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Cardi B Understood the Assignment! Loren LoRosa Talks Burnout & Boss Moves · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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Speaker 1: do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit
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Speaker 1: about everything and everybody. You hear that exclusive? You know
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Speaker 1: she don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all,
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Speaker 1: what's up?
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Speaker 2: It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode of The
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Speaker 2: conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, we always kick
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Speaker 2: off the show, The Latest, checking in behind the scenes
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Speaker 2: of The Grind.
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Speaker 1: So let's get to it. Back on the grind.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, y'all, if I'm checking in on myself today and
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Speaker 2: right now, I am tired. I am literally tired. I'm exhausted, like,
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Speaker 2: if I'm being 100% honest. I was having a conversation
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Speaker 2: with myself this morning in the shower because, you know,
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Speaker 2: when you move in, shake it, and doing all the things,
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Speaker 2: a lot of times we wait until we get to, like,
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Speaker 2: a burnout point. And I know my burnout point. I've
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Speaker 2: been there before. I've literally burnt out. literally to the
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Speaker 2: point where I was passed out on somebody's floor before.
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Speaker 2: So I know when I feel myself getting there and
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Speaker 2: this is not my first time having this conversation with myself.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you what the conversation was.
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Speaker 2: So outside of the latest with Lauren La Rosa, the
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Speaker 2: podcast outside of the breakfast club, you know, I love
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Speaker 2: being out and about and with the people. I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, it fuels a lot of what I do, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, really being out and understanding like what, what,
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Speaker 2: what are people talking about?
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Speaker 1: What is touching them?
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Speaker 2: What are they, you know, interacting the most with and
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Speaker 2: just honestly, not even just doing it for like a
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Speaker 2: case study for work, but just living my life helps
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Speaker 2: me a ton in the conversations as a producer, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Um, being able to like, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, break, bring worldly views and angles into things and, and,
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Speaker 2: you know, anchor that to produce a conversation, whether I'm
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Speaker 2: in the room or I'm not. But also I found
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Speaker 2: it very helpful as talent because people want things that
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Speaker 2: they can feel and relate to and understand. So it's like,
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Speaker 2: you know, the more that I live my life and
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Speaker 2: I'm able to talk about these things I'm doing and
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Speaker 2: talk about the places that I'm at, I think it
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Speaker 2: adds to the content. However, 2027, my goal is to
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Speaker 2: really elevate as a business woman. And I believe a
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Speaker 2: part of that is my precision, right? And when I
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Speaker 2: say my precision, it's like, OK, yes, you know, you
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Speaker 2: guys know I report stories. You guys know that I'm
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Speaker 2: digging in, doing and getting all of the facts. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, even if it's not my story exclusively where
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Speaker 2: you're hearing it from me for the first time, I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to just know as much as I can about
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Speaker 2: something or, you know, an angle in on it to
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Speaker 2: do the alley-oop, to lay up the alley-oop on the
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Speaker 2: conversation that you guys can then finish the conversation and
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Speaker 2: have the conversation with me. Or the other talent that
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Speaker 2: I'm in the room with at the breakfast club or whatever,
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Speaker 2: whether it's a live speaking engagement or anything. But when
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Speaker 2: I say my precision, I think that I keep telling
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Speaker 2: myself that working smarter, not harder is my goal. And
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Speaker 2: I am doing small things to maneuver and to get
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Speaker 2: to that point. But 2027, I don't want to talk
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Speaker 2: about it and maneuver to get to that point.
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Speaker 1: I want to be at that point.
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Speaker 2: So when it comes to, you know, the things I'm
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Speaker 2: saying yes to, and I have really gotten good at
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Speaker 2: saying no. But I think my no right now is.
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Speaker 1: Based on when I feel too overworked.
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Speaker 2: I want to get better at being precise about what
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Speaker 2: the vision for me as not even myself, but just
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Speaker 2: my business in general. Like what, what is my like
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Speaker 2: focus and what is my intention in my, like, what
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Speaker 2: am I being sharp about? And what is the path
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Speaker 2: that I'm walking? Really, really being sharp about that and
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Speaker 2: understanding what that is so that I'm not burning myself
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Speaker 2: or stretching myself too thin. I feel like my bandwidth
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Speaker 2: right now, my endurance has elevated as I have elevated,
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Speaker 2: but my bandwidth still gets to a point where I'm like,
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Speaker 2: you're doing too much Lauren. And when I get to
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Speaker 2: this point, I'm always thinking through like, what can I
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Speaker 2: do to be better about this? And I know I'll
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Speaker 2: probably always get to this point. It's just like life.
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Speaker 2: I think we all just learn. Cause, cause, Work-life balance
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Speaker 2: is not a real thing.
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Speaker 1: You just find a flow.
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Speaker 2: So I think we all will hit these corners or
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Speaker 2: these walls or these points where you're like, okay, the
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Speaker 2: flow that I had at that stage of my life
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Speaker 2: of work-life balance is not working where I'm at right now.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's what I'm feeling. And your body
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Speaker 2: and your physical will let you know. And you find, like,
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Speaker 2: I know right now, like, I'm finding myself getting irritated
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Speaker 2: at small things and, you know, just not being able to, like, really...
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Speaker 2: like focus in and hone in on even conversations I'm
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Speaker 2: in in real time. And it's because I am so exhausted.
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Speaker 2: I'm just really trying to think through what is the
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Speaker 2: next thing I have to do and get through. I
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Speaker 2: don't want to show up like that. I do not
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Speaker 2: at all. And not even just in my professional life,
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Speaker 2: but also in my personal life. Like my mom caught
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Speaker 2: me yesterday and I was reading through this like Drake lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: And like my mom and my family, like they know,
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Speaker 2: like I said, I call it like newsroom hours for myself.
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Speaker 2: So I said certain times where everybody knows like if
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Speaker 2: you call Lauren during this time she's probably working on
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Speaker 2: stories so she's not going to be able to really
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Speaker 2: talk um but my mom you know you know how
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Speaker 2: your older your older folks get they don't care about
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Speaker 2: none of that so my mom called me anyway and
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Speaker 2: I could tell she just wanted to talk like it
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Speaker 2: was nothing wrong she just wanted to talk she just
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Speaker 2: wanted to have a conversation about just what was going
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Speaker 2: on in her day and you know she was watching
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Speaker 2: the show and she loves talking through the show with
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Speaker 2: me and different topics with me and things like that
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Speaker 2: and I I literally I was like, OK, I don't
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Speaker 2: even like I have to finish work.
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Speaker 1: Then I also have to sleep. We have a long
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Speaker 1: interview day tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: I was already so exhausted from all of the traveling
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Speaker 2: and different places that I was at over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: And when I told her, like, hey, mom, let me
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Speaker 2: call you back a little bit later. I literally felt it.
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, she knows that I might not get
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Speaker 2: to call her back tonight. And I hated that feeling.
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Speaker 2: And then waking up and.
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Speaker 1: Getting through my day today, I got through it and
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Speaker 1: I was cool.
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Speaker 2: But now by the end of the day, I am
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Speaker 2: like my bandwidth gets so burnt out.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, what?
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Speaker 2: I don't even fully know what the answer is to smarter,
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Speaker 2: not harder at this point in my life, because I
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Speaker 2: am still trying to balance all of these things. But
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Speaker 2: I want to kick off 2027 practicing it and not like,
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Speaker 2: is admiring people who live the lifestyle and or aspiring
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Speaker 2: to live that way, the smarter, not harder and not
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Speaker 2: actually actively practicing it. And I think a lot of
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Speaker 2: it starts with what I'm allowing into like my day
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Speaker 2: to day space, like who's taking my energy because like
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Speaker 2: that energy and those phone calls that are taking up
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Speaker 2: that time and energy could be the time and energy
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Speaker 2: I'm giving to my mom, to be honest with you,
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Speaker 2: could be the time and energy I'm giving to like
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Speaker 2: the stories that I know I need to lock in on.
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Speaker 1: I do really good at that.
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Speaker 2: But I think it's just setting up some more boundaries
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Speaker 2: and positioning myself and positioning, you know, team and all
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Speaker 2: that around and delegating and being able to really believe
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Speaker 2: in where I'm delegating these things to. I think that
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Speaker 2: is going to play a major factor in this next
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Speaker 2: chapter of my personal life and my private life. Because
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Speaker 2: another thing, too, is it's like outside of me, you know,
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Speaker 2: being Lauren with the latest and having and doing, you know,
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Speaker 2: platform and media stuff.
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Speaker 1: I want to build business outside of this as well.
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Speaker 2: And I think one of the things that I'm always
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Speaker 2: thinking about is when am I going to have the time?
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Speaker 1: Literally.
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Speaker 2: But this week I was really good about, you know, even,
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Speaker 2: even in the real estate space, like some of the
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Speaker 2: things that have happened in there, I've been sitting on
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Speaker 2: some things. I've been sitting on property for a while
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Speaker 2: that I haven't done what I need to do about
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Speaker 2: this week. I pushed through and got it done. So
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Speaker 2: even if it took me just 30 quick minutes out
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Speaker 2: of my day to make some phone calls or to, um,
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Speaker 2: talk to you know roofing companies or whatever and not
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Speaker 2: just push it off to team because right now again
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Speaker 2: I'm in a space where I'm still I'm not even
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Speaker 2: learning how to delegate I'm learning who should be in
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Speaker 2: place to delegate to and what that should look like
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Speaker 2: when it's done and executed properly because I'm new I'm
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Speaker 2: new at having a team I'm new at even needing
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Speaker 2: a team to delegate to I've done everything on my
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Speaker 2: own for a very long time with the help of
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Speaker 2: like you know friends and family and like just good
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Speaker 2: mentors and good people but on a day-to-day like running
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Speaker 2: the business of not just Lauren in the media but
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Speaker 2: me as a you know a person that is a
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Speaker 2: property owner and that wants to do all these things
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Speaker 2: like this is all new to me in.
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Speaker 1: A sense.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes y'all and we have my girl Taylor made
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Speaker 2: it in the building because y'all know when I get
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Speaker 2: into these talks she I mean it's like my thoughts
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Speaker 2: be so loud I definitely need someone to bounce them
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Speaker 2: off of But she's always like right there meeting me
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Speaker 2: where I'm at. You know, you got that friend who's like,
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Speaker 2: y'all are right there at the same time, but don't
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Speaker 2: even know it.
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Speaker 1: That's her. Taylor made it. Thank you. Taylor made it. Yes.
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Speaker 1: I can get your name right. Right.
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Speaker 3: But I was going to say, do you go by
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Speaker 3: a schedule or try to go by a schedule as
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Speaker 3: much as possible?
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Speaker 1: I am.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: I used to. I am a super like free. You
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Speaker 1: know me. I'm super like free.
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Speaker 3: That's not the way I want to say it.
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Speaker 1: Spontaneous. That's the word. I am very spontaneous. Very free.
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Speaker 1: But I can't. I stopped living like that probably about
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Speaker 1: a year ago.
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Speaker 2: Everything is scheduled every meeting like I schedule like if
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Speaker 2: you were to say Lauren I want to go to
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Speaker 2: drinks on Tuesday I would literally have to put that
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Speaker 2: in my calendar because there's a lot of working and
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Speaker 2: moving parts now like I need everybody in my life
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Speaker 2: to know that that is happening so that they can
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Speaker 2: work around for themselves and so that I can remember
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Speaker 2: number one I have become so absent minded and I
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Speaker 2: be wondering like is the absent mindedness because I'm doing
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Speaker 2: too much or because I just have a lot going
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Speaker 2: on and that's just what comes with it but no
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Speaker 2: I heavily rely on a schedule heavily heavily heavily and
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Speaker 2: I'm proud of myself because I am very like alright
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Speaker 2: F it let's just do it like I've always been
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Speaker 2: like that like I don't really have too much, like,
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Speaker 2: fear of things. So I always thought about people who
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Speaker 2: planned as people that were, like, fearful. And they wanted to, like,
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Speaker 2: be able to plan it so they could be, like,
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Speaker 2: overly ready for this thing. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I've always just been, like, stay ready so you don't
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Speaker 1: have to get ready. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But in life right now, I'm realizing that, like, staying
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Speaker 2: ready is planning. Like, and planning long-term in 2027, that's
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Speaker 2: something I want to get really, really good at. Like,
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at all these things that I want to do,
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Speaker 2: and I'm talking about them, and these are not small things.
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Speaker 2: Plates like these are things that like people build out
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Speaker 2: years in advance. Like I'm I'm talking about like, you know,
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Speaker 2: I mean, not to put everything out there, but there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of things I want to do personally and
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Speaker 2: professionally that I know take some time.
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Speaker 1: You don't just wake up and decide to go figure
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Speaker 1: it out no matter how much money you got.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And I'm entry level.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm watching that and I'm starting to realize
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Speaker 2: that like, not everybody that like overly plans or people
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Speaker 2: that are fearful. A lot of people that overly plan
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Speaker 2: are people that want to, even if I'm not planning
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Speaker 2: down to like what I'm going to say and all
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Speaker 2: of that, I'm at least planning everything around what that
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Speaker 2: one goal is so that me stepping into and executing
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Speaker 2: that goal, it's just a softer landing. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm, what I'm still hitting a wall on
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Speaker 2: is like, I feel these hard landings sometimes because certain
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Speaker 2: things aren't planned out or I don't think longer term
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Speaker 2: about certain things. So then when I go through it,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, like I'm like having to fight my
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Speaker 2: way through it.
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Speaker 3: I could definitely relate in my own path that I'm
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Speaker 3: going to. I'm definitely a spontaneous person. I realize that.
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Speaker 3: And like you were saying, like, I need to when
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Speaker 3: you say you have a schedule, do you have it
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Speaker 3: on your phone?
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Speaker 1: Because I'll ignore them, too.
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Speaker 2: No, I live by I live by my phone calendar.
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Speaker 2: One of the things I used to do was I
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Speaker 2: used to write down a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 3: I need to write, I think.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But writing down dates doesn't help me. I need to
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Speaker 2: see in my calendar. So, like, for instance, on Sundays,
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Speaker 2: I look at my week so I can know, like,
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Speaker 2: all right, what outfits given or how much am I traveling?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If I'm traveling a lot. Cause like, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: not like I'm a daughter. I'm an aunt.
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Speaker 2: Like, you know, I feel like my niece needs me
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Speaker 2: a lot right now. She's about to be a teenager.
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Speaker 2: Like she needs me a lot right now. So. You know,
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Speaker 2: I've been thinking about that as well, too. Like, so
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Speaker 2: now I'm trying to figure out, like, all right, if
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Speaker 2: I'm traveling here, can she come with me? What days
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Speaker 2: can I boom? Can I go back home? And if
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Speaker 2: I am home, what's happening when I'm home? Can she
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Speaker 2: be with me for that event? Is it 21 older? Like,
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Speaker 2: I really plan out a lot, but I want to
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Speaker 2: plan out further.
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Speaker 1: I want to... Like five years down the line. Not even...
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Speaker 1: I mean, five years in.
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Speaker 2: yes, like vaguely speaking or like big old, big, super, super,
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Speaker 2: super big goal speaking. But I just mean like, as
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Speaker 2: far as even Bronco grinding as a production company, I
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Speaker 2: got some content goals that I want to hit this year.
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Speaker 2: A lot of that stuff. I would love to have
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Speaker 2: it like sponsored and branded. And I know I can
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Speaker 2: do that. I have the relationships. It's the planning. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I need to be talking to brands at certain times.
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Speaker 2: I need to be figuring out budgets and submitting them
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Speaker 2: by certain times. I need to, it's just, it's business.
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Speaker 2: It's a day to day thing. And I think, even
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Speaker 2: putting my personal life on a situation like that, like
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Speaker 2: I would save myself money because I am planning certain
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Speaker 2: things like planning travel and plan. Like there's just some
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Speaker 2: things that I need to like really, um, I made
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Speaker 2: a really good place, like a really good place with everything.
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Speaker 2: But I, I vividly, I was telling the teller I
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Speaker 2: had a dream yesterday and I vividly saw what it's
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Speaker 2: going to look like when I put all the things
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Speaker 2: in place and step away from some of the things
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Speaker 2: that are, uh, not helping but hurting the bandwidth right now,
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Speaker 2: I know exactly where I'm headed to. And I just
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Speaker 2: got to do it. Like, these next couple months, everything
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Speaker 2: that the conversation... I'm going to say it was a
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Speaker 2: conversation with God, not just a dream. Because I have
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Speaker 2: literally a to-do list of things. And I couldn't have
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Speaker 2: seen it more clearly. And I've been talking about maneuvering
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Speaker 2: certain things on the podcast very vaguely just because, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't like to talk about things until
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Speaker 2: they're done. But yesterday, when I say it was so.
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Speaker 2: Like, it was.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I saw everything. I saw career stuff.
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Speaker 2: I even saw like this is going to sound so
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Speaker 2: not vain, but like, I don't know. But I even
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Speaker 2: saw like across social because I really want to build
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Speaker 2: out the podcast on social.
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Speaker 1: I want to build out my voice. not even my voice.
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Speaker 2: Um, I want to build out like in fashion across social.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that I want to do
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Speaker 2: across social that I know exactly what to do, but it's,
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Speaker 2: it's a lot of planning because breakfast club, being a
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Speaker 2: content creator on a podcast daily, it takes a lot.
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Speaker 2: So I have to plan everything else when I'm doing
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Speaker 2: it and like plan how it will happen. But I
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Speaker 2: love things to feel effortless to like, I don't like
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Speaker 2: to be curated. I don't like people who curate content
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Speaker 2: to me. I think that that is so corny. Like,
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Speaker 2: If you have something you want to talk about, talk
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Speaker 2: about it. If you're feeling a way, feel it. If
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Speaker 2: you are going through something or you're somewhere, talk about it.
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Speaker 2: But I do think that there is a science to
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Speaker 2: the consistency that we see in these spaces.
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Speaker 1: And I learned that being a podcaster. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I would say, too, with my Made It series, I
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Speaker 3: ask them, like, how'd you make it, whatever. So someone
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Speaker 3: told me, make sure you know what your why is
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Speaker 3: when you're planning something. planning your career out, though.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Like, so everything that you're doing, make sure there's a
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Speaker 3: why to it and why you're doing it, not just, like,
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Speaker 3: to do it to try to make money or, like,
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Speaker 3: there has to be a bigger thing. So everything that
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Speaker 3: you're doing, there's a why to it, though. Like, you
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Speaker 3: have all that figured out because I'm saying that because
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out also, like.
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Speaker 1: With the Y's for me as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. At first, you know, it was everything was like
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Speaker 2: not always about money because for me, I just always
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Speaker 2: wanted to be happy, too. I want to be able
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Speaker 2: to get up every day and like actually be happy.
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Speaker 2: Like that has always been an important thing to me.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's because my mom is an entrepreneur.
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Speaker 2: So I've never seen her be miserable and have to
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Speaker 2: go to a job. I've seen her go through hard
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Speaker 2: times in her business. But because she loved it and
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Speaker 2: it's something she's passionate about, I grew up in passion
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Speaker 2: and love for.
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Speaker 1: Work, for loving what you do.
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Speaker 2: So I've always been a person that all those other
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Speaker 2: good jobs I've had, those were side gigs. I knew
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Speaker 2: what I was focused on. But I think the why
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Speaker 2: that you're talking about is that deeper meaning of things.
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Speaker 2: I think I'm getting to a point where God is
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Speaker 2: definitely talking to me about that. And showing me that.
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Speaker 2: But that's why I'm, like... I have no reason but to, like,
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Speaker 2: execute and change some of the things that he is
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Speaker 2: also telling me.
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Speaker 1: Like, okay, your why is here. Here's the resources.
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Speaker 2: Here are the people that I'm putting into your life to,
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Speaker 2: you know, help these things maneuver and to keep, you know,
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Speaker 2: the why center focused. Keeping the main thing the main thing. But, like,
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Speaker 2: the execution point is on you. Like, even with, like, team.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, I.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of new team members and different things that,
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Speaker 2: you know, will be happening. I'm sure throughout the course
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Speaker 2: of my career and just making changes there, that is.
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Speaker 1: Very new for me. Like getting a team was new
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Speaker 1: for me and trusting people.
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Speaker 2: And now, you know, maneuvering and bringing people in where
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Speaker 2: I see things that, you know, elevate in a way
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Speaker 2: that I want them to or whatever. And like, just,
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Speaker 2: it is so many things that, I'm thinking about, and
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Speaker 2: even if it's not like changing team, but just even
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Speaker 2: changing how I am as a leader on a team
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Speaker 2: to be able to stir the ship to where I
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Speaker 2: now see clearly the vision. Like I've always known my vision,
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Speaker 2: but like the path, I think I've always just been
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Speaker 2: like very, it's always been about like the hustle. Like
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Speaker 2: here's what I want to do, but like what's the hustle?
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Speaker 2: What's the grind to get me there? Now it's like,
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Speaker 2: It's not a hustle. It's not a grind. Like I'm
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Speaker 2: on a ship.
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Speaker 1: Like we're moving. We are sailing. It's happening. I don't
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Speaker 1: have to sink or swim. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Like I can do things and fail and they not
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Speaker 2: be the thing I was supposed to do or not
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Speaker 2: be perfect. And I got to shoot my shot again.
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Speaker 2: But I'm not like fighting to survive right now. I
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Speaker 2: am really in a I'm blessed and I am a
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Speaker 2: space where like I am just figuring out. how to
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Speaker 2: stay on my course that I'm sailing on. And what
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Speaker 2: does the team look like that I'm bringing onto this ship? And,
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Speaker 2: you know, how do we build the ship out? How
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Speaker 2: do we renovate it? Like, it's here.
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Speaker 1: I'm happy. I'm where I'm supposed to be.
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Speaker 2: But I also want to make sure that, like, I'm
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Speaker 2: not so burnt out physically and mentally because sometimes that
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Speaker 2: scarcity mindset kicks in where.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I can't do nothing. Like, I got
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Speaker 1: to do this. I got to do that. I got to.
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Speaker 1: Every now and then it kick in. And then it's like,
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Speaker 1: I feel the burnout. And I'm like, no, you don't. No,
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Speaker 1: you don't.
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Speaker 2: You don't like, yes, there are certain things that make
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Speaker 2: sense for you to be doing, but like, what's the, like,
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Speaker 2: what's the narrative and what's the, what's the level at where,
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Speaker 2: what level do you want to be doing them at?
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Speaker 1: And when do we elevate from one level to the other?
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Speaker 2: And I feel like right now, the only thing that
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Speaker 2: hasn't elevated my mind has my body is physically telling me, Hey.
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Speaker 1: You need to be smarter and not work harder.
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Speaker 2: I just have to like do it. So like, I
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Speaker 2: just have to like literally put the plan into place.
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Speaker 1: I feel you.
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Speaker 3: I definitely feel you. But I don't know if you,
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Speaker 3: like I said, like, for me, I'm definitely more of
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Speaker 3: a writing person. I don't think, um, I wrote down, like,
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Speaker 3: a schedule on my phone, but I, for some reason,
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Speaker 3: I can't, it doesn't work with me like that. I
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Speaker 3: literally have to write stuff down to make me.
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Speaker 2: I write out goals and plans, but I have, like,
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Speaker 2: when it comes to dates, girl, I am not, I
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Speaker 2: need everything in a calendar.
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Speaker 1: You know what's weird, though? I can memorize dates.
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Speaker 3: For some reason. Like, that could be stuck in my head. Like, okay,
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Speaker 3: I know I have to do that for next year. Like,
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't need to necessarily.
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Speaker 2: I'll remember the date, but I might not even remember
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Speaker 2: what is on that date.
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Speaker 1: I'll be like, yo, October 10th sounds so familiar. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Whole time October 10th is homecoming.
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Speaker 2: And then now it's October 9th and I'm like, oh shoot,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to homecoming tomorrow. Well, not really like not
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Speaker 2: literally that. Cause like, that's something that I was so
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Speaker 2: excited about that. Like, yeah, but like small stuff like that,
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Speaker 2: like I will, or like interview dates.
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Speaker 1: That's why I keep everything in a calendar too, because
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Speaker 1: I will double book. I've done that multiple times where like,
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be at two places at one time.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of somebody that has figured out and maneuvered so
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Speaker 2: well at every aspect of her career and to be
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Speaker 2: honest um cardi b talks a lot out loud when
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Speaker 2: she's going through these changes as well too like you
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Speaker 2: know it was reported about a month or so ago
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Speaker 2: that cardi b recently just even you know moved management
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Speaker 2: teams and and that has been that was a team
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Speaker 2: that she was with for years um but cardi's always
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Speaker 2: been about i wouldn't even say reinventing herself because she's
20:48
Speaker 2: like how i am like I want everything to be
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Speaker 2: of me for real. If I'm promoting something, I want
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Speaker 2: to actually like it and have used the product. If
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Speaker 2: I'm talking to somebody, even if I don't... I'm not
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Speaker 2: interested in that person. We have a general interest in
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Speaker 2: a conversation piece that I can find. Like, I don't
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Speaker 2: want to just like do things because I'm propped up
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Speaker 2: to do them. And Cardi is like literally she is
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Speaker 2: the brand ambassador of she ain't doing it unless she
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Speaker 2: wants to, regardless of the fact. And I think what
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Speaker 2: I watch Cardi B do time and time again is.
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Speaker 2: When Cardi B chooses to make those decisions to only
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Speaker 2: do things when it is truly something she wants to
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Speaker 2: do and not do everything, she's able to like hone
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Speaker 2: in on that one thing and really elevate it to
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Speaker 2: another level. She just recently did the NPR Tiny Desk.
21:41
Speaker 2: NPR Tiny Desk talked about on their website where they
21:44
Speaker 2: reviewed the Tiny Desk that they had never even seen
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Speaker 2: that many people come out in person to watch the
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Speaker 2: Tiny Desk. They literally had to turn people down. I
21:52
Speaker 2: was supposed to be there. I got an invite. I
21:55
Speaker 2: have a contact, a friend that I met in LA
21:57
Speaker 2: years ago who works for NPR Tiny Desk on the
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Speaker 2: fundraising side.
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Speaker 1: And I was supposed to be there. They sent the
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Speaker 1: invite and I just didn't hear anything.
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Speaker 2: But I think it was because they were just trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out how to get on with people in
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Speaker 2: the dang room in the first place. But yeah, she
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Speaker 2: did NPR Tiny Desk. I was trying to conceptualize what
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Speaker 2: she would sound like over the instruments with the backup singers.
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Speaker 2: But I'm like, you've been to her tour, so I
22:19
Speaker 2: guess it's kind of the same thing. But I will say,
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Speaker 2: watching her on that Tiny Desk, Because on the stage,
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Speaker 2: her stage performance on her tour is phenomenal. Cardi B
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Speaker 2: does a really great job on the stage and she's
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Speaker 2: super entertaining and just off the cuff. Like she's very funny.
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Speaker 2: But watching her on Tiny Desk, the precision of her performance.
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Speaker 2: And I'm just thinking about how much she's grown, even
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Speaker 2: in her word pronunciation and her presence.
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Speaker 1: It's like you.
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Speaker 2: Have this one thing that you're doing and you really
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Speaker 2: take the time to hone in, hone in, hone in,
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Speaker 2: hone in. And you're only bringing the things that build that.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what I'm talking about when I'm talking about
22:56
Speaker 2: like being on the ship. And it's like, at one
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Speaker 2: point you was frightened to just get on the ship anyway.
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Speaker 2: Then you was frightened to get it going. Now you're sailing.
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Speaker 2: So that is the one thing. And it's like, as
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Speaker 2: you go, you're building the bigger ship. You're bringing on
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Speaker 2: the team that helps it sail more effortlessly. So it
23:12
Speaker 2: starts feeling like, you know, you're riding out at dawn
23:15
Speaker 2: versus do this thing even work? But shout out to her, though.
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Speaker 2: They were over a million views in less than 24 hours.
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Speaker 1: Literally.
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Speaker 2: Like, I watched it live as it premiered yesterday, and
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Speaker 2: then I watched it again to prepare for The Breakfast
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Speaker 2: Club and to prepare for the podcast.
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Speaker 1: But, yeah, Cardi B did that.
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Speaker 2: She did songs from both Invasion of Privacy and Am
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Speaker 2: I the Drama, which, I mean, she only has two albums,
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Speaker 2: but people love those albums equally. I feel like Invasion
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Speaker 2: of Privacy has a different, like, place in our heart because.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Like it was her first album. And I think all
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Speaker 2: of us really, really, really, really locked in with Cardi early.
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Speaker 2: So when her sophomore album came, it's like, okay, now
23:55
Speaker 2: that's our second baby with Cardi B.
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Speaker 1: But the invasion of.
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Speaker 2: Privacy was like such a time. And we watched her
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Speaker 2: go through so much for the first time, having her
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Speaker 2: daughter culture, you know, her offsets marriage.
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Speaker 1: And in the beginning of it, that was the beginning
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Speaker 1: stages of it. Like, but we watched her re figure
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Speaker 1: things out as she needed to. And that's inspiring to see.
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Speaker 2: It is, especially when I talk about, you know, me
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Speaker 2: feeling and going through the things I'm going through and
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Speaker 2: this burnout and just trying to figure out how not
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Speaker 2: to get myself here so I can show up where
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Speaker 2: I need to show up, inspire me to see my girl.
24:28
Speaker 2: And she always got a look on, okay? Shout out
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Speaker 2: to Colin Carter. She was dressed in all black leather
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Speaker 2: and Colin Carter, her stylist who has been with her
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Speaker 2: since the beginning of it, posted about her inspo being
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Speaker 2: the trap Selena. And she was giving that. She was
24:41
Speaker 2: definitely giving that. So shout out to Cardi B and
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Speaker 2: all of the phenomenal artists work that she's been putting
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Speaker 2: out this year and NPR Tiny Desk guys they have
24:51
Speaker 2: a donation link where you can go and you can
24:54
Speaker 2: support NPR Tiny Desk I was speaking to a friend
24:57
Speaker 2: yesterday who was telling me that one of the things
24:59
Speaker 2: that they want people to talk about with NPR is
25:00
Speaker 2: the fact that you can donate and support them they
25:04
Speaker 2: are a non-profit at the end of the day and
25:06
Speaker 2: all of the media and all the things that you
25:08
Speaker 2: see them do it's independent um so shout out to
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Speaker 2: npr uh you can visit that link at npr.org backslash
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Speaker 1: And then backslash support.
25:20
Speaker 2: I said today and charlotte was like i'm like everybody
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Speaker 2: don't know that they.
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Speaker 3: Don't someone thinks that like he knows.
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Speaker 1: Everyone knows It's because he little. But I got to go, y'all.
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Speaker 2: This has been another episode of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.
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Speaker 1: I tell you guys every single episode.
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Speaker 2: Y'all could be anywhere with any old body, but I
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Speaker 2: always appreciate you guys for being right here with me.
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Speaker 1: My lowriders, I appreciate you. And I'll catch you in
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Speaker 1: my next one. This episode was really all in my business.
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Speaker 1: This is different for me.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: I have to get out of here. Oh, my God.