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Speaker 1: Hey bea fan. Welcome to the show. Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: episode of Bran Ambition. I am your host, Mandy Money,

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Speaker 1: and I am so excited to be here with y'all.

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Speaker 1: It has been a hell of a few weeks. I

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Speaker 1: have been off my regular schedule. Back to school season

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Speaker 1: everything picks back up the week after Labor Day, so

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Speaker 1: last week was like very busy, and I'm sure a

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Speaker 1: a groove. I also have, if you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: the wall of my office, which yes I'm in. I'm

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Speaker 1: back in my office now. I reclaimed my office, that

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Speaker 1: was my goal for the summer, finally made it happen.

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Speaker 1: Is it an empty room with no decoration? Yes? But

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Speaker 1: is it mine? And is there a door that I

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Speaker 1: can close? Hell? Yes? So that means my two kiddos

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Speaker 1: so this was my original office. But then when I

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Speaker 1: better than ever. I wish we'd done it sooner, but

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Speaker 1: know that, especially for me, there's a lot of goals

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Speaker 1: that I have for myself, big business goals, big career goals,

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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit good at parenting. I don't know. Shocking,

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Speaker 1: but if you are watching on YouTube in my new office,

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Speaker 1: you know that show Homeland with Carrie. I almost at

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Speaker 1: what it is. Her name, blonde girl, Cia Operative. She's

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Speaker 1: anyone who is. And on my wall, I have just

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Speaker 1: I have a big ass deadline for my book by

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Speaker 1: know it's not the final product, but you know, you

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Speaker 1: you know, you got to do it not to your

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Speaker 1: happened is I'm determined for this book. It's called Brown Ambition,

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Speaker 1: we all need those strategies, you need those tips, you

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Speaker 1: need them in one place, and I'm going to deliver them.

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Speaker 1: But I also have such a wealth of like personal

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Speaker 1: It means that I have officially gone back to my

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Speaker 1: of my client, Tiffany. So Tiffany is now not that Tiffany.

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Speaker 1: This is a Mandy money maker Tiffany. She and I've

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Speaker 1: want to shout out to Catechor Roy. I'm hoping to

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Speaker 1: have her on the show sometime soon to talk about

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Speaker 1: her work as a gender economist and see what other signs,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the economy, what could be voting for

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Speaker 1: black women in this economy? Are there any signs of

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Speaker 1: hope out there? Okay, So speaking of hope, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about some sectors of the economy where they're actually are jobs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So if you're there right now, you're unemployed, or you're

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Speaker 1: recently let go, or you're wanting to leave your job,

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Speaker 1: you're looking to switch career paths. Okay, what sectors are

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Speaker 1: actually hiring healthcare, baby healthcare, and social assistance. So this

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Speaker 1: sector has the highest number of job openings right now,

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Speaker 1: with over a million job openings, so there's an increased

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Speaker 1: demand for medical professionals, social workers, and support staff. Shout

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Speaker 1: out to my cousin who's been on the show before.

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Speaker 1: You'll know her a little bit of her career journey.

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Speaker 1: She actually just got a great job working for a

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Speaker 1: major hospital where we live here in Westchester outside of

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Speaker 1: New York City, And yeah, I was really proud of

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Speaker 1: her and excited, and I was like, yep, that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: She's been interviewing for a while, and of course, like

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Speaker 1: a healthcare job is the one that ended up working

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Speaker 1: out in the end. We also have professional and business

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Speaker 1: services with over one point three million openings and jobs,

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Speaker 1: and management, consulting, tech and operational support. So even though,

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Speaker 1: there's still opportunities in those spaces. Leisure and hospitality has

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Speaker 1: a million openings in career paths like food services and accommodations.

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Speaker 1: Travel and dining are apparently rebounding. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: because like with what money are people traveling and dining?

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Speaker 1: But sure but also trade, transportation and warehousing. More than

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Speaker 1: a million roles available, boosted by the growth in e commerce,

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Speaker 1: retail and logistics, and then information tech so it there's

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Speaker 1: about two hundred thousand openings, so that includes software development,

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Speaker 1: IT support, data roles also among the fastest growing sectors.

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Speaker 1: I wonder where cybersecurity kind of fits into that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's all under the umbrella of it, but that's where

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Speaker 1: some of the hope is. So if you're listening to

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Speaker 1: this and you're trying to strategize for your next career move,

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Speaker 1: I maybe that started to help you, you know, think

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Speaker 1: of some ideas on where to go next. I do

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Speaker 1: feel like and I'm having a hard time maybe articulating this,

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Speaker 1: but I have been thinking as I'm talking to women.

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Speaker 1: This has come up ever since i started to coach.

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Speaker 1: You know, you'll you'll talk to women who are like,

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Speaker 1: I really want to become a project manager because that

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Speaker 1: seems to be the trending thing. And now I'm hearing

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Speaker 1: a lot of cybersecurity because that seems to be the

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Speaker 1: trending thing. But I'm one question to ask yourself is like,

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Speaker 1: do you actually want to do that? And it's not

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Speaker 1: because you can't, Like I do believe obviously, like you

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Speaker 1: can learn the skill, you can do the job, and

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Speaker 1: we're and of course you should go after an industry.

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Speaker 1: It makes sense right to go after an industry that's

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Speaker 1: actually growing and all of that. But I wonder too, like,

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Speaker 1: because it's so competitive right now, if there's not a

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Speaker 1: real interest and experience and passion for the work, and

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Speaker 1: if you can't get really motivated about it other than

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Speaker 1: just I need a job, I need to like pay

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Speaker 1: the bills. I just feel like there's as it can

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Speaker 1: be really challenging to break into that space. So I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't force yourself into a career path just because you

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Speaker 1: think it's, you know, what the economy is favoring right now.

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Speaker 1: Just because there's not maybe the most jobs and maybe

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Speaker 1: the career path that you've chosen doesn't mean that it's

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Speaker 1: still not a viable one. And I just don't want

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Speaker 1: us to be chasing these like trends so much. I

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Speaker 1: think it's better to like take a step back. And

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Speaker 1: I'm working on this in the book as well, just

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Speaker 1: trying to like because it's hard to say it in

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Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes on a podcast, but trying

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Speaker 1: to take a step back and just look at the

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Speaker 1: full career trajectory so that you're more in control of

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Speaker 1: your career path and you're not like constantly feeling yourself

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Speaker 1: go jerked in this side and that side by what's

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Speaker 1: happening in the economy. The only thing that's certain about

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Speaker 1: the economy is that it's going to have its ups

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Speaker 1: and downs. I don't like the idea of us being

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Speaker 1: punted from one side to the next in the economy.

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Speaker 1: I want us to build some career stability for ourselves,

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Speaker 1: and I think that comes from really owning the overall

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Speaker 1: career path and owning, you know, this is what I'm

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Speaker 1: you know, specializing, this is what I'm great at, and

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Speaker 1: here's how I can stay rooted in my own skill set,

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Speaker 1: you know, in my own interests and what I bring

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Speaker 1: to the table, and adapt, of course, you know, adapt

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Speaker 1: to the changing economy, but not feeling like we need

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Speaker 1: to have a complete career, you know, one eighty and

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Speaker 1: up end everything every few years when there's another one

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Speaker 1: of these like economic you know, upturns, downturns, whatever it

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Speaker 1: may be. So I'm working on that. But if that

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Speaker 1: resonates with you or you're even if that pissed you

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Speaker 1: off what I just said. I want to hear from

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Speaker 1: y'all because I want to hear what you're thinking and

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Speaker 1: understand sort of like what the approach is. And if

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Speaker 1: you're someone who has successfully pivoted into an IT role,

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Speaker 1: into a healthcare role, into cybersecurity, I also would love

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Speaker 1: to hear from y'all. Would you email me or DM me.

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Speaker 1: You can DM me at Mandy Money, you can DM

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Speaker 1: me at Brand Ambission Podcast. You can email me at

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Speaker 1: Brandambis podcast at gmail dot com. Like, please talk to me.

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Speaker 1: I want to know. I want to know how you

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Speaker 1: did it. I want to know what was successful about it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just really, really curious. So I'd love to

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Speaker 1: hear from y'all. It can be anonymous. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to talk about you on the show, but I just

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Speaker 1: would love to hear those stories. And this is a

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Speaker 1: really good time for me to tell y'all. Mark your calendars.

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Speaker 1: September twenty fifth, at eight pm Eastern. I have not

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Speaker 1: done a webinar in a very long time. As you know,

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Speaker 1: my signature, Nail your Negotiation Webinar was the webinar I

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Speaker 1: did all the time for the past couple of years,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to create a webinar that felt urgent and

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Speaker 1: necessary for today's economy, and so I have come up

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Speaker 1: with and again thanks to Mandy Moneymaker Tiffany for the

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Speaker 1: little nudge in the right direction, I have come up

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Speaker 1: with a workshop, and we're going to talk about how

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Speaker 1: to leverage AI. That's right. I am not making AI

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Speaker 1: the enemy. AI as our friend. We're going to learn

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Speaker 1: how to harness it. I'm doing a free virtual workshop

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Speaker 1: September twenty fifth at eight pm on how to use

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Speaker 1: AI to boost your career strategy. So save the date,

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Speaker 1: September twenty fifth, eight pm Eastern Central. There's a sign

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Speaker 1: up RSVP link spots are limited. Sign up is in

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Speaker 1: the show notes right now, so you can go check

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Speaker 1: that out. I hope to see y'all there. I'm not

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Speaker 1: just going to be talking about how to put your

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Speaker 1: resume into chat GPD and get advice on bullet points.

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Speaker 1: Y'all know I am not the resume girl. I don't

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time there. I'm talking about how

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Speaker 1: to use AI to develop a winning career strategy, how

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Speaker 1: to use it to take the pain out of networking,

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Speaker 1: how to use it to take the pain out of

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Speaker 1: searching for new opportunities. So we're going to cover all

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Speaker 1: the tips and tricks and strategies that I have been

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Speaker 1: working on and seeing in the clients that I'm working with,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully what you walk away from this webinar feeling

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Speaker 1: is empowered to do what I said, to take control

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Speaker 1: of your overall career strategy, and certainly to demystify AI.

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Speaker 1: Because listen, I'm sure maybe if you've dabbled with chat Gypt,

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Speaker 1: you've dabbled with perplexity, the claud like these different tools,

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Speaker 1: but there's so many of them now and you may

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Speaker 1: even feel like, well, what if this AI takes my

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Speaker 1: job someday? Well, let's actually look AI in the face.

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Speaker 1: Let's I'm going to make it very very easy for

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Speaker 1: beginners to understand how to use the tools, and you

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Speaker 1: can actually like, have some help getting used to it,

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Speaker 1: have some you know, someone to guide you so that

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Speaker 1: maybe it's not as intimidating. And I want you to

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Speaker 1: feel empowered. I want you to be more productive. I

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Speaker 1: want you to save time because you understand how to

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Speaker 1: use AI to your benefit, and at the same time,

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Speaker 1: because you're learning these AI skills softwarees tools. You're learning

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Speaker 1: how to how to leverage these. It's going to make

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Speaker 1: you a more attractive candidate for the job that you want.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what job it is. AI is somehow

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Speaker 1: going to be involved in your job coming up real soon,

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Speaker 1: if not already, So this can only help you, right, So,

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that I'll see you again. Save the date

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Speaker 1: for September twenty fifth at eight pm. We are going

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Speaker 1: to learn how to use AI tools and software to

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Speaker 1: boost our career strategy, get the jobs we want, get

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Speaker 1: the pay that we want, and at least, at the

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Speaker 1: very least, feel inspired and feel ready to take on

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Speaker 1: this rapidly changing economy and rapidly declining job market. All right, Vafa,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take a little bit of a break.

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Speaker 1: I'll be right back after we pay some bills. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back via FAM. I want to get into some happy news. I,

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Speaker 1: as you know, have been doing the Brand Ambition book

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Speaker 1: Club for some time now. We've had two official book

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Speaker 1: club selections. I'm in the market for number three. I'm

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Speaker 1: narrowing it down to a couple. I'd love y'all to

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Speaker 1: offer some feedback. All you have to do to join

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Speaker 1: the book Club, by the way, is just be a

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Speaker 1: member of the broad Ambition Patreon and free membership gets

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Speaker 1: you access to the book club. You do not have

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Speaker 1: to pay to be a Patreon, although if you want

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Speaker 1: to pay, you'll get some perks, like you'll get invites

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Speaker 1: to join us and during live tapings of the show

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Speaker 1: when we have the Brown Table together, you'll also get

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Speaker 1: AD free viewing of video episodes, so you don't have

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Speaker 1: to watch on YouTube and sit through all those ads.

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Speaker 1: You can just come to the Patreon and watch at

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Speaker 1: your leisure, get your wash day woosaws, your Brown Tables,

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Speaker 1: your baqas ad free. So yeah, ba book Club, there's

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Speaker 1: some contenders. So I'm actually so I'll let you in

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Speaker 1: on my thought process. So I'm a little self conscious

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Speaker 1: because I know my first two book Club selections happen

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Speaker 1: to be written by authors by black mail authors rather

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Speaker 1: blackmail authors. So we had c Bo Campbell, my guy

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Speaker 1: love that Sky Full of Elephants. We also had Clarence Haynes,

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Speaker 1: who wrote the Ghost of Gwendolyn Montgomery and I am

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Speaker 1: done with that. Okay, we need to pick a woman

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Speaker 1: of color, and I have been looking. I really wanted

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Speaker 1: to be a nonfiction, something inspirational, something we're tied to,

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Speaker 1: maybe business or career, kind of getting back to the

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Speaker 1: basics when it comes to what Brown Ambition is really

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Speaker 1: here to do, which is all about financial and career

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Speaker 1: empowerment and a couple of options. So Issa Ray has

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Speaker 1: a new audio book that was just released and it's

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Speaker 1: an audible only original, so there is no physical book.

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Speaker 1: And I know that a lot of the girls like

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Speaker 1: we're listening to audiobooks anyway. But it's a book of essays.

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Speaker 1: It's three hours long about and it looks really good.

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Speaker 1: And I started to listen to it, and y'all know,

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Speaker 1: I love me some Lisa. Who doesn't love some Lisa.

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to get her on the show, but

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Speaker 1: damn it, of her people will not respond to me.

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Speaker 1: And you know, fairy game, fairy game, she had a

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Speaker 1: busy girl. But Lisa's new audiobook it's called I Should

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Speaker 1: be Smarter by Now, and it gets into it's personal essays,

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Speaker 1: so she's reading her personal stories that she's written, so

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Speaker 1: I know it's going to be good. I loved Misadventures

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Speaker 1: of an Awkward Black Girl that came out with her

642
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Speaker 1: first first memoir sort of book book of essays that

643
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: came out god, maybe ten years ago. Now it's been

644
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Speaker 1: a while. So there's that. And then another brilliant woman,

645
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Speaker 1: Uzo Aduba, has a new memoir coming out. The Road

646
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Speaker 1: is Good, How a mother's strength became a daughter's purpose.

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Speaker 1: So she revealed the cover and it is just stunning.

648
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Speaker 1: And while she was writing this book, Uzo her mother

649
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Speaker 1: was fighting cancer and unfortunately succumb to her battle with cancer.

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Speaker 1: And I know, as Uzo as a new mommy, as

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Speaker 1: a working artist, like, I just know that this book

652
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Speaker 1: is going to be powerful. So I'm waiting to get

653
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Speaker 1: my copy. I'm thinking about that. And there's a third

654
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Speaker 1: so these are each different. So we had, like the

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Speaker 1: nonfiction essay of is of Fray, we have the inspirational

656
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Speaker 1: memoir from Uzu Aduba. My third option is a novel

657
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Speaker 1: that I got the opportunity to read in advance. Yea

658
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: to being podcast producer, people will send you books in advance.

659
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Speaker 1: This book is called Who Knows You by Heart? And

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Speaker 1: you know, as I'm saying it, it's another book that

661
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Speaker 1: has a beautiful black female, not even beautiful, but a

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Speaker 1: black female, strong black female character, a Jamaican American black

663
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Speaker 1: female character at its heart, and she's the main protagonist

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Speaker 1: in the story, but written by a black guy author.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm going to do about that, Guys?

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Speaker 1: Is it okay? I mean, in both cases my first

667
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Speaker 1: picks of the book club, sky Full of Elephants and

668
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: the Ghost of Gwendela Montgomery, they each featured main protagonists

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Speaker 1: who are women of color, black women. So you know

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Speaker 1: who knows You by Heart also has a black woman protagonist.

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Speaker 1: Just has you written by a black author? Regardless. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting that, I've gotten the author c J. Fartley. He's

673
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Speaker 1: coming on this show to talk about the book, so

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Speaker 1: that's very exciting. But I really enjoyed that book. It's

675
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Speaker 1: not out until November. Of course, you can pre order

676
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Speaker 1: it now, and why the hell just go ahead and

677
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: pre order? Why not go ahead and pre order it

678
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: because I it was a page turner And basically what

679
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 1: you're learning is a story of this this young black woman,

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Speaker 1: modern day Silicon Valley type vibe. She works in big

681
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Speaker 1: tech and she's a coder, and she's a little bit

682
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Speaker 1: of like a like a rebel as a coder. I

683
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: don't know, she's doing her own thing, and she actually

684
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: gets hired by like I couldn't tell. Is this company

685
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: supposed to be like a Tesla or like an audible,

686
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: Like I don't know. It's a big, big tech company.

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Speaker 1: And she kind of finds herself getting swept up in

688
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Speaker 1: the AI revolution and think she's in control of it.

689
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to give too much away, but

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Speaker 1: it's a bit of a thriller. It's thriller ish. It's

691
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: very thought for provoking. It's very like chilling, kind of

692
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Speaker 1: makes you want to unplug every device that you ever

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Speaker 1: have connected to the Internet and scrape all of your

694
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Speaker 1: data like in a way. But I just thought it

695
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Speaker 1: was very thought provoking. And he also tackles head on

696
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Speaker 1: and I think he really captures what it's like to

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Speaker 1: be a black woman, specifically in tech in modern America.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that in this guy, come to find out,

699
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Speaker 1: the author like he used to work in tech. He

700
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Speaker 1: was like an executive at some big tech company. I

701
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Speaker 1: forget which one. So he gets it. He talks about

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Speaker 1: how she's sort of like really working there because she

703
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Speaker 1: has a bunch of debt to pay off after her

704
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Speaker 1: mom has passed away. As a personal finance girl, I

705
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Speaker 1: love a plot point that includes reverse mortgages because how

706
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Speaker 1: like nerdy and dorky is that, But I love it

707
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Speaker 1: we get into that. But anyway, she's broke and she

708
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Speaker 1: has to be working, and so for her, it's like,

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Speaker 1: I need a big fat tech job. I need to

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Speaker 1: get some of them golden handcuffs. Give me those RSUs

711
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: and you see how you know, the company uses those

712
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Speaker 1: golden handcuffs to you know, keep her trapped, kind of

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Speaker 1: keep her coming back. And at the same time, she's

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Speaker 1: encountering the ergs that are you know, the women in

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Speaker 1: tech erg and the feminist, feminist white woman leader who

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Speaker 1: really wants to you know, take her under her wing

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Speaker 1: and all that shit, and at the same time, like

718
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Speaker 1: is keeping tabs on the microaggressions that she's facing day

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Speaker 1: to day working. So at the same time, it's telling

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Speaker 1: a really compelling story that I don't think I've seen

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Speaker 1: in a novel recently and certainly not in film and television,

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00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: but telling the story of a really cool, interesting, unique

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Speaker 1: black female character, but in the backdrop of like what

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Speaker 1: it's like being a black woman working in tech today.

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Speaker 1: Thought he really did a good job. So we'll I

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Speaker 1: gonna see. But those are my three ideas. Right now,

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Speaker 1: there's another I'm trying to avoid, like super prescriptive like business,

728
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Speaker 1: how to be a leader, how to launch of business

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Speaker 1: type books. I'm trying to find books that evoke a

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Speaker 1: sense of delight, inspiration, optimism, and yes, make us think

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Speaker 1: about career and about finances. But it's me again trying

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Speaker 1: to take us out of like the rigidity of you know,

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Speaker 1: learning the how to's and all of that, and just

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Speaker 1: like embracing the power of really good storytelling that bring

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Speaker 1: us closer to those subjects, but don't like beat us

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Speaker 1: over the head with them, do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: So it could be a novel, it could be memoir,

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Speaker 1: it could be nonfiction. But the Brown Ambition Book Club

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Speaker 1: at its heart is when we're reading these books, I

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00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: want us to feel empowered and inspired and open us

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Speaker 1: up to conversations about what it's actually like living in

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Speaker 1: our skin, in our bodies as women, black women, women

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Speaker 1: of color, in this world, in this healthscape. Is it

744
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: too much to say it's a healthcape? I don't know that.

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00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: That expression kind of makes me chuckle, But we gotta

746
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: we gotta laugh so we don't cry. But those are

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Speaker 1: my That's what I'm thinking about. Now. If you're on

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Speaker 1: the patreon, I need your feet. I need you to

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Speaker 1: come with your ideas. So again, check out the patreon.

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Speaker 1: It's patreon dot com slash Brown Ambition, or you can

751
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: go to the show notes to get the link to

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00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: the patreon. Is it dot co or dot com girl,

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00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. Check the show notes, but we're Brian

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Speaker 1: Ambition there. Join the patreon again, completely free to join,

755
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: and you can weigh in on our next book club

756
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: selection and let me know if I'm on the right track.

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00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, but I've really been loving it so far

758
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Speaker 1: and I appreciate everyone who's been a part of it.

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Speaker 1: So thank y'all. Okay, now we have come to the

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Speaker 1: time to do Brown Boost, Brown Break for this week.

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Speaker 1: I am going to bring it all back to the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the show. I spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: at the top of the show talking about the job market.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the three hundred plus thousand black women

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Speaker 1: who lost their jobs in the first half of the year.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about or give a boost to

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Speaker 1: a black woman who's actually doing something about it, to

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Speaker 1: my friend Dysha Dyer, who has been on the show before. Remember,

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Speaker 1: she's the author of the book Undiplomatic. She was the

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Speaker 1: Social secretary at the White House during the Obama administration,

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Speaker 1: and Desha in light of the statistic that came out

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Speaker 1: showing that three hundred thousand black women have left or

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Speaker 1: have lost their jobs, she actually created and created a

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Speaker 1: fundraiser and raised twenty five thousand dollars in partnership with

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Speaker 1: the Loveland Foundation to offer free therapy to black women

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Speaker 1: who have been who have been let go or lost

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Speaker 1: their jobs this year. So I love Udisha, and I

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Speaker 1: just think this is incredible and it's very inspiring because

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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars, I mean, it's not millions, right,

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Speaker 1: but she has enabled dozens hundreds of women to get

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Speaker 1: free access to a therapy session. And if there's one

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Speaker 1: thing that is overwhelming to me about being a career

783
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Speaker 1: coach at a time like this is how so much

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Speaker 1: of the challenge becomes mental, you know, becomes about keeping

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Speaker 1: ourselves mentally healthy to endure the challenges of today's job market.

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Speaker 1: And I am not a licensed mental health expert. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a therapist, I'm not a social worker. I'm none

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Speaker 1: of those things. And I've never said I was, so

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Speaker 1: we still value and love our mental health care workers.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, it's expensive and when you've lost

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Speaker 1: your job, you know what you don't have in this

792
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: god forsaken country is health insurance a lot of the times.

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Speaker 1: And if you do have it, will it actually cover

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Speaker 1: the services of all mental health professionals. No, the one

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00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: that may be the right one for you maybe out

796
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: of network, or may have a really high copay, or

797
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: you may have a high deductible. So the fact that

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Speaker 1: Disha's done this fundraiser and she's raised this money for

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Speaker 1: black women to get mental health support, it's just incredible

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Speaker 1: and it's a little bit of bright, happy news that

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Speaker 1: I wanted to end the show on. So shout out

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00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: to Desha and to anyone listening if you haven't checked

803
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: out the Loveland Foundation. They do incredible will work. The

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00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: Loveland Foundation was founded by Rachel Cargole. This was back

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. She wanted to raise over two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars to provide therapy for black women

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Speaker 1: and girls, and since then, the Loveland Foundation has continued

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Speaker 1: her effort so to helping to bring opportunity and healing

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Speaker 1: to communities of color, especially black women and non binary individuals,

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Speaker 1: through fellowships, residency programs, listening tours, and more So. Check

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Speaker 1: out the Loveland Foundation and yeah, check out Dshit Go

812
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: follow her on ig follow all her work. Okaya, fam,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to call that a wrap. Stay tuned this week.

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Speaker 1: On Friday, I'm back with an episode of the Baqa

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Speaker 1: and then we have our Wash Day WUSA coming up

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Speaker 1: this Sunday. I'm going to be sitting down with Ebanie

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Speaker 1: k Williams, who, if you recall, was the first black

818
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Speaker 1: woman to ever be a real housewife of New York.

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Speaker 1: So Ebanie and I talk about her career as an attorney,

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Speaker 1: and she's now posting her court TV show called Equal

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Speaker 1: Justice with Judge Ebedy k Williams. Check that out. We

822
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: had a really fun conversation. That'll be the Wash Day

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Speaker 1: WUSAW for this Sunday. All right, va, fam, please hang

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Speaker 1: in there, lean on one another for support. Don't believe

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00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: everything you think. That's another good book that could be

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Speaker 1: a book club selection. I highly recommend it. Don't believe

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Speaker 1: everything you think. Take care of here, take care of here,

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Speaker 1: and take care of each other. Sending you lots and

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Speaker 1: lots of love. Thank you so much. Bye okay va fam,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening to this week's show.

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Speaker 1: I want to shout out to our production team, Courtney,

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Speaker 1: our editor, Carla, our fearless leader for idea to launch productions.

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Speaker 1: I want to shout out my assistant Lauda Escalante and

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Speaker 1: Cameron McNair for helping me put the show together. It

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Speaker 1: is not a one person project, as much as I

836
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Speaker 1: have tried to make it so these past ten years.

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Speaker 1: I need help, y'all, and thank goodness I've been able

838
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: to put this team around me to support me on

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Speaker 1: this journey. And to y'all, Ba Fam, I love you

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Speaker 1: so so so so much. Please rate, review, subscribe, Make

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Speaker 1: celebrations to come, and until next time, talk to you soon,

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Speaker 1: BA buye