husband's mother doesn't work, and she fortunate slash am I fortunate?
Speaker 2: I don't know. She basically wants one hundred percent childcare
Speaker 2: custody as soon as this child is in the world,
Speaker 2: so we'll have support, Like, you know, I've got my
Speaker 2: I'll have my maternity leave, my husband's got his paternity
Speaker 2: It's not amazing, but we'll probably we'll be able to
Speaker 2: cobble together probably five to six months off to be home,
Speaker 2: and then I plan on I plan on just letting
Speaker 2: myself figure out what I want. Like people are asking me,
Speaker 2: what's your childcare plan? Is your mother in law going
Speaker 2: to move in? You know? Are you going to put
Speaker 2: him in daycare? And I'm like, how do I know?
Speaker 2: And what I need until it's like in the world,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if I'm gonna, like, I might
Speaker 2: be so crazy you staying at home and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: want to go back to work immediately, or I might
Speaker 2: negotiate work from home for a few extra months, Like
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's okay not to know, and just will sign now
Speaker 1: because everyone is going to give you so much quote
Speaker 1: unquote advice.
Speaker 2: Or they just ask questions that stress you out with
Speaker 2: no actionable tips included.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you don't have to I mean, like, honestly,
Speaker 1: nobody knows anything like you just you don't have to
Speaker 1: know you just like you said you'll. I remember when
Speaker 1: when like Roman first came home. I remember we all
Speaker 1: had like this plan, like Okay, I'm gonna spend two
Speaker 1: weeks with Carol, then you spend then you spend after
Speaker 1: a week Carols like, everybody get out of my house.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, I feel like I will be Carol.
Speaker 1: She was like, you're stressing me out. Everyone is stressing me.
Speaker 1: Everyone get out of my house. It's too much. I
Speaker 1: will the baby, Like the baby is stressed enough. Now
Speaker 1: I gotta worry about you, Like did you eat? Do
Speaker 1: you want some cereal, like so so exactly. But then
Speaker 1: my sister Karen was different, like her her mother in
Speaker 1: law moved in and she's like her mother in law's amazing,
Speaker 1: she's super nice, like fun, and she moved in and
Speaker 1: Karen was like, oh my gosh, she's so great with
Speaker 1: the baby. I'm so glad she's here. And then my
Speaker 1: mother stayed for a couple of months, and then my
Speaker 1: sister Tracy went. Then like my sister Lisa went, so
Speaker 1: Karen was very much like, you know, please tag tag
Speaker 1: the next person in. So you just don't know you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel until you get there, and there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with either way.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm just gonna give myself a space to
Speaker 2: just you know, be this, you know, vessel of life.
Speaker 2: And just I caught myself watching YouTube videos on childbirth.
Speaker 2: Don't do that. Do that you don't want to see,
Speaker 2: you don't want to see. But anyway, I'm very excited.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys. You know, I don't know why I'm
Speaker 2: saying thank you. Thank you for your gifts. In advance,
Speaker 2: I'll send you my registry. Think no, but yeah, first
Speaker 2: brand ambitionion, baby, we need like some broad ambition onesies
Speaker 2: or something we do. All.
Speaker 1: Well, now that we've gotten all that great news out
Speaker 1: of the way, it is time for one of my
Speaker 1: favorite segments, questions the name not tune? Mandy?
Speaker 2: Was that a song?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not there. I'm gonna do it again. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it. It's I mean, it's the tune that
Speaker 1: you want to name. It is time for brown ambition questions.
Speaker 1: Please ask what you need. Now, it's time to ask
Speaker 1: a question. You wait, wait, what is it? You're no toll?
Speaker 1: It's deck the Hall, Deck the Hall.
Speaker 2: Wait, that's the same tune. I think.
Speaker 1: No Jingo jing a bell is jingo bells?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're right, you're right, Deck the Halls? But
Speaker 2: why are we in Christmas? I don't understand. It's Sali
Speaker 2: though it's one hundred degrees though.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I didn't even know who it came from. It
Speaker 1: just came from nowhere. And I would like to see if,
Speaker 1: like you know me, and I'm always testing Mandy's like
Speaker 1: random unnecessary knowledge, and you're like, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna lose another black card because
Speaker 2: it's always some like obscure nineties black reference that I
Speaker 2: wasn't alive long enough to know what is straight. I
Speaker 2: got you on Christmas on Christmas Carols, you did?
Speaker 1: You got me like you know you you were in
Speaker 1: at least the vicinity. So we're gonna we're gonna let
Speaker 1: you keep that one, all right. So it's time for
Speaker 1: some questions. What questions are in the box?
Speaker 2: Ooh, got some good questions today? Let me pop over
Speaker 2: to the Instagram again. We are at Brown Ambition Podcast
Speaker 2: on Instagram. Feel free to shoot us your questions. Do
Speaker 2: let me know if you want me to put you
Speaker 2: on blast with your name or if you want to
Speaker 2: be anonymous, because if you don't, I will say your
Speaker 2: name or at least your Instagram handle. And for those
Speaker 2: of you who've been sending questions, thank you very very much.
Speaker 2: So first question, let me see, let me see, let
Speaker 2: me see ooh for this question comes from let me
Speaker 2: see what's her name? Oh? At Meme seven zero two
Speaker 2: on Instagram. She says, I'm loving your podcast, but I
Speaker 2: need some help. I feel completely lost. I'm forty one
Speaker 2: years old and I've never invested, but I would love
Speaker 2: to start. I work as a childcare provider in my home.
Speaker 2: My husband works outside of the home. Where should I start? Well,
Speaker 2: forty one, I mean it's over for you, Like, why
Speaker 2: are you even trying? I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: That's so young. Yes, yeah, I mean forty one. Forget
Speaker 2: about your age when it comes to like investing, like,
Speaker 2: just start when you feel ready, honestly. And so if
Speaker 2: you're working from home and your husband's outside of the home,
Speaker 2: I would ask is your husband get access to a
Speaker 2: four to one K If he does, and even better
Speaker 2: if his company matches his contributions, I would definitely start
Speaker 2: there because you don't want to leave money on the
Speaker 2: table if they're going to match you know, a percentage
Speaker 2: of his savings. You, as an independent you know, working
Speaker 2: for yourself, don't have the same Bennett or don't have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to get match, So I would first start there. Secondly,
Speaker 2: you can easily open you know as far as like
Speaker 2: the you know options you can go to like any
Speaker 2: any firm like a Vanguard, a Fidelity, uh TDM Error
Speaker 2: Trade and open a starter just an I array individual
Speaker 2: retirement account that you can open and start saving in. Personally,
Speaker 2: there's also a step I array, which is an option
Speaker 2: if you are self employed I would say, check with
Speaker 2: an accountant. So first investment I think might be good
Speaker 2: for you is invest in, you know, a consult a
Speaker 2: consultation with an accountant, someone who can give you really
Speaker 2: solid advice to get you off the ground. It may
Speaker 2: cost a couple hundred bucks, but think about just having
Speaker 2: someone give you that shove in the right direction and
Speaker 2: select the right account for you, and then just start
Speaker 2: setting aside however much you feel comfortable with each month,
Speaker 2: you know, warranted that your day to day expenses are covered,
Speaker 2: and you are you know, you have a decent sized
Speaker 2: emergency fund, then there's no need.
Speaker 4: To to delay.
Speaker 2: Just start small. It can be you know, one hundred
Speaker 2: bucks a month, just something.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and I mean honestly, Mandy basically said it all.
Speaker 1: That's what I would say. Honestly, look to your husband
Speaker 1: where he can start. You could put whatever amount of
Speaker 1: money that you want a month into into like a
Speaker 1: Vanguard find Sometimes I think people think like, well, if
Speaker 1: my job doesn't offer it, that's okay, because you can
Speaker 1: do the same for yourself outside of your you know,
Speaker 1: your job. But you want to start quickly and as
Speaker 1: soon as possible, because yes, there is a benefit to
Speaker 1: starting early, but it's never too late to start. I
Speaker 1: mean I started early, backtrack by taking all that money out,
Speaker 1: that started a little later. And you know, either way,
Speaker 1: you're in the game. That's really what's most important. That
Speaker 1: getting in the game is better than not being in
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 2: And at forty one, I mean, I hope you live
Speaker 2: along and blessed life. Average age is like for women
Speaker 2: today is in their eighties, early eighties. You got forty
Speaker 2: years ahead of you. That is a long time horizon.
Speaker 2: It's definitely not too late to start investing now. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's also not too late for you to
Speaker 2: be a little aggressive with your investing too. Like, don't
Speaker 2: think you need to just like keep your money in
Speaker 2: a savings account because you're not gonna especially if you're
Speaker 2: starting a little bit later, you're not gonna you don't
Speaker 2: have the potential to earn what you might earn, you know,
Speaker 2: if you were to invest. That being said, you're also
Speaker 2: not twenty one, so you don't want to be over
Speaker 2: invested in stock. So that's why I think it might
Speaker 2: be a good idea for you. Start with maybe a
Speaker 2: consultation with a financial planner or an accountant. Just get
Speaker 2: someone who's fee only, who will charge you a flat
Speaker 2: you know rate just to get you started, and someone
Speaker 2: who isn't gonna, you know, want to take a cut
Speaker 2: of your future you know, earnings and your investment account.
Speaker 2: Or if you want to do even simpler, what is
Speaker 2: that app called Acorns. That's the one where you can
Speaker 2: sign up and it rounds up your does it round
Speaker 2: up your purchases and then it saves yep.
Speaker 1: So you can let doors because I have Acorns, so
Speaker 1: you can you can put like, you know, you can
Speaker 1: say fifty bucks a month or whatever, and then you
Speaker 1: can also say, hey, every time I swipe this particular
Speaker 1: card or whatever, you know, round up that that change.
Speaker 1: So that's a good, like super easy place to kind
Speaker 1: of start. But I agree with Mandy that you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to sit with a professional just to
Speaker 1: get a better understanding. But you can literally sign up
Speaker 1: for Acorns tonight just so you get started, even if
Speaker 1: it's twenty bucks a month. So it's something It's not
Speaker 1: about the twenty bucks. It's about the habit of I
Speaker 1: am setting aside for my future. I understand that it
Speaker 1: is my younger self job to take care of my
Speaker 1: older self.
Speaker 2: Take care of your inner Wandra, Wanda, Wanda. Okay, I
Speaker 2: have a cousin named Wandra. Shout out to key. Hey,
Speaker 2: all right, thank you for your question at meme seven
Speaker 2: oh two. Let's see. Oh, here's a question that we
Speaker 2: got from last week, and I just asked for a
Speaker 2: little bit of follow up information. So this is Instagram
Speaker 2: user Banks. So Banks has a question about paying off
Speaker 2: her card note. So she says, I'm thinking of purchasing
Speaker 2: a home and the next few years. I think to
Speaker 2: get there, my first step should be to pay off
Speaker 2: my car. But I find that idea unsettling because honestly,
Speaker 2: people cannot drive in Atlanta. So I was thinking of
Speaker 2: saving the amount in an online savings account. If I
Speaker 2: were to save up enough money to pay off my car,
Speaker 2: do you think that I could negotiate how much I
Speaker 2: owe with my lender down by having a lump sum Banks? Interesting,
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that.
Speaker 1: I never heard that before. I don't want to say no,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying not likely, because I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: the amount of I mean, it's not it's not like
Speaker 1: a lull. Well, you know, I don't want to say no.
Speaker 1: I'm not I quite honest, I've never heard about anybody
Speaker 1: negotiating for like, Hey, I know I owe you, you know,
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars on a car. What if I gave
Speaker 1: you eight in a lump sum. Because here's in general,
Speaker 1: this is what I found about lenders, even when I
Speaker 1: was going through my foreclosure and stuff, that the only
Speaker 1: time that they are open for negotiation is when you
Speaker 1: haven't given them anything for a while, because at that
Speaker 1: point they're like, just give me something, even when you're
Speaker 1: going for modification. So modification is like when you're trying
Speaker 1: to get your like so for a mortgage. And when
Speaker 1: I couldn't form my mortgage anymore, I applied for modification.
Speaker 1: And that's when they're trying to modify my mortgage to
Speaker 1: a lower monthly payment. And the only way to qualify
Speaker 1: for modification was for me to be late and consistently late.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't late, So when I first applied, they
Speaker 1: would not they would not give me modification because in
Speaker 1: the bank's eyes, so you're telling me, person who pays
Speaker 1: on time, that you don't want to give me the
Speaker 1: money that you've been giving me. Why should I take
Speaker 1: less when you're give me my money now? I'm not
Speaker 1: advocating for you not to pay, like like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna be laid on my in my car payment
Speaker 1: and then see if they'll take a take less money
Speaker 1: because you don't want to tank your credit score and
Speaker 1: your chances of getting a home. But I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that lenders typically don't look to settle or negotiate when
Speaker 1: they're already receiving your money. Like I'll take yourself out
Speaker 1: for a minute of like it's you and just like
Speaker 1: imagine somebody owed you money. They owed you a thousand
Speaker 1: dollars and they were giving you one hundred dollars a month,
Speaker 1: and it's been four months and they paid you your
Speaker 1: hundred dollars on the first of every month, never been late.
Speaker 1: And they're like, hey, girl, I know I owe you
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars, Can I just give you four? It's
Speaker 1: like no, I'll just continue to give my hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a month for the next six months. Thanks, you see
Speaker 1: what I mean. So there's no real benefit for the bank. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'd never heard of it before. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say no, but I just don't know how
Speaker 1: likely that is.
Speaker 2: Well, let me help out a little bit here. So
Speaker 2: when I got this question, I reached out to Jennifer Jones,
Speaker 2: who is the autos writer that we have here at
Speaker 2: lending Tree where I work, And I asked Jen because
Speaker 2: she has experience actually working in the financing office at
Speaker 2: dealerships around the country. So I asked, Jen, is this
Speaker 2: something that you've heard before? And she said, honestly, every
Speaker 2: lendar is a little bit different. It takes two to negotiate,
Speaker 2: so all you you know, all you can do is
Speaker 2: start to ask. But she said, so you're to your
Speaker 2: point because I had the same thought. You know, what's
Speaker 2: in it for the bank to negotiate someone who's been
Speaker 2: paying their auto, who's been paying their note on time.
Speaker 2: But Gen actually said, if you tell them something like,
Speaker 2: you know, be truthful about your situation, if you're truly struggling,
Speaker 2: if you think you're about to file bankruptcy, or you've
Speaker 2: got other debts that have been piling up, you know,
Speaker 2: since you originally took out the loan, and you ask
Speaker 2: them how to how they can help you, you may
Speaker 2: find that they may be actually sympathetic to your cause.
Speaker 2: And one of the reasons that Gen points it out
Speaker 2: is that yes, you can say, why would they negotiate
Speaker 2: with you? All they have to do is repossess your
Speaker 2: car if you stop paying. But Jen said, it's people
Speaker 2: don't realize it's actually expensive for the lender to repossess
Speaker 2: cars and they have to sell the car for wholesale,
Speaker 2: which means they would get less than probably what they
Speaker 2: wanted to if they were able to trade it in
Speaker 2: or something like that. So they may not even want
Speaker 2: to take the car back in most situations, and that
Speaker 2: may give you some negotiation leverage when it comes down
Speaker 2: to it. So it's not a no, it's just more
Speaker 2: of a depends in this particular case with listener Binks.
Speaker 2: You know, she's thinking, let me pay off my car
Speaker 2: so I'll be ready to purchase a home and have
Speaker 2: you know, that'll help you lower your debt to income ratio,
Speaker 2: which which is a big factor for getting approved for
Speaker 2: a mortgage or even just getting a better mortgage rate.
Speaker 2: So I do think it's a good idea. I would
Speaker 2: just say, you won't know unless you ask your lender,
Speaker 2: and you will go into the conversation, and Jen agreed
Speaker 2: with this. You'll go into the conversation a lot stronger
Speaker 2: if you can say I have this lump sum and
Speaker 2: I can pay off the car right now.
Speaker 1: And so you might want to wait to have the
Speaker 1: conversation until you actually have the lung sum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, that was good.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that before. I was like, huh, I
Speaker 1: never thought about that, but yes, honestly, and if you
Speaker 1: do it, let us know, because I would love or
Speaker 1: if anybody's in the audiences has done that before, please
Speaker 1: let us know. I would love to know the outcome
Speaker 1: and maybe kind of share with us what kind of
Speaker 1: tip the scale in your favor so that we can share.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Hit us up at Brandnambisson Podcast at
Speaker 2: gmail dot com or Instagram at Brown Ambition Podcast. Where
Speaker 2: else can they find us? Twitter at the BA Podcast,
Speaker 2: brandnibisionpodcast dot com, just google Brand Ambition Podcasts. We're everywhere.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys for your questions.
Speaker 1: Yes, and now it's time for Booster to break for
Speaker 1: all the family. Will you booth? Will you break? What
Speaker 1: will it be?
Speaker 2: Mandy Mickeydow's Club nailed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know, I mean, after ten thousand years,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna let it. I'm gonna leave it okay easy.
Speaker 2: So I've got to do a break this week. I
Speaker 2: heard so we all I think it came out a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Disney cast Halle Bailey of Halle
Speaker 2: is it Halle and Chloe? How do they pronounce that
Speaker 2: X in the middle? Okay, So they cast young, beautiful
Speaker 2: black singer actress Halle Bailey as the new Ariel in
Speaker 2: The Little Mermaid, which was like, no one saw that coming.
Speaker 2: It was freaking amazing. But of course, very quickly after
Speaker 2: that news broke, we had this hashtag start on Twitter,
Speaker 2: hashtag not my Aeriel, which became a whole thing. There
Speaker 2: were think pieces written on it. Black Twitter went insane.
Speaker 2: Of course, we're all defending why we need you know,
Speaker 2: why a mythical character, you know, can be any shade
Speaker 2: of the rainbow. And then an article came out this
Speaker 2: week that actually people looked back, where did this hashtag
Speaker 2: not my Ariel come from? Turns out it was Russia. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that you know, if you haven't heard like a
Speaker 2: lot of the reason like, what's there there's these Russian
Speaker 2: like there's these companies that just hire people to stoke
Speaker 2: flames on Twitter, just to you know, get Americans all
Speaker 2: riled up and at each other's throats, and they created
Speaker 2: this hashtag purposefully to tap into what actually worked, which
Speaker 2: is like this latent understanding, this latent expectation of racism
Speaker 2: in America, and god, it was like minorities versus white people,
Speaker 2: and you know, just all this unnecessary debate, which is
Speaker 2: not because like it was started by these Russian these
Speaker 2: Russian bots on social media. It like distorts what's really
Speaker 2: going on. Are people really that upset about a black
Speaker 2: aerial or is it just Russian bots making us think
Speaker 2: that we have you know, of course, I'm sure there's
Speaker 2: a handful of people in America who you know, are
Speaker 2: very upset about this, this in black Santa Claus and
Speaker 2: everything else. But I just I got to do a
Speaker 2: brown break for buying into the social media rage machine
Speaker 2: and just like jumping on the bandwagon and chiming in,
Speaker 2: because you could just be proliferating a completely false, a
Speaker 2: completely false like narrative. Narrative, Yeah, thank you, narrative. So
Speaker 2: just think about it and and you know, do your
Speaker 2: Google to see where things originated from before you believe
Speaker 2: what's really going on.
Speaker 1: It's such a shame that you know, it caught on
Speaker 1: so quickly. There's something to be said for that as well. Well,
Speaker 1: I am actually going to boost speaking of dope black
Speaker 1: women in the movies and such. So Double O seven,
Speaker 1: James Bond, I take my what is it is he
Speaker 1: saying like shaken, not stirred or something like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Bond, James Bond, That's all I know.
Speaker 1: So anyway, currently he's played by a man named Daniel Craig.
Speaker 1: That's he's a kind of blondish blue eyes. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't he like originally from who was he was so handsome,
Speaker 1: like he's got like a Scottish accent. The original James Well,
Speaker 1: he's not the original Purece Brosnan.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. Sean Connery. Sean Connery, Yes, where
Speaker 2: did I dike that up from?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't have it, so Sean Connery
Speaker 1: know if that was the first one, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I know it's not, but that's like the first one
Speaker 1: I remember. So anyway, it's always been played by a dude.
Speaker 1: So for the very first time, not only is Double
Speaker 1: O seven obviously her name is not gonna be James Vond,
Speaker 1: but not only is the Double O seven character gonna
Speaker 1: be played by a woman. It's by a black woman,
Speaker 1: a black British actress to be. In fact, her name
Speaker 1: is her name is Lashanda Lynch. And for years that
Speaker 1: has been intense speculation about who's gonna take over the
Speaker 1: reins of the most I mean, honestly, the James Vond
Speaker 1: kind of like series is like the most durable and
Speaker 1: profitable film franchises in history, and so the fact that
Speaker 1: they're getting a black woman is like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: She is thirty one years old. She is a newcomer.
Speaker 2: She was, wasn't she in the Captain Marvel movie? She
Speaker 2: played like the Air Force pilot, the best friend of
Speaker 2: Captain Marvell.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was when I first saw her.
Speaker 1: Knowing things a pop culture. Okay, so honestly, I am
Speaker 1: super duper excited. So now that you know about the
Speaker 1: whole fake hashtag now my area, please be mindful. Then
Speaker 1: I'm sure that the Russian box are also working on
Speaker 1: not my bond or whatever.
Speaker 2: Don't do it. Don't retweet it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't don't do it. Just you know, just enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Just show up to the movies whenever it comes out.
Speaker 2: That's all you have to do to protest. That's all
Speaker 2: I have to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, honestly, I'm really excited to see it
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I'm excited to see, like, you know,
Speaker 1: from a woman's perspective, like what are they going to do,
Speaker 1: because you know, James Bond is supposed to be like
Speaker 1: kind of like this like sexy spy that solves crime
Speaker 1: or whatever, but also seduces women. So I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to see what is it going to look like from
Speaker 1: a woman's perspective. You know, if it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't going to be Idris Elva, the god of you know, cinema,
Speaker 2: like I love a trace, if it wasn't going to
Speaker 2: be him, because you know, he was in the mix
Speaker 2: for a while and I really was like wanting him
Speaker 2: to win this role. But yeah, if it wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: be him, this is that this is like, honestly even
Speaker 2: better than I could have imagined. Like I didn't even
Speaker 2: think beyond it's got to be a dude, which you know,
Speaker 2: I should question my own, you know, my own thought process,
Speaker 2: but the fact that it's a woman and they have
Speaker 2: a woman writing it, Phoebe waller Bridge, who who's like
Speaker 2: a writer and actress that I've really been a fan
Speaker 2: of She's actually writing the script like this is major,
Speaker 2: I'm excited major.
Speaker 1: This is like honestly, since Wakanda was discover it's really
Speaker 1: been kind of a good thing for blacks and browns.
Speaker 2: And wa Kanda effect it could be I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, you know, I feel like that movie was
Speaker 1: so like, wait, black people go to movies. Black people
Speaker 1: like seeing black people.
Speaker 2: Wait a man, who are Adia?
Speaker 1: Which I mean, no shade tall of pair because you know,
Speaker 1: we're also grateful for the fact that they're you know.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like, it's like when
Speaker 1: my cousin started Munaluchi Bridle. Right, so it started off
Speaker 1: as a magazine. Now it's like this whole enterprise. But
Speaker 1: I remember when she wanted to get into Barnes and
Speaker 1: Noble and somehow she got with the buyer Barnes and Nobles.
Speaker 1: She hadn't even launched the magazine just yet, and they
Speaker 1: were like, I don't know, do like do basically like,
Speaker 1: do black people want to see bridal magazines? As if
Speaker 1: black and brown women don't get married? I mean, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? And so when she did the first
Speaker 1: first run of the first issue of Muduluchi Bridle. They
Speaker 1: told her, do not print more than three thousand copies.
Speaker 1: They were actually gonna which I don't know how Jackie
Speaker 1: managed to shout out to Jackie so she was able
Speaker 1: to convince them to like roll it out to all
Speaker 1: the Barns and Nobles. Meanwhile, Jackie was like a scientist
Speaker 1: or something ahead of the time. She had no printing experience,
Speaker 1: none of this. She just was like, I wanted to
Speaker 1: get I got married to my husband. There were no
Speaker 1: magazines available. This sucks. I'm going to start something. And
Speaker 1: she had gotten really into photography and started this magazine.
Speaker 1: They told her, don't print any more than three thousand
Speaker 1: copies and we'll just sprinkle them in a few Barns
Speaker 1: and Nobles around the country. She did a ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars run that means like just amount that you print
Speaker 1: at one time, and they were like, not ten thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: ten thousand issue run. They were like, yo, you're bugging
Speaker 1: You're crazy. It's sold out in like three days. They're like,
Speaker 1: do you have more? Because black and brown women get
Speaker 1: married and they'd like to see themselves in magazines. They
Speaker 1: could not believe Barnes and Noles could not believe how
Speaker 1: quickly it flew off the shelves, and that was like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know. It might have been up till
Speaker 1: like ten years ago, but it's been forever ago and
Speaker 1: she's been killing it ever since. So this is just,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we forget like black and brown women
Speaker 1: they care about finance, Black and brown women get married,
Speaker 1: Black and brown women like we do all the things.
Speaker 1: So having representation is always going to be a win
Speaker 1: for you. Rihanna Tallas that we actually like to wear
Speaker 1: makeup too, I imagine that, you know. And so now
Speaker 1: you see literally every makeup brand many do you notice
Speaker 1: they all have like fifty colors. Now I'm like, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like this is just such an awesome thing,
Speaker 1: and I just love that, like we're starting to normalize, like,
Speaker 1: you know, brownness and make it just mainstream because we
Speaker 1: are mainstream. And so yes cha, I can't wait, can't
Speaker 1: I wait, can't wait?
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Speaker 1: Okay, mandod you rest because I know baby takes a
Speaker 1: lot of energy.
Speaker 2: I'm in the second trimester. I'm feeling good. You know,
Speaker 2: first trimester for sure, it was a struggle struggle bus city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you sound good, you sound like more like peppy.
Speaker 2: I had a coffee an hour ago so that helped.
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Speaker 2: You can do that, science says, I can. Don't even
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Speaker 2: don't care about your opinions. What I read said I
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Speaker 1: Like, my bestie did that too, because she's really at
Speaker 1: the coffee and she literally used to measure it every day, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for so I right, I totally yep.
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