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Good Christmas Gifts · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, does
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  Speaker 1: your company give out good Christmas gifts?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas. Alma Mama.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now we are American Mama's Terry Edville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlison. Look, we just had the Thanksgiving, now we
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  Speaker 1: have Christmas season. A lot of companies don't give out
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  Speaker 1: Christmas gifts anymore. There are still some that do here
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  Speaker 1: and there. H do you guys have companies that give
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  Speaker 1: out good Christmas gifts for all?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my husband works for a large, very large company,
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  Speaker 2: and they gave out turkeys for Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so everybody got a turkey and they I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know how many employees they have, thousand at least,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's a big company.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: So it was an awesome turkey. Yeah, I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: had it for Thanksgiving. And so my husband sent an
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  Speaker 2: email and he said, thank you, thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for the the.
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  Speaker 1: Turkey, because that's that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: And he got a response and they said, nobody's ever
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  Speaker 2: thanked us for that before. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Wait what yes?
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  Speaker 2: They said, nobody'd ever thank them for the turkey, They
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  Speaker 2: just expect it, And it reminded me my dad used
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  Speaker 2: to own a company.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, this is a big corporation, big company
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  Speaker 1: that spent thousands of dollars to give people Thanksgiving turkeys
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  Speaker 1: so their families could eat a feast, and no one
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  Speaker 1: except for your husband has ever thanked them.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's it's when a big company
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  Speaker 2: does anything, it becomes part of what you just expect.
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  Speaker 2: You just expect it, so you don't even think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: your thanks would probably go anywhere or there is anyone
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  Speaker 2: to think. I don't think you think that way. You
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  Speaker 2: work for such a huge, publicly traded company kind of company.
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  Speaker 3: That's Mike's personality.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, he's a good guy. But I'm reminded
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  Speaker 2: of my dad had a company, and one thing that
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  Speaker 2: he did is he gave all of his employees their
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  Speaker 2: weekly paid another monthly paycheck for their birthday on their
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  Speaker 2: birthday birthday bonus, a birthday bonus.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: So he did it for everybody. One particular day, one
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  Speaker 2: of the employees did not get her check that day.
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  Speaker 2: He forgot. He just totally forgot well, she came into
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  Speaker 2: his office going off. She was livid, she was furious,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, woo wait, I'm going to write your
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  Speaker 2: birthday check right now, but this is over. And he
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  Speaker 2: went in and he told everybody, I'm no longer giving this.
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  Speaker 2: When you expect it, when you don't have any gratitude
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  Speaker 2: for it, then I'm not doing it. And did it
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  Speaker 2: ended it no longer And everybody was so upset and
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  Speaker 2: so mad at the one particular girl, because gratitude. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you're a big company, you're a little company.
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  Speaker 2: You must show gratitude.
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  Speaker 4: And knowing dad, had he gone, you know, another month
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  Speaker 4: and maybe found out, oh yeah it was so and
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  Speaker 4: so's birthday.
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  Speaker 3: He probably would would have doubled it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like, oh god, I need to make up
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  Speaker 4: for that. You know how you'd like if you miss
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  Speaker 4: someone's birthday, you do like my niece's nephew, I do
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  Speaker 4: something more if I forget it, you know. And so
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  Speaker 4: I think the lesson is, first of all, we shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: expect anything. You know, we all get into that if
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  Speaker 4: you if you work for a company, you're like, well,
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  Speaker 4: what's our bonus going to be?
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  Speaker 3: This year. You shouldn't expect anything.
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  Speaker 4: You should be so grateful, and I guess this is
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  Speaker 4: a perfect time of year to practice that, To practice humility. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: practice appreciation and gratitude for what you do have. And
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  Speaker 4: what a thing. It's so interesting the gift. It's such
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  Speaker 4: a when someone appreciates. If I do something for somebody,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not expecting a thank you, and they go out
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  Speaker 4: of their way to thank me or say something to
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  Speaker 4: somebody else in front of me. You know, what she
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  Speaker 4: did for me. It means the world.
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  Speaker 3: It is more. It's worth more than gold to agree.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I worked at a TV station that would
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  Speaker 1: regularly give out Christmas gifts, and one year that Christmas
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  Speaker 1: gifts was polo shirts and a hat with the logo
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  Speaker 1: of the of the TV station on it. And I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: I got the you know, I'm now part of the
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  Speaker 1: cool club. I got the hat with their love all right.
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  Speaker 1: And several years later, I'm wearing the hat and I
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  Speaker 1: post on Facebook picture on Facebook and there's some people
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  Speaker 1: that I had worked at the time. It's like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that Christmas gift and I'm like, wait, I
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  Speaker 1: love this I'm still proud that I have this hat
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  Speaker 1: years later, and you you're still like that was an
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  Speaker 1: awful Christmas gift from the company, And I thought, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same gift. We both got the same thing. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's cool and you're like, that's all I got.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that something?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: And what a hard lesson?
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  Speaker 4: You know. I guess if the powers that be that
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  Speaker 4: heard that could have said, you know what, we're not
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  Speaker 4: doing this anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I like day a few years later.
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  Speaker 4: Well the lesson you know whoever that was that worked
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  Speaker 4: for Dad. I'm sure she felt terrible. She'll never forget it,
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  Speaker 4: but it's one of those things where everybody else got punished.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I'm sure Da did other things because that
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  Speaker 4: he was just a giver. But let's use this time
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  Speaker 4: of the year to start really appreciating people, even for
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  Speaker 4: the small things.
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  Speaker 3: For a small a warm SACTI.
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  Speaker 4: If you walk in and somebody says hi with a
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  Speaker 4: warm smile, how about saying.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for that exactly. It's a sweet smile that
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  Speaker 3: just made my day. You have no idea the contagion.
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  Speaker 2: It is contagious. And we've talked about this on the
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  Speaker 2: error a couple of times. Practice your fake response. Fake
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  Speaker 2: it until you make it. Act excited, because that is
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  Speaker 2: as big a gift to the giver than it is
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  Speaker 2: to the receiver. For that person to feel somebody is
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  Speaker 2: so grateful for something that you've done. That is that
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  Speaker 2: is more than anything that they could expect. So fake it.
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  Speaker 3: Teach and teach your kids that you teach them. We
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  Speaker 3: taught our kids. It matters your response when you open
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  Speaker 3: a gift from somebody else. Yeah, it matters. Start start young.
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  Speaker 1: Brothers and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,