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Happy Hour #23: The Anteel Tequila Chaser · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Smansa and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told to you production of iHeart Radio. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to another happy hour. And it is actually
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday. It is a rainy Thursday. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: lightning and thundering. So sorry, Christina, it's gonna give our
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  Speaker 1: happy hour a sinister note, which is really sad because
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  Speaker 1: my cocktail is so light and lovely and as per
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  Speaker 1: usual at the very top. If you are drinking, please
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  Speaker 1: drink responsibly. Please note we are not actually sponsored. And
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  Speaker 1: most of the alcohols and or drinks that we are
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  Speaker 1: talking about are because we think it's amazing what these
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  Speaker 1: companies are doing and want to highlight what they are
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  Speaker 1: doing and are typically and by women or um non
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  Speaker 1: binary people's and we just want to acknowledge what they
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  Speaker 1: are doing and give them a big props about how
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  Speaker 1: great they're doing things. Yes, and I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 1: This has been one of my favorite segments. I've tried
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  Speaker 1: so many new things thus far. Yes, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think Anny? Yes, well, it's funny because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: this was part of your original plan was to get
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  Speaker 1: stuff to make friends. Yes, and here you are and
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  Speaker 1: and speaking of which yes, today marks as what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to call a success, which was my goal from jump.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have been listening since the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: when I've been on, you already kind of know I
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  Speaker 1: had an agenda. And that being said, I have been
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  Speaker 1: able to add another woman to what I will call
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  Speaker 1: the Sementty Friend Crew because I'm like slowly racking them up,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the CEO uh Neyana Ferguson, who we
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  Speaker 1: highlighted their tequila not too long ago until two Key
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  Speaker 1: uh and we did a feature with their alcohol and
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  Speaker 1: she was so kind to not only listen to our
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  Speaker 1: episode of featuring their amazing entail tequila, her amazing tequila,
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  Speaker 1: but sit as a bottle of their very unique and
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  Speaker 1: delightful coconut Lime Blanco tequila. She was like, look, look, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you liked this one. Let me send you
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  Speaker 1: another one. And I was like, yes, please, so excited,
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  Speaker 1: and so of course we had to go on to
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  Speaker 1: their site to create their recipes for different cocktails and Annie,
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  Speaker 1: what do you have in your pretty little hands? Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: I hand still get well though, that's fantastic. You have
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  Speaker 1: some good, very American nail. Polo is going on because
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  Speaker 1: Samantha and I just ran a race. It was bad.
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  Speaker 1: The pictures are hilarious. They're so good. It's some of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite things I've ever seen. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I love coconut. It's one of my very favorite flavors,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like most people I know don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's something I don't get to have a lot
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  Speaker 1: because I usually do share. You know, coconuts not something
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  Speaker 1: I'm buying a lot of unless I'm sharing with people. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So I love that I'm drinking the tequila sour, which
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  Speaker 1: you chose, I think because it had very few ingredients
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  Speaker 1: than this is simple. I think you have a lemon
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  Speaker 1: that you were correct. I did have a lemon, so
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  Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's very easy. It's just um, one point
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  Speaker 1: seven five ounces of the coconut lime blanco tequila and
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  Speaker 1: then I think point seven five ounces of lemon juice.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of just did. I eye bolded everyone yes,
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  Speaker 1: and then um some simple syrup and then I topped
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  Speaker 1: it off a little bit of sparkling because I like
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  Speaker 1: the kind of sparkles of it, and it's lovely. It's
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  Speaker 1: very light and fresh. It makes me want to be
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  Speaker 1: at the beach peach vibes right now. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hear you. And I decided on the Poloma, which
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  Speaker 1: is one of my favorite drinks. Their recipe and you
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  Speaker 1: could should go and check out their site which just
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  Speaker 1: takes spirits dot com. But it is two ounces of
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  Speaker 1: coconut lime Blanco tequila that we have have an ounce
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  Speaker 1: of fresh lime juice, two ounces of fresh grapefruit juice,
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  Speaker 1: one to one and a half tablespoons of a goba nectar,
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  Speaker 1: a pinch of salt, and then you top it off
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  Speaker 1: with some kind of sparkling as well. And I did
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  Speaker 1: a soda stream sparkling with a little bit of grape
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  Speaker 1: fruit because they said, like, do a grape fruit sparkling water,
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  Speaker 1: So I did that to mine and it is so good.
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  Speaker 1: It has that tartness, and yeah, Poloma is probably one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorites when it comes to cocktails. Problem for
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  Speaker 1: me though, is um, yeah, it's very tart. So as
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking, I'm having a lot of saliva by building
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  Speaker 1: up behind my cheek. But it's so good and it
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  Speaker 1: is so summary. I love it. It does feel kind
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  Speaker 1: of weird because it is rainy and dark outside, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like This should absolutely be a patio time
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  Speaker 1: with my friends drink. But it is delicious. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you should go check out their site not only to
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  Speaker 1: get their alcohol, but also to get their recipes because
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  Speaker 1: they have some really fantastic recipes. And one day when
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  Speaker 1: we have more ingredients and they get real fancy on here,
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  Speaker 1: just so you know, real real fancy. And yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk again about Nyana and her work, and
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  Speaker 1: just so y'all know, they have so many awards to
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  Speaker 1: they're all of their alcohols. They are about to release
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  Speaker 1: a new brand, I think with blood Orange, So my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: they're killing it in this game. Absolutely. I believe they're
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  Speaker 1: also coming to Atlanta this month Annie to do a
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  Speaker 1: tasting of Atlanta or something like that. They're sponsoring something.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, man, I need to try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out if I can go and meet her, meet
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  Speaker 1: them as a team, because they're doing, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal work. And when we were talking about doing until
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  Speaker 1: they actually had a different name called Tea, which is
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  Speaker 1: what the site is, which is t e e Q Tequila,
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  Speaker 1: but they changed it and I was kind of confused
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  Speaker 1: about why that was, and and they actually didn't interview
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  Speaker 1: where she talked about the fact that her husband has
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  Speaker 1: another company that has a similar name, and so they
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  Speaker 1: were like, maybe we need to change this up, and
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  Speaker 1: they decided on the name Antil, which is a N
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  Speaker 1: T E E L, which comes from a species of
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  Speaker 1: Antillian hummingbirds, and the logo is actually a hummingbird. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's a really beautiful, like black sleek with this outline
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  Speaker 1: of a hummingbird on their label. So it was gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: So I really thought that was interesting and I do
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  Speaker 1: love this name. I feel like this name definitely fits
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  Speaker 1: this tequila, So kudos to that. But also one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I did want to focus on is
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  Speaker 1: Nyana is kind of, you know, the face to the
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  Speaker 1: brand and has come up as a forefront to being
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  Speaker 1: a leader in the specific brand. And I wonder how
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  Speaker 1: many CEOs were women in the industry and how often
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  Speaker 1: we see or talk about CEOs, and there's not that many,
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  Speaker 1: as in fact, when I found some research it said
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  Speaker 1: from one research in twenty seventeen, only twenty five point
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  Speaker 1: five percent of female executives in the FIRS and five
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  Speaker 1: hundred company were CEOs or c s os as that
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  Speaker 1: can be called, which is sixty one out of two
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  Speaker 1: nine companies, and then it wasn't too different in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand seven. It was actually only twenty three point three
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  Speaker 1: at that point in time, so literally it only jumped
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  Speaker 1: in ten years to two point two percent, And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what is going on in by comparison, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the share of women executives serving as general council they
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  Speaker 1: some are sometimes called chief legal officers. There are so
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  Speaker 1: many titles, y'all, so many titles. They actually doubled. They
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  Speaker 1: went from twelve point eight percent to twenty three point
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  Speaker 1: eight percent, So there has been some jumping up, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not too significant in all of the numbers. And
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  Speaker 1: when I was looking it up, they still had this
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  Speaker 1: conversation about whether or not that women can go past
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  Speaker 1: this quote unquote new glass ceiling for this title. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't until eighteen that Starbucks had their first African American
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  Speaker 1: woman being there CEO, So it wasn't just recently that
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  Speaker 1: major companies started bringing up these other women and c
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  Speaker 1: e o s. There have been more and more in
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  Speaker 1: the tech industry, but not as many as you would expect,
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  Speaker 1: especially with how many companies are out there. As in fact,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know We've talked about Cheryl Sandberg, who
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  Speaker 1: did lean in, and there was a lot of conversations
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  Speaker 1: about is this problematic the way she's referencing her success
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  Speaker 1: as if it could be the new norm when it
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  Speaker 1: negates all of the other problematic issues within these fields.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like she's not getting along well with Mark
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  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg as of late, and there's been reports about them
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  Speaker 1: possibly having outs. Who knows, so definitely interested to see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. And I don't think it's helped that our
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  Speaker 1: past administration did not really encompass any kind of nurturing environment,
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  Speaker 1: and when I say nurturing, I just mean any kind
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  Speaker 1: of welcoming or conequitable environment for women to continue up.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, with a conversation as of late, when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about diversity, and I know it's become a like
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  Speaker 1: a niche word within a lot of industries, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to see whether this is an effective change or this
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  Speaker 1: is just for social standings. But when you see companies
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  Speaker 1: like Until, who has succeeded and continues to thrive within
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  Speaker 1: that industry, there's hope. I definitely believe that for sure,
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  Speaker 1: And what Nyana is doing on the forefront of being
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  Speaker 1: at the helm of this company is really encouraging to see.
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  Speaker 1: And you and I just recently talked about the me
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  Speaker 1: too stuff within the brewery industry and why things like this,
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  Speaker 1: why seeing people like Nyana being heads of this or
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  Speaker 1: being at this executive level is so important. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I know it's not the same, but when I first
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  Speaker 1: got this job, and this job has gone through I
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  Speaker 1: have gone through a lot of changes in my role,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also gone through a lot of ownership changes.
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  Speaker 1: But when I first got it, my boss my manager,
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  Speaker 1: but she was also helped create the company, which at
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  Speaker 1: the time was like how Steff forks the company. She
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  Speaker 1: was so influential to me as a young college student
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  Speaker 1: who was pretty shy and hadn't had like I had
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  Speaker 1: had jobs, but not something that was like they were
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  Speaker 1: always had a fixed term, you know, like it's for
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  Speaker 1: six months, you're gonna work here and that's the end
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  Speaker 1: of the job, whereas this was more open ended, and
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  Speaker 1: it was so important to me to have someone like
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  Speaker 1: her who was really open and frank about her experience
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  Speaker 1: and also with I felt like I could go talk
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  Speaker 1: to her about things like I'm uncomfortable with this aspect
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  Speaker 1: of my job, And I'm not sure I would have
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  Speaker 1: felt that way if I hadn't had a boss who
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  Speaker 1: like went out of her way to get to know
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  Speaker 1: me and make herself available for me. And I just
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  Speaker 1: remember her. She asked me once, like what do you
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  Speaker 1: want in terms of like where do you want this
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  Speaker 1: job to go? Uh? And I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to manage people. I don't I feel like that's inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: And she was just really open about it, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what like if the more money you make, this
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  Speaker 1: is what it where it's going to lead. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I just really really appreciated how how open
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  Speaker 1: she was about it and she fought for me, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that, yeah, when you don't when the numbers
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  Speaker 1: are so small. I remember a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was that Fortune five hundred. There were
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  Speaker 1: more men named Dave who were CEOs, and there were
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  Speaker 1: women so and so sad. I know, right, But it's
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  Speaker 1: just so important when you have that person that can
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  Speaker 1: really inspire you. And if you don't see that person
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  Speaker 1: becoming that person, but yeah, it's really nice to see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's again it's a laugh, but I
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  Speaker 1: laugh at the out of exasperation. Oh sure, Dave, because
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  Speaker 1: it's true, like we talk about constantly who is doing
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  Speaker 1: what and who we're looking at. And we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this before when we were talking about lots of jobs
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  Speaker 1: during the pandemic and who has risen and who hasn't
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  Speaker 1: risen and why we need to have a conversation and
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  Speaker 1: for I don't know because we've not personally spoken with Nyana.
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  Speaker 1: She and her husband created their own company and that's
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  Speaker 1: where she is and that is oftentimes what people have
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  Speaker 1: to do, like you said, is if they don't see it,
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  Speaker 1: create it right um, which we've talked about with like
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  Speaker 1: female first, when we talked about women making change and
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  Speaker 1: making history. They often are like, you know, screw this,
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  Speaker 1: y'all don't have something for me. I'll do it myself.
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  Speaker 1: Or you didn't you don't have this in process, Let
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  Speaker 1: me do this. You don't have this machine, I'll invent it.
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  Speaker 1: Like it becomes a whole thing, which is amazing. But again,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of how we've talked repeatedly about the fact
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  Speaker 1: if the opportunities are not there, if the funds are
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  Speaker 1: not there, if the schooling is not there, if the
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  Speaker 1: ability to actually take time to do these things are
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  Speaker 1: not there? Do you have the playing field to do so?
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  Speaker 1: And again, how many people that we miss out in
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  Speaker 1: their incredible talents and gifts because they are forced, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's through economic situations, social situations, or just life tragedy whatever, um,
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  Speaker 1: that we don't ever see that. But I think there
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  Speaker 1: is also something to the fact that it is also
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  Speaker 1: taking a risk, because we talked about how often women
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  Speaker 1: downplay their own abilities because they think they have to
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  Speaker 1: do to be qualified us. You know, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: this many times and as in fact, Nayana she did
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  Speaker 1: talk about how she started her own business and what
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  Speaker 1: advice she would give. In one of her interviews, she says, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the advice that I have for new potential business owners
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  Speaker 1: would be to formulate the plan for your business, research
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  Speaker 1: other businesses like yours are similar, and get a business coach,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: mentor consultant. And I think that's very important, which we
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  Speaker 1: don't have access to all the time, and then there
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  Speaker 1: will be so much information to find out regarding a
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  Speaker 1: new business. But my other piece of advice is don't
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: do all on trying to get everything you need before
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  Speaker 1: you start. That's why most new business owners do not
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: start their businesses, get important information, get advice, but move
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  Speaker 1: forward and start your business. And that's so true. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this could be to all, but specifically
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  Speaker 1: to women who oftentimes feel like they're good is not
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  Speaker 1: good enough, so therefore they wait until everything is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm guilty of this. If I'm not good at it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing it at all. That's kind of been
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  Speaker 1: my motto, and it's an awful, awful motto, right because
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared to do something and failing, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's something that Yeah, just just go move forward is
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  Speaker 1: such great advice and itself, of course again you need
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  Speaker 1: to have all of those other things that you talked about,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you have a reasonable understanding of what you're
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: getting into, kind of like buying a house, which by
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  Speaker 1: the way, I'm trying to do, not anytime soon, but
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  Speaker 1: just kind of making plans and I'm nowhere and you're ready,
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  Speaker 1: but it takes a lot of planning to do. So, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that reminds me of I can never remember it exactly,
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  Speaker 1: but the Amy Pohler quote of like, just go and
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  Speaker 1: do it. If you're waiting to be perfect, you're never
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it. Um, so just get out there and
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  Speaker 1: do it. But also I recently, and Samantha knows this,
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  Speaker 1: I got an audition for a role and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel really qualified, like a qualified qualified but not,
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  Speaker 1: And I was what would a man do? He would
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  Speaker 1: do it? So I right, I'm glad that I did.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that is how it should be,
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  Speaker 1: but I guarantee you that a lot of people probably
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  Speaker 1: audition for that that weren't And I was sitting there like,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not totally perfect, right, right, And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's such a sad state of affairs because that's what
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  Speaker 1: we all feel like. And I think for many women,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the marginalized community, they feel that on top
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  Speaker 1: of the fear of being discovered. Uh. And I do
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  Speaker 1: love the new And we need to have a whole
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: other episode about the fact that maybe when we talked
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: about imposter syndrome, we're putting too much responsibility on our
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  Speaker 1: reactions as uh, not enough on others. So when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about maybe it is, why isn't the corporation doing
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  Speaker 1: more to welcome women or to those marginalized instead of
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  Speaker 1: making us feel like we have to prove ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: beyond the expectation. That's a whole other conversation that we
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  Speaker 1: need to get into, and I think it is a good,
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  Speaker 1: good way to look at it. Of course, Yes, a
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  Speaker 1: lot that has to do with self esteem, trauma, so
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  Speaker 1: much more, so much more. But cheers, cheers to all
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  Speaker 1: of y'all. Cheers too, and till cheers in Nyana making changes,
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  Speaker 1: creating new brands and creating new drinks for us. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for so supportingly sending the product. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to concoct a Sminty official drink, We're
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  Speaker 1: still waiting. We're still thinking about it. Yes, Yes, And listeners,
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