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Speaker 1: Hey, ba fam, it's your girl, Mandy Money. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to another episode of the show. This is a special one.

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Speaker 1: This is one that's probably been a couple of years

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Speaker 1: in the making, at least a year in the making.

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Speaker 1: Ever since the day that I realized Jamila Suffrant, friend

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Speaker 1: of the show, host of the Journey to Launch podcast,

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Speaker 1: author of Your Journey to Financial Freedom book, that she

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Speaker 1: is just one of three incredible powerhouse sisters. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, I have to get you and your sister's

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Speaker 1: on Brown ambition. We have to talk about this sisterhood.

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Speaker 1: We have to talk about y'all's journey as sisters, as entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 1: as all the things. And she said yes. They all

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Speaker 1: said yes, and we made it work. All three of

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Speaker 1: the sisters showed up. We have Jamila Suffrant, of course,

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Speaker 1: we also have her little sister, Shana McGregor, and the

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Speaker 1: third sister, Ivanni Manning. Each of these women is carving

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Speaker 1: out their own incredible path and together they are reading

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Speaker 1: of finding what resilience, entrepreneurship and family support look like. Jamila,

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Speaker 1: who is the big sister of the trio, is a

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Speaker 1: financial freedom expert. As I mentioned, she's the author of

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Speaker 1: Your journey to financial freedom. She's inspired people everywhere to

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Speaker 1: dream bigger than their cubicle and take control of their money.

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Speaker 1: While Shana is the creative genius. She's a professional dancer

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Speaker 1: who's turned wellness coach and is now building her brand

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Speaker 1: inward Space while pursuing her master's in social work. And

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Speaker 1: Imani listen, it's hard because we don't have smellvision. I

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Speaker 1: can't put you back at the event where Jamila had

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Speaker 1: her book launch, where I tasted Imani's food for the

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Speaker 1: first time, but it's so good. Imani is a culinary

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Speaker 1: queen who's serving up gourmet meals for kids while running

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Speaker 1: her own catering business. We're going to talk about their journeys,

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Speaker 1: how they've overcome challenges, how they've embraced pivots and supported

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Speaker 1: each other along the way, from financial wins to career shifts,

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Speaker 1: and lessons in giving yourself grace. This conversation is packed

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Speaker 1: with wisdom that you don't want to miss. So grab

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Speaker 1: your coffee, glass of wine, grab a basket of laundry,

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Speaker 1: whatever y'all do on your own time when you're listening

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Speaker 1: to the show. That's your business, not my business. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but let's dive on in. Hey, hey va, fam, I

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Speaker 1: am your host, Mandy Woodrif Santos. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Brown Table at Brown Ambition. I am thrilled to get

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Speaker 1: these ladies back together. I feel like I have brought

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Speaker 1: back like Destiny's child, you know, like in a way

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Speaker 1: and like three powerful women who started all together, grew

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Speaker 1: up together and have launched their own successful careers. And Jamila,

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Speaker 1: you sort of started it all. So I'll introduce you first,

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Speaker 1: or you know her because she has been a multi

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Speaker 1: time guest on Brown Ambition. We love Jamila, author of

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Speaker 1: Journey to Launch, also the same names of her podcast

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Speaker 1: she's been doing since twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Wait, so, Mandy, the book is your Journey to Financial

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Speaker 2: Freedom and the podcast is Journey to Launch.

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Speaker 1: And now why did you do that? Why didn't you

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Speaker 1: just it's more like your fault than my fault, is

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Speaker 1: what I feel like. But Okay, the book is.

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Speaker 3: Right behind me to financial freedom, and.

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Speaker 1: This is true, but I can only see a little corner. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I took a risk and I failed. It's fine. Be

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Speaker 1: a family loves it. That's fine, all right. Your Journey

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Speaker 1: to Financial Freedom, which has been out for you just

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Speaker 1: had your year celebration, right, your year anniversary in December?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, a little bit over a year now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she got a toddler book. But I know how

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Speaker 1: hard you worked on that, and I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 1: But Journey to Launch the podcast where you talk about

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Speaker 1: how to find your financial freedom and how to Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you talk about your your guak, was it your glack budget.

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Speaker 3: Black levels, your block levels? You want to live Yep.

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Speaker 1: It's such a great book. Like if you are someone

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Speaker 1: to figure out how to find your own financial freedom.

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Speaker 1: Love that book. But it wasn't until your book launch

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Speaker 1: that I put the connections together that Shane McGregor is

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Speaker 1: your sister. Shane and I had met at a separate event,

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Speaker 1: in this original interview that y'all did together on Janila's podcast,

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Speaker 1: You had some seafood there, there was all I like,

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Speaker 1: my proteins, the most amazing food. And then I'm like,

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Speaker 1: And then I didn't have as much time to talk

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Speaker 1: But welcome. What do I call you? What's your family name?

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Speaker 1: You have a family name? What's y'all's? Like?

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Speaker 5: Let's she here the maid up name that you came

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Speaker 5: up with. You look like you have one, Mandy. Mandy

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Speaker 1: And what would the band be called? The band? It's

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Speaker 1: all right, Jamila, I want to start with you tell

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Speaker 1: building your podcast. And when did you like suck your

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Speaker 1: sisters into this life of entrepreneurship. Where how has that been?

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Speaker 1: Because my siblings don't listen to me at all, so.

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Speaker 2: I think we should go first to the family tree

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Speaker 2: I share the same mom. That's how we're sisters, and

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Speaker 2: so it's just the two of us for my mom.

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Speaker 2: Then I'mani and I share the same dad. And it's

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Speaker 2: Right, So I, Bonnie and I have the same dad,

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Speaker 2: and but all of us together, there are seven of

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Speaker 2: And so that's kind of like how we're all siblings.

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Speaker 2: And I'm the second oldest of my dad. In general,

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Speaker 2: I'm just the biggest sister. I'm the big sister to everyone.

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Speaker 2: I was born on the beautiful island of Jamaica, and

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of like where I am today. And

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Speaker 2: then with my sisters, they can tell you about their journey,

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Speaker 2: but honestly, I think they've always also been entrepreneurs at

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Speaker 1: I love it. Can y'all tell me as as Jamila

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Speaker 1: is telling her story, because y'all are little sisters. What

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Speaker 1: was it like? And y'all have such different perspectives? Imani,

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Speaker 1: to her. What was your impression? Were you like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with Jamila, Like she don't

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Speaker 1: quit her job. I don't know what's going on. Were

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Speaker 1: you worried? Was it like, oh yeah, I always knew?

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Speaker 1: What was that like for y'all?

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Speaker 4: I'll happen.

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Speaker 6: I think I'm really up.

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Speaker 7: Jamilla and I have an age graph that over ten

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Speaker 7: growing up, She's like, who is this little girl in that?

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Speaker 6: I'm trying to live my best life. So I feel

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Speaker 7: She was always I'm gonna to her O Lord a

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Speaker 1: just the good vibes. Okay, So i'mani your food. Have

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about your journey, because it's not easy

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Speaker 1: are wanting to move to a different country. So catch

435
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Speaker 1: me up on what the past few years have been

436
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Speaker 1: like for you building this career.

437
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 4: The past few years.

438
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Speaker 5: So now I'm I work in the educational system where

439
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 5: I still cook, but I get to, you know, acknowledge

440
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 5: and be around kids, and that's something that I've always

441
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 5: wanted to do. Like how can I like pair food

442
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 5: with being around kids? And I feel like I got

443
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 5: locked up and I'm in a great job right now

444
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:30,920
Speaker 5: that where we give kids like restaurants style quality food

445
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Speaker 5: and you know, kids will give us your their most

446
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Speaker 5: honest opinion.

447
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,199
Speaker 4: The kid won't lie to you about the food. And

448
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Speaker 4: I will tell you.

449
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 5: That feeding kids might be a little bit harder than adults.

450
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Speaker 1: It is, oh yeah, for sure.

451
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I feel like it helps you to It

452
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,120
Speaker 5: helps you grow in a way which people be.

453
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Speaker 4: Like sometimes it's hard to understand, but you can.

454
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 5: Make addition, feel like you don't did your best, and

455
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 5: a kid would look at you and be like, chef

456
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 5: our money. They're saying it, like what, But then you

457
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 5: realize that kids. I feel like kids hold you to

458
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 5: a higher accountability than grown ups.

459
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Speaker 4: So if you give them a quality.

460
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 5: Food Monday, they want it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. There

461
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Speaker 5: is no excuse because they don't know the dynamic of

462
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Speaker 5: a kitchen. So you're giving them excuse is like, yeah,

463
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 5: they're not trying to hear that. So I feel like

464
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 5: I kind of locked up on pairing something that I

465
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Speaker 5: really like, which is cooking. And I've always had a

466
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Speaker 5: love for kids, but they don't want to be a teacher.

467
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Speaker 5: So now I'm kind of I feel like I'm just

468
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Speaker 5: in a good spot with it.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that is such a green flag for a

470
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Speaker 1: human when they say they love kids because of course

471
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Speaker 1: they're the best.

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Speaker 4: And also I was I mean, I mean, not to

473
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Speaker 4: cut you. You could say that a lot when you

474
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Speaker 4: don't have kids, say your own. So I think that's why.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh no, I have them and I still like

476
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Speaker 1: them shockingly enough. So wait, talk about because my friend

477
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Speaker 1: worked for a nonprofit what was it something about a

478
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Speaker 1: rabbit or something in New York and it was gore

479
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Speaker 1: made lunches for school. Is that similar to what you're

480
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Speaker 1: doing now?

481
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Speaker 4: Yes? Similar Oh similarly.

482
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Speaker 1: So how does that work? Because like I'm just talking about,

483
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: I had the square pizza when I was growing up.

484
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Speaker 1: You had your fruit cocktail, dry hamburgers, like that was

485
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Speaker 1: my vibe.

486
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Speaker 5: But I think I think what our main goal is

487
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Speaker 5: is just trying to have kids understand food a little

488
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Speaker 5: bit more, because I feel like when you understand food,

489
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Speaker 5: you tend to eat better. Like most kids. You you

490
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Speaker 5: have kids that are shockingly.

491
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Speaker 4: Like they don't know what a broccoli is, so.

492
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Speaker 5: You you're you're feeding and teaching at the same time.

493
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Speaker 5: And then like kids like my cafeteria sometime, Like I

494
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 5: could would be like, Chef, I don't want vegis, and

495
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 5: I'd be like, hey, try it and make you see

496
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Speaker 5: better for real, and they go eat it.

497
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Speaker 4: Oh it make it hair grow like stuff like that.

498
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Speaker 5: Just like just educate on them about like certain stuff.

499
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Speaker 5: It is like a good feeling while doing the same

500
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Speaker 5: quality of cooking that I enjoy to do, Like the

501
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 5: level of cooking is not dropping, but I get to

502
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Speaker 5: dabble in a little different environment, which.

503
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Speaker 1: Is pretty cool. Customers every day, So do you work

504
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Speaker 1: at one school or do you serve many schools?

505
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Speaker 5: So yeah, so now I serve like three schools, so

506
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Speaker 5: three outside schools and then on in house school. So

507
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Speaker 5: like even yesterday their menu was I think they had teriokey, chicken, garlic, rice,

508
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 5: and spicy broccoli. Like those are the stuff that the

509
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 5: kids they get on their menu.

510
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Speaker 1: So yeah, deliver to work from home moms, right, and.

511
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Speaker 5: To my kids school so they can know that might

512
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Speaker 5: be a business venture, you know, just.

513
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Speaker 1: To get food made for your family for a minute

514
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Speaker 1: when you're working on my bed.

515
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Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, we did high We had

516
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Speaker 2: someone who would just bake us or make us be

517
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Speaker 2: bulk meals for the week.

518
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Speaker 3: But I want my money to also share.

519
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Speaker 2: So I know you do that that's like your main thing,

520
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 2: but you also still use.

521
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Speaker 5: And yeah, I still do my catering on the side

522
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Speaker 5: and as straight I would saying like with me, like

523
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Speaker 5: I've grant myself that space to feel like balancing.

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Speaker 4: Boat working and just the too.

525
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Speaker 5: I work for a black owned company, So what I

526
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Speaker 5: do is I look at the company that I work

527
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Speaker 5: at and like, you know, put pointers towards my own

528
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Speaker 5: business because I am a black owned business too while

529
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 5: working for a black owned business, so you know, it

530
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 5: helps to balance out boat gigs. Like I have a

531
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Speaker 5: catering coming up for like two hundred people, so you know,

532
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Speaker 5: I do a little on and off here and there,

533
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 5: and it still keeps me in tune with my dishes

534
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Speaker 5: because I'm not changing the quality of cooking.

535
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 4: So from gourmet right into gourmet.

536
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Speaker 1: And correct me if I'm wrong. But like in restaurant business,

537
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: because I've watched the bear, so like I'm an expert now,

538
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: and you work so late, like you're there from like

539
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: four pm and you'll be there like maybe even earlier,

540
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: but like super late. So does the school environment give

541
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: you better hours, like are you able to?

542
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Speaker 4: I mean, so that was part of the reason why

543
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 4: I took the job. It was so the job.

544
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 5: Still allows me to find time to not neglect my business,

545
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 5: but still learning more stuff at the same time.

546
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 4: So it's a win win situation.

547
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 5: You're making an income and I'm learning and it's fine

548
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 5: tuning me for my side gigs. So that was honestly

549
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Speaker 5: one of the main reason.

550
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Speaker 4: Why I took the job working there of the.

551
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Speaker 1: Hours, I love that, and I mean for you too,

552
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 1: Shanea and Jamila, like, just to acknowledge that. I mean,

553
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: there has been times in the past year when I've

554
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: been like, should I be on LinkedIn looking for one

555
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: of these good like ninety five? Because I'm talking about

556
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: stability is I mean, even though no job, I don't

557
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: believe any job is stable. They can all obviously what

558
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: we're going through right now, even the government ain't good

559
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: government jobs anymore. But I think that's so wise, and

560
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: you're right. I think if we just have realistic pictures

561
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: of what entrepreneurship can look like in this country, we

562
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: need more of that, right Jamila.

563
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, listen, I'm with you, Mandy.

564
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like For me, I love my

565
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 2: freedom and flexibility my goal. You know, I never thought

566
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 2: that I wanted I never wanted to take over the

567
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 2: world with journey to launch or my business. It's not

568
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: that I have big aspirations because you guys who know me, no,

569
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: I dream big and I want things. But I think

570
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 2: from the stage and place I am in my life,

571
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 2: especially my kids' ages, like, I'm happy with where I am,

572
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 2: but more stability would be great, right, And being an entrepreneur,

573
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: you just don't know when things are coming in and

574
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 2: it's a lot of eat what you kill, and there's

575
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: no boss. So even though I hated having a boss

576
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: and hated someone telling me what to do, sometimes when

577
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 2: someone told you what to do, it alleviated the responsibility

578
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 2: of having to figure things out. And so I would say,

579
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: while I love being an entrepreneur and I do think

580
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 2: that it's a great vehicle to have the time freedom

581
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 2: that we want, it adds a lot more pressure and

582
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 2: stress when you need income to kind of live the

583
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: life you want live the guac lifestyle that I talk about,

584
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 2: because you know, if I didn't want to maybe spend

585
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 2: as much money, I could just chill and be okay.

586
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 2: But I do want to do certain things with my

587
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 2: kids and live this life, and so income is a requirement.

588
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: And I think one of the things that I have,

589
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 2: you know, grown to just accept over time, is that

590
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: no matter where you are, whether you're listening to this

591
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: or watching and you're an entrepreneur or you have a

592
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 2: stable job, the other side always looks a little appealing

593
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 2: for the benefits of the other side, But then when

594
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 2: you're on the other side, you're looking at it like, hey,

595
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: I kind of want that too, And so I love

596
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 2: especially for OURMANI which is why I'm so proud of

597
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 2: her too for finding the stability because for so long

598
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 2: she didn't have like she didn't have like a stable

599
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 2: she can get benefits, and stability is that she's able

600
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 2: to have that and have time to pursue her entrepreneurial

601
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: things where and Shana's same thing. I know she's working

602
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 2: towards more stability, but she's also still able to pursue

603
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 2: her you know, passions and all the things that she

604
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:30,239
Speaker 2: can do.

605
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 3: So I just I think talking about entrepreneurship and.

606
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: Being real about it is important because it's not just

607
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 2: all you know, free time and doing nothing like there

608
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: is a lot that goes into it that people need

609
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 2: to be aware of before they make the leap.

610
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Speaker 1: All right, ba fam, We're going to take a quick

611
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: break more with my conversation with the Triple Threat sisters

612
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: jamilas tou Front, Shana McGregor, and I'mani Manning when we return.

613
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: All right, ba fam, it's Mandy Money and we are back.

614
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the conversation with the Triple Threat

615
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: sisters themselves, Jamila, Imani and Shana one hundred percent. My

616
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: little brother actually is a filmmaker and he works nine

617
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: to five as head of sales for AI software company,

618
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: and he always jokes with me where he's like, yeah, Mandy,

619
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: I just did what you did. But I decided I

620
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: wanted to like have a house and more like I

621
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to afford things. Where I sort

622
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: of had that starving artist's mentality as I was a

623
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Speaker 1: writer journalist and then I did have a stable career,

624
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: but then when I went entrepreneur, I was like, all right,

625
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: let's go.

626
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Speaker 7: I stopped even using that. I was like, Okay, I

627
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 7: don't want to call myself a starving artist.

628
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 6: But that means that sometimes you have to.

629
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Speaker 7: Make choices and this is one of the biggest choices

630
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 7: why I decided to go back to school. I was like,

631
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 7: I want more stability as I think and think about

632
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 7: my thirties and the life I want to live, the

633
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 7: freedom of the flexibility. Maybe I do want to have

634
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 7: a stable job alone with everything else, or just build

635
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 7: a career for myself so that I can do the

636
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 7: things that I want to do. And that's what really

637
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 7: propelled me.

638
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 6: To go back to school.

639
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 7: Also to see dance more than just performing, but to

640
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 7: bring in the teaching and the choreographing, which can give you.

641
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 6: More opportunities and more money.

642
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 7: I remember I choreographed for the Daily School last summer

643
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 7: and when they sent me the check, I was like, oh, okay,

644
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 7: so choreographic as we're tied, got it. So I think

645
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 7: it's giving yourself opportunity and permission to expand.

646
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 6: And my younger self was like, I'm not a choreographer,

647
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 6: and I.

648
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 7: Think we put ourselves in boxes so easily because we

649
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 7: think if I do that, then I'm no longer this

650
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 7: and what did you could do this and that? So

651
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 7: I think it was giving myself opportunity to go back

652
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 7: to school. When I tell people that They're.

653
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 6: Like, oh, you'r MFA, and I'm like, no, I'm getting

654
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 6: my maths and social work.

655
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 7: And that does mean that for these next two years

656
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 7: things look a little different. But once I graduately, I

657
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 7: already know, Okay, this is the career path that I

658
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 7: have for myself. I am in grad school full time.

659
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 7: I'm at an unpaid internship, so I know that things

660
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 7: are going to look a little different during this time period,

661
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 7: but it's just this season, and I'm setting myself up

662
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 7: so that this next season brings the stability. But I

663
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 7: have a flexibility now to do all the different things

664
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 7: that by the time I graduate, I have my well

665
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 7: this community.

666
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 6: Set up, so maybe that becomes my private practice. And

667
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 6: I already have these people who are following.

668
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 7: Me in this way, who once I open up this thing,

669
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 7: are ready to go. So it's like the different building blocks, yeah, right,

670
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 7: studying it with no experience doing it exactly.

671
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 6: It's funny you bring that up. I think I recently

672
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 6: did a panel and we spoke about imposter syndrome, and.

673
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 7: I think so many of us you hear this phrase

674
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 7: again and again and again, and.

675
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 6: You start to use it over your life.

676
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 7: Oh, I have imposts syndrome, and I'm like, you don't

677
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 7: have impocess syndrome. You're just experiencing self doubt. You may

678
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 7: be nervous, you may be anxious, but you're not a fraud.

679
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 7: Like impocessism literally implies that you are a fraud. The

680
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 7: more you tell yourself that, the more you minimize yourself.

681
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 6: And you don't even believe that you're wor of entering

682
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 6: these rooms.

683
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 7: And yes, when I got my life coaching certification and

684
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 7: I'm twenty four years old and I'm working with people

685
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 7: in their thirties, forties, fifties, you have to believe that

686
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 7: you're worthy of being there and that I have something

687
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 7: to share that they can benefit from. And it does

688
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 7: take confidence, but that's where the experience and education comes in.

689
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 6: So like, yeah, I can sit with you.

690
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 7: You may be twenty years my senior, but I truly

691
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 7: believe that I have something to offer you. Same thing

692
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 7: now in my internship where I am working as a

693
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 7: case manager right now, but then my next year will

694
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 7: be more clinical and I may have clients in their

695
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 7: sixties and I'm like, I know I can still speak

696
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 7: to you even though I might look like I'm twelve

697
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 7: I'm not, and I trust myself and I know what

698
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 7: I have to offer.

699
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 6: I think as women that confidence is so important.

700
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 7: Because we take ourselves out of situations too often, and

701
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 7: this administration is already trying to do that.

702
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 6: We can't do that before they do.

703
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: I want to, like let that sit for a minute.

704
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,439
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for you too. I feel like dance

705
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: is so therapeutic. I'm not a trained dancer, but when

706
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: I need to release something, I'll just I will spin

707
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: around this house. I will plea at. I don't plea

708
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: because I don't know what that is technically, I'll just

709
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: play at.

710
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 3: I'll do whatever.

711
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: Like it just and if you can and it and

712
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: it just makes it makes perfect sense to me, you know,

713
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: And you can use it with kids and all ages.

714
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: And to have like a dance studio that ties in

715
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: the mental health and like breathwork, and I think that's

716
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: really exciting.

717
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 7: Because we're so used to breathing so shallowly in our

718
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 7: chest and I try to get people to be more

719
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 7: deeply into their diaphragm.

720
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 6: And it makes me.

721
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: Trying to look skinny on camera, you know, like I

722
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: don't want to.

723
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 4: And I think the.

724
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 7: And I'm like, oh, it's from dance, it's from how

725
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 7: you carry yourself how you know, But the two mess

726
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 7: so beautifully.

727
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Imani and I both need like some

728
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: trapped massages because I do the same thing. I'm like,

729
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: I just.

730
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 6: Think, I'm like, open up the shoulder blade, deep bread.

731
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 4: This is the kitchen on my back right now. This

732
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 4: is the kitchen.

733
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: Like you know, that's the weight of like five hundred

734
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 1: six year olds on your back, probably no.

735
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 4: More like eight hundred eight hundred.

736
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what are the ages you didn't mention?

737
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 5: From first first kindergarten to a do the account that

738
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 5: I'm on now it goes up to I think sixth grade.

739
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, Well I want to get your take.

740
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: Can you talk a bit about that and how you are, yeah,

741
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: how you're approaching like the vision you have for your

742
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: life and how it may be different.

743
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 5: I mean recently what I've started doing that I'm finding

744
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 5: out this work and I start giving myself grace. Like

745
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 5: you know, sometimes we set like time periods for our success,

746
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 5: and if the time period run out, we just you're

747
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 5: not successful, You're a loser. Like I stop doing that,

748
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 5: Like I stop, like just celebrate in my very small

749
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 5: wins because then it just it gives you that energy

750
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 5: to be like, all right, next win now, then the

751
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 5: next win Like not because it's small doesn't mean it

752
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 5: doesn't deserve a celebration. So I think I've been giving

753
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 5: myself a lot of grace and just like just every

754
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 5: little celebration, just take it one step at a time

755
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 5: and just know that, hey, even if you're in a

756
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 5: moment right now where you feel like Because sometimes I

757
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 5: think I was having this conversation with Jamila earlier, like

758
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 5: I mentioned like sometimes people have like writer's block, I

759
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 5: feel like sometimes it's okay, like for me to have

760
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 5: like a little bit of entrepreneurship block doesn't mean that

761
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 5: I still don't want to.

762
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 4: Find this big restaurant or this.

763
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 5: But sometimes I feel like we move faster than our brain.

764
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 4: Is trying to align us to move.

765
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 5: And if I'm moving faster than my brain, the plan

766
00:37:58,239 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 5: is not going to work out because we're not on

767
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 5: this same page. And I think now I'm just even

768
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 5: if it doesn't look like a win to somebody on

769
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 5: the outside, if I'm happy and I'm giving myself a round,

770
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 5: I could have a party for myself with my celebration

771
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 5: and I know that like this is it. So I

772
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 5: think when I started to do that, my clarity for

773
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,479
Speaker 5: what I really want got wider, got clearer, Like it's

774
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 5: not a whole bond, because sometimes I feel like we

775
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 5: got a whole bunch of jumble dreams and we're not

776
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 5: following like that.

777
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 4: Pat.

778
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 5: So I feel like since I took the step back

779
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 5: start giving myself some grace, it's getting clearer, like I

780
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 5: could be like it's like I'm seeing the one, than

781
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 5: the two, than the three. Before it was just like

782
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 5: all the numbers, but it wasn't in specific order. So

783
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 5: now I am I'm just trying to and again watching

784
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 5: some machine and so I've been watching that.

785
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 4: Inwards space stuff. It's like and I think that's something

786
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 4: that you you have to give yourself grace.

787
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 5: Like I've been cooking strongly for probably over a good

788
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 5: twenty seven years, and within my career, I never start seeing.

789
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: Like seven years old. All of you guys are like

790
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: twenty five.

791
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 4: Thank you, that's a nice compliment. I didn't. I didn't

792
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 4: think I start like ripping and seeing the rewards that

793
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 4: I deserve until probably like a good.

794
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 5: Fifteen years imagine how long I've been cooking, putting my

795
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 5: all in. It really takes like you and go back

796
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 5: to saying like just finding something that you naturally love

797
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 5: to do, Like, yes, I want money to pay my bills. Yes,

798
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 5: I want to do this. But do I actually love

799
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 5: being in the kitchen.

800
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 4: Yes. So when I have these moments and stuff.

801
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 5: Is not going good or money is, it doesn't stop

802
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 5: me from wanting to be that same bright visionary in

803
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 5: the kitchen because I'm not really leading with money, even

804
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 5: though that's what I want, I'm.

805
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 4: Not leading with it.

806
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 5: I got to the point where I literally start listening

807
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 5: to my body.

808
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 4: I never did it.

809
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 5: So if my mind is telling me, hey, money, slow down,

810
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 5: don't take that catering, I won't take it.

811
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: And I won't have to because.

812
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 4: And I won't feel bad about it. And I feel like.

813
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 5: The fact that I'm in the position to decline the catering,

814
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 5: that's the win, because I'm not saying, like, you know,

815
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 5: it's not rich are We're not at the final goal

816
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 5: where we want to be.

817
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 4: But I've been learning to be okay with just pausing,

818
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 4: like I just pause.

819
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 1: And what was it like, Well, I want to yeah,

820
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 1: a little breathwork. Now, I'm just I'm really curious because

821
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: your life experience is so different to your sister's a

822
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: bit because you know, you grew up mostly in Jamaica.

823
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 1: You've been here for how long? You said? Ten years?

824
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 4: Yeah? Probably sometimes I'll be forgetting.

825
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: I was telling her before y'all got on that she

826
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: chose the wrong ten years. But hey, if you watch

827
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,760
Speaker 1: some of this, I'm curious with this conversation about immigration

828
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: all of that, like, how what is it like for

829
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: you coming here and building in life? Did you already

830
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: have some like status here? Have you had to build it?

831
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 5: I mean the good thing about this, which a lot

832
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 5: of people don't know, like my story is like the

833
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 5: opposite of Jamila. So I was born in New York

834
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 5: and I was raised in Jamaica. So I lived in

835
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 5: Jamaica for years with social security. I had that in Jamaica,

836
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 5: but I just didn't. I didn't came back to America

837
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 5: until I probably was like nineteen, like somewhere around that age.

838
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 5: So I already I was a citizen, so it was

839
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 5: easier for me to travel.

840
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 4: So thank god I didn't have to go through that far.

841
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: Yes, interesting, Okay, And now Jamila that story you tell

842
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: about your mom and she had to move here without you,

843
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: and then yeah, I went back and got you.

844
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so my mom. She my grandfather at

845
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 3: the time.

846
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 2: He's passed away since, but he had only filed for her,

847
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 2: didn't know I was even around.

848
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 3: That's how involved he was in her life. And when

849
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: he came to tell her.

850
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: He was like, oh, like, who's this baby, because I

851
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: only have papers for you to go to the States.

852
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 2: And so she did have to make a really difficult choice,

853
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 2: but not unlike many parents and people do make and

854
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,919
Speaker 2: have made to get their families here, like they leave

855
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 2: family behind. And so she left me as a baby

856
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 2: with my grandmother. And then things were simpler back then

857
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 2: and apparently easier quote unquote, you know, like things.

858
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 3: Were faster to get through the system.

859
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: So you know, they quickly filed for me, and then

860
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've forgot how long it took, but

861
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 2: a few months later, maybe it was like twelve months.

862
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 3: I was I got my papers.

863
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 2: I was able to come up with my grandmother and

864
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 2: my uncle to the States to be reunited with my mom.

865
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 2: And you know, I feel very privileged. I think that's

866
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 2: one of the things so we have other siblings. Imani

867
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 2: and I do our dad that we're not privileged to

868
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 2: have been born in the United States. And I say

869
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 2: that because it did provide a lot more opportunities, whether

870
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 2: it was me being able to have citizenship.

871
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 3: So early or Imani being born with citizenship.

872
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: You know, I have a lot of all my siblings

873
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 2: are talented, I believe, I think they're amazing and they

874
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 2: are doing great within their own right. But I also

875
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: know that, you know, there's just there's opportunity here, and

876
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: if they were able to come here, they could probably

877
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: you know, expand and have more security.

878
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 3: And so I never take that for granted.

879
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 2: It's actually something that I was I was aware of

880
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 2: growing up that I did have siblings in Jamaica, and

881
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 2: I did feel a responsibility.

882
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really beautiful. That's some big siss energy right there.

883
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask about just to clarify something and

884
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: just like to underline this point. Right now, we're at

885
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: a stage where the government wants to end birthright citizenship.

886
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: So Imani, like if it had been now when you

887
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: were born here, Like, I mean, it's not officially like

888
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: a policy change, but it's crazy to think someone as

889
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: talented as you might have been withheld from having that

890
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: opportunity if things were a bit different.

891
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 5: And you know what's crazy is just say, if it

892
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 5: were to happen, I think I have the mentality that

893
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 5: I have now is I'm gonna be great regardless of

894
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 5: here I'm at, Jamaica, America.

895
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 4: That's just how I look at it now.

896
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 5: And I mean, I am grateful that I had the

897
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 5: opportunity to just buy a ticket and come to America.

898
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 4: A lot of people don't have that.

899
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 5: So but I mean, as I said, the mentality that

900
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 5: I have now, it could be Jamaica wherever, I'm still

901
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 5: gonna be that shining star.

902
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 4: Imani like, it doesn't matter.

903
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that goes for it. We gotta. I

904
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: feel like we're at a time now where America's losing

905
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: and shine and I'm like, good, humble her, humble her.

906
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 1: I want every other We need other countries like to

907
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: to There are so many shining stars obviously outside of here,

908
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: and I'm just glad we're lucky to have you. But

909
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: I would come find you if you were like I'm

910
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: going to Paris, I'd be like, cool, I will be

911
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: coming and I'll go to your restaurant or wherever. So

912
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: let's talk about money for a sec because, Jamila, when

913
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: you have them on, originally y'all had been talking about

914
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: I think Roth I raise y'all had opened, Shana was

915
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: trying to get him, you know, started investing. If you

916
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: don't mind, what do you? How do you think we

917
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: should do it?

918
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 4: Jamila?

919
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: And just like what kind of financial update do we need?

920
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 2: So I think it'd be maybe just a quick quick

921
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 2: background you kind of said a lot, but I want

922
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 2: to maybe talk.

923
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 3: About just as you know, Mandy, you talk about money.

924
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 2: You have friends, real friends and family in real life,

925
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 2: right who maybe listen, maybe don't listen to your stuff

926
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 2: and other people who don't know you at all, and

927
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 2: then like listen and take your advice. And why I

928
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 2: do think they take my advice? I still think they're

929
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: you know, they have their own priorities and things that

930
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 2: they want to do, and so I feel like for

931
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 2: the longest I was telling them like invest like I

932
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,720
Speaker 2: don't care how little it is open a roth Iray,

933
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: especially because of both of them at that time were

934
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 2: even I think had less stability with income, and so

935
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 2: I knew that it wasn't going to be easy. But

936
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 2: I felt like, okay, you could do something right, and

937
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: so I was just just inspiring them hopefully to do that.

938
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 2: And so I think at that last episode they started

939
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 2: to or what like, they had started to do that.

940
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 2: And you know, I continue to tell them, but I

941
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: try not to give two big sis energy where like

942
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 2: I am making it seem like they're failing if they don't.

943
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 2: But I am like, kid, if you have a question,

944
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 2: you can always call me. And I remember the one

945
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 2: time Imiani like she did, she had put money into her.

946
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 3: Wrath diray and then she did look at it like

947
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 3: forgot all about it.

948
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 2: And then she looked at it like a year or

949
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: two later and she saw it the value increased.

950
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 3: And she was like, wait, you were right.

951
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, I was, and I am and she

952
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: I Mini was actually recently on my podcast because we

953
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 2: had a whole She came over not about money, she

954
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: was just hanging out with us, and then but money

955
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: started to come up, and I asked her, you know,

956
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 2: about her debt and credit card debt and her rath

957
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 2: that array, and so I actually recorded that conversation. That's

958
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 2: when she was on the podcast about her updates because

959
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: she did do some amazing things that she can share

960
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 2: and I'm sure Shanea can share about following through with

961
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 2: their financial goals, because even though I know that there's

962
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 2: a little bit of instability and they're still working on,

963
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 2: especially Shana, establishing themselves with their career, is that this

964
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: is they're still fairly young, and time is of the essence,

965
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 2: and so when they are a little bit older, I

966
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 2: want them to know like this is, you know, you

967
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 2: set yourself up to have even more stability for your

968
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 2: future self and so let's not let's not just like

969
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 2: let that time squander away. Let's you know, do the

970
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 2: right things to put you in a great place in

971
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 2: the future.

972
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am so.

973
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 2: Imani, do you want to talk about what you did,

974
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 2: like with your finances that you feel next?

975
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think when we was on the podcast, you know,

976
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 5: we were talking and I went ahead and I cleared

977
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 5: my whole entire credit card deal, like just one time.

978
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 5: And again, let's let's let's point this out, the fact

979
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 5: that I am in a position to do that.

980
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 4: It's a celebration moment. Let's let's celebrate that. And I

981
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 4: think I should have called you and give you the

982
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 4: update to me.

983
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 6: But yeah, the credit score went how many points?

984
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: It was probably like fifty.

985
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 4: No, I think I went up.

986
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 5: No, I think it was like I went up like

987
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 5: sixty two points or something like that.

988
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that will do it.

989
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: Do you mind saying how much you paid off?

990
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 5: Yeah? It was five thousand, four hundred dollars.

991
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: Girl, that is not even that much. I thought you're

992
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: gonna be like fifty seven.

993
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 4: America credit card for me, for me, five thousand on

994
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 4: a credit card.

995
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean.

996
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 4: Like over budget too.

997
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 3: That's over budget, especially when she had the money.

998
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 2: I have a friend who actually also took my advice

999
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 2: and actually paid off her credit card. Like they have

1000
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 2: the money, because but they just don't want they like

1001
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 2: I screwed the credit card company, Like they think that

1002
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 2: they're doing something to the credit card company.

1003
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 3: By not paying.

1004
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 4: No, I just didn't want to let.

1005
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 3: Right, had that. I get that. I get that you

1006
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 3: want to hold onto the cash.

1007
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:33,439
Speaker 2: You never know, right, But she had enough to where

1008
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 2: she still had a buffer, So I said, you know,

1009
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 2: it's better you paid off.

1010
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 3: But yes, the fact that like she.

1011
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 2: Was able to do that in one setting just shows

1012
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 2: you how much she built up herself financially.

1013
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 3: So prout of that.

1014
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And I will just say I hope that

1015
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: five thousand continues being way too much debt because it

1016
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: You just I'm just so used to hearing like fifteen

1017
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: twenty thirty five, you know, fifty thous the card dead,

1018
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: and in this country, I just feel like it's so easy,

1019
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: and I mean, like we're taking on so much more

1020
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: debt now.

1021
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 8: But kudos that thing for me, Like especially again, like

1022
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:17,959
Speaker 8: having a sister like Jamia, like why I take like.

1023
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 5: The financial advice very serious from her, right and I can.

1024
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 5: I don't use nothing on my credit card that I

1025
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 5: don't have to pay right away.

1026
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 4: So if I can't pay it, I'm not spending it.

1027
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 5: And that's that's how I treat my credit card like,

1028
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 5: even though they keep secretly increasing the.

1029
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 4: Amount, I'm not paying attention to that. I just pay.

1030
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 4: I just spend what I could pay back right away.

1031
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing, all right, Shanea, you're the baby of the family.

1032
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: What you got going on? You said you're under thirty

1033
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: or not thirty yet.

1034
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 7: No, I am twenty eight. I turned twenty nine in August.

1035
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 1: You guys are so gifted. I just it's insane, all right.

1036
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 7: But go ahead, which is insane listening to the episode

1037
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 7: when I said I was twenty four and I was like, yeah,

1038
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 7: I know. I think COVID really shift shifted our agents

1039
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 7: like I don't even mid twenties feels like a blurb

1040
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 7: because of COVID that like I went in early beginning,

1041
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 7: I left late and I was like waiting Because of

1042
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 7: my discipline, I had saved up so that I was

1043
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 7: able to have a little bit of a buffer in

1044
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 7: this time period of not working as much. And I

1045
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 7: think that's why the discipline is so important one because

1046
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 7: besides student loan.

1047
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 6: Debt, I don't have credit card debt.

1048
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 7: And I think I've been having more candid conversations with

1049
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 7: friends and you would be surprised.

1050
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 6: Maybe you're right. People have a lot of credit card debt.

1051
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,720
Speaker 6: So for me, even though I'm not in a period where.

1052
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 7: I'm able to save and invest as much as I

1053
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 7: would like to, and I'm honest about that, I am

1054
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 7: really grateful that I don't have the debt because I'm

1055
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 7: able to manage my money in a way where I'm like, Okay,

1056
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 7: this is why.

1057
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 6: I am now.

1058
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 7: And I realized at the end of the day, sometimes

1059
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 7: you can save and invest as much as you want

1060
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 7: is an income issue. So if you're able to increase that,

1061
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 7: then you're able to have a lot more gap to

1062
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 7: paper things you want. So my biggest thing right now

1063
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 7: is don't live above your means. And then you talk

1064
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,359
Speaker 7: to people on the inside and you realize the way

1065
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 7: you have five six figure or four or five figure debt,

1066
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 7: and then you're like, wow, okay, we need to have

1067
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 7: more honest.

1068
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 6: Conversation because this is really happening. And I feel like

1069
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 6: you have to keep up with people.

1070
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 7: But it's better to live within your means than it

1071
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 7: means that you're not accumulating time.

1072
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I want to say too, like knowing the

1073
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 2: season of life you're in is so important and it

1074
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 2: doesn't matter your age can play a factor, but meaning yes,

1075
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 2: whether you're building and the building your career phase and

1076
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 2: investing in yourself, right, there are sometimes we're going to

1077
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 2: be investing in education, we are just going to be

1078
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 2: making it because there's other ways in which you're spending

1079
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: our time, energy and money outside of investing in a

1080
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 2: retirement account.

1081
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: Right.

1082
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 3: And so I just feel like you can't measure your.

1083
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 2: Points of life that you're in with other people when

1084
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 2: you have no clue of all inputs and factors that

1085
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 2: make their life their life, whether that they have kids,

1086
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 2: they're taking care of someone else in their family, you know,

1087
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 2: they're changing careers, like their income. Income is obviously like

1088
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 2: the driving factor to accomplishing a lot of the financial.

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Speaker 3: Goals that we have.

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Speaker 2: It's the thing, right. Obviously expenses are important, but it's

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Speaker 2: really income. So if you're in a low income season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, I mean sorry not am MAIGHTI Shane,

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Speaker 1: I feel like in that career path as a coach

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Speaker 1: and therapists, like your life experiences and the fact that

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Speaker 1: you've shown that you have you've done the things that

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Speaker 1: you're going to encourage your clients to do, And I

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Speaker 1: think that makes me a stronger coach, And I feel

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Speaker 1: like it makes you a stronger coach and right avolently.

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Speaker 6: And I know that things are a given take. If

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Speaker 6: I wanted to go to corporate.

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Speaker 7: Route, I might have been in a different place right now.

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Speaker 7: But would I have been awarded the flexibility and the

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Speaker 7: joy and the different things that I have now?

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Speaker 6: Who knows?

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Speaker 7: So in knowing that there's so many different paths that

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00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 7: you can take, or I could have stayed up. That's

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Speaker 7: in this job and probably continue to excel in it.

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Speaker 7: But I had to check in with my gut and

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Speaker 7: realize that I was no longer happy there. So I

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Speaker 7: had to make a shit. So sometimes you may be

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Speaker 7: able to get the income you desire, but then when

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Speaker 7: you lay your head or you lay down, and now

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Speaker 7: you realize that, oh but I'm not really fulfilled. And

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Speaker 7: some people don't mind that. Like that's why you have

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00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 7: to check in with yourself. Some people say a job

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00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 7: is a job. It pays the bills. It doesn't have

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Speaker 7: to make me happy. That's fine. Some people don't operate

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Speaker 7: like that. You just have to know what season you're

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Speaker 7: in and what you prioritize.

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Speaker 1: Well, I wish I could just be a part of

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Speaker 1: a sister circle for longer, but we gotta stop, We

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Speaker 1: gotta end, but we got to wrap up. I want

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Speaker 1: to wrap up by a first asking y'all, Shane and Moni,

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Speaker 1: where can we find y'all? What inste handles you want

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Speaker 1: to plug? Imani? How are we going to book you

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Speaker 1: for catering? Even though you might say no and we

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Speaker 1: love that for you. I wanting to go first.

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Speaker 5: You can find me my Instagram handle is at the

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Speaker 5: yard chef forty five.

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Speaker 4: The yard is just a shortening. That's how we say Jamaica,

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Speaker 4: yat chef.

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Speaker 1: Where is it yachd a chef?

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Speaker 4: In my head, no, yard is in like instead a

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Speaker 4: yard as in y A R D. It's a yard

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Speaker 4: as in the pot Ona y A A D. So

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Speaker 4: it's y A A D c h E F underscore

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Speaker 4: forty five.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll put that in the show notes. Perfect, perfect,

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Speaker 1: And you want us to book for your DMS.

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Speaker 4: You don't have a yes, yes, yes, yes directly the DMS.

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Speaker 7: So you can find me on Instagram and also on

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00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 7: TikTok at Shana dot McGregor so my first name dot

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00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 7: my last name.

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Speaker 6: You can also find.

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Speaker 7: My wellness community and brand inward Space at inward dot

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00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 7: space on Insta. I also have a website Shane McGregor

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Speaker 7: dot com. At the top of the year, I created

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Speaker 7: a free breathwork program. It's a seven day nervous system

1149
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Speaker 7: recharge is seven days of pre recorded videos. So you

1150
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 7: can find that on my website. There's a little announcement

1151
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 7: of bar the top to sign up if especially they're

1152
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 7: like eighteen to fifteen minutes, so they're not long, and

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Speaker 7: it's a wonderful way to get to introduce to my brand.

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Speaker 2: So my book, Your Journey to Financial Freedom, you can

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Speaker 2: buy it anywhere books are sold. You can also go

1156
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Speaker 2: to your Journey to Financialfreedom dot com. I'm also doing

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00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 2: something I'm pretty cool that I think is cool. I

1158
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 2: created discussion guides around the book so you can start

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Speaker 2: your own book club, whether it's by yourself, with family

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Speaker 2: or friends.

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Speaker 3: And these discussion guides give.

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Speaker 2: You prompts, takeaways, really allow you to take what you're

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Speaker 2: learning in the book and really encourage you to implement

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Speaker 2: what you're learning. So you can go to Journey to

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Speaker 2: Launch dot com Slash book Club to get more information

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Speaker 2: about that, or again you can go to your Journey

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Speaker 2: to Financialfreedom dot com calm that's the direct book site.

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Speaker 2: And then of course wherever you listen to this podcast,

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Speaker 2: you can check out Journey to Launch podcast. And I'm

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Speaker 2: on social media at Journey to Launch and at Jamila

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Speaker 2: sou Front.

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Speaker 1: The brands are strong, all right, Well, I'll make myself

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Speaker 1: an honorary sister and y'all's little it'll be a qua,

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Speaker 1: It'll be We'll come up with a new band name.

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Speaker 3: And it was for them at one point. That's yeah,

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Speaker 3: And they started out as well.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to be the one that got kicked out?

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Speaker 1: Like I don't want to put that as usual.

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Speaker 3: Well we all know who Beyonce is. I got the Beyonce.

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Speaker 1: Hey we don't know? Oh, oh we do. Then there's

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Speaker 1: Michelle and who's cuddly because they're both they're both equally fantastic.

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Speaker 6: Is this shoes? Shoes got to be our own?

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Speaker 5: Because then, yeah, I mean, I'm just glad to be

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Speaker 5: I'm just glad to be part of the group.

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Speaker 4: I ain't go I'm just here.

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Speaker 1: You're Michelle, thank you? All right?

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Speaker 6: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Oh you want to end with a deep ros Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah my five year so yeah, I need that.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be kicking picking my kids up. Your

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Speaker 2: money is coming with me. She's in my house recording

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Speaker 2: this upstairs. We're going to pick the kids up. So

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Speaker 2: we need some we need some peace before we get them.

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Speaker 7: Okay, everyone just sit up tall, ground your sibos into

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Speaker 7: your seat, open up.

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Speaker 6: Your collar bones, close your eyes.

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Speaker 7: Down, and if you would like, place your hands over

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Speaker 7: your stomach. You know, we just cultivated so much energy

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Speaker 7: during this podcast episode bringing ourselves, bringing our voices together.

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Speaker 7: Take a deep in hell and filling up your belly

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Speaker 7: as if it was a balloon, passing your belly button.

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Speaker 6: In towards your hands, and then a big exhale out.

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Speaker 6: Let's take that two.

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Speaker 7: More times in hell and in your belly to in blade,

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00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 7: dropping your shoulder blades down as you extail, pressing your

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Speaker 7: belly went back towards your hands. Now this last one,

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Speaker 7: feel your lips in hell and l through your nose

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00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 7: in hell in and a big exhale out.

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Speaker 6: We can flutter her eyes open.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna call you after this, all right, girl, Look,

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Speaker 7: it's important.

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Speaker 1: You gotta go to her website and get the course,

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Speaker 1: and I mean get the little eighteen.

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Speaker 7: Yeah you little so much stress in our bodies. It's

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Speaker 7: so important outlets to release.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, chef, I MONI what's going on back there?

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Speaker 1: I want my I want my I want my crumbrulet.

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00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: And you'll you'll they'll be like, you'll be like, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm just censoring myself. You little maniacs. Leave me alone,

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Speaker 1: all right, y'all are amazing, Thank you to me.

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Speaker 4: It happens