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Hope for Those Facing Rejection · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good afternoon, listeners. Thank you for coming on to
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  Speaker 1: Lament of Hope podcast. As you guys know, we always
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  Speaker 1: have so many interesting guests. And by the time this
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  Speaker 1: one comes out, we're nearing our 300th episode, which is
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  Speaker 1: really exciting. But I'm talking today with Jennifer Goff, who
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  Speaker 1: is the founder of Skip the Line. And I came
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  Speaker 1: across this business and I was just so intrigued. I mean. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So it's well, it's. It depends. So if it's something
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  Speaker 2: like a concert, we can hold a spot for up
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  Speaker 2: to two people. And the hourly rate, it would cover
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  Speaker 2: two people. If it's something like a Supreme Court argument
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  Speaker 2: or a congressional hearing where seats are limited, or even
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  Speaker 2: if it was something like a limited release item, it's one-to-one.
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  Speaker 2: So you would have to hire as many people as
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  Speaker 2: are in your group.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, I have to ask, I know you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned like how the idea came to you with the
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  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones pop-up bar, but still like, how did
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  Speaker 1: that even come into your brain? I wouldn't even, like,
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  Speaker 1: that's such an ingenious and like novel concept that you
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  Speaker 1: would just think of. Like, how did you have like
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  Speaker 1: an entrepreneurial spirit, like your entire life? Or like, how
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  Speaker 1: did this idea come you know, just pop into your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Because I've never even met anyone who would have thought
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  Speaker 1: of that. You know, most people look at something and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: a long line. You either decide if you want to
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  Speaker 1: do it or you don't. You never think someone could
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  Speaker 1: actually wait for you, you know, in the line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I had just gotten back from taking
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  Speaker 2: some time off to do a backpacking trip around the world,
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  Speaker 2: which was an amazing experience, probably the best experience of
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  Speaker 2: my life. And when I got home, I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: what I wanted to do. I previously worked in real estate,
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  Speaker 2: but I was not interested in going back to that.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't interested in a lot of things, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: I was pretty depressed to be back here. And so
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  Speaker 2: when I heard about the guys that did it in
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  Speaker 2: New York, I was like. okay, I didn't think too
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  Speaker 2: much about it. But as I was trying to find
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  Speaker 2: something to do, I decided, hey, let me just go
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  Speaker 2: down to this line and solicit people. And I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a business card or a business name or a plan.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it was just coming back from being
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  Speaker 2: away for so long and having the confidence, it was
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  Speaker 2: just like a very rare window of opportunity for because
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  Speaker 2: that's not something that I would typically do. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: that outgoing or that risk, you know, risk, risky, taking risks.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just like, I seized the moment and
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  Speaker 2: I started to just approach people and solicit them in line.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the trip you know, taking time off
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  Speaker 2: and taking that trip around the world really helped me
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  Speaker 2: to gain the confidence to do that and just experiment
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  Speaker 2: and try it out. And then after three hours of
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  Speaker 2: soliciting people in the line, someone finally hired me. So
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  Speaker 2: I was going to keep trying this out each day.
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  Speaker 1: So, and you kept doing it for free hours. Now,
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  Speaker 1: are we talking about like every few minutes going up
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  Speaker 1: to a person or were you kind of like,