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HHBSO 125: Makné Has Arrived, Officially! · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hello, welcome to He's hot, but some things are OK.
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  It's been a long road to get here.
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  I like to say I'm more excited for today's episode, which I've
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  hyped up on my YouTube and my Instagram.
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  Usually I just put an episode out on Thursdays because for the
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  five of you dot listen, you know that it comes out on Thursdays
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  because it's been coming out on a Thursday for you know what,
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  it's been nearly three years. I don't know how many episodes
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  we're up until, but it's like it's, it's over 2 years that
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  I've done this, I think. But this one is a little
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  special, not just because it's coming out on a Friday.
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  And I say that I wish I was a little more excited for this
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  because I've been working at this for 2 1/2 years now.
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  I've been working on this since before I started this podcast.
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  This podcast has been over 2 years and the only reason I'm
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  not at this very moment not feeling a little more excited is
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  just because how tired I am. So the big announcement is
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  today, on Friday, my new skin care brand called Magnet has
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  launched. Today is the launch day and it's
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  been a very long time in the making and actually long time
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  followers, if you've been listening to the podcast like
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  for at least like a year, year and a half, it was about a year
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  ago, It was almost exactly a year ago that I tried to launch
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  the skin care brand. And what I will say is I've
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  learned a lot of lessons and I still continue to learn a lot of
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  lessons in terms of just running a business.
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  And definitely marketing is not my Forte in the sense that I
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  don't think I have a very natural neck for it.
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  And I don't really have that skill set.
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  Not that I'm not willing to invest in the marketing, but I'm
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  learning a lot. However, for this launch, the
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  proper launch I like to call it, and that's more accurate.
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  I do have a marketing agency that I'm working with to make
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  sure that, you know, we're going to launch properly this time.
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  So it, it's been a long road. It's been 2 1/2 years.
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  And in in this episode, beyond just announcing it so that you
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  all have access to it, I wanted to talk a little bit about, you
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  know, just like, why am I doing this?
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  Because it's something that now that it's out there, it's going
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  to be all marketed and advertising all of that.
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  But for those of you that listen to this podcast, you don't know
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  me as a business owner. You very likely do not know me
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  as a skin care expert or enthusiast in any way.
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  You know, I've got a lot of things that I'm into that I
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  don't talk about on the podcast. You know, the one time I talked
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  about Formula One on this podcast, one of you had the
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  nerve to come up to my comment section and complain that I was
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  talk about Formula One. I'm just going to remind all of
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  you, whether you've been here 100 times or this is the first
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  time you're listening, this podcast is my personal podcast
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  where I talk about whatever I want.
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  And also by the way, if you don't want to listen, you can
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  just go listen to something else.
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  You know, I'm very much for if you don't want to consume
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  something, don't consume it, whether that's media or food,
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  pick your choice. But anyways, yeah, I'm, so, I
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  mean, I'm, I'm excited, I'm happy, but just right this
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  moment, I'm recording this on Thursday night.
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  So technically as I'm recording this, it we're a few hours,
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  we're X hours away from the launch.
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  And it should be that once it's launched, I should have a little
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  bit more of excitement, but also a bit of a feeling of relief in
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  the sense that, you know, I've been working so hard to get the
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  baby out the door. I don't know, that's actually a
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  good saying. Get the get the baby out, not
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  out the door. Just anyways, it's been my baby
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  for a long time. And for it to like see the light
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  of the world, it's, it's very exciting, but it's also like, I
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  also need a breather because this shit is hard work.
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  So let me rewind. I told this story like I've told
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  this story like once or twice, but it's it's been a while.
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  So for those of you that are newer listeners, I just want to
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  rewind it back to, you know, this goes all the way back to
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  2022. So this goes back at least three
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  years ago. And my old career was ITI did
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  corporate IT for tech companies, for several tech companies.
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  And up until 2022, that's what I was doing.
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  I was doing the 9:00 to 5:00. I was working from home here in
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  Los Angeles, and I was working for a tech companies.
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  I was getting paid a pretty decent amount.
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  I climbed my way up that corporate ladder, you know,
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  being like a junior IT tech support person early on, over
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  many, many years, I was director of corporate IT.
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  You know, that progression in it's in and of itself is, it's
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  nice, but it's not surprising. A lot of people climb the
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  corporate ladder over X number of years.
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  And eventually I took a new job in the summer of 2022.
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  And I kind of took the job, not for the best reasons.
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  We won't unpack all of that now, but basically I was working with
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  a company. It was like going pretty well,
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  going pretty decent, you know, couple minor things here and
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  there on the grand scheme of things.
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  But there was a nicer, newer, fancier job of a fancier title
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  with a ton more money. I mean, a lot of people tend to
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  switch jobs because of the title and the money, right?
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  Like you're moving up, you know, that's what climbing the
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  corporate ladder is, right? No, you're like a junior manager
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  and you're then you're senior manager, then you're like a
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  director, then you're like AVP or, you know, you guys kind of,
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  sort of know what it is. So I switched companies and I
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  took this job and I was not happy working there.
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  And I only was there for six months.
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  So I remember in December, so a few weeks before Christmas in
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  2022. And I've been, I've been wanting
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  to quit for a few months. By that time, like October,
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  November, I want to be, I was every day I was thinking waking
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  up like when can I quit this job?
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  When can I quit this job? So in December I, I put in my
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  notice and I quit. So I worked up until the holiday
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  break that December and I had never quit a job without having
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  a different job lined up in my full time adult career.
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  It's never happened. The only other time where I quit
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  a job and I didn't have a different job lined up was when
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  I was 17 and I had a part time job during the senior year of
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  high school. And then eventually it was a
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  seasonal thing for like their for the holiday time because
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  they needed extra help. It's a it's a bookstore, so any
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  kind of retail, they hire seasonal staff over the holidays
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  because you know, that's you get a holiday rush to get more
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  people buying stuff. And it was supposed to be
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  temporary. The position was supposed to be
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  seasonal until January until right after the holidays.
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  But then they offered to keep me on, but they liked me so much or
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  whatever. But then I quit that job because
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  I was like, OK, I need to make sure I get into college, get
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  into university. And I decided the best thing to
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  do was like not have the part time job because I didn't really
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  need the money and but it was important for me to get into
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  college. So and I got into college.
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  So there you go. Anyways, that was the last time
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  I actually quit a job without having some of the job lined up
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  like when I was in high school. That's a long time ago.
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  So anyways, 2022 didn't like the job was hating it, quit it.
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  And I just, the thinking was, OK, let's just travel or just
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  take some time off. I was kind of burnt out and I
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  didn't like my job. And I was like, OK, let's just
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  take a breather. You know, I've been working
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  non-stop all these years for so long, like, and the job market
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  was really hot in 2022. It's really, really hot in 2021.
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  It was red hot in 2022. Like I was getting job offers
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  when I wasn't even searching for a job back in 2022.
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  It was like kind of crazy. It's very different than the
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  market we have now. So I quit my job the beginning
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  of 2023. For like the first few months, I
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  didn't do anything. I guess there were a couple of
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  cruises that I took. So I took a couple of trips just
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  like relax and just enjoy having some time off from just like
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  working. And it was April in 2023 that I
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  thought, OK, you know, I had a few months off.
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  We should probably eventually just ease back into the job
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  market. You know, I'm not in a, I'm not
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  in a huge rush. I've got some money, I've got
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  some savings. But the original plan was I was
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  just going to take a break and just go find a different company
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  to work for. But the main thing was that it
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  wasn't because I didn't want to work.
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  It was I didn't want to work at that company in that position.
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  It just wasn't a good move. So it was like April, May.
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  I was thinking, OK, we'll slowly do our resume.
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  We can afford to take a bit of our time to look for another
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  job. But while we're doing that, we
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  have all this like extra free time.
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  And I was thinking, well, if I ever wanted to try out some job
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  that I would never try because of working full time, this would
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  be the best time for if there's some sort of other interests,
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  some other business interests or some sort of other industry.
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  I was curious about, you know, because I do have this extra
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  time while I was looking for a full time job, I was like, what
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  this would be like the perfect time to like see what's out
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  there. And that's kind of where I got
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  the idea of let's look at things that I like and am passionate
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  about. Is there something we can do
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  with that? So that's how having my own skin
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  care brand kind of came in. That's where I idea came in.
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  And it was like that spring that the company was formed.
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  And you know what, for a lot of the initial work for like the
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  first, the work that I had to do for the first year or so, I was
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  like, this is this is kind of easy.
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  And it doesn't seem to be that hard.
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  A lot of it's like back off as a miniature to self, which I
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  weirdly like. So I spent about a year doing
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  that and I think I was able to get it off the ground because,
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  you know, when we hit 2023, the job market had kind of taken a
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  dive South. So I was kind of sort of looking
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  for a job. I mean, I was looking for a job,
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  but I wasn't expecting the market to be to have cooled off
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  as quickly as it did compared to like just, you know, nine months
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  ago when it was like red hot. But at least for me anyways, in
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  the IT world, it did cool a lot. And suffice it to say, I wasn't
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  successful getting any sort of getting back into IT.
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  And you know, we're about to get into 2026, so I'm coming up to
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  three years of not having that full time employment.
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  So, you know, instead I've decided to just do my own thing.
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  And, you know, one of the things was the skin care business.
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  And yeah, basically that's kind of how the idea of it started
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  was I just had a chance when I didn't have the nine of five
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  anymore to really sit down and think about, you know, if I
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  could do anything in the world, if I could do anything in the
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  world as a career, what are the things I would like to do?
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  What are the things I would love?
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  Like, how can I mix my passion with business?
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  And this was one of those things, and some of you that
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  have been listening to the podcast, I'm also know that I've
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  started another business, which is being a travel advisor with
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  just Joey Travels. And that's much more recent.
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  But that's also where, hey, I want to blend things that I'm
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  passionate about and make a business out of it.
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  So these are like the two main businesses.
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  Well, actually have three businesses.
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  Honestly, based of the only fans, I'm like, trust me, the
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  only fans is a real business. It's not going to last forever,
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  but it's, it's, it's paying the bills right now.
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  So you know, these are like all the businesses that I am
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  running. And it's so weird to think that
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  if in 2022 you told me that, hey, Joey, in three years you're
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  going to be running three separate businesses.
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  You're going to be, you're going to have a skin care company,
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  you're going to be a travel advisor and you're going to be,
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  you're going to be doing porn. Actually, by that time I was
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  already doing Only Fans by then, but it was really literally just
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  for shifts and giggles on the side.
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  Literally back in 2022, it was like it was very, very early on
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  and with like 5 followers or something and it was, I was just
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  literally doing a fun it. That business has evolved a lot
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  since it's pulling in a lot more revenue compared to three or
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  four years ago. Yeah, you told me that I'd be
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  like, OK, that's crazy. But you know, through all my
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  whole life, pick any point in my life honestly to date.
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  And if at any point in my life, like for example, if you if when
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  I was when I was 21, OK, let's say I was 21, I still in
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  college. And if I told my 21 year old
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  self what my life would be like three years later when I was 25,
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  and that was when I got the job offer from Google and moved to
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  California, I'd be like, there's that's like, that's no way that
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  would happen 'cause that that's so crazy, right?
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  That's such a crazy kind of like a thing to happen.
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  You know, I remember when I first started at Google, they
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  like to this is the kool-aid, OK?
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  Tech companies spray a lot of Kool-aid onto it's employees
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  trust and belief. They used to like saying to at
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  orientation, new employee orientation at Google, at least
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  back then. They like to say, you know, the
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  odds of getting into Harvard is like one in whatever.
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  And then the odds of getting into Google is like one in like
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  way more than that. Like they're basically saying
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  it's actually a lot harder to get into Google than to get into
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  Harvard. Congratulations.
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  I think the way they delivered that is not the way I delivered
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  it. It didn't sound so high and
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  mighty, I guess. Yeah.
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  At any point in my life, you can pay any point in my life.
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  And if you literally told me 03 years later this was what your
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  life would be like or this is what you'd be doing, I, I would
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  pretty much almost always tell you, I can't imagine that
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  happening. So that's why sometimes when
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  people say, oh, where do you see yourself in like X years?
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  I'm like, I, I have no idea and it's absolutely useless to try.
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  So I have no idea what's going to happen in three years.
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  I I really don't know. Will these businesses still be
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  running? Maybe yes, maybe no.
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  I'm just going to roll with the punches.
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  But yeah, it's been a lot of work the last 2 1/2 years.
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  Like I said, the first year of running the business, I was just
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  kind of doing things at my own pace and it was just figuring
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  out the various parts of going into building a skin care
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  company. Part of it's just like building
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  a company. Generally part of it is like the
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  skin care part. But you know, looking back at it
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  now, now that I've talked about it a little bit, I am getting
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  excited because, you know, I have actual products that people
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  can buy that I've designed. And, you know, like every little
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  detail you look on like the website or like the Instagram or
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  in our marketing or in like the actual product or like the box,
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  you know, for example, the boxes have little sayings of them that
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  I wrote the design of the box. I designed that myself, like the
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  design of the graphics and the bottles.
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  I designed it myself. All the colors that are like
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  their brand colors. I, I, I did that it, it was just
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  me. It's a one person company, which
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  now that I think about it, sometimes I have to take a step
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  back. You know, when it is a lot of
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  work to get to this point and some days are tougher than
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  others. Some days it's like, Oh my God,
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  it's like so much work I have to do.
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  I have a million things to do. One of the things I've learned
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  is the amount of self motivation you need to have to start and
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  run your own company. It's staggering.
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  It's staggering. Like for 2 1/2 years I've had to
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  basically keep the faith that like this is going to work out.
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  I mean, I still have to do that now.
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  Just because you quote UN quote, have launched the company,
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  someone can pay you money for a product or a service, doesn't
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  mean it's success. It's successful.
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  So the, the launch is a big milestone and I'm excited for
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  it. But yeah, it, it's just, I've
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  learned so much just even up to this point and I'm sure I'm
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  going to learn so much more, but I am excited.
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  I've keep part of it is you have to keep telling yourself certain
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  things to cheer yourself up. You know, I, I, I want to get a
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  dog. This sounds like it's neither
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  here nor there, but like if over the last 2 1/2 years I had a
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  dog, I think that would have really helped my morale just on
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  a day-to-day basis. It's I really have this
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  upbringing where my parents just taught me like just the whatever
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  is the most reliable way to get a paycheck.
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  You do that and you never shake or rock that boat.
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  It's a very traditional Chinese upbringing with my parents.
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  And you know, I, my, I've two siblings, my brother and my
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  sister. They're both older.
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  They are definitely doing that. And I was for a long time too.
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  For many, many years. I was like, OK, go to an office
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  9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Mondays through Fridays, get a paycheck.
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  And that's exactly what my parents wanted.
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  My parents don't want any of the kids to like, oh, go invest a
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  ton of your money into a brand new business.
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  My dad was entrepreneur, but I think my dad would because you
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  know, the, the Chinese parents thing to say is like just just
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  find a a big reliable company, get a job and just have a decent
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  paycheck and just ride it out for the rest of your life
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  because the stability is really the key thing.
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  My opinion, the parents, the Chinese parents don't care if
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  you made a lot of money as long as you made like enough.
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  You know, being rich is not like being rich is not the point.
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  The point is just to like survive, you know, and the, and
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  the best way to survive is not to gain risks, just a reliable
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  paycheck for as long as possible.
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  And a big company is usually more reliable than a small
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  company or running your own company, right?
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  And you know, sometimes it's risky to go for like the big
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  payout. So like some sort of like entry
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  level, not like entry level, but like very like, you know,
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  run-of-the-mill type of a job. You know, there's no aspirations
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  to shake a rock the boat to like climb up the ladder and make
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  more money. Just like, as as long as like
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  you know, you, you can, you, you are, you're sustaining yourself.
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  Just do that. So the upbringing was very much
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  that type of attitude. But I definitely, I'm definitely
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  like the, the black sheep of the family kind.
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  I don't know if that's the most appropriate thing to say, but
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  you know, I'm, I'm the only one that like moved to a different
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  country. My family's in Canada.
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  I'm the one that had to like move to the US out of college.
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  Besides, I, I, I got a job and you know, I, I got, I'm the only
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  one in the family to get, you know, to work for like a, a big
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  fancy company like Google. And it's so it's so weird.
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  My family doesn't listen to, it's so weird because at one
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  point I'm, I was pretty sure I was making maybe more than my
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  brother and my sister combined. But you know, the other thing I
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  want to say about that is it's great to have.
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  I do wish I had more income, cash flow.
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  But you know, when you're starting a business, sometimes,
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  especially something like a skin care business that's like a
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  little bit capital intensive, you know, you need to pay to
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  like develop the formulas. You need to pay for that to be
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  produced in the lab. You need to pay for all of that
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  inventory. You need to pay for all the
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  logistics and the storage and you know, all that stuff upfront
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  before you turn even a penny revenue.
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  So it you got to basically manufacture all that stuff and
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  that costs a lot of money. So, you know, because of that, I
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  think I am privileged that I was in a situation where I had
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  enough capital to be able to do that and still just pay for the
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  bills just out of my assets. You know, over the years, I, you
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  know, while I was making decent money, one of the one of the
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  best moves I've ever made was putting money away and investing
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  it. So I have investments out of a
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  portfolio. So I feel like I was in in a
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  fortunate enough situation to be able to like take a chunk of
• 23:23
  money out of it to start up a business that's kind of capital
• 23:28
  intensive at the same time, still be able to just like pay
• 23:34
  my mortgage and put food on the table and do that, you know, I
• 23:37
  have it to I I did cut back on a lot of like non essential things
• 23:44
  like Amazon prime. OK, that's like what, 100
• 23:47
  something bucks a year that had to go.
• 23:50
  And there was never like a dining out person really.
• 23:53
  So, but it was like extra not dining out.
• 23:56
  I stopped buying organic foods. So it's not that I'm broke, you
• 24:00
  know, there's money in the peripheral, there's money in the
• 24:02
  bank, there's there's money in various investments.
• 24:05
  But it was very much like, OK, the cash flow is negative, OK,
• 24:09
  Only fans does bring in money, but doesn't bring in that much
• 24:12
  money. I'm not that much of A porn
• 24:13
  star, OK. And all the all the while I'm
• 24:16
  spending money on the skin care business because you have to
• 24:18
  invest in the business to get it started.
• 24:21
  So it's a long road to get here in, in many, in many different
• 24:26
  ways. Financially is one of them.
• 24:28
  But yeah, I'm really looking forward to taking her break next
• 24:31
  week. I'm really looking forward to
• 24:32
  taking a little bit, little bit of a breather next week and next
• 24:35
  week's Thanksgiving. And I feel like I have a lot to
• 24:38
  be thankful for. And sometimes you know, you're,
• 24:43
  you're, you're driving down the road of life and you never stop
• 24:47
  to smell the flowers or appreciate what you have because
• 24:53
  you're, we're always so busy just like go, go, go in today's
• 24:57
  world. So next week I think I have the
• 25:03
  chance to step back a little bit from work because literally
• 25:08
  every day it's like there are no weekends and there are no, like
• 25:10
  there's no like it's, it's just crazy.
• 25:13
  The amount I've been working on is I've never worked as hard.
• 25:16
  I never worked as hard to any of my jobs.
• 25:18
  Those 95 jobs, honestly, relatively, they're all pretty
• 25:21
  cushy. Some days I can't remember why I
• 25:24
  quit those cushy jobs with the big paychecks.
• 25:26
  But anyways, yeah, next week I'm going to take a little bit of a
• 25:29
  breathe air after the launch and I get to be, I get to do the
• 25:33
  Thanksgiving thing where you know what, I'm just going to
• 25:37
  take a moment and just pause a little bit and just think about
• 25:42
  all the things that are good in my life and all the things that
• 25:46
  I'm thankful for. Definitely one of the things I'm
• 25:49
  thankful for is the launch of the skin care company.
• 25:53
  All right, So please, please, please.
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  It's I've already put it onto the side of my screen here.
• 26:00
  I've got some QR codes. It's also going to be linked
• 26:02
  down in the description below. I'm going to put up a video, a
• 26:08
  YouTube video, like a proper YouTube video sometime this
• 26:12
  weekend where I just want to talk a little bit about the skin
• 26:17
  care company itself. Not so much like the back story
• 26:21
  like I'm doing with you now. And also I have been meaning to
• 26:25
  also just do like a little bit of a YouTube intro video for
• 26:29
  just Joey travels, me being a travel advisor as well.
• 26:32
  So I'm going to be doing a proper YouTube video where I
• 26:35
  just talk a little bit about the two businesses.
• 26:39
  So look for that coming up this weekend.
• 26:42
  But yeah, if you want to go check out Mag Day, it's my skin
• 26:47
  care brand and the our tech line is, you know, serving fun and
• 26:52
  effective skin care for everyone.
• 26:54
  I really wanted to lean into the fact that, you know, skin care
• 27:00
  should not be for him or for her, should be for everyone.
• 27:04
  And that's one of the core values of the brand is that, you
• 27:07
  know, a lot of there are a lot of skin care companies,
• 27:09
  especially like the more established ones that market
• 27:12
  more towards, you know, traditionally feminine women.
• 27:15
  They're also men's skin care lines that obviously just cater
• 27:19
  to, you know, mainly from their marketing CIS gendered men.
• 27:24
  But I really wanted my skin care company to kind of break down
• 27:29
  those boundaries a little bit. And instead of being gender
• 27:34
  blind, like I like to call some companies, some companies, they
• 27:37
  don't reference people in their marketing or in their corporate
• 27:42
  image at all. And they don't even mention
• 27:45
  anything about gender, which is like anything that a company
• 27:49
  does in the marketing is very intentional.
• 27:52
  And I've decided with my skin care company that I wanted us to
• 27:56
  be gender positive. I wanted us to support the fact
• 28:03
  that, you know, there are people on the full gender spectrum, and
• 28:07
  I don't think that the beauty industry should just be so
• 28:14
  biased towards those traditional gender roles.
• 28:19
  Yeah. So that's Magne.
• 28:21
  I hope you check it out. Everything is linked down below
• 28:25
  or in the QR codes. I never remember which side of
• 28:28
  the video podcast is this side. It it.
• 28:32
  Yeah, This side is where I have the QR codes.
• 28:34
  Yeah, go check it out. And we have an Instagram, of
• 28:38
  course, it's a Holomagnet is the Instagram.
• 28:41
  It's going to be linked up below@holomagnet.com.
• 28:44
  It's also the website. So, yeah, it's very interesting.
• 28:48
  The work has not finished. The launch is a milestone, but
• 28:51
  you know, I, I, yeah, it's just in in some ways I can't believe
• 28:57
  that we've I've gotten this to this point.
• 29:00
  Yeah, that's, that's what I wanted to talk about today.
• 29:04
  And that's the big announcement. It may not seem like such a big
• 29:07
  thing to to you, but like on this side of the table because
• 29:11
  I've been working here for 2 1/2 years to get it to like this
• 29:14
  very critical big milestone for me is FN Giant.
• 29:19
  OK. But yeah, I hope you check it
• 29:22
  out. And yeah, I think on oh, for
• 29:26
  those who are interested in my Patreon, by the way, I did
• 29:32
  mention in episode or two ago that if you would like a free
• 29:36
  trial to my Patreon, you just have to DM me.
• 29:38
  And a few people took me up on that offer and I appreciate that
• 29:42
  some of you are listening. So I'm still going to do that.
• 29:45
  If you want to DM my Instagram, the just Joey T by personal
• 29:49
  Instagram, just DM me say, hey, I would like a free trial to the
• 29:53
  your Patreon. And I will do that because I do
• 29:55
  post a lot of good stuff in there.
• 29:57
  But one thing that I am doing on my Patreon, every month on my
• 30:01
  Patreon by top tier OPA subscribers, I will do a monthly
• 30:06
  live stream with them. I'll be doing it for every
• 30:09
  single month. And it's this Sunday that is the
• 30:12
  November live stream for those top tier OPA subscribers.
• 30:17
  And those are the ones that I love interacting with because
• 30:20
  they always like comment on my post and like they ask me
• 30:23
  questions. We have like a little group chat
• 30:24
  as well. So I really, really love
• 30:27
  interacting with with my Opas and we're actually going to have
• 30:31
  a monthly, our monthly live stream this Sunday at 4:00 PM
• 30:35
  Pacific. So the free trial, you're not
• 30:38
  going to get the top tier with that.
• 30:40
  You don't get the live stream for free, but just in case some
• 30:44
  of you are interested in my top tier Patreon subscription, now
• 30:51
  would be a great time because this this Sunday we're having
• 30:54
  that live stream and that's one of the main parts of being a top
• 30:56
  tier OPA subscribers. So OK, there you go.
• 31:01
  That's my big announcement. I think I think because as I'm
• 31:03
  recording this, it's Thursday and technically the launch is
• 31:06
  Friday when this goes up, I'm still putting some finishing
• 31:10
  touches on a few things with the launch even tonight.
• 31:13
  And honestly that that's how hard I need it to work.
• 31:16
  It's wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face, eat breakfast,
• 31:21
  work, work, work, work, work, work, lunch, work, work, work,
• 31:25
  work, work, dinner, work, work, work, sleep.
• 31:28
  So it's been like that basically seven days a week for several
• 31:31
  months now. So I'm really glad that next
• 31:34
  week I told my marketing agency people like, OK, do you guys
• 31:37
  need anything for me for the rest of this month?
• 31:41
  Because I'm, I'm, I'm going to be stepping away from my work
• 31:44
  computer until after the Thanksgiving long weekend.
• 31:50
  So that's like December, basically it's the Monday.
• 31:52
  And I said, and I said, and they said no, we just have a few
• 31:56
  things finish up. And then they're just going to
• 31:58
  like kind of take care of running some of the advertising
• 32:01
  and some of the social media that we've already all reviewed
• 32:05
  for like the next couple of weeks.
• 32:07
  So I get to just sit back a little bit, hang up with some
• 32:13
  friends, hit the gym. I'm still hitting the gym.
• 32:17
  I'm still making time for that. And yeah, I hope you all will
• 32:22
  support me in my business endeavours.
• 32:25
  Until next time, bye y'all.