WEBVTT - EP. 132 — This is America? 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.560 Hey, hey, hey. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:22.440 Hi, I'm fippity hi. 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.520 I'm melting Mandy. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:34.600 Melting many in here and this is around. Let's do 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.360 a quick recap last week's show. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.680 Oh, last week's show was major, huge, one of our 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.120 biggest shows of the year. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.680 Huge, y'all liked it. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:50.680 We had the unbelievable couple Leo and Faith from Hotlanta 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.400 on the show to talk about paying off like over 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.840 one hundred thousand dollars worth of debt. I was really 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.920 happy that people connected with the show as much as 0:00:59.920 --> 0:01:02.400 I wanted them to, because it's not just like the 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.440 fact that they paid off debt. It's just they's such 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.720 a sweet couple with such good intentions, and I just 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.080 loved how they took their debt straight on and got 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.600 a lot of love for that episode on social media 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.240 and everything. So thank you guys, and go check it 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:18.720 out if you haven't listened to it yet. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.679 Yeah, they were just so they were super cute. I 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.120 was like, oh, my goodness, you know, a year in, 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.360 I feel like, you know, it's so crazy how so 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.600 many people, you know, stuff is aligned. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.400 You're like, oh, we're all like one year in. I mean, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:31.480 you have a year and some change. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.080 Man, you know, you ain't new at this, you know, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:38.840 you got to beat back a few months. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.399 But yeah, it was a really great episode. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.360 And it's nice to hear regular everyday people who have 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.400 imperfect financial lives but somehow they're figuring it out. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:47.240 So that's always. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.760 Nice, right, And they did my favorite thing, you know, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.120 because so often people will cut expenses and trim trim 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.520 trim to try and pay down debt. But they were like, no, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.800 we really need to actually bring an extra income and 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.800 make sacrifices to make that happen. So that they were 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.320 both working two jobs and Faith worked overnight. It's like 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.320 five or six days a week. She said, Girl, she 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.040 sounded so tired. I'm glad she's. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:08.919 Taking a break this summer. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.240 I know because my mom is a nurse, and I 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.480 remember those days when like we were going to go 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.240 off to college or whatever, and my mom did like 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.440 double shifts and all that stuff. So I remember when 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:18.720 she was saying that. I said, oh my good, My 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:19.560 mother used to be like. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.600 The things I do for you kids. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.080 So yeah, it's hard being a nurse, you know, because 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.120 it's just you're on your feet all day long. But 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:33.440 nurses have an extreme potential to make a lot of 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.359 money because my mother could make really good money and 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.680 she'd made and she did those you know, those extra shifts. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.520 Well, good for it. And she's young too. It's like 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.200 do it now before. I think they're fortunate and that 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.040 they have the age on their side. They're young and 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.040 they don't have any kids yet. Like a lot of 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.120 the questions we get from listeners often you know, rightfully, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.120 so they have their struggling and they can't necessarily take 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.920 on an extra job because they have kids or other obligations. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.320 So I think you have to recognize when you're that 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.080 this is the time to be struggling, like right, because 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.080 I think when you're in your twenties, like you think, okay, 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.040 I should be living my life and spending all my money. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.359 But it's like do the work now so that you 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.799 can enjoy things or things won't be so hard when 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.440 you have a million other like obligate. That's what I 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:16.239 think about every day. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:18.960 And when I was, you know, coming up, my mom 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.560 would always say that she'd be like, oh, you better 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.520 get that degree now before the kids, and I didn't 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.000 understand what she meant. Whenever I said I wanted to 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.960 try something or do something. She'd be like, do that 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.440 now before kids come. I'm like, but now I understand, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.400 because you're right. It just makes it ten times harder 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.240 when you have children because there's certain things you can't do. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:35.600 You know. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.880 You can't live just anywhere, you can't eat just anything, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.920 you know. So yes, thank you faith In Leo. We 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.440 had an awesome time. If you have not listened to 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.840 that episode, what you're waiting on? Get your inspiration on? 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.000 I think it's time to hit the social streets. What 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:51.760 do you think? 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.040 I was just about to say, it was Father's Day 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.160 this weekend, so for those of you, I always feel 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.320 a little self conscious about post and then we post 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:00.920 something on Mother's Say, and then we post something on 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.120 Father's Day. And I just wanted to give a shout 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.760 out to anyone whose father who isn't with them or 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.240 wasn't a part of their lives. I always think of 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.560 Father's Day as like, here's a day to celebrate any 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.080 man in your life that you know has supported you 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.159 or done good things for you. So thank you to 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.880 everyone who who commented on our Instagram and Facebook post. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.960 I just asked the same question we asked the Mother's Day. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:27.360 You know, is there a lesson you want to share 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.360 that your dad's taught you and that you carry with 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:29.880 you today. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.719 What did you say to well, yes, but honestly, I 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.880 just my dad really just taught me that hard work 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.200 can overcome almost any obstacle. Like he would always think 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.200 because my dad grew up in rural Nigeria, and he 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.160 would always say, you know, I wasn't the smartest. My 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.600 dad's a little on the short side, like five six, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.919 I wasn't the tallest, you know. He was like, but 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.680 one thing I was was the hardest working. And he 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.320 was like, that's why you know, I was able to 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.760 move and create a life myself for myself, you know, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.120 your mom and you kids. And so he just taught 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.000 me that, you know, and I carry that with me 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.599 that like I'm not the smartest, I'm not the anything is, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.640 you know, but I do know that if I can 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.880 put in the work, you know, I can accomplish the 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:15.760 things that I desire. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.440 So that was like my major lesson that my dad 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.520 taught me. What about you, Mandra. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.800 Mine was super close to one of our Facebook followers. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.359 I'm gonna try and get her name right. Maybe you 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.279 can help me. It might be Nigeria. I'm not sure 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:32.520 it's is Zuna is zun Wa na Kenny. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.360 Ah, It's well definitely African. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.000 Okay, so it's something I hope I did you justice. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.080 I'm sorry anyway, I wanted to share her comments very 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.799 similar to what I was what mine was like. She said, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.719 if I listened to my dad from the beginning, I'd 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.320 be way ahead of my financial life. He always told 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.719 us to choose our needs over our wants and not 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.279 be deceived by all the sales and TV ads because 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.360 there will always be sales. I did not listen on time. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:05:59.720 That's okay, Zunoir. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.560 We're all tricked by the magic of marketing. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:03.320 You know. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.560 I can tell that the person I bought my home from, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.280 she was a little home shocking at shopping network scenes 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.880 because I am I'm getting these weird catalogs for like 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.320 pressure cookers and like all this made for TV stuff. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:20.599 I was like, ooh, Rosemary. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.720 With Allred Street. Let me write her. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.400 It's thank you guys for first of all, we're just 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.200 like really happy that you guys have been hitting us 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.240 up on social and so we just like to like 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.279 shout you out. So this is on Insta just so 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.440 you know. Our ig name is Brown Ambition Podcast and 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.680 what's her name? On Facebook just Brown Ambition. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:42.159 Brown Ambition and on Twitter at the BA podcast. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.080 So you can tweet us, you can I G S 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:45.880 or you can F B S C. See all that, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.400 and we'll read something every week. So this is from 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.440 L dubs. Let me see L what is your real name? 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.120 Leslie? Okay, Leslie Andy girl? So but it's L underscore 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.120 Dub with the Z. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.440 She said her father he taught me by word indeed 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.880 that as long as you're still breathing, there's still time 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.920 to get it right. Life will knock you down. Sometimes 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.960 you'll even be the one tripping yourself up, but always 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.240 get back up and never stop trying to get it 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.440 right because the time is going to pass anyway. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.720 Oh that was awesome, L. The time is right. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:31.559 The time is going to pass anyway. All right, it's 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:37.840 time for buzzworthy? Ugh A, what's this buzzworthy? I'm like, 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.480 do we talk about the bad things or you just 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.800 try to find something good that's happening in the world. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.160 Okay, what do you have? Good news or bad news? 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.200 I mean, these poor kids, and I mean, honestly, I 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:49.680 was crying about it today. I'm not gonna lie. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:50.680 I was like reading. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.600 Stories about you know, just separation at the border, and 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.240 I was just like looking at this little boy who 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:56.280 couldn't have been more than three. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.960 Three Ugh, I just I couldn't. Like it's like literally 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.160 too much for my heart to take a three year old. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:03.320 You know. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.280 I used to teach preschool and kids would be hysterical 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.840 first day, second day, first week when their parents leave them, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:12.680 and because you know, they're like, who's this person? 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.560 Who you know? And but at least you. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.320 Know, parents knew, like I'm gonna be back. And I 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.320 would tell parents, like the first week, just do half 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.200 a dad, because it's very trup it's traumatizing for kids. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:23.720 Or I would tell parents stay with them for a 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.000 little bit because kids don't know that you're coming back. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.800 But to leave your child and you don't know that 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.560 you're coming back, you don't know that you ever see 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.839 them again, Like that's I'm like, am I crazy? Doesn't 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.000 it seem so crazy that you would literally take a 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.199 child from a parent. How are they going to find 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.720 them again? Like there are some camps where kids are 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.160 not even allowed to hug. Like these siblings were reunited 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.199 a man was was being interviewed on I think it 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.880 was like CNN Today, and he said he just quit 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:52.640 because he siblings were reunited and the older one, who 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.839 was like ten, was trying to comfort the younger ones 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.520 and they were hugging, and they told them there's no 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:57.440 hugging allowed here. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.880 And I just couldn't. I just can't even. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.080 And then the comments from some of the people in 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.120 the comments section like oh, oh, well. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.520 You know, like just so heartless to children, to a 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.600 three year old, a three year old. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.680 You know, I typically don't really believe in like evil evil, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.600 but I really wonder, like, what is really happening that 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.839 you could see a crying three year old and have 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:22.280 no compassion. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.720 Yeah, it's just it's crazy. I don't even. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.400 I think that reaction is like how everyone's feeling right now. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.680 Anybody with a heart and a soul has to be 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.880 feeling that way. I mean, you even have like Republicans 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.880 who are like, yo, man, this is too far. What's happening. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:42.000 What kills me is that it's being politicized, Like, you know, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:46.920 the current administration is sort of lying, actually lying. There's 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.760 several articles where they've actually fact checked what they're saying, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.400 and they're lying when they say that these were because 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.240 of policies that the Democrats put in place, or that 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.320 this could all be fixed if Democrats, you know, would 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.120 do x ys zee in Congress. Right now, it's it's 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.000 not true, and it's like being it's being used as 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.880 a as leverage for the current administration. And and but 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.720 all you have to do to realize how sick it 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.320 is is just look at the images of these little 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.240 kids being I mean, it's so unnatural to think of 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.480 any little child being ripped away from their family, and 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.560 it's happening. It's it's happening right now. I think the 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.320 only bright spot is that it seems like something this 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.520 weekend lit a fire under the like the butts of 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.480 everybody in this country, and everyone's talking about it. The 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.240 pictures are getting out there. Gail King is down there 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.160 right now, like killing it. And she's in McCallan, Texas. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.800 I was watching her just suffering in that humidity this 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.480 this morning, covering this story. And it's it's nice to 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.840 see at least that people are refusing to let this 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.679 let this fly. I mean, did you see Sarah Huckabee 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.400 Sanders like that incident in the White House Press briefing 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.280 room or that reporter I think he was from. Yeah, 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.640 and then yeah, it's so hard as a reporter, right 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.920 to like to separate your self. You're supposed to be objective, right, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.480 But if you're a parent of a child, I understand 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.360 why you can get that emotional he was. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.079 She was like, oh, you're just trying to get camera time, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.520 but you could tell that he was just like yo, 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.800 as a parent, I mean, forget all the politics and 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.079 adults and stuff like if someone took your five year old, 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.360 took your five year old, what was like? You know, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.960 I just can't even. I can't imagine someone taking my 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.680 nephew and being like, yeah, I don't so I don't 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.160 know when if you're ever gonna see him? Oh well, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.319 I can't even. It's it's literally heartbreaking. I feel like 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.199 it's just yeah, I don't even know what to say, 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.480 because kids are like what what is a three year 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:40.400 old supposed to think? 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.800 What is it? Even a ten year old supposed to think? Like? 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:43.400 What am I like? 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.800 They were like kids were begging for their parents and 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.240 crying out and saying, well can you this One little 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.240 girl was like asking the man, you know can you 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:50.840 call my aunt? 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:51.760 She can come get me? 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.120 And he was like nope, and just like just and 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.240 then you heard about the man that sexually assaulted one 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.520 of the four year olds that was there and tried 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.520 to bribe mom. Not gonna say anything, I mean, what 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.040 is happening? Like, I mean, we had containment camps for 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.000 Japanese Americans. You know when we were fighting in World 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:10.920 War two? Was that World two or World War three? No, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.920 where we're one, I think it's World War. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.719 Two, And like it's just honestly, it's shameful. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.160 I think the natural reaction is like, well, what can 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.200 we do about this? I think one one good thing 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.160 to do and it's something that I learned a while 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.960 back is when you hear about these like human rights cases, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.920 the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, that's the organization 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.640 that I support monthly with donations, and they are going 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.520 to be on the ground fighting for these people. They 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.520 were the same organization like among others that were out 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:50.720 there when there was the ban on Muslim flyers or sorry, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.960 people from Muslim countries back when when Trump was first elected. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.520 Remember that, like the ACLU is out there like try 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.920 and find human rights organizations or legal advocacy groups that 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:05.240 can help these families, because, honestly, if you're also just 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.640 curious about I mean immigration in the US, like what's 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.720 happening at the border is so complex, and it's true, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.040 it's not just anything that's been caused by the current administration. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.320 It's the result of like decades of people just not 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.320 getting it right or trying to get it right, and 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.240 things not working out in terms of immigration. But the 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.720 New York Times podcast The Daily had a really good, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.559 like twenty five minute episode this morning that just talked 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.480 to one of their reporters about the history of what's 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.760 happening right now and how complex the rules are around 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:41.520 what happens to immigrants when they come undocumented immigrants when 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.800 they come to the border, and what they have to 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.520 say in order to seek asylum, and how what used 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.480 to be the norm is no longer been the norm 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.920 right now, and people are confused about it, and it's 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.320 just a whole, hot, steaming pile of mess. And I 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.400 hope that I hope that the heat and all the 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.200 attention is going to change things. I guess only time 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.640 will tell. In the meantime, that's how I'm choosing to 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.840 react to respond to it is I'm just gonna donate 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.240 to the a c ou and tweet my heart out 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:11.680 trying to share these stories. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:27.280 Well, it's time to booster breaker, Booster a breaker, Booster 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.280 break what you're gonna do, I'm. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:35.600 Gonna boost today. I'm trying to lift us up, lift 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.960 every voice that too. I went with Josh Grobin you 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.880 want Yeah, that's why we're a good team. I saw 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.600 a really cool story about this. I was surprised to 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.120 see it and then but in the New York Times. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.800 But there is I know we've been talking about these 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.840 these groups where you can if you want to support 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.520 minority owned businesses. There were like these. There's usually like 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.800 some old kind of like registries where people will track 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.160 businesses owned by minorities. But the New York Times that 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.480 are really dope feature on this couple from Brooklyn who 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.920 have a website called Black Owned Brooklyn dot com, which 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.440 doesn't just like it's not just a list of own 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.800 big businesses owned by by black business owners, but it's 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.560 like an Instagram page where they actually do like little 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.840 mini features on the owners themselves and what their businesses. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.720 And it's really dope. I think it's especially for a 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.800 place like Brooklyn, where it may be surprising to know that, oh, hey, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.120 there is a black woman who owns a yarn shop 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.800 or an old lady who owns a hardware store or whatever. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.080 So that was really cool. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:42.080 Let me get there. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.200 Let me make sure I get their names right. We 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:45.479 should have them on the show. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.000 Yeah, that would be awesome. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:54.960 Yeap oh, Cynthia, Gordie Guiwa and Glenn Allen started this together, 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:56.400 So good for y'all. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:58.200 That's awesome. 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.800 I love I love hearing stuff like that own Brooklyn. Well, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.680 my boost actually is going to be a former guest 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:06.440 that we had on the show. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:06.920 I just saw her. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.880 So I went to go get lashes done because my 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.760 makeup artist told me, if I have like two major 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.280 things coming up back to back, it would just be 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.600 easier to have lashes done to fun. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.640 I do solash. 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.560 No, because I still had lashes from last time. A 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.120 filling is forty dollars, and I said, oh, that's nice 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.520 to know. And so I when I walked in, I 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.600 recognized that familiar face, Lynette how Bonnie Cox. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.000 She was getting her hair done. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.760 I can only imagine the squeals yes. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.080 And I was like Oh my gosh, Linnea is so honestly, 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.840 she is just like goals for sotified, you know. So 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.640 we were just talking too, and so actually today is 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.000 her son's graduation. He's graduating from I don't know if 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.280 he's graduated I think high school. And then her daughter, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.840 who she insisted that I meet, and she's so adorable 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.840 of course, like just so well mannered, just amazing, and 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.440 her daughter has one where year left. She's graduating a 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.960 semester early from college because why not, You're Lynnette's daughter, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:07.560 And then her. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:09.120 And then her mom was there. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.119 It was just honestly, she's just Lynette is just awesome, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.560 and she just left me with like Lynette always leaves 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.680 me with something to think about of how it could 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.359 be better. Like she wasn't trying to teach a lesson, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.080 but it had me really thinking. So we were just 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.919 talking about, like, you know, like what I've been up 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.960 to and whatever, and Lynette always always always asked how 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.800 she can help me. Like the first time I've ever 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:31.639 been on TV, which is like pix eleven News in 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.919 New York, it was her. I met her at a 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.040 conference for Black Enterprise. I squealed when I met her 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:38.400 and I was like, oh my gosh, my gosh, my gosh, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:39.480 I love you. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.119 You you know, like you're such like, you know, a 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:41.760 role model. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:46.000 And she lives not far from where my parents live, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.480 like a neighboring town, and she was like I told her, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.400 She said, are you going back to you know, New 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.280 Jersey because the conference was in New York And I 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:56.680 said yeah. She said, well I drove. Do you want 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.639 to ride this woman who I didn't know who I 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.080 was idolizing And I was like, oh my god, yes. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.359 So there was a lot of traffic and she just 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.240 ended up pouring so much into me, just like asking 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.520 me what I was working on and just giving me tips. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.400 She became my mentor that day. And then she asked 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.120 me in the car, have you ever been on TV? 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:12.960 And I was like no. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:14.199 She's like, do you want to be? 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.359 I was like, uh, yeah, but I don't, you know, 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.320 like yeah. She made a phone call. She was supposed 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.480 to be on pix eleven News to do like five 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.920 tips on whatever, and she said instead of me, I'm 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:29.720 going to send a replacement basically oh, I mean yeah, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.239 and so and then from there like it just was 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.080 like on and popping, you know, Drina of course helped 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.320 me get ready, and but Lynette too did so much 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:36.960 coaching with me. 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:38.399 She honestly is just amazing. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.520 But the thing, the reason why I'm giving her the 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.400 boost today is because she said something that that kind 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.119 of like made me reflect and say, you know what, okay, 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.520 I hear you. And she said she was asking me 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.960 about some partnership that I had and asking me how 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.040 it was going, and I said well, and she was 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.720