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Women. Mean Business. - Yoga Instructor, Doula, and Childbirth Advocate · Morning Joe with Gibrón

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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I decided to create a book, and the name
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  of the book is Women Mean Business. And since my
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  mom was an entrepreneur, I decided to interview some people
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  and mainly women in business and get some good feedback
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  to help other other women who are taking on this
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  task of entrepreneurship. So anyway, so today, sitting here in
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  the studio with Brent Boyer, what's up, Brent, morning, and
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  we're gonna good morning. We're gonna start off with a
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  couple of questions, rapid fire questions. You don't have to
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  give too much thought to this, but here we go.
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  So let's see how this works. Okay, Alaska or Alabama Alaska? Okay,
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  fruit or vegetable, vegetable, snow or beach?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Art show or concert.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a hard one. That's a tie. That's a balance.
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  Speaker 2: Balance Okay, I need balance in life social media or FaceTime?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Sleep or meditation.
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  Speaker 3: That's a trick question.
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  Speaker 1: Meditation, Okay. Chocolate or coffee?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm, that's hard too. I like both. That's another equal question.
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  Speaker 1: Now these are the questions, aren't get hard? And this
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  so all right? So India or Italy India? All right?
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  Speaker 2: And here's a bonus question. Okay, who's your favorite music artist?
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  Speaker 1: And why.
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  Speaker 4: I would have to say Eric aboud you because she's
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  local here in Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: And we went to the same high school.
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  Speaker 4: I absolutely love her and I've seen her many times
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  and she's just an inspiration to come from the same
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  school in the same town and just watch her progress
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  and everything that she does.
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  Speaker 3: I think she is a blessing to us all.
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  Speaker 4: Eric would check out her birthday bash if we get
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  to have him again in this crazy world we live in.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just add she's pretty attractive too for an entrepreneur
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  as well. She's an entrepreneur as well. She's got all
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  kinds of stuff going on. Speaking of music, when I
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  came in, you were playing some music. There is this
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  music from India? Or where's this music from?
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  Speaker 4: The music I was playing this morning is Lets me
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  get to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's DJ dre.
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  Speaker 1: Dress.
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  Speaker 4: I don't actually know him personally, so I don't know
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  exactly how to say his name. I'm sorry if I
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  messed it up, but the music is amazing and would
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  love to meet him one day.
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  Speaker 2: So what was that track you were playing just a
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  minute ago? Let me hear someone that is get us
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  in the.
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  Speaker 3: Mood, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the beat or tempo or marching song.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I like that. I'm gonna have to get
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  that track and copy that for.
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  Speaker 3: Me all the shire.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay. I don't want to take up too
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  much of your time. So let's get into the uh
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  the grits, as they say, of this uh little interview.
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  Speaker 1: First quest, So why yoga?
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  Speaker 3: Yoga? Why yoga?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I started yoga in Dallas in about the year
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  two thousand and I took a class. A friend recommended
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  migo take a Baker yoga class.
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  Speaker 3: In Dallas, and I fell in love with it the
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  first day.
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  Speaker 4: I was trained as a ballet dancer, and so the
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  yoga felt so comforting and so healing to the body.
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  I love ballet and I think it's beautiful and I
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  will always have a place in my heart for it.
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  But yoga is definitely way more healing and transformative for
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  the body and the mind.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. So if not yoga, then what.
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  Speaker 3: Meditation? But that is yoga. So let's go with walking.
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  Just walking. It's so simple and such a beautiful practice.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were doing Yogo. What would you want
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  to be?
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  Speaker 3: I think an architect.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Yeah, I like architecture. It's pretty cool. Huh.
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  Speaker 2: My mom wanted me to be an architect, and I
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  like legos and all that stuff. But then when I
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  started taking drafting, I like that. But then when I
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  understood how much math went into being an architect, I
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  just started to just cut it off and be an artist.
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  Speaker 3: You're way ahead of me. Uh, it's just the idea
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  in my head. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Another thing I would like to do is intros to
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  like movies.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the trailers. I actually know somebody who does that.
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  That's the trailer, So maybe we'll connect on that. Yeah, okay,
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  So what are you doing now?
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  Speaker 4: I just opened a little studio because running around to
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  people's homes was getting a little tiring and I wanted
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  my own space to bring people into, to have things
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  to share with them that I love and things that
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  I do every day. So it's in Dallas, off of
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  Preston and Frankfurt.
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  Speaker 3: So come over and check us out. We will have
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  an open house and I'll let you know when that's
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  going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: What's the name of the studio?
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  Speaker 3: Omrit by Bryn Boyer.
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  Speaker 1: How do you spell it?
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  Speaker 3: Am Ri?
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  Speaker 4: And it means divine nectar and it's also Sun's middle name.
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  Speaker 1: So why Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: I'm born in Dallas.
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  Speaker 4: I moved to Birmingham, Alabama for eleven twelve years, and
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  I owned two studios there, the Yoga Circle, and it
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  was a beautiful experience, beautiful town. But I'm from Dallas
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  and move back in twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: So what are the yoga studios doing about the social distance?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of studios are closing, which is
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  fortunate and sad, and people are going online. But what
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  I find is when I have clients call me, is
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  people want in person.
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  Speaker 3: They are missing contact with other people.
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  Speaker 4: So I think people are kind of stepping out taking
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  some chances.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my space is small.
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  Speaker 4: We definitely, you know, would want you to be mindful
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  of who you've been around, and if anyone's been tested positive,
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  please stay home, come when you can, and when you're healthy,
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  just be mindful.
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  Speaker 3: That's all we ask in our studio.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So what do you what do you help people do?
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  What I go to amorate and what do you help
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  people do?
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  Speaker 4: I help people love themself, love themselves, starting with the body,
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  because if you don't love yourself, you can't really love
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  anyone else. And I think self care is the new healthcare,
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  and you have to love yourself. I mean from every
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  single second, from taking care of your body to taking
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  care of your mind, to taking care of your space.
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  You know, cleanliness is next to godliness, so it's all connected.
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  So I just teach people what I know, what I've
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  been taught, and I like to start with meditation in
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  the breath.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking.
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  Speaker 2: I've got your brochure here, and you've got a baby
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  here on the front.
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  Speaker 1: What's with all the baby stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also a doula, which is a birthing assistant.
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  Speaker 3: You said doulah d o u la, So.
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  Speaker 4: It's a birthing assistant or a birthing fairy godmother, whatever
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  you want to call it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just someone who's.
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  Speaker 4: There and that can give women support that are going
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  through something they've never maybe never been through it their
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  first time mom, but just to know the process, to
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  know what to expect. I also teach childbirth education. I'm
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  a yogi first, but I fell in love with prenatal
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  yoga with my training with Grimouk or her calls away
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  training in New York City, and that's when I fell
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  in love with.
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  Speaker 3: Everything baby in Mama.
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  Speaker 4: So that's I can teach you any kind of yoga, but
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  my focus is definitely prenatal.
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  Speaker 1: Do you go in the hospital or.
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  Speaker 4: Due to COVID only a partner is allowed? So negative,
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  not right now. So I'm also studying to become a
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  midwife assistant so I can work in birthing clinics, not
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  in hospitals. And then one day I hope to become
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  a midwife.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's you had mentioned something about a book for
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  dads you were putting together.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I am working on that, been working on that
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  for a.
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  Speaker 4: Minute or two ten, and so yeah, I'm going to
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  have a book for dads. So since I cannot go
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  into the hospital, I would like to teach the partner what.
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  Speaker 1: I know's yeah, I remember you saying.
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  Speaker 3: You know, hopefully within the next couple months.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's cool. Yeah, I'm sure the dads don't need that.
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  Lots of time to read. I guess now that everyone's at.
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  Speaker 3: Home, what a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm looking in your studio here and one
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  thing I'm noticing is there are no chairs.
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  Speaker 1: Why no chairs?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like chairs?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man?
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  Speaker 2: Whoever invented the legs of a chair? I mean, you
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  guys are direct conflicts. So no chairs, just chairs.
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  Speaker 1: These bags are there.
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  Speaker 3: I would call them a meditation cushion. That's what I
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  call them. There's many different time types.
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  Speaker 4: You're sitting on more of a square and these came
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  from uh Yoga mart in Dallas, and she they make
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  them down there.
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  Speaker 1: And are they expensive or something like this?
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little square cube.
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  Speaker 3: Book square cube.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's buckwheat inside and so and then I
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  have some round ones, so.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a special name for them, just butt cushions,
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  but ground cushions, round cushions.
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  Speaker 4: What what you need to do, especially if you're not
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  used to sitting as a yogi is you need your
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  hips higher than your knees. So if you sit on anything,
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  it doesn't matter if you're sitting at home, Just grab
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  a nice pillow that you don't mind sitting on and
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  make sure your back.
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  Speaker 3: Is straight and and you know you have a straight spine.
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  Speaker 2: So no chairs, no no problem, I'm comfortable. I'm sure
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  you've got plenty of these cushions. Anyway around. So how
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  do people find you?
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  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 3: You can find me at Brenan Boyer dot com which
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  is b r y n e b O y e R.
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  I'm on social media. I don't do a lot. It's
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  not my favorite. So I would say through my websites
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  and then text me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of a little niche you've carved out here,
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  especially with the women you know, all the stuff you're
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  you're involved in, So it's not I don't take this
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  kind of like as a typical strip mall type of
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  it's more of a boutique.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more of a boutique.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think women, you know, especially during pregnancy,
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  need a space that's safe and created with an energy
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  that can hold them and hold the pregnancy. So I
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  encourage moms to create community, especially while pregnant.
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  Speaker 3: You need that more now than ever.
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  Speaker 1: That's very true.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get into the business side of it a
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  little bit here.
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  Speaker 1: What part of your marketing has worked the best for you?
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  Speaker 3: My websites and I've used.
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  Speaker 4: Some other platforms, but really really I think mostly word
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  of mouth and my websites.
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  Speaker 2: Ok, okay, what part of your marketing is most exciting
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  The creativity.
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  Speaker 4: I love being creative and I have so many ideas.
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  I mean, I have to have someone to keep me focused,
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  like you. Otherwise it's very difficult for a creative person.
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  Speaker 2: To make steps forward. You keep coming with ideas and
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  ideas and ideas, but yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You need an organizer of those ideas. So you've helped
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  me the most, I think in organizing the business.
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  Speaker 3: From the ground up.
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  Speaker 4: We started back in I don't know, twenty six, seventeen,
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  seventeen or eighteen. We started creating the website and everything.
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  I was still at home with my son. He's five,
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  just turned five now, but at the time it was
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  just kind of an idea.
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  Speaker 3: So baby steps. It's taken a while, but everything happens
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  in due time.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm blessed and grateful and thankful and so so
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  thankful for everything and every teacher that I've had.
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  Speaker 3: To arrive at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: But let's not get out of here without finding out
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  what are you doing next?
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  Speaker 3: What am I doing next? Next?
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  Speaker 4: I'm working on the book for the Dads that's coming out,
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  and then I'd like to start hosting, you know, little
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  retreats with groups, families, you know, just whatever kind of
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  however it comes together. Maybe moms to get to know
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  each other while they're pregnant would be fun, so they
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  can establish that deep connection with other women on retreats.
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  Speaker 3: Retreats always nice to get away, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Just let your mind just like to the park or no, no, no,
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  I'd like to take retreats up to.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma. Excuse me, love Colorado too.
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  Speaker 4: That Oklahoma. It's a broken bow. Give a shout out.
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  It's a great place. Have some friends up there that
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  have a some homes, so looking to do a retreat there.
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  And then my second retreat will be in close to
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  tags New Mexico at a retreat center up there. Details
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  will come out later when I get to finalized, but yeah,
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  I would like to take people to the places that
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  I love and that I know and let them experience
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  what I've experienced and also teach them oga, meditation, movement,
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  functional movement, and the breath.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the most important to breath. Got to breathe.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it, appreciate your time, and I'm sure you
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  do well. Like you said, moms need this, uh and obviously,
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  like you ended with, we all need to breathe. And
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  so thanks a lot, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Breathe