Speaker 1: Hey, hey, Hey, we're back. We're black, We're brown and shune.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm through.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hey, Manda, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm fabulous. I am so proud of you. Can I
Speaker 2: just say that I stand for you and y'all know
Speaker 2: I gush about Tiffany, but I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: The launch of Molly Moore. I don't really follow Kickstarter,
Speaker 2: but I think it's pretty freaking amazing the early success
Speaker 2: of this project. So where are you at, how much
Speaker 2: of you raised? And what has been the reaction, because
Speaker 2: it feels like on my end, people are going nuts,
Speaker 2: as they should.
Speaker 1: Well, honestly, we had a really I have to say
Speaker 1: we had a really great first day. I mean it's well,
Speaker 1: it's been a week about and it's been awesome throughout.
Speaker 1: So the first day I think we were like ten
Speaker 1: or twenty percent funded. But what was really special is
Speaker 1: that Kickstarter chose us as what they call projects we Love,
Speaker 1: and so I like looked like I was like, what
Speaker 1: this had the emails? I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's like the Kickstarter like Emmy's, you know,
Speaker 1: or Oscars or whatever. But what was really special is
Speaker 1: that with Projects we Love you don't know if you're
Speaker 1: going to be on the front page of Kickstarter, but
Speaker 1: we were. So it feels so so crazy to scroll
Speaker 1: through Kickstarter, which really literally has thousands and tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of projects that are live now, and to see
Speaker 1: only two brown faces and one was mine and one
Speaker 1: was Molly's. I was like, oh my gosh, so that
Speaker 1: was Honestly, it.
Speaker 2: Looks so good. So did you have like a kicks
Speaker 2: like cause you're you know, I've looked at Kickstarter before
Speaker 2: and you know how some of them are kind of
Speaker 2: janky looking. Yours is so clean and professional, and it's
Speaker 2: clear that this is a serious book by a serious
Speaker 2: author who means like who knows her business, Like, you're
Speaker 2: going to donate to this campaign and we're actually going
Speaker 2: to come through with what we say, So, like, talk
Speaker 2: about how you put it together? Did you have the
Speaker 2: Kickstart Kickstarter cons consolet wait, what am I trying to say?
Speaker 2: I can't use words anymore?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: What's that person that gets paid a lot to tell
Speaker 2: you about your ohing wrong?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, a consultant? No, I have to say. So
Speaker 1: what we did was I became a Kickstarter experts honestly.
Speaker 1: So what I did was I got this book literally
Speaker 1: called I think it was called like the Kickstarter Bible
Speaker 1: something or other, because what I did was I was
Speaker 1: listening to different podcasts about Kickstarter, and I was watching
Speaker 1: YouTube videos and there was one guy in particular that
Speaker 1: I thought like he really knew a lot. I can't
Speaker 1: remember his name. I'm sure his book is around here somewhere,
Speaker 1: because I bought his book and I found that he
Speaker 1: had a book on Amazon. So I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, the Kickstarter Bible or whatever whatever it's called.
Speaker 1: It's like this green, white and black book. So I
Speaker 1: bought it and it was so helpful and I honestly
Speaker 1: just read it and went step by step and I
Speaker 1: gathered folks from my team. So, you know, the budget
Speaker 1: needs to have a fairly big team, and what I
Speaker 1: did was I was like, okay, I need a Molly
Speaker 1: Moore team, and we got a project manager, like who's
Speaker 1: already on the budget needs to team. But we pulled
Speaker 1: someone to help us project manage, and we split up
Speaker 1: about three or four months, and we said, pre kickstarter,
Speaker 1: during kickstarter, post Kickstarter, what does that look like? And
Speaker 1: we started to map that out and like because one
Speaker 1: of the things I've learned with Kickstarter is really the
Speaker 1: true work is beforehand, and the more work you put
Speaker 1: in beforehand, that's what you see afterwards. So I mean we,
Speaker 1: like all visuals you see, for the most part, eighty
Speaker 1: or ninety percent of them were already done before Kickstarter.
Speaker 1: Like that video, Oh my gosh, the video it took
Speaker 1: forever because our videographer his computer was slow, but so
Speaker 1: I had to tape it and tape it again, and
Speaker 1: like Molly thankfully was already drawn. Obviously the book was done,
Speaker 1: but like it was, I'm not even gonna lie, this
Speaker 1: is probably the most stress that I've been. I'm not
Speaker 1: stressed now, but leading up to the Kickstarter it was
Speaker 1: the most stress that I've been since, Like I started
Speaker 1: the first literature challenge, I mean this party to deal.
Speaker 2: What was your goal?
Speaker 1: How much thirty five thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: And how long did the process take from start to finish,
Speaker 2: like getting the page and putting it together?
Speaker 1: So the kickstarted itself, like the actual page not long,
Speaker 1: but we started planning eight weeks. So you figure like
Speaker 1: what like a month and a little bit of change,
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, about a month no, no, eight weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can tell it's been a lot. Anything.
Speaker 2: My life is by week.
Speaker 1: Now he's fifty four weeks.
Speaker 2: You're like a list those people come on why.
Speaker 1: But yeah, So literally it was like it was crazy
Speaker 1: because we were just when once the kickstarted launch, we
Speaker 1: were like, yo, we just launched a new company in
Speaker 1: eight weeks. So the team, what we did was that
Speaker 1: we met every Monday and Friday. We still do. We
Speaker 1: meet Mondays and Fridays, and then we kind of look
Speaker 1: on Mondays we assigned the task, and on Fridays we
Speaker 1: just kind of like regroup and make sure they're done.
Speaker 1: And so they have been amazing because it's not just
Speaker 1: visually the Kickstarter that's the easy part. Before the kickstart
Speaker 1: to launches, you have to figure out, well, what are
Speaker 1: your what are your rewards going to be, how are
Speaker 1: you going to fulfill those rewards? How much is each
Speaker 1: reward going to cost you? Like, so for example, we
Speaker 1: have when you like you go to mollymore dot com
Speaker 1: and you say, oh, I want to get a book, Well,
Speaker 1: every book that you get, I've had it in there
Speaker 1: where I am going to also give away a book.
Speaker 1: So now I have to calculate how much does it
Speaker 1: cost to print the book that you're buying, how much
Speaker 1: does it cost to ship you the book that you're buying,
Speaker 1: how much it cost to print the book that you're
Speaker 1: not buying, but the book that you're getting for another
Speaker 1: kid by proxy of you getting that book. So every penny,
Speaker 1: I literally have this Kickstarter spreadsheet where for each reward tier,
Speaker 1: I know to the penny how much it's going to
Speaker 1: cost to fulfill this reward. Like I had to calculate
Speaker 1: everything from credit card costs. That Kickstarter charge is twenty
Speaker 1: cents for every time anyone makes an order, like anyone
Speaker 1: choose a reward, and then there's a two percent Kickstarter fee.
Speaker 1: So if you don't calculate those things right, you might say, oh,
Speaker 1: this reward I'm gonna if you give me thirty dollars,
Speaker 1: you get these five things. But if you haven't done
Speaker 1: the math, you might not realize that those five things
Speaker 1: are actually going to cost you forty dollars to fulfill.
Speaker 1: So I did like the level of math. The math
Speaker 1: loan took me a month to figure out fully, so
Speaker 1: I know exactly that for every tier when you make
Speaker 1: an order, I know when someone orders the Molly More
Speaker 1: book and like some other Chatski's or whatever, like for
Speaker 1: thirty dollars that I make like fifteen of those thirty
Speaker 1: and that fifteen is what I use then to like,
Speaker 1: all that extra money is going to be used to
Speaker 1: hire teachers, to write more curriculum and lesson plans and things.
Speaker 1: So but it's been a labor of love. But when
Speaker 1: I tell you the like, it was to the point
Speaker 1: where I was literally just standing in the kitchen looking
Speaker 1: off to the like out the window, and my husband
Speaker 1: was like, are you okay? I'm like, who are you? Like,
Speaker 1: especially the week before it was I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: the kind of stress I wish on anybody. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, quite honestly, it was not healthy. And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, Tiffany, you know you hit it well.
Speaker 1: I know you don't have to hide that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: you know what. I didn't even realize that I was
Speaker 1: that stressed until, like, yeah, until I was looking at
Speaker 1: myself in the mirror. I'm like, yo, you look like
Speaker 1: hell bags in your eyes. Honestly, what it really hit
Speaker 1: me when this might be TMI, but it really hit
Speaker 1: me when I missed my period and I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: That's when I was like yeah, because I was like
Speaker 1: I was getting all the symptoms, you know, like my
Speaker 1: face was breaking out, and I was like, oh, periods coming,
Speaker 1: periods coming. Then I look at my Ovia app and
Speaker 1: I'm like, hmmm, according to this, I'm on day four.
Speaker 1: I'm not. And so it was like, and I know
Speaker 1: I'm not prayierant because I have an IIU D inside
Speaker 1: because y'all know that I had like a scar removal
Speaker 1: surgery maybe like a month or two ago. So they
Speaker 1: put like an IUD without the medicine in it. But
Speaker 1: to like prop open my uterus, since I tend to
Speaker 1: my uterus tends to basically congeal together.
Speaker 2: You can't bother with the disclaimer of TMI anymore.
Speaker 1: I know y'all know about all my uteris.
Speaker 2: Of people literally know what's inside your uterus.
Speaker 1: I know. So as a result, I know that's how
Speaker 1: I know. I'm not praying. I'm just sharing all that
Speaker 1: to know that. That's why, because I know that the
Speaker 1: IUD is in there. So when I didn't get my period,
Speaker 1: I was like, where was like, That's why I looked
Speaker 1: at my app because I'm like I'm getting fake, I'm
Speaker 1: getting all the symptoms. And I was like, wow, I
Speaker 1: totally skipped it and that has never, ever in my
Speaker 1: forty years, ever happened before. And I called, like my doctor.
Speaker 1: She was like, are you under stress? I'm like extreme.
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, too extreme. And then that's when I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I need to Like, I'm I'm proud
Speaker 1: of what we did, Molly Moore, but I pushed myself
Speaker 1: too hard, not to compare myself to Beyonce, but after Homecoming,
Speaker 1: Beyonce said she would never push herself that hard again,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I feel you, girl. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not homecoming, but that's what it felt like
Speaker 1: for me. So I'm I know, I am proud of
Speaker 1: the team and I'm proud of myself, but it was
Speaker 1: too much, quite honestly, Like there are boundaries where it's
Speaker 1: like at what cars so like yeah, so, but if
Speaker 1: you haven't already gotten your book, you can push us
Speaker 1: over the edge so I could sleep at night. You
Speaker 1: go to mollymore dot com, grab you a copy, and
Speaker 1: every time every copy that you get, we even have
Speaker 1: book orders, Like for every copy you get, I give
Speaker 1: away a copy to a kid that might not otherwise
Speaker 1: have access to books. So I'm excited.
Speaker 2: It sounds like you need a mom to come visit
Speaker 2: you and just slyly order something from online and it
Speaker 2: shows about your door and it's a big ass container
Speaker 2: of calling gummies and anti stress vitamins. I'm like, mom,
Speaker 2: what are you trying to say?
Speaker 1: You know what edge I would say that like like, honestly,
Speaker 1: Superman has been like awesome. Once he kind of realized,
Speaker 1: like he was like, you know, like doing extra cleanup
Speaker 1: and like, babe, I got the launchry, why don't you
Speaker 1: go lay down? I was like, do I look at him?
Speaker 1: He's like, yes, you might want to take a shower too, Like, oh, I'll.
Speaker 2: Tell you the same crap people tell me about having
Speaker 2: a baby. It all gets better. You won't even remember.
Speaker 2: You're gonna want to have fifty more books in a year.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if I love to
Speaker 1: do another Kickstarter. I'll tell you that much. I definitely
Speaker 1: do want to have more books, but well, explain.
Speaker 2: The yeah, so explain the reasoning of because you're you know,
Speaker 2: the mission with the Kickstarter isn't to like raise money
Speaker 2: that you need, like you said, you're using it for
Speaker 2: the to hire financial educators, but it's also like marketing
Speaker 2: right for your book. Yeah, I have to talk about
Speaker 2: that decision for anyone who might be thinking about, you know,
Speaker 2: for their business or whatever, a new launch something on Kickstarter.
Speaker 1: So the good thing about Kickstarter is so the original
Speaker 1: use that people I guess why Kickstarter was created is
Speaker 1: like people are like, how do I get funding for
Speaker 1: this idea? I need money to create the idea. So
Speaker 1: you put the idea out there and people basically fund
Speaker 1: your idea. Then you create the thing, so maybe it's
Speaker 1: like a doll or you know, an app or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, and then then once you get the funding,
Speaker 1: you make the thing, you give it to the people
Speaker 1: who ordered it. But for me, I was really using
Speaker 1: Kickstarter a little bit more strategically because I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: how do I get the word out there about Molly
Speaker 1: Moore and honestly kind of like get pre orders, you know,
Speaker 1: because I didn't need the money for the book itself,
Speaker 1: Like typically people need the money for the thing they're creating.
Speaker 1: I didn't, so I was like, well, how do I
Speaker 1: you know, how do I get the word out there?
Speaker 1: Because with kickstarted this it's its own movement, and so
Speaker 1: people quite honestly are not like, let me share Tiffany's book,
Speaker 1: But if you share, you'd be more willing to share
Speaker 1: more of a movement. So it's like, okay, so what
Speaker 1: good thing can we do with the movement? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, what if we gave books away? That
Speaker 1: was always in my intention anyway, but I'm like, what
Speaker 1: if I made that something that people can participate in?
Speaker 1: And as I was creating the financial literacy stuff for
Speaker 1: mollymore dot com, I honestly ran out of ideas and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I know so many dope financial folks.
Speaker 1: You know, Like what if I use also money from
Speaker 1: the kickstarter to hire some people to make even more
Speaker 1: curriculum that I can give away for free. So it
Speaker 1: was like this great like marketing tool to get mollymore
Speaker 1: out there. And it's not me saying, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: buy my thing to me. That is the smartest thing
Speaker 1: you can do in marketing is not to actually say hey,
Speaker 1: by my thing, because quite honestly, people don't care about
Speaker 1: your thing. They care about what's something internal inside them.
Speaker 1: So instead what I'm saying is, hey, help kids and
Speaker 1: people don't say no to help help like kids. And
Speaker 1: there have been different stages and I'm learning. Like in
Speaker 1: the beginning, it was before kickstarted launch, I created a
Speaker 1: separate mollymore list where I was like, go to the
Speaker 1: website if you're wanting to pre order this book, giving
Speaker 1: your name, email and number. So I knew I had
Speaker 1: like this list of people that were distinctly interested specifically
Speaker 1: and Molly Moore. And so the night before and launched,
Speaker 1: I let them know that I have some like discounted
Speaker 1: tears on the Kickstarter. So those people came in and droves.
Speaker 1: Then a really popular podcast they maybe their black Business
Speaker 1: of the Week, so that dropped. I made sure to
Speaker 1: make that drop on the day that Kickstarter was dropping.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, if to the friend Zone, yes.
Speaker 1: They're awesome. And so that was like the first major push.
Speaker 2: It was like, was that just an unexpected shout out
Speaker 2: or did you reach out to them like, hey, I'm
Speaker 2: doing this.
Speaker 1: It was random, so randomly, like so not randomly. But
Speaker 1: two years ago I was on the friend Zone. A
Speaker 1: fran from the friend Zone ended up reaching out to
Speaker 1: me and said, hey, we'd love for you to come back.
Speaker 1: You know, it had been like two maybe even three years,
Speaker 1: and I was like, sure, I'll come back. So I
Speaker 1: was scheduled to come back anyway. And then randomly I
Speaker 1: was texting her and it was like, hey, you know, friend,
Speaker 1: like what day did you want me to come back again?
Speaker 1: She said, oh, you call me just in time. I'm
Speaker 1: about to head into the studio and making my black
Speaker 1: Business of the week. I was like, wait, can you
Speaker 1: do it next week? Because I told her about the
Speaker 1: Kickstarter and she was like okay, so thankfully because that
Speaker 1: would have been not a wasted shout out. But it's
Speaker 1: like where to send them, you know, yeah? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so then I was like, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: sell you exactly. So it was honestly, it was perfect time.
Speaker 1: I didn't. These are things that kind of happened accidentally,
Speaker 1: but I would if I was going to do a
Speaker 1: Kickstarter again, I would purposefully line it up for like
Speaker 1: whatever the biggest media I can think of to drop
Speaker 1: the same day as my Kickstarter and then lead people there.
Speaker 1: So the first round of people were like emails and
Speaker 1: friend zone people and social media, and then when that
Speaker 1: died down, I was like, okay, what's kind of like
Speaker 1: the next round then it was well I would say
Speaker 1: emails and that the podcast, and then the next round
Speaker 1: was social media, social media, social media, So we did that,
Speaker 1: and then this weekend I was kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the numbers are slowing down. And that friend of mine
Speaker 1: was like, girl, you met a doll for dollars And
Speaker 1: I'm like, what does that mean? She's like, you know
Speaker 1: how like and you know, like you see like those
Speaker 1: telethons that people are there literally cold calling people, and
Speaker 1: she was like, everyone hits you up in your inbox
Speaker 1: and ask you for financial advice, right, yes, she said,
Speaker 1: we'll hit them back. So I created this like little
Speaker 1: like kind of script like hey, but I would I would.
Speaker 1: I would personalize it so I wouldn't send it to
Speaker 1: anyone I didn't know. But I'm like, hey, Mandy Hope
Speaker 1: all as well, did you know I have a book,
Speaker 1: And I would outline it a little bit and then
Speaker 1: send you to mollymore dot com. And I did that
Speaker 1: all this weekend, literally just copy and pasting on my phone,
Speaker 1: copy paste, copy paste, and up until now that has
Speaker 1: raised it generated about three thousand dollars. So that was awesome.
Speaker 2: If you're like a political candidate, like I'm just like
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren, I love you, but can you stop? I
Speaker 2: stopped sending me emails. I know you're in trouble, girl,
Speaker 2: I know Nevada is coming up in you're stressed, but
Speaker 2: can you not send me five emails an hour? Sorry?
Speaker 1: And so no, it's marketing, yes, because I wanted to
Speaker 1: slow down on the emails. I was like, well, if
Speaker 1: I if I I Facebook message like probably one hundred
Speaker 1: people yesterday and then I instagrammed another twenty to thirty
Speaker 1: people yesterday, and so I'm going to keep that up
Speaker 1: because what I found was so I just assumed that
Speaker 1: all my friends knew, and so many of them. You
Speaker 1: know how Facebook is like crazy with them. They don't
Speaker 1: let you see like the alg rhythm doesn't let everyone
Speaker 1: see what you're doing. So I would say, honestly, eighty
Speaker 1: percent of them were like, you have a book, And
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, So it really behooves you that
Speaker 1: if you have something, don't assume that the people that
Speaker 1: are in your life know. So I Facebook message all
Speaker 1: these people, I tweeted I am not really tweeted, but
Speaker 1: instagram all these people in their inbox. Send them the
Speaker 1: cover of mollymore like a picture and it just started
Speaker 1: flowing in. And so today what I'm gonna do, actually,
Speaker 1: the thing I'm gonna do now today is actually I'm
Speaker 1: going to start texting, like so there's probably maybe like
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty people that I'm going to text in
Speaker 1: my phone that same kind of message. Hey Mandy, it's
Speaker 1: me and Tiffany. Did you know I have a book
Speaker 1: and this is what I'm doing with then, and would
Speaker 1: love for you to go pre order at mollymore dot com.
Speaker 1: And so I'm excited about that. And then the next
Speaker 1: phase for this week also too, which we're gonna send
Speaker 1: out a press release so hopefully generate some press. So
Speaker 1: you have to think about your campaign in waves like
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't do all at the same time.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, the email wave, the social media wave,
Speaker 1: the text message wave, the social like DM's wave, you know,
Speaker 1: the press wave. And I'm gonna I'm doing a podcasts
Speaker 1: and things like interviews. So now that's like coming up
Speaker 1: in a week or so, like the podcast interview waves.
Speaker 1: And so I'm hoping all of those waves cumulatively add
Speaker 1: up to the thirty five thousand dollars and then I
Speaker 1: can rest easy at least for a little bit, so honestly,
Speaker 1: but it's been really interesting because I love marketing to
Speaker 1: see like what's worked and what has not worked. And
Speaker 1: it's crazy because I can't wait.
Speaker 2: For my copy.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait for my copy. People like, don't
Speaker 1: you have what? I'm like, No, it takes two to
Speaker 1: three months to print.
Speaker 2: You're trying to do it the old fashion way. Man,
Speaker 2: I know, it's just it's gonna be so sad. I'm
Speaker 2: so Oh. You're just so inspirational. I can't wait. You're
Speaker 2: the kind of friend who I love to have because
Speaker 2: all you because I'm so excited for you, and I'm
Speaker 2: just like, yes, yes, I need to create something. I
Speaker 2: need to be back out there. I'm going to work tomorrow.
Speaker 2: By the way, are you back at Watch Out World?
Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
Speaker 2: The whole brain is coming a new brain. I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2: My mom is here, I'm working from home for the week.
Speaker 2: I talked to my boss last week, got him on
Speaker 2: board with my plan. Anyone looking for a strategy for that,
Speaker 2: you just leave it to the last thirty minutes of
Speaker 2: the conversation and just roll it out to them what
Speaker 2: you want to do. But yeah, so I'm working from
Speaker 2: home for a week and then I'm going to do
Speaker 2: three days in the office in two days telecommuting. Do
Speaker 2: people still say that telecommute?
Speaker 1: Whatever?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, w eight f age Okay, And my
Speaker 2: mom is going to be here for five weeks, which
Speaker 2: is great a blessing because Bebe has decided this week
Speaker 2: to refuse the bottle and it is highly stressful because
Speaker 2: mommy's boobs are going to be an hour and a
Speaker 2: half away in Manhattan and boy needs to learn how
Speaker 2: to take that bottle. Yes, so he and grandma are
Speaker 2: going to battle it out this week. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Wish me luck. I'm but I'm very excited to go back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm feeling good, feeling good good.
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's crazy, like, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like you've been home for so long, but then home
Speaker 1: not that long.
Speaker 2: You know, you know that podcast the longest shortest time. Yes,
Speaker 2: I continue to think. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2: It is like the longest shortest twelve weeks of my life.
Speaker 2: But you know, thanks for being on this journey with me. Well,
Speaker 2: and I'll keep you guys post on how I'm doing.
Speaker 2: But I'm feeling good. I'm glad to have my mom here.
Speaker 2: She just brings a sense of calm. It's nice to
Speaker 2: have your mama here. You just like, nothing can go wrong.
Speaker 2: Mom's here. Oh, it's it's nice. I love her. I
Speaker 2: love her for leaving her husband in Saint Louis and
Speaker 2: the dog and coming. And you know, I'll do this
Speaker 2: for my future kid if he wants me to one day,
Speaker 2: because it is such a it's a gift. It really
Speaker 2: does take a village, and I don't really have one,
Speaker 2: so for her to drop everything in come it just
Speaker 2: you know, it means a lot.
Speaker 1: So, oh, how is she like? You know, is it
Speaker 1: the battle of the g Mas?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, I mean they don't speak the same language,
Speaker 2: so that kind of helps. No. They give each other
Speaker 2: their space. You know my mom My mom hung out
Speaker 2: and then she went upstairs to take a nap. And
Speaker 2: you know, you you you give them space since they're
Speaker 2: they're very good, they're very sweet people. Nothing dramatic like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, should we take some questions?
Speaker 1: So yes, my favorite if you have a question, ask
Speaker 1: I forgot the song. It's been a long week.
Speaker 2: Ask a question, you guys, hit us up. You can
Speaker 2: find us on Instagram at Brandon Mission Podcast or hit
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Speaker 2: Oh thank you FRENCHI yes, four to one k alone
Speaker 2: for a house.
Speaker 1: It's not my fave, not your fath why only because
Speaker 1: there you run the risk of one not paying that back.
Speaker 1: And as someone who drained their former and k to
Speaker 1: try to save their house, I don't necessarily regret it,
Speaker 1: but I'm still behind the retirement eight ball as a result.
Speaker 1: So it just makes me nervous because I really believe
Speaker 1: it is your younger self job to look after your
Speaker 1: older self. And it's not the worst decision in the world,
Speaker 1: you know, but it also puts your potential retirement in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: So it's just not my fath especially because you're young.
Speaker 1: Now you're supposed to use like you you know, your
Speaker 1: good neees and you're good back to put the work
Speaker 1: in so much. You know, how much have you put
Speaker 1: the work in? Now? Save get an extra job, you
Speaker 1: know whatever on the side, and save the down payment
Speaker 1: that you need, and then you leave your retirement a
Speaker 1: loan for when you don't have the good neees in
Speaker 1: the good back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll just add to that really quickly. When
Speaker 2: you take out a four to one K loan, you know,
Speaker 2: your employer basically gives you the privilege, I guess or
Speaker 2: the gives you the option to borrow from your four
Speaker 2: to one K. And when you borrow from your four
Speaker 2: to one k, you know you, yes, you're going to
Speaker 2: pay yourself back. And I have taken a small four
Speaker 2: to one K loan out before and I paid it
Speaker 2: off within a year and it was it was nice
Speaker 2: because you know, I paid myself back and their low
Speaker 2: low interests and any interest you pay goes back to yourself.
Speaker 2: So that made sense for me. But what I'll say
Speaker 2: is you need to really feel secure in where you work,
Speaker 2: because if you were to get laid off or leave
Speaker 2: your job, your employer would be asking for that money
Speaker 2: back immediately. And I think you have don't quote me
Speaker 2: on this, but I think like thirty to sixty days
Speaker 2: sometimes to pay that money back. So let's say you
Speaker 2: take out twenty grand for a down payment. If you're
Speaker 2: in the middle of paying it back, you've got ten
Speaker 2: k left. You've got to be able to come up
Speaker 2: with that or I believe the risk is that it'll
Speaker 2: count as a withdrawal and then you get hit with
Speaker 2: all those four one K withdrawal penalties like taxes and
Speaker 2: things like that. So you have to really, you know,
Speaker 2: feel secure and where you're working and accept the risk
Speaker 2: that when you take money out of an investment account
Speaker 2: and put it into a home, a home, yes, potentially
Speaker 2: can increase in value, but you have to look at
Speaker 2: home values in the area where you're buying it. It
Speaker 2: could be unlikely that you'll earn as much return on
Speaker 2: an investment from your home as you would if you
Speaker 2: just left that money where it was sitting in the market.
Speaker 2: For some people that may be worth the risk for
Speaker 2: some others maybe not. So weigh all your options so
Speaker 2: you know, I see the pros, but also there's some
Speaker 2: cons to consider too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I said, it's not the worst thing, but
Speaker 1: like you know, there's I don't know. I just like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm actually not mad that I took out
Speaker 1: that money, but I'm like, you know, Angeline, my financial
Speaker 1: planner is like, girl, like you need to be I
Speaker 1: have to. I actually have to be more aggressive and
Speaker 1: saving for retirement now because of that choice that I
Speaker 1: made that long ago. And I'm like, I don't have
Speaker 1: the knees in the back I used to.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think we're not worried about you retire.
Speaker 1: I'm mommy.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your question. Listen to you
Speaker 2: one more quick quick. Here's one about switching banks from
Speaker 2: a listener who wants to be anonymous. She says, I
Speaker 2: found your podcast last year. Is still catching up. I
Speaker 2: learned so much. I'm trying to move from my brick
Speaker 2: and Border bank Bank of America because of all the
Speaker 2: hidden fees, and I'm thinking of moving to a Discover
Speaker 2: checking and savings account. The problem is I only have
Speaker 2: one credit card and it's that Bank of America card.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's wise to keep it as is?
Speaker 2: Because it's my longest standing credit card, so my credit
Speaker 2: score won't be affected. Right now, I'm in the high
Speaker 2: seven hundreds.
Speaker 1: What do we do? We give her a name anonymous.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call her Twain. That's my first card too.
Speaker 1: Bank of America samesies.
Speaker 2: For the girl. They got me when I was interning
Speaker 2: in New York outside of the John P. Juice. I
Speaker 2: want to say, sign me right up, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I think I think I think they got me. In college.
Speaker 1: I was literally like, I'll trade my life for Snickers
Speaker 1: barb Alex.
Speaker 2: Thanks, give me that free T shirt, thank you.
Speaker 1: And so honestly triple it. I still have my Bank
Speaker 1: of that same card. I still have and I was
Speaker 1: with Bank of America and I'm no longer because fees.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to stay with the like just
Speaker 1: because you have a credit card with that bank doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to have a bank account with that bank.
Speaker 1: I don't. So yeah, you could keep that card. And
Speaker 1: I honestly suggested, like I keep my Bank of America card.
Speaker 1: It has my interest rate of all my cards is
Speaker 1: probably the highest. I think it's like nine or ten percent,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to use it. Quite honestly, I
Speaker 1: put like I think, I put my Netflix on it
Speaker 1: and pay it off every month just so I can
Speaker 1: keep it open.
Speaker 2: Wait, nine or ten percent is a low interest rate?
Speaker 2: Is it compared to what credit cards have today today?
Speaker 1: You know what? But I have You know what it is?
Speaker 1: I have a Wells Fargo's card that I locked in
Speaker 1: a rate in like five point two five percent.
Speaker 2: That's I think about it in nineteen eighty three. No,
Speaker 2: that's good, but I lacked it.
Speaker 1: When I got it. It was like some special like promo. Honestly, well,
Speaker 1: I honestly pay up all my cards in full every month,
Speaker 1: so I don't really look at my interest rates, of course,
Speaker 1: but of course, but I'm not a lie. During when
Speaker 1: I was renovating, it was got a little sticky. There
Speaker 1: were definitely so much where I wasn't able to pay
Speaker 1: off my own credit card. But yeah, so y'all say
Speaker 1: all that to say, you can certainly leave Bank of
Speaker 1: America as far as your checking account goes, and keep
Speaker 1: your credit card. Those two things are. You don't have
Speaker 1: to have both at the same bank.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and your intuition is right. It is better to
Speaker 2: keep that old credit card open, especially if there's no
Speaker 2: annual fee, there's no reason to close it. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe charge one thing on it so that it continues
Speaker 2: clocking that you're making payments. And I learned this the
Speaker 2: hard way. That old Bank of America card that I
Speaker 2: had from college. I had a low interest rate, like
Speaker 2: nine percent too, with the credit limit was like a
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Anyway, I lost it, never used it, and
Speaker 2: they canceled that card on my behalf for not using it.
Speaker 2: So my credit score was fine because I had other cards,
Speaker 2: you know, and you know, more than just the age
Speaker 2: of your credit factors into your credit score, but it's
Speaker 2: it's definitely one of the factors. So you want to
Speaker 2: consider that. So yeah, that is your answer. And once again,
Speaker 2: of course, Tiffany and I are not financial advisors or
Speaker 2: investment advisors, So take our advice like you would advice
Speaker 2: from a friend, and don't.
Speaker 1: Come for us exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes, speak true professional advice if you're you know, looking
Speaker 2: for something more tailored to your specific situation, because you can't,
Speaker 2: you know, tell us your entire life on Instagram, all right,
Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for your question.
Speaker 1: Yes, you guys always have really great questions. Booster, break,
Speaker 1: it's time to boost, it's time to break. It's not boost,
Speaker 1: it's not break now, Mandy, which one will you take? Boost? Oh? Break?
Speaker 1: You know I'm never gonna remember that song again.
Speaker 2: You know that, right, That's totally fine. This is a
Speaker 2: one time performance.
Speaker 1: You guys.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. Uh, you know what. I don't want to
Speaker 2: I don't want to sound like I am just trying
Speaker 2: to send you, guys to our advertisers. But I have
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Speaker 2: Had no occasion to put on a regular pair of
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Speaker 2: it feels like for twelve weeks now. But I finally
Speaker 2: went to Target yesterday. You guys, my husband but together.
Speaker 2: It was the second time he and I have been
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Speaker 1: Yes, if I might make a suggestion, I would suggest
Speaker 1: the the camel loafers are every time. No, but honestly,
Speaker 1: so I got my I got my sister Tracy up here,
Speaker 1: the cameo loafers, and I'm like, honestly, it's snowing outside. Tracy,
Speaker 1: She's like, I love that wars the I that's Those
Speaker 1: are my personal favorites and hers as well. But they
Speaker 1: look so skyl and I'm not, if you know me,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a tomboy. But so I like a
Speaker 1: really comfortable I love the fact that I can look like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm on purpose stylish even though I'm really feeling like
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a sneaker. And so yeah, those are like
Speaker 1: the super like stylish ones.
Speaker 2: And what's to hold up? You know, That's what I'm
Speaker 2: because they're not They're not cheap, right, No, they're not.
Speaker 2: So how long are they lasting because I just started
Speaker 2: to wear mine in New York City notoriously tears up
Speaker 2: my shoes, So what tell me the truth?
Speaker 1: No, honestly, I think I've had my camel once for
Speaker 1: at least a year and some change. And they're like
Speaker 1: the most worn shoes that I have. And when I
Speaker 1: tell you, they look exactly like they did, which is
Speaker 1: actually surprising because I tear up. Like if you see
Speaker 1: my ugs, You're like, uh, exactly, But no, they actually
Speaker 1: look exactly the same from and I've watched them. So
Speaker 1: I've watched them at least three different times. And yeah,
Speaker 1: they I guess because they're the plastic I don't know,
Speaker 1: but they don't they don't beat up, and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a shoe beater uper because I'm also one of these
Speaker 1: people that like slightly walks on the side of their shoes,
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, so like, but they hold up
Speaker 1: really really well. Like yeah, I can honestly say why
Speaker 1: these are my favorite go to shoot. I wish quite
Speaker 1: honestly they had something for like the winter, something super cute,
Speaker 1: because I can't wait for the fall and spring so
Speaker 1: I can throw them back on again.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, shout out to Rothy's check those show
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Speaker 1: Yes, and I am going to booze. So something pretty
Speaker 1: amazing happened. And even I like it was funny because
Speaker 1: I was talking to a Jirell today and he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't get really impressed by things that
Speaker 1: happen for the Budgetesta anymore. I'm like, thanks, Rando, and
Speaker 1: nobody asked you, and which I'm like, that's fine because honestly,
Speaker 1: we don't only talk about at the house, but this
Speaker 1: is one thing that I'm not gonna lie. I screamed.
Speaker 1: So I was on Twitter the other day someone tweeted me.
Speaker 1: His name was Patrick. He was the technical or tech
Speaker 1: columnist for Time Time magazine, I guess, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I see you, Budgetista, and it was a picture of
Speaker 1: me in like this black box and I'm like okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm like that's a weird TV. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: where is this He's like, I'm in a cab. I
Speaker 1: almost fainted.
Speaker 2: Mandy, wait on the cab.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry not to scream. How So remember so this
Speaker 1: year I think her name is Meghan. That your friend
Speaker 1: who works for CNBC, Right, So Mandy's friend Meghan listens
Speaker 1: to Brian Abishing unlike my friends Megan girl, so she listens.
Speaker 1: And so she asked me, like, you know, hey, you
Speaker 1: know sometimes I do these short little videos and you know,
Speaker 1: for a CNBC they'll go on the website. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll go on to like a blog post or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, we'd love for you to come on and
Speaker 1: like do so And I was like okay, and so
Speaker 1: I came. I did them, and she's like, I'm not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, no promises. There is a small, minute, minute
Speaker 1: chance that there is a company that takes care of
Speaker 1: the edutainment that you kind of see in the back
Speaker 1: of like a cab. And she's like, sometimes they will
Speaker 1: pick up videos that we do, you know. But she's like,
Speaker 1: now that's you know, I guarantee they'll be on CNBC
Speaker 1: dot com, but that is not up to us. And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh. She was like, don't
Speaker 1: get excited. It rarely happens. And I said, okay, So
Speaker 1: I did them a lot of fun and truthfully, she said,
Speaker 1: the videos that get picked up are like the really
Speaker 1: short ones. And you know, if you know me, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not exactly someone that's concise. So I was like, well,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm not gonna ever get picked up because I
Speaker 1: can't get these tips under five thousand minutes. So I
Speaker 1: did the tips. They did well, you know, like they
Speaker 1: posted them on CNBC. They're still rolling out. But I
Speaker 1: didn't think about it. So when he sent me that picture,
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm in a cab yo. I literally screamed,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, are you kidding me? And then my agent, Headther,
Speaker 1: she's my book agent, was in a cab and she
Speaker 1: sent me the video. I'm like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I feel like I want to go to New York
Speaker 1: just to get in a cab. Oh my gosh. So
Speaker 1: I can't even believe it.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not in the lost for words.
Speaker 2: To take a cab ride somewhere.
Speaker 1: And I actually have to go to the city tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And I was gonna just stop the cab and be like,
Speaker 2: can you just turn on the TV real quick? I
Speaker 2: love my phone in here, hmm.
Speaker 1: I know, so I don't like, I don't know how
Speaker 1: often it plays or whatever, but I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow. I think I am gonna I think
Speaker 1: I'll take the train to Penn Station and then I
Speaker 1: have to go do a podcast actually the friends on
Speaker 1: the actual podcast itself. So I think, I think I
Speaker 1: am going to take a cab just so I can
Speaker 1: be in there and be like, I hope, I.
Speaker 2: Come on, you're going to tell them you have the
Speaker 2: podcast too, and it's called Brown Ambitish last time.
Speaker 1: I am definitely gonna shout at.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the four giving them free press. Hey
Speaker 2: friend Zone, I subscribed. I forgot about that. I felt like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, the friend Zone. Okay, I need to get
Speaker 2: some podcast. I'm so book I have like two big
Speaker 2: fat new books to read on the train. I'm probably
Speaker 2: gonna go sleep in the whole way to the train, Like,
Speaker 2: let's be honest, yeah, because my commute. I'm excited to
Speaker 2: be just trapped on a train with nothing else to
Speaker 2: do but read a book or listen to a podcast.
Speaker 2: I got the bell jar and I have I think,
Speaker 2: what is it called life as we know it? I
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I just I don't know, like I'm both
Speaker 1: exhausted and yet happy, and yet exhausted and yet happy.
Speaker 1: Rest I know, I'm just like you are, kid.
Speaker 2: I'm really proud of you, thanks man, But I'm more
Speaker 2: proud of you if you are healthy, happy and healthy.
Speaker 1: Yes, I always say that, like that is the point.
Speaker 1: You want to be healthy, happy and whole.
Speaker 2: I want to enjoy your success exactly.
Speaker 1: And I feel happy honestly, and I feel I guess whole.
Speaker 1: I don't even know who like what that means, but
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I have like this like raging
Speaker 1: cough that I suspect is like my body being like
Speaker 1: if you don't lay down, I'm gonna put you down.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, So yeah, it's like this drag cough.
Speaker 1: If anybody has any drack off solutions. Because I cannot
Speaker 1: see themidifier, I think so I was thinking. Now it's
Speaker 1: like I think I do need to get a human.
Speaker 2: Oh it is a girl in these New Jersey New
Speaker 2: York winters. Yes, I have one on my bed. I'll
Speaker 2: send you a link to a cute one. Oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, Is it like the elephant one that it comes
Speaker 1: out a trunk?
Speaker 2: Uh? No, that sounds like it's firm a child, but
Speaker 2: you know what you do. No, this one's shaped like
Speaker 2: a little tear drop.
Speaker 1: Ooh I think, I think, Okay, yeah, so send it
Speaker 1: to me because I do need to humidifier, even though yeah,
Speaker 1: I do need humanifire because I'm.
Speaker 2: Like some essential oils in there. You look the oil magical, yeah,
Speaker 2: or as my mother and Laudra shove some vix the boat. Wait,
Speaker 2: what's it called Vic's baby?
Speaker 1: No, don't they call it? My friend used to she
Speaker 1: was Dominican, and her mom used to call it viva
Speaker 1: peru or something like what I need exactly. And I
Speaker 1: was like, what she said you need?
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, oh, trick me and make in fun.
Speaker 1: I can't now.
Speaker 2: I respect and love all diminishing.
Speaker 1: Upway less love Dominican. It sounds just like the way
Speaker 1: my Nigerian parents were said. Yeah, so you know, like
Speaker 1: it's very similar in the pronunciation. But yeah, honestly, it's
Speaker 1: been an awesome week. How has baby Rio been? Has
Speaker 1: he been?
Speaker 2: If he takes that bottle, he will be That's the
Speaker 2: new stress of the week. He needs a new baby
Speaker 2: every day. Last day, though, slept till five am. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm afraid to say that out loud because it is
Speaker 2: a miracle, like he slept eight hours. Now, I did
Speaker 2: not sleep because of course I woke up at two
Speaker 2: am in a cold sweat, like, where's baby? Why have
Speaker 2: I not been woken up? And then it took me
Speaker 2: about two hours to calm down. But yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: he's he's amazing, and you know what I am giving.
Speaker 2: I am just letting him lead. I am done with blogs,
Speaker 2: I am done with E courses, and I asked for
Speaker 2: a refund for this baby sleep training E course that
Speaker 2: and I was like, you have one hundred percent cash
Speaker 2: back guaranteed. Great, I would like a refund because I'm
Speaker 2: just letting the baby tell me what he needs. And honestly,
Speaker 2: I have to remind myself of that all the time.
Speaker 2: It's not like a one and done fix. But I
Speaker 2: have had so much less stress and just letting him
Speaker 2: tell me how much he wants to eat and when
Speaker 2: he wants to sleep and how long he wants his
Speaker 2: nap to be and not stress about will it interfere
Speaker 2: with his night's sleep? And you know what, he gave
Speaker 2: me eight hours. I'm so proud of him, you know, I'm.
Speaker 1: He just let me work out, Like, yeah, Jero was
Speaker 1: telling me when they first brought this a home, like
Speaker 1: because they read somewhere that the baby's supposed to eat
Speaker 1: every two hours. Yeah, so they were. They were waking
Speaker 1: up every two hour.
Speaker 2: Way they tell you that in the hospital, and it's
Speaker 2: true until they gained your birth weight back. But no
Speaker 2: one told me until that. And I'm still like shoving
Speaker 2: the booby his mouth and he's.
Speaker 1: Like, ma, ma, doctor trip that he went too. They
Speaker 1: were so tired, and that's like, what's wrong with y'all?
Speaker 1: They were like, well, you know, we've been up for
Speaker 1: two hours. They were like, uh. The doctor was like,
Speaker 1: if the baby is asleep, let her sleep. If she's hungry,
Speaker 1: she will wake up and ask for food. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't have to, like literally forcibly wake her up to
Speaker 1: force feed her food. They were like, what you and you.
Speaker 2: Feel like an idiot, but then no one tells you.
Speaker 2: I feel it. I feel that, So I feel that
Speaker 2: anecdote and deep in my bones.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, baby Alyssa is now thirteen whole years old, so
Speaker 1: you know, somehow she survived and Rio will too.
Speaker 2: He will, and I'm just letting him take the lead
Speaker 2: and me going back to work is gonna be good
Speaker 2: for both of us. Mommy needs to think about something else. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm very excited. But he is a dream boat and
Speaker 2: I'm really enjoying. You know, I love him to bits.
Speaker 2: And this has been a while, twelve weeks. I will
Speaker 2: never ever forget it, no matter what anyone says, I
Speaker 2: will not forget it. But I'm really proud of myself
Speaker 2: and I'm proud of him.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you too, Mandra.
Speaker 2: Hugs not too tight.
Speaker 1: And not too long a hug, Get up and get
Speaker 1: up and get off. How are y'all? It's an awesome
Speaker 1: show as per us.
Speaker 2: Yes see you guys next week. Yes, all right, feel
Speaker 2: better too, seriously, rest up?
Speaker 1: Thank you. I am