Speaker 1: I would love to walk away from the nine to
Speaker 1: five life for good. But how do I start over
Speaker 1: the right way and pursue my dream career path?
Speaker 2: Focus on being the authority in that space. So if
Speaker 2: it's like a beauty, if you want to do beauty,
Speaker 2: it has to be like beauty for vegans, like specialized,
Speaker 2: Like down to that level and own that space so
Speaker 2: that you are the person that people come to. So
Speaker 2: when you're starting in that area, it's not like you're
Speaker 2: starting from zero.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, va fam, what's up? It's Mandy Money and
Speaker 1: welcome to the BAQA. This is our special Friday show
Speaker 1: where every Friday we take questions from you from our
Speaker 1: ba community and answer them on the show.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: To get your question answered, all you got to do
Speaker 1: is go to Brand Ambition Podcast on Instagram and send
Speaker 1: me a DM or you can email me Brand Ambition
Speaker 1: Podcast at gmail dot com. I'm really grateful because my
Speaker 1: Brown Table co host for this week, Nasima McElroy aka
Speaker 1: at Financially Intentional on Instagram. Nasima has stuck around and
Speaker 1: she's gonna help me answer this week's question. So let's
Speaker 1: get on into it all, right, ba Fam. I am
Speaker 1: joined again by Nasima McElroy. We're gonna take a listener
Speaker 1: question because when I got this question, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: how many times can I star this? This is such
Speaker 1: a good, juicy one, and I feel like Nasima is
Speaker 1: going to be a great person to answer this with.
Speaker 1: This comes from listener Serena, who sends an email. By
Speaker 1: the way, if you want to have your question answered
Speaker 1: on the BAQA, you can go to Brandambisson Podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com or email me at Brandabisionpodcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com, or you can slide into our DMS. We're
Speaker 1: at Brandambission Podcast on IG. Serena's question is, Hey Mandy Money.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty eight years old and I'm currently living in Texas.
Speaker 1: I moved back here last June from Louisiana, and I
Speaker 1: feel like everything has gone downhill poorly. I'm completely starting
Speaker 1: over from needing a new car, place and building up
Speaker 1: my savings. I have a registered business, but sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like I don't know what to do with it
Speaker 1: and can't pick a path. As a multi passionate entrepreneur,
Speaker 1: I have a love for beauty and holistic health, but
Speaker 1: I hate to have to choose one. I would love
Speaker 1: to walk away from the nine to five life for good.
Speaker 1: But how do I start over the right way and
Speaker 1: pursue my dream career path?
Speaker 2: From Serena Serena, I love this question. Actually it's something
Speaker 2: that I've been studying recently because you know, I'm definitely
Speaker 2: like a traditional work girly that like fakes, like I'm
Speaker 2: an entrepreneur, so I really have to get my mind right.
Speaker 2: So it's this book that I would highly recommend you read,
Speaker 2: and it's called Key Person of Influence. And the thing
Speaker 2: is is, like, I'm sure you've heard the term the
Speaker 2: riches are in the niches are in the niches niches.
Speaker 3: I thought you said witches. I'm like, the witches are
Speaker 3: were right.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm still getting made fun of for the
Speaker 2: way that I said kindergarten on here. So however you
Speaker 2: say niche niche, you have to mispronounce it for to
Speaker 2: work nitches, I got you, yes exactly. So anyway, you
Speaker 2: just you have to become the authoritative person in one
Speaker 2: particular space. So I know you don't want to narrow
Speaker 2: down on one thing, but in order for you to
Speaker 2: be successful, you really have to hone in on that.
Speaker 2: And the thing is is that there's so many voices
Speaker 2: out there that like you're like, oh that sounds good,
Speaker 2: that looks good, Like really be and focus on being
Speaker 2: the authority in that space. So if it's like a beauty,
Speaker 2: if you want to do beauty, it has to be
Speaker 2: like beauty for vegans, like specialized, like down to that
Speaker 2: level and own that space so that you are the
Speaker 2: person that people come to and the way that you'll
Speaker 2: figure out what space you need to be in. It's
Speaker 2: like what stories in your life can you talk to
Speaker 2: that you know that you own that space, like you
Speaker 2: have lived that life. So when you're starting in that area,
Speaker 2: it's not like you're starting from zero because you're like,
Speaker 2: oh that looks good. I saw that on Instagram and
Speaker 2: this person is making big and brownie, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: start doing that. That's not your thing. But your thing
Speaker 2: is this particular thing. You have stories around it, you
Speaker 2: can speak to it, you have lived this life, like
Speaker 2: really lean in on that. And I feel like, you
Speaker 2: know you can't. You're at a point where you can
Speaker 2: only succeed. You can only go up. It's only up
Speaker 2: from here. But yeah, I think that you post it
Speaker 2: like there's an issue the key person of influence KPI
Speaker 2: key person of influence. Okay, I got who the author is.
Speaker 2: I'm so bad at names.
Speaker 1: That's okay, we'll find it and put it in the
Speaker 1: show notes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that, like it's it's it. I read
Speaker 2: it in a day, and but I'm a fast reader,
Speaker 2: so but yeah, it's it's really really good because it's
Speaker 2: directing to the point and it tells you like to
Speaker 2: really like lean in on like what is your pitch?
Speaker 2: Like what do you do? How do you help serve people?
Speaker 2: And once you can get that down, you can start
Speaker 2: doing all of the other things and creating your authority
Speaker 2: and getting out there and getting published and being known
Speaker 2: for those things, even to the point where writing a
Speaker 2: book like Mandy is doing so you know, but like
Speaker 2: really like leaning in on this pitch and practicing and
Speaker 2: it's almost like manifesting, like this is who I am.
Speaker 2: I am that grilly that you want to come to
Speaker 2: that talks about being beauty.
Speaker 1: You know, like, so, yeah, that's my advice. You were
Speaker 1: gonna say something before I interrupted, Sorry about that. You
Speaker 1: you started saying that. She posed it almost as if
Speaker 1: it was a problem.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, she yeah. She posted it as
Speaker 2: if it was a problem. But I really feel like
Speaker 2: this is like exactly where you need to be because
Speaker 2: it's like you're at the ground level and so you
Speaker 2: don't have to tear something down to build it back up.
Speaker 2: You're right at the point where you can just take off.
Speaker 2: And so I think this is a perfect opportunity and
Speaker 2: you should look at it like that. And I think
Speaker 2: that reframing of mindset is going to help you excel.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine your daughter, some or one of them
Speaker 1: someday like being in a similar situation. And it's almost
Speaker 1: like when people ask questions, now, I try to picture
Speaker 1: my own kid in their shoes, and I can I
Speaker 1: almost feel a little bit excited for I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't have a daughter, but Rio, I feel almost excited
Speaker 1: for him to have these kind of like existential crossroads
Speaker 1: moments in his life.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's not.
Speaker 1: Just so like no matter what generation you're part of,
Speaker 1: like everyone has this moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So she's moved from Tech, she's moved back to Texas
Speaker 1: from Louisiana, so very Beyonce of you, and and she's
Speaker 1: saying it's gone downhill poorly, And there's something that happens
Speaker 1: in transitions and I want to it doesn't. And there's
Speaker 1: something that I think that happens too with like our
Speaker 1: vision of how a transition will go, Like if I
Speaker 1: just moved here, or if I just start this new job,
Speaker 1: then on the other side of that it will be
Speaker 1: like change will be, change will happen, and things will
Speaker 1: start going my way, and like I just need to
Speaker 1: take the steps and make the move. And that is
Speaker 1: very much true, but the you have to sometimes journey
Speaker 1: through some muck once you make that transition. And I
Speaker 1: actually I was having a conversation with y'all know why
Speaker 1: I joined the iHeart Network back in March, and it's
Speaker 1: been four months now, and I've been really like trying
Speaker 1: to be patient with like some of the changes and
Speaker 1: everything is fine, and I love working with them on
Speaker 1: the whole, but I myself have had to like have
Speaker 1: the same conversation with you make a big change, you
Speaker 1: and you do it for the right reasons, but there's
Speaker 1: still a growth, Like there's still an uphill journey after
Speaker 1: you make such a big change to get to know
Speaker 1: a new environment, get to know new people, get to
Speaker 1: know the new workings of things, and just to have
Speaker 1: some patience with that I think we're a little impatient.
Speaker 1: I mean that goes without saying we're all so impatient,
Speaker 1: but give yourself a little bit of patience. I feel
Speaker 1: like to go through this yucky phase, this awkward transition phase.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you go natural and then for
Speaker 1: the next what how long does an awkward transition phase go? Three?
Speaker 1: Four years?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it feels like it feels like taking steps backwards.
Speaker 2: And sometimes it's okay to take step backwards.
Speaker 1: To go forward.
Speaker 2: You know a lot, but a lot of people just
Speaker 2: aren't comfortable in that space. And the more you're able
Speaker 2: to lean into that and understand that that's part of
Speaker 2: the journey, the easier is for you.
Speaker 1: When she says, I'd love to walk away from the
Speaker 1: nine to five life for good, wouldn't we all?
Speaker 3: But also you twenty eight and if you don't have a.
Speaker 1: Trust fund, and if you don't have you know, a
Speaker 1: bunch of money in the bank already, it takes time
Speaker 1: to earn and to build, and especially if you're trying
Speaker 1: to do that as an entrepreneur. And I think the
Speaker 1: problem is I almost I don't even without saying it,
Speaker 1: I feel like you're on social media too much. Because
Speaker 1: if you just get off social media and you just
Speaker 1: go to work, earn your coins and you focus on
Speaker 1: building your business, it will take probably five to ten years.
Speaker 1: But like you can build something, you can walk away
Speaker 1: from the nine to five life. But I think being
Speaker 1: on social you'll see other people doing it or looking
Speaker 1: like they're doing it, having a bunch of followers talking
Speaker 1: about beauty or being a holistic health influencer, and you're
Speaker 1: comparing yourself to them. But that's just not realistic and
Speaker 1: it's not the journey that you know. Maybe is like
Speaker 1: the journey that you're on, and you need time to
Speaker 1: build that and to be able to break from the
Speaker 1: nine to five grind. And I can absolutely see myself
Speaker 1: telling Rio someday like, boy, you can't whatever if it'll
Speaker 1: be like a hologram by then or whatever kind of
Speaker 1: like AI bought, he'll be comparing himself too.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh, but yeah, you have to just take your I
Speaker 1: take your eye off everyone else and what and even
Speaker 1: your even the vision of yourself that you were comparing
Speaker 1: yourself to right and make peace with like where you're
Speaker 1: at right now.
Speaker 3: And I think.
Speaker 1: I think things will start to work out. But it
Speaker 1: just will be slow, slow, small little things working out. First,
Speaker 1: if you get the nice apartment, but you still hate
Speaker 1: the job.
Speaker 2: But the apartment's nice, and then you get.
Speaker 3: A little bit of coins in your account.
Speaker 1: Hey, ba fam, we gotta take a quick break, pay
Speaker 1: some bills, and we'll be right back. All right, ba fam,
Speaker 1: We're back. Has he meant anything else? Do you want
Speaker 1: to add?
Speaker 2: No? I just think don't like, don't sleep on the
Speaker 2: nine to five and where I can get you because
Speaker 2: it just brings the the boat a little bit closer
Speaker 2: to the dock and then you can jump.
Speaker 3: So oh I like that analogy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, brings a boat a little bit closer to the
Speaker 1: dock and then you can jump.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: So you say that you have a registered business, but
Speaker 1: you don't feel like you know what to do with
Speaker 1: it and you can't pick a path. The fact that
Speaker 1: you've registered yourself as a business, and hopefully you registered
Speaker 1: it in the state where you're operating as a business.
Speaker 1: I know you said you move from Louisiana back to Texas,
Speaker 1: but either way, it's not that hard. The fact that
Speaker 1: you've registered is great. I mean, you've done You've taken
Speaker 1: a step, and for me, that is. Sometimes it's funny.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to women who have done everything but register
Speaker 1: themselves as a business. So they're not able to take
Speaker 1: care of take like they're not able to get a
Speaker 1: business account, any business bank accounts, big business credit. They're
Speaker 1: not able to like apply for grants or even properly
Speaker 1: invoice people, you know, as a as a business. And
Speaker 1: but they'll have the business, they'll have clients, they'll have
Speaker 1: like a website and you know, a business card, all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And then I have entrepreneurs like
Speaker 1: you who have done that that administrative step of starting
Speaker 1: a business, but actually haven't created like any business revenue
Speaker 1: yet or a business plan or you know, put together
Speaker 1: an idea of what you're going to actually produce and
Speaker 1: put out there in the world. And neither of those
Speaker 1: paths is incorrect. But we need to find we need
Speaker 1: to we need to merge them. You've done the paperwork
Speaker 1: side of things. Now as far as picking a path
Speaker 1: in your business and actually knowing what to do with it,
Speaker 1: just pick something.
Speaker 3: Pick a thing. You say you love beauty, you love
Speaker 3: holistic health.
Speaker 1: I love what Nasima said about, you know, really focusing
Speaker 1: in on one POV one niche or a niche for
Speaker 1: you to be known for. Just pick one and stop
Speaker 1: telling yourself that you only have to pick one for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. You're twenty eight years old,
Speaker 1: You're so young, and you have so much time. You
Speaker 1: can pick holistic health and put your all into that
Speaker 1: for the next year, two, three, four, five years and
Speaker 1: build up your audience, build up your reputation, build up
Speaker 1: your authority in the space, build your client base. If
Speaker 1: you're going to be selling something, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: you can be doing that in holistic health. You can
Speaker 1: still have a love for beauty, right You can still
Speaker 1: post a little bit on the side about beauty if
Speaker 1: you want to, or explore it, or educate yourself more
Speaker 1: on the beauty space. Nothing has to stop that from happening.
Speaker 1: And then if you decide I've done everything I can
Speaker 1: do with holistic health, I want to switch it up
Speaker 1: and talk about beauty or focus my business more on
Speaker 1: the beauty space.
Speaker 3: That may be.
Speaker 1: Easier to do than what you're thinking. It may feel
Speaker 1: like a huge leap and a huge jump. Well, how
Speaker 1: can I do beauty if I go all in on
Speaker 1: holistic health? I could think of a thousand ways right now,
Speaker 1: just sitting here, how those two things are intertwined. So
Speaker 1: I'm not totally worried about you creating authority and expertise
Speaker 1: in the holistic health space and potentially sacrificing that by
Speaker 1: then pivoting into the beauty space later on down the road.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely not. I mean I'm thinking about Tabitha Brown
Speaker 1: for example. First of all, that girl like tab that girl,
Speaker 1: that woman that everything, that queen. You know, she goes viral.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a vegan sandwich and the Whole Foods
Speaker 1: parking lot while working while doing Uber right. Then she
Speaker 1: starts with where does Tabitha Brown start with?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 1: She starts with cooking content. I believe she's cooking. She's
Speaker 1: going all in as a vegan cook and she does
Speaker 1: vegan recipes, She writes a memoir, she gets her book
Speaker 1: or sorry, she gets the deal with Target where she
Speaker 1: starts creating vegan vegan foods and a line of vegan
Speaker 1: you know, food and cookware at Target. And then she
Speaker 1: comes out with Donna's recipe, her haircurr line. Then she
Speaker 1: goes and creates her kid series tab Time, you know,
Speaker 1: with YouTube. She has all these different businesses, lines of
Speaker 1: business that are thriving, but she starting with one. She
Speaker 1: is tabitha Brown Vegan. I mean, it's hard to just
Speaker 1: call her a vegan food influencer because she's also Tabatha
Speaker 1: the Brown. She's also just like a spiritual influencer. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, human soothing machine for the world, but
Speaker 1: she started out in that way and then she continued
Speaker 1: branching out. And I just want you to feel less.
Speaker 1: You're putting too much pressure on yourself to in the
Speaker 1: sense of like I got to pick one and be
Speaker 1: done in forever, and this is the one I've picked.
Speaker 1: This is the only kind of business I can ever have.
Speaker 1: Try something, try it and either fly or fail quickly,
Speaker 1: and try something different. Gotta stop being so afraid to
Speaker 1: try something new because you're afraid that it means you
Speaker 1: may fail at it. Yeah, you might fail at it,
Speaker 1: but you're never gonna know until you try. And the biggest,
Speaker 1: the best piece of advice I can give any entrepreneur
Speaker 1: or just anyone in life in general, is fail fast
Speaker 1: and move on.
Speaker 3: Embrace the fail don't even like you have to stop.
Speaker 1: We have to stop thinking about failure as if it's
Speaker 1: something to avoid. Part of the journey. It's something to embrace.
Speaker 1: Like I came home from a week away in Georgia,
Speaker 1: and I came home and I saw what my vegetables
Speaker 1: have been doing. Have I what's been thriving? What's been
Speaker 1: taken over by cabbage worms? God damn it, I hate
Speaker 1: those things. What has been you know, which squash is
Speaker 1: doing well? So the squash got too much, so that
Speaker 1: squash was being overcrowded by the tomatoes. Like I am
Speaker 1: learning every day how to fail in my space, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to grow my own food. And I think our
Speaker 1: careers are very similar, Like let's just get through the
Speaker 1: failures quickly. I've been doing Mandy Money. I started out
Speaker 1: with Mandy Money in twenty twenty one when I you know,
Speaker 1: I was always doing the podcast, but when I wanted
Speaker 1: to branch out with my own business. Because remember, at
Speaker 1: the time Brown Ambition was my I was co running
Speaker 1: that with my former co host Tiffany, and so Tiffany
Speaker 1: and I were fifty to fifty business partners, so it
Speaker 1: never really felt like Brown Ambition was entirely mine. So
Speaker 1: when I started my own business in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: I left nine to five. I said I want to
Speaker 1: do something on my own, and I chose negotiation slash
Speaker 1: career coaching.
Speaker 3: So for me, that was about and I can do
Speaker 3: a bunch of things.
Speaker 1: But I really loved and enjoyed talking about negotiation and
Speaker 1: job seeking advice. And also I listened to what my
Speaker 1: audience was telling me that they wanted. And I was
Speaker 1: getting a lot of questions about negotiating and looking for
Speaker 1: a new job and you know, networking and leveraging relationships
Speaker 1: into career opportunities. And I was like, bet, I want
Speaker 1: to focus on that. And I did that, and I
Speaker 1: did it really hard, and for a time that was amazing.
Speaker 1: And then the economy shifted. Things start changing. Now the
Speaker 1: job market is a lot tighter. Everyone's not getting opportunities
Speaker 1: to negotiate. They certainly are not getting as many opportunities
Speaker 1: to negotiate as they were back in the summers of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and even into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and things got tighter, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I was feeling as if I was failing in a
Speaker 1: way because I'm like, oh, opportunities for me are not
Speaker 1: you know, they're not as lucrative. You know, I'm selling
Speaker 1: the same things that we're doing really well back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, they're not selling as
Speaker 1: great anymore. I need to be trying something different, and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie and say that it didn't
Speaker 1: get to me. And I didn't have those moments where
Speaker 1: I was feeling really down on myself and kind of
Speaker 1: feeling like, oh am, I just screwing this all up,
Speaker 1: like do I really have what it takes? But I
Speaker 1: got over it and I kept moving and I had to.
Speaker 1: I had to shift my mindset to accept the fact
Speaker 1: that failure is almost a guaranteed aspect of being a
Speaker 1: business owner. Failure is almost guaranteed failure in some regards.
Speaker 1: It's up to us to decide if it's going to
Speaker 1: be a failure period or a failure dot dot dot
Speaker 1: or a failure comma or whatever grammatical punctuation makes sense
Speaker 1: for this really weird metaphor that I just came up with.
Speaker 3: But what's that.
Speaker 1: Story going to be like for you, Serena. I think
Speaker 1: you deserve to have an opportunity to try something, and
Speaker 1: I think you deserve to have an opportunit unity to
Speaker 1: take your business and see what you can make of it.
Speaker 1: You may start your business in holistic health then decide
Speaker 1: that you really don't like it anyway. Maybe you like
Speaker 1: to read about it and watch other influencers and you know,
Speaker 1: or what, I don't know exactly what kind of work
Speaker 1: you want to do in holistic health, but maybe you
Speaker 1: just really enjoy it. But then when you start doing that,
Speaker 1: you realize, oh, I don't want to do this all day. Hey, bafam,
Speaker 1: we got to take a quick break, pay some bills
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. All right, bafam, we're back.
Speaker 3: And I will say.
Speaker 1: The thing about leaving nine to five people need to
Speaker 1: know more about is when you leave a nine to
Speaker 1: five and you start your own business, you have another
Speaker 1: nine to five like in fact, it's even worse than
Speaker 1: a nine to five in some ways, because yes, you're
Speaker 1: your own boss, you have freedom all of that, but
Speaker 1: you also have bills, you have taxes. You have and
Speaker 1: can I say taxes again for the girls in back.
Speaker 1: You have to find your own clients. You have to
Speaker 1: be your social media, you got to be your marketing,
Speaker 1: You got to be your business analyst, you got to
Speaker 1: be your own accountant. You know, you have to build
Speaker 1: those things up and that is very all consuming, time
Speaker 1: consuming work. Now you're twenty eight years old, you have energy,
Speaker 1: you have time on your side. I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: the best time to try it out. If you were
Speaker 1: going to try it and keep your nine to five,
Speaker 1: you know, for the insurance, for the quote unquote stability
Speaker 1: that having that additional income can can offer you, and
Speaker 1: just get out there and try something new. And like
Speaker 1: I said, you can always change your mind down the line.
Speaker 1: And I'll wrap it up by just reiterating that I
Speaker 1: want you to give yourself grace. You just got back
Speaker 1: home to Texas from leaving Louisiana, and I know it's
Speaker 1: been a year, and we tend to do that to ourselves.
Speaker 1: We'll look at the calendar and say, oh, it's been
Speaker 1: a year. I should have been here by now. I
Speaker 1: wish I would have done this by now. I can't
Speaker 1: believe I haven't done this by now. Stop it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what I told my two year old
Speaker 1: this morning when he was trying to cry about going
Speaker 1: to daycare. Is zipit zipit? Nope, nop, nope, We're not
Speaker 1: doing that. It's only been a year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: It takes time to transition. You are acclimate yourself to
Speaker 1: a new environment. It sounds like you've had struggle, you know,
Speaker 1: needing a new car, getting a place, building up your savings.
Speaker 1: Give yourself grace, give yourself time to acclimate, and just
Speaker 1: try to appreciate where you are exactly when you are
Speaker 1: in that space right now. I'm really proud of you
Speaker 1: for uprooting yourself and moving to a whole different state.
Speaker 1: I mean, that takes guts, and it takes some bravery,
Speaker 1: and if it was easy, everybody and their mama will
Speaker 1: be out here doing it. Okay, So you took a risk.
Speaker 1: I want you to give yourself grace, and I really
Speaker 1: am grateful for you for giving me a chance to
Speaker 1: pour into you a little bit and sending your question
Speaker 1: in Serena and I hope be a fam If you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, you'll send your questions into Brandnambission Podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com.
Speaker 3: So we can pour into y'all.
Speaker 1: Because I know some of the questions are not all
Speaker 1: cut and dry. It's not oh, I have this much
Speaker 1: dead and this much savings. Honestly, those questions are a
Speaker 1: little bit more boring. These questions, like what you're going
Speaker 1: through Serena. They really remind me of how important it
Speaker 1: is to say what's on our spirits out loud and
Speaker 1: really share the struggles that we're having, the existential struggles
Speaker 1: that we're having, because when you share them, you realize
Speaker 1: how not how common, but how many other people are
Speaker 1: going through something similar, who have come out on the
Speaker 1: other side of something similar, and can really help you
Speaker 1: feel seen and just validate exactly what you're feeling, which
Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to do with you right now.
Speaker 1: And ba fam, if you're someone who understands what Serena
Speaker 1: is going through, or if you have been through a
Speaker 1: similar situation, will you email me Brand Ambition Podcasts at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com or dm me at Brand Ambition podcast
Speaker 1: on ig so that I can share those messages with Serena,
Speaker 1: because I think our girl, Serena needs to know that
Speaker 1: she's not alone and that there is a community of
Speaker 1: incredible people out there, incredible women who are sharing in
Speaker 1: that experience and want to send some support and some
Speaker 1: live just like I do. All Right, I'm wishing you
Speaker 1: all the best. Thank you so much again for sending
Speaker 1: your question in Serena. If I can think of anything else,
Speaker 1: I'll hit you up in your email, because yes, I
Speaker 1: do read every single email that y'all send me, and
Speaker 1: I respond to them a little.
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