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The Power of Confidence: Pop Star Anna Storm’s Creator Mindset · Your Mic

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  I think it all starts with being confident and believing in yourself.
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  What's the worst that's gonna happen? They don't get back to you.
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  Someone's gonna say yes. Someone's gonna like what you're doing.
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  My childhood was consistent of being bullied.
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  Either let that define you and let everyone's opinions of you define you
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  or you just decide that you're gonna define you.
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  My favorite lesson from him, I don't even know what the word quit means.
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  And I don't know, just stuck with me.
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  I love that. I don't even know what the word quit means.
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  And if you give up, then nothing's gonna happen.
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  But if you keep going, then so many things can happen.
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  Thank you for joining the show.
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  Thank you for having me on the show.
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  Let's begin with your favorite podcast.
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  My favorite podcast is probably call her daddy.
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  Really? Yeah. Okay. What episode should I start with?
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  Maybe the one with Paris Hilton.
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  Okay. That's just because I love Paris Hilton.
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  Yeah. She's funny and iconic.
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  Did you watch any of the ones that she did when Nicole Richie back in the day?
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  No, I didn't actually.
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  Okay. Well, yeah, you're very young.
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  So you would not have had any reason to see them
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  because you were probably learning your ABCs at that time.
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  Maybe, but I do like the 2000s a lot.
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  So like, I'll kind of like go back and watch things.
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  You know, I listen to a lot of 2000s music.
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  Well, yeah. And so one more margarita is the,
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  is like the, the Anastorm song at the moment.
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  Yes. It's the newest one I released.
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  And you've got the remix with PD Pablo,
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  which validates the claim that you're a 2000s kid.
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  I am.
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  Talk about remixing.
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  And then we're going to talk about how your brand and your music
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  and your lifestyle fit into somebody that listens to this show
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  who was a new or aspiring podcaster.
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  Okay. So basically, you want me to talk about the remix?
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  Talk about the remix.
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  Okay.
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  So I linked up with PD through TikTok.
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  We started following each other on TikTok.
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  And I just, I've always just loved like 2000s rap.
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  Like I feel like that's when like part, like party rap kind of,
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  like was really heavy in the 2000s.
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  So there's a lot of like bangers, you know, that came out done.
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  And I was just like DMing with PD.
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  And I was like, would you be interested to be on one of my records?
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  It's like a party like turn up song.
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  And I sent him the record and he like loved it.
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  And he just like knocked out two verses.
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  And he sent them both to me.
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  And I chose the one I thought was better.
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  But they both were fire honestly.
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  Okay. He recorded them.
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  He you asked him and then he just recorded them.
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  There wasn't like some kind of, oh, well,
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  my label is going to connect with your label and your manager.
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  I'm independent.
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  Like I'm an independent artist.
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  He is too.
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  Wow. So that's how that, that's how that works.
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  With Indies is that you don't really have anybody to answer to or ask permission of.
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  You just, yeah, you just do it.
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  I love that.
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  There's a lesson there for podcast hosts
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  that might want to interview somebody or be a guest on somebody else's show.
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  And so talk about because you as a fan of the of that era of music,
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  there's an element of no fear when it comes to just asking somebody who you've never met.
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  You admired, you admired his music.
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  And the average person I would, I would say
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  would be like, oh, but he's too big and he wouldn't get back at me.
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  You know what I mean?
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  I think you just have to think to yourself.
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  You really, I think it all starts with being confident and believing in yourself.
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  And yeah, that's literally all it starts with.
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  And what's the worst that's going to happen?
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  They don't get back to you.
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  So what?
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  There's a million other people you can head up.
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  You know, like someone's going to say, yes,
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  someone's going to like what you're doing.
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  And if, you know, for all the nose or, you know,
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  ignores you, you're going to get people that love your shit.
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  So you just have to believe in yourself and just like, keep slaying.
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  Put yourself out there and not like fear rejection, you know?
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  I think it is awesome that you've got this
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  mindset seeing as how you grew up and
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  incognetic it and you were not treated very kindly by your friends.
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  Yes.
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  Well, I wouldn't call them friends by your peers, but yeah, you were bullied.
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  Yes.
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  So how long did it take to get from being Anna who was bullied
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  as a girl to being Anna who doesn't give two rats asses
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  and is going to go for the gusto?
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  You know, it, I'm going to say it's probably taken like
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  maybe like seven years?
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  I don't know, like it's been like, you know,
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  it's been like an ongoing thing, you know?
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  Because it was such a big part of my life and I was just
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  always being picked on like for a really long time.
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  And I'm sorry to interrupt.
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  When you say a really long time, or are we talking like from?
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  Like middle, like even elementary school, honestly, like elementary,
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  high school, high school.
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  That's a long, mostly for childhood.
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  Yeah, most of my childhood was consistent of being bullied.
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  So I feel like I really just had to do a lot of like work on myself
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  and like change my mindset and kind of because you either like
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  let that define you and let everyone's opinions of you define you
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  or you just decide that you're going to define you, you know?
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  What was the turning point for you?
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  Because when you're young and impressionable and
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  it will be very easy to be poo-poo pants and it will be justifiable to be poo-poo pants.
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  Like you're a kid and you literally, a kid literally does not know any better
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  if they don't have some sort of parental figure,
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  mother, father figure, teacher, principal,
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  someone at the church or a neighbor or some kind of older influence on them.
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  You know?
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  I think for me, the one influence that I've
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  that's been really prevalent in my life and he did pass away in
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  November of 2021, my dad and he was really just we were best friends like growing up
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  and he was a really strong figure that I hadn't.
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  I've always he always was one someone who had like
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  a really good like mentality on life and was like always positive like despite everything
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  that went on in his life and always was joking and just really hard work or very creative.
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  He's in the liquor industry.
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  So he was just a life of the party and he just really taught me how to like embrace life and
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  kind of just be a fighter and like be resilient.
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  So I think I learned like watching the way he was.
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  What's your favorite lesson from him?
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  Um, my favorite lesson from him is
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  um he had this one video where because he used to always like to do little videos with me
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  even when he was like in the like hospital and stuff like he would just always love to just
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  joke around and he um I asked him like do you ever quit and he's like I don't even know what the
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  word quit means and I don't know just stuck with me.
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  Yeah, I love that.
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  I don't even know what the word quit means.
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  That is beautiful and I mean what a thing for a dad to tell his daughter.
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  Wow.
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  And you know Anna this is a podcast for podcasters.
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  You are a music artist.
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  You sing, you dance, you perform, you are all about the slay life and the partying and
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  you're so positive.
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  We just met and I can just you could feel the energy.
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  Thank you.
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  But not quitting and I have a production company that produces shows for clients and we try
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  and teach and educate people who may not ever become clients of my company but they can learn
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  something and they can apply whatever we we teach to their shows as independence.
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  And one of the things is that most podcasters will won't even make it past episode three
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  because they quit because they're in their feelings they don't they will never be a call
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  call her daddy or better called daddy.
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  Yes.
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  There will never be that because they never make it past the third episode because they're just
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  for whatever reason.
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  So what would be your lesson for anybody who wants to start a podcast or who maybe is thinking
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  about giving up?
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  My advice for anyone that wants to start a podcast and or is thinking about giving up is just
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  remember like why you started like remember like the drive that led you to
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  want to start a podcast in the first place and want to kind of start your brand and build your
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  brand like remember the intention behind that and even like you're always going to have like
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  obstacles and I guess there's always going to be moments of like self doubt and
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  but try to just try to just remember that that's like a fleeting moment you know and overall like
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  things are going to be good and if you give up then nothing's going to happen but if you keep
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  going then so many things can happen.
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  So the opportunity cost I think is like I mean it sucks if you give up because then you never
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  know and who wants to live like that then you really fail then that's real failure.
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  It's real failure because you'll never know but if you keep getting kicked in the face and kicked
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  in the face and kicked in the face eventually the universe pays you with some sort of reward
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  because you never got tired of getting kicked in the face very true.
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  There's a line there's a line that I heard Tom Billy you one of my favorite podcasts is
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  Impact Theory and he was talking about entrepreneurship and artists are very much entrepreneurs.
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  You are working quite literally all the time this is work for you.
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  This isn't a nine to five right but you are you you were out when we were talking how you were
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  working on an hour of sleep which I guess is probably why you have the true religion sunglasses on.
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  Well actually yes and no because I tend to wear shades a lot.
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  Oh yeah that's just part of my thing.
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  Oh it's part of your brand but you know he talks about entrepreneurship as being getting kicked
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  in the teeth over and over and over again and the pain all goes away if you just stop.
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  But as a creator as an entrepreneur as a business owner it's like well how much do you believe in it
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  and going back to what you said about why did you begin in the first place and now this kind of
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  not just kind of but it really applies to artists business owners and not just podcasters.
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  This is like anybody who wants to do anything that's worth a damn.
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  Yes very true.
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  I like that.
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  So let's shift the conversation because I wanted to do something fun with you because you are
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  all about the slang terms and so I've got I wasn't just on my phone I went into my perplexity
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  chatbot asking for artists that rhyme with slay and you tell me whether or not they slay.
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  Okay.
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  Beethoven or sleigh toven.
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  Slay toven slays.
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  Ray Charles or sleigh Charles.
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  Ray Charles.
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  Yeah definitely sleigh I would say.
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  Clay Aiken or sleigh Aiken.
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  Clay Aiken not so much sleigh.
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  Okay all right I was waiting for someone to not slay of course we started pretty big.
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  Dr. Dre or Dr. Slay.
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  Dr. Slay all day.
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  This might be a little obscure.
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  Sugar Ray or sugar sleigh.
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  Actually sugar sleigh.
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  Sugar sleigh okay all right okay all right.
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  This is a selfish one.
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  So answer wisely.
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  Okay.
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  Lana Del Rey or Lana Del Slay.
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  Lana Del Slay.
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  Oh a woman after my heart.
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  Who doesn't like Lana?
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  You know what true.
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  I love Lana Lana Del Slay.
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  Lana Del Slay.
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  Yeah she is the queen although there is one hater in my life.
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  Who?
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  My wife.
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  Really?
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  I'm like how yeah she's like three.
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  It's like three on one.
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  It's like three on one.
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  She's like yeah it's interesting.
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  It's very kind of like I don't like general hospital.
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  It's almost like the way she doesn't like Lana.
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  It's just like I just don't care.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah it's not so much a hater.
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  It's like apathetic.
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  Apathetic.
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  There you go apathetic.
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  Yeah well Anna this was so much fun and thank you so much.
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  Thank you for joining the podcast and please let everybody know
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  what like where they can find you.
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  What song do they begin with first when they want to listen to Anna?
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  Well you all should listen to my new single one more margarita
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  because it's out now and you better you know put it on before you pregame
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  with the huzz and you can find me on Instagram at its Anna Storm.
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  Take a talk at its Anna Storm.
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  Spotify Anna Storm and yeah slay life.
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  Turn up that sladio.
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  Yes the sladio.
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  Yeah.
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  All right thank you so much.