WEBVTT - MONIKA TU TALKS LUXE LISTINGS SYDNEY 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.440 TV Reload, the podcast last Welcome back to TV Reload. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.000 My name is Benjamin Norris, and on this podcast I 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.080 go behind the scenes with the biggest players in television. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:13.960 Each episode you will get a front row seat with 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.840 content makers like executive producers, writers, editors and casting agents, 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.960 plus the talent that we see on our screens. TV 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.279 Reload reloads the shows that you are currently watching and 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.800 gives you a better insight into our television industry and 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.040 our streaming services. Today on the podcast, I have one 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.760 of the shining stars of lux Listing Sydney. This guest 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:41.000 has been a fantastic cast, joining the series in series two. Yes, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.440 we are talking about Monica two. The first series on 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.560 Amazon Prime really broke round in a space that proved 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.560 everyone has their guilty pleasure when it comes to reality TV. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.360 This isn't drama for drama's sake. It's a beautifully shot 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.080 series about real estate with houses in Sydney that could 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.440 rival anywhere else in the world. Monica two is a 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.840 Chinese Australian woman with a lot to say. But today 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.480 you will get an upfront down to worth chat that 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.880 will show you why she's a success in front of 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.479 the camera and why she's a success in the real 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.800 estate market. Like's listing. Sydney has debuted their third season 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.120 already on Amazon Prime, and you simply must watch to 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:25.000 see how Monica commands her audience. I will ask what 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.800 made her say yes to the show, what it's like 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.360 being a Chinese Australian woman on TV, if she would 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.720 feel more comfortable using her first language, and we also 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:39.559 discuss why Monica is a smash within the LGBTI community. However, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.440 let's get started with today's guest. I'd like to welcome 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.360 Monica two to TV Reyload. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.800 It's good for the audience, it's good for me. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:54.720 Monica is known for her lean and her international clientele, but. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.040 I'm not really a best friend of all of them. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.240 I'm not a best friend of the business. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.120 What happen this is real estate. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:05.120 This is what happened to a woman without English, without 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.400 nothing to who I am today. That's that's a journey. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:14.320 You know what, Monica, You're evil. We have a culture. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.680 We're very conservative, right, so we never want to show 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:18.880 what we really have. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.000 The real estate market in Sydney is crazy. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.120 I was asking that, Kyle saidler I said, should I 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:27.160 be a comedian? 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.200 I'm Monica. Welcome to the podcast and congratulations on another 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.160 series of lux Listening, Sydney. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:35.840 Thank you so much for having me. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.640 You know, this show looks like a lot of fun 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.640 to make. Have you been having a blast making this series? 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.840 Absolutely? I think it's probably more fun for me, So 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.840 I never thought that would be on the show. And 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.400 the show yeah kind of like make me like a 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.280 really like a superstar in my community. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.560 I feel like the essence behind this show is to 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.840 be at the top of your game and to be 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.160 the best version of yourself. Just watching you and the 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.919 other guys is just it's just really inspiring to watch. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.520 So I absolutely think so. You know, first of all, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.280 we have an opportunity to work with the other agents, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.160 so we're all very busy. I'm sure you know in 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.919 every industry, probably real estate is the business person will 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.720 work seven days a week, and so we literally don't 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.519 have time to make friends. And you know, while we're 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.800 filming a show, and it would come you know, like 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.959 to get to know each other a bit better. And 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.760 that's really important for me because I compared to you know, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.440 three of them I'm probably the new kids on the book, right, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.440 I've been a real estate only about probably thirteen years, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.920 and they've been the game for like so long. It's 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.400 just so much to learn from them, you know, really 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.480 enjoy my time with them. And yeah, I think there's 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:51.160 a blast for me. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.440 What does it mean to be a Chinese Australian woman 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.240 killing it in the business world on television? 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.320 God, you know, unbelievaoble thought, you know, I never thought 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.000 I would do that, But when I took the challenge, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.040 I just wanted to say, you know, what is going 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.680 to happen. So now I got, oh my god, the selfies, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:15.480 you know, signatures and you know hashtag and so I've 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.279 just realized I've become the number one influencer for the 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.800 Chinese uh you know, you know properties and luxury community. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.880 I got, you know, the followers from like literally like 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.719 a sixty seventy years old because you know, you know, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.599 you can tell, right I'm not young, and from the 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.960 middle age, and the young young kids. I've got so 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.479 many young kids like following me around. I think then 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.680 become from a real estate agent, become like a person 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.600 with a responsibility. So once you're out there you really 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.080 have to give the right message and become an inspiration 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.400 for that generation. So yeah, I really are enjoying the 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.520 process and then join the experience, of course enjoying a 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.560 bit of like a fame, but just saying that, you know, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:01.760 you know how that feels. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:04.960 I love that you're owning that. I love that you 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.919 own that because so many people are like, you know, 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.239 they brushed aside. They don't even say that that's something 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.440 that they enjoy, but really it is. I mean, for 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.440 you, you're killing it at what you do best, You're doing 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.040 it on television and people love you for it, so 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.719 you know, why not celebrate that exactly? 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.920 You know what one of the challenges we're facing now 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.760 is so when you become really famous on top of 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.360 your game, and how you manage that, you know, how 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.719 you manage like prolamentally and also you know the time 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.640 and the most important how do you keep you know, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.039 your your grunt, you know, always keep your feet on 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.480 the ground. I think that's the challenge you we're facing 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.479 at the moment, and that hope I will continue be genuine, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.120 authentic and it's still how working you have to know 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.200 where you know, what is your main focus? Right, So 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.919 my focus is always the property. I deliver the service 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.920 and you know, look after my team and that's it, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:03.400 you know, like of maintainer integrity, that's really important as well. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.880 I'd rather than justin going out and enjoy the fame 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.960 and forgot who we are, you know ourselves. You know, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.599 this is my biggest challenge at the moment, and I'm 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.160 sure I will manage that so I wouldn't have a problem. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.560 The show works though, because you are also genuine I 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.640 mean Delane and Gavin Simon and yourself. I mean you're 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.120 all just being true to yourselves on television and I 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.760 think that's that's why we love it so much. I 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.440 think if you pretended to be someone else, we'd switch off. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.400 Think that literally, that's what you're saying. So what you 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.640 get and the great you know, greatness about the show is, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.760 of course the superstars are the properties, right, So we 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.560 shocused the world, not just Australia, and I will show 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.040 us two hundred and forty different countries and regions. So 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.960 what Australia has got to offer, our senior has got 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.080 to offer. So that's the number one thing, and that 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.040 we've got incredible properties and people calling it from Denmark, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.880 you know they're from today because somebody from Brazil or 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.599 I was like, oh wow, you know, you guys have 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.719 got so much. Would you like to sell your brocess? 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.360 I thank you very much. Not but anyway, but it's 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.760 just beautiful things people have never seen. They always think 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.040 we'll have one in Kangaroo's, you know, the best thing 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.880 toward the opera house. Yes we do, but in terms 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.160 of property is it's definitely the world class. And second 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.960 is about people, and yeah, we're so different. You know, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.120 we're totally different. Oh my god. You know, like they 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.800 really show their personalities in the show and the good 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.880 and bad side. I mean, right, so we're changing people. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.400 And one thing is like, you know, I've got a 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.200 lot of friends that in the in the in the industry, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.880 in a television industry. So everybody's telling me, you know, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.160 the realcity shows is a very different. You know, you're 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.760 being in a band, you know, but this show, the producers, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.960 you know, the productions really empower us to be who 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.280 we are. So yeah, that's pretty good. You know, make 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.320 our lives really easy. And so if there's a lot opportunity, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:00.840 maybe I'm just gonna truck just. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.720 Do you know what I wanted to ask you. You know, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.000 you've been so embraced and people are loving you on TV, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.160 but do you think we need more Chinese Australian women 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.200 on television here in Australia or. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.320 One you know, Chinese Australians. You know, we have a culture. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.840 We're very conservative, right, so we never want to show 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.040 what we really have because we don't want to defend anybody. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.680 You know, this is a Chinese culture. But to for 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.840 me having me on the show, is that really we 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.360 really have to get out there. You know, we should 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.600 encourage the younger generation just show who you are. Just 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.080 just stand up, you know, rather than stick out and 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.800 be undergo oh no, you know what about you know, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.240 if I'm not good enough and everybody is good enough 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.719 and we've just been so fortunate in this country, or 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.640 doesn't matter where you are, you know, listen to your program. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.720 So you could be in China, could be in Thailand, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.120 could be you're you know what, we're just representing ourselves. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.400 We have a beautiful heritage of Asian culture, but we 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.679 imbraced the Western culture. So yeah, we definitely should stand out. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.400 So I did an interview with somebody else yesterday. The 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.160 problem is a reading power women, not just Chinese, any 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.560 migrants to come out, just stand up, you know, just 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:18.320 showcase your heritage. I embrace this beautiful Western culture. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:22.360 Because people embrace you, Monica, they embrace We've been embracing you. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.840 You know, you are a bit of a new personality, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.720 someone we haven't seen on television here in Australia. But 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.240 to see you just being yourself reminds us that there's 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.680 just so many other stories in this country to tell, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.720 and so many beautiful people to investigate and to laugh 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.000 along with them, to learn from. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:45.000 That's right, you know, it's very interesting. So I'm over observed. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.480 So what's the show we'd come back bring us not 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.120 just the business, but the feedback, you know. I you know, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.360 I heard from you know a lot of people's money. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.920 You know, you're you're our inspiration in the Asian community, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.840 and I heard a lot like a gay community become 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.480 I could get some Oh that's interesting, that's let's really 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.920 I want to found out more. Why is that right? 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.400 And maybe they're looking for that authentity, you know, like different, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.040 you know, improfessional. We're not perfect, right, so you know 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.679 my brand is that even though we work so hard. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.840 I'm just squear him. There's so much like things relate 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.920 to themselves, you know, to the migrants, and I don't know, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.320 you know, I just want to find out. Okay, why 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:24.760 is that? 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.120 I can tell you Monica what it is. It's you know, 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.080 the LGBTI community have felt like a minority, and you 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.760 yourself must have in this country felt like a minority 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.080 at this time, and most people who felt like a 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.920 minority feel squashed down by it. But then to see 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.040 you be so loud and so fun and so confident, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.520 it reminds people of a minority that they too can 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:46.760 be just like you. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.320 Oh my god, Ben, you know you're the first person. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.040 You know, you alos listen to me. I want to 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.920 listen to you, right, So this is like one piece 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.480 of you know I never heard of because I got 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.240 so much attention everyone. God, you know people, I feel 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.640 like that last. But sometimes I'm you know, I'm still 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.520 Asian and Chinese. I'll still be conservative to ask because 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.160 I don't want to offend anybody because I never have 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.520 so many engaferends, but I never really asked them in 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.160 depth of it, do you know what I mean? So 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.560 I'm still Asian. So I'm not a brave to ask. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.120 You know, I don't offend anybody, but this is like, yes, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.600 it's a majority minority, you know, a group of people 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.280 and oh wow, okay, I'm loud. I'm not shy of 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.720 my success. Why should I, right, I work so hard 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.880 for our at own right. I do love blind billings 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.960 and our low BlimE is humble today, but so all 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.960 bling billions and I love to enjoy life and we're 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.960 not you know, we deserve it. But at the same 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.600 time that we live with a purpose, we live with 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.800 something we want to achieve. So thank you, thank you 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.360 for that having I think that that's really really grateful 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:51.000 to hear. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.160 Well, I'm glad that. I mean, it's a good conversation 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.200 to have, and I mean sometimes we don't see that. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.080 But also sometimes we're afraid to ask these questions. But 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.240 they're the best questions to ask when it is a 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.920 little bit uncomfortable at times. Normally there's a good reward 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.080 behind it. But when I was thinking of chatting with 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.600 you today, I wanted to say to you, can you 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.520 remember when you came to Australia, which I think was 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.520 in the eighties, what kind of space was there at 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.680 that time for women like yourself to be taken. Seriously, 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.360 how far do you think we've come since when you 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:20.920 first came to Australia. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.360 I think I came to Australia in ninety eighty eight, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.400 So that was literally in those space no space for 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.640 students because I was a foreign students and the perceptions 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.320 that for instant you had just had to work in 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.040 their restaurants, right, So washing the dishes and that's what 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.120 you know, which is okay, that's how that's how we started, right, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.760 And there's no space for women, you know. That. One 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.560 thing is I don't I don't really think Australia is 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.360 a country has a lot of racism or all this. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.160 I don't really believe there, right, because you know, when 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.000 we're coming here, we have to know who we are. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.200 Because I couldn't even bloody speak English. How are you? 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.800 How are you asked for plays in a society? Right? 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.079 You can't because you couldn't even communicate. So number one 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:07.000 thing is like we have to forgot forget see imperfection, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.559 You have to forget who you are in the past. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.679 I was like literally like a superstar in China at 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.040 the time on a camere. I was nobody. But instead 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.000 of a blame the society, blame the community, I just 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.760 have to empower myself. You know, I have to know 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.560 what I don't know. I have to learn language. I 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.640 have to start washing the dishes and start working. That 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.800 was a joke, right, looking after other peop's baby. I 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.760 was twenty six. I didn't even know how to look 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.880 at myself. Right, but does sex you just just you? 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.120 And I start from working in the market, you know, baby, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.719 if you look at my photos, you I have you 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.640 know all the posts, I have a Burrican allies and Amassiel. Right, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.640 I was having a bum bag, So you know when 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.080 the sting is just selling a country in a dirty 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:55.000 cash and working in the market just techologically, you know 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.480 how strong I have to be. Okay, So we never 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.960 showed blame was out there in fact where you have 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.080 to make the most what's available of us, and the 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.960 psychology will have to be so strong and the resilience. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.400 I just ignore whatever happens outside. Just empower yourself. So 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.480 from that moment, a woman without English, without nothing to 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.400 who I am today, That's that's a journey, right, that 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.040 journey is just so incredible everything I did in the past, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.440 Washington dishes, cover the place, split the beer on people's 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.640 you know, you know, c to be now being everywhere, 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:35.040 been seeing, you know, being like you know, hosting private functions, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.760 fly private jets, all these things. It's an incredible journey. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.840 So that journey. Come to my book. Okay, my I 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.800 do the book with the Amazon released very soon. It's 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.760 called hashtag never too much. Okay, too much is to 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.600 you my surname, so you know, it's never too much 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:59.000 of like hardship, challenges and victories and celebrations everything. So 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.760 we shouldn't be shye. So we are the master of ourselves. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:07.080 We should manage ourselves from you know, physical, mental, everything 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.960 whatever comes. You know, you know why you cannot manage it, right, 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.520 just living in Gods hand, you cannot manage it doesn't matter. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.960 I don't know what happens tomorrow. So I'm having something 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.880 at Lutle Market today. It's a meeting of fairs. I 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.040 don't know what's the results, but I just hope. I 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.800 don't really mind. It's no people comes running today, that's okay, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.920 you know, but I get prepared, you know, get my head, huh, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.960 you know, cut my make up, just go enjoy myself. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.480 So I hope that makes. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.280 Sense, That makes perfect sense. And you know it's is 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.480 it too early to be this inspirational want to come? 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.440 I don't know. I love chatting to you. I feel 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.120 like I need to chat to you every morning just 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.000 to give myself the to psych me up into the day. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.360 Like I think it makes you want to go out 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.240 there and achieve. I think we so often get bogged 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.480 down in our circumstance and we sort of forget that 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.000 we should just clear all of that and be who 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.160 we are and start again, you know. And I think 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.720 that there's something something quite beautiful in that. You know, Monica, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.280 when I asked you to do this show, what was 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.240 what was your initial thoughts? 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.479 Oh? Initial thoughts. It's like, you know, I'm still privileged. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.720 So like if there's opportunity there to share my story 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.080 with anybody, and I look at some of the questions, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.800 I say, you know, I'm not and if I can 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.520 fit in the time I always do you know anything 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.880 I can? You know my husband he do too much? 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.800 I said, you know, I never never too much. If 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.720 I can fit in, I will always want to be 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:31.440 there to sharing and just hopefully inspiring and you know, 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.880 just if I can have anybody help, you know, anybody 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.880 listen to a podcast, that it's become a responsibility. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:38.120 Right. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.800 But of course you're very good looking at you and 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.520 you know it's good to talk. If I'm talking to you, 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.840 I'm I looking at you as well. Right for people 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.840 by talking to you, I learned from you today. I 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.240 learned a couple of things I never know. And I 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.000 also keep myself excited as well for the day. Right. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.400 So now it's like you said, you're inspired, I'm inspired too. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.440 You know, it's just you know, have a great data. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.040 Absolutely absolutely. And then it's interesting, you know with l's 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.239 listening Sydney. You know, they had their first season and 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:10.800 you weren't a part of that season, and then you 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.280 joined the second series. You know, why do you think 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.640 they they chose you to join the ranks and join 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.919 Gavin and Simon and Delane, Like, why do you think 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.600 the producers came and found you? Oh? 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.640 Okay, In terms of the real state, I think I'm 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:29.000 represent representing luxury. So without wanting to probably it's not okay, 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.960 it is a luxury, but I probably more extra. So 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.720 if you look at the shows there there's a lot 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.080 of details, right, So luxury is it's not just people's property. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.439 It's about this the whole package you figured out, but 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.840 a little bit inside that. A few years ago, I 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.320 was in a partner show with Simon Gavin Dealing and 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.920 another person, right, so that I was he invited, actually 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.240 the producer for the first show I did I did, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.439 I wasn't invited, but at the time, I wasn't sure 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.280 because you know, I'm an entrepreneur. I'm real that I 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.200 got my incredible brand. I'm one of the superstar agent. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.280 You know, if you look at my record, there's far 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.280 more than you know, lots of people. So you know 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.840 my last years forty five million dollars, three years ago, 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.040 thirty eight million dollars or years ago, I got thirty 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.080 number nine million dollars. So that's me, right, And I've 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.160 been you know, I've been showcased. You know, I embraced 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.000 my brand for so long. So my brand is luxury, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.840 and my brand is a bridge between East and West, right, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.560 So I'm very firm among what I stand for. So 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.480 I was not sure about the show, and you know, 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.760 one of the executive producers and U should be because 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.400 I was I was in a palet show. I said, 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.880 you know what, let's wait and see. And the second one. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:41.560 What's the first show? I said, Oh my god, this 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.720 is incredible. So the show, if I can number one, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.520 is a serious show. It's a very good show. There's 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.240 nothing controversial. It's not one of those you know, other 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.960 shows I don't want me Yeah, And I said, yeah, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.880 that's this is a stuard. By saying that, I think 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.760 I'm so grateful. We don't have to take the opportunity. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.320 You know, if you're uncomfortable with so you can always 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.960 wait and see what's happening. So sometimes if it's the 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.480 right thing, so it's worth waiting. I think it's definitely 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.080 worth waiting. And I loved it. I love everything we 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.040 have done with the show, and the result is just phenomenal. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.000 What's the reaction has been to you taking part of 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:20.520 the series. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.000 I think my family is always supportive. I've got really 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.399 supportive our husband, you're very good looking and very supportive, 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.679 and my daughter is very supportive. My people back in 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.560 China are my god, it is so cool. But this 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.879 one thing, it's like, you know, because I'm probably the 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.120 oldest one or most of the true one leasure and 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.920 they say, oh my god, may look you have some winkles. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.240 So you know, you know, your family is always sometimes 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.960 you know, like for Chinese, family is very critical, you 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.680 know what I mean. You look fabulous. You know all 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.560 the Australian community or people around the world, you look incredible. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.800 So that's what I like about Western culture, you know 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.240 what I mean. So they just really was Chinese is 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.480 very critical because oh my god, I could speak a 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.960 little bit better and I shouldn't have to wear that, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.720 you know, that different ring, and so yeah, this is 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.320 like your family by seeing that they're amazing. They I 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:17.760 feel they're very proud of me and doing this, and 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.240 you know they're don't they never I'm still probably never 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.840 Chinese never said that. Oh yes, all right, I'm you know, 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.040 but I could sharing with other friends. 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.399