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Speaker 1: So let's begin this week's episode. I know I always

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Speaker 1: say this, but I am super excited to have this

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Speaker 1: young lady on the PSC podcast. She has been future

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Speaker 1: on l dot Com, Black Enterprise, Afro Tech, and The

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Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore Show as the youngest person in history to

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Speaker 1: open a beauty supply store at the age of sixteen

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Speaker 1: and Brooklyn, New York. So to my guests, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing. I'm doing fine. Thank you how much for

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Speaker 1: having me today. Thank you for taking a time much

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Speaker 1: a busy schedule to speak with me. She was doing

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Speaker 1: nails before y'all said yo, she is a hustler. Good,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so much. That's what really helped

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Speaker 1: me open the beauty supply store. Don't get tired, honey,

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Speaker 1: how it's been. It's so weird because it's been amazing

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Speaker 1: for me. Like I know, certain people have struggled so

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Speaker 1: much and lost so many lives and even had to

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Speaker 1: close down their business. But in the pandemic, I've opened

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Speaker 1: up businesses, you know, and I've flourished in my business

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Speaker 1: and not only business, but my academics as well, like

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Speaker 1: being approved to graduate early. So this pandemic has definitely

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Speaker 1: been right. Yes, I'm supposed to be a junior by

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Speaker 1: currently a senior in high school. So Before we begin

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Speaker 1: with your story, by the listeners, a little bit of

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Speaker 1: your background. I'm sixteen years old. I grew up in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: New York, in like the Flatbush area, so you know,

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Speaker 1: shout out to flat Bush and Canari, can't leave out Canaresy.

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Speaker 1: And I opened up the beauty supply store in August

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Speaker 1: of and I had my grand opening in September. I

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Speaker 1: I'm also a nail technician. Yes, in history, I'm also

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Speaker 1: a nail technician. And I'm studying to become an orthopedic

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Speaker 1: pediatric surgeon. So according to l dot com, there are

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Speaker 1: about nine thousand shops that specialized in black hair care

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Speaker 1: have you ever been a side abuse store that was

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Speaker 1: black owned, because I know I haven't. I actually haven't either,

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Speaker 1: I've never been into a beat supply store that was

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Speaker 1: black on What was your experience wome to be sly

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Speaker 1: stores growing up? It was it was pretty negative really,

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Speaker 1: like you know, like almost an every beauty supply store

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Speaker 1: we go into where either followed or accused of stealing

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Speaker 1: or you know, different things and we're profiled and people

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Speaker 1: make assumptions about us before we can even really be ourselves.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I felt in beauty supply stores, Like

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Speaker 1: I would go in if somebody wasn't following me, they

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Speaker 1: help or But it wasn't like a welcoming do you

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Speaker 1: need help? Like in my store, it was a do

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Speaker 1: like I knew exactly what I was going into a

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Speaker 1: beauty supply store for pertaining to my work, you know,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't really very helpful in my personal process, Like

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Speaker 1: So yeah, growing up in bretty supply stores, it was

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Speaker 1: I can't give you an exact age, but just seeing

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Speaker 1: But since I was very young, I helped her in

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Speaker 1: so I learned different things about owning a business and

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Speaker 1: different ways how to con the finance part, yes, yes, definitely.

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Speaker 1: When I was younger, I would do profit and expense

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Speaker 1: He was away for a bit, and I kind of,

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Speaker 1: those things that you learned from her, because I know

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Speaker 1: she played a very intricate part. Oh yeah for New Journey,

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Speaker 1: Yeah she did. She doesn't taught for real, shout out

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Speaker 1: to Seneca because she's the o g Like without her,

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Speaker 1: her how to pay up on what customers need as

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Speaker 1: soon as they walk into your store. Yes, absolutely absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And that wasn't really a thing of the hair salon,

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Speaker 1: but it was something of the boutique, like just being

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Speaker 1: And that's what really helped me so much now and

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Speaker 1: So how did you go about finding this location for

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Speaker 1: your be Supply store? The Being Supply Store actually was

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Speaker 1: I went into very frequently myself because my mom's salam

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Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, let me go talk to

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Speaker 1: something to tell you. She was like the Asians that

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Speaker 1: And because of me doing nails, and I was working

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Speaker 1: And I literally couldn't your mom's lawn mm hmm. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Understand if your family played a huge part in helping

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Speaker 1: you explain the role of each person and how they

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Speaker 1: contribute to your business. Well, we all know, my mom's

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Speaker 1: the most important influence and she taught me basically everything

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Speaker 1: And then my brother, my oldest brother, his name is

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Speaker 1: And like situations like now where we are venturing out

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Speaker 1: But I came to him and he was there to

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Speaker 1: So that's literally who he is to me, is that

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Speaker 1: rock and that person who can be filling the plasstory too. Right,

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Speaker 1: the whole family evolved. No, she comes sometimes, she comes sometimes,

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Speaker 1: or she'll help out of it sometimes. Well, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: really my my older brother. That's the sibling that's always

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Speaker 1: also made sure he prioritized the family business and made

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Speaker 1: So once the paperwork was signed, what was the first thing, Um,

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Speaker 1: the first thing I did was signed the least, Like,

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Speaker 1: I was the most important. No, I didn't, actually, I

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Speaker 1: your social life and being an entrepreneur. Right now, I'm

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Speaker 1: actually not balancing, Like I'm currently trying to balance everything,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it's kind of hard sometimes because it's like,

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Speaker 1: right now, my senior year is my junior year, and

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Speaker 1: my senior year smashed into one, and I didn't get

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Speaker 1: that college process training or anything. I didn't get that

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Speaker 1: my junior year, so right now, like everything is rush,

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Speaker 1: Like I have two English classes to gym classes, Like

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Speaker 1: everything is a lot on me. But it's also great

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Speaker 1: that I wasn't honor student and I started high school

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Speaker 1: classes in middle school because like I would have more

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Speaker 1: double classes, but right now I only have to. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's definitely like one of the hardest parts is to

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Speaker 1: really juggle the school aspect of things. That's the only

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Speaker 1: part that's keeping me in balanced. But like doing nails

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Speaker 1: and own store and venturing out into more business ideas,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of um. I would say it's kind of

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Speaker 1: balanced because I'm not a hundred percent stressed, but it's

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot being sixteen years old and

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Speaker 1: doing all of this and also keeping up with interviews

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Speaker 1: and stuff. But I love it because it's getting my

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Speaker 1: point across and it's inspiring the people who I set

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Speaker 1: out to inspire, which is a youth. What do you

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Speaker 1: like to do for fun? I'm just curious because a

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Speaker 1: person araw one I heard all the time, and I

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Speaker 1: look like if you ever seen me, I kind of

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Speaker 1: look like one too. The hair so pretty nice, long

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Speaker 1: hair with a dress on. It looks so cute. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. But yeah, I before I used

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Speaker 1: to go on a lot of adventures. I'm a very

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Speaker 1: adventurous person. I like to go out to eat. But

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Speaker 1: you know, because of like COVID, I can't do all

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Speaker 1: of the things I want to do. But before, like

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Speaker 1: me and my best friend, we will go to a

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Speaker 1: restaurant every single day after school and we were like

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Speaker 1: little food critics and Manhattan. Yes, I love to go

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Speaker 1: out to restaurants. And something I definitely do to unwind

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Speaker 1: is watch TV shows. I am a TV show person.

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Speaker 1: And if you're listening to this podcast now, do not

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Speaker 1: be afraid to d m me what show you watch,

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Speaker 1: because it has to be a cinematic masterpiece. I did

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Speaker 1: not watch shows with that acting. Yeah right now, my

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Speaker 1: favorite show is Scandal. I'm always watching Scandal. Scandal, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have to finish it. I'm always watching Scandal. There's

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Speaker 1: never a time in my life where I'm not watching Scandal.

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Speaker 1: I finished that show and started it back about a

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Speaker 1: good five times now, all seven seasons. I finish it

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Speaker 1: because I don't even know how it is. I was

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Speaker 1: just getting tired of Olivia, Like what y'all gonna do?

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Speaker 1: But we can't keep doing this. You can't get tired

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Speaker 1: of oliving and fits like they're the bamb Like you

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Speaker 1: get tired of a living in Jake, Like, like, come on,

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Speaker 1: fis but fith love Olivia, love Mellie. FI only was

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Speaker 1: with Mellie because of what she had, Like were her

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Speaker 1: were his father? I thought she had? And you know

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Speaker 1: he despised his father. So imagine your far there gives

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Speaker 1: you this wife. You hate your father, you're gonna hate

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Speaker 1: the wife too. First of all, I'm saying, Jake had

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Speaker 1: a whole wife. Life fist and have a whole wife, Jake.

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Speaker 1: Jake had a whole wife too. Jake had a Jake

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Speaker 1: had a wife, but he thought his wife died. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fitz Fitz is the president. Jake is the agent from

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Speaker 1: B six thirteen. If people didn't get to this part

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Speaker 1: yet and I'm spoiling it for them, I'm sorry. I'm

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Speaker 1: a scandal fiend. Carrie Washington, if you're listening to this podcast,

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Speaker 1: please just follow me back. Please, I'm going I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be a fiend right now. I'm gonna hu a fiend

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Speaker 1: because I love me some. Carry Washington, I love me

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Speaker 1: some Olivia Pope. Yeah, Harry Washington is an amazing actress.

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Speaker 1: I have to admit with that one, like, I love

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Speaker 1: her and she's so beautiful. M So, what are your

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Speaker 1: plans after you graduate from high school? My plans after

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Speaker 1: graduated in high school is to go to college. Right now,

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Speaker 1: my top choice is Howard University. Yes, yes, I need

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Speaker 1: to get in. I need to know. Yeah, like I'm

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Speaker 1: I definitely need to get in. But that's definitely my

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Speaker 1: plans to go in August. And I'm gonna major in

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Speaker 1: bio chem because I want to be on a premied

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Speaker 1: track so I can become an orthopedic pediatric surgeon. So

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Speaker 1: that's definitely my plans after graduation, and you know, like,

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Speaker 1: even though it's two different fields, I've been juggling it

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Speaker 1: so far. Like I already go to a medical based

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Speaker 1: high school, so I've already been juggling the two worlds,

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Speaker 1: so I can also continue to do it. And where

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Speaker 1: are your plans for your business? You're away? Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: Washington is not too far. It's closer than Hampton, about

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Speaker 1: six hours away from my house, and Howard is only

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Speaker 1: about three so it's very easy for me to drive

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Speaker 1: back every weekend. Right now, I'm saying I'm going to

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Speaker 1: drive back every weekend, but you know, homecoming weekend, I'm

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Speaker 1: not coming back to britlin Na the best thing I

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Speaker 1: ever did, so you're gonna be lit mm hmmm, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm definitely I'm definitely not coming back if something

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Speaker 1: that's on campus. But for the most part, I will

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Speaker 1: be driving back every weekend to check in on things.

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Speaker 1: And also, you know, right now, I'm hoping for an expansion.

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Speaker 1: I don't know when this podcast will be coming out.

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Speaker 1: I tell you soon, yeah bye, But I think by

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Speaker 1: time this comes out, I should be announce to my

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Speaker 1: next project, so you know, expansion will be coming soon

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Speaker 1: kind of project just something lit n I can't say

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Speaker 1: too much, but it's it's gonna be something very nice

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Speaker 1: and everyone just stay tuned. And when I post, I

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Speaker 1: want everybody to pop out. Yes, I was writing York

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Speaker 1: and I said pop out, Um, I want everyone to

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Speaker 1: come and support It's it's my latest project is going

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Speaker 1: to be something very nice and very big as well.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just so happy to see like these lessons

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Speaker 1: coming into my life. And hopefully when I announced it,

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Speaker 1: you know, the people are as excited as they were.

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Speaker 1: Sure you keep me posted with it so I can

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Speaker 1: definitely pull up on you and support you on the

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Speaker 1: podcast and everything, because I think what you're doing is

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Speaker 1: so inspiring and also very necessary because representation matters, especially

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Speaker 1: within our community. So yes Hu, And one of the

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Speaker 1: things that I thought that was super inspiring is that

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Speaker 1: you have people from all over the world coming to

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Speaker 1: meet you. So how does that make you feel? It's

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Speaker 1: also so surreal to me too, like it's just so

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Speaker 1: many things that are happening now that I would have

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Speaker 1: never imagined for myself, and I feel like that's why

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Speaker 1: it's so overwhelming and so unrealistic to me, Like people,

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Speaker 1: I just had a customer come yesterday. She drives all

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Speaker 1: the way from North Carolina, has come to the story

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Speaker 1: about every few weeks to pick up me here. And

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Speaker 1: it's just so crazy to me to see these people

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Speaker 1: take time out of the their day to travel and

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Speaker 1: to support me, like travel so far just to support me.

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Speaker 1: It's really amazing. And you even have young young girls

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Speaker 1: coming to your store asking you for a bias on

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Speaker 1: how the store of business. Yes, And that's that's one

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Speaker 1: thing I can actually express emotion about because that's really

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Speaker 1: my whole goal. And that's what I wanted to do.

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Speaker 1: When I sat there and my mom told me about

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Speaker 1: the beauty supply store, I told her, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I want to inspire young people and to see parents

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Speaker 1: bringing their children and you know, telling them like you know,

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Speaker 1: just bringing their children and their children being so excited

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Speaker 1: just to see me and ask me quite is really

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Speaker 1: the greatest, greatest part about owning the store. And that's

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Speaker 1: the part that I can really cry about because it's

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Speaker 1: like wow, like this wasn't my dream, but to see

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Speaker 1: something I aspired to do come true in life is

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Speaker 1: amazing because I didn't know I would accomplish it this way.

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Speaker 1: I thought just being a doctor in the future and

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Speaker 1: someone seeing me as a doctor would help them. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know that my voice would reach this far and

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Speaker 1: help so many. So that's really the most the greatest

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Speaker 1: part about all of this, and you only just begannest facts.

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Speaker 1: So before we leave, what is some advice you would

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Speaker 1: give to our listeners on turning their dreams into a reality.

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Speaker 1: The best advice I can give, and this is the

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Speaker 1: advice that I always give, is to do what you

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Speaker 1: love and to do what you're passionate about. Because right now,

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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people are going into

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Speaker 1: things because of the money me and going into things

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Speaker 1: because they see other people making money from it. But

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Speaker 1: I promise you you'll make the most money doing what

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Speaker 1: you're happy about. You're you're happy to do because you'll

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Speaker 1: strive to make that business greater and you'll strive to

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Speaker 1: make it the best it can be because it's something

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Speaker 1: you care about. Do what you love, and that's when

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Speaker 1: you'll be most successful. Not doing what you see other

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Speaker 1: people making money from, because you'll probably make way less

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Speaker 1: money than them, But doing what you love will bring

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Speaker 1: you the greatest success, not only financially but in happiness. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and that's how Mary had a little lamb from Okay,

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Speaker 1: try to tell you if you can do it so good.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you so much to

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Speaker 1: my guest for coming out and being a part of

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Speaker 1: the PSG podcast. We have to support our younger sisters

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Speaker 1: and everything that they do, so if you have any questions, comments,

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Speaker 1: want to say hey girl, hey, please make sure to

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Speaker 1: email me at hello at the PSD podcast dot com.

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Speaker 1: And until next time, everyone Later,