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FRIDAY DRINKS: The U in Comm-U-nity · She's On The Money

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Speaker 1: Just before we get started, we'd like to acknowledge and
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Speaker 1: pay respect to Australia's Aboriginal and torrest Rate islander peoples.
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Speaker 1: They're the traditional custodians of the lands, the waterways and
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Speaker 1: the skies all across Australia. We thank you for sharing
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Speaker 1: and for caring for the land on which we are
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Speaker 1: able to learn. We pay respects to elders past and present,
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Speaker 1: and we share our friendship and our kindness.
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Speaker 2: She's on the Money.
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Speaker 3: She's on the Money, Hello, and welcome to She's on
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Speaker 3: the Money, the podcast for millennials who want financial freedom.
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Speaker 4: And what a huge week it has been, my friends.
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Speaker 1: We are still feeling the love and we are absolutely
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Speaker 1: reeling from our very first She's on the Mony International
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Speaker 1: Women's Day events, which, as you guys might already know,
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Speaker 1: we held in both Melbourne and in Sydney and the
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Speaker 1: whole team was there, which is very, very exciting.
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Speaker 4: It was something that we have wanted to do for
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Speaker 4: so so very.
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Speaker 1: Long, and unfortunately, due to our friend COVID, we haven't
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Speaker 1: been able to.
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Speaker 4: Do until now.
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Speaker 1: And of course, guys, with so much happening in the
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Speaker 1: world and in Australia right now, we are so genuinely
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Speaker 1: grateful for everybody who was able to come and spend
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Speaker 1: some time with us and the team in person. Jess
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Speaker 1: and Elsa, you guys were both there and for those
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Speaker 1: of you listening.
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Speaker 4: You might know Jess, Hi, Jess, hello, but.
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Speaker 1: You probably haven't met Annalisa before, but if you have,
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Speaker 1: it was because she came to our She's on the
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Speaker 1: Money events in both Melbourne and Sydney, Because Annalisa, who
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Speaker 1: are you?
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Speaker 4: Oh hello, ladies, I am your brand new producer. Oh
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Speaker 4: how shiny, how fresh sh you?
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Speaker 2: Longtime listener, first time voice on She's on the money,
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Speaker 2: And I'm thrilled to be here and even more surrilled
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Speaker 2: to be at those incredible events last week. I'm still
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Speaker 2: kind of rolling around and reeling in how incredible the
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Speaker 2: community was and how great the vibers.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: When I say I'm obsessed with the community, you can
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Speaker 1: see why now, though, can't you.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and we know that.
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Speaker 5: The community is really spread across the country and even
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Speaker 5: the world, which is super cool and exciting, but in
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Speaker 5: person events aren't accessible for every single person. We got
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Speaker 5: lots of dms from people saying, come to Brisbane, come
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Speaker 5: to Tasmania. We hope to, We would love to, but
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Speaker 5: we are a small business and turns out events are
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Speaker 5: very expensive, so we're working our way up.
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Speaker 1: To those Oh my gosh, who would have known that
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Speaker 1: they were as expensive as they are, Like, guys, I
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Speaker 1: can't even like I did not realize how expensive they were.
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Speaker 1: So to everyone who purchased a ticket, I am so
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Speaker 1: eternally grateful that you put your value in coming and
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Speaker 1: seeing us and hanging out with us, because it meant
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Speaker 1: a lot. But over time, hopefully, Jess and Elisa, the
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Speaker 1: plan is to get more sponsors on board so we
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Speaker 1: can make ticket prices even more affordable and much more accessible.
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Speaker 1: But as the first off event, I think we did
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Speaker 1: pretty damn well.
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Speaker 5: Guys, I agree, And for anyone who couldn't make it,
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Speaker 5: which we totally understand with so many things going on
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Speaker 5: right now, we wanted to bring you a little piece
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Speaker 5: of the event. So today's episode is going to be
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Speaker 5: a special Friday Drinks where we can't necessarily bring everyone
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Speaker 5: like our speakers we had Manel al Shreve, Tracy Spicer,
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Speaker 5: Maria Fattill, and Ashley Strata Jones, and we can't necessarily
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Speaker 5: bring the goodie bags or the food or are incredible
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Speaker 5: speakers who did the acknowledgement of country. We had Victoria,
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Speaker 5: your friend Natasha who is queen acknowledgments, and we also
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Speaker 5: had Auntie Anne Walden, who were both phenomenal. But what
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Speaker 5: we can bring you is the community, which is arguably
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Speaker 5: one of the best bits. Getting to meet you, getting
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Speaker 5: to talk to you, listen to your stories, watch you
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Speaker 5: make friendships, and make friends with you ourselves was just
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Speaker 5: such a privilege. And Lisa was scooting around with her
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Speaker 5: little microphone getting some voices, getting some stories, and that's
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Speaker 5: what we're going to be sharing with you today. V
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Speaker 5: and I have not heard this yet. I'm very excited.
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Speaker 1: I'm not impressed because I've wanted to all week listen
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Speaker 1: to this, but I haven't because I've waited till here.
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Speaker 1: I knew it was on the share drive, so I
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Speaker 1: just didn't go find it, and I feel like that
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Speaker 1: took a lot of self restraint. I'm just telling you
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Speaker 1: right now, and.
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Speaker 2: I'm still in my defense. So Victoria, you cried enough
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Speaker 2: on both days, so I really didn't want to.
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Speaker 4: Crying for the rest of the week.
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Speaker 2: That the community is so important to the show, and
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Speaker 2: with everything that everyone's been through. How wonderful to get
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Speaker 2: some voices on this show who are so dedicated and
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Speaker 2: who the program means.
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Speaker 6: So much to you.
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Speaker 2: So let's have a listen.
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Speaker 4: Are we ready? I'm not ready. I'm not already. I'm
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Speaker 4: already thinking about it. All right, let's go, let's go,
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Speaker 4: let's play it.
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I'm so nervous. I
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Speaker 5: think like I just I so desperately want everyone to
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Speaker 5: have the best time. I'm just thinking, oh, is everyone happy?
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Speaker 5: Do they have what they need? Can they find their seats?
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Speaker 5: But at the same time, I'm so excited.
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Speaker 4: How you going be good? I'm good.
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Speaker 7: I'm so love It.
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Speaker 8: Had been International Homesday. I'm really excited to be here,
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Speaker 8: so so exciting, feeling thrilled to be here, so exciting.
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Speaker 9: It's feminist Christmas.
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Speaker 8: I am here for the amazing ladies around here, to
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Speaker 8: be inspired by ladies, but also because of the lovely Victoria,
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Speaker 8: who's an absolute rock star.
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Speaker 4: So I'm excited.
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Speaker 7: It's just so nice to be around so many like
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Speaker 7: minded women.
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Speaker 2: It's just really empowering, and especially we are surrounded by
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Speaker 2: so many incredible way women and men and just everyone
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Speaker 2: in general is just amazing.
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Speaker 8: Lots of fune office or empowered and refreshed, and I'll
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Speaker 8: be stepping out here feeling more confident and ready to
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Speaker 8: achieve more big things.
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Speaker 6: Well, it's very exciting. I was actually very surprised when
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Speaker 6: we walked out on the deck here to see so
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Speaker 6: many people this time in the morning, looking very smart
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Speaker 6: and very energized. I work in the financial planning industry myself,
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Speaker 6: and I think traditionally, far too many women have for
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Speaker 6: allied on men to take care of the finances, and
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Speaker 6: I think it's the single most important thing a woman
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Speaker 6: can do to empower herself.
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Speaker 9: My name is Natasha Nabananga Bamblet, and I'm known as
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Speaker 9: Queen Acknowledgments today felt like a world class presentation from
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Speaker 9: real life experience, from women who have walked in the
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Speaker 9: footsteps of those that are living in breaking the bias,
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Speaker 9: and to have them speak from their heart and their
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Speaker 9: own experience. That's what leadership is. It's leadership by living
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Speaker 9: that life. And it really spoke to me my heart,
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Speaker 9: and I felt the room of women moved with me.
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Speaker 9: I acknowledge the country and hearing and seeing it. It's
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Speaker 9: about feeling it, embracing it, embodying it, and for me,
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Speaker 9: the invitation to have somebody to feel what acknowledging the
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Speaker 9: country is like, it's a gift. It's a gift that
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Speaker 9: I get to share as a First Nations woman on
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Speaker 9: this land, in this country, knowing that I've come from
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Speaker 9: women and their sacrifices of my ancestors and line of
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Speaker 9: women before me. You know, my grandmother was a part
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Speaker 9: of the Solen generation and she did anything she could
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Speaker 9: to survive than my parents were, you know, striving for
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Speaker 9: the next best thing, better future for their children. And
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Speaker 9: I get to live in a world that I now
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Speaker 9: get to thrive because of how people are continuing to
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Speaker 9: acknowledge and share and embrace the culture here and the
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Speaker 9: country and what it gives, what it offers us.
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Speaker 10: I'm here rewarding myself because I just finished paying a
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Speaker 10: seven year debt agreement. I finished it two years early
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Speaker 10: by starting to listen to the podcast and I started
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Speaker 10: doing Ubert's deliveries during lockdowns, and yeah, Victoria's just totally
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Speaker 10: changed the way I think of money. And now I
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Speaker 10: am debt free and I just made Victoria divine and cry,
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Speaker 10: which is beautiful we all came here by ourselves and
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Speaker 10: we just started chatting.
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Speaker 11: We actually just met today and we've just been like
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Speaker 11: sharing stories and love like how we found the podcast
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Speaker 11: and like our live stories and stuff.
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Speaker 4: I love listening to it.
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Speaker 12: It's probably their only podcast that I listened to religiously.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, she got me into the podcast as well.
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Speaker 5: Seeing Victorian real life is already pretty crazy.
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Speaker 4: Little fang girling a little just hearing us week and yeah,
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Speaker 4: everything she says is like so good and so empowering.
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Speaker 6: I think that it just.
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Speaker 9: Opens up a lot of us who may not particularly
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Speaker 9: know some of these topics and just educates us in
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Speaker 9: a nice and simple way.
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Speaker 7: Just listening to the podcast each week and hearing stories,
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Speaker 7: but then the deep dive on things and being able
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Speaker 7: to understand so much more and be financially literate.
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Speaker 12: Two years ago, I know, I had a lot of
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Speaker 12: bad debt, and I know the difference now between bad
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Speaker 12: debt and good debt, and it was really overwhelming and
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Speaker 12: it was kind of like like how do I get
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Speaker 12: myself out of this?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 12: And little by little there were little things that they
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Speaker 12: gave me, like you know, automating savings and you know,
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Speaker 12: money month set and all of that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 12: You don't know what you're going to use until you
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Speaker 12: take all the knowledge in. So yeah, it's really helped
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Speaker 12: me a lot.
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Speaker 11: I really love the Money Diaries. With the friendship group
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Speaker 11: that I have, Like, there's very few conversations around finance
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Speaker 11: and pay and whatnot, so I think just being able
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Speaker 11: to like listen to people's experiences, it feels like I
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Speaker 11: can have those conversations with friends and have that kind
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Speaker 11: of community. Being able to hear conversations of those different
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Speaker 11: experiences has just been really enlightening. And being able to
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Speaker 11: like expand by world.
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Speaker 2: Has been really nice.
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Speaker 7: It's really nice to just have that diversity of stories
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Speaker 7: that you hear on the podcast and it yeah, it
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Speaker 7: just kind of helps you not feel alone and it
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Speaker 7: helps you feel supported, and yeah, it's awesome.
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Speaker 1: You just learn different ways of doing things. I have
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Speaker 1: more confidence around issues like bringing up finances with your
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Speaker 1: part and your family.
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Speaker 4: The tone of the show really spoke to me.
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of money podcasts out there that are
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Speaker 7: a bit more white men in suits. I think for me,
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Speaker 7: my money story was a little bit complicated. So it's
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Speaker 7: given me a lot of financial guidance and a lot
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Speaker 7: of the help that I've needed to kind of get
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Speaker 7: my budget on track and become more savvy when it
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Speaker 7: comes to money. I've started investing, which is really exciting.
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Speaker 7: It's just kind of changed my life in a really
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Speaker 7: corny sounding way.
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Speaker 13: Victoria makes these really kind of complicated or kind of scary,
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Speaker 13: and I'm doing that in inverted commerce concepts way more
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Speaker 13: accessible for women. And she doesn't obviously like talk down
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Speaker 13: to anyone. It's all on our level.
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Speaker 2: That kind of thing.
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Speaker 8: I think there's just an authenticity there.
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Speaker 4: I feel it's very.
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Speaker 8: Inapproachable kind of community. You know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 8: communities out there, but there's just this feeling and I
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Speaker 8: think a lot of that has to do with the
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Speaker 8: people behind it, whether it's Victoria or her team. They
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Speaker 8: just exue this energy which is just so warm and
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Speaker 8: in fighting, and for me, that's just who Victoria is.
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Speaker 8: I love you, guys, I love your Victoria girl.
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Speaker 4: She's on the money, on the money. She's on the money.
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Speaker 4: She's on the money.
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Speaker 8: She's on the money.
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Speaker 13: She's on the money.
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Speaker 8: She's on the money.
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Speaker 4: She's on the money. She's on the money.
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Speaker 8: She's on the money.
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Speaker 4: What good is that I can't all right, alright, al right.
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Speaker 5: It's so fungy if people say those things, because I
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Speaker 5: think one of the harder aspects of these events is
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Speaker 5: we're so blessed to have hundreds of incredible people there,
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Speaker 5: but it makes you really conscious of time, and it's
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Speaker 5: so hard because you just want to sit down and
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Speaker 5: spend an hour talking to every single person. But we
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Speaker 5: just didn't have that luxury, or we would have been
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Speaker 5: kicked out of the hotel and never let back in.
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Speaker 5: So being able to hear people talk a little bit
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Speaker 5: more about their why and their how, and it also
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Speaker 5: can feel very self absorbed, like I wouldn't know how
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Speaker 5: to turn around to someone and say, so, how have
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Speaker 5: we changed your life? Or how have we impacted like that?
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Speaker 1: Just that sounds so strange someone, Like even hearing people
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Speaker 1: talk about it, it's just overwhelming. Like I feel like
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Speaker 1: it's not often that Victoria Devine doesn't have words, but
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Speaker 1: now it is one of those times.
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Speaker 5: One thousand percent, and it's just so touching. I think,
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Speaker 5: to hear people say those kind things about you and
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Speaker 5: about me and about the podcast, it just you get
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Speaker 5: bogged down in the bad and to hear people say
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Speaker 5: I've pulled through this, I've worked really hard, and you
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Speaker 5: were able to be a part of that. Like, how
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Speaker 5: many jobs in the world are there where you can
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Speaker 5: genuinely say that you had that kind of impact on people.
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Speaker 5: Not that many, I would guess.
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Speaker 4: No, and not that many that are that vocal.
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Speaker 1: Like, I feel like it's incredibly special to be in
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Speaker 1: this position where we've done that. But I guess the
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Speaker 1: thing that I think about is when I was thinking
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Speaker 1: of starting this podcast, I was so close to not
13:07
Speaker 1: doing it because I was so afraid of what people
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Speaker 1: might think or say, or you know, they might not
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Speaker 1: think it was a good piece of content. And I
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Speaker 1: am just like everybody else, Like I am a real
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Speaker 1: person who has real feelings and you know, just wants
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Speaker 1: to do the best that they can. So it's very
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Speaker 1: challenging when you're like, do I put myself out there
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Speaker 1: and do this or not.
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Speaker 4: Like podcasting was.
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Speaker 1: Arguably very new in Australia when I had started.
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Speaker 4: It's not like I broke into the industry.
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Speaker 1: It definitely existed, but it definitely didn't need exist in
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Speaker 1: the commercial way that it does today. So when I
13:38
Speaker 1: started it, it was very much let's do this little podcast
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Speaker 1: because the Facebook group I have, which at the time
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Speaker 1: it's still burnt into my mind, had seventeen hundred people
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Speaker 1: in it, and I thought that I could have a
13:49
Speaker 1: small impact on them, like that's what the podcast started for.
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Speaker 1: And now two.
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Speaker 4: Hundred thousand people. I can't talk about it.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy, Like it's ah, it's crazy. It's actually crazy
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Speaker 1: to think that from doing a Facebook group where if
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Speaker 1: you're one of my family or friends, you would know
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Speaker 1: that I used to pester you to comment on the
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Speaker 1: posts because no one would communicate with me. And I
14:19
Speaker 1: just really wanted it to look like people were communicating
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Speaker 1: and being open because in my mind, that was going
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Speaker 1: to be the start of other people communicating and being open.
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Speaker 4: A hahah, why you doiced to me?
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Speaker 1: Because to me, that was kind of like the start
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Speaker 1: of other people being open to being able to communicate, right,
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Speaker 1: Like I saw other people commenting, even if it was
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Speaker 1: my friends or my family, and you guys didn't know
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Speaker 1: that that that might have given you permission to share
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Speaker 1: your story and known that it was a safe place,
14:51
Speaker 1: which it absolutely was and always has been. But for me,
14:54
Speaker 1: it didn't just start and you know, become this big thing.
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Speaker 1: It became this thing that I had to put so
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Speaker 1: much time, energy and effort into and so many days
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Speaker 1: I'd be like, is this worth it to finally have
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Speaker 1: people turn around and say that their entire lives a changed,
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Speaker 1: Like what.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll just give you guys a little bit of
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Speaker 2: space to feel the feelings too. And I just want
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Speaker 2: to say, as someone who was there on the day
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Speaker 2: and talking to these incredible women and people. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the speakers are incredible, the food was incredible, the goodie
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Speaker 2: bags are incredible. But I loved seeing people meeting each
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Speaker 2: other for the first time. They came to the event
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Speaker 2: on their own, and they forged some friendships and they
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Speaker 2: literally there were so many people that I went up
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Speaker 2: to who'd never spoken before, and I could hear them
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Speaker 2: sharing stories about different tips that they got off the show,
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Speaker 2: or figuring out their money stories, or feeling okay about
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Speaker 2: broaching certain topics with partners or friends, or even starting
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Speaker 2: a trend in their friendship groups to talk about this stuff.
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Speaker 2: And that was so exciting.
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Speaker 4: So that was one of my favorite things.
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Speaker 1: Like, honestly, this sounds so wanky, but like Jess and
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Speaker 1: I at the Sydney event were up the front and
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Speaker 1: people were just coming up to us and were having
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Speaker 1: chats with them, and like groups of girls would come
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Speaker 1: up and Jess and I'd be like, oh my gosh, hi,
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Speaker 1: where have you guys come from?
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Speaker 4: And they're like, oh, we.
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Speaker 1: All came from different places. We'd be like, oh, did
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Speaker 1: you like catch the train together, and they're like, no,
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Speaker 1: we met today. And it was crazy to think that
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Speaker 1: we just made this grand assumption that you know, if
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Speaker 1: a group of three girls came up to us, they
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Speaker 1: were actually already friends, when in reality that actually all
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Speaker 1: come alone and found each other. And I, as somebody
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Speaker 1: who loves a good networking event, I've never been to
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Speaker 1: a networking event and made a friend and been like, oh,
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Speaker 1: hey and a Lisa, I would love to, you know,
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Speaker 1: hang out with you. Let's go see the speaker that
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Speaker 1: we want to talk to. Like that's not a thing.
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Speaker 4: So for me to see.
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Speaker 1: These people coming together and making friends and connecting and
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Speaker 1: you know, swapping numbers, and then later seeing them post
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Speaker 1: on social media that they'd either.
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Speaker 4: Gone out for a coffee after or they'd added.
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Speaker 1: Each other on social media or tagging each other, I
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Speaker 1: was like, what, Like, you guys all little pals now,
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Speaker 1: like it just made my heart so full knowing that
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Speaker 1: we all have these shared values, and I think having
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Speaker 1: so many people in one room with so many shared
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Speaker 1: values meant it was very easy to make friends and
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Speaker 1: just such a cool thing because Jess and I were
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Speaker 1: talking before the event and Roche, who is our events
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Speaker 1: coordinator and the person who you know, made all of
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Speaker 1: this come to life for us and as an absolute legend,
17:18
Speaker 1: she actually was talking to us about like do we
17:20
Speaker 1: do little singles tags or something so that if someone
17:23
Speaker 1: is there on their own, other people know to embrace them,
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Speaker 1: Like we didn't even need that, they were just doing
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Speaker 1: it themselves. And you know, there are a couple of
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Speaker 1: times where I even saw I think I scared a
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Speaker 1: couple of people and I didn't mean to, but I
17:35
Speaker 1: saw people standing on their own and I'd be like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, did you come on your own? And
17:38
Speaker 1: they're like what, why are you here? And I'd be like,
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Speaker 1: because that going to be a friend, Like I'm here
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Speaker 1: to know you. Like I genuinely felt like I was
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Speaker 1: in a room full of people who were my friends
17:48
Speaker 1: that I just hadn't met yet, Like they were people
17:51
Speaker 1: that were my people, even if I didn't know your
17:54
Speaker 1: name yet, because I felt like you knew me in
17:56
Speaker 1: a way, and that's it's a very strange feeling.
17:59
Speaker 4: I'm telling you that right now.
18:00
Speaker 2: The tape of both of you at the start, I
18:02
Speaker 2: think is gorgeous. But yes, you were like very much
18:05
Speaker 2: hovering around like a little hummingbird, like trying to make
18:07
Speaker 2: sure everything was running smoothly, and you sound really nervous
18:10
Speaker 2: about wanting to make sure everyone has the best time.
18:13
Speaker 2: How was it for you?
18:14
Speaker 5: It was really like I had so much fun, but
18:16
Speaker 5: I did. I felt so much not anxiety, but I
18:19
Speaker 5: just so desperately wanted everyone to have the best time ever.
18:23
Speaker 5: I was really conscious that it's a big ask to
18:26
Speaker 5: have people turn up at the venue at you know,
18:29
Speaker 5: seven o'clock, So most people are getting up at like
18:31
Speaker 5: five thirty six o'clock on a cold morning to come
18:34
Speaker 5: see us, And people just have invested so much to
18:39
Speaker 5: come and see us, and I think that it might
18:41
Speaker 5: be easy to forget that we were as excited to
18:45
Speaker 5: this as everybody else. I don't think I slept for
18:47
Speaker 5: it like the entire week, because I was just so
18:50
Speaker 5: nervous and excited and I wanted everyone to be happy
18:53
Speaker 5: and have it be everything that everyone had hoped for.
18:56
Speaker 5: And I mean I really felt that. I felt so
18:59
Speaker 5: much love. I saw so many people connecting and meeting
19:03
Speaker 5: and having an incredible time. But yeah, I think I
19:05
Speaker 5: definitely was hovering around a little bit, trying to make
19:07
Speaker 5: sure that if anyone needed anything. At one point, the
19:10
Speaker 5: water dispenser run out and I was just standing there
19:13
Speaker 5: like a waiter directing people spener there was water and
19:18
Speaker 5: it run out. It was all ice, and I was
19:20
Speaker 5: just like, oh my god, they can't get their water,
19:23
Speaker 5: and so standing because like people would come and they'd
19:27
Speaker 5: just be like, oh, like I have no water.
19:29
Speaker 8: That's not happy, No, no, no, it's fine.
19:31
Speaker 4: Just like someone's coming. Nobody panic, losing your mind. You're
19:36
Speaker 4: like that in the office, I'm not.
19:38
Speaker 2: This is basically a personality test, and I think this
19:41
Speaker 2: is the one who's great in a crisis.
19:43
Speaker 4: I'm like, now was water, like, we have access to water.
19:47
Speaker 5: And then the people were so nice, and I just
19:50
Speaker 5: think I wish I had the confidence that these people,
19:55
Speaker 5: these women had, because I in my earlier years and
20:00
Speaker 5: even now, I don't know that I could stand in
20:02
Speaker 5: a room of people I don't know and just be like, hey,
20:05
Speaker 5: I'm Jess. How's it going. And so many people came
20:07
Speaker 5: up to me and said, hey, like I know who
20:09
Speaker 5: you are. I just wanted to say thank you. I
20:10
Speaker 5: just wanted to talk to you. And I cried, as
20:13
Speaker 5: you know, Victoria cried a lot. But it made my
20:16
Speaker 5: day and I truly was just like, oh my god.
20:19
Speaker 5: These people are the people that are going to create change.
20:23
Speaker 5: They're the people that are going to change their lives.
20:26
Speaker 5: They're going to change the lives of other people, They're
20:28
Speaker 5: going to educate the next generation. Like there's just I
20:31
Speaker 5: felt a lot of power in that room, and not
20:34
Speaker 5: because it was people who work in high paying jobs
20:38
Speaker 5: or people hold positions of you know, political report or whatever.
20:42
Speaker 5: It was genuinely just these people want to see and
20:47
Speaker 5: make change, and they have made change, and there is
20:51
Speaker 5: just so much value in that. And it really took
20:55
Speaker 5: the breath out of me. I think like we sat
20:56
Speaker 5: down right before we kicked the event off and did
20:59
Speaker 5: our acknowledgment, and I just was like, oh, because I
21:03
Speaker 5: could just feel it, you know, you could feel it
21:05
Speaker 5: in the air. And I don't know how to describe that,
21:07
Speaker 5: and I don't think we could ever capture that in audio.
21:09
Speaker 2: Wall video.
21:10
Speaker 5: But just this, this sensation that I felt like in
21:14
Speaker 5: my soul was incredible.
21:16
Speaker 1: You're literally the sweetest thing I've ever seen in my
21:18
Speaker 1: entire life.
21:19
Speaker 4: Just cut Like, oh, it makes my heart so full, Like.
21:23
Speaker 1: It literally makes my heart so full knowing that we, like,
21:27
Speaker 1: as a team, care so much about the community that
21:31
Speaker 1: we've created. And I can't tell you, as the person
21:34
Speaker 1: who created She's on the money, how much it means
21:36
Speaker 1: to have my team buy into that. Like it could
21:39
Speaker 1: just be a job for you guys, it could just
21:40
Speaker 1: be something that you go, yeah, like I work nine
21:42
Speaker 1: to five cheese on the money and I just do
21:44
Speaker 1: my job, and like I'm the head of partnerships, Like
21:47
Speaker 1: that could just be your job.
21:48
Speaker 4: But it's not.
21:48
Speaker 1: It's like everything that you breathe and it's everything that
21:51
Speaker 1: you love and you're so supportive of that. But it's
21:54
Speaker 1: like the mission that I'm on and the fact that
21:57
Speaker 1: you know, it's not just the community that believe in that,
21:59
Speaker 1: it's the team that we've hired and literally paid to
22:02
Speaker 1: love it. Like you can't pay people to love their jobs,
22:05
Speaker 1: like you can pay them to turn up, that's for sure,
22:08
Speaker 1: But the care that the team has and like the
22:10
Speaker 1: fact that you were there, and Georgia was there, and
22:12
Speaker 1: we had Anna Lisa, and we also had Roche there,
22:14
Speaker 1: like the entire team were it, my family were there.
22:17
Speaker 4: That was so special to me. Like being able to
22:20
Speaker 4: share this is so bad, I.
22:24
Speaker 1: Like this, but being able to share I guess what
22:28
Speaker 1: I've created with my mom was just so special.
22:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never seen a prouder mummy. We just see
22:38
Speaker 5: it written all over her face. I think as well
22:41
Speaker 5: for parents, you know, it's hard because they don't really
22:44
Speaker 5: comprehend I think the social media era and what that encompasses,
22:48
Speaker 5: and I think, you know, I've met your mom and
22:51
Speaker 5: bloody love you, Judy, but it's hard for someone who
22:54
Speaker 5: isn't as involved in that space to understand it. And
22:57
Speaker 5: I think to see her, I saw her walk in
22:59
Speaker 5: and stand in a and just kind of take in
23:01
Speaker 5: the hundreds upon hundreds of people and chairs, like I
23:05
Speaker 5: could see it in her face. She was so proud
23:07
Speaker 5: of you, and I think so, you know, not surprised,
23:10
Speaker 5: but just to really be able to tangibly see that
23:14
Speaker 5: impact and see that these people were so excited to
23:17
Speaker 5: be there. I think it meant a lot to her
23:18
Speaker 5: as well as a mother.
23:20
Speaker 2: Oh, parents are so like that too. And this is
23:22
Speaker 2: me not being ages, but like, the tangible nature of
23:24
Speaker 2: the stuff that we do is really it's visible, and
23:27
Speaker 2: it's meaningful, as like it was incredibly meaningful for everyone
23:30
Speaker 2: that was there, and as it was for both of you.
23:32
Speaker 1: All Right, guys, I'm adoring this, But let's go to
23:34
Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll dive straight back in.
23:36
Speaker 2: Were there any money stories or particular anecdotes that you
23:40
Speaker 2: guys got told that you took away.
23:42
Speaker 1: I can't share them with you. I'll just be a
23:45
Speaker 1: blubbering mess. This is already a podcast of how many
23:48
Speaker 1: times can you make Victoria cry? So it honestly was
23:52
Speaker 1: mind blowing. It wasn't just mind blowing that they'd done it.
23:55
Speaker 1: It was mind blowing that they'd taken the time out
23:58
Speaker 1: of their day to come and share that with us
24:00
Speaker 1: and share the fact that she's on the money was
24:02
Speaker 1: a part of that journey for them, because at the
24:05
Speaker 1: end of the day, they don't owe us that, Like
24:07
Speaker 1: they didn't need to come and tell me that they
24:09
Speaker 1: could have gotten out of debt and been like great,
24:10
Speaker 1: like that's behind me. I don't have to do that anymore.
24:13
Speaker 1: But They're really embracing how much that was part of
24:17
Speaker 1: their money story and wanted to give back to the
24:20
Speaker 1: rest of the community to say, well, if I did it,
24:22
Speaker 1: you can do it. I didn't know I could do it,
24:24
Speaker 1: but you can. You absolutely can. And the amount of
24:26
Speaker 1: conversations like that was one of my favorite parts of
24:28
Speaker 1: the event was just that we had allocated so much
24:31
Speaker 1: time on either side of our speakers to be present
24:35
Speaker 1: with the community and walk around and see what you
24:37
Speaker 1: guys were up to and what you were talking about,
24:39
Speaker 1: and that you were enjoying your late I think going
24:42
Speaker 1: up to people and realizing that they're only just met
24:44
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, Oh, what are you talking about?
24:46
Speaker 4: Are you having fun?
24:47
Speaker 1: And one girl to me was like, oh, I was
24:49
Speaker 1: actually just sharing that I got out of debt and
24:51
Speaker 1: I know that she can too. And I was like,
24:53
Speaker 1: oh my god, what was your name? And She's like, oh, yeah,
24:55
Speaker 1: what was your name? Like she couldn't even remember her name,
24:58
Speaker 1: but like she was telling this girl that she just
25:00
Speaker 1: had so much power and she could do it. And
25:03
Speaker 1: I was just like, who are you guys? I love
25:05
Speaker 1: you like you are my soul. People like it makes
25:08
Speaker 1: me so happy, And also just shocks me. I suppose
25:12
Speaker 1: in a world that can be so dark sometimes that
25:16
Speaker 1: the only thing in this room was sunshine and brightness
25:19
Speaker 1: and people genuinely wanting the best for each other. Like
25:22
Speaker 1: how often do you walk into a room of people
25:25
Speaker 1: who genuinely just go, I don't know you, but I
25:28
Speaker 1: want you to thrive? Like what And Jess, You're right.
25:31
Speaker 1: You could feel that energy like they all just wanted
25:34
Speaker 1: to be there. They wanted to talk to the speakers,
25:36
Speaker 1: they wanted to mingle and chat, and they wanted to
25:39
Speaker 1: have a good oat latte. But they also just wanted
25:41
Speaker 1: everybody in that room to rise up.
25:44
Speaker 4: And like we say it on the.
25:44
Speaker 1: Podcast all the time, like there's no such thing as
25:48
Speaker 1: one succeeding, it's all of us succeed Like and the
25:51
Speaker 1: success of one person in our community is just a
25:53
Speaker 1: testament to the fact that everybody can do that. And
25:56
Speaker 1: we say all the time, and I sound like a
25:58
Speaker 1: broken record once again, that rising tide lifts all ships.
26:01
Speaker 1: And you could just feel that tied like you could
26:04
Speaker 1: genuinely just feel it, like it was almost as though
26:07
Speaker 1: you could grab it.
26:08
Speaker 4: It was very very surreal.
26:10
Speaker 1: But that's probably very biased coming from someone who literally
26:14
Speaker 1: is the podcast co host and was obsessed with every
26:16
Speaker 1: single person in the room.
26:18
Speaker 2: Right, Well, I really hope that the vibe of those days,
26:20
Speaker 2: if you couldn't make it out, is coming across in
26:22
Speaker 2: this show. This is definitely intended to be a little
26:25
Speaker 2: Friday Hurrah, little Friday drinks cheers to the amazing community.
26:29
Speaker 2: And that's everyone out there who listens to the show
26:32
Speaker 2: or who just needs a bit of an uplift because
26:35
Speaker 2: it is a hard time at the moment all over
26:36
Speaker 2: the world and in this country. Hopefully that ViBe's coming
26:39
Speaker 2: across to you. And there were so many other people
26:41
Speaker 2: that sweetened the deal on the day, Jess, those goodie bags,
26:45
Speaker 2: those sponsors, oh my goodness.
26:47
Speaker 6: Next level.
26:48
Speaker 5: Right, it felt so special to us because we really
26:51
Speaker 5: wanted to make sure that, you know, corporate events, you
26:55
Speaker 5: walk away with a koozie or a pen. I mean,
26:57
Speaker 5: I love a kouzie. I'm definitely like a stubby holder.
27:06
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you heard that before, and Alisa, I
27:10
Speaker 4: have not.
27:10
Speaker 5: Oh maybe it's just me, but you know, you go
27:12
Speaker 5: to these events and you kind of all over the
27:14
Speaker 5: time walk away with stuff you're probably not going to use, right,
27:18
Speaker 5: And we didn't want to contribute to waste in that way,
27:21
Speaker 5: but we also wanted people to be able to kind
27:22
Speaker 5: of take that good feeling home with them. So we
27:24
Speaker 5: sat down and we said, right, what brands do we
27:27
Speaker 5: love who would we love to get on board? And
27:29
Speaker 5: you know, it was kind of a theoretical. We were like, oh,
27:32
Speaker 5: I'd really love to have some like LSKT stuff or
27:35
Speaker 5: some beautiful Syreene skincare, which is the cleanse of the
27:37
Speaker 5: Futoria and I both love, which is very extensive, very
27:41
Speaker 5: very good. And we reached out to these brands and
27:43
Speaker 5: we're just astounded by how quickly and how supportive these
27:47
Speaker 5: brands were to jump on and we're like, oh my gosh, yes,
27:49
Speaker 5: we would love to be involved with what can we do?
27:52
Speaker 1: Like obviously I love a good brow and I love
27:55
Speaker 1: a good brow. Pencil and Benefit are one of my
27:57
Speaker 1: favorite brow brands. So when we reached out, I was
28:01
Speaker 1: shocked when they weren't just like, oh, yeah, sorry, we
28:03
Speaker 1: can put a flyer in. They literally put a makeup
28:06
Speaker 1: bag full of makeup in it for our community.
28:09
Speaker 4: Like what I know, MI go to?
28:12
Speaker 5: Who are girls that we've you know, worked with their
28:14
Speaker 5: They started as a small business they're killing it now.
28:17
Speaker 5: They supported us Bang and Body, the moisturizer we all love.
28:21
Speaker 5: We had Avianna the label. Another small Melbourne based business,
28:24
Speaker 5: five PM Beverages, Yes you can drinks, Frankie mag the
28:27
Speaker 5: girls that Keep It Cleaner, who We're fricking adore like
28:30
Speaker 5: just what.
28:31
Speaker 1: They put gifts in the gift bags, but also did
28:34
Speaker 1: out under the Chair prize, which no one knew was
28:36
Speaker 1: going to happen, but people literally walked away with a
28:39
Speaker 1: year's free subscription to their app, which is very, very
28:42
Speaker 1: cool and obviously something that the Shees on the Money
28:44
Speaker 1: team used basically daily.
28:46
Speaker 5: Incredible. They literally got us through lockdown by doing their
28:49
Speaker 5: Zoom Polarates classes together. It was so much fun, and
28:52
Speaker 5: then of course the Shares his team really brought it
28:55
Speaker 5: all together. I'm going to take a little moment here because,
28:58
Speaker 5: as you said, Partnerships is my space and have been
29:00
Speaker 5: a partner of ours for over a year now, and
29:03
Speaker 5: we got to meet them for the first time. They
29:05
Speaker 5: were there at the Sydney event, so some of you
29:07
Speaker 5: guys might have met them as well. But it is
29:10
Speaker 5: such a privilege to work with a business that so
29:14
Speaker 5: wholeheartedly believes in what we do, like the Charesa's team
29:19
Speaker 5: are always the first business to say, how can we
29:22
Speaker 5: support you? We love your idea, how can we uplift that,
29:25
Speaker 5: how can we amplify you? How can we really work
29:29
Speaker 5: in with what you're doing? And I think anyone who
29:32
Speaker 5: works in marketing or advertising knows that sometimes you come
29:35
Speaker 5: across brands or businesses that just want to put an
29:38
Speaker 5: add up and be done with it, And we don't
29:40
Speaker 5: do that here. That's not how we work. We never
29:42
Speaker 5: have and we never will. But to have someone buy
29:46
Speaker 5: in so strongly and they are in our Facebook group,
29:49
Speaker 5: not to advertise, you'll never see them promoing themselves, but
29:52
Speaker 5: to interact, to read, to see what's going on, because
29:55
Speaker 5: they genuinely want to engage with and support our community.
30:00
Speaker 5: It is not very often that you see people buy
30:03
Speaker 5: in that way. And to meet their team, who were
30:07
Speaker 5: all female that were there on the day, they have
30:09
Speaker 5: two out of three CEOs females.
30:11
Speaker 1: And more than half of their entire workforce a female,
30:14
Speaker 1: which is epic because they're an investment company.
30:17
Speaker 4: Like what, that's not something you would have heard ten
30:20
Speaker 4: years ago.
30:20
Speaker 5: Ten years ago, they've all been men that all probably
30:23
Speaker 5: were white, and they have been no diversity whatsoever, and
30:28
Speaker 5: so it is, you know, not to bang on about it,
30:30
Speaker 5: but genuinely, they are a delight to work with. I
30:33
Speaker 5: talk to them weekly and they are so fantastic and
30:37
Speaker 5: they're so supportive of us and our community, and we
30:39
Speaker 5: could not have made this event happen without them. So
30:41
Speaker 5: I'm incredibly thankful for them. I just cannot sing their
30:45
Speaker 5: praises enough.
30:45
Speaker 1: Truly. Absolutely, yes, it genuinely felt like we were just
30:49
Speaker 1: catching up with old friends, Like it was so surreal
30:52
Speaker 1: to meet some people in real life. But the same
30:54
Speaker 1: thing happened with a whole heap of community members, Like
30:57
Speaker 1: there were actually a heap of community members that would
30:59
Speaker 1: come up to me and be like, oh my god,
31:01
Speaker 1: hi Victoria, I'm Simran And I was like, no, I
31:03
Speaker 1: know who you are. They're like how, and I'm like,
31:05
Speaker 1: cause we talk on Instagram all the time. I just
31:07
Speaker 1: to see him to be all friends. And they're like, wait,
31:09
Speaker 1: you know and I'm like yeah, because I know your face,
31:12
Speaker 1: like you comment all the time in our Facebook group.
31:14
Speaker 1: And there was one girl and for the life of me,
31:16
Speaker 1: I can't think of her name right now, and she
31:18
Speaker 1: came up and she said, hi, and I was like,
31:19
Speaker 1: you look so familiar. I was like, we've met before.
31:22
Speaker 1: What's your name? And she's like no, like we've definitely
31:24
Speaker 1: never met. And I was like are you sure and
31:25
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, I comment a lot in the Facebook group.
31:28
Speaker 1: I'm like I knew it because they stalk everybody. That
31:31
Speaker 1: sounds so creepy, but like I always look at your
31:33
Speaker 1: profile picture if you've been commenting stuff, then I'm like, yeah,
31:36
Speaker 1: I can get behind that, Like I want to know
31:38
Speaker 1: who our community is. So I've definitely creeped on all
31:41
Speaker 1: of you, which just sounds very strange, but it was
31:43
Speaker 1: so special in that room to be like no, no, no,
31:45
Speaker 1: I know you.
31:46
Speaker 4: Where are you from?
31:47
Speaker 1: And there would be like oh, I was in the
31:48
Speaker 1: Facebook group, or oh we talk all the time in
31:50
Speaker 1: your Instagram dms. It's usually about your cat, but we
31:52
Speaker 1: talk a lot, and I'm like, oh my gosh. It
31:54
Speaker 1: genuinely feels like I'm meeting my friends. And that's exactly
31:57
Speaker 1: how I felt about the Chareseas team. And I spotted
31:59
Speaker 1: Adrian from across the room and I was like, oh
32:01
Speaker 1: my gosh.
32:02
Speaker 4: And gave her the biggest target.
32:03
Speaker 1: Was like I just hadn't seen her in a while.
32:05
Speaker 1: It was very strange and surreal, which I'm sure Jaz,
32:08
Speaker 1: we're not the only people experiencing this. Having had COVID
32:12
Speaker 1: take us out of the market for two years, not
32:15
Speaker 1: being able to see people or talk to people or
32:18
Speaker 1: hug them, it does feel very surreal. And I'm very
32:20
Speaker 1: aware that there's lots of friendships and things going on
32:22
Speaker 1: that you know, are happening outside of the She's on
32:25
Speaker 1: the many community that mean that this is happening for
32:27
Speaker 1: them too. But they were very special days to be
32:30
Speaker 1: a part of, and I genuinely cannot wait to see
32:33
Speaker 1: what else we get up to, because, as you guys know,
32:36
Speaker 1: we've mentioned Roche on the show already, but Roche has
32:39
Speaker 1: actually just joined us full time and her entire job, guys,
32:43
Speaker 1: is to make sure that she's on the money events
32:45
Speaker 1: come to life. So if you think you've seen the
32:47
Speaker 1: last of us, you absolutely haven't, because we will be
32:49
Speaker 1: back again and again, especially with the Roche on our team.
32:53
Speaker 1: But in saying that, Jess and Elisa, I do think
32:55
Speaker 1: it is time for us to say goodbye. But I
32:58
Speaker 1: hope you guys have absolutely hearing a little bit about
33:01
Speaker 1: our events. If you weren't able to come to them.
33:03
Speaker 1: I hope that it has filled the void of not
33:05
Speaker 1: being able to be with us. And if you went
33:07
Speaker 1: to them last week, hopefully it was a very cute
33:10
Speaker 1: reminiscing session with the team. So we will see you
33:13
Speaker 1: next week for an actual Friday drink, so not a
33:16
Speaker 1: celebratory Friday drinks, albeit they all do feel that way.
33:20
Speaker 1: But as always, that is all we have time for today.
33:22
Speaker 1: So Jess, why don't you wrap it for us?
33:25
Speaker 5: The advice shared on Cheese on the Money it is
33:27
Speaker 5: generally in nature and does not consider your individual circumstances.
33:30
Speaker 5: Ches on the Money exists purely for educational purposes and
33:33
Speaker 5: should not be relied upon to make an investment or
33:35
Speaker 5: a financial decision. And we promise. Victoria Devine is an
33:38
Speaker 5: authorized representative of Australia Pacific Funds Management Proprietary Limited ABM
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Speaker 5: three four one three two four six three two five
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Speaker 5: seven AFSL three three nine one five one See next week, guys.
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Speaker 4: Bye