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Speaker 5: All right, lady, Today, we have a special guest that

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 5: In addition to being a fellow Philly native, Abufofauna is

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Speaker 5: for misunderstood visionaries. Aboo is the king of Facebook ads.

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Speaker 5: You've probably seen him around in these social media streets.

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Speaker 5: His ig is filled with inspiration and quotables, and he

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Speaker 5: maybe some tissues because he's inspiring too. Okay, and let's

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Speaker 5: dive in. Aboo, welcome to Cultivating her Space.

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Speaker 3: Hey, first of all, that was an amazing introduction.

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Speaker 6: I'm like Dan.

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Speaker 3: Who did all that? So thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, We're so excited to have you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I am so looking forward to this conversation.

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Speaker 7: So all right, our quote of the day.

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Speaker 1: You keep creating more because you're avoiding selling and marketing

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Speaker 5: what prompted you to create Power Your Launch.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna stay it one more time. I put the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that you know some of the things

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Speaker 6: Argue, it took me the length of more than ten years. Right.

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Speaker 6: So there's that intersection. And so once you have.

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Speaker 3: money was self taught, right, A lot of it I

442
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 3: didn't learn it in the university. I've graduated from college,

443
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Speaker 3: a lot of us did. But you have no money

444
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 3: management skills. You have no idea how to even pay

445
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 3: your own taxes. You have no idea how to reduce taxes.

446
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 3: You have no idea. So a lot of these things

447
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 3: I had to learn through trial and error along that journey.

448
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Speaker 3: But some of the things I learned about money, and

449
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Speaker 3: I had to unlearn about money because I grew up

450
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Speaker 3: in a poor household and I thought you just held

451
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,880
Speaker 3: on the money when you got it. But the only

452
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 3: way you make more money is you have to be

453
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Speaker 3: willing to invest in yourself and your education level in

454
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Speaker 3: order to get to the next level to be able

455
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Speaker 3: to make more money. Right, other things I learned about

456
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Speaker 3: money and now that I'm on this other side, is like,

457
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Speaker 3: you have to be able to budget. And the reason

458
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Speaker 3: why I say this, I don't care if you only

459
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Speaker 3: have one hundred dollars CNA. I don't care if you

460
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Speaker 3: have a million dollars to your name. If you don't

461
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Speaker 3: understand the concept of budgeting, you will always spend all

462
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Speaker 3: your money. I even people, my friends, my friends know. Okay,

463
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Speaker 3: bo Boo just posted our Instagram. He made you know

464
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Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars and twenty four hours, like we

465
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Speaker 3: going out and they reach out to me and I'm like, oh,

466
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Speaker 3: I don't have budget. I don't have the budget this

467
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Speaker 3: month because I honestly don't. So one of the things

468
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Speaker 3: I learned about money is like you need the people

469
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Speaker 3: around you in order to help you manage it. And

470
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Speaker 3: so I have an accountant and we set a budget.

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Speaker 3: She said, Okay, boo, here's your budget for the month.

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Speaker 3: If you go over this budget, then you know, you

473
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Speaker 3: can't take money out of these accounts because we set

474
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Speaker 3: them up this way where you can't just pull out,

475
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Speaker 3: you know, one hundred thousand dollars because you want to

476
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Speaker 3: buy a you know, a g wagon one day.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 3: So we set these filters so I'm able to manage

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Speaker 3: my money better. I have a budget. So my budget

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Speaker 3: for eating out maybe you know, eight hundred dollars. So

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Speaker 3: for the month, I'm like, okay, you know, I went

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Speaker 3: out to.

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Speaker 6: Eat you know, two friends.

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Speaker 3: You know, that was four hundred dollars the bill, and

485
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Speaker 3: I got four hundred left if I go if I

486
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Speaker 3: hit that budget, I don't go over it. Yes, do

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Speaker 3: I have money for sure? Some of these places I'm

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Speaker 3: eating at. I could, I could probably buy the restaurant,

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Speaker 3: but it doesn't it's not a it's about really setting

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Speaker 3: this budget and saying, I am going to follow this

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Speaker 3: that I set for myself because I'm building something bigger. Right,

492
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Speaker 3: I may be trying to buy land in the future.

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Speaker 3: I may be trying to take care of family in

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Speaker 3: the future. So that's sort of how you know, money's

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Speaker 3: entered my life learning about money and sort of some

496
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Speaker 3: of the things I've learned over the last few years

497
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Speaker 3: as I've made more, more, more and more capital.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 7: I love that. Yes, I love that lesson.

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Speaker 1: And so so you talked about like the lesson of

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Speaker 1: like money and budgeting, right, so I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about it. I like to talk about the feelings.

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Speaker 7: So how does it feel to be in this space

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Speaker 7: right now?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 1: Because you talk about how you grew up in the

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Speaker 1: community you grew up in, right, and now you're in

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Speaker 1: a space where you can buy the restaurant that you

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Speaker 1: dine at.

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Speaker 7: How does that feel?

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Speaker 6: I think for me it's it's a weird feeling.

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Speaker 3: It's a very weird feeling because it's not something I'm

513
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Speaker 3: used to. It's something I'm trying to make. I'm trying

514
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Speaker 3: to develop normalcy around by hanging out with other people

515
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Speaker 3: that made it normal, you know, to talk about money, like,

516
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Speaker 3: you know, to talk about a big purchase they had,

517
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Speaker 3: or to talk about the thirty thousand dollars vacation they

518
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Speaker 3: just did.

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Speaker 6: Now I'm trying to.

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Speaker 3: Make it normal around me by surrounding myself with people

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Speaker 3: like that, because it's still some distant, because it's a

522
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Speaker 3: lot of unlearning I have to do. Over the last

523
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Speaker 3: years is where I've built most of my capital and wealth,

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Speaker 3: and then the last even more years, I didn't have

525
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Speaker 3: any of that, and so I think I'm the feeling

526
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Speaker 3: is sometimes I'm like, is like was this supposed to

527
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Speaker 3: happen to me? Or am I deserving of this capital

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Speaker 3: and money? Or someone else is struggling? Should I spend

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Speaker 3: ten thousand on this trip?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 3: So these are the things that I'm thinking because when

532
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Speaker 3: the household I grew up in, we thought about everyone

533
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 3: besides ourselves, like we were the last person we thought about.

534
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Speaker 3: So you always thought about, well, how is this person doing?

535
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Speaker 3: Can they afford this? Like how do we contribute?

536
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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 3: So this was the mindset, but as I'm learning. I'm

538
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Speaker 3: sort of learning slowly how to enjoy the space that

539
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Speaker 3: I'm in. You know, I was listening to this one

540
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 3: podcast and they were interviewing this guy and he was like,

541
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 3: there's three levels of wealth. Again, this is how he

542
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 3: viewed it. It's not how I viewed it, but he said,

543
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 3: the first level of wealth is you could go to

544
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Speaker 3: a restaurant and you don't have to worry about the price.

545
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Speaker 3: Just get me what's on the menu, right, like I

546
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 3: want that. The second level of wealth is you don't

547
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 3: have to worry about mortgage or rent. It doesn't matter

548
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 3: what it costs. It could be ten thousand dollars mortgage,

549
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. You don't have to worry about that.

550
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Speaker 3: The third level of wealth is you could plan a

551
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 3: forty eighty thousand dollars vacation the day before. And I

552
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 3: was like, you know what, I don't really look at.

553
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Speaker 6: The menu when I go to restaurants. I don't look

554
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Speaker 6: at prices no more.

555
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 3: Right, So it feels good to be like and then

556
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 3: people and the waiters always like, oh it costs. I'm

557
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 3: like it's all right, like you know, it's okay, Like

558
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 3: that's what I want. And so I think it's starting

559
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 3: to feel good. And the second reason and the thing

560
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 3: is last year I was to you're able to have

561
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Speaker 3: more impact. So last year I was able to donate

562
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: to a lot of nonprofits people that were you know, nonprofit.

563
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 3: I was helping, you know, first time black mothers, because

564
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 3: you know that's I resonate with that, that's my story, right,

565
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 3: I helped the nonprofit, I was helping homelessness, you know.

566
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: So being able to write fifty thousand dollars checks, you know,

567
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 3: to nonprofits to help people, I think is the best

568
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 3: feeling because you're like, man, how else would they.

569
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 6: Have been able to raise that? Or now I'm able

570
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Speaker 6: to help them reach their goal.

571
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 3: You know, I'm able to do something that benefits me

572
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Speaker 3: and others at the same time.

573
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Speaker 6: And so I think it feels really good. It feels

574
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Speaker 6: really good.

575
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Speaker 5: Those are extremely powerful Nuga Taboo and would you tell

576
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 5: us about the Powered AF podcast and what prompted you

577
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 5: to start your podcast.

578
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's been a long time coming. You know,

579
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 3: I'm behind y'all. I'm still I'm still trying to catch

580
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 3: up to y'all. But the Powered AF podcast was something

581
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 3: that I had wanted to start for like the last

582
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 3: few years, I just never could convince myself that it

583
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: was needed until I started, and until I got to

584
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 3: where I am, and I was like, man, I wish

585
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 3: I would have documented every step of the process to

586
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 3: making money and to building wealth, right, And now I'm

587
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 3: around all these people who have built wealth, and I'm like,

588
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 3: I wish I could put a microphone in the room

589
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 3: so they could see how they think. They could see

590
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 3: the questions they asked. They could see that they didn't

591
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 3: start where they are. They Actually there's an origin story,

592
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 3: right they you know, they were really poor. Money wasn't

593
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 3: talked about in their household, but now they're, you know,

594
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 3: the most financially savvy person. Because I think sometimes people

595
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 3: judge based on where someone is today and they try

596
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 3: to judge their life. If their life is ten steps back,

597
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 3: they sort of need to see, well, where were they

598
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 3: ten steps to go?

599
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 6: Where where I was?

600
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Speaker 3: And so I started the Power dayf podcast to really highlight,

601
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 3: you know, some of these top performers, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and

602
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 3: highlight some of the challenges they're overcoming, imposter syndromes that

603
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 3: they're having to in order to achieve their highest level

604
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 3: of success, and that looks completely different for them, right

605
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 3: based on what they were what they're trying to achieve.

606
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 3: And so I've been putting up microphones around the people

607
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 3: that I'm around and say, hey, yeah, all that thought, Okay,

608
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 3: let's let's have a conversation, let me set up the mics,

609
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 3: let's have the conversations, let's document this because I think

610
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: it could help a lot of other people. I think

611
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 3: the mistake that you think is small is actually could

612
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 3: help someone that could trigger something in someone in order

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Speaker 3: to really help them. And so that's you know, the

614
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 3: power day of podcasts and why I started it. And

615
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 3: I'm looking to document more stories and video and audio

616
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 3: format and really build a high quality production studio essentially

617
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 3: in major cities rocket bring people in and really get

618
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 3: and record this content. So that's my goal for it

619
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Speaker 3: for the next like twelve months ahead.

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Speaker 4: That is so incredible. I'm already a fan. I've been

621
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 4: tuning in on Instagram. So, okay, Robert, we're rooting for

622
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Speaker 4: you over here.

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Speaker 5: And now that you've dropped some gems ABU, we kind

624
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 5: of want to shift up the energy of this conversation

625
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 5: if that's okay with you, So we recognize, appreciate, and

626
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 5: celebrate the multifacet woman. And we believe that it's okay

627
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 5: to be classy and ratchet. We believe you can still

628
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 5: be elegant and dance to shrip club music. And so

629
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 5: we want to invite you to our oh you clash

630
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 5: it segment. So do you do on the challenge?

631
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 6: Yes?

632
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, So now that you've agreed, we're going to

633
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 5: tell you what you signed up for.

634
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 4: Wa So we're going to ask you three questions.

635
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 5: We're going to share three sentence completions, and then we're

636
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 5: going to have you choose a photo one to three.

637
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 4: These are photos of you that you are not.

638
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 5: Aware of, so you just have to see what pops

639
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 5: up on screen and tell us the context behind the

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00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 5: photo or what was happening that we may not know

641
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 5: based on the photo that you that you choose.

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00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 4: Are you ready?

643
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 6: Yes? I am ready.

644
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 4: All right, let's do it.

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00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 5: So you dropped so many gems on Instagram you I mean,

646
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 5: I want to meet your mentor because you reference your

647
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 5: mentors often and you just dropped so many gems. What's

648
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 5: the best piece of advice or wisdom that you've ever received?

649
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Speaker 6: Ah Man, This is tough so many.

650
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 3: I was just talking to one of my friends and

651
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 3: he had said something that resonated, and he said, you know,

652
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 3: the I'm trying to I'm not trying to butcher it either,

653
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 3: so I'm trying to like look at.

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Speaker 6: The wording for it.

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Speaker 3: But he had said, you know, he said, you know,

656
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 3: what people don't understand is that the easiest lane is

657
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 3: your lane.

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00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 6: And when he.

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Speaker 3: Said that, I was like, that's so true because a

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Speaker 3: lot of times people see people doing something and they

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Speaker 3: don't realize that's not your lane. That's why it's not

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Speaker 3: working for you. So you have to find that the

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Speaker 3: quickest path of success is finding your path, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so that that quote, you know, always resonated with me,

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Speaker 3: you know, since I heard it just a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 7: I love it.

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Speaker 4: I take that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, our next question changing up, changing it up, So

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Speaker 1: you got to be ready.

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Speaker 6: For this one. I'm ready.

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Speaker 7: So when you out here on your vacation or maybe.

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Speaker 1: It's just a regular Tuesday, I don't know, are you

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Speaker 1: gonna twirk or two steps?

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Speaker 6: Right? I'm going a two step. I'm a two step.

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Speaker 7: We'll take it.

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Speaker 5: Good answer, good answer now, as you can probably guess.

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Speaker 5: But we have a lot of women guests on the podcast,

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Speaker 5: so these questions are don't care our audists, but hey,

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Speaker 5: you're you sign up for all you clatch, we want

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Speaker 5: to have some phone with you.

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Speaker 4: What is the sexiest item you own?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Man, that's that's tough because I don't. I don't own

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Speaker 3: many things. Like I went minimalist a few years back,

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Speaker 3: I would probably say I just bought some easy phone runners.

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Speaker 3: So you know everyone's been digging them, you know, ladies,

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Speaker 3: it's not kind of having a dog, right, People always

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Speaker 3: stop you ask you about it exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's a good one. I loved it, Okay, I love

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Speaker 4: it all right.

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Speaker 1: So now we're going to move to our sentence completions.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 1: One question or topic I wish people ask me more

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Speaker 1: about about more often is mental health? Okay, Boom, you

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Speaker 1: set yourself up for this. You know you talk so

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Speaker 1: we here, so so Boom, what about mental health do

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Speaker 1: you want to share with our audience?

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Speaker 6: I think that you know.

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Speaker 3: And the reason why I say that is because being

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Speaker 3: an entrepreneur invisible and social media just showing you instagram

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Speaker 3: able moments of winds or million dollar sales or a

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Speaker 3: million dollar months. There's a side that like is dark

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Speaker 3: and it's you know, there's not a space where it's

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Speaker 3: normal to talk about it. A lot of my friends,

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Speaker 3: it's like the late nights at like two three am,

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Speaker 3: you know, where they're you know, after you know, they're

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Speaker 3: tired or they're like, oh yeah, this is what going on.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, why don't you speak up? You know,

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Speaker 3: why don't you say something? Why don't you say you

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Speaker 3: need help or you need to be supported in this way?

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Speaker 3: And it's like, well, that's not instagrammable, you know, like

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Speaker 3: you know that, you know, do people even want to

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Speaker 3: hear about that?

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Speaker 6: You know? You know, a family told me, I need

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Speaker 6: to pray more, I need to go to church. I

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Speaker 6: don't need a therapist, you know.

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Speaker 3: So I think these moments are you know, I wish

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Speaker 3: people talked about it more.

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Speaker 6: And that's why I say that I.

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Speaker 5: Love that and I agree with you about mental health. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: thank you for sharabu our last sentence completion is what

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Speaker 5: I love most about myself is.

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Speaker 6: The understanding I try to have with people.

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Speaker 3: You know, I try to meet people where where they're

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Speaker 3: at and I think that's you know, it's a double

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Speaker 3: edged sword. But you know that that's what I enjoy

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Speaker 3: about myself because sometimes it turns into something even more

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Speaker 3: right and other times, you know, you could get taken

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Speaker 3: advantage of et cetera. But I mean, there's all there's

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Speaker 3: risks associated with anything you know, you do in life,

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Speaker 3: any decision you make. So I think you know just

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Speaker 3: my understanding and trying to meet people where they are beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Answer, we love it, We love it all right, our book,

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Speaker 5: and we have a photo, a couple of photos if

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Speaker 5: you pulled up from your Instagram, and we want you

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Speaker 5: to choose a number from one to three and then

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Speaker 5: provide more context on the given photo.

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Speaker 4: So choose your number and we'll let you see the photo.

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Speaker 6: Let's go with one.

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Speaker 4: Number one, all right, I think you might like this one.

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Speaker 4: Get ready to get ready, and here we go.

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Speaker 5: So for those that are listening and not tuning in,

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Speaker 5: feel free to describe the photo and then tell us

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Speaker 5: something about this photo that we wouldn't know just by

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Speaker 5: looking at the photo.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So this photo specifically, this was I did a

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Speaker 3: summer program at Harvard Business School CALLSBNP, and I think

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Speaker 3: this photo was you know, a bunch of people applot.

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Speaker 3: There were like one hundreds thousands of students that applied

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Speaker 3: and ate I think that year I got accepted, like

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Speaker 3: about eighty four got admitted.

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Speaker 6: And I think you know this, And it was you know,

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Speaker 6: people that were always told.

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Speaker 3: In their lives that they were special, right, that they

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Speaker 3: were gonna, you know, do great things. So now you

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Speaker 3: take eighty four of those people, you put them all

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Speaker 3: in the same room. So in this photo, this was

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Speaker 3: the first after the first day, everyone you know, all

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Speaker 3: the same room, and I'm looking around, I'm like, dang,

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Speaker 3: do I belong here?

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Speaker 6: Because everyone was just as.

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Speaker 3: Accomplished, just as smart, just as you know, you know, driven,

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Speaker 3: just as ambitious, just as and so I think I

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Speaker 3: took I took this photo on our walk back, and

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Speaker 3: I was and then so that.

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Speaker 6: Was what was happening behind the scenes as I took

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Speaker 6: this photo.

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Speaker 4: I love then that opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we just want to thank you for your

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Speaker 1: time and your energy and your expertise. And I know,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know that so many of

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Speaker 1: our listeners are going to appreciate all of the gems

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Speaker 1: that you have dropped with us. So where can they

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Speaker 1: find you on social media and what's coming up next

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Speaker 1: for you and your brand?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: No, First of all, thank y'all for having me. This

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Speaker 3: was really really great. This is really fun and interactive

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Speaker 3: as well. I really love that. I think what's next

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Speaker 3: for me is trying to figure out how do I,

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Speaker 3: you know, build a life and then have that business

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Speaker 3: not be my life, right, So I think that's what

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out these next six to twelve months,

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Speaker 3: to see what that looks like, because I get so

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Speaker 3: consumed in business that I forget to sort of live

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Speaker 3: and enjoy the things that I'm producing, right, And so

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Speaker 3: I think it's redesigning my life through the businesses that

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Speaker 3: I build and focusing on growing the podcast as well.

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Speaker 6: Howady have podcasts?

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Speaker 3: So again, for those listening in, you can find me

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Speaker 3: on Instagram at a Boufolkfauna that's a bu fof a

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Speaker 3: NH or on Twitter at the Boufolkfauna as well.

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Speaker 6: And you can engage with me there. You can DM. Me.

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Speaker 6: May not respond back right away because I got hundreds.

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Speaker 3: All the every day, but I will try to work

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Speaker 3: my way through it and get back to y'all as well.

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Speaker 5: Amazing. We appreciate it. And lady, make sure you check

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Speaker 5: out the power You're Launch Marketing Accelerated. I am a

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Speaker 5: student in the course. The course is really helpful, so

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Speaker 5: do that in power AF podcast as well.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, you kind of get the vibe here.

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Speaker 5: As you can see, we have an amazing audience of

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Speaker 5: black women across the globe and you kind of understand

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Speaker 5: what our mission is here. And so we'd love to

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Speaker 5: know who do you think would be the best next

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Speaker 5: interview for us and if you'd be open to making

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Speaker 5: an introduction.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's a million that came to my mind

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Speaker 3: because I'm around them all the time. I would say

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Speaker 3: Kiara of Charm City Buyers. I don't know if you're

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Speaker 3: Charm City Buyers. Kiara is really good one. You can

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Speaker 3: lock her down. I know she's doing a million things,

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Speaker 3: even Emily, but Emily is doing a million things. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I definitely make some intros. Let me look at what

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Speaker 3: their schedules like. But I can make intros the group

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Speaker 3: of them and then hopefully we catch one of them.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 7: We appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: Not a problem.

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Speaker 8: Hey, lady, it's Terry here from the Cultivating her Space podcast,

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Speaker 8: I'm hosting a free podcasting masterclass where I'm going to

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today. Please note that our show

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Speaker 1: may contain conversations about self help, advice, self empowerment, and

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Speaker 1: mental health, but it is by no means meant to

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Speaker 1: be a substitute for an ongoing formal relationship with a

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Speaker 1: trainedntal health provider. If you are someone you know is

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